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CrossFit “Cure Duchenne” Workout – Dash and Donate!

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The Cure Duchenne Benefit at Fit & Fearless CrossFit (don’t you love the Pizza Hut next door?!)

What a great morning spent at my friend Valerie’s CrossFit box, Fit and Fearless CrossFit in Austin, Texas. There were about 75 of us there to get our Saturday WOD in; but, more importantly we all had gathered to help support a little boy named Timothy with a rare disease called Duchenne. If you haven’t heard of it, Duchenne is a very rare muscle-wasting disease that has no cure and is ultimately 100% fatal. Only affecting males, the life expectancy for a boy with this disease is only about 25 years of age. But, through ongoing research, we all have hopes that discoveries will be made to improve this devastating prognosis

This is Timothy, he is 9 years old.

This is Timothy, he is 9 years old and has Duchenne.

For the second year, Valerie will be running the Austin Marathon on behalf of Timothy and the other 200,000 boys worldwide who cannot run because of this terrible form of muscular dystrophy. Through the marathon’s program, 26 Miles for 26 Charities, Valerie will run to raise money for the grassroots foundation CureDuchenne, a non-profit that supports cutting-edge research.  I hope you will please consider my plea to help cure Duchenne by making a donation of any amount.

You can donate here.

So, I’d also like to share the WOD we did today, it was lots of fun for me. Probably because it had a ton of running in it!

jennifer fisher thefitfork run-it-work-it WOD

CrossFit & Fearless, Annie Sakamoto and Sore Shoulders

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Well, it’s been about 10 days since my workout with CrossFit legend Annie Sakamoto who came to school us at CrossFit & Fearless in Austin While my shoulders aren’t sore anymore, I did wear my deluxe case of Delayed Onset Muscle Fatigue like a badge of honor all week. While I can now lift my arms over my head to shave my arm pits again, I do still have a nasty scab along my ankle from my not-so-dainty descent from a rope climb we did that day.

So do you want to know more about Annie? It seems wrong to say “cute as a button” and “she’ll kick your butt” in the same sentence, but it is oh-so true! Only five feet tall (if that), this Santa Cruz superstar, with hair I would kill for, made me feel like an uncoordinated (and very weak) giant bumbling through a WOD in Lilliput (no, not Lululemon land, I wish). According to the 2012 CrossFit Games site, Annie’s PRs are 178 lbs. for Clean and Jerk, 140 for Snatch, 280 for Deadlift, 260 for Back Squat and 46 pull-ups. Now, take all these records and divide them in ½ (and maybe even more) and that’s about what I can handle!   Oh, and did I also mention she’s a mom of two?

We spent the first part of our training doing some skill work with Olympic Weightlifting, fine-tuning our Power Cleans, Hang Cleans, Front Squat and Jerks. We were supposed to keep adding more plates, going up and up and up until near maximum effort. But, I decided to keep it semi-easy and focus more on the skill, ‘cause I was having a little trouble with one of them, ahem.

Next onto the WOD, and as usual it looked so easy written out on the whiteboard. But, I was singing a different song once I was through the first round.  It’s written out on the top photo of this post if you want to try it out in your free time – ha! Some of the highlights are below:

CrossFit box owner, Valerie and me like a little friendly competition.  Rowing like we stole it!

If my 6th grade P.E. class could see me now!