Epic Bridge Run IX Recap

We have started another year and as we have for the past 8 years we kicked it off by heading down to the Golden Gate Bridge and participating in the Epic Bridge Run. This year’s theme was looking forward to this summer. It is an Olympic Year…

A week full of Healthy Halloween treats! #3 Whoopie Pies With Pumpkin Filling (Paleo, gluten/grain-free)

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Cookies: 1 cup blanched almond flour ¼ cup raw cacao powder 4 teaspoons coconut flour 3 tablespoons coconut palm sugar ½ teaspoon baking soda 2 tablespoons + 1½ teaspoons coconut oil, melted ⅓ cup coconut milk,…

Saturated Fats

A saturated fat is one that has been “saturated” with hydrogen. In the unsaturated fat there is a single double bonded carbon pair, in the saturated fat all available bonding sites are occupied by hydrogen. Saturated fat gets a bad rap…

Emily's Games Experience

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Most of you know Emily. Because of the kids she can be found in our gym at varying times of the day. Her presence is always a good thing. Fun and high spirited, and always one to support anyone who is present. If you haven’t met her first…

High Fructose Corn Syrup

I would do a post about how the pressure of sport and competition drive us toward working harder and are a fundamental part of the CrossFit program.  However, I’m bitter about not being able to go to the Games sectionals, so I’m going to…

Day 2 Final Results

Final results are in. The final workouts were clever. It required some strategy between the two to maximize the results. Roger ended up hitting 175 on the Squat Clean and Overhead with a Power Clean, Front Squat and Push Press (Saving his poor…

Ok, we’re off. IT’s the CrossFit Games Northern California Sectionals, after all…

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We’re leaving tomorrow morning.  Roger, Emily, Bill, and myself will be competing from CFM.  Martin signed up, but he is recovering from the flu or something.  Some of our other girls and boys will be competing at the Affiliate Cup, but…

Day 1 Final Results

Day 1 is done. Our athletes performed pretty well overall. Here are the rankings. For the men, of 278 athletes Andres came in 72nd, Roger at 141st and Bill at 237th. For the Women, of 141 athletes Emily came in 65th. And yeah, she was worried…

What is Parkour? What is CrossFit Marin??

A little over a week ago, on March 17th, I wrote up a blog post detailing the little exchange I had with Kevin and Rebecca Gann regarding “what is gymnastics”.  The post titled, “What is Gymnastics? Inside the Gymnastics Life- Stanford…

Elite Fitness

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One of the slogans you’ll see in CrossFit is “Forging Elite Fitness.”  We’ve pretty much beat the definition of Fitness to death (increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains).  But  what do we mean by elite?  The…