So when I asked her out, she said…

On Friday last week I did something that is about equivalent to asking a girl out for the first time.

It was very reminiscent  of sitting in class or the dining hall and one of my boys saying, “Hey, I bet you won’t go get that girls number over there!”

If the bet is accepted, your heart rate picks up a bit. You get a lil nervous, maybe to the point where you back down from the bet. Every negative scenario or outcome is played out in your head, none of which seem to benefit you or help your ego. As you walk over to her, really focused on the act of walking, something  that seems to all of a sudden eluded you, it becomes official that this is a suicide mission and you have definitely out punted your coverage here! You get to her, introduce yourself, chat for a bit, if you can find the words, and then you ask her out. You hold your breathe as you wait for her to answer and after what seems like an hour, she says “Yes!”.

Friday, I accepted the self imposed and peer influenced challenge to enter into the CrossFit Games Open Competition. You  may have seen it a few months ago on ESPN or the recent Reebok commercials advertising the “Sport of Fitness”. I’ve been told that it was actually on TV again last night (because football is gone and Lin is the only exciting thing about the NBA right now).

The Male & Female winner of the CrossFit Games in California in July, is deemed the “Fittest Man & Woman on Earth”. But before it is narrowed down to those 50 male and female athletes, it starts with the Open where any athlete from around the world can register to compete. Last year there where 25,000 entries. Starting on Wednesday of this week, CrossFit will post a workout that has to be done at an Official CrossFit Affiliate or a videoed and sent in by Sunday for review. This will go on for 5 weeks.

The top 60 athletes with the best times/scores in each region (multiple regions worldwide) will advance to the Regionals. The top 3 from the Regionals  advance to the Games, the big dance!

So, needless to say this girl is “smoking hot” and I feel like I have no chance in the world (all puns intended) of getting her number, let alone her to talk to me. But after talking to friends that probably believe in me more than I believe in myself, the worst that “she” can say is “No”.

There are a handful of movements that I can not yet do, there are a few lifts that I can do, just not at the weight they may require, so that doesn’t give me the best feeling going into this,but I do know this.

I have had the great opportunity to compete with some of the best athletes in this country through Jr. Olympic Track & Field winning National Championships and playing Division 1 Collegiate Football at the playoff level year after year and God has allowed me to still have that ability to have my body work at that high capacity and my mind to still drive me. So as long as he see’s fit, I’m going to give everything I have until I no longer can.

“Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”
1Cor. 9:26-27

If you wondered, this is why I’m doing this. And because I like the challenge of know there are people that are out there that are better than me and there are things that I can’t yet do. So until one or all of those things cease to be the case, I will continue to do it and things like it. The worst that could happen is “she” says “no”.

Thanks to everyone that has already given great support and that pushed me to challenge myself on a new frontier. I’ll be sure to keep all of you abreast of how my training is going and how the workouts go over the next 5 weeks.