2010 Northwest CrossFit Regionals

Here are some pictures of Art from the CrossFit competitions a few weeks ago. (Unfortunately, not from my camera.) I said it before, and I'll say it again: I'm proud of and love my husband and my gym.

Rowing.

Running.

Lifting.

Here is the one video I captured of Art and Jon doing one of the workouts. They had 90 seconds to get as many reps as possible. They are doing a lift called a clean and jerk, and the weight is 275 pounds. I'm sorry that the sound quality isn't so great. There was loud music, and even louder cheering. Yes, that sound you hear is me screaming my head off in the background.

Art Shows His Strength

Two weeks ago we had what's called a CrossFit Total. Basically, you choose a few different types of Olympic lifts, and you try to find your one rep max - how much weight you can lift at least one time, and no more than one time. You add up your one rep maxes from the different lifts, and that is your total - total number of pounds lifted that day.

I wasn't feeling very strong that day, so I didn't participate, which gave me the opportunity to record Art's lifts. These are his one rep maxes on the back squat and the deadlift. The back squat was 320 lbs. The deadlift was 425 lbs. Those are both personal records for him!

I hope this doesn't look painful to anyone. He kept his form and performed both of these safely. No injuries were incurred. In case you couldn't tell, I'm very proud of him. :)

So My Parents Were Here

My parents were here from April 27-May 4. They started out by spending some time on the San Juan islands, just the two of them.

They stayed at a cute bed and breakfast (I stole the above picture from the internet)

They saw some great sights.

They took an air tour of the islands in an open cockpit plane.

We went to Pike Place Market in Seattle.

This is the very first Starbucks.

We went for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory.

We went to the Museum of Flight.

And saw some cool airplanes.

And we even took a little field trip to outer space.

We also did a lot of other things that I didn't get any pictures of. It was a pretty fun week. Hope you enjoyed this brief photo narrative of their visit!