Hi everyone,

Sounds like we will have great representation from CF SK (combo of CFR & CFS)!

OK, there are 7 rooms being held at the Super 8 Hotel Edmonton South as it is a decent hotel and is really close to Kim’s gym.  The rooms are available to anyone from CFS or CFR and are booked for check-in on Fri Feb 20 and check-out on Sun Feb 22.  Each room has 2 Queen beds and the discounted rate is $129 + taxes.  Rooms are first come, first serve and you have until Feb 16, 2009 to get one of these rooms.  Follow these steps to get your calloused hands on a room:

1.  Phone the Super 8 and tell them you would like to have one of the rooms being held under the name “CrossFit Saskatoon” (Group code: CGCROS).

2.  Switch the room to your name and give them your credit card # to hold the room for you.

Hotel Details:

Super 8 Hotel Edmonton South
3610 Gateway Boulevard NW (Click for Map)
Edmonton, AB T6J 7H8, Canada
(780) 433-8688

Gym Details:

SPARK Sport Conditioning
9340-34 Ave (Between Gateway BLvd NW & 91 Street NW) (Click for Map)
Edmonton, AB  T6E 5X8
(780) 988-9668

The level 1 cert was sweet and intense. Here are my ramblings about it. Met a great group of people (AngDesj, Celeste, Chris, Crystal & Franz) from CrossFit Regina…thx for your words of encouragement (my polite way of saying thx for riding my ass) during my 1st dance with Fran! Who says curlers are not athletic…well I do know that Verne from Wadena is not your typically curler as he had a “few” years on most of the attendees and he kept a pretty damn good pace on the WODs…I am looking forward to this Winter when Verne comes into our gym. I was impressed by John West, a prison guard from Bowden (sp?), AB…those of you who think you can’t get big and lean CrossFitting need to meet John…I have never seen such a big and well-muscled guy rip through pull-ups like he did during Fran…I am sure the inmates at his prison are very well-behaved. The crew that HQ put together was excellent…Pat (aka the Pull-up King) from Virginia Beach did a fantastic job of leading the crew…it was fun to watch Curtis from CrossFit Rainier overhead squat a tractor tire…I don’t know where Glassman finds them, but Nadia from HQ was impressive to say the least as I watched her and Dutch from CrossFit ATM rip thru “The Chief” workout during the lunch hour break…Robb Wolfe (aka the mad scientist) from CrossFIt Norcal was super impressive, he is well known as a nutrition guru (he did not disappoint during his nutritional lecture) plus he is one of the best coaches I have seen with a sharp training eye and excellent cues. Lots of moments stick in my mind; however, hearing Nadia drop the F bomb in the rowing instruction station has to be one of the top ones. The phrase that stuck in my mind from the weekend was from Pat, “The Magic is in the movements, the Art is in the programing and the Science is in the explanation”. Can’t wait for my next cert!!

Hats off to Patrick the CrossFit photographer behind the camera. Impressive athlete and a smart guy as he put all the good looking people in the front row