Tour de CrossFit - Final Stage

Went to District CrossFit's free intro class today. Decided to call this the last stage in the Tour cause I'll likely join this one after dropping into one of their regular classes this coming week.


The box is nothing fancy - it's in some old garage/industrial building and not as shiny as the other boxes I've been to in DC but I guess if that's what you're looking for you should go to an LA Fitness. Best location for me relative to the other boxes: 15-20 mins including walking and metro with no transfers. And there's a Chipotle next to the metro station.


The gym has everything you need for WODS (read ropes). Pretty large space for a decent location downtown. This was definitely the best run intro class I've been to. It was a large class but the WOD was perfect for a group of 15-20 people. We did wall balls, burpees, and box jumps in the WOD and before we began everyone went to each station in a group of 6 where one of the 3 head coaches taught the movements/standards.

WOD:

3 rounds with 1 min rest between rounds:

1 min wall balls 14/8# (AMrepsAP)
1 min burpees (AMrepsAP)
1 min box jumps 20/12# (AMrepsAP)

Score is your total reps after 3 rounds.

Majority of class scored 120-160 reps. One woman who was probably in her mid 30's and 100lbs got 207 reps - beating me by 4. Pretty sure she's never done CF before after watching her do some wall balls during our instruction period - she might have been counting by 3's.

I get the feeling that the capacity of the top athletes at this box may not be quite as high as some other boxes. I asked about the CF Games Open and one of the trainers said they didn't have enough people (who were capable or willing?) to compete this year but will definitely compete next year. Looking at their leaderboard with benchmark lifts/WODS I'm within 10lb on some of the lifts and pretty close timewise on some of the WODS.

Anyways, I'll go back this week to check out a regular class to meet some other athletes and then probably sign up for a membership.

Side note: Christy Phillips, who came in 6th in the 2010 games used to be a trainer here but she's not on the website anymore, not sure what happened to her. One of the full time trainers (woman) came in 4th at regionals this year (top 3 went to the games) so that's legit.

Peace out.