Crossfit and Parkour Day

"Who wants to do a workout with me tomorrow?"

I posted that on facebook sometime around midnight. I got a few replies, but the one that caught my eye was Jack Cotter inviting me to Crossfit Montana to try it out at 8:30AM. The workout today was a shared load...which means you have a partner and you can split it up however you want to. But, you cannot both be working at the same time. I was partnered with a girl named Genvieve. She didn't want to do rope climb or pushups and I wasn't too keep on pounding the pavement for a run. So I did all 10 rope climbs and 100 pushups. The rest of the workout we split 50/50. I stayed for a while after and some of the guys helped me with my muscle-ups.

Right after that, I drove to Golds for a bit more:

1) Prowler push down--> 5 pushups and explosive transition into prowler push back (10 reps)

2) Dueling ropes for 30 seconds (3 sets)

3) 100 sledgehammer hits on the tire

Then, I took Sonic for his promised Blue Mountain walk. I just got back from the Mismo Jam Missoula Parkour Group puts on. It was fun...just made me really nostalgic for Zombiefit. I encourage you all to check out that site. There are workouts of the day posted and plenty of fitness and diet tips. I enjoy watching them grow and gain national/international attention.

A large part of parkour is the community. It is not a competitive sport; rather, everyone is there to help each other improve. I met some really cool new people at the jam though. Worked mostly on backflips off a wall, wall spins, and precisions.

During this Mismo Jam, Michael and I thought about planning a Journey to the End of the Night Missoula. THIS is what I did in Chicago: http://chicag0.org/ The shortest way to describe it is, its a cross between capture the flag, tag, and a scavenger hunt lasting from about 4pm until midnight or later taking place across the whole city! You have a map, checkpoints, and chasers out to get you. I was with my parkour buddies so we traversed fences crawled through trenches and took the craziest route! Most memorable was walking behind Wolf in a trench by the junkyard full of crushed cars and this huge claw crusher machine.

Me: "Uh...Jesse? This might not be such a good idea."
Wolf: "Why"
Me: "Well..you know what comes with junkyards....Junkyard dogs."

I was preparing myself to get eaten alive, yes. But somehow we made it to the next checkpoint where some people were giving out candy under a bridge. And to get the stamp on our map, we had to answer a 70s trivia question. All three of us looked at each other and laughed as we failed miserably. We're not fossils!

So I'll keep you posted on how our plans go. It was so fun, its worth the trip home to Chicago for 2011 Journey to the End of the Night!
http://www.chicag0.org/journey/Journ2010final.html