The Open is just around the corner, the first workout is getting released on Thursday, February 26th, and an additional workout will be released each week for the following 4 weeks on Thursday nights. As has been done in the past years we will be performing the Open workouts at Champlain Valley CrossFit on Friday nights, starting around 3:30 PM and running until around 7:30 PM. This will be the only scheduled time to perform the workouts, workout’s can be made up on Sunday during Open gym, but that will not be the priority of the coach who is running Open Gym on Sunday’s. Last year we had just over 100 people sign-up for the Open, and this year with the addition of the Scaled division I hope we’ll see even more. I strongly encourage every person to sign-up and come take part on Friday night, it is an amazing experience, and you’ll be inspired, or inspire other people. Every year people’s drive to become fitter, healthier, and stronger is reinvigorated because of their participation and I can guarantee every person that takes part in the Open will see just that.

One thing to note after last year’s Open, with over 100 people participating in the Open there were a number of people who wanted to redo workouts last year. I commend you all for trying to improve your scores, however last year got completely out of hand with athletes just showing up expecting coaches to judge them. This year your opportunity to do the Open workout will be Friday night, with an emergency time being Sunday morning. Scores will only be validated if you’ve been judged by someone on the CVCF Judges list. If you are in a position to increase the gyms team score in the Open or if you are a possible qualifier for Regional or Masters we will work with you to schedule a time for you to redo the workout. If you don’t fall into that category but would still like to redo your workout, we encourage you to do so, but without a judge in the back room, videotape it if you would like to submit your score, however it is unfair to the coaches, and volunteers to have to re-judge 50 people just because they want to try to get a couple more reps.

Last but not least, as in the past we will need some volunteer judges for Friday night. I ask that the volunteers take the online judges courses and have some experience and be comfortable with all of the movements. If you’d like to help out and judge it would be HUGELY appreciated, please talk to myself or Dani regarding this.

Hope to see lots of you ready to go on Friday, February 27th. Lets crush the Open again this year.

– Jade