Family - CrossFit - Seafood - Museums - Perfect cup of espresso - TexMex - Eclectic Art Work - Sun - City Parks - Opera

Can you ask for anything more in one weekend?   My kind of get away weekend, varied but balanced at the same time.  The weekend also included a "C" theme.  Started off Saturday morning at Bayou City CrossFit, ate a Crab & shrimp salad for lunch, toured the Menil Collection along with the Rothko Chapel, Byzantine Fresco Chapel & Cy Twombly Gallery (a gem of a gallery).  Ate Cobia for dinner and watched my nephew perform in Il Postino as Mario (bravo! bravo!) an opera produced by Daniel Catan.

Sunday the theme continued with my own CrossFit WOD at the hotel, 4 rounds of: 400M Run - 15 Pushups - 25 Squats, next up the very strange but utterly mesmerizing sculpture presidential head park, many C named Presidents sitting in this industrial lot, Clinton was peering through the trees at Obama & Bush, interesting....Next up the perfect double espresso macchiato at Catalina Coffee, followed by a tour of the Glenwood Cemetery, reportedly Howard Hughes is buried there but could not find him and not sure wanted to.  Last but not least the Beer Can House, yes a house covered in beer cans, tops, tabs, etc.

The weekend energized me, despite the 6:00 am Monday flight home, and recharged my batteries for various reasons.  Great to see and experience new things, meet new people & be open to what the day gives you.  This all started at Bayou City CrossFit when I decided to opt into the masters class @ 8 am vs. the open class, Bayou City masters is 40 and above so I qualified. I wanted to learn about coaching a masters class, so I put my desire to go Kick My Ass with the young ones aside and see what I could learn at a masters class.

1. You will get you butt kicked, remember CrossFit is about how hard you push yourself.
2. CrossFit is a community no matter where you go, my new BFF Itza and I teamed up for a WOD & came so close to knocking off the boys!  Another exercise and I am sure we would have had them, gaining all the time.
3. CrossFit is about Family.  One of the fellow WOD'rs is a mother of 3 CrossFitter's including herself. Daughter in Austin, Son in Tulsa and a Son in Seattle (? maybe Portland).  Also the masters coach is the father of the owner of Bayou City.

Tips for a Masters Class:

• Concentrate on longer, team, body weighted WOD's
• Exercises: Use bands to assist on Abmat sit-ups & L@90's - Box Steps vs. Box Jumps - Box Sits vs. Air Squats

I look forward to continue pushing myself by living CrossFit every day.