04.27.09
Five rounds for time of:
21 Sumo-deadlift high-pull 95# / 65#
21 Ring dips
Dirty South…the recap…
What an amazing, draining, inspiring, crazy weekend. A weekend that seemed more like 5 days instead of only 2.
I said to those of you that were there, how much it meant to me personally to have you there, not only cheering us on, but representing our gym and participating in the Dirty South Games. YOU guys are inspirational…to go there, outside of your comfort bubble and do those workouts in that environment takes a lot of guts. We are beyond proud, Ray and I were like beaming parents when our teams were competing, it was amazing, and words can’t really express how we felt. There were several spectators who watched, teary eyed as one of our teams ran to the finish line, hand-in-hand…so I hope you guys realize just how amazing YOU are.
I absolutely cannot imagine going down there and not having the support that we had this weekend. There were several times during different WODs when I was at my physical limit, my mind wanted it, but my body just couldn’t go…I heard your cheers, I heard your words of encouragement, I looked out at saw your faces…it kept me going, kept me trying. To know that I had your faith and support that I could do this…well, again, words cannot express how much that means to me and how much it helped me get through an incredibly intense and brutal weekend.
At first, I said I would never do this again. Mountaineers have a saying that mountaineers are known to have the shortest term memory. When I first heard that from one of our guides a few years ago, I didn’t get it…until I got down from the mountain. The Games this weekend gave me that same feeling. This stuff isn’t easy, it’s not fun and training sucks. But that feeling of accomplishment when you are done…you forget the pain and suffering. The wounds heal and pain fades and the memories of achievement remain. This weekend was a real eye opener for me and I hope it was for some of you as well. Putting ourselves in these intense physical situations opens up our eyes to a new side of ourselves that we may not have realized was there before.
Will I do it again? At first I said no. Well…a year is a long time away…but let’s just say I’m not ruling it out just yet
. I now know how to train for this and know that it is definitely achievable…for any of us. And I certainly hope I’ll have a training partner or two…and definitely hope CFPT will be representin’ with even more teams next year.
You guys rock…thank you…
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Stumble CrossFit Peachtree!

Hi Crossfit Peachtree –
awesome weekend down in Jacksonville, great to meet lots of you. Thank you so much for all the support and cheering!
You took a great contingent of people down there and represented so well! Great weekend, thanks again for the support, and way to go to all of you that participated…
i forgot to mention…photo courtesy of kathy knox of CFNATL. and that the official standings would not be posted until later on this week, so we really don’t know where anybody placed just yet
.
I’ve always claimed to be as non-competitive as they get, but once you’re down there, that changes completely! After watching all of the individuals compete on Saturday, which was beyond incredible, it gave me an itch to be involved! The team competition was a ton of fun yesterday and I hope to follow up with another one next year!
Congrats to Josh, Bridget and Liz on an amazing weekend of accomplishments!! You three are incredible!
And congrats to all of our Atlanta affiliate competitors – everyone was absolutely amazing! Countdown begins for Dirty South 2010…
For those of you that might be interested in 2010…I know it seems like a long time away, but let us know. We now know how to train for this, what to do differently that what we did this year (for individuals and for teams for that matter) and can begin slowly working on getting you guys up to Rx’d and then on to training
Adam, you did an amazing job this weekend! We were so happy to cheer you guys on – and you all definitely represented your gym (and ATL
) and should be very proud!
Bridget, Josh, Liz…WOW! I applaud you for your determination, hard work and literally pushing yourselves to the limit. We can all only aspire to achieve the level of dedication at which you are.
Ok…enough cheese…I’m going to pull a Joey…
These are the following issues I’m having this am:
1. My sunburn is so bad that my eyes are practically swolen shut
2. My leggies…they don’t work. Damn overhead squats.
3. Definite sausage roll out of bed.
4. My ass hurts as well (perves..from the overhead squats)
5. My shoulders are so sun burned it hurt to brush my teeth
6. Missing everyone else at the gym!
Bridget, I am interested. BOX!!!
Jacksonville skanks, skank handlers, Josh, B, & Ray,
All of you were the most incredible energy and support anyone could ask for! You guys were the sole motivation in finishing those work outs. I couldn’t imagine having been down there without you guys!
You’re the best!
One of the best moments of the weekend:
Liz during the overhead squats…
“Does anybody have a microwave?!!”
LOVE IT!!!!!!!
Sounds like you guys had an awesome experience down there – I’ll have to make it next year! Glad you guys rocked it for CFPT
OMG – Did Liz actually say that??!! I totally missed it! That’s awesome!
Ryan – we’d love to see you compete next year!!!
I personally liked ti when Liz shook her ass during the Kettlebell swings…showed her true skankiness!!! Very proud Liz!
Josh, Liz, and Bridget ~ You guys are amazing! Great Job!
Oh yes, the ass shaking was phenom!!!
It is true..In between the F Bomb, the M-F Bomb, and S*$t, I asked B to have a microwave on standby for the judge that come behind me out of no where and screamed multiple times that I didn’t get the rep. All which was already addressed by the very kind man to my left who was counting my reps.
Oh yea and B…that’s a B.A. pic of you!!!
For those of you that took photos…I would love to get copies…if you can burn a CD with them, or let me know if you have access to a FTP program, I can give you an FTP site to upload them too. Or even if you want to zip them up and email them to me.
Gracias
Whew… that recap got me…. tears in the smoothie.
I was so incredibly impressed with Bridget, Josh, and Liz … they were absolutely amazing and gave everything that they had this weekend.
I heart CFPT… we have a great group of people. I felt so proud to walk around with you guys this weekend in your skanky shirts with the nasty sayings on the back and cheer on B, Josh, and Liz!
Hopefully next year, Monica will convince Josh to work out with his shirt off. I think that was the only disappointment of the weekend. Although, Jeff said it was becuase he didn’t want the judges to see the cyborg motor and wiring in his chest.
Thanks for a great weekend CFPT!!!
Thanks to all yall who came down to Jax! It was great having yalls suppurt, and like B and Liz have already stated, couldn’t have done it without yall. Huge applause to to everyone. Mixed emotions here, but lets get ready for next year.
Teams, awesome job on the wod!
Thanks again!
Sarah… I dreamt about the “jaw” last night…. it was scary.
HAHAHAHAHA…that thing could deadlift 200+ lbs fo real! That is so funny Dirty!
hey guys, from jonathan at CFATL:
Jonathan wrote on your Wall:
“Thank you so much for all the encouragement this weekend, and you did a great job on everything too! I will definitely be coming by CFPT every now and then to grab a workout with you guys. Thanks again!”
I knew I would be kicking myself for missing such a great time and an inspiring weekend. Ray and Bridget, I think you ought to be ready for a lot of calls from other Crossfit Operators asking how you got such an intense, energetic gym going so quickly. I look forward to building on this success, and I should have known we would do well in any games that had “Dirty” in the title….
Sorry for my oversight in addressing how awesome you all did on Sunday! You guys rocked and seriously put all those other teams to shame! It was inspiring to watch all of you guys work together and so eager to help eachother pick up the next rep! Not to mention the constant cheering for eachother during it!
Great job you guys!
B, Liz, and Josh you guys did an amazing job!! So proud of ya’ll!
Mike D…you probably aren’t too far from the truth…there were a lot of people that were AMAZED by the representation that we had this weekend. It’s not like this was just a quick drive down the street, so that makes it even more amazing.
I truly believe that you guys inspired a lot of other CrossFitters to throw their hat into the ring next year just to be a part of the Dirty community
Let me first just say that I am amazed at at the heart that I saw from all of yall. Having over 50% of the open teams? That’s just phenomenal and it says a lot about how close you guys are and how well you work together. Awesome job to all of you, I thoroughly enjoyed watching you guys (and I definitely had goosebumps when you crossed the finish line holding hands).
Bridget and Liz, having done the workouts myself, I can say that without a doubt that you are a couple of the most bad ass CrossFit chicks in Atl. Those WODs were no joke, and the fact that you were among a very elite few who were willing to even step up to the challenge is great.
Josh, there are few other people that I would have wanted in all my heats on that first day. You pushed me like crazy and I think that over the next year you and I will continue to be neck and neck – I look forward to it.
Lastly, (sorry for the novel) I want to say a very special thanks to everyone who was cheering me on this weekend. It truly motivated me and pushed me, and it just felt pretty damn good to have that kind of support. As I mentioned to several of you, my roommate and I are going to throw a party next Sat to celebrate this being over, so hit me up on facebook or send me an email at horowitz(dot)jonathan(at)gmail(dot)com.
Thanks again, and I will be seeing you guys again soon.
Mike you have no idea how inspirational this weekend was…. we all were missing the CFPT beef this weekend fo sho.
http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/
Bridget and Ray, thank you so much for cheering me on this weekend! Bridget…you did so freaking great. I have to give huge props to crossfit peachree, you all came and kicked ass. Congratulations to you all that competed in the weekends workouts. I have a great picture that I am going e-mail of the team workout coming across the finish line.
Joey – cross your fingers that mexico doesnt get shut down over the next few days. Its possible US will stop flights going down there if this shit gets worse. GD pig flu.
Great job guys – I’m sorry to have missed it but look forward to seeing the pics!
I feel like I have the pig flu right now from those Pancho’s margaritas. Nothing that a little rope burn from 105 ring dips wont cure.
Awww Joie…sorry bout the pig flu. Is the ear better?
ear, knees, back, elbow, brain, ass cheeks, all tip top shape. Thanks for asking though!
Joey, Panchos Margs have OJ in them, they suck… they also let people break into your car and jack yo sh*t, so that’s what you get for supporting that terrible place. Those are my thoughts on Panchos.
Johnathan, if you are still out there (we did give you FULLLL permission to lurk and participate), we had a blast cheering for you and you rocked it out!!
Yay Joey!!!! I’m especially glad that your a$$ cheeks are back in tip top shape. We don’t want you walking around w/ a gimp a$$!!!
Gahhh, we were bragging to Johnathan about how AWESOME our blog was and now I feel kinda bad… Though I must agree with EVERYONE’s comments about the weekend. It was inspirational and I was so proud to be a part of our group as a whole. I think we spread skankdom across CF Dirty South and I believe there will be several orders placed for I HEART SKANKS T’s in the next week or two!!!
This is how the inquiries went:
Person: I have to ask, what does I heart skanks mean?
Jenny: Well, that I heart a skank…???
Person: What is a skank, aside from the obvious normal meaning?
Jenny: Nope, that’s it…and I heart them.
Person: AWESOME, where can I get a shirt?!?!
Joey – Panchos is definitely not on the list of acceptable Mexican restaurants. If someone “drug” you there they “punked yo A$$”
Jenny I do recall the CF Judges talking about the t-shirts and how they thought it was totally awesome that we proudly call ourselves/eachother skanks. Great weekend!
Hopefully all of the crossfit blogs will veer away from exercise and nutrition to spend a little mo time in our world. Jenny V and McDirty, your work here is done….
Jenny V., that girl was great. She said something to me yesterday about the I heart Skanks shirt again. I was like yeah like we said Crossfitpeachtree.com look it up!! BOX!!
Im glad to see that we have spread the Skank love.
Great job everyone this weekend! It was quite a performace!!! It’s definitely a motivater to get my butt in CFPT everyday.
I would like to throw a shoutout to my Vag-tastic Voyage crew!! Dan you were Brit-tific!
Sarah, hows the butt/leggies? Hopefully you didn’t get any more honks by passer byers this morning…
Is anyone going to do the Squat Snatch workout tonight?
SNATCH
And yes, our Car was dabomb.com. Thanks to AK for introducing a new term to me…”Vagtastic Voyage”…NUFF SAID!
Also… “F.J.”
FJ – save the squat snatch WOD for rest day (plus a day I can go over those with you guys when I don’t feel like I am run over by a truck
)
heheheheh squat snatch….
Mike, I heard the floors in CFPT were cracking from dehydration since you hadn’t been there in 3 days… what do you plan to do about this?
PS – be glad you didn’t do the team workout, pretty sure you would have created a tributary to Jax beach and then I would have had to use my badass rowing skills to take us all there…on a MF-in boat…
Bridget, I still get a chuckle out of the idea of you rowing your a$$ off to the internal soundtrack of “I’m on a BOAT!” I think T-Pain would be so excited to know that he helped you outrow all those chics!!
And don’t any of you worry, I definitely googled my girl from this weekend and couldn’t find any info on how she finished (I mean, I know she finished 5th or 6th in the last event and ahead of at least 3 girls from top 7 so I’m pretty sure she got top 7…cause I stuck around to watch her do 50 KB swings, run 100M and do 25 burpees before another girl got through her 50 KB!)…
B – I’d send you my pics, but they are all of my home girl Mariah and Legs Magee from Delray. (I didn’t know if FJ would believe me when I told him how hot these chics were!)
Liz, Bridget & Josh, once again great job. You guys did everyone at CFPT proud! Those were some tough conditions and you guys killed it.
Ray- Great job judging, you killed it as well.
Jenn, I hardly think our work here is done. I think we’ve just successfully completed round one!
Sorry for the blog vomit, someone gave me a second diet coke this morning and in a moment of weakness, I took it.
ah yes Mariah! Verry Nice!
I agree with you Jenny …. We have only hit the TIP of the “Dirty Iceberg” ….
I think AK needs some man smells and noises night at the gym tonight. AK loves the ladies, but he was around too much estrogen this weekend. He took my Cosmo magazine when I wasn’t looking and borrowed my lip gloss after lunch yesterday.
Oh… Legs Magee…. I have a chick crush on her. It’s just not fair. I just need to grow about 5 inches, get some bolt ons (as Mike D would call them), lose about 49 pounds, gain about 20 pounds of muscle, grow my hair out, get 10 years younger, and work out for about 7 hours a day the next two years … then you could call me Legs McGee.
Oh.. and I vote for Regan’s mom to be a Dirty South Judge next year. Instead of hearing “NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” from a guy waving his arms and screaming at the top of his lungs because you missed below parallel by a hair … we could have Regan’s mom saying “Great job sweetie, you should have gotten below parallel, but it’s okay, you are doing great!”
pics please.
Oops… *Reagan
I think there might be some on Jeff’s camera… oh no… wait…. they are all of Josh.
B, liz & josh – great job this wknd. yall were bad ass taking on those workouts. very impressive.
one of the scenes of the wknd – in b/t judging workouts ray sqauts to take a rest on a barbell, sees some of us over to the side and proceeds to open up a pseudo newspaper and read it, then wipe his arse – classic ray and hilarious. very fitting of a judge
hahahahhah!!! Oh yes… that was awesome! VERY CFPT-esq
Don’t forget – good ol Bali is coming back on Wednesday… please keep the thin mints far away from me until then!
I don’t think I am ready to see Bali. You think he’s going to come back this summer again?
Dirty “Mcgee” – Reagan’s mom is also great at judging which hot, tatted guys we should watch haha
Whit, I’d strongly recommend going now if you haven’t yet…you kind of want to see where you are so that you can see how far you’ve come when he comes back. I strongly regret not doing it when he was going to come in November. It’s no fun to see where you are after several months if you have no clue where you started!
And Sherri was the bomb FO REAL. She not only was super supportive, but she did have a GREAT eye for the candy!!
The Dirty Iceburg…sounds like a drink. I love it!
Joey, I have pics…of Mariah…and a few of Jenny O cause I couldn’t keep from staring at her…but mostly of Mariah. I hearted her. I stayed away from the police there for fear of being served with a restraining order, but she was in Liz’s heat so it was kind of easy to stalk her!
B, remember this one in the parking lot on Sunday?
Josh: You guys are gonna have fun today!
Jen: No we aren’t. It’s not gonna be fun.
Josh: Yeah it is, yall will have fun (in a supportive way, but still at 8:05 in the am).
Jenny: What is your idea of fun? Murdering kittens in a basement, ya sick freak?!?
Sorry about that Josh, I know you wouldn’t murder kittens in a basement and I dont think you’re realllllly a sick freak.
Hahaha, Ray bringing a whole new meaning to the “Dirty South”! Hell yea!
I bet they never would have guessed Ray brought the group of girls wearing I heart skanks tanks… Probably a HUGE surprise.
Jenny that convo was DEFINITELY priceless!! Among many many others…
I saw where Josh finished on Saturday, ahead of some guys who are going to their third or fourth Crossfit games and have been training seriously since Josh was just a microchip. Great job, Cyborg…
Maddy, really? What’s the WORST that could happen?
Ryan, can you inform me about this pig flu? I’m not familiar…
Jenny, I think it depends on whether or not you consumed double dipped ass water, but I mean Why Wouldn’t you??
I forgot Bali was coming back this week. Good thing we drank that bottle of jager friday night
AK, there is nothing wrong with doing that. You should be very proud. If anything you put weight ON…isnt that what you wanted?
Seriously, AK; everyone else in your high school class is trying to keep the flies off their faces, and you are complaining about LOSING weight??
I liked the part about teams crossing the finish line holding hands; I am always touched when Ryan and Joey do that during a WOD…
Awwwwww…. we need to get a pic of that Mike D. Holding hands, matching board shorts …. it just doesn’t get any cuter.
In Joey’s defense, there were lots of dudes this weekend with board shorts…and probably some with bad knees. And I guarantee some of them have worn black jeans…you guys know which ones I’m talking about!!
And I don’t mean to out us, but we weren’t so much holding hands as dragging each other across the finish line!! Ha ha, kidding!! Great team spirit Brandy, after being chased down by the mean man with the whistle, I needed someone to hold my hand.
Ray – I’d like to request poker face by lady gaga followed by britney spears’ if you seek amy followed by any other britney song i heard ten times each on the car ride to and from JAX.
These SDHP’s should be awesome tonight – each time I lift the weight I’ll feel the crack of my severely dry, severely sunburned shoulders. Nice.
http://photos.crossfitnorthatlanta.com/gallery/8010166_fwkh3#520894390_4pJ5u
Mariah can be seen here. not the best pick but she’s the blond in red shorts. jenny will supply 100’s of pics once she gets her camera back from the JAX police
PS Liz can been seen as well.
Yes, I do believe that is a shirtless Liz, too, boys…
Liz also does pull ups in high wind in a dress…good thing she wears undies!
I was gonna get gushy but everyone else did first!
Seriously awesome weekend guys and great job to all!
Good one of Ray!
http://photos.crossfitnorthatlanta.com/gallery/8010166_fwkh3#P-21-15
Think Dan might have sprouted a mangina too with all the estrogen he was subjected too!
If you ZOOM in on the pic SaraH linked to you can see a topless Whitney. and no im not saying you have to zoom in to see whitney’s ta’s.
Notice….please don’t come to the gym with Swine Flu! Goat flu…still come in!
Im not topless…there IS a sports bra on! I was maximizing my sunning experience! Can anyone say Bake-a-Thon? And I mean this by baking in the sun, not baking cookies.
http://photos.crossfitnorthatlanta.com/gallery/8010166_fwkh3#522437465_KDYZR
Here’s another…she can’t hide from me forever!!
ha ha ha! (oh, she’s on the side in the red and black).
http://photos.crossfitnorthatlanta.com/gallery/8010166_fwkh3#522442744_K5cyv
There ya go!
Great pics…Mike G is now my screensaver!!!!
Ha ha ha, Jill, I saw one pic on that website and I was thought to myself, Self, Jill just right clicked and applied as wallpaper! ha!
Yes I did…it is going to be great sitting at my desk everyday!!!!!
Good work Jenny. That OHSquat one is Nice*
Ha ha ha, I have some, too, though from where I was standing I had trouble getting good shots…crazy judges were actually moving around and judging instead of clearing my photo shot path. I even got up to move, but then I was blocking someone who was taking pictures of someone who actually knew he existed…
In my earlier post, I left out what I think was the most important point:
I now officially <3 skanks!
Can’t wait to put down another WOD with all of you soon.