Gratitude for the Web...Bouncing Back
I’m thankful for the web of workout community in which I live, move, play, and sweat. I’ve been an avid CrossFitter since 2018, blessed by three different ‘boxes’ over the years. Each has been precisely what I needed for who and what I was becoming as an elder athlete. I don’t spend much time in the comparison/contrast, because I’ve been changing from 2018 to today and each was precisely the web to hold me then. I’m thankful for any web that holds a space for me when I need it. Like today, for instance. Pre-2018 Lisa would have felt like she was supposed to stay in, given she twisted her ankle in substantial fashion in the Hocking Hills on Thursday night. It would have been an assumption for me that I should not move while it healed. I would have felt less-than for having an injury and would have stayed at home with a bit of mopey self-pity. Instead, today was showing up at Centerville CrossFit for the 9:30 a.m. WOD I often sign up for, but instead of doing the WOD, I moved in th...