Let’s start with a story. In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey became the wettest tropical cyclone on record. It devastated Houston, flooding hundreds of thousands of homes, displacing 30,000 households and prompting rescue operations for more than 17,000 people. The lesser-known story about big storms like this is that people can’t bring their pets to animal shelters. So when you hear 30,000 households were displaced, that means more than 30,000 animals were likely abandoned.
In 2017, a friend and I bought thousands of dollars of pet supplies and drove down to the Houston area to help rescue animals after Harvey. We personally rescued over 200 animals that week, including my dog Beaumont. If you’ve already donated to some human causes, or just like animals more than people, consider donating to Carolina-area animal shelters, which are getting hit by hurricane Dorian as I record this. Bahama-area shelters also need your help. Fluffballs like Beaumont thank you.
Okay, back to sports. Four-time CrossFit Games athlete Michelle Kinney is now Guinness World Record-holding four-time CrossFit Games athlete Michelle Kinney. Kinney is being featured in the 2020 Guinness World Record book and holds three world records, including moving 530 kilograms of atlas stones in one minute. She’ll be hosting three one-hour atlas stone seminars in Denver on September 7th, 21st, and October 12th. We have the link in our show notes at WODDITY.com/news
Morning Chalk Up is reporting Camille Leblanc-Bazinet may be retiring, or at least stepping away from competition for a season. Because Camille is a client of WODDITY, we can neither confirm, nor deny. But if Morning Chalk Up said it…could it be true?
It’s not news about CrossFit, but it’s news about drugs in sports. 11-time Ironman World Champion Lauren Gross has received a six-month ban for using a CBD cream with more THC than advertised. The crossover of this story is to the prevalence of big-name CrossFit Games athletes testing positive due to tainted over-the-counter supplements, like Emily Abbott and Elly Kabboord. Even Mat Fraser is using CBD, now. Don’t trust the labels – supplements are not regulated. Beware, fiends.
CrossFit’s mainsite workout today is more of that good good heavy lifting. Complete five sets of heavy one-rep-max back squats. This is the workout you’re always hoping for. Embrace it, because tomorrow will probably involve running.
And that’s it for news about CrossFit on Friday, September 6th.
This podcast is sponsored by my new YouTube series, Road Warrior Fitness. Subscribe to my channel by searching for Ben Garves or WODDITY to catch me on the road to every North American CrossFit Sanctional event in 2020, doing epic workouts in epic places. I’m premiering the first episode on Tuesday.
To support that show, this show, and get all sorts of additional perks, consider becoming a Patreon member at patreon.com/woddity. Plans start for as little as a dollar per month.
Thanks for listening. We hope you rate, review, and subscribe.
I’m Ben Garves, behave yourselves. Unless something breaks, we’ll chat on Monday.
1 comment