historic

barack obama will be our president. incredible. the surge of optimism that is sweeping the country is such an incredible feeling.

today also marks, for me, another huge accomplishment - slightly less of an accomplishment than our country electing our first african american president, but still...

today was the very first day - after 8 months of trying - i was able to do a "double-under."

here's the story...at crossfit we do hundreds of different things to train our bodies and minds. one of these things is the double-under. a double-under is jumping rope but instead of passing the rope just once, you pass it twice under you as you jump. they are so hard to get. i have been trying for 8 months without one success. it's all about coordination. and today i learned that it's also all about belief and intention and practice.

the goal for the day was to do 125 double-unders. i know it's hard to understand how hard that could be. but swear it felt like it was impossible this morning. i think adrian could see the lack of hope in my eyes and said that attempts at a double-under also counted towards the 125...otherwise i would still be there tomorrow afternoon trying to finish. so the big deal is that i just kept trying. and then adrian gave me a tip...intend to pass the rope three times...because when i was trying to do a regular double-under, he could see in my body that i just knew it was impossible for me...and i would fail. if my intention was three, maybe it would help me actually get to two passes.

and it did!

i successfully completed 10 double-unders today. 10!?! until today, i had attempted for 8 months and came up with a whopping zero!

so today i learned that so much is in my mind and that so much is possible....both in the world of jump-roping and in the world-at-large. things are looking good. which is good because my next three goals are big: new boob, new car, and ONE pull-up.