What’s the latest?

8/7/2010 Odyssey had 4 teams of 5 compete in the Mud Run. Danielle and Amy did an outstanding job of making this a really fun event for our gym. Make sure you thank them!

7/28/2010 CrossFit Odyssey is on “Fox and Friends“!

7/18/2010 The Summer 2010 edition of The Blast magazine article written about CrossFit Odyssey by our very own Carol H. is in the gym if you want to see it !!!

Also, if any of you have cool pics (i.e. Trey and Jen B. surfing on vacation, James at your upcoming Level One, Mud Run, etc.) send to us!

Finally, here’s a list of body weight WODs passed along to us by Bea. (The link is from http://www.paradisocrossfit.com/ ) …. Thanks Bea!

5/4/2010 We have a few activities planned over the next couple of weeks. This Saturday May 8th, Amy, Courtney R, and Julie will be celebrating their birthdays at La Marinella Trattoria located at 2105 West Great Neck and all Odyssey members are welcome! Join us for drinks at 8 pm and the band kicks off at 9:00! Unfortunately, we will be following this celebration with a sad goodbye to Joe and Dom. Join us the following Wednesday, May 12th 7:00 pm at Shorebreak Pizza to wish them good luck and good bye as they move onto their next adventure out west! But wait that isn’t it!! On May 15th, we have been invited to Wodfest at CrossFit 757. Want to get in a good workout and meet some new crossfit friends? Check out the flyer hanging in the gym! Hope all of you in our Odyssey family can join us for one or all of these events!

3/10/2010 Check out the updated class schedule. Dom is training the early morning classes on M-W-F. Get in there!

1/25/2010 It’s Heather and Betsy’s bdays. Help us celebrate Friday 1/29. Details will be posted in the gym..which means you have to go workout to get the info…hehehehe

Starting Jan. 1st there is now a $30.00 fee for all insufficient funds regarding our membership drafts.

Jan. 16th we would like to invite all members children (ages 5 and up) for a CF Kids wod @ 11:00.

11/22/2009 So many exciting things on the way to Odyssey! We are finally moving to our new space come Dec. 1st!! In addition we will be re-launching a pilot CF Kids program with full time classes beginning in Jan. (check the link on our homepage) We are also working at expanding our list of “WODS on the road” we hope to help our members as you travel this holiday season and throughout the year!

10/22/2009: If you are having trouble setting up as a user on the site please try again. Click Comments, go to the bottom and click where it asks you to “log in”. The page will appear and ask if you need to register as a user. I changed the settings under administration and hope this helps.

9/19/2009 – Sunday morning at Odyssey from 9am-4pm will be the lifting seminar with Coach Wilkes. If you will still like to try and get in the class, contact Sara ASAP.

9/8/2009 – CrossFit announces the 2010 CrossFit Games!

8/26/2009- Please note our morning hours will be changing to fall hours on Monday August 31st. We will be begin 30 minutes later at 8:30 am thru 10:30 am. Also starting Monday August 31st, there will no longer be a 2 pm class. The new class time will be 12:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

8/18/2009- Open gym will be canceled this weekend and we will be having a Saturday morning WOD down at the beach with food and drinks to follow! There will be more information posted in the gym. Stay tuned…..school is about to start and we will be adjusting our morning schedule slightly but the pm hours will remain the same. Watch for updates!!

8/7/2009- A slight class structure adjustment………

Our class times will continue to remain the same, however, beginning today our trainers will cover skills and PVC progressions at a quarter past the hour for each class time. If you need assistance with the skills within the WOD you are expected to be at the gym by this time. We will continue with heats, with the first heat always beginning at half past the hour.

6/29/2009 – A few minor announcements to make…

The fridge fund is due this Thursday the 2nd of July. (please do not try to pay as you go, it is impossible to keep track accurately – thanks!) A new tick sheet is on the fridge.

The gym is closed Friday and Saturday the 3rd and 4th of July.

We will have 2pm classes starting M-W-F of next week.

The CrossFit kids trial program is over and we will be announcing more info about our kids program in the near future.

Starting Wednesday July 1st, the M-W-F 0630am class will only be held upon request by email to Sara no later than 6pm the night before.

6/28/2009 – Please welcome Sara, Michael, and Jennifer to the gym.

6/24/2009 - Starting July 1st we are introducing the family member discount. Click here for more info. Starting Monday July 6th there will be a 2:00 class every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The gym will be closed on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th for 4th of July weekend.

6/23/2009 – Please do not park in front of other businesses (those that have their company sign on the door). You can park in the back of the building too, or along the construction zone on the right as you come in, or down by the guard rail along the storage site. Violators will be subject to a painful Burpee penalty!

6/19/2009 – Our newest members just finished their fundamentals classes Thursday night and will be joining you guys soon. Please welcome Karen, Jaime, Brittany, Allen, and Mark to the gym.

6/4/2009 – Pass along to others, Josh and Kirsten mentioned the idea of getting together to watch the CrossFit Movie “Every Second Counts”. Location, date, and time is to be announced soon.

5/16/2009 – Sara and Amber are attending the CrossFit Kids Certification in Ramona, CA.

5/8/2009 – Please welcome Courtney, Kristin, Amy, Lynn, and Mike to the gym. They have completed their fundamentals and will be joining the classes soon!

4/19/2009 – The gym will be closed on Saturday 25 April due to the CrossFit Regional Qualifier here in Virginia Beach. http://games2009.crossfit.com/map/index.html

4/16/2009 – Please welcome Amy, Courtney, and Lisa to the gym. They finished fundamentals tonight and will be joining you guys at the 5:30 class on Friday.

4/11/2009- The next “Odyssey Happy Hour” is tentatively scheduled for May 2nd!

4/9/2009- Starting next week, April 13th, we will be adding another morning class: M,W, F at 10:30. This class will be open on a trial basis. If the demand continues it will become a regularly scheduled class time. Please keep in mind that children are always welcome at all of our class times.

4/3/2009- Please welcome Michelle and Angela to the gym. They completed their fundamentals classes yesterday and will be joining the WODs with you guys soon. Also, congrats to Lee for recently completing the CrossFit Barbell Certification! I also wanted to mention that we have a few of our members headed to the CF Regional Qualifier here in Virginia Beach on April 25th and 26th. I am still getting more info on spectator arrangements and will let you know what I find out. Click this link for more info about the qualifier. http://games2009.crossfit.com/map/index.html

3/12/2009- We are extending our Open Gym hours (for members only) on Saturdays from 8:30-10:30 am. We will continue to hold Free Introductory Workouts every Saturday from 10:30-11:30.

2/20/09- Open to all CF Odyssey members..a bunch of us are meeting for drinks on Saturday (2/21). We are going to start at Keegan’s in Redmill about 7:30 and see where it goes from there. Come out and meet the faces on the posts and get to know one another!

2/13/09 – Please welcome our new members. Greg, Bain, Jared, Robbie, Carl, Luke, and Beth have recently completed the fundamentals course and are already joining the WODs! Make sure they feel welcome into your gym.

Also congrats to Lee for recently completing his Level 1 CrossFit Certification! Good job Lee.

1/30/09- Reminder… On Saturday (Jan. 31st) we have been invited to workout at CrossFit Hampton Roads. This is not intended to be an affiliate vs. affiliate challenge but a way for us to share a workout and a meet and greet with fellow crossfitters in the area. The workout is scheduled to start at 9am with a nutrition Q&A afterwards. If you plan on attending please meet at Odyssey tomorrow morning at 0745 if you want to carpool / caravan to CF Hampton Roads.

Another Congrats to Dave, doing his first FRAN rx’d, and Annmarie on her first pullups! Well done! Have you looked at your Jan. goals lately? Have you asked yourself, “What have I done this week to get me closer to meeting my goals?” CrossFit is and should be a constant challenge, whether you’ve been in it a week, a month or a year. Everyone of us has strengths and weaknesses. Simply put CrossFit is humbling, you can’t kick ass in every skill and you can’t suck at every one either. Take the time to fine tune your strengths and work on improving your weaknesses. Use this next week to think about true, realistic skill based goals that you can reach next month. We will be re-posting our goal board on the 1st of Feb.

12/29/08- I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday! Please welcome Dana and Danielle as they help cover classes Monday and Tuesday. I will be back in the gym covering classes starting Wed. 12/31. Now is the time to hit our programming hard and push yourself. Start this new year with solid goals and let us all see you accomplish them. I’ll be waiting for your lists when I return………

12/12/08 – The gym will be closed the week of Dec. 22-28th. Please check the website as we will be posting body weight wods. Odyssey will reopen with regularly scheduled classes on Dec. 29th.

12/07/08 – Please remember tomorrow (12/08) starts the new a.m. class time of 9:15, thanks for your cooperation. Also, Angie has graciously offered to host a CrossFit Odyssey Meet and Greet for members,to be held Dec. 19th at 7 pm. Further information will be posted in the gym.

11/20/08 – The other day I mentioned the “Athletic Skill Standards” to a few of you when we were talking about setting some of your CrossFit goals. This attachment is from Coach Werner and may be interesting to some of you. http://crossfitatlanta.typepad.com/CrossFit_Athletic_Skill_Stand.pdf

11/17/08 - We wanted a way to pass the word to everyone and keep all informed about what’s going on at Odyssey as well as anything that may be coming up in the next few weeks. We are going to try this page out and see if it works. Our other option is to send out mass emails but we didn’t really want to do that. If you guys want / need something to go on here, let me know. So…

Congrats to Danielle for completing her CrossFit Kettlebell Certification this weekend in Ashburn, VA! Danielle, Dana, and Mark are also CrossFit Level One Certified so pick their brains as needed.

Say hello to our three newest members, Dave, Brian, and Kris. They are completing the fundamentals course and will be joining you guys in a few days.

As most of you guys know, there are several other CrossFit affiliates in the Hampton Roads area. CrossFit Sparta has suggested that we have some affiliate vs. affiliate workouts. I will be going to talk with them and will let you guys know what we find out.

We will be closed over the Thanksgiving Holiday in order to sufficiently bulk up on turkey legs and pie. We will have the morning workout on Wednesday November 26th and then will reopen Monday December 1st.

Finally, we want to say a big thanks to all of you for your help in making our first month as an official affiliate a success!