Evening of 7APR10: CrossFit Innovate

We met the owner Josh, who was a very cool guy. They have a very nice box and use their space very well. There were about 4 others doing the workout with us, which happened to be Diane, another one of our favorites.

We were still recovering from the previous 3 days, but he had us almost jumping right in. We set up 25# plates/abmats along the wall to scale the HSPU's and did a warm up of Tabata jump rope/sit ups.

The workout itself was a blast, as per usual. Ralph finished first, followed by Ryan and myself. The HSPU's killed me personally. We did our post workout nutrition in the parking lot and I called Casey, who is a student at the University of Alabama, a fellow CrossFitter, and our host for the evening. Due to a miscommunication, he had thought we were doing a workout at 6:30. Oh well.

We then proceeded to Dreamland Barbeque. Yeah. It was amazing. We had 2 slabs of ribs and a quart of their banana pudding. This was our first cheat meal and really was not too bad. Just a piece of white bread in BBQ sauce and the banana pudding, which was not your traditional pudding, but more of a cake-like concoction. All said the ribs were finger lickin' good. I will definitely be back there.

We drove through Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama campus. Quite an eye-opener for us, being from Terre Haute, Indiana at a small, private, predominantly male engineering school. We got to his dorm. He lived in a suite with 4 roommates. We showered and hung out a bit before deciding to head out for the evening and see a bit of the town.

We drove through town again and the first bar district we stopped in was pretty quiet. But we made our way over to Rounders, which turned out to be the place to be that particular Wednesday night. We had to pay a $5 cover, but they had boxing matches that night between various fraternities for charity. Many of the national championship Alabama football team happened to be there, including Heisman trophy winner Mark Ingram. We had a good evening there. Lots of good scenery. The boxing was decent at times, but fun to watch nonetheless.

We headed back at about 11:30 and promptly passed out. We were woken at about 2:00 AM by one of Casey's room mates who was concerned we would not be warm or comfortable enough, so he thoughtfully threw a sleeping bag and blanket at us. Southern hospitality at it's finest.