Gah I have so much I want to write but I am not prioritizing blogging time, clearly! I need to tell you about my first spray tan, the 2024 WWM Olympics, my week off in Iowa with friends and family, turning 40… like I said, so much!

I’ll start with the WWM Olympics since those are the easiest pictures to sort, ha.

I had no idea what the WWM Olympics were and had no intention on doing them. I have bad memories of being a trainer at Efit and doing a summer event where I went too hard with bad form the entire time and hurt myself. So much that I vowed to myself never to do it again and made plans to not be available for it, but then the pandemic took care of that.

ANYWAY. I was worried I would hurt myself because I turn into such a competitive asshole (and worried I would lose friends because I turn into such a competitive asshole)! But then I found it it’s several events and you pick a team member to do each event – you don’t have to do it all. Then three people asked me to be on their team (there were 13 teams of 4 each) and I couldn’t say no! And I promised to myself I would behave (I did!).

We were the red team! Each team was assigned a different color to wear, and a song to play during their competition. Ours was “Work B**ch” by Britney. 

So two Sundays ago, on the 28th, I participated in my first WWM Olympics! This year’s obstacles (noted with who did what) were:

20 250 lb tire flips (me)
50 squat jumps each (all)
50 ball slams (Dary)
50 goblet squats (Patricia)
50 rope slams (me)
50 in and outs (Sulmarie)
20 burpees each (Sulmarie and Patricia)

The event started at 8:30, the trainers explained it all, then we went one team at a time, everyone cheering everybody else on while their team went. We were done around 10:30, then enjoyed acai bowls, a taco truck, and adult beverages.

I did the tire flips, squat jumps (I think I only did 30 though! My quads were dead from tire flips!), and rope slams. I would share videos but my form was HORRIBLE (but I didn’t hurt myself, yay!). Also, I woke up with the sniffles that morning, so that didn’t help. My heart rate was jacked for about 40 minutes after I did my two events, which I think only totaled about 2+ minutes.

I had SO much fun though. The energy was electric. Everyone was working their hardest and genuinely cheering on other women doing the same. WWM is such a special place! I loved being part of this event.

We ended up 6th out of 13 teams! 4th, 5th, and 6th were all really close. I’m really proud of my team! I’ll definitely be there next year if it works for my schedule.

And bonus, I saw Steven fly by a few times after my group was done (I think we went about 7th?)!