Its Time to Resucitate the Leaderboard!
First things first! Big shout out and congrats go out to Eunice and Poker for winning the Team Competition at Chaos in the Capitol at CrossFit Olympia. They both have been working very hard for a long while now. Awesome to see them rewarded. This is Eunice’s second win of the season. At a girl! The Woodchuck and Kane also competed. Kane hit a 20 lb pb with a 265 clean and Nat did more ring dips than she ever has before! Big Love to all of you!
Our community has grown by leaps and bounds since we moved to our current location. It will be four years here this March.
In that time we have more than doubled our membership, become a vocational school, sent a team to the CrossFit Games twice, thrown a bunch of great parties, and burned millions of calories. 
But alas one of the very building blocks of our community is fledgeling along. Its time to stop this.
Believe it or not it wasn’t until we moved from our last location (1261 East 2nd – a block and a half away) that we had all the classes doing the same workouts. Originally the coaches programmed different workouts in their own respective classes (I know – Crazy right?). Well eventually we came to our senses and had all classes doing the same wod.
Next came the whiteboard leaderboard. People would just write their name and score on the whiteboard by the front door and at the end of the night the scores got tabulated into a top ten. A picture was taken and we posted it on the website. Kinda like our monthly personals best board. Always a goofy person and pose in with the stats.
Patty then got the idea to make a website that could do exactly what our whiteboard and picture did as well as make it like a facebook profile thing. Along came crossfitleaderboard.com.
It thrived for years but seemingly in the last while is faltering along. I’m writing this post to ask you, yes you, each of you individually and collectively as a community to help us resuscitate our leaderboard.
I remember times when the comments on the post were full of congrats and wahoos on people’s scores. It did wonders for the vibe in our box.
SO… I am asking all of you who have a profile on the leaderboard to spruce it up and start posting your scores again.
I am asking all of you who do not have a profile to make one on the leaderboard and start posting your scores. It doesn’t matter if you still use progressions. There is space to add them in.
Its not about who is the best. Its about participating in the leaderboard. Its a great way to track your workouts.
So pretty please jump onboard!
And speaking of moving to this location… Many of you folks may not know how we did it. Here are the videos of our “move”.
Monday’s Class:
Tech: Power Clean 2,2,2,2
Workout: Got this from Outlaw CrossFit
5 Rounds for Time
4 Power Cleans (185/120 lbs)
8 HSPU
40 Double Unders
Bring your own rope or buy one in the vending machine. You’ll be happy to have your own and it will make you practice your skipping and double unders more often.
We did this workout in HPC last week. A little heavier (205/135lbs) but a great hit.
Ps. Patty is working on developing a newer and better type of software. Should be sweet.
Mucho Amore,
El Shepardo
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By Bob B. 27 Jan 2013
One simple requests with regards to the leaderboard
1–some days during the week when you go to post, it says that our gym is on a rest day…
Thanks
Bob
By squad 28 Jan 2013
You just have to click onto WODs once you log in and ours shows up. You can also go onto your Profile, click on logbook, and you can add basically anything there anytime.
eg. if you PR a deadlift, you can input a 1 rep max DL
You can do this anytime… and you can transfer everything from your paper book there… much easier to access if you’re out of town or at home
By Afghan 28 Jan 2013
If you notice that the WOD isn’t up on leaderboard, it helps to throw a comment on here. One of the coaches will see the comment and load it up.
Sometimes we forget, we aren’t perfect.
By Bob B. 28 Jan 2013
WHAT, you guys aren’t perfect!!
By Afghan 28 Jan 2013
I don’t even desire to be
By Lars 28 Jan 2013
looks a great WOD Sheppy.
By Afghan 28 Jan 2013
It was a good one!
By Reto 28 Jan 2013
Posted this a while ago on the topic of posting to the leaderboard. Repost for posterity:
Top Ten Reason’s People Don’t Post on the Leaderboard:
1 I had a bad day and I’m shameful
2 I took it easy today and I’m shameful
3 My score was too good and I’m a modest firebreather
4 I’m too lazy
5 I can’t remember my password
6 I lost count
7 I forgot my time
8 I didn’t do the workout as rx’d
9 I’m shy and don’t want people knowing I even exist
10 Fuck it.
Top Ten Reason’s People SHOULD Post on the Leaderboard:
1 Men will die for points – competition drives results. Crossfit is the SPORT of fitness, if you don’t post your score, you’re not crossiftting.
2 Helps track your progress
3 Provides a benchmark for everyone else in the box
4 Advertises to people not in the box
5 Avoids hollow victories (I finally PRd my fucken snatch and nobody else posted!)
6 It feels great to finally take it down one day
7 Helps the coaches see where you’re at
8 Helps overcome unproductive feelings of shyness, modesty, and other ego-focused bullshit
9 It’s alway’s good to beat the Pig Line
10 Fuck it.
By Shep 28 Jan 2013
Bahahahaha!!
That is awesome Reto.
Thank you.
By Donkey 28 Jan 2013
Nicely done, Reto.
You won’t get better if you don’t measure!
By Afghan 28 Jan 2013
Great stuff gingercrotch
By Joel Fridman 28 Jan 2013
Guys, I loved that moving day. Good memories.
By No No 28 Jan 2013
Lars, what is with the two min penalty?!? That’s 11:04 dude