Goodbye CFE

It's hard to put into words how it feels to be leaving Edmonton.  It doesn't help that I hate goodbyes.   Since starting CrossFit I've been lucky enough to call three different boxes my home and leaving every single one of them has been hard.   Leaving CFE will be harder though because it has also been my kids home.  I've watched them grow up inside the four walls there- from doing workouts with them still inside my belly on the day they were born to taking some of their first steps across the gym floor.   This time it's not just me saying goodbye to the friends I've met but them saying goodbye to the first friends they ever made. The people we’ve met at CFE have become part of our village and have helped me raise them. How do you even begin finding a way to say goodbye to that?

Becoming a mom (and then becoming a mom again…and again…) has been one of the most rewarding but toughest transitions of my life.  CFE helped me become comfortable and confident in my new role and to find appreciation and love for my new body and the things I could do because of CrossFit.  I no longer considered myself a CrossFitter but instead I look at CrossFit as my outlet - the activity that allows me to thrive in the other areas of my life.

I cannot count the number of times I have walked into the gym after a particularly rough and defeating morning.  Often I would grumble melodramatically about having “the worst day ever” and somehow just being surrounded by the other moms at the CFE Mamas class, or any class for that matter, would allow me to forget about what had happened that morning and move forward in my day. 

As I looked around CFE on Saturday before I left I found myself reliving all the amazing things that have happened there since I started - the first time I walked in the building(Suz can fill you in on that gem of a story), Nathaniel’s first CrossFit Kids class, all of the classes I’ve coached, all of the parties, multiple babies, multiple PRs by all of you, not so multiple PR’s by me, and most importantly each and every one of you that makes CFE what it is – home.

Of course, with social media now, it's never really goodbye and for that I am grateful.  Even though I won’t be there to coach you in person I’ll still be able to check in on what all of you are up to and to see the progress you make in the future.  So keeping working hard, keep leaning on each other, and start counting down the days until we possibly (hopefully) make a grand reappearance in 3-5 years.