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Category: About DokiDara

14
Jun
May and June 2014 Check-Ins
About DokiDara, Food, Real Life, Travel, Workout

  Since May 11th was the day before I left on my one month Asia-Pacific tour, I was totally slammed for time and wasn’t able to get on here to write about my progress. HOWEVER! I did snag photos of my stats before I hopped on the plane, and I did the same on the […]

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11
Jun
She’s Back!
About DokiDara, Real Life, Travel

It’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged and there’s good reason for it… I’ve been busy traveling in Australia, Japan and South Korea! MAJOR updates on the trip and other things are coming, but until then, I wanted to give you some insight into where I am in life right now, and I think […]

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15
May
Travel Thoughts…
About DokiDara, Real Life, Travel

It’s really strange to me that I’m traveling now so much for work. Why? Well, throughout my childhood, my father always traveled for business. As a trainer for HP, it’s been his career to visit different groups of new hires for the company (and Compaq before that and DEC before that… lots of acquisition) and […]

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12
May
DokiDara Hits the Road!
About DokiDara, Real Life, Travel

I know I owe a monthly update – I DID record my stats, and I’ll get to it, I promise. I actually have a good reason I’m behind this time – I’m about to hit the road! In a few short hours I’ll be boarding a plane to Melbourne, Australia (alright, first I stop in […]

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23
Apr
10 Reasons Why Today Was A Great Day
About DokiDara, Crossfit, Derby, Olympic Lifting, Real Life, Workout

Today was pretty flipping awesome for so so many reasons… here’s just a sampling of them… 10. I GOT TO TALK TO MY LITTLE TALI!! 9. Andy, Jason and I got to hash out a bunch of Neko stuffs. 8. Steak, green beans, and baby red potatoes for dindin. YUM. 7. I stopped being antisocial […]

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13
Mar
I Finally Made the Big Time!
About DokiDara, Crossfit, Real Life

Holla at my first “you can tell it’s me”/”it’s not a group shot” photo feature on Crossfit Nassau‘s homepage! Happy 1 year crossfitaversary to me. Check it: …now I want to break my “it’s my rest day on Thursday” philosophy and go in and lift. BUT I WILL STICK TO MY TAPER PLAN. <3

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11
Mar
March 2014 Check-In & 1 Year of Crossfit
About DokiDara, Crossfit, Derby, Olympic Lifting

So what’s interesting about this check-in is that it’s also my one year(is) crossfit check-in. My first WOD was 3/23/2013, so it’s between this month’s and next month’s check-in… and today is my mom’s birthday and I have a lot to say. So I’m saying it today, and you’re going to like it. Or not, […]

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2
Mar
14.1 – My First Ever Open Workout!
About DokiDara, Crossfit, Workout

The Crossfit Open. When everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, in Crossfit, gets hyped up to basically take the annual Crossfit SATs. Every Thursday night a new workout is announced, and we all have until Monday at 5PM PST to complete it, with a certified judge, and log our scores online. Then we get ranked against […]

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28
Jan
10 Reasons I Lift – Shitty Lifting Day Inspiration
About DokiDara, Crossfit, Olympic Lifting, Real Life, Workout

Last night at oly I had the worst day I’ve ever had lifting. I’ve had days where technique has been frustrating and I’ve struggled, but I’ve never just been so CONFUSED about what was going on with my body until yesterday. We started with some general work, and then moved into Max Snatch for the […]

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13
Jan
No, I’m Not Training FOR THE OLYMPICS – The Story of Registering for an Olympic Lifting Meet…
About DokiDara, Olympic Lifting, Real Life, Workout

Recently I’ve been kind of slinking around emotionally in my Olympic Lifting (oly) classes because my coach and I discussed me trying out an USAW meet in February of this year. I’ve been attending oly classes twice a week (which is as often as they’re held at CFN), just working on technique and trying to […]

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