At 11pm last night CFGB presented a check for $8,722 to the 62nd Annual CP Telethon. We raised over $4000 alone in just 4 hours and the rest over a week and a half of on-line donations. I’m pretty sure as I’m writing this we should be over $10,000. You should all take a long look at what we have here at CrossFit Green Bay and the people working out around you everyday. It’s pretty special and it’s not something that has come without hard work and dedication to keeping this gym as a family. Now, we get a lot of slack for the fact that we are a “competitive gym” and not as much a family gym. I disagree to the greatest of degree. I believe we are exactly what a good family should look and act like. I’m not sure about you but in every good family there is an element of competitiveness; trying to out do one another whether it be getting your chores done first to get that last piece of cake (paleo of course;) or trying to out do one another for the best anniversary gift. You have another person that is pushing you to be better because, well, they are also doing the same with you.  At the end of the day one thing remains the same; we care and love one another. Competition and love go hand and hand because without one or the other you are one dimensional and being one way gets boring and we cease the drive to get better. The CP Telethon for me personally was a very big eye opener to this point. Prior to taking on the task of the telethon I really had no idea how much the CP Center does for our community. Then I started asking people to participate in this and I found out there are people in this very gym who have been affected by the center. From Jim and his stepchild to Ian and Toni’s son Carter; the resources of the CP Center have been used to help their little ones succeed when the world was doing every thing in its power to slow that success. I have also learned of one of our newer members Hope or as I insist on calling her Holly has an 18 year old brother that has CP. All things I would have never known had I not taken on this challenge. A challenge that was met with the power of family and the money raised is proof of that. I’m getting long winded here but my point is if you are a member of this gym you are a member of my family. Like it or not you are. We all have our roles in this family and we need to remember at the end of the day we gotta love one another. Never walk away mad, never shy away from speaking your feelings to one another because if we want to continue what we have we cannot grow apart but must become more cohesive than a strip of fly paper. Take the time to learn about one another while you are together at the gym and continue to try to out do one another during the workouts. Help each other grow. You do this and we will continue to become the most powerful community in our area, state, nation or maybe even the world. Competition and Love, who knew?

Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. 
Michael J. Fox