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Is the light at the end of the tunnel the end, or the train? That remains to be seen. After the Modular workout, we have just one more workout left and the 2014 Winter Circus will be secured. We've saved the best for last, the 12 Days of Christmas. Here's the lineup:

1. HSPU

2. 24" Box jumps

3. Thrusters, 95/65

4. Pull-ups
5. Burpees

6. Toes to bar

7. Wall ball shots, 20/16

8. KB swings, 53/35

9. Double-unders

10. Walking lunges, 5 steps each

11. Hang power clean, 95/65

12. Snatch, 95/65

Since there was a little confusion LAST Christmas, let's review: This is a progression/regression workout. You'll start with one Handstand push-up, then two Box jumps, and another Handstand push-up. Then three Thrusters, two Box jumps, and another Handstand push-up. You will continue to move one day up and each of the previous days down until the last set: 12 Snatches, 11 Hang power cleans, 10 Walking lunges....down to the last Handstand push-up.  1, 2-1, 3-2-1, 4-3-2-1, 5-4-3-2-1 up to 12-11-10-9... Got it? Good.

This has been a great Circus. The workouts selected required no substitutions, not a lot of high skill stuff- just hard work. Here's the 2014 lineup:

Ladies:

Barbara

Heather

Isabel 

Grace

Cindy
Mary

Charlotte

Caroline

Jackie

Fran

Heroes:

Holleyman

Bradley

Jag 28

Small

Badger

Gator

Nick

Jared

Michael

Fun:

Hopper/Interval generator

Modular

The 12 Days of Christmas

That's an impressive list considering the Winter Circus had it's humble beginning in 2008 with three Hero workouts in a row. Almost comical now, we thought we were badass mofos then. Securing the Winter Circus proves that we can do much more than we think we can, and that most of out limitations are self-imposed. 

We get asked "why?" quite a bit, why do you people at CFSF do these crazy things? A Burpee mile, Tough Mudders, St. Patrick's Day, The Winter Circus- they are all celebrations of ability. A slap in the face of convention. They have molded, and shaped CFSF into what it is today.

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

-Edmund Hillary

CFSF