Brelievers

I talk a lot about maybe making it to the crossfit games regionals. It's a dream i have. I talk to close friends and family about my PRs and different skills i've picked up recently and every once in awhile I ask "If I make it to regionals would you come and see me?" I always get the same answer "Of course I will come see you if you make it to regionals! Of course you'll make it! You're Bre!" This answer is from the people in my life that dont actually do crossfit. Or have only came to one or two crossfit classes. These loved ones don't know how hard it is to get to regionals and then to dare i say it... THE GAMES. But they know that it's a goal of mine. They know that I spend time and money working towards it. They see my passion and smell the sweat I've worked up. They're my support team. They don't know that there are animals out there. Animals that share my dream and have a better idea of how to get there. They dont realize that the sport of crossfit is growing everyday. Everyday more athletes decide that "hey maybe I can make it to the games too." Everyday in crossfit I compete with myself and I usually win. But in order to reach my sometimes outrageous goals for crossfit I'm going to have to compete with others. 

We all have goals. Mine is to one day make it to the games and to one day do well at the games. Its a lofty goal but it's my goal. :) I achieve milestones all the time and get better every day. Something I didn't know that I'd learn is who my real team is. The people who support me and ignorantly believe in me. And also the people who maybe dont think i'll reach my goal of going to the games but still support me because they care.  I didn't know that as I got better my team of supporters would have to get better too. I think that everyday I talk about crossfit just a little more than i did the day before. My support team understands.  I didnt know that there would be times at crossfit where I'd need a shoulder to cry on. But there has been times and there has been shoulders. Big, beautiful, crossfit sculpted shoulders. I didn't know what it would mean to me to feel supported by those around me. I didnt know I needed anyones help. I thought I could do it alone. Crossfit is mostly an individual sport. Now I know that crossfit is far from individual. Your team is made up of everybody who believes in you. I didn't think that my coaches would become some of my dearest friends. I didn't realize that failure would be an everyday occurrence and that I would learn to work with it. I didn't know that crossfit would teach me to be a better sportsman and that some of the goals I would have would be to remember the names of new members or to cheer for someone I dont know very well. I didn't know that I would want to help other people become better crossfitters. I'd take time when i could be training to stop and help someone else. Little things like that never crossed my mind when I was thinking of what crossfit would do for me. 

alright I'm going to stop that discussion right there because what crossfit has done for me is not the entire purpose of this blog entry. The point was to talk about how much support means to me and how i didn't know that i even needed it until I started crossfit. The purpose was to give a pat on the back to all the people who are on the support team of people with high goals. Because without great support teams those goals will never be reached. Just think of how many times an athlete who has accomplished something enormous stood in front of a microphone and said "I had no support team. No one helped me get where I am today." That's right! That never happens.

Reaching goals is a group effort. Thank you to the Brelievers and the other people out their who support others.