NorCal CF/Winery Tour Day #5

Today we resume focus on CrossFit. We started off the morning with breakfast at Hank's Creekside which was right across the street from the Flamingo. It wasn't the best breakfast we had, but it was good. If you're going to eat potatoes here definitely go with the cottage fries as the hash brown weren't very good. Didn't need the extra carbs anyway.

After breakfast we packed up and began the fairly quick drive to San Francisco. Along the way we stopped at the Olive Press and Jacuzzi Winery outside of Sonoma. We were both really looking forward to this stop as we both love Olive Oil, especially infused oils. To be quite honest this was a disappointing stop. Sipping olive oil really isn't that exciting and after a few samples you actually start to feel kind of gross. It didn't help that the atmosphere there was way too commercial. We were spoiled by the small town hospitality and charm of Healdsburg, Windsor and Sebastapol. We did pick up a couple of nice bottles of oil though.

The drive into San Fran was great, this was a first for us. We loved driving through the north part of the city before reaching the Golden Gate Bridge, beautiful. Driving over the bridge was pretty cool, that's one big ass bridge. Our hotel was right on the famous Lombard street, although not on the cool curvy part, just a few blocks from the base of the bridge. We stayed at the Edward II Bed & Breakast. A funny little place, very much a San Fran hotel, cramped and pretty much outdated. The owners were very nice and the room was certainly acceptable. Lunch was fantastic, we went to a Thai restaurant, don't recall the name, right across the street from our hotel. The spinach wraps were great as was the Tom Kha Gai and green curry.

After lunch Amy tricked me into going into a salon so she could get a pedicure. The place was dead and they asked if I wanted one also. What the hell, I'm on vacation. So, I sat down for my second pedicure. Honestly, it was okay, certainly worth the $18 plus an additional $10 for the 10 minute foot/leg massage. I opted to not go with color on my nails though.

After the pedicures we went back to the room to begin preparing for our workout at San Francisc CrossFit. I had been really looking forward to going to SFCF because the owner is also a physical therapist. Unfortunately he does not train at the gym on Mondays, so we weren't able to hook up with him. One of his other trainers, Angel, certainly did his best to break us all down, however. It's almost hard to remember everything he put us through, but it started with Double-Unders and Burpees. Then we did 5 rounds of 100m sprints, 10 pull-ups and 10 ring dips. We followed that with Tabata Deadlift, Box Jumps and Rowing. Prescribed weight for the deadlift was 225#, I opted to go with 185#. I scored a total of 183 (47 DL, 81 Box Jumps, 55 cal on rower), Amy scored 143 (78 DL, 28 Box jumps they were 26inch box jumps though, and 31 cal on the rower) with 85# DL.

San Francisco CrossFit is definitely a unique "gym". It is located in the loading dock area behind an old commissary which is now a Sports Warehouse. All the equipment is kept in a shipping container and all the training is done out in the elements. This is real-deal grassroots fitness! The only downside for us Southern Californians was that is was cold. The wind was really whipping up off the bay and after the workout Amy and I were freezing our butts off. One of the guys pulled a cooler out of his trunk after the workout and we sat around and had a beer in the parking lot. Certainly did not help our body temperature, but it was a good bonding experience. Felt like we were hashers again.

Amy and I slammed our beers and then walked back to our hotel, cursing the wind the whole way. We quickly cleaned ourselves up and had a nice Italian meal for dinner. We were both whipped and went straight to bed after dinner.



Buildings are for wimps!


Amy & Dan @ the San Francisco CrossFit Box