NorCal CF/Winery Tour Day #6

This morning started off with another CrossFit visit. We went over to the newly opened Lalanne Fitness in the heart of the Financial District of San Fran. This gym is owned by Chris Lalanne and his wife Maribel. If the last name sounds familiar, it should. Chris is the Grand Nephew of none other than fitness guru Jack Lalanne. Jack's 93 years old and still exercises 2 hours per day. Not sure if those are CrossFit workouts though.

The gym at Lalanne Fitness is beautiful. One entire wall is brick, really adds a lot of character to the place. It was a pretty slow morning, Amy and I hit it with just one other victim. No worries, Chris had a good dose of pain scheduled for us. We warmed up with several minutes of jump ropes then did a quick 3 rounds of walking lunges, Hip Extensions and GHD sit-ups, then the real pain began. Today's WOD was 20 minutes AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) of 15 squats, 12 push-ups and 9 pull-ups. I honestly lost count of my rounds once hypoxia set in at about 4-5 minutes. I think Chris counted 17 rounds, but I feel like it was probably 15, Amy pulled off 9 rounds (all kipping pull-ups, no band). After the workout Amy and I sat around and talked shop with Chris and Maribel until their next client came in. They were both extremely cordial and open. It's obvious they are both very passionate about what they are doing and we have no doubts that they will have an extremely successful business. It will be exciting to watch Lalanne Fitness develop over the next year or so.

We hopped in a cab and zipped back to our hotel with a quick stop for coffee and some quiche which we followed with cupcakes at Kara's Cupcakes Yikes, those are some damn good cupcakes. Glad we waited until just before we were leaving San Fran to stop there, oherwise it could have been U-G-L-Y! If you are in the area of the Presidio or Chestnut street, swing over to Scott Street and have a cupcake at Kara's, you will not be disappointed.

It was still fairly early in the morning, but we had a long drive down to Solvang for the final leg of our trip, so we zipped back to our hotel, took quick showers and then got the heck out of Dodge. We really enjoyed our short but quick trip to San Fran. Wish we could have stayed longer. We survived two smoker workouts, met more great CrossFitters, had yummy food and picked up some valuable business tidbits. Our work here was done.

Now it's time to sip some wine and hit the spa. Solvang, here we come.