Competition is the foundation of CrossFit regardless of your individual pursuits and efforts day to day. I will even admit that it took me some time to wrap my head around the fact that most people actually don’t invite competition into their daily lives. Having grown up in sports I just developed the mindset that me against whatever was normal daily life, be it the daily heavyweight championship of Me V. Whole Foods Clerk scanning and bagging against me swiping and typing on the pin pad, winner gets to initiate awkward eye contact, or waking up at 6:59 to I beat the sleep zombie that always turns my alarms off when I sleep past 7:00am. Yet in reality the very word “competition” gives many people anxiety and personally it’s been an interesting and fun broadening of my thinking