I heard Chase Ingram (big name in the realm of CrossFit Media) put the Open in terms that I couldn’t have put any better. He said something along the lines of “signing up for the Open is like signing up for the yearly 5k Fun Run, but it is the yearly 5K Fun Run of Fitness” and I don’t think it could be said any better. If you love running you know that signing up for a 5K isn’t anything serious and that you don’t really need to do any specific training for it (unlike a half marathon or something longer). You sign up because it’s fun, it’s a little bit of a challenge and makes something maybe not so fun more entertaining because you have some skin in the game.

Adrian Bozman, the director of the CrossFit Games, also said to “sign up for the Open, put your toe on the starting line right next to thousands of people, and do something new and exciting.” When I heard both of those guys talk about the Open in that manner my mind was blown. So simple, yet so elegantly put. The Open isn’t anything crazy, it is about something fun and challenging that you are doing with everybody else. Why not sign up for the Open? It’s $20, it will test your fitness and over the course of doing CrossFit for years and consistently doing the Open year after year, you will see a trend in your fitness! Not doing the Open is fine, but the fact that it tracks and allows you to compare your fitness across the globe across the span of your CrossFit Career you will be able to truly see how fit you have become as time goes on!

Friday Night Lights highlights that. Friday Night Lights will take everyone who puts their toe on the starting line, those who have signed up for the “5K Fun Run of Fitness” and throw them through a gauntlet of workouts. Friday Night Lights takes the fun of having a class workout with all your friends and elevates it beyond levels normally seen within the class. It gives you an opportunity to show friends and family the things you can do and the things you have accomplished across your time at Evansville CrossFit.

If you haven’t yet signed up for the Open, DO IT HERE!!!! If you are going to be participating in Friday Night Lights, please help make our job easier by locking in a time slot to workout HERE (we don’t know what the WOD is yet so times are not set in stone). With that, I plan on getting a physical copy of this sign-up sheet posted up in the gym as well.

Get ready for a wild time! Get your fitness friends together, get matching outfits and wear goofy costumes (you don’t have to workout in them though), workout, judge and watch the festivities that are the CrossFit Open Friday Night Lights! I look forward to seeing you all there!