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CONGRATULATIONS KAREN JOHNSON!

The 2012 Whole Life Challenge Winner Karen Johnson!

After crunching all of the numbers – workouts, measurements, points, and bonus points – we have found that one young lady has stood out among all of our Whole Life Challenge participants. The top 5 scores were separated by only a very few points, but at the end of the day Dr. Karen Johnson was left standing at the top!

It should also be noted that in addition to crushing workouts, eating clean, taking her fish oil, mobilizing, losing inches, and gaining burpees, Karen is also an extremely busy woman! She’s the Pediatrics Department Chair over at Sansum, as well as a busy mother to four boisterous children and one very injury prone, two-hundred pound man-child.

Congratulations Karen on all of your hard work and effort, you’re an inspiration to our whole community in addition to being a kick ass CrossFitter!

Today’s Workout:

Skill: 10 min Handstands

For Quality:

50 Broad Jumps
40 Pistols (20R/20L)
30 Strict Toes to Bar
20 Strict Handstand Pushups
60 Sec Accumulated Parallette L-Sit



16 comments
Amber A
Amber A

Awww...Karen! Well deserved. You are such an inspiration to us all. Congratulations!

Malzone
Malzone

Not sure I want to follow that one....BUT what you accomplished over the last 8 months is everything we hoped people could get out of the program. Thank you so much, Karen, for setting the bar and leading my quiet example. You've come a long way since joining our gym and have absolutely earned the benefits you've experienced. CONGRATS!

Augie Johnson
Augie Johnson

As I type, I am phoning the Brazilian baby sitter service to take Sophie to a movie, getting the boys over to other kids houses for study hours, getting the dogs, cats, bunnies and fish fed, lighting some candles, putting on my lucky flannel drawers with the rocket ships on them and greeting my wife at the door with champagne and bowl of blackberries and whipped cream...oops. I didn't win you say? Karen did? Ahh. Ok, I'll work on the sink trap, go to the dry cleaners and finish our house re-fi. Congrats Karen! You really do deserve the win considering that you had me and the swarm in the house each night staring at you over the frosty rim of a beer glass or downing a stove pot of Lucky Charms soaked in milk so cold that condensation dripped on to the table with the chile ladle while you picked at soggly brussel sprout heads or wandering groggily into the kitchen after being on-call all night to find me stacking mountains of eiekuchen crepes smothered in cinnimon sugar and blackberry jam as if I were preparing for the coming zombie apocalypse and passing them up for a yellow fish oil pill. Your dicipline and character when folks are not watching has always impressed me and I am a lucky guy that you have put up with me for such 'a real long time' (Something we added to our wedding vows as 'lifetime' sounded too scarily long.) You are an amazing young women and I am as excited to see you walk through that door tonight as I was 30 years ago! Congrats for all your hard work and dicipline and I'll put my rocket shorts at the top of the laundry stack tonight just in case! Much love, respect and admiration, Your man child.

The Claw
The Claw

Way to represent us mid-1980's graduating UCLA Bruins! Congratulations! Claw

Kristiana
Kristiana

Woot Woot! You're a Total SUPERWOMAN Dr. J! You make us child-free peeps look like complete slackers! Congrats on winning and showing everyone that there are truly NO EXCUSES when it comes to making a positive change in your life :)

Snyder
Snyder

Congratulations Karen! You crushed your old burpees number!

kj
kj

Congratulations Karen!!!

Rodrigo
Rodrigo

Congrats Karen!! You Rock!!

Frank
Frank

Wooo! Congrats Karen!!

becky
becky

Congrats Karen!!

Dr. J
Dr. J

Wow. I didn't expect to win. Although painful at times, it was well worth it and helped me to understand what I really NEED to eat as opposed to what I really WANT to eat. I don't need pasta and bread anymore. There are so many great vegetables to roast and Backyard bowl is now my treat of choice instead of the Habit! Thank you everyone, especially the coaches with their unrelenting enthusiasm!!!

Bwood
Bwood

Congrats Karen!! You look awesome and I seriously meant to tell you that yesterday morning. I would be stoked to have a kick ass body like yours after four kids,....it's okay Andy, don't have a heart attack - I swear we're only having two :) well deserved Dr. J

Matt Quigley
Matt Quigley

Congratulations! Doing this challenge was challenging. With children, it seems even more so. Awesome!

Chandra
Chandra

Awesome Karen! Congratualtons!

Kristin
Kristin

Congratulations !! Job well done !

Sarah S.
Sarah S.

Hell yeah! Well deserved Karen!