Pre-Order YellowBelly for this week’s Friday Night Lights dinner HERE!  6 rounds:20m shuttle sprintrest 3min6 rounds:20m shuttle sprintrest 3min6 rounds:20m shuttle sprint Did You PR? The stories that have come out of last week’s 15.1/a experience have been nothing short of inspiring.  The coaches have heard from athletes about how they PR’ed their clean & jerk (for a few by 20 pounds?!), got their first toes-to-bar, did the workout RX when they thought they couldn’t, or put up 75 and 115lb snatches for the first time. We want to hear from you!  Post to comments your experience from 15.1/a.  Did you PR?  Did you do something you thought you couldn’t?  Did you have fun? And don’t forget, 15.2 gets underway tonight at 6pm for the second live announcement.  Tune in to games.crossfit.com at 6pm MST to hear the workout and watch the head to head workout.  As always, we’ll be streaming the live...Read more

Pre-Order YellowBelly for this week’s Friday Night Lights dinner HERE! Deadlift3-3-3-3-3 Pre-Order Your Dinner for the 15.2 Friday Night Lights! Tomorrow marks the second LIVE announcement of the 2015 Open season.  And Friday marks the second Friday Night Lights at Roots. DON’T FORGET: You must pre-order dinner for this week’s Friday Night Lights!Dinner for the 15.2 installment of the Friday Night Lights Series will be provided by Yellowbelly Chicken! It is $11/Meal (includes tax and delivery). Place your order here by Thursday, March 5th. Please pay at Roots with check or cash on Friday, March 5th when you pick up your food. Make checks payable to CrossFit Roots. For more food details check out YellowBelly Chicken.  CrossFit will broadcast LIVE from Austin, TX where immediately after Dave Castro announces the workout, the fourth- and sixth-ranked women of the 2014 Reebok CrossFit Games: powerhouses Michele Letendre and Emily Bridgers., will go head to head. Tune in...Read more

Pre-Order YellowBelly for this week’s Friday Night Lights dinner HERE! J.T.21-15-9 reps for time of:Handstand push-upsRing dipsPush-ups News From the Colorado State and Open Competition. Big news from the Colorado State and Open Weightlifting Competition in Colorado Springs this past weekend. Luke Ursell, competing in the Men’s Senior 77kg class, went 6 for 6 on his lifts and set a new personal meet record in his total.Results here. And our very own coach Ryan Landis came home with the Men’s Masters 105kg title after taking first place with a new personal meet record total.  Ryan’s total qualifies him for the American Open, PanAm Games, and the Masters Worlds. Results here.Read more

LOG YOUR CROSSFIT OPEN SCORES! (see below)andWomen’s Only Free Class is today at 10:30am!  Join us.  Details here. 15-12-9 reps for time of:95-lb. thrustersPull-ups Rest 5 minutes12-9-6 reps for time of:95-lb. thrustersPull-ups Rest 5 minutes9-6-3 reps for time of:95-lb. thrustersPull-ups Athletes Registered for the Open: Log Your 15.1/a Scores! Attention all 157 (that’s right) Roots athletes who registered for the 2015 CrossFit Open!  If you have not already logged your score you MUST DO SO by 6pm MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME.  There are no exceptions to this.  ALSO, you need to make sure you joined the ROOTS team. LOG YOUR SCORE HERE: CLICK here to log-in to your account and log your score. JOIN THE ROOTS TEAM: Within your account, you must join the Roots team.  Be sure to do this before this week.  On the log-in page, scroll down to the section titled Games Status: Registration Complete and under Team, select Roots....Read more

Free Beginner Class today (Sunday) at 10:30am!  Sign-up here. For time:50 box jumps, 24-inch box50 jumping pull-ups50 kettlebell swings, 1 pood50 walking-lunge steps50 knees-to-elbows50 push presses, 45 lb.50 back extensions50 wall-ball shots, 20-lb. ball50 burpees50 double-unders 15.1 Make Up Today and 2015 Open T-Shirt The 15.1 make up workout is today at 11am.  That is when the heats will START.  Please be there at 10:30am to warm-up and figure out pairings for judging. ALSO, please be sure to sign-up on MBO for the Final Hour Open Make-up at 11am on Sunday.  This helps us with planning purposes.  2015 CROSSFIT OPEN T-SHIRTS MONDAY (tomorrow) is the LAST day to order your 2015 Open t-shirt.  This tee is available for pre-order only.  If you would like to purchase one, see below. The shirts are available in a tank for women and t-shirt for men, details and pricing below.   WOMEN’S TANK: Printed on Next...Read more