Prague, trains

The anywhere fit trip is over, honestly I got a bit sick of taking pictures and writing down shit that happened and just did my best to live in the moment. Less cell phone, no worrying about wifi, just enjoying the company and scenery for the last few days. Prague is awesome, our first night was a bit odd as we got in rather late, having not eaten, and went straight to Crossfit Praha for a 2.5 hour WOD around all of old town Prague. It was cool and fun but left everyone tired, cranky and hungry. Our search for our first real meal of the day ended about 1am with some ok pizza....not a great start. The next day however we had beautiful weather, all the gorgeous foreign women a guy could want, and a free rest day to ourselves! We got good sleep, covered a lot of ground, figured out the public transit and found out our last day would be spent at the Czech Beast Challenge. A local CF event and the first "National Czech Championship". It was fun to watch the Europeans get excited for this and the energy was great. In talking with Ross (a media member of HQ who covers Europe), he told me that Europe was 2-3 years behind the states in CrossFit. I wasn't sure what he meant until the competition began...while it was fun as a competitive veteran, it was kind of a mess...bad standards, horrid judging, tons of pointless downtime, a 30 second obstacle course consisting of nothing hard that counted the same as a 50 minute final WOD, which thankfully we had to leave for to get back for dinner. The men would have taken 1,2, and 3. I went team and we would have won every event with ease. We came back and got a decent nap on the train...and the prep for our final night together began. We had dinner, wine, and played some fun games. The night ended with us heading to a 6 tier club, bottom level was an all ice -50 degree room with coats you were supposed to wear (I obviously SOTd), and drinks in cups made of ice. We then hit the hip hop level and danced the night into submission, most of us ending up on stage, shirtless, dancing over the club and showing the decidedly young group of Prague night-lifers how to party. The entire day was almost 27 hours long, and the next day would be filled with sleep and a surprise for my friends back home on 9/20. All in all the trip was great, and now that I am traveling by train alone I realize How much more fun the people made everything! Good conversation, laid back people and like-minded goals make going out here much easier. Now I start my 7 days alone and hope I can stay in budget and see some cool things! Looking forward to my own bed, real eggs, turkey, chicken, food in general, not paying to pee, tap water all day for free, no more bread, training heavy, cell service and my car. And of course my family (real and friendship)