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Monday 5:30pm class finishing up an absolute SWEAT FEST #ridgelinestrong

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Member Highlight
Please congratulate, Marc Williams on being our Member Highlight for the month of January!

1) Why did you decide to try Ridgeline?
I joined Ridgeline when I moved to Morgantown in 2019 for graduate school. I had just finished college football and needed something to fill that space in my life. Having utilized CrossFit during my off seasons, joining a gym was a no brainer. After a quick google search, I found Ridgeline and have been here since!

2) What is your favorite part about Ridgeline?
All of the amazing coaches and members that make this gym one of a kind.

3) What are your hobbies outside of the gym?
I love sports! You can catch me at a lot of WVU / Pittsburgh sporting events or hanging with friends watching UFC Fight Nights. I also love playing poker with the boys.

4) What kinds of improvements have you seen since joining CrossFit?
CrossFit has had a huge impact on my mental health. It has been the best stress reliever for me.

5) What would you say to someone that is nervous to try CrossFit?
Just start! We all start somewhere. The people in the CrossFit community will make you want to stay.

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✨Thirty, flirty, and thriving✨

Today I enter my 30s. To some, that might cause them to be sad about the end of their 20s and their “youth”, but today I celebrate another amazing decade to my life, and the opening of a new one 🤍

Many people don’t get the chance to grow old. Some don’t make it to 30, or 40, or 80. I thank God for another year on this planet doing the things I love with the people I love, and I pray I get the chance for many more years and to get gray hair and wrinkles one day.

My life has gotten better with age, and looking back at my 20s, the last 10 years has brought me to WV, has given me the love of my life and my best friends, has kept me close to friends and loved ones far away, has brought me two masters degrees and a career I love, and has given me so many incredible opportunities and memories I hold so near and dear to my heart. 🤟🏻🥹

For everyone that has made this birthday and these past years so amazing, thank you with all my love from the bottom of my heart. My life wouldn’t be complete without the humans that make me burst with joy 🤍

Cheers to 30 years, and to many, many more of being an absolute menace to society and living life to the absolute limit 🥂🍾😉🫶🏻🤍🥰🥳

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One year without you 💔🪽

Not a second has gone by that you aren’t talked about, thought about, or loved fiercely. I will not focus on the grief, the tears, or the hole your absence as left, but today will be about remembering and cherishing every happy, laugh filled moment we were blessed enough to share with you. I hope you know how much of an impact you had on each person you met and every life you touched. I could say a million more words, but they wouldn’t be enough to describe how incredible of a soul you are.

I miss you. I love you. I will see you again one day 🤍👍🏻

#livelaughlough

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✨29✨

This past year has been one of the worst and best of my life.

I got engaged!

I lost the sweetest, dearest friend in the world.

I did (and won) a lot of competitions!

I had a life interrupting injury.

I met a lot of new people and made great new friends!

I had to say goodbye to great people as they started new journeys in their lives

I traveled and did some super cool stuff!

I really struggled with my mental and physical health

I ran my first half marathon!

I learned being a homeowner isn’t always the most fun

But no matter what happened, I had a team, a village, a community, and life line around me supporting me every step of the way. This year would have crushed me if it weren’t for every soul in my life, and for that and their love, I am eternally grateful 🤍

I’m thankful to close the chapter on 28, and I hope this next year is full of bright, wonderful things; but I’ll always remember how strong this year made me.

So thanks to everyone who gave me so much birthday love this past week, you all hold the biggest, most special place in my heart, and it was so very needed and appreciated 🫶🏻

Here’s to the last year of my 20s! 🥂🤍

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First CrossFit Open ✅

Last year I didn't appreciate why people wanted to do the Open and it took me a while to truly understand... It's not about placing high, it's about building a healthy and positive community. It's about making new friends and motivating them (and yourself!) to do their best.

I've always struggled with competition anxiety and the first Open workout proved that again.... HOWEVER, it also allowed me to grow past this and accept that MY best is good enough. Rough days happen, but in the end it is what it is.

Training with this group of people has been a dream come true and I'm excited to see where we go from here♥️

#crossfitopen #kachow

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The world can be dark and cruel and I’ve thankfully not experienced such cruelty until now.

But I’m going to choose light & love. Because that’s what Jacob would want. I will miss you so much my dear, sweet friend. I am so grateful to have had one last lunch date, one last hug before I left. Grief is a roller coaster, and while still dealing with heart break and so many tears and questions, I’ve also had moments of peace. A feeling that while it is extremely not right, unfair, that your life had to be the one taken so horribly, you did more good than those who live lives triple the length of yours. Your goodness is inspiring to all of us still here to be more like you. I feel your presence and your support, just like I always did when you were still with us. You’ll never leave my heart Jacob. I’m sorry this had to happen to you but immensely grateful for every moment together. I am infinitely better because of you. We all are. Like you said, “it’s not goodbye, just see ya later!” ❤️💔☀️

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Oh Jacob, my heart and soul ache.

I wish I could wake up from this nightmare and turn back time and make everything go differently. I wish a million things, but most of all I wish I could hear your laugh one last time and see your smile light up one more room. This loss has broken me, mind, spirit, and soul. I don’t understand how someone could do something so heinous and take one of the best and brightest people from this world and from us. But I am doing my best to keep the hate out and just remember the love and positivity that you embodied.

I will always cherish my memories with you. I will cherish the hours we spent paddle boarding on the lake, playing charades and CRUSHING state capitals together, every trivia night, every sporting event, long Dockside nights, watching you and Hoopie play together, sitting in bars cheering on WVU, the hikes, the bonfire nights, the friends I’ve made because of you, the workouts that you definitely didn’t enjoy but I enjoyed having you at, and the love and kindness you gave to every person you met. Most of all I will cherish quoting every single line from SpongeBob and our mutual love for the show. You were the SpongeBob to my Patrick and the mihoy to minoy.

I’m sorry I never gave you back your lawnmower. I’m sorry that I wasn’t there to protect you. I’m sorry most of all that I didn’t have you in my life longer.

While this hole in my heart will never fully heal, I promise to always do your memory justice by trying to be like you each and every day. I promise to smile more, laugh harder, try and actually enjoy WVU sports, love every human like they were my own blood, and live each day like it’s my last.

Make time for your friends. Set a coffee or lunch date. Take trips with your loved ones. Hold your family, friends, and dogs tighter for me. You never know when the last time will be that you get to be in their warm glow. Tomorrow is never guaranteed, so live life to the fullest. Live like Jacob, for Jacob.

The only thing that can sum up how I feel right now:
Spongebob: “What do you normally do when I’m gone?”
Patrick: “Wait for you to get back.”

Rest in absolute peace my goofy goober. See you again one day. 🤍

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Me posting this reel late because I got overwhelmed by the daunting task that is creating a reel and quit. Cheers to resiliency

A year of some stress, burn out, and soul searching. But mostly filled with more “yes’s” to fun things with friends and “no’s” to extra, schedule-filling work things. Money is awesome and my work is fulfilling, but my people and relationships are what really light up my life. 2022 was a year of prioritizing my people, and if we spent time together this year just know how much you mean to me

& what’s a year without another big-life decision! Working to keep making soccer my livelihood, but a little different this year.

🦋☀️

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A berry good time🍓🍰

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A year older on the outside, still the same goofy goober on the inside 🤘🏻🥜

27th chapter in the book and one with some of the most growth, love, laughter, tears, and miles on my car so far.

This last year has brought me my white coat and every day closer to my dream career, three beautiful weddings including my baby sister’s, time, food, and drinks spent with the best friends and family, growing in fitness and health, seeing and living in multiple cities and making the best friends in each, and countless other memories I will always cherish.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to my beautiful life these past 27 years and counting, and to those who texted, snap chatted, DM’d, called, and wished me a very happy birthday ❤️🎉

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