Marion CrossFitters win in Rhode Island
Two Marion women returned from last weekend’s Northeast Masters Classic competition at the Rhode Island Convention Center with gold and silver medals to show for their CrossFit prowess.
Meghan Parks finished first in the women’s 45 to 49 age division. Martha Lally took silver in the women’s 40 to 45 division.
The day-long competition, billed as “the Northeast’s premier masters’ competition” for CrossFit athletes, drew male and female competitors from through the Northeast, ages 35 to over 65.
The five events in which all competed ranged from a test of how many pull-ups an athlete could do in two minutes to a combination of rowing, double-unders (jumping rope with the rope passing under the feet twice on each hop) and burpees (an exercise roughly involving a pushup and a jump).
Parks, an athletic trainer at Tabor Academy, ran track in high school and college and has been CrossFitting since 2011. Lally, who with husband Doug runs the Bay State Gymnastics Academy in Dartmouth, has been a gymnast since age 8 and a CrossFitter since 2012.
Both women train at Seaside Crossfit, now located in West Wareham. Parks has been training with Seaside since its very early days in the Marion garage of Seaside owners Matt and Jenn Christopher.
Also competing – and medalling – from Seaside on Saturday was Anne Eisenmenger of Wareham. Competing in the women’s 60+ division, Eisenmenger tied for the most points with a Connecticut woman. Eisenmenger, founder and publisher of Sippican Week, Wareham Week and Dartmouth Week, took up CrossFit in 2012 after years of competitive rowing.