THE LIST IS OUT: The Fauquier Times names its Top 20 sports stories of 2018. Sports, Page 11
January 2, 2019
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A look back at a stormy 2018 By Jill Palermo
Times Staff Writer
Stormy weather and stormier politics dominated the headlines in Fauquier County in 2018. Local residents endured the rainiest year since 1889 and coped with not one but two federal government shutdowns (the latest of which was at 10 days and counting as of press time).
Voters went to the polls three times in 2018: for the May 1 town elections, the June 12 primaries and for the Nov. 6 general election that saw the Democrats take over the House of Representatives for the first time since 2011. Rep. Tom Garrett, R-5th, announced on Memorial Day he would not seek re-election in order to battle an addiction to alcohol. He’ll be replaced this month
by Denver Riggleman, a Republican who owns a whiskey distillery outside Charlottesville. The Air Force veteran beat Democrat Leslie Cockburn, an investigative journalist, in the Nov. 6 election with 53 percent of the vote. In Warrenton, the May elections ushered in a new mayor During the March 1 windstorm, two large pine trees fell and one new town councilman. in the front of Debbie Ogden’s home on Beverleys Mill Road in Broad Run. One came down on her carport, demolishing the structure and crushing her Dodge.
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Three local CrossFit ‘boxes’ offer challenging workouts and a community of believers By Robin Earl
Times Staff Writer
CrossFit is about ‘functional fitness’ PHOTO BY CARSON MCRAE
Michelle Winner pushes herself while Sherry Sprague cheers her on at Virginia 15-29 CrossFit. INSIDE Business...............................................9 Classified............................................28 Communities......................................22 Faith...................................................20
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CrossFit athletes have a reputation for being tough. Have you seen people running uphill on Second Street with sandbags over their shoulders or sprinting along the Warrenton Greenway as twilight settles? They are “CrossFitters.” In gyms throughout Fauquier, they are lifting heavy weights, climbing ropes like Marine recruits and otherwise challenging themselves to new levels of physical fitness. CrossFit is a form of “functional exercise.” Rather than relying on exercise machines or a narrow series of repetitive movements, CrossFit makes use of a variety of modalities. Barbells, pull-up bars, gymnastic rings, rowing machines, kettlebells – all and more may be employed in a CrossFit workout. Besides being hard-core about their workout methods, CrossFit enthusiasts are difficult to stereotype. Men and women are about equally represented. College athletes share the gym with grandmas, and even kids as young as 4 are into the act. The first CrossFit gym opened in 1996 in Santa Cruz, California. Today there are more than 13,000 locations in 120 countries. Many athletic hopefuls will head to gyms this January, hoping to keep their resolutions going at least until March. In CrossFit gyms, known as “boxes,” athletes will insist their friends try a class or two, hoping they get hooked for good – just like they did. See CROSSFIT, Page 4
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