tighten up

Happy New Year.
This is a time when focus tightens...
This is a time when we try to zero in on the finer point of our lives...
This is a time when we CrossFitters start to get the jitters about our goats (areas we need to hone in on...to tighten up) because the Opens are just a few weeks away. 
The Opens are equivalent to the quarter-finals of any sporting event.  If you make it to the next step, the Regionals, you will be competing in the equivalent of the semi-finals.  Then the last step, the finals, are The CrossFit Games that are held in July.
For those in my age group, known as the Masters, the Opens are our semi-finals. For us, they are our one shot to make it to the finals, The Games.

Since we are humans first, CrossFitters next... :) ... we are tightening up not only the focuses on our lives, but trying to tighten up our bodies so we can become better competitors.  It's fun and nerve-racking and hard and exciting.  What could make our focus tighten up even more?  I offer up this little reminder of the work we have ahead of us over the next few weeks...
http://youtu.be/_8hC6YnBiFo