Chance Vaughan
April 5, 2018 07:53
I signed up for a 3 class trial for $35, which is a great way to learn about the gym. The first session was okay, the coach didn't know how to do a turkish get up and he spent most of the class just walking around looking at people. The second class was with him again and same results. The third class is honestly why I gave 1 star and not more. The first two classes I had gone in the afternoon but the third class was at 6:15 AM. At this point it's April and the sun still doesn't come up until after 7:30. So when I walk into the third class, the coach says hi, asks if I've done crossfit before and that was it. Then for the warmup, he just tells everyone to run to east side. Which, besides being a street name, I have no idea what that means. But there were about 4 other guys in the class so my plan is to follow them.
I keep up for about half of the run but then they just take off, or I'm just slow. Either way, it's dark, I don't have glasses or contacts on and eventually I get lost. Let me stress, getting lost in Houston when it's dark is not a good thing. I have no phone, no wallet, no keys and I'm lost. It takes me about 16 minutes to find my way back to the gym, which I did on pure luck and running around enough. When I get back to the gym, I'm pissed. Everyone is just working out and the coach is talking to someone off to the side. So I grab my keys and just leave. The coach never asks what's up or why am I leaving. He just keeps talking to the same person and I leave.
Besides the getting lost part and basically freaking out, I'm pissed the coach gave zero interest into why I was leaving. Now, I know some people are going to read this and think, who cares this guy got lost? Which is fine, most people are going to think a grown man getting lost on a crossfit run is fine. But it's not. What if it was a woman who got lost, what if the person who got lost got robbed or mugged or injured. They couldn't have cared less. And that's why I'm not going back.