Cynthia Jolicoeur

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I’m Cynthia Jolicoeur. I live in Silicon Valley but I was born an Okie and will always be a country girl even when I’m planted firmly in suburbia. I’m halfway-to-94 and have four children: two boys (almost-19 and 11-going-on-21) and two girls (17 and almost-14). I also have my 83-year-old “little-old-English-lady” mother living with me, and share life with 2 cats, a rabbit, 2 dogs, and 2 horses (thank goodness the 11 hamsters have moved on!). I’ve had two kids opt to leave home for boarding school at age 14, and have homeschooled one of my younger ones. Life, as you can imagine, has been busy.

For eleven years I relieved my stay-at-home-mom stress and developed a new passion by getting into martial arts, where for the first time I began to think of myself as sort-of-an-athlete. I found CrossFit while I was training for my 3rd degree Black Belt four years ago, and found Paleo through CrossFit this year. My CrossFit path has wandered quite a bit, first from one-on-one coaching at an upscale gym, then on my own in my happily-converted garage gym, and for the past 18 months with Jason Khalipa at CrossFit Santa Clara. I have at this point completed my Level 1, Olympic Lifting, Basic Barbell, Running & Endurance and Kids Certifications, and I run the CrossFit Kids program at CF Santa Clara.