2009 Crossfit Games
What an experience. As a competitor for the affiliate cup and as a spectator watching the individuals compete, it was an amazing weekend. The people and the atmostphere were out of this world.
Where to start…
We arrived Friday morning to an extremely overcast venue (it MAY have been 60 degrees… MAYBE)… After parking the car, I went to register and got a free t-shirt and interval timer… sweet! we headed over to the tent that Pat had set up, grabbed a quick bite from the cooler, and made our way down to listen to the event description/movement standards… our first WOD was the Stadium WOD.
The Stadium WOD was tough for us. Shelly had a hard time getting the ball all the way up to the target, but she wasn’t the only one- there were several teams having issues with it. She trucked through it though, and after everone got done, it was onto the 4 station mid-section. After rotating through, it was onto the deadlifts… when disaster struck. Johnny was first on the bar, and had done probably 20-23 deadlifts when he tweaked something in his back. Then he tripped over the log and fell onto his back. He was done – DNF. Though even if he didn’t get injured, we probably still would have DNF’d.
Next was the Hill run. The order went Katie, me, Shelly, Trenton, team. The intent was to put Katie up front since she was our ‘slowest’ runner – i put it in quotes, b/c she really isn’t that slow… then I went next so I’d have an extra round of rest to push whoever was going to be slow on the last leg. Shelly and Trenton are strong runners themselves, so we figured that would work out best. The run went as planned, and I’d say we finished in the top 1/3 of our heat? The sprint was tiring – that hill is no joke.
Onto the OHS/Pullup WOD, where I don’t think any of us hit as much on the OHS as we wanted to (except Shelly, who did AWESOME for her 3rd workout of the day), nor the pullups (except Dave, but we all know he has a bionic upper body). It was a fun way to close out the games as a competitor. We knew we weren’t going to make top 5, so it was ok.
Turns out we were the top team out of all those with DNF’s (until they later changed the scoring and we ended up 3rd of all the DNF’s or something). There were 32 DNF’d teams… Minor victory?
The rest of the weekend consisted of boozing and watching some of the most amazing athletes go through 5 workouts the first day, just to follow it up with another 3 the 2nd day. It was funny, even the guys who got cut at the end of the first day were ecstatic… they didn’t have to work out anymore for the weekend!! I’d post the rest of the weekend details, but it’d just end up being a long rambling of amazement on my part, and ridiculous intensity from the men and women who were competing as individuals. Let’s just say I was awed by both competitors and the crowd support, regardless of who was competing – and I have newfound inspiration to step up my intensity. I may not make the games next year or the year after or ever, but it gives me something to strive for. What an unbelievable weekend. Pics on FB – there are tons of them.
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