Crossfit World Games

I flew down to Los Angeles to meet my team mates from Crossfit Hampton Roads in Yorktown, VA to compete in the team competition of the Crossfit World Games. We had qualified as one of the top 6 teams out of the Central East Regional to compete in the World Games. Teams and competitors for the games came from across the world to compete.

(I could make a great collage of all the crazy faces we make when lifting.)

The team competition began Friday morning with the first event being 2 rounds of 75 thrusters, chest to bar pullups and a buddy carry. The thrusters were 105# for the ladies and 155# for the men. We had to clean the bar from the ground to a front rack position and then begin the thrusters which is a full depth squat followed by pressing the bar out overhead. Only one athlete on the team could work at a time. Next we moved onto the pullups and then to the buddy carry. You had to carry one team mate across the field and they had to carry you back.

(We failed to get a team picture at the event so this is the only shot where you can clearly see us all. The team members were Nicole, Jeremy, Brent, Courtney, Jay, and myself.)

The second event began a few hours later and was a ladder event where each member of the team worked through different stations to get maximum number of reps in a minutes time. The events were deadlift (175# for ladies), one legged squats, and row for calories. As we finished the last event then we had a few minutes as a team for everyone to get a max weight from shoulder to overhead.

We didn't do as well as we would have liked as a team but were burned by how we ran the logistics of the events and not our work capacity. We just missed the first cut which kept us out of competing in one more event as we would not have made the final cut. It was a great experience to participate in the event and watch the many amazing performances by both the team and individual competitors. I was most impressed with the Master (50+) competitors. Here are the ladies busting out Fran which is a workout consisting of a total of 45 reps each of 65 pound thrusters and pull-ups, now that is some serious motivation.

While I was out of town, Jim and the kids headed to American Fork canyon to do some camping and hiking. They hiked into Scout Falls on the back side so Mt. Timpanogos.