Day 3 album - A little late, sorry about that. Refunds will be issued.

I'm in the airport now, waiting on my flight. I've got lot's of time to kill, because I'm really neurotic about getting to the airport early. I think it's a product of never getting on a plane until I was 21. You get to benefit, though, because I've had plenty of time to go through yesterday's pictures, pull out the ones that didn't need much fixing, and upload a gallery. Today's thumbnail shows MK looking strong in the middle of Fran.



The results for the weekend are as follows:

Men's individual:
Graham Holmberg edged out Rich Froning in the last two back-to-back events. Froning had a commanding lead going in, and was the only man to finish the push-up, wall climb, OHS WOD. However, he struggled on the toes-to-bar/ground-to-overhead WOD and then basically fell apart on the rope climb/burpees from hell WOD. Apparently, Rich Froning never learned to use his feet to climb the rope, and with his arms destroyed by the first two WODs, he couldn't make it up the rope until he'd had a substantial rest. Chris Spealler came in third basically by turning in solid performances in all the WODS.

Women's individual:
Kristan Clever held onto her lead with three very strong performances in the final events. Annie Thorisdottir held onto the coolest last name ever, as well as the second place spot, actually turning in the fastest time for the women on the burpee/rope climb. Valerie Mackenzie Voboril secured the third spot.

Affiliate:
Crossfit Fort Vancouver was basically uncatchable going into the final event, and sure enough, they weren't caught. Their second place finish on the obstacle course didn't hurt. Crossfit New England and Crossfit Omaha rounded out the top 3, with one point difference in their scores.

Masters Men:
Brian Curley took the men's Masters event, turning in an impressive 4:39 fran in the process. Joel Nessa and Paul Flores grabbed second and third, both of them also turning in fran times that put mine to shame, at twenty+ years my senior. (I guess I need to step it up a little, huh?)

Masters Women:
Laurie Carvie won the women's Masters division, basically by not having any weaknesses. She didn't win any of the events, but she didn't do worse than third place either. Gabriele Schlicht and Heidi Fish rounded out the top three, with both of them suffering on the deadlift event. (That's only relative to the others, though. Heidi pulled 230, and Gabriele pulled 235)

Fairfax:
You should be proud of your Fairfax team. The affiliate team placed 19th in a very competitive field. MK earned a fifth place spot in a field of women who's top competitors beat my PRs in two out of three events (Thank God for the deadlift. A man needs a little pride). Excellent jobs all around.

MK, in the heat, with a 65 lb. candlestick

MK murdered Fran - sub 8:00 in a stadium where I was sweating nearly to dehydration just sitting there. It was another phenomenal performance from Fairfax's Master's competitor. Honestly, the entire masters division was awesome to watch. The fact that MK pulled out a 5th place finish in that field of competitors is simply amazing.

The individual finals are about to start at 1:00, so I'm going to go over and watch. It's supposed to be three events in one, and no one knows what they are. There's an obstacle course still set up from the affiliate cup final, but it's not clear at all if they're using it for the individual event or not. We'll see...

It's been quite a day

Here's a selection of pictures from the day. Like yesterday's set, these are pictures that didn't need much attention to look presentable. Also like yesterday, you should click on the thumbnail if you want to see the gallery. (Unlike yesterday, the thumbnail shows Maggie, not Maricar)



It was a very full day, with lots going on for the individual competitors. The men's competition has had pretty constant shifts in the top five. Rich Froning is in the lead right now, but he's definitely catchable. Kristan Clever had a literal upset (of her wheelbarrow) in the sandbag move event that not only ate up what we were assuming was an unbeatable lead, but even dropped her into second place behind Iceland Annie. Christy Phillips is in third, but it looks like she'll need a little good fortune to go with her strong performance if she wants to pull ahead of the top two.

It's late here, so that's it for tonight. Just a note, though. If you clicked on the first day's gallery yesterday and then again today, you may have noticed it changed. Picasa ate the original one, so I had to recreate it as best as I could. Sorry about that.

That track looked like a fat man's hell.

Fairfax just finished today's event. Their time was 21:44. So, we're sitting here waiting for the last heat to finish to find out if Fairfax will be going on to the final round or not.

That's not the whole story, though. Here, take a look at these shots:

SBJ shot out of the gate like a comet. She led the pack for most of the first run, until she remembered that the plan had been for Jeff to go through the gauntlet first, so she had to slow down and let the rest of the team get into position (She didn't have long to wait, though. They were setting a mean pace too.)


Jeff powered through the box jumps and moved right into the squat cleans. As the team churned its way through the movements, you could see the level of effort written clearly on everyone's face. This event was no joke.


Double unders


GHD situps


Then, when everyone had made their way through, it was time to head off around the track and do it all again.

Awesome job, Fairfax.

Correction

The affiliate team's heat will be at 12:45, not 1:00.

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Who's going today

The preliminary word is that Mike, Jeff, Lee, and SBJ will be the team for today's heat.

Maggie just said they'll be competing at about 1:00.

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Today's team event

The team event for today is:

Two rounds for time of:
Run 300 meters
15 Jumps over 24” Box
15 Dumbbell squat cleans, 45/25 lb.
30 Double-unders
15 Push-ups, hand must release from floor
15 GHD Sit-ups
30 yard Lunge

Everyone runs the 300 meters, and then the first person starts on the box jumps. When they're through, they go right to the squat cleans and the next person starts on the jumps. The team moves to the next stations only when everyone is finished with their current station. So, if you're done with your double unders, but your teammate is struggling with the squat cleans, you've got to wait until they're done to move to the push ups.

After this round, 16 teams will move on to tomorrow. (No word on how many events for the teams tomorrow, but I'm predicting just 1). That means that Team Fairfax needs to move up one spot in the rankings to stay in it.