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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while hitting a snatch PR. Damn that felt good. All scores for 17.3 must be submitted by 5PM Pacific tonight.
We’re over halfway through the 2017 CrossFit Open and it’s been a (painful) blast so far. With two weeks left, we thought we’d share our seven reasonswhy we love painful Open WODs so much.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If you can’t find a miracle, be one for someone else.” — Nic Vujicic
17.3 SO FAR
HIGHLIGHTS
Alethea Boon breaks into tears after snatching 175 pounds, the heaviest she’s snatched since rupturing her achilles at the 2016 CrossFit Games. Holly Matais totally preggers but still repping out butterfly chest-to-bars and almost got out of the 135 pound round. Brent Fikowski makes these snatches look really really easy. Lauren Fisher snatches 175 pounds, the heaviest post-surgery. Kari Pearce hits a 175 pound snatch PR during 17.3. Whitney Heuser was so excited to snatch 185 pounds that she forgot to do any more pull-ups. Alexis Johnson hits her PR five times during 17.3. Rewatch Kara Webb do 17.3 live. Emily Bridgers gets really really excited to hit 185 pounds. This is probably the most agile snatch save you’re going to see. This is probably the worst snatch near save you’re going to see.
Beyond the Whiteboard’s preliminary analysis of 17.3 performance reveals that 50th percentile on the men’s RX is 59 reps and women’s is 48 reps.
LEADERBOARD
There’s still plenty of time to go, but here’s an early view of the top 5.
Men — 1. Jeff Evans (17:29), 2. Mathew Fraser (17:47), 3. Nick Uranker, 4. Brent Fikowski, 5. Rasmus Andersen.
Women — 1. Kara Webb (15:56), 2. Katie Trombetta, 3. Carmen Bosmans, 4. Maude Charron, 5. Kristen Pedri.
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Fittest on Earth will be released on iTunes March 17. Jamie Hagiya and Val Voboril practice their tandem double-unders. Thuri Helgadottir hits a 242 pound overhead squat PR. Everyone else in the world posted about 17.3.
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THINGS TO…
WATCH: 17.3 Replay
It’s the perfect way to pass the time until 17.4 is announced. Plus, if you’re like us and enjoy watching some heavy lifts, then you need to catch 17.3 between Mathew Fraser, Scott Panchik and Cole Sager.
HEAR: For the Everyday Athlete
In this episode of Lift Like Lawyers, Zach and Liz sit down with Danelle Irwin. Danelle is an accountant who has been doing CrossFit for about three years and is currently rehabbing a shoulder injury. In this episode, she discusses her injury and gives great feedback in overcoming difficulties as an everyday athlete.
THAT’S ME.
THAT’S ME.
EAT: PB & J Paleo Pancakes
Do we really need to say anything else at this point? But if we must, this heavenly combination of peanut butter, jelly and gluten, dairy, grain, sugar-free pancakes is really the only way to cure a sore morning.
WATCHA WAITING FOR?
WATCHA WAITING FOR?
BUY: Got Tape?
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SCARY STICKY.
SCARY STICKY.
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CHALK UP READS
If you could keep your child off the operating table, wouldn’t you?
A Feb. 24 New York Times article reported some doctors believe bariatric surgery is the only hope for certain obese teenagers, but University of Minnesota physiologist Aaron Kelly perhaps unintentionally pointed out the concerning cart-before-horse situation early in the article.
“We’re at a point in this field where surgery is the only thing that works for these kids but we don’t know the long term outcomes,” Kelly is quoted as saying.
If long-term outcomes are unknown, is it really wise to hack into a teen’s abdomen and likely saddle him or her with another 60 years of complications? The idea seems like a perversion of the do-no-harm oath doctors take. It feels like we’re gambling with kids’ lives.