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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Don’t go to the grave with life unused.” – Bobby Bowden
THE COMPETITION FLOOR
WHO ARE THE 40 FITTEST MEN AT CROSSFIT REGIONALS?
In talking with a few athletes on and off the Regionals competition floor, we kept asking one another: if we combined all the regions together, how would the athletes match up? Would some 6th, 7th or 8th places make it in? Would some 3rd, 4th or 5th place athletes NOT qualify for the CrossFit Games? The question has been bugging us for the last few weeks, so we decided to answer it.
Here are some of the results we discovered about when analyzing the scores of the Male regional athletes.
- Mathew Fraser (East – 1) is the fittest man at Regionals, by far.
- Jeff Evans (California – 6) would still have made it.
- The Central Region is the fittest region, qualifying 10 athletes.
- Dre Strohm, a 10th place Central athlete, would have qualified.
- The Pacific Region would only have qualified one athlete, Rob Forte (Pacific – 1) .
- The Meridian Region would only have qualified one athlete, Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson (Meridian – 1).
- Dan Bailey (California – 7) still wouldn’t have made it to Carson, CA.
- 32.5% of the qualifiers would NOT have made it to Carson, CA.
Read the full results on our blog.
GAMES PREP
Annie Thorisdottir got out the sandbags for a little weekend weighted relay.Noah Ohlsen is turning up the volume, volume, VOLUME. Brooke Wells does 3 burpee back tucks. Alexis Johnson did the 2010 CrossFit Games finals events 1, 2 and 3.
SPEED READ
IN 2 MINUTES…
A look inside the 26,000 square foot expansion of Rich Froning’s CrossFit Mayhem. Jenn Jones is getting married this week!!!!!! Plus, she just adopted anew dog. Tips from Jason Khalipa: always workout with purpose. Miranda Oldroyd hits the competition floor for the first time since last year’s CrossFit Games. Maddy Curley models the cutest sweater dress ever. Colleen Fotsch is on Snapchat at “colleenfotsch.” This 70 year old man doing a ring muscle-up proves that age doesn’t matter. Becca Voigt’s puppy really like water. Anna Olafsdottir‘s daughter snatching wearing her mom’s “Lift Like a Girl” t-shirt. Ava Khalipa went for a swim with her brother this weekend.
Anna Olafsdottir on why CrossFit is so popular in Iceland — “I guess a big part of it comes from genetics. The Vikings had to put up with rough conditions and weak people didn’t survive.”
Competing Without Words – The Athlete Daily highlights a teams competing in last month’s MAAC that included deaf athletes and how they worked, as a team, to communicate during synchronized movements like “The Serpent.” “They spent two hours before that event working with each other on visual cues, on patterns of movement,” Hierarchy general manager and coach Christine Bald said. “They would tap their hip twice and know to pick up the serpent. They agreed beforehand once [the serpent] was up on the shoulder they’d keep it up. They kind of had that figured out.”
WHAT YOU’LL WANNA BUY
CrossFit Regionals gear is still available on the CrossFit Store.