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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” — Glen Clark
REGIONALS DAY 3
THE PACIFIC
The action has already wrapped up in Australia. These are the 10 men and women going to the CrossFit Games.
- Kara Webb | James Newbury
- Tia-Clair Toomey | Ricky Garard
- Alethea Boon | Rob Forte
- Maddie Sturt | Zeke Grove
- Jessica Couglan | Mitch Sinnamon
THINGS TO KNOW
If you’re at the California Regional, be on the lookout for Greg Glassman, Margaux Alvarez, Brooke Ence, Demi Bagby, Travis Williams, and Maddy Curley wondering around the stadium.
TEAMS — Julie Foucher’s CTown CrossFit is 14th after Day 2.
FUN FACT #1: Only 20 points separates 3rd place from 9th place in California.
FUN FACT #2: Both CrossFit Mayhem and NorCal CrossFit haven’t placed lower than 3rd in any event. CrossFit Invictus hasn’t placed lower than 2nd.
INDIVIDUAL — Dan Bailey withdrew from the Central Regionals due to injury; that’s all we know so far. This is Graham Holmberg’s last season competing as an individual. More on Becca Voigt’s quest for her tenth trip to the CrossFit Games. Sara Sigmundsdottir on Day 3″tomorrow is my jam…Oh, I can’t wait.”
FUN FACT #3: In the Central Regionals, 10 points separates 4th and 7th place male athletes and only 31 points separates the top 6 athletes.
FUN FACT #4: After a rough Day 2, Paul Castillo dropped from 1st place to 6th place overall, but just 1 point behind 5th place.
Nick Uranker on Withdrawing During Event 2: “My injury is not serious and again was something I was dealing with from last week. When I showed standards to the judges my pec gave out again and I was pretty sure I was done. Then the buzzer sounded and I realized my weekend was over now or I could go and hope for a miracle, I told the judge ‘I’m off’ as they tried to stop me. The reality was I wasn’t getting through the Dips.”
FUN FACT #1: California has the most individual athletes competing who also have qualified as Masters this year: Cheryl Brost, Nuno Costa, Kristen Pedri, Val Voboril and Becca Voigt.
THINGS TO…
WATCH: Making of a Champion, Part 6
Episode 6 in this documentary series on Mat Fraser follows the Fittest Man on Earth to the gun range and mobility sessions during rest and recovery days.
WATCH.
WATCH.
EAT: Chicken with Caribbean Rice & Mango Salsa
Juicy grilled jerk chicken drumsticks with a delicious Caribbean Rice & sweet mango salsa. The perfect healthy grilling recipe for summertime!
BBQ TIME.
BBQ TIME.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
Three weeks ago, the entire Crawford Family was killed in a tragic car accident. Though they weren’t members of their gym, many at CrossFit Animas in Farmington, NM felt their loss personally and the box stepped up to support the family. Jimmie and Melissa Crawford were described by CrossFit Animas as “LOVE, embodied and exemplified.” On Friday, the CrossFit Animas family held an all day WOD to honor the family and raise money to be donated to the family to cover service memorial expenses.
Introducing Team Some Assembly Required (SAR), a Portsmouth, OH based adaptive athlete team which includes 20-25 athletes from around the nation that compete in everything from fitness competitions, body building, powerlifting, olympic lifting and obstacle course racing. The nonprofit Team SAR helps to raise funds for these athletes to train, travel to competitions and cover competition fees.
CHALK UP READS
“Who You Callin’ Old?” by Andréa Maria Cecil, CrossFit Games
This year’s California Regional includes 14 past individual CrossFit Games competitors. It’s second to the Atlantic, Central and West Regionals, which are tied for 15 past individual Games competitors.
“The California Regional has a depth of talent, for sure,” said individual competitor Cheryl Brost. But it also has something else you might not notice if you were only discerning by wrinkles and walkers, or the lack thereof. The Regional has the most individual athletes competing who also have qualified as Masters this year. And it’s a list that includes familiar names: 46-year-old Brost, 38-year-old Nuno Costa, soon-to-be-35-year-old Kirsten Pedri, 38-year-old Valerie Voboril and 36-year-old Becca Voigt.
Since Masters first began competing at the Games in 2010, their competition has evolved, as have they. A competition that was once in the parking lot at the then-Home Depot Center in Carson, California, has since been featured in the now-StubHub Center’s soccer stadium before droves of screaming fans.
“Why whitewater racing world champion Juliet Starrett turned to CrossFit — and to standing desks” by ESPN W
Juliet Starrett never intended to become a founder of a highly successful CrossFit franchise or a passionate advocate for kids’ standing desks. Actually, she never really intended for any of this: her brush with thyroid cancer or the two world championship titles in whitewater racing — or leaving it all to become a lawyer. But each thing has brought her to the next.
“I haven’t followed a normal path at all,” she said.
After a childhood growing up outdoors in Colorado and rowing competitively, Juliet started as a rower at the University of California, Berkeley — a program known for its long history of grooming of Olympians. But she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer during her sophomore year. She had surgery almost immediately, then radiation treatment. After getting the all clear, she went back to rowing — but she found herself burned out, done with the long hours and single-mindedness of the sport.