Sectionals & the 2010 Winter Olympics

In case you didn't notice the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver & the Midwestern Sectional for us begin on the same weekend in a few weeks. The Olympics, of course the pinnacle of competition, is always fun to watch as the world's best go head to head for the right to earn those bronze, silver, & gold medals. The athletes involved work for years often times to perform at their peak for just a few minutes in 1 event which could define their careers, lead to fame, fortune, & endorsements for years to come. Now not all of them compete for the material things I just mentioned, some truly are in love w/their sport and the medals represent the symbol of dedication, perseverance, attention to detail, & ultimately success at the highest level of competition.

I toe the line of controversy when comparing Sectionals, Regionals, or even the Crossfit Games to the Olympics because as a sport we're just not there yet even with the meteoric growth we continue to experience on an annual basis, but for the fun of it let's compare ourselves to the Olympic athletes.

Instead of years training for the events we've spent a few months training for what will probably add up to less than 30 or 40 mins of work for all of us in total with the 3 wods we have coming. Unlike the Olympic athletes we don't know what we're training for so our training isn't sport specific, which is the nature of our sport, so we are generalists rather than specialists. The intensity of our training is similar & we have a day to day approach with both short & long term goals in mind. We have coaches making sure we have proper form & uphold standards for each movement, each event because we know the judging will be strict.

The prizes we look to attain aren't medals per se but we get to advance to the next round where the challenges will be greater & the competition stiffer. We want that personal satisfaction that all the hard work, training, attention to nutrition, stretching, perfecting technique, the personal sacrifices, etc was worth it and led to the desired result whether it be advancing to Regionals, just finishing the Sectionals wods as Rx'd under the time cap, or having fun competing for the 1st time & putting everything you have into the wods.

Whatever your goal is at Sectionals, during the daily wod, or life in general make sure you go for the gold because if you're approaching it the right way, you deserve nothing less....

AM WOD
2k row sprint - Sub 6:50

Time - 6:48.9 (PR)

Avg 500m Pace - 1:42
1000m split - 3:22

Notes - Goal was 6:45 coming into it and it was there for the taking just came up a little short. PR by 6 seconds though so as I've said before I will never be disappointed with a pr. In this case I know I still have a better performance in me yet so we'll get sub 6:45 next rip.....

PM WOD
Running do this

200m @ 50%
200m @ 50%
200m @ 75%
200m @ 75%
200m @ 90%
200m @ 100%

Rest 2 mins b/w sets

Notes - Haven't run in a while so good to get this in. Ran in an indoor track that's only about 130m a lap so the corners were pretty tight but I survived unharmed. Rest day tomorrow