What an amazing weekend away with the Southern Peak teams. When we registered for the comp Friday, we saw quite a few ski ergs on the competition floor so our afternoon team meeting was covering ski erg technique intensely. At that stage we still didn’t know any of the wods so we were just trying to prepare for some likely team work scenarios we would face.
Saturday morning it was all revealed at the athlete briefing and wow there were some coo events in store for us. Ski erg for cals, DB OHS, Bar muscle ups, heavy snatches, drum carry to name a few of the challenges. you can check out all the wods on the New Zealand Nationals website. It was a huge day for everyone and there were some tired bodies. At the end of day one the intermediate team was in 15th out of 41 and the masters team 9th out of 11.
Sunday had just as many new challenges for us with stretches carry, HSPU, partner deadlift, ring dips, rope climbs plus many more. With a huge effort from both teams we both ended up in top 8 and earned our places in the final. 150 C&J for time as a team with a 10 min time cap. But you could only accumulate reps once when you left the barbell you couldn’t get tagged in again so everyone needed to put in a big effort and everyone did. So much so that we both jumped up a place in the leader board after the final and both teams took our 7th overall in each of our divisions.
Absolutely fantastic result from a very tough weekend but also very rewarding. Everyone found things they need to work on but that is only natural after a competition. What I am more focussed on is how motivated everyone in the teams are to improve and go back next year and fight for another shot at the podium. We will have big goals of sending a team in each division next year so if you are keen to try competing you have a full year now to train and try out a couple of more local comps to gain some experience. Learning about how to compete is super important. Eating between events, mobilizing, minimal warm up opportunity, heaps of noise and lots of people working out close together, communicating with the judge and with each other all are things to contend with during a comp and can’t be practiced in its strictest sense.
Looking forward to see what the future will bring from this aspect of CrossFit.
Christian
Tuesday 24/10/17
WOD: 20 min EMOM
Odd: 14 KB Swing 24/16kg & 7 Burpees
Even: 30 Double Unders & 10 TTB
