Friday 9-25-09 and Saturday 9-26-09

I would not be surprised if my weekend entries lack some substance for I tend to spend most of my time training, buying, preparing and eating food followed by repeating the previous.

Friday:
Today I took my final day of rest before the Fight Gone Bad 4 fundraiser on Saturday. Big Lou came to town and we got some food and chilled at Starbucks for entirely too long, so long that they closed about an hour before we finally left their patio.

Saturday:
Wow, what a great day! Lou and I showed up early to the gym to get in a good warm up before the miserable Fight Gone Bad arse kicking. A total of 14 males and 3 females completed the workout in 4 different heats. Nothing compared to the love throughout the gym today. People at every station cheering on and helping each other. Every single person went hard, many set PR's and others experienced the brutality for the first time.

Overall, the Crossfit Community raised $934,000 for The Wounded Warior Project and Athletes for the Cure! Top performances were:

1) Rugby Mark- 387 (this man is as strong as the Hulk without the annoying green skin tone and hearing problem; he kept a solid pace for every minute and did not take breaks. I would say that everything felt about 20lbs lighter to him, yes, that essentially makes the wall ball throws air squats)

2) Salty Hat Chris- 337 (killed it he did)

3) Maiko #2- 314 (it was her first time and she obviously was not intimidated)

4) Yours Truely- 301 (PR) (hmmm, I was shooting for 350, the plan went down the crapper after round 1. My second round was the worst, not sure if I could have gone much harder, I legitimately held puke back twice during the WOD)

5) Steve O- 297 (poor performance...for him, surely I thought he would set the top score, his previous PR was around 320 or something)

Like I said, today was such a success. Everyone worked their ass off! Plenty of pictures were taken and will be posted on Facebook on Monday!