The big 2-7 is here - Happy Birthday to me!

Birthday Dance! 

Lot's accomplished this year - figure and crossfit qualifier in the same year!!

CFB goes to the Crossfit Games 2010

The final placings have come in and the Top 8 teams going to the Crossfit Games Affiliate Cup 2010 have been secured.  Going into the final workout - Crossfit Balboa had the 11th place overall needing to overtake 3 teams to make it into the top 8 out of the 84 registered teams.  With an impressive 7:07 finish in the last workout, my team and I took it to the next level and worked hard to finish 3rd in our heat and take the final overall spot to secure our spots in the Crossfit Games 2010!!! 

Here's how Kate, Ben, Ryan and I spent our Mother's day...

• Carry 185 lb log in unision with a teammate(s) flipping a tractor tire the length of a football field.
• Once at the end, all 4 members of the team must then get under the log remain touching the log at all times while the group performs 40 below parallel squats.
• Once squats are counted - (20 )185lb team log presses begin.  Up and over each person's head touching everyone's shoulder before it's counted.

• After completed, team must have teammates carry log back to start (100yds) while other teammates flip tire.

Needless to say, this last workout was brutal.  Not to mention the rough distribution of the weight of the log with the very different heights on the team.  But our guys were strong very very strong.  Ben and Ryan made up some serious time on the tire flips taking turns flipping at first and then doing it as a team to finish of. Quite a team challenge of communication and strength.  Without a voice trying to tell my team to wait, didn't quite workout out so well...haha.  But nevertheless we hung tight and finished amazing ourselves with the team that was developed in just a short 2 weeks. 

The Crossfit Affiliate Cup was one of the most memorable experiences for me.  The team pulled together for every challenge and pushed each other to keep going, keep driving, move quicker than we thought we could. 

We carried the Crossfit Balboa flag high and showed that we condition ourselves day in and day out to be the best. 

Crossfit Affiliate Cup 2010 - End of Day 1

Our team finished Day 1 of our qualifiers with flying colors! Coach Max and teammates kept everyone's heads in the games and warmed up and ready to go.

Crossfit Balboa takes 11th overall out of 84 participating teams!

 Your TOP OVERALL teams: 

 Competitor Place (Total)      Team WOD 1       Team WOD 2  

1. CrossFit Invictus 1 (3) 2 (10:16.0) 1 (15:24)
2. San Francisco Crossfit 2 (6) 1 (09:14.5) 5 (15:45)
3. CrossFit Oakland 3 (7) 4 (11:10.3) 3 (15:37)
4. CrossFit SoCal 4 (9) 7 (11:44.0) 2 (15:30)
5. CrossFit East Sac 5 (9) 3 (11:09.5) 6 (15:47)
6. TJ's Gym/CrossFit San Rafael 6 (15) 5 (11:13.2) 10 (16:30)
7. Diablo CrossFit 7 (18) 10 (12:49.0) 8 (16:28)
8. Unlimited 8 (22) 9 (12:04.9) 13 (16:41)
9. South Bay 9 (29) 25 (15:09.6) 4 (15:43)
10. Crossfit Inferno 10 (29) 22 (14:37.9) 7 (15:59) 
11. CrossFit Balboa 11 (30) 13 (13:42.0) 17 (17:10)

The gyms from San Diego and Northern California battled it out for top 5 - we held our own quite well having put the team together about a week ago and having a very small box comparatively...Crossfit Newport Beach and OC Crossfit didn't even show...?!?!  Apparently, OC Crossfit has tomorrow off too...website says so.

 

 

  

Blogging day off?! Games tomorrow.

Day off from Blogging - Brandon tells me I have to go to sleep to get ready for tomorrow's events. He keeps telling me "just relax..."  Do I look hyped?!?   Tomorrow is the big day for all of our Crossfitters going out to compete at the So Cal Regional at UC Irvine.  Good luck to Kelley, our own OC Throwdown winner, who will be taking on the individuals for our dojo and keep your fingers crossed - Ryan, Eric, Ben, Kate, Carey and Aubrey representing for Crossfit "Sweep the Leg" Balboa in the Team Affliate Cup. 

(Eric and Ryan)

If you're in the area, drop by - individual events start at 8am with Kelley and our first team workout at about 11ish.

Brandon will try to get the video camera going to capture us in action.  You can tune in to see us live at live.crossfit.com beginning at approximately 8:00am on Saturday and concluding at about 4:00pm on Sunday with the awards.

Yea... I'm getting summoned to sleep...

Crossfit Affiliate Team Workout: May 8-9

So the workouts are posted for this weekend's events.  Our team is ready to give it all we've got in this weekends team affiliate cup taking place at the University of California, Irvine athletics complex. 

903 W. Peltason
Irvine, CA 92697
Crawford Athletic Complex

We have a team of 6: 3 girls and 3 guys taking on some fun team based events.  Here's the rules - 4 people must take part per event (2 girls/2 guys).  Two of the workouts will be held on Saturday and the final workout, to be announced on Saturday takes place Sunday morning.  All movements must be performed throughout a complete range of motion or it will not be counted - therefore if you don't do your squats deep enough or you don't lock out at the top of the movement, you do it again...ugh...story of my life.

So here's what the workouts are looking like:

• Saturday
• Wod #1: Shuttle runs (10 yds, 20 yds, 100m), as soon as you reach the end of the 100m women pick up 30lb dumbells and begin 30 thrusters, once finished you run another 100m to tag the next teammate to start their shuttle runs and thrusters.  First person then moves quickly to ring dips where women perform 10, men perform 15.  Time stops when the 4th person finishes all ring dips and their judge stops the time.
• Wod #2: Relay race, each person completing their 100m sections, last person continues to run to pick up the rest of the team members and once everyone is picked up running 400m together.  Once finished with the run, begin 250 double unders (break up as needed), 150 pull ups (break up as needed)
• Sunday
• Wod #3: TBD

If you can't make it out events will be streaming live at http://live.crossfit.com/.  Watch for me and the team Crossfit Balboa and our shirts "Sweep the Leg"  =)