SATURDAY 090926Today, Saturday 26 September, hundreds of CrossFit affiliates from around the globe united for one workout and two causes. Fight Gone Bad was the workout and Athletes for a Cure and the Wounded Warrior Foundation were the causes. The goal: raise $1 Million dollars.
Currently, the total raised is over $960,000 dollars with more money coming in as affiliates hosted their workouts.
Team CrossFit Yongsan raised almost $3,000 dollars for the cause...
CrossFit Yongsan also had the privilege of hosting the first FGB of the day worldwide...
This is the quiet before the storm. Everything is set up and all the Saturday 5k runners are wondering if we have any free stuff for them...
FIGHT GONE BADThe CrossFit workout is 'Fight Gone Bad'. In this workout you spend one minute at each of five stations, resulting in a five-minute round after which a one-minute break is allowed before repeating. This event calls for three rounds. The clock does not reset or stop between exercises. On call of 'rotate', the athletes must move to the next station immediately. One point is given for each rep, except for the rower, where each calorie is one point.
The stations are:
1. Wall ball, 10ft target (reps)
2. Sumo deadlift high-pull (reps)
3. Box jump (reps)
4. Push-press (reps)
5. Row (calories)
We rotated through 3 of the divisions today.
Class A: Standard Men = 75lb push press and sumo deadlift high pull, 20-lb wall ball and 20-inch box jump (we had 24 inches, take that...)
Class B: Modified Men/Standard Women = 55lb push press and sumo deadlift high pull, 14-lb wall ball and 20-inch box jump
Class C: Intermediate = 35lb push press and sumo deadlift high pull, 8lb wall ball and 20-in box jump
The devastation came fast and furious as the 1st heat of Class A men went out a little too fast on the first round. Excitement and anticipation got the best of them and it left bodies in the wake. Rob and Steve were layed out, and Jim wanted to curl up in a ball and go to his 'happy place'...
Jim pulled an impressive score of
220, Rob was close behind with a
215 and an amazing 37 calories on his very first row (West Point Crew) and Steve got a
193. Good work gentlemen!!!
Mike Pawlus led the way in fundraising pulling in over half of all our money with an amazing $1,300+ raised. He also got a nice
184 in Class A in Heat #1. Good job man!!!
Ruben joined us from Area I and had a nice
213 in Class B...
Natasha and Toni also made the trip from Area I (Camp Hovey) and got a
216 and
171 respectively in Class B. Great job ladies!!!
LaToya put in some good work pulling a hard earned
247 in Class C...
I started strong and faded but still pulled a second-best
266 in Class A in the final heat...
Regan also finished us out in the final heat at Class A with a respectable
176 for his first workout with us. Great job man!!!
No one else got caught by the camera laid out on the ground (wondering if they were working hard enough-just kidding...) so their scores are listed here.
Trigg - Class A -
267 (highest of the day after sneaking out of the office for a quick workout...!!!)
Henry - Class A -
226Alden - Class C -
261Nicole - Class C -
220LTC Rhodes - Class B -
236Gerald - Class C -
296 (after warming up with the 5k run - welcome to CrossFit)
Don - Class A -
228 (from CrossFit Bonifas in Area I)
The iDVD presentation set to music will be posted to YouTube and our blog soon. And we had many more great pictures of some bad ass performances captured for posterity. I will figure out how to get all those pictures posted to Flickr so that everyone can show them off to their family and friends...
17 athletes. One brutal workout. Two great causes.
What a great day!!!
CrazyMonkey even got in on the action with some strong rowing. When workouts are fun, three year olds naturally want in on the fun.
How often do your kids scream and yell that they "wanna go workout..."???
