Wednesday, July 30, 2014

2014 CrossFit Games!!!


Alaska Airlines flightmap, SEA to LAX and back.
Flight from Seattle to LA and a GREAT week where Lisa helped head up the judging for the Teams competition and Mike directed the Medical team once again!  Exciting finishes, reunions with great friends we haven't seen for a year, working with my L1 Staff family, seeing our wonderful trainers and athletes from CrossFit Flagstaff be there as spectators and volunteers, crazy workouts with lots of moving parts all made for fun, long days out at the Home Depot Center.
We really did get this room number.  Awesome!  3-2-1 GO!

Congratulations to Rich Froning, Camille Leblanc-Bazinet, and Team Invictus for their first place finishes, and huge kudos to ALL the competitors!  Wow.  There was some serious struggle, heat exhaustion, and incredible feats of mental endurance and physical strength to be witnessed and inspired by this past week. 
Love the community we have in CrossFit.  The spectators ARE CrossFit and understand what they are watching, making them more a part of that experience than many sports.  Great article: 

For the Love of CrossFit: Everyone's All in It Together at the Games

Great friends in CrossFit NorCal, East Valley, Atlanta, Invictus, and many others out on the playing field.  Incredible to see you all out there, fighting so hard!
These 2 kiddos will definitely follow in their daddy's footsteps.  Like one of our friends, Ricardo Rivas from Mexico said, "In Mexico we say: To be something, first you need to look like that thing.... Super athletes: Check!"


At the end of it all we had a wonderful day of relaxation at Laguna Beach with Tara and Kevin, experiencing the amazing Pageant of the Masters (highly recommend it if you're ever in that area!), exposing Tara to oysters on the half shell, and finally finally getting our feet into the sand and water!  Thank you for that perfect and beautiful ending, Tara and Kevin!  It was SO nice to hang out with our friends in such a setting!

Great return to our own little athletes-in-training!  Andiee is fired up to go to the Games next year and be like Annie Thorsdottir!

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