Competitions!

Ryan and I have both been getting really into our fitness the past year. One of the most awesome thing about being part of the crossfit community is that you meet and bond with so many people who all have the same interest and goal of improving their fitness. It's been an awesome and inspirational experience thus far! The big competition in Crossfit is the Crossfit Games which will take place in the summer. In order to get into the games, there are several other steps you have to get through. Right now it's the crossfit open. Anyone can sign up for the open and there's a work out posted every week that you have to do and record your score. The top scores after the open is done will move on to the regional games. The top athletes in that move onto the National Crossfit Games. Our gym has quite a few people competing in the open and submitting their scores, including Ryan!! I didn't actually sign up for it this year because I'm not quite at the point with most of the heavier weights were I would be able to complete a lot of the events. The workout for this week, however, was one that I could do and I did it pretty well actually! It didn't have heavy weights, but I did have to do 150 wall balls! That's taking a 14lb medicine ball, doing a deep squat, then standing up and throwing the ball up 9ft to a mark on the wall. 150 is A LOT of those, and I was able to do it a lot faster than quite a few people! I did that on Friday, which made my quads burn pretty bad the next few days, which wouldn't be such a big deal, except I had also signed up for a half marathon that I did on Sunday! I signed up for the race 2 weeks ago after I did a 13.5 mile training run to convince myself I could do it, since I haven't been running as much since I started crossfit. I figured that if nothing else, this would be a good run to prepare myself for the summer running season. I ended up doing even better than I was expecting and ended up with over a 5 min PR!!. My final time was 1:42:35 which is a 7:50 min/mile pace! This is the first half marathon that I broke an 8 min/mile pace! I was the 65th female out of 1560. I felt pretty good about that especially for the first half marathon of the year!

This race was on Mercer Island (in the middle of Lake Washington) and two of our friends have just moved out there to a house just off the race course. They joined Ryan cheering me on right before the 12 mile mark and snapped a silly pic of me running.