South Central

1st Place in the South Central Region.

What a weekend. What a Hot Weekend. I have to say its one of my favorite times of the year. I get to see a lot of friends, I get to compete against them, I get to cheer for them, and I get to make new friends.
The Sport of CrossFit is growing and evolving each year. I'm just lucky I have been able to be a part of it for the last 3 years. We had a great venue, hot as hell, but a great spectator venue. Its some of the best judging that I have seen. There where a few bad calls, but you will always have that. All and all the best judging. All the staff was great, Matt and Pam did a amazing job. Thank y'all, every one that helped.
My big thank you goes to the Bayou City CF Community, all I can say is it was amazing to be on the floor hearing y'all scream for us. Its the loudest I have ever heard. I love y'all.

To our team, y'all did amazing. I am pumped to be going to The Games with y'all. Like I said its not about you its about the team, Train for the Team.

The Regionals

So its here 2011 Regionals. A lot has changed, the venue is in Tomball, everyone knows the WOD's, and I am competing on our Team.

The issue with knowing the WOD's for me is, all I have done in the last month and a half is specific training, specific movements. I believe my GPP is down. For the first time in a while I did a solo WOD and it kicked my ass. That's no ones fault but my own. Everyone has said "what about the unknown, that's CrossFit". I agree with that statement. I know last year a lot of people where crying about our Regional WOD's where harder or not hard enough. I guess this was a way to say everyone is doing the same across the world. I see the reasons, I just don't like them. You can't make everyone happy. Adapt and overcome.

Tomball, TX, Damn its going to be hot. I love it. I told Charlie G. the other day I drive around with my window's down to get use to the heat. He laughed at me and said I was crazy. I was in Oklahoma last weekend, and you can feel the difference. I was out in the sun all day, no sun burn. If your out in the sun here, you will be cooked well done. Take a knee, drink water.

This year I am going team. I have a couple reasons for that. One is I want this to be a start for Bayou City CrossFit in the Team comp. Our team has been training hard. We meet up 4 to 5 times a week, either as the group or WOD partner. We had a Team dinner last night, and all I can say is we are ready. All I can promise is we will be out there giving it 100%.

Good Luck to all competitors.
Lets Go Team, Game Day.

The Team

The Bayou City CF Team.
The way we made up our team this year was the top scores from the Sectional WOD's.
Our Team is:
The Women (in order): Katie Russell, Susie Tannery, Jane Shin, and Monica Wonzer
The Men (in order): Vic Zachary, Charlie G., Cody Sanders, and Kristian Montoya

I have to say I am excited about this, this year is the year we make a name for Bayou City's Team. This is week two of our training and its been great. We are dedicated to each other and the Box. We expect all of y'all cheering us on in Tomball for Regionals.


Monica

Kristian

Katie

Vic

Charlie

Susie

Cody


Jane

Scottsdale AZ

I just got back from a nice 4 day Reilly vacation to Scottsdale AZ. Its was a well needed trip. We stopped by Cactus CrossFit and did a WOD with Kevin, Great place. We hung out by the pool, hiked up Camelback, and ate some great food.
I was lucky enough to hang out with my cousin Valerie and her husband David. I don't get to see them enough.
It was great to be able to hang out with Lori and John outside of the Box. Can't wait for the next vacation.

on top of Camleback Mountain, with my 2POOD shirt

Lori and John representing on the Mountain

Lori with a little climbing

Katie all smiles

Sectional WOD 2

Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 15 minutes of:
155 pound Deadlift, 9 reps
12 Push-ups
15 Box jumps, 24" box

Another fun AMRAP I did a little better than last week. I ended up with 12 rounds, 9 Deadlifts, 12 Push Ups, and 3 Box Jumps. We will see what tonight brings, another AMRAP?



Lori

Val

Katie

Cody

CrossFit Open/ My WOD's

So The CrossFit Open has started, first WOD 30 Double Unders and 15 Power Snacth, 10 min AMRAP. Good first WOD for the killer Double Unders. I completed 6 full rounds and 30 DU's and 14 Snatch's. Not Bad, could of pushed it a little more for the last Snatch and a few more points on Double Unders. It is what it is. As of now I'm not going to do it again. I'm just ready for the 2nd WOD to come out.

For Me the feeling of the CrossFit Games is a lot different then the last two years. The ramp up has been different. Maybe its not having a Big Sectionals, maybe its my mind set, what ever it is The Games are not going to wait for me. So my big question is do I compete on the Team or go for individual? I will answer that after the Open. There are a few other events in my life that may play a fact on which rout I go.

So my workout today was: a 10k road march with a 55lb ruck. I was at 5 miles at an hour and completed it in 1hr and 13 Min's, not bad.
Then this afternoon it was: 3 Push Jerks at 195, 20 sit ups on GHD, 10 Dips, 20 Push ups, then farmers carry (2 2pood's) 100 meters, 3x not for time.

6 SOLES

Race Across the Sky

Leadville Trail 100 Mile Run

August 20-21, 2011

Soul
The spiritual nature of humans, the breath of life, the vital core, regarded as immortal.

Sole
The part on which something else rests.


"If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely."

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