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Ice and mixed climbing guru, and all around badass, Will Gadd has been toying with Crossfit as a general training tool for the last year, mostly as a tool to prepare for his recent Endless Ascent at the Ouray Ice Festival (187 pitches of WI4+ in 24 hours, say whaaaaa). If you’re a nerd with too much free time like myself interested in analyzing training modalities etc. then you should check out his recent posts about Crossfit and his experience at a Crossfit Level I Cert.
Since I’ve been playing with the Crossfit game for a few years as a training tool I shot Will a reply email with some of my own thoughts, and we had a nice little back and forth about the whole deal. For posterity’s sake, I figured I would post the relevant portions here.
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furry, April 14th 2010 |
Tags: crossfit, endurance, nutrition, Training, will gadd
Posted in Training, Uncategorized
At some point last year my roommate and I decided signing up for the Nation’s Triathlon – held here in DC Sept 13- was a good idea. The Nation’s is your typical Olympic distance tri: 1.5k swim, 40k bike, and 10k run. Lot’s of folks like to warm up with a Sprint series tri: 500m swim, 12 mile bike, 5k run. Not this guy.
Let’s just be honest. I have never done a triathlon. I was on the swim team for a few years till I was 10. I hate running. But I can ride a bike, damnit. I figured what the hell, its my last year in DC, and the Nation’s is your only chance to legally swim in the Potomac, ride unobstructed through town, and run through the National Mall with a bunch of strangers.
It didn’t seem like a terrible idea, and I could spend the summer training for it. That was before I had ankle surgery in May and couldn’t even run again until August. Then UPS ruined my front wheel so no biking for a month and a half. Forget swimming – I didn’t even try to find a pool in Golden.
A few weeks ago I realized I’d already dropped the two-hundy for this thing, so might as well give ‘er the ole college try. I’ve been hammering Crossfit/Crossfit Endurance two-a-days in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to get ready.Stay tuned to see what happens…
furry, September 9th 2009 |
Tags: cfe, crossfit, endurance, nation's, triathlon, unprepared
Posted in Training
