Last Chance

Yesterday I decided on whim to do the Crossfit Games Last Chance Qualifiers. I should have gone to bed before 2 AM the night before.

The last two years the Crossfit Games were run as an open event, where anyone could sign up to compete. Due to its overwhelming popularity, this year they ran a series of regional qualifiers around the country (and world). For the sake of athletes who couldn’t make it to a qualifier for one reason or another – such as being deployed, or finishing their second year of law school – the powers that be decided to hold a special Last Chance Qualifier. Yesterday at 6 AM three workouts were posted online, and hopefuls were given twenty four hours to perform all three and post videos of them online.

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I'm a Dork

J Bone post-crush at the quals.

A huuuuge, law school nerd of epic proportions. Try as I might I cannot escape it. I offer the following as evidence:

This last month has seen a number of regional qualifying events for the 2009 Crossfit Games. Without getting into too much detail, the idea behind the games (and the newly minted qualifiers for this year) is that competing athletes do not know the workouts they will be performing until the event is almost upon them. This ensures that they cannot train with specificity, but rather Read more…