I know how a lot of you feel about CrossFit, so I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet. It was just announced today that they will be having a “criterium” on Wednesday. It seems more like a glorified road race with 1200ish meter circuit, 10 laps. 40 riders at a time. Should be interesting to watch at the least.
Then later that day they row a full 42,195 meters.
40 people on a 1.2k course that don’t regularly ride in close quarters could get ugly real quick.
No major injuries at IMTX…I’d say that they will be fine!
This should be in the lavender room.
40 people on a 1.2k course that don’t regularly ride in close quarters could get ugly real quick.
My thoughts as well. I’m interested in watching
40 people on a 1.2k course that don’t regularly ride in close quarters could get ugly real quick.
Creatine prevents road rash
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I know how a lot of you feel about CrossFit, so I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet. It was just announced today that they will be having a “criterium” on Wednesday. It seems more like a glorified road race with 1200ish meter circuit, 10 laps. 40 riders at a time. Should be interesting to watch at the least.
Then later that day they row a full 42,195 meters.
I was watching a Crossfit doco on Netflix last night and they had a RSR. What’s interesting is they don’t give her run or swim times. Just little snippets showing them running in slowmotion or sprinting to the finish. I’m very curious as to what speed they run at. One guy jogged out of transition barely faster than walking pace… #fittestintheworld
Deleted my prior post after doing a google search.
So I guess these games are going on this week…and this was just announced today as more of a surprise? I guess that’s how they do the CF games?
Anyway…I have to assume they will all be on a fleet of the same rental bikes and using flat pedals. I also have to assume they will all be wearing standard CF clothing…so nobody shows up in a skin suit? Should be interesting. Couldn’t see the course that the guy was describing, but from what I could tell it wasn’t a simple oval and non technical
“there is a high probability of crashing…don’t crash” LOL
Just found this on youtube. Essentially an offroad sprint tri…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTF3oTlZysE
I’m sure this has been on ST before, but I haven’t seen it. I want to hate so hard, but I can’t do a quarter of the number of pull ups these people do…
One guy jogged out of transition barely faster than walking pace… #fittestintheworld
Can you do a single muscle up?
One guy jogged out of transition barely faster than walking pace… #fittestintheworld
Can you do a single muscle up?
fuck no. But I don’t call myself “fittest in the world”. They’d be better off ditching the cardio stuff as it doesn’t do much for the credibility of their sport, better just to stick to weights and lifting heavy stuff.
One guy jogged out of transition barely faster than walking pace… #fittestintheworld
Can you do a single muscle up?
Better than most of them can pass a drug test…
fuck no. But I don’t call myself “fittest in the world”. They’d be better off ditching the cardio stuff as it doesn’t do much for the credibility of their sport, better just to stick to weights and lifting heavy stuff.
I need them to keep the cardio, though! Big cardio days are the only time I Rx the WOD in my local Box. Usually they try to hide me in the corner as I scale down to about 50% of the women’s weights.
But give me a big cardio day like a 10K row and TRAIL IS WODZILLA BITCHES! Only day I get respect and can smugly go through my post-WOD stretching while they’re laboring through the row or bike.
Better than most of them can pass a drug test…
Yeah, there’s that. But we’ve got Moats, who, alone, should make us sort of whistle and walk away.
Yeah they always have a surprise event. Last year was “cyclocross.” I’m not a fan of them adding random sports, which they don’t understand/appreciate, and claiming they are the “fittest.”
Looks like they are using Trek, one of the sponsors, road bikes with clipless pedals. I saw this on a IG posting. It’s interesting that they doing it by the Alliant center, which the IMWI bike course passes through.
Better than most of them can pass a drug test…
Yeah, there’s that. But we’ve got Moats, who, alone, should make us sort of whistle and walk away.
True, But I think he got SENT away…
40 people on a 1.2k course that don’t regularly ride in close quarters could get ugly real quick.
Nah, course isn’t really a crit. In fact part of it goes though the same route IMWI takes going out of town, its hardly a critical course, but its a loop with wide turns. They are doing a rolling start not a mass start so it will be very similar to the first 2 miles of IMWI. If triathletes can navigate that area in aero bars I am sure they will be fine on their road bikes.
Im surprised my the marathon row with a time cap of 4 hours. One thing CrossFit has done really well that triathlon is struggling with is making their events high energy, fast paced, and active. This marathon row will be quite boring to watch if they even open it up to a spectator field. I would imagine they will probably have another stuff going in in the area at the same time.
I do appreciate how they use the Madison endurance culture and mix it in their events, obviously they are not as fast as triathletes, cyclists or runners at the top of the sport. Some of them do have 5k’s that many on ST couldn’t touch (18-19 minutes) but are definitely far from top of the field in a 5k. But they can crush any triathlete is every other single event.
Speaking of, what is everyones definition of “fit”? Do you tie it to aerobic endurance, general athleticism, mix of strength and endurance?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BloP3Xflt5I/?taken-by=sarasigmunds
This image already says enough in my opinion…
Deleted my prior post after doing a google search.
So I guess these games are going on this week…and this was just announced today as more of a surprise? I guess that’s how they do the CF games?
Anyway…I have to assume they will all be on a fleet of the same rental bikes and using flat pedals. I also have to assume they will all be wearing standard CF clothing…so nobody shows up in a skin suit? Should be interesting. Couldn’t see the course that the guy was describing, but from what I could tell it wasn’t a simple oval and non technical
“there is a high probability of crashing…don’t crash” LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UjFL5czGiA
You assumed wrong. Crossfit has partnered with Trek, so they were all fit on shoes & road bikes today and shown how to clip in (this should be interesting). They must wear gear provided to them at the start of the games which is marked with their name & number.
There will be at least a crash or 2…
40 people on a 1.2k course that don’t regularly ride in close quarters could get ugly real quick.
Nah, course isn’t really a crit. In fact part of it goes though the same route IMWI takes going out of town, its hardly a critical course, but its a loop with wide turns. They are doing a rolling start not a mass start so it will be very similar to the first 2 miles of IMWI. If triathletes can navigate that area in aero bars I am sure they will be fine on their road bikes.
Im surprised my the marathon row with a time cap of 4 hours. One thing CrossFit has done really well that triathlon is struggling with is making their events high energy, fast paced, and active. This marathon row will be quite boring to watch if they even open it up to a spectator field. I would imagine they will probably have another stuff going in in the area at the same time.
I do appreciate how they use the Madison endurance culture and mix it in their events, obviously they are not as fast as triathletes, cyclists or runners at the top of the sport. Some of them do have 5k’s that many on ST couldn’t touch (18-19 minutes) but are definitely far from top of the field in a 5k. But they can crush any triathlete is every other single event.
Speaking of, what is everyones definition of “fit”? Do you tie it to aerobic endurance, general athleticism, mix of strength and endurance?
For me it’s a probably a mix of “aerobic endurance, general athleticism”. I don’t associate lifting heavy objects as being fit. I think if you’re going to claim your sport as being “fittest in the world” you need to, at the very least, have an OK running ability. It’s not a good look having these massive guys lumbering along at 5.30min/km pace or whatever. I think the sport has the potential to be quite cool, if they placed more emphasis on the aerobic stuff. Having some half-arsed cyclo-cross event and then switching to weights for 90% of the comp, it seems pointless. And they need to simplify some of the stages, handstand walk is getting a bit whacky.