CrossFit Athletic Group

In Summer 2016 we ran our first Olympic workout and had a whopping 15 people show up. We didn't know what to do with so many participants! For today's Olympics workout I planned for 40 and we ended up getting 38.

It was chaos but once the crowd was separated into Professional and Amateur groups it ended up working well. The original plan was an individual workout with 5 separate events, each person getting ranked for each event. This, I think, would have made competition pretty even across the board. But because we had people competing at separate stations at the same time, we just ranked everyone on the run, then ranked everyone on a combined score for the remaining 4 events inside the gym. While this messed with the format a bit, it probably saved like 5 extra minutes of sorting and confusion between each 3-minute event.

For the Professional group, Zander took home the win, with Chase and Owen following up for Silver and Bronze. On the Amateur side, Rookie session standout Samantha Beukers took home the Gold, while Karen Barry and Priti tied for second place.

You can see the full results here.

The photo gallery can be seen here.

Now... you may notice in the photos that a lot of athletes have odd marks in random locations. Well, in true Colussi fashion, Mrs. Tara and Coach Casey took advantage of the International Olympics Comittee allowing body artwork this year and passed out some rub-on tattoos for everyone who showed up.

What were the pictures on the tattoos, you ask?

Sigh...

Yes, that's the chrisfacewedding picture. Apparently they ordered them back in April and waited for the right time to distribute. I waive my white flag in defeat. I've been had.

Anyway, there are also highlights, which include baby Cameron bashing Mallory repeatedly with a pool noodle (while sporting a chrisface tattoo probably).

Thanks to everyone who brought fruit for after the workout (I lost track of who exactly brought what), thanks to whoever brought a huge American flag in to prop up, thanks to Mr. Bennis, Mrs. Jayme, Mr. Malak, and. Mr. Carey for helping everyone get organized for ranking, thanks to whatever shady company makes tattoos with a random dude's face on it, and thanks to everyone who showed up to make another Summer 2021 Theme Workout a truly special occasion. This one was way more festive than I originally planned; I can only imagine what next week's Theme Workout will bring.