Workout of the Day:
Sumo Deadlift
3-3-3-3
and then,
Three rounds for time of:
400 Meter Run
5 Sumo Deadlifts (use 80-85% of today’s 3-RM)
10 Burpees
It’s About the Community . . . But A Community of Badass Athletes is Fun Too.
Written by C.J. Martin
Invictus rolls deep, no matter what the event. We made our presence felt at the CrossFit Games, the Camp Pendleton Mud Run, and again on Saturday at the MCRD Boot Camp Challenge, where we had nearly 50 participating athletes. Our desire to participate in each of these events had nothing to do with medals or accolades, but rather to test ourselves and support our peers. The end results, of course, have been pretty cool. But why?
I strongly believe that the success of Invictus has been in the development of a tight-knit community. Our community is open and accepting of athletes of all ages and abilities, and is unconditionally supportive of all those who show up to participate. There is no macho crap; no measuring up to compare oneself against others. Rather, our coaches and athletes focus on achieving their maximum potential, whatever that might be. That kind of effort and encouragement to do your best, whether that means a sub-2:00 Fran or a sub-12:00 Fran, is infectious and will push athletes far beyond where they would go if they were directing their attention to besting others.
Some great examples of this were seen last Saturday. For instance, my mom (Krazy K) and Pops, at 50 and 59 years old, completed their first three mile run ever (in a respectable 36 minutes despite the obstacles). They were beside themselves with joy, and so was the rest of the Invictus community. It didn’t matter where they finished in their division, their accomplishment was as impressive and worthy of praise as the rest of our studly teams and individuals that ended up toting home medals because they were testing their own limits. This constant encouragement and quest to redefine what is possible for our athletes will always be the foundation and aim of our program. And if this philosophy continues to provide results like those we’ve seen, the icing on the cake will be that we will be hanging out with and supporting a community of bona fide badasses. Check out a few of the weekend results – not bad for a group that generally deplores running:
- Katie Mac, Sean E. and Josh E. – 2nd Place, 3-Person Mixed Team; 4th Overall among all teams
- Richard, Patrick G., Thom K., Cody Mac, Ben S. – 3rd Place, 5-Person Male Team
- The Stine’s and Traci J. – 4th place, Mixed 5-Person Team
- Mark C. – 8th place, Elite Men (18:41)
- Gerry E. – 12th place, Elite Men (19:21)
- Michele, Sage, Boozebag – 16th Place, 3-Person Female Team
- George E., Army Jon, Moses, Christina M. and Jessica N. – 20th place, Mixed 5-Person Team
- Adam T. – We’re not entirely sure where he placed (awarded 2nd) due to a timing error, but he was really fast.
Great job to all who participated and helped to make this such a fun community event. Keep up the good work, and thank you for making this community so special.
What a Fine looking Fun crew. I could hear you all the way over here on Sat! Congrats to all.
I can’t believe i missed being in the picture because tall thom wanted the stuff he threw in my bag at the bag check-in. thanks thom. anyways, CONGRATULATIONS to all athletes who competed this past weekend!
Hi everyone – congrats on a great showing this weekend!
This may be a long-shot since running is everyone’s least favorite thing to do BUT i was hoping to find any crossfitters out there that would be interested in joining me a couple days a week to do the crossfit endurance WOD’s on a trail (track if necessary) post invictus wods. I’m pretty flexible so i can go to almost any of the invictus training sessions to fit in the endurance wod whenever most flexible for you (no less than 3-4 hours after doing the invictus wod)!
Embrace the Suck!
Here’s my contact info:
kath.climb07@gmail.com
202-412-3105
CJ and CFI,
Greetings from the Gulf of Oman! Its beautiful this time of year, very tropical.
Sweet pic and AWESOME blog. It is so cool to be part of a community like CFI. It is one of the things I really miss. It is such a great feeling to go through a workout with a bunch of other CFI athletes.
Doing adequate CF workouts on the ship can be somewhat difficult just due space. However, I did bring a KB and a set of rings and have been more or less ad-libbing my workouts on a day-to-day basis. I still get looks as I farmer carry my KB through the peways of the ship or do OVHD squats in b/w running on the treadmill. Oh well.
Anyway, I sure wish that I could have been there with you all this past weekend. It sure looks like everyone had a great time with all the smiling faces! Hope everyone is doing well and take care.
Kath- What time do you do CFI and what part of town do you live in? I’d be happy to do some endurance WOD’s with a partner.
Hi Christine, Yay!!
I normally go to 4:30 WOD and sometimes the noon one, but i can definitely adjust that to allow for the second workout. I live on Coronado but don’t mind driving – i would really like to do the wod on trails if possible, tecolote canyon, mission trail, cowles mtn, and i’m sure there are plenty others nearby. Obviously some of the WODs will require a track and it may be too dark for trails depending on what time your thinking of. Beach is always an option too. I’ve never done these workouts before so it’ll definitely be a learning process for what terrain works best – if anyone has any suggestions from experience please share! I’ll be out of town from thursday – monday so maybe we could try it out wed or thursday next week?
I would LOVE to join you guys for the trail and/or beach runs. The track is rough but I know it serves it’s purpose. I have a bunch of old track work outs that we can pull from. There is a group that goes every Thursday night for trail runs in Mission Trails, so we can reach out to that coach for some trail run ideas or tag along with that group, they are a good bunch. However, soon you will need a headlamp to run… I have a spare if anybody needs it.