Wednesday was the opening registration for the CrossFit Open, which anyone can do in an attempt to qualify for the CrossFit Games competition. Over five or six weeks, they list one WOD a week which you have seven days to do while being supervised for authenticity. The top 50 or so people in each region (West. Southwest, North, etc.) based on their combined relative scores for their five/six WODs qualify for the Region CrossFit Games which feeds into the finals. Some of the workouts require little skill and all effort (10 minutes of burpees) which I could do and some are high skill (push press, cleans, etc) where I would kill myself.
I don't think I am a hypocrite if I enter the Open. I am not anti-CrossFit; I just don't think it's smart training for a marathon. If I don't do the Open it's because I have no balls, not because I am a purist.
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