Big Weekend For CrossFit Lions -- 5 Athletes moving on

First off I would like to thank all the people who came up to support the CrossFit Lions Team this weekend in Squamish. Thank you Roe, Tanya, Katie, Annie, Geoff, Olivia, Knight Rider, Connie Chung, Kioks, Murder, Sophie, The Duke, OZ, Nick and Jenny.
Also thank you to my beautiful wife who now has no voice left because she was cheering so loud. I know she helped me through some dark times in those workouts. If I forgot your name its only because I care.

Now onto our athletes....Ains, Hattie and Annie qualified for the ladies and Garth and Monkey qualified for the men. Solo was 16th place, one spot away from qualifying. Everyone who didn't qualify had great moments and I couldn't be prouder of our gym. We have one of the smallest memberships of any of the gyms their and we qualified 5 people to go to regionals two months from now.

Garth, aka Steven Bunches, finished second in the burpee, box jump, Kb swing WOD and destroyed the field in the final workout for a first place finish. He finished in 6th place but established himself as a real contender to come out of the regionals in Calgary. Christoph, who was fighting a bad back and a wicked cold, still went to war and finished each workout in the top 15 to end up 12th I believe. Again at full strength he will be a contender in Calgary. Solo finished off the total with a 475lbs deadlift with lots left in him, had a strong showing in the burpeed box jump wod and then dropped down a bad ass 6:52 2k row to finish 5th in that event. Matt just missed out on the final WOD but overall had a great weekend of workouts and effort. Good work boyz!!

On the ladies end Ainslie finished 5th overall with an incredible row and steady pace in all four workouts. She is a contender in to come out of Canada for sure.  Hattie, who just got ring dips a few days ago and pullups only a few weeks ago, finished the last WOD RX and therefore punched her ticket to Alberta. It was incredible to watch her continue to fight through that last wod. I was so proud. Annie who was in the 20's before the last wod began, stormed through at rx to get herself into 15th place. Stellar PB all weekend. Great work Annie.

Big ups also to BB Guns, Robyn and Mel who all had a fantastic weekend. B fighting through that last round of ring dips, is proof of what the human body can do if you put your mind to it and stick it out. B also finished 5th I believe in the second workout. Big ups. For mainly big girl workouts she did awesome.  If only we could have got ring dips from Mel a few days earlier....Unbelievable weekend for her. A monster PR in the Row and lifts and she was in place to qualify if it weren't for those damn dips. However I think she knows now that she can hang with these girls and compete at the is level. Last but not least is our inspirational captain Robyn. Robyn PR I believe in all four lifts or pretty darn close to it in the CrossFit football total, PR in the 2K row, good hard work in the second box jump wod and then a top ten finish in the ride the lightning final wod, were it was great to see her strengths shine through. The exercises weren't to Robyn's favor and we knew that going in, but her spirit and fight never went away.

Chelan and I have never been more proud in our lives than we were this weekend. Congrats to all of you and this is only the beginning with what you all can accomplish. More to come on the weekend.

If you were wondering about me I finished in 19th place out of 59 men w/t a 4th place finish on the second workout and a 8 place finish on the last one. A 41st in the 2k row cost me a trip to Calgary. Just didn't pull fast enough. Stupid row. I also tied my PR's in the power clean and bench press, broke my pr in the back squat with at least another 15 pounds in me.

Tech: 
A. Spit Jerk 5x1
B. Front Squat, Thruster, Hang Squat Clean x4 - how heavy can you go
WOD: 
"Pride, Lust and Envy"
Rounds in 5min:
7 box jumps 24"/20"
7 burpees
7 KB Swings red/yellow

7 rounds and a couple box jumps was the best done at the Sectionals by John from CrossFit Kelowna. Garth was just behind him. Unlike this weekend I won't require full foot on the box for the jumps and we will use our burpee standard of two hands straight in the air, feet off the ground, hips extended. Have fun.