The Open is now over and the best athletes are off to the Regionals and then to the Games. It is awesome to have a sport so inclusive that 60,000 people young and old, fire-breathers and beginners all get to be measured by the same standard and have their results count and being recorded. The world champion and the newbies all in the same race. I remember when I was running long distance they always reminded us not try to outrun the Kenyans only the people immediately in front of us… In the Open, doing 10-20 more burpees, wallballs and thrusters literally means hundreds of positions in the final ranking. It gives us a sense of how much we need to improve and in which area… Now all we have to do next time is to just do it… After my olympic lifting training now I need to focus on rowing, sprinting and some other skills, because in my head I perform so much better than I’m demonstrating on the scoreboard… Well, don’t we all….
