First Crossfit competition, a few thoughts.
I realised a few things at the Divided We Fall Crossfit competition I went to this weekend.
I am still very much a beginner. I sometimes forget that I’ve only been doing this for 5 months. Pros and cons to this. I am not as good as I wish I was, but as I was watching some of the athletes over the weekend I realised where I am in relation to others. Am I jealous of them? You know it. The thing is after this weekend, I am very much fired up about what I want to achieve and am very much looking forward to getting back into training. I have something to aim for now and I plan to aim high!
I’ve never really been a huge sports fan all told, I don’t seem to have the patience to watch live games on tv. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll happily go to a sports event now and then with friends but it’ll never be a regular thing. I think it’s because I’ve never really felt any sort of connection to the sport I’m watching – even if it’s ones I’ve played in the past. Yet, I stood there in the final WODs of the weekend and screamed myself hoarse. For the people I know from 3D but also for all the other competitors. The ones staring down an exercise that’ve never managed to master, a movement the body just can’t manage or simply a weight they never would’ve considered. Perhaps because as Crossfitters we can associate with the struggle. I’ve heard it enough times that it’s not like other sports, you cheer for everyone and want everyone to do their very best whether you’re a spectator or a competitor. This was true over the weekend, at the Crossfit Games in Los Angeles where the very best athletes competed and it is just as true at every class on a dark evening in Manchester. The community is what makes it.
Finally, that’s nothing quite like competing. The nerves as I arrived, building as it was my heat, realising that there was a huge crowd watching, nervously eyeing up the other teams, trying to concentrate on what I had to do. Then forgetting it all when it started and getting absorbed in the WOD. I liked that feeling a whole lot.
Yeah, it was awesome all told. Now simply looking forward to spending some time working on my tekkers on a multitude of things. Getting better, little by little.
November 2, 2011