As of 2pm NZ time today, the 2015 CrossFit Open is done. The CrossFit Open is a worldwide competition that is the first stage in finding the man and woman who are the "Fittest On Earth". For hundreds of thousands of us, the end of the Open is the end of our part in the process.
During the Open, CrossFit HQ releases a workout each week for five weeks, and participants have four days to do the workout according to prescribed standards, get it officially judged at an affiliate or videoed and upload to be judged, and get their score in. The score goes on a leaderboard that is up for every competitor to see and compare their scores. Then the top few from each of the seventeen worldwide regions (the number varies from 10 to 30 according to how manyCrossFit affiliates are in that region) go onto the Regionals, a tough as guts three day long competition against the other top scorers from their part of the world. Then the top five men and women from each of the Regional Competition go on to The Games. These are held over six days in L.A, California in July. The Games can throw the athletes into any combination of tests of fitness - the classic CrossFit modalities of weightlifting, gymnastics and track and field, to triathlon and watersports.
For many CrossFit athletes, even those of us who don't have a snowball's chance in hell of even getting to the Regionals, the CrossFit open is a highlight of the year. We do the same workouts as every participant around the world, including the very top athletes. Our scores are on the same leaderboard and we know we have gone through the same intense experiences. This year a new scaled section was introduced which made the Open more accessible than previous years. With that, the Rx got harder and thousands of us were humbled by the muscle ups in 15.3.
During the Open, CrossFit HQ releases a workout each week for five weeks, and participants have four days to do the workout according to prescribed standards, get it officially judged at an affiliate or videoed and upload to be judged, and get their score in. The score goes on a leaderboard that is up for every competitor to see and compare their scores. Then the top few from each of the seventeen worldwide regions (the number varies from 10 to 30 according to how manyCrossFit affiliates are in that region) go onto the Regionals, a tough as guts three day long competition against the other top scorers from their part of the world. Then the top five men and women from each of the Regional Competition go on to The Games. These are held over six days in L.A, California in July. The Games can throw the athletes into any combination of tests of fitness - the classic CrossFit modalities of weightlifting, gymnastics and track and field, to triathlon and watersports.
For many CrossFit athletes, even those of us who don't have a snowball's chance in hell of even getting to the Regionals, the CrossFit open is a highlight of the year. We do the same workouts as every participant around the world, including the very top athletes. Our scores are on the same leaderboard and we know we have gone through the same intense experiences. This year a new scaled section was introduced which made the Open more accessible than previous years. With that, the Rx got harder and thousands of us were humbled by the muscle ups in 15.3.
Celebrating the end of the Open with my mates. The Open is one of those pleased to see you, pleased to see you go things.
I have a worldwide ranking: 7,238th out of around 57,000 Women aged 18-54 who completed all five workouts. This will change a little, probably downwards as a few more scores come dribbling in, I'll update it :) I haven't been able to find confirmed numbers but I hear around 300,000 people entered worldwide, including those in the Teens and Masters divisions.
The Region we in New Zealand compete is called the Australia Region, which is basically Australia New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. My ranking is 522nd out of 4,600 who completed all the workouts. That's a big improvement from 850th last year, especially as total entries are up about 27%. The Open is useful for entrants who compete over multiple years as a concrete way of tracking your overall improvements in fitness.
The Region we in New Zealand compete is called the Australia Region, which is basically Australia New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. My ranking is 522nd out of 4,600 who completed all the workouts. That's a big improvement from 850th last year, especially as total entries are up about 27%. The Open is useful for entrants who compete over multiple years as a concrete way of tracking your overall improvements in fitness.
Custom Leaderboard Fun
The CrossFit Games site has a fun function called custom leaderboards, in which you can plug in filters and compare who scored what in what workout. I'm most interested in the performance of the people around me in Otago and Southland as they are the ones I'll come up against in local competitions. I also like to keep an eye on competitors from New Zealand as I've met many of them and will be cheering on the ones who go on to the next stage of competition. I've made and embedded the national and local leaderboards for this blog post. If you're registered with the CrossFit Games, have a go making your own leaderboardshere!
F.Y.I NZ Individual Leaderboards
For the "New Zealand Individual Women" and "NZ Individual Men" They include those registered in New Zealand according to the CrossFit Games website, but only the individual Open division, not the Teens or the Masters Athletes.
F.I.Y. Otago/Southland leaderboards
These leaderboards include everyone, Teens, Open and Masters, who are registered with the following affiliates:
Remarkables CrossFit
CrossFit Queenstown
CrossFit Wanaka
CrossFit Cromwell
CrossFit Alexandra
CrossFit Gore
CrossFit Wild South
CrossFit Dunedin
CrossFit North D
CrossFit Uncut
And Vickie Moses from Wanaka who has competed mostly by video submission.
If there is anyone else out there in Otago/Southland who is not registered with an affiliate but has been competing via video submission, let me know and I'll add them in.
Remarkables CrossFit
CrossFit Queenstown
CrossFit Wanaka
CrossFit Cromwell
CrossFit Alexandra
CrossFit Gore
CrossFit Wild South
CrossFit Dunedin
CrossFit North D
CrossFit Uncut
And Vickie Moses from Wanaka who has competed mostly by video submission.
If there is anyone else out there in Otago/Southland who is not registered with an affiliate but has been competing via video submission, let me know and I'll add them in.
Check out Ruth Anderson Horrell's Score for 15.5! (She's 51st on this leaderboard) When I talked to her a few weeks back before the open started she was only a few days out of thumb surgery and was not able to recover in time to do the Open, and has therefore sadly missed out on the Regionals and the Games. She has recovered enough to do the last workout Rx and put in an incredible 7:06. That puts her at 43rd in the world and 4th in the Australia region for that workout, and still without being able to grip properly. Absolutely a world class athlete right there.
If, like me, You love a good dose of statistics, keep an eye on Sam Swift's site. He's a data scientist and keen CrossFitter. He'll be waiting for the final numbers to come through them there'll be a whole bunch of interesting graphs and conclusions to draw from them.
Phew it's over! Back to being a powerlifter. Except for the Southern Classic, a CrossFit Competition in Dunedin I've entered that goes down in seventeen days time... Can't help myself.
Phew it's over! Back to being a powerlifter. Except for the Southern Classic, a CrossFit Competition in Dunedin I've entered that goes down in seventeen days time... Can't help myself.
Deadlifts: what I do best.
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