WODFest CrossFit Competition
WODFest is a CrossFit competition for all levels, test your metal against the best of the best in the Firebreather division, or if you do Prescribed weights compete in our RXed division, and if your a Master (35+ every 5 years) compete against athletes your own age in our Masters division(s).
WODFest will be held August 20th, 2011 at a great outdoor facility in Seattle's Magnuson Park on the shores of Lake Washington. The events will be held at both indoor and outdoor venues, so you will be able to get your tan on while breaking a sweat!
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Become a Master at what you do - Larry Silber has
Larry Silber is a seasoned campainer. He has been to the last two CrossFit Games, finishing 4th in 2010 and 2nd in 2011. In both those performances Larry showed tenacity, coming back from behind and competing at the highest level on the Main Stage. Durring both Games appearences Larry embodied the CrossFit mentality, leaving the Games with more friends than he arrived with and never making enemies... only next years competitors!
Max C&J Station Setup
Each station for the Max C&J will have the following:
weight # total 45 2 90 35 2 70 25 2 50 15 2 30 10 4 40 5 2 10 2.5 2 5 295
Team Sandbag Count Breakdown
Each team in the sandbag run will have the following bags... all must be moved 800M. If one is dropped you may continue without it BUT you must go back and retrieve it to finish... no fallen soldiers.
Weight Count 50 1 40 5 30 4 20 4 10 3
Team Wall C&J and DL
Individual MetCon - Build it up Plate Progression
We will be having volunteers adjust the weight between rounds for the Build It Up metcon... the plate progression is as follows:
FB Men Bar 45 Weight 1 35 2 115 Starting weight 5 2 125 Add the 5# 10 2 135 Remove the 5# and add 10# 5 2 145 Add the 5# 10 2 155 Remove the 5# add the 10# Open Men Bar 45 Weight 1 25 2 95 Starting weight 5 2 105 Add the 5# 10 2 115 Remove the 5# add the 10# 5 2 125 Add the 5# 10 2 135 Remove the 5# and add 10# FB Women Bar 35 Weight 1 15 2 65 Starting weight 5 2 75 Add the 5# 10 2 85 Remove the 5#Continue Reading
Directions...
I had a few people have issues getting to the venue today...
Magnuson Park(map with annotations for parking) on the shores of Lake Washingon, Seattle. We are going to be at the Community Center at 7110 62nd Ave NE, 98115 . This is within the park. Park to the north in a large parking lot north of the softball fields.Please study the above map! People are finding it hard to find the Community Center... thats where we are at. When you turn off Sandpoint way onto NE 74st, we are the third right... but.. the first two are only right right away! I looked today for a streetContinue Reading
Day of Event Schedule
Registration will open at 7:00 am. Athlete meeting will be at 8:00 am and the first workout will be at 8:30am.
We will be going all day, if things stay on track last WOD done about 4:15.
Day of Event Schedule
Here is the published heats for each workout. Shows the heats and what time they will be starting each workout.
The first three workouts are seeded based on benchmarks, the best athletes based on their recorded benchmarks go in later heats.
We will re-seed all divsions before they start the fourth workout(Build It Up... aka:MetCon1).
Watch this page for actual heat assignments, to be published later.
First 3 workout Heats - Individuals and Men
Here are the heats for the Individuals and teams, masters will come out later. Combine your heat and the heat schedule defined here and you should know your first three workout times.
Individuals
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Men Open Sandbag
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Men Open Max C&J
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Men Open How Fast Are You?
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FB Men Sandbag
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FB Men Max C&J
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FB Men How Fast Are You?
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Womens Open Sandbag
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Womens Open Max C&J
- Womens Open How Fast Are You?
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FB Womens Sandbag
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FB Womens Max C&J
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FB Womens How Fast Are You?
Teams
Continue ReadingRequest for Volunteers & Judges
Like all CrossFit competitions, WOD Fest could not happen without the help of volunteers and judges.
We are looking for some people to come and help. If you know anybody who is willing to help for the day, please have them go to www.wodfest.com and click on the 'Volunteers & Judges' tab and signup to help. We will be providing them with free lunch and a free t-shirt.
We really need your help on this.
Individual Workout 4 - Build It Up
For the fourth individual WOD we have a workout that will add weight every round.
Build It Up
5 Rounds for Time (12 minute cuttof):
- 5 Clean Thusters (weights listed below)
- 7 Toe 2 Bars
- 9 Hand Release Pushups
- 11 Kettlebell Swings
Weights are:
Notes about the venue
We will be at the community center at Magnusson Park (7110 62nd Ave NE, 98115).
The community center is open to us to use their bathrooms.
There will not really be any food there to speak of so, please pack accordingly. We are however going to provide food for the volunteers and judges.
The running venue is not a closed course so please be courteous to others on the trails and on the baseball fields.
There is a great spot to setup camp with tents overlooking the main venue, so show up early and stake out your spot.
Other stuff???? Please let me know if I Continue Reading
Final Workout Scoring
One of the biggest gripes about Games scoring is that in later rounds once the cuts have been made, since there are fewer participants, its harder to make up a large point loss. You could concievable be in 6th place going into the finale but be 15 point from 1st and you have no mathimatical chance to win.
At the 2011 Games CF HQ did two things to effect this, one was they changed the scoring and added larger point spreads. This really was just a math trick and does not address the problme IMHO. The second thing they did was demonstrated in the Team event where they whipedContinue Reading
Got Pig?
Heath Putnam Farms just donated over 50 pounds of high high quality pork products for us at WOD Fest! We will be grilling up, pork cheek, pork belly, pork shoulder and of course bacon bacon bacon! Volunteers and Judges will get their fill first as they are the core of the event whom we could not perform without, then everybody else will be welcome to sample some of Heaths excellent high quality pork products! I can not wait!
Registration is Closed - Verify your Registration
As of Wednesday August 17th night we have closed the registration for the 2011 WOD Fest. We have also published the full athlete list here.
Please verify that you are seeing your name in the right division. And if you have any issues email me at mike@wodclub.com
Individual Workout 3 - Got Speed?
The third individual workout will give the athletes a chance to showcase their speed.
Got Speed?
3 Minute AMRAP of:
10 Box Jumps(M 24"/ W 20")
20 Double Unders
Every rep counts.
Box jump standard is Games standard with full control at top and showing open hips. You must hit your full extension while on the box, jumping off while extending will be no-reped.
Registration Status
We have gotten a lot of interest in WOD Fest! As of Sunday Night Aug 14th we have 95 registered participats (This includes members of 5 teams).
The last day for registration will be Wednesday night. And we are going to cap most of the divisions to a max number of registered athletes, so please do not wait too long.
The break down of registratins by division goes like this:
| 28 | Mens Firebreather || 4 | Mens Masters 35-39 |
| 2 | Mens Masters 40 - 44 |
| 3 | Mens Masters 45-49 |
| 2 | Mens Masters 50-54 |
| 7 | Mens Open |
| 5 | Team 4 Person |
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WOD Fest Title Sponsor - WOD Club
WOD Club provides individuals with workout tracking and gym owners with a great platform for running their entire business.
Individuals
WOD Club provides the best free solution for tracking your workouts and interacting with your CrossFit friends. Track and graph your pgrogress on any workout including your own custom workouts. All the CrossFit HQ workouts are imported every day, and you can see how you stack up against the rest of the CrossFit nation.
Gym Owners
For gym owners WOD Club provides you with everything you need to manage your buiness.
WOD CluContinue ReadingPace Horse Cindy - Team WOD 3
Another great team WOD is on deck for the team WOD 3.
[updated Aug 17th 8PM in bold]
Pace Horse Cindy
Max reps of Cindy in specified time(20:00).
All four members will rotate through the following stations. Station 1 is the "Pace Horse " and station two is Cindy (5 Push Ups, 10 Pull-Ups, and 15 Air Squats). The Pace Horse will complete a specified work volume of XXX Workout (we are keeping some secrets), while the Pace Horse is working the other athlete is doing Cindy for Max Reps(every rep counts). Once the Pace Horse completes the specified volume, they rotContinue Reading
Individual Workout 2 - Max Clean and Jerk
The second workout we are publishing for the individual divisions will be a Max Clean and Jerk.
One Rep Max Clean & Jerk
In 3 minutes establish your max clean and jerk. Each athlete will have a station with a bar(mens or womens), a stack of dedicated weights, and colors.
The athlete can make as many attempts as possible within the three minute period.
Team WOD 2 - There is a Wall between us
Team WOD 2 should again be an excellent workout to showcase your team and leverage team strategy.
There is a Wall between us
For time;
Divide your team into two sides, a man and woman on each side of an 8 foot wall. On one side the athletes will perform deadlifts an on the other side they will perform clean and jerks. On the deadlift side there will be a stack of 355lbs and on the C&J side 160lbs (plus man & woman bars).
Each man/woman pairing can decide how they want to load their weights.
On each side only one athlete may be working at a time.
EachContinue ReadingSamantha Petersen - She is ready
Having just come off a great CrossFit Games where she got 39th, Samantha Peterson is signed up and ready for some more CrossFit action at WOD Fest where she is going to compete in the Womens Firebreather division.
Samantha, came out of nowhere and won the NW CrossFit Regionals, beating out established favorites. And at the Games she represented us up here in the PNW well!!!!
So, if you want to take on the best of the best, and perhaps be the new dark horse, signup for the Womens Firebreather and see how you stack up!
Sandbag Run - Individual Workout
The first workout we are announcing for the individuals will be a Sandbag Run. While this is the first workout we are posting, it may not be the first workout that your division does.
Sandbag Run
For Time:
4 Rounds of:
Run 800 Meters
Alternatie laps carry a sandbag. First lap without sandbag, second lap with sandbag, third lap without sandbag, and the final lap you finish with the sandbag.
Weights of the sandbag are as follows:
Team WOD 1
All week (Aug 7th-14th) we will be posting the WODs for WOD Fest. The first WOD we are posting is the Team WOD 1.
Move It
For time: With all 4 members of your team move 500lbs of sandbags 800 meters. Fairly straight forward, the teams can decide how they want to divide the loads and the best strategy to take, the only requirement is that each member must cover the full 800 meters at least once.
Progenex Sponsorship
Great news! Progenex just came on board in a major way! Now we will not only be able to give all the winners something to go home with(besides thier pride) but we will also be able to give something to all the athletes.
Progenex is going to give all athletes a gift card for Progenex products!
In addition they will have somebody on site passing out free samples! So... get your shake on and thanks Progenex!
Team Event now Published
We have finally settled on a format for our Team Event. We are going to go with 4 man teams, 2 women and 2 men. Each athlete will perform in all the events, but its a team event so all the workouts will be structured to encourage team work so loads can be shared and or managed accross the team.
What about the Workouts!
We have gotten lots of questions about the workouts. From what are they going to be, to can we scale them. We will announce the workouts in the week prior to the event, but for now let me provide you with some basic details of what they will be.
Which division should I be in?
What division should you signup for?
Open Athletes
Lets start with the Open(RXed) division. This division is intended for your average CrossFitter, the weights will be similar to what you see in the CrossFit Girls. So if we include a Thruster you would expect to see 95# for men at 65# for women like in Fran. if we include a ground to overhead, you would expect to see 135# for men and 95# for women. The general rule we are going to follow is that for Open athletes we will try to match the excersize to a well established weight from a CrossFit Girl benchmark workout. In Continue ReadingAffiliate Team Area
One of the best areas of the venue will be dedicated to those affiliates that register the most athletes the earliest.
We have room for 7 team tents in a reserved section of the venue right beside the main event venue. This section is elevated about 4 feet, and is immediately adjacent to the main venue where the majority of the workouts will be taking place.
So, the first 7 affiliates that have 10 or more athletes registered in any division will get a spot reserved for them in the reserved team area.
Great Venue
We are super excitted about our venue. I just got back from a run around Magnuson Park where we are holding the event and its going to be a great spot!
We are going fully utilize this venue for our event... a great run through the fields, a few outdoor WODs on the outdoor courts and the final WOD will be held indoors in truely gladiator style in-front of a large bleacher section.
Take a look at all our photos from the venue in this album.
