The ShoWare Center hosted the CrossFit Games regional competition May 16-18.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The weekend featured men\u2019s and women\u2019s individual and team relays and races to see who could out-jump, out-squat and out-throw whom.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Events ranged from pullups and dumbbell squats to medicine ball throws and rowing, and were divided into either endurance or speed workouts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Few athletes could even finish some of the endurance workouts, which included throwing a heavy medicine ball 10 feet into the air 50 times, then doing 50 reps of ring pushups, then doing another 50 medicine ball reps.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Marisa Liepman, who trains at Rainier CrossFit in Sumner, \u00a0said that it helps to break the repetitions into small, manageable sets of eight to 10.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI do sets of eight, and that\u2019s a lot more manageable than one set of 64,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is definitely one of those endurance events that tests whether you have an engine,\u201d said Drew Barquist, of Lynnwood CrossFit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Barquist traveled from Seattle to compete, but other athletes came from as far as Montana, Wyoming and Alaska.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The regional division includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska.\u00a0With so many competitors from so many areas, many athletes view the day as a chance to reconnect with friends in the CrossFit community.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Regardless of whether they came for the competition or to see old friends, they pushed themselves to the limit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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