Crossfit Games Ranch Trail Run

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x-fit for losers wrote:

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Not weight. I know of 210 guys who ran about 16:00.

Lack of specific training and aerobic conditioning. In short, they probably don't run more than a couple of miles.

Did you see how steep some portions of that course were? It was climbing, not jogging/running in parts of that race. That'll kill the average pace per mile real quick when you are going 1-2mph up a 50 degree incline.

Crossfit people are sub-elite body builders... they suck at running.

A woman beat all but two of the of the men. This shows how bad the men are at running.

Why don't the men wear shirts?

Blah Blah. wrote:

A woman beat all but two of the of the men. This shows how bad the men are at running.

Why don't the men wear shirts?

Speaking of Crossfit women, I don't find that look attractive at all on a woman (their butts generally look nice however).

Is it just because I'm intimidated by women with bigger arms than me?

Speaking of butts, the butt award goes to Brooke "Strongest Girl on Earth" Wells. Her butt and legs generate massive power. That's why she dominates in the lifting events:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuSS7YD8SAw

Brooke's butt and her thighs are deadly weapons. She made that 415 pound deadlift look like she was picking up PVC pipe. That 21 yr old girl is insane.

Were they not trying to run fast because they knew they had events shortly after the run? I know nothing about crossfit, just making a guess here.

Obviously part of it is they suck at running, you can see it in their form as they run on the road that they don't run very much.

crossfit makes you better at doing crossfit and not much else.

i dont know what you expected.

Not my type wrote:

Blah Blah. wrote:

A woman beat all but two of the of the men. This shows how bad the men are at running.

Why don't the men wear shirts?

Speaking of Crossfit women, I don't find that look attractive at all on a woman (their butts generally look nice however).

Is it just because I'm intimidated by women with bigger arms than me?

The Crossfit women can get more men than they want. They don't particularly care that some men don't like them.

Brooke Wells ran a 2:41 marathon when she was a runner. Only when she started doping and acquired the HGH gut, did she lose the ability to run.

Different Brooke Wells

Watching some of the the video, they did 3k on flat surface before hitting a 1200 ft climb over not that great of a distance. That's going to get the HR way up, fast. It's pretty hard to get a sense of what would be "fast" on those segments. I imagine that quite a few people went far over 10 min pace on that climb after who knows what on the flat start. From a running perspective, it would obviously be intriguing to see what they'd do on a track for 5k, but that's not really their thing. The trail run throws climbs, different motions, etc into the mix, which is more of their total body thing. It also, perhaps intentionally, makes it more difficult to get a sense of their aerobic fitness.

Ok, nearly half of that race was run on a completely flat surface. That first loop is uphill, and then it's downhill as well, so that pace will hurt the average much less. Yes there is the 50% grade but if you look at the map, that can't be more than 200 meters of distance, so yes your average pace is slowed but it's not for that long. Only ONE person was able to average fast than 8 minutes per mile. I don't think there are many people that claim to be very fit that are in their prime years that RACE at 8 minutes per mile, no matter how hilly. I've run under 17 only a handful of times, and I have done long runs of 12-14 miles with 2,000 feet of vertical climbing and have averaged 6:50-7:00, on a TRAINING RUN.Crossfitters are the best people in the world at crossfitting (as was said by someone else). They are not the fittest people. Someone like Ashton Eaton is the fittest person in the world. Extreme power/endurance in all muscle groups and is a faster middle distance runner than a good portion of people on this website. To run the number of races and compete in the number of events he does at the high level and short time he does is leaps and bounds beyond anything crossfitters do.The fittest person in the world will always be the world leader in the decathlon.

different perspective wrote:

Did you see how steep some portions of that course were? It was climbing, not jogging/running in parts of that race. That'll kill the average pace per mile real quick when you are going 1-2mph up a 50 degree incline.

Because they are shite athletes.

They're not good runners for the same reason the top decathletes are not good 1500 runners - it's a non-athletic trait that is very specialized and the training takes a lot away from overall strength and athleticism.

And the guys don't wear shirts because women don't giggle when they see them shirtless.

BREAKING NEWS! Crossfit men are not fast runners.

BREAKING NEWS! The top athletes in Crossfit probably use PED's.

When Crossfit becomes a contest of who can run a fast 5k, you'll be watching a bunch of skinny dudes killing a 5k. Unfortunately that sport already exists. You have your sport, Crossfit has theirs. Why the insecurity?

Genuinely Curious wrote:

At this year's crossfit games, the first event was a 7k trail run. The winning time by the "fittest man on earth" was 34:10. No one else broke 35 minutes. Obviously, the competitors in the games are great athletes who have much greater strength and mobility than runners. However, those times are well below what I would expect from a male who exercises twice a day and has years of athletic experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zoqw560i3M

Why did so many well-conditioned crossfit competitors run so much slower than an out of shape runner? Is it the course, their weight, the specificity of their training, or something else?

Most of their training involves explosive and Olympic lifts. This is because the majority of the competition requires great strength and explosion. So, I think someone training for the crossfit games would rather sacrifice one event, the 7k trail run, to be successful in the 14 other events hosted there.