Women's Thruster/Pull-up 0920 Heat
The 9:20am heat of the Thruster/Pull-up workout was stacked with talent. Shown in the picture are Jolie Gentry (the 07 Games overall winner) from CrossFit One World, Maggie Dabe-Colby from CrossFit Fairfax, and Gillian Mounsey (3rd overall in the 08 Games) from CrossFit NYC.
The workout was 3 rounds, 21-15-9, of 65lb thrusters and pull-ups with the additional requirement that the chest physically come into contact with the bar for the rep to count. This chest-to-bar requirement seemed to add about 50% to most of these athletes' PRs when just going chin over the bar. The finishing order for this heat was:
Gillian Mounsey 5:16
Jolie Gentry 5:43
Caity Matter 6:58
Kallista Pappas 7:50
Dani Martin 8:03
Jodi Bainbridge 8:04
Jenni Orr 8:33
Maggie Dabe-Colby 8:56
Nicki Violetti 9:37
Karen Douglas 9:58
Michele Vieux 10:41
Laurah Hawkins 7:12 (jumping pull-ups)
6 Comments
The first 39 seconds of that video were awesome(soundtrack wise), then it got lame IMHO. I wish they would have picked a better song after the build up. Say what you will about the old gymjones videos, but Mark Twight has good taste in music.
The ladies did an awesome job, I bet all that dirt in the air didn't help their times as well.
Wow. I got just the opposite felling when "Click. Click. Boom." started. That video gave me goosebumps and I don't even like that song. I guess you had to be there.
Jolie was awesome that entire weekend. Would have loved to seen some more footage of Gillian too.
Awesome video! Would be a great ad for CrossFit.
I'm so going to the CF Games next year!
woo WOD highlights!
although, i have to say the burpee/deadlift vid was more well put together
Ha! Jolie had the same judge that I had in the following heat. I have nightmares about that guy shaking his head at me when I didn't quite smack the bar with my chest!
Nice work Jolie!
Miranda 801
ya jolie! get it girl!
nicki- holy six pack woman! nice work!