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The CrossFit Open starts on February 25 and is just a few weeks away. In past years, Foundry has sent Sean McChesney to the SoCal Regionals competition twice, and Mitch Galusha once. We also had hopes to qualify a team for Regionals over past years. The sport has become much bigger, the qualification process has become much harder, and we, unfortunately, aren't getting any younger. With just 20 men, 20 women (out of approximately 6,000 individuals of each sex) and 15 teams moving from the Open to Regionals, our chances are not so good to move an individual or team past the Open. While this is somewhat of a downer, the realization of these facts made me come up with a great idea about how we can use the Open to come together as a community, have some fun, and compete.

Here is the plan: we will make a list of everyone who wants to participate, and break the athletes into evenly-skilled teams. Once the teams are determined, we will add to the teams one male and one female games athlete. The idea here is to give everyone a chance at being on a winning team- advanced athletes and beginners alike.

Each week for the five weeks of the Open (Feb 25-Mar 24) we will perform the workouts on Friday during our regular classes as well as special event style Friday Night classes with a Potluck following the competition workout. There will be a RX version and a Scaled version of each workout. Once the workout has been completed by each person on your team, including the Games athletes, we will calculate the team score and rank the teams. When the Open is over, we will crown the top team! 

The cost to participate in the Foundry Open is $20. You can separately and additionally register for the CrossFit Open for $20 as well, but that is not required. We will award the first place team 60%, second place team with 30%, and third place team with 10% of the total entry fee pool. 

Sign up at the gym this week! 

Trixie hustling! 

Normal schedule today! 

Warm up 2

Hang Snatch + Snatch EMOM for 10:00

5 rounds for time: 

5 Muscle Ups

12 Burpee Box Jump Overs, 24"