Musings from the CrossFit Games Canada West Regional

- All six events were won by three athletes in the male division: Lucas Parker (1st), Jeremy Meredith (2nd) and Steve Howell (4th).

- If you look at the scoreboard, you'll see one blip on Howell's scorecard, the thruster workout where he accumulated 20 points, if he had lifted 10lbs more, he would've gotten 7 fewer points, putting him ahead of Meredith.

- It's been mentioned before, but if there were no cutoffs after day 2, and everyone competed in the last day, the standings would definitely look different, but would it change the top 2 who gets to advance? If so, Crossfit HQ might wanna re-visit that idea.

- Jeremy Meredith finished in chronological order: 1st, 2nd, 7th, 1st, 9th, and 10th. He blames it on his nutrition on the last day. He's got 8 weeks to figure out what went wrong.
ps. I have video on my iphone of him cleanly and successfully thrustering 255lbs so he shoulda got 1st on that WOD too. I don't know why it was a mis-rep. Does anybody have an explanation?

- If we compare the top 10 from the Sectionals to the Regionals, you'll see that most guys at the top stayed at the top save for Nate Beveridge (mainly cause of his goat, handstand push-ups) and Brian Carter. Carter finished in 9th place overall in the Sectionals and 40th at the Regionals. But if you look closer, his placings at the Sectionals were 2, 4, 5, 50, 29, 32. So does that mean he got progressively less fit during the opens? Did he lose work capacity as the opens went on? Hmm.....

- Over on the Women's division, it was all about the story of the Taranis Twins (they needed a nickname), Angie Pie and Alicia Connors who dominated the weekend winning all the events between the two of them.

- Angie Pie is gonna be a HUGE Crossfit Celebrity. You heard it here first. She is gonna be this year's Camille Leblanc-Bazinet. She's got the looks and the work capacity to back it up. Watch out for her.

- Angie finished 28th in the world during the Opens and WILL place top 15 at this year's games.

- Gotta give a shout out to my man, Pete Kendrick, 9th place, gutsy performances all around. Brrraaap.

- Finally, Congratulations to Lucas, Jeremy, Angie, Alicia, Crossfit Taranis and Crossfit Vancouver for qualifying to the games. Go Canada Go!