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Energy and intensity was high on Day 2 at the CrossFit South Regional as more fans filled the stands on the weekend day to witness some of the fittest in the sport take center stage.

 

In the sport of the unknown and unknowable, there are no guarantees and the top 10 today were shaken up a little compared to yesterday.

 

The final standings were as follows:

 

Women Overall Standings

1. Camille Leblanc-Bazinet (455 points)

2. Margaux Alvarez (422 points)

3. Jenn Jones (399 points)

4. Amanda Goodman (372 points)

5. Tennil Reed (334 points)

6. Brista Mayfield (325 points)

7. Whitney Cappellucci (328 points)

8. Maddy Myers (315 points)

9. Andrea Ager (298 points)

10. Natalie Newhart (293 points)

 

Men Overall Standings

1. Roy Gamboa (435 points)

2. Travis Williams (418 points)

3. Adrian Conway (386 points)

4. Jordan Cook (364 points)

5. Sean Sweeney (315 points)

6. Chad Cole (307 points)

7. Jason Hoggan (284 points)

8. Jeff Germond (267 points)

9. Matt Chan (265 points)

10. Ruben Martinez (256 points)

 

Team Overall Standings

1. Ute CrossFit (455)

2. CrossFit Lubbock (407)

3. Backcountry Black (379)

4. CrossFit Jääkarhu (374)

5. CrossFit The Club (371)

6. Salt Lake City CrossFit (353)

7. OPEX Red (353)

8. JekyllHyde Blue (347)

9. Backcountry Blue (327)

10. CrossFit Waco (321)

 

Teams kicked off the day with Event 3: A couplet of running on the TrueForm Runner (a curved treadmill with no motor or flywheel) and wallballs [http://games.crossfit.com/workouts/regionals]. 

 

CrossFit the Club—seventh place finishers at the 2014 Reebok CrossFit Games—took the lead from the start, and kept it that way when all was said and done (17.34.9), 15-seconds ahead of Salt Lake City CrossFit (17.51.1), followed by OPEX Red (17:53.9). 

 

Next up, back-to-back Events 4 & 5 saw teams collaborate for best overall 1-rep max snatch, succeeded by the 100-meter handstand walk. Each athlete had 1 minute to establish their heaviest lift and then, immediately 60 seconds after the event was over, then transition into the walk. 

 

OPEX Red’s Danny Nichols boasted the heaviest individual snatch at 315 lb., but CrossFit Ute took the win with a total of 12,000 lbs. lifted amongst its six athletes.

 

"When it came to the weightlifting we stayed pretty conservative,” he said. “We missed a couple of lifts but I think it was the right thing to do,” Tommy Hackenbruck said.

 

Each one of Ute CrossFit’s three men hit their opening lifts of 255 lb., but two of them, including Hackenbruck, missed attempts at 275 lb.The women, however, made up for the missed lifts, as the final two each successfully lifted 145 lb. in the final seconds. 

 

The athletes quickly cleared the floor upon the final lifts to each take their turn down the runway—on their hands.

 

Backcountry Blue held an early lead for over two-and-a-half minutes, but when its fourth athlete fell in the middle of the walk, JekyllHyde Blue and Ute pulled up—until they too struggled at the mid-point. Then, from seemingly out of nowhere, CrossFit Jääkarhu’s final male broke away with the final 30 feet to win the event for the team in 4:43.5. 

 

Next up, the individual competition, too, saw Events 3, 4 & 5 for a fun-filled day of endurance (a chipper), weightlifting (1-rep max snatch) and skill work (250-foot handstand walk).

 

Event 3 gave athletes a 26-minute time cap to complete:

 

For time:

1-mile run

50 overhead squats (135 / 95 lb.)

100 GHD sit-ups

150 double-unders

50 sumo deadlift high pulls (135 / 95 lb.)

100 box jump overs (24 / 18 in.)

No woman or man  from the South Regional finished, though Natalie Newhart (a 2013 CrossFit Games athlete) came the closest, taking her first event win with a time-capped score and 19 reps on the floor.

 

Newhart was second off the TrueForm at a 8:40 minute mile, and did not stop or grimace from there, Margaux Alvarez, Whitney Cappellucci, Jenn Jones. Camille Leblanc-Bazinet, and Andrea Ager all on her tail til the very end. 

 

For the men, Jordan Cook remained neck and neck with Adrian Conway throughout the race until the very end: Cook was forced to finish the event with 38 reps left to completion to Conway’s 42 reps. 

 

“I knew Adrian was coming, I could hear it,” Cook said.

 

Cook took the event, followed by Conway and Travis Williams (59 reps left to completion). 

 

After recollecting their adrenaline and stressed CNS systems, Events 4 (250-feet handstand walk) and 5 (1 rep-max snatch) saw former gymnast Camille Leblanc-Bazinet walk the floor to the win, as if she was on two feet (1:43.1). She then then hit a 1-rep-max of 187 lb.-only 3 lbs. less than her true 1-rep-max snatch (190 lb.) after taxing her shoulders on the handstand walk. Jenn Jones took the snatch event with a solid 190 lb., bumping her up on the overall standings on the leaderboard at day’s end (3rd place).

 

The South West’s Lance Castle followed his tie for 31st in Event 3 with a tremendous comeback in the 4th event, walking 250 feet on his hands in 1:38.3. The next athlete was nearly 10 seconds behind him (Justin Murphy at 1:47.5). 

 

Roy Gamboa staked his claim for the top spot on the overall leaderboard with event 5—lifting 270 lb. for his max-snatch for the day. Chad Cole (266 lb.) and Travis Williams (260 lb.) were next in line. 

 

One more day left to prove what top 5 athletes have what it takes to compete at the next and final stage of the CrossFit season—the Games.

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