Strongman stuff at MaD

Toys :-)


Good shoulder but then a miss on pressing the 45kg stone

Stone loading

Teaching the tire flip

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Good day at the gym, great crew from CrossFit Mana. Thanks AJ and Jenn for coming down to play.

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Workout

Run 400m

4 x 45kg stone loads

Run 400m

10 x 90kg Tire flips

Run 400m

10 x 90kg Fat Bar Deadlifts

As Rx 5:22

More pics here

High School Reunion and visiting old haunts......

So I spent the weekend in Cambridge at my Class of '83 Reunion. It was a fun time and I managed to get around to the old family homes.

17 Hall St

138 Victoria St

Cambridge Primary School
Still looks the same, as opposed to Cambridge High, which has changed a ton.

The "sneaky way"

The high level bridge
Climbing across the lower span was a favourite pastime

Bad As then the coaches throw down.......

The Womens Bad As Womens Open Weightlifting competition went off well yesterday.

The ladies warm up!

Marshall from CrossFit A and M and Darren from CrossFit NZ helped to judge. On Friday we hit the MaD CF WOD 10 rounds of 1 Deadlift and 12 Push Ups. Divide time by weight lifted.

Marshall -160kg 1.89

Darren - 160kg 2.25

Matt -145kg 3.63

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Then after the Bad As we hit Jason (Thanks Amy!).

Matt: 18:20 a PR by 3 minutes :-)

Darren: 20:12

Marshall: 27:05

Louise: 22:42

Cara: 16:10

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Lots more BaD As pics here and here

Cinco de Mayo, good press and a new PR :-)

Kiwi helps celebrate Cinco de Mayo

The Bad As Womens Open hits the Hutt News

I hit a new Over Head Squat PR of 100kg or 220pounds :-)

Nick cranks out 30 Muscle Ups in 22 minutes, great first go at this wod!

Then time for the Met Con 5 rounds of 5 Hang Power Snatch 40kg and 20 Double Unders (or sub 80 Single Unders)

A rest day for some...........

The girls make the most of their day off!

Today started with a 5km Trail/Mountain run in Wainuiomata. I was trying out my Vibrams Five Fingers. Finished 2nd overall in 29:33 and didn't really notice any adverse effects from not wearing normal shoes.

Before and after

Poser!
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Then it was time to walk the girls, meet some friends at the mall, before we headed in to the gym. We were meeting the crew who will be tagging one of the walls in there, pics will be up next Saturday, it should look awesome!

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Jenn and AJ from Linton stopped in to drop off our women's oly lifting bars and pick up their stash of 500kg of bumpers. They are both competing at the Regionals in Sydney next weekend so we wish them the best of luck for the comp over there. Go kick some Aussie ass!

AJ (on the left) at Sectionals

Too Hard, Too Fast...........

turns out going out hard and fast and trying to keep up with 20 year olds is not so smart. At the 12k mark I twisted an ankle but continued to run as we were in 2nd place at the time. We kept up the pace and were the 1st team into Checkpoint 1 of the Oxfam Trailwalker.

The effort took a toll and I only made it to Checkpoint 3 at a distance of 45km in 7 hours and 10 minutes before it was time to call it a day. The next leg was 19km long and it was time to finally check my ego. My knees and ankles were ok going up but hated the downs and the flat.

One of the young guys, Lee, was a mess as well so we both retired. The other two in my team continued on after being adopted by another team, Team Race4Max from Office Max in Christchurch. These were an awesome bunch of guys with a great support crew. Lee and I joined the supporters. So Kelly, Paul, Fiona and the retired Ammo team members met the guys at each Checkpoint until the finish at 11:44pm in downtown Taupo. The guys finished in 17:44 well inside our 18 hour goal.

Here are some pics of the day :-)

Team Ammo ready to hit the start line

On the trails

The views were great. Team Ammo and Run4Max combined :-)

The final leg on the lakefront

The boys just wanted a pie at the finish.

(L to R Cam, Lee and Leighton)

"You must always blow on the pie?" Kelly from Run4Max lays down the law to Leighton

Kiwi Xmas

Ginger waits in the morning sun to open presents

Ginger enjoys her "Greenie" while Kiwi chews on the new warthog

Kiwi tries out the blanket from Nanny in New England

After making sure we opened everything, the girls are exhausted.

Then off to the beach for a walk before Christmas Dinner

Ham on the BBQ, sweet potato, grilled pineapple and salad!

Followed by a seriously awesome non paleo Christmas Cake made by my Mum :-)

Then we enjoyed a sunny afternoon sampling the best NZ has to offer in beer and wine while play a round each of Scrabble and Cranium. Some interesting words, sculptures and humming eventuated.

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Thanks to all for their gifts and best wishes. A special thanks to Ralph and Val (Mum) for joining us on our first Kiwi Christmas as a family in New Zealand.

MaD CrossFit Run Clinic at CrossFit New Zealand

Partner drills and "Charlies Angels"

Just a quick post for tonight.

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We had a great run clinic at CrossFit NZ today with 20+ CrossFitters learning better run technique in order to go faster.

Make sure you stretch afterwards

More pics and video to follow.............

Say goodbye to the Matrix.................

We started the day by turning in Donna's car to Toyota Santa Monica, the lease guy there, Tony Doyle, was very helpful but Donna will still end up with a black mark against her from Toyota :-(

Last night I picked up the rental car we are using for our last two days in the US, a nice silver Dodge Charger :-)

The get away car!


This afternoon we headed up to CrossFit LA to help them load up the equipment for Fight Gone Bad tomorrow.

Then we made our way across town to unload and set up in Sound Stage 22 on the Sony Studios lot.

Sony Pictures and Sound Stage 22 all set for FGB!

On the pug front the girls finally got all their paperwork in order and are all set to fly out tonight. By midday tomorrow they should be settling in to the quarantine facility in NZ.