JENNA AT THE GAMES RUNNING BLOG: EVENT SIX
This is my final write up for our review of Coach Jenna’s journey in the 2022 CrossFit Games. I, unfortunately, had to get an early afternoon flight on Saturday as I had family coming into town, so I missed Jenna’s amazing final two events.
We have good news though, we have some blogs coming up from Steve Michelotti, so look for them soon.
For time:
168-ft Husafell carry
50 wall-ball shots
168-ft Jerry bag carry
40 wall-ball shots
168-ft sled push
30 wall-ball shots
168-ft Husafell carry
20 wall-ball shots
168-ft Jerry bag carry
10 wall-ball shots
168-ft sled push
Event 6 was the grind workout of the Games. We saw the pros struggle with this workout, so the teens had their work cut out for them. I got a quick chance to check in with Steve to ask how Jenna was doing and he said great. Then I asked what woop band (a device that checks recovery) and it was well into the red. The programming is taking a toll on Jenna and all of the other teen athletes.
One thing that I can communicate enough going into this workout was the heat. It’s now 11 AM and the turf is attracting the heat. The word is that you can’t touch the turf without gloves or you will burn yourself.
Steve gives me the warning that Jenna is pacing herself in this workout. Doing small sets of wall balls, saving herself for the carries in the workout. She does a great job to start, carrying the Husafell. She hits those walls balls and all is looking good. She is losing some time but I know she is going to catch people.
Then to the Jerry bag. It is a new piece of equipment and it throws Jenna and everyone else for a loop. Think of a really heavy kettlebell carry but the kettlebell isn’t a stable piece of iron, rather it’s an amazing heavy bag that is violently moving all over the place. It isn’t just the weight but the fact that you can’t stabilize yourself holding on to it. It is a midline crusher!
I am just off the field, trying to get videos and I am just boiling doing and all I am doing is holding a phone.
Jenna finishes the carry and is back for the wall balls. She is still behind. I take a peek at the other athletes hitting the sled push and I realize that this workout is about to go from bad to flat-out horrible. This sled is impossible to move.
It’s a slow grind, fighting inch by inch to go 168 feet. I can only imagine the emotions going on. Jenna just won’t stop though and somehow finds a way to get the sled to the other side of the field.
She somehow makes it to the finish line and it’s back to the wall balls. The last carry took everything out of her. Thirty wall balls isn’t much for these amazing athletes but the carries are taking a brutal toll.
Time is ticking down and Jenna gets a chance to get her hands back on the Jerry bags again. She is moving and starting to track down one of her competitors. The clock is not her friend and the workout ends before Jenna gets a chance to make her move.
Jenna didn’t have the event she was hoping for and she fought so hard. We have two workouts left and there is no time to dwell on this event.
I am so sad to leave the Games. It was been the best Games that I have ever been to and it was just so special to watch Jenna. We all have our heroes in CrossFit. How many people get to see their heroes workout every day? How many people have a chance to have their hero’s actually coaching them? How many people have a CrossFithero that is a 17-year-old girl? It’s just crazy and just so special.
The final seconds with that miserable Jerry bag!
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