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Full Docudrama DVD coming soon! Watch Brandon Phillips fight his way against some serious competitors to the top of the heap of the 2010 Garage Games. Full length Trailer will be out soon!
Was there too much running?
Brandon Phillips won the Male Advanced Division, is he a runner?
Brandon Phillips stats:
Body Weight: 218#, 5′11″
Max DL: 475#
Snatch: 225#
Clean: 300#
Snatch Balance (yesterday): 275#
Finish position in the Trail Run:Â 9th
So our take on this event, if you could not do the running, you simply need to run more, Brandon is not your typical running build, yet he won the competition. Food for thought.
February 11th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
…..and by winning, Brandon is no longer allowed to sandbag about being a bad runner ; )
(does this man have ANY weaknesses???)
February 11th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Food for thought reply: While Brandon was “not a runner build” he is a tremendous athlete, and the 2nd and 3rd place in the advanced men came in 1st and 2nd on the run. Same with the Advanced women. Christina, another tremendous competitor, was 1st in the run. One might be able to argue that strong runners did disproportionately well in this particular series of events.
February 11th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Great point Sean. 2nd and 3rd for the men also came in 1st and 2nd in WOD 4 which was run heavy.
…but to take nothing away from ADV men 2nd and 3rd place…they also did very well in the other non running WODS.
So….running aside. I think the GG programming favored the “well rounded athlete”
just my 0.02
February 11th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Kevin, I agree. I thought the GG WODS encompassed everything. Even though the 4th WOD had running, it wasn’t really running. The 6.5K is a running workout…the 4th WOD had sprinting…big difference. I mean I am pretty new to this but from talking to veteran CrossFitters, if you think running or sprinting won’t be in the Games or the qualifiers you are wrong. We need to be good at everything and I think the GG WODS focused on everything.
just my 0.02 to add to Kevins…haha
February 11th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Yeah, I am gonn just go ahead and pile on here. Tremendous athletes are what we are after, so I tested you with my WOD programming. Good running skill is a necessity to have GPP, you’ll have a greater need to run, in almost every survival situation, than any other skill. So love the run.
I hate to run, but I love to run.
February 13th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Look I hate to run too. But there should be no complaining about the running in these games. We come to compete and have a good time. Which I did every second I was there and by the time I left my body was broken. It took two days before I felt like doing a WOD and when I did a PR was no where in sight.
Running and the ability to run well is just what you need to do to win at the Garage Games. Let get some other box to put on a summer version and maybe strength will be the dominate skill or maybe Olympic technique or whatever.
thank you Garage people for putting on a great event.
February 13th, 2010 at 11:59 am
I guess it’s all in how you look at it. The sandbag WOD really wasn’t a running event. It was definitely a strength bias event and favored the bigger competitors. The trail run was certainly more of a runners event, but it allows us to test for a 30-40 minute time domain, and it also is pretty cool because of the landscape of the venue.
To me WOD 4 was the most complete test of fitness we had. You had to be strong enough to get 135 overhead quickly 20 times, fast enough to blast through the burpees and sit-ups, and fit enough to string 4 rounds together as quickly as possible. It would have been cool to have a pure strength event like a max C&J, but equipment and time dictated some of what we tested last weekend. Maybe we can work some different components into the “Firebreather’s Challenge” this fall.
February 19th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
@Chris
Sprinting?! The runs in the fourth wod were a TRUDGE. Absolutely no sprinting that I remember. haha.
February 21st, 2010 at 9:13 am
haha! “like” Clemson Rob’s comment! You guys put on a great event and though I felt (complained) like there was too much running you have to consider the source. I haven’t ran much in a year! BUT I’m on the mend. I wanna try this one again. Thanks Garage for organizing this!