CrossFit Games 2009 Individual Competition

Tomorrow the individual competitors will challenge themselves and each other to see who's the fittest person on Earth.

The competition, courtesy the official CrossFit Games 2009 site:

General Rules
1. The movement standards are typical HQ unless otherwise stated.
2. Each athlete will be ranked according to their time or score relative to the other athletes for that workout. Their final score for the workout will be equal to their rank.
3. The overall ranking going into each event will determine the reverse starting order for that event. For example, the athletes that win the first event will get to go last in the second event, while the athletes that come in last in the first event must go first in the second. The athletes in the lead (those with the lowest running total) after two events get to go last in the third event. And so forth.
4. After the second event, the bottom ten men and the bottom ten women (those with the most points) will be eliminated from the competition.
5. After the fourth event, the remaining bottom ten men and ten women will be eliminated from the competition. At this point, there will be approximately 55 athletes competing in Saturday's final event (for each men and women).
6. After the fifth event, the 16 men and 16 women with the lowest total points will be invited to compete on Sunday. If by chance there is a tie for 16th place, the athlete with the best single placement in any of the five events will be awarded the invite.

The first five workouts (out of eight total):

1. A 7.1k road & trail run with some nasty elevation.
2. A deadlift race. Starting at a weight of 315lbs for men, 185lbs for women, increase in 10lbs increments until you fail or someone catches you.
3. A sandbag (70lbs men/35lbs women) 170m sprint with a 100' elevation gain.
4. 500m row, Hammer a 4' stake (3' ladies) into the ground, 500m row.
5. A wallball/snatch couplet.

Check the official Games site for details. After some eliminations, the remaining competitors will have the chance at 3 more workouts on Sunday.

Good luck to Jenny Olson, Charity Vale, Kallista Pappas, Nichole Verbrugghe, Jennifer Kellams, Jerome Perryman, Tommy Hackenbruck, Moe Kelsey, Jason Neago and Jordan Holland, who are representing Seattle and the Northwest! Did we send some winners? Uh huh.