Pat Barber has a beast mode.

He just reeled that sled in like he was fishing.

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Finals

They're setting up for the team final right now. The word is that ESPN 3 will be broadcasting the team and individual finals.

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We all need to get our butts in gear.

Look at these ladies churn through the burpee box jumps. This is after they all rowed a 500 and biked another 500. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that this is the masters division.

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Reston's roster.

Reston is fielding Mike, John, Maggie and Adrienne for event 4.

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Team event 4

Things are running about 1 heat late at the moment. They're starting heat 3 right now. Reston should be next at about 2:25-2:30.

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What the monkey bars are for.

Looks like the teams will use them for event 5.
http://games.crossfit.com/features/team-event-5-announced

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A little foreshadowing

This is what they're building in the arena right now. Looks like someone's going to have to do monkey bars tonight.

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MK's morning result.

MK was one rep short of finishing the morning's event under the 8 minute cap.

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Some pictures from day 1

It's late, so I'm way too tired to clean up all the pictures I took today, but here's a sample. You can see a little of all of today's team and masters' events as well as a few random shots.

Reston standing.

Unofficially, Reston got 42 rope climbs and cleaned 1130lbs.

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MK's clean and jerk

MK put up 135 on the second event.

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individual skills test.

We're about two thirds through the skill test. I was a little surprised to see who can and can't throw.

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team event 3

Immediately after rope climb, 2 min to do max clean. Team sum counts.
Event 2 and 3 start at 2:30. Heats will be posted soon.

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second team event

Two teams compete at a time.
2 minute team amrap rope climb.

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MK's first event result.

MK finished third in her heat with a time of 7:43.

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Reston results

Team Reston finished in 10:39. They were fourth I their heat.

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team heat two.

Diablo Crossfit is tearing up heat two.
New time to beat:8:22.

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Heat one over

Crossfit LA finished out heat one with an unofficial time of 18:30.

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Team heat one time to beat.

The current best time was announced as 10:33.

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Team heat one.

Here are some details.
15 sand bags
Heaviest bag is 200 lbs.
Waist height log wall
4 ft wall at the end.

They're about to start the first heat, and Reston is strategizing.

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Heats for event 1

Well, I'm finally here, and I'm getting ready for tomorrow. Hopefully we'll see some awesome performances from our competitors.

If you're watching from home, here are some heat times of interest for the first event.

Team Reston - Team Heat 3, 9:0
MK - Masters Heat 5, 9:20
The announced events for Friday are posted here: http://games.crossfit.com/finals/workouts

That's all for tonight. I'm going to try to get some sleep.