This Is It

It's the eve of the 2010 CrossFit Games and the excitement is beyond belief. I have a mixture of emotions that I'm not quite sure of how to react to each of them. I am nervous because I have never performed in front of a crowd over a few hundred onlookers. There is an estimate of 5 - 10 thousand people that may be arriving at the Home Depot Center. I realize that the Masters Division will not even remotely be the main draw at HDC this weekend, but there are still going to be a lot of people there. I am excited to be a witness to this massive event about to take place. Not only am I going to see the gathering of the fittest of the fittest compete for a title of being "The Fittest Man In The World," but I'll be seeing it from inside the ropes. I'll be watching Mikko Salo warm up before a heat. I'll be able to see OPT's pre-performance mental focus ritual. This is going to be some pretty valuable stuff I'll be able to take away as a competitor and a coach. I am anxious to see if ALL the training I have put myself through this past year is going to put me in a position to do well. I started putting my programming into a new gear about a year and a half ago, now I need to see if the path I took has provided the end result. All the interval training. All the seemingly endless barbell work. All the Oly lifting. All those AirDyne workouts.
I know that by the end of this weekend I will say it was all worth it and I would most certainly do it again. I look forward to this challenge. I look forward to the lessons I will learn from the path that brought me to this point, but also, the lessons learned form the other athletes I'll meet in Carson. I can't wait to finally hear that phrase, 3..2..1..Go! I just can't wait!