June Athlete of the Month - Carolina Dillen
Hey Darren & Tamaryn,
I just wanted to say a massive thank you to you guys and the other crossfit coaches. The last few months have been awesome. I've really enjoyed training with you guys, have learned so much, and done things I once thought 'impossible'.
I’ve just come home from Tauranga where I graded for my next black belt level. I put this grading off for a very very long 7 years. Up until a few months ago, I genuinely thought it would be impossible to get through the grading weekend in one piece. The black belt grading for us consists of two eight hour days days of intense training where they test us on 9 areas of TKD including sparring, board breaking, forms, self defence and a fitness test among other things. I normally only compete in two specialist events which for a grading like this is more of a disadvantage than advantage, as they are looking for people to be good at everything and being weak in even one area can be enough to fail.
I won’t have my results for another week, so I don’t want to say too much as I don’t want to jinx it, but for me just making it through the weekend and being able to do everything, was massive. On top of that...I was the first girl home on the 2.4 km run (9 mins 35 sec and running has never been my strength). The examiners didn't give us a lot of feedback, but they did let it slip that I got the highest score on the fitness test ever.
Carli
(Editors note: Grading passed, with distinction!! Well done Carli!)
Workout
'Gymnastic Nicole'
400m run
Max reps muscle ups (scale to deadhang, C2B or kipping pullup)
AMRAP in 20 mins
Park
JMay: Deadhang pullups. 7 rounds 19 pullups
Peter C: Greenband. 6 rounds 50 pullups
Jimmy S: Blueband 6 rounds 65 pullups
Tanya P: Greenband 6 rounds 66 pullups
Doug R: Greenband 7 rounds 56 pullups
Carli! You are AWESOME. So glad to have you around :) x
Posted by: Jojo Hunt | June 27, 2011 at 08:06 PM
Great stuff Carli!
Posted by: Alex Tan | June 27, 2011 at 08:45 PM
Thats huge, very very well done :)
Posted by: Amanda | June 28, 2011 at 07:24 AM
Awesome- nice work! That goes for Carli and CFNZ :)
Posted by: Brendan | June 28, 2011 at 04:54 PM