It's been a while...

The last month has been pretty busy for me, and the next four to come aren't going to be easier. There are a lot of things going on in my life at the moment, so blogging hasn't been top priority in my spare time. I promise I will make up for it, with a new WOD soon.
So, what's new? I have recently begun my training towards my deployment to Afghanistan in August. It's nice to be the one being taught new stuff for a change and not always being the one doing the planning and teaching.
My training is coming along nice. The education towards my deployment adds some training i wouldn't have done otherwise, but it's nice to do something different. My strenght is increasing steadily, although i don't seem to make any progress at all in my benchpress, which is already pretty pathetic (1RM 253lbs). But i seem to make progress on every other lift. Last week i did "King Kong" for the first time ever. It took me 15min (last round 9min!!!), which is definately no good time, but most people can't even do that workout, so being able to finish it was awesome.

My good friends Affe, Cathrine and Kenneth at Butcher's Lab in Copenhagen, recently opened up another CF box, called Butcher's Garage. It's what I would consider the coolest and most ambitious CF gym in Europe, with all a crossfitter would ever dream about. There are going to be forged some epic crossfit athletes in that place, I tell you! To kick things off, they held a CF Football inspired competition on the opening day, called "Butcher's Stronger Challenge". It was a team event, with three members on each team and a lot of heavy lifting. My team ended up in second place, which we wouldn't have anticipated after only finishing 7th in the first event. Only two teams qualified for thefourth and final event, which was a 4min farmerwalk. The leading team was given a 30 sec. head start, and we were not able to close that gap. But it was a great day and an awesome way of opening up the new place. I managed to PR on my deadlift, which was performed on a trap bar, with a 484lbs lift. I posted a video below about the event. Check it out and make sure to visit the place, if ever in Copenhagen (http://www.butchersgarage.dk/).
I will be posting a new swimming/water WOD this weekend, so stay tuned.
Take care!
/Kasper