Well, we made it! Five weeks of events and many, many more weeks of training to work towards them. So many PRs! So many expectations surpassed! Our first Invitational was a blast. It was so cool to see everyone push themselves to the next level.
Let’s talk about event 5’s results.
We wanted the final event to be a real doozy. For virtual, this meant burpees of course. I mean, really, who didn’t see burpees coming? Here are the top 5 individual scores:
| Name | Burpees |
| Garrett Ferderber | 48 |
| Elly Fireside-Ostergaard | 43 |
| Erin Walsh | 42 |
| Lara Friedman-Shedlov | 38 |
| Ewan Scotto | 37 |
Great job everyone. Garrett is a very fast human being, but he works here, so yet again he doesn’t get the GOLD. That goes to Elly Fireside-Ostergaard this week. Congrats on winning this event, Elly!
Here’s how the top team rankings shook out for event 5:
| Team | Burpees |
| Virtually… Possible?? | 83 |
| Labor and Deliverance | 71 |
| Moll ‘N Stein | 65 |
| Drop Deadlift Gorgeous | 65 |
| Virtual Insanity | 60 |
| Ewan / Megan | 58 |
Great work everyone! You’ve all got some serious lungs.
For the final indoor event we wanted another doozy. At first we considered the 20RM back squat. We worked on a 20RM several years ago, TO GREAT FANFARE. However, we’d been focusing more on big squat sets in the hypertrophy range, and 20 reps is getting into endurance territory. So we cut it back to a 10RM. Still certainly something to write home about! Past the 5th or 6th rep it becomes a real mental exercise. Great job everyone!
Here’s the top 10 squatters this week, and the weight they squatted. Scores were based on percentage of bodyweight.
| Garrett Hoffman | 240 |
| Max Poessnecker | 255 |
| Nathan Aul | 200 |
| Hannah Wydeven | 195 |
| Bradley Machov | 200 |
| K. Korbitz | 255 |
| Jeff Lockhart | 225 |
| Collin Arnett | 200 |
| Mike Grewe | 235 |
| Riley Haberland | 185 |
Another Garrett who works here in the top spot?! Amazing. Congrats to Max Poessnecker for nabbin’ the real #1 spot.
The top 5 teams were as follows:
| Nate/Bradley | 1 |
| M&Ms | 2 |
| Jeff/KK | 3 |
| Team Hannalee | 4 |
| Team 420 | 5 |
So, this brings us down to the overall scores. The Invitational is a team event. Here are the final scores for all the teams. We’ll start with virtual:
| Team | Rank |
| Virtually… Possible?? | 1 |
| Labor and Deliverance | 2 |
| Ewan/Megan | 3 |
| Moll ‘N Stein | 4 |
| Halimah/Mary | 5 (tie) |
| Virtual Insanity | 5 (tie) |
| Drop Deadlift Gorgeous | 6 |
| Unmuted | 7 |
| The Forrest Hunts | 8 |
| The Diffusers | 9 |
| Elly / Tianna | 10 |
| The Seward Rats | 11 |
Great work virtual teams! Congrats to Virtually… Possible?? for grabbing the overall win. This is Garrett Ferderber and Daphne Sidor. We’ll make sure Daphne is handsomely rewarded.
Indoor team scores:
| Team | Rank |
| Nate/Bradley | 1 |
| M&Ms | 2 |
| P.V.C.O.M.G. | 3 |
| Team Hannalee | 4 |
| Jonathan/Halimah | 5 |
| Jeff/KK | 6 |
| Team 420 | 7 |
| Nicole/Erik | 8 |
| Crystal/Dom | 9 |
| Perhaps You’ve Heard of Us | 10 (tie) |
| Team Cannon | 10 (tie) |
| Team ThunderFang | 11 |
| QuaranTine Hunger Force | 12 |
| Brigit/Lisa | 13 |
| Liz/Katie | 14 |
Congrats to Team Nate/Bradley on the overall win. This is of course Nate Aul and Bradley Machov. We will make sure Bradley sees the gold.
Here are individual results for both virtual and indoor
Virtual:
| Athlete | Rank |
| Ewan Scotto | 1 |
| Garrett Ferderber | 2 (tie) |
| Lara Friedman-Shedlov | 2 (tie) |
| Daphne Sidor | 3 (tie) |
| Erin Walsh | 3 (tie) |
| Elly Fireside-Ostergaard | 4 |
| Brandon Stein | 5 |
| Lisa Priest | 6 |
| Hannah Wydeven | 7 |
| Halimah Alossaimi | 8 (tie) |
| Katie Fritz | 8 (tie) |
| Molly Hillstrom | 9 |
| Tony Hunt | 10 |
| Megan Kocher | 11 |
| Juliet Patterson | 12 |
| Beth Hilliard | 13 |
| Jess Finney | 14 (tie) |
| Marlee Leebrick-Stryker | 14 (tie) |
| Mary Stein | 14 (tie) |
| Rachel Moritz | 15 |
| Bethany Burzynski | 16 (tie) |
| Jenn Forrest | 16 (tie) |
| Mary Pumphrey | 17 |
| Tianna Avery | 18 |
Indoor:
| Athlete | Rank |
| Nathan Aul | 1 |
| Hannah Wydeven | 2 |
| Mike Grewe | 3 |
| Jerik Hendrickson | 4 |
| Garrett Hoffman | 5 |
| Bradley Machov | 6 |
| Max Poessnecker | 7 |
| Collin Arnett | 8 |
| Jeff Lockhart | 9 |
| Amelia English | 10 |
| Halimah Alossaimi | 10 |
| Erik Nielson | 11 |
| Annalee Tomsicek | 12 |
| Adam Quick | 13 |
| Jonathan Popko | 14 |
| K Korbitz | 15 |
| Riley Haberland | 16 |
| Crystal Harris | 17 |
| Dom Giesen | 18 |
| River Newell-Cline | 19 |
| Brigit Boler | 20 |
| Nicole Conti | 21 |
| Jeff Garcia | 22 |
| Ross Wolf | 22 |
| Britt Johnson | 23 |
| Elizabeth Wrigley-Field | 23 |
| Alicia Wheelock | 24 |
| Lisa Colburn | 25 |
| Shannon Kerr | 26 |
| Liz Babkin | 27 |
| Katie Jerome | 28 |
Thanks again to everyone who took part. You all did such a great job stayed so consistent throughout the whole thing. Lots of very cool stuff has happened the last 5 weeks! Congrats to all.