I’d like to take a minute and celebrate each and every Raincity Athletes performance this past weekend.
The weekend was filled with intense workouts programmed by the GOAT Mat Fraser. Against some of the top athletes from the west coast and spread over 3 long days. Not only that, its a rain or shine event and they got a lot more rain than anyone expected.
However, fuelled by some elite competition I see each athlete and team shift in to that extra gear that is only possible in competition, It was pretty epic to see. Adrenaline is an amazing thing if you can harness it.
The weekend certainly wasn’t the smoothest for the athletes either. There was more than one judging error encountered by almost all of our athletes. A warm up area that had 50% of the equipment/weights they would face in the workouts. There was literally last minute changes to workouts only discovered in athlete briefing 10 mins before athletes took to the floor. And finally walking out on to the floor as its raining to try to perform at your best against your competitors was a whole new challenge.
Hear me when I say I’m not trying to shame the judges who gave up their weekend or the competition organizers. We appreciate you giving your time and your efforts to make the weekend possible, so a big thank you. I’m just trying to paint a picture.
In-spite of all the adversity everyone performed at there out and out best. I was very proud as a coach to witness how they all handled the weekend.
Finally, probably the biggest highlight for me was how the Canwest competion brought the Raincity Athletics community together. We had 18 athletes compete and even more made the trip out to Percy Perry stadium to cheer and support their fellow athletes. I know the athletes really felt the love and support of the spectators and that energy helped the athletes get through some pretty gruelling events and push into that extra gear with pretty beat up bodies.
A lot learnt from this weekend, and everyone who competed should feel proud of their efforts.
You all crushed it and I’m excited to see everyones progress come this time next year.
Keep going!
