![]() She draws a careful line, which looks straight to me but not to her. Her handwriting is so neat it hints at some turmoil swirling just beneath the surface. In black ink, she wrote out six stations of pain, including the track work she did before coming into the gym. ![]() That's an abbreviation for "Workout of the Day." I didn't know the phrase before meeting Katrin, who recently turned 26. THIRTY-SIX DAYS earlier, the morning before she moved to Cape Cod for a month to train in monastic seclusion for the Games, Katrin uncaps a marker and writes her WOD on the board at her suburban Boston gym. "Because there's a million things that you can keep working on and getting better." Benedict Evans for ESPN "In CrossFit, you're never like, 'OK, I perfected that,'" Davidsdottir says. The athletes do two events back-to-back and Katrin wins both, climbing back into third place - good enough for a coveted spot on the podium if she can finish strong in the one remaining event. The most important muscle in CrossFit is the mind she repeatedly failed to lift 80 kilos before doing more than that easily - because the weights were measured in pounds, and so she didn't know. Katrin struggled this morning in the open water swim, a mental hurdle. When she takes the floor, her mom screams words of encouragement in Icelandic. She talks about her daily obsession to be the best version of herself. A video about Katrin plays on the huge screen: blond hair in a bouncy ponytail, a topo map of traps and glutes, an easy smile replaced with cold eyes. We head inside the arena for the next two events. Katrin is also a two-time winner and is currently in fifth place. Odda is standing in line for an acai bowl and carrying her daughter's laminated face on a stick. Just after leaving Annie's parents, I run into Odda Helgadottir, the mom of the best Icelandic CrossFitter in the world, Katrin Davidsdottir, who's a friend of Annie's and an inheritor of the tradition she created. People drawn to compete in these Games are all at least a little broken, he says: "You never know why they're here or who they're here for." Most athletes endure the pain of training to get to some beautiful flow state. We talked about the type of person who seeks this out. He owns a CrossFit gym and is a retired Navy SEAL. Annie points to Thorir and Agnes and shouts.Įveryone laughs, although her joke evokes the central question hovering over the Games: Where do these people come from, exactly? I'd met a friend for dinner the night before. ![]() Her parents stand to the side, her dad smiling. When the workout ends, she signs autographs and poses for pictures. The crowd roars when she takes off her shirt to reveal her abs. On the final day of this year's competition, with a disappointing 12th-place finish already assured, she is teaching a class to a small group lucky enough to have signed up. Two-time champion Annie Thorisdottir led a revolution back home after her 2011 CrossFit Games victory. How Christian Yelich turned himself into an MVP». ![]()
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