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German Throwdown 2024 from the Team.cz perspective

On the first weekend of October one of the biggest races in Europe, Germanthrowdown, took place in Germany. A two-day event of individuals and 4-member teams in many different categories.

To introduce our team team.cz ... Karel Tichacek, Míša Cudlmanová (CrossFit GTPS), Adam Ondroušek (CrossFitHometown) and Monika Tučková (CrossFit Steel Wings Pardubice).

On Saturday we had 3 workouts that had everything. The first two - synchro axel work, pairs synchro work on the trapeze, machine and med ball, as well as individual work on the heavy jump rope. We had a squat cleanladder to finish off Saturday, so there was strength work as well.

Sunday morning started off with a row along with overhead dumbbell lunges. The second, and last wokout for our team, was a rope climb, synchrodeadlifts and synchottb. We felt like we had done this one well. Quick rotations, execution of exercises, tactics, but still. The team that won this event was over 30s faster. I mean, this is already a race where everybody can do everything. It's just a matter of how fast or what tactics they choose.
Unfortunately, we didn't make it to the finals because of the leaderboard. I had my first setback in the first WOD, where I couldn't line up on the heavy jump. I messed up jump after jump and cost us a lot of time. Adam didn't keep up on the wallballs. On the other hand, in the squat cleanladder he lifted the final weight (135/95kg) as well as Misha and added some squats to it. Karel, because of his complexity and optimistic attitude, was always ready to step in when someone couldn't and led the whole team.

We enjoyed the competition and as individuals we left it all out there. It was a great experience to be part of such a race, a 4-member team and especially with such a composition. We took home 15th place in the Intermediate team category.

Thank you to workout.eu for their support with the race t-shirts for team.cz.

If I should point out one thing within the organization and what "some" races in the Czech Republic should catch is the adherence to the time schedule, where there was no room for discussion on the set... On the timers ran a countdown of 2 min, when one heat ended and the other began ;)

Misha
CrossFit GTPS