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Brim Smyth - Fit to Win
TO AN athlete it can be ironic to win one of the toughest physical competitions around but end up with one of the most fragile trophies.
That is what Leading Aircraftwoman (LACW) Brim Smyth of Weston experienced when she took out the Female Advanced Individual category in the Queanbeyan CrossFit Judgement Day 2013 competition held recently in Queanbeyan.
LACW Smyth, a clerk at 34SQN at RAAF Base Fairbairn, took home a glass trophy and a sense of achievement after some tough competition in a field with a range of competitors including elite ‘CrossFitters’.
After doing three workouts of varying movements, skills, rounds and repetitions, LACW Smyth had to face a fourth and final round – all the while carrying a lower back injury that was incurred earlier that day.
“In the final Workout of the Day I was up against two extremely elite CrossFitters,” LACW Smyth said.
“As I had no opportunity during the final WOD to see how the other two athletes were progressing, I had no idea if I was going to win so I just decided to just go all out. It was very tough,” she said.
Although LACW Smyth has only been focusing on CrossFit for just over a year, she has gained a lot of experience in that time.
“Last year I was fortunate enough to make Regionals, competed in various other competitions throughout the year and competed two weeks prior to Judgement Day – the start to a busy Crossfit year,” LACW Smyth said.
“It gave me great experience coming into Judgement Day at Queanbeyan.”
CrossFit is described as “a regimen of constantly varied, functional movements performed at high intensity in a communal environment that leads to health and fitness” – a drawcard that LACW Smyth could not resist.
“The addictive nature of CrossFit, its environment and group mentality is one of the main reasons I took up the sport,” she said.
“It ended up substituting all the other sports and fitness training I was into.”
Next month LACW Smyth is hoping to compete in the Open competition and make the top 40.
“If I make that I will then progress to the Regionals in Wollongong and hopefully make the top 10,” she said.
Although, if she goes one better and makes it into the top three at Regionals, then the World Games are next. Not bad for someone only just 12 months into the sport.