So… I officially withdrew from crossfit games.
I registered for the games months before I hurt my quad, and since the jumping squat incident I have been holding on to my spot figuring that I would see how the recovery progesses and make a last minute decision whether I would compete or not.
Recovery is progessing (been doing lots of low resistance rowing and high hang power work-which has actually been good for me as I frequently short the extension on my pulls and rely on my big squat to save lifts but now I’m up to doing working sets of 50kg power snatches. I’m still planning on competiting at the o-lifting competition in White Rock end of June, and think my snatch will be ready, but my clean and jerk…Friday was the first o-lifting session where I felt any power comming from the leg-really odd thing, full range of motion and no pain, just no power running through it. Friday was also the first session where we started doing back squats again (although I went from doing 3 sets of 3 at 105kg before the incident to 3 sets of 3 at 75kg on friday). Dan (my coach) told me that if the quad felt good on saturday do some more strength work (3 sets of 3 back squats at 85kg and 3 sets 5 snatch deadlifts at 70kg) so I woke saturday morning and the quad felt good, but I could feel the glute, hamstring and thigh on the left side… but it all went good and today my body feels good.
But after having a much needed dinner with a good friend and making the comment about how if I go to the games and I still have my spot you never know what would happen-I was reminded (and already knew-just needed to hear it from my trusted advisor 
exactly what would happen, I would end up competing, going full out, probably doing pretty well, but end up tearing more muscles, possibly even more seriously and shooting the resting of the lifting season.
So I went home, typed up the email and waited about 5 mintues before actually pressing send, but now that I have withrdawn, I’m happy with the decision and can purely concentrate on O-lifting and rebuilding the quad.
I’m still going to attend the games, actually going down a week early to workout at Mikes Gym and work on some olifting stuff with Brad and Josh, but will help coach the Crossfit Vancouver team instead of compete.
And thats that!
