HCP #90 - HYROX Washington DC review, CrossFit Open 2026

“But basically, I herniated my disc between my C5 and C6 cervical spine. So it's not big, but it's pushing right on that nerve root. So I herniated, I forget what he said, like three to five millimeters, which to me doesn't sound like very much, because when I herniated a disc in my low back, it was 13 millimeters. But he said like, there's a lot more space in the low back to like have that type of big one versus your cervical spine, which was much smaller.”

“It showed to me that potentially the difference between racing versus time trialling once again, I think a lot of people are good at the whole time trialling when it comes to a HYROX race and actually just getting races done and performing well when they don't have any other external pressures. But as we all know, when you get to an Elite 15 race, to be fair, I'm a happy man if I don't do a PB and I don't necessarily do a great time but I win.”

“I realized how much even, even more so, how much work you could easily overdo in the first half of the race. Because, and like, I, you know, take the sleds for an example, like, as simple as, like, if you overcook the sleds, man, like, it's a, it's a hard way, but it's a long way back, right?”

“And I could probably state Dylan Scott there, who, if you think about it, Dylan had a fantastic race. And I say fantastic race because he was able to claw his way back, claw his way back, and finish in second place. You know, like, the concept of the sledism, we talk about it all the time, which is valid.”

“And if anybody saw Vivian's post, she had one second faster here than she did in Phoenix. But it was a minute 15 faster on the run and a minute 16 slower on her stations. So it's like she ran almost the exact same time, but ran a completely different style of race.”

“Rachel Legacy, she's 29 weeks pregnant. She obviously got her qualification into this race earlier before she was pregnant or early on in her pregnancy, right? And she goes out and runs this race. Very smart. It's like 75 minutes in her solo, came back the next night and ran another doubles race and finished like 11th in the doubles field.”

“This is interesting because this is the exact opposite of what we used to do in CrossFit. In CrossFit, you're really narrow for the movements of the open, and then the movements of the regionals expand so you got to open up and then the games can be really wide. They have the open funnel, the reverse funnel, and HYROX, because we know the specific demands of the event, we kind of funnel in as the season progresses.”

“If HYROX wasn't a thing, you'd still be doing HYROX.”

“I went to the gym with every intention of doing it, tried to do a muscle up and could not pull with my right arm. So when I went to turn over, it felt like my arm was breaking. So I was like, that's weird. I went and tried to get in the dip position, the bottom of the dip, and my arm felt like a flame went down the bones.”