The Rogue Invitational Instagram account posted a photo of Games athlete Carolyne Prevost taking on a pegboard a little over a week ago.
- We’ve seen quite a few pegboard challenges at CrossFit-sanctioned events in the past and at the CrossFit Games. Many athletes even have a Rogue pegboard in their affiliates or garage gyms.
At this point, it has been used often enough that the elite men and women are proficient at “going unbroken” or scaling up and back down many times over.
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- In the Rogue photo, though, the pegboard was on its side, and Prevost traversed sideways, free-hanging.
While nothing official has been announced, we can assume (and hope?) that we’ll be watching the 2024 Rogue Invitational athletes taking it on when the contest takes place November 8-10.
Flashback
This is not the first time we’ve seen athletes challenged with this implement — it first showed up at ELFIT in 2022. Even then, though, the idea wasn’t new.
ELFIT’s organizer, Adam Elzoghby, had seen the sideways pegboard at an obstacle course race in Giza, Egypt, three years prior at an event called the Epic Ruya. He was inspired, but it took him time to adapt it for his competition.
The workout that was presented at ELFIT in 2022 was called “Jingle Bells,” and it was as follows:
“Jingle Bells”
For time:
- 10 double KB hang clean and jerk
- 3 rope climbs
- 10 double KB hang clean and jerk
- 2 legless rope climbs
- 10 double KB hang clean and jerk
- 3 horizontal pegboard traverses
Time cap: 10 minutes
This was one of nine events that year, the penultimate workout before crowning the champions.
Why This Matters
In 2022, Brent Fikowski won both the competition overall and the “Jingle Bells” workout, proving that he had finesse when it came to the new movement and could adapt to the challenge.
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He completed the workout in 5:20, followed by South Africa’s Ruan Potgieter, who took second with a time of 7:47.
- The video we shared via Instagram shows that the pegboard was not so high off the ground that the athletes couldn’t drop down easily if they needed to. In the male field of 30 competitors, only five finished the workout.
None of the women finished.
Fikowski is one of the competitors at the Rogue Invitational in Aberdeen in several weeks and the only one who has experience with this piece of equipment in competition.
When asked how he plans to tackle it this time, he told Morning Chalk Up, “I’m not going to give away any of my secrets.”
Touche, Brent.
We’ll just have to wait and see.
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