A (Sore) 26.1 Recap And CrossFit Needs A New CEO
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The first week of the CrossFit Games Open is officially behind us, Tommy and Lauren try to shake off the DOMS in their legs and recap the 26.2 workout and live announcement. Open registration numbers are finally in, but are they a win? Don Faul has officially stepped down as the CEO of CrossFit after a tumultuous four year tenure, where does the company go from here?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness. It is Wednesday, March 4th, |
| 0:07.8 | and we are in a transition week between week one and week two of the open. I guess you could say |
| 0:13.3 | it's officially week two. Tommy Marquez here alongside Lauren Khalil. Sean Woodland just touched |
| 0:19.9 | down in Columbus, Ohio for the Arnold |
| 0:22.0 | Classic. So he's going to have the week off as he preps for a very busy weekend out there in |
| 0:27.8 | Ohio. But first things first, Lauren, I got to ask, how are your legs doing? Tommy, I am so glad |
| 0:34.6 | that we sit during this podcast because if anybody asked me to stand for as long as we're going to podcast, not that it's going to be that long, but yeah, my legs are not doing well. |
| 0:47.7 | And I didn't even send it the way that I normally would. |
| 0:51.2 | So I can only imagine for the folks that sent it really hard. I mean, |
| 0:55.7 | I made it through, what was it, 42 or 44 of the 66 wall balls. So I, I wasn't anywhere near |
| 1:05.7 | where most people got to. Nonetheless, my quads still absolutely wrecked. Once again, the open does it. |
| 1:16.3 | It just terrorizes you and you all and all the memes on the internet right now of people |
| 1:21.4 | trying to get on the toilet and walking up and down the stairs. It's real. Have you recovered yet? |
| 1:27.3 | I have not. Today is the first day that I think |
| 1:30.8 | I could get below parallel if I, if my life depended on it. I did it Saturday. Yeah, my legs just |
| 1:39.5 | absolutely thrashed. So much so that it had put me in some weird and compromising positions this week |
| 1:45.9 | as I try to go about my normal routine. So yeah, that was a, that one smacked me around a bit. |
| 1:53.7 | We definitely want to do like a full 26.1 recap in just a second because I think the soreness is just a little bit of the story. |
| 2:05.7 | But we do have a lot to talk about today. |
| 2:08.4 | WFP qualifiers wrapping up. |
| 2:10.8 | We have our final numbers are in for the open registration. |
| 2:15.1 | A big change in leadership at CrossFit, as well as some new |
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