Crossfit anyone?

I'm relatively new to triathlon training, but I dove in with both feet over the last five months and developed pretty good overall fitness. That being said, I recently did an interval run workout with a friend who is a hardcore crossfit (CF), and he schooled me. I workout longer than he, but he's faster with better recovery times. Granted, I don't think he has the fitness to compete in an Olympic tri, but he told me about www.crossfitendurance.com . This is an addition to CF and you essentially complete the CF workout of the day IN ADDITION TO intense cardio training in one of the big three (swim, bike or run). Crossfit endurance (CFE) has blogs by many various ironman competitors and they claim they follow the regime exclusively and their times continue to decrease. I am considering changing completely to CFE (which still does crossfit, but tacks on extra cardio), however I'm still skeptical.

Anyone else have any experience with CFE or CF in general?

Crossfit is great!  If you only have a short amount of time the crossfit workout is the way to go!  Don't bag doing the long stuff though...it will come back to haunt you in the race.

-Coach Ty

x2 But I would add that I've found over the last year the real heavy stuff they do is worthless for us.  Stick with the "named" workouts that concetrate on high rep body weight work.  It really helps your anaerobic fitness and I've found I burn fat more and maintain/build muscle better.  Those workouts only take 20 min generally and are absolute killers (in a great way).  Google "metcon" and "crossfit" together and you'll get some fantastic workouts.  But, again, stay away from the deadlifts and whatnot if your most important goal is to be a fast racer.  If your goal is to build max muscle do everything the crossfit site says.  They really know their stuff.