“From one fitness extreme to another!! What a great year 2022 has been🥳!”

Just two months after competing for the title of Fittest on Earth, eight-time CrossFit Games athlete Kristi Eramo O’Connell ran the Columbus Marathon in 3:04.

The former marathon runner and collegiate swimmer spent the year training her general fitness for the CrossFit Games and switched her focus to running weeks after the competition. 

Although O’Connell only spent six weeks specifically training for a 26.2-mile run, she still managed to beat her pre-CrossFit marathon PR by about six minutes. 

“CrossFit works, people,” O’Connell says. 

Take a look at how O’Connell prepared for her latest challenge and how CrossFit helped her get there.