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Kenzie Riley | The Athletes of the 2024 Legends Masters CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't have to ride away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how it winters made.
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  Stick a fork in the heater
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  on my dinner plate.
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  I walk into the fire like it's
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
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  My name is Scott Schweitzer.
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  I'm the Clydesdale.
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  We're here to celebrate and
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  highlight the athletes of
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  the 2024 Legends Masters CrossFit Games.
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  And I'm so honored and
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  privileged to have with me five-time,
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  now six-time CrossFit Games athlete,
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  Kenzie Riley.
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  What's going on, Kenzie?
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  Hey, your average Thursday night.
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  There you go.
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  Me hiding in the garage
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  trying to do a phone call.
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  There you are.
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  So when we were messaging back and forth,
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  you asked if our paths had crossed.
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  And I'm going to tell my
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  embarrassing story that
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  makes me look really, really bad.
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  So we were both at the games.
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  I want to say it was 2022.
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  2022, I think.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  You were there pushing a stroller.
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  I ran up behind you and I
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  thought you were Jen dancer.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  And I felt like this tall
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  when you turned around and
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  I realized you are not Jen dancer.
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  You are in fact, Kenzie Riley.
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  Well, if it makes you feel any better,
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  you're not the only person
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  to ever get that confused.
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  Apparently we are.
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  look like and but I don't
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  know there's something that
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  gives the same vibe
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  apparently so I've not
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  gotten that um that only
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  time so well I had her and
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  sam on the show just right
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  before that talking about
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  motherhood and having the
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  baby and um and so like all
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  that the stroller
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  everything clicked in I was
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  like oh it's got to be jen
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  and then I get there and
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  boom nope it was kenzie
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  No, I do remember that, but like I said,
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  I've had that happen to me a couple times,
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  so whatever.
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  And you know what?
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  I know Jen, and we're cool, and I like her,
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  and she's awesome,
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  so I could think of worse
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  people to be confused for, so...
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  you're, you're both incredible athletes.
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  What an honor.
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  Yeah.
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  Um,
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  so you are the first athlete I've had
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  on this week that has been
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  to the games before
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  everybody else I've had on
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  is going as a rookie.
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  Oh, can,
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  what advice would you give to the
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  rookies going to the
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  CrossFit games for the first time?
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  Oh, geez.
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  Well, it kind of depends on,
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  I think what stage of life you're in.
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  Um,
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  For me going as a rookie when I was,
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  oh my gosh, I was like 29.
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  I was almost 30 my very first year.
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  And being in a completely
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  different part of my life with, you know,
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  less obligations and more
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  time to just focus on training.
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  So I think it depends on how
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  big of a part CrossFit
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  plays in your life and how
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  big piece of the pie it gets.
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  but it's really easy to just
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  get overwhelmed and sucked up.
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  And I, this is me talking to myself,
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  not to other people, but like to enjoy,
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  like everyone says, Oh, enjoy it.
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  But like, but like actually enjoy it.
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  And remember like,
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  it's just working out and
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  putting so much like
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  pressure on yourself and
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  like being so worried about
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  things really robs you of the,
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  the fun that we like, we're,
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  we're supposed to enjoy this.
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  Like,
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  that's what I always have to remind
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  myself instead of, you know,
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  feeling like, oh gosh,
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  I have to warm up again.
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  Oh gosh, another event.
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  Is this over yet?
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  Like inevitably that's the
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  attitude kind of,
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  I think once you get into the weekend,
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  but just remember like, damn,
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  this is awesome.
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  And like,
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  I get to do this and I like to do
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  this and it's just working out.
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  I do this all the time.
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  I do this every day.
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  Let's go have some fun with this.
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  Cause yeah,
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  it can easily get turned into
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  something that's not supposed to be.
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  Don't take it too seriously,
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  I guess is what I'm saying.
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  have you done any masters
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  competitions or is this your first one?
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  I think technically it's my first one.
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  Well, I don't know.
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  I competed with me,
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  Elijah Muhammad and I did a,
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  a team competition.
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  And I don't know if we're in
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  the masters division or the open division,
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  but we're both masters athletes.
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  So
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  I think it must've just been
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  regular division.
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  No,
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  I haven't really messed too much with
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  masters.
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  Cause I've ever since I've
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  been master's age,
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  I've either been pregnant
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  or too close postpartum to
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  really like can compete at
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  least in like a game, the game season.
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  So I'm just trying to think
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  on like a local level,
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  which I don't get too many
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  opportunities with that.
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  So I don't know.
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  Wait, yes, I did crash crucible,
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  which is like a competition down here,
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  which J.R.
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  Howell and like,
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  they're friends with like Hiller and Sevan,
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  like anybody who watches that podcast, um,
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  might be familiar with him, but his gym,
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  like Jason Hopper, I didn't believe,
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  believe trains out of,
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  it's just a couple hours from me.
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  Um, and they do a great competition.
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  So I did that in like
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  October in the master's division.
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  Yeah.
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  My Sunday night co-host, uh,
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  competed against you, Jamie.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  And so we watched the stream
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  the whole weekend, uh, and did,
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  did little wrap up shows from it, uh,
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  just because, and it was so good.
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  Quite a show.
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  Oh yeah.
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  It was, it was a great competition.
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  Um, he's great.
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  So any,
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  any opportunity anybody has to go compete,
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  uh,
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  he has does like one or two events a
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  year.
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  It's definitely highly recommend.
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  So you're in North Carolina.
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  What part?
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  I'm in Charlotte in.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  Charlotte proper.
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  My wife has a lot of family there.
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  So we've,
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  we've been there for family reunions,
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  different things like that.
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  So I'm very familiar with
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  the Charlotte area.
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  Oh, that's cool.
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  I don't hear that too often.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's a nice, it's, it's a nice place.
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  I don't think it's,
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  but I'm not like from here.
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  I've only lived here like
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  seven years going on eight years,
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  which is kind of a long time.
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  But I'm from the Midwest.
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  I'm from Illinois.
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  Okay.
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  Born and raised.
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  So this is just a venture we
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  went on to kind of do
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  something different besides
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  live in Illinois our whole lives.
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  Yeah, I'm in Columbus, Ohio.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  So midwest myself.
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  Yeah.
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  And I love them.
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  I mean, we go back and I'm always like, oh,
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  I kind of miss it,
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  but I don't really miss the winters.
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  And, you know, I wanted to just do like,
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  we were just like, dude,
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  let's not live here forever, you know?
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  So who knows what the future will hold,
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  but we're here and we like
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  it and we're not going
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  anywhere anytime soon,
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  but we're not like born Southern.
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  We're not Southerners, you know,
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  it's not like in us, but it's, you know,
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  we like to pretend we are sometimes.
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  I moved to Northern Florida
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  for four years and I couldn't,
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  I couldn't deal with the Southern way.
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  Like it,
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  it's just much slower than I'm
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  accustomed to.
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  And if you like it and that's your,
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  your style, good for you.
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  I just couldn't live in that
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  style very long.
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  And honestly though,
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  I was thinking about this earlier.
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  I'm like, dude, I'm not like,
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  I'm not Southern in my core.
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  Um,
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  But my kids are going to be
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  born and raised Carolina kids.
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  And I'm just like,
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  is my kid going to have an accent?
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  Is he going to have the
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  mountains and the beach in his heart?
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  Because I've got cornfields
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  in my heart because that's
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  what I grew up around.
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  And so I'm like,
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  I wonder if he'll resonate with this.
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  Even though we don't have those roots,
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  is he going to have those roots?
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  So I'm curious to see if
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  they're going to be like
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  true Carolinian children.
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  So what was your background
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  that got you into this CrossFit world?
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  So I was a swimmer the
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  majority of my childhood, like 15 years.
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  I swam for a couple of years in college,
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  super burnout by that point in time.
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  And I don't know.
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  That's my background.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  I made it two months into my
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  freshman year.
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  Exactly.
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  Yeah, I did it because I was like,
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  this is what I do.
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  But I like hated it so much.
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  I was so over it.
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  I didn't know what I didn't.
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  That was my problem,
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  as I didn't know what to do
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  if I didn't do it.
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  I was like, this is who I am.
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  This is what I do.
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  Which is now my problem with CrossFit.
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  But it becomes just, like, yeah, a part of,
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  like, your identity, kind of.
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  So, yeah, I had that, like, aerobic base.
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  So coming into CrossFit,
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  I was 25 when I walked in
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  my first CrossFit gym.
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  Like, I was super late to the game.
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  So, yeah,
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  I spent about five years in
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  between swimming and CrossFit where I,
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  like...
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  did a lot of gym workouts, group exercise,
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  marathon, like half marathoning,
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  just thinking I was really
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  fit because I just like did
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  a whole bunch of gym rat shit.
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  But I was never like training.
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  I'd never like lifted heavy,
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  touched a barbell, done a full depth,
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  like back squat, like with any weight.
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  Like I didn't,
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  like I didn't like know any
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  of that stuff.
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  But when I came into CrossFit,
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  I was like aerobic base.
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  That was not the problem.
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  Coordination,
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  Like, I'm a pretty, like,
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  just naturally coordinated kind of human,
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  like, body awareness and coordination,
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  like, rhythm.
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  Like, okay, so Olympic lifting, I could,
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  like, pick that up a little bit.
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  And some things just clicked.
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  But I was just, yeah, I don't know.
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  One of my old swim teammates
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  was the one that told me to try it.
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  And then my cousin actually
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  was into it too.
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  So I just kept hearing about it.
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  And I was like,
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  I don't even know where you
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  go to do this.
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  You have to like, I Googled it up,
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  like CrossFit gym.
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  Like, is this a place you go?
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  Like,
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  I didn't really understand the
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  concept of it being
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  different than like a gym, but yeah,
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  that was 2012.
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  And by 2013, I was like, yeah,
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  like where's, is there a competition?
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  Can I like go compete in this somewhere?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, it's funny.
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  I had a girl that went to
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  the Olympic trials in swimming on Friday.
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  And she's 34 years old,
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  and she uses CrossFit to train.
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  She only gets in the pool one day a week.
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  Yeah.
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  And she CrossFits five days a week.
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  Now, she's a sprinter.
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  And she found that her body
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  responded to that way more
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  than doing a bunch of pool time.
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  And she, at 34 years old,
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  made the Olympic trials.
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  Really?
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  Yeah.
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  That's awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  Is this somebody I should know?
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  Who is this?
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  Am I competing against her?
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  Her name is Caitlin Johnson.
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  What's her name?
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  Caitlin Johnson.
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  Oh, I've definitely heard of her.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah,
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  and she's dabbling in CrossFit comps too.
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  She's done Wadapalooza, TFF,
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  some of those things as well.
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  Yeah, it's crazy.
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  Cause I, and I remember when I started,
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  like basically as I was
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  like phasing out of my like
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  runner girl era that I thought I was,
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  I was definitely not,
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  but I didn't know what else to do,
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  but I would like do these
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  half marathons and like,
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  train for half marathons.
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  Anyways.
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  Um, I was like,
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  I had one in October and I
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  started crossfitting in
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  like July and I wasn't like
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  ever really doing,
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  I would do like one longer
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  run a week and just
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  crossfit the rest of the time.
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  And I like had the best, like best,
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  like half marathon
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  experience run feeling good
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  of my time that I was a runner.
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  Um, and I was like,
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  I really didn't like train
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  running really.
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  Um, so yeah,
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  I fully believe that that's possible.
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  So you're a registered dietitian.
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  You've surrounded yourself
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  with health and fitness by
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  being an athlete and your
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  career is nutrition and all
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  of that stuff.
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  Growing up,
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  was that always your desire or
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  was it just because you
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  were always in sports?
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  Um, you know, that's a funny question.
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  Cause it's definitely, yeah,
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  it's kind of like a saga.
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  Um, because I think,
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  I think a lot of people that come into,
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  I mean, in this space in general, um,
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  like nutrition and fitness
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  go hand in hand.
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  And of course I started out, um,
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  like I've always been an athlete.
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  Like that's, like I said,
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  like always something I
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  felt very like called to like
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  called to be and just like a
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  part of me and it was very
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  natural for me to always
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  want to be like training
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  doing exercise making
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  myself better trying to be
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  better than how I was like
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  that's like that's just
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  comes to me naturally I
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  don't know what that's
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  about genetics or like just
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  personality but for me
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  that's not hard to do so
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  whenever especially
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  whenever I was like in college I
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  Like, I would be, like, I was, like,
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  the girl at the rec all the time.
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  Like, that's where people knew me from.
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  Because I was, like,
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  I was just working out all the time.
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  That was, like,
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  the one thing I always wanted to do.
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  And it's, like, I'm going to college.
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  I got to pick something that I, you know,
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  like, I would love to be an athlete.
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  Like, ideally,
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  if I could just work out all
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  day and get paid for it, that was, like,
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  the one thing I actually want to do.
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  But.
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  That's not a major option.
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  You know, you can't pick that in college.
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  So I was like, well,
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  what's something close?
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  Like clearly I'm not going
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  to be in like I'm not
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  making my sport a career.
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  So I was like, well, it's something close.
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  And I played along with
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  round of like athletic training,
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  of course, like physical therapy.
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  You see a lot of physical
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  therapists in like the CrossFit space.
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  But I knew I wanted to do
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  something that I could like
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  work in athletics.
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  Like I want to be in athletics,
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  even if I wasn't doing it.
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  um and so dietetics got in
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  the mix in my brain um and
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  so I ended up going that
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  route just to try and stay
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  in the sport realm and um
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  so I knew I wanted to work
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  in athletics but the whole
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  time I just really wanted
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  to be the athlete
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  um but this is as close as I
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  could get so um luckily
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  it's worked out though that
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  I can because I do work in
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  most I get to work with a
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  lot of athletes um being
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  kind of now also still
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  waving the flag of athlete
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  myself obviously at
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  different degrees
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  throughout the past few
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  years but um it allows me
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  to kind of like walk the
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  walk and talk the talk have
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  the experience relate to
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  the individuals um
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  know so I get to to kind of
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  have that as a unique kind
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  of um twist to to my
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  profession as a dietitian
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  so um yeah it's always been
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  natural for me um but also
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  kind of to add to that
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  story I also went through a
• 15:13
  pretty aggressive bout of
• 15:15
  eating disorder when I was
• 15:17
  in high school um in my
• 15:19
  freshman to sophomore year
• 15:20
  of high school and
• 15:23
  that drug on, I would say for a good bit,
• 15:26
  I mean,
• 15:26
  probably the better half of a
• 15:27
  decade where it was, you know,
• 15:29
  varying stages and phases
• 15:32
  of a disordered eating situation.
• 15:35
  And once I started CrossFit
• 15:37
  and started eating and
• 15:38
  performing at a high level
• 15:39
  and eating to perform and
• 15:41
  really understood what that meant,
• 15:42
  I learned a lot about, again,
• 15:44
  athletics and sports and
• 15:45
  nutrition and how it works together.
• 15:47
  So that made me better able
• 15:49
  to be like a sports specific dietitian.
• 15:52
  So
• 15:53
  So you were all work together.
• 15:55
  You were battling an eating
• 15:58
  disorder while you were
• 15:59
  studying dietetics in college.
• 16:02
  Yeah.
• 16:02
  It's super embarrassing.
• 16:03
  Like to like, yeah,
• 16:05
  like now I can talk about
• 16:07
  it and like admit that.
• 16:09
  But at the time it's like,
• 16:10
  you never want to admit that.
• 16:11
  Cause it's like, no,
• 16:12
  who wants to get advice
• 16:13
  from someone who doesn't
• 16:14
  have their own shit together kind of,
• 16:15
  you know,
• 16:15
  and not to sound like rude to
• 16:17
  anybody else that, you know,
• 16:19
  is in a situation like that,
• 16:20
  but it was insecurity of mine.
• 16:22
  Right.
• 16:22
  So yeah.
• 16:23
  I knew that's why I got a nutrition coach.
• 16:26
  I got somebody to help me because I knew,
• 16:29
  even though I knew it
• 16:31
  because I was a professional,
• 16:32
  I was not doing myself any
• 16:34
  service by helping myself
• 16:37
  by clearly struggling.
• 16:39
  So I view it in a different perspective.
• 16:42
  I think you understand it
• 16:44
  more than anybody else
• 16:45
  because you fought that
• 16:46
  fight and you overcame it.
• 16:50
  Yeah, no,
• 16:51
  I now get to speak about it and
• 16:53
  like really help people.
• 16:56
  So from where I'm at in my life now,
• 16:58
  I feel like I've lived like
• 16:59
  several lives.
• 17:01
  So I've got, you know,
• 17:02
  this eating disorder
• 17:04
  history that I have taken
• 17:07
  some specialty education around.
• 17:08
  So I try and like I semi
• 17:11
  specialize in that.
• 17:11
  Also, you see a lot of that, unfortunately,
• 17:13
  in our sport and in sports in general,
• 17:16
  just a big struggle with that.
• 17:19
  Aesthetics versus
• 17:20
  performance versus just
• 17:23
  shit we learn or like
• 17:26
  absorb through the world
• 17:28
  and how we're supposed to
• 17:29
  feel about food and our bodies.
• 17:30
  So there's a lot of that going on.
• 17:31
  So I get to play that role
• 17:33
  and kind of have that scope.
• 17:34
  And then I also have just performance,
• 17:36
  high level, like serious athlete scope.
• 17:42
  And then also as a mom who's
• 17:44
  gone through pregnant
• 17:45
  postpartum experience,
• 17:46
  I also kind of have that experience.
• 17:47
  So I have a few different
• 17:50
  hats in my practice.
• 17:52
  So that's something I'm
• 17:54
  super grateful for.
• 17:55
  And I love working with a
• 18:00
  variety of people in all those realms.
• 18:02
  Are you still with M2 or are
• 18:04
  you out on your own?
• 18:05
  No, I work for M2.
• 18:06
  They're my...
• 18:09
  I started – like,
• 18:10
  that's where I started in this space.
• 18:13
  Mike, who – Mike Malloy, who started M2,
• 18:16
  he was my – like,
• 18:18
  my nutrition coach that
• 18:19
  helped me understand a
• 18:20
  little bit more eating at a
• 18:22
  high level of performance.
• 18:23
  And so I will always, like,
• 18:25
  wave that flag because that's my, like,
• 18:29
  origin story kind of in all
• 18:31
  of this space.
• 18:33
  But I also work for a local
• 18:34
  company here in Charlotte doing –
• 18:38
  Yeah.
• 18:38
  Another, another dietetic job.
• 18:40
  Cause with them too,
• 18:41
  I'm a nutrition coach here in Charlotte.
• 18:44
  I'm working with a company
• 18:45
  that's specifically RD licensed.
• 18:48
  So I get a, I get a,
• 18:50
  get a lot of like the
• 18:51
  sports action still like with them too.
• 18:54
  Cause that's a lot of people
• 18:55
  are coming through the
• 18:56
  CrossFit space and through
• 18:57
  sports specific.
• 18:59
  But yeah, here locally,
• 19:00
  I get to work with another
• 19:01
  gamut of people.
• 19:03
  Yeah.
• 19:03
  Mike is one of the nicest
• 19:04
  people I think I've ever
• 19:05
  met in this life.
• 19:06
  And he's so smart.
• 19:09
  I've learned so much from
• 19:10
  him and I'm so glad that he
• 19:12
  turned that into what he, yeah,
• 19:13
  he's built like something really awesome.
• 19:15
  All the M2 coaches are, we, he,
• 19:19
  he teaches us a lot.
• 19:20
  We learn a lot.
• 19:22
  So that's why we're,
• 19:23
  we're a really great
• 19:25
  company with good coaches
• 19:26
  is he puts a lot into his
• 19:27
  coaches to learn and
• 19:28
  understand and be better.
• 19:30
  So yeah, he's amazing.
• 19:33
  I read somewhere in one of
• 19:34
  your bios that you found
• 19:37
  after you got pregnant and
• 19:39
  you weren't competing as much,
• 19:41
  you'd kind of found peace
• 19:42
  in a 60 to 90 minute a day
• 19:44
  workout and with no pressure.
• 19:48
  Now you're being an athlete again.
• 19:50
  Are you still in that 60 to
• 19:52
  90 minutes a day or have
• 19:53
  you upped the volume?
• 19:54
  Dude, I add another kid in the mix.
• 19:56
  So no, we're,
• 19:57
  we're honestly down in volume.
• 19:59
  Like 60 minutes is asking a
• 20:00
  lot these days.
• 20:01
  So yeah,
• 20:02
  Oh yeah.
• 20:03
  For the better part of this year,
• 20:04
  it's like 35,
• 20:07
  anywhere between 35 to 60 minutes, um,
• 20:11
  depending on the day and
• 20:12
  what I have going on.
• 20:13
  I work out in my garage.
• 20:14
  Sometimes I really love when
• 20:15
  I can get to the gym.
• 20:17
  Um, so I, if anything,
• 20:18
  I've been trying to get to
• 20:19
  the gym more as I prep for the games,
• 20:22
  like making sure I'm in the
• 20:23
  gym using different implements,
• 20:24
  not just like what I have
• 20:26
  in my low ceiling garage.
• 20:28
  Um,
• 20:29
  Or I even work out at the
• 20:30
  YMCA where I can drop my
• 20:31
  kids off and they watch
• 20:32
  them for an hour for me and
• 20:33
  I go use whatever sort of,
• 20:35
  they've got a rower, they got dumbbells.
• 20:37
  So it's like some version of that.
• 20:42
  Yeah, it's a total random mix.
• 20:47
  But yeah,
• 20:48
  having a second child has for
• 20:50
  sure downed the volume, if anything.
• 20:57
  So the stress down the volume of training.
• 21:00
  So with two kids, both young, um,
• 21:05
  two jobs kind of, um,
• 21:08
  and a husband as well.
• 21:10
  How do you balance all this stuff?
• 21:13
  You know, that's the thing is I,
• 21:16
  I'm doing it all good,
• 21:17
  but I'm not doing any of it.
• 21:18
  Great.
• 21:19
  I think is like the real
• 21:20
  best way to put it.
• 21:21
  Like the third mother that
• 21:22
  said that to me this week.
• 21:24
  That's,
• 21:25
  and I think it's just the way that
• 21:26
  it is and you can have it all.
• 21:29
  Like I tell people like you
• 21:30
  can't have it all, you can't do it all,
• 21:32
  but
• 21:33
  None of it is going to be, like,
• 21:36
  to the best of your abilities.
• 21:37
  And I'm okay with that
• 21:40
  because I choose to be able
• 21:41
  to have it all.
• 21:42
  Like, I can't make up my mind.
• 21:44
  I have a really hard time
• 21:47
  with decision making.
• 21:48
  So I just keep doing all the things.
• 21:51
  And unfortunately, like,
• 21:53
  there are some things you
• 21:53
  can't sacrifice.
• 21:54
  Like, I can't just not work.
• 21:55
  But I love to just not work, of course.
• 21:57
  Unfortunately, my household,
• 21:58
  this is not a choice.
• 22:01
  You know, my husband is amazing.
• 22:02
  He has a great job as a teacher,
• 22:04
  but he has a great job as a teacher.
• 22:05
  So I will always be working
• 22:08
  to some degree to support my family.
• 22:11
  And CrossFit does not pay that bill.
• 22:13
  So I will continue being a
• 22:15
  dietitian until further notice.
• 22:17
  Yeah.
• 22:19
  But, yeah,
• 22:20
  it's because I want to do it all
• 22:22
  and I refuse to miss these
• 22:25
  years with my kids.
• 22:26
  I refuse to, yeah, not support my family.
• 22:29
  And I refuse to give up on
• 22:31
  doing something that gives
• 22:32
  me a feeling of, like,
• 22:33
  accomplishment and purpose.
• 22:36
  And I don't love to hurt anyone.
• 22:39
  I really don't even like to hurt anymore,
• 22:42
  but I find myself in this
• 22:43
  position where I've
• 22:44
  qualified for the CrossFit games, um,
• 22:46
  with making myself hurt minimally.
• 22:49
  And so, yeah, um, I don't know.
• 22:53
  I just still like to work
• 22:54
  out and it still gets me to
• 22:55
  where it still gets me here.
• 22:58
  So now it's a question of if
• 22:59
  I want to hurt, if I'm willing to, um, to,
• 23:03
  to make this worth it, I guess, but no,
• 23:05
  there is no balance.
• 23:06
  Um, all the balls are in the air.
• 23:09
  But I don't know how.
• 23:12
  It's probably not good.
• 23:15
  Like my brain and my nervous
• 23:18
  system are probably not at peak health.
• 23:23
  But in some aspects,
• 23:24
  it's a season of life and
• 23:26
  you are modeling good
• 23:28
  behaviors for your kids.
• 23:30
  Oh, yeah.
• 23:31
  I mean,
• 23:31
  I think that it's funny because I know,
• 23:34
  like, we hear,
• 23:35
  because we're surrounded by
• 23:36
  this stuff all the time and in this space,
• 23:38
  like, we see and hear, like,
• 23:40
  so many kids at gyms and, like,
• 23:42
  people's kids, like, on pull-up bars and,
• 23:44
  like, oh,
• 23:45
  my kid's going to grow up knowing this.
• 23:47
  And it's like, well,
• 23:48
  I feel like that's more
• 23:49
  kids than not that I see.
• 23:50
  That's because that's all I
• 23:51
  see because that's what's
• 23:52
  on my algorithms and that's
• 23:54
  who my friends are and all of that.
• 23:56
  But, like...
• 23:56
  when you look at like the
• 23:57
  greater picture like when I
• 23:59
  think about the kids and my
• 24:00
  friends or my the kids the
• 24:03
  friends in my kids classes
• 24:05
  I'm like I know these kids
• 24:06
  don't see this so for my
• 24:09
  son to be like yeah I swing
• 24:10
  on these rings and I you
• 24:12
  know he he's like mom I
• 24:13
  want to do your workout
• 24:14
  like you know like that's
• 24:16
  not a normal thing I think
• 24:17
  for kids to to see and do
• 24:21
  so the fact that it's just
• 24:22
  something that they're just gonna
• 24:24
  Just be like, yeah,
• 24:25
  that's how it is at my house.
• 24:27
  It's super awesome.
• 24:28
  And whether they decide they
• 24:30
  like it and want to do it
• 24:32
  is a different story,
• 24:32
  but it's not going to be
• 24:33
  something weird for them to
• 24:35
  be exposed to.
• 24:36
  And I think more and more
• 24:38
  that's happening.
• 24:39
  Again, it's just because I see that in my,
• 24:41
  you know, my surroundings, but I love it.
• 24:43
  So I will definitely, yeah, absolutely.
• 24:47
  No regrets on that being a
• 24:48
  byproduct of it.
• 24:50
  How old are the kids?
• 24:52
  Four and one and a half.
• 24:56
  So we're in the real crazy little times.
• 24:58
  So the four-year-old is
• 24:59
  getting close to a point where he,
• 25:02
  is it a he?
• 25:03
  Yeah.
• 25:04
  That he'll want to work out
• 25:05
  with mom and that he'll
• 25:06
  want to do some of these things.
• 25:08
  That's my hope.
• 25:09
  I ask him all the time or
• 25:10
  he'll say he wants to do a workout.
• 25:12
  Like his attention span is like a fly.
• 25:15
  Yeah.
• 25:15
  So he says he wants to do it
• 25:16
  and he'll do like one squat
• 25:18
  and then he'll like pick up
• 25:19
  his baseball bat and like
• 25:19
  run over and do something
• 25:20
  else and like run back.
• 25:21
  And like he's all he's dude,
• 25:23
  he's like a ping pong ball.
• 25:24
  So, yeah,
• 25:26
  whenever he like has the
• 25:27
  attention span to want to
• 25:28
  like actually do something.
• 25:31
  And he says and he wants to watch me.
• 25:32
  The thing is,
• 25:33
  he'll watch me because he's
• 25:34
  like my little Velcro child.
• 25:37
  Um,
• 25:37
  we're very close bonded to where I'm like,
• 25:40
  okay,
• 25:40
  I'm going to go outside and grab a
• 25:41
  workout.
• 25:42
  You got the kids.
• 25:43
  Oh yeah.
• 25:43
  Like I'm going to turn on
• 25:45
  the TV and then we'll like, go do this,
• 25:46
  blah, blah, blah.
• 25:47
  So in my mind,
• 25:48
  like my husband's got this
• 25:49
  covered and I've come out
• 25:50
  here and we've got a little door, um,
• 25:52
  for our cat to come in and
• 25:53
  out of the garage from the
• 25:54
  inside of the house.
• 25:55
  And I'm like in the middle
• 25:57
  of like trying to get my
• 25:58
  workout on and like the
• 25:59
  door opens and like a
• 26:00
  little hand comes out, blah, blah, blah,
• 26:02
  blah, blah.
• 26:03
  And I'm like,
• 26:04
  Oh my gosh.
• 26:05
  Like, or just like, yeah,
• 26:06
  I see like little hands
• 26:07
  reaching out the door and
• 26:08
  then it's like so distracting.
• 26:10
  But at that point I'm like, screw it.
• 26:12
  And I'm just like, come out,
• 26:13
  just come out here, whatever.
• 26:15
  And it's definitely like chaos.
• 26:17
  And I'm like, buddy,
• 26:18
  why don't you go inside with dad?
• 26:19
  And he's like, I just want to,
• 26:21
  I just going to sit here
• 26:22
  until you're done.
• 26:23
  I'm just going to sit here and watch you.
• 26:24
  And I'm like, whatever.
• 26:25
  Okay.
• 26:26
  So yeah.
• 26:28
  I mean, yeah,
• 26:28
  he sometimes like gets on my
• 26:29
  rower and like,
• 26:31
  like right before I'm supposed to be like,
• 26:32
  sometimes he's like in the way,
• 26:34
  but I'm also, and I told my husband this,
• 26:36
  cause I think I heard Jason Kalipa say,
• 26:39
  I never want to tell my kids.
• 26:40
  I think what he was saying
• 26:42
  is he would get up and
• 26:44
  always work out super early
• 26:45
  in the morning.
• 26:46
  Cause he never wanted to tell his kids.
• 26:47
  I can't, I have to go to the gym.
• 26:49
  Like if they want to do something,
• 26:50
  like I can't cause I've got
• 26:52
  to work out and like make
• 26:53
  them feel like they're a less priority.
• 26:55
  So if I'm working out in here,
• 26:57
  I never want to make them
• 26:58
  feel like this is more
• 27:00
  important than them and
• 27:01
  they can't be a part of it.
• 27:02
  Or, you know,
• 27:03
  like if it's going to cramp
• 27:05
  my style because my kid is
• 27:07
  on my equipment or whatever,
• 27:09
  I'm just like,
• 27:10
  I can take 10 seconds and
• 27:11
  like move them over and
• 27:13
  like explain it or move it around.
• 27:15
  Like, I don't care.
• 27:17
  Like, what's that costing me?
• 27:18
  Nothing.
• 27:19
  But like for me to feel like,
• 27:22
  I'm making them feel less by
• 27:25
  excluding them.
• 27:26
  Like that makes me feel worse, you know?
• 27:28
  So I,
• 27:30
  I let it be chaotic because of the
• 27:33
  bigger picture of what it really is.
• 27:35
  And not that like my workout
• 27:36
  is going to be ruined.
• 27:37
  Cause that's not important.
• 27:39
  Yeah.
• 27:40
  That that's special.
• 27:41
  And so who are you taking
• 27:43
  with you to the games?
• 27:45
  Everyone.
• 27:46
  Well, everyone in my house.
• 27:48
  So, yes, everyone's on deck.
• 27:52
  Unfortunately, we are not in a like, oh,
• 27:54
  we'll just call grandma and
• 27:55
  grandma can come stay for
• 27:57
  the week situation.
• 27:59
  Actually,
• 27:59
  my in-laws are going to be on a cruise.
• 28:01
  I was going to I tried to
• 28:02
  recruit them to Birmingham
• 28:03
  to come to come and be on
• 28:05
  hand and they're going to be gone.
• 28:08
  So we have some friends here who are big,
• 28:13
  big CrossFit fans, big Kinsey fans,
• 28:15
  and spend a lot of time with my kids.
• 28:17
  So they're going to come and
• 28:19
  hopefully run some
• 28:20
  interference on child watch
• 28:23
  duty so that my husband
• 28:24
  doesn't have to do all of it.
• 28:25
  Yeah, so it's mostly us, our family,
• 28:31
  and then our two friends and kids.
• 28:35
  truthfully and then all my
• 28:37
  misfit squad like all like
• 28:38
  so I'm still coached and
• 28:41
  associated with misfit
• 28:42
  which is also like another
• 28:43
  half job that I do I do
• 28:44
  some remote coaching um for
• 28:46
  them so yeah add that to
• 28:48
  the list um so they'll be
• 28:51
  there so I've got a big
• 28:52
  like team of of not like
• 28:55
  family but like my fitness
• 28:57
  family um so they'll be
• 28:59
  there but as far as like oh and like
• 29:03
  No one's uprooting their
• 29:06
  life for the Masters games,
• 29:09
  I don't think.
• 29:09
  No one's traveling from Charlotte,
• 29:11
  I really don't think,
• 29:12
  outside of my two friends.
• 29:14
  So I don't know.
• 29:16
  I also haven't really broadcasted it.
• 29:17
  So maybe I should be trying
• 29:19
  to recruit some spectators, but whatever.
• 29:22
  I've said this a couple times.
• 29:25
  Like,
• 29:25
  I don't know if people even realize this.
• 29:28
  The athletes from 35 to 49...
• 29:32
  have a collective 3 million
• 29:34
  followers on Instagram.
• 29:39
  And so people like they're
• 29:41
  not giving the masters
• 29:42
  credit that they have
• 29:43
  followers and they have
• 29:44
  people that are fans, but they really do.
• 29:47
  Yeah.
• 29:47
  I mean, it's not, it's not nothing,
• 29:49
  you know?
• 29:51
  Yeah.
• 29:53
  If a third of those people
• 29:54
  watch the stream,
• 29:56
  that's a successful stream.
• 29:58
  I mean, that's a lot.
• 29:59
  Yeah, for sure.
• 30:00
  I agree.
• 30:01
  I mean,
• 30:02
  it doesn't sound like a lot
• 30:03
  compared to the Open Division.
• 30:06
  Do the math on those followers, you know?
• 30:08
  So it's, you know, it pales in comparison,
• 30:10
  but it's also like, you know, yeah,
• 30:13
  what does success mean for
• 30:15
  this competition?
• 30:16
  And if they, yeah,
• 30:18
  if they want some viewership and...
• 30:21
  I guess, yeah,
• 30:22
  there's people out there supporting.
• 30:24
  It's just a lot of,
• 30:25
  I think people that are related to me,
• 30:27
  a lot of friends and family, not a lot of,
• 30:31
  I do.
• 30:32
  I still have a pretty, honestly, I,
• 30:35
  I never was trying to have
• 30:36
  the biggest following.
• 30:37
  I never really tried to make
• 30:40
  a career and a big paycheck
• 30:42
  off of my social media ads
• 30:45
  and posts and sponsorships
• 30:47
  a little bit here and there
• 30:47
  over the years.
• 30:48
  But yeah,
• 30:49
  Nothing crazy.
• 30:49
  I'm not trying to launch a
• 30:50
  brand or anything, so I never really gave
• 30:54
  a lot of that, my energy.
• 30:57
  And even since going through
• 30:58
  this phase of change of life,
• 31:00
  now I have a lot of mom content.
• 31:02
  Yeah, I lose some followers,
• 31:03
  but I gain some mom
• 31:04
  followers and people that
• 31:06
  care about that.
• 31:06
  So I'm not even sure who's
• 31:08
  out there giving a crap
• 31:09
  about what I do on social media anymore,
• 31:11
  but I just put out there
• 31:13
  what I want to put out there,
• 31:13
  not what I have to contractually anymore.
• 31:16
  So whoever's hanging around for that,
• 31:18
  I appreciate them.
• 31:19
  And
• 31:20
  I know that they really do
• 31:21
  like what I'm serving
• 31:23
  because it's been kind of
• 31:25
  all over the place over the
• 31:26
  last few years.
• 31:27
  So in regards to kind of like, yeah,
• 31:29
  that following and that support,
• 31:31
  like not that you asked,
• 31:32
  but just kind of naturally
• 31:33
  came up in this conversation.
• 31:34
  But like, I know the people that,
• 31:36
  that do care, like, like actually care.
• 31:38
  And it's not just like for, you know,
• 31:41
  other reasons that people
• 31:42
  are following me.
• 31:42
  So.
• 31:43
  Right.
• 31:44
  Real is always better.
• 31:46
  Apparently I don't, I like,
• 31:47
  I can't even keep up with that crap.
• 31:50
  Yeah, I'm saying like R-E-A-L.
• 31:52
  Oh, sorry.
• 31:53
  Real.
• 31:55
  Real is always better.
• 31:57
  No, that's what I've always said.
• 31:59
  Like, you know, what is this like,
• 32:00
  you know, quality over quantity.
• 32:02
  So I'm just like,
• 32:03
  I may not have a ton of
• 32:05
  people following me,
• 32:06
  but I know that the people
• 32:07
  that I do like I'm engaged
• 32:09
  with and like they
• 32:11
  appreciate what I'm
• 32:13
  bringing and I appreciate
• 32:14
  them for appreciating me.
• 32:16
  So I just try and I hope to
• 32:19
  be relatable is all.
• 32:21
  So that's hopefully what
• 32:23
  people are getting because
• 32:24
  that's all I got.
• 32:26
  I heard John Woolley talk about it,
• 32:28
  who was Make Wads Great Again,
• 32:30
  lost his account, had to start a new one.
• 32:33
  He was like,
• 32:33
  I had a half a million
• 32:34
  followers that weren't engaged.
• 32:36
  They just were like passive people.
• 32:39
  And he wanted to,
• 32:41
  in the recreation of the new channel,
• 32:43
  he wants it to be different
• 32:44
  and to be more engaged.
• 32:46
  He doesn't care about that big number.
• 32:47
  He just wants to have a real
• 32:49
  relationship with the
• 32:50
  people that are following him.
• 32:52
  Yeah.
• 32:52
  I was going to say that's,
• 32:54
  that's like a tricky too, because I don't,
• 32:55
  I don't even look at, I don't analyze,
• 32:57
  I don't look at the analytics.
• 32:58
  I don't look at the, like, again, I,
• 33:01
  I don't have no reason to,
• 33:02
  but I understand like
• 33:03
  engagement is different
• 33:04
  than just follows.
• 33:06
  And it's like, what's more important, um,
• 33:09
  you know, views or likes or this or that,
• 33:11
  like I hear about that
• 33:12
  stuff all the time and,
• 33:12
  or subscribers or not subscribers,
• 33:14
  but they're being watched,
• 33:15
  but they're not being subscribed.
• 33:16
  Like, I don't even know, but, um,
• 33:19
  But yeah, there's something to that.
• 33:21
  What I do.
• 33:22
  Yeah.
• 33:23
  It's so frustrating, but yeah.
• 33:25
  Yeah.
• 33:26
  I know.
• 33:26
  That's what I'm saying.
• 33:26
  Like, and then,
• 33:28
  and then you get algorithms
• 33:29
  and things get blocked and you know, like,
• 33:34
  yeah, I don't even, it's AI and things.
• 33:37
  I don't know.
• 33:38
  Some people buy followers,
• 33:39
  some people buy subscribers.
• 33:41
  So you don't even know what real is.
• 33:43
  Like you have no idea if
• 33:44
  you're doing good or bad
• 33:45
  because you don't know what's real.
• 33:47
  Technology is getting
• 33:48
  terrifying just with all of
• 33:51
  it and algorithms.
• 33:52
  And like I said, like what I,
• 33:55
  even when you try and then
• 33:57
  people don't like,
• 33:58
  sometimes they're just going to like,
• 33:59
  things aren't going to be
• 34:00
  seen because of algorithms.
• 34:03
  And so I'm just like, I don't know.
• 34:04
  Why am I caring?
• 34:05
  Why am I trying?
• 34:07
  So.
• 34:08
  So I want to,
• 34:09
  I want to thank you a ton for
• 34:11
  taking out the time to do this.
• 34:12
  I know you're super busy and
• 34:14
  I really appreciate it.
• 34:16
  We are going to be in Birmingham.
• 34:19
  We got access to behind the scenes.
• 34:21
  We're going to do a full
• 34:22
  behind the scenes documentary,
• 34:24
  just like they do for the elite athletes.
• 34:26
  Yes.
• 34:27
  I love those.
• 34:30
  Yeah.
• 34:31
  We're going to have fun.
• 34:32
  Ellie Hiller and myself will
• 34:34
  be backstage hanging out in
• 34:36
  the warmup areas, the corrals,
• 34:38
  just chatting with people
• 34:40
  to find out how the weekend's going.
• 34:42
  And then we'll have some
• 34:43
  videographers getting some
• 34:44
  footage from the floor and
• 34:46
  Great.
• 34:47
  Yeah,
• 34:47
  I don't know what the deal was on media.
• 34:49
  I heard there's a kerfuffle with media.
• 34:52
  You know,
• 34:52
  those media passes are not very
• 34:55
  well freely given these days, I hear.
• 34:57
  It's a lot of issues with
• 35:00
  the media situation.
• 35:01
  So I never know what to
• 35:02
  expect with coverage.
• 35:04
  And I don't even care what I
• 35:06
  look like because I don't
• 35:06
  think anyone's taking my picture.
• 35:08
  Yeah.
• 35:09
  So I can tell you this will
• 35:10
  be fully live streamed.
• 35:12
  Okay.
• 35:13
  They actually got Sean
• 35:14
  Woodland to call it since
• 35:16
  he wasn't good enough to do
• 35:18
  the games this year.
• 35:19
  Yeah.
• 35:21
  He's going to do the Masters.
• 35:22
  So I think that's a win-win
• 35:24
  for the Masters athletes.
• 35:25
  Yes.
• 35:25
  Yes.
• 35:27
  So full stream.
• 35:28
  I negotiated this like four
• 35:30
  months ago with the
• 35:32
  organizers of legends.
• 35:34
  So we'll be back.
• 35:35
  We're not going to interfere
• 35:36
  with the live stream.
• 35:37
  We're just doing our own
• 35:38
  little documentary thing.
• 35:39
  So you'll have some,
• 35:40
  a couple of things to watch.
• 35:41
  And when you get back,
• 35:43
  Yes, because people always ask, you know,
• 35:45
  all my sweet friends at home,
• 35:46
  they're like, how can I watch this?
• 35:48
  And I'm like, I don't even know.
• 35:50
  Like,
• 35:50
  I don't know what sort of coverage
• 35:51
  there's going to be,
• 35:53
  what heats they're going to cover,
• 35:54
  if there's going to be
• 35:55
  commentation or if it's
• 35:56
  just like a camera propped
• 35:57
  up like in the rafters and
• 35:58
  you can just like squint
• 35:59
  and maybe like see where I like.
• 36:01
  I have no idea what to
• 36:02
  expect with the coverage.
• 36:04
  Yeah.
• 36:05
  Okay, well, that would be great.
• 36:07
  Because people always want
• 36:09
  to watch me do competitions.
• 36:10
  And I'm like,
• 36:11
  you can never see me even at the like,
• 36:13
  even at the games.
• 36:13
  I'm like, Oh, look, that's my ponytail.
• 36:16
  That's like right in front of Tia's head.
• 36:17
  But you can't tell it's me
• 36:18
  because it's on Tia.
• 36:19
  But that's my ponytail that
• 36:20
  keeps like coming in the frame.
• 36:22
  Like, there I am.
• 36:25
  Well,
• 36:25
  now that they know that you're not
• 36:26
  Jen Dancer,
• 36:26
  we'll definitely chat backstage.
• 36:29
  Yeah, but I mean,
• 36:31
  she's not going to be there, though,
• 36:32
  because Sam was not he's
• 36:34
  not doing the Masters this year.
• 36:35
  So if as long as she's not there, then,
• 36:37
  you know, it's definitely me.
• 36:38
  If you if you see somebody
• 36:39
  who looks like me,
• 36:40
  it's only me this time.
• 36:42
  You'll probably have the athlete badge on.
• 36:44
  So my name might be on my shirt.
• 36:46
  So that will also help you.
• 36:48
  There you go.
• 36:50
  Kenzie, this has been awesome.
• 36:53
  I hope you got a little break from,
• 36:54
  from the action inside the house.
• 36:57
  You know what?
• 36:57
  We did this in perfect time.
• 36:59
  I can still go in and make
• 37:00
  sure I show my face and
• 37:02
  they lose their mind one
• 37:03
  more time before they have
• 37:04
  to go to sleep.
• 37:04
  So perfect.
• 37:06
  Awesome.
• 37:06
  We'll have a great rest of your night.
• 37:07
  Thank you for doing this and
• 37:08
  we'll see you in a burping cam.
• 37:10
  All right.
• 37:10
  Yep.
• 37:10
  See you soon.
• 37:11
  Bye.
• 37:12
  And everybody in the chat,
• 37:13
  thank you for being here.
• 37:15
  Sorry, I lost my mouse.
• 37:17
  White on white is not good for old eyes.
• 37:19
  We'll see everybody next
• 37:20
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 37:22
  Bye, guys.