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Kyra Milligan | The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  Hey, hey, chill.
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  Let's go.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast,
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  where we are featuring the
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  athletes of the 2024
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  CrossFit Games Semifinals.
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  And with me today is Kyra Milligan.
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  What's going on, Kyra?
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  Hi, how are you?
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  I'm good.
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  I'm so excited to talk to
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  you for the first, like,
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  we've seen each other.
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  We've chatted.
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  I've just never had you
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  formally on the show being
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  the interviewer.
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  So this will be our first time doing this.
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  Yeah, and like an actual conversation.
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  Usually we catch up like
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  after an event or something.
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  So this will be nice to get
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  to know you a little more too.
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  Or like,
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  I think I've seen you at the games
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  and we're running by each
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  other or something like that.
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  But yeah.
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  So you've had kind of an interesting year.
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  Last year,
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  you chose to go team instead of
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  individual.
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  What did you learn in that
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  process that makes you a
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  better athlete today?
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  I think the biggest takeaway
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  from doing team was
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  I can hurt a lot more than I
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  thought I could.
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  Cause when three other
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  people are leaning on you, right?
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  Like you have no choice,
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  but to like pick up the
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  worm or pick up your pace or something.
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  Versus if it's just you,
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  the chalk seems kind of nice.
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  So going team, it was like, okay, like, no,
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  I'm actually fitter than I thought I was,
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  which was really nice.
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  And just like having three
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  other people lean on you,
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  like you push yourself, like I said,
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  a lot harder.
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  And so I got that from the
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  open until after the games
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  with the team experience
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  and it was great.
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  So that,
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  so you can push into that pain cave.
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  Are you comfortable there
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  now or is it still hard to get there?
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  It's still definitely hard to get there.
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  I would say I was actually
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  telling Kiefer this two days ago,
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  or maybe it was yesterday.
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  I don't know.
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  All the days are blending together now,
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  but I was like up until the semis prep,
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  like I usually don't have a
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  lot of noises coming out of
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  me while training,
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  but there's been like a lot of noises,
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  mid met cons.
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  So we're pushing hard right now.
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  And you're confident that,
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  that you're to a place now
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  individually where that's going to make,
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  that's going to work out.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay,
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  so I'm going to bounce around a lot here.
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  So you're coming into this
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  year's semis in the 11th position.
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  It was just announced Friday
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  that the West gets eight spots.
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  So you're right there on
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  that line that you need to
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  be to make it to the games.
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  Are you confident that you
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  can make that jump up into the top eight?
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  Um, I think, I mean,
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  I definitely want to say yes.
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  Right.
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  Like that's what I'm training for.
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  Like, I feel like I,
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  especially with the workouts,
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  like I can be in the top eight.
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  I feel like you have your select few who,
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  you know,
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  are going to get through to the games,
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  but I think there's like
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  five spots that are up for
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  grabs for the rest of us.
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  And there's going to be some
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  really fit girls there.
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  So I'm excited to do what I
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  can and I can't control what they can do,
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  but I hope that I will be
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  in that top eight at the
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  end of the weekend.
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  So we have a paid comment.
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  Um, thank you so much.
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  T came a great interview, Scott.
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  Good luck at semis, Kyra.
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  Thank you.
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  Um,
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  you get to go to one of the most iconic
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  locations in CrossFit for
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  semifinals this year.
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  Yeah.
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  We're going to be in the tennis stadium.
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  What does that mean to you
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  as growing up a fan of the
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  sport and now competing?
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  So I actually didn't know
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  what CrossFit was or
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  anything in the Carson era.
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  So to me, going back and watching all that,
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  yeah, it's really cool.
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  And I am really excited.
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  But I don't know.
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  To me,
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  I think it's just another semis
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  because I didn't grow up
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  watching CrossFit back then.
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  And I know that it's such a big era.
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  But I don't know.
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  I'm just excited for us to
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  be out there now and do
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  what we can do out there.
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  When it's all over,
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  are you going to go back
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  and watch some of the old
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  stuff just to see,
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  to compare what it was like
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  and see what they were going through?
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  I've definitely watched like
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  clips for sure now that I'm
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  really into CrossFit and I
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  think it's been really cool.
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  But yeah, I did.
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  I started CrossFit in 2017,
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  but I don't think I
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  actually truly watched the games until...
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  Maybe three years ago,
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  because I actually started
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  knowing people who were at the games.
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  So I was like, oh, this is cool.
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  This is fun.
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  When you know someone,
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  you can root for them.
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  Yeah.
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  I never got to go to Carson.
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  My first year at the games was 2017.
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  The first year was in Madison,
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  and I was there as a
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  volunteer lugging equipment
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  on and off the field.
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  So it was a new experience.
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  And I wanted to go,
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  but it doesn't look like
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  I'm going to be able to hit
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  Carson this year.
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  You're not?
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  No.
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  I thought you just got approved.
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  I did.
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  So I did a reel.
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  They only gave me two weeks
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  notice to get airfare hotel
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  at this late notice.
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  Yeah, that's fair.
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  I can't swing it.
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  That's true.
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  I guess all of us really
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  booked it like pretty far in advance,
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  hoping that we would move
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  on to the next stage.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, I wish I could.
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  That's my plea to CrossFit.
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  That if you're known as like
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  a good media guy,
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  that you should have approval every year.
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  You should have approval
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  every year with a couple months heads up,
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  for sure.
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  And that's all.
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  I just want to be able to
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  make my travel plans timely.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  That's it.
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  And this year they did not allow for that.
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  That doesn't surprise me.
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  So, but enough about me.
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  So last year you were doing
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  a lot of travel back and
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  forth because of the
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  requirement that you had to
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  do all the workouts with your team.
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  So what kind of strain did
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  that put on you during the
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  season last year?
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  Um, it was definitely hard.
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  Cause you know, I mean,
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  with being with underdogs,
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  dating my coach from down here,
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  he needed to be here,
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  but he also wanted to be
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  there for me for not just to be my coach,
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  but like also my boyfriend.
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  So for the open,
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  I brought one of our dogs
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  out there with me.
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  So I had something and I
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  stayed with Angelo for the
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  three weeks and then keeper
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  was able to come out and
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  see me for a week.
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  So it was nice.
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  Um, and then for quarters,
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  just went out there a week before,
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  or just went out there four quarters.
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  He didn't come.
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  And then for semis,
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  I went out there a week before,
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  but then for games training, we went out,
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  I want to say like seven.
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  Weeks before it was
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  basically like I came home
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  from semis packed up and
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  then keeper and I ended up
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  driving from Vegas to cook
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  bill with all of our stuff
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  and the dogs to stay there.
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  So it was, it was a lot for sure.
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  And I don't think I would
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  ever be able to do that again,
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  but it was a really good experience.
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  So how's that for Kiefer
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  when he has other athletes too,
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  are most of his remote or
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  does he have some there in Vegas?
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  No, he has a lot here in Vegas.
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  And so he talked to them
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  before the season was like, Hey,
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  this is Kyra's plan.
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  Like, and we both agreed.
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  Like if anybody said no,
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  he would stay here because it's his job.
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  And they were just like, no, like your go.
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  He was here for all the important things.
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  He was here for all the open workouts,
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  their quarters,
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  getting them prepped for semis.
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  And so he was just with me
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  in between all that.
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  Okay.
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  So, so,
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  so he's your coach and he's your
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  boyfriend, right?
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  Yeah.
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  It's,
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  it's been done as couples in the past,
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  Shane and Tia, um, my gym owner,
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  Christy Aramo and her
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  husband are coaching athlete.
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  What is that dynamic like in
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  and out of the gym?
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  It's great.
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  It definitely took a little
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  bit of learning for sure at
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  the beginning where I was like,
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  I didn't treat him like I
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  would treat a different
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  coach and he didn't treat
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  me like he would treat a
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  different athlete.
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  Like if we got upset at each other,
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  it was a whole thing.
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  Um,
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  But now I would say it's
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  definitely balanced.
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  Coach-athlete there,
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  I respect him in our relationship,
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  and I respect him as my coach.
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  And it's pretty easy,
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  and I honestly wouldn't
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  want to do it with anybody else.
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  So it's been nice.
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  Is there a point where you
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  don't take it home,
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  or are you guys cool with
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  talking about basically your job?
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  Uh-oh, Kiefer's in the chat.
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  I was going to say,
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  if you know Kiefer at all,
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  you know his brain does not shut off.
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  And so, like, for date nights,
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  I will ask him specifically.
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  I'm like, you can't bring your phone.
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  We can't talk about CrossFit.
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  Like,
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  this is what I want for my date night.
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  And he's able to do that?
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  Yeah.
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  If I ask, he'll do it for sure.
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  So,
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  I think this was back to where you were
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  saying you respect him in
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  the gym as your coach.
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  And I think he popped in with Lyra.
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  I respect him for the most part.
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  There's definitely some talking back,
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  but that's with all of his athletes.
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  Cause he is just as sassy to
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  us as we are to him.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Don't want to start anything here, but, um,
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  so you guys started as coach athlete,
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  right?
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  Uh, yeah.
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  Yeah, we started as like,
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  so I was still under Justin
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  and he and I became really
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  good friends when he came down here.
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  And then we were traveling a
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  bunch together, again, just as friends.
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  And so we just spent so much
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  time together that it just
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  made sense for him to coach
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  me because Justin was
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  focused on Alex and Ricky
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  getting ready for the games at that time.
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  So it just made sense.
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  And then we started dating.
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  And was that the year, like,
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  if you don't want to answer,
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  you can say no to any of this.
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  You competed in Madrid, right?
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And, like,
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  you and him traveled to Madrid
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  for all that.
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  Yeah, we were dating at that time.
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  Oh, you were dating at that time.
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  Okay.
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  So it already happened,
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  and you got to go to Europe
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  with your boyfriend.
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  Yep,
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  and then we took a nice little week
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  trip to Paris after that.
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  What was that experience?
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  How cool is it that you take
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  this sport that you're in
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  and you get to do cool things like that?
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  It's honestly crazy.
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  Just even thinking about how
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  Rogue switched venues this
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  year and me wanting to go
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  back and do Rogue and I get
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  to go to Scotland,
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  that would be a dream come true.
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  Yeah.
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  It seems to be on a lot of
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  people's wish list for the year.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  as I'm talking to athletes
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  who knew that the move to
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  Scotland was going to be so
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  enticing for so many athletes.
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  Well, I think rogue,
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  no matter what is on
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  everybody's wishlist.
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  And like the crazy thing
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  about rogue is you could
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  literally be the fittest,
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  but if you do one thing wrong,
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  you're not going with all
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  of like the requirements
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  and the measurements and everything.
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  So it's on everybody's wishlist,
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  but you just,
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  you can't expect to be there either.
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  So,
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  so last year you do team but
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  you did qualify for rogue
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  as an individual was that
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  like a quick shot in the
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  arm like okay we're done
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  with this phase of my
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  career now it's back to
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  individual and it was cool
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  that you got to do it on
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  this big stage yeah I was I
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  mean I definitely gave
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  everything I had for team
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  but like even at semis and
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  stuff I was sitting there
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  in the stands cheering for
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  my friends and I was like I
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  really want to be out there
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  Like I just really miss
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  individual and so I told
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  keeper I was like after the
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  games like we can take two
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  days off but I want to get
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  back to training for rogue
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  qualifiers because I went
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  to rogue the year before to
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  go watch Ricky and I said I
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  wanted to be out there and
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  so it was just something
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  that was always in the back of my mind.
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  So it's like okay we'll
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  start training and then
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  whatever happens happens
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  and thankfully it worked
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  out for the best.
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  So I'm going to say something here.
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  I was,
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  we were at semis last year in Orlando.
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  I was,
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  we were out watching teams and my
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  cohost Jamie was standing beside me.
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  And I said to her at that
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  moment that the most
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  improved athlete I saw all
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  weekend was you.
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  And that I hope people notice that.
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  because you're on team and
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  not individual this year,
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  but it may have been like
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  the best move you could have made.
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  Thank you.
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  I, I agree to it.
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  Like not just fitness wise,
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  I think confidence and then
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  being able to do some of
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  those off season comps like
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  rogue and Dubai,
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  like just getting the experience,
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  being out on the individual floor,
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  I feel like that's also going to help me.
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  at Carson this year.
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  And I'm super excited and nervous,
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  but super excited to see
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  how it all shakes out.
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  You completely transformed as an athlete.
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  Oh, before you before last season?
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  Yeah, like, I think so.
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  I think there was there was
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  talk on the internet that
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  you were going to be the
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  weak link on that team.
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  And you were not.
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  Thank you.
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  I would say it.
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  Well,
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  it was a team that kind of existed
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  and they knew each other
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  and you were coming in.
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  And so it was easy.
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  That was just a lazy analysis, right?
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  I mean, it depends what you do.
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  Like the 5K, it was definitely,
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  that was my weak link moment.
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  But I would argue at semifinals,
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  you carried the team.
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  I think we all had our own for sure.
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  Like, I think it was...
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  It was a very well balanced team,
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  which is cool.
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  Like we all had completely
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  different strengths and weaknesses.
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  And so like for Sam and I
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  would pair up really good
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  on some things like Angelo
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  and Zoe would pair up
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  really good on things.
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  So I think it was just like a super,
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  it was,
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  it was a really good team for sure.
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  And I'm not dogging any of them.
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  It's that you guys are all
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  lead athletes and you all
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  bring something to the table.
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  It just was,
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  it was very eyeopening for me.
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  And I appreciate that.
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  And so what did you do to
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  close up all those holes?
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  What was,
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  what was the one thing you think
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  you did in that year?
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  Honestly, just the trust and keeper.
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  Like if I questioned him at all,
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  he would give me a good
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  logistic answer where I was like, okay,
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  like,
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  I don't think I ever have to
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  question you again of like
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  why we're doing this.
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  Like,
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  I know he has my best interest at heart.
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  And I also think being able
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  to train with like some
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  girls in the gym where if
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  you talk to Carson at all,
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  like she's a crazy good gymnast.
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  So being able to do any
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  gymnastic stuff near her helps push me.
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  Being able to do any
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  machines next to Ava helps push me.
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  And so just being surrounded
• 15:23
  by a good group of people
• 15:25
  and we all just want the
• 15:27
  best for each other.
• 15:28
  And then with Kiefer by our side,
• 15:30
  I think that's really been
• 15:31
  the biggest thing for sure.
• 15:32
  We hear that Kiefer, she said she trusted.
• 15:36
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 15:39
  so now like with Carson and
• 15:43
  Ava they're going team this
• 15:44
  year they are are you like
• 15:47
  a mentor to them in the in
• 15:48
  the process of that I know
• 15:51
  I wouldn't say so I don't know um
• 15:55
  I,
• 15:56
  all I know is like watching them this
• 15:58
  year.
• 15:59
  And I think it's just the
• 16:00
  exact same as last year.
• 16:01
  Like Carson was a little
• 16:03
  hesitant on going team.
• 16:04
  And so Kiefer was like, like,
• 16:05
  look what happened to Kyra.
• 16:06
  She went team for a year.
• 16:07
  Like she really dialed in the experience.
• 16:09
  She got to push herself.
• 16:11
  And I think, I think if everybody is,
• 16:14
  does team for a year and
• 16:15
  you're with a really good team,
• 16:17
  I think you can only grow from it.
• 16:19
  And so I'm excited to see
• 16:21
  how they both do at semis,
• 16:23
  hopefully at the games and
• 16:24
  then for their individual off season.
• 16:27
  And they're with Mitch and CJ, right?
• 16:29
  Yeah.
• 16:30
  Who are two of my favorite guys.
• 16:32
  Yeah.
• 16:34
  I love that team.
• 16:35
  Yeah.
• 16:36
  Yeah.
• 16:36
  I, I do too.
• 16:37
  They're my,
• 16:38
  they're my heart favorite going into the,
• 16:41
  into the season.
• 16:42
  Yeah.
• 16:42
  Yeah.
• 16:44
  Um, so, so you dial it all in, um,
• 16:49
  anything off the floor that
• 16:52
  you changed that helped?
• 16:54
  Um, yeah,
• 16:56
  like definitely my mindset for sure.
• 16:57
  But like,
• 16:58
  I remember Kiefer would always
• 17:00
  bring up like, Hey,
• 17:01
  maybe we do like a third session,
• 17:02
  like whether it's like a
• 17:03
  little bodybuilding session
• 17:05
  or a extra zone two piece.
• 17:06
  And I was like, no, like if,
• 17:08
  if you have me do that and
• 17:09
  my world literally revolves
• 17:11
  around CrossFit,
• 17:12
  I'm going to start hating it.
• 17:14
  And then Chandler would come
• 17:15
  down a couple of times and
• 17:17
  I would always do like a
• 17:18
  third session with him.
• 17:19
  And so I think just being
• 17:21
  able to be surrounded by
• 17:22
  good people like that and like seeing,
• 17:24
  seeing how hard Chandler
• 17:25
  works and like can also make it fun.
• 17:27
  I think that's where my
• 17:28
  mindset changed where it was like, oh,
• 17:31
  it doesn't just have to be like,
• 17:32
  I have to go sit alone in
• 17:34
  my garage and do this.
• 17:38
  Yeah.
• 17:38
  That's, I could never,
• 17:40
  I could never be one of
• 17:41
  those athletes that just
• 17:43
  goes into a garage by themselves.
• 17:45
  Yeah, no.
• 17:45
  And like,
• 17:46
  so like I have a full garage gym here.
• 17:48
  I'll do my first session here,
• 17:50
  but usually I'll have like
• 17:51
  Allie Weiss or Carson or my
• 17:53
  friend Sarah's in there with me.
• 17:54
  And if none of them can be like keeper,
• 17:56
  we'll literally go out
• 17:57
  there and sit and do work.
• 17:59
  Just like have a body out there for me.
• 18:01
  Yeah.
• 18:03
  I have a full garage gym,
• 18:05
  but if I do my workout there for the day,
• 18:06
  it's, it's 70%.
• 18:08
  Oh yeah.
• 18:09
  It's so hard if you're by yourself.
• 18:10
  Right.
• 18:11
  Yeah.
• 18:12
  And it's,
• 18:13
  but it's convenient and it's good.
• 18:14
  And there's days that's
• 18:15
  where I have to do it.
• 18:17
  Oh yeah.
• 18:17
  But yeah, the intensity is way lower.
• 18:20
  Oh, I love, yeah, I definitely love it.
• 18:21
  Cause it's like, like I said,
• 18:22
  I'll have usually have
• 18:23
  somebody in there with me.
• 18:24
  And so being able just to go into the gym,
• 18:27
  eight 15,
• 18:28
  relax at my house until second session.
• 18:31
  It's nice.
• 18:32
  Yeah.
• 18:33
  Yeah.
• 18:34
  Um, so yeah,
• 18:36
  i have a weird weird path
• 18:37
  we're gonna go down now
• 18:38
  okay you have tattoos I see
• 18:40
  them on your arm yes I had
• 18:43
  um your friend annika greer
• 18:45
  on and she was talking
• 18:47
  about how you guys got
• 18:48
  matching tattoos and hers
• 18:50
  are always like metal and
• 18:52
  yours are always pretty and
• 18:54
  that's exactly what they
• 18:55
  are they're matching but
• 18:56
  hers is more punk rock and mine is pretty
• 19:00
  so when you guys do these
• 19:02
  like matching tattoos like
• 19:04
  do you look for something
• 19:05
  that you can make like a
• 19:06
  pretty version of and and
• 19:08
  she can go full metal or is
• 19:10
  it just never hit you in
• 19:11
  the moment it was honestly
• 19:13
  she was having a it was the
• 19:15
  time with like the semis
• 19:16
  where she didn't make it
• 19:17
  because of the video
• 19:18
  submission and everything
• 19:19
  so she was having a hard
• 19:20
  time so we're like let's
• 19:21
  just go get tattoos we
• 19:22
  found it on the internet
• 19:23
  that we liked and we just got them
• 19:28
  She went to Madrid that same year.
• 19:29
  Did you guys hang out over there?
• 19:31
  Yeah, we hung out a lot.
• 19:33
  Yeah,
• 19:33
  I think that's actually where we got
• 19:35
  a lot closer to.
• 19:38
  Cool.
• 19:38
  Um, yeah,
• 19:39
  Monica has been a friend for a long time.
• 19:41
  And, man, I just I,
• 19:44
  I almost need her to qualify this year.
• 19:46
  I want her to qualify so bad.
• 19:48
  I honestly Yeah,
• 19:50
  it'll be the East will be
• 19:52
  really exciting to watch.
• 19:55
  Yeah, and I cover her mom in the Masters.
• 19:58
  Oh.
• 19:59
  And I think she's in a
• 20:00
  qualifying spot right now.
• 20:01
  She is?
• 20:03
  Yeah.
• 20:03
  Oh, good.
• 20:04
  I also hung out with her mom in Madrid,
• 20:06
  so I like her.
• 20:07
  So I'm hoping that when they
• 20:11
  come out tonight,
• 20:11
  she's still in a qualifying spot.
• 20:13
  Oh, yeah.
• 20:14
  It comes out at six.
• 20:16
  Yeah.
• 20:17
  Yep.
• 20:17
  Oh, we have a ton of underdogs doing it,
• 20:20
  so it'll be nice to see,
• 20:21
  and hopefully all of them make it.
• 20:24
  So another friend that I've
• 20:25
  seen when I was going
• 20:26
  through your Instagram that
• 20:27
  you call your hater,
• 20:30
  and that's Jessie Smith,
• 20:33
  who I love dearly because
• 20:34
  she's a Pittsburgher,
• 20:36
  and that's where I grew up.
• 20:39
  How did you guys connect?
• 20:41
  Uh, how did Jesse and I, oh,
• 20:44
  so she was still living in
• 20:45
  Boston at the time and we
• 20:47
  were with two of the same brands.
• 20:49
  And so we did a photo shoot
• 20:50
  together and I reached out to her.
• 20:51
  I was like, Hey, do you want to do this?
• 20:52
  Like, I'm going to be in town.
• 20:54
  Fear is going to be in town.
• 20:56
  And we just trained together.
• 20:58
  And from then on,
• 20:59
  like I invited her to keep
• 21:00
  her birthday and we just
• 21:02
  became super close after
• 21:03
  that and literally love her so much.
• 21:06
  She's one of the best people
• 21:07
  that you could ever meet.
• 21:10
  When you started this whole CrossFit thing,
• 21:13
  did you imagine that you'd
• 21:14
  have friends all over the world?
• 21:17
  No.
• 21:17
  No, even just, like, saying that I have,
• 21:20
  like, Carrie Pierce's number or, like,
• 21:21
  Chandler Smith's number.
• 21:22
  Like, that's crazy to me.
• 21:25
  Yeah.
• 21:27
  And you didn't even watch
• 21:28
  the games until a couple years ago.
• 21:30
  Yeah.
• 21:31
  Yeah.
• 21:32
  So you truly didn't get into
• 21:34
  it until you had friends
• 21:36
  competing at the games.
• 21:37
  Yeah.
• 21:37
  Yeah.
• 21:38
  Like I would,
• 21:38
  I would watch the games or like regionals,
• 21:40
  like basically it was like
• 21:41
  background during work,
• 21:43
  but literally until like
• 21:45
  you have people there that
• 21:46
  you can actually cheer for.
• 21:47
  I think that made it a lot
• 21:48
  more fun where I was like, Oh no,
• 21:50
  like I want to go watch them succeed.
• 21:51
  Cause you actually have
• 21:53
  somebody to root for just
• 21:54
  versus like the idea of who somebody is,
• 21:57
  you actually know them.
• 21:58
  So I think it makes it a lot cooler.
• 21:59
  So when you went last year on a team,
• 22:03
  how much time did you get
• 22:04
  to watch any of the individual stuff?
• 22:07
  none none too sad only like
• 22:10
  when you were in the back
• 22:11
  ready to go and it was on
• 22:12
  the tv wow they just they
• 22:17
  pull and push you all over
• 22:19
  that place yeah it's crazy
• 22:23
  what did you what did you
• 22:25
  learn at the games that
• 22:26
  will help you in big
• 22:28
  competitions because like
• 22:31
  your time isn't your own
• 22:32
  during that that week yeah
• 22:34
  um what did you learn that
• 22:36
  week and is it something
• 22:37
  that you needed to learn
• 22:39
  before you go as an
• 22:40
  individual um no I think
• 22:43
  one of the biggest things
• 22:44
  that I've learned just bit
• 22:46
  by bit through every single
• 22:47
  competition is like
• 22:49
  it's okay to say no during
• 22:51
  the week and be selfish.
• 22:52
  Like if I have friends that
• 22:54
  like want to come over and say hi,
• 22:55
  or like my family wants to
• 22:56
  come over and I feel bad saying no,
• 22:59
  now I don't.
• 22:59
  I'm like, no,
• 23:00
  like I'll see you guys in three days.
• 23:02
  Like I'm just going to go home.
• 23:02
  I'm going to relax.
• 23:04
  I'm going to recover so I
• 23:05
  can go back and do this again in an hour.
• 23:07
  Yeah.
• 23:12
  When you went with mayhem last year,
• 23:14
  what was,
• 23:15
  I know how mayhem and Angela work.
• 23:18
  They, they wanted to win.
• 23:20
  Yeah.
• 23:21
  So what happens at the end
• 23:22
  of the weekend when that goal isn't met?
• 23:25
  Do you, can you still enjoy the,
• 23:29
  the weekend itself?
• 23:31
  Yeah.
• 23:32
  I mean,
• 23:32
  I think it's important to enjoy the
• 23:34
  weekends, like at the end of the day,
• 23:35
  right?
• 23:36
  Like one person's going to win.
• 23:38
  And I think you need to reflect on each,
• 23:42
  each event and, you know,
• 23:45
  decide from there,
• 23:45
  like how you want to react
• 23:46
  and take the good and just
• 23:50
  roll with that and then
• 23:50
  take the bad and learn for
• 23:51
  it in your training.
• 23:52
  But I think at the end of the weekend,
• 23:54
  like,
• 23:55
  and I think I've heard them talk
• 23:56
  about this too.
• 23:57
  Like they've last season,
• 23:59
  we've all learned a ton and
• 24:01
  I think they've changed
• 24:03
  their programming and I'm
• 24:05
  excited to see how they do
• 24:06
  at semis this year.
• 24:08
  But I know that I've learned
• 24:09
  a ton from the games and
• 24:10
  Kiefer and I have changed
• 24:11
  my programming a little bit
• 24:13
  and it's exciting to see how I do.
• 24:15
  So when you spend that much
• 24:16
  time with a group of people,
• 24:18
  when it's all over, are you like,
• 24:21
  thank God,
• 24:21
  I just need to get away from
• 24:22
  these people for a while?
• 24:25
  Uh, no.
• 24:26
  Cause I think, I think it was like,
• 24:29
  we all had our,
• 24:30
  basically our own hotel rooms.
• 24:32
  So like you could just go
• 24:34
  and get space away from each other too.
• 24:36
  But also if you like truly
• 24:38
  care and respect people,
• 24:39
  like you don't mind hanging
• 24:41
  out with them all the time too.
• 24:43
  Yeah.
• 24:43
  And those seven weeks
• 24:44
  leading up to the games, it didn't, it,
• 24:48
  I mean, a lot of, and none from mayhem,
• 24:51
  but there was a lot of buzz
• 24:53
  about conflict on teams
• 24:55
  leading up to the games.
• 24:56
  Yep.
• 24:58
  I didn't hear anything out
• 24:59
  of the mayhem camp.
• 25:01
  No, I think, I mean, we all worked really,
• 25:04
  really well together and, you know,
• 25:06
  I wish we were standing on
• 25:07
  top of the podium last year,
• 25:09
  but that's just not how it worked out.
• 25:11
  But I think,
• 25:12
  Throughout the entire season,
• 25:13
  we supported each other.
• 25:18
  The only thing I ever heard
• 25:19
  from mayhem was that your
• 25:22
  range of motion is so small
• 25:23
  because of your stature.
• 25:24
  I think that because of your stature,
• 25:28
  that some of the guys were
• 25:29
  worried about doing certain
• 25:32
  movements with you because
• 25:33
  of how fast you could do them.
• 25:35
  Honestly,
• 25:36
  it was actually the opposite because yes,
• 25:39
  my range of motion is like short.
• 25:42
  but I feel like I bottom out
• 25:43
  on everything.
• 25:44
  But Zoe, she's longer,
• 25:46
  but she goes just right
• 25:48
  below parallel and she's so
• 25:49
  fast that Angelo would hate
• 25:51
  synchroing with her because
• 25:53
  he bottoms out too.
• 25:54
  So like he takes forever,
• 25:55
  but she's just so fast.
• 25:57
  So I don't think it was ever an issue,
• 25:59
  but we'd always have to
• 25:59
  like tell Zoe to slow down a little bit.
• 26:01
  She moves so fast.
• 26:04
  Okay.
• 26:04
  Okay.
• 26:05
  I think like, and it was before the games,
• 26:07
  like Angela was saying,
• 26:09
  like the one thing he was
• 26:10
  worried about is how fast
• 26:12
  you were at like squatting.
• 26:14
  Oh yeah.
• 26:15
  Could he keep up?
• 26:16
  But that's the thing is like for team,
• 26:18
  I would much rather,
• 26:19
  and I've told everybody this,
• 26:21
  like I would much rather
• 26:22
  synchro off of the person
• 26:24
  instead of them synchroing off of me.
• 26:27
  Cause I hate being the one
• 26:28
  that's like leading just in
• 26:29
  case something goes bad.
• 26:31
  I'm like, no, no.
• 26:31
  Like,
• 26:32
  I just want to follow you and I'll
• 26:33
  stop when you stop.
• 26:36
  So how do you shift that
• 26:37
  mindset now that you're
• 26:38
  going into this season and
• 26:39
  it's all on you?
• 26:41
  I'm excited.
• 26:42
  I'm so excited.
• 26:43
  I think, you know,
• 26:45
  two of these workouts are
• 26:46
  going to be a really good
• 26:47
  test to see how much I've improved.
• 26:49
  And then I'm really,
• 26:50
  really excited for the other ones.
• 26:53
  The theme of the interviews
• 26:54
  today has been that the
• 26:56
  workouts that have come out are very much,
• 26:58
  they have a yin and a yang.
• 27:01
  If you're a gymnast,
• 27:02
  you've got an element.
• 27:03
  And if you want heavy,
• 27:05
  you've got an element.
• 27:06
  So like first workout,
• 27:07
  800 meter runs are good for some people,
• 27:11
  not for others.
• 27:12
  But then the moderately heavy barbell,
• 27:15
  good for some, not for others.
• 27:16
  And usually the opposite people.
• 27:18
  Yeah, but also, like,
• 27:20
  I think at this stage,
• 27:21
  125 isn't too heavy for anyone,
• 27:24
  especially for power clean and jerks.
• 27:27
  How many of them?
• 27:29
  50.
• 27:30
  But the run is going to take
• 27:32
  a lot longer than the 10
• 27:33
  clean and jerks on each round.
• 27:35
  It just seems like all the elements have,
• 27:37
  like, that little bit of mix.
• 27:39
  Yeah.
• 27:40
  Like, hands can walk, but a machine.
• 27:43
  Yeah.
• 27:44
  But it's also, for that one,
• 27:45
  it's just how fast are you
• 27:46
  on your hands kind of thing.
• 27:48
  But then the snatch is how
• 27:50
  strong are you and how fast
• 27:51
  can you move it?
• 27:52
  Yeah.
• 27:54
  Saxon said earlier today that Sunday,
• 27:57
  the last three events are
• 27:58
  all execution events.
• 27:59
  Yes.
• 28:01
  It's not really about your fit.
• 28:02
  The first two days are fitness.
• 28:05
  The last three events are execution.
• 28:08
  The first two days are going
• 28:09
  to hurt so bad.
• 28:13
  And I'm really excited
• 28:14
  because I watched that
• 28:16
  snatch ladder at West Coast
• 28:17
  Classic when it was the
• 28:19
  first event of the weekend in 2021.
• 28:23
  Now it's the last event of the weekend.
• 28:26
  Not the last, but next to last.
• 28:29
  It's going to be really
• 28:30
  different after all those front squats,
• 28:33
  all those cleaner jerks, all that,
• 28:36
  and then do that workout.
• 28:37
  yeah yes it will for sure
• 28:39
  that's actually because
• 28:41
  west coast was before my
• 28:42
  semis and so that's
• 28:43
  actually the first
• 28:44
  competition that I truly
• 28:45
  watched and so I was really
• 28:48
  excited when the snatch
• 28:49
  letter was released because
• 28:51
  I really wanted to be out
• 28:52
  there on the west coast
• 28:53
  floor minus the run event
• 28:55
  but every other event out
• 28:56
  there looked so much fun it
• 28:58
  was so hot that weekend it
• 29:00
  was yeah it looked it for
• 29:02
  sure um but like keeper and
• 29:04
  I were talking about for this season like
• 29:07
  Sunday,
• 29:08
  you're only halfway through at that
• 29:09
  point.
• 29:09
  Like you still have three of
• 29:11
  the six events.
• 29:13
  So anything can change at that point too.
• 29:15
  So yeah, execution is going to be very,
• 29:18
  very important.
• 29:18
  Yeah.
• 29:20
  I think Saxon put it like you want to get,
• 29:22
  get yourself in a good
• 29:23
  position after two days and
• 29:25
  then just execute, execute, execute.
• 29:30
  And then the final will be fun.
• 29:31
  Some people are going to
• 29:32
  have to take some risks and
• 29:35
  hopefully it plays out.
• 29:37
  Yeah.
• 29:38
  Finishing with a lunge like
• 29:39
  CrossFit likes to do.
• 29:41
  Oh, we love it.
• 29:42
  So with the run,
• 29:46
  it's not on a machine this year.
• 29:47
  It's actually on the ground.
• 29:49
  Yeah.
• 29:50
  Do you like that better or worse?
• 29:55
  I mean,
• 29:55
  everybody's going to be in the same boat,
• 29:56
  so it'll be nice to be able
• 29:59
  to see where other people are.
• 30:00
  So like, especially on the final 800,
• 30:03
  right?
• 30:04
  You won't know if somebody's 500.
• 30:06
  like five meters or a
• 30:07
  hundred ahead of you.
• 30:08
  So this will be nice.
• 30:09
  So you can, if you have that little extra,
• 30:11
  you can chase them down.
• 30:12
  I also think it's going to
• 30:13
  be a lot more fun for
• 30:15
  spectators to watch.
• 30:18
  I completely agree.
• 30:20
  Sorry.
• 30:20
  I have a frog in my throat.
• 30:23
  Cause I remember like,
• 30:24
  I did not go to the West
• 30:27
  coast semis last year for individual.
• 30:28
  Cause I just got home and I
• 30:31
  was watching the first
• 30:32
  event and I was like,
• 30:33
  I don't know where
• 30:34
  anybody's at on this run.
• 30:38
  And you were on the runner for a while.
• 30:39
  Yeah, and they used the runner twice.
• 30:43
  And you didn't know where anybody was.
• 30:47
  As Kiefer says, we love all running.
• 30:49
  We love all running.
• 30:52
  And that's where I saw a
• 30:54
  huge improvement of you last year.
• 30:57
  Like on those air runners in the East,
• 30:58
  you were killing it.
• 31:01
  I like a 400 for sure.
• 31:01
  That was nice.
• 31:02
  800 800 different story or
• 31:06
  we love all running we love
• 31:08
  all running that's the
• 31:11
  coach dancer um yeah I'm I
• 31:17
  as a spectator I would
• 31:19
  rather see you running on
• 31:20
  the ground and be able to
• 31:21
  see where everybody is yeah
• 31:22
  then just to watch a thing
• 31:24
  tick up a scorecard yeah um
• 31:27
  too bad they're not they're
• 31:29
  not airing it on stream
• 31:31
  I know.
• 31:31
  I'm sure.
• 31:32
  I mean,
• 31:33
  there's going to be somebody out
• 31:34
  there who's going to air it,
• 31:35
  which is nice.
• 31:36
  That's if we're going to miss one,
• 31:38
  that's not the worst one to miss for us.
• 31:41
  Team,
• 31:42
  it's a little bit more sad because
• 31:43
  they have three events on
• 31:44
  the first day and people
• 31:45
  will want to watch that.
• 31:47
  I know.
• 31:49
  That's a mess.
• 31:50
  We talked about it at the
• 31:51
  top of the show and now
• 31:52
  we're here again with all
• 31:53
  of those decisions.
• 31:57
  We know that it's a farmer carry lunge.
• 32:00
  Bob revealed that last week.
• 32:02
  He also is being very clear
• 32:04
  about what the handstand walk is.
• 32:08
  Do you want elements thrown in there?
• 32:11
  Selfishly, yeah.
• 32:12
  I would like elements
• 32:13
  because then it's not just who's
• 32:16
  fast on their hands.
• 32:18
  Like, cause if there's elements on there,
• 32:19
  the other people might slow
• 32:21
  down a little bit or trip
• 32:22
  up a little bit to give the
• 32:23
  non gymnast a fighting chance on that,
• 32:26
  that, but it is what it is.
• 32:29
  And we'll know this week.
• 32:31
  How good are your gymnastics
• 32:33
  skills getting?
• 32:35
  My gymnastics has always been pretty good.
• 32:37
  I would say, I mean, like I said,
• 32:39
  at the beginning,
• 32:40
  the Hanson walk is one of
• 32:41
  the ones where I'm really
• 32:42
  excited to see how far I've improved, but
• 32:45
  other than handstand walks I
• 32:46
  would say that gymnastics
• 32:47
  is my favorite thing to do
• 32:50
  okay well in team last year
• 32:52
  you had to do that buy-in
• 32:54
  with the long handstand
• 32:55
  walk oh yeah for the games
• 32:59
  yep see if that seemed to
• 33:02
  have a problem with that uh well so
• 33:08
  So how it was like you had
• 33:10
  to go up in a conga line
• 33:11
  and if somebody came down in front of you,
• 33:13
  the people behind you had to go back.
• 33:16
  And so I was the very last
• 33:18
  one because I was the least confident.
• 33:19
  And Zoe had thought she crossed the line,
• 33:21
  but I guess she didn't.
• 33:23
  And so I crossed the line
• 33:24
  and he sent both of us back.
• 33:26
  So Zoe and I had to do three times of it.
• 33:30
  And the very last time you
• 33:31
  saw my hands like shaking,
• 33:33
  like you could literally,
• 33:34
  I remember being on my
• 33:35
  hands and you hear the crowd go like,
• 33:37
  start making the sounds.
• 33:38
  Cause I'm like walking
• 33:39
  backwards now and like trying to leave,
• 33:42
  but that was actually a
• 33:43
  really good thing for me to be like, okay,
• 33:45
  I can do that much,
• 33:48
  like that many hands and
• 33:49
  walks and broken.
• 33:49
  And besides the last five feet,
• 33:52
  it felt pretty good.
• 33:53
  Yeah.
• 33:55
  Yeah,
• 33:55
  it was hard to watch in the stadium
• 33:58
  because there were so many
• 33:59
  people on the floor at one time.
• 34:01
  Yeah.
• 34:03
  And there were people
• 34:05
  failing left and right,
• 34:06
  and it was really hard to
• 34:08
  figure out who was where.
• 34:10
  Yeah.
• 34:11
  But I remember seeing you guys advance on,
• 34:13
  so I know that you had done pretty well.
• 34:16
  Yeah,
• 34:17
  I remember because it was us and
• 34:19
  another team.
• 34:20
  We were the only ones for
• 34:21
  the final heat who had that mess up.
• 34:24
  And then I remember when we
• 34:25
  finally got to the worm,
• 34:26
  we were moving it faster
• 34:27
  than anyone else.
• 34:28
  So it had been really cool
• 34:29
  to be able just to like not
• 34:31
  have to do that last
• 34:32
  handstand walk and kind of
• 34:33
  see where we would have
• 34:34
  finished at that point.
• 34:36
  But I,
• 34:37
  one thing I really hope that the
• 34:38
  teams get this year is that
• 34:39
  earthworm because I did not
• 34:42
  enjoy it at all.
• 34:43
  And I want to see if other people like it.
• 34:46
  I enjoyed every bit of it.
• 34:47
  Yeah.
• 34:48
  As long as I didn't have to touch it,
• 34:50
  it was fun to watch.
• 34:53
  See, that's why I won it this year,
• 34:54
  because I'm not going team,
• 34:55
  and I want my friends to
• 34:57
  experience it and have fun with it.
• 34:58
  Yeah, it needs to come back.
• 35:02
  It needs to be a permanent
• 35:03
  every year at the games
• 35:04
  until they figure it out.
• 35:07
  It was so hard,
• 35:08
  especially after those 300
• 35:10
  feet of handstand walk and
• 35:11
  your shoulders were just done.
• 35:14
  The amount of carnage that
• 35:15
  thing dealt out.
• 35:18
  people it was a great final
• 35:20
  that's for sure oh my gosh
• 35:23
  it was so good so good um
• 35:27
  so when when do you head to
• 35:28
  carson um we leave next
• 35:32
  wednesday next wednesday
• 35:34
  yep now for you is that is
• 35:36
  that drivable or yeah so
• 35:39
  we're gonna drive up
• 35:40
  wednesday and it's a four
• 35:41
  and a half hour drive I
• 35:42
  believe that's that's nothing
• 35:44
  Yeah, no, it's nice.
• 35:45
  I'll be bringing my coffee maker,
• 35:47
  my air fryer.
• 35:48
  I got everything planned out
• 35:49
  to make it feel like home.
• 35:52
  And you, do you do hotel or Airbnb?
• 35:55
  I'm doing a hotel.
• 35:56
  Yeah.
• 35:56
  Cause there was one,
• 35:57
  my dad owns a couple of
• 35:59
  hotels and so I get some good deals on it,
• 36:01
  which is really nice.
• 36:02
  So it can help save me a
• 36:03
  little bit of money out
• 36:04
  there and it's only 15 minutes away,
• 36:06
  which will be really convenient.
• 36:08
  I needed to call your dad
• 36:09
  when I got the late notice.
• 36:13
  Um, so, and then is when you get there,
• 36:19
  is it just you and Kiefer in one room?
• 36:21
  So you have like your me time and when,
• 36:24
  when the competition's not
• 36:25
  going on to kind of just reset,
• 36:29
  recalibrate, do all that stuff.
• 36:31
  Um,
• 36:31
  I'm sure I will not see Kiefer until
• 36:35
  dinner probably,
• 36:36
  or when I'm going to bed.
• 36:37
  Cause I'll probably have the
• 36:40
  car so I can go.
• 36:41
  back and forth for the venue.
• 36:43
  But besides me,
• 36:44
  he has Kendall Gilmore there.
• 36:46
  Who's also in the elite Indy.
• 36:48
  And then he has his team.
• 36:50
  So,
• 36:51
  and I'm sure he'll be out there
• 36:52
  watching like Brandon
• 36:53
  Luckett and all of his other friends.
• 36:55
  So it'll probably just see
• 36:56
  him at breakfast and dinner.
• 36:58
  That's it.
• 36:58
  And is that good for you to
• 37:01
  have that like alone time to just reset?
• 37:04
  Oh yeah.
• 37:04
  I don't mind it at all.
• 37:05
  Cause I could just go home
• 37:06
  and I can turn the lights off,
• 37:08
  put on some Gilmore girls and relax.
• 37:12
  It that's tradition Gilmore Girls.
• 37:14
  It's what I'm watching right now.
• 37:16
  Are we watching right now?
• 37:17
  Okay.
• 37:18
  All right, cool.
• 37:20
  Yeah, my things friends.
• 37:21
  I'm on like the 16th run of it.
• 37:24
  That's okay.
• 37:25
  That's what I watched last year at semis.
• 37:27
  Yeah.
• 37:29
  That's when I can't sleep at
• 37:30
  night and I need something
• 37:31
  that's just brain dead and I won't.
• 37:33
  I've seen it so many times I
• 37:34
  can fall asleep fall asleep to it.
• 37:36
  Yeah, I love friends.
• 37:38
  I think Have you watched new girl?
• 37:41
  I've watched a lot of it
• 37:42
  when my daughter lived here,
• 37:43
  like she was going through it.
• 37:44
  So I watched a lot of episodes with her,
• 37:47
  but probably not all.
• 37:48
  Oh, you need to watch it all.
• 37:49
  That's our next one.
• 37:51
  Okay.
• 37:53
  I may go back.
• 37:54
  They were, I mean,
• 37:55
  the stuff I saw was really
• 37:56
  funny and I was able to the characters.
• 37:59
  Um, so yeah.
• 38:03
  Yeah.
• 38:03
  I liked it a lot.
• 38:04
  I just, my, my daughter, when she binges,
• 38:07
  like I could not keep up with her.
• 38:09
  Yeah.
• 38:09
  I have to have a life.
• 38:12
  I like to spend my time
• 38:13
  watching a lot of TV
• 38:14
  sitting on my couch and recovering.
• 38:16
  Yeah.
• 38:17
  Yeah.
• 38:18
  She did that with the office.
• 38:19
  She did that with new girl parks and rec.
• 38:23
  Uh,
• 38:23
  and I've seen a lot of all of those
• 38:24
  episodes,
• 38:25
  but none of them I've seen them all.
• 38:27
  Yeah.
• 38:29
  Now's the time.
• 38:30
  Yeah.
• 38:33
  I'm, I'm so addicted to welcome to Rexham.
• 38:35
  I don't know what that is.
• 38:38
  So it's the, uh, it's the show about, uh,
• 38:44
  Ryan Reynolds bought a
• 38:45
  soccer team and is trying
• 38:47
  to get them promoted back
• 38:49
  up into the leagues in Europe.
• 38:52
  And it's how he buys the team,
• 38:55
  tries to put money into it,
• 38:57
  loses a lot of money,
• 38:58
  tries to make them better.
• 39:00
  It's really good.
• 39:02
  It's really funny.
• 39:02
  I'll have to watch it.
• 39:04
  It's really, really good.
• 39:06
  And if you like watching, like,
• 39:09
  I'm sure Kiefer would love
• 39:10
  it because he's a sports guy.
• 39:11
  But if you like watching sports,
• 39:13
  every TV season is like
• 39:15
  watching a season of sports.
• 39:17
  I'm sure he would love it then.
• 39:19
  Yeah.
• 39:21
  It's really good.
• 39:22
  I got my co-host hooked on it.
• 39:25
  We're all about that.
• 39:28
  Well,
• 39:28
  I am so excited for you this year to
• 39:30
  come back and see what you
• 39:31
  can do and basically to
• 39:33
  prove me right that last
• 39:34
  year I said you were the
• 39:35
  most improved and we can
• 39:37
  see it on the floor this
• 39:38
  year because I like to be right.
• 39:42
  Thank you.
• 39:42
  I hope you're right.
• 39:46
  We wish you well and can't wait to see you
• 39:50
  Good luck at Carson.
• 39:51
  And we're going to be
• 39:52
  reaching out to people like
• 39:53
  during the weekend, um,
• 39:55
  covering it from here
• 39:56
  because we can't be there.
• 39:58
  Yeah.
• 39:58
  Send you a DM or something.
• 40:00
  Perfect.
• 40:01
  Awesome.
• 40:02
  Well, thanks Kyra.
• 40:02
  Thank you so much.
• 40:04
  Thank you to everybody in the chat,
• 40:05
  especially Kiefer, uh,
• 40:06
  for keeping it real.
• 40:08
  And with that,
• 40:09
  we'll see everybody next
• 40:10
  time on Clydesdale media podcast.
• 40:13
  Bye guys.