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Amy Hosking | Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · 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 happen right 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 a winner's made.
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Stick a fork in a hater on my dinner.
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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 semifinals.
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This West Coast Classic Edition,
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we are featuring Amy Hosking.
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What's going on, Amy?
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Hello.
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Nice to see you, Scott.
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Yeah, you too.
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I was going to tell you
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before we went on air,
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but I'm going to say it on air.
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Every year we do the
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semifinal series and there
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are stories that like grab
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me and touch me.
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And you were one of my
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favorite interviews last year.
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And I was rooting for you so
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hard to make it back this
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year to have you back on to
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catch up with you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much.
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I really appreciate that.
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I'm happy to be back on.
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Yeah, you're going to semis again.
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I know.
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Yeah, I'm happy about that too, obviously.
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So I was looking at your numbers.
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We talk about that at the
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beginning of all these shows.
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Last year you came into the semis in 37th.
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There were 60 in the field.
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This year they cut that field to 40.
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And that 37th looked a little scary.
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But you crushed that with a
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27th place going in this year.
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Was there any trepidation,
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worry going in when they
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cut that field down?
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I mean, initially when it happened, it was,
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I don't even remember in the season,
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but I felt pretty confident.
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Like, okay, I did 37th last year.
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Like most likely I can get in again.
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And then as it got closer and closer to,
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I was getting more and more
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nervous about it.
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Just, you know, that's pretty natural.
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And then,
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when they released the tests
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and seeing it was only four
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tests plus like,
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I would not call those
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wheelhouse workouts for me,
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the quarterfinals workouts.
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I was like quite,
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I would say almost
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depressed for like the
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first two days of quarterfinals.
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Cause I was like, I don't,
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I had such doubts that I
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could make it in honestly,
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like that wall ball burpee one,
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especially like that's
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going to be a hard workout for me.
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So you finish the first two
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and you submit them.
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Then the leaderboard becomes public.
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Where did you sit after two days?
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I was in 63rd,
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but what I reminded myself of is like,
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okay, it's not about the placing.
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Look at the point spread.
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And it was literally only 35
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points between me and 40th.
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So I knew that's nothing.
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that's nothing.
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And I feel more confident that I could be,
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um,
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like consistently high in the second
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two workouts.
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Number one actually worked
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out to be my best score overall, but, um,
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yeah,
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the second two workouts launched me
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and like,
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I knew there was going to be
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more separators in those workouts.
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Like there's going to be
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people who can't do
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Um,
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strict handstand pushups or wall facing
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or ring muscle ups once
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they're like crazy fatigued.
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Um, yeah, so it worked out.
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Or 10 rope climbs or.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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Or one 65 bar.
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Like most people can do it,
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but can you do it for a ton of reps?
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Right.
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Especially under fatigue.
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Um, what order did you do them in?
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Oh, I did.
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I did the gymnastics one
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first and then wall balls
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and then workout one.
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And then I repeated the wall
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balls cause I didn't finish
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it originally.
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Um, and I was like, you need to,
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in my head, I just needed to, to qualify.
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Um, so yeah,
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I repeated number two and then.
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repeated gymnastics and then
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finish off with the clean and jerk.
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So I actually only repeated
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two of the four workouts.
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Yeah.
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How much of that wall ball workout
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I mean, so I went, my co-host Jamie,
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I went up to her house to
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watch her do them because I
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like to see them kind of in
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action to be able to talk
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and through the stuff.
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And for me watching that wall ball workout,
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it was all mental.
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It was all,
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can you tell your body just to
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keep the pace?
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Yep.
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That's what I found too.
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Like, obviously,
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you need fitness to do it.
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Yeah,
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and it was like a lot of leg fatigue.
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I feel like honestly,
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my legs hurt more than I
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was breathing hard.
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But it exactly was that the
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mental side because I was
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trying to think of it like
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an erg because like,
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I can push on an erg and go
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really hard for 20 minutes, you know,
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like,
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I can do really well in a biker,
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but there's so many
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opportunities to stop when
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you're doing burpees.
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So you had to kind of just
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stay in a rhythm.
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I was like, okay, just get into a rhythm.
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And you have to tell yourself, like,
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keep going, you can do this,
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because there's,
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there's times where you
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just want to stop.
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I mean, every single burpee, basically,
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you want to stop.
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yeah I that is not my
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workout clydesdales are not
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good at those things um but
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jamie killed it um and I
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got to watch her she
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actually sped up in the
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last round yeah especially
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on the burpees not the wall
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ball stayed pretty much
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steady but then as you know
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like the lights at the end
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of the tunnel she was able
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to kick it up a gear toward the end
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Um, yeah,
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we have a couple of people in the
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chat just saying hi.
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Uh, Corey Leonard says, yo, uh,
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Kyle Greenlee.
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Good morning, Scott.
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Bradley Davis.
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The best Amy.
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Thanks Brad.
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So you, are you still with OPT?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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And you have a crew up there.
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Did you guys do the workouts together?
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um I was always with at
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least one other person but
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we were kind of all over
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the place our um we kind of
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cycle through three
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different facilities
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because we the opt facility
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um there's lots of other
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clients like it's not just
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competitive so we had it
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blocked off from like 10 to
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2 each day and so if you
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wanted to do the workouts
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outside of those time
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periods you had to go
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somewhere somewhere else um
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which is fine.
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Cause like, for instance,
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the gymnastics one,
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the setup's not great in that gym.
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So we'd all go somewhere else.
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But, um, yeah,
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usually we'd stick in packs
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of like two to five and
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cheer each other on,
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which it helps a lot.
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And, um,
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obviously like we have a super
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talented pool of people.
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Um,
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so it's always good to push with people
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who, you know,
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are gonna like crush
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specific workouts and have
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top times in that just to
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give you an idea of what to push for.
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How much advice is given
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back and forth from people
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who may have done it before you?
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Depends on the person.
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Some people are like not
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super open about it and
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just want to keep private,
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which is totally fine.
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But most of us will pass on
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advice just with the caveat
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is like everyone's so different.
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Like the where you feel
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fatigue is going to be
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really different.
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Like I found the gymnastics
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one super grippy.
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Other people were like,
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I didn't feel my grip at all.
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It was just my triceps.
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So you kind of have to take
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it with a grain of salt,
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but generally we're,
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we're happy to share tips and tricks and.
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I was watching Hiller's
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video at Mayhem yesterday.
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And he was talking to Saxon Pancheck,
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which I found riveting.
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And I actually have Saxon on on Monday,
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so we're going to talk
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about this with him.
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But he talked about that
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today's CrossFit athletes
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don't work out at an
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affiliate or a gym for the most part.
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There are some, but not all.
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And that, like in his opinion,
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there are 40 spots at semifinals.
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And if you're working out at
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a gym with others,
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you should try to lift
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everybody up to make it
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into those 40 spots.
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As many people as you can.
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What's your philosophy on that?
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No, I'm totally with him.
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I completely agree with that.
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Because even though they cut the spots,
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to me...
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there's room for, for everybody to get in.
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Like if it was 10 spots,
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I think it'd be a bit more
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cutthroat because there's
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like 10 of us wanting to try to get in.
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But to me, it's exactly that.
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Like we should be,
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we always want to beat each other.
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Obviously we're competitive,
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but I think it's good to
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root for everyone.
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And it's helpful to bring each other up.
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Like you're,
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what's the saying steel sharpens steel.
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Like that's for sure the case.
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Yeah.
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And,
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and he wasn't saying it in a soft way.
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He was saying it as like,
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we as a group should try to
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take all the spots.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Take over.
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Right.
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Like the heck with everybody else.
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We're going to take all the spots,
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but we should lift each
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other up to get all of them.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I thought it was a really cool concept.
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And I wanted your opinion because you,
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you do have like a crew of
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people that kind of are all
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singing out of the same
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hymn book or whatever.
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So, so you make it,
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you get through all of
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quarters and then the
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Wednesday after all hell
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breaks loose where
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penalties are being thrown
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around left and right and
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What,
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how did that play on your nerves from
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that point?
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So it's kind of funny, like,
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obviously I I'm always
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nervous for video review.
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Like I'm very, um,
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cautious around those things.
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I'm the person who like
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reads the rule book through
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reads all the standards through,
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and then I'm still paranoid
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that something's wrong.
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Uh,
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or we forgot to take a video of something,
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but anyways,
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this year it kind of worked
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out nicely for me in a way.
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Because I think both my one
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and two got validated on Tuesday.
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So I got validated.
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And then all of a sudden I'm
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hearing about big names
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getting penalized on workout one.
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And so like, I thought it was kind of like,
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oh, at first I was like, oh, drama,
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like kind of fun.
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But then it's immediately
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started getting not fun when it was like,
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okay, now there's 100, there's 200.
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like this is serious.
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And then also I've had a
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couple of friends impacted by it.
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And that sucks to see.
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Yeah.
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Matt and Greg are the two
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guys who got penalized.
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So I was like, okay, well,
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this completely sucks for them.
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And it seems like out of
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control at this point,
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but then CrossFit's gotten
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themselves in a place like
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you can't win now because you can't
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You can't change things.
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You can't go back on the
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standard you put in place
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because that's not fair to
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people who did it correctly
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and probably is slightly
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slower because of that.
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Yeah, it's tough.
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So I've boldly made the
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statement on a game show
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that I don't think they
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should change that aspect.
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I think they should stay
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strict and even lean into
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it more and do more video review,
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not just one workout, but more.
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Give themselves more time,
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back the quarters right up
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against the open,
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and then they have more
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weeks to do it all.
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But then I heard... Because I've seen,
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and my basis on that,
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I've seen a lot of really
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good athletes not make it
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because people put in crappy videos.
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And that shouldn't be there.
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And that upsets me.
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So I'm still pro-athlete.
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I'm just for the ones who did it right.
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And saying that, like, I love Matt.
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Like,
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Matt Brady is one of my favorite
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people in the world.
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And I've never seen his video,
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so I don't even know good, bad,
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or indifferent.
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But then I heard Rich,
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who is probably my CrossFit man crush,
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say today that you're
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keeping someone out of
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semifinals because of step-up capacity.
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And then I'm like, man,
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that is really touchy.
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Yeah, and it's not even like capacity.
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It's just...
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that 0.2 seconds you needed
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to take to completely lock
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out and like it would get
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caught in in-person
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competition like yeah it's
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tough and yeah I haven't
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seen everybody's videos
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either I don't know so
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right it's tough to say but
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like off of like pat
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velner's video for instance
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like I don't think it would
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have taken him any more
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time to lock out his knee
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on his left side it just he
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didn't realize it was happening
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And his judge didn't say anything.
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So it's tough.
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And I think they really were
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quite harsh on the penalties.
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And I do applaud Pat for
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putting it out there
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because he didn't have to.
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Yeah,
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that's like a super vulnerable position.
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Right.
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And, and as a former judge, like he did,
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he did have soft knees there.
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There is no question about that.
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I think what they could
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clean up is a arbitrary
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percentage shift from,
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it can be anywhere from 15 to 40.
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Like that just seems way too
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arbitrary and up to decisions.
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Um, and I, especially on, um,
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especially on workouts that
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are like reps that just
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like trashed people.
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Like,
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I think it should have been just
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however many reps were bad,
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take those away.
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Don't say like there was a
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significant amount,
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which they don't even have
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defined in the rule book.
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And then you'd give them a 40% or 15%.
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Like that's pretty harsh.
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A 15% penalty on like a
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timed workout is a bit
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different of the case, but.
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Well,
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and I think the other factor is we
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have 25% of the population now doing this,
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and the penalties made you
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fall into that wash with
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all of those athletes.
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So it became even a more
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significant penalty than it
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had in years past.
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Yeah.
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So I think some of that
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could be cleaned up,
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but I do think they should
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be strict with the review
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process as long as they
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don't allow the judge to stop, pause,
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blow up,
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The review.
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Put lines like, yeah, that's a bit,
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a bit too much.
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Like treat it more like a live.
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Correct.
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Competition.
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Cause like Pat Pounder's video live,
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I would have said was a no rep.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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But in live,
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I would have told him and he
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would have stopped.
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He would have corrected it
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and done like just as well.
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Exactly.
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So it's tough.
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I agree they should be be strict on it.
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And I mean,
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even thinking about it for myself,
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I'm like, OK,
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now I'm going to take like
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two camera angles next year
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if it's going to be like this.
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And I agree they should look
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at all the workouts because.
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I mean, they validated my workout three,
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but I don't think they really.
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looked at it.
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So well,
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I've actually I've actually talked
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to athletes that had
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workouts never validated.
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Yeah, my workout for wasn't.
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Yeah.
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So I think those they didn't
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look at at all.
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No,
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which a rapper to on that last workout
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could have been huge places.
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So it's tough that they they
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are so harsh on one,
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but not the other because
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it would have shuffled
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things completely again.
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Well, cool.
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Well, now that that's all over,
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I want to talk about some more fun stuff.
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So can you explain to me the
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title Trailer Park Girls?
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Oh, yes.
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Yeah,
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that was our Wadapalooza name for our
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team of three.
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So Trailer Park Boys,
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do you know that show?
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It's a Canadian show.
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Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian show.
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It's a comedy, like pretty dry humor.
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But classic Canada,
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like I think it was
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originally set in the East Coast,
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but then it became really
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big in Alberta because a lot of people,
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it resonated with them.
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But so that was part of it.
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Like, okay, we're Canadian.
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And then my friend Kendra, Kendra Dutton,
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she was on the team.
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She like famously has
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trailer park cleans because
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she's not the strongest squatter.
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So she often just like
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starfishes her cleans.
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So that was kind of part of it as well.
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And just keeping it light and fun.
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Like that was the whole
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point of going to that competition.
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Yeah.
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It's pretty funny.
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You should check out a couple of clips.
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Okay.
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I'm trying to think of something.
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Okay.
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But so you go to Wadapalooza,
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you have a cool name
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because that's half of Wadapalooza.
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You have to,
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you can't just go with like
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your typical CrossFit name.
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It has to be something cool
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for the glitz and glam of Wadapalooza.
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Exactly.
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Was that your first time there?
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Yep.
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Yeah, first time there.
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First time even in Florida, actually.
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But yeah, I did the Wadapalooza qualifier.
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I think the past two years in individual,
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it didn't work out.
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And then the timing of it, it just,
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the individual didn't make
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sense this year.
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But we were talking, the three of us,
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and decided why not take a chance?
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Like,
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originally we were going for the RX
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division.
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And then...
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we made a push and got into elite.
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So that was a pretty cool
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experience to get there.
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It was my goal to in the off season,
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do at least one large
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competition just to get
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more exposure to those
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types of environments
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because I was so like
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overstimulated at semifinals last year.
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So I'm glad we did that.
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But it was also like a lower
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pressure competition being
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a team and just going to have fun.
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But if you want to be overstimulated,
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that is the place to be.
20:30
Yes.
20:31
I did not realize how large it was.
20:34
It is a massive party.
20:37
Say that again.
20:38
Sorry.
20:38
It's a massive party.
20:40
Yeah.
20:41
Yeah.
20:41
It was, it was super fun.
20:43
And like having that stage on the barge,
20:47
like that was so epic.
20:49
So cool.
20:52
So on a serious note,
20:54
like what did you learn
20:56
during that weekend?
20:57
Oh,
20:59
Good question.
21:00
I mean,
21:02
competing in a team is pretty cool.
21:04
Cause you get to learn how
21:06
other athletes compete.
21:09
Um, and both those girls like Lindsay,
21:12
maybe you'll have her on the show,
21:14
Lindsay Martin.
21:15
Um, but they're, they're so cool.
21:20
They're such cool ladies, like,
21:21
and they're so fierce.
21:24
They're very fierce competitors.
21:25
And I'm a bit more of an anxious.
21:27
competitor so it was really
21:29
good to to feed off um
21:32
their vibes like yeah so
21:35
that was cool and you kind
21:36
of always get exposed to
21:38
like okay where are people
21:39
where are they wanting to
21:40
rest and when I'm not and
21:42
where am I wanting to rest
21:43
when they're not and you
21:44
can kind of take that and
21:46
say and bring that into
21:48
your training and
21:48
approaches to other events
21:51
that you do and then
21:54
I mean,
21:54
the weather that weekend was also
21:58
not the best.
21:59
So it was good exposure to
22:01
having things shifted around.
22:03
Like times got shifted.
22:05
I think they changed like
22:06
two or three events on us as well.
22:09
So just rolling with the
22:11
punches was another big learning as well.
22:14
And kind of just being
22:15
prepared for whatever is thrown at you.
22:17
Yeah,
22:19
rumor is that they changed events
22:21
while you were in the corral.
22:23
correct yeah the last
22:26
workout was pretty bad like
22:28
they did change the second
22:30
workout that we did on the
22:31
barge um where we were
22:34
doing lunges I think
22:35
instead of the step overs
22:39
and they told us that in
22:40
the tent um it started
22:42
raining like as soon as we
22:43
went out and they were like
22:44
okay you got to go back
22:46
Okay, now we're changing it,
22:49
but it wasn't changed to
22:51
like the reps were the same.
22:52
So it was pretty easy to
22:54
like process that.
22:55
But the final event was a
22:57
total like crap show.
22:59
It was really bad because it was raining.
23:03
We had a weather delay.
23:04
So they said our heat was pushed.
23:07
And then they said, just kidding.
23:09
Your heat's going to be at
23:10
the same time again.
23:11
But at that point,
23:12
we had literally five minutes to warm up.
23:17
Those are the things I heard.
23:20
I'm not there in like four years.
23:23
Yeah.
23:23
Thank goodness.
23:25
Yeah.
23:26
That was crazy.
23:27
And they changed like all the reps on us.
23:29
So we didn't know what was going on.
23:30
I swear our judge didn't
23:31
even know the rep scheme.
23:33
Cause if you look at the video, I like,
23:35
I'm doing strict pull-ups and I'm like,
23:37
okay, I'm done.
23:38
And I run.
23:38
And then he's like, no, you have more.
23:41
And I go back and I do like two.
23:43
And again, I think I'm done.
23:45
And he goes, no.
23:47
So who knows?
23:48
We're not sure if we did it right.
23:51
It was fun though.
23:53
Yeah,
23:53
I know famously one male team said
23:55
they did like 900 double
23:57
unders because the reps were so off.
24:01
Yeah.
24:03
Yeah.
24:04
Yeah.
24:05
Crazy.
24:07
Oh, well.
24:08
So you have that experience, though,
24:12
because I think last year
24:13
when I talked to you,
24:14
semis was your first big, like big comp.
24:18
Mm-hmm.
24:19
So how did last year go at semis?
24:21
You say you were overstimulated.
24:23
What did you learn from that experience?
24:27
Yeah.
24:28
Last year was not fun for me.
24:30
I did not have fun.
24:31
I think it was very weird though.
24:35
Every time I saw you, you were smiling.
24:38
Yeah.
24:38
I think I was trying to, like, I was,
24:40
I was trying to really like
24:42
take in the moment and I
24:43
shouldn't say I had no fun.
24:45
Like we had such a big group
24:46
there that that was so amazing.
24:48
And,
24:49
Like the first event,
24:51
I was trying to really take it all in.
24:53
Like I was on the treadmill
24:54
and my whole family was in front of me.
24:56
So that's really cool.
24:59
I'm definitely going to like
25:00
take that with me,
25:01
like soak in every single moment.
25:03
But I also, I don't know,
25:05
I like put way too much
25:07
pressure on myself last year.
25:08
I think like in my head, I was like,
25:10
this is my time that I can
25:12
like get exposed and like
25:16
potentially get sponsors
25:17
and stuff like that.
25:19
And I must perform because unfortunately,
25:22
like, that's the case, like,
25:24
the people who get the top
25:25
times get the most attention.
25:28
So I think there was that.
25:31
And yeah,
25:34
then then events just like didn't
25:35
go how I wanted to and kind
25:37
of started just like snowballing.
25:39
You know, I was in a bad mindset.
25:42
So
25:44
But really, it doesn't matter.
25:45
The outcome doesn't matter at all.
25:48
Nobody.
25:49
I talked to a lot of people that weekend.
25:53
We interviewed two people from every heat,
25:56
I think, the whole weekend.
25:58
You're not the only person
25:59
that felt that way.
26:02
Events weren't going right.
26:03
Events weren't going the way you planned.
26:07
The way those events were set up,
26:09
they had traps in them.
26:12
And I don't think anybody
26:13
knew that pulling weights
26:14
on a napkin was going to be that hard.
26:18
Yes.
26:19
On a felt mat.
26:22
Yeah.
26:23
Um, and it, and from that moment on,
26:26
everybody just, some people,
26:29
some people dealt with it
26:30
in a good way and just kind
26:32
of let it go off their
26:33
shoulders and other people
26:35
like clung onto that and like,
26:37
this is bad.
26:38
And then it just kept getting worse.
26:41
Mm-hmm.
26:42
So were you one of the latter?
26:44
Yeah, I'd probably say so,
26:49
which like sucks to admit,
26:51
but I do find it hard to
26:54
let things go sometimes and
26:56
then not let it flow into
26:59
the next event is really tough.
27:02
Like you try, you try your best to reset,
27:05
but it can be really hard
27:06
sometimes to pull yourself
27:08
out of that like darker headspace.
27:10
Yeah.
27:11
Once you're in it.
27:12
So I've had to practice that a lot.
27:15
I'm not always successful still,
27:19
but we're getting there.
27:23
And like I said, you weren't the only one.
27:25
Last year was very bizarre
27:27
with the way the workouts
27:28
were designed because there
27:30
were so many new movements,
27:32
so many new things kind of
27:34
being thrown at you.
27:35
This year, the workouts are already out,
27:38
and it's very classic CrossFit.
27:42
Nothing new.
27:44
Does that give you some
27:45
peace of mind going in this year?
27:50
Good question.
27:52
In a way.
27:52
I do actually like kind of
27:55
the weird stuff to an extent.
27:59
To an extent,
27:59
because I'm kind of just like
28:01
that naturally able to pick
28:02
things up quite quickly.
28:04
So that always gives me an advantage,
28:06
but it makes me nervous
28:08
performing under pressure on the floor.
28:10
So in a way, yes,
28:12
it makes me a bit more comfortable.
28:14
And I mean,
28:15
we have so much time to be
28:16
practicing all the workouts that you,
28:19
you know,
28:19
exactly like what your game plan
28:21
should be.
28:22
Roughly.
28:26
So here's a weird question
28:27
because I've heard a lot of
28:28
people talk about this.
28:30
I do a coach's show with Tristan Patrick.
28:34
He's the head coach at Ascend Athlete.
28:37
And he talked about
28:39
sometimes you don't want
28:41
your athlete to know what
28:42
it's going to feel like
28:44
because it's not going to feel good.
28:46
And to get to that place,
28:47
you've got to go to that bad place.
28:49
So it's sometimes bad to
28:51
know ahead of time because
28:53
are they willing to go back?
28:55
Yeah.
28:57
Yeah,
28:57
it is kind of funny like how there is
28:59
that there's both sides to the coin,
29:01
right?
29:02
Like usually if you repeat a workout,
29:05
you're going to do better
29:07
because you learned where
29:09
you should and shouldn't be pushing.
29:11
But it's exactly that as well.
29:13
Like once you know how something feels,
29:15
I think it's just natural
29:17
like human nature.
29:19
Our brain knows and it's like danger,
29:21
right?
29:22
don't do that again.
29:23
And so there is some resistance as well.
29:27
Um, yeah, there's both sides.
29:29
I find for myself,
29:31
like when I'm testing workouts,
29:35
I don't go 100%.
29:36
And then you also have to realize too,
29:41
that when you get to competition,
29:43
you're going to be peaked.
29:44
Like you're not going to be,
29:46
you're going to be feeling good.
29:48
And then there's all the adrenaline.
29:50
So you have to kind of let
29:51
go of how it was feeling in
29:53
training as well.
29:56
Cause it's going to feel better.
29:57
It's kind of like your
29:58
warmup versus the actual workout.
30:00
Like the warmup always feels
30:01
crappier than the actual workout,
30:05
but I agree to an extent,
30:08
but it is important to test it.
30:10
At least if you're even just
30:11
gonna do part of it,
30:13
just little snippets of the workout.
30:18
So,
30:19
and I'm sorry I'm quoting all these
30:20
other people but it helps
30:22
me get to where I want to go.
30:24
Carolyn Prevost is my co
30:25
host on my Sunday night show.
30:27
She said I think she's doing
30:28
a mock up weekend this weekend.
30:31
And then she said,
30:32
I'm not doing them again until semis.
30:35
Now I may do,
30:36
I may incorporate the
30:37
movements with some other
30:39
stuff that is similar,
30:41
but I'm not going to do the
30:42
identical thing again after this weekend.
30:46
How do you,
30:46
how are you guys going to
30:48
approach that just a one
30:49
time or are you going to
30:51
hit them a couple of times
30:51
between now and then?
30:55
For myself,
30:57
I don't think we'll do it more than once.
30:59
Like we're testing them this week.
31:01
I did one and two yesterday.
31:02
I'm doing three, four today.
31:04
Um, so for me, I just need to hit it once.
31:09
Um,
31:10
maybe that last workout we could do the
31:14
first, like,
31:15
I don't think the lunges are
31:16
necessary to do twice,
31:17
but maybe trying to like
31:19
echo bike into the 15 ring
31:21
muscle ups in different
31:22
sets would be valuable for me.
31:24
Um,
31:27
But otherwise,
31:28
I honestly think hitting it two,
31:30
three times,
31:31
like that's where you get
31:32
exhausted and like, okay,
31:34
you're not even excited to
31:35
do it again once you're at semifinals.
31:38
So, yeah.
31:40
Yeah,
31:41
that was another thing Tristan warned
31:44
about is you don't want
31:45
them to like hate the
31:47
workout and be just blah
31:49
going into semis.
31:53
No, exactly.
31:53
And that's why I was slightly,
31:56
I'm not going to say like upset,
31:58
but kind of the bad part
32:00
about them releasing the
32:01
workout so early is like, okay, well,
32:04
these are just,
32:04
these are all the movements
32:06
that we're going to be
32:06
doing in training now,
32:07
like just over and over.
32:09
So you do get a little bit
32:11
bored of the combination, but it's,
32:16
it's somewhat necessary to do.
32:18
So to go back to your other question,
32:19
like now we're going to
32:21
test it once and then we're
32:23
going to have the
32:24
combination of movements,
32:25
but not necessarily the actual workout.
32:27
So like,
32:28
we're going to do a lot of total
32:29
bar into front squats for event too.
32:32
Well,
32:32
and thank goodness you're not the
32:33
last week.
32:34
Like Carol is like, yeah,
32:39
that's a slog for her.
32:41
Yeah.
32:42
Yeah.
32:42
For like Europe and Asia, like they,
32:45
they're going to be done in a week.
32:47
Yeah.
32:47
And that won't be so bad.
32:49
And then it just gets
32:50
increasingly worse as you go across.
32:51
But wow.
32:55
So you've seen the workouts.
32:59
Are you excited?
33:02
Yeah.
33:03
Yeah.
33:04
Number one's a bit rough, I would say.
33:07
But I'm kind of glad it's
33:08
number one and then you get
33:09
out of the way.
33:10
The rest I really like.
33:12
And that's the 800s and the
33:15
clean and jerks, right?
33:16
Yeah.
33:18
Yeah, it's just hard.
33:19
It's going to be hard for everyone.
33:22
And, you know, you have to stay engaged.
33:24
It's kind of like that,
33:25
that burpee wall ball one.
33:28
It's kind of one of those ones where it's,
33:33
you got to treat it like a sprint,
33:35
even though it's not a sprint.
33:37
Yeah.
33:38
You just have to be
33:38
extremely uncomfortable the whole time.
33:41
That's how you know you're doing it right.
33:43
that's the one I thought of
33:43
when I thought you don't
33:45
want to go to that dark
33:46
place and practice and then
33:48
have to revisit that at,
33:51
at the real thing.
33:53
But that's what's going to happen.
33:56
Yeah.
33:57
Yeah.
33:57
We're all going to be
33:58
suffering pretty hard after that one.
34:00
Yeah.
34:02
Um,
34:06
You come in in a higher place.
34:07
You're in 27th,
34:09
so you won't be in the first heat,
34:12
which you weren't last year,
34:13
but it was a much bigger field.
34:16
Is there a goal this year to
34:18
end the weekend in a certain heat,
34:22
certain position,
34:23
or are you going for the games?
34:28
I don't have a placement goal, honestly.
34:30
I think it's better for me not to.
34:34
Like I still want to go out
34:35
and I want to do my best
34:37
and put my best effort in
34:39
and feel proud of myself for pushing.
34:42
But I don't,
34:44
what I've learned is I don't
34:45
have control of what other
34:47
people are doing.
34:48
I don't have control of
34:49
where I end up placing wise.
34:52
So, and I don't want to sell myself short.
34:55
Like I honestly think like,
34:58
essentially anyone could get
35:00
that like last spot or two to the games.
35:03
If you're having like an amazing weekend,
35:06
you're feeling good.
35:07
The events line up like the
35:09
top 40 are not actually
35:11
that different in level
35:16
other than maybe like the top, you know,
35:18
five,
35:20
like our fitness levels pretty similar.
35:22
Yeah.
35:24
The West is very, very top heavy.
35:28
Like you have the top four or five,
35:31
and then I think everybody
35:32
else is kind of bunched in there.
35:35
So if you would get like nine or ten,
35:38
it's kind of anybody's game
35:39
for those last four or five spots.
35:43
Yeah, like it's up for grabs.
35:44
So we'll see what happens.
35:47
Which makes for a very
35:49
interesting competition.
35:52
Yeah, it'll be fun.
35:54
It'll be a good one.
35:56
is there anybody that you
35:57
line up against that like
35:59
intimidates you because you're a fan or,
36:02
or anything like that?
36:05
If you would be in the same
36:06
heat as that person?
36:09
That's a good question.
36:12
I wouldn't say like intimidated,
36:17
like obviously like Gazan, for instance,
36:21
is just like an extremely
36:22
talented athlete.
36:24
Like,
36:25
She's a rock star.
36:26
Like,
36:26
I can't beat her on legless rope climbs,
36:28
like, realistically, you know?
36:31
So something like that.
36:32
But at the same time,
36:34
it's not like her being
36:35
good takes away from my fitness.
36:37
Like, I can still go out and do my best.
36:41
I love the attitude.
36:42
I don't have to compare
36:43
myself to her necessarily, you know?
36:47
I was talking to somebody
36:48
last year who had grown up
36:51
following Katrin.
36:53
She was her favorite.
36:54
And I think in the first event,
36:56
by the way they fell,
36:58
she was going to be right
36:59
beside her in the first event.
37:01
And she was worried about
37:03
how that was going to affect her.
37:07
And she was young, like 1920.
37:13
So I can't remember who it was now, but...
37:17
um but yeah yeah I mean
37:19
that's fair because I i do
37:21
I remember last year I
37:23
think I was like beside
37:24
chloe wilson on the first
37:25
one and I'm a fan of her um
37:26
even though she's not
37:28
competing this year sad but
37:31
in my head I was like I
37:32
think I could have kept up
37:34
with her on that workout
37:35
but I think subconsciously
37:36
or maybe consciously
37:38
I was thinking like, well,
37:40
she should be able to beat
37:41
me on this workout.
37:42
Like she's Chloe Wilson.
37:43
So you do have to be mindful of that.
37:45
Again,
37:45
like don't sell yourself short just
37:47
because they're good at something.
37:50
Do you work full time?
37:54
Not anymore.
37:55
So I was last year.
37:56
I quit my job in October,
38:00
my full time job.
38:03
So I was completely
38:05
unemployed for about a
38:06
month and I quickly
38:07
realized that's not for me.
38:10
I get, I need something to, um,
38:13
outside of CrossFit just to
38:17
have something else in my identity,
38:18
like something else to
38:19
focus on because I found
38:22
I was just hyper focusing in
38:23
on training or how my body
38:25
was feeling like injuries.
38:27
And I was just becoming a
38:28
bit too like obsessive
38:29
about those things.
38:30
Um, to like an unhelpful extent,
38:33
like there's nothing you can do.
38:36
So I, uh, now I have, um,
38:39
I'm doing consulting,
38:40
so I have a background in
38:43
quality assurance and food manufacturing.
38:46
So I got in touch with well,
38:49
I have a friend who also
38:50
does it and she got me in
38:52
touch with the company she contracts for.
38:54
And so now I'm doing some
38:55
work with them where
38:58
essentially you can pick
39:00
what what times and days you want to work,
39:02
how much you want to work.
39:04
So that's been really nice
39:05
and healthy and also a
39:07
steep learning curve there,
39:09
which keeps me mentally stimulated.
39:12
So it's I'm in a good place now.
39:14
I'm very balanced.
39:17
Is that the job you had before you quit?
39:20
You were doing quality
39:21
assurance with food?
39:22
Well, technically it was operations,
39:24
but quality assurance would
39:25
still fall under that.
39:26
But yeah, that's what I was doing before.
39:30
For a major restaurant, company,
39:32
supermarket?
39:33
No, it was for Righteous Gelato,
39:36
their frozen desserts
39:38
manufacturer in Canada, mostly,
39:42
but also the US.
39:43
Okay.
39:44
I think I've heard of them.
39:46
Yeah, I probably mentioned it last year,
39:48
and I'm wondering if they'd
39:50
be in Ohio now probably.
39:52
Yeah,
39:54
I don't – we didn't talk about your
39:56
job last year.
39:57
I just listened to it back.
39:59
Oh, yeah?
40:00
Yeah, so I didn't know what you did.
40:01
Oh, it's okay.
40:04
Yeah, yeah.
40:05
I'm learning new stuff this year.
40:07
Mm-hmm.
40:10
So we did talk last year
40:12
about the autoimmune issues
40:15
that you have dealt with.
40:17
Still under control?
40:20
Yeah, now they are.
40:21
So because...
40:25
I'm trying to think of the
40:26
timeline because around
40:28
quarterfinals last year,
40:29
my arthritis was flaring up a little bit.
40:33
I got it kind of under control for semis.
40:36
And then in the summer,
40:38
it flared up again.
40:39
And I was trying to cut back
40:42
on the medications I was taking,
40:45
like essentially naproxen, like Aleve.
40:49
But I quickly realized that
40:51
that's probably something I
40:52
just need to be taking on a
40:54
regular basis to keep it under control.
40:57
So that's what I've been
40:58
doing and it's helped a lot
41:02
in the past six months now,
41:05
probably I've been in a
41:06
really good place with that.
41:07
Okay.
41:09
If you weren't being a
41:12
professional athlete-ish,
41:15
would you need the medications as much,
41:17
or is it what you do to
41:18
your body that makes it
41:19
kind of more of a requirement?
41:23
I think I'd probably still
41:24
need it here and there.
41:25
Like,
41:27
I would get flare-ups once in a while,
41:29
or if I decided, like,
41:31
when we originally got our
41:32
house and we were doing a
41:33
lot of painting and crouching and stuff,
41:35
that aggravated it.
41:37
So I'd probably still need to, like...
41:39
take it here and there,
41:41
but not on a regular basis
41:42
is more my thought,
41:44
but we'll see once I'm done
41:47
competing whenever that is.
41:48
And if I can scale back on that side,
41:51
we'll have to see where my body's at.
41:55
Yeah.
41:56
For, for you Canadians,
41:57
you seem to go forever.
41:58
So, um,
42:02
We'll see.
42:03
I think physically I could
42:05
go for many more years, obviously.
42:08
We'll see, though.
42:10
Mentally.
42:11
Mentally,
42:11
if I can handle it and if... Yeah.
42:15
Like Corey says,
42:17
if I could ever find my mask.
42:19
There we go.
42:20
Is anyone ever done competing?
42:25
Yeah, it's tough.
42:26
It's tough to make that
42:27
transition or maybe you
42:28
think you're done and then realize...
42:31
you're not quite like,
42:33
maybe you still want to
42:33
compete at to an extent at
42:35
a certain level,
42:36
but maybe it's not the main
42:39
focus of your life.
42:41
So you just have to decide
42:42
where your priorities are really.
42:44
I think in Corey's life,
42:46
he competes at everything.
42:48
So like, yeah,
42:49
he may not compete in CrossFit anymore,
42:51
but,
42:55
Right.
42:58
He is doing his first ever
42:59
semifinal this year as a 47-year-old.
43:03
Wow.
43:03
Congrats.
43:06
Yeah.
43:08
The Civic Student says, hashtag Team Amy.
43:11
Nice.
43:12
Civic State Amy.
43:14
So, um,
43:16
last thing I'm going to leave you
43:17
with is I was talking to Gabby Spence, uh,
43:20
last week and we were
43:22
talking about the battle at
43:23
the barracks and lo and behold,
43:25
when you look at the podium,
43:27
there you were.
43:31
Yep.
43:33
Explain to me how big of a
43:34
competition that is, uh,
43:37
in your neck of the woods in Canada.
43:38
Yeah.
43:41
It's funny.
43:41
Cause I mean like the actual
43:42
location is obviously it's a CrossFit gym,
43:45
like it's a box.
43:46
So physically speaking,
43:49
it's quite small and
43:51
compact in the competition.
43:53
However, it's extremely competitive.
43:56
Like I think they made a
43:57
post and the four of us,
44:00
like the top four of us are
44:02
all going to semifinals.
44:03
And the fifth place was
44:04
Megan Sears who went to semis last year.
44:08
So.
44:09
it's an extremely talented
44:10
pool of ladies that all
44:12
come and compete there.
44:14
Like, yeah, I would compare it to, I mean,
44:18
even some years at Canwest,
44:20
like probably had the same
44:21
amount of talent.
44:23
So yeah,
44:24
it's always a good battle in the
44:27
barracks.
44:28
Yeah.
44:29
Gabby shared that it was the
44:30
place where she first felt
44:34
like she figured out how to
44:36
have fun at a competition.
44:38
Hmm.
44:39
Um,
44:39
because of the people she got to
44:41
compete with.
44:43
Yeah.
44:44
Yeah.
44:45
We do always good to have
44:47
good chats and I mean,
44:49
it's tight quarters in there.
44:50
So you're, um,
44:51
you get to know one another
44:53
and they do make it a
44:54
really cool environment.
44:55
Like they always bring out
44:56
the lights and like the
44:57
steam machine for the big lifts.
45:00
Um, so it's a, yeah,
45:02
I would say it's quite
45:02
bonding of an experience.
45:06
Kyle says barracks is very
45:08
overstimulating good
45:09
practice yeah it is yeah
45:13
when you have to like max
45:14
out your jerk when there's
45:16
like lights shining right
45:17
in your eyes it's good it's
45:20
good practice Josie says
45:23
love you Ames thank you and
45:28
she and also best of the
45:29
best thanks Jocelyn
45:35
So we already talked about your goals.
45:40
We already talked about all
45:42
the stuff you've done to kind of prepare.
45:45
Compared to last year,
45:47
how are you positioned
45:48
yourself going into semis
45:51
compared to last year?
45:56
Good question.
46:01
I definitely feel fitter than last year.
46:04
We've done...
46:05
a ton of work on just like endurance side,
46:10
um,
46:10
mental side to keep pushing during the
46:13
endurance.
46:13
I haven't ran as much as I
46:15
would have liked,
46:16
but we're getting in some
46:17
running leading up to comp.
46:21
Um, and then on the skill side,
46:24
like the positioning,
46:26
we've done a ton of toes to bar.
46:28
I don't know if you remember,
46:30
but I blew up quite hard on the last,
46:32
last year's toe to bar event.
46:34
Um,
46:36
Yeah,
46:36
so just feeling a lot more
46:38
comfortable with those
46:39
movements and gaining confidence.
46:41
So I would say I'm a lot more confident.
46:45
I'm in a lot better head
46:46
space going into semifinals.
46:48
Like not every day is perfect.
46:49
I'm not going to say that.
46:53
But I feel like I'm ready to
46:55
go in and actually enjoy the experience.
46:58
Like so cool we're in the
46:59
tennis stadium in Carson
47:02
and not take it for granted.
47:04
Like,
47:04
who knows what's going to happen next
47:06
year?
47:06
Are you a student of the
47:09
history of CrossFit to know
47:11
how iconic that is?
47:14
Carson?
47:14
Yeah.
47:17
I mean, obviously I know the games.
47:20
were held there for,
47:21
I don't know how many years, four, five.
47:24
Yeah.
47:24
That's what I meant.
47:27
Yes.
47:29
Yeah.
47:29
I honestly, well,
47:30
I was trying to find them.
47:31
I think there are,
47:32
I have to rent them on Apple.
47:35
There's like the past two
47:36
years are available,
47:37
but then past that I have to rent,
47:38
but it's very tempting just
47:40
to get myself hyped up.
47:42
Like, Whoa,
47:42
we're going to be competing
47:44
where the games were.
47:46
It's pretty cool.
47:47
I started CrossFit in 2011.
47:49
I purchased them all as they came out.
47:51
So I own all of them.
47:56
That's awesome.
47:58
I know.
47:58
Cause I love going back and
48:00
rewatching them.
48:01
Yeah.
48:02
And the tennis stadium is so
48:03
iconic and so many big
48:05
events happen there.
48:07
I hope I want to be there so bad.
48:11
I just don't know if it's
48:12
going to happen this year.
48:14
Why wait?
48:15
Why?
48:18
Well,
48:18
I just found out on Monday that I was
48:20
approved for credentials.
48:23
And now the price of airline
48:25
tickets across country for me is insane.
48:31
Not to mention
48:32
accommodations in California
48:34
is not cheap.
48:36
No, everything.
48:38
It adds up, right?
48:40
Yeah.
48:40
But I hope you come.
48:42
I feel like you should do
48:43
GoFundMe or something.
48:47
or a t-shirt.
48:48
It's been a weird season for,
48:50
for us this year as a company,
48:53
I had some health problems
48:53
at the beginning of the
48:54
year and wasn't sure I was
48:55
going to be able to do much of anything.
48:57
Um,
48:58
and now I'm kind of fully recovered
49:00
trying to get back into the
49:01
swing and just,
49:03
I'm just trying to tell
49:04
myself it's only one season.
49:06
You just do what you can.
49:07
Um,
49:09
But either way,
49:10
we're going to be reaching
49:11
out to people as we do our
49:13
coverage from the weekend.
49:15
So you may get a DM from me
49:18
just to kind of see what
49:19
it's like and have you on
49:21
to talk about your events
49:23
during the weekend if you'd
49:24
be cool with that.
49:26
Oh, yeah.
49:26
I'd be happy to pop on and chat.
49:30
Yeah.
49:31
William Clark actually asks a question.
49:33
He's my husband.
49:36
How do you feel about the
49:37
first two workouts?
49:40
He knows I tested them yesterday.
49:42
They're tough.
49:46
My legs are very sore.
49:47
Is he in the house with you
49:52
now or is he at work or something?
49:54
No, he's on a job.
49:56
He goes into the field a lot,
49:58
so he's up in Hinton, Alberta.
50:00
It's like six hours away today,
50:02
but happy to see he has time to tune in.
50:08
I, I, so we have,
50:10
and I told you this last year,
50:11
we have a lot of Canadian
50:11
listeners and I was trying
50:13
to do Canadian geography
50:15
last week and British
50:19
Columbia and Alberta are
50:23
side by side on the West.
50:25
And the people in the chat
50:27
were saying that's the best
50:30
and forget about the rest.
50:32
Is that how you people in
50:32
the West really feel?
50:35
I mean, so my husband's from Ontario.
50:38
I went to Ontario for school.
50:41
So that's more of the Eastern side,
50:43
like around the lakes.
50:45
I've actually been there.
50:46
Okay.
50:48
I mean, and my brother lives in Toronto,
50:50
so I can't like, and we have, um,
50:52
my husband's family's in
50:53
Ottawa and also like
50:55
greater Toronto area.
50:56
So I can't totally bash it, but, uh,
50:58
we'd never moved to Ontario.
51:02
We'd never moved back there.
51:05
Yeah, for our lifestyle, at least.
51:07
Like, we have the mountains and, like,
51:12
B.C.
51:12
If you want to go to B.C., it's so close.
51:14
Like,
51:15
Vancouver Island's amazing on the ocean.
51:19
So I will say there's still perks.
51:22
Like, obviously,
51:22
Ontario has amazing lakes
51:25
and stuff like that.
51:26
And I have a lot of friends there,
51:27
but Ontario is awesome.
51:30
Yeah.
51:33
There's just too many people in Ontario,
51:36
specifically Toronto area.
51:39
I don't know if I've ever been in,
51:40
I've been to Toronto a bunch of times.
51:43
I don't think the weather
51:43
was ever nice one time I was there.
51:47
And Lake Superior was like,
51:50
or is it Lake Ontario?
51:51
Lake Ontario was like rough.
51:57
Yeah.
51:57
Depending on the time of year,
51:58
like they have really hot
52:00
days in the summer.
52:01
So that's like,
52:02
lovely lake weather and it's
52:04
like warm nights so there's
52:06
there's still benefits to
52:08
ontario because here in
52:10
alberta like it can be
52:11
really hot in the day and
52:12
then it drops at night
52:15
because it's a lot more dry
52:16
so it's like maybe it's 30
52:19
in the day and then it
52:20
drops to like 15. celsius
52:24
sorry yeah I don't know you
52:25
you metric people yeah
52:29
But I can somewhat convert-ish.
52:33
I get an idea.
52:34
Yeah.
52:35
Well, as always,
52:37
now that we've bashed Canada,
52:39
Eastern Canada, we can end the show.
52:42
But I'm so,
52:43
so glad that I've had you on
52:44
again this year.
52:45
I'm glad you're back.
52:47
Glad we got to catch up.
52:48
And we'll be watching and
52:50
rooting either from here or from there.
52:53
And we'll try to catch up
52:54
again that weekend.
52:56
Awesome.
52:57
I so much appreciate it.
52:58
Thank you for having me on.
52:59
And it's always fun chatting with you.
53:02
Yeah.
53:03
With that,
53:04
we thank you to everybody in the chat.
53:05
You've been awesome.
53:06
And we'll see everybody next
53:08
time on the Clydesdale
53:09
media podcast featuring the
53:12
athletes of the semifinals.
53:13
Bye guys.
53:16
Well,
53:17
there was the end and it didn't happen.
53:18
We're going to try again.