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Alison Stall | Athletes of the Legend's Master's CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  Hey, hey, chill.
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  Let's go.
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  I was born a killer.
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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 they 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 the hay.
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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 currently on
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  the mission to interview as
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  many of the Masters Games
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  athletes as we can over the
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  next several weeks before
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  the CrossFit Games in Birmingham,
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  Alabama.
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  We started with Rudy Berger
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  a couple weeks ago when I
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  got to go over to his house
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  and hang out with him.
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  Then we featured Allison and Zoe Fiala,
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  who both are a teen and a
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  master's athlete mother-daughter,
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  qualified and compete on the same weekend,
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  and how they're dealing with that.
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  But our first true profile
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  is the sweetest woman in CrossFit,
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  Allison Fiala.
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  Oh, thank you so much.
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  It just that made my day the
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  other day when you were like, Hey,
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  let's get you on the back on the show.
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  So yeah, I,
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  I've met a lot of people in this journey.
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  And you are above and beyond
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  the nicest person I've ever met.
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  Oh, well, thank you.
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  I don't know.
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  Hopefully people close,
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  like very close to me would
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  agree to that.
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  Hopefully my husband and my
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  children would so.
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  So yeah.
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  when you get out on that
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  floor there's a switch that
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  flips and and then it's all
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  on competitive fire uh
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  savage out there so uh it's
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  cool to see that kind of
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  transformation when you hit
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  the competition floor for
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  sure yeah try to at least so so yeah
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  So if people haven't seen
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  you on here before,
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  I need to tell them that
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  last year you made the
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  elite semifinals in North America East.
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  Yes,
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  that stacked North America East where
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  all the big time names are.
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  Allison made that and she was pregnant.
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  Yes, I competed.
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  I think I was 14 weeks
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  pregnant during that weekend.
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  So, so yeah.
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  And feeling it pretty well.
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  I had some good and some,
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  some not good at all, but, but I was,
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  I was so thankful that
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  there was not a movement
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  that came up that I was like, Hey,
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  I just have no business
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  doing this 14 weeks pregnant.
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  So,
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  so I was just thankful to get to do the
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  whole weekend and,
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  and not have any pressure
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  and just go and have fun and enjoy it.
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  So it was a blast.
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  It was so much fun.
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  What I thought was cool is
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  you actually competed in
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  regionals in like 2016.
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  Yes.
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  And then what, like seven years later,
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  you make it back to that stage.
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  Yes.
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  And it just shows like what
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  consistency hitting your gym,
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  like consistently every
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  week that you can get,
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  but you can do amazing things.
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  For sure.
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  Yes.
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  Um, yeah, it's been a long,
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  a long journey.
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  I've had two Achilles
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  surgeries since then.
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  I've had two pregnancies, two C-sections,
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  um, one full recovery from a pregnancy.
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  And then one that I'm like, I'm,
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  I'm right at eight,
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  eight months postpartum right now.
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  So with my little girl, so, um,
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  so I'm getting there.
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  Still have a long way to go though.
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  That's a perfect segue into
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  what I wanted to talk about now is how,
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  how far into your pregnancy
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  were you able to work out?
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  Oh,
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  I worked out the entire pregnancy and
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  wow.
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  I am so glad that I did.
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  Um, I, now this wasn't,
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  I wasn't doing like full
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  CrossFit training every single day.
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  What I really loved being
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  pregnant was taking full
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  advantage of our class
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  workouts and going to class.
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  especially after semifinals was over.
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  I had that whole summer last
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  summer just to jump in
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  class and just be a part of
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  our community.
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  I love our community at our gym,
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  CrossFit Electric City,
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  and just do our class workouts.
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  And I was able to modify as
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  my pregnancy progressed,
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  which meant if they were
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  doing GHD sit-ups, I was doing
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  no sort of sit-ups,
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  but I was doing things like
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  kettlebell swings or slam
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  balls or something just to
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  get like a hip opening and
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  closing movement.
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  I was still doing, you know,
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  things like pull-ups,
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  but my butterfly pull-ups
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  became kipping pull-ups and
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  then it became banded
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  pull-ups and then it
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  So getting to go through the
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  whole progression and just
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  getting to modify as I went,
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  I'm so thankful.
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  And I feel like that helped
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  me as a coach as well.
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  Just, you know,
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  we've had pregnant women
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  come and go at our gym and, you know,
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  getting to be an example for them,
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  but also getting to like
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  gain knowledge and gain
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  experience to be able to
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  help others as a coach as well with that.
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  And so, yeah.
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  Um,
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  I was able to thankfully do a good bit.
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  Um,
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  some days I just did not have the energy,
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  especially from chasing a
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  toddler around all day, um, as well.
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  So it was like, you know,
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  today I'm just going to go
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  for a two mile walk.
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  And, um, that was great as well.
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  But, um, but thankfully, yeah, I was still,
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  you know, on the machines at the gym.
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  I was, you know, doing,
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  doing what I could.
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  So, so yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I think every time I have you on,
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  you pre-read my notes,
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  and I don't know how you
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  get a hold of them.
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  And then you give me segues
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  into the next thing I want to talk about.
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  Okay, cool.
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  Yeah.
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  But you are a coach.
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  Do you have to take time
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  away with this pregnancy
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  and subsequently postpartum?
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  Yes.
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  So I actually did not take time.
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  Well, I think the week leading up to birth,
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  I did not coach that that week,
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  that morning.
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  But I want to say I gave
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  myself three weeks after
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  giving birth and then I was
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  back in the gym.
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  But I do want to preface back in the day.
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  So probably three, four years ago,
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  I used to coach full time
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  and I had a good bit of classes.
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  I coached.
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  I had personal training clients.
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  Um, but we, we moved, um, to the town,
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  like one town over and then came back.
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  Um,
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  and then I had a kid in that time that
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  I stay at home with.
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  And so it's just been hard
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  to like get those hours to coach.
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  So, um, when I came back coaching,
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  I was coaching one morning
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  a week and then filling in as needed.
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  So it's really not like I'm coaching, um,
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  in the capacity that I used to, um,
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  I do remote coaching.
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  So I have a couple of
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  clients that I program, um,
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  for like their competitors,
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  they want competitor style programming.
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  Um,
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  but then I also have nutrition clients
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  remote.
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  So that's great to have the
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  remote cause I can do it, you know,
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  after my kids go to bed,
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  my husband's very,
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  very great about that as well.
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  I'm helping out in the
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  afternoon so I can go, um,
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  get some check-ins done with
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  people or take advantage of
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  it on Sundays.
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  So remote is kind of where
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  I'm at right now.
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  But I do,
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  I love the morning that I get to
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  coach every morning.
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  So I hope and pray that one
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  day the opportunity will be
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  there for me to step back
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  in and coach more hours.
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  But,
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  having a very newly
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  three-year-old and an eight-month-old,
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  it's tough when I stay at home with them.
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  And I will say some people
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  do a great job bringing
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  their kids to the gym.
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  And I definitely have done that before.
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  But if I were to go coach,
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  I would not trust my
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  three-year-old to behave.
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  He loves the gym,
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  but he needs supervision at the gym.
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  So we don't have like
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  childcare or anything.
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  So yeah.
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  I think my wife's phrase is
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  seasons of life, right?
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  This is the season you're in.
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  It's going to change at some point.
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  And then you're going to get
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  to do other things you love
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  again and get to then love
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  on your kids in a different way.
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  For sure.
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  And I'm that's I love the
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  way you said that,
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  because that is like what I hope.
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  I hope that one day, you know,
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  when I have a little bit
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  more child care for them,
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  that I can jump back in and do some more.
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  But but yeah, so I coach five and six a.m.
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  every Tuesday morning.
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  But but yes.
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  And then, like I said, fill in as needed.
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  So.
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  So your husband is Dan.
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  And I've heard.
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  And we both know Jamie.
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  She's my co-host.
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  She's one of my best friends.
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  I know that you two have
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  connected through competition a lot.
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  She says that if you're a
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  competitive athlete at the
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  level you guys are at,
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  you have to be somewhat selfish.
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  Do you feel that you are?
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  And do you think your
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  husband helps you to be that way?
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  He definitely helps a lot.
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  He actually we've had a lot
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  going on this summer.
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  He took on a new job,
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  a new and he's a sales.
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  He does like medical sales.
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  And so he now sells a new a new drug,
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  a new product.
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  And he has been slammed like
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  some mornings leaving the house at seven,
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  not getting home till five.
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  But he's been great about like, hey,
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  you take the time that you
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  need to go to the gym.
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  So some days that means I
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  show up at the gym after
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  five and I stay for two
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  hours and then I get my
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  stuff in all packed in.
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  I mean, it's just very focused at the gym.
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  Get it in.
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  Get out.
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  Like last Saturday,
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  we had an appointment for
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  our son in Greenville.
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  And so I went to the gym
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  when we got back that afternoon.
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  So he took care of the kids
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  while I went to the gym.
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  by myself that afternoon and
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  got some stuff in then.
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  Um, so yes, he's very good and he's,
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  he's awesome about it.
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  I'm probably the problem.
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  I get the worst mom guilt.
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  So I like the thought of not
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  being able to be at home
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  for like bath time and
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  tucking my kids in.
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  Um,
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  is to like, I,
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  it's like one of those
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  things I can't sacrifice,
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  which is another reason why
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  I don't really love to
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  coach in the afternoons
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  because I don't want to get
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  home at eight because my
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  kids will already be asleep
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  or on the way to being asleep.
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  And so,
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  so that's something that I
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  definitely struggled with,
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  especially this pregnancy
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  is just trying to find that selfishness,
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  I guess.
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  Because I,
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  I just want to be at home with my family.
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  So, but I also want to be in the gym.
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  So it's, it's tough, but, but yeah.
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  It's funny when, when my daughter was,
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  and she just turned 23 yesterday.
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  So like this was a long time ago,
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  but when she was a baby, um,
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  I would always take the evening shift,
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  like,
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  cause she liked to stay up my daughter.
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  So I would stay up till like 10 30, 11.
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  My daughter,
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  my wife would go to bed early
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  and then my wife would be
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  up for like the early
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  morning so that we would
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  just do these shifts to make it easier on,
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  on both of us.
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  Love that.
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  Yes.
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  And he's great about that.
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  For example, like I said, last Monday,
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  I didn't make it to the gym
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  till after five.
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  I actually jumped in and did
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  our five 30 class and did
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  some lifting before that
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  did one other piece that
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  had some running and cleaning.
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  It was basically very
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  similar to that semifinal
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  workout with the running
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  and cleaning jerks after class.
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  And while I did that, he bathed both kids,
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  got our baby fed, got her down.
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  And then he was pretty much
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  getting our son to sleep when I got home.
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  So, so yeah.
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  But that's rare.
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  I don't want I'd rather just
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  come in a little bit
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  earlier if I'm able to.
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  And we've been able to hire
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  a babysitter the past several weeks.
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  So that's been helpful.
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  So, yeah.
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  So, and,
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  and my wife would feel that guilt too.
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  She was, you know, she was mama bear like,
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  and to this day she is mama bear, right?
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  Yeah.
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  I'm glad she let me have that time.
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  Cause that was just,
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  those evening hours were
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  just me and my daughter and I,
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  and that gave her and I that time alone.
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  For sure.
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  And, and as a dad, I wanted that too.
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  I love that.
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  Yes.
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  That's great.
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  So, so yeah.
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  Um,
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  So you're eight months postpartum.
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  I believe that's what Tia
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  was when she competed at Rogue.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, that sounds about right.
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  Six, seven, eight, somewhere around there.
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  When you see someone like
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  that doing what you're doing, again,
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  Tia's a different level.
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  Yes.
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  Does that give you
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  inspiration and hope that,
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  Oh yes.
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  Yes, for sure.
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  Tia at Rogue.
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  I watched,
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  I watched that competition and it I think,
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  yes, it was end of October.
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  I gave birth the next month.
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  And so I'm over here thinking I'm no Tia.
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  So I'm not dumb enough to
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  compare myself to Tia and
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  think if Tia can do it, I can do it.
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  But it is so inspirational to see her,
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  you know,
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  just come back and you can tell
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  that she's not like, she wasn't like,
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  you know, full, full Tia back,
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  but she did her best.
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  And I remember hearing
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  something afterwards of her
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  just saying how proud she was of herself,
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  um, for that.
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  And then another,
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  another instance was in the games, 2021,
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  I just given birth, um, to my first.
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  And I remember just being
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  super emotional postpartum
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  and then watching any
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  Thor's daughter snatch,
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  whatever weight that was 200 and whatnot.
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  I can't remember what it was after,
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  you know,
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  almost a year of giving
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  birth to her first.
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  And I remember crying, like just, you know,
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  so inspirational.
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  So, so yes.
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  What do you think that these
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  female CrossFitters are
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  doing to redefine what it
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  means to be a mom and to be
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  postpartum and what being
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  healthy going into the
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  pregnancy does for your recovery?
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  Oh, for sure.
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  Yeah, I I think that's so important.
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  And that's kind of what what
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  my mission has been as well.
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  I've never want anybody to
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  compare themselves to me
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  because we all have
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  different journeys as far as like,
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  you know, our pregnancies are different.
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  We have different complications.
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  We have different things
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  that may be going on.
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  We have different births, different.
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  postpartum journeys,
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  different support at home.
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  So it's definitely,
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  you never want to compare,
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  but I definitely want to be
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  an inspiration to others.
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  And that was kind of why,
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  in the back of my mind, I was like, hey,
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  this may not be my year for the games.
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  But the fact they were
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  taking 40 did give me some
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  hope that maybe I could.
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  But I had said from the
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  start that if I did make it,
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  that I want it to be for
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  all the moms out there, just to show that,
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  hey, when you have a kid or two kids,
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  you can still do these
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  things and it does require
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  a lot of hard work.
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  It's not going to look the
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  same as it used to.
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  You're not going to be able
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  to spend five hours in the gym.
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  Um, your,
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  your sessions in the gym may be a
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  lot more focused.
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  You have to really focus on
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  recovery outside of the gym
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  because there's not a lot
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  of time for in the gym.
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  Um,
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  But it can be done.
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  And I know for me, when I was pregnant,
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  I sought the help of a
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  pelvic floor physical
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  therapist who she's a very
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  good friend of mine.
• 15:28
  And so she was super helpful
• 15:30
  for me and gave me
• 15:31
  confidence when I was
• 15:32
  pregnant and gave me all
• 15:33
  the rehab to do postpartum.
• 15:35
  So those first couple months
• 15:37
  after getting birth are so
• 15:38
  crucial because you've got to know,
• 15:42
  you know, that you can't push it yet.
• 15:44
  That athlete brain kicks in.
• 15:46
  Uh, but you have to just do your rehab.
• 15:48
  So I did lots of core strengthening,
• 15:50
  lots of glute strengthening and, um,
• 15:54
  and yeah, and that,
• 15:54
  that makes a huge difference.
• 15:56
  So, so yeah,
• 15:58
  there's a lot that goes on
• 15:59
  behind the scenes and what
• 15:59
  people see on social media for sure.
• 16:03
  So I look at you and, and I'm like,
• 16:08
  there's no way this woman
• 16:09
  was pregnant eight months ago.
• 16:12
  Right.
• 16:12
  Yes.
• 16:14
  You've bounced back.
• 16:18
  From a looks perspective,
• 16:20
  like really fast.
• 16:21
  And I'm sure that like
• 16:22
  you're saying pelvic floor,
• 16:25
  like even Tia said at Rogue,
• 16:27
  like she couldn't even wear
• 16:27
  a weight belt because of recovery.
• 16:30
  She was still going on.
• 16:31
  Right.
• 16:32
  Going on inside the abdomen area.
• 16:35
  So where are you today with
• 16:37
  your fitness and recovery?
• 16:40
  Yeah.
• 16:40
  80, 90%.
• 16:44
  Probably not anywhere close to that.
• 16:46
  But thank you for that.
• 16:47
  That means a lot because I
• 16:48
  think we're our worst critics.
• 16:50
  And it's so easy to still
• 16:52
  compare myself to who I was, let's say,
• 16:56
  beginning of 2023 when I
• 16:57
  felt like I was in my prime.
• 17:00
  I was just fully recovered
• 17:02
  from having my first after 18 months of
• 17:05
  Um, and, and now it's like,
• 17:08
  like I was just at the gym
• 17:09
  literally right before I hopped on this,
• 17:10
  I got to go to the gym and
• 17:12
  we had a three by five back
• 17:14
  squat and we've been trying
• 17:14
  to progress every week.
• 17:16
  And my numbers are just nowhere near,
• 17:19
  they're actually weaker
• 17:20
  than they were when I was pregnant.
• 17:21
  Like just those good pregnancy hormones,
• 17:24
  um,
• 17:25
  that were pumping.
• 17:26
  I just do not have a lot of
• 17:27
  that right now.
• 17:29
  So, so it's, like I said, it's,
• 17:31
  things may look a lot
• 17:32
  better on the outside than
• 17:33
  they really are.
• 17:34
  I think on social media,
• 17:35
  we love to like portray our best when,
• 17:38
  you know, behind the scenes, it's,
• 17:40
  It's a struggle for sure.
• 17:42
  So just trying to stay super
• 17:43
  positive about it, trying to stay like,
• 17:47
  hey, you know,
• 17:48
  I even did a post on my
• 17:49
  story right before I jumped
• 17:50
  on this of like, hey,
• 17:51
  I used to be able to do
• 17:52
  this weight for 10 plus reps.
• 17:54
  And today it was a struggle
• 17:55
  to do three by five, but I did it.
• 17:58
  And yeah.
• 17:59
  And so just like it's just
• 18:01
  enjoying the rebuilding
• 18:02
  process is so huge.
• 18:04
  And and so, yeah,
• 18:05
  that's that's been that's been key.
• 18:08
  I will say after I stopped breastfeeding,
• 18:11
  I stopped breastfeeding
• 18:12
  after five months.
• 18:13
  So for a couple of few months now,
• 18:15
  I've I've not been breastfeeding.
• 18:17
  And for me, both pregnancies,
• 18:18
  that has actually made a
• 18:20
  huge difference in how I felt.
• 18:22
  And I think Tia had said the
• 18:23
  same thing that once she
• 18:25
  stopped around that time, um,
• 18:27
  and now some,
• 18:28
  some ladies may be totally
• 18:29
  different and can
• 18:31
  breastfeed and be totally fine for,
• 18:34
  you know,
• 18:34
  a year or however long they
• 18:35
  choose to do that.
• 18:36
  But for me, um,
• 18:38
  it's like your hormones are
• 18:40
  really just off while
• 18:41
  you're doing that and, um,
• 18:43
  always tired and, um,
• 18:45
  your body holds onto a lot of fat.
• 18:47
  Um, or for me it did, um,
• 18:49
  just trying to produce milk, I guess.
• 18:50
  And, um, and so once I stopped doing that,
• 18:53
  I felt like that was when I
• 18:55
  started to see some like
• 18:56
  changes like aesthetically.
• 18:59
  So, so yeah.
• 19:02
  So I've heard both Annie and
• 19:04
  Tia talk about how their
• 19:06
  strength came back quicker
• 19:08
  because of the way their
• 19:10
  hormones reacted to the pregnancy.
• 19:12
  But if you're saying that
• 19:14
  yours didn't do that,
• 19:15
  it just shows that every
• 19:16
  pregnancy is different.
• 19:18
  Yes, for sure.
• 19:19
  And same with weight.
• 19:21
  People are like, oh, you know,
• 19:22
  breastfeeding just takes
• 19:23
  those pounds off of you.
• 19:25
  And I'm still five pounds
• 19:27
  from my pre-pregnancy weight.
• 19:28
  And that's fine if I never get back there.
• 19:32
  You know, after giving birth,
• 19:34
  your body's just different.
• 19:36
  And that's fine.
• 19:37
  I know that for me, I'm doing my best.
• 19:39
  I'm making healthy eating choices.
• 19:40
  I'm eating enough.
• 19:42
  I'm not going out and
• 19:43
  getting crumble cookie
• 19:45
  every weekend that I would
• 19:46
  which I would love to do, but I'm not,
• 19:49
  you know, I'm, I'm trying to be very,
• 19:50
  very good about what I'm eating,
• 19:51
  what I'm putting in my body.
• 19:54
  You know, so, so yeah, so that,
• 19:57
  that definitely makes,
• 19:58
  makes a difference as well,
• 20:00
  but it's still,
• 20:01
  you just have to be proud
• 20:02
  of the effort you're
• 20:02
  putting in and then let God do the rest.
• 20:04
  So, so yeah.
• 20:07
  So we'll get,
• 20:10
  we'll get to the games in a second.
• 20:11
  And you mentioned God.
• 20:13
  So through this all, it sounds like
• 20:15
  that you've had some
• 20:16
  struggles like mentally just with like,
• 20:19
  and I, and trust me, I am,
• 20:21
  I am big in this.
• 20:23
  I compare to my pre-back surgery, Scott,
• 20:26
  right.
• 20:27
  And, and comparison is the thief of joy.
• 20:30
  For sure.
• 20:31
  And it,
• 20:32
  and it is something I struggle with
• 20:33
  all the time.
• 20:34
  How much do you lean on your
• 20:36
  faith and your church
• 20:39
  community to help you through all this?
• 20:41
  Oh, so much.
• 20:44
  Just knowing that everything
• 20:45
  happens for a reason.
• 20:46
  I feel like if I don't have
• 20:48
  that foundation,
• 20:49
  then everything's going to just crumble.
• 20:52
  So having that foundation of
• 20:55
  my faith and just knowing
• 20:56
  that I firmly believe that
• 20:59
  everything happens for a reason.
• 21:00
  And if it's
• 21:01
  you know, if it's not good, what good,
• 21:04
  you know, for me,
• 21:05
  like there's a reason behind it.
• 21:06
  And God has always shown that to me.
• 21:08
  And I guess an example of
• 21:09
  that would be my pregnancy.
• 21:10
  Like I think I share on the last show,
• 21:13
  getting pregnant last year,
• 21:14
  I struggled with it so much
• 21:15
  because I had that momentum.
• 21:18
  Like I was,
• 21:18
  it was 18 months after having
• 21:19
  my son and I was starting
• 21:20
  to feel like myself again.
• 21:22
  I just won Wadapalooza.
• 21:23
  I was like,
• 21:24
  I really want to make the games
• 21:25
  this year.
• 21:26
  I think I can do it.
• 21:27
  I finally believe that I can.
• 21:29
  And then I'm pregnant and I'm
• 21:31
  And I, you know, so it just,
• 21:34
  I was a little upset with
• 21:35
  the timing of it,
• 21:36
  but I wouldn't want my life
• 21:38
  any different right now.
• 21:39
  Like I'm,
• 21:39
  I'm so thankful as hard as it's been.
• 21:41
  It's been the hardest thing
• 21:43
  I've probably ever done
• 21:43
  going from one child to two children.
• 21:46
  I wouldn't want it any, any different.
• 21:48
  So it's just always having
• 21:50
  to surrender to that.
• 21:52
  And just knowing that like, Hey,
• 21:53
  my life is, I'm just open-handed and I'm,
• 21:57
  whatever comes at me, we'll just,
• 21:59
  we'll figure it out.
• 21:59
  So, um,
• 22:00
  and it'll make me stronger in the
• 22:02
  process.
• 22:02
  Cause I'll be honest,
• 22:03
  it's shown me how selfish I
• 22:04
  was going from one child to
• 22:07
  two children and just the
• 22:08
  thoughts that I've had of,
• 22:09
  I wish I could be at the gym.
• 22:10
  I wish I could go be coaching.
• 22:11
  I wish I could be doing this or this,
• 22:13
  but instead I'm holding
• 22:14
  this baby that's crying and
• 22:15
  screaming and trying to get her to sleep.
• 22:18
  And, um, so, so yeah, so it's,
• 22:20
  it's been tough for sure.
• 22:22
  But if I didn't have my faith and, um,
• 22:25
  I don't know.
• 22:25
  I would be a mess.
• 22:26
  So, so yeah.
• 22:28
  Every, every time I have those thoughts,
• 22:30
  my mom always says to me, it's God's time,
• 22:32
  not your time.
• 22:33
  For sure.
• 22:34
  Yeah.
• 22:34
  And, um, and when I first heard, I'm like,
• 22:39
  Oh, you're probably right.
• 22:40
  But man, it stinks.
• 22:42
  Like I, um, but I think like,
• 22:47
  like God uses us.
• 22:48
  Right.
• 22:48
  And,
• 22:48
  and you could be such an example to so
• 22:51
  many, um,
• 22:53
  and the way you're handling it, right?
• 22:56
  For sure.
• 22:57
  And I'm trying.
• 22:59
  I sometimes have some
• 23:00
  moments where I'm like,
• 23:01
  I get very frustrated.
• 23:03
  I get jealous even.
• 23:04
  I see people around me who have, you know,
• 23:07
  a lot more time to work out.
• 23:09
  And these are people who, you know,
• 23:11
  don't even have any
• 23:12
  competitions coming up, but they're,
• 23:13
  you know, training, training, training.
• 23:15
  And I'm here like
• 23:17
  Oh, I wish I could, but I,
• 23:19
  I'm not going to bring my
• 23:20
  kids up to the gym and make
• 23:21
  them sit in a hundred degrees.
• 23:23
  Like it's so hot.
• 23:24
  Um, you know, and I just,
• 23:28
  I'd rather go to the park
• 23:29
  with them or go make some memories and,
• 23:32
  um,
• 23:33
  which is, it's tough.
• 23:34
  And all my mental capacity,
• 23:36
  I feel like goes to that.
• 23:37
  And then I go to the gym and
• 23:38
  it's just kind of like,
• 23:39
  here's what's left over.
• 23:41
  But at the same time,
• 23:42
  like as important as CrossFit is,
• 23:45
  it still is.
• 23:47
  I hate to say it's not the
• 23:48
  end all be all because we
• 23:49
  all were here because of CrossFit,
• 23:50
  you know, we love CrossFit.
• 23:52
  I'm so thankful that I get
• 23:54
  to do CrossFit every day,
• 23:55
  but I'm always having to remember,
• 23:56
  it's just not the end all be all.
• 23:58
  And there's so much more going around than,
• 24:01
  than this, you know?
• 24:02
  So,
• 24:03
  this is just the icing on top.
• 24:05
  So.
• 24:06
  See, it's funny because it's,
• 24:08
  it's all about perspective and,
• 24:11
  in your not as up, like you're right.
• 24:15
  2023.
• 24:15
  Like I, cause Jamie's my,
• 24:18
  one of my best friends,
• 24:18
  you two were battling
• 24:20
  competition after
• 24:21
  competition after
• 24:22
  competition for podium spots.
• 24:24
  Yes.
• 24:25
  And, and so that's how I got to know you.
• 24:28
  And I,
• 24:28
  and I got to learn about what the athlete,
• 24:30
  the kind of athlete you were,
• 24:31
  but in less than optimal
• 24:33
  situation as an athlete,
• 24:35
  you're going to be a rookie
• 24:36
  at the CrossFit games.
• 24:38
  Yeah, for sure.
• 24:39
  So isn't that really cool?
• 24:42
  It is.
• 24:43
  And it's just so cool how, I mean,
• 24:45
  so humbling how it happened
• 24:47
  because I was on the
• 24:48
  outside looking in and
• 24:52
  somebody declined and
• 24:54
  actually two people declined.
• 24:55
  And that's how Haley Murillo
• 24:56
  and how I both got in.
• 24:57
  We were 41 and 42 and
• 24:57
  somehow we both got in.
• 24:59
  So, so yeah.
• 25:06
  God's time, not our time.
• 25:08
  For sure.
• 25:09
  Yes.
• 25:09
  And I love that he's always
• 25:10
  going to make it to where I am not just,
• 25:14
  you know,
• 25:14
  easily getting in and that can
• 25:16
  make me prideful and go
• 25:19
  into something just like, oh, well,
• 25:21
  I got this.
• 25:22
  I'm better than everybody else, you know?
• 25:23
  And it's like, no, you're literally...
• 25:26
  next to last place, you know,
• 25:28
  ranked going in and, um,
• 25:30
  only up from here though.
• 25:31
  So, so I feel good.
• 25:33
  I feel I'm a much better, um,
• 25:35
  athlete now than I was a
• 25:36
  couple months ago during semifinals too.
• 25:38
  So.
• 25:39
  Again, you're, you're in my notes.
• 25:41
  So I know you finished
• 25:43
  better quarterfinals than
• 25:45
  you did semifinals.
• 25:46
  I did.
• 25:46
  I, and that's what after quarterfinals,
• 25:48
  I was like, wow, maybe I can do this.
• 25:50
  Cause the open,
• 25:50
  I was a couple months postpartum.
• 25:53
  I was, um,
• 25:54
  even that burpee dumbbell snatch workout,
• 25:56
  I was just a mess.
• 25:57
  I could,
• 25:58
  I couldn't even really jump over
• 25:59
  the dumbbell correctly.
• 26:00
  Like I was like,
• 26:01
  I had to like practice
• 26:02
  jumping over lateral over a dumbbell.
• 26:04
  Um, so the open, I was like, wow,
• 26:06
  I think I was like right under 200th.
• 26:08
  Um, and then quarterfinals.
• 26:12
  Yeah.
• 26:12
  I, that's what gave me hope to think, wow,
• 26:14
  I can actually probably
• 26:16
  going from 200 to 30th.
• 26:16
  I think I was 30th.
• 26:17
  Um,
• 26:19
  is a big jump and,
• 26:21
  and I feel great about it.
• 26:22
  And so, um,
• 26:23
  but then I got very humbled
• 26:25
  when submissions were in
• 26:26
  for the first night of
• 26:27
  semifinals and I was like
• 26:28
  50 something and after
• 26:31
  workouts one and two, and I was like,
• 26:32
  Whoa,
• 26:33
  I thought I would be better than this.
• 26:35
  So, um, so it was,
• 26:37
  it was a rollercoaster for sure.
• 26:39
  But yeah, quarterfinals, I know that row,
• 26:41
  the EMOM workout, um, went well for me.
• 26:45
  Um,
• 26:46
  the snatch and the row and the step ups,
• 26:48
  um,
• 26:49
  Um, yeah, there,
• 26:51
  I think the burpee one was fine.
• 26:53
  The wall ball burpee box jump over, uh,
• 26:56
  the gymnastics one was not good for me,
• 26:58
  but like I said,
• 26:59
  I was three months
• 27:00
  postpartum and I would love
• 27:01
  to retest that one now.
• 27:02
  So, so yeah.
• 27:05
  So I talked to Rudy and his
• 27:07
  wife Lynette a couple of weeks ago,
• 27:09
  and I find it like bizarre
• 27:12
  that the master semifinals
• 27:14
  ends before the elite.
• 27:17
  Yet your games are after the elite.
• 27:20
  So that gives you like a
• 27:22
  three month period of
• 27:24
  nothing until you get to the games.
• 27:27
  Right.
• 27:27
  Right.
• 27:28
  For Ruby,
• 27:29
  that's two-time champ going into
• 27:32
  this year trying to like three-peat.
• 27:35
  That would be frustrating
• 27:36
  that you have to kind of
• 27:36
  like woe back your training
• 27:39
  so that you don't overtrain
• 27:40
  and then figure it out.
• 27:41
  For you,
• 27:42
  every day you get postpartum is
• 27:45
  better for you.
• 27:46
  For sure.
• 27:47
  And I feel that 100%.
• 27:47
  So that's been nice.
• 27:51
  I love just the rebuilding process.
• 27:53
  I loved it after my Achilles surgeries.
• 27:55
  I loved it.
• 27:56
  Um, after my first child and,
• 27:59
  and getting to do it again
• 28:00
  has been really cool.
• 28:01
  So, so what,
• 28:03
  what have you done in this
• 28:04
  three months to one,
• 28:07
  not overtrain and to like
• 28:10
  take advantage of that time
• 28:12
  to be the most ready you
• 28:13
  can for the games?
• 28:15
  Yeah.
• 28:15
  Thankfully, as far as volume goes,
• 28:18
  the volume I'm putting in
• 28:19
  is not not that not a lot.
• 28:22
  So my coach has been great.
• 28:26
  So my coach is he he coaches
• 28:28
  just like the people who
• 28:29
  like to compete at our gym.
• 28:30
  So we do class programming,
• 28:33
  but we can modify it up to
• 28:35
  kind of fit more of like where we're at.
• 28:37
  And then he gives us extra
• 28:39
  stuff like some competitor
• 28:40
  training that has been
• 28:42
  super helpful for me.
• 28:43
  So so I prioritize that.
• 28:47
  I'm also doing it with, for example,
• 28:49
  there's a boy who does his
• 28:50
  name's Caden Myers.
• 28:51
  He went to the games last year.
• 28:52
  17 year old did really well.
• 28:54
  And now he is he is so good now.
• 28:57
  And I'm like,
• 28:58
  I don't need to be doing the
• 28:59
  volume that Caden's doing.
• 29:00
  He's he just turned 18 years old.
• 29:02
  And, you know, I crash crucible, right?
• 29:05
  He did.
• 29:06
  Yes, he did crash.
• 29:07
  Yes.
• 29:07
  And so so it's like I it's
• 29:10
  all in there and I just
• 29:11
  prioritize what I need to do.
• 29:13
  So I do that on my own.
• 29:14
  Usually I'll ask him for
• 29:16
  guidance sometimes, just like, hey,
• 29:17
  here's what I'm thinking.
• 29:18
  I'm going to back squat,
• 29:20
  then snatch and then do
• 29:21
  this conditioning piece.
• 29:22
  And that's probably all I
• 29:23
  have time for today.
• 29:24
  He was great and very clear about like how,
• 29:27
  hey,
• 29:27
  let's really dial it in six weeks out.
• 29:30
  And I've known for me,
• 29:32
  he's he's coached me over the past, gosh,
• 29:34
  since since regionals 2016.
• 29:36
  So he really knows me as an athlete.
• 29:38
  And that six week time
• 29:41
  training block has always
• 29:42
  worked really well for me
• 29:43
  to not get burnt out and not overdo it.
• 29:46
  So it worked out perfect
• 29:48
  because we had a vacation
• 29:49
  plan to Mexico to an inclusive resort.
• 29:52
  My husband and I did with
• 29:54
  seven couples from our gym there.
• 29:56
  And it was a blast,
• 29:59
  but we had it planned for a full year.
• 30:01
  So it worked out great that
• 30:03
  right when I got back,
• 30:04
  the six weeks started.
• 30:05
  So went and had a vacation,
• 30:07
  stayed super active on vacation,
• 30:10
  went to the gym every day.
• 30:11
  Played volleyball every day, walked,
• 30:13
  tried to be mindful about
• 30:15
  water and eating and all that,
• 30:17
  but came back ready to roll.
• 30:19
  And honestly,
• 30:20
  it took a few days to kind of
• 30:21
  get in the groove of being back.
• 30:24
  But since the middle of last
• 30:26
  week into this week,
• 30:27
  I feel like a new person.
• 30:28
  Like, I feel like...
• 30:30
  I feel motivated now.
• 30:33
  I feel like I'm seeing some
• 30:34
  progress now and it's
• 30:36
  really bumping my confidence up.
• 30:38
  And when I'm confident,
• 30:39
  I feel like I can do even better.
• 30:41
  So yeah,
• 30:43
  so that's where we're at five weeks out.
• 30:45
  So I think the goal is to
• 30:48
  push it for the next two,
• 30:49
  three weeks and then back
• 30:50
  off that last week and a
• 30:52
  half and kind of taper down.
• 30:53
  So yeah.
• 30:55
  So a couple of fun questions.
• 30:58
  You're going into this games
• 31:00
  as a rookie and there's a
• 31:02
  lot of like perennial
• 31:05
  semifinal athletes that
• 31:07
  I've gotten to know over
• 31:08
  the last few years.
• 31:09
  I think,
• 31:10
  I hope everybody has like Haley
• 31:12
  Murillo and Holly Henderson
• 31:15
  and Kelly Kelly and like,
• 31:19
  and you're competing
• 31:21
  against all these people
• 31:22
  and it's going to be their
• 31:23
  rookie year too.
• 31:24
  I know that's cool.
• 31:25
  Yeah.
• 31:27
  So when you look at it like
• 31:28
  a leaderboard like that,
• 31:29
  do you look at it as a challenge?
• 31:31
  Like, hey,
• 31:31
  it's fun to be out here with
• 31:32
  these ladies.
• 31:33
  Like,
• 31:34
  what is your perspective at this point?
• 31:36
  Yeah, that's a great question.
• 31:38
  So I originally like at first glance,
• 31:41
  I'm super intimidated to be
• 31:43
  to be real with you just
• 31:44
  because I'm not where I
• 31:45
  like want to be yet.
• 31:47
  You know,
• 31:47
  and I know it's going to take
• 31:48
  probably nine more months
• 31:50
  to where I'm like back to
• 31:51
  like 2023 Allison.
• 31:51
  Yeah.
• 31:55
  But I have to remember that
• 31:57
  I've been in this situation before.
• 31:58
  So like before I became a master's athlete,
• 32:01
  I had the opportunity to do
• 32:02
  some sanctionals and to do
• 32:03
  things like the Mayhem Classic,
• 32:06
  some big competitions like that,
• 32:07
  where I was in a heat with Tia,
• 32:09
  Christy Aramo, Daniel Brandon,
• 32:12
  Fisa Goffey, all in one heat one day.
• 32:14
  And I was in that last heat on Sunday.
• 32:17
  And, and so I have to remind myself like,
• 32:20
  Hey, you've done this before.
• 32:21
  Like, and yeah,
• 32:23
  you can, you can go do it again.
• 32:25
  And not that I'm going to go out there.
• 32:26
  I'm not trying to say I'm
• 32:27
  going to go out there and
• 32:28
  crush everybody and win.
• 32:30
  Like I'm, I'm not,
• 32:31
  but just to enjoy the experience.
• 32:33
  And like some of these girls, I do know,
• 32:35
  cause I've competed with them.
• 32:36
  Like Haley and I have,
• 32:37
  have done several
• 32:38
  competitions together and, you know,
• 32:40
  she's a newish mom as well.
• 32:42
  And so her and I talk sometimes, um,
• 32:46
  And I have all the respect for her.
• 32:48
  And, um, even like Jamie Higia,
• 32:50
  we've talked very briefly
• 32:51
  on Instagram and like,
• 32:53
  I have all the respect for her.
• 32:54
  Um, I don't really know, like Kelly,
• 32:56
  I mean, Andrea, Andrea Neisler,
• 32:58
  is that how you say it?
• 33:00
  Neisler?
• 33:00
  I'm not saying your name right.
• 33:01
  But I mean, how do you, you know,
• 33:03
  how do you not have respect
• 33:04
  for somebody like that?
• 33:05
  Especially how newly postpartum she is.
• 33:08
  She's newer than you.
• 33:10
  And like,
• 33:10
  Yes.
• 33:11
  Crazy.
• 33:12
  I feel like she gave birth
• 33:13
  in like March and then was,
• 33:15
  did that open workout with
• 33:16
  bar muscle ups or yeah.
• 33:18
  So yeah, super insane.
• 33:20
  Um, and I mean, that's awesome.
• 33:22
  And so just to get to go and,
• 33:24
  and share these experiences with,
• 33:26
  with these women,
• 33:27
  as well as some women who, um,
• 33:29
  when I did some masters
• 33:30
  cops pre pregnancy that I
• 33:32
  got to connect with like Amy Morton, um,
• 33:35
  you know, just,
• 33:35
  just some really great powerhouses who,
• 33:39
  you know, so it's just,
• 33:39
  it's an honor to be out there with them.
• 33:42
  And I'm a little intimidated, like I said,
• 33:44
  um,
• 33:45
  but I have to just keep reminding
• 33:46
  myself like, Hey, you've,
• 33:48
  you've been here.
• 33:48
  You're not like, I am a rookie,
• 33:50
  but at the same time, I,
• 33:52
  I feel like I could
• 33:53
  consider myself to be a
• 33:59
  so do you think that the
• 34:01
  masters games being
• 34:02
  separate from the elite is good or bad
• 34:07
  I think it's bad personally.
• 34:09
  But, hey,
• 34:10
  we won't know till this year when
• 34:12
  we get to be the testers for it.
• 34:14
  You know,
• 34:14
  I will say when they first announced it,
• 34:17
  I knew it was coming.
• 34:18
  I had a feeling it was coming,
• 34:19
  but I was a little bummed because,
• 34:24
  like I said,
• 34:24
  there's still part of me that
• 34:25
  stings a little bit.
• 34:26
  Last year,
• 34:27
  I was so close to making the
• 34:29
  games and then.
• 34:30
  got pregnant and then got 16th at semi.
• 34:32
  So I missed out and probably
• 34:34
  wouldn't have been able to go anyways,
• 34:35
  because I would have been
• 34:35
  like seven months pregnant for the games.
• 34:37
  But like, I just, I don't know.
• 34:40
  There's something about that
• 34:41
  that still stings that I
• 34:42
  didn't get to go to like Madison or this,
• 34:45
  you know,
• 34:45
  this year would have been in
• 34:46
  Fort Worth and get to be a
• 34:48
  part of that whole
• 34:49
  experience that stings.
• 34:52
  But all I can do is just
• 34:53
  hope that this is a good
• 34:55
  move and that they're going to make it,
• 34:57
  bigger and better and
• 34:58
  they're going to give the
• 34:59
  masters the coverage that
• 35:01
  they deserve and
• 35:03
  You know, so far, I don't really know.
• 35:05
  I don't know.
• 35:06
  It seems like CrossFit has been,
• 35:07
  to be honest,
• 35:09
  it seems like CrossFit kind
• 35:10
  of just passed it off and
• 35:11
  it's just kind of like
• 35:13
  y'all figure it out.
• 35:15
  So the Legends competition I
• 35:17
  did at Mayhem last year was top notch.
• 35:20
  And so I know those guys
• 35:22
  really know what they're doing.
• 35:24
  And so hopefully it'll be
• 35:25
  it'll be a lot of fun.
• 35:26
  So.
• 35:27
  But I don't love it.
• 35:29
  I wish it could have been, you know,
• 35:31
  at the games.
• 35:32
  But I also know they can't
• 35:32
  take 40 people in every division to,
• 35:35
  you know, the main CrossFit games either.
• 35:37
  So I'm very thankful because
• 35:39
  I wouldn't be there if it was just 10.
• 35:40
  So, yeah.
• 35:41
  Yeah.
• 35:42
  I think it's, yeah, I don't know.
• 35:46
  I think initially I thought it was bad.
• 35:48
  I think that it could be good.
• 35:50
  It's all, it's all dependent on how,
• 35:53
  how they do it.
• 35:54
  Right.
• 35:54
  Right.
• 35:55
  If you get there and they
• 35:56
  make you feel like a rock
• 35:56
  star and you get like a
• 35:58
  cool kit and all that stuff,
• 36:00
  I think like that will heal some wounds.
• 36:03
  For sure.
• 36:03
  Yep.
• 36:05
  Um, there's a lot of people ready to see.
• 36:07
  So yeah.
• 36:08
  Yeah.
• 36:09
  Yeah.
• 36:10
  Uh,
• 36:12
  Who's going to Birmingham with you?
• 36:14
  So my coach is going to go
• 36:15
  when I go on Wednesday.
• 36:16
  We'll probably just,
• 36:18
  cause it's like a four hour drive,
• 36:20
  which is so nice from, from Anderson,
• 36:22
  South Carolina.
• 36:24
  So we'll go Wednesday.
• 36:26
  And then my husband with
• 36:27
  work and everything, I think it's,
• 36:30
  He's still trying to figure it out,
• 36:31
  but he may not be able to go till Friday.
• 36:33
  So so he'll go Friday.
• 36:36
  We are debating on bringing our son,
• 36:39
  which that's on him.
• 36:40
  So I'm like, hey,
• 36:41
  I even mentioned trying to
• 36:43
  get a different hotel room
• 36:44
  and bringing him.
• 36:44
  But I was like, no, it will be fine.
• 36:47
  He can obviously be and
• 36:48
  it'll be it'll be great.
• 36:49
  So our son, he's three.
• 36:50
  He just turned three.
• 36:51
  He'll be he'll be there, I think.
• 36:53
  And then we actually have a
• 36:55
  handful of people from our
• 36:56
  gym that are going to go as well.
• 36:57
  So probably like six or
• 36:59
  eight that have already
• 37:00
  committed with like hotel
• 37:01
  rooms or Airbnbs.
• 37:02
  And then there's some other
• 37:03
  people on the fence that
• 37:04
  have like said they're going to go.
• 37:07
  But I think still trying to
• 37:08
  find some like somewhere to stay.
• 37:10
  So.
• 37:11
  So, yeah.
• 37:11
  Yeah.
• 37:12
  I love that people are
• 37:13
  committing from your gym to go.
• 37:15
  Yes.
• 37:15
  I think that's going to be a
• 37:17
  big tell as to how this
• 37:19
  separation is going to go.
• 37:20
  For sure.
• 37:21
  Yeah.
• 37:21
  If people come and support
• 37:23
  and there's a good crowd there,
• 37:24
  then that's only going to
• 37:25
  make it get bigger.
• 37:26
  Yes.
• 37:27
  I hope so.
• 37:28
  And it's meant so much to me.
• 37:29
  People like they'll text me
• 37:30
  their tickets that they got
• 37:31
  and they're like, Hey, we're in,
• 37:33
  we'll be there.
• 37:34
  And
• 37:35
  We have some,
• 37:35
  so we're right by Clemson
• 37:37
  University and I'm a Georgia fan,
• 37:39
  but that weekend, you know,
• 37:41
  football starts, college football,
• 37:42
  and that's big here.
• 37:43
  And so I think some people
• 37:45
  are going to go to the
• 37:46
  games or they've mentioned
• 37:47
  it and then go into Atlanta,
• 37:48
  which is a quick, you know,
• 37:50
  hour and a half, two hour drive,
• 37:52
  I think from Birmingham and
• 37:53
  then go to the Georgia
• 37:55
  Clemson game that night.
• 37:59
  So I think people are trying
• 38:00
  to make like a whole weekend of it.
• 38:01
  So, so yeah.
• 38:03
  Just,
• 38:04
  just have figured out and have a
• 38:05
  tailgate party in the parking lot.
• 38:06
  Right.
• 38:07
  That would be fun.
• 38:07
  I'm all for that.
• 38:08
  So for the day, go out, eat on a barbecue.
• 38:13
  Yes.
• 38:14
  I do better.
• 38:15
  And that those situations,
• 38:16
  then just going back to the
• 38:17
  hotel and just sitting there and,
• 38:19
  you know, being in my thoughts anyways.
• 38:22
  So Bob and Joe,
• 38:24
  that's how you make this
• 38:25
  thing a festival and a fun thing.
• 38:27
  College football opens up,
• 38:28
  get some big screen TVs in
• 38:30
  the parking lot.
• 38:31
  People barbecue.
• 38:32
  Yeah.
• 38:33
  you're onto something.
• 38:34
  So being in Alabama, I mean, that's,
• 38:37
  you know,
• 38:39
  you're down South college football.
• 38:40
  So, yeah.
• 38:42
  So, yeah.
• 38:44
  So my last question for you
• 38:46
  about the games is you're, you came in,
• 38:49
  you were the last person in the door.
• 38:51
  Yes.
• 38:52
  So it's all up from here.
• 38:54
  Right.
• 38:55
  How do you,
• 38:56
  how do you view that and what
• 38:58
  will be success?
• 39:00
  Yeah.
• 39:01
  So like I said,
• 39:01
  it's only up from here and I will say.
• 39:05
  Go dogs.
• 39:06
  Oh, go dogs.
• 39:06
  Yes.
• 39:07
  Go dogs.
• 39:09
  So, and like I said,
• 39:10
  Haley and I have talked
• 39:11
  about this cause we
• 39:12
  technically were both the last,
• 39:13
  the last ones to be let in.
• 39:15
  And we were, I even told her, I was like,
• 39:17
  well,
• 39:17
  only up from here, you know,
• 39:19
  but it honestly,
• 39:21
  it kind of takes some pressure off.
• 39:22
  Um, I'll be honest when I went to legends,
• 39:24
  like legends is a great
• 39:25
  example and masters fitness collective,
• 39:28
  both like the year before I
• 39:29
  actually placed first in the qualifier,
• 39:33
  I think if I'm remembering correctly.
• 39:35
  So when I went, it was like,
• 39:37
  I felt the pressure.
• 39:38
  Like I was like, you know,
• 39:40
  I feel like I have to win now.
• 39:42
  And it really,
• 39:43
  sometimes feeling that
• 39:44
  pressure makes me like not perform great.
• 39:47
  Um,
• 39:48
  Um,
• 39:49
  so it's kind of nice now to just to be
• 39:51
  like, Hey, you know what, like you said,
• 39:52
  only up from here and I'm
• 39:54
  going to go and just showcase what I got.
• 39:56
  And, um, I firmly believe too,
• 39:59
  that people like,
• 40:01
  they're going to forget where you placed.
• 40:03
  I even forget where I placed
• 40:04
  in competitions, but like,
• 40:06
  they're going to forget that,
• 40:06
  but they're going to always
• 40:07
  remember like how you carry yourself.
• 40:10
  They're going to remember, you know,
• 40:11
  what you stand for.
• 40:12
  They're gonna remember how you act on the,
• 40:14
  on the field, um, or the,
• 40:16
  whatever, you know?
• 40:17
  Um, and, and so I,
• 40:20
  I feel like that in life I've,
• 40:22
  I've had just like a lot of people,
• 40:23
  I've had a lot of hardships
• 40:25
  within CrossFit and, um,
• 40:27
  had to overcome a lot.
• 40:28
  And hopefully people just
• 40:30
  kind of remember me as that and not like,
• 40:33
  Oh, she's the girl that, you know,
• 40:34
  got 13th place, you know, or whatever,
• 40:37
  who knows what it will be.
• 40:38
  But, um, so yeah.
• 40:40
  Yeah.
• 40:41
  Well, when I think about you, as I said,
• 40:43
  at the top of the show is
• 40:45
  it's not where you've placed in anything.
• 40:46
  It's that you are the
• 40:47
  sweetest person I've ever met at the,
• 40:50
  through CrossFit.
• 40:52
  You hold yourself so well.
• 40:56
  And you should be proud of that.
• 40:58
  Thanks.
• 40:59
  I try, but I, I think those closest to me,
• 41:01
  hopefully they would agree.
• 41:03
  I have some moments.
• 41:05
  So, so yes, as we all do, but yeah.
• 41:08
  Well,
• 41:09
  as I told you before we got in the air,
• 41:11
  we got full approval for
• 41:12
  full access at the CrossFit
• 41:15
  Games Masters.
• 41:17
  And we're going to do a full
• 41:17
  behind the scenes.
• 41:19
  So, you know,
• 41:20
  I'm going to come talk to you
• 41:21
  at some point.
• 41:22
  Okay.
• 41:22
  I would love that.
• 41:23
  backstage and, uh,
• 41:25
  and we'll just get you in
• 41:27
  your natural habitat and, uh,
• 41:29
  hopefully you do well and
• 41:30
  we'll be there rooting for you.
• 41:31
  Of course.
• 41:32
  I love that.
• 41:32
  Thank you.
• 41:33
  I think you'll get some good content.
• 41:34
  I just, all these masters comps,
• 41:36
  at least the ones that I've
• 41:37
  done with like the girls,
• 41:38
  it's like everybody's just
• 41:39
  talking about their families and, um,
• 41:41
  you know, maybe their job, their family,
• 41:43
  their kids,
• 41:44
  like we're all in the like
• 41:45
  corral talking about that.
• 41:46
  And then you go out there and you,
• 41:47
  you know, kind of focus, but it's just,
• 41:50
  I think you'll get some good,
• 41:51
  some good content from people.
• 41:53
  And I think that's what I
• 41:54
  want to highlight is the friendships,
• 41:57
  the camaraderie, the, that you,
• 42:00
  you all had, like that you,
• 42:02
  how many people are postpartum, like in,
• 42:04
  within a year in your division,
• 42:06
  then you have, like,
• 42:07
  I've been talking to Kenzie Riley.
• 42:08
  She's got a couple of years.
• 42:10
  She's another one.
• 42:11
  Yeah.
• 42:11
  All the respect for her.
• 42:12
  So like all of you are
• 42:14
  sharing the same stuff and
• 42:17
  that's what I want to capture.
• 42:18
  Like how it's a true
• 42:20
  community at a master's event.
• 42:22
  For sure.
• 42:24
  I'm not there to show who
• 42:27
  won and who lost.
• 42:28
  I want to show how you all
• 42:31
  hang out together and you
• 42:32
  communicate and you support
• 42:34
  one another in life,
• 42:36
  not just on the competition floor.
• 42:38
  That's awesome.
• 42:39
  Well, I know you'll do a great job.
• 42:42
  So, yeah.
• 42:43
  Well, thank you very much, Allison.
• 42:45
  Yes.
• 42:45
  Thank you to everybody in the chat.
• 42:47
  This has been awesome.
• 42:48
  We're going to keep doing
• 42:49
  this all the way up to the
• 42:50
  Masters CrossFit Games.
• 42:51
  And Allison, it's the beginning of this.
• 42:53
  Yes.
• 42:54
  A huge honor.
• 42:55
  And I can't wait to watch
• 42:56
  the other ones too.
• 42:58
  Come back in 20 minutes and
• 43:00
  we'll be with Ryan Redkey.
• 43:03
  Quick fact about him.
• 43:05
  He is going to the CrossFit
• 43:06
  Games for the second time,
• 43:08
  but he also won Fear Factor.
• 43:10
  Oh, cool.
• 43:12
  The backstories with Masters
• 43:13
  athletes are so much cooler
• 43:15
  than the elite athletes.
• 43:17
  Right.
• 43:19
  Yes.
• 43:21
  We will see everybody next
• 43:23
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 43:26
  Bye, guys.