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Friday Night CrossFit Talk | Live From Birmingham Alabama. Today Hurt!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:28
  What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Clydesdale Sunday
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  Night CrossFit Talk on a Friday night.
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  Time to get your party on.
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  with Carolyn and Scott as we
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  celebrate the fitness of
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  the Masters age groups.
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  Just finished up my shift over there.
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  They're still going.
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  I think what's left is some
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  team stuff and the men have
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  to get through that echo
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  bike workout to finish out the night.
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  But we wanted to get on, get through today,
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  and then maybe we'll finish
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  up with some of the men's
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  stuff tomorrow when we
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  first start off and then go
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  through the rest of the day.
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  But today is, I labeled this show,
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  today is the kind of day
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  that it's going to hurt a
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  little because it was sprint,
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  sprint weight lift or
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  sprint weight change.
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  Then it was a long chipper.
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  probably the longest event of the weekend.
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  And then back to a just all
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  out on the echo bike sprint,
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  trying to get as many
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  calories as possible.
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  And all three of them are
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  going to hurt in a different sort of way.
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  I don't know if the first
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  one hurt as much as, I mean,
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  egos were maybe hurt because I,
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  people were losing that are
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  much stronger because of
• 2:00
  the change of weights.
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  I don't know if I would say
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  the first one was,
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  but we called that like prior to,
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  to the event that
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  changing weights twice on an
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  absolute sprint of a barbell workout.
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  That's taking people between
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  a minute and four seconds
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  to a minute and a half for
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  a lot of the top.
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  Like it's literally coming
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  down to how fast you're
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  changing the plates.
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  How fast is that, uh,
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  plate sliding on and off that barbell.
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  It can get sticky in the
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  same thing with the clips.
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  Um,
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  And it's unfortunate that
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  that's a factor in a fitness test.
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  So I think that they should
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  have either have gone a
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  little bit heavier or then
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  the change of weights isn't
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  as much of a race or you
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  have four barbells,
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  which I don't think the spacing wise,
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  they didn't maybe didn't
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  have enough room.
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  I don't know.
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  But the way it was set up made it.
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  that the change of weight
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  was too big of a factor for that event.
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  Around the middle to end of
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  the leaderboard,
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  they're taking a little bit
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  more time between the lifts,
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  but even then it's so fast,
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  it's a minute and a half, it's a minute,
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  forty-five,
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  a couple above the two minutes, but yeah,
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  it's very, very fast.
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  So I was having some
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  discussions with people at
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  the event today
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  You know,
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  in the thirty five to thirty nine,
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  Will Morad killed that event.
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  And it's he is a very experienced.
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  Games athlete who has been
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  through this and they're like,
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  because he has all that experience,
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  he can change the weights
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  fast because of that.
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  And I said to them exactly what.
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  But is that a test of fitness?
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  Or he also trained at proven,
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  which has access to, you know,
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  always like the exact rig of, of, um,
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  the games or the clips that they,
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  that rogue normally uses.
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  Right.
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  So it becomes what kind of
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  access of equipment you have, um,
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  And you're used to
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  practicing like I have the
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  clips that Rogue always
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  uses at comps because I
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  want to get good at
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  changing my weights because
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  that has been a factor at workouts.
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  So, of course,
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  the experience of Will Morad
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  would play a factor there.
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  And he's used to those clips
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  off and on and and has had
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  that experience of changing
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  weights like before in a workout.
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  So not surprised that come out on top.
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  I have those clips too,
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  but it's because I can get
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  them in Chicago bear blue
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  and it just looks cool.
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  So different reasons, you know, but still,
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  uh, but they are not easy to,
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  if you've never used them,
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  they're not easy to get on and off.
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  No, it definitely takes getting used to,
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  but some of them are just
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  like more worked in too.
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  And it just so happens that your lane,
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  your clip is just a little bit easier and
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  Luck of the draw.
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  So if you lined up like the
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  top athletes in that
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  division with Will Morad,
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  I would have picked
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  Bronislaw to win this event
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  because he just is the strongest.
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  And, but he cannot change weights fast.
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  That it was so evident watching him.
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  He was very slow at that,
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  at that transition.
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  Because he didn't have an
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  issue with any of the weight.
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  No, he was muscle snatching.
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  Yeah.
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  Full touch and go the whole way.
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  Yeah.
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  As many athletes did too,
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  the weights were not
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  challenging enough for that
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  thirty five to thirty nine
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  age group for to have a separation.
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  There was no there was no
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  separation there.
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  Like the the separation
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  happened at the change of weights.
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  So I talked to an athlete in
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  the back and I'll leave her
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  name out of this,
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  but she mentioned you
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  because I went to talk to
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  her after that event.
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  She goes, this is not a good time.
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  unless you want pure negativity.
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  And so I left the camera off
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  and we just chatted.
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  And she said,
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  Carolyn called it last night.
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  She called it right on your show and said,
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  this is what's going to happen.
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  And that's what happened.
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  And it's frustrating.
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  And she said,
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  just to give you an indication,
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  the overhead squat lunge workout,
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  she appealed, got five seconds back,
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  but that was seven places
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  on the leaderboard.
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  And we're talking about that
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  race being stopped on a stopwatch.
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  And the difference is one second,
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  two seconds.
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  And it just is the
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  difference between someone being happy to,
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  you know,
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  press the stop button a little faster.
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  So these are points, you know,
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  over the weekend that are
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  going to make a difference.
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  Like,
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  there's a lot of the
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  workouts that I do like,
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  but there is a lot of
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  problems in terms of the stopwatches.
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  I never liked that overhead squatting one.
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  I thought the weight was too
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  light and those movements
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  were going to be too fast for, um,
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  for the wad.
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  So it just became, you know,
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  judging discrepancy between,
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  between lanes.
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  I knew the,
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  the snatch one was going to
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  come down to the weights
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  switches for especially, you know,
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  the middle of the leaderboard,
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  like the top half of the
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  leaderboard there.
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  Um, we knew the echo,
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  we'll talk about the echo bike one,
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  but we knew that that was
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  going to be very, very hard to finish.
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  So they, you know,
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  they could have switched
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  maybe a little bit numbers.
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  Cause I don't know how many
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  they wanted to finish.
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  If they just wanted one per division,
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  except for the thirty fives,
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  then they got what they wanted.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So something on a lighter note,
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  I was talking to Dex Hopkins in the back.
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  He hurt his wrist.
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  Oh my gosh, I saw.
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  Yeah, so you saw.
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  So I'm going to tell the story.
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  So last night,
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  he could not handstand walk.
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  So with the sandbag event,
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  he just had to sit on the
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  sandbag and take his place.
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  He was hoping the adrenaline
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  would get it where he could walk,
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  but he couldn't.
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  And so when he got to that last bar,
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  his wrist was not going to handle it.
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  So he switched, gripped the snatch.
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  All, all ten reps.
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  He told me only the last one.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Cause I think his Instagram
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  posts had showed,
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  or he had written all ten
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  reps or something.
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  Maybe I read it wrong, but yeah.
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  So he switched, gripped it, um,
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  like you would deadlift.
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  And snatch the heaviest
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  barbell with a switch grip,
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  which is insane to me.
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  Yeah, that's nuts.
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  I was wondering that about
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  him because I was, I was checking him on,
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  you know, the leaderboard.
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  Cause obviously he has,
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  he has a lot of experience and I was like,
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  Oh, something's gotta be up with him.
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  Maybe just,
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  he hasn't trained as much or
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  there's something like an injury.
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  And sure enough,
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  I saw the post with the
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  wrist that was that prior
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  to the competition or that
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  happened yesterday at,
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  at one of the events.
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  It happened in may.
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  Okay.
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  He's been fighting it the whole time.
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  And it really bums him out
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  because he's been waiting
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  essentially like twelve
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  years to get to Masters
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  because he he feels he's a
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  better Masters athlete than
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  he would have been an elite athlete.
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  And it's he lives there, right?
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  He does.
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  So hometown boy.
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  Yeah.
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  But, you know, typical Dex,
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  he's bragging in the warm up area.
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  He's telling the stories.
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  I've got a great piece for
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  the the behind the scenes
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  about the whole thing
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  jonathan ortega actually
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  has the lift in high def
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  with the switch grip so
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  we've got all that to show
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  amazing um through the
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  behind the scenes which is
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  pretty cool um but yeah
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  it's uh that one is started
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  the day and a lot of the
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  athletes were like
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  Actually,
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  the newer athletes were psyched
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  about that because it was
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  twelve lifts to get the butterflies out.
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  Before they had to go to that chipper.
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  So they were less anxious about that one?
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  They said that they're...
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  Because especially the guys
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  don't even get to the venue
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  until like one o'clock in the afternoon.
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  Okay.
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  And so...
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  So they're already on edge
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  because they've been waiting all morning.
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  I was talking to athletes
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  that usually work out at
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  three in the morning or
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  five in the morning, like Lex,
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  like crazy people.
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  And now they've got to wait
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  till one or two in the
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  afternoon to start their workouts.
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  And it's just like messing them up.
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  And they were like, well,
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  at least with the snatch ladder,
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  it's a quick twelve lifts
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  just to get the butterflies out.
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  And then they could kind of
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  set in and do a proper
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  warm-up for the chipper and so on.
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  But, yeah,
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  so I think that was kind of cool.
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  But the chipper was scaring people, right,
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  because it was a completely
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  different workout than
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  we've seen so far this weekend.
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  Definitely shoulder intensive with,
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  you know,
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  the wall ball going into the
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  shoulder to overhead.
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  Then you had the dumbbell
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  stepovers with the snatches.
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  Yeah, that one,
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  a lot of people finished it.
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  Most people finished it.
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  So that's good that the time
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  cap wasn't an issue.
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  I think most of the top
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  scorers were in that category.
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  ten to twelve if I want to
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  say um but there was
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  definitely some
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  inconsistencies I saw again
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  with the judging and uh the
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  short overhead reps
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  dumbbell snatches were
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  typically fine dumbbell
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  step overs were refined
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  there but the short
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  overhead I felt like some
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  of them were still in their
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  jerk position before
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  descending and then the
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  wall ball depth was I mean
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  it could have been the
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  angle of the camera I really want
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  the broadcast or like not the broadcast,
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  but, um,
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  the floor to put the name tags on
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  the floor.
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  Cause I'm, you know,
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  they're all wearing the
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  same outfits or same colors.
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  Yeah.
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  It can get hard to see who's in what lane.
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  I'll recognize like the ones that I,
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  that I'll know.
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  Um, but it would,
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  Even if the athlete brought
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  out their card and placed
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  it on the floor or something prior,
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  I think it would just
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  facilitate the... Yeah,
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  I find it odd that they
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  gave them all a placard,
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  but they're not using them.
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  But they're on the floor.
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  So it just would be...
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  useful if as the athlete
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  walks out they walk out
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  with their gear that they
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  need for the the wad and
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  their placard and they have
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  a certain spot that they
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  place it so that you know
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  you don't have to have all
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  these volunteers switching
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  in and out the the plaques
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  right um yeah I don't think
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  I don't think the placards
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  are on the plaques are on
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  the floor no they're not at
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  all like they're not so it's silly
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  So it's just like a little
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  memory of the games to have,
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  but it wasn't used too bad.
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  Cause even,
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  I think it's making it a tough
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  job on the broadcast team too,
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  that they're just having to
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  search the lane,
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  look at their notes for the number.
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  If they don't know all the athletes,
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  like it was just.
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  So that was one of my
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  conversations with Boz.
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  Yeah.
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  That I miss the Reebok days
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  because there were so many
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  different colors and
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  combinations that could be
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  made from that.
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  Once you found your athlete,
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  you knew who they were.
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  Because of that.
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  And now we're into these
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  blacks and whites.
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  Now they did bring in some green,
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  but it's still like, you know,
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  six people are wearing the same.
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  Yeah.
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  It'll be like, oh,
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  look in here in lane number
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  twelve with the black
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  shorts and the white shirt with the,
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  you know.
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  Yeah.
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  Sports bra and you're like,
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  they're all wearing that.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So yeah, I, Boz is like,
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  he misses that too.
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  Like just from a,
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  from a judging perspective,
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  it's easier to identify the
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  athlete when you're the head judge to,
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  to correct something with the judging.
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  Like,
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  and we don't even think about that
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  aspect.
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  Like here he is on a headset
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  trying to get to a judge to
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  tell them you need to call the snow rep,
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  but how do you describe
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  which one it is when
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  they're all in the same thing?
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  Yeah.
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  So I find that that was an
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  interesting conversation with him.
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  And he said it's actually
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  something they brought up
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  with sponsors to try to
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  differentiate people more.
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  But you can see where that's gone.
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  Have they been running
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  basically on time the whole time?
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  I think they've been really
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  good with timing.
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  Going through that many divisions,
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  most competitions fall behind.
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  So it's nice to see that it
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  looks very organized from
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  that perspective.
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  So that's great.
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  I will say from a logistics point of view,
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  The athletes are loving it.
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  They are right on call times.
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  They know when to go warm up.
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  They know when to get ready.
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  Everything is just running
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  like really smooth for them.
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  That's great to hear.
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  They're very excited about
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  how that is run.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm going to hit a couple of
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  questions before we move on.
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  But one thing I'll let you
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  talk about while I'm
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  looking through the questions is,
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  you know,
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  we talked to Jamie after the
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  snatch ladder,
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  they increased the cap time
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  from two to three minutes,
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  which I actually said on
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  the show last night,
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  because I'd heard that in the back.
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  But if some athletes didn't know that,
• 15:57
  was it not briefed?
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  Was it not sent out to all athletes?
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  Yeah.
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  I didn't hear anything about it.
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  Obviously we talked about it yesterday.
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  So I figured that it was a
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  three minute time cap,
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  which makes sense for the
• 16:08
  weight switches.
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  But I think for the most part,
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  people were under that two minute.
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  There were some obviously above the,
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  above the two minutes,
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  but like the top of the top
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  half of the field was
• 16:21
  closer to that minute and a half.
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  But yeah,
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  That's something that you
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  hope is communicated either through email,
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  you know, prior to people warming up.
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  So like when they're looking
• 16:31
  at their heat sheet in the warmup area,
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  you know, have the workout,
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  have what the time cap is.
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  There's been a change.
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  The workout is now three
• 16:39
  minutes instead of two minutes, you know,
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  just so it's visual.
• 16:43
  You have people from
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  different countries there.
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  You want to make sure that the message is,
• 16:47
  is going out to all the athletes.
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  So Lex asked,
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  what is my favorite
• 16:52
  interaction behind the scenes?
• 16:56
  My favorite interaction
• 16:57
  behind the scenes has been Haley Murillo.
• 16:59
  That girl needs a camera on
• 17:02
  her twenty four hours a day.
• 17:03
  She is nothing but nonstop comedic relief.
• 17:08
  And that is she will be the
• 17:09
  comedic relief in this
• 17:11
  behind the scenes every
• 17:13
  time I talk to her.
• 17:14
  And it has nothing to do
• 17:15
  with what's going on in the competition.
• 17:18
  Nothing, which is awesome.
• 17:22
  Is Josh in the back with their daughter?
• 17:25
  Yeah, they're so cute.
• 17:27
  So he was back there not
• 17:28
  with the daughter.
• 17:30
  It was just the two of them.
• 17:32
  I probably got five to six
• 17:34
  minutes straight of the two
• 17:35
  of them going back and forth.
• 17:37
  And it is pure gold.
• 17:40
  Awesome.
• 17:40
  Today.
• 17:41
  And then check in, she was a star.
• 17:44
  Like she's going to end up
• 17:44
  probably being the star of
• 17:46
  this behind the scenes.
• 17:47
  She's doing great too, right?
• 17:48
  Like I think once I checked,
• 17:50
  I think she was within the
• 17:51
  top five or right there.
• 17:53
  She did well in that episode.
• 17:56
  She broke some news that she
• 17:58
  wasn't supposed to break yet.
• 18:00
  And I was like, oh, it's okay.
• 18:01
  Cause this is, this is,
• 18:02
  your episode isn't coming
• 18:03
  out for six weeks.
• 18:05
  She's like, perfect.
• 18:05
  It'll be right on time then.
• 18:07
  Perfect.
• 18:09
  Uh, but that was cool.
• 18:11
  So she definitely,
• 18:13
  there's been a lot of great interaction.
• 18:15
  Um,
• 18:15
  but that one stands out just because
• 18:17
  it's very different.
• 18:19
  Um, Lex also says to judging,
• 18:21
  this seems a bit atrocious respectfully.
• 18:24
  I don't think they're certified judges.
• 18:27
  I will tell you, I,
• 18:28
  after you guys texted me
• 18:30
  about the shoulder and overheads,
• 18:32
  I went down to watch that event.
• 18:33
  It was so bad, so bad.
• 18:38
  And it's the shoulder to overhead.
• 18:40
  You're right.
• 18:40
  The snatches were fine for the most part.
• 18:44
  I even would give the wall
• 18:45
  balls a passing grade from my angle.
• 18:50
  I thought they were pretty good.
• 18:52
  But the shoulder to overhead
• 18:54
  was atrocious.
• 18:56
  And they're moving fast too, right?
• 18:58
  Like it's a way they're just
• 19:00
  cycling pretty fast.
• 19:01
  And sometimes you can miss
• 19:03
  that full extension a
• 19:04
  little bit as you're
• 19:05
  looking at many things going on at once.
• 19:07
  Yeah.
• 19:08
  Yeah,
• 19:08
  I just don't know how often the
• 19:10
  judges are getting changes
• 19:12
  in their shifts because
• 19:13
  these are long days for these volunteers.
• 19:18
  I think they're changing out pretty quick.
• 19:20
  Are they?
• 19:20
  But it's hard to tell
• 19:22
  because there's three floors.
• 19:24
  That's the thing.
• 19:24
  So they might be switching
• 19:25
  to another floor.
• 19:27
  Still working for a while.
• 19:29
  But I know like they're
• 19:30
  really good at treating the
• 19:31
  volunteer area because we're in there.
• 19:33
  The media is in there with them.
• 19:36
  The volunteer area is really nice.
• 19:38
  There is food for everybody all day.
• 19:41
  There is bottles of water,
• 19:42
  like plenty for the volunteers.
• 19:45
  They are treating them very, very well.
• 19:47
  Love it.
• 19:48
  And so the volunteers are coming through,
• 19:50
  getting food, getting water.
• 19:52
  So I think they're getting lots of breaks.
• 19:54
  It appears that way from
• 19:55
  just the eyeball test, but I can't.
• 19:58
  I'm not there all day to
• 19:59
  like document who's in and who's out,
• 20:02
  but it seems like they're
• 20:04
  getting a lot of rest.
• 20:06
  How was the crowd today?
• 20:09
  A little bit bigger than yesterday.
• 20:10
  Okay, great.
• 20:12
  The snatch floor was packed
• 20:14
  from start to finish.
• 20:16
  And that's the one they didn't broadcast,
• 20:19
  which I actually got texts
• 20:20
  from people like,
• 20:21
  that's the one I wanted to watch.
• 20:23
  Like everybody likes to
• 20:24
  watch the big lifts,
• 20:26
  but that floor does not
• 20:28
  have a camera crew.
• 20:29
  Yeah,
• 20:29
  it's the same one from the deadlift
• 20:31
  and running from the other day.
• 20:32
  The only reason I called it
• 20:33
  weight switching-
• 20:36
  Okay, so we won't see the maxes.
• 20:39
  Yeah,
• 20:39
  the only reason I knew about the
• 20:42
  weight changes was
• 20:44
  Bronislav had posted his
• 20:45
  video of his lane,
• 20:47
  and I've seen different
• 20:49
  videos from people on their
• 20:50
  own personal Instagram that
• 20:52
  their lane is getting filmed.
• 20:56
  Yeah, that's one that you'd want to see.
• 20:57
  Yeah.
• 21:00
  Ronica said there's no leader jersey,
• 21:03
  which would be cool.
• 21:04
  That would be a cool addition to have.
• 21:08
  Cause you know,
• 21:09
  Northern spirits there with their press,
• 21:13
  like they're making shirts all weekend.
• 21:16
  So I don't know why they
• 21:17
  couldn't make a leader's
• 21:19
  Jersey just as quickly.
• 21:21
  Yeah.
• 21:21
  There's a lot of divisions.
• 21:22
  There'd be a lot more switches probably,
• 21:24
  but.
• 21:25
  But that's a nice incentive for the lead,
• 21:27
  the lead athlete.
• 21:29
  Yeah.
• 21:29
  It's a good idea.
• 21:32
  Yeah.
• 21:34
  So, um, so yeah,
• 21:38
  we talked about the wall
• 21:38
  ball one pretty in depth.
• 21:40
  And then we finished up today with the,
• 21:45
  it's going to hurt echo bike.
• 21:48
  So it's a buy-in of
• 21:49
  seventy-five double unders
• 21:51
  and twenty chest to bars
• 21:53
  with whatever time left you
• 21:54
  have in the first round, four minutes,
• 21:57
  second round, three minutes, last round,
• 21:59
  two minutes.
• 22:00
  It's max calories on an echo bike.
• 22:04
  Yeah.
• 22:05
  Um,
• 22:06
  fastest I saw people get onto the bike
• 22:08
  was around the minute and
• 22:09
  five seconds ish.
• 22:11
  So on the first round, so you would get,
• 22:14
  I'd say on average people
• 22:15
  on the first round were
• 22:16
  getting around two forty
• 22:18
  five on the echo bike for the females.
• 22:22
  Um,
• 22:24
  and there were some impressive numbers of,
• 22:27
  you know,
• 22:27
  people that just were pushing the pace.
• 22:29
  Um,
• 22:30
  Right from the get go.
• 22:32
  The thirty five to thirty nine women.
• 22:34
  I think there were seven
• 22:35
  ladies that finished four
• 22:37
  of them in the second round.
• 22:38
  Knisler,
• 22:40
  Klutz and Kenzie Riley had a good
• 22:42
  race between all of them.
• 22:44
  And you could just see
• 22:45
  Knisler was pushing hard
• 22:46
  that that second round.
• 22:49
  Our own Jamie Reimer smoked
• 22:52
  it and got a second place.
• 22:54
  Can we talk about Andrea Knisler?
• 22:57
  What?
• 22:57
  Eight months postpartum?
• 22:59
  or if that uh she had her
• 23:03
  baby in may maybe like
• 23:06
  that's just silly so she's
• 23:10
  not she's she's not eight
• 23:12
  months she's yeah not even
• 23:14
  like may june like four
• 23:19
  months five four five she
• 23:21
  was she was squatting like
• 23:23
  three hundred pounds
• 23:27
  I want to say like within
• 23:29
  weeks after having her baby.
• 23:34
  So like it was nuts.
• 23:36
  I don't want to give
• 23:36
  everything away from behind the scenes,
• 23:38
  but I talked to an athlete
• 23:39
  today and who is a taller athlete.
• 23:41
  And I said,
• 23:42
  this is going to be a good one for you.
• 23:43
  You're a taller athlete.
• 23:44
  She goes, yeah, I'm a heavy athlete too.
• 23:47
  And I can really get on an echo bike.
• 23:48
  And I said, well,
• 23:48
  how are your double unders?
• 23:49
  She goes,
• 23:50
  not good since I gave birth to a
• 23:52
  ten pound baby.
• 23:55
  That those double unders
• 23:56
  actually played a huge part, you know, as,
• 23:58
  as they're getting on the echo bike,
• 23:59
  as they get through that first round,
• 24:01
  that lactic acid is
• 24:02
  starting to go through those legs,
• 24:04
  through the arms,
• 24:05
  and they're getting to that
• 24:06
  rope on that second round.
• 24:07
  And you just thought you started seeing.
• 24:10
  a lot of misses and all of a
• 24:12
  sudden the chest of our
• 24:13
  pull-ups were no longer unbroken for,
• 24:16
  you know,
• 24:16
  several athletes are having to
• 24:17
  break those up.
• 24:18
  And that time on the echo
• 24:19
  bike was just obviously
• 24:20
  decreasing with the
• 24:22
  decrease in time each round,
• 24:23
  but also decreasing in the,
• 24:25
  in the time it was taking
• 24:26
  them to get to the bike.
• 24:28
  And you saw athletes not
• 24:29
  even get to the bike in the
• 24:30
  third round because their
• 24:32
  conditioning was in there.
• 24:34
  Their double unders were
• 24:34
  starting to fail chest of bars,
• 24:36
  et cetera.
• 24:37
  Like some people would have
• 24:38
  one or two cows left and,
• 24:40
  after the second round and
• 24:42
  never got it back to actually finish,
• 24:44
  which is so defeating
• 24:46
  because you're so close and
• 24:48
  you got to redo that whole buy-in.
• 24:50
  So that's, yeah, that's tough.
• 24:53
  So Jen Nichols says she had
• 24:56
  her baby in mid-March.
• 25:00
  Okay.
• 25:01
  So March to April, April to May, June,
• 25:05
  July, August.
• 25:08
  Five and a half months postpartum.
• 25:11
  Pretty close to what Tia.
• 25:12
  That's insane.
• 25:13
  Yeah.
• 25:14
  Alison Stahl's killing it too.
• 25:16
  Yeah, she is.
• 25:17
  And she's nine months or ten
• 25:18
  months postpartum.
• 25:20
  Yeah.
• 25:22
  Man, you women are insane.
• 25:27
  I haven't had a baby, so I don't know,
• 25:29
  but they are insane.
• 25:30
  They are crushing.
• 25:33
  It is proof of what the sickness, wellness,
• 25:37
  fitness continuum can do.
• 25:41
  When your needle is all over
• 25:42
  to fitness and you go
• 25:45
  through something like that,
• 25:46
  the recovery time is
• 25:48
  getting shorter and shorter and shorter.
• 25:51
  See, I don't know.
• 25:52
  It's person dependent.
• 25:54
  It really is.
• 25:55
  Of course.
• 25:55
  Obviously,
• 25:56
  I think being fit can certainly help.
• 26:00
  Absolutely.
• 26:01
  But you can be super fit and have a long,
• 26:04
  long process after pregnancy.
• 26:08
  They're not the standard.
• 26:09
  That's for sure.
• 26:10
  Right.
• 26:10
  Well, there are complications too.
• 26:12
  Yeah, yeah.
• 26:13
  But they're definitely impressive.
• 26:15
  Yeah.
• 26:16
  someone who had a very
• 26:17
  complicated pregnancy that was,
• 26:19
  it was very long for her to recover.
• 26:21
  Yeah.
• 26:22
  I think it's a person,
• 26:23
  but I'm assuming that fitness would, um,
• 26:27
  play a factor somewhat in
• 26:30
  the recovery process, but yeah.
• 26:33
  And in the other divisions today,
• 26:34
  there wasn't a lot of finishes.
• 26:36
  That's for sure.
• 26:37
  Even with the decrease in
• 26:39
  cows of the upper divisions at sixty five,
• 26:42
  um,
• 26:44
  wasn't as many, which is what we said,
• 26:46
  that that was gonna be a very,
• 26:48
  very difficult wad to finish.
• 26:52
  You had to really want it
• 26:54
  and want to suffer and
• 26:58
  Yeah,
• 26:59
  it'll be interesting because the men
• 27:00
  can just,
• 27:01
  like they just have that power output,
• 27:03
  that sprinting ability that
• 27:04
  is a little bit tougher to
• 27:06
  get on the women's side,
• 27:07
  even if the cows are lower.
• 27:09
  So as the men heats go on here,
• 27:11
  I'm curious to see how many
• 27:12
  of them will finish and how
• 27:15
  many will be able to finish
• 27:16
  it within that second round.
• 27:18
  Because the females today,
• 27:19
  there weren't many finishes.
• 27:21
  Like I think in Jamie's division,
• 27:22
  there was one finisher.
• 27:24
  Uh,
• 27:24
  I think Val was the only one that
• 27:26
  finished in that.
• 27:27
  Forty five to forty nine division.
• 27:32
  One person, I think,
• 27:33
  who finished in front of Jamie?
• 27:34
  Carleen.
• 27:36
  Carleen Matthews, yeah.
• 27:38
  And she's not a big body,
• 27:39
  but her double unders and
• 27:41
  her chest-to-bar were awesome.
• 27:44
  She was barely jumping off the ground,
• 27:46
  jogging to the rig.
• 27:47
  She's always had great gymnastics,
• 27:48
  and she really impressed me
• 27:50
  on the machine.
• 27:52
  to get those cows and to be
• 27:54
  able to repeat that
• 27:56
  intensity every interval.
• 27:59
  You know what really
• 27:59
  impressed me by her today
• 28:01
  is in that chipper,
• 28:03
  she was having a hard time
• 28:04
  with grip on the box stepovers.
• 28:07
  She dropped a lot and shook out.
• 28:10
  And the minute she got to the snatches,
• 28:12
  it was like,
• 28:14
  Beautiful motion,
• 28:16
  her going through those snatches.
• 28:17
  And because she has like short levers,
• 28:21
  it was fast.
• 28:22
  And she caught a bunch of
• 28:24
  people coming back through on that.
• 28:27
  And then to do wall balls as
• 28:28
  a shorter athlete, very impressive.
• 28:33
  Yeah.
• 28:33
  Yeah.
• 28:34
  Yeah,
• 28:35
  that one's nice because you have a
• 28:37
  mixture of movements that
• 28:38
  favor different athletes again, right?
• 28:40
  Like you have that wall ball that,
• 28:42
  you know,
• 28:42
  it definitely helps to be tall
• 28:44
  and it's a little bit easier,
• 28:46
  closer to the target.
• 28:47
  The dumbbell snatches, you can be shorter,
• 28:49
  but then the box step ups,
• 28:50
  it does help to...
• 28:52
  you know,
• 28:52
  to be a little bit taller to step
• 28:54
  onto that box.
• 28:55
  So I thought that was a good
• 28:56
  mixture of movements.
• 28:59
  Shoulder to overhead was a
• 29:00
  range of motion.
• 29:01
  So I would say like half of
• 29:02
  the movements favored
• 29:04
  smaller athletes and half
• 29:05
  the movements there favored
• 29:06
  the taller athletes.
• 29:07
  And then you obviously needed, you know,
• 29:10
  muscle stamina the whole
• 29:11
  time to do well in that event.
• 29:15
  Yeah.
• 29:16
  So just a couple overall
• 29:18
  impressions of the day.
• 29:21
  Um, the,
• 29:21
  the athletes were complaining
• 29:22
  about their legs a lot.
• 29:25
  That overhead squat one,
• 29:27
  that intensity that they
• 29:28
  put into that workout was
• 29:31
  very hard yesterday.
• 29:33
  So,
• 29:34
  and then you go into the wall balls today,
• 29:35
  you got hundred and fifty, um,
• 29:38
  squats there.
• 29:40
  Like, yes, I normally,
• 29:41
  like a lot of the athletes
• 29:42
  normally feel their shoulders.
• 29:43
  I think go out before their
• 29:44
  legs in the wall balls.
• 29:47
  Um,
• 29:51
  And then they were saying
• 29:51
  the echo bike finished for the day.
• 29:52
  And then you finish on the echo bike.
• 29:54
  That's tough on the legs, for sure.
• 29:57
  So were they feeling their
• 29:58
  legs after the end of the
• 29:59
  day or at the start of the
• 30:00
  day today from yesterday?
• 30:03
  Yes.
• 30:04
  And yes.
• 30:05
  Yeah.
• 30:05
  Cause I would assume that
• 30:06
  those overhead squats,
• 30:07
  like that speed of it that
• 30:09
  you had to push, like,
• 30:10
  even though it was light,
• 30:12
  like people were definitely
• 30:13
  saying that they're,
• 30:13
  they were feeling their
• 30:14
  legs after that one yesterday.
• 30:15
  So I wouldn't be surprised
• 30:16
  that there's a lot of
• 30:17
  soreness and obviously with age too,
• 30:20
  you know, that's, that's a lot,
• 30:21
  that's a high volume weekend.
• 30:22
  So recover is going to start
• 30:24
  playing a factor, you know,
• 30:25
  on Saturday and Sunday.
• 30:27
  Um,
• 30:29
  on how the body is going to
• 30:30
  be feeling and the
• 30:32
  intensity you're going to
• 30:32
  be able to put in your workouts.
• 30:36
  Yeah, we've kind of talked about it,
• 30:38
  but the crowds were great
• 30:39
  today around every floor,
• 30:44
  especially the non-televised floor.
• 30:46
  At both days,
• 30:47
  that's been the most popular
• 30:49
  place to kind of hang out.
• 30:51
  I don't know if people think
• 30:53
  I can go back and watch the
• 30:54
  stream of the other ones if
• 30:56
  they're competing or if
• 30:58
  it's just the most popular
• 30:59
  event of the day.
• 31:04
  So, um,
• 31:06
  a lot of people love the run
• 31:07
  yesterday because they
• 31:09
  actually went out like
• 31:10
  under a bridge around a
• 31:12
  cobblestone street.
• 31:14
  Um, and people said that it was,
• 31:16
  it was really cool.
• 31:18
  And, you know,
• 31:20
  it's nice to go out of the
• 31:21
  building and get away from, you know,
• 31:23
  inside the gym fitness, right?
• 31:25
  So going out, you know,
• 31:26
  it makes it feel more like a games,
• 31:28
  right?
• 31:30
  Like you had those outdoor
• 31:31
  events that you're missing
• 31:34
  at this competition.
• 31:36
  So getting outside, coming back in,
• 31:38
  like it just feels a little
• 31:39
  bit more games.
• 31:41
  And yesterday we actually
• 31:42
  got a break on the weather.
• 31:44
  It only topped out at like
• 31:45
  eighty eight or eighty nine.
• 31:47
  for birmingham that's not
• 31:48
  that bad um and then today
• 31:51
  maybe low nineties so
• 31:53
  nothing like the hundreds
• 31:55
  that everybody was fearing
• 31:57
  um it's been it's been
• 31:59
  actually kind of pleasant
• 32:01
  and you said that there was
• 32:02
  ac in the building too so
• 32:06
  oh yeah yeah yeah the bay
• 32:09
  door was closed today it
• 32:10
  was not sticky it was very
• 32:13
  cool in there most of the day
• 32:17
  So let's just go through the
• 32:20
  leaderboards real quick and
• 32:21
  we'll kind of make comments as we go.
• 32:23
  Again, the women started off the day.
• 32:25
  So I'm going to start with
• 32:26
  them because their
• 32:27
  leaderboards are more
• 32:28
  complete than anybody else's.
• 32:31
  And I will pull that up.
• 32:33
  Yeah, there's this complete right now.
• 32:35
  It's a forty five to forty
• 32:37
  nine men are going on that
• 32:39
  echo bike when I'm not sure
• 32:40
  if it's heat one or two of that.
• 32:42
  Just seeing in the background over here.
• 32:46
  So their divisions won't,
• 32:48
  we'll only have two scores
• 32:49
  in up until probably you'll
• 32:51
  get the fifty to fifty four.
• 32:53
  I'm assuming for the men.
• 32:55
  All right.
• 32:55
  So for the women on the sixty five plus,
• 32:59
  we have Julie Holton third,
• 33:01
  our very own Denise Moore
• 33:03
  in second and Patricia McGill in first.
• 33:06
  I got to talk to Denise today.
• 33:09
  She thinks Patricia's
• 33:10
  running away with it at this point.
• 33:13
  Uh,
• 33:15
  It's about a twenty point lead,
• 33:17
  twenty one point lead.
• 33:20
  But Denise had a good day.
• 33:23
  Denise needs help from other people.
• 33:26
  A lot of times when you get that, you know,
• 33:27
  those two athletes that
• 33:29
  kind of separate themselves
• 33:30
  from the field,
• 33:31
  it's about getting help to middle.
• 33:33
  Right.
• 33:34
  And if Patricia is super consistent,
• 33:36
  which clearly she is on everything,
• 33:41
  she's going to need some
• 33:41
  help from other people, too.
• 33:45
  On sixty to sixty four,
• 33:47
  we have terrorists senior
• 33:50
  or Sato Betsy Vandenberg and Laurie.
• 33:56
  We said that Betsy and Laurie,
• 33:57
  we're going to be battling
• 33:58
  all weekend yesterday and
• 34:00
  here they are six point separate the two.
• 34:05
  And that's so that's going
• 34:06
  to continue on for the rest
• 34:08
  of the weekend.
• 34:09
  For sure.
• 34:13
  Women's, Fifty to Fifty-Nine.
• 34:16
  We have Joanne Cooper.
• 34:18
  Canadian.
• 34:18
  T.U.
• 34:19
  Mavre and Tia Vesser.
• 34:23
  So Tia Vesser is one of the
• 34:24
  people I had to watch.
• 34:25
  The other two have surprised me.
• 34:27
  Do you know anything about those two?
• 34:30
  Cooper?
• 34:31
  Yeah.
• 34:32
  Yeah, she's been at the Games many times.
• 34:33
  Okay.
• 34:36
  Has she won before?
• 34:37
  I'm pretty sure she's
• 34:38
  Canadian and she's...
• 34:40
  I want to say she's won before or she's,
• 34:42
  she's always in the mix.
• 34:44
  So no surprise there.
• 34:45
  She has an event win three top fives.
• 34:48
  She's been at the games many times.
• 34:49
  I recognize her name from
• 34:51
  many years at the game.
• 34:52
  So she's, she's a, she's an OG.
• 34:55
  Okay, cool.
• 34:59
  I've probably met her at local comps too,
• 35:01
  but all right.
• 35:05
  Women, fifty to fifty four.
• 35:08
  We have Kim Purdy in first,
• 35:09
  Jen Dieter in second.
• 35:11
  Third is Stephanie China.
• 35:15
  So yeah,
• 35:17
  Jen Dieter has always been a
• 35:19
  consistent athlete.
• 35:20
  She's won legends a bunch of times.
• 35:22
  I don't think she's ever won the games.
• 35:25
  I know she's been a few times,
• 35:27
  but I'm not familiar with
• 35:28
  Kim Purdy either.
• 35:33
  Me neither.
• 35:33
  So that one's pretty interesting.
• 35:36
  Then we go to forty five to forty nine.
• 35:39
  This is the Kelly Frio Valvo show.
• 35:44
  Kelly actually had a pretty
• 35:46
  great day today and took a
• 35:48
  thirty point lead over Val.
• 35:50
  which is pretty shocking
• 35:51
  because Val seems to be at
• 35:53
  the top on everything,
• 35:55
  but she only got seventy points in event.
• 35:58
  I think it's three maybe Kelly today.
• 36:02
  She's one of those athletes
• 36:03
  that was smashing the eco
• 36:05
  bike in two rounds and had
• 36:06
  almost finished it.
• 36:07
  I think she was two or three calories
• 36:09
  shy of finishing the echo
• 36:11
  bike in the second round
• 36:12
  and never made it back to, to it.
• 36:15
  Um, started struggling on her double under,
• 36:17
  started struggling on her
• 36:17
  chest to bar in round two,
• 36:19
  even the fact that she was
• 36:20
  that close to finishing on round two,
• 36:22
  I was surprised because she
• 36:24
  was struggling on her chest
• 36:25
  or she had gone to singles.
• 36:28
  Um,
• 36:28
  so obviously she's a power athlete on
• 36:30
  that machine because she
• 36:32
  was able to stay in the
• 36:32
  race and still have a high
• 36:34
  finish in that workout,
• 36:36
  even though she'd never made it back.
• 36:38
  Um,
• 36:39
  But, yeah.
• 36:41
  So then in the forty to forty four,
• 36:43
  we have Carly Newlands in first,
• 36:45
  Carly Matthews in second,
• 36:47
  Andrea Pinheiro in third.
• 36:49
  And just because she's a
• 36:50
  part of this show normally
• 36:51
  in fourth place is Jamie Latimer.
• 36:56
  She killed it today.
• 36:57
  This was supposed to be her bad day.
• 36:59
  Hmm.
• 37:02
  and she took a second in an
• 37:04
  event that she was worried
• 37:05
  about and she did pretty
• 37:09
  well in the chipper and the
• 37:12
  snatch ladder she did
• 37:13
  damage control that she
• 37:14
  needed to do hit the last
• 37:16
  bar which she was not able
• 37:18
  to do in testing love it
• 37:21
  she did awesome so we are
• 37:24
  super stoked for her um
• 37:28
  yeah like I was very
• 37:32
  impressed by her on the
• 37:34
  echo bike today proud of
• 37:37
  proud of our jamie yeah
• 37:42
  Then in the thirty five to thirty nine,
• 37:45
  Caroline Klutz,
• 37:46
  we called that Andrea Nistler.
• 37:48
  We called that Julia Holm as well.
• 37:50
  All three phenomenal athletes.
• 37:54
  But that Caroline Klutz,
• 37:55
  Andrea Nistler battle is pretty tight.
• 37:57
  It is six points as well.
• 38:01
  Going into the last four events.
• 38:04
  Nisler had a good day.
• 38:05
  Um, those last two events,
• 38:07
  she was able to slowly, you know,
• 38:10
  chip her way or chip away
• 38:12
  at the lead that Caroline had.
• 38:14
  Um, but I've been very impressed with,
• 38:17
  with Caroline Klutz.
• 38:18
  I think she's very consistent overall.
• 38:22
  Um,
• 38:23
  it's a battle between those two really.
• 38:25
  I, I don't,
• 38:27
  I don't think anyone else
• 38:28
  will challenge for those top two spots.
• 38:32
  I really think those two are
• 38:34
  separating themselves right now.
• 38:37
  Yeah, and what's crazy is like for Andrea,
• 38:39
  the run's gone.
• 38:41
  Like she has that out of the way.
• 38:43
  And that was probably going
• 38:44
  to be her worst event.
• 38:47
  And now, yeah.
• 38:49
  But if you scroll down, though,
• 38:53
  there's some studs there.
• 38:56
  Mackenzie Riley, Haley Murillo,
• 38:59
  Jasmine Sheehan, which I met today,
• 39:01
  and I got footage from her
• 39:03
  for the behind scenes.
• 39:04
  Awesome.
• 39:05
  Love her.
• 39:06
  And I told her that you
• 39:07
  called her out on the show last night.
• 39:09
  Yep.
• 39:13
  But, yeah.
• 39:14
  Did Lepinen win last year,
• 39:15
  the thirty-five?
• 39:17
  Like, she's a
• 39:19
  think she could have she
• 39:21
  might have I thought I know
• 39:27
  the podium was tovar and
• 39:31
  I'll go look narrow no
• 39:35
  tovar it might have been it
• 39:41
  might have been maybe not
• 39:42
  okay maybe it was the year before
• 39:48
  Then we'll go to men's men's
• 39:50
  sixty five plus.
• 39:52
  John George, Dan Miller, Freddie Cherry.
• 39:55
  I think that's pretty much
• 39:56
  the same we saw yesterday.
• 39:58
  So not much.
• 40:00
  Lepinen won in twenty twenty
• 40:02
  two for the thirty five to
• 40:03
  thirty nine last year.
• 40:05
  I don't think competed.
• 40:07
  That's why I remember she'd won.
• 40:08
  OK, I'm not crazy with my stats.
• 40:13
  Men's sixty to sixty four.
• 40:16
  Joe Ames, David Powell, Peter Harvey.
• 40:19
  I had a nice conversation
• 40:21
  with Tom Famry today.
• 40:27
  I don't want to spoil the
• 40:28
  behind the scenes.
• 40:30
  He didn't expect to be
• 40:31
  anywhere near the spot on
• 40:32
  the leaderboard.
• 40:34
  And now he's trying to
• 40:35
  figure out how to
• 40:36
  compartmentalize that and move forward.
• 40:41
  Because this was not what he
• 40:42
  expected at all.
• 40:44
  So this would be after five
• 40:45
  events for them?
• 40:47
  Correct.
• 40:48
  Right now,
• 40:49
  so they haven't put in the last one.
• 40:55
  Well,
• 40:56
  the upper divisions don't do all the
• 40:58
  events.
• 40:59
  Okay, that's right.
• 41:00
  So that could be their day then for today.
• 41:02
  Yeah, I think that is their day.
• 41:04
  Awesome.
• 41:04
  Yeah, they're done.
• 41:06
  Okay, so they get ten events.
• 41:09
  Or no.
• 41:10
  Eight.
• 41:11
  Eight.
• 41:11
  Eight.
• 41:12
  Yeah.
• 41:16
  Yeah.
• 41:16
  So then we go to fifty five to fifty nine.
• 41:20
  Vic McQuaid, John Kim, Greg Geards.
• 41:26
  John Kim was so elated in
• 41:29
  the back about how he's doing.
• 41:30
  It's awesome.
• 41:34
  He did not expect to be
• 41:35
  anywhere near here and is
• 41:37
  it just live in his dream,
• 41:39
  like which is awesome.
• 41:44
  Fifty to fifty four.
• 41:46
  Jamie McGarvey, Sean Ramirez,
• 41:48
  Justin LaSalla.
• 41:50
  Justin LaSalla was in first last night.
• 41:53
  So there's been a little bit
• 41:54
  of a shake up there.
• 41:55
  Sean Ramirez moved up.
• 41:57
  But Jamie McGarvey had a
• 41:58
  great day and has a twenty
• 42:00
  five point lead.
• 42:01
  Twenty seven point lead on Sean Ramirez.
• 42:06
  Is this his comeback year right now?
• 42:09
  Sean.
• 42:11
  Yeah, he did MFC last year.
• 42:12
  I think it was his first
• 42:16
  event that he was eligible for again.
• 42:18
  Because he had four years
• 42:20
  from a little bit in twenty nineteen,
• 42:24
  maybe.
• 42:26
  To twenty twenty three.
• 42:29
  Yeah, I think that was it.
• 42:32
  He may have tried to make it
• 42:33
  back last year and didn't qualify.
• 42:36
  It's true.
• 42:39
  Now that I'm thinking about it.
• 42:41
  So I think it might've been eight to two.
• 42:44
  Okay.
• 42:45
  He didn't qualify in and then, yeah,
• 42:51
  I think that's right now
• 42:53
  that I'm saying it, uh,
• 42:55
  forty five to forty nine is Robbie McCord,
• 42:59
  Kane Hayes and Jason grub.
• 43:01
  So grub in third place last night,
• 43:03
  he was in second, uh,
• 43:05
  but he's tied for second
• 43:07
  and they're only nine
• 43:08
  points out of first.
• 43:10
  Yeah.
• 43:10
  That's those points seem very close.
• 43:14
  So that's anybody's ball game.
• 43:17
  And,
• 43:17
  and between those three and that division,
• 43:20
  I think is going right.
• 43:22
  That's the forty five to forty nine.
• 43:25
  Correct.
• 43:26
  That's the division that's
• 43:27
  finishing up right now on
• 43:28
  their event six.
• 43:31
  So a shakeup will be happening soon.
• 43:36
  Yeah.
• 43:38
  Um,
• 43:39
  And it's probably a grub-type workout.
• 43:44
  Maybe?
• 43:47
  I don't know.
• 43:48
  I bet he can hammer the echo bike.
• 43:50
  You just don't know.
• 43:51
  Sometimes some of the men, like Saez was,
• 43:53
  that's a hard one to predict.
• 43:54
  Some people are just so good
• 43:56
  at the echo bike.
• 43:58
  Yeah.
• 43:58
  You can't only be good at
• 43:59
  the echo bike here because
• 44:00
  we saw people not get back to it.
• 44:01
  You got to get there.
• 44:02
  You got to get there.
• 44:04
  Um,
• 44:04
  and you can have one good round and you
• 44:06
  can send it for that round.
• 44:07
  But if you didn't pace
• 44:09
  yourself based off your fitness,
• 44:10
  like it doesn't matter how
• 44:11
  good you are if you can't get back.
• 44:13
  So, um, yeah,
• 44:15
  Carly Matthews is the best
• 44:16
  example of that.
• 44:17
  Yeah.
• 44:17
  It's, it's, uh,
• 44:20
  It's consistency over the rounds, right?
• 44:22
  And knowing your body on
• 44:24
  where are you just under
• 44:25
  the red line that you can
• 44:27
  sustain and repeat.
• 44:32
  So the forty to forty-four,
• 44:34
  we're going to be missing an event.
• 44:36
  Jonathan Edel,
• 44:38
  That guy cannot stay in his skin.
• 44:40
  He's so freaking pumped of where he's at.
• 44:44
  I met him through our
• 44:45
  athlete series of interviews.
• 44:47
  He came over, gave me a big hug,
• 44:50
  is just so pumped for where he's at.
• 44:54
  But Julian Serna is in
• 44:55
  second and Chicho Quesada is in third.
• 45:00
  And then just because he's
• 45:01
  been a friend of the show,
• 45:02
  Rudy Berger is moved up to seventh.
• 45:05
  Awesome.
• 45:08
  He did appeal last the first events,
• 45:12
  judging,
• 45:13
  and did move up ten places
• 45:16
  because of the appeal.
• 45:18
  What was the appeal?
• 45:21
  He was getting no rep for
• 45:24
  extension over and over and over again.
• 45:26
  I'm surprised that they're
• 45:30
  giving time and reps back
• 45:33
  because normally a no rep
• 45:36
  in the rule book,
• 45:39
  they don't let you appeal
• 45:40
  those kind of things unless
• 45:42
  it's a movement that takes a lot of time,
• 45:45
  like a rope climb.
• 45:46
  Yeah.
• 45:48
  Like, I don't know,
• 45:52
  a handstand walk and not
• 45:53
  making it to the line and
• 45:54
  you had to be brought all the way back.
• 45:56
  But typically they haven't
• 45:59
  done appeals or accepted
• 46:02
  appeals based off of hip
• 46:04
  extensions and stuff like that.
• 46:07
  So it had to have been
• 46:08
  probably bad for them to
• 46:09
  accept it and give time back.
• 46:11
  Yeah.
• 46:14
  That's the only thing I can
• 46:15
  think they could appeal in that workout.
• 46:19
  But I could be wrong unless
• 46:21
  unless like the judge made
• 46:23
  him do more reps than he was supposed to.
• 46:26
  And the judge miscounted.
• 46:27
  That's something else that
• 46:28
  you can appeal typically.
• 46:31
  So.
• 46:34
  And then finally,
• 46:35
  thirty five to thirty nine.
• 46:37
  Will Morad is absolutely killing it.
• 46:42
  That's not, no, it's that's really.
• 46:47
  Oh, wait.
• 46:48
  That's just minus the last event.
• 46:51
  So they're not even at four
• 46:52
  hundred points.
• 46:53
  So he's got almost a hundred point lead.
• 46:57
  Yeah.
• 46:58
  Slide over to the right.
• 47:00
  That's crazy.
• 47:01
  That's a huge lead.
• 47:02
  What?
• 47:02
  That's that's awesome.
• 47:03
  That's consistency.
• 47:05
  And there's not like a score
• 47:06
  that's in that's not in for
• 47:08
  certain people.
• 47:10
  No.
• 47:10
  Wow.
• 47:12
  Yeah.
• 47:13
  It's funny because I talked
• 47:14
  to Will before the Syndicate crowd.
• 47:19
  And he said that if the
• 47:22
  prize money stayed the same,
• 47:23
  he was going after the win.
• 47:25
  Smart.
• 47:25
  He's extremely in shape.
• 47:28
  And then when he got hurt at Syndicate,
• 47:31
  I was really crushed for him.
• 47:35
  But apparently it was
• 47:37
  something that he could rehab.
• 47:38
  Yeah.
• 47:38
  because here he is
• 47:40
  dominating a pretty impressive field.
• 47:47
  And it's cool that you see a guy like Will,
• 47:50
  who has been a great athlete for years,
• 47:54
  get a podium due in the Masters division.
• 47:57
  Yeah.
• 48:00
  I mean,
• 48:00
  he was consistently within like
• 48:03
  that close to that top
• 48:04
  fifteen ish on the men's
• 48:06
  side of the games last, you know,
• 48:08
  a few years.
• 48:08
  And he's been at the game so many years.
• 48:10
  So unfortunate with his injury this year,
• 48:13
  but happy that he's back in
• 48:16
  and crushing it.
• 48:17
  Shout out to Anna Polsky, too.
• 48:20
  He's local here around maybe
• 48:22
  an hour from Toronto.
• 48:24
  He's someone that goes team
• 48:26
  as well at the games.
• 48:28
  And I'm finding that a lot
• 48:30
  of former team athletes are in this.
• 48:33
  Yeah.
• 48:33
  I mean,
• 48:34
  especially with the timing of the
• 48:36
  competition that you can do both,
• 48:37
  like why not have a
• 48:39
  competition for yourself, you know,
• 48:40
  test yourself against people of your age,
• 48:43
  your peers.
• 48:44
  So that's great.
• 48:45
  But what they're also saying is that,
• 48:49
  that it's very different.
• 48:51
  Like it's almost a little
• 48:53
  lonely because you're not
• 48:55
  there with three other people.
• 48:58
  So it's just a different
• 48:59
  dynamic being back in the
• 49:00
  back as opposed to like
• 49:03
  with a team of four.
• 49:05
  Yeah, for sure.
• 49:07
  And Bronislav made his way
• 49:08
  back too after that first event,
• 49:11
  that running one,
• 49:13
  which we know that wasn't great.
• 49:15
  And he didn't do as well as
• 49:17
  he wanted to on the snatch event.
• 49:18
  I think he got a seventh or
• 49:19
  an eighth place.
• 49:20
  So for him to be back into
• 49:22
  the podium position,
• 49:23
  I think he'll be happy with
• 49:24
  that at least.
• 49:26
  Yeah.
• 49:27
  You would assume that he can
• 49:29
  push the echo bike.
• 49:30
  I mean,
• 49:30
  he can Turkish get up the echo bike.
• 49:33
  So...
• 49:35
  Yeah, he could.
• 49:37
  He's got some crazy feats that he can do.
• 49:41
  Yeah.
• 49:43
  Did you notice he shaved his head?
• 49:45
  Yes, I think I saw that, yeah.
• 49:48
  Got rid of the top knot man bun,
• 49:50
  whatever thing he had going on.
• 49:53
  He's completely bald,
• 49:54
  which a little streamlined effect.
• 49:57
  Get him down the lane a little faster.
• 49:59
  Yep.
• 50:01
  But yeah.
• 50:02
  So overall, it was a really fun day.
• 50:04
  You know,
• 50:05
  last night I was ready to
• 50:06
  complain about some stuff,
• 50:07
  but the pivots made today
• 50:09
  have been really nice.
• 50:12
  And it seems like they are
• 50:14
  reacting to some stuff that's,
• 50:17
  that's happened and trying
• 50:19
  to make it better on the
• 50:20
  fly instead of just letting
• 50:22
  it go as is throughout the weekend,
• 50:25
  which has been really kind of cool.
• 50:27
  That's good to hear.
• 50:31
  Um, and then, you know,
• 50:34
  I've gotten a lot of
• 50:34
  feedback from the athletes
• 50:36
  in the back about this way,
• 50:39
  as opposed to the old way.
• 50:42
  And a lot of them are really
• 50:43
  liking having their own event now.
• 50:47
  Well, the spotlights on them,
• 50:48
  like a lot of times I
• 50:49
  wouldn't have had time to, you know,
• 50:51
  sit down and watch, you know,
• 50:52
  the masters go or the teenage go.
• 50:55
  So it's put the spotlight on them.
• 50:57
  I think.
• 50:59
  People are going to be
• 50:59
  walking more so than usual.
• 51:01
  I hope they are.
• 51:02
  The streams were close to
• 51:04
  two grand again today.
• 51:06
  Two grand.
• 51:08
  Two thousand.
• 51:11
  Yep.
• 51:13
  Or over.
• 51:15
  I wish that would be up a little bit more.
• 51:19
  But the crowds here are really good.
• 51:22
  I think the vendors are happy.
• 51:26
  Are there a lot of vendors?
• 51:27
  I didn't think the three...
• 51:29
  There's quite a few.
• 51:31
  Not like CrossFit Games
• 51:32
  level or Wadapalooza level,
• 51:35
  but like more than semifinals for sure.
• 51:38
  Cool.
• 51:41
  And Thickboy is a presenting sponsor,
• 51:43
  and it's really cool seeing
• 51:44
  his logo on the middle of
• 51:46
  the floor that's not being televised.
• 51:48
  I did see Thickboy.
• 51:53
  So shout out to him since
• 51:55
  he's our presenting sponsor as well.
• 51:59
  Did you want to look over
• 52:00
  the three wads for tomorrow quickly?
• 52:03
  Sure.
• 52:06
  I don't know what they are
• 52:07
  off the top of my head.
• 52:08
  Do you have the standard?
• 52:10
  Oh, yeah.
• 52:13
  Event seven is the thirty clean and jerks,
• 52:15
  thirty ring muscle-ups, thirty snatches.
• 52:17
  So I think that that will be fun to watch.
• 52:23
  It's a fun event.
• 52:25
  Now that we've seen it all play out,
• 52:26
  do you think that there's
• 52:27
  been too much snatching?
• 52:32
  I mean, you have the dumbbell snatches.
• 52:34
  You only had forty reps there.
• 52:36
  That's not that's pretty low volume.
• 52:38
  And the barbell snatch that they had,
• 52:41
  you only had to do it one time through.
• 52:43
  I don't think it's and this
• 52:44
  is only thirty reps.
• 52:45
  The volume of snatching isn't ridiculous.
• 52:49
  Like it's I've seen higher at comps.
• 52:52
  I mean, to see it three different times,
• 52:53
  I don't think you need to.
• 52:56
  Um,
• 52:57
  especially cause you also had the
• 52:57
  deadlift, you had those sandbags over, um,
• 53:00
  sandbag cleans, right?
• 53:01
  So you're hinging a lot in
• 53:04
  these movements.
• 53:05
  Um, but some,
• 53:08
  some of the volume of it is
• 53:09
  relatively light.
• 53:12
  Like,
• 53:12
  I don't think that that wall ball one,
• 53:14
  that,
• 53:14
  that dumbbell snatch needed to be there.
• 53:18
  Right.
• 53:18
  Like I think that one you'd,
• 53:21
  Didn't need to have that in there.
• 53:23
  We didn't need more shoulder
• 53:24
  to overhead either.
• 53:26
  No.
• 53:27
  So, I mean,
• 53:29
  I feel like you're kind of like
• 53:30
  they have almost everything, right?
• 53:31
  Like you, you already have the wall ball,
• 53:33
  you have the clean and jerks,
• 53:35
  you have the short overhead, you have,
• 53:39
  what else is coming up?
• 53:40
  Uh, I don't even know, but like you,
• 53:44
  you're hitting most rope.
• 53:48
  Yeah.
• 53:49
  So,
• 53:51
  so you got that one to start off.
• 53:52
  I think that'll be a good race.
• 53:55
  Hopefully we see, you know,
• 53:57
  the woman finished on the
• 53:59
  twelve minute time cap,
• 54:00
  especially in the thirty
• 54:01
  five to thirty nine.
• 54:01
  I think you'll see some
• 54:02
  people finish there for the females.
• 54:04
  I think as you go up with
• 54:05
  that same time cap and
• 54:07
  keeping that same weight,
• 54:08
  I don't think many of the
• 54:09
  females will finish as they
• 54:12
  kept that time cap for, I think,
• 54:13
  all the way until maybe fifty years old.
• 54:16
  I'm not sure.
• 54:18
  Um,
• 54:19
  Then you have that range of
• 54:21
  motion workout and quick workout,
• 54:24
  which is going to be a transition,
• 54:26
  which is the eight round,
• 54:27
  eight bar facing burpees,
• 54:28
  eight toes to bars.
• 54:30
  And then that one power
• 54:31
  clean at two fifty five one eighty.
• 54:37
  Basically an EMOM, right,
• 54:39
  like you're doing all those
• 54:40
  movements quickly.
• 54:42
  it's going to be fast, right?
• 54:43
  It's going to be who can
• 54:45
  step up to that bar quickly
• 54:46
  and get it because those
• 54:47
  other movements are
• 54:48
  unbroken and transitions
• 54:50
  are going to play a factor.
• 54:50
  Are you jogging to the bar?
• 54:52
  Are you cycling your toes to
• 54:55
  bars with a long motion?
• 54:56
  Are you kind of kicking your
• 54:58
  feet up to the bar to go a
• 54:59
  little bit faster,
• 55:00
  which might blow up your
• 55:01
  core a little bit more,
• 55:02
  but you're less time on
• 55:03
  like on your grips.
• 55:05
  So people will be playing
• 55:07
  around with different
• 55:08
  strategies for that one.
• 55:10
  Do they have two or three
• 55:11
  workouts tomorrow?
• 55:13
  I think they have three.
• 55:14
  Three and then just one on Sunday.
• 55:18
  The front squat is only five minutes.
• 55:20
  The other one is eight minutes.
• 55:22
  The other one is going to be
• 55:23
  a twelve minute AMRAP for
• 55:24
  most of the females division.
• 55:26
  For the men's division,
• 55:27
  they should be fine
• 55:27
  finishing that twelve minute time cap.
• 55:31
  So for the majority of the
• 55:34
  top of the field,
• 55:35
  they will not have worked
• 55:36
  for more than twelve
• 55:36
  minutes the whole weekend.
• 55:38
  That's is there's no twelve
• 55:41
  to fifteen or fifteen to
• 55:42
  twenty minute workout for
• 55:44
  the majority of the field.
• 55:49
  Yeah, but they're all events to watch.
• 55:56
  That's Jamie's strength and
• 55:57
  look where she's at fourth place.
• 56:00
  And then for the front squats,
• 56:02
  that one will be interesting.
• 56:05
  What kind of change plates they have.
• 56:08
  Right.
• 56:09
  And with.
• 56:11
  Twenty athletes on the floor,
• 56:13
  however many they're going
• 56:14
  to have on the floor, being able to see,
• 56:17
  you know,
• 56:17
  people's weights and stuff like
• 56:18
  that could be could play a
• 56:20
  factor on what people will try.
• 56:22
  Will not be televised.
• 56:24
  Yeah, that will be on that running floor.
• 56:28
  There was a snatch ladder today.
• 56:30
  The teams did it this
• 56:31
  morning on that floor.
• 56:35
  I didn't pay close enough
• 56:36
  attention to the change plates,
• 56:38
  but there were a lot of rigs out there,
• 56:40
  like just a squat stand.
• 56:42
  Yep.
• 56:43
  All over the floor.
• 56:45
  I'm excited to see some big
• 56:46
  numbers being hit.
• 56:47
  I think you're going to see,
• 56:48
  you're going to be
• 56:50
  impressed on the female side,
• 56:52
  like someone like Andrea Nisler.
• 56:54
  I know she just had a baby,
• 56:56
  but that girl's strong.
• 56:58
  So on the men's side,
• 56:59
  Bronislaw is going to put up some weight.
• 57:02
  I mean,
• 57:02
  I know he's good with his snatches.
• 57:04
  I'm assuming his raw strength is good.
• 57:09
  Yeah, you're going to see.
• 57:11
  With an event like that,
• 57:12
  that you can have some
• 57:13
  specialists that are going
• 57:14
  to be playing on the leaderboard,
• 57:16
  you could see some shakeup
• 57:17
  of the leaderboard tomorrow
• 57:18
  for sure with that one event.
• 57:20
  That's that one event that
• 57:22
  can affect the leaderboard
• 57:23
  where someone that's been
• 57:25
  in that twenty to forty
• 57:26
  that whole weekend has been
• 57:27
  waiting for that front squat.
• 57:31
  So,
• 57:32
  you're at the top,
• 57:33
  you better have some
• 57:34
  strength and consistency or
• 57:37
  a big lead right now.
• 57:39
  Yeah.
• 57:41
  Yeah.
• 57:41
  Someone to watch for that.
• 57:42
  I was talking to her today,
• 57:44
  Claudia Ragdale.
• 57:45
  She's coached by Coach L from Strength.
• 57:48
  Yep.
• 57:49
  And Coach L said,
• 57:52
  I only coach strong athletes because,
• 57:54
  you know,
• 57:55
  he coaches her and Kelsey and
• 57:58
  like he goes,
• 57:59
  all my athletes can put up weight.
• 58:02
  Danielle is strong too.
• 58:05
  Yeah.
• 58:07
  When her back's right.
• 58:08
  Yeah.
• 58:08
  That's the thing.
• 58:09
  It's just, it's just her back injury.
• 58:10
  Her Olympic lifts are
• 58:12
  actually really good.
• 58:12
  Her snatches, uh, really good.
• 58:16
  Yeah.
• 58:18
  You look like Dave Castro
• 58:19
  looking up at your, your outdoor screens.
• 58:21
  I know you just watching
• 58:24
  that echo bike workout as it's going on.
• 58:26
  I can't even see much.
• 58:27
  You don't know who's on the floor.
• 58:31
  All right.
• 58:32
  We'll let you get back to it.
• 58:35
  Yeah.
• 58:37
  I'm assuming the thirty five
• 58:38
  to thirty nine should be soon.
• 58:40
  So it'll be good time to see
• 58:45
  who's going to win those races.
• 58:47
  Dex told me he's finishing in round two.
• 58:48
  Do you think he will?
• 58:51
  What's the bet?
• 58:53
  We didn't make a bet.
• 58:54
  We should.
• 58:55
  You didn't make a bet for him.
• 58:57
  I should have.
• 58:58
  Yeah, you should have.
• 59:02
  And I said,
• 59:04
  that's a pansy way to call out
• 59:07
  that you're going to finish.
• 59:08
  He said, okay, I will finish in two.
• 59:11
  He's calling his, his shot.
• 59:15
  Okay.
• 59:15
  I'm looking for him,
• 59:17
  but is his wrist going to
• 59:18
  be fine for the chest of ours?
• 59:19
  Is that, I'm assuming this is good.
• 59:21
  It's when it's an extension.
• 59:23
  So in deck speak, it's all good.
• 59:26
  It's all good.
• 59:30
  Looking forward to it.
• 59:32
  So, uh, yeah, well,
• 59:34
  everybody watch for that.
• 59:35
  And if he doesn't do it,
• 59:36
  like DM them on Instagram
• 59:38
  and tell them how bad it is.
• 59:39
  Rip them apart.
• 59:41
  All right.
• 59:43
  Well, with that, everybody,
• 59:44
  thank you so much for being here.
• 59:45
  It's been fun.
• 59:46
  We'll be back tomorrow.
• 59:48
  I have to do the late shift, uh,
• 59:50
  covering the behind the scenes tomorrow.
• 59:52
  So it might be a little bit later.
• 59:54
  Um,
• 59:54
  but I think we end earlier tomorrow
• 59:56
  because of the last couple
• 59:57
  are pretty quick.
• 1:00:00
  So, uh,
• 1:00:01
  With that,
• 1:00:03
  we'll see everybody tomorrow night on,
• 1:00:06
  it'll be Saturday night CrossFit Talk.
• 1:00:08
  With that, bye guys.
• 1:00:10
  See ya.