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Friday Night CrossFit Talk = LIve from the Syndicate Crown!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is up everybody live in
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Knoxville Tennessee we are
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here at the best Western
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and I might say the best
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room we have stayed in in a
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year that Jamie and I have
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been on the road
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is a little musty in here
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but other than that no
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bullet holes um seems like
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a safe neighborhood I think
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we we've hit the jackpot
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semi with this one but
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super excited to be with
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you guys today um
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we are just ending our day
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we just got some dinner
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we're back at the hotel and
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before we kind of like
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chill for the night we
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wanted to jump on and talk
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about what happened today
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so it's weird with Jamie
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behind me but then I can
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see her in front of me yeah
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but uh Kenneth the lab says
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it's the East Coast it's
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all a little musty
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yeah okay well so we started
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the day with a couple team
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events and I guess we're
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going to jump right into
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this dinner was great we
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went to outback steakhouse
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by the way um got some
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steak and chicken it was
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really good got some
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brussels sprouts jamie got
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steak and chicken and stuff
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steak we're really
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expanding our horizons yeah
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Maybe tomorrow night we'll
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try something more local.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, got nourished.
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It was a long day without
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food at the venue.
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We were living on beef jerky and water.
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So, but that got us through.
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Yeah.
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So we started with team
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events this morning.
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We missed the first team
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event as I stepped in a
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hole on the way into the
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venue and thought I lost my ACL,
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MCL and my ankle.
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But all is well, all is well.
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And we got into the venue,
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finally found where we could be for press,
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got a tour,
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and then event two was lining up,
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which was the lift.
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So we missed the first event.
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We talked to Coach Krispy Kreme.
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He said that it was pretty
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much an all-out battle
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between Peak 360 and 8th Day?
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No, 8th Day was in heat, what you said.
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Basically,
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they set a blistering pace out
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of heat one all by themselves.
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And then peak 360 was chasing them down,
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chasing their time down.
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Okay.
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So Peak 360 wins the event,
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which will be probably the
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theme of the day.
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So we did that event.
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Then we got settled.
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We found a really cool place
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to get some content.
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And we were close to the
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door to get the ramp,
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which you guys saw on our Instagram,
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the ramp that they had to
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run up to get out onto the course.
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And what you saw was the
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first part of the incline.
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So they came out of the
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venue on the loading docks
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up that ramp where Jamie
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was capturing the content.
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Then they made a left-hand
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turn and still had to go up
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for another 20 feet.
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Yeah.
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After the turn and then it
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levels off and then they,
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they would run through
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vendor village and,
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around that and then down
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the hill on the other side
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of the venue come around
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and then back in at the
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loading docks down below uh
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so pretty cool little track yeah um
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And that has nothing to do
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with the second team event.
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Yeah, you jumped at me.
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Yeah, it's been a long day.
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Long drive yesterday.
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So our ramp shots were awesome.
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Haven't heard anyone else
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get any of the ramp footage.
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There were other
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photographers and content
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creators on the ramp.
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So I'm sure you'll see more
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stuff out there.
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It'll be coming.
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Yeah.
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But they were definitely out
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there capturing the stuff.
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We were not the only ones.
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So let's finish with this
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individual event and we'll
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get back to teams because I
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want to give them their due
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because they're only here
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for a couple days and then they're gone.
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So anyway, we started with the women.
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Yep.
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First heat goes out.
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Kenneth brings up Ellie Hiller,
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said the incline was about
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50 paces for her.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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I feel like it might have
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been more than that.
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Yeah.
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I would, I would have thought that too.
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Um,
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but we start with Ellie and Brooke
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Wells at a blistering pace for heat one.
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Brooke.
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As well as I want to say
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Elena Savage was in that
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group for the first two rounds.
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Did she have the tape around
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her ankle or her,
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her calf the whole time?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I have the start and it is
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there at the beginning.
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okay because she definitely
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died off fast and she did
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have her calf wrapped so
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that it may have been a
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re-injury to that brooke to
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me never really slowed down
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she came in from the run
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immediately went to the bar
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did her 10 clean and jerks
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and immediately left there
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was no transition time for
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her ellie hiller ran well
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but the cleaning jerks ate her up yeah
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Um,
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she started off strong and then by the
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end she was getting no
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repped on the clean and
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jerks and actually a couple
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people passed her.
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Yeah.
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Uh, at the end of that race,
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just on the 10 clean and jerks.
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Yep.
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which was sad to see.
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We were really rooting for her.
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Then the big show came out.
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Big number one heat with the
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battle between Tia Claire
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Toomey and Hayley Adams,
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and it did not disappoint.
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They were pretty much neck
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and neck the entire race
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until the very end of the fifth round.
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Tia had gotten a little more
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space on her on the final run.
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And when I say a little more space,
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maybe 10 more feet.
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Yep.
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All right.
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They get to the barbell and
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Tia's probably got three
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reps in before Haley gets there.
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But the baller that she was,
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she continued to go touch and go,
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even though she did not have to,
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to completely dominate the,
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that event.
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Cause Haley could not go
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touch and go at that point.
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She was consistently doing her singles,
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just like she had the entire race,
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but Tia went to another
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gear and went full on
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baller and unbroken 10 reps to finish.
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Yeah.
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Thoughts on that.
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Miss Latimer.
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I, I mean,
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I feel like Tia did exactly what
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we all thought she was going to do.
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Um,
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she's clearly back,
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but I am incredibly
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impressed with Haley's performance.
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I, I thought she looked happy, cool, calm,
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composed.
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She looked like she was
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enjoying herself out there.
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Um, and we know Haley likes to run.
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So it was like,
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what couldn't have been a
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better event to start the
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weekend off with.
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And a second, 10 ish seconds behind Tia.
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Incredible.
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And I would say she was calm,
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cool and composed and happy
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after the event as much as
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she was before.
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Yeah.
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Uh, waving to the crowd,
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really kind of soaking it
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in and really enjoying the moment,
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which was fun to see.
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Yeah.
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That whole heat was just so fast.
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Like, I mean,
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looking back at the leaderboard,
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when we got back to the room,
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I was trying to like look
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back and just digest everything.
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And yeah,
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I felt like heat one did good.
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Like, especially those first like three,
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four girls.
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I was like, well, they did great.
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And then you pull up the
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leaderboard and you're like,
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this didn't even,
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this didn't even go well.
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Like,
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I think only two people are
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in the top 10 from heat one,
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so it just starts dropping off.
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So that second heat was just crazy fast.
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Sort of sucks for someone like Brooke.
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Could the other heat have
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changed that event for her?
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Who knows?
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She said she started out hot.
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It might have been worse to
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start out even hotter, so...
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I think she,
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I think she did ran her own
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race and correctly.
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And I, I think in my opinion, that,
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that kind of transfers
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through to the men as well.
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I think it goes a step further to say,
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you know, we've talked about reseeding.
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It matters what heat you're in.
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And we saw that today.
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Yeah.
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Really good people or teams
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were completely affected
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because of the heat they
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had to run their race.
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If Brooke was in that race
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with Kira Napoli and... Not Kira Napoli.
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She wasn't.
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Yeah.
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I can't...
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Danielle and gosh, who else?
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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She would have been able to
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run with them and to go toe
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to toe with them on the
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clean jerks at the end
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because it was really a
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matter of grit and who was
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willing to try to go touch
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and go at the end.
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Yeah.
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Oh, it was crazy to me.
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And I mean,
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you've seen this in the other
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heats and you know exactly
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what's going to happen.
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It is crazy to watch someone you were like,
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oh,
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she's got third wrapped up and then
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implodes and gets 10th in
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the heat just because of 10
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clean and jerks and
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somebody able to touch and
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go and somebody having to
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take seven seconds of rest
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in between each rep.
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Like that time difference is
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if you could have slowed
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your rundown for 30 seconds
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and gotten your heart rate under control,
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I mean,
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the game planning in that workout
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is critical.
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Like you can lose a minute
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on that last barbell.
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So Denise,
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she actually beat Amanda Barnhart,
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even not being in the same heat.
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It was the Danielle Brandon.
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And forgive me, I'm down to one screen,
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so I don't have like the
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leaderboard up with me.
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But there was a race at the
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end between about two or
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three girls with Danielle
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Brandon and a few others.
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I do have my phone, I guess.
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And I think if Brooke would
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have been in that race,
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she could have done some
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damage at that point.
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Oh, it was Caroline Stanley, remember?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Caroline Stanley and
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Danielle Brandon went
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toe-to-toe and just... And
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Emily... Emma Lawson.
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Emma Lawson, yep.
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Yeah, those three.
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If Brooke would have been with them,
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she had a shot to beat at
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least one of them.
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But not being in that heat
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was really tough for her.
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Jess is in the chat.
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Hey, wish I was there with you guys.
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We wish you were here too.
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Yeah.
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We need a professional photographer.
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Amen to that.
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But Holly Dugan is making
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lemons out of lemonade that we sent her.
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So we highly appreciate that.
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What was obvious, though,
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and why the heats matter,
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heat two was so much faster
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than heat one.
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So much faster across the board.
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It was crazy.
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And I think without the
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receding at the end of this weekend,
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it's going to make a difference.
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Who impressed you in that event?
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Probably Amanda Barnhart.
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I, I didn't,
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when I opened up the leaderboard,
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I honestly didn't expect to see her.
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Like I thought she was
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further back than that.
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So I don't know if it was
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that last barbell or what
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got her those places.
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Um,
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and I expect her to be slower on the
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running.
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So yeah, I, she was, I mean,
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she's kind of on my like
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bubble list of making it like,
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I've been curious to see
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how she's going to hold up
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and I think she ran really well.
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So yeah, that's probably my,
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my my surprise was paige
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demenza even though I
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thought she would do really
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well this weekend running
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has never been like a home
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run for her she looked
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really good and a shout out
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from heat one ashley wozny
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he has never been a runner
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really held her own in that
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heat and looked really good
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in the run yeah I would say
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she's somebody who
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probably practiced this one
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enough and was very smart
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about her own pacing
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because she can move a
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barbell well and if she
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stayed just calm enough on
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that run that she moved
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that barbell 20 seconds
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faster than everyone else
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you can you can slow down
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20 seconds fast on that run
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and like she she ran that
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race correctly and she went
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touch and go at the end as
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well yeah she yeah
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So then we moved to the men.
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I think everybody knew this
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was going to be the rivalry
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match between Roman and Jeff.
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Another long run.
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What was going to happen?
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And Jeff Adler made a statement.
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He sure did.
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the lead just kept getting
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bigger and bigger and
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bigger with every run.
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And I would say they were
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pretty even on the clean and jerks.
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Yeah.
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But you'd come back the
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first one and Jeff was
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ahead by one side of the square.
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Then he was ahead by two
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sides of the square.
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Then he was ahead by three
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sides of the square.
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It just, it was, it was almost methodical.
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I would like to see Jeff splits again.
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Yeah.
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And you got to see him
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outside up that hill around the corner.
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He never looked,
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he never looked like he was tired.
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Not really.
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I would say he was a little
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more labored on his final run up the hill,
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but not nearly the way I saw.
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There were a lot of people
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who were hunched way over,
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pushing off their thighs,
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basically walking up the hill.
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And those were the people that you're like,
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oh no, like they have imploded.
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But yeah, Jeff, Jeff looked great.
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The other thing was the race
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for third place was crazy.
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Holy smokes.
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This is where the barbell mattered.
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Yeah.
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There were four guys all at the same time.
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It was Saxon Pancheck, Will Morad,
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Jason Hopper, all going at the same time.
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And it was nuts.
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And the crowd was going crazy.
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And there was a crowd.
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It's a pretty good crowd in
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there for a Friday.
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I mean,
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I anticipate it'll be even louder
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in there tomorrow.
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Yeah,
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definitely one side of the venue is
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more full than the other.
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Hatfield, yeah.
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Yeah, Hatfield was in that.
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The only person that called
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Hatfield that high, Kenneth,
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was John Young.
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I think he called Hatfield
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to win all six events and
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be the next CrossFit Games champion,
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I think is what he said last night.
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Uh, Denise Moore says it's too bad.
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The runs are also different, uh,
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between all the semi locations.
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It would be interesting to
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be able to compare how
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everybody did an event one
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across the entire leaderboard.
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I think it's fun that they're different.
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There's there's positives and negatives.
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I totally agree.
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It would be nice to be able to compare.
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Um,
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but it's other than doing shuttles or
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using an air runner.
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It, you just, you, you can't,
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they cannot be identical.
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Um,
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and I much prefer this alternative to
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shuttles or an air runner.
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So, um, the race between Emma Lawson,
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Caroline Stanley and
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Danielle Brandon was amazing.
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The race between Saxon
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Wilmore at Jason Hopper and
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Austin Hatfield was amazing.
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And we would not have seen
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that on an air runner.
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Right.
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There's something to the
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tracking someone down on a
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run course like that's just exciting.
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No, Kenneth, none of the chance today.
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Somebody did yell during the run.
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But no chance.
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No,
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like no chance in the stadium during
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the run.
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There was some do it for
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Trump or I don't know,
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like while while Taylor was running by.
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Um, so let's talk about Taylor.
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He wins heat one.
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And again,
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the difference between heat one
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and heat two was monumental.
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Yeah.
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I mean, he's, he's 12, 11, 12, 11th.
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I mean, yeah,
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it's kind of a similar story to the women,
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even more, even more so.
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Um, it's crazy.
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It's just crazy how much faster, uh,
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I don't know.
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Again, same thing.
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I don't know how much faster
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Taylor could have gone.
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I feel like he was at his limit.
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I don't know what Taylor's
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limit is because I've seen
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him push past it.
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And I feel like he was right there.
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But you just never know.
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Every competitor asked,
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would you rather have more
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rest or be in the top heat?
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And every competitor asked, said, yes,
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I want to be in the top heat.
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Give up the rest.
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You want to be able to know
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what you have to beat.
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And he had no clue.
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And on the last lap,
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he stretched his lead so big,
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he did not have to push to
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win that heat at the end.
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I don't think he could have moved to the,
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I mean, he,
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he didn't touch and go because
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I don't think he could.
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So I don't know that being
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in the other heat would have helped him.
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Saxon Pancheck moves so fast
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on that touch and go.
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And he went from like sixth to third.
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Like it was,
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he was the last one in first
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one done in that group.
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It was amazing.
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Will Morad was right with him.
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The old man still has some chops.
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And speaking of old men,
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Ben Smith ran pretty well.
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He was in that slower heat,
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but it was funny.
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I was sitting beside Coach Krispy Kreme,
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and he said,
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you telling me that young boy
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Nate Ackerman is going to
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let dad bod shuffle pass him?
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He sure did.
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So Taylor moves up to the
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third heat tomorrow.
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Right.
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They'll recede for tomorrow.
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And he'll be held the center lane.
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Yep.
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Because he'll be in 11th.
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And then if he can make a move,
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they'll reseed again for Sunday.
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They reseed again after the fourth event,
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but they do not reseed
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after the fifth event.
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Still don't understand that at all.
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Yeah.
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But it was crazy fun in the
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venue tonight with those two races.
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so let's talk about some
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teams their second event
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was the big lift it was the
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barbell complex by each
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team member that they did
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at semi-finals in 20 20 22.
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2022. yeah that yeah 21 was
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the max snatch to start the
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weekend 2022 was the uh barbell complex
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So, um, uh, people love a big bar.
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They got to see a couple of them.
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Um, Tolo Moracchio led the men with a 200,
21:13
345 pound complex.
21:14
Did not look like he had to
21:15
push too hard to get it.
21:27
And looked really good and
21:29
put it up pretty easy.
21:30
I think Noah complimented that with a 315.
21:32
Yeah.
21:36
And then the women didn't
21:37
really have to do much after that.
21:38
They ended up winning that event.
21:41
Ocean State something, something.
21:46
That's the Christine Best,
21:48
Christine Middleton team.
21:51
They came in second because
21:52
Christine Middleton is a
21:54
boss with a barbell with
21:57
245-pound complex,
22:00
tying Hannah Black's record
22:02
from West Coast Classic.
22:03
Yeah, she made that look easy.
22:04
We saw at least one other woman.
22:07
There may have been two
22:08
other women try that 245.
22:13
The Mayhem,
22:15
I cannot think of her name
22:16
right now off the top of my head.
22:22
But yeah, the second, the Liberty team.
22:25
She tried 245 and missed the
22:28
jerk right at the end.
22:29
Yes,
22:30
right after Middleton tried in her
22:32
lane on the far side.
22:36
I got video of it,
22:38
but she missed the jerk as well.
22:41
So a couple people went for it.
22:43
Middleton went for 250.
22:45
Oh, did she?
22:46
She did.
22:48
Did not make the jerk.
22:51
Okay.
22:51
Okay.
22:53
I take that back.
22:54
She missed the clean.
22:55
I think she was spent.
22:57
She had to go back too quick.
22:59
And it just was.
23:00
She did like two cleans on
23:02
the third clean.
23:03
She just let it kind of roll.
23:06
Rebecca Devine.
23:07
Sorry.
23:08
That's the name.
23:09
That's who failed on that clean.
23:12
Or the jerk at the end.
23:14
Yeah.
23:15
So many people,
23:16
so many people got to the jerk.
23:18
I know.
23:19
All that work.
23:20
Expand all that energy with three cleans,
23:24
two front squats, and then miss the jerk.
23:27
I mean,
23:27
that's what happens when you do all
23:31
that work.
23:32
You're a little bit tired.
23:33
Yeah.
23:35
So, um,
23:38
Really awesome there.
23:40
Fun to see that.
23:42
The only thing I hate about
23:43
everybody going at once,
23:45
it's just a cluster on the floor.
23:46
And no broadcast is going to
23:49
clean that up.
23:49
You couldn't see the weights
23:53
on the plaques.
23:56
It was just tough.
23:59
Now,
23:59
I think what they tried to do this
24:01
week is fix the broadcast
24:03
so everybody was facing the camera.
24:06
But the only people sitting
24:08
there are friends and family.
24:10
So everybody else got a side
24:12
view with the way this arena is set up.
24:16
So the spectators in the
24:18
house didn't get a view of
24:20
the weight placards and
24:23
that to be able to kind of
24:24
tell the story.
24:27
Yeah.
24:29
Yeah, I mean,
24:31
the alternative is to do the
24:33
20-second lift portion and
24:35
rotate around the floor,
24:36
and that takes forever.
24:37
So it is what it is.
24:40
I mean, if you're going to throw a lift in,
24:43
this is probably how I want to see it.
24:47
Kenneth, attendance was pretty good,
24:49
I would say.
24:50
For a Friday,
24:51
I think it was pretty busy in there.
24:54
I anticipate it's going to be...
24:57
Not a full house.
24:57
I mean, it's a huge stadium,
24:59
but I think seats are going
25:00
to be pretty packed.
25:02
So what they did that's
25:03
super smart and why Wilson
25:04
Pack is so good at this,
25:07
they roped off the upper
25:08
section until the lower section filled.
25:13
So they made everybody sit.
25:17
It's all elevated seating,
25:19
and there's a lower bowl that's, what, 10,
25:21
15 rows?
25:22
Yeah.
25:22
Yeah.
25:25
And it goes all the way down
25:27
one side and all the way down the other.
25:29
They roped off all of the
25:30
seats above that until those filled.
25:34
So that got pretty full.
25:36
And on our side,
25:37
that got full enough where
25:38
they opened up the upper
25:39
section and then that began
25:41
to fill as well.
25:45
So I think it was actually
25:47
really good for a Friday.
25:48
Yeah.
25:51
Really good for,
25:51
because traditionally
25:53
people are working on
25:53
Friday and the whole event
25:56
was over before five o'clock.
25:58
So everybody was out.
26:00
Everybody was heading home
26:02
before work hours were over.
26:04
So I think that does,
26:05
that makes pretty good sense.
26:08
And I liked doing that
26:09
because then on the broadcast,
26:11
the cameras usually only
26:12
catch the lower seats.
26:16
So when you catch the lower seats,
26:17
it does appear to be way more full.
26:19
Yep.
26:20
and I do believe there are
26:21
way more people here than
26:22
there were at west coast
26:25
now we'll see tomorrow
26:26
three individual or two
26:28
individual events tomorrow
26:30
two team events tomorrow uh
26:32
it's a saturday nobody's
26:34
working we'll see but we
26:37
walked through vendor
26:38
village twice that looked
26:39
pretty full too that's
26:41
where the community event is going on
26:44
And they plopped that right
26:46
in the middle of Vendor Village,
26:47
which was so smart because
26:48
all the people that are
26:49
watching can walk through Vendor Village.
26:51
They're buying their protein cereals.
26:54
They're checking out the two food belts,
26:58
all that kind of stuff.
26:59
Yep.
27:00
So, yeah.
27:02
Um,
27:04
so then we go to the final event for
27:06
teams and that is where the
27:11
heat individual.
27:13
Yeah.
27:14
It was their version of the
27:15
run clean and jerk only.
27:17
It was run and worm thrusters.
27:20
Yes.
27:22
So, uh,
27:26
So with that, Lynn says,
27:28
tomorrow is going to be packed.
27:31
Vendor Village already has
27:32
some stuff sold out for Northern Spirit.
27:35
Wow.
27:37
Yeah,
27:38
Vendor Village was packed every time
27:39
we went through.
27:40
Yep.
27:44
Usually, like,
27:45
FitAid is putting out tubs
27:47
of extras that they give away.
27:50
They had five cans left when we walked by.
27:52
Mm-hmm.
27:54
um so yeah so this one was
27:58
the run worm thruster it
28:03
two of your team members
28:04
leave 20 seconds later the
28:06
other two members leave and
28:09
then you cannot work the
28:10
worm until everybody's back
28:14
um eighth day crossfit was
28:17
in the first heat yep again
28:19
obviously set the time to
28:21
beat they beat everybody in
28:23
their heat by a couple
28:25
minutes like they were done
28:29
they were getting their
28:30
picture taken their family
28:32
was down there taking their
28:33
pictures on the finish line
28:35
they were posing doing all
28:37
the stuff before the next team finished
28:43
They beat everybody in the second heat.
28:46
Yep.
28:47
Yeah.
28:48
Then the third heat comes
28:51
and Peak 360 and Mayhem
28:53
Independence were pretty
28:56
dominant in that final heat.
28:59
And it came down to between peak 360,
29:04
Mayhem Independence,
29:05
and eighth day from the first heat,
29:08
it was seven seconds from third to second,
29:12
and like another 10 seconds to first.
29:17
And eighth day didn't get to
29:18
run their race with those two others.
29:22
And they took another second today?
29:25
They took second in the
29:26
first event from the first heat.
29:29
So no reseed.
29:30
So they're stuck in heat one,
29:32
even though they took a second.
29:34
They did really well in the lift.
29:36
Yep.
29:38
So they should be in the top heat.
29:41
And because they weren't,
29:42
there was no reseed today.
29:44
They had to run that race
29:45
all by themselves.
29:48
Yeah.
29:48
And it was a shame because
29:49
that would have been so
29:50
much fun to watch.
29:52
Three teams battling it out
29:54
on those worm thrusters to see who won.
29:57
Mm-hmm.
29:59
Yeah,
29:59
I would have liked to seen them push.
30:03
I think they probably had more in them.
30:07
I would have liked to seen
30:07
them push 360 and possibly
30:11
see them not win an event.
30:13
I feel like that was the
30:14
workout for them not to get
30:15
a win and just didn't line up that way.
30:20
So let me ask you this.
30:22
With the way that that is designed,
30:25
you're pretty much at the
30:26
will of your slowest runner.
30:28
Yeah.
30:30
So it doesn't even really
30:31
matter about the first runners.
30:35
Well,
30:35
we saw there was a team where the
30:37
girl would basically sprint out,
30:41
get ahead of everybody, come in first,
30:43
and just stand at a worm and recover.
30:47
For 45 seconds.
30:50
Waiting for the other three to get back.
30:54
I think it had a bad look.
30:58
And I know that no rule says
30:59
you can't do that.
31:02
But I think I like the rope
31:04
runs where you all have to
31:06
hold a piece of the rope
31:08
and kind of run together.
31:09
It just, it adds some synchronicity to it.
31:14
It adds, you know,
31:15
maybe you can pull the one person.
31:18
Maybe you're not a good slow down runner.
31:21
Like it just affects the whole,
31:24
the whole team a lot more.
31:29
but I do think the biggest
31:30
crime was eighth day,
31:31
not getting a chance to run with the big,
31:35
with the big guys.
31:36
Totally agree.
31:38
But they're crushing it out
31:39
of the first heat.
31:40
They're in third at the end of the day,
31:42
two events to go tomorrow.
31:45
I'm liking their shot.
31:46
That shout out.
31:47
That's my, that's my Michigan team.
31:48
So shout out.
31:52
Peak three 60 is killing it.
31:56
They are killing it.
31:58
They have swept the three events.
32:03
The synchronicity is so good
32:07
with that team.
32:09
And you could tell that it
32:12
was Tola and Lena and Noah
32:16
and Mathilde ran together
32:20
and they were not going to
32:22
leave each other's side during the run.
32:25
And then it turned out for
32:26
the last three rounds,
32:27
they all four pretty much
32:28
came in together.
32:29
Yeah.
32:31
Yeah.
32:31
They did a great job staying together,
32:33
which if you anticipate down the road,
32:37
there being a rope run of
32:38
some sort or having us together, you,
32:39
you might as well work on that too,
32:41
because Denise's Denise's
32:44
or Lynn is right.
32:45
Some good runners get more
32:48
tired running at a slow pace.
32:51
I mean, it just,
32:51
it throws off the cadence
32:52
of your footwork and,
32:55
Yeah, 100% agree.
32:57
Just to let everybody know,
32:59
Jamie informed me that if
33:01
she was doing this,
33:02
she would have run as fast
33:04
as that girl did and get
33:06
back and sit down on her
33:07
lawn chair waiting for her
33:09
team to get back so she
33:10
could get some rest.
33:12
Yeah, because I don't like thrusters.
33:14
I would have needed a break.
33:17
Without apology, she was like,
33:19
that would be me.
33:22
Yeah, so I understood that girl for sure.
33:25
Yeah.
33:27
Lynn says in peak 360,
33:28
we're running together the whole time.
33:30
Even held each other's
33:31
elbows to maintain pace
33:33
after the first two rounds.
33:34
They did.
33:35
Yeah.
33:36
We were talking about this
33:37
because Noah oftentimes up
33:39
the ramp would have his
33:41
hand on the back of Matilda.
33:45
Or Tola.
33:46
Or Tola, yeah.
33:47
Yeah.
33:47
There was one time he pushed Tola.
33:49
Yeah.
33:50
Like I saw him physically push him.
33:53
Let's go.
33:55
But with Matilda,
33:56
it was a much more gentle, like, hey,
33:59
I'm here.
33:59
I got you.
34:01
Let's get this.
34:04
It was really kind of nice to see.
34:05
Yeah.
34:07
That they work that well
34:08
together as a team.
34:10
And man, were they happy afterwards today.
34:13
I mean, it's fun to win.
34:16
It is.
34:19
So we come tomorrow with the
34:23
final two team events.
34:24
Yep.
34:26
They will take the podium tomorrow night.
34:29
We then have our next two
34:32
individual events.
34:34
Let's give our shot caller picks,
34:36
which I haven't even made yet.
34:37
Oh, goodness.
34:39
You're the one that brought up this idea.
34:42
All right.
34:42
So event two.
34:44
See how she does me people?
34:46
We got the double under, total bar,
34:48
front squat, five rounds.
34:58
I want to not pick Tia,
35:00
so I'm trying to rack my
35:02
brain for who I threw second in there.
35:10
Did Jamie end up getting to do the comp?
35:14
Well, I will tell you this.
35:15
We got back from the airport last night,
35:17
well after midnight.
35:19
That's true.
35:21
Because of the musty air,
35:22
I snored like a savage.
35:27
So she may have gotten three hours sleep.
35:33
I'm not even that tired right now.
35:35
I'll probably be tired tomorrow.
35:36
Maybe I'll sleep really good tonight.
35:37
I was looking to Ken.
35:40
I was trying to find a partner.
35:42
So this morning was the individual,
35:45
which I would have been willing to do,
35:46
but I didn't want to
35:47
reserve a spot for that because honestly,
35:49
I wasn't sure when I could get here.
35:51
Um, and like my flight got delayed.
35:54
So probably a good thing.
35:55
I didn't pick that one.
35:55
I was trying to find a partner,
35:57
a male partner to do
36:00
Sunday's community event.
36:01
It's male, female partner.
36:03
work out and nobody wants to
36:06
work out with me so I don't
36:07
know scott said hell no and
36:10
literally I mean I made a
36:11
post no nobody nobody wants
36:14
to work out with me um dang
36:18
event two travis
36:24
Event two, Travis.
36:26
He'll be good at that.
36:27
He does have one of the
36:29
fastest cycle rate on double-unders.
36:35
And being smooth there,
36:39
like I can see him not
36:40
really having any trips and
36:42
gaining seconds there.
36:43
But it's kind of a total bar workout.
36:47
Yeah.
36:52
I think, men-wise,
36:54
I think Hatfield's going to do well.
37:01
And I can see Taylor doing well.
37:05
I don't like the squats on Taylor's knee.
37:09
Yeah,
37:09
but like Tristan said when you had
37:11
him on.
37:13
I mean, had he got, what, third,
37:14
fourth in that workout by
37:15
doing six-four a couple rounds?
37:16
Like, Taylor doesn't,
37:18
and I don't know if that's
37:19
going to hold true with the men's crowd,
37:21
but...
37:22
I don't know that he has to
37:24
squat blazingly fast to be
37:28
top six in this workout.
37:33
True.
37:34
But we're picking the winner.
37:35
Okay.
37:37
So I am between... I'm
37:43
between Austin Hatfield and Will Moran.
37:46
Yeah.
37:47
Yeah.
37:49
I mean, we saw it with Colton, right?
37:50
Like the...
37:53
the shorter levers are going
37:54
to have a huge advantage in this one.
37:57
And if you can move that weight quickly,
38:01
Jack Rosemont could do good.
38:03
He could.
38:03
I don't know what his toes are like.
38:05
Yeah.
38:07
Will Morehead's a veteran.
38:08
He just isn't going to make mistakes.
38:11
He's not going to make
38:11
mistakes on the dubs.
38:13
He's going to be fine on the front squat.
38:16
Guy's a powerhouse.
38:18
And that amount of toes to
38:21
bar for him will be nothing.
38:23
That's a good call.
38:26
And he looked so good today.
38:27
He looked so good.
38:28
It gives me confidence going into two,
38:30
which is probably where
38:31
I'll make my mistake.
38:33
I'm going to say,
38:34
I think I'm going to say Saxon.
38:38
i thought about him it's
38:39
just the range of motion
38:40
worries me on the front
38:41
squats I feel like he's a
38:43
pretty fast water okay but
38:49
okay honestly I'm thinking
38:51
when you say that he squats
38:53
below depth so yeah over
38:56
like hey maybe they'll be
38:58
really strict and some
38:58
people won't be in and
39:01
there'll be some notes on
39:02
the floor and go to his favor so ladies
39:08
um I think fee could do
39:16
really well at this one and
39:17
I think I think she needs
39:18
to have a good event um my
39:25
dark horse for this is annika greer
39:28
Yeah.
39:29
Great pick.
39:30
She needs it.
39:31
She is a fast squatter.
39:33
Yep.
39:35
She's really good at toaster
39:36
bar and she's really good
39:38
at double unders.
39:42
Yep.
39:43
But I mean, good gravy.
39:48
Like if,
39:48
if you're not picking Tia for
39:49
everything at this point, you're just,
39:52
Yeah, to be fair, I have Tia, and he won.
39:55
So I'm just trying to give alternatives,
39:57
like throw out some top threes or fives.
40:00
I think Emma Lawson is an
40:01
interesting look here, too.
40:04
Yeah.
40:07
Again,
40:07
I don't know that she's the fastest
40:08
squatter.
40:11
Yeah.
40:16
Hmm.
40:17
I almost wish Tyler would
40:22
bring back the cap of... Two?
40:27
Yeah, they talked about that a little bit.
40:29
Especially in a Tia case.
40:31
Yep.
40:33
And I think I'm already
40:34
going to lose the prop bet.
40:35
She's winning more than two
40:36
events this weekend.
40:38
I think I wrote three.
40:40
Maybe I wrote four.
40:41
I don't remember.
40:41
I did not write five.
40:42
I know that.
40:44
I picked two.
40:44
I may have done four.
40:47
um I picked her for I think
40:49
I picked her for three and
40:50
he won I picked haley for
40:51
the first event just so I
40:52
had someone to root it root
40:54
for um and when I can I
40:56
like to try to pick someone
40:57
other than tia all right so
41:00
I picked just you know okay
41:02
I did pick jeff and tia for
41:04
event one same because oh
41:07
no I picked haley and jeff
41:08
big so I told you last week
41:10
I'm done with these wild
41:12
outlandish yeah I think I
41:14
know something yeah
41:16
Going to be smarter.
41:17
I got to beat Lex.
41:19
So there it is.
41:25
I think DB's range of motion
41:27
is just so long.
41:28
Yeah.
41:30
I think she'll do great top seven,
41:32
eight easily.
41:34
But I don't,
41:36
I don't know if I'd pick her
41:36
for a top three.
41:41
Kenneth picked Pepper for the first event.
41:45
Yeah.
41:47
Oh, Ken.
41:50
Dallin did good for Dallin.
41:51
Dallin did good for Dallin.
41:53
He did.
41:54
He's just not going to do
41:55
well against Roman or Jeff.
41:57
What did you tell me before
41:58
we went on the air?
42:00
I don't know.
42:01
What did I say?
42:02
You said Roman and Jeff won
42:04
by over a minute.
42:05
Oh, yeah.
42:06
Roman and Jeff by like a
42:07
minute and Tia and Haley by
42:09
like a minute.
42:10
It was,
42:12
those two athletes were in their
42:14
own class.
42:17
Yeah, it was crazy.
42:18
Yeah.
42:21
Okay,
42:22
so then we go to the rope climb event,
42:26
right?
42:26
Yeah.
42:29
rope climb event with echo bike,
42:32
rope climb, box jump overs, rope climb,
42:36
and then start over again.
42:39
Yeah.
42:39
Six and three quarter rounds.
42:43
Yes.
42:44
Of that.
42:46
Um, who, who you got for,
42:51
who you got for the men?
42:56
trying to think who I put in
42:57
my heat one I may have put
42:59
hopper in this one and he
43:02
won yeah yeah gosh see this
43:11
is the one I'd want to pick
43:12
saxon on he is an amazing
43:14
rope climber he is an amazing box jumper
43:20
I don't think he has enough
43:21
on the Echo Bike to keep up
43:23
with Dallin Hopper, Roman, Jeff.
43:33
So my pick for this one on
43:37
the men will be Roman.
43:38
Okay.
43:41
And you know that takes a
43:42
lot for me to say that.
43:47
Pick Ken.
43:49
I think Taylor's a fine pick.
43:51
I don't know that... I don't
43:52
think if I'm being completely honest,
43:53
I don't think he can win it,
43:55
but I think it's an okay pick.
43:56
I think it's the same problem with Saxon.
44:00
That Taylor on the echo bike,
44:01
I think he's good,
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but there are guys in this
44:05
region that are on another
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level on that echo bike.
44:12
I see Lynn and Ken...
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talked about.
44:17
Yeah, we'll talk about that.
44:18
All right.
44:20
After we're done with this.
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All right.
44:21
So ladies, ladies.
44:27
I mean, it's Tia, but other than that.
44:35
I think if the echo bike's not there,
44:36
Haley could get her.
44:40
Haley's great on the rope.
44:42
That box is going to be
44:43
nothing for her and her height.
44:46
I don't know.
44:49
I mean,
44:49
but the echo bike makes Tia the winner.
44:54
I think there's other people
44:55
that would even be Haley in
44:57
a legless rope climb workout.
44:59
Um, but yeah,
45:01
that bike is going to throw a wrench into,
45:06
into this workout for those people like,
45:08
like Shelby, Neil, like a fee,
45:11
like that's a lot for them to overcome.
45:16
It is.
45:18
Now, Fee, according to Kenneth,
45:21
said that this is the one
45:22
she would pick for herself.
45:24
I love that.
45:27
I love that.
45:29
I think Emma will do really well.
45:32
She'll be right up there.
45:34
Yeah.
45:36
Should be a good event for Alexis.
45:39
Yeah.
45:39
Yeah.
45:42
Maybe that's who my non-Tia
45:45
pick would be is Alexis.
45:46
Yeah.
45:50
Yeah.
45:50
Let's go with that.
45:51
Yeah.
45:51
I like it.
45:54
Because we could be boring
45:56
and tell you Tia for
45:56
everything and that isn't fun at all.
45:59
So my non-Tia pick is Alexis Raptus.
46:04
Yep.
46:05
And hopefully you can still hear us.
46:07
My indicator is that our
46:09
Wi-Fi here in the hotel is
46:11
not at optimal levels.
46:15
Best Western.
46:18
So hopefully you can still
46:20
get this broadcast.
46:23
So let's talk about the
46:24
disappointments from today.
46:28
On the men's side,
46:29
it's already been brought up.
46:30
Jack Farlow came in with all this promise.
46:34
Still has a chance.
46:36
This does not take him out
46:38
of the running by any
46:39
stretch of the matter.
46:43
But man, he looked rough after that event.
46:46
He sure did.
46:48
Medical had to help him off the floor.
46:52
It just was,
46:55
hopefully it's just cramps and
46:56
a little dehydration.
47:00
But he looked really fatigued.
47:03
It's not even,
47:04
it's not even that warm out.
47:07
It's not.
47:09
And it's,
47:09
maybe it's the shock from going
47:11
32 degrees inside the arena
47:15
to 70 degrees outside the arena.
47:17
It is freezing inside.
47:19
Hold the mic to your mouth.
47:21
It is freezing inside.
47:24
um yeah it is so cold I am
47:28
never ever cold I was
47:30
freezing today freezing so
47:36
maybe that's it was a shock
47:41
Our very own Carolyn Prevost
47:43
seemed to have hobbled up
47:45
with a cramp at the very end as well.
47:48
And she was helped off by medical,
47:51
hoping that it was just cramps.
47:53
Hopefully she's back better
47:55
than ever tomorrow and doing her thing.
47:59
And Kenneth, I did not shave.
48:01
I just trimmed it up because
48:02
it was getting a little bushy.
48:03
Yeah.
48:07
If I'm coming back to semis in person,
48:10
I wanted to be presentable.
48:16
So there's that.
48:17
A couple other
48:18
disappointments for me today.
48:19
I was really hoping Anika's
48:23
run had improved in the offseason.
48:26
Didn't seem to come to fruition today.
48:28
That was a bummer.
48:37
I don't know.
48:38
That's probably it for me.
48:38
That's probably it.
48:39
Yeah.
48:43
There was a crazy thing that
48:44
happened where one of the
48:46
teams had a member pass out twice.
48:52
Yeah.
48:52
Once in event one and once in event two.
48:57
Passed out in event one,
48:57
came to in time to finish the workout.
49:03
Then passed out after the lift.
49:07
But then was their best
49:08
runner on the last event.
49:10
So who knows?
49:16
Kenneth wants Prevo to win everything.
49:19
We all do.
49:19
Yeah.
49:26
It might be it's a hard
49:27
field to show improvement
49:29
in because the field is crazy.
49:32
It is.
49:32
That's fair.
49:34
And actually,
49:34
when you look at the leaderboard,
49:35
she wasn't as... Even Jack,
49:38
because of the speed of that heat,
49:41
wasn't last.
49:43
Yeah.
49:43
Like he was 33rd or 34th.
49:45
Yeah.
49:45
I think that's...
49:50
that's the people who get
49:52
caught up in that, in that race.
49:55
And it's just,
49:55
it's just too fast of a pace for them.
49:57
And yeah, they redlined even in, I mean,
50:06
even in teams, you saw people,
50:08
it's a lot of volume for the teams today.
50:10
And they were, you could tell,
50:13
you could see the leg
50:14
fatigue on some of those people.
50:16
I mean, having to walk hobbling,
50:18
like they look miserable.
50:23
uh kenneth said I know it's
50:24
not the same run but top
50:26
times in the east destroyed
50:27
the west well you got to
50:30
look at the third time
50:31
because I wouldn't like I
50:32
said like we said both the
50:34
men and women the top two
50:35
were a minute ahead of the
50:37
competition so I would look
50:38
at the third time of east saxon and emma
50:49
Yeah, I thought Caroline Stanley got her.
50:50
Fourth.
50:51
Caroline was fourth.
50:52
Okay.
50:54
Yeah, because I will take Tia, Haley,
51:00
Roman,
51:00
and Jeff in any run race in the
51:03
world straight up.
51:08
No matter what stairs, hill is involved,
51:12
I'm taking those four to be
51:15
the top two in each side.
51:21
And I already apologize, Emily Rolfe.
51:23
I just realized what I had done again.
51:24
I don't know if I ever
51:29
shared that on here.
51:30
I was going to.
51:32
But last week,
51:35
I had called Emily White to
51:37
beat Emily Rolfe on the
51:40
Heat One app at West Coast.
51:44
And Emily Rolfe called me
51:45
out on that and said,
51:48
you picked the wrong Emily.
51:51
Yeah, sure did.
51:53
And I sure did.
51:58
Kenneth says Lawson was third,
51:59
just creeping in the shadows,
52:01
waiting to pounce.
52:02
Yep.
52:03
She looked good.
52:04
She looked smooth.
52:06
Yeah.
52:07
And then there's a point I was, I was over,
52:11
I overheard some coaches saying like,
52:15
you don't need to push it here.
52:19
Like,
52:21
Well, yeah.
52:22
What did it matter if she was up?
52:23
You're not going to gain any
52:24
points on the two of them, right?
52:27
The minute behind was fine.
52:28
It didn't matter.
52:30
Yeah.
52:31
So take your time.
52:32
Don't overexert it.
52:34
Take your third.
52:35
Because even going touch and go,
52:38
you're still third.
52:40
Mm-hmm.
52:43
So I think that's everything from today.
52:46
Yep.
52:51
wishing Carolyn all the best
52:53
hopefully we see her back
52:55
on the floor tomorrow
52:57
crushing it and hopefully
53:00
Jack Farlow's back better
53:02
than ever and all of that
53:04
so it's the first live
53:08
competition of the game
53:09
season athletes want to
53:10
show out yeah Tia sure did
53:13
I think Tia wanted to make a statement.
53:15
I think other athletes are
53:16
here with a goal of doing
53:21
something at the games and
53:23
they're not trying to show out.
53:28
I think there are different mindsets.
53:33
That is not Tia's.
53:36
I think Tia's here to
53:38
destroy everybody by as
53:40
much... I think she was
53:41
getting annoyed that this
53:44
blonde girl was right
53:45
behind her the entire race
53:48
and wanted to go big baller
53:50
at the end and make a statement.
53:54
Yeah.
53:56
So...
53:58
Well, with that, guys,
54:00
thanks for jumping on with us.
54:02
We'll be back at it tomorrow,
54:03
throwing out some content.
54:05
Hopefully this time I
54:06
remember my camera battery
54:08
so that I can actually use
54:09
the new camera I bought
54:11
instead of my iPhone 15.
54:14
But there we go.
54:17
And Kenneth says, Tia is Matt,
54:19
but turned up to 11.
54:23
And we are the original.
54:26
Thursday, Friday, Sunday night,
54:29
CrossFit Talk Show.
54:31
With that, we'll see you guys next time.
54:34
Thanks, everybody, and see you tomorrow.