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Tristan Harrison - The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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In the kitchen you decide to
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stay that's how it winners
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made stick a fork in the head
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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast,
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where we are featuring the
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athletes of the 2024
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CrossFit Games Semifinals.
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And with me today is Tristan Harrison.
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What's going on, man?
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Hey, man.
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Thanks for having me on.
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Yeah.
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So before we get into the CrossFit stuff,
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you're sitting out on your back porch.
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And do I see a green egg?
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Yeah, you do.
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There's a black stone next
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to it on the other side.
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So I love smoking meat.
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Yeah, it's the best way to make it.
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Yeah.
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I have like a knockoff Traeger.
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I used to go the charcoal
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route with a Weber Tallboy.
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And then I switched to the
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pellet just because I was
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doing it so much.
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I needed something that
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didn't need as much babysitting.
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Yeah, it's so much more consistent.
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Yeah.
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Forget it.
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Yeah,
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haven't done a lot with the green egg.
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We've done it,
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messed with it a little bit
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here in the last couple
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months as it's been a little bit nicer.
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We had a weird like 70 degree February,
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which was lovely.
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But then it got winter hit for real.
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But the blacks don't need
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constantly like smash burgers once a week,
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probably.
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It's lovely.
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yeah my uh one of my best
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friends has a blackstone
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and a grill and a smoker
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and like um and he like
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does philly cheesesteaks he
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does smash burgers he does
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breakfast on the blackstone
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pancakes yeah yeah
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scrambled eggs bacon yeah
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you put everything on there
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so much so great
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So I've always wanted to know,
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I've never used a green egg.
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I've never even been to a
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place where someone used it.
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But I hear like it is the
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best way to smoke meat.
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So I've used it I think
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three times now is all.
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I haven't done a lot with it.
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The other way that I smoke,
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so out of my dad's house,
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he has just like a stand
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Weber one like you were
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talking about with the
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chunks that you put in it of the
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wood and everything.
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And that's what we did
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growing up for smoking meat,
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stuff like that.
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This, I've done brisket, ribs,
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and pork shoulder on now.
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Okay.
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Isn't that the whole
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maturity of smoked meat?
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Pretty much, yeah.
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Yeah, just try it.
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If you're going to try them,
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do those three, figure it out.
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The brisket and the shoulder went great,
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but they're hard to mess up.
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Especially a pork shoulder,
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like just put it on there
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and come back in 12 hours
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and see what happened.
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Probably going to taste pretty good.
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Yeah.
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The ribs were,
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we'll call them a learning experience.
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Next, I'll do them again,
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but I've definitely took
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some notes down of like, all right,
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do this instead,
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do this after this much time.
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And yeah.
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So why I think the green egg
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is probably so good is, of course,
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you probably know who Bill Henninger is.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, familiar.
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So he lives here in Columbus.
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And on his property,
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he has five green eggs.
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and he uses them when people
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come over like when
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athletes come to town he
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makes dinner uses all of
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them at one time yeah to
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make the meal and he was
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going to open a restaurant
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at the rogue facility
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featuring his his barbecue
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but it then covet hit oh
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yeah terrible timing yeah terrible timing
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I think that happens for a lot of people.
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No, I,
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the one thing about the green egg is
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a space thing.
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Like that's probably why he has five.
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Yeah.
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Is if you get one good size pork shoulder,
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that's all you're putting on it.
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Yeah.
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You know, you can't, it's not like, Oh,
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I'll get like a brisket and
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two racks of ribs and this
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and put it all in one smoker,
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like a Traeger or a standup
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would do with the different levels.
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The,
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Green Egg is like you got this circle.
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Once it's full,
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that's all you're getting there.
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Yeah.
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Well,
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now that we have everybody's mouth
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watering.
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Yeah.
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We'll get into a little bit of your story.
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So this is your second trip to semifinals.
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You went to Atlas Games in 2021.
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You've been doing the Open since 2015.
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Yeah, I've been doing CrossFit since.
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Oh, 13, summer of 2013, I believe.
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It's right around there.
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I was going into ninth grade is when.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I have three brothers.
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My oldest brother was doing it,
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and I was a track athlete,
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and that's what I did in high school.
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And so I started doing that
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kind of in the summer and
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fall and all that,
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and I really enjoyed it.
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and he and I, my oldest brother.
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Okay.
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Yeah, he, he did.
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He, he coached it over in Rochester,
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which is an hour from me where,
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where I am now.
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Um,
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and just kind of introduced it to me
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and would send me workouts
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and kind of started me doing it,
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started lifting some more
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going into high school and
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have just kind of been
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consistent with it since then.
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Um,
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Wanted to compete,
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did compete as a teenager
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at Granite Games and Waterpalooza.
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Those were a blast.
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Then aged out as that happened.
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And then did Granite Games
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on a pro team when they did Sanctionals.
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I think, was that Sanctional year?
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I can't keep those straight.
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Good Lord.
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Did that and then
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Yeah, 2021 made it to,
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I think I was the very last
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one in to the North America
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semifinals that year.
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Wow.
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So that 2021,
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North America had four
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sanctionals or semifinals, regionals,
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who knows what they were.
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And they just said, hey,
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this many athletes qualify
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and then we'll just spread
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you out to those
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four right and so I didn't
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think I made it because I
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was like 128th or 30th or
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something like that and it
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was top 120 and then two
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weeks later I get an email
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oh you made it I'm like uh
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okay great and I asked if I
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could actually go to
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granite games because it's
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two and a half hours from me
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And I've competed there
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almost every year except
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like two since I started
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competing in 2015.
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But they couldn't.
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They were just full.
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So I ended up at Atlas Games
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and did that one online in
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the gym because, again, COVID.
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So I was going to ask you,
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I thought that was the year
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that Atlas was online and
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the other three were in person.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah,
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because I actually – I was with
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Morning Chalkup that season,
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and I went to the three
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that were in person.
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Okay.
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And we were watching – I was
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at West Coast Classic
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watching the Atlas Games
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results as they popped up
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to kind of see who was where.
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Yeah,
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what people were getting and when the
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leaderboard went live and all that stuff.
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What a chaotic year that was.
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Yeah, I mean –
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I have to think every year
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since 2019 has felt like a
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chaotic year for the CrossFit season.
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Like to be fair.
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Touche.
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Touche.
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Um,
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so your one semifinal experience was
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really online and no
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different than the opener quarters.
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Yeah, literally.
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Yeah, exactly.
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It was, Oh, Hey,
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you did the open unit quarters.
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Kind of just do quarters again.
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Like that's,
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that's kind of what you're doing.
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Um,
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And there weren't,
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I think the only difference
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is we had a password we had
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to say for the semifinals.
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I think that was the only
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difference between
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semifinals and quarters was
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like that way they knew you
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were doing them in order.
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Right.
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Yeah, wow.
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Yeah.
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So this is your first time
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in person going to a semifinal,
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and it's in Carson, California,
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home of the CrossFit Games.
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You've been doing this since 2013.
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I'm sure you've watched stuff in Carson.
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Oh, I mean,
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I've watched the games every year.
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I went to Carson in 2016.
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So I graduated high school in 2016,
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and me and my dad –
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took a motor home and drove
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out to Carson watched the
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games in 2016 that summer
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all week and yeah it is
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really it's definitely like
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a nostalgic special thing
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of like oh I get to go
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compete in the tennis
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stadium I couldn't even
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imagine yeah it is you know
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like doing this for 11
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years almost now I think
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like that I think is the
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biggest thing like
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It's cool.
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I made it to semis.
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I've been competing for a long time.
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I've done Granite Games on a pro team.
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I've done Water Palooza as a
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teenager and all that stuff.
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I'm used to competing and
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doing those bigger competitions.
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I've experienced that.
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But it is the idea of the
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tennis stadium definitely
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gets you a little giddy.
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Yeah, like I like the setup in Knoxville.
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It is not iconic, right?
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Like you North America West
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athletes are going to get
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an experience that very few
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people have gotten.
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And it's been almost 10
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years since we've been there.
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So like a lot of the
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athletes today didn't even
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compete back then.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I know.
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I'd love to go down the list and be like,
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all right,
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who's going there next weekend
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that has been there?
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because I mean five to ten
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maybe maybe maybe you know
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like it's it is definitely
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going to be one of those
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like wow this is walk out
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on that tennis stadium and
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look up and see like you're
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you are just in like a
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viewing tunnel like
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everyone's above you and
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everyone's just looking
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down and you're just there
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and it's like okay
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So they've released the workouts.
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The first workout is not on an air runner.
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You're going to run on the ground.
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Yeah.
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Boz teased that at some
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locations it would be
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iconic where you run.
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Oh, did he?
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yeah so oh are we berm
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running it is that where
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you're going that's my
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question if oh what so as
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an athlete if you have to
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run those stairs in
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addition to run to run the
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berm is that fair in a
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semi-final oh I mean fair to who like
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Compared to the other semifinals, no.
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But they don't affect who goes from ours.
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You know?
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Like,
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that's kind of always been...
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Everyone's always said, well,
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week three of regionals
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always has the best scores.
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Well, yeah,
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they had three more weeks to practice.
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You know?
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And it's fine because week
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three doesn't affect week one.
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Right.
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You know?
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But to get to run the berm
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and say you ran the berm?
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Yeah.
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Like...
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i would I hope we get to do
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that I'd rather do that
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than run like laps in a
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tennis stadium like I'm
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gonna get dizzy yeah I mean
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at the very least I
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understand like the soccer
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stadium is only a tunnel
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away from the tennis
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stadium I've never been and
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so they could take you like
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funnel you out and have you
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run around the soccer
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stadium yeah I I'm trying
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to imagine because I know
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They did a version of Nancy
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when they did the berm run
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and that was 600 meters and
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they started at the far end
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of the soccer field.
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So, I mean,
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if we ran out of the tennis
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stadium through that tunnel
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across the floor, I mean,
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that would be half a month.
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Like you'd add probably
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about another 200 meters
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going through that tunnel.
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back so on to the 600 they
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did it'd be pretty close to
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a half a mile to have to go
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all the way up the berm and
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back yeah and they've said
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these are not going to be
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exactly 800 meters you know
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and it's going to vary from
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location to location based
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on what they can do yeah
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and exactly again why like
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that's totally fine like
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everyone in that place is
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running the same thing we're good
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You know,
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like everyone tries to cross
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compare scores and everything.
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And it's, you can't even do it.
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It's the different weeks.
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It's different athletes.
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If someone was somewhere
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else and they were next to him,
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would they have gone faster?
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You know, a wad zombie pipes in a cool,
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another West coast semifinalist.
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Excited to see him.
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Thank you.
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Wadzomi is like our West
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Coast correspondent.
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He lives there in LA.
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So he and his wife are
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heading there for sure.
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Yeah.
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Meeting everybody.
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Yeah.
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So what kind of athlete are you?
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A CrossFit one.
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Like I said,
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I started doing this when I
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was... I did my first
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competition when I was 15.
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right and so I've been doing
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this for a lot over 11
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years and I did track in
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high school and I didn't do
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it my senior year so
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crossfit is what I've done
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basically my whole
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formative life would you
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say your would you say your
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strengths are like engine
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and endurance or power
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output or are you
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definitely not power output
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That is definitely, if you,
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I kind of noticed that
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doing like quarters,
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like that event four with
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all the cleaning jerks is
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that repeated power output of like,
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do this percentage over and
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over and over again.
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And I just kind of fall off
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that battery test.
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People have been calling it,
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which is the first time
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I've heard that term.
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Nice to learn something new, I guess,
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in 11 years.
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But that's,
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I would say more just like knowing myself,
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like my pacing.
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Like I kind of know where I need to be,
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what I need to do for how
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fast I'm going to go and
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strategizing workouts.
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I tend to do pretty well of
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round one is this pace and
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round two is this and round
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three is a little faster
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and round four is finish.
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Just having done it long enough,
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that's definitely become my
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main strength is being able
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to stay focused
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focused on myself and not
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like I gotta go faster
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because they're going
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faster okay you so I hear
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you you're gonna be on the
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floor possibly with some of
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the biggest names in the
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sport like like a pat
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velner brent fukowski and
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justin madaris will any of
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that will you have like fanboy uh
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tendencies or because you've
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been to waterpalooza and
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granite games you can kind
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of put the blinders on I
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mean I'm definitely gonna
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blow up too fast in the
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first run of the 800 I
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think I think everybody's
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gonna do that I think
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everyone has a strategy of
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oh I'm gonna go run this
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first 800 at like a seven
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minute mile pace or
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whatever 7 30 6 45
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somewhere in there and the
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clock's gonna go off and
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everyone's gonna run like a 5 30 mile
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And just then it's going to
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turn into hang on.
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And that's about par for
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what everyone does.
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Like it's the first event.
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It's the jitters.
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It's the tennis stadium.
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Like, I think,
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I think that's going to happen.
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And I'm kind of expecting that to happen.
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So a bit of extra rains on
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that first run or two will
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happen in terms of the, like,
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fanboying thing.
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I've competed.
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I competed with Justin when
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we were teenagers, actually.
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I've met him and the other
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guys I've seen at the games
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when I've went and watched
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in Madison or in Carson and
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at Granite Games in the athlete area,
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all that stuff.
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I think I've been in the
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sport long enough.
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Not a huge...
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oh my god it's that person
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it's really cool it's like
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wow it's more of a this is
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cool I get to be out here
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with them and like do this
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next to them and experience
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that oh yeah I mean it
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sounds like you know not
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knowing you very well but
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it sounds like you are a
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fan of the sport oh and you
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were even before you were
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an athlete yeah I i love the sport it's
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I mean, I've, I've watched every games,
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you know,
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I've went back and watched them
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on YouTube for the old ones when I,
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before I saw it, you know,
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the first time live and all that stuff.
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And it's,
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it is the only sport I really
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keep track of.
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I'm not big into football or
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basketball or any of that stuff.
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So this is kind of my, like, I mean,
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it is my Superbowl for sure.
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Right.
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Like the CrossFit games in
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August are like,
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I'm not productive for this week.
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Like nothing, nothing's happening.
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Like I,
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I am exclusively like watching this
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all day, every day for five days.
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I'll pretend I'm doing stuff
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at work if I need to be,
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but I'm a little preoccupied.
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What do you do to support yourself?
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So I work at a, I coach it across the gym.
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I coach it across the drive.
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And then I also, I'm a,
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a salesperson at a furniture
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store here in overtly okay
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and then I just graduated
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from a nursing program and
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uh I'm starting work at
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mayo clinic so you have
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lots of free time on your
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hands apparently yeah yeah
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tons of yeah yeah tons of
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free time just just piling
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up so are you an hwpo athlete
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I am, yeah.
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So I started following them
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in summer of 22,
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which if you look at my open finishes,
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there's a gap year there.
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I took 2022 off.
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I have a bit of a back
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injury that's nagged for
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years and years now.
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And that year was kind of just like,
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I just need a break.
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And so took the break and
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kind of took a few steps
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back and just relaxed a little.
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And summer of 22,
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I started doing their HWPO Strong,
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that Rob Kearney program.
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So it was just lifting four days a week.
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Did that through the fall of that year.
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And then
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new year of 23 going into
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the 2023 season started
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following the 60 track
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because like you said,
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I've got tons of free time.
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So about 60 minutes a day is,
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is my limit 60 to 75
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minutes a day of like, all right,
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I'm going to go in.
21:46
I'm going to get it done and
21:48
move on for the day.
21:49
So I followed that and did
21:53
that in 2023 season have done that since.
21:57
And this year,
21:59
year I didn't change
22:00
anything until after the
22:02
open when it went
22:03
surprisingly well and then
22:07
jumped on their open prep
22:09
stuff got ready for
22:10
quarters and then made it
22:12
through quarters and jumped
22:14
on their semi-final stuff
22:16
these last several weeks
22:17
and did that did that this
22:19
morning after coaching
22:20
class heading into next week
22:24
The reason I ask that is
22:25
because they're known for
22:28
their compete track is a
22:30
very long... If you can get
22:33
it done in two hours, you're doing well.
22:36
Oh, yeah, yeah.
22:37
Their 60 track is the same, I will say.
22:40
When I first started it,
22:41
I tried to do it in 60 minutes.
22:43
I'm like, all right,
22:44
I'm going to get it done in an hour.
22:46
And it was a full-out 60-minute Metcon.
22:49
It was just like...
22:51
You couldn't, it was just, you're going,
22:53
going, going.
22:54
And I finally was like, all right,
22:55
I can take 75 minutes to
22:57
get this done today.
22:59
I can relax a little bit.
23:02
And it is, yeah, they,
23:04
it is definitely a full
23:05
load in terms of what
23:08
they're giving to do, which,
23:10
and it should be like, you know,
23:12
if you do push and really
23:14
focused on getting it done,
23:15
maybe dial the percentages
23:16
back a little bit.
23:18
You can absolutely do it in
23:20
an hour for the 60 is what I'm used to.
23:22
Excuse me.
23:26
And in terms of the pro stuff,
23:29
which I've just started
23:30
doing the last few weeks,
23:32
they have it split out into
23:33
session one and session two.
23:37
I kind of pick and choose
23:39
what is the priority for me
23:42
as an athlete or what I
23:43
have time for for that day.
23:44
Um, generally it's,
23:45
I'm going to make sure I
23:46
get the strength stuff done
23:48
and any like just high
23:50
power interval stuff.
23:52
And then if I happen to have
23:53
time later at night,
23:54
I can go do some cardio or whatever.
23:59
So before I ask you my next question,
24:01
what zombie says you have a
24:02
cool semifinal shirt.
24:04
So I'm actually going to pull it up.
24:06
Oh yeah.
24:08
Um, got it here.
24:10
Um, um,
24:14
Looks like you have it
24:15
regular and maybe cropped?
24:18
Yeah, there's a couple.
24:18
So the black one is a regular and a crop,
24:21
and then there's a blue tee
24:23
and a red crop as well.
24:24
Yeah, those ones.
24:28
Any significance to the logo?
24:31
The V?
24:33
You mean?
24:34
Yeah.
24:35
Yeah,
24:35
that's the logo for CrossFit Interdrive,
24:38
the lady I train and coach at.
24:40
And in the back, you have the...
24:44
kind of looks like a
24:45
surfboard maybe something
24:46
different no it's just it
24:49
is a bit of a surfboard I
24:51
really enjoy paddle
24:52
boarding okay water and
24:54
everything I have a
24:55
paddleboard tattoo on my
24:56
leg actually um I came up
24:59
so um the my affiliate
25:02
owner casey d made the uh
25:06
other two the red and the
25:07
green and the blue one and then i
25:10
kind of came up with that
25:11
one for that design I just
25:13
I just like how it looks I
25:14
like the bright colors on
25:15
it it seemed very like west
25:18
coast to me in terms of
25:22
where I'm going for semis
25:25
so wad zombie has another
25:26
question is it meant to be
25:28
v's or is it supposed to
25:29
look like a tire um it is
25:33
it's a it's a v thing um
25:36
but I get the tire reference actually.
25:39
I've actually never thought of that.
25:41
I like that.
25:45
So, yeah, he was saying tire treads.
25:49
Yeah,
25:50
it does kind of look like a tire tread.
25:51
It does.
25:52
He's spot on.
25:54
So, now that you're going into nursing,
25:57
what will that do to your
25:58
schedule and will you be
26:00
able to continue to compete
26:02
beyond this year?
26:05
Well, I've
26:06
I work, I'm going to end up.
26:10
Oh no.
26:13
And we lost him.
26:13
Let me, here we go.
26:16
There he's back.
26:17
Oh, there we go.
26:18
Um, I will be working 12 hour overnight.
26:21
I know that cause I actually, uh,
26:24
with phase Wednesday.
26:25
So tomorrow night is my
26:25
first overnight shift actually.
26:28
Um, I'm very much looking forward to it.
26:30
Don't you compete like in a week?
26:33
yeah it's just yeah I got
26:34
one I got one tomorrow and
26:36
then I think I have one on
26:37
uh monday night I think I
26:39
have one next monday night
26:41
um but I mean that's what
26:43
you're trying to do right
26:45
yeah yeah that is exactly
26:47
what it is it's I wasn't
26:49
planning on competing like
26:50
at least to this extent
26:51
this year it was completely
26:54
a shock like truly in every
26:57
way like I finished the
26:58
open and was where I was and
27:00
I was like, Oh, okay.
27:02
That's rising.
27:04
And so I was like,
27:04
I guess I'll try to turn it
27:06
up a little for quarters.
27:07
And then the exact same
27:08
placement happened in quarters.
27:10
And I was like, okay.
27:12
And I didn't get, you know,
27:14
penalized booted, which was nice.
27:17
And it's, it is a bit of like,
27:21
I'm going to do it this year for sure.
27:24
Because it happened to
27:25
happen and it lines up.
27:27
Okay.
27:27
Like,
27:28
I'm not fully into my
27:30
schedule of overnights constantly,
27:32
or I go right back into
27:34
school July 1st for another
27:35
nursing program.
27:39
But next year, the years after,
27:41
I think it'll just be what
27:43
I did this year.
27:44
Like I'll do HWPO 60 or
27:47
something along those lines
27:49
and train when I can probably five,
27:52
six days a week and see what happens.
27:57
I heard,
27:58
I heard Ariel Lowen say this a
28:00
couple of years ago and it
28:01
turned into way more than that.
28:03
So just be careful.
28:04
Well, here's the weird thing I did.
28:06
Cause I think if you look,
28:10
you see this happen to all
28:12
the athletes that like
28:14
retire is they stopped
28:17
training to compete.
28:18
Like they stopped training
28:19
three to five hours a day
28:21
and they're training, you know,
28:23
one to two and all of a
28:25
sudden they're still doing
28:26
as good as ever.
28:29
And I, I think it's,
28:31
there's something to that.
28:32
Now, I think going to semis,
28:36
you would notice the
28:37
difference because those
28:38
people that train three to
28:38
five hours are like, this is nothing.
28:41
They're prepared for that.
28:42
Whereas those ones that have, you know,
28:44
taken a step back,
28:46
aren't quite ready to go
28:48
full in for a whole weekend.
28:50
I think they feel it a little bit more,
28:53
but training for an hour a day or so.
28:56
I think just allows you to
28:58
have that intensity there
28:59
and to focus on the things
29:01
that really move the needle
29:04
more than anything to
29:07
apparently put you in a
29:08
pretty decent level of fitness.
29:13
So here's a great question.
29:15
How well would he have to do
29:16
to put his career on hold to compete?
29:19
Oh, Oh, uh, I don't,
29:23
I don't know if I could even do that.
29:25
I,
29:26
Going into nursing was
29:29
something that was kind of like a, oh,
29:33
it's about time kind of a thing.
29:36
And I'm really looking forward to,
29:39
like I'm really excited about.
29:42
I've done a lot of things,
29:43
like I've delivered pizza.
29:44
I work at a furniture store now.
29:45
I've coached for a long time,
29:47
coached since I was 17.
29:48
And coaching has always been
29:53
the thing that stuck around
29:55
because it's helping people.
29:57
Like it's that ability to
29:59
help people stay healthy with their lives,
30:03
the lifestyle they want to
30:04
lead and all that.
30:05
And I haven't been able to
30:08
be in a spot where coaching
30:10
is my full-time thing,
30:12
which it is what it is.
30:14
It's hard to do that in general,
30:16
in this space, very tough.
30:21
And I had this thing just over a year ago,
30:26
if even.
30:28
where I decided, like,
30:29
I need to go do this for nursing.
30:33
It's been great.
30:34
Like, I'm really excited about it.
30:36
I'm really happy with, like,
30:40
where it's going.
30:42
Well, and to be honest,
30:44
as a fan of the sport,
30:44
if your last competition
30:47
was on the tennis stadium floor... Oh,
30:49
yeah.
30:50
What a way to go out.
30:51
Yeah, I'll be like, all right,
30:53
I think I...
30:54
I think I hit it.
30:55
I think I checked all the boxes.
30:56
I think I'm good.
30:58
Especially when you get to
31:00
do that berm run.
31:02
Oh, man.
31:03
It would be iconic.
31:05
Don't get me wrong.
31:06
If next year I land in the same spot,
31:08
I'm going to keep going.
31:12
I'm not going to decline an
31:13
invite anywhere.
31:15
That will never happen.
31:16
I love competing.
31:17
It's a blast.
31:18
I have just a great time with it.
31:22
But it would
31:23
It'd be hard for me to be like, all right,
31:27
I'm going to not do this so
31:28
I can focus just on competing.
31:32
Not to mention like the
31:33
resources necessary to make
31:34
that happen are very far out of reach,
31:41
I think, from my perspective, at least.
31:44
And I don't know where totally necessary.
31:46
Like I got to this point
31:48
doing 60 to 75 minutes a day.
31:51
if I, you know, take all those steps back,
31:55
I gain an extra couple hours a day,
31:57
probably of training really, you know?
32:02
So I'm going to,
32:02
I'm going to finish up with
32:03
this one question.
32:04
If you go to Carson and you
32:08
have the weekend of your
32:09
life and it may or may not
32:11
come with the games invite, who knows,
32:13
but regardless you go and
32:16
you have a blast in Carson
32:18
and it's just epic.
32:19
Yeah.
32:20
What goes on that green egg
32:21
when you get home?
32:23
Oh, pork shoulder.
32:26
Absolutely.
32:27
It's so consistent.
32:29
It's so melt in your mouth.
32:32
It's got to be a pork
32:33
shoulder or pork foot.
32:34
And how big is the party?
32:37
Oh, we'll get a good chunk of people here.
32:41
We'll have the gym here.
32:42
We'll have family here.
32:44
We'll have family friends here.
32:46
It'll be a blast of a weekend to follow.
32:52
Well, that's a great answer.
32:55
Tristan, it's been a blast, man,
32:57
getting to know you.
32:58
We'll be rooting for you in Carson.
33:02
We're going to be reaching
33:02
out to athletes all weekend,
33:05
as I'm not able to get there flight-wise.
33:09
But we're going to run recap
33:10
shows every night through the weekend.
33:13
And stay by your DMs.
33:16
We'll try to get you on, man.
33:18
Absolutely.
33:18
I'd love to.
33:19
Anytime, man.
33:21
Thanks a bunch.
33:22
And everybody in the chat,
33:23
thank you for being here.
33:24
You made it a blast as always.
33:26
We'll see everybody next
33:27
time on Clydesdale Media Podcast,
33:29
where we're featuring the
33:30
athletes of the 2024 CrossFit Games.
33:33
Bye, guys.