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Julie Schaffer | Athletes of the 2024 Legends Masters CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  In the kitchen you decide
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  What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
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  My name is Scott Schweitzer.
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  I'm the Clydesdale.
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  She is Julie Schaefer,
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  CrossFit Games Masters
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  athlete in the 55 to
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  59-year-old division.
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  Is that right?
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  That's correct.
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  That's correct.
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  Congratulations on that.
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  Thank you.
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  And this is your rookie season.
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  It is rookie.
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  It's kind of funny when
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  you're talking about 55 to
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  59 year olds rookie season.
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  Yes.
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  So you've been doing CrossFit since, well,
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  at least the open since 2014.
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  Yep.
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  I actually started in like 2009, but yeah,
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  didn't really think about
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  going in the open and being
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  able to do kind of RX until 14, 15.
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  So, so you're like, Oh gee, Oh gee.
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  I guess so.
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  Yeah.
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  It was a small gym in
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  Madison with Keisha and Skip Benzing.
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  I don't know if you know,
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  but in Madtown CrossFit.
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  So yeah,
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  they kind of stumbled into it like
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  everybody else does.
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  So you were,
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  you started in Wisconsin and
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  you make your first games
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  when it moved away from Wisconsin.
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  Right.
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  I was so hoping I've been
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  trying for a while to make the games.
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  And I was like,
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  I want to go when it was in Madison.
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  And of course I make it and
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  we're not in Madison.
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  Still awesome to make it.
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  It is,
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  but I would have had a better
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  cheering section, I think.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  Where are you located now?
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  In New Jersey.
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  Okay.
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  In New Jersey.
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  And did I see you go to CrossFit Roseland?
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  I do.
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  That's where I'm at right now,
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  CrossFit Roseland.
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  And so Mark Juan Jones is
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  working out with him.
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  He's my inspiration.
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  Yeah, great guy too.
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  Yep.
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  So, sorry.
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  answer.
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  Um,
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  so so what is your athletic background?
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  Or did you not have one?
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  No,
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  I would say I was fairly athletic in
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  high school.
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  Played the three sports.
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  You know,
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  that was back when you could
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  actually play three sports, you know,
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  in a season.
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  You had, you know, the fall, the winter,
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  and the spring seasons.
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  And then in college,
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  I was in Marine Corps ROTC,
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  in the Navy ROTC.
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  And so, obviously,
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  you have to stay physically fit for that.
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  And then through my – I was
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  in the Marine Corps for 30 years.
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  So, just –
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  you know have to be
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  physically fit and they
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  have fitness tests every
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  year for those and it was I
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  just I just loved always
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  being active and working
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  out so I'm going to try to
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  guess the three sports
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  volleyball basketball softball
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  My school was really, really small.
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  So we didn't even have
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  softball at the time.
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  I played, we ran cross country.
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  My sophomore year is the
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  inaugural year that they
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  actually had cross country.
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  Before that was a cheerleader.
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  I tried that for one thing
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  that didn't really work out really well,
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  but I did play basketball and then track.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  What did you do distance and
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  track being a cross country runner?
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  Yeah.
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  800 mile to mile.
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  Oh, the boring stuff.
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  Yep.
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  Do you,
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  do you follow the elite CrossFit
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  athletes?
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  I do some, some of them.
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  Um, I'm, you know,
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  I don't know the names all
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  of them all the time, but yeah, well,
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  mostly the women and the men, I guess.
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  Yeah.
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  When they released the 1600, if it,
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  if that gets released at
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  the masters games, would you get excited?
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  Um, actually normally I would,
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  but the last year, two years,
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  I've really struggled with, uh,
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  some knee arthritis.
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  So it has cut my running
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  down significantly, but yes,
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  normally like that would
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  have been a year ago.
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  I would have been a static.
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  So yes, that would, that would,
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  those were any running was
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  my go-to before kind of
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  knee issues as we all get older.
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  So, so you went into the Marine,
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  you went into the Marines after ROTC?
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  Yeah.
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  Was it your military
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  background that helped you
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  find CrossFit or did you
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  find it another way?
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  Well,
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  just always wanting to be physically
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  fit and being able to take care of the
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  know be better at being a
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  marine and trying to find
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  stuff that worked like a
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  full body workout you know
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  the core all the way to the
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  extremities and I just was
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  doing some research and I
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  happened to kind of see
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  this new thing called
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  crossfit and there was a
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  gym about two miles down
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  the road so I stopped in
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  and there you have it how
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  long did it take you to fall in love
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  I'm not very long.
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  Um, yeah, I just, I,
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  I'd never held a bar like that before.
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  Like any of the Olympic
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  lifts are powerless, you know,
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  coming up in our age, my age group,
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  you know, it's small school.
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  Again, we never had the opportunity to, to,
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  to do that.
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  And it just makes you,
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  they made me feel so much
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  stronger and powerful.
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  I was like, Hey,
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  I can pick up this body and
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  move my body around this
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  bar and lift this weight.
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  And so, yeah.
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  So what would you consider
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  to be your wheelhouse movements?
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  I would say any body weight movements.
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  I am short.
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  I am little.
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  And so anytime you put lots
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  of weight or having to do a
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  lot of weight and move that,
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  it slows me down a little bit.
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  But if you just gave me my
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  body and like gymnastics movement,
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  handstand pushups, things like that,
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  where I can just move.
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  That would save my wheelhouse.
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  That's why running normally
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  would be good too.
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  But even when you're putting on the vest,
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  that takes a little bit more,
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  but it's good.
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  So at what point in your
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  CrossFit life did you
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  realize you could be good
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  at this and do some competitions?
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  I don't know.
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  It was probably...
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  I'd have to go back and look
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  at my open records of like, yo, hey,
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  I actually did the open.
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  I completed it with, you know,
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  doing RX and not scaling it.
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  And it was probably just a
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  couple years ago.
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  I was like, hey,
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  I'm going to try this competition thing.
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  I think I went to the Fizz
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  Experience in Texas.
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  It was one of the first ones I went to,
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  and I was like, hey, you know,
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  I should just try this.
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  You know, it's right down the road.
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  And so I did the qualifications for it,
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  and I made it,
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  and that was kind of just surprising.
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  And so...
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  I don't know,
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  probably about four or five years.
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  And then I kind of get the bug of like,
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  okay, I really like to, to compete.
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  I think I do better in
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  person than I do even
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  online just because of the
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  energy levels that you get,
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  the game speed.
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  But so I just,
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  I think it's a lot of fun to
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  go there and compete.
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  And you know,
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  if you go out at a gym and you know,
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  I think I'm all good or I'm
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  doing really well.
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  And then you go to these
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  competitions and you have all these,
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  these women that are just crushing it.
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  It's like, this is awesome.
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  So what competitions are
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  available to you Masters athletes?
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  Well, there was the Fins Experience,
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  and I think they still have
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  a Masters division.
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  Guadalupe is a nice one.
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  I've been to that one.
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  And then the Open.
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  I know there's a few.
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  I think there might be a few others.
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  I don't think I've done any anymore.
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  Because normally they
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  consider Masters like 35
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  and older or something, and I'm like,
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  okay.
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  You did Legends last year, correct?
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  Oh, that's right.
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  It was Legends,
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  and I also did the Masters
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  Fitness Collective.
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  Okay.
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  I stumbled on those.
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  Also, I mean, I don't know.
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  As you get the competition bug.
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  Yeah, I've been to every MFC,
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  and I was at Legends last year,
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  which that facility was just gorgeous.
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  It was.
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  It was nice.
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  And what I loved about that,
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  there was no machines.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, there was?
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  There was no machines in that one.
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  So for me, again, being a little person,
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  a little smaller in frame,
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  it's harder on machines.
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  So the one drawback there
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  was just no warm-up area.
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  Yeah, that's true.
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  But now you're going to be in a big arena.
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  I'm excited.
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  Have you been there?
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  I've not been to the location,
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  but I've heard nothing but
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  great things about the arena.
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  We did.
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  Yeah.
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  So, um,
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  and I've heard from people who live
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  in the Birmingham area that it's awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  Kind of like I went to granite games.
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  I did that and I had a
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  really nice big one where
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  we actually had our whole
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  separate kind of arena.
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  And then they did all the
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  competitions kind of out on
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  the field in the stage.
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  If you're running a master's competition,
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  warmup is important.
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  We are old.
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  You need to lubricate those
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  joints a little more than
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  your average athlete.
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  Yeah.
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  Some people say,
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  how much longer do you spend at the gym?
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  I'm like, well,
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  working out or like warming up included.
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  Cause that's a very, like you said, very,
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  very important.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So, um, so I,
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  I was looking through your
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  Instagram a little bit and
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  I found this really cool
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  shirt that you put together
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  and I'm going to pull that
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  up for everybody to see.
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  I have a question about it.
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  So, and then I was scrolling.
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  I lost it.
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  Let's, there we go.
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  So I don't know if people can see this.
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  It'll come back here in a second.
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  But it says, shoot, it keeps flashing.
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  I'm going to try to pause at
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  the right moment.
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  There we go.
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  It says Tiny Titan.
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  Yes.
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  Is that a nickname?
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  It is a nickname.
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  Yeah.
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  I got that from Veronica.
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  She was actually in the army
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  when we were in Kuwait together.
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  And after working out, she's like,
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  you're like a little tiny Titan.
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  And so since then,
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  it's kind of been a nickname.
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  Who designed the shirt?
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  It's awesome.
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  Yes.
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  That's also Juan Cortez.
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  He's also, he was in San Antonio.
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  We've like moved all over the place.
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  So he was one of an artist in San Antonio.
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  And Juan did that for me.
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  As soon as we talked about
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  fundraising t-shirts and everything else,
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  he's the first one I thought of.
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  I'm like, hey, because he's so creative.
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  I said, that's what I want.
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  I want a tiny Titan, you know,
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  Titan theme.
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  I don't know, just something.
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  And it has CrossFit Games on.
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  That's what he created.
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  It's pretty awesome.
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  It's almost like Athena,
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  the goddess of war, right?
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  Yeah, I guess.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Pretty cool.
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  I really, really thought that was awesome.
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  And you were given that when
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  you were serving overseas, the nickname.
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  The nickname, yeah.
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  How many deployments did you do?
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  two kind of deployments
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  three well I had like one
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  stateside after like 9 11
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  we were kind of a backup
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  unit so you know deployed
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  but we never went overseas
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  but you're kind of away
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  from your home and your
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  family uh then I did go
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  over uh you know to iraq
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  and then I've been to
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  kuwait and then recently
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  though my hard deployment
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  was when I went to germany
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  so okay um jody lynn says
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  uh the shirt is art deco-ish
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  And very much so.
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  One should be proud.
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  He did really well.
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  So how,
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  how long did you serve or are you
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  still serving?
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  I served 30 years.
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  I retired in 21 and that's
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  kind of where I was like, okay, now I'm,
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  what am I doing with my time?
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  And I was able to, you know,
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  kind of come to the gym and
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  warm up longer and, you know,
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  kind of do a specific programming.
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  What, what job did you do for the Marines?
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  was a logistics officer okay
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  yeah so the logistics
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  officer and then when I was
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  deployed I did some civil
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  affairs um and then kind of
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  you just do eyes and ends
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  when you're trying to get
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  special you don't you have
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  a specialty logistics but
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  you can you get stuck doing
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  anything staff work yeah
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  I've family members that
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  have served say that you
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  have a job but then you you
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  just do whatever they tell
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  you to do anyway pretty much yeah
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  But I was very fortunate.
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  I had some really good
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  commands and really good
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  times and met some awesome people.
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  It was a really good
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  opportunity for me that I took.
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  They paid for my school and
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  I just stayed in.
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  I did some reserve time too,
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  but a total of 30 years.
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  What did you get your degree in?
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  Operational, organizational behavior.
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  Although I always said it
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  was making people do what
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  they don't want to do and be good at it.
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  And I'm like, perfect.
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  That's what you got to do with Marines,
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  right?
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  Right, right.
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  And I take it you enjoyed your time.
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  I did.
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  Yeah, it was good.
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  I mean, it's always a challenge, you know,
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  again, you know, just having the,
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  you know,
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  there's not a lot of women in
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  the Marine Corps.
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  Not a lot of, you know,
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  just being shorter and smaller.
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  Again, it's just always that fight to,
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  you know, try to,
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  prove myself that I could, I can do this.
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  I can, you know,
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  I can physically be part of
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  this unit and hold my own weight.
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  So everybody brings
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  different qualities to the things.
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  You know, obviously I can't,
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  you can't put a 400 pound pack on me,
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  but I can, you know,
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  crawl under things faster and whatever.
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  You're 375.
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  You're good.
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  400.
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  That's too much.
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  Exactly.
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  Do you have like a big
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  booming voice to command a presence?
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  No, I don't.
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  I rely on my sorry major for that.
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  I'm not.
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  Organizational behavior degree.
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  Yes.
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  Business organizational behavior.
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  Awesome.
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  So this season,
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  was it your goal to make
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  the games the whole time?
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  Yes, it was.
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  I mean,
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  it was my goal to make the games
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  last year and the year before.
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  And this year it was just awesome.
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  Everything just kind of came together.
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  I've been trying, like, last year,
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  and I only made it to semifinals.
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  I didn't make it all the way through.
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  Like I said,
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  I was hoping to go because it
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  was in Madison.
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  And not that I'm giving up, but, again,
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  just trying to get through
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  the qualifications to get there.
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  I mean, it's tough.
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  I mean,
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  there's a lot of great women out there,
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  and there's usually a max
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  weight or something heavy qualifier,
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  and that usually knocks me
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  out and happened to be that
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  the semifinals –
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  and it all came together
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  that there was a heavy lift
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  it was a snatch it was I
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  hit it twice it was a pr so
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  I was happy I was just
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  stoked on that um so but
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  luckily it didn't knock me
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  out too far so when you did
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  the open this year uh be
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  friendly fitness did some
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  analysis and there was a
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  lot of talk about what
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  colton mertens did in 24.1
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  and how dominating it was
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  over the rest of the field in the open.
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  What many people don't know
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  is you actually had an even
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  more dominating performance
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  in 24.1 than Colton did in
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  your age group.
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  Yes.
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  That one was in my wheelhouse.
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  And that was the burpee over
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  barbell or burpee over dumbbell.
• 16:18
  It was just a burpee over, was it?
• 16:22
  Yeah.
• 16:22
  Over.
• 16:22
  And then the snatch.
• 16:24
  Yeah.
• 16:25
  And luckily again, with the masters,
• 16:26
  we were,
• 16:26
  they had the weight that they had for us.
• 16:29
  I can't remember.
• 16:29
  It was 25 pounds.
• 16:30
  It was,
• 16:31
  so it knocked it down because if it
• 16:32
  would have been like a 35 pound dumbbell,
• 16:35
  it would have been a little bit harder.
• 16:37
  But because I can burpee, I can burpee.
• 16:39
  And again,
• 16:40
  usually then I have to make up
• 16:41
  on my burpees for the lift.
• 16:44
  But it just so happened the
• 16:45
  snatch wasn't too bad.
• 16:46
  That was fun.
• 16:49
  I take it you're really fast at burpees.
• 16:51
  I don't know if I'm really fast.
• 16:54
  I mean, I can burpees.
• 16:55
  And part of me, I think,
• 16:56
  is you just got to keep going.
• 16:58
  I mean, you just can't think about it.
• 16:59
  You just got to do the next one.
• 17:02
  So you said you don't know if you're fast,
• 17:04
  but...
• 17:05
  Everybody was in awe of what Colton did.
• 17:07
  You doubled his performance
• 17:09
  index on that particular workout.
• 17:13
  You had to be fine.
• 17:15
  Yeah.
• 17:15
  I think I, I ended up because just,
• 17:17
  I know all the stuff around
• 17:18
  the drama around sometimes like, Oh,
• 17:20
  did you really do it?
• 17:21
  I, I think I, I opened my link,
• 17:24
  the thing for public for a while.
• 17:26
  I shut it down now, but yeah,
• 17:28
  just to show people, yes, I did it.
• 17:31
  Yeah.
• 17:32
  What was your time?
• 17:34
  Was it 6-13 or something?
• 17:36
  I don't remember.
• 17:38
  That was so long ago.
• 17:40
  That is crazy, crazy time.
• 17:44
  Yeah,
• 17:44
  that was... So that's the first event
• 17:48
  you did for this season.
• 17:49
  What kind of confidence did
• 17:51
  that give you going forward?
• 17:52
  I mean, it was awesome.
• 17:55
  It was kind of like, wow, that...
• 17:59
  I didn't think you'd ever
• 18:01
  win an open workout.
• 18:02
  So that was just,
• 18:03
  it did give me a lot of confidence.
• 18:04
  But then again, I was like, oh,
• 18:05
  all I got to do is the next
• 18:06
  one and I'm going to get like shot down.
• 18:08
  I can't remember what kind
• 18:10
  of lift or something there was.
• 18:11
  And I'm like, you know, it all,
• 18:13
  like CrossFit said,
• 18:13
  it all kind of plays out in the end of,
• 18:16
  you know,
• 18:16
  one might be good for you in one thing,
• 18:18
  but it evens out on something else.
• 18:22
  So you make it, um, two quarters,
• 18:25
  you finished 20.
• 18:25
  Uh, I don't even have that number.
• 18:29
  Nevermind.
• 18:29
  Uh,
• 18:30
  you finished 13th though in semifinals
• 18:35
  and with the new layout,
• 18:36
  like more than 10 get to go to the games,
• 18:39
  which is awesome.
• 18:40
  Yeah.
• 18:41
  I made it.
• 18:41
  That's yeah.
• 18:44
  That does really help.
• 18:45
  10 was always way too small
• 18:48
  for an online competition.
• 18:50
  Um,
• 18:51
  Because you just don't know
• 18:52
  what reality is when you're
• 18:54
  doing online comps.
• 18:56
  Yep.
• 18:56
  And now you get to go show
• 18:58
  what you can do in person.
• 19:00
  Yeah.
• 19:03
  I do like that.
• 19:03
  You know,
• 19:03
  everybody's held to the same
• 19:05
  standards or closer.
• 19:08
  It's the same environment,
• 19:09
  the same everything.
• 19:11
  What I loved about Legends
• 19:12
  when we did that is they
• 19:13
  did not release the workouts.
• 19:15
  And I don't know what
• 19:15
  they're going to do this year with –
• 19:17
  the CrossFit Games, the Masters Games.
• 19:20
  But you remember in Legends,
• 19:21
  they didn't release our
• 19:22
  workouts until Wednesday
• 19:23
  night at the athlete
• 19:24
  briefing for the next two days.
• 19:25
  And then Friday we went for Saturday.
• 19:26
  And I love that because it's like, okay,
• 19:28
  you can't really prepare.
• 19:30
  You just have to show up and
• 19:31
  see what you got, you know.
• 19:34
  Yeah.
• 19:35
  I just asked the last person
• 19:36
  I interviewed if they liked
• 19:37
  that idea of waiting for
• 19:39
  the release or to get it ahead of time.
• 19:41
  And they were like, absolutely not.
• 19:42
  I hate it when they wait.
• 19:44
  I want to know them all now.
• 19:46
  And I want to be able to get
• 19:47
  my head around it.
• 19:48
  See original CrossFit though.
• 19:50
  You showed up that morning
• 19:52
  at the gym and you didn't
• 19:53
  know what your workout was
• 19:54
  going to be until you showed up to class.
• 19:58
  She admitted she was type a
• 20:00
  and that that's the way she was.
• 20:01
  But, um,
• 20:04
  And she was like,
• 20:04
  I don't even care if I
• 20:06
  don't practice them.
• 20:07
  I just need to know I can do them.
• 20:10
  Yeah.
• 20:11
  I like the challenge of it's go time.
• 20:16
  Go.
• 20:16
  Can you do it?
• 20:18
  Figure it out on the fly.
• 20:22
  I like it too.
• 20:24
  I think that especially with online,
• 20:26
  too many people repeat.
• 20:28
  Too many people do redos.
• 20:29
  When you're in a competition,
• 20:30
  you don't get a redo.
• 20:32
  Right.
• 20:33
  It's one shot and you're done.
• 20:35
  Yep.
• 20:36
  And either you pick the
• 20:37
  right strategy or you didn't.
• 20:40
  Yeah.
• 20:40
  But you have the benefit of
• 20:41
  also seeing other people's
• 20:42
  strategy kind of unfolding
• 20:44
  at the same time.
• 20:48
  So you went to legends last year.
• 20:50
  How did you do?
• 20:51
  Uh, fourth or fifth, fifth, maybe.
• 20:57
  I don't, I don't remember.
• 21:00
  And it was a big competition,
• 21:01
  and that was their programming.
• 21:05
  Do you take more from that
• 21:07
  than even what you're doing
• 21:08
  this year during the season?
• 21:11
  You mean like looking at
• 21:13
  what their holiday programs?
• 21:15
  Yeah.
• 21:17
  Not really.
• 21:19
  I mean, actually, my programming coach,
• 21:23
  I don't know exactly.
• 21:24
  I mean, he might look at some of that,
• 21:26
  but I don't know exactly.
• 21:28
  But a lot of the stuff they did, I mean,
• 21:30
  they did burpees.
• 21:31
  It was all a lot of bar work.
• 21:33
  Surprisingly,
• 21:33
  we only got in the bar one time,
• 21:34
  and that was for the bar muscle-ups.
• 21:37
  And then, you know, I liked the program.
• 21:40
  It seemed like there was a
• 21:41
  lot of squats and a lot of
• 21:43
  shoulder overhead.
• 21:45
  But, you know, that's what CrossFit is,
• 21:48
  too.
• 21:49
  Yeah, yeah.
• 21:52
  What are your realistic
• 21:53
  expectations for yourself this year?
• 21:55
  I...
• 21:59
  I want to be healthy going into the games.
• 22:00
  Like I said, you know,
• 22:01
  your body holds together
• 22:03
  for a little bit longer.
• 22:05
  I really just want to have
• 22:06
  fun and enjoy the moment.
• 22:10
  Again,
• 22:10
  it will totally depend on the
• 22:12
  workouts that come out.
• 22:13
  I mean, if they're body, some body weight,
• 22:15
  I'm hoping that I can crush
• 22:16
  those and then I can hang
• 22:19
  on to the ones that have
• 22:19
  the heavier lifts.
• 22:23
  and kind of stay together
• 22:27
  and actually finish.
• 22:29
  I mean,
• 22:29
  I would love to be able to be in
• 22:31
  the top 50%.
• 22:34
  Top 10 would be like,
• 22:35
  I couldn't believe it.
• 22:36
  But again,
• 22:37
  that's all been independent of
• 22:38
  what programs there are.
• 22:42
  So my final question is,
• 22:43
  who are you taking with you
• 22:44
  to Birmingham?
• 22:46
  So my husband,
• 22:47
  who's my biggest cheerleader,
• 22:48
  will be there.
• 22:50
  He needs the loudest in the crowd,
• 22:52
  so that's good.
• 22:53
  But Coach Klon, he's going to come down.
• 22:55
  He's my coach for the weekend,
• 22:58
  and his wife are coming.
• 22:59
  And then I have some friends
• 23:01
  kind of in the area that will stop by.
• 23:02
  But other than that, I mean,
• 23:03
  it's a long trip to go to Birmingham.
• 23:05
  Yeah, but with the Marines,
• 23:09
  you've lived all over the country.
• 23:10
  You can pull people from Texas.
• 23:12
  Yeah, you have people like, hey,
• 23:14
  who's there?
• 23:15
  They show up.
• 23:18
  i hope we can bring a lot of
• 23:19
  people to birmingham and
• 23:21
  really show out for these
• 23:22
  amazing athletes yeah like
• 23:24
  yourself because um you
• 23:26
  guys deserve it yeah
• 23:29
  hopefully I'll put pack a
• 23:29
  crowd in there it'll be
• 23:30
  good so yeah there are some
• 23:33
  amazing even yeah every age
• 23:36
  group has its like
• 23:38
  competitions going on so
• 23:41
  So Corey needs hearing aids.
• 23:43
  He said, Coach Klein from the Waterboy.
• 23:47
  No, she said Coach Kwan.
• 23:49
  You missed the beginning.
• 23:51
  Marquand Jones is her coach
• 23:54
  and the owner of her
• 23:56
  affiliate there in New Jersey.
• 24:00
  He's kind of fit.
• 24:02
  He's kind of fit.
• 24:03
  So, you know,
• 24:03
  that's why when you think I'm,
• 24:05
  when I have a house in
• 24:07
  Wisconsin that we go up to
• 24:08
  in the summertime,
• 24:09
  although this summer I'm
• 24:10
  back here specifically so I
• 24:11
  can work out with him and the group.
• 24:13
  Because when I'm working out by yourself,
• 24:14
  you know, you think, oh yeah, I'm good.
• 24:15
  And then you come out here,
• 24:16
  even like burpees, I think I'm fast.
• 24:18
  And then you go there and you're like,
• 24:19
  okay,
• 24:20
  I got to step up my burpee game now too.
• 24:23
  So yeah,
• 24:24
  he's a great motivation and just
• 24:25
  having the, you know, the family,
• 24:27
  the crew to work out with
• 24:28
  here is awesome.
• 24:31
  cory says marquand is
• 24:32
  awesome and apologizes you
• 24:34
  can follow me find him um so
• 24:39
  So you're bringing your husband,
• 24:40
  and Marquand's coming down,
• 24:42
  which is awesome.
• 24:44
  We're going to be there.
• 24:45
  We've got full permission to
• 24:47
  go behind the scenes,
• 24:49
  and we're going to do a
• 24:49
  behind the scenes of the
• 24:50
  Masters CrossFit Games,
• 24:52
  just like they do for the elite athletes.
• 24:57
  Ellie Hiller and myself will
• 24:58
  be back in the warm-up area
• 24:59
  and in the back just having
• 25:02
  conversations with everybody,
• 25:04
  and we'll put it out as a
• 25:04
  documentary after it's all over.
• 25:07
  be awesome that'd be good I
• 25:08
  saw you at a syndicate
• 25:10
  crown too because I was
• 25:11
  there watching okay yeah
• 25:14
  yeah yeah I i interviewed
• 25:16
  mark one at uh syndicate
• 25:17
  crown did you yeah yeah it
• 25:20
  is uh prince purple rain
• 25:21
  t-shirt yes that's right
• 25:24
  yeah um jody lynn I thought
• 25:26
  I heard that midwestern
• 25:27
  wisconsin accent did I yeah
• 25:32
  were you just in michigan did I see I was
• 25:37
  Yeah, we were up there for Fresh Coast,
• 25:39
  which is a competition held
• 25:42
  on the beach of Lake Michigan.
• 25:45
  Yeah, we were on Lake Michigan also,
• 25:47
  but on the Wisconsin side.
• 25:49
  Okay.
• 25:50
  Yeah, this one was my co-host, Jamie,
• 25:52
  who's competing in Birmingham.
• 25:55
  She was competing.
• 25:57
  And then Rich Froning and
• 25:58
  Dan Bailey showed up to compete.
• 26:00
  with some other guys from
• 26:01
  mayhem and we got some
• 26:03
  footage of that and some stuff.
• 26:06
  So that was kind of my dry
• 26:07
  run for the masters CrossFit games.
• 26:13
  At least this time I won't
• 26:14
  have to run through sand.
• 26:16
  Yeah.
• 26:17
  Hopefully you never know.
• 26:20
  Yeah.
• 26:21
  Not a lot.
• 26:25
  Well, Julie,
• 26:26
  thank you so much for being with us.
• 26:28
  Thank you to everybody in the chat.
• 26:30
  This has been a blast.
• 26:31
  Can't wait to meet you in
• 26:32
  person in Birmingham and
• 26:36
  get to chat with you a
• 26:36
  little bit behind the scenes.
• 26:38
  Thank you.
• 26:40
  Awesome.
• 26:40
  Thank you, Julie.
• 26:41
  We'll see everybody next
• 26:42
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 26:48
  Bye, guys.