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Jacob Marlow - The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't happen right away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how a winner's made.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Cloud Cell Media Podcast.
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  We're featuring the athletes
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  of the 2024 CrossFit Games Semifinals.
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  And with me today is Jacob Marlow.
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  What's going on, Jacob?
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  What's up?
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  So it's funny you're wearing that shirt.
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  Your coach has been on my show,
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  and he is now being
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  affectionately called Coach Krispy Kreme.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's an Einhorn CrossFit shirt,
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  correct?
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  yeah yeah closest uh
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  essential head laying
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  around yeah yeah um he
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  actually I think he lost
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  his now he has this
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  nickname and he doesn't
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  have the shirt to represent
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  anymore oh yeah yeah yeah I
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  never I never called him
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  coach krispy kreme I don't
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  know what I've called him
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  probably things that can't
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  air on tv or whatever but yeah maybe so
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  Uh, I,
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  before we get into like deep dive
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  CrossFit,
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  I got to ask you a question
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  about something I found on the internet.
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  That is your profile picture
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  on a game site.
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  Oh yeah.
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  That dude.
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  That's me when I was like 12
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  or 13 and I thought
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  baseball teams were cool
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  and Justin Bieber hair.
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  Yeah.
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  It looked like you were
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  preparing for a modeling career.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Those are family photos that
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  didn't take off.
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  There you go.
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  Yeah.
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  That's that's full blown, uh,
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  early Beaver hair, man.
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  Yeah.
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  I was rocking that till I was like 16.
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  Wow.
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  We got Corey in the house already.
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  Uh, I'd horn is Finkel.
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  You know that reference?
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  No, I wish I did.
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  So back in the day,
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  there was a movie with Jim
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  Carrey called Ace Ventura.
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  And there's a mystery in the movie.
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  And the mystery is revealed
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  that a female character
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  named Einhorn is also the
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  kicker for the Dolphins named Finkel.
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  Okay.
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  So he's like, Einhorn is Finkel.
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  Finkel is Einhorn.
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  Yeah, I've seen Ace Ventura.
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  I just didn't remember the
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  name was Einhorn.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  And he also says baseball tees are cool.
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  Yeah, I didn't make them look cool,
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  though.
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  All right.
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  So I've been following your
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  career because last year we
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  followed Kelly Baker for the whole season,
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  and you guys were training
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  partners last year, right?
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  Yep, me and Kelly.
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  Yeah.
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  So how different is it this
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  year now that she's taken the year off?
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  Do you see her much in the gym?
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  It's definitely a lot different,
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  but not so much that she
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  took off the year.
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  We trained together every
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  day last year leading up,
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  but I was living in Houston at the time,
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  and now I'm back home.
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  in Beaumont with my parents for now.
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  Uh,
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  and so I've been lone wolf in it for
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  like the last year and a half.
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  So that that's been the
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  biggest change and me being
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  as social as I am.
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  It's been very hard, but no,
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  I definitely do miss
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  training with Kelly and Hattie.
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  Uh,
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  it's been way different than last year.
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  So it looked like from your Instagram,
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  you're doing a lot of garage workout.
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  Basically all I'm doing.
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  I'll go to Greater Heights
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  on the weekends.
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  That's Tristan's gym.
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  And then I have a membership
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  to a gym here in Beaumont
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  that I'll go like once a week.
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  But other than that,
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  it's all in the garage, all by myself.
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  And that's Beaumont, Texas, correct?
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  Yes.
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  I'm actually a little town
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  outside of Beaumont named Vider, Texas.
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  But most people don't know.
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  I don't know if you know Wad Zombie,
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  but he thought California,
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  he tries to get everybody to California.
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  Oh, no.
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  I'm a Texas boy.
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  Yeah.
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  Wad Zombie is one of the
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  best follows on Instagram.
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  He does a bunch of memes in
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  the CrossFit space.
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  Yeah.
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  I think I follow him.
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  Yeah.
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  So now you're doing all this
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  training alone.
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  Did I see footage of you at
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  Bill Leahy's place?
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  yes old billy so you
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  occasionally get out and
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  trade with some other
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  people yeah yeah I'll go
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  you know I've got little
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  hot spots of friends I'll
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  go to uh actually a lot of
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  people in louisiana I got
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  you know bill lahey my
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  buddy peyton gray and
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  aubrey uh up in north
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  louisiana bills my south
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  louisiana people so
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  kind of beaumont is I mean
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  we're my town vater is like
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  30 minutes from the
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  louisiana border so we're
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  basically louisiana well
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  this corey that's been
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  popping in he's he's from
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  that same area in louisiana
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  oh okay I call him my cajun
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  friend because you can't
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  understand a word he says
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  uh and he says it really
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  fast yeah that's how they
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  talk down there uh
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  But with Bill,
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  I had Tetlow on my first 75 interview.
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  He'd straight there with Bill.
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  Man,
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  is it like a little boys club there at
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  Bill's house?
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  Yeah, kind of.
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  You know, when I go over there, it's...
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  It's almost like a, I don't know,
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  a little summer camp.
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  I'm staying in the bunk beds.
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  He's got his guest room.
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  Then we've got Bill in
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  another room and then Colin,
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  his roommate in another.
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  And then every session is at
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  least like five dudes.
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  So it's fun.
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  It's definitely a lot
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  different than what I'm used to.
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  Yeah.
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  How much better is the
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  training there when you're
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  with all the guys pushing
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  each other than it is like
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  in your garage every day?
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  Honestly, it's so much.
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  I can still get after it in
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  my garage alone,
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  but it's so much easier to
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  start when you've got two
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  to five other dudes ready
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  to get after it as well.
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  It can be very easy to waste
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  a lot of time by yourself,
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  but everybody it builds
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  kind of stays on it because
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  a lot of people are under
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  time constraint because
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  they got work or lunch
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  break or we just want to
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  hurry up so we can get more pieces in.
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  So it's a lot, a lot more fast pace.
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  Yeah.
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  So another thing I wanted to, uh,
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  to talk to you about is in
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  your edge at your place,
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  it appears like you have an
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  outdoor rig that you
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  handmade for rope climbs, muscles maybe.
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  Uh huh.
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  Yeah.
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  So I guess like a year and a half ago,
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  I don't even remember when
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  we did it about that time.
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  Uh,
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  when I moved back home, I was like,
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  all right, I've got all the equipment,
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  but I don't have a tall
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  enough ceiling in my garage.
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  So my dad knew my dad, mostly my dad.
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  Uh, we got like big 20 foot,
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  like six by six wooden posts, putting,
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  put them five foot into the ground,
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  four foot, uh,
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  cemented them in and then
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  got some bars and, uh, ropes and rings.
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  And then we've got the,
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  since the rope can't sit out there for,
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  uh,
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  you know, yeah, there it is.
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  It's just a rope.
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  Can't sit out there.
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  It'll get weathered.
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  We have like a, on a pulley system.
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  Um,
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  so I just pull it up and down when I
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  need it.
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  Wow.
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  And how, how, uh, when you're on that rig,
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  how much does it shake?
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  Honestly, not really.
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  Uh, this is the second rig we've built.
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  Uh, this one is wooden obviously, but we,
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  uh,
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  years ago probably four
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  years ago we built a uh
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  metal one my dad is super
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  handyman country boy and so
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  he welded together uh a
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  bunch of four by four
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  galvanized uh rods or poles
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  but uh yeah this one
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  doesn't really shake at all
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  uh had to adjust the rings
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  a little bit because I get
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  a little bit of sway but
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  Other than looking right
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  into the sun for a lot of
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  pretty much everything,
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  it's pretty sweet.
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  Corey Leonard says, wait, that's wood?
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  Yep.
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  Like six by six solid wood beams.
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  And he says yard fitness for the win.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Transitions get to,
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  they start to play a factor.
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  If I'm doing any kind of,
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  that's why I have a membership at that.
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  another gym CrossFit Belmont here in town,
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  just because there's some stuff that,
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  you know,
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  I can't really do heavy snatches
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  or cleans in the yard.
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  And if it's something fast,
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  I don't want to walk all
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  the way from our garage to the rig.
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  It kind of kills a workout,
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  but overall it's pretty solid.
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  So when I watched you last year,
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  it is obvious that you are
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  a power output athlete.
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  Like, put some weight on a barbell,
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  give you a rower.
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  You're in your comfort zone.
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  Yeah.
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  What have you done this
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  offseason to change that to
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  have better performances at semis?
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  um well we've done a ton of
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  long stuff so much running
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  long biking so much burpees
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  I've gotten tremendously
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  better at burpees I don't
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  really uh we just call them
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  struggle burpees uh I've
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  got plenty of clips of me
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  doing them but uh I've got
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  so much better at all that
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  stuff you know I think
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  there's still definitely
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  work to do on my running um but
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  I've gotten tremendously
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  better at all the other
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  body weight movements that
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  I've previously struggled with.
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  So I'm excited to do a
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  little bit better at that
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  stuff this year at semis.
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  Well,
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  you get to test the run right off the
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  bat.
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  Yeah, that one,
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  that one's going to be a ground and it's,
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  it's not on an air runner.
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  It's on the ground.
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  yeah I would say I'm a
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  little bit better at air
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  runner just because I'm so
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  heavy um and that's where I
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  spent all my off season
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  running which I'm now
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  learning maybe I should
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  have hit the track a little
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  bit more but uh you know
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  we're still gonna make do
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  get after it so when you
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  see an event like that
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  right it has all these 800
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  runs but it also has clean and jerks
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  And I've heard analysts say
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  that don't sleep on the clean and jerks.
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  That builds up to quite a
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  bit of weight over the 50 reps.
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  Have you tested that?
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  Do you think that will even
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  it out a little bit for you?
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  I've tested it.
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  And to be honest,
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  it just made it more of a grind.
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  It wasn't...
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  Yeah, definitely don't sleep on them.
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  But I think that, you know,
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  the biggest part of this
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  workout is being good at running.
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  You know,
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  the cleaning jerks won't be a
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  saving grace.
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  But who knows?
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  I mean,
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  I have no idea what the rest of the
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  field is going to do.
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  But I think that one I'm
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  going to have to just focus
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  on making it hurt as much as I can.
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  So when you look at the
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  docket of the six events,
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  what's the one you're
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  looking forward to the most?
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  Probably snatch one.
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  You know, that's my favorite.
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  I'm super comfortable with the snatch.
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  That was my best event last year.
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  You know,
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  don't want to be a one trick pony,
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  but I'm still good at snatching.
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  So I feel confident about that.
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  When you see something like that,
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  that this is like the third
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  time now it's shown up at
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  this level of competition.
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  2016,
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  it was a regional event across the board.
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  2021, it was at West Coast Classic.
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  Now it shows up again.
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  And it's in this iconic stadium.
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  So not only do you get to do it,
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  and it's something people
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  have done through the years,
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  you get to do it at the
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  famous tennis stadium.
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  Does that mean a little bit extra to you?
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  Yeah, it'll be super cool.
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  So I guess I started CrossFit in like 2017,
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  18.
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  So I guess they were out of
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  the tennis stadium by then,
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  but it was like that was a
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  lot of the media that they
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  had at the time.
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  So seeing them, you know,
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  Rich and everybody at that stadium,
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  and now that we get to go back,
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  I'm super excited for.
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  And, you know, it'll –
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  definitely be I feel like
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  we're a little bit spoiled
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  our semi uh you know I
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  don't know where the other
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  ones are taking place but I
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  know ours is the coolest uh
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  arena so I'm stoked for
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  that yeah I don't I don't
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  know the international
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  locations very well but
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  like compared to knoxville
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  and not not dogging on
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  knoxville it's a nice arena
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  it's not iconic
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  yeah yeah I mean we could
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  this venue could be a dump
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  but the fact that it's
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  carson and that history has
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  already been made there
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  it's going to be awesome
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  yeah uh corey corey says uh
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  I'm so glad I get to do 10
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  cleaning jerks at 185 to
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  get a break from this
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  running jacob probably
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Except my feet are going to be on that.
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  That was the worst part.
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  I've tested it.
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  I tested it once.
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  I did some intervals after
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  or yesterday or the day
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  before and my feet, they are on fire.
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  Yeah.
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  When I run,
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  like my feet swell a little bit.
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  And the first thing I want
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  to do when I stop running
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  is get my shoes off.
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  Yeah.
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  But for this,
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  you got to stop and do clean
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  and jerks with your feet on fire.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And I saw a video of, uh,
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  I guess the semifinal this weekend,
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  their 800 meter run is like
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  inside zigzag between cones.
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  So I'm like, that should be fun.
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  Uh,
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  Well, you know,
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  who knows what ours is going to look like,
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  but I'm sure there will be
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  something more than just a straight there,
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  straight back.
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  So this is my prediction.
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  It may or may not.
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  So Boz was on barbell spin a
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  couple of nights or a week
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  ago and said that the run
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  at this tennis table is
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  going to be iconic.
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  Well,
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  there's nothing more iconic than the
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  berm run.
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  um and there's a tunnel from
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  the tennis stadium to the
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  soccer field and then you
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  can run run up those stairs
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  and do the berm run yeah
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  yeah I've heard yeah me and
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  uh a buddy were talking and
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  I don't I don't think we'll
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  be on the soccer stadium I
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  mean I guess we could but I
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  think they would have to
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  buy out two venues just to
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  use it for one event so
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  I don't know what they'll do.
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  It's so up in the air.
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  I mean, either way, it's going to be hard,
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  but I don't think we'll be
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  in the soccer stadium.
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  I feel like they'll probably have us run.
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  I haven't even looked at the setup,
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  but maybe in the parking lot.
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  I just don't see us getting
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  into two venues for,
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  unless they just let them use it.
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  And I figured they'd have to,
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  pay for that too you don't
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  know how much they're gonna
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  use it for equipment for uh
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  vendor village for yeah
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  types of things right so
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  maybe already in use
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  because there's a tunnel
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  between the two uh-huh that
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  you can like run through
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  yeah so it it is doable I
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  don't know it the parking
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  lot would not be iconic
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  yeah I think I think that
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  would be fun though running the berm um
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  would make it way harder
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  yeah the stairs would make
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  it so much harder yeah in
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  here in beaumont it's like
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  the flattest place on earth
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  we don't have any hills you
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  know the only stairs we
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  have is at the football
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  stadium at the high school
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  but other than that it's flat so
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  i want to talk about tristan
• 17:27
  uh he's been doing some
• 17:28
  shows with me lately we've
• 17:30
  become really good friends
• 17:32
  uh what's it like having
• 17:33
  him as your coach um it's
• 17:36
  fun I i think me and
• 17:38
  tristan I was like one of
• 17:40
  the first people on ascend
• 17:42
  uh and we slowly just kind
• 17:46
  of he slowly became my
• 17:48
  coach I was doing other
• 17:50
  people's programming at first when i
• 17:54
  moved to houston to his gym
• 17:56
  and well at first we were
• 17:58
  competitors that's how we
• 17:59
  met uh at a competition in
• 18:01
  louisiana and then I moved
• 18:02
  to his gym for school uh
• 18:04
  was in that area I was
• 18:06
  doing other people's
• 18:07
  programming and slowly I
• 18:09
  was like hey dude this
• 18:10
  seems like a lot and I
• 18:11
  don't have enough time and
• 18:12
  so he would adjust it you
• 18:14
  know every other day every
• 18:15
  day and eventually when
• 18:18
  ascend started and he joined uh
• 18:21
  he asked me to come on and I
• 18:23
  love working with them.
• 18:24
  I mean, it's like,
• 18:25
  we're basically like brothers, you know,
• 18:27
  he was, well,
• 18:28
  I would say more like older brother,
• 18:30
  little brother, uh, kind of thing,
• 18:33
  but we're very similar.
• 18:35
  Like we like to have a
• 18:36
  reason behind what we're doing.
• 18:38
  We both think pretty logically and, uh,
• 18:42
  you know, we get along super well.
• 18:44
  Like it was a supernatural
• 18:47
  friendship made over time.
• 18:49
  Like now it's probably been,
• 18:51
  probably coaching me for at
• 18:54
  least two two and a half
• 18:55
  years something like that
• 18:57
  and we've known each other
• 18:58
  for like three three and a
• 18:59
  half um but I couldn't
• 19:02
  imagine anybody else
• 19:04
  coaching me at this point
• 19:08
  he's he's a really good
• 19:09
  dude uh so I noticed above
• 19:12
  your head there's a like a
• 19:13
  whole plate with baseballs
• 19:15
  is that your former life
• 19:17
  yeah yeah all the stuff in
• 19:18
  the background I just I
• 19:19
  didn't have anywhere else
• 19:20
  better to do it uh uh yeah
• 19:24
  that's that's sorry when it
• 19:27
  came to athletics is that
• 19:28
  what you were a baseball
• 19:29
  player yeah yeah I was a
• 19:32
  catcher back in little
• 19:35
  league and like my first
• 19:37
  two years of high school
• 19:39
  then I quit to do crossfit
• 19:42
  what what how did you find
• 19:44
  crossfit and how did you
• 19:46
  know you were really good at it
• 19:48
  Well, first time I heard of it,
• 19:52
  my aunt actually did it.
• 19:55
  And, you know,
• 19:56
  at first I always thought it
• 19:57
  was like running and kettlebell swings.
• 19:59
  And I was like, I'm not doing that.
• 20:00
  That's for girls.
• 20:02
  I just thought it was dumb.
• 20:04
  I don't know what it was.
• 20:06
  But then, you know, I was like 16 or so,
• 20:10
  bored one night on Netflix.
• 20:12
  And I watched one of the documentaries,
• 20:14
  you know, seeing...
• 20:15
  like Rich Froning, you know, Matt,
• 20:18
  Josh Bridges.
• 20:20
  I was like, dude, they're jacked.
• 20:21
  I want to be like that.
• 20:23
  Uh,
• 20:23
  so I watched like all the documentaries
• 20:26
  that night.
• 20:28
  And then the next morning I
• 20:30
  showed up to my CrossFit
• 20:31
  gym at like 4 30 in the
• 20:33
  morning for their class and
• 20:37
  started from there.
• 20:38
  And that's,
• 20:38
  I did the 4 30 class for like
• 20:40
  my whole first year.
• 20:41
  Looking back, I don't know how I did it.
• 20:43
  Wow.
• 20:45
  and and at what point did
• 20:46
  you know you could be good
• 20:48
  enough to compete on the
• 20:49
  highest level oh you know
• 20:58
  hard question uh I didn't
• 21:00
  really start with the
• 21:01
  intention of competing I
• 21:03
  just wanted to get jacked
• 21:04
  and still waiting on that uh but
• 21:09
  Uh, you know, I just slowly kept, you know,
• 21:12
  I enjoyed the training aspect.
• 21:14
  I thought it was fun.
• 21:15
  You know, I was in high school for,
• 21:17
  from like my first two,
• 21:19
  two and a half years of doing it.
• 21:21
  So I just enjoyed the grind, you know,
• 21:23
  going in, having fun, uh,
• 21:26
  and slowly just started doing local comps,
• 21:28
  you know, then bigger comps,
• 21:30
  like fittest experience, uh,
• 21:33
  did well at those and just, you know,
• 21:34
  kept getting after it.
• 21:36
  And eventually the goal was like,
• 21:37
  all right, well,
• 21:39
  You know,
• 21:39
  I'm doing well at these local comps.
• 21:40
  Let's go to, you know,
• 21:42
  a regional or a semi or whatever.
• 21:45
  So it was just, you know,
• 21:47
  and after a certain point, I was like,
• 21:49
  I'm decent at it.
• 21:50
  You know, maybe, you know,
• 21:53
  I liked it because my
• 21:54
  mindset was always the one
• 21:56
  that works the hardest, you know,
• 21:59
  does the best.
• 22:02
  So I've always, I don't know.
• 22:06
  Okay.
• 22:07
  Well,
• 22:07
  another hard thing you've done is you
• 22:10
  got married recently.
• 22:12
  Yeah, like a week and a half ago.
• 22:15
  So honeymoon is in Carson?
• 22:19
  Yes.
• 22:19
  So got married May 4th and
• 22:22
  then going to compete at semis.
• 22:24
  And then from there,
• 22:25
  we're going on our honeymoon after.
• 22:32
  So there you are, newly married.
• 22:36
  uh it was uh it looked like
• 22:37
  it was a big big wedding oh
• 22:40
  I think there was maybe
• 22:41
  less than 200 people there
• 22:43
  um it was all our family's
• 22:46
  house they have a you know
• 22:48
  a lot of big nice lands
• 22:50
  pretty out there that was
• 22:51
  in the backyard uh they've
• 22:52
  got like a huge field out
• 22:53
  there so did the ceremony
• 22:55
  in that field and then had
• 22:58
  a uh the reception under
• 22:59
  all these trees wrapped in lights
• 23:03
  it was better than we both expected.
• 23:05
  Not that we expected it to be bad.
• 23:06
  We were just, you know,
• 23:08
  we both talked about it
• 23:08
  after and we were like, whoa,
• 23:09
  that was way better than
• 23:11
  what we imagined.
• 23:15
  Uh, why zombie says,
• 23:16
  please don't tell me your
• 23:17
  honeymoon is in LA.
• 23:19
  No, uh, place called Catalina Island,
• 23:22
  which I think it's off the
• 23:24
  coast of California.
• 23:26
  I know we got to take like
• 23:27
  hour and a half boat ride to get there.
• 23:30
  Um, looks cool.
• 23:31
  A lot of hiking, uh,
• 23:33
  paddle boarding you know
• 23:36
  very cool yeah we're
• 23:38
  excited and then the the
• 23:41
  last thing I just wanted to
• 23:42
  ask you is is it I went
• 23:44
  back to your instagram and
• 23:45
  it looked like you are a
• 23:48
  physical therapy assistant
• 23:50
  are you practicing that or
• 23:52
  are you just training to be an athlete
• 23:55
  yes uh yep I see I do home
• 23:59
  health so I go to people's
• 24:01
  houses uh you know whether
• 24:03
  they pretty much are
• 24:05
  homebound so they can't
• 24:06
  they either don't have a
• 24:07
  car to get somewhere but
• 24:08
  most of the time it's just
• 24:09
  because they're not
• 24:10
  physically able to get out
• 24:11
  of the house and go to an
• 24:13
  outpatient facility uh or
• 24:15
  at least not easily uh so
• 24:18
  yeah I i technically I'm
• 24:20
  full time uh but I see
• 24:22
  about 30 patients a week so
• 24:25
  I probably work 25,
• 24:28
  30 hours a week around there, maybe 35.
• 24:34
  But it's nice because it's super flexible.
• 24:37
  You know,
• 24:37
  I usually don't start my work day
• 24:38
  till like 10 a.m.
• 24:41
  And then I'll finish by four or five.
• 24:45
  So usually I can get some
• 24:46
  training in before and after.
• 24:50
  But yeah,
• 24:51
  I've been I graduated in May last year,
• 24:53
  so.
• 24:54
  Started in August, so I've been doing it,
• 24:56
  I don't know, maybe eight months or so,
• 24:59
  however long that's been.
• 25:01
  Is it,
• 25:01
  is it easy to get time off for these
• 25:03
  things like to go compete?
• 25:05
  Yes.
• 25:06
  Uh, yeah, the people I'm with are awesome.
• 25:08
  You know, they.
• 25:10
  are very accommodating for all the trips.
• 25:13
  You know,
• 25:13
  I've been super busy lately with
• 25:15
  wedding and now semis and then honeymoon.
• 25:21
  So it's nice because we just
• 25:22
  kind of shift our patients
• 25:23
  around to other therapists
• 25:25
  and we could cover for each other.
• 25:27
  So it is.
• 25:29
  It's really nice.
• 25:31
  Is were you ever a coach?
• 25:35
  No.
• 25:36
  Okay.
• 25:37
  Yeah,
• 25:37
  because a lot of times there's a
• 25:39
  correlation between
• 25:40
  coaching and wanting to
• 25:41
  help people and then doing
• 25:43
  something in the medical field.
• 25:45
  I was just trying to go down that road.
• 25:48
  Well, that's really cool, man.
• 25:49
  Yeah.
• 25:51
  A real rewarding job.
• 25:54
  Yeah.
• 25:55
  In my setting, home health,
• 25:57
  you don't see as much
• 25:58
  progress with patients as
• 26:00
  you maybe would with
• 26:01
  outpatient physical therapy.
• 26:05
  But
• 26:07
  you you still do you know I
• 26:09
  have a lot of patients that
• 26:10
  I'll be seeing for you know
• 26:13
  months at a time uh and
• 26:17
  they'll make a lot of
• 26:17
  progress you know a lot of
• 26:18
  my patients are it's pretty
• 26:20
  much 70 plus you know I
• 26:22
  have a few allies that are
• 26:23
  younger for whatever reason
• 26:25
  but a lot of them are older
• 26:27
  um my favorite ones are the
• 26:29
  90 plus year olds they're
• 26:30
  always hilarious um
• 26:33
  I always have something wild
• 26:35
  to say because at that age,
• 26:36
  you just don't care anymore.
• 26:38
  Yeah.
• 26:38
  No filter at all at that point.
• 26:40
  Yeah.
• 26:43
  So last question,
• 26:44
  you're going into semis this year.
• 26:48
  What is your realistic goal
• 26:49
  of where you want to place?
• 26:52
  Realistic.
• 26:54
  The goal is to be, you know,
• 26:58
  the goal is to do as good as we can do.
• 27:00
  So,
• 27:02
  what that is.
• 27:03
  Not sure yet.
• 27:03
  We'll find out, but, uh, I would love,
• 27:06
  I'd be happy if I could get
• 27:09
  very close to a qualifying spot, you know,
• 27:10
  within three or four spots of qualifying,
• 27:14
  if not qualifying.
• 27:16
  Um,
• 27:16
  but I know we got some good guys there
• 27:18
  and it's going to be a grind, uh,
• 27:21
  to qualify.
• 27:22
  So, you know,
• 27:23
  the goal is to be upper pack
• 27:26
  better than last year, but, uh,
• 27:30
  Yeah,
• 27:31
  mostly the goal is just to give it
• 27:32
  all in every workout and
• 27:33
  feel proud of my effort afterwards.
• 27:36
  I guess I have one follow-up, and that is,
• 27:38
  I talked to an athlete yesterday, he said,
• 27:39
  that first event with the
• 27:42
  800-meter run and the clean and jerk,
• 27:44
  you're going to be in the tennis stadium.
• 27:48
  And he said,
• 27:49
  it's going to take everything
• 27:50
  I can not to blow up
• 27:52
  because I'm going to want
• 27:53
  to go out hot in that setting,
• 27:55
  in that event.
• 27:59
  Are you going to feel the
• 28:00
  same nerves that you've got
• 28:01
  to kind of pull in the reins,
• 28:02
  make sure you go at your pace?
• 28:05
  Yeah.
• 28:06
  I mean, that's with every workout,
• 28:08
  no matter the competition,
• 28:09
  at least for me.
• 28:10
  You know, the adrenaline.
• 28:12
  competitiveness, uh, you feel like you're,
• 28:14
  you know, I always said,
• 28:15
  I feel like I get like, you know,
• 28:17
  25% fitter when I compete
• 28:19
  just because I'm willing to like die then,
• 28:23
  you know, slow down.
• 28:25
  But, uh, I think for that workout,
• 28:28
  I'm definitely going to
• 28:28
  have to hold my horses,
• 28:30
  not blow up because I will
• 28:32
  explode if I go out too fast.
• 28:35
  Um, so, but I'm pretty good at, uh,
• 28:39
  Yeah, coach said top 15,
• 28:41
  so that's on the record.
• 28:43
  That's top 15.
• 28:45
  Interesting.
• 28:45
  Tristan Patrick is in the chats now.
• 28:49
  Yeah,
• 28:50
  I actually don't think I told him I
• 28:51
  was doing this.
• 28:52
  Well, I don't think I told him one time.
• 28:54
  Yeah.
• 28:55
  All good, man.
• 28:56
  Well,
• 28:56
  I want to thank you so much for
• 28:58
  jumping on with me, Jacob,
• 29:00
  this early in the morning.
• 29:00
  And I apologize for the cold,
• 29:03
  but we fought through it.
• 29:04
  We got it done.
• 29:05
  And good luck in a week and
• 29:08
  a half there in Carson, California.
• 29:11
  Yeah, I appreciate it.
• 29:12
  Thanks for having me on.
• 29:14
  Tristan said no, you did not.
• 29:15
  Yeah, my bad.
• 29:18
  with that thank you to
• 29:18
  everybody in the chat
• 29:19
  you've made this a blast
• 29:21
  and we will see everybody
• 29:22
  next time on which is
• 29:24
  actually just in about a
• 29:25
  half an hour uh spencer
• 29:27
  pancheck will be with us at
• 29:28
  10 a.m eastern time we'll
• 29:30
  see everybody back there
• 29:31
  then thank you and uh join
• 29:34
  us next time on the
• 29:35
  gladstone media podcast bye guys