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Clydesdale Media SemiFinal Series - Gabby Spenst · 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 it win us, man.
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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to the collage dome
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  media presents the
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  semi-finalist series as
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  we've been doing for the
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  last couple years doing
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  again this year we are
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  presented by thick boy uh
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  the best apparel in the
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  business super soft shirts
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  that's what I'm wearing
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  right now um they are
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  amazing make sure to go check them out
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  Man,
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  I've got one of the coolest ladies in
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  all of CrossFit.
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  This is our second Canadian today.
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  We're calling this Canada
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  Day at Clydesdale Media.
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  Canada Day.
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  We had Emily Rolf on a couple hours ago.
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  We have Gabby on, Gabby Spence.
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  She's with us now.
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  We have Hattie Canio later tonight.
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  So, Canada Day.
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  There we go.
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  I like your intro.
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  That was awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I, I,
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  it's hard to not dance and then like
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  to stop it before we hit the live.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I'm going to hype you up a little bit.
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  I like it.
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  Yeah.
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  So, um, Gabby Spence,
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  this is third year in a row.
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  You've been on this series.
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  Um, interesting, fun fact.
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  You are hanging in my dining room.
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  I'm hanging in your dining room.
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  You are really.
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  My wife is very,
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  very meticulous about none
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  of my stuff ever makes it upstairs.
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  Yeah.
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  None of my stuff.
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  But we put together a
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  collage of me interviewing people.
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  Yeah.
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  And one of those interviews was with you.
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  So there's a picture of me
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  interviewing you in a
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  collage that's hanging.
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  The only thing I have in our living space,
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  you're there.
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  Oh, that's awesome.
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  I'll just send me a picture of that.
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  That's I'm honored to be there.
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  Yeah.
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  So, so cool.
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  And it was at the Mac two
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  years ago when we first met.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Backstage there.
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  Yeah.
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  When I had terrible lighting
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  and you couldn't,
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  it was a little dark and
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  gloomy back there,
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  but we're going back there.
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  We're going back there in the East.
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  You don't have to, but no.
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  Yeah.
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  I get, I get California this year again.
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  Yeah.
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  That'll be fun.
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  So we've been doing this for three years.
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  You have,
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  you kind of like burst on the
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  scene that first year, right?
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  Like I think you finished
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  top 20 in that first semifinal.
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  Oh boy.
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  What was that?
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  I think I was eight, 17 or 18,
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  something like that.
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  I think I have 19th.
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  19.
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  Yeah.
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  That sounds right.
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  Yeah.
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  So top 20,
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  you didn't come in at that
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  highly ranked and then kind
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  of did really well that weekend.
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  And so we talked to you quite a bit.
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  I talked to your family that
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  weekend quite a bit.
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  It was fun getting to know you.
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  Then the next year,
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  you improve in the quarterfinal area.
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  But when you get to semis,
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  it was a little bit slipped back.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  was it programming?
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  Was it nerves?
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  Was it,
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  I was trying to figure out because
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  like we had a bigger field, like,
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  cause when I was at the Mac,
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  it was 40 girls per semifinal.
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  And then, so last year it was, um,
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  60 at that semifinal.
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  So I was trying to kind of figure out,
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  you know,
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  since there was double the field, um,
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  how that kind of worked out too.
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  Yeah.
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  The anticipation going in
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  last year was with a 60 person field,
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  if you had a bad event,
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  it could really hurt you.
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  Yeah.
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  Your hole was too big.
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  You couldn't come back from it.
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  Like you couldn't have passed.
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  Yeah.
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  Sydney Wells made that a joke.
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  Yeah.
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  That was incredible.
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  By getting a zero and still
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  qualifying for the games.
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  But for the most part,
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  that did not happen at semis last year.
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  Nope.
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  Nope.
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  So then you go into this offseason.
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  In years past, you trained in the States,
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  which are truly from Alberta, Canada.
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  Yeah.
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  So what was – why the change
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  this year to stay in Alberta?
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  That's a good question.
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  I think –
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  There was a few things that
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  kind of came up.
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  Last year,
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  it was really hard to be away
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  from my family.
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  I just had some kind of
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  personal like family stuff come up.
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  I even had some health stuff
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  going on in the beginning
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  of the year just due to
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  kind of stress being away from my family,
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  especially in such a hard time.
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  And then I just really also
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  wasn't in a great space,
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  like mentally even going
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  into the semifinals.
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  Like I kind of just felt
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  like everything was kind of
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  crumbling around me and I
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  felt like I was just trying
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  to hold it together.
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  So during, you know,
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  the off season or whatever,
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  I kind of just tried to
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  take time to figure myself out,
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  tried to do, you know,
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  go to counseling and all
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  that kind of stuff.
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  And I just really felt like I needed to,
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  like it was time to stay home.
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  Um,
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  I just had peace about staying back
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  here with my family,
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  going back to my gym training,
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  training there.
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  Um,
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  it just felt like the right thing to do,
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  especially mentally.
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  It's like, you know, you say all the time,
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  it's like,
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  you can be as good physically as you want,
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  but if you're not, you know,
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  there mentally, then
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  It's a little challenging.
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  So when you were here in the States,
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  you would train at I Love It.
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  Yeah.
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  Which is like a hotbed of
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  CrossFit athletes.
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  Yeah.
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  Especially at the semifinal level.
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  They've taken teams to the games.
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  They've people right on the
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  cusp of making the games, but not quite.
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  Yeah.
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  So now that you're back at your home gym,
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  who's doing the programming for you?
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  Who's out?
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  What's it like working out
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  there without that hub?
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  Um, I'm still following, um,
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  mostly like mayhem programming,
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  but I'll always do the
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  class workouts at the gym there.
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  And Jason McDonald has been, um,
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  a big factor and you know
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  like I'll pick his brain
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  about you know if I have
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  pull-ups in the class
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  workout and there's
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  pull-ups in the mayhem
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  programming like I'll talk
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  to him and be like you know
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  like what should I sub here
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  for for this um he has so
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  much knowledge and also you know taking
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  knowledge I learned down
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  like in the States,
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  just talking to like Mitch and Kaylee.
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  They're so, so awesome and so smart.
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  So I feel like I've kind of
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  picked up on being able to
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  listen to my body, realizing that,
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  you know,
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  mayhem is very general programming.
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  It's not specific.
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  So kind of taking that and learning how to,
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  you know,
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  make things a little personal and,
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  I think that answers your
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  question a little bit.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So you're saying from all the experience,
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  you're actually learning
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  how to kind of program for
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  yourself with some input.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Exactly.
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  How good are you at
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  self-evaluating what you
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  need to work on to make
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  sure you hit those spots in
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  your training as well?
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  I think that I've come...
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  to be good at that.
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  It's definitely been a
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  learning curve and I still will,
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  like I said,
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  I'll pick other people's brains at my gym,
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  all the coaches there, especially,
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  you know, Jason,
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  Sue is another person like, yeah,
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  I think that I kind of know
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  where my weaknesses are.
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  And so trying to put an
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  emphasis on that for sure.
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  So I have a hard time.
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  Usually when I watch an athlete,
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  I know what their strengths are,
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  what their holes are.
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  With you,
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  it's difficult because you do
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  have some gymnastics ability.
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  You're strong.
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  You showed that in the bench
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  last year during Glinda.
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  So what do you think your holes are?
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  I think gymnastics.
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  For sure, I think.
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  And, like, gymnastics.
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  And then also I think that
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  one of my weaknesses is
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  kind of has been mentally.
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  I get really in my head and, like,
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  I kind of pull, like,
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  issues in or convince
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  myself that I don't really belong places.
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  And then that takes such a
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  big impact on my performance.
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  But it was interesting
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  talking to Kaylee after
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  last year because there was six events.
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  three of the events that
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  didn't have any gymnastics in it,
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  I placed in the top 30 and
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  the other three that had
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  gymnastics components,
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  I placed in the bottom 30.
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  So I thought that that was
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  also kind of interesting.
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  Um, just, I think that it's, you know,
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  something that's not natural to me.
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  Like gymnastics is a very
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  not natural thing to me.
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  So really having to try to
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  focus on building that up
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  has been a big challenge.
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  You're,
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  you're a bit taller than most
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  CrossFit athletes.
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  I would say so.
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  And so does that range of
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  motion hurt you in the gymnastics part,
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  or is it something you can overcome?
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  I, that's a good question.
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  I don't, I think that, you know,
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  it's very likely that
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  doesn't play to my favor, you know,
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  having longer
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  limbs on certain things.
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  And I think that I've
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  accepted that I might not
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  ever be like the best at
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  hands down pushups and all
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  that kind of stuff.
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  But I definitely know that I can,
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  there's still a lot of room
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  to grow in that area to
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  make that gap smaller.
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  So
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  so you work on all that stuff.
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  You, you need to test yourself.
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  Um,
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  I know you've done some off season comps.
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  How do you make those decisions?
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  Like where you're going to go to test, um,
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  and things like that.
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  Um, well,
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  I always like doing our local
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  competition here in Calgary because, um,
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  There's some good
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  competition here in Alberta,
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  and that's just kind of one
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  that's close to home.
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  It's fun,
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  and it's a good test of fitness
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  to go there.
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  And then I've kind of had my mind.
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  I competed at Guadalupalooza this year,
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  and I tried to qualify for
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  that competition, like,
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  I think three years ago.
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  And I didn't make it.
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  So then I was really in my
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  head and kind of weird
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  about even trying to do the
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  qualifier again,
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  because I was just nervous
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  that I wasn't going to make it again.
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  So this year I was like, okay,
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  like I need to,
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  I need to kind of overcome that and just,
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  just go for it.
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  Um, I think it's just kind of whatever,
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  whatever comes, comes up into my,
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  my head and whatever seems kind of smart.
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  And I'll, uh, you know,
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  talk to Jason about it and, um,
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  Yeah.
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  So here's a picture of
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  battle at the barracks.
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  Yeah.
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  Is that right?
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  Yeah.
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  You just happened to win it.
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  Just happened.
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  So there you are on the podium.
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  I believe four of you on the podium.
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  Yeah.
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  Are going on to semifinals.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Amy, Janie and Lindsay there.
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  And so when you say there's
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  some good competition in Alberta,
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  that's a great test for you.
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  Here's four semifinal
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  athletes that you got to go
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  head to head with.
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  And you brought home the
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  world championship belt.
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  Yeah.
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  Sitting right up there.
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  So how cool of a prize is that?
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  It's pretty cool.
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  It's just like,
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  Like,
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  when else are you going to get a big
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  old belt like that?
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  And I'm like,
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  I don't even know what I'm
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  going to do with this thing,
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  but it's super cool.
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  Yeah.
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  So is it metal and leather?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's like pretty legit.
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  So it's heavy.
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  Yeah.
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  So...
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  I have thrown out that a way
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  for CrossFit to grow is to
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  have certain things that are,
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  that you name a champion for.
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  Like,
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  I don't know if you know about the
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  Colton Mertens, Jake Berman burpee off.
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  No.
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  So Colton Mertens went head
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  to head with Jake Berman to
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  see who could do a hundred
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  burpees for time faster.
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  Okay.
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  I think Colton won.
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  He should get a belt, right?
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  I'm the world champion burpee person.
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  And he gets to hold that
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  until someone challenges
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  him to take him on and wins the belt,
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  right?
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  And you could do that for...
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  grace and you could do it
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  for um fran you could do it
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  and for different things
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  right yeah and then you
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  have like these 15 belts
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  that travel depending on
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  who owns them at the time
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  yeah yeah I like that
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  because what's cooler than
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  being able to stand there
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  like the wrestling champion
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  or the ufc champion um and
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  you're the champion of the
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  world in that that event I like that yeah
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  So when I saw that on your Instagram,
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  I was like, man,
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  I have to pull that up
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  because that's super cool.
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  It is pretty cool.
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  Yeah, it's special for sure.
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  Yeah.
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  I like that idea.
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  Yeah, the traveling belt, see who.
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  Yeah, so back to you.
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  You compete here.
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  In these competitions,
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  do you learn anything about yourself?
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So what,
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  what did you learn at the battle
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  of the barracks?
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  Oh my word.
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  Yeah.
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  So actually that was a,
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  I think that was a big
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  turning curve for me.
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  Um, at least as a competitor, like,
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  like mentally, um,
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  I was like a few weeks out,
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  I was stressed,
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  like out of my mind to the
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  point where I was like, I was like, why?
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  Like just so stressed.
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  It's obviously like,
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  it's vulnerable whenever you,
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  you go and do a competition.
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  Um, and I know that there's, you know,
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  other very high level athletes.
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  So I was like, you know, it's, yeah,
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  it's kind of scary.
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  Um,
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  and then about like a week out from
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  competing, I just was like,
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  like I was talking to God and I was like,
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  what, like, what am I, you know,
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  doing this for?
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  And I just felt so much like, he was like,
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  You put in all the work.
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  You've done all the training.
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  You've done all of that.
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  Now it's time for you to trust that,
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  trust God,
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  and focus on the people there
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  at the gym and enjoying your time,
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  being encouraging to other people,
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  watch the other heats,
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  and just hang out with
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  just be kind and like share
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  the experience and enjoy it all.
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  And it made it the entire
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  weekend so much better.
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  And when I walked into the back after,
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  like they did like all the
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  prizes and everything,
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  I was collecting all my
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  stuff and I was like,
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  wow, that made winning so much more fun.
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  Cause I was like, what,
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  what fun would it be right now if I,
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  you know, got my super cool belt,
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  but I was miserable all
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  weekend and didn't enjoy it.
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  And I was just, you know, head down.
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  It's like, I just think that, you know,
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  you have to enjoy it and you have to like,
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  when people say go out there and have fun,
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  it's not just because you
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  have fun doesn't mean you're not trying.
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  It's like, you know,
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  So I'm going to come back to that.
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  Corey Leonard's in the chat.
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  I missed it.
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  How old is Gabby?
• 17:43
  I'm 26.
• 17:44
  I just turned 26.
• 17:45
  Yeah.
• 17:45
  I knew you were mid twenties.
• 17:48
  I didn't know the exact number.
• 17:49
  Yeah.
• 17:52
  So as, but you,
• 17:54
  you didn't start CrossFit till later,
• 17:55
  right?
• 17:57
  I started it when I was,
• 17:59
  I think it was 19 or 20.
• 18:07
  And I didn't,
• 18:08
  I didn't really like start
• 18:12
  taking it seriously until like three,
• 18:16
  three years ago or so, six, six years.
• 18:25
  But again,
• 18:25
  not seriously until like just
• 18:27
  three years ago.
• 18:27
  So.
• 18:31
  I'm going to dive into this
• 18:33
  and hopefully it takes us a cool place.
• 18:34
  But when you train with a
• 18:37
  group like I love it, right?
• 18:40
  Everybody has a different
• 18:41
  way of how they handle a competition.
• 18:45
  And you say that like,
• 18:47
  and I know like there are some athletes,
• 18:49
  like we just had Emily Rolf on.
• 18:52
  She is very much in a zone
• 18:54
  when she's at a competition.
• 18:55
  Mm-hmm.
• 18:56
  Right.
• 18:57
  Blinders on,
• 18:58
  focused on the task at hand
• 19:00
  and not necessarily wanting
• 19:03
  to like socialize in the back.
• 19:07
  Then you have someone like
• 19:08
  Ariel Lowen who like has to
• 19:10
  socialize with everybody.
• 19:12
  Yeah.
• 19:13
  Right.
• 19:14
  But yet they're both very
• 19:15
  successful at what they do.
• 19:17
  Yeah.
• 19:18
  But they take very different approaches.
• 19:20
  Yeah.
• 19:23
  did you try one way thinking
• 19:26
  it was the way you had to
• 19:27
  be and discover this year
• 19:30
  that you can do it the
• 19:31
  other way and it's actually
• 19:32
  more natural for you?
• 19:34
  I would say so.
• 19:35
  Yeah.
• 19:38
  Yeah.
• 19:39
  So you need to enjoy the weekend.
• 19:40
  Oh yeah.
• 19:43
  Yeah.
• 19:45
  How much of a relief is that
• 19:46
  off of your shoulders discovering that?
• 19:50
  Like a big, big relief.
• 19:54
  So did Battle of the
• 19:57
  Barracks come before or
• 19:58
  after Wadapalooza?
• 20:00
  Before.
• 20:01
  Okay.
• 20:02
  So then you go to Wadapalooza.
• 20:04
  You have this new found idea
• 20:08
  of how you need to be in a
• 20:09
  competition weekend.
• 20:10
  Were you able to play it out
• 20:12
  at Wadapalooza?
• 20:14
  Yes and no.
• 20:15
  Um,
• 20:19
  I felt like I was like mentally,
• 20:22
  I was in a pretty good
• 20:23
  space starting off.
• 20:25
  And then, um,
• 20:28
  event two was like the strict pull-ups.
• 20:32
  Um, I didn't,
• 20:37
  I didn't have the greatest
• 20:37
  experience throughout that
• 20:39
  workout as far as like with my, my judge,
• 20:42
  unfortunately.
• 20:42
  And it really kind of got
• 20:44
  into my head and I sort of
• 20:46
  spiraled and like the, the next day after,
• 20:48
  um,
• 20:51
  especially after if
• 20:52
  something doesn't really go
• 20:54
  ideally or like not my way
• 20:56
  I pull issues sort of in
• 20:59
  and kind of create this
• 21:01
  chaos and get really
• 21:03
  emotional so it's almost
• 21:04
  like I kind of went back to
• 21:06
  how I was at the semifinals
• 21:11
  so like I went into it
• 21:13
  really trying to bring that
• 21:16
  same energy and the same focus I had
• 21:19
  at Battle of the Barracks
• 21:20
  and it was a little bit of
• 21:21
  a different challenge
• 21:22
  because nobody knows who I
• 21:24
  am at Wadapalooza right but
• 21:26
  like you know at the
• 21:28
  barracks it was a little
• 21:29
  bit easier because I was a
• 21:29
  little bit more comfortable
• 21:32
  people knew who I was but
• 21:33
  then you're at Wadapalooza
• 21:35
  nobody knows who you are
• 21:36
  your face isn't up in you
• 21:38
  know Vendor Village it's
• 21:39
  other your competitors
• 21:41
  right and it's like it's
• 21:42
  hard to not feel and when I
• 21:45
  say insignificant I don't
• 21:46
  mean like anything against like
• 21:49
  the fact that they're, they're up there,
• 21:50
  but it does get in your
• 21:51
  head a little bit if you let it.
• 21:54
  And I think I definitely let it.
• 21:59
  You know, it, it,
• 22:02
  it may surprise you to know
• 22:03
  that I get those feelings too.
• 22:06
  In this media space,
• 22:09
  there's a lot of times
• 22:10
  where you can feel insignificant.
• 22:12
  I don't have the most followers.
• 22:14
  I don't have the most likes.
• 22:16
  I don't have the most views.
• 22:18
  And you have to fall back
• 22:20
  on... I do this because I
• 22:24
  love hearing the stories.
• 22:26
  I love talking to the athletes.
• 22:29
  And regardless of if two
• 22:31
  people watch or 2,000 people watch,
• 22:35
  it's what I love doing.
• 22:37
  Yeah.
• 22:39
  Right.
• 22:40
  Yeah.
• 22:41
  And when you go in and when
• 22:42
  you have that attitude,
• 22:44
  the other stuff just happens.
• 22:46
  Yeah, it's true.
• 22:46
  Hey, so, so during, during what a Palooza,
• 22:55
  uh,
• 22:56
  did you get it righted that
• 22:57
  weekend or did you come out
• 22:59
  of there going,
• 23:00
  we've got to figure out a
• 23:01
  way for me to be,
• 23:03
  to have some kind of tool
• 23:05
  to not go down this road again?
• 23:08
  Yeah.
• 23:08
  Yeah.
• 23:08
  I came out with it.
• 23:10
  Like I felt like I was
• 23:10
  finally able to kind of
• 23:11
  identify that that's what it was.
• 23:13
  And like, I,
• 23:14
  I talked to my mom and then I'm like,
• 23:16
  I need to, you know, catch this before,
• 23:19
  before I let it spiral.
• 23:21
  So really trying to, um,
• 23:26
  yeah, just be,
• 23:27
  be more aware of my emotions
• 23:28
  and not try to like stuff them down.
• 23:31
  But, you know, talking about what's,
• 23:33
  what's going on and kind of, you know,
• 23:37
  use the help that's, that's around you.
• 23:39
  I'm not alone and I know that.
• 23:41
  So I need to make sure like
• 23:42
  that's on me to,
• 23:43
  to use the people around me.
• 23:47
  So you do the open in the
• 23:48
  quarterfinals in your home gym,
• 23:49
  I'm assuming.
• 23:50
  Yeah.
• 23:51
  Right.
• 23:52
  And years past you did that.
• 23:53
  And I love it.
• 23:54
  What,
• 23:55
  what is the difference in the support
• 23:57
  group having family close
• 24:00
  that you can lean on in those moments?
• 24:03
  Oh, it was, it was great.
• 24:04
  And like, even when I was down at,
• 24:06
  I love it.
• 24:06
  Like they're,
• 24:07
  they're like family to me too.
• 24:09
  Obviously, you know, it's,
• 24:10
  it's a little different.
• 24:11
  It's they're, they're like the gym,
• 24:15
  gym family.
• 24:19
  I think just,
• 24:20
  having my family here they
• 24:22
  add so much balance to my
• 24:26
  life like because like my
• 24:29
  mom just started doing
• 24:30
  crossfit but besides
• 24:31
  besides my mom um nobody
• 24:34
  else in my family does does
• 24:35
  it so it's been really
• 24:37
  beneficial to me to be able
• 24:38
  to have you know that part
• 24:40
  of my life that isn't in
• 24:42
  the gym and then doing the
• 24:44
  open like back home here
• 24:46
  with the same people I started
• 24:48
  CrossFit with like I did it
• 24:50
  at the the 915 class which
• 24:51
  is the class I take every
• 24:53
  single day and doing it
• 24:55
  with with them was you know
• 24:58
  it was amazing it was it
• 25:00
  was a lot of fun so then
• 25:02
  you moved to quarterfinals
• 25:04
  yeah and same support yeah
• 25:08
  did you have to do it
• 25:09
  during a class or did they
• 25:10
  no I did it yeah just
• 25:13
  because setting up the the
• 25:14
  camera and didn't want to
• 25:16
  risk you know anybody coming in front of
• 25:19
  the camera and then kind of
• 25:21
  being able to work on my
• 25:22
  schedule and Jason's
• 25:23
  schedule just worked out a
• 25:25
  little bit better to not do
• 25:26
  it during the class.
• 25:28
  Did people come in and watch?
• 25:30
  Some people.
• 25:30
  Yeah.
• 25:31
  Yeah.
• 25:32
  What was that like for you?
• 25:34
  Pardon?
• 25:35
  What was that like for you?
• 25:36
  Oh, it's awesome.
• 25:38
  It's like the community is
• 25:41
  always the best part of it.
• 25:42
  Right.
• 25:43
  Yeah.
• 25:44
  And I'm like blessed to have such.
• 25:48
  Yeah.
• 25:49
  just such good people around me.
• 25:51
  And then it makes you feel
• 25:52
  like when you're doing the workout,
• 25:53
  it's not just you.
• 25:55
  It's like, you know,
• 25:57
  people are there cheering
• 25:58
  you on and yeah.
• 26:01
  Like I'm just lucky that those, yeah.
• 26:03
  The people I've known for three years.
• 26:05
  So to have their,
• 26:07
  their support and
• 26:07
  everything just means so much to me.
• 26:11
  So I had Rebecca Fuseli on last week.
• 26:13
  Okay.
• 26:14
  And she talks about how
• 26:16
  doing it in front of her community is,
• 26:19
  is almost charges her up
• 26:21
  more than doing it on the live stage.
• 26:24
  They've seen you hurt.
• 26:25
  They've seen you.
• 26:27
  They've seen you through all
• 26:28
  of the hard training moments.
• 26:31
  Yeah.
• 26:32
  So to celebrate with them
• 26:34
  during like quarterfinals
• 26:35
  in the open is that much sweeter.
• 26:38
  Totally.
• 26:40
  Yeah.
• 26:41
  I agree with that 100%.
• 26:41
  It's like nothing gets you
• 26:43
  more fired up than having
• 26:45
  that community and
• 26:46
  behind you and those people
• 26:47
  yeah that that believe in
• 26:49
  you it makes I was like
• 26:50
  some people ask you how you
• 26:52
  stay motivated I'm like I
• 26:53
  could never do if it was
• 26:54
  just you know just me going
• 26:58
  into a gym and doing it
• 27:00
  leaving like having no
• 27:02
  interactions with those
• 27:03
  people so I would get
• 27:05
  burnt out so fast and a big
• 27:07
  part of why I stay
• 27:09
  motivated is just there's
• 27:10
  just people around you that
• 27:11
  believe in you all the time
• 27:12
  and they want to see you do
• 27:14
  good you want to see them
• 27:16
  do good it's it's uh yeah
• 27:18
  it's something special so I
• 27:21
  want to touch on wataplooza
• 27:23
  one more time the weather
• 27:27
  conditions there are always
• 27:29
  so unpredictable yeah
• 27:31
  Was that a part of like what
• 27:33
  got in your head?
• 27:34
  Because they had to move
• 27:37
  like gymnastic movements
• 27:38
  from regular to strict for 50 reasons.
• 27:41
  And like, and it was last minute.
• 27:43
  They changed the workout
• 27:45
  three times before you hit the floor.
• 27:47
  Like they took unknown and
• 27:50
  unknowable to a whole new level.
• 27:51
  Yeah.
• 27:53
  I loved it.
• 27:54
  I think it was, it was a little stressful,
• 27:56
  but like I'm a BC kid.
• 27:58
  So,
• 27:58
  and I loved playing in the rain growing
• 28:00
  up.
• 28:00
  So it was like,
• 28:01
  Yeah, it was like a little bit hectic.
• 28:04
  You didn't really know.
• 28:06
  I didn't know what any of
• 28:08
  the workouts actually were
• 28:10
  until very shortly before the event.
• 28:13
  And then
• 28:15
  I liked being out there in
• 28:16
  the rain during that, like,
• 28:18
  strict pull-up one.
• 28:19
  That's the one where I had
• 28:20
  kind of that unfortunate situation.
• 28:22
  But I was just, like, crying.
• 28:24
  But it was, like, also raining.
• 28:25
  And then the wall ball hit
• 28:26
  me a few times in the face.
• 28:28
  And I just kind of, like,
• 28:29
  even though I was, like, very emotional,
• 28:31
  it was also fun and funny
• 28:34
  at the same time.
• 28:35
  I just think I was able to enjoy it.
• 28:40
  I think that's what I love
• 28:42
  most about you is you don't
• 28:44
  take yourself super seriously at times.
• 28:46
  Like I go to your games page
• 28:49
  and the picture you use as
• 28:50
  your profile is the goofiest thing.
• 28:56
  But it just says a lot about you.
• 28:58
  Yeah.
• 29:01
  Yeah, those faces.
• 29:03
  Yeah.
• 29:04
  So I can see where like you
• 29:06
  being ultra serious is not good for you.
• 29:09
  Right.
• 29:10
  Competition.
• 29:11
  Yeah.
• 29:11
  It's not, no,
• 29:12
  I don't think it's naturally who,
• 29:15
  who I am.
• 29:15
  It's almost like something I
• 29:18
  feel like I almost have to, to do.
• 29:21
  In fact,
• 29:21
  I think I made a comment about one
• 29:23
  of your faces during the year,
• 29:25
  but when we DM back and
• 29:26
  forth occasionally,
• 29:29
  you're always like doing
• 29:30
  the goofy face and yeah.
• 29:33
  Yeah.
• 29:34
  Yeah.
• 29:36
  things make me smile that's
• 29:37
  so good yeah so many people
• 29:39
  like anytime I post
• 29:41
  anything of my like my face
• 29:42
  I always just get lots of
• 29:45
  responses and I'm just very
• 29:47
  expressive I used to think
• 29:48
  that I was so good at
• 29:49
  hiding the way I felt about
• 29:50
  things until I started like
• 29:53
  videoing myself like doing
• 29:55
  workouts and stuff I'm like
• 29:56
  I make my face goes crazy
• 29:58
  like I can see exactly how
• 30:01
  I feel and yeah
• 30:04
  So picture a content creator
• 30:07
  trying to find a good
• 30:08
  picture for a thumbnail.
• 30:10
  Where can I clip?
• 30:14
  Where can I steal from?
• 30:15
  Where can I... You don't
• 30:19
  give me much to choose from.
• 30:21
  I'll try to sneak a couple
• 30:22
  in there a year.
• 30:27
  Man,
• 30:28
  I need to get to semis and I got this
• 30:30
  really cool new camera.
• 30:32
  I could snap a couple of pictures.
• 30:36
  I'll try to smile for a few.
• 30:39
  Yeah.
• 30:40
  I mean,
• 30:40
  even like I went back and looked at
• 30:42
  the interview I did for me
• 30:43
  with you coming off the floor last year.
• 30:44
  Yeah.
• 30:45
  You're being goofy in that moment.
• 30:50
  Like the whole first part of
• 30:51
  that video is like us just
• 30:53
  chopping it up before we
• 30:54
  get to a serious question.
• 30:55
  Probably.
• 30:56
  Just wait until you see.
• 30:58
  I tried smelling salt with
• 30:59
  one of my friends the other
• 31:01
  day for the first time.
• 31:02
  I haven't posted the video yet,
• 31:04
  but you just wait until you
• 31:06
  see my face in that one.
• 31:07
  And you might have a good
• 31:09
  picture for next time.
• 31:13
  Chandra says, Gabby pulls the best faces.
• 31:16
  That's my sister.
• 31:19
  thanks jandra and uh so now
• 31:25
  I want to talk about you
• 31:27
  you going into semifinals
• 31:29
  you put you send in your
• 31:30
  quarterfinal scores all
• 31:34
  hell breaks loose yeah
• 31:35
  wednesday after that yeah
• 31:39
  what was going through your
• 31:40
  head for the for the week
• 31:43
  leading up to the
• 31:44
  scoreboard being final gosh
• 31:46
  I was just thankful that
• 31:47
  Once I got video one and two,
• 31:50
  luckily I got those
• 31:50
  validated pretty fast.
• 31:52
  I don't remember what day I
• 31:53
  got them validated, but I was like,
• 31:56
  thank goodness, like,
• 31:58
  those are validated.
• 31:59
  And then in my head I was like,
• 32:01
  I wouldn't be surprised if
• 32:02
  three and four didn't get
• 32:04
  even looked at because, like,
• 32:06
  I was just like,
• 32:07
  they're going to have to go
• 32:08
  through everyone's.
• 32:10
  videos um but I was nervous
• 32:13
  like I was refreshing like
• 32:15
  every hour and seeing if
• 32:17
  three and four got
• 32:18
  validated like and then
• 32:20
  this Monday comes and then
• 32:22
  they make it official and
• 32:23
  I've just been exhausted
• 32:25
  for like Monday until today
• 32:26
  I'm feeling like kind of
• 32:27
  normal but like I was just
• 32:30
  stressed out and I was
• 32:31
  trying to keep myself calm
• 32:33
  and everything but yeah it
• 32:35
  was crazy so crazy
• 32:39
  So two questions.
• 32:40
  One,
• 32:42
  how good does it feel that your
• 32:44
  movement standard was up to par?
• 32:47
  It feels really good.
• 32:47
  I was thankful that I had
• 32:49
  Jay there judging because I
• 32:51
  looked at the video and my
• 32:52
  first box step up,
• 32:54
  he gave me a no rep because
• 32:56
  I wasn't fully extended.
• 32:57
  And then every one after that,
• 32:59
  I stood all the way up.
• 33:00
  So I was happy that he called it.
• 33:08
  I was happy that, yeah,
• 33:12
  I stood the rest of them up.
• 33:15
  My second question is you
• 33:17
  come into semis in seventh position.
• 33:20
  Yeah.
• 33:22
  That is a massive
• 33:24
  improvement over the last
• 33:25
  couple of years.
• 33:26
  Yeah.
• 33:28
  What does that tell you that
• 33:30
  your fitness is getting
• 33:31
  that much better or you're
• 33:32
  figuring stuff out?
• 33:33
  I think I'm just figuring, like,
• 33:35
  I do believe that my
• 33:35
  fitness is getting better for, like,
• 33:37
  100%.
• 33:38
  But then I also just feel like, yeah,
• 33:41
  I'm just figuring it out.
• 33:43
  And, like,
• 33:43
  I think I've gotten to a good
• 33:46
  place of balancing, you know,
• 33:49
  life and CrossFit.
• 33:50
  And, yeah,
• 33:54
  I just think I'm learning about myself.
• 33:58
  So here's the tough question.
• 33:59
  Every time you're on,
• 34:00
  we talk about your faith.
• 34:02
  Mm-hmm.
• 34:03
  that's part of the balance, right?
• 34:07
  You're starting to have some success,
• 34:12
  but it, but I know as a Christian man,
• 34:14
  it's, it's important to keep God first.
• 34:19
  What do you do to keep
• 34:20
  yourself grounded in these moments and,
• 34:26
  and keep your faith where
• 34:27
  it's supposed to be priority wise?
• 34:31
  Yeah.
• 34:31
  Um,
• 34:33
  I've kind of discovered
• 34:35
  something recently and it's
• 34:37
  mostly when like I pray at
• 34:38
  the end of the day.
• 34:39
  I used to always think that
• 34:43
  I had to say these perfect
• 34:45
  words and I had to say them
• 34:46
  out loud to pray or like
• 34:48
  reflect and everything.
• 34:50
  But recently I've just
• 34:51
  gotten into just sitting
• 34:52
  and being quiet and like
• 34:55
  just thinking about my day
• 34:58
  and almost like, almost feels like I'm,
• 35:02
  letting myself see how good
• 35:06
  God is and everything.
• 35:07
  And like,
• 35:09
  I always pray every day for like my,
• 35:10
  just my interactions with people.
• 35:12
  And then I just, yeah,
• 35:13
  I just sit and I think
• 35:14
  about my day and I think
• 35:17
  like so many things,
• 35:18
  so many moments come
• 35:19
  popping into my head and
• 35:21
  I'm just sitting there like, wow,
• 35:22
  thanks God.
• 35:23
  And I just think, and then I say, wow,
• 35:25
  like thank you.
• 35:27
  And then I go into, you know,
• 35:29
  my praying about, you know, specific,
• 35:32
  like,
• 35:32
  things to pray on and I read
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  my Bible I think it's just
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  like I think I'm allowing
• 35:37
  myself time to just really
• 35:40
  see and believe that God is
• 35:43
  using me for something in
• 35:44
  this I'm not just you know
• 35:47
  doing this for the heck of
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  it it's like I'm allowing
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  trying to set myself up for
• 35:55
  God to be able to use me
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  however he wants to and it's
• 35:59
  like if that's me at the
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  games and that's me at the
• 36:03
  games if that's me and you
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  know 11th place at the
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  semifinals or 60th place or
• 36:09
  40th place at the
• 36:09
  semifinals it's like I've
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  come to accept the fact
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  that like I'm gonna be
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  wherever he wants me to be
• 36:16
  and there's so much peace in that
• 36:20
  So earlier we talked about
• 36:21
  feeling insignificant at times, right?
• 36:23
  When you see your face, not on the,
• 36:26
  on the stuff.
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  And do you ever get mad at
• 36:29
  yourself that you've,
• 36:31
  you've let that happen when
• 36:33
  that's not the most important thing?
• 36:35
  Yeah, totally.
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  But then I also have to have
• 36:39
  grace with myself too.
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  You know, it's like,
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  we're still humans and you know,
• 36:43
  that's such like a,
• 36:44
  I think that's a natural way to feel,
• 36:46
  but then it's like,
• 36:48
  you almost have to catch
• 36:49
  yourself and be like,
• 36:50
  bring yourself back to like, like this is,
• 36:54
  this is you, like, this is your,
• 36:56
  your journey.
• 36:56
  Of course,
• 36:57
  you're not going to be Danny
• 36:58
  Spiegel on the board.
• 36:59
  It's because you're not Danny Spiegel.
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  It's like, you're,
• 37:01
  you're Gabby and you're doing like,
• 37:05
  you just have to stay in your,
• 37:07
  your own lane.
• 37:07
  So I think it, yeah, I,
• 37:09
  I definitely get a little
• 37:10
  frustrated with myself sometimes,
• 37:11
  but then, like I said,
• 37:12
  you have to offer grace to
• 37:14
  yourself and be like, okay, it's like,
• 37:17
  yeah, sure.
• 37:18
  You felt that way, but let's, you know,
• 37:20
  come on.
• 37:21
  Yeah.
• 37:22
  Let's keep going.
• 37:24
  Yeah.
• 37:25
  I need to remember that at times too.
• 37:27
  Yeah.
• 37:29
  So I want to finish up with
• 37:32
  kind of a fun question and
• 37:35
  it can be faith partner or whatever,
• 37:36
  but going into one of the
• 37:39
  most iconic venues in CrossFit history.
• 37:43
  Yeah.
• 37:45
  with your current position,
• 37:46
  you're going to line up in
• 37:47
  a heat with Alex Kazan, Ariel Lowen,
• 37:52
  Emily Rolfe, like the best of the best.
• 37:56
  Yeah.
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  How do you celebrate that
• 38:02
  without celebrating too much?
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  I went back and I started,
• 38:08
  I watched some like the old
• 38:09
  documentaries of like, you know,
• 38:12
  when they were in, in that stadium,
• 38:15
  Um,
• 38:16
  I think I'm just allowing myself time
• 38:18
  to kind of reflect almost like I,
• 38:22
  cause I remember watching, you know,
• 38:24
  those documentaries and be like,
• 38:25
  those people are crazy.
• 38:26
  I'm never going to do that.
• 38:27
  And like,
• 38:28
  here I am watching those
• 38:29
  documentaries and being like,
• 38:30
  I'm going to be in that
• 38:31
  stadium or one of the ladies, um,
• 38:33
  Nancy McCaig from our gym.
• 38:35
  She was, um,
• 38:36
  she used to compete in the age,
• 38:37
  like in the masters.
• 38:39
  And, um, she competed in that stadium and,
• 38:43
  um,
• 38:44
  I was like talking to one of the,
• 38:45
  like Kirsten from my gym.
• 38:46
  And I was like,
• 38:48
  how many like assault bike
• 38:49
  workouts have I done?
• 38:50
  And like Nancy's face is up
• 38:52
  on the wall with like her, her Jersey.
• 38:55
  And like, it's like, that was,
• 38:57
  she's such an inspiration for me.
• 38:58
  Like, so it's like a personal one.
• 39:00
  It's like, I think that, yeah,
• 39:03
  just allowing myself to
• 39:05
  like reflect and be happy and be like, I,
• 39:09
  you know, I earned this,
• 39:11
  that spot.
• 39:11
  It's like, I do deserve to be there.
• 39:12
  It's like, I do deserve to,
• 39:14
  to be in seventh place.
• 39:15
  I didn't just get there by a fluke.
• 39:19
  You know, it's like, yeah, I,
• 39:22
  I could not be happier for
• 39:24
  you that you have had this season.
• 39:26
  Um,
• 39:27
  it's been fun watching you from 2022 on
• 39:30
  that.
• 39:33
  You're also getting a
• 39:34
  uniform X semis this year.
• 39:36
  Like that's never happened before.
• 39:38
  Yeah.
• 39:39
  It's going to be pretty sweet.
• 39:40
  So you're going to have a Jersey.
• 39:41
  Yeah.
• 39:44
  How much is that going to mean?
• 39:46
  Pardon?
• 39:47
  How much is that going to mean?
• 39:48
  Oh, a lot.
• 39:49
  Like that's going to be special.
• 39:53
  You going to wear it during
• 39:54
  the competition?
• 39:55
  Cause you're not required to.
• 39:56
  No, I was trying to think of that too.
• 39:58
  I was like, do I, do I wear it?
• 40:00
  Do I just save it and like, you know,
• 40:03
  hide it away somewhere or
• 40:04
  like display it somewhere.
• 40:06
  Like I'm still trying to,
• 40:08
  figure all that out I was
• 40:09
  like maybe I'll wear it for
• 40:10
  for one of the events I had
• 40:12
  it um yeah I was like I
• 40:17
  don't know yet yeah I think
• 40:20
  that's a really cool
• 40:21
  element I know some people
• 40:22
  have dogged on a little bit
• 40:24
  but I think it's cool that
• 40:25
  yeah a lot of athletes that
• 40:27
  just missed the games or
• 40:28
  yeah it's cool to have a
• 40:30
  memento from making it the semis yeah
• 40:35
  yeah like we got a cool like
• 40:36
  a two pood belt last year
• 40:38
  and I haven't used that a
• 40:39
  single time I have it just
• 40:41
  sitting in in my room it's
• 40:44
  like you have to take time
• 40:46
  to appreciate those things
• 40:47
  and it it helps when you
• 40:48
  have yeah something like
• 40:50
  your your name and number
• 40:52
  on a jersey like I think
• 40:54
  it's I think it's super
• 40:55
  cool and I think it's a
• 40:56
  really cool cool gesture
• 40:57
  that they're they're doing
• 41:00
  I think it makes it special
• 41:01
  and it yeah kind of it
• 41:03
  almost like legitimizes it you know
• 41:05
  some more and being like hey
• 41:07
  like you know your top 40
• 41:09
  in your region like that is
• 41:11
  that takes a lot of time
• 41:12
  you know like you know here
• 41:16
  you go here's your name and
• 41:18
  your number I think it's super cool yeah
• 41:21
  Well, I can't wait to watch you.
• 41:23
  If I can get there in person,
• 41:24
  it'll be the best.
• 41:25
  If not, watch you on the stream,
• 41:28
  but we'll stay in touch.
• 41:29
  And, um,
• 41:30
  we're going to do shows from
• 41:34
  during that whole weekend.
• 41:35
  So maybe I'll reach out.
• 41:36
  We'll get, have you on the weekend.
• 41:38
  If I can't be there in
• 41:39
  person to talk to you in person.
• 41:42
  Yeah.
• 41:43
  Yeah.
• 41:43
  I love that a lot.
• 41:44
  Well, good luck in Carson.
• 41:46
  And, uh,
• 41:48
  And Hattie's yelling at me in the chat.
• 41:51
  You better be there.
• 41:54
  Hattie and I will come and
• 41:55
  drag you wherever you are.
• 41:56
  We'll get you there.
• 41:59
  Well,
• 41:59
  truth be told is I have not been
• 42:00
  approved for media credentials yet.
• 42:02
  What?
• 42:03
  Which is really late for this.
• 42:06
  So still waiting on that.
• 42:09
  We'll sign a petition.
• 42:10
  We'll start a petition.
• 42:10
  We'll get you in somehow, I'm sure.
• 42:13
  All right.
• 42:13
  Well, Gabby, as always, such a treat.
• 42:16
  Thank you to everybody in
• 42:16
  the chat for being here.
• 42:18
  Love you all.
• 42:19
  And we'll see everybody next
• 42:20
  time on the Clydesdale
• 42:21
  Media Semi-Finalist Series.
• 42:24
  Bye, guys.
• 42:25
  Bye-bye.