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Lunch with the Clydesdale - How Do We Get the Community Back to the Games Season · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody we are back
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we are not ai we are here live
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today yes we got a show
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I love the chase and the hunt and
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I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want and I
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always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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It's not working out,
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maybe it's the chemistry.
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It's time to...
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It's lunch time.
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What's up, everyone?
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Jumped in today to do the show.
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Saw all the chats from yesterday.
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Huge apology for me.
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Last minute,
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I was asked to jump into a meeting
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and present.
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And that meeting went two hours.
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There was no way to do the show
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yesterday.
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So I frantically jumped in,
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changed the date of the show,
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tried to get everything out,
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tried to get an Instagram post out,
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all of that stuff.
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um so yeah i tried to get all
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that out but i see that yeah uh
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jody yes your chat from yesterday is still
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in here uh because it's still connected to
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this broadcast um so yeah jumped in today
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checked it all out tried to get everything
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out to everybody my apologies that we
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weren't here yesterday uh but that doesn't
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happen on the regular and i'll try to
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make sure it doesn't happen very much in
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the future
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So we've got Craig in the chat.
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We got Jody.
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We got Kenneth the lap.
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We got Frida.
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We've got Ken Walters eating some bison
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burgers today with avocado and sweet
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taters.
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I just was telling someone yesterday that
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you eat ribeye every day.
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Now you've called me a liar, Ken.
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What am I supposed to do now?
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I thought it was only ribeyes and here
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you are eating bison burgers.
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Yeah,
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I got to see my first bison in
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the wild last year,
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heading out to Montana.
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Those are some big, big dogs, man.
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I don't know.
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I've probably had the meat before.
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I've tried a lot of different things.
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I've had elk.
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I've had moose.
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I've had bear.
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I think I've had bison.
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Um, it's gotta be like a,
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what a really lean burger, right?
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Ken got my partner,
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Carolyn Prevost in the house, uh,
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lesson prepping.
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I don't know if you guys saw,
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I can't remember the exact stat,
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but like her and Jeff Adler are the
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only people that have finished top
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whatever in the open over the last five
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years.
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Can't remember the exact stat,
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but it's pretty cool.
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That's elite company right there.
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Carolyn Prevost, Jeff Adler.
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Pretty amazing.
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Frida,
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what was the smash burger for her with
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some sriracha mayo, pepper jack cheese,
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and so on.
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Like me, some sriracha mayo.
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That's good.
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Mark Phillips homeschooling a
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fourteen-year-old, but he's here.
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Ah,
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top-fifty over the last seven years it
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was.
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Thank you, Karen.
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Yeah, that's pretty elite company.
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Seven years of consistency.
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Top-fifty in the open.
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Yeah, huge kudos to you and Jeff, both.
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Man, that is freaking amazing.
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Must be something in the Canadian water.
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Jody's driving.
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Be safe.
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Ten and two.
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Hands ten and two.
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Come on.
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Make sure.
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All right.
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So let's get into it today.
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It's a Friday before a three-day weekend
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for me.
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So super stoked about that.
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Just got out of an interview or an
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interview,
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a meeting where we were redistributed our
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job duties today.
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So recovering from that turned out okay
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for me, I think.
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Not ideal, but it's never ideal.
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So I will take what we get and
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we'll move on.
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Earlier this week on Wednesday,
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and we haven't had a show since then,
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they announced twenty six point two.
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And who are going to be the athletes
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representing CrossFit at that open
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announcement?
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And here you go.
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CrossFit Open starts now.
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And the Queen's Slayer, Lucy Campbell,
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takes down another one.
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They are not first off the skier.
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It is Amy Kringle.
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Kringle is done and on to the box.
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Miriam Von Roar.
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Someone forgot to tell her she's a rookie.
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She came out of those blocks like a
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full-born sprinter.
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That is one great lineup.
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Lucy Campbell, Amy Kringle,
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and Miriam Von Roar will be your athletes
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for twenty six point two.
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Super stoked about that.
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The sneaky the sneaky one in here is
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if you guys have not been following
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closely is Miriam Von Roar has won the
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last two open.
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The last two.
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Oh,
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she is the Colton Mertens of the female
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division.
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So great lineup,
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super stoked to see them go down,
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throw down.
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It's going to be awesome.
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We've got two great lineups to start open
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announcements one and two.
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Now the ball is in CrossFit's court to
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hit a grand slam.
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and have a great lineup for workout three.
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And it's probably going to be at
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Wadapalooza, I'm assuming.
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It is going to be at Wadapalooza.
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So they're going to have a lot of
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people there to do it.
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I wonder if it's going to be like
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a heat of the event or if it's
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going to be truly like just pick a
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couple people to do it.
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That's going to be interesting how they
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pull that one off.
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As it is going to be one of
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the events at Wadapalooza,
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it's going to be fun to see.
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So can't wait to see what they do
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with that open lineup.
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Early on,
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I've got Miriam Von Rohr to win.
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She wins everything in the Open.
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And Carolyn points out here,
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she has won three of the last six
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WODs in the Open.
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Again, just like Colton Mertens.
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Colton Mertens has won a lot of the
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Open workouts in the last two years.
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So she is very much as savage as
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Colton Mertens is in the Open.
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And then you've got Lucy Campbell,
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who took fourth in the Open last year.
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And Amy Kringle, top fifteen, I think,
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at least.
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This is a killer lineup for this.
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Killer.
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Twenty-six point three will have to be
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short since volunteers will be allowed to
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do it as well.
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Yeah, I mean,
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no open workout is super long.
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I shouldn't say no.
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But, yeah, I don't know.
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I don't know, Stan,
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what they're going to do there.
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Hopefully,
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they give you enough time off where you
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can just go do it,
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regardless of the time.
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So...
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So, yeah, it's all lining up.
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You know, open registrations are way,
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way up, which is a great thing.
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The open announcements that they have
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released are incredible.
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I think excitement is growing.
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Hopefully we can get that foundation,
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that base set again for another growth
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spurt in the sport and hopefully get
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through unscathed for a while.
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I'm curious how teams will do the workouts
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on week three and how they get to
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set up their stuff.
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So, Carolyn,
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the workouts will be released on Thursday.
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Guadalupalooza is individual Thursday and
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Friday, and then the teams are Saturday,
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Sunday.
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So, I'm assuming that if they do...
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I wonder if they're going to make it
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a team event or just in the individual
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events.
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Wayne points out that twenty six point two
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is that an affiliate with four hundred and
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fifty members doing the open should be
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amazing.
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That is ridiculous.
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There are very few gyms with four hundred
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and fifty members,
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let alone four hundred and fifty doing the
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open.
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Insane.
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Insane.
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I can't wait to see what Wadapalooza is
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going to do with it.
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Hopefully they have a good plan and have
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been working in depth with CrossFit to
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make it work out.
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So we'll see.
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In addition to this,
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I wanted to kind of bust this out
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too,
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is I was watching the spin on Wednesday
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night.
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We talked about it briefly on our Tuesday
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show where Tyler had put out a video
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talking about...
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us the state of the open and that
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the biggest asset to affiliates uh was
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regionals and that we should find a way
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to go back to regionals and use the
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money that they want to hand out gift
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cards with to supplement the cost of
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regionals um
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jason bourne has been doing some spy
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activity for us and the twenty six point
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three will have its own stage at
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wadapalooza um carolyn says those gyms
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probably charge an extra twenty dollars on
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membership and it automatically goes to
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their open sign up smart moves yeah it's
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a good way to do it
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When you look at the retention numbers of
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improvement in the open, as a gym owner,
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it's almost worth the investment to just
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pay the twenty dollars.
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Pay the twenty dollars for your athletes.
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Sign them up.
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Especially with where you could buy in
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bulk this year.
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Sign them up.
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It's twenty dollars a member out of their
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membership.
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And then it because the retention numbers
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of people who do the open multiple times
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is so high that maybe that is a
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way that you can retain who you have.
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But I want to get to the regionals
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aspect of it and the feasibility of it.
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You know,
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Tyler said that one of the best assets
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that CrossFit ever gave to the affiliates
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was regionals.
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And I do not disagree.
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Every regionals I attended, and granted,
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I was spoiled.
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I live in the Central East.
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I was a part of the combined North
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Central and Central East into the Central
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Regional.
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Every one of those regionals was
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jam-packed every single year.
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It was never in an arena.
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It was always in a convention center.
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Now,
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the build-outs were pretty big in both
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Nashville and Columbus.
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It wasn't an arena in Cincinnati when it
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was Central East,
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and it still packed the house.
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Is it affordable to do regionals again?
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And I know they talked about like
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supplementing it with the twenty percent
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that goes to prizes for affiliates from
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the open.
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Take that twenty percent and lump it into
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regionals.
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I would contend and I want to and
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I'm going to ask some event owners,
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event runners.
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Would they rather host a regional where
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they have the ability to host that and
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foot the bill and make the profits from
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that or to continue to do a semifinal?
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And I think your answers are going to
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be varied in this way.
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Someone like NorCal,
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who has established this festival feel,
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I think will want to continue on with
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their festival feel and not limit
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themselves to a regional.
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Someone like Wilson Park...
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where it is really just the elites
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competing that weekend,
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I think would jump at the chance to
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change the format from an overall
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semifinal to a regionalized regional
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competition where you're drawing from the
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local affiliates to come cheer on their
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people.
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And if you can get the buy-in from
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the third parties to host these types of
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events,
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I think it's a no-brainer to go back
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to regionals.
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This is just me pondering the idea and
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not really talking to anybody yet.
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But over the next week or so,
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I'm going to start talking to people.
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And I'm going to find out what would
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they rather do.
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Because if you can get the support of
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third-party event coordinators knowing
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that they're going to pull directly from
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the athletes in the region and the
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affiliates in the region,
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would they jump at that chance?
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as opposed to the newer semifinal where
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it's just,
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we don't know if people are going to
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show up.
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Are they going to withdraw last minute if
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they qualified an early one?
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Or do we lose them at this one?
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Is it worth buying the tickets for this
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because you don't know who's really going
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to be there?
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Where at regionals, it was your shot.
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It was your one shot.
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And people knew who was going to be
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there.
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and so ticket sales were easier to predict
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because you knew the lineup before you
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even got there um carolyn says it's just
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so hard to make it to the games
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now as an indie or team
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People in the younger age groups who used
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to have a chance to go to regionals
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don't have a huge chance anymore.
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Numbers are down.
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But I think if you recreated that and
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you gave a goal of making regionals,
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it gives that intermediate goal of just
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trying to make it to that regional event
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and getting to compete on a bigger stage.
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It's still a semi-local competition
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because you're in a smaller region,
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but it's a big enough stage where there's
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some broadcast,
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there's some people that are doing
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interviews,
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and it gives it that I've made it
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at least this far.
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Now,
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I know the elites are going to say,
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that means I've got to perform my best
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on one weekend.
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I can't be sick that weekend.
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All of those things that we've talked
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about.
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But we need the whole ecosystem to still
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be around for you to thrive in this
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system.
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And so maybe you have to give up
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the multiple shots at making the games for
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the opportunity to grow and have a sport
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available to you moving forward.
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Wayne says regionals would be awesome.
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I do think you would see athletes at
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the big camps relocating to spread the
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competition out.
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The Southeast region would be crazy as is.
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I mean, that's possible.
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People did it before.
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So people moved around,
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but you have to remember in the old
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regional days,
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five people made it from the regionals,
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not three, not two, but five.
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So there were more opportunities at that
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level.
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Whether they would go back to that or
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they still want the smaller field at the
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games, I don't know.
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Frida said,
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some athletes will complain about the
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competition only having so and so many
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places.
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I agree with you.
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People are going to complain about that.
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But if you don't have a sport there
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left because nobody's coming to watch
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anymore, is that an alternative?
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It's not.
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Tristan says,
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the regional system is the best for growth
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of the ecosystem hands down.
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Carolyn, I agree.
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I just think unless there's something like
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regionals again,
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we are losing a huge market of athletes
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who are going elsewhere for comps like
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High Rocks because it's achievable and a
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big competition.
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Yeah, I see what you're saying now.
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The regionals does give that opportunity
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to younger athletes to develop.
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And because there were like thirty teams
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per region,
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you could even go on a team
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And learn that way or get your feet
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wet that way or experience things that
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way.
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Andrew Sten,
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will athletes be willing to look
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long-term?
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People often look at what affects them
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now.
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I think that's the problem in a lot
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of sports.
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When you look at like labor unrest in
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the NFL and the OGs are telling the
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young athletes hang in there during the
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strike because it means a lot.
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And then basically the young athletes are
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spending their money and they need to get
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back to work to sustain themselves because
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they weren't disciplined in like saving
19:51
money, things like that.
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And it's why the NFL PA doesn't have
19:55
any strength because those younger
19:59
athletes don't have the patience and the
20:03
ability to wait it out.
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Um, hexi lover.
20:18
So excited to know how you was your
20:20
first big blowy.
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Uh, sorry for off the topic,
20:24
but want to know the joy you hopefully
20:26
had.
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Uh, it was pretty glorious,
20:30
but there's a weird side effect to it
20:32
that I just wasn't expecting.
20:35
So like I blew everything out and it
20:38
felt so good and I can breathe so
20:40
deep that
20:41
The crazy piece, though,
20:43
is there are parts of my sinuses that
20:45
haven't had air in so long that when
20:49
I breathe in, it tickles those areas.
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And then I have to sneeze.
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And I'm sure that once it gets used
20:59
to having air in there again,
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it'll be fine.
21:03
But right now,
21:04
it just tickles when I breathe in real
21:07
deep into the areas that were so impacted
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that I'm just forcing myself to sneeze a
21:17
lot.
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All right, back to Frida.
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Andrew,
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that's the problem with basically the
21:23
entire society.
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Yes.
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Yes, there is no patience.
21:27
There is no looking at the big picture.
21:29
It's all about right now.
21:37
Plant-powered fitness.
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The question I have is,
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are the young people in CrossFit?
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If the average age of a member in
21:43
the gym is higher,
21:44
then you will see that in the signups.
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Yeah, I think, though,
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if opportunities exist for higher and
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young athletes,
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you'll see some of them come back to
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this format.
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The reason that everything's skewing
22:07
upward is there are no opportunities for
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young athletes.
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I agree with Carolyn on that.
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Right now,
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the way it's set up and everything,
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all these semifinals are invitation only
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or you've got to do this qualifier and
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the spaces are limited and all this stuff.
22:25
The young athletes are getting pushed to
22:27
the side and there are no opportunities
22:30
for them.
22:32
Where if you do the regionals again,
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it opens up a big window for younger
22:38
athletes to have a goal,
22:40
to make it to regionals,
22:42
get themselves known,
22:43
and to move forward through the process of
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becoming an athlete.
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And again,
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I can't wait to talk to some of
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the event organizers because I do believe
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that
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that they will enjoy the opportunity of
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having a regional type event to run,
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I think they can be more successful with
23:04
that than the current format.
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But I will find out over the next
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few weeks for sure.
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semifinal.
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Yeah,
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I think the regionals really just sets the
24:22
goals up in a way that makes sense
24:25
for a younger athlete, Tristan.
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To make top-forty in your region is much
24:34
more doable than the way the semifinals
24:38
are set up today.
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Because in semifinals,
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you have to be the top...
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twenty at this qualifier you had to have
24:50
done well last year to get an invite
24:53
and in the numbers or you have to
24:54
finish much much higher in those instances
24:58
where regionals just in your area of the
25:01
world you have to be one of the
25:04
twenty or forty best people in that region
25:08
and that is those numbers are much more
25:10
doable for a young athlete uh than what
25:13
we have set up today
25:19
And anybody who can make a semifinal now
25:21
would walk into a regional of top forty
25:23
or fifty.
25:24
Of course.
25:25
Of course.
25:30
Of course.
25:33
Yeah.
25:38
And I am not the guy that likes
25:40
to go backward to move forward,
25:43
but it just makes too much sense not
25:45
to.
25:48
I am not the guy typically that says,
25:49
hey, let's go back to this.
25:52
But regionals just makes the most sense.
25:57
Look at the growth in CrossFit during the
25:59
regionals era.
26:01
Now, I know there are all these factors.
26:03
There was the media firing.
26:05
There was Greg leaving.
26:06
There was COVID.
26:08
There was Lazar's death.
26:09
All of those things since twenty eighteen
26:11
have happened to in addition to getting
26:14
rid of regionals.
26:16
to mess up what's happened.
26:22
But I think you have to find something
26:24
to get us back to a foundation that
26:27
works.
26:28
And the one thing that we have control
26:30
over is to go back to a regionals
26:32
format.
26:41
Frida says it's the opportunity that is
26:43
the appeal here.
26:43
Yes.
26:44
Yes.
26:48
Uh, Vicki says restore to homeostasis.
26:51
Exactly.
26:52
And the other piece that I'm going to
26:55
talk to Carolyn about this Sunday night,
26:57
cause it's her idea.
26:59
I've just, I just love it.
27:00
And I keep running with it is in
27:02
addition to the regional format,
27:04
you keep quarterfinals one.
27:08
It's a great moneymaker too.
27:12
It gives you the ability to semi create
27:15
a five week open.
27:18
If you're going back to regionals,
27:19
you need to take the open three weeks
27:22
and the quarterfinal weekend,
27:24
mash them together,
27:26
and those standings are what get you to
27:29
the regional.
27:31
It's a more complete test using all of
27:34
those pieces to then get you to regionals.
27:42
Instead of scrapping the scores from the
27:44
open, they carry over to quarterfinals,
27:47
and then you test doing multiple events in
27:51
one weekend as part of your test to
27:54
get to regionals.
27:58
So step one, open.
27:59
Step two, quarterfinals.
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Combine those scores.
28:03
Top forty in your region.
28:06
Move on to regionals.
28:11
And there you have a complete online test
28:15
that moves to a complete in-person test
28:19
that moves on to the games.
28:24
And then everything is tested.
28:25
Everything,
28:26
we have a nice balanced test across the
28:29
board.
28:33
And we keep it local enough where
28:36
affiliates and people who want to support
28:38
their athletes can come watch.
28:49
and and it's been demonstrated if you
28:52
weren't around in the regional days uh it
29:00
was demonstrated a lot that these gym
29:03
members would come and it would get so
29:05
loud i remember here in columbus we had
29:09
two local teams
29:11
in regionals and the place got so loud
29:15
when they were competing CrossFit
29:17
Grandview and Friendship CrossFit both
29:20
competed at regionals both made it into
29:23
the top ten in the final heat and
29:25
the place was so loud for the final
29:27
heat of teams that
29:30
It was like nothing you have heard since
29:32
because nobody comes to watch the teams
29:34
now.
29:36
But here, because it's local,
29:38
because you have members of your gym in
29:40
it,
29:41
it gets as loud as the individual event.
29:46
And the teams bring so many people to
29:49
the game, so many people to the party.
29:53
When I was at Syndicate,
29:56
And Haley Adams is there because she's
29:58
local to Cookville.
30:00
The place is super loud.
30:03
It was last year,
30:04
Austin Hatfield was there,
30:06
and it was so loud every time Austin
30:08
took the floor because it was local for
30:11
him and his gym members.
30:18
So the evidence is that it still happens.
30:22
It just happens to a lesser degree because
30:24
not so many people are not local.
30:32
David Reed,
30:33
how many boxes have a competitive team
30:34
training group?
30:35
Granville still has it,
30:36
but I suspect most do not.
30:39
Because they didn't have a chance anymore,
30:41
David.
30:41
I think that if you bring back regionals,
30:44
more local affiliates feel like they can
30:48
get into the mix of a regional event
30:51
where they couldn't a semifinal event.
30:58
Wayne says,
30:59
I remember watching a teen Sam Kwan at
31:01
Northeast Regional.
31:02
It was so loud.
31:03
Is any comp amazing?
31:05
Yeah.
31:06
Northwest.
31:06
You're right.
31:08
Correction, Northwest.
31:11
Carolyn,
31:13
talking about combining the open with the
31:14
quarterfinals,
31:15
and you look at a few videos for
31:17
the top qualifier athletes like they used
31:20
to qualify to regionals.
31:23
For that leaderboard,
31:23
you combine the scores of only the
31:25
athletes who do both open and quarters.
31:29
Correct.
31:34
David Reed,
31:35
Grandview has their training group,
31:37
and you have to hit benchmarks to even
31:39
train with them.
31:42
It used to be cutthroat at Grandview,
31:44
and I'm sure it still is.
31:45
They're still trying to get teams to the
31:47
games.
31:48
But if they had regionals, many,
31:51
many more gyms would try to put together
31:53
teams.
31:55
Many more.
31:56
Because it's a realistic opportunity for
31:58
them to get to regionals.
32:00
It's not realistic for many of these gyms
32:02
to make it to a semifinal.
32:05
And with the super teams,
32:07
it's not even worth trying.
32:18
Uh,
32:18
Ken is asking if Karen was playing hooky
32:20
today, I believe not bookie.
32:22
I don't think she takes bets.
32:23
Ken.
32:24
Um, she said she's lesson planning.
32:26
So I think she's just in an office
32:28
working on her lesson plan.
32:33
Um,
32:37
Frida regionals was something of a
32:38
maturing thing for athletes where you got
32:41
the chance to really test where you are
32:43
in comparison with, with the elite.
32:46
And if you listen to the stories of
32:49
the athletes that got to go out on
32:50
the floor and the people they had next
32:53
to them,
32:55
like when we did the hundred and some
32:59
semifinal interviews back in the day,
33:02
like I would hear stories of,
33:04
I got to go out on the floor
33:06
and Katrin David's daughter's beside me.
33:08
Or, you know,
33:09
Rich Froning was in my heat or so
33:12
on and so forth, right?
33:15
You got to go experience things and have
33:18
that amazing experience of competing on
33:21
this big stage with the big names.
33:23
It meant a lot.
33:26
And that has been completely
33:27
underestimated.
33:32
David Reed,
33:32
I do like the idea of an accumulative
33:34
score to make the games,
33:35
make each step of the ladder matter.
33:38
And it only makes sense, David,
33:40
because you hear like Dave Castro go,
33:43
the entire season is a story.
33:46
Why release that story in volumes and
33:51
start over from the beginning when you can
33:54
just keep the story flowing with the
33:56
scores as well?
34:01
And it totally makes sense when we cut
34:03
down to a three-week open,
34:05
it's so hard to get a complete test.
34:07
You know,
34:09
our friend Larry Young is on here all
34:12
the time talking about lack of strength
34:13
test.
34:15
If you had three weeks of the open
34:17
and a weekend of multiple events in
34:19
quarterfinals and all those scores get
34:21
combined,
34:22
you can throw in a strength event and
34:24
it doesn't bias it as much.
34:28
You can do those things and test those
34:30
things.
34:31
So it matters.
34:34
Right now,
34:35
when you do three events and you throw
34:37
in a strength test,
34:38
it's too big of a bias to the
34:40
rest of the testing.
34:47
But if you have seven events,
34:49
three from the open, four from quarters,
34:52
now you have a seven-event test that you
34:55
can truly test who should make it to
34:58
the next level.
35:06
I think that truly makes the most sense.
35:13
And then we look at the cost.
35:15
Tyler brought it up in his video.
35:18
Back in the day,
35:18
it was a million dollars to put those
35:20
on.
35:21
Hamilton Roads was there doing the
35:24
broadcast for every regional.
35:27
Now there are people out there that can
35:28
do the broadcast for much, much less.
35:32
We don't need to have the big arenas
35:34
in every regional.
35:36
There are some regionals that we know are
35:38
going to draw and some we know are
35:40
not.
35:41
And you can play to the area you're
35:45
in and right size the event and the
35:49
location so that it makes the most
35:52
economical sense.
36:06
And Carolyn said, really,
36:07
if you add the online semi,
36:08
you have even more and a huge complete
36:12
picture to send the seven athletes to the
36:15
games from the online portion.
36:16
They will have completed all these tests.
36:20
I agree,
36:20
but that takes away from my regional
36:22
approach here.
36:37
So I agree with you if you're staying
36:39
with today's format.
36:41
If you're going with a regional format,
36:44
I like that the regionals in person with
36:46
judging is separate because of the way
36:50
it's done in person.
36:53
I think online should be one score.
36:56
In person should be another.
36:58
I agree with you in the current format.
37:00
If you're going with the online semi,
37:02
why not do all the online as one
37:04
score?
37:08
But I would like to do away with
37:10
the online portion of the semifinal,
37:13
go back to regionals where we have
37:15
in-person judging to make it more legit
37:22
and more possible to send the right people
37:24
to the games.
37:27
All right,
37:27
a couple things to wrap up before I
37:29
head back to work,
37:30
and that is we found out yesterday that
37:33
Willie Georges became the first CrossFit
37:36
athlete to break an hour in a High
37:37
Rocks event.
37:39
I know that was a James Sprague goal.
37:43
So here is my question for James Sprague.
37:53
Willie Georges is a retired CrossFit
37:55
athlete.
37:57
Does it mean more if James does it
38:00
as an active CrossFit athlete?
38:03
Because he's still training for CrossFit
38:07
and trying to complete the under the hour
38:09
in High Rocks.
38:11
Willie isn't trying to make the games.
38:13
He isn't trying to compete in WFP.
38:16
He can solely train for High Rocks and
38:19
see if he can get the under the
38:21
hour, which he did.
38:23
Kudos to him.
38:25
But I think it means more if James
38:30
goes under an hour while still being an
38:34
active, competitive CrossFitter.
38:37
And I say that for Wayne as he's
38:39
bringing up Hunter.
38:41
Hunter is no longer a CrossFit athlete.
38:45
Jody is asking, who is Willie George?
38:48
Well, it's George's.
38:50
He is from France.
38:51
He was a CrossFit Games athlete before.
38:55
Three or four years ago,
38:57
probably made the games four or five
39:00
times.
39:03
Was very talented, often injured,
39:07
and never podiumed or anything at the
39:12
games, but made some noise for sure.
39:19
But he's been retired for a few years
39:20
now.
39:22
And because of that,
39:23
he can focus more on a specific style
39:25
of training to make his numbers better.
39:28
Where James can't totally quit strength
39:31
training because it will affect his
39:34
CrossFit game season to then go do a
39:36
high rocks under an hour.
39:39
I think it's more impressive if James does
39:41
it as an active CrossFit athlete.
39:44
I think that makes a huge difference.
39:48
But kudos to Willie Georges for doing it.
39:52
I don't think it means as much when
39:54
you're a retired CrossFit athlete as if
39:56
you're an active CrossFit athlete.
40:01
Carolyn fills in.
40:02
Willie Georges has huge numbers in
40:04
powerlifting, Olympic lifting as well.
40:06
Very impressive.
40:13
Last thing I wanted to talk about is
40:16
Olivia Kerstetter,
40:17
if you guys did not see,
40:19
was in the hospital.
40:22
for a staph infection possible MRSA.
40:29
And she posted on her Instagram a picture
40:34
of her in the hospital.
40:37
I'm going to go ahead and share that.
40:49
And what she said is little update because
40:51
I have been MIA lately.
40:55
Last week after a little swelling in my
40:57
knee very quickly turned into fever,
41:00
chills, sweats,
41:01
lots of pain and even more swelling.
41:03
I went into the ER where I was
41:04
told I had cellulitis staph infection that
41:07
was thought to be MRSA.
41:09
Luckily,
41:09
the infection was not in my bloodstream or
41:11
in my knee joint,
41:12
which would have caused a lot more damage.
41:14
My whole leg continued to grow.
41:16
My fever would not break.
41:17
My white blood cell count was way too
41:19
high,
41:20
and I could not even put weight on
41:21
my left leg.
41:24
I actually had this like fifteen years
41:27
ago.
41:28
It is one of the most painful things
41:30
I've ever experienced in my life.
41:33
I ended up spending five days in the
41:35
hospital getting antibiotics to get this
41:38
to clear.
41:40
I do not envy her at all.
41:43
I don't know how this is going to
41:44
affect her season.
41:46
Her spot on the fitness wellness continuum
41:55
is sickness wellness fitness continuum is
41:58
much higher than mine was at the time.
42:00
It took me a long time to recover
42:02
from this.
42:03
a very long time.
42:05
Um,
42:06
and I am sure because she is much,
42:07
much fitter than I was at the time
42:09
that she will be able to,
42:10
to recover from this faster than I did,
42:14
but it is not fun.
42:17
It is not easy to overcome thoughts and
42:19
prayers to her to get over this as
42:21
quickly as possible.
42:23
Um,
42:23
and I hope it doesn't affect her CrossFit
42:26
games season at all.
42:31
Um,
42:33
It is extremely,
42:35
extremely difficult to get through.
42:38
She said the one thing that she learned
42:40
on this was probably don't put sweaty,
42:44
dirty knee sleeves on if you have a
42:45
cut on your knee.
42:48
Yeah, be careful, man.
42:49
If you're cut,
42:51
be careful what you put on those cuts,
42:53
man.
42:54
Nobody wants any of this stuff.
43:00
Ken said, Jesus, Scott,
43:01
what haven't you had?
43:04
I wish I didn't have most of this
43:07
stuff, Ken.
43:09
It's just what life throws you,
43:11
and it only makes you stronger on the
43:13
other side and learn from your mistakes.
43:19
Shanna said, no joint involvement.
43:20
She should be good.
43:22
Yeah,
43:23
I didn't have joint involvement either,
43:25
Shanna.
43:25
It just hurt really bad for a few
43:29
weeks.
43:32
But again,
43:33
I was nowhere on the continuum that she
43:36
is on.
43:37
So she's probably going to recover and
43:38
bounce back way faster.
43:42
this was when I had it,
43:44
it was before I lost any weight.
43:47
I was,
43:48
it was right before I started CrossFit.
43:51
Um,
43:51
it's probably one of the catalysts that
43:53
made me start CrossFit.
43:56
Um, when this happened to me, um,
43:59
to get better, to get more fit, to,
44:01
to be able to recover from things like
44:03
this.
44:05
Um,
44:08
So yeah, shout out to her.
44:11
Hopefully she gets better soon.
44:16
With that said,
44:17
I hope you guys have a great weekend.
44:19
We will be live Sunday night,
44:22
CrossFit Talk with Carolyn and Jamie,
44:25
talking about all the news in the CrossFit
44:27
space,
44:28
getting their ideas as to what some of
44:30
the stuff we talked about this week and
44:33
whatever else happens in the upcoming
44:35
days.
44:36
With that, I hope you have a great,
44:38
great President's Day weekend as I am off
44:41
on Monday,
44:42
but I'll go ahead and do this show.
44:44
With that, have a great day.
44:46
You guys get back to work.
44:47
I'll get back to work.
44:49
And we'll see everybody tomorrow.
44:50
Or not tomorrow.
44:52
Sunday night for Sunday Night CrossFit
44:53
Talk.
44:54
See you then, guys.