Latest / Clydesdale Media Podcast / Kelly Friel | Athletes of the 2024 Legends Masters CrossFit Games
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- 0:11I was born to kill it.
- 0:14I was meant to win.
- 0:15I am down and willing,
- 0:17so I will find a way.
- 0:18It took a minute,
- 0:19now it didn't happen right away.
- 0:20When it get hot in the kitchen,
- 0:22you decide to stay.
- 0:23That's how a winner's made.
- 0:24Stick a fork in the hater on
- 0:26my dinner plate.
- 0:33what is going on everybody
- 0:35welcome to the Clydesdale
- 0:36media podcast where we are
- 0:39featuring the athletes of
- 0:40the 2024 legends masters
- 0:44crossfit games and I have
- 0:46with me a dear friend we've
- 0:48met four years ago and I
- 0:50love getting to chat with
- 0:51her every time but she's
- 0:53also a living legend in
- 0:55this sport this is her
- 0:56sixth crossfit games Kelly
- 0:59Friel hello how you doing
- 1:03I'm very well, thank you.
- 1:04How are you?
- 1:05Good, good, good.
- 1:07And so it has been, when we first met,
- 1:12I think you had just won silver.
- 1:16Yes, yeah.
- 1:18Then ever since we met,
- 1:20it's been nothing but gold.
- 1:24You were obviously like my
- 1:25lucky charm that year.
- 1:27Yeah, so...
- 1:30I joked with you back then
- 1:31that you had started your
- 1:33career just like Tia and Matt.
- 1:35You started with two silvers,
- 1:38and then you were just
- 1:38going to start ringing some gold.
- 1:41And you were like, hold on,
- 1:42I've got to age up.
- 1:43We can't count the chickens and blah, blah,
- 1:45blah.
- 1:46But you have held that.
- 1:48all along you started two
- 1:50silvers in um 18 and 19 21
- 1:56we missed 2020 21 you first
- 2:0022 first 23 first yes so
- 2:07you were the you were also
- 2:08one of the most humble
- 2:09people I've ever met when
- 2:12you look at your career can
- 2:14you even imagine that you
- 2:17are where you are today
- 2:20Um, no,
- 2:21it all still feels a bit surreal to
- 2:23be fair.
- 2:23Um,
- 2:25like I looked on my profile actually
- 2:27earlier and I was like, Oh,
- 2:28actually I haven't updated
- 2:30it from last year.
- 2:31So it's still just seven, two singles,
- 2:33two golds.
- 2:34Um, so yeah,
- 2:36it does still feel a bit
- 2:39insane that I'm going back
- 2:40for my sixth year.
- 2:42Um, but going back to have some fun again,
- 2:44hopefully.
- 2:46going back but it's in a
- 2:47different capacity like
- 2:49it's going to be it's
- 2:50separate from the main
- 2:51event you're going to be in
- 2:52birmingham alabama but on
- 2:55that weekend you you get
- 2:56all this this shine right
- 2:58masters will be in the
- 2:59spotlight do you think
- 3:01that's a good thing
- 3:02yeah I'm hoping so that um
- 3:04this year is going to be
- 3:06better coverage than it has
- 3:08been previously um like
- 3:10loads of people last year
- 3:11tuned in and we're thinking
- 3:13yay we're gonna see loads
- 3:15and they got to see what in
- 3:16their words were like
- 3:18little ants on a tv screen
- 3:21um and try to work out who
- 3:23was which ant um
- 3:25So you didn't like hanging
- 3:27an iPhone 5 from the roof?
- 3:31Yeah.
- 3:33So I'm hoping this year,
- 3:34with the Masters having complete focus,
- 3:38that the coverage is going to be better.
- 3:41It has to be, right?
- 3:42Like, you have the A-team.
- 3:44The people that were, everybody was upset,
- 3:47got let go doing the CrossFit Games.
- 3:50You have Sean Woodland calling.
- 3:51I know, how cool!
- 3:52Yeah.
- 3:53You have Sean Woodland and
- 3:54Chase Ingram and Tommy
- 3:56Marquez and Lauren Khalil.
- 3:59That's got to be pretty exciting.
- 4:01Yeah, that's super cool.
- 4:02So hopefully the footage is
- 4:05going to be so much better.
- 4:08And because we're on our own,
- 4:10we have our own sort of media team,
- 4:13if you want to call it,
- 4:14that they'll be solely
- 4:15focused on us and people
- 4:17back home get to see a little bit more of
- 4:21Obviously,
- 4:21of all the athletes that have
- 4:22been working each year,
- 4:25they can get to see all
- 4:26their hard work that they've put in.
- 4:29Yeah, I think it's going to be great.
- 4:30And I don't know if you know,
- 4:32we got approval.
- 4:32We're going to do a full
- 4:33behind-the-scenes documentary.
- 4:35Yeah, which would be great.
- 4:36So Ellie Hiller and myself
- 4:38will be backstage chatting
- 4:40with all the athletes.
- 4:42We'll have a couple of
- 4:42videographers out on the floor.
- 4:44We're going to put all that
- 4:45footage together into a
- 4:46really cool documentary.
- 4:47That would be really good.
- 4:50So I think you're going to
- 4:51get way better coverage
- 4:53than you did last year.
- 4:54I think anything from last
- 4:57year could be better.
- 5:00I've been teasing with the
- 5:01athletes that if Sean
- 5:03Woodland called anything I did,
- 5:05that would become my
- 5:06ringtone on my phone.
- 5:10And then anytime anybody called,
- 5:12it'd be like, for you,
- 5:14Kelly Friel finishes first.
- 5:18Every time someone called, loved it.
- 5:25Excuse me.
- 5:25I have to go for an allergy
- 5:27test next week and I have
- 5:28to stop taking allergy meds.
- 5:30So I am like in pure... Sort
- 5:33of like hay fever or...
- 5:35that's what they're trying to determine.
- 5:37We can't determine what I'm allergic to.
- 5:39So I have to stop taking
- 5:40everything and then go get
- 5:42tested to see what I am allergic to.
- 5:43And then they can give me
- 5:45the right medication to take to hit that.
- 5:49So right now I'm just in
- 5:50like pure hell trying to
- 5:52get to that test.
- 5:55Andrew Sten,
- 5:56who is actually part of the legends team.
- 6:00I can confirm the coverage
- 6:01will be way better.
- 6:03Yeah.
- 6:04ah in capitals way better
- 6:06awesome way better so every
- 6:10in years past we've talked
- 6:12and you always seem to like
- 6:14do something silly and get
- 6:16a nick or a bruise or a
- 6:19twist how are we doing this season
- 6:23Are you trying to say I'm clumsy?
- 6:28I'm saying you're starting
- 6:29to get a reputation.
- 6:30Yeah.
- 6:31Let's just say the semifinals didn't go,
- 6:37let's say, smoothly.
- 6:39um two days before so on the
- 6:43monday um I went in for
- 6:46training felt okay was
- 6:48coaching and then went in
- 6:50to do some front squats and
- 6:52the first time in the
- 6:54bottom of a squat I was
- 6:55like oh that doesn't feel
- 6:57quite right but just went
- 6:59for my second one because
- 7:00it was just two you know
- 7:01two reps and as I stood the
- 7:03second one up I said to um
- 7:06Someone in the gym, oh,
- 7:08that doesn't feel right.
- 7:09And they were like, what do you mean?
- 7:11And I was like,
- 7:12I think I've pulled my back
- 7:13or I've done something.
- 7:16um and yeah basically I
- 7:18couldn't I couldn't put my
- 7:20socks on I couldn't bend
- 7:21over right I couldn't roll
- 7:23out of bed um so I was
- 7:25straight away on the phone
- 7:26to the physio um the chiro
- 7:29you know everyone that
- 7:30looks after me when I have
- 7:32these silly silly clumsy
- 7:35things that seem to happen
- 7:36to me around competition or
- 7:38semi-final time
- 7:40um and literally went in to
- 7:43see them and my whole like
- 7:45lower on my left side had
- 7:47all locked up um so you
- 7:50could imagine the tears
- 7:51flooding because that was
- 7:53on the monday and the
- 7:54semi-finals got released on
- 7:55the wednesday and somehow
- 8:00you were able to navigate
- 8:02them and qualify for the
- 8:04games yeah so I took day by day
- 8:09I went out for very long walks,
- 8:12anything from 10K.
- 8:15I think one day I did like
- 8:1618K just to try and loosen
- 8:18everything off and just to
- 8:21see what I couldn't, you know, could do,
- 8:24couldn't do without pain.
- 8:26So the goal was to try and
- 8:29start them on Thursday,
- 8:30but I still wasn't feeling great.
- 8:33So it was like, okay,
- 8:35We have to try and get at
- 8:36least one done on the Friday.
- 8:39So I just had to change the
- 8:42way that I would have
- 8:43approached them if I was fully fit.
- 8:47And I had to leave the ring
- 8:49muscle up and the front
- 8:50squat one to the last day.
- 8:53because obviously that is
- 8:54how I hurt my back.
- 8:56Um,
- 8:57and it was one of those that obviously
- 8:59with ring muscle ups as well,
- 9:01trying to open in that big arch position.
- 9:04So you can imagine there is a lot of,
- 9:07a lot of tears during that workout.
- 9:10And, um, thankfully I did just finish it,
- 9:14not the best of times.
- 9:16Um, and,
- 9:17And yeah,
- 9:18I just managed to qualify for the game.
- 9:21So really,
- 9:23I'm just pleased to be going
- 9:24back with what happened.
- 9:26And I'm just happy to be there.
- 9:30So you're kind of a... I apologize, man.
- 9:39You're kind of a testament to the sickness,
- 9:42wellness, fitness continuum.
- 9:44Mm-hmm.
- 9:46your fitness level is so
- 9:48high that when you do have those injuries,
- 9:52you seem to come back from
- 9:54them fairly quickly.
- 9:57Yeah.
- 9:59Obviously I did the semifinals.
- 10:00Then I had a good sort of week off and,
- 10:03Again, just doing things that I could do,
- 10:05whether it was just sat on a bike,
- 10:06going for a walk.
- 10:09But obviously, the older I'm getting,
- 10:10the more sensible I am.
- 10:13I try not to rush back into
- 10:14anything too fast and just
- 10:16try and let the body recover.
- 10:18Well, you did have that advantage where,
- 10:21my goodness,
- 10:21the gap between semis and the
- 10:23games was so big.
- 10:26Yes.
- 10:27You could actually take some
- 10:28time off to heal.
- 10:30Yes.
- 10:31To be fair,
- 10:32I was thankful we have those
- 10:34few extra weeks because, like you said,
- 10:37it just gave you that time
- 10:38to think I haven't got to
- 10:39rush straight back into training.
- 10:41I can take, you know,
- 10:42a little bit easier for a
- 10:43few weeks and then once it
- 10:45feels good to go,
- 10:46then jump straight back on.
- 10:50I talked to a couple of
- 10:51athletes who use that time
- 10:52to just get out of the gym,
- 10:55like just do some things outside,
- 10:58get away from it a little
- 10:59bit before they went back
- 11:00to full on training.
- 11:03You used it to recover.
- 11:05Yes, I sure did.
- 11:08Yeah.
- 11:13Man, I'm having a tough day.
- 11:14Um, so,
- 11:19The other thing I wanted to
- 11:21talk to you about is you've all,
- 11:23you've been a coach.
- 11:24You have like, my gosh,
- 11:25the list of credentials you
- 11:27have is so much with the
- 11:32level of athlete you are today.
- 11:33Do you have time to coach?
- 11:37Yes.
- 11:38Yeah.
- 11:40I love coaching.
- 11:41I love sharing my knowledge
- 11:42with other members.
- 11:45You know, I do a few PTs as well.
- 11:49And that's, again, a variation of ages.
- 11:51My oldest member at the moment is 62.
- 11:56And he comes from a running
- 11:57background rather than a
- 11:59CrossFit-related background.
- 12:01But he's very keen to learn a wall walk,
- 12:05a rope climb.
- 12:07And I think it's just because he can go,
- 12:09yeah, do you know what?
- 12:11I can rope climb.
- 12:12I can do a wall walk.
- 12:15I can snatch.
- 12:17And so I love trying to
- 12:19share what I've learned
- 12:21over the years with others.
- 12:25And the reason I ask this is
- 12:28if people don't know you,
- 12:29you didn't have an athletic
- 12:30background before CrossFit.
- 12:33No, I didn't have a,
- 12:35let's say a professional sport.
- 12:37I always loved sports,
- 12:39but I was never a gymnast or a,
- 12:43or a swimmer or a runner.
- 12:45You know, I didn't have anything like that,
- 12:47that I got my teeth into,
- 12:49but I always loved just
- 12:51getting involved in any sport.
- 12:54do you think that makes you
- 12:55a better coach?
- 12:57Because you had to kind of
- 12:58learn everything from the beginning.
- 13:02Yeah, I guess so.
- 13:03Yeah.
- 13:03Cause I've, you know,
- 13:05some people come in now and say,
- 13:07oh my God, you, you know,
- 13:09you must've been able to do a pull up,
- 13:12you know, for years.
- 13:13And I said, actually,
- 13:14when I started CrossFit,
- 13:15I couldn't pull my body weight.
- 13:16I had to start with bands or
- 13:18assisted or negatives.
- 13:21And they were like, really?
- 13:22And I'm like, yeah, we all start, you know,
- 13:25we've all started somewhere.
- 13:26Um,
- 13:27so I do think that helps because you
- 13:30started from the beginning and
- 13:32And, you know,
- 13:33I've had to jump through the steps, which,
- 13:36you know,
- 13:36new people coming into CrossFit have to.
- 13:40It also kind of makes you
- 13:41like a poster child for the
- 13:43person coming in off the
- 13:44street that they can be a
- 13:45three-time gold medalist
- 13:47and just put in the work, right?
- 13:49Yeah, exactly that.
- 13:53Exactly that.
- 13:54Yeah.
- 13:54Anyone, anyone can do that.
- 13:57Um,
- 13:59What of all the,
- 14:00this is your sixth time
- 14:01going to the games.
- 14:02What is your favorite memory
- 14:04from the first five?
- 14:07Um,
- 14:08my favorite memory is most probably got
- 14:10to be last year.
- 14:13Um,
- 14:14and that's winning because I had my dad,
- 14:17my daughter and my husband there.
- 14:21Um,
- 14:22and my dad has never seen me compete on
- 14:24a competition floor before.
- 14:27That's right.
- 14:28Yeah.
- 14:30Um,
- 14:31did he get to sit down by the finish
- 14:33line?
- 14:35He did on a couple.
- 14:37Um, but I think on the last workout,
- 14:42him and my husband sort of
- 14:44sat a little bit higher.
- 14:45So they weren't in my eye view.
- 14:48Um, but you know, once, once the three,
- 14:54two,
- 14:54one goes and you're off down your lane,
- 14:57you sort of do notice a few people, but
- 15:01you know,
- 15:01I wouldn't have noticed where
- 15:02they were sat during the
- 15:04last workout anyway.
- 15:06I did see them on the ski,
- 15:10the bike and the double under one.
- 15:13And I remember sitting on
- 15:15the bike and I looked up
- 15:16and my husband's waving.
- 15:19And afterwards he was like,
- 15:20why don't you wave back?
- 15:24And I was a little busy.
- 15:25Yeah.
- 15:26I was like, I'm a bit busy.
- 15:30So when I was talking to Haley Murillo,
- 15:32she talked about how early in her career,
- 15:34she didn't have that person
- 15:35waiting at the end of the lane for her.
- 15:38And when she got that person,
- 15:40it changed everything for her.
- 15:42Like, what does that mean to you?
- 15:46what having their people there to support.
- 15:48Um, it's really, it is really nice.
- 15:52Um,
- 15:52especially cause they can celebrate
- 15:54with you.
- 15:55Um, on one of the workouts,
- 15:58my daughter was sat on the finish line.
- 16:00So we got to high five and, um,
- 16:03and it's great just seeing
- 16:04familiar faces in the, um,
- 16:06in the crowd as well.
- 16:10I can imagine that'd be really cool.
- 16:12Um,
- 16:15I know like for me and Madison,
- 16:17when I would go into the
- 16:19bottom of the arena and
- 16:21just seeing anybody that I knew,
- 16:23like just would make me feel comfortable.
- 16:25Right.
- 16:26Um,
- 16:27whether it be you or Rudy burger or any
- 16:30of my friends down there, um,
- 16:32it just made me feel comfortable.
- 16:33So I can imagine if I saw my family member,
- 16:35how much calmer that would make me feel.
- 16:38Yeah.
- 16:40So, um,
- 16:43So with the new format,
- 16:48are you getting 10 events
- 16:52is what I've heard.
- 16:53Yeah, 10 events.
- 16:55And is that more than last year?
- 16:58I think it was eight or nine, right?
- 17:00Yeah, I think we, did we have eight?
- 17:05I think it was something like that.
- 17:06It was definitely less
- 17:08because we were only over
- 17:09three days as this year
- 17:10we've got four days.
- 17:12It seems like it keeps
- 17:13getting cut more and more.
- 17:15Yeah, it's the workout timings.
- 17:20We've been given like a gauge.
- 17:22And I think the longest is
- 17:24possibly 16 or 18 minutes.
- 17:28And the shortest is two or three minutes.
- 17:34So that's going to hurt.
- 17:36The three minute I keep back in my brain.
- 17:39What could that be for three minutes?
- 17:40Whatever it is, it's going to hurt.
- 17:42Yeah.
- 17:44You're more of a power output athlete,
- 17:47even though you've gotten
- 17:48better all around.
- 17:52Are you glad that they're
- 17:53all under 18 minutes?
- 17:56To be fair,
- 17:56I'd have liked a bit of a longer chipper.
- 18:00I do like a good sort of 25,
- 18:0330 minute chipper.
- 18:06And I can't remember on the
- 18:09Northfield last year, you know,
- 18:10the one that we had,
- 18:12we had to run down with the sandbags,
- 18:14pop them on the pig, burpee over.
- 18:17And then, I mean,
- 18:18that was quite a long one.
- 18:19It was a push, right?
- 18:23At the end.
- 18:24I made a reel of you with that.
- 18:25Yeah.
- 18:26That's the one.
- 18:27That's the one.
- 18:28Yeah.
- 18:28That was a great one.
- 18:30So that was sort of just like a,
- 18:32a long grindy workout.
- 18:37I'm going to ask you a weird question.
- 18:38I know you're humble,
- 18:39so you're probably not going to answer it,
- 18:40but I w I went back and I don't know who,
- 18:44where it even came from, but I could,
- 18:46I could watch your final
- 18:47event last year and it
- 18:49wasn't the iPhone five.
- 18:51It was actually good footage.
- 18:56You were in second for the
- 18:57very first part of it.
- 18:59You take the lead and then
- 19:01you stretch that lead so fast.
- 19:05And my recollection of last
- 19:07year was that happened on a
- 19:08lot of the events.
- 19:12Your second place last year
- 19:14isn't going to be there
- 19:15because she got hurt in the offseason.
- 19:20When you dominate events like that,
- 19:22is it hard to push every event?
- 19:25Like,
- 19:25is it hard to get the motivation in
- 19:27training?
- 19:28No.
- 19:30No,
- 19:30because I think every workout you just
- 19:32go into and you have to
- 19:34obviously attack it in a different way.
- 19:37The final workout last year
- 19:39with the bar muscle-up and
- 19:40the dumbbell overhead squat snatch,
- 19:45wasn't it?
- 19:46Again,
- 19:48two movements that most probably
- 19:49aren't in my wheelhouse.
- 19:52But I just thought, do you know what?
- 19:53I've just got to try and stay with Amy.
- 19:56Amy's a good gymnast.
- 19:59Um,
- 20:00she can throw a dumbbell around as well.
- 20:02So I thought if I just try
- 20:03and stay and then, yeah,
- 20:05I just started just ticking
- 20:07away and just every time I
- 20:09just try and think,
- 20:10just try and stay in your own lane and,
- 20:12and give it as much as you can.
- 20:16yeah.
- 20:16Rewatching it.
- 20:17Once you hit the second half of the floor,
- 20:19like your accelerator went way up and,
- 20:23and you passed her.
- 20:24And then it was really hard
- 20:25for her to keep up at that point.
- 20:27And I love Amy.
- 20:28Amy won legends last year.
- 20:29She's been on the show.
- 20:31Um,
- 20:31and I'm sad that she's not going to be
- 20:33there this year, but, um,
- 20:36cause I think it would have
- 20:37been cool to see you guys
- 20:38go head to head again.
- 20:39Yeah.
- 20:40She'll be back next year.
- 20:41I'm sure.
- 20:43Um,
- 20:44so what are your expectations going
- 20:49into this year?
- 20:50Are you going for the fourth gold?
- 20:52Do you expect to get the fourth gold?
- 20:55Do you know what I said?
- 20:56If I make podium,
- 20:58I would be happy just after, well,
- 21:01you know what happened just
- 21:02before semifinals with my back.
- 21:05Um,
- 21:06You know, we all say,
- 21:09I just want to go and have
- 21:10fun and enjoy every minute
- 21:12like I have done every year.
- 21:14And whatever happens, you know,
- 21:17when I'm out there,
- 21:19if I can make podium a bonus,
- 21:22I know my coach will most
- 21:23probably say something different.
- 21:26But yeah, I just want to go out,
- 21:29experience the new setup.
- 21:30I think it's going to be
- 21:32quite different because
- 21:33there's going to be 40 of us in a group.
- 21:37So I think from what I gather,
- 21:39I think there's going to be heats of 20.
- 21:44So quite big heat.
- 21:47I will be in the second heat
- 21:50because I qualified.
- 21:52I think in 23rd.
- 21:56So I'll be in the second heat.
- 21:58So again,
- 21:58I don't know if they've
- 21:59reshuffled the heats as the weekend.
- 22:02So, you know, being in 23rd,
- 22:04I've got a bit of chasing to do.
- 22:09Does that add motivation to you though?
- 22:10Because now, you know,
- 22:12like just to get into the next heat,
- 22:14you're going to have to,
- 22:15it's not just the people
- 22:16you're going up against.
- 22:17You have to be better than
- 22:19most of the next heat to
- 22:19make sure you're in that heat.
- 22:21yeah and I think again when
- 22:23you watch like semi-finals
- 22:26um like when I watch the
- 22:28european um semi-finals
- 22:31it's like the people that
- 22:31are in the second heat have
- 22:34to push and give it as much
- 22:36as they've got if not a
- 22:37little bit more because
- 22:38they don't know what the
- 22:39people in the next heat are
- 22:40gonna do so you know 20
- 22:43people in a heat's quite a
- 22:44lot for me to you know to
- 22:47go out there take it
- 22:48slightly easy I'm just gonna
- 22:50have to you know give it
- 22:52everything to then hope to
- 22:54then get into the next 20.
- 22:56yeah I was I was looking at
- 23:00the layout of the arena and
- 23:02it's it's actually like two
- 23:04two it looks like it's
- 23:06going to be two big floors
- 23:08that's what I thought yeah
- 23:10Two massive areas in this
- 23:12convention center where
- 23:14there'll be one floor in
- 23:15the one area and one floor in the other.
- 23:19But it looks gorgeous.
- 23:21Yeah, I'm excited.
- 23:22And, you know,
- 23:24I did consider doing this year.
- 23:27And I was like, you know what,
- 23:30I want to support Bob and
- 23:33Joe taking the event over because,
- 23:36you know,
- 23:36the Masters athletes does play a big part,
- 23:39I believe, in CrossFit.
- 23:41Um,
- 23:42so I wanted to support them going forward,
- 23:46go in, check it out, see what it's like.
- 23:49I've heard great things
- 23:50about the legends events.
- 23:51I've never done one,
- 23:52but I've heard good things about that,
- 23:54that the programming has
- 23:56been very varied.
- 23:58Um,
- 23:58I know they had a swim obviously last
- 24:00year in a pool, but you know,
- 24:02it looks like every year
- 24:03they do try and do
- 24:04something a little bit different.
- 24:07Are you able to bring
- 24:08anybody with you this year?
- 24:10unfortunately not coach yeah
- 24:15yeah I've got my coach um
- 24:17so he's so I'm flying out
- 24:20on sunday I'm gonna go and
- 24:23stay with sam for a week um
- 24:26and then I'm flying in on
- 24:27the 26th which is the last
- 24:31over this but when you say
- 24:32sam you're talking sam briggs yes
- 24:36Yeah.
- 24:36So I'm going to stay with her,
- 24:37which is great fun.
- 24:39So I get to see her this year.
- 24:41Otherwise,
- 24:42because they separated everything,
- 24:44it was like,
- 24:44are we actually going to see
- 24:45each other this year?
- 24:46So I'm flying in there.
- 24:48Then from there on the Monday, the 26th,
- 24:51I'm then flying into
- 24:52Atlanta and then I'll meet
- 24:54my coach there and then
- 24:55we'll drive down together.
- 24:57And then on the 27th, it's my birthday.
- 25:01All right.
- 25:02So we'll most probably go
- 25:03and do a loosen off the legs,
- 25:06sweaty ward or something like that.
- 25:09So Sam lives like an hour from me.
- 25:12Oh, okay.
- 25:13Yeah.
- 25:14And here in Ohio.
- 25:16Ah, I didn't realize that.
- 25:19Yeah.
- 25:21Are you friends with Emma too?
- 25:23Yes.
- 25:24She's coaching an athlete, right?
- 25:25This year.
- 25:26She's got two.
- 25:28Yeah.
- 25:29Mickey and...
- 25:32Someone else.
- 25:35Does the UK pay attention to
- 25:41the Masters CrossFit
- 25:42community any more than the US does?
- 25:47Yeah,
- 25:47I think that the UK population are really,
- 25:50really supportive of the Masters.
- 25:53Cause I've seen like you get
- 25:55features on the BBC for
- 25:57winning the masters
- 25:58CrossFit games where you
- 26:00don't really see that a lot
- 26:01here in the States.
- 26:03Yeah.
- 26:05yeah I think that's more so
- 26:07um like my husband reached
- 26:10out to the bbc and sort of
- 26:12spoke to the sports
- 26:13presenter there and he was
- 26:14like oh this is interesting
- 26:15what's this um so I think
- 26:18if it wasn't for him they
- 26:20most probably wouldn't have
- 26:20been in contact but again
- 26:22it's just a way of
- 26:23spreading the word what
- 26:25crossfit's about yeah so it
- 26:29sounds like you got a lot
- 26:30of traveling to do
- 26:33Um,
- 26:34can't wait to see you in person down
- 26:35there.
- 26:35I want to thank you so much
- 26:37for taking a half an hour.
- 26:39I know it's late there in the UK.
- 26:40Um, so let's get back to, uh, your family.
- 26:44Thank you.
- 26:45And thank you so much for being here.
- 26:47Everybody in the chat.
- 26:48And I'll just put this one up real quick.
- 26:50Corey Leonard said I could
- 26:51listen to Kelly speak all day.
- 26:52Such a soothing accent.
- 26:57Thanks, Corey.
- 26:59Um, we thank you so much for this guys,
- 27:02and we will see everybody
- 27:03next time on the Clydesdale
- 27:05media podcast.
- 27:07Bye guys.