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Stacy Lerum - Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't have to ride 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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  Stick a fork in the head or
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  on my dinner plate.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast,
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  where we're featuring the
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  athletes of the North
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  American Semifinals.
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  They're a huge supporter of the program.
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  And with that, I'd love to introduce,
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  again, Stacey Larum.
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  Congratulations on Semifinals.
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  Thank you.
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  Thanks for having me again.
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  Yeah.
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  I was telling some of the
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  other guests this week,
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  it's so much fun catching
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  up with you guys year upon
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  year upon year.
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  Yeah, for sure.
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  And it's crazy that it's
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  already been a year.
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  I know.
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  I know.
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  So I don't know where to start.
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  I'm going to go with you
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  keep improving year over year.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's I mean, that's the plan.
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  And it's been pretty
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  exciting kind of to see my
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  progress in a sport that keeps changing,
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  too.
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  So it's definitely been fun.
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  And and not only are you improving,
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  but other people are.
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  But according to the leaderboard,
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  you seem to be improving at
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  a greater rate than people around you.
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  Yeah, I mean, obviously that's the plan.
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  Like, you know,
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  you can only control what
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  you are doing and kind of
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  the work you're putting in
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  and how you are
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  what your result is in each workout.
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  But, you know,
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  I've made some changes this
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  season to kind of try to
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  ensure that I'm progressing
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  in the areas where I have weaknesses.
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  And I'm trying to kind of
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  close those gaps and
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  getting myself to be at a
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  better spot on the leaderboard.
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  And I think based on how
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  things have been going this season,
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  that things have been going pretty well.
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  So just to quantify that,
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  because I know you're like
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  a stats person.
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  You like to evaluate the numbers.
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  When we first met you, like in 2022,
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  you were in your region 127th.
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  Yep.
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  And then last year, 36th.
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  And then this year, 12th.
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  Yeah.
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  So those are major leaps.
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  Yeah,
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  and I think a lot of it just has to
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  do with my preparation for
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  the season and just kind of
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  my mentality going in and
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  then just kind of some of
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  the things along the way
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  that I have changed.
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  So back in 2022,
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  the plan wasn't necessarily
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  to go individual,
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  but I kind of did the workouts on a whim.
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  was on the outside looking
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  in that year and I made it as a backfill.
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  And then last season,
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  definitely plan was to go individual.
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  So tried my best and ended
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  in 36th or 37th.
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  I'm not sure what it was.
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  But then after semifinals last year,
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  I had been following
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  Training Think Tank programming,
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  which is kind of their
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  general programming up
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  until that point last year.
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  And I was ready to make the
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  change for a coach.
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  And so I hired Perrin from
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  Training Think Tank for
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  individual programming.
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  So that's what I've been
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  working on this year.
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  And so I've been with her.
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  I worked with her prior to
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  semifinals last year.
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  So her and I had had a
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  really good relationship.
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  And so I had asked her if
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  she would take me on as an athlete.
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  So we've been working
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  together for almost a year.
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  And yeah,
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  so that's where kind of that leap
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  came from 36 to where I am now.
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  So just to clarify,
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  you've been following
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  Training Think Tank for a while.
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  Yeah.
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  But it was just the general programming.
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  Yeah,
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  so they have a just they call it
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  training thing to compete.
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  I think I picked them up in
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  2020 around COVID.
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  And so, yeah,
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  so I've just been following
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  their online programming,
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  which which obviously has been great.
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  It's definitely set me up for success.
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  But I.
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  I, as an athlete,
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  definitely have some big
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  holes that I needed to fill.
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  And so I needed a little bit
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  more individualized attention.
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  And so Perrin's been able to
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  provide that for me.
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  And Perrin is still with
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  Training Think Tank?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So she's with Training Think Tank.
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  So I'm still with them, love them.
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  They're great, great training camp.
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  That kind of makes sense to
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  me because they are like the,
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  they're kind of known as
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  the thinkers in the space.
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  And I know getting to know
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  you over the last few years
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  that that kind of matches
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  up with what you are.
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  Yeah,
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  definitely they put out some great
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  content and they're really
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  in kind of like the weeds of everything.
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  And her and I have had some
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  really good conversations as well.
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  Like you said,
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  I'm definitely more of a
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  numbers based person, more analytical.
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  So what they value and what
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  I value definitely align.
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  So it's been a really good match.
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  And even when I was on there
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  more of the group programming,
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  They were very open to questions.
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  And if I had a question on something,
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  or if you kind of want to
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  know what the intention of
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  like either a training
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  block or a training piece was,
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  they were very open to that.
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  And I really liked that.
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  So
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  So that was one major change you've made.
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  Any other little tweaks
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  you've made just to sleep, nutrition,
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  any of those types of
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  things since last year?
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  Yeah,
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  so I've really tried to do everything
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  I can.
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  to make this season a success.
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  So whether it be being more
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  conscious of what I'm
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  eating and how much I'm eating,
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  to trying to go to bed a
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  little bit earlier every night.
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  I will be the first to say
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  I'm definitely not perfect
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  at any of those things.
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  But just being more conscious.
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  And I think my word of this season
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  which is being like intention, like,
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  what is my intention for each day?
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  For each time I walk into the gym,
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  because realistically,
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  I don't have all day to
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  dedicate to training, unfortunately.
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  So every time I walk into the gym,
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  I have to be intentional in
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  what I'm doing.
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  And I think just kind of
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  that mindset has really
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  helped me this season.
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  It's funny you say that
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  because I've talked to a
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  lot of athletes over the
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  course of these semifinal interviews,
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  especially this year,
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  that work full time.
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  And it's almost like for their mindset,
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  they need to work full time
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  and to become efficient
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  with their training day.
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  And that's how their mind likes it.
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  Yeah,
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  I don't necessarily know that I love
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  kind of my schedule.
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  Like I won't be the first to say that.
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  But I do appreciate the fact
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  that I do have a very
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  limited amount of time in
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  my day to train.
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  But I do know that I have to
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  train in that amount of time.
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  So it's kind of like a catch 22.
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  Like you do become very
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  efficient with the time that you have.
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  But then sometimes other
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  things take a back burner,
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  whether it be some of my
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  recovery isn't necessarily
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  the greatest because I
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  don't have the amount of
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  time in between sessions.
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  Or maybe like I get to bed a
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  little bit later,
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  kind of like the sleep
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  thing is something that is
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  an issue just because you kind of.
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  are at work and then you
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  train and then you have a
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  million and one things on
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  your to do list that you
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  want to get done.
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  And so it's just that balancing act.
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  But I do agree that I do
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  kind of thrive on staying busy.
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  So I don't really know what
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  I would do if I didn't have
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  a job and have to work and
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  kind of had all day to train.
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  I think that would be a huge
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  adjustment that I would
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  have to get used to.
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  I don't necessarily know if
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  that would be a benefit.
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  Yeah, I talked to somebody this week.
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  Gosh, they're all blurring together.
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  Where they quit their job
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  and they then realized they
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  had way too much time.
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  So they went back to work
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  part-time as a consultant
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  just to try to fill some of that gap.
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  Yeah,
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  and I always joke with my husband
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  about how, oh, I want to quit my job.
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  But I also,
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  I love my job and I love my
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  career and I'm as
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  passionate about my career
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  as I am about CrossFit.
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  And so for me personally,
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  that just wouldn't be a
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  life choice that I would want to make.
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  And so I definitely complain
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  about it to my husband,
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  maybe more than I should,
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  but it does provide me
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  structure and structure is
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  something that,
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  I really appreciate and kind of need.
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  And we've talked a lot over
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  the last few years.
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  For listeners who didn't
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  hear your previous episodes, you have,
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  from an outsider's perspective,
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  what seems to be a super cool job.
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  Yeah, I do have a super cool job.
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  So I am a biomechanical
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  engineer and I work for the
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  Boston Red Sox.
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  So I am fully remote,
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  but I work with markerless
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  motion capture data.
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  So you can see where an
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  individual is and how they move.
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  And so from that information,
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  you can get information
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  Information on how their
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  arms are bending and how
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  fast they're moving.
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  And so I analyze all the
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  information for the Red Sox.
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  And I think it may have been
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  off the air last year.
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  We talked a little bit about
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  like you hear about it a lot in pitching,
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  but I think you were
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  telling me it's it's every
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  aspect of baseball.
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  Yeah,
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  so right now they're really focusing
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  on pitching and batting,
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  but definitely this is more
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  of a new technology.
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  As the technology improves,
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  they're going to want it
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  for all the players on the field,
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  but we're focusing on
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  pitching and batting right now.
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  So this is kind of a cool transition is –
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  last year at semis you
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  competed against hannah
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  black did you know that she
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  is a biomechanical engineer
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  I did know that and we
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  actually someone I work
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  with actually went to
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  college with her so it's a
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  small world yeah and her
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  study at college was uh looking at isabel
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  with motion capture and
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  showing how the body breaks
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  down over the 30 reps of Isabel.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, what can I say?
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  People who are in
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  biomechanics are very cool.
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  Well,
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  what I find cool too is last year at
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  semis,
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  there was this pack like in
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  the middle teens with you
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  and her and Emily white who
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  won an event at semis last year.
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  Um,
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  but finished just outside of those game
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  spots.
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  What do people like you and
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  them need to do to take that next step?
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  Cause you're winning events.
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  You're hitting home runs.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So, um,
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  For me last year,
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  I think that if you were to
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  look at the programming and
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  kind of my places on the leaderboard,
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  I had some good finishes.
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  I mean, I won an event.
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  I did well in another one.
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  I had some middle of the pack ones,
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  but then I really,
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  really did not do well on two events.
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  And those were really
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  dropped me down the leaderboard.
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  for me that was just kind of
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  a wake-up call not that I
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  didn't know kind of I had
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  these weaknesses but it was
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  really a wake-up call um
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  that I needed to kind of
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  close some of these gaps and
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  For me,
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  just gymnastics are just something
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  that does not come naturally to me.
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  And so I know that I'm never
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  going to be winning gymnastics events,
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  but I needed to figure out
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  a way to kind of close the
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  gap between me and other
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  people in those events.
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  And so that is something
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  that Perrin has really helped me with.
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  And through Perrin and Training Think Tank,
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  she partnered me up with Mia,
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  who's also a coach at
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  Training Think Tank.
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  And all off season, I probably spent
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  More than half of my
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  training just on gymnastics drills,
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  just positioning drills,
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  breaking down each movement.
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  And for me specifically,
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  that's something that I
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  needed to do to kind of
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  close that gap and
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  hopefully get me on the
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  right side of the line this year.
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  So I don't know if you can see,
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  but I pulled up our
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  headline from last year
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  where you won event one.
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  Yep.
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  So you came out of the gates on fire.
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  Yeah.
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  On paper, I mean,
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  that is an event that I...
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  really really like um I
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  consider myself to be good
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  at low skill grunt work
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  workouts um and that is a
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  low skill grunt work
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  workout um definitely
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  wasn't expecting to win it
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  um but you know I think that
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  it just kind of,
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  the cards kind of fell the right way.
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  And luckily for me at the event,
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  maybe not necessarily good in training,
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  our sled pulls at our gym are very,
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  very hard.
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  Our floor gets really, when it gets humid,
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  it gets really sticky.
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  And so when I was pulling
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  that sled in practice, it was,
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  I couldn't even move it
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  sometimes with the weight
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  that I had on there.
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  And so I think just kind of,
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  making that a little harder
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  in training and then going
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  onto the floor and even
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  though it was hard and it
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  felt easier for me just
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  because of the
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  circumstances um before so
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  so I i have two two ways to
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  go here and um hopefully I
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  remember to go back to the other one
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  how much more comfortable do
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  you feel today doing
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  gymnastics moves than you
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  did in pasadena last year
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  Yeah, so I definitely feel better.
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  I'm not going to sit here
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  and say that it's definitely,
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  I'm going to put it in a
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  strength category for me,
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  but I feel more confident,
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  which I think is important.
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  And I also have realized or learned how to
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  approach different workouts
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  with gymnastics in them.
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  So for me personally,
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  if I look at a workout,
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  I'm going to have to have a
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  breaking strategy for
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  different movements that
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  might look different than
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  someone who is extremely
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  efficient at the workout.
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  So I have to look at something and say,
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  this is what I can do to
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  get me from A to B the
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  fastest and stick to my plan.
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  I am a very analytical person,
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  but when I work out,
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  I tend to kind of go in
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  guns blazing and try and hold on.
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  And that's just not the
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  right method for me sometimes.
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  And so confidence is there,
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  but also kind of being
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  smart at approaching things
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  as well is something that I've learned.
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  So that,
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  so that brings me back to the next
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  part of the question I wanted to ask.
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  And that is the events were released,
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  leaked, released early.
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  You got to,
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  you got to get a good look at
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  them hopefully by today.
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  Yep.
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  Um,
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  this year it seems like the workouts
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  are more balanced.
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  across the board where last
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  year there was like a full
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  gymnastics workout a full
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  strength workout this year
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  it seems like they put a
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  little bit of everything in
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  every workout except for
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  maybe the snatch ladder
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  yeah um definitely looking
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  at this year's they seem to be I mean
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  I don't want to use the word
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  more classic CrossFit,
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  but other than the snatch workout,
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  like you said,
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  everything kind of has a
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  little bit of everything,
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  which I was very excited to see.
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  I think that that kind of
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  plays a little bit more to my strengths.
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  But yeah, I mean,
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  the workouts got released
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  and I really like them and
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  I'm really excited to do them.
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  there one in particular you
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  look at and you go that's
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  that's where I need to make
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  some hay yeah I mean I i
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  really I'm excited for the
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  first one um so the running
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  and the clean and jerk one
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  I think that kind of lands
• 18:41
  in my wheelhouse um I'm
• 18:42
  also pretty excited for the
• 18:44
  snatch ladder um and then
• 18:47
  just the um the second one
• 18:50
  as well so the double
• 18:51
  unders with the front squats um
• 18:55
  But really all of them I
• 18:57
  have to look at and say I
• 18:58
  need to do as best as I can
• 19:00
  in each one to set myself
• 19:02
  up to make it to the games.
• 19:06
  So are you to a place yet
• 19:09
  where you look at an event
• 19:11
  and see the gymnastics element and you go,
• 19:14
  I'm excited to see where I'm at?
• 19:16
  Or do you need to get a
• 19:17
  little further for you to
• 19:19
  actually be excited about that?
• 19:22
  Yeah, so I...
• 19:25
  I wouldn't necessarily say
• 19:26
  that I look at a workout
• 19:27
  and be excited about gymnastics,
• 19:30
  but I am at a point now
• 19:32
  where I can look at a
• 19:33
  workout and not be
• 19:36
  discouraged by it or not be
• 19:39
  intimidated by the volume
• 19:42
  of gymnastics that's in there.
• 19:43
  I'm to a point where I can...
• 19:46
  kind of turn off the emotion and just say,
• 19:50
  this is what I have to do.
• 19:51
  This is the way that I have
• 19:55
  to break it up for me to
• 19:58
  get my best result,
• 19:59
  which I think is for me is
• 20:01
  a good place to be right now.
• 20:04
  So building on that,
• 20:08
  does that – because you're
• 20:09
  less discouraged,
• 20:10
  does the converse become
• 20:12
  true that you are now more
• 20:14
  confident in your abilities
• 20:16
  going into an event like this?
• 20:19
  Yeah, for sure.
• 20:21
  I think confidence and I
• 20:24
  think if you wasn't to my –
• 20:26
  maybe my podcast from 2022
• 20:28
  to last year to now,
• 20:31
  confidence in my abilities
• 20:32
  is something that has also –
• 20:34
  kind of grown throughout these years.
• 20:38
  And I think that I have
• 20:41
  learned that my emotions to
• 20:45
  a workout or to a situation
• 20:47
  really can impact my result.
• 20:49
  And so this year was really
• 20:53
  a big stepping stone into kind of
• 20:56
  learning to trust myself and
• 20:57
  learning to have that
• 20:58
  confidence and kind of
• 20:59
  getting rid of some of that
• 21:01
  imposter syndrome of
• 21:03
  knowing that I do belong on
• 21:04
  the floor and that my
• 21:06
  abilities have shown that I
• 21:09
  do belong there.
• 21:11
  And yeah,
• 21:11
  I'm excited to step on the floor
• 21:12
  this year and kind of show where I'm at.
• 21:18
  It's so cool to see that
• 21:19
  growth year upon year.
• 21:21
  Yep.
• 21:22
  And why I love this series that we do.
• 21:25
  Because, I mean,
• 21:26
  you guys work your asses off every year.
• 21:29
  And it's so cool for you to
• 21:32
  get a chance to talk about
• 21:33
  that and to see...
• 21:39
  And the growth in like not,
• 21:43
  and this is taking nothing away from you,
• 21:45
  the athlete,
• 21:46
  but like your Alex Kazans and
• 21:47
  your Ariel Lowens and who
• 21:49
  have kind of established themselves,
• 21:51
  they don't see big jumps in growth.
• 21:54
  But you guys can.
• 21:57
  Like I've watched you jump
• 21:59
  from a backfill to someone
• 22:02
  who has a real shot at a
• 22:03
  games ticket this year.
• 22:06
  And it's super fun for me.
• 22:10
  Yeah,
• 22:11
  it's I'm glad it's fun for you
• 22:13
  because it's definitely is fun for me,
• 22:14
  too.
• 22:14
  And I think that that's the
• 22:16
  cool thing about CrossFit as well,
• 22:18
  is that the sport is ever
• 22:22
  changing and just some
• 22:24
  people can kind of continue and grow and.
• 22:31
  and keep adapting to that change.
• 22:35
  And I think just kind of the
• 22:37
  way that I approach the
• 22:38
  sport and my training, and like I said,
• 22:41
  the changes that I've made
• 22:42
  have helped me kind of grow
• 22:44
  along with the sport and
• 22:45
  kind of catapult me up to where I am.
• 22:48
  And yeah,
• 22:50
  I last year wouldn't have thought
• 22:52
  about talking about
• 22:53
  qualifying for the games.
• 22:55
  But this year that's,
• 22:56
  that's definitely my goal.
• 22:57
  And that's my intention as I
• 22:59
  step out on the floor at semis.
• 23:02
  That's freaking awesome.
• 23:04
  And you get to do it in a
• 23:06
  location that is so iconic
• 23:09
  in the CrossFit world.
• 23:12
  Yeah.
• 23:14
  It's funny that I... So I
• 23:15
  joined CrossFit in 2019.
• 23:20
  So I didn't know anything
• 23:21
  about CrossFit before 2019.
• 23:23
  I kind of just...
• 23:26
  didn't know about the sport.
• 23:27
  So it's definitely before I
• 23:30
  had interest in CrossFit,
• 23:32
  but just kind of looking
• 23:33
  back and watching the
• 23:34
  videos of what's going on in Carson.
• 23:37
  I mean, you can't,
• 23:39
  it's hard not to get chills
• 23:41
  looking at that,
• 23:42
  even though I wasn't
• 23:44
  watching it at the time.
• 23:45
  But yeah,
• 23:46
  I'm excited to compete there for sure.
• 23:48
  Have you gone back and
• 23:49
  watched any of the documentaries?
• 23:51
  Not yet.
• 23:51
  Just, I've just watched some of the events,
• 23:53
  but definitely have to
• 23:54
  watch some documentaries as well.
• 23:55
  You know, I've tried to, um,
• 23:58
  this season limit some of
• 24:00
  my CrossFit consumption,
• 24:03
  just CrossFit media consumption.
• 24:05
  Just for me,
• 24:06
  I feel like that was a mental
• 24:10
  headspace thing that I had
• 24:11
  to kind of eliminate this season,
• 24:14
  but I think I can watch a documentary.
• 24:19
  Okay.
• 24:19
  Well, that hurts my heart.
• 24:21
  But anyway... I know.
• 24:22
  You know,
• 24:23
  I love... I always listen to your
• 24:25
  podcast when I would walk my dogs.
• 24:29
  But I just think that there
• 24:31
  was no need for me to
• 24:34
  consume that much content.
• 24:38
  Especially just kind of like the...
• 24:42
  not necessarily like the
• 24:43
  news about CrossFit,
• 24:46
  but more of the drama side of CrossFit.
• 24:48
  It just wasn't doing me good emotionally.
• 24:53
  I was going to dive in a little, and I was,
• 24:54
  I'm just joking.
• 24:55
  Like I understand you have
• 24:57
  to do what's best for you.
• 24:59
  Um, what, so it wasn't a comparison thing.
• 25:03
  It was more of,
• 25:05
  you didn't want to get
• 25:06
  caught up in the drama, right?
• 25:08
  I think it was a little bit of both.
• 25:11
  Um, I just think, yeah, that just,
• 25:16
  I have learned to kind of look at, um,
• 25:22
  CrossFit and the events as, um,
• 25:25
  like talking about the
• 25:26
  workouts for semifinals,
• 25:27
  like whether or not I love
• 25:30
  them or I hate them, I have to do them.
• 25:33
  Um,
• 25:34
  and so there's no need for me to really,
• 25:38
  Um,
• 25:38
  worry about when they were released or
• 25:41
  how they were released.
• 25:42
  Like at the end of the day,
• 25:43
  I have to do them.
• 25:44
  And so kind of listening to
• 25:47
  just CrossFit has drama.
• 25:51
  Um, and listening to that,
• 25:52
  it just wasn't doing me any
• 25:58
  good worrying about things
• 25:59
  that I couldn't control.
• 26:00
  because what I can control
• 26:02
  is these are the workouts
• 26:04
  and I have to do them.
• 26:05
  And so I've just tried to
• 26:07
  eliminate just listening to
• 26:10
  a lot of the other chatter
• 26:12
  about the sport.
• 26:15
  And with that though,
• 26:16
  you hear about what other
• 26:17
  athletes are doing.
• 26:19
  And at the end of the day too,
• 26:22
  I can only do what I can
• 26:24
  with the time that I have.
• 26:25
  And so,
• 26:27
  trying to compare to someone
• 26:29
  who maybe has a little bit
• 26:30
  more time or their training
• 26:32
  structure looks different
• 26:33
  just because of their needs
• 26:35
  um also wasn't benefiting
• 26:37
  me so I'm going to take
• 26:42
  this down a weird road but
• 26:43
  so you know training think
• 26:44
  tank they're your group
• 26:45
  right they're your your
• 26:47
  core and they have their own media
• 26:50
  Do you feel a need to have
• 26:53
  to take in some of that
• 26:55
  because they're the people
• 26:56
  who are kind of running what you do?
• 26:59
  Or even that can get down
• 27:01
  into a rabbit hole you
• 27:02
  don't want to go right now?
• 27:04
  Yeah.
• 27:04
  So they, they put out podcasts.
• 27:06
  Um, and one of them,
• 27:08
  which I did listen to was just kind of,
• 27:10
  it was before quarterfinals
• 27:12
  and just kind of what your
• 27:13
  mental and emotional approach should be,
• 27:16
  um, going into quarterfinals.
• 27:17
  So I'll listen to those.
• 27:20
  Um,
• 27:20
  but just some of like the media about
• 27:23
  like,
• 27:24
  training day recaps or
• 27:27
  recaps of quarterfinals,
• 27:29
  whether it's just kind of
• 27:30
  just like reviewing people's workouts.
• 27:32
  It's just something that I
• 27:33
  don't feel like I need to
• 27:35
  consume right now.
• 27:36
  I mean,
• 27:38
  they put out a ton of great content,
• 27:40
  but unless I feel like it's
• 27:41
  something that will educate
• 27:43
  me or help benefit me for semis,
• 27:48
  I choose just not to listen to it.
• 27:52
  so last drama question um
• 27:56
  quarterfinals all the
• 27:58
  penalties start coming out
• 27:59
  yep there's no way to avoid
• 28:02
  that that is going on
• 28:04
  whether you're listening to
• 28:05
  media or not it what was
• 28:08
  going through your head as
• 28:09
  those are being levied yeah
• 28:14
  um so the funny thing
• 28:17
  though is that so during
• 28:18
  quarterfinals I actually
• 28:19
  deleted instagram
• 28:21
  during quarterfinals and it was the best.
• 28:26
  I had no idea what anyone was doing.
• 28:28
  I had no idea about anything.
• 28:33
  And I feel like I had a ton
• 28:34
  of mental clarity.
• 28:35
  And so the leaderboard was
• 28:37
  released Monday night and I
• 28:39
  saw where I was and I was
• 28:41
  feeling pretty confident.
• 28:42
  And so
• 28:43
  Of course I download Instagram back.
• 28:46
  Um,
• 28:47
  and then Wednesday night on Instagram
• 28:48
  was when I found out all of
• 28:50
  the penalties were being
• 28:50
  assessed and my video did
• 28:54
  not get reviewed until Friday morning.
• 28:58
  Um, so I had.
• 29:01
  I don't even know how many
• 29:02
  times I checked my email
• 29:04
  between Wednesday night and
• 29:06
  Friday morning.
• 29:08
  And so there's another,
• 29:10
  so actually at our gym,
• 29:12
  we have two other
• 29:14
  individuals who qualified for semifinals.
• 29:17
  Um,
• 29:17
  and they were trying to plan hotels and
• 29:20
  flights.
• 29:21
  And I just told him, I was like,
• 29:23
  I don't even know if I'm going, like,
• 29:26
  I can't book any of this.
• 29:29
  Um, so I was very, it was very,
• 29:30
  very stressed,
• 29:31
  not because I was concerned with, um,
• 29:36
  my movement quality necessarily.
• 29:41
  But I was just concerned
• 29:43
  that so many people were
• 29:44
  getting penalized that it
• 29:46
  just seemed like they were
• 29:46
  scrutinizing that workout
• 29:51
  to a degree that maybe we
• 29:53
  haven't seen before.
• 29:55
  So fortunately,
• 29:57
  my workout came through and
• 29:59
  I was able to kind of
• 30:03
  have a sigh of relief.
• 30:04
  But for those 36 hours,
• 30:07
  it was miserable waiting.
• 30:12
  Well, first,
• 30:13
  thank you for reloading Instagram,
• 30:15
  or I wouldn't have had a
• 30:16
  way to get in touch with
• 30:17
  you to invite you on.
• 30:20
  Second, I sent out a bunch of invites.
• 30:23
  I think I sent yours on Tuesday.
• 30:24
  Yeah.
• 30:26
  Right.
• 30:27
  So I sent a bunch out and
• 30:29
  then the penalty started
• 30:30
  coming Wednesday and I'd already booked
• 30:33
  I hadn't booked you yet,
• 30:34
  but I had booked a bunch of
• 30:35
  people and the people I
• 30:37
  booked started getting
• 30:38
  penalties and falling out of the top 40.
• 30:42
  And I was like, what am I going to do?
• 30:47
  And some of them, I just said, Hey,
• 30:49
  we're going to postpone.
• 30:51
  You're going through an
• 30:52
  appeal process and I don't
• 30:53
  want you to talk on my show
• 30:56
  and have it affect your appeal.
• 30:59
  So we just kind of took a step back,
• 31:01
  but I've learned a very
• 31:03
  valuable lesson to not
• 31:05
  start in fighting until the
• 31:07
  leaderboards final.
• 31:08
  Yeah.
• 31:09
  I think I responded to you
• 31:12
  after I had gotten my
• 31:15
  review for workout one,
• 31:17
  which even then could have
• 31:19
  been premature too.
• 31:20
  Right.
• 31:20
  Because at that point we
• 31:21
  didn't know what the rest
• 31:24
  of the review process was
• 31:25
  going to look like.
• 31:26
  um but yes I was very not
• 31:29
  that I have a big instagram
• 31:31
  presence anyways with
• 31:32
  crossfit I i don't just in
• 31:34
  general I don't post a lot
• 31:35
  of stuff um but like our
• 31:38
  gym yeah I don't our gym on
• 31:41
  monday um after the
• 31:44
  leaderboard was finalized
• 31:45
  sent out a post saying that
• 31:47
  these are the semi-final um
• 31:51
  qualifiers and it just kind
• 31:52
  of felt like it was just bad luck.
• 31:55
  Like I didn't want,
• 31:56
  I didn't really repost anything.
• 31:58
  Like I just didn't, I didn't want to,
• 32:01
  at that point there was,
• 32:02
  there wasn't even penalties coming out,
• 32:04
  but at that point I just
• 32:05
  didn't want to jinx anything.
• 32:07
  And then, and then yeah,
• 32:09
  Wednesday came around and
• 32:11
  people were getting penalized.
• 32:12
  And so, yeah,
• 32:14
  so fortunately I made it through,
• 32:16
  but yeah,
• 32:18
  this year definitely looks a
• 32:19
  little different.
• 32:20
  Yeah, I got a lot of responses that said,
• 32:23
  hey,
• 32:23
  I don't want to book until it's final
• 32:25
  because I don't want to jinx anything.
• 32:27
  I bet you I get that response seven times.
• 32:34
  And then you wrote me,
• 32:35
  but I didn't know you were
• 32:36
  validated because I can't see that stuff.
• 32:39
  And then I was like, oh,
• 32:41
  I shouldn't finally book
• 32:42
  her until I know for sure on Monday.
• 32:45
  Well, yeah.
• 32:46
  And I mean, when I wrote you back,
• 32:48
  not all of my workouts had
• 32:49
  been validated.
• 32:50
  So, I mean,
• 32:51
  they could have gone through
• 32:52
  another workout and assessed penalties.
• 32:55
  So yeah, it was, it was smart.
• 32:58
  I definitely,
• 33:00
  there was a sigh of relief
• 33:01
  when I got my workout one score,
• 33:03
  but then I was still very,
• 33:05
  very nervous from,
• 33:06
  I saw two scores that
• 33:08
  needed to be validated at that point.
• 33:09
  And I definitely did not
• 33:11
  breathe a sigh of relief until
• 33:13
  three and four got validated,
• 33:15
  which I think was on Sunday.
• 33:17
  Yeah, it's funny.
• 33:20
  So the leaderboard goes
• 33:22
  final Monday night.
• 33:23
  I get a text from Emily Rolfe going,
• 33:26
  it's final?
• 33:28
  And I was like, I don't work for CrossFit.
• 33:30
  I just know what they posted.
• 33:32
  And she's like,
• 33:33
  they never validated my workout four.
• 33:38
  yeah um so I did get all of
• 33:40
  my scores validated um I
• 33:42
  think my third and fourth
• 33:45
  workout were validated
• 33:46
  sunday morning within like
• 33:47
  two minutes of each other
• 33:49
  um so yeah it is what it is
• 33:54
  but yeah my guess is they
• 33:57
  didn't really look at three
• 33:58
  and four just to make sure
• 34:00
  kind of like people had
• 34:01
  videos and that they were
• 34:03
  legit and moved on
• 34:06
  that's kind of what I am thinking.
• 34:08
  But again, I, I have no idea.
• 34:11
  All I know is that I got
• 34:12
  those four green check marks.
• 34:14
  And at the end of the day,
• 34:15
  I was on the right side of the line.
• 34:17
  So.
• 34:19
  Yeah.
• 34:20
  Well,
• 34:20
  I could not be more excited for you
• 34:22
  and I'm so glad you were
• 34:23
  able to come on again this year.
• 34:25
  Um, I wish you all the luck in the world.
• 34:29
  I I'm rooting for you to get
• 34:31
  your first ever games appearance.
• 34:33
  Thank you.
• 34:34
  Are you coming to Carson?
• 34:36
  don't know okay it's um I
• 34:39
  didn't get approved I still
• 34:41
  don't have it in writing I
• 34:43
  just got a verbal approval
• 34:44
  on monday and flights have
• 34:47
  not been affordable um at
• 34:51
  this late juncture so I'm
• 34:53
  gonna keep looking and if I
• 34:54
  can swing it somehow I will
• 34:57
  um but it's this has been a
• 35:00
  weird season for me and my family anyway
• 35:03
  this just may be a year I
• 35:04
  have to kind of take a step
• 35:06
  back yeah and then just get
• 35:08
  back into it next year but
• 35:09
  I'm I've never been to
• 35:11
  carson I've never been to
• 35:12
  the tennis stadium I'd
• 35:13
  really love to go yeah well
• 35:16
  I hope if it works for you
• 35:17
  you can make it I'd
• 35:18
  definitely be excited to
• 35:19
  see you there but yeah
• 35:21
  definitely understand but
• 35:23
  so are you gonna are you
• 35:24
  gonna delete your instagram
• 35:25
  for the weekend um
• 35:28
  Maybe.
• 35:29
  I don't know.
• 35:30
  It was very nice.
• 35:32
  Not that I, like I said, I rarely post,
• 35:35
  but I just feel like I'm on
• 35:37
  it way too much.
• 35:39
  And it might be the way to go.
• 35:44
  Well,
• 35:44
  the reason I ask is if I can't make it,
• 35:46
  we're still going to cover it from here.
• 35:49
  And we're going to be
• 35:49
  reaching out to people to
• 35:51
  ask them how their days
• 35:51
  went or how events went.
• 35:54
  And I'd love to be able to
• 35:56
  reach out to you.
• 35:57
  But I understand if you have to delete it.
• 36:00
  You can reach out to me.
• 36:01
  Maybe I'll have my husband
• 36:02
  to be my social media
• 36:03
  manager for the weekend.
• 36:05
  Okay.
• 36:06
  He can filter my content.
• 36:08
  And you don't get your phone
• 36:09
  until Sunday evening.
• 36:11
  Right.
• 36:14
  Yeah.
• 36:15
  Okay.
• 36:16
  Well, that sounds awesome.
• 36:17
  Well, Stacy, again, I wish you the best.
• 36:21
  Um,
• 36:21
  good luck in Carson and thank you as
• 36:23
  always for coming on the show.
• 36:25
  Yeah.
• 36:25
  Thanks for having me.
• 36:26
  It's been fun.
• 36:28
  Yeah.
• 36:28
  And thank you for all the listeners.
• 36:30
  Uh,
• 36:30
  we will see everybody next time on the
• 36:32
  Clydesdale media podcast
• 36:34
  featuring the athletes of
• 36:36
  North American semifinals.
• 36:38
  Bye guys.