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Kevin Jones | The Athletes of the 2024 Legends Masters CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Hey, hey, still.
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Let's go.
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I was born a killer.
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I was meant to win.
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I am down and willing,
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so I will find a way.
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It took a minute,
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now it didn't happen right away.
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When it get hot in the kitchen,
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you decide to stay.
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That's how it win us, man.
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Stick a fork in the hater on my dick.
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what's going on everybody
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welcome to the Clydesdale
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media podcast my name is
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Scott Swartz from the
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Clydesdale and we are
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highlighting the athletes
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of the 2024 Legends Masters
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CrossFit Games and I'm so
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honored to have with me
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today Kevin Jones Kevin
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what's going on what's
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And we're just taking a
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and we'll be back at it on
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the other side of that as well.
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So, Kevin, we were talking beforehand.
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You're an Indiana guy.
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Yes, sir.
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Born and raised in Indiana?
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Yes, I was.
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Always thought I was going
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to get out of this place
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and traveling around and
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trying to look for my what
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I perceived to have been my community.
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I kind of recognized that I
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liked traveling around.
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And so I decided when I was
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a little bit younger to
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just kind of hunker down,
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stay as a home base in
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Indiana and just try to
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travel around and see what
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the world had going on out there and
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little inexpensive here as
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far as living is concerned.
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I had a whole kind of
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network built up around
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myself as a business and
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was fortunate enough to be
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able to do a little bit of
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traveling and just come
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back and do what I had to
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do for work and just
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optimizing my perception of
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like CrossFit is
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as a whole, not just a sport.
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And so coming into the sport was very,
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like,
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recognizing the methodology of the
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sport was not at all what I
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thought it did not end up
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being what I thought it would be.
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I thought it was going to be
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just really light barbells and, you know,
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flipping tires.
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And I'd never thought I was
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going to lift heavy weights again.
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So but I liked the idea of
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being a very well rounded
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individual inside the gym
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and trying to learn all the different
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things there were to still
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learn within a gym coming
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from kind of a global gym background.
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And, uh, the,
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the life that I lived outside
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of the gym was what I felt
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very well-rounded.
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And so it just kind of felt
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like a perfect fit for me.
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And so I integrated myself into it and now,
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um, a little heavy on the, uh,
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the sports side of CrossFit
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rather than the entire
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methodology of the well-rounded lifestyle,
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I think.
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So looking back through your
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Instagram and some things I
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found on the internet,
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you've dabbled in weightlifting.
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And you were telling me
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before we went on the air
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that when you lived in South Bend,
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that you actually brought
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CrossFit to a powerlifting gym.
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Yeah.
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So I kind of separated from
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the CrossFit gym that I was
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at when I was living in
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South Bend and started
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training on my own and
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brought my equipment into CrossFit.
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gym that was primarily a
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powerlifting gym and uh it
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was it was nice to kind of
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have my little corner of a
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gym um I had a training
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partner that I trained with
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but it was not a crossfit
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gym at all we were doing
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mayhem programming and uh
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you know just very single
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focus driven towards
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qualifying for the games
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last year is kind of what
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brought upon getting that
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set up and I had a little
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bit of a mishap with a
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video last year which kept
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me from doing that so I had
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a workout that I won and my
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lockout looked like this
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for my shoulder overhead my
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elbows were out of the
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picture and so that was a
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big mishap last year but
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Last year I was very focused
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on qualifying for the
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CrossFit Games and I was very fit.
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This year I feel like I'm
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kind of running on residual
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fitness because the changes
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that have come upon me
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within the last year of
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work and my living
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situation as I moved from
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South Bend over to Fort
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Wayne and changed jobs.
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I do not have the general
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output that I used to have daily.
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So
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kind of everything has,
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I've been very affected in
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the gym and in my recovery
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in that I'm used to having
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a particular level of
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output throughout my day
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that kind of keeps me warm
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and keeps my body kind of moving.
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I don't have that same output now.
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And when I did have that output,
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I would go into the gym and
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I would give it 100%.
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I don't warm up.
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I just go in and ready to be
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a wrecking ball, go 100 miles an hour.
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And I do that now and the
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recovery is not so great
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because I don't have that
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general just movement throughout the day.
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So my base isn't the same as it once was.
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So I've got to start
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learning to change my training,
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change my diet.
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There's a lot of changes
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that are happening for me.
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So it's been very interesting this year.
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So Jay Burch, Judge Jumson,
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would Kevin say that the
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sport of CrossFit is
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different than the training CrossFit?
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I think so.
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I have a little bit of
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contempt for the sport of CrossFit.
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Just like personally,
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my internal dialogue is
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that the sport of CrossFit
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it's very privileged to be
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able to compete at the
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sport of CrossFit because
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it takes a lot of time.
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And it really is about how
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much time you can devote to
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the sport of CrossFit.
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For me, you know,
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there might be other people.
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I feel like I'm more of a
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talent than somebody who
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has more talent than,
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like actual putting in the work.
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I don't feel like I'm putting in the work.
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And I think a lot of people
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probably feel that way that
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are competitive.
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They don't feel like they're
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putting in enough work.
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But I feel like I don't put
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in enough work to be the
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best of the best.
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And I feel like it's a gross
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privilege to be able to put
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in enough work
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to do what it takes to be at
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the top of the field in
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CrossFit as a sport.
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But what I perceive the
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methodology to be across a lifestyle,
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I think if you're too
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integrated into the sport,
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then you may be kind of
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lacking elsewhere.
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And that that's just for me.
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That's not maybe not for everybody,
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but I feel that sport is kind of like
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The sport of CrossFit in
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life is kind of like being
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a good weightlifter in
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CrossFit versus maybe being
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just good at weightlifting
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and not good at gymnastics, right?
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So I feel like it's a huge
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privilege to be able to be
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Training to compete at the
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sport of CrossFit and to be
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able to compete with the
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best of the best.
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It is a privilege.
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So I'm honored to be able to
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be in a position to be doing this,
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but I don't think that it
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is for everybody for sure.
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I think one general theme
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that I've gotten through
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these interviews is that
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every athlete feels torn in
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the master's division
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because you have other obligations,
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whether it be children,
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whether it be a job, whether, you know,
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a profession of some sort,
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everybody feels torn.
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And I've been told like,
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it almost makes you feel
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like you're average at
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everything because you don't,
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you can't focus on any one
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thing because as you get older,
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you just have different obligations.
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You can't do this as your career.
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For sure.
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Yeah.
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And that's kind of like with the field,
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I feel like where the field
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that's going to the masters
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games as incredible as the
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best of the best that are
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going to be there are,
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I like to think of it as a
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representation of what's
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possible within a aging body,
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within a community that's united, um,
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So I like to look at it as a whole,
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and I'm really looking
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forward to just going and
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having like this year in particular,
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just trying to enjoy myself,
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trying to make friends,
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trying to build upon the
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community I already have.
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You know, I've got
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at least five or six buddies
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that I'm going to be
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competing with in my
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division alone and I know
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other people that'll be
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there in other divisions
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that I've built
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relationships with that are
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lifelong lasting
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relationships daily
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communication relationships
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um with a lot of people
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that'll be there so the the
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relationships the um you
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know the community that's
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what it's all about and uh
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In consideration of this
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particular interview,
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I do not have children,
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but I can imagine if I did,
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my focus would be trying to
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use this as a place to set
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an example for the kids,
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because that's what it's all about.
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When I was a kid,
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if I had this kind of
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structure and this kind of discipline,
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as a part of my lifestyle growing up,
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or even within view of my
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lifestyle growing up, you know,
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it would have made such an impact.
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And, you know,
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I'd like to be able to be
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inspirational to somebody
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who has the world left to offer.
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So I'm going to jump in.
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Jay Birch has a follow-up
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question to his question.
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As with that said,
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what percentage of your
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training is centered around strength?
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you're from your Instagram.
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You're a strong, strong dude.
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Yeah.
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So I am,
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I'm very strong and that's kind of
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like my, that's my, um, ace in the hole,
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you know, like I have the ability on in,
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in the world scale to be a top five, um,
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athlete at anything that's
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got a one rep max or that's
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low volume gymnastics and
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high volume barbell.
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So I'm very, I enjoy the barbell.
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I've always been very strong.
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My
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my clean in particular I
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have very good technique
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with my clean my snatch not
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so much but as far as a
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percentage based I
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generally like to start a
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training session with
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squatting cleaning a heavy
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barbell I just like to get
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started that way as my
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warm-up for the workout and uh and it's
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it's kind of taken over from my actual,
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what I perceive to be fitness.
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There was a time when I
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thought like I never wanted
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to be slower than a six minute mile.
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And now that I'm training on
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the track again,
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I'm realizing like I've
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kind of fallen way off of
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what was my once upon a
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time kind of like benchmark for, okay,
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I'm fit.
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Uh, I don't have that.
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My, my mile time is slowing down,
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I think so quite a bit from
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when I was a kid.
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um but my clean is kind of
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like my claim to fame so uh
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so I i spend about an
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hour's worth of slow
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warm-up into a squat in a
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weightlifting session and
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then my metcons with the
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mayhem programming that we
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do I really like the
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interval training so super
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high output rest recover
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super high output
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Those are my jams right now.
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I'm not in a I'm the
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heaviest I've been in a long time.
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My lifestyle has changed to
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to make it very difficult
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for me to mitigate that.
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And I haven't prioritized that so much.
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But so it's my own fault.
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But the the high body weight,
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gymnastic endurance
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workouts are just not as
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good as they once were for me.
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Whereas when I came into CrossFit,
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that was my biggest thing.
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I kind of stepped away from
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heavy weightlifting.
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But I've always just been a very strong,
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very strong athlete.
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So I'm not too concerned
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with losing that while I
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try to hit the track to do
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running workouts for the next month.
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So this is not your first
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time to the CrossFit Games.
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You qualified in 2018 and went that year.
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What was that experience like,
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and how are you going to
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change this year's –
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this year's event and for you personally?
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For me personally, well, the event itself,
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as far as how much I enjoy the workouts,
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that's going to be dictated
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by the programming.
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So the programming may kind of affect me.
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I'm not the most
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well-rounded athlete right now.
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So I'm really hoping we get
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some heavy barbells and we
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don't have a workout with
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500 toes to bar or 500
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burpee box jump overs,
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or 1,000 box step ups, for that matter.
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But so the programming is
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going to dictate how much
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real fun I'm able to have.
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But I'm going to try to
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separate myself from the
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programming and enjoy the experience.
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Knowing in 2018,
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it was a little
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underwhelming how much
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attention was given to our divisions.
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And this year,
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it's just totally focused on us.
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So that is,
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I'm looking forward to see how
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that feels different.
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I've been to Masters competitions.
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I've been to, you know,
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competitions that are
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before there were Masters divisions.
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And I don't, well, I don't know,
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with Granite Games,
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did Granite Games have Masters divisions?
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I'm not sure.
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But I've done all,
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I've done all the competitions.
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And I'm really curious to
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see how this one's going to
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be run and how the
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competitors are going to show up.
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I really hope that everybody
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tries to have a good time
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and treats it kind of like Wadapalooza,
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like we're all here to just
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have a good time and do our best.
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But I'm sure there's going
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to be Terminators out there
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that are just ready to
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just single-minded, just wreck shop,
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and that's okay too.
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But I'm looking to try to
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smile out there and just do my best.
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I think what's cool about
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the Masters Division is
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everybody's trying to win.
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You don't go to a
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competition just to do it.
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You put a lot of work in to get there.
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Most of these athletes have.
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But yet the camaraderie and
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the support from one
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another is unmatched at any
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other competition I've been to.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And we're kind of like a
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class that's going to stick together for.
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Right.
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For the rest of the for the
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for the rest of the every
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the entire rest of our lives.
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I mean, everybody in my division right now,
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I know I know another 10,
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15 guys that had they
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focused on it could probably have
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would have beat me in the qualification.
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I'm coming in in 40th right now.
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So I got nowhere to go but up.
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So I got not a whole lot of that.
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That's a nice place to be.
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Actually,
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I was a little distraught
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initially as to where I was
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going to fall if I was even
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going to fall inside the cut line.
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But that's a nice place for me to be.
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So about that 40th, because they took 40.
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So you were the last guy in.
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Yeah.
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How was that two and a half
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week wait for them to
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finalize the leaderboard?
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Oh, it's always frustrating.
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The leaderboard process is
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always so frustrating.
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And, you know, it's hard to...
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whether or not you really
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care everybody cares
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whether they're going to
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make it right but um I
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don't feel I'm able to
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compete for the podium
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right now which that's a
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tough place to be because
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last year I felt like I was
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able to compete for the
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podium and uh so that made
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it very a little easier in
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if I don't make the cut
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line that's okay right but
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we've gotta keep each other honest.
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And I feel that I'm able to
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go out there and I can win events.
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I'm able to win events.
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So from that perspective,
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I wanna show up and I want
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to force somebody else to
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try to beat me at a clean ladder, right?
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So in that regard,
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like I wanted to be there
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because I felt like I have
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something to offer this competition.
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And whether you – this isn't
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your – so what you're
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telling me is this isn't
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the most prepared you've
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been going into a season.
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No.
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But yet when you finish the
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semifinals and you're in 40th place,
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now you have a taste that
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you could be going to the
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games even not at your best.
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And at that point, you had to want it,
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right?
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So then that
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two-and-a-half-week wait is just brutal.
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It is.
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It is.
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is and and you know there's
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a lot of uh there's a lot
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of screwy stuff going on on
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the leaderboard with you
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know knowing that people
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might be doing things that
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are less than um less than
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we expect out of them you
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know right now so just
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knowing that it could be a
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very different leaderboard
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under a lot of other circumstances,
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that does make it difficult.
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It makes it difficult for a
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lot of people that are just
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outside the cusp.
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I've got people that are
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just as well deserved to be
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there as anyone else that
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are sitting right outside the cut line.
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And it's very, it's very difficult to see.
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And so it makes you,
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it makes me want to show up
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and do my best and to really be able to
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I don't want anybody else to
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feel like they should have
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been there or they would have beat me.
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though they they can beat me
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in particular events but I
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i don't want to show
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disrespect to the athletes
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that didn't make it by not
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showing up the best that I
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can from this point on and
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so I'm I'm just doing my
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best to uh to try to show
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up and to win events
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there's there's events I
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can win and I want those
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ones there's events I'm
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going to get my butt kicked
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at and I'm going to get my
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butt kicked in some regards
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but um yeah it changes it
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changes the focus for sure
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In a long weekend,
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winning 100 points in an
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event is massive.
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If you win an event,
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that gives you so much
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buffer to the other events, right?
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And if you can win two,
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there's people that won't
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finish the weekend with 200 points.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You know,
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just middling throughout the weekend.
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It's a crazy dynamic with 40
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people on the leaderboard.
20:09
This is the first year the
20:10
Masters will have that.
20:12
Like it's been 10 or 20.
20:14
And so you don't get a lot
20:15
of fluctuation because
20:16
nobody can fall too far.
20:18
But you can this year.
20:20
For sure.
20:20
Yeah,
20:20
it's going to be the leaderboard is
20:22
going to be interesting.
20:24
I've dabbled with the idea of,
20:26
I've got some friends that
20:27
try not to look at the
20:28
leaderboard at all.
20:29
I've dabbled at,
20:30
would I be capable of doing that?
20:33
It'd be nice to not look at
20:34
the leaderboard and just go
20:35
out and give it your best.
20:37
I'm sure that I won't be able to do that.
20:39
But yeah,
20:41
the amount of athletes there and
20:44
everybody that's going to
20:45
be there has got...
20:47
there's a lot of people that
20:48
are amazing at everything,
20:50
but there's going to be, you know,
20:52
everybody's also got one
20:53
punch power at a particular
20:55
workout and you just don't
20:56
know what's going to happen.
20:58
So I've kind of,
21:00
my focus in when I know
21:02
that I don't have the
21:03
ability to be training to
21:04
be a hundred percent
21:05
well-rounded is that strength.
21:07
I want that one punch knockout in the,
21:10
in a, you know,
21:11
weightlifting workout
21:12
deadlift and double unders
21:14
and handstand walking or
21:15
something or you know one
21:16
rep max clean I want that
21:18
one punch power because uh
21:20
when when that 5k and 5k
21:24
run 1k swim comes up I'm
21:27
I'm gonna be having a rough
21:29
time compared to those athletes
21:32
Yeah.
21:32
Jay Burch asks, off topic,
21:34
but what is that pick on
21:35
your CrossFit profile?
21:37
Chicken and a donut?
21:39
Oh, yeah.
21:40
It's like, yeah,
21:40
chicken and waffles type
21:42
thing with a donut on there.
21:45
There was some meal that I
21:48
had that I thought would
21:49
just be kind of a funny thing.
21:51
That was years ago.
21:52
I thought it would be a
21:53
funny thing to be on a CrossFit profile.
21:55
Yeah.
21:57
Chicken and waffles is one
21:58
of my guilty pleasures.
21:59
Oh man.
22:00
It's been, it's been a long time, but yeah,
22:02
it's amazing.
22:03
Well, speaking of that,
22:05
it appears that like how
22:07
you get your relaxation and
22:08
your decompression is to travel.
22:11
Um,
22:11
your Instagram is full of like really
22:13
cool pics and really cool places.
22:15
Um,
22:16
what is your bucket list place to visit
22:20
that?
22:20
I have not been correct.
22:23
Um,
22:24
Constantinople, Istanbul.
22:26
I've not been to Istanbul.
22:27
So I'd really like to go there.
22:29
Um, spend a little bit of time.
22:31
Uh,
22:32
a lot of my trips to Europe revolve
22:34
around Prague.
22:35
I love Prague.
22:36
It's my favorite place in the world.
22:38
Um, got a lot of friends there.
22:39
And so I'll try to start or
22:41
end a trip there.
22:44
Um, but yeah, Istanbul is,
22:46
is high on the list.
22:48
And, uh,
22:51
Yeah, I mean,
22:53
there's a lot outside of that,
22:54
but that one jumps out.
22:56
For some reason, I want to go to Krakow,
22:58
Poland,
22:58
just because it's so Gothic from
23:00
the pictures that I've seen.
23:01
I like the extreme Gothic architecture.
23:06
But I've not, yeah, there's, I mean,
23:09
everywhere.
23:09
I want to see everything at some point.
23:13
Yeah, I've seen pictures from London.
23:14
I've seen pictures from
23:15
either Central or South America.
23:19
You know, lots of Europe.
23:21
It's really cool that you get to do that.
23:24
And you can tell it's
23:26
definitely a love in your life.
23:28
Yeah.
23:29
Yeah, it's been a while.
23:30
The 2020 thing kind of changed everything.
23:33
Life just got super busy for me.
23:37
And right now,
23:38
my current work situation
23:39
involves a lot of travel.
23:40
So travel doesn't sound so fun to me.
23:44
I'm not really able to
23:45
separate myself from work
23:46
like I have been in the past.
23:48
And I also have two dogs now
23:50
that are my best little buddies.
23:52
And I have a tough time
23:54
thinking about being away for three weeks,
23:56
you know,
23:57
so which is kind of the way that
24:00
I would like to do it generally.
24:02
So I've considered at some
24:04
point doing like a
24:06
getting a mobile home kind
24:07
of thing to travel around
24:09
and be able to take them
24:12
with me and go on kind of
24:15
North American excursions to see natural.
24:20
I like cities.
24:21
I like walkable old cities.
24:24
I like kind of super historic, you know,
24:32
like the Chichen Itza type stuff.
24:37
But walking the cities of
24:38
Prague and London and those
24:39
kind of things, those are the best.
24:43
Jaber asks, any urge to go to Antarctica?
24:48
I have the urge to know
24:49
exactly what's going on in Antarctica.
24:52
But I don't really want to
24:53
go there outside of
24:54
learning what's really
24:55
happening down there.
24:56
There's something happening down there.
25:01
So what kind of dogs do you have?
25:04
Standard poodles.
25:06
So a lot of my time.
25:11
Um, so you,
25:13
you told me before we went on air, you,
25:14
you took a new job,
25:16
you moved to Fort Wayne.
25:17
It, it messed up your training schedule.
25:20
Yeah.
25:20
Is, is,
25:21
is the next thing after the games
25:23
to figure out how to
25:25
balance the new job with
25:28
your training schedule and
25:29
figure out how to get back
25:30
to a more well-rounded athlete?
25:34
Uh,
25:35
I would prefer to say a more
25:37
well-rounded life.
25:41
My inner athlete is going to
25:43
be best served by my lowest
25:46
stress situation.
25:47
So I think that has played a
25:49
big factor in my personal
25:52
ability to maintain the
25:55
level of health that I have is
25:59
mitigating stress throughout
26:00
my life and recognizing
26:03
stress factors that are
26:04
incoming and trying to
26:07
mitigate those has been
26:09
kind of like a super high priority.
26:13
So if I can learn to
26:17
navigate the new stresses
26:18
that I have in my life,
26:20
it's going to make me a better athlete.
26:23
I think that's an amen from
26:25
all of us in this world.
26:28
Getting rid of those outside
26:29
stresses is key for all of us,
26:32
athlete or not.
26:35
When are you getting to Birmingham?
26:36
Are you going in early that
26:37
week or are you taking anybody with you?
26:38
Yeah.
26:39
I have not yet booked my travel.
26:43
I should probably do that.
26:45
I think I'm gonna come in on
26:46
Tuesday night.
26:47
I'm kind of affected by I'm
26:49
glad I a recent trip I did
26:50
just kind of jetlag the heck out of me.
26:53
And I have been getting more like,
26:58
I get that kind of edema
26:59
thing that happens in the air.
27:01
Start I've been, you know,
27:02
in just changes.
27:03
That's something that's been
27:04
happening to me is like my feet swell,
27:07
stuff like that.
27:07
So
27:09
I think I was planning on
27:10
just coming in on Wednesday,
27:11
but I think I'm going to
27:13
come in on Tuesday and give
27:15
myself that extra day.
27:16
At least it'll be the one,
27:18
just the one way trip to get there.
27:19
I'm used to kind of these,
27:21
the work that I do now,
27:22
I've got round trips where I'll be,
27:24
you know,
27:24
flying out on Monday night and
27:26
coming home on Tuesday night.
27:28
And that round trip just
27:29
kind of like rolling really messes me up.
27:32
So, yeah.
27:34
I don't anticipate the jet
27:35
lag to be as bad as what
27:36
I'm used to dealing with as
27:37
far as getting back to
27:38
training after a round trip.
27:41
But I think I'm going to
27:42
come in on Tuesday night
27:43
and then just kind of do a
27:45
little bit of movement on
27:46
Wednesday and we'll see
27:48
what the workouts that we
27:49
have in store are.
27:53
I'm not one to like stay
27:54
warm or need to like do a
27:57
bunch of training the day before.
27:59
But that's the kind of thing
28:00
I need to learn to change.
28:02
I just did a competition
28:04
this weekend that was a
28:05
team comp kind of local
28:07
thing at our gym and
28:09
literally didn't warm up at all.
28:11
Jumped into the first
28:12
workout and kind of
28:13
strained my groin a little bit.
28:14
So I got to warm up, got to stay active.
28:19
So I'm going to come in on
28:20
Tuesday and try to get a
28:22
little movement in on Wednesday instead.
28:24
Yeah, that edema thing is nuts.
28:26
I get that as well when I fly.
28:28
And I'm flying to the games this week,
28:30
and the whole first 24
28:32
hours is just getting that
28:33
fluid off my body, get moving around,
28:36
get your skin elevated,
28:38
and just recover from the flight.
28:41
But I'm a lot older than you.
28:43
How old are you?
28:45
I'm 54.
28:46
Wow, I would not have guessed.
28:50
Well, thanks.
28:52
CrossFit's an amazing thing, isn't it?
28:54
Yeah.
28:56
What about yourself?
28:57
When are you getting into Birmingham?
28:58
Are you going there, I'd imagine?
29:01
We're going to be down there.
29:02
We're going to film a
29:03
behind-the-scenes documentary.
29:05
That week,
29:06
we got permission to have all
29:07
access in the warm-up area
29:09
and the corrals and to just
29:11
film the chats,
29:12
the camaraderie that goes
29:14
on back there with all the athletes.
29:17
So Ellie Hiller and myself
29:19
will be filming that,
29:20
and we're going to have
29:21
some videographers out on
29:22
the floor getting some of
29:24
the action there,
29:24
and we're going to put it
29:25
together as a multiple-part documentary.
29:27
Thanks.
29:30
So we're coming in.
29:31
I think I'm leaving here on Tuesday night,
29:33
probably stop.
29:34
I'm driving, probably halfway,
29:37
and I will come in
29:38
Wednesday morning and get
29:40
everything set up, show up for check-in,
29:42
get some of that documented, and then,
29:46
yeah, be there all weekend.
29:48
Well, I will see you down there.
29:51
You don't happen to have any
29:52
insight into the workouts yet, do you?
29:55
I know nothing, man.
29:57
It's, it's a start.
29:58
Like it's,
29:59
these people are so busy that
30:00
are running this thing.
30:02
Just getting like a text
30:04
through and a response is, is tough.
30:07
So I don't know anything really at all.
30:10
Yeah.
30:10
Yeah.
30:10
We're looking forward to, uh, like I said,
30:12
I'm, uh, you had Josh Boonstra on here.
30:15
I watched his interview and he's,
30:16
he's part of a chat group
30:18
that we've got together that kind of,
30:20
we help keep each other on track.
30:22
And, uh, so we want to make sure,
30:26
Any kind of insight we get,
30:27
we're communicating it so
30:28
everybody's got the info
30:29
and there's no insider trading going on.
30:32
Yeah.
30:33
Got to stop these leaks in CrossFit.
30:35
It needs to be a fair playing field.
30:37
For sure.
30:39
Um, so Kevin,
30:41
so thank you so much for doing this.
30:43
Really can't wait to meet
30:44
you in person down there
30:45
and document the weekend.
30:48
Everybody in the chat.
30:48
Thank you for being here.
30:49
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30:52
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30:58
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30:59
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