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Caroline Stanley | The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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In the kitchen
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what is going on everybody
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welcome to the Clydesdale
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media's podcast featuring
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the athletes of the 2024
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CrossFit Games semifinals
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and we are here with
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CrossFit Games athlete
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Caroline Stanley how's it
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going Caroline good how are
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you I'm good what's it
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sound how does it sound
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when someone calls you
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CrossFit Games athlete
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It's still kind of like different because,
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I mean, I guess I've always,
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ever since I started CrossFit,
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I've always wanted to go to the Games.
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So now actually making it
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and then people saying
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CrossFit Games athlete,
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it just kind of like doesn't seem real.
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Well, it's real.
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You went last year.
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You even made it past the
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first round of cuts in your
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rookie season.
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What was the goal last year?
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Was it to get...
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further than that or
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realistically did you think
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that's where you would be
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um I guess the I guess
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going in I didn't really
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have any expectations
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considering it was my first
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crossfit games um I wanted
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to make it past the first
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cut of course I mean
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everyone does but I guess um
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going in I didn't really
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have any expectations so I
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was just going out there
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doing what I knew how to do
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and whatever happened
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happened what so I just I
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listened to your interview
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you did with kat two years
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ago when you were getting
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ready for granite games and
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we're going to dive back to
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that a little bit because
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you had just graduated from
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college you would you were
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going to your second
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semi-final at that point
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You said on that interview
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that you were not an endurance athlete.
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And then I look at your games finishes,
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and your three best games
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finishes were the bike, the 5K,
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and Helena.
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I know.
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Honestly, I guess, I mean,
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I've been really...
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honing in and trying to work
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on endurance and this I
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know there and I guess when
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I talked with her that year
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I didn't um I think that
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was my senior year I think
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I guess I just graduated
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right before going to
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Granite Games and I never
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really had a coach never I
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just kind of followed
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programs did what I wanted
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to do or like didn't want
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to do I not really didn't
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want to do but like
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Kind of just in and out,
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like not a specific,
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like someone structuring me, I guess.
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So after the Granite Games is that year,
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that second year is
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whenever I got in contact with Jarrett,
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who's my coach now.
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And so we,
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we started working together like
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a month or two or so after
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that season or whatever.
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So are you a different athlete?
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Were you a different athlete
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at the games last year than
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you were two years ago
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going into Granite Games?
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Oh, 100%.
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Yeah.
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I found it fascinating.
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I wasn't doing it to call you out.
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I found it fascinating that
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you had improved that much
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in something you thought
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was your whole in a year.
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Right.
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I mean,
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it really makes a difference having
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someone to really structure
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you the way you're supposed
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to be and following a plan
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and talking with them about strengths,
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weaknesses, what we want to do,
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what we don't want to do and whatever,
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instead of just kind of
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going with the flow and everything.
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I think one-on-one
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individualized programming
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is definitely beneficial.
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Before we get into Jarrett,
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because we're going to do that,
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when you were at the games,
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what was your favorite
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event to compete in?
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I would say the Helena was
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probably my favorite event.
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So I was going through your Instagram,
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and your Helena picture is the coolest.
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Yeah.
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Like everybody wishes they
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had a picture that cool.
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Yeah, that was,
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that was a really fun event.
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Do you like,
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do you ever frame any of these
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pictures or are you in such
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a digital age now that you
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just leave them on your
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phone or your laptop?
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Oh, I don't have any.
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I mean, I don't have any frame personally,
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but like my mom,
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she'll print them out and
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put them all over and like
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the fridge and this, that and the other.
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Would you ever like frame
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your jersey with like a picture?
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Oh yeah, I would definitely do that.
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Okay.
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I just thought that was a
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really cool picture.
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And while we're here on Instagram,
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I have a big question to ask you.
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And one,
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I know the guy who took this picture,
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by the way,
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and he is one of the coolest
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cats in the CrossFit space.
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B-A-W Media is just, he's one of the best.
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So I like featuring his stuff anyway.
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Oh, yeah.
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He's a good person too.
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He is so much.
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I want to know what this is.
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You're front squatting
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someone doing a handstand.
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Was that something, um,
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Jarrett programmed?
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No, he didn't program that.
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The, um,
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It was actually the girl
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doing the handstands idea.
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She was like,
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let me see if you can do this to me.
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And I was like, okay, I'll give it a shot.
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Well, you gave it, you did it for reps.
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Did you ever doubt yourself?
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No.
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I mean, it is like, I guess it's,
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it's awkward, but I mean,
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my front squat max and
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is way more than what she
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weighs it's just I guess
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I'd more of a balanced
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thing yeah and then does
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her do her shoes stick to
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the wall or not no she just
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has regular shoes on no
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sticky nothing so I just
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thought that was funny when
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I was looking um the the
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weird stuff that
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crossfitters do in a gym
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when they're left alone
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Yeah.
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Jared,
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Jared definitely wouldn't have heard
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that for me.
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Did he, did he,
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what did he say when he saw it?
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I'm not sure.
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I think he would just say
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I'm crazy because I do
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crazy stuff all the time
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and he just don't, you don't get.
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Yeah.
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Don't get hurt, but have fun.
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Right.
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Right.
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Right.
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So, um, so let's talk about Jarrett.
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You, why,
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why did you pick him as your coach?
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Um,
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Honestly, he kind of reached out to me.
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Well, so at Granite Games, he was there.
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But a guy who I was there
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because the owner of College Hill,
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she knew a guy that was there.
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His name was Dan that went to Comp Train.
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And he actually is the one
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that told Jared about me.
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And then Jared reached out to me.
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And we got on a call and, you know,
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went through that whole little spill.
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But... And did you know
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right away that he was the worst?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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When we got on the call and
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just how invested he was in
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this sport and, like, in, like, athletes,
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even just, like, outside of the gym,
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as far as, like, just...
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what they do, their outlook,
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like invested in not just
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like what I'm doing in the gym,
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but also like how I'm feeling about,
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it could be anything like
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just a random Tuesday or like just,
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he's always,
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he cares about you as a
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person as well as an athlete.
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Every time I have him on and I'm sorry,
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I have a frog in my throat
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these last couple of days
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from talking so much.
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Um, you're fine.
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every time I talk to him,
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he is so not consumed with
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the leaderboard that if I
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ask him questions about it,
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he always tells me his
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philosophy about why I
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shouldn't care about that.
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Yeah.
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He's, he's a good, he's a good guy.
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I got a, I got the best one out there.
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Yeah, he, like,
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he's the one that taught me the phrase,
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comparison is the thief of joy.
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And that, like,
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you shouldn't compare
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yourself on the leaderboard.
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You should compare yourself to yourself.
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Is that what you're looking
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for in a coach?
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Oh, yeah.
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I mean, he, it doesn't, like...
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I obviously care about – I mean,
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I care about the leaderboard.
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I care about this, that, and the other.
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Like, I'm very competitive.
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But, like, he keeps me,
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like – even if I do not
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have a good workout, not have a good day,
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not this, that, and the other,
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he still keeps me, like,
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I guess still in a good
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mental spot and everything because –
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CrossFit is just as much
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mental as it is physical.
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I feel like once you get out
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on the floor and everything.
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So let me ask you this.
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When you started with him,
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he was a comp train.
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So you become a comp train athlete.
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He moves to Proven.
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You move to Proven.
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Other than the name on the building,
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has anything changed for
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you because you stayed with Jarrett?
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Not really.
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So it's, it's the same for you, just a,
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a different home location for your coach.
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Yeah.
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I mean, like I get the, I mean,
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I have the privilege,
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like as far as me and
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Jared's like connection and
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like the way like we communicate and this,
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that, no, they're like, nothing's changed,
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but like, I guess I just,
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I have the privilege of
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also being with a different
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community and they're, um,
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the other coaches, um,
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and the athletes that are already in that,
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like going from comp train
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to proven or whatever,
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the coaches and the
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athletes that are already
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with proven have been very like,
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like a family or whatever.
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So it's,
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it's nice to have that community
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and everything to be able
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to go up there and,
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train with them.
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And even though Jared is my coach,
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all the other coaches still
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like have eyes on me and
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are able to tell me, help me with this,
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that,
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and the other that I might need help
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with like a movement or a
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workout or anything.
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And then I guess we're all
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just one little family, which is nice.
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Well, and he, um,
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He brought Sydney and Lucy with him too.
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So you,
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the three of you were all at comp train.
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Now you're all at proven.
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So you still have those,
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but then you add people
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like Sydney Wells and Tia and,
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and are the,
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is that the privilege you have?
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Like the six time champion
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is someone you get to work
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out with occasionally.
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Oh yeah.
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A hundred percent.
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She's helped me with a lot
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of things and it's very
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useful and helpful.
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Was there any intimidation
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when you first set foot in her house?
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Not intimidation, no.
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I mean,
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they are all so welcoming and like...
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just bring you in like arms
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open wide it wasn't no
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intimidation or fear or
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like stepping on anything
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anybody's toes like they're
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all so nice and friendly
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and just like we're all
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part of the same team at
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the end of the day so it
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wasn't anything to be like
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any kind of worry or
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nothing in the back of my
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head wow because
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just a quick story.
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I was,
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I was doing media at the syndicate crown.
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I believe it was.
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I'm,
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I'm kind of leaning against the wall
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in the media pit.
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And this person's asking me questions.
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And I,
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I looked down and it was Tia and I
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got freaked out.
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Like, like, Oh my gosh,
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I'm sitting here chatting with Tia.
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So that's why I asked the question.
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Cause even I was like starstruck.
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in that moment but she
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couldn't have been nicer
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like if she wasn't trying
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to intimidate me I just was
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like starstruck more than
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anything yeah she's super
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super super nice yeah um
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and so I've always had
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great experiences with her
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but like in this sport and
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in this space she she casts a big shadow
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Yeah,
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my first time meeting her was we met
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or whatever and introduced each other.
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And then we just started
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going about training or I
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was talking to Sydney about something.
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And then she turned around
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and was talking about my accent.
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And so it was kind of like ever since that,
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just our first time
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interacting together was
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just like we were joking and having fun.
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We had known each other.
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for a while and we have
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literally just met so it's
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funny because I told you
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before we were on the air a
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lot of my wife's family is
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in Charlotte and you talk
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just like my wife's cousin
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if I close my eyes that is
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who I would be I would
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picture it's funny because
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your accent is thick yeah
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they're like you talk so country yeah
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That's fine.
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That's fine.
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And North Carolina has a
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different version of it
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than the rest of the South.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So you and Jared go to Proven.
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What elements of your season
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have you done at Proven headquarters?
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And what have you done back
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in North Carolina?
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I guess the first...
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When they first opened,
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I went up there right after
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and just kind of like to
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see the facility and this, that,
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and the other.
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And then I did the first two
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open workouts at my hometown.
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And then I did the third
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open workout at Proven.
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They had the live announcements.
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And then we kind of did it
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all the next day.
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And then I did quarterfinals at Proven.
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Is it good for you to have
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that push or support or
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both by doing it there?
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Oh, yeah.
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I think so.
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It was very helpful.
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Do they team you up with
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someone that is good for
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you to give you a push?
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Or do you guys pick who you
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want to go up against during workouts?
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Or how does that all work out?
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Um,
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I guess the coaches kind of just like
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put like little heats
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together depending on like
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the workout and like the space,
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what kind of space we
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needed and how many could
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kind of go at the same time.
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But you leave that up to the coaches.
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Yeah.
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I mean, we could pick,
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I guess if we wanted to.
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internet um my wife just got
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home from work and she
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probably logged in to
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something uh so it's
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starting to come back
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hopefully yeah yeah there
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we go uh sorry about that
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um so last time you talked
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to kat you're just
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graduating from college are
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do you work full-time or
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part-time doing anything or
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are you a full-time athlete
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I work part time and a small
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animal hospital.
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Okay.
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And you, you like that?
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Yeah, I like it a lot.
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At first I wanted to, um,
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like when I graduated,
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I graduated with a biology degree and, um,
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I wanted to go to vet school,
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but I'm not really sure.
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I like doing it,
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but I'm not sure because I
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like CrossFit too,
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and you can't really do both.
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I'm not sure if I want to go
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to school for four more years.
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Jeffrey Birchfield asks,
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vet tech or just informally help out?
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Um, it's, I'm like a vet assistant.
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I don't have the actual, like,
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I guess the res,
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like the license for vet tech yet, but,
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um, kind of the same thing.
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Okay, cool.
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Um, and you, you love animals.
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Yeah, I love animals.
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We have, um, like horses,
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like horses and cows and
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everything like that.
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And then I have a German
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short haired pointer.
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dog.
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Okay.
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And do you have a lot of
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property for the animals to run?
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Yeah, so my brother, my middle brother,
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he ropes,
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like he does the head and
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another guy does the heels,
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like two men team roping.
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And so he has a Palomino
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that he ropes with and then
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he just recently drove to Ohio and got
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or in Oklahoma and got a red
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room that he is training to rope as well.
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And then I just like have
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like trail road and stuff like that.
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And then we have like a
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hundred acres that we have some cows on.
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And then we have like some
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land that we lease and this,
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that and other to keep other cows on.
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Cause we probably have about,
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60 to 70 head, but we just kind of like,
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we have like black Angus and red Harford.
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And we just kind of like grade them.
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And so we don't like
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slaughter them ourselves.
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Okay.
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Do you ever, so my,
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my father-in-law used to
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raise cows and he would
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take them to like a butcher,
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have them do all the work
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and then he'd get the meat
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and bring it home.
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So we did that if, like, one is, like,
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had a prolapse or, like,
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something like that.
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But as far as, like, normally, like,
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we just, like, sell them at, like,
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certain ages, like 600, 800 pounds,
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like kind of calves,
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just depending on what we have.
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But we will, like,
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slaughter or take them somewhere if, like,
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something happens to them.
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okay because it's there's no
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better meat than the stuff
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you raise yourself right
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like you know eaten it's
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not all the nasty stuff you
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get at the store so I love
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when my father-in-law does
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that because we get a lot
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of the the meat that comes
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off of that oh yeah a lot
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can come a lot comes off we
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just we have one that um
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we did this past year and we
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just did it all in ground beef.
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I think we got a couple of states, this,
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that, and the other, but like, it's a lot,
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like our freezer is still like stacked.
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And like, I have two brothers and then, um,
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I still live with my parents right now.
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And like between all of us,
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like it's still like so
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much still in the freezer.
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Yeah.
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I, those, I love that.
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Um,
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I love when we get a ton of ground beef,
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uh, and that's when,
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that's all we use when we get that.
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So Jeffrey Birchfield, again,
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with a question, asks,
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did you show FFA or 4-H at any in school?
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No,
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I played softball whenever I was in
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college.
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So do you know what the FFA or 4-H is?
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I think he's talking about like horses.
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Or though he's talking about.
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Farmers of America.
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Yeah.
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Which is like an
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agricultural organization too.
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Yeah, no,
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I didn't really do any of that
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because I played softball
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and that's probably about it.
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I was just playing softball,
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doing school and working
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out literally my whole four years.
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So Carolyn Prevost is one of
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my co-hosts on one of my other shows.
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And she always talks about
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athleticism and that it's
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rare to find in CrossFit
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because most athletes are,
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when they're working on fitness,
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it's straight ahead stuff.
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And she played hockey in college.
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And so a lot of side to side,
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a lot of athleticism that
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you don't always see on the floor.
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You were a shortstop.
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probably the most athletic
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position on the softball field.
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Do you wish the CrossFit
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Games or CrossFit season
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would test athleticism a little bit more?
23:28
Yeah, I feel like they should considering,
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I mean, CrossFit is a sport,
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and I think people think
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when you play a sport, you're athletic,
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right?
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I guess athlete, athletic, athlete,
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athletic kind of comes with
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any type of sport.
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And so I feel like, yeah.
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Yeah.
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She is, she's a big proponent of that.
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And an example is rogue
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always seems to throw in
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like an athletic event every year.
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Like this year it was the
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over under the logs where
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that takes athleticism to like jump and,
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throw your body over the log,
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under the log,
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over the log kind of thing.
24:16
Um, and she loves that kind of stuff.
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Yeah, I did too.
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I mean, I think the bike,
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the bike was kind of athletic ish.
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I mean, um, I thought it was fun.
24:28
I mean, I'd never really like, I guess,
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I guess people can like,
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I guess train that,
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but I had never really, like I was on a,
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I'd,
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like, rode a bike as a kid, so I kind of,
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I mean, I had rode the bike around, like,
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just, like, a couple miles, like, for,
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like, an hour or so, like,
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on the road and this, that, and other,
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like, in my hometown, but as far as,
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like,
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on grass like I didn't have
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that I just had like a road
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bike so as far as like on
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grass gravel getting off
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running or whatever I had I
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didn't do any of that and
25:02
no paticing for that going
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on to the games I was just
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kind of like in like little
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I was just kind of being
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athletic and going back to
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like just I guess when I
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was a kid and like just I
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just felt like a kid out
25:15
there honestly it was fun
25:16
just riding I would just
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feel like riding a bike
25:18
like it back in the good
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old days and just I don't know
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Yeah,
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I think that's what an athlete would do,
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right?
25:25
But the athletic part of it
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was the getting off, lifting it up,
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jumping over the barrier,
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getting back on.
25:32
I think that's where the
25:33
athleticism came in.
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Like anybody can ride a bike
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straight ahead.
25:38
But getting off, getting on, lifting it up,
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carrying it,
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like that takes a lot of athleticism.
25:45
I agree.
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Yeah.
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so um so is how is life
25:54
different now than it was
25:55
when you talked to cat two
25:56
years ago you were just
25:57
getting out of college
25:59
didn't probably really know
26:00
what your future looked
26:01
like now it's kind of
26:02
coming into formation a
26:03
little bit yeah so I guess
26:07
when I talked to her
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I mean, I didn't have a coach, obviously.
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I was just like,
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I would like wake up at like 5 a.m.
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or earlier.
26:18
I would go to CrossFit.
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Then I would go to classes.
26:23
Then I would go to squeeze
26:25
another CrossFit workout in.
26:26
And then I would go to
26:28
softball practice until like
26:32
six, six 30, then I do homework, go to bed,
26:35
basically do it all over again.
26:36
And then like, depending on games, this,
26:39
that, and other, like the quarterfinals,
26:41
those two years, um,
26:44
I did some of those workouts.
26:45
We had get away games or we
26:48
had like that weekend.
26:49
And so I did some of like,
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I was squeezing in all those workouts,
26:52
did some of those workouts at like four,
26:55
not four,
26:55
like five or six in the morning
26:57
before I had to get on a
26:58
bus and go do like a softball game.
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And so like now I guess I am
27:03
working part time,
27:05
but I feel like I have a little more like
27:10
time and commitment and
27:12
energy and everything to
27:13
put into just CrossFit
27:15
instead of kind of running
27:18
around rushing and everything like that.
27:23
This also happened.
27:26
You found a, in the field and on it,
27:30
it said, will you marry me?
27:36
So are you now?
27:36
Yeah.
27:42
So we got together in the junior,
27:51
senior year, kind of in there.
27:54
And so we've been together for,
27:56
it'll be four years in
27:58
November of this year.
27:59
Does he CrossFit?
28:05
He works out with me.
28:07
He's a state trooper,
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so he works out with me
28:11
just to stay in shape for
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the job and stay healthy
28:14
and fit and everything like that.
28:16
Nothing competitive,
28:17
but just like your everyday CrossFitter.
28:23
They just started the
28:25
service competition and the
28:28
everyday heroes at Mayhem.
28:29
I don't know if you heard about that.
28:34
I hadn't really heard about that.
28:36
Yeah, Everyday Heroes is really fun.
28:38
Mayhem is doing it.
28:40
It's a program thing,
28:42
and if you're in a military
28:44
service or a frontline
28:46
nurse medical field, a teacher,
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or law enforcement, or fire,
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you can enter.
28:53
The top male and the top
28:56
female from each bracket,
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they're bringing to Cookville...
29:01
putting them on a team like the fire team,
29:04
the law enforcement team,
29:06
the teacher team,
29:07
and then they're going to
29:08
compete against each other.
29:09
That's pretty cool.
29:12
Yeah.
29:14
Great concept by Mayhem,
29:15
and they should be applauded for that.
29:18
Oh, yeah.
29:19
My middle brother is also a state trooper.
29:23
Wow.
29:24
You're all around the law enforcement.
29:26
Yeah.
29:27
You can't get away with anything.
29:29
No, which he, my middle brother,
29:32
he became one my junior
29:36
year of high school.
29:38
So he's been on a little bit longer,
29:39
but he's older than Trace.
29:42
But I was with Trace
29:44
whenever he went through
29:45
trooper school and everything like that.
29:47
So Kenneth,
29:51
the lab says cool and unique proposal.
29:55
Yeah, we were just like going on.
29:58
a walk because we walk with
30:00
like our dogs or just to
30:02
look for sheds or just you
30:04
know outdoor being outdoor
30:06
a lot so it wasn't anything
30:10
like either normal and um
30:14
he had recently um bought
30:17
some land that's kind of
30:17
backed up to like his
30:18
parents house now and
30:21
So we were just on a walk,
30:23
walking from like his house around.
30:24
There's like a trail or
30:25
whatever to his land.
30:27
And then like once you get on his land,
30:29
the hill kind of rolls.
30:31
And so we were walking and
30:34
there was something like
30:35
shiny in the field, which was the antler.
30:37
And like I went up and got
30:38
it and then turned around
30:40
and he was on one knee.
30:42
But then like but our
30:43
families were like over the
30:45
hill so they could kind of see.
30:47
But it happened so quick and everything.
30:50
So but they were all there as well.
30:53
That's really cool.
30:55
And congratulations.
30:57
So is there a date set or
30:59
are you guys just waiting
31:00
till after the season to
31:02
kind of sit down and talk about it?
31:05
It'll be next year in September of 2025.
31:10
Okay.
31:12
So I have a lot of time to plan.
31:15
So I want to finish up with
31:17
just a couple of questions
31:18
going into semis.
31:19
So you'll be in the East, right?
31:21
Um, you got a lot at 11 spots,
31:25
I think it was.
31:27
Yeah, we did.
31:28
Last year you took 10th.
31:30
Is there,
31:31
is there any trepidation about
31:32
like where you were on that
31:33
line or are you more
31:35
confident this year going
31:36
in than last year?
31:37
Uh,
31:39
I'm definitely more confident this year
31:41
than last year.
31:42
I mean, last year I had never made it.
31:43
So, I mean, I was confident in myself,
31:47
but I hadn't did it yet.
31:49
But this year I feel like
31:51
I'm more fit than last year.
31:58
Yeah.
32:00
It's such a stacked field.
32:02
And for you to come out of that last year,
32:04
so impressive.
32:06
Thank you.
32:08
The workouts have been announced.
32:12
I'm sure you know them by heart now.
32:14
Is there anything in there
32:15
that you really like?
32:20
I mean...
32:22
I like them all.
32:23
There's nothing really... I don't know.
32:27
I mean, I like them all.
32:29
Yeah.
32:29
What I like about them is they all have,
32:32
like,
32:32
an element of one facet of CrossFit
32:36
with another facet.
32:38
Like,
32:39
you have to be balanced in your
32:41
abilities to be good because...
32:45
cleaning jerks are matched
32:46
with a run and row is
32:47
matched with a handstand walk.
32:49
And like everything has, it's like,
32:52
I keep calling it the yin and the yang.
32:55
Yeah, I think it's very good.
32:56
Like you can't just be good at one thing.
32:58
Like there, like you just said,
33:01
it's paired with like a
33:04
strength is paired with a
33:06
cardio or like a gymnastics
33:07
is paired with this.
33:09
Like you have to,
33:11
it's going to show the all around.
33:14
fit for better athlete at the end.
33:21
You had your games experience last year.
33:24
When you make it this year,
33:25
we're going to say when you
33:26
make it this year,
33:27
it's going to be in Texas in a big,
33:30
huge arena and mostly indoors.
33:33
Are you excited about that?
33:36
Oh, yeah, I'm excited to go to Texas.
33:40
But as far as the indoor, outdoor, I mean,
33:43
I only had one experience in Wisconsin,
33:46
so I'm not really too opposed or have,
33:52
I guess, a lot of opinions on it.
33:57
Yeah, it's going to be different,
33:59
and nobody really knows what that means.
34:02
It's a much bigger arena than the Coliseum,
34:05
so they'll probably be able
34:06
to do more indoor than they could.
34:09
And there's still going to
34:10
be a little bit out there.
34:11
There has to be.
34:14
You have to test athleticism outside,
34:16
right?
34:16
Right.
34:19
So...
34:21
you can't do a bike race
34:22
inside the arena you can't
34:25
do a 5k inside the arena so
34:28
right right yeah one or two
34:30
events have to be outside
34:31
right I hope yeah I hope so
34:33
too well caroline I want to
34:36
thank you so much for
34:37
jumping on with us this has
34:38
been really fun talking to
34:39
you thank you for having me
34:42
Yeah, and congratulations on the proposal.
34:45
And hopefully you can
34:46
celebrate that with a bid
34:49
to the CrossFit Games in
34:50
just a couple weeks.
34:52
That's the plan.
34:53
Well, thank you, everybody,
34:55
to the chat for being here.
34:56
You guys are awesome as always.
34:59
And we'll see everybody next
35:00
time on the Clydesdale
35:02
Media Podcast presents the
35:04
Athletes of the 2024
35:06
CrossFit Games Semifinals.
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Bye, guys.