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World Fitness Project - Day 1 Recap · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Okay.
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What's going on, everybody?
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We are live in Grant Park, Indiana.
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Not Illinois.
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Indiana,
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we were at day one of the World
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Fitness Project.
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So Jamie and I thought we would jump
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on.
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We don't need the ceiling.
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Here we go.
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We thought we would jump on and see
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if anybody was out there and wanted to
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know what it was like here at the
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venue.
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uh for the world fitness project and it
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was really nice it's very nice in there
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they have done an excellent job it's very
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intimate um i don't i mean i don't
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like we've seen it we've seen the lights
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we've seen the spectacle so kind of had
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an idea of what to expect but
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Yeah, I don't know.
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It's intimate right now.
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And I don't know if that's just because
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it's Friday and there's maybe less
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spectators that might be here this weekend
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or that's just how these events generally
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are.
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There's a couple of things I would say.
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The facility is beautiful.
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The setup is awesome.
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The vendors are as many if not more
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than the CrossFit Games.
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They, they weren't,
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they just were in a more condensed area.
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Um, but,
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and some of them had smaller booths,
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but there was, there was a, what, ten,
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ten or twelve?
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Yeah, there's probably at least ten.
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And then there's like blow up chairs,
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little couches that spectators can grab
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with yard games,
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like yard pong is in there, cornhole.
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It's just – you can actually go work
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out.
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There's a spectator workout area.
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It's just things you don't get really –
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There's footballs to toss around.
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It is the home of the Indianapolis Colts
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practice facility.
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So they are embracing the football vibe to
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the whole thing.
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They have nets to throw into,
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footballs to throw into.
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Lots of activities,
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more so than a lot of events I've
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ever been to.
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Yes.
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um but yeah it's it was really nice
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and i think it was really well run
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very professional um i know that i have
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done schmear campaigns in the past uh but
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this was a great experience i don't think
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we've ever tried to smear wfp we've just
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given
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they said oh well they let us come
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and it's it's going great so far and
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the the um they have treated the media
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better than we probably very well ever
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that we there's two suites that are for
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the media there's actually snacks and
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drinks which we never get at any location
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um
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I mean,
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we've been asked if there's anything we
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need.
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Do we like be good with where we
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can go?
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Yeah.
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Very accommodating.
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And they've given us tremendous access,
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which we haven't taken advantage of yet.
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So tomorrow will be the big day to
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jump into that.
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sometimes you just want to let athletes
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warm up and do their thing we can't
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really go in the warm-up area but there
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we can get to where like their lounges
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so we can maybe talk after before event
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i noticed a bunch of people left in
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between events because there was kind of a
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big break from that combine into so i
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don't even know how much we would have
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been able to talk to them i am
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curious though i would really like to talk
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to some of the athletes and just get
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their thoughts on that combine event like
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it was it was like field day i
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The only thing,
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my biggest criticism was I wanted more.
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Yeah.
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You wanted the jump reach, everything.
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No,
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I wanted to see more of the athletes.
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Oh yeah.
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They had three floors going.
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They had six lanes, five,
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six lanes for the forty.
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They had at least that many for the
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five, ten, five.
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And five for each of them.
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Yeah.
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And you could go whenever you wanted.
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There was no,
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because it was all laser timed.
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Yeah.
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So when you cross the first laser,
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you start.
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When you cross the second laser,
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your time is done.
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And, uh, it was, it was phenomenal.
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Yeah.
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We sort of have given some of this
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like feedback already and it's, it's,
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it was, it was awesome to watch.
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There's just very, very minor things.
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Like if it,
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you could have popped up there,
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like occasionally just popped up times of
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people that had come through.
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So you should
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We lost signal for a second.
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We are in an Airbnb and we are
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subject to whatever Wi-Fi they have here.
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It took us a while to even get
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on the Wi-Fi.
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We talked to their media person,
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Patrick Clark,
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about the screens and he said they
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considered it,
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but running the wires around that area was
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going to be pretty cumbersome and
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and could cause some tripping hazards,
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things like that.
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So that was something that they had
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thought about.
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They did have it.
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The desk show is in that area of
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the facility.
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There's basically two floors.
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There's the floor where the vendors and
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the cornhole and the football,
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and then the combine was on one floor.
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And in that floor in the middle,
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they have the desk show.
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Yep.
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the thing you see with Derek and Seth
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and Annie and, uh, pit Malone.
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Um, and they, for the combine,
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they actually just turned around and
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watched it and they had screens telling
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them the time.
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So they were trying to say it out
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loud.
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It was just kind of hard to hear
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in there what those times were.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I almost could like,
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the athlete would finish running and like
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turn and walk by the judge to go
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back and they would give them their name
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and they would,
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they would tell the athlete what they got.
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And I would like,
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could sort of like either read his lips
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or hear him occasionally.
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So that's kind of how I caught some
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of the times,
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but it was still just watching them.
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Like, you're like, Oh, that one was fast.
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Oh, that one was not so great.
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Like,
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It's just cool.
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Yeah.
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And just like who stayed low at the
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start, who, and like on the five, ten,
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five,
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like who went lateral and who actually
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turned their body.
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It's just crazy.
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And then on the broad jump,
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what Gima heroes looked like going through
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the air was crazy.
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Awesome to see.
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Yeah.
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You just see him land and he's like
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basically at the end of all the hashtag
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hash marks.
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And you're like, wow.
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Yup.
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That's ain't nobody beating that.
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Yeah.
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I mean,
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it was the same when we could see
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Carolyn jump and you could see where,
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what hashtag she was on or hash mark.
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And you're like,
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Nobody's gotten that far.
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I don't think that's not going to be.
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Carolyn was the only one to go over
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the fourth hash mark.
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And speaking of Carolyn,
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she took third in the forty.
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She took second in the five, ten, five,
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and she took first in the broad jump.
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She actually ended up winning those three
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events in their scored segment by sixty
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some points.
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The bad news is she only gets a
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hundred for all three and second place got
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ninety seven or ninety six.
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Yeah, whatever this point spread is.
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So even though she won by sixty some
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points,
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she only had she only gets the four
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points or five points for whatever it is.
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It does suck.
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And one hand,
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it would be nice to make those their
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own scores, maybe not one hundred,
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maybe fifty, whatever,
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and and see that play out.
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But
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I mean,
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I also understand because it is a combined
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score.
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That is the event.
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Yeah, I guess.
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Yeah, and of course we have a bias.
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Right.
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Just because Caroline would have done
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amazing.
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If it had gone any other way,
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I don't know that we would...
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I didn't look further into any of the
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men scoring and
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um how it ranked out i just was
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it was quinn that one overall correct
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queen one uh i think gee took second
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yeah um which those were some crazy times
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uh we won't be able to see this
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but i can pull it up really quick
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um let's go to the men so if
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we yeah
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Quinn Gee, that's right, Noah Wilson.
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William Leahy took fourth.
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He looked good on those events.
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Yeah.
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And we'll get into more William Leahy.
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And then on the women's side,
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it was Carolyn and Mathilde Garnes.
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Emily Rethla, who looked so good.
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Lena Richter and then Astrid Tinn.
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Oh, and we were confused about this.
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Yeah.
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The audience can't see this, but, um,
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they had Sydney McAlishan as tenth.
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And I, if by eyesight,
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I would say Sydney Wells would have had
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a better combine score than Sydney
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McAlishan,
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but it has stayed as such all day.
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I know we're like,
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we both are going to fit for like,
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did they switch the Sydney's?
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Do they have the sin wrong?
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So is there Sydney Gate?
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We don't know.
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We don't know.
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So that ended.
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Awesome job.
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Kudos to everybody.
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I actually talked to Will Morad about the
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event.
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And he said that they actually consulted
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with people associated with the combine in
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the NFL to make sure it was done
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right.
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And I agree.
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That makes sense because it was it was
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very well.
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I love the lasers scoring.
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Yeah.
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And to be honest,
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like some of the scores were so tight.
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You had to have absolutely.
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You just had to without it.
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And what's cool is the first laser is
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like you start and it's two steps before
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you're through that first laser.
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So you're actually up to speed a little
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bit before you go.
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So, yeah,
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I think they did a great job.
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And that's just like they do for the
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NFL combine.
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You could tell a lot of people had
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never been in a three point stance.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And,
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and there's definitely some hamstring
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injuries.
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There was that,
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which is an unfortunate side effect of
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doing something like this, but yeah,
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there was probably, I don't know,
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probably like six.
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I know Chandler Yona, um,
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Sydney McElysian had her hamstring taped.
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There were a lot.
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I know I'm missing a ton.
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And when you saw event two, people,
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when they got introduced,
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couldn't even jog to their place.
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And it became more evident.
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But I talked to Will about that too.
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Like,
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did he think about the hamstring issue?
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And he said they did.
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And that's why they released it ten weeks
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before the event so people could have time
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to prepare.
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And you can't ask for anything more than
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that.
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Nope.
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I agree.
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so i thought that was awesome um then
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we went to event two and i know
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they said this um uh crossfit says do
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we think it's a failure to prepare well
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chandler was doing this every week and
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he's one of the ones that
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I don't know if he like he looked
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pretty good in event two.
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So I guess I don't know if he
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just kind of tweaked it a little bit
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and he's he's OK.
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And he looked flat out amazing in the
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forty until the pop.
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Yeah.
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When he when you saw it go,
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he had I mean, he pulled up immediately,
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but he looked like he may set the
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time.
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Yeah.
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Now, Quinn's time.
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I don't think anybody predicted that
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coming down the pipe.
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There's some people thinking he might be.
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Four, four?
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Well, I don't think we, I don't, yeah.
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I don't know what people were guessing the
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top times would be, but maybe four, six,
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four, five.
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Yeah.
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Two women ended up breaking the five
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second mark.
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Amy Kringle at four, nine, nine.
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And then a team female athlete went four,
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seven.
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Yeah.
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She beat a bunch of the men.
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Holy smokes.
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And then Quinn won on the men's side
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at four, four.
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I think it was Jamie at dinner was
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reading all the NFL players that.
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Amy is faster than?
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Amy was faster and that Quinn was faster.
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Oh yeah,
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there was a bunch that Quinn was faster
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than, yeah.
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Amy was faster than Lineman and Tom Brady.
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Quinn was faster than running backs and
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wide receivers.
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Yeah.
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And it was, that is impressive.
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Yeah, that was a cool post.
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Go check that out on World Fitness
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Project.
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So then we move to event two,
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which it's an event you just don't see
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in competition anymore.
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A long chipper.
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And it, it did not disappoint.
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It was actually really exciting to watch
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and some great finishes like racing to the
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end finishes in a. Fifteen to seventeen,
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eighteen minute event.
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Yeah, I, I loved it.
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It's one of my favorite events that we've
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seen.
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I know it's long.
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I know it makes for a long day
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of watching five heats of twenty minute
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heats.
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is long i personally just love watching
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fitness so i've thoroughly enjoyed it i
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can see where people may have gripes it's
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not as quick hitting as some of those
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like back-to-back quick events they did at
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the games and people seem to love the
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pace of the games i just i thought
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today was so well programmed it was one
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of my favorite days of competition
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And I don't even love like short sprints.
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Like I enjoyed the combine.
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It was fun.
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It was cool to see some of those
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times and then come over to a test
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that truly like anyone can,
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any one of these athletes can step out
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there and do one round of that sprint
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fast.
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It's,
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it's awesome to watch people like Olivia
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was just perfect to watch.
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Pace it correctly and finish strong.
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The amount of people that imploded in
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round four was crazy.
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Yeah.
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The implosions were because we don't do
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this.
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Exactly.
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For event in competition.
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Exactly.
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And so many people blew up.
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Yeah.
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I mean, epic blow ups were Kringle.
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who we didn't think had a weakness at
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the games,
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and now she blows up on this event.
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Tudor totally imploded.
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I know.
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I thought we were past that.
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Yeah, I thought so, too.
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And he came out looking good.
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He came out.
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Yeah, I mean,
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he was giving James a run for his
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money.
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And then James slammed the door.
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Yep.
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William Leahy was in one of the very
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early heats.
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He set the time to beat that did
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not get matched until James went in the
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last heat.
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It would have been fun to see them
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race each other.
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I agree.
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Because now William Leahy is in the lead.
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Yep.
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He's in first, Guy's in second,
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James is in third.
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William Leahy,
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maybe that's why Hiller's back on.
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Yeah, did he pull him out?
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Pull him out of hiding.
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His prediction for William Leahy is
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finally coming true.
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He did look good today.
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We'll see how that tank goes, though.
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Dude,
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the unbroken parallel handstand push-ups
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were impressive.
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That's where, like,
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Bill's handstand push-ups looked so good
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the entire workout.
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Almost everyone else broke down.
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James looked good, but he had to break.
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James is...
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GHGs were incredibly fast.
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And I feel like that's where Bill was
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taking his rest.
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I don't know if it would have been
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a different race had he had competition on
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the floor.
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I don't know.
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I don't think Bill has a coach yet.
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Cross fat.
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And I, and I do think,
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I think that tutor has been trying to
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work with mental coaches.
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Yeah.
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I think that people just aren't used to
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the long chip.
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And they went out too fast.
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Yeah.
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Amy Kringle,
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I think is a bad-ass CrossFitter who just
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went out too quick and couldn't hang on
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for four rounds of that.
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That sled was heavy.
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You had to have been strong enough to
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handle this one.
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Or, I mean,
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cause there were people that third round
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three and four,
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they just were too slow at the sled.
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They couldn't keep up with it or the
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combination of that sled.
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going back to the handstand push-up they
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were at the wall way too long or
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failing handstand push-ups um i know
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people early on asked about velner and if
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there were any updates there are no
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official updates that we know of um where
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the media was supposed to be we were
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on the other side of the floor so
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we didn't see it happen
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I've seen the clip of Katrin saying, oh,
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it landed on his ankle.
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Right.
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We thought it was an Achilles because he
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was grabbing the back of his leg.
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But then I went back and watched the
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YouTube and he's not on camera when it
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happens.
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Right.
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So it's hard to say what happened with
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Velner.
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Yeah, it was kind of like for us,
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it was just like the broadcast.
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Like I was watching the floor and I
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like,
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turn and looked at at um travis and
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then look and then looked over and pat
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was on the ground so i also like
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kind of followed the camera's eyesight
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towards travis picking up the sled and
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missed and i just i see i see
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pat on the ground i'm like what's
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happening
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Right.
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You actually said to me,
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what happened to Pat?
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Yeah.
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Cause I'd moved to Travis cause Travis
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took the lead at that moment.
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And, uh, and then you tapped me like,
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what happened to Pat?
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And then we were trying to figure it
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out,
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but it was literally as far away across
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the field.
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He was lane one and we were over
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on lane ten.
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So probably wouldn't,
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I don't even know if we would have
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been able to see it happen anyway,
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if we had been watching him.
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So clock the running start,
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Watch the NFL combine.
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The first laser is just after the start.
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And that's what they did here.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's like a yard.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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Somebody else had made a comment about
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that.
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I saw just scrolling through Instagram and
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somebody else posted like times and they
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added point one five to everyone's time to
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like try to compare it to the NFL.
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I actually think that might be the post
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that shows who Amy Kringle is faster than
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like they added point one five to all
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the times.
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And still,
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and still that's who they're faster than.
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So I don't know.
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I don't know.
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Again, I consulted with the NFL for this,
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not the NFL, but people that are,
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that are associated with the combine.
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Um, and it was,
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you can nitpick it all you want.
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It was fun to watch.
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Yeah.
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I can see.
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I know their concern was athletes fall
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starting.
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or tripping that laser early.
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And so it makes perfect sense to me
21:10
why you do it.
21:11
Is it perfectly comparable?
21:12
Maybe not, but I still,
21:14
I think it was, we're compared,
21:16
it's for fun to like compare it to
21:18
other things.
21:19
This was, for today,
21:22
this was perfect to test these athletes.
21:25
Yeah, CrossFit, the NFL,
21:28
the NFL system is more robust because they
21:30
measure the ten-yard split,
21:32
the twenty-yard split, and the forty.
21:34
Yeah.
21:35
And so this was just the forty,
21:37
but it did it's to have the same
21:39
lasers they used at the NFL combine.
21:44
And they did that for the five, ten,
21:45
five, and they did it for the forty,
21:48
which I don't see any other competition
21:53
taking on that expense to make it a
21:55
legit test.
21:58
I mean,
21:58
how the masters athletes at the games
22:00
didn't even get chip timers.
22:02
No.
22:05
Yeah, this feels, I mean,
22:08
it's obviously individuals tough to
22:10
compare to us, but it feels prestigious.
22:15
They did not reach out to somebody in
22:16
India.
22:16
It was someone in Nashville.
22:19
Um,
22:20
Who is involved with tight end you who's
22:23
involved with the combine and he helps
22:25
train some of the tight ends like George
22:27
Kittle, uh,
22:29
and people like that for these types of
22:31
things.
22:32
Um, so yeah, I mean,
22:38
I had a nice long conversation with will,
22:41
um,
22:41
and they put a lot of effort into
22:43
this.
22:45
And like Jamie said,
22:46
today was one of the most enjoyable days
22:48
of watching competition.
22:50
that I've had in a long time.
22:53
And I'm just sad that more people weren't
22:55
here to see it.
22:56
I agree.
22:58
It is a little disheartening not seeing
23:00
more like true friends of the sport come
23:02
here to watch this because it's awesome.
23:05
And like fans and athletes alike are being
23:10
treated very well.
23:13
The whole thing just seems very
23:14
professional.
23:15
It does.
23:16
If photo sales are cheaper than chips,
23:18
then CrossFit should go to photo sales.
23:22
because they were legit tracking it all
23:26
the way down.
23:27
Um, okay.
23:27
Um,
23:35
I got news that I'm not allowed to
23:36
share.
23:41
So anyway, um,
23:47
That threw me off.
23:49
They were getting to the minute second and
23:53
differentiating everybody,
23:55
especially on that five, ten, five.
23:57
And I would love to see that at
24:02
a finish line at the games.
24:05
The five, ten,
24:06
five was cool to watch because some people
24:08
like turn and stop and turn completely and
24:11
start running forward.
24:12
Some people are really good at the
24:13
lateral.
24:14
Some people kept losing their footing and
24:16
falling down.
24:18
I mean,
24:19
that's why he had the three attempts.
24:22
Who's Greg Kittle?
24:23
I said George Kittle.
24:24
You did.
24:24
Yeah.
24:30
Yeah.
24:32
It was, but it, again,
24:34
both events were great to watch.
24:36
Both events were fun.
24:38
You know,
24:38
who surprised the hell out of me.
24:40
And she always does.
24:40
And I don't know why I haven't gotten
24:42
over it.
24:43
Lydia fish thrown around that big,
24:46
heavy sled.
24:47
People were failing.
24:49
She never failed.
24:51
And she just chipped away at that thing.
24:55
And she's in contention for a podium spot.
24:58
She's crushing it.
24:59
She paced it perfectly too.
25:00
Yeah.
25:02
That's the thing.
25:03
Like I like instead of just these,
25:05
I mean,
25:06
Olivia crushed it and she's clearly like a
25:09
powerful athlete,
25:10
but she truly has some fitness because she
25:12
was able to hold onto it and somebody,
25:14
but then somebody like Lydia,
25:15
Lydia was not a power athlete gets the
25:19
time to work her way back up and
25:21
out last some of these athletes that had
25:24
it been one round and just power output.
25:26
It's just not the same.
25:28
Yeah.
25:30
She's impressive.
25:31
And she is so much smaller than most
25:33
of the athletes out there.
25:35
It's crazy to see her.
25:38
And Travis said they have the flip side,
25:40
so maybe she's getting plenty of work on
25:41
that at PTT.
25:42
That's true.
25:43
Because he moved it very well.
25:45
I mean,
25:46
he's going to move it well regardless.
25:49
Especially when you dog the Combine.
25:52
He was fresh.
25:54
I know that was the other heartbreaking
25:56
thing about Pat.
25:56
We wanted Pat to beat him because Pat
25:58
tried so hard in the combine.
26:01
Yeah, Pat took eighth in the combine.
26:03
He went hard.
26:04
And not bad for an old man.
26:07
Yeah.
26:07
Travis Mayer
26:09
jogged the forty, jogged the five, ten,
26:13
five.
26:14
Now, in his interview,
26:14
he said that he had a pooled abductor.
26:17
Yeah.
26:18
And so he was taking it easy to
26:21
try to make it through the weekend.
26:23
And so he was fresh for event two.
26:25
And he even said,
26:26
felt like my first event.
26:27
Well, because it was.
26:28
Yeah, he did good.
26:31
It was a good event for him.
26:34
But yeah, great day.
26:37
Very, everything was very professional.
26:40
Everybody that dogs, the lighting,
26:43
it was so nice.
26:44
It's cool.
26:46
It looks like it for pictures.
26:49
Oh yeah.
26:49
The lighting for pictures is so much
26:51
better.
26:53
So much better.
26:55
Um,
26:56
there's still a lot of people on the
26:57
floor.
26:58
Yeah.
27:01
Oh my gosh.
27:02
Why we need.
27:07
Five cameras at one time.
27:09
Really no freaking sense to me.
27:12
And she was in lane ten.
27:14
So you couldn't see past them to get
27:16
to see anybody else.
27:19
Now,
27:19
I'll say the bleachers are nice because
27:21
they're elevated.
27:23
So you can see over the people.
27:26
My other little bone of contention which
27:28
is just a small little one is there
27:30
is a media pit yet
27:33
fans are now walking into the media pit
27:35
and taking up the space on the barricade
27:38
which is a little bit aggravating and
27:42
it'll probably get busier tomorrow yeah
27:44
more aggravating yeah i love today i'm
27:48
excited for tomorrow i almost i almost
27:50
think i might like tomorrow more than
27:51
today which is i like i you know
27:55
i like run so i'm excited and i'm
27:57
excited to get outside because it's cold
27:58
in there
27:59
I'm excited to be outside tomorrow
28:01
morning.
28:01
I did not think it was cold in
28:02
there.
28:02
It was cold in there.
28:04
Especially when I was trying to get.
28:06
So to get you,
28:07
we have a spot at the finish line,
28:09
but to get to it,
28:11
you have to basically leave the little
28:13
venue and haul ass down behind the
28:15
bleachers and get down there.
28:18
I left and Amy Kringle was in first
28:20
place.
28:21
I got down to the other thing,
28:23
hauling ass and she is in third.
28:25
Yep.
28:26
Because of the implosion.
28:30
Yeah,
28:30
that's what happens when you hit your
28:33
horse to one athlete and they don't always
28:35
pull through.
28:38
Clock says the lighting was good finally.
28:41
Chat moaning and bitching for the win.
28:44
Look,
28:45
I don't know what the broadcast looked
28:47
like.
28:48
The stuff on the Jumbotron looked
28:50
pristine.
28:50
Oh, man, it's crisp.
28:52
That is high def.
28:53
And I think that's the broadcast.
28:55
I would think that's the same stream that
28:56
the audience is seeing.
28:59
But the lighting in person is phenomenal.
29:02
It's cool.
29:04
The smoke coming out,
29:05
everything is so awesome.
29:07
Like,
29:07
it'd be such a cool experience as an
29:09
athlete.
29:10
I looked at Jamie and I said,
29:11
this feels like an, a big event.
29:16
They make it feel like a big event
29:18
when not only for the athletes,
29:20
but for the spectators, it just feel,
29:23
it has that feel of what you would
29:26
expect the games to be.
29:27
Yes.
29:29
And the games doesn't do smoke and the
29:31
games doesn't do a special lighting.
29:34
There's a lot of things that like this
29:36
does better.
29:37
I agree.
29:42
And again,
29:42
that second workout was something we
29:44
haven't seen even at the games in a
29:47
long time.
29:50
Yeah,
29:50
because they think they do their run,
29:52
and they're like, oh,
29:53
we've done a long event.
29:54
We've tested endurance.
29:55
Have we?
29:55
Yeah, I was just going to say,
29:59
JR mentioned that last night,
30:01
that programmers seem to think we did a
30:04
long run.
30:05
That's the endurance event.
30:06
Now we can just go to the rest.
30:08
Yep.
30:09
And this was...
30:12
This was a nice long chipper.
30:16
And I didn't even mind how long it
30:17
took to get through all the heat.
30:18
I didn't mind it either.
30:20
Because it was fun to watch.
30:22
I mean,
30:22
there was someone in every heat that was
30:24
worth watching.
30:26
Even those early heats set some blistering
30:29
times.
30:30
So it was exciting.
30:31
Every heat was exciting.
30:40
Who was banned?
30:45
oh like the jy stuff oh maybe i'm
30:50
so old can't we just move on i
30:52
don't know the chat in the wfp when
30:58
you're watching it live hmm yeah that's
31:01
too bad yeah just watch it without the
31:03
chat i just turned off it makes the
31:05
screen clear the chat usually runs over
31:07
the live scoring anyway so you just turn
31:09
the chat off yeah the live scoring is
31:12
awesome
31:13
And with it being on the Jumbotron.
31:17
Mark Phillips.
31:22
So I will say this, Mark Phillips.
31:23
It has not been without our rants today.
31:26
True.
31:27
We have had our disagreements.
31:28
She has called in third-party members to
31:31
prove that she is right in our arguments
31:35
at the venue.
31:37
I'm just argued out.
31:40
She has worn me down to the point
31:42
where I just can't anymore.
31:47
So yeah, maybe after a good night's sleep,
31:51
we'll go for round two tomorrow.
31:53
We just haven't had to like fight and
31:55
argue with access and area and other
32:02
people.
32:02
Like it's just been nice.
32:04
It has.
32:06
We've been treated almost...
32:07
It feels like we've been treated like
32:10
we're important.
32:12
And I just don't even... I don't...
32:16
I've never felt that way.
32:19
I almost don't want other external media
32:21
to come.
32:23
I mean,
32:23
I do because they deserve the exposure,
32:24
but it's nice.
32:27
If we're one of the few that want
32:29
to come talk about it for them and
32:33
they're willing to...
32:35
People are missing out is all I can
32:36
say.
32:36
Yeah.
32:37
Again, very enjoyable experience.
32:40
Very nice parking.
32:42
Yeah.
32:44
It was twenty five dollars parking for the
32:46
whole weekend.
32:47
That's the other thing.
32:48
Like the pricing on this.
32:50
That's where I'm sad.
32:52
More spectators are coming because it's
32:54
like ninety nine bucks for the whole
32:55
weekend.
32:56
And like.
32:58
That's that's more reasonable.
33:00
That's what the CrossFit game like
33:02
CrossFit game shouldn't be more than two
33:03
hundred bucks.
33:05
Yeah.
33:05
Ninety,
33:06
ninety-nine dollars for the whole weekend.
33:07
No fees on that.
33:08
That was straight.
33:09
That was it.
33:10
No service fees.
33:11
Just ninety-nine bucks the whole weekend
33:14
and twenty-five dollars to park for the
33:16
whole weekend.
33:19
So you get all three days for a
33:21
buck twenty-four and you're done.
33:25
And I'm just going to say that the
33:27
third party she called in on one of
33:29
the arguments today was Hiller.
33:32
Freaking Hiller.
33:34
And he's not even here.
33:37
But he's making meat again.
33:38
So, yeah, all is right in the world,
33:40
I guess.
33:43
And so I lost another argument.
33:49
The camera cutting away from Vellner and
33:51
Jeremy immediately reading an ad for the
33:54
celebrity was funny.
33:54
Yeah, that's weird.
33:56
Yeah, we just...
33:57
We were just catching Heller's recap on
33:59
that.
33:59
We haven't made that through.
34:00
I literally just caught that, so...
34:03
We actually just got back from dinner and
34:05
immediately went live so we could talk
34:08
about what we saw today.
34:11
Tomorrow we have the bench press.
34:14
We have the run.
34:16
And we have something in the middle.
34:17
Is tomorrow the sandbag squat and pull-up
34:20
one?
34:22
I don't know.
34:27
I can look real quick.
34:28
It was not about the Bears.
34:30
It was not.
34:34
Okay, yep.
34:35
That's four.
34:37
So it's five.
34:42
Yep.
34:43
Chest to bar, sandbag squat, sled push.
34:45
Yeah,
34:45
their legs are going to be wrecked
34:46
tomorrow.
34:47
I'm excited to see that one.
34:49
That one's going to hurt.
34:58
The way the floor is laid out with
35:00
the turf and the rubber...
35:03
is really cool too,
35:05
because it allows for like the flip sled
35:07
in one section and then like the GHDs
35:11
and stuff like that in the other section.
35:13
And it was really cool that the lights
35:15
did not turn on for the finish run
35:17
until someone was finishing.
35:21
Yeah.
35:21
That whole end of the floor didn't even
35:23
need to be lit up.
35:23
Like it brings your focus to where,
35:26
where everything is.
35:27
Yeah.
35:28
This will,
35:28
the sled push will be on that turf
35:29
tomorrow.
35:30
It's going to be, I'm excited.
35:31
Yeah.
35:34
it has been it has been awesome um
35:39
we're going to come back on tomorrow night
35:41
i don't know how late tomorrow goes me
35:43
either the run will take a while right
35:49
like forty forty five minutes yeah um but
35:54
i want to say that yeah and then
35:57
the bench press shouldn't take that long
36:00
And that other workout isn't really,
36:03
so maybe it won't,
36:04
but I think three team events are tomorrow
36:05
too.
36:06
And they have the activations in between.
36:09
So, yeah.
36:11
So we'll, uh,
36:12
we'll catch the action tomorrow and then
36:14
we'll be on for that.
36:16
And then we'll probably do a full show
36:18
with Carolyn like Tuesday.
36:22
Okay.
36:23
After cause I'm assuming you and I are
36:24
heading out of here as soon as this
36:26
is over.
36:27
Because I got to work Monday morning.
36:30
And then we'll probably go Tuesday when
36:32
nothing else is on.
36:33
Okay.
36:33
That works.
36:36
Tessa, you should be bummed.
36:38
It has really been an enjoyable
36:40
experience.
36:44
But at least you can always watch the
36:45
replay.
36:47
Just open Instagram and get scores.
36:48
Just open it when you can.
36:52
I enjoyed the games a lot watching it.
36:55
I think I've enjoyed this more.
36:58
Yeah, we're one day in.
37:01
We'll compare at the end of the weekend.
37:05
CrossFit says worried about Achilles,
37:07
to be honest.
37:08
That was our first thought.
37:09
That's exactly what I said.
37:11
I saw him reaching for the back of
37:13
his leg.
37:14
That is what I thought.
37:15
Everybody is saying that it is the sled
37:19
falling on his ankle,
37:21
but we'll wait to hear.
37:24
You know, there are HIPAA.
37:25
I know he's Canadian,
37:26
so I don't know if he's under HIPAA,
37:28
but in this, the United States, we are,
37:32
we have HIPAA rules that we can and
37:35
cannot release information.
37:38
Did anyone pull a hamstring on the Forty?
37:40
Yes, lots.
37:44
It was a lot of grabbing.
37:45
Yonah Koski and Chandler were probably the
37:46
two biggest names that pulled a hammy.
37:51
Sidney McElishnett and hers taped up.
37:54
I don't think I, I, there was,
37:56
there was a couple other women,
37:58
but they were in earlier heats.
38:01
Um,
38:06
I don't know if it did fall on
38:08
him, Tessa, Tessa.
38:09
I, I mean, we didn't see it.
38:11
So what I'm hearing now is he's going
38:12
to make an announcement in the morning.
38:17
Yeah.
38:17
Tire flips two up Achilles that strong and
38:19
I could see it.
38:21
I was talking to Scott about that right
38:22
after it happened.
38:23
I was explaining if anyone watched seven
38:25
on with Greg on Wednesday and they were
38:27
talking about the,
38:30
I don't know if it was jujitsu or
38:32
karate that came in for like level twos
38:34
and tore a couple of Achilles from the
38:37
planted foot from the other one kicking.
38:40
That was my thought process here with that
38:44
planted foot kick, pushing up the sled.
38:47
But I don't know.
38:51
Yeah.
38:52
But we're now hearing that he'll make an
38:54
announcement.
38:55
Okay.
38:57
Yeah, we're bummed regardless.
38:59
I mean, you know,
39:01
he didn't put any weight walking off.
39:03
So either way...
39:05
Early retirement just sucks.
39:07
I was really excited to see him here
39:08
this weekend.
39:09
And he looked good.
39:10
I know.
39:11
He looked good in both the Combine and
39:13
Event Two.
39:15
You know, Event Two was pure CrossFit-y.
39:18
And he was, other than Travis,
39:20
he was out there.
39:21
And I think he would have caught Travis
39:25
in the end.
39:29
It's the universe telling him it's over.
39:31
Yeah.
39:33
Maybe.
39:34
Maybe.
39:37
He's had a great,
39:37
he had a great career.
39:38
If this is it,
39:40
and this is how he goes out.
39:42
The man did a lot with what he
39:44
had and he was always fun.
39:47
One of my favorite athletes.
39:53
Um, let me see that.
39:59
Uh, hold on.
39:59
There might be something now.
40:22
grin out oh he's good kind of what
40:23
happened in the second event today um
40:24
because i understand the feed uh showed
40:25
some dramatic stuff and uh people aren't
40:29
really sure what
40:33
on my left leg while I was doing
40:35
the flip sled when I went to split
40:37
stance in the clean or my back leg
40:41
Achilles and then I tried to ditch the
40:43
sled to the side and I went down
40:46
to kind of grab my leg and then
40:49
the sled like bounced off the ground and
40:50
then kind of landed on my other leg
40:52
while it was already flat on the ground
40:54
so pictures of like the sled on my
40:57
leg like it crushed me that had nothing
40:58
to do with that didn't hurt me and
41:00
that my right leg is completely fine
41:04
My left leg is not.
41:04
I have a full torn Achilles on my
41:05
left.
41:06
The injury before the sled ever ended up
41:08
on top of me.
41:08
That was like an aftermath consequence.
41:10
So, yeah, that's what happened.
41:15
That's exactly what I thought happened.
41:18
Yeah.
41:19
Jamie and I actually both thought Achilles
41:20
early,
41:21
and everybody was trying to tell us it
41:23
was something else.
41:24
But now we know for sure.
41:27
CrossFit says foot flattens with fatigue.
41:32
I mean,
41:32
you just came from those tall box jumps.
41:34
You just came from doing... The combine.
41:36
Yeah, the combine.
41:37
Then those box jumps into that.
41:39
And I... Yeah, that sucks.
41:43
Yeah.
41:44
I'm bummed.
41:45
So...
41:46
Yeah, he had a great career.
41:50
Again,
41:51
my favorite memory of him and you is
41:54
you running with him in Pasadena to get
41:57
the interview and he was pissed about the
42:00
sleds.
42:02
That's still like my favorite.
42:05
And the other memory I have of him
42:06
is his wife, Michelle,
42:08
lost her keys at the games.
42:11
And he came up to us and asked
42:13
if we'd found them or if we could
42:15
help find them.
42:17
And at the time,
42:18
Amy was a co-host on the show.
42:20
She found the keys.
42:21
Wow.
42:23
How?
42:25
Just happened upon them.
42:26
It wasn't even like... That's insane.
42:29
Yeah.
42:30
We were in that and Madison,
42:32
there was that athlete area where the
42:34
athletes kind of hung out and warmed up
42:37
and all that.
42:39
Um, and the media area was there too,
42:41
upstairs.
42:42
So it's not like a lot of people
42:45
come and go from that area.
42:47
And so she might've just left them sitting
42:50
somewhere.
42:50
Yeah.
42:50
That's crazy.
42:53
Meredith says, uh, he went out swinging.
42:57
Yeah, my favorite picture he posted,
42:59
and I didn't even see this until just
43:01
now, is, I don't know if I can.
43:10
This is him in the broad jump.
43:12
And he typed we on it.
43:15
I love it.
43:19
So.
43:20
There are some really cool pictures out of
43:23
all of that.
43:24
I mean, Carolyn's got an amazing one.
43:27
Her start of the forties,
43:29
someone took a black and white picture of
43:31
her that if it were me,
43:33
it would be blown up and framed on
43:36
my wall.
43:37
And then Guy,
43:38
someone got a picture of Guy doing the
43:40
broad jump.
43:41
He looks like Superman.
43:45
I do not know what's going on with
43:47
Ella.
43:48
I found that very strange that she didn't
43:50
even attempt one handstand pushup because
43:53
I thought there was a minimum work
43:54
requirement.
43:56
so is she out but she came out
43:58
on the floor i don't know no she
44:01
couldn't have hurt the shoulder in the
44:03
combine she had to come in hurt i
44:09
mean she's not going to hurt your shoulder
44:12
i mean sam sam cornway is hurt
44:16
There's a bunch of dudes out there that
44:17
are hurting.
44:18
I got through that.
44:18
And he was doing six inch box jumps.
44:22
I don't understand what looked to be a
44:24
wonky knee.
44:25
He was one leg jumping for the last
44:29
few minutes of that workout.
44:31
And that's why the Travis mayor thing kind
44:35
of got me a little bit.
44:37
Now he did finish,
44:39
but he just jogged it.
44:40
Yeah.
44:41
But Ella didn't even take the floor.
44:44
She just sat there and chatted with her
44:45
judge.
44:46
Yeah.
44:46
She didn't even kick upside down once.
44:49
That didn't make sense to me.
44:50
I thought there was a minimum work
44:51
requirement.
44:53
I actually passed her on the way out,
44:55
but she was in full conversation with
44:57
somebody.
44:59
Because I did want to ask her.
45:00
Because she looks so good in the combine.
45:02
I know.
45:06
I was looking forward to seeing what else
45:07
was going to come.
45:08
Yeah.
45:10
I guess we'll see if she's out.
45:12
Maybe we can talk to her tomorrow.
45:13
We'll see if she...
45:15
She should do good in that tanky run
45:16
if she takes the floor for that one.
45:21
Yeah.
45:22
She doesn't have to go inverted.
45:24
Yeah.
45:24
I mean, she's a good runner.
45:27
Yeah.
45:27
I think the wild thing is Emily Rethwell
45:30
killed the combine,
45:32
did pretty good in event two,
45:34
and she's going to kill this run tomorrow.
45:36
She will kill the run, bro.
45:39
And she's going to be in the top
45:40
five by going into the fourth event.
45:43
Mm-hmm.
45:46
Emily Rathwell.
45:49
Who, who had that?
45:50
I know, but like, you just,
45:53
she's not that person you think of.
45:55
That's going to be top five halfway
45:57
through the weekend.
46:00
Who looked the biggest in person for
46:02
females?
46:07
Hmm.
46:07
Amanda Fisher.
46:10
Yeah.
46:11
But she just is a bit like she
46:13
looks big on TV.
46:14
Yeah.
46:17
Amy Kringle,
46:18
this is a funny story from today.
46:20
So Jamie took a picture the other day,
46:22
and we're not going to pull it out,
46:24
where her hamstring was very pronounced.
46:26
Yeah, I was embarrassed.
46:28
My sister took a picture and posted it.
46:30
I'm like, dude, be nicer.
46:33
So Amy's running the .
46:37
And Jamie sees the same hamstring
46:41
pronunciation
46:43
And she's like, that's that.
46:45
And then she pulled up this picture for
46:47
me to watch.
46:48
Look at them both.
46:48
Look at them both.
46:51
Amy is jacked.
46:53
Amy is jacked.
46:55
I'm not that jacked.
46:57
But we have similar hamstrings,
46:58
apparently.
46:58
Well,
47:00
apparently that means you can run a sub
47:02
five foot.
47:03
Folks, I would tear something.
47:08
Yeah.
47:09
Who's the biggest of the females?
47:14
I mean,
47:15
I always think Emily Rolfe looks jacked
47:17
out there.
47:19
She's just taller than everyone.
47:25
Yeah,
47:26
but Emily was like wearing long sleeves
47:28
today.
47:28
Yeah.
47:29
So it was hard to tell with her.
47:31
Emma Tall is, but she's short.
47:34
Not tall.
47:35
The last name is.
47:39
Yeah.
47:39
But she is jacked.
47:40
She always has been.
47:42
Honestly,
47:42
I almost feel like she looks smaller now
47:47
than she has in years past.
47:48
You know what did surprise me?
47:49
David Sharunky in Corn Rose.
47:53
I've only ever seen him bald.
47:55
Maybe I didn't even recognize who he was.
47:57
You'll have to point him out.
48:00
Yeah, Emma is definitely yoked.
48:03
But she is not tall in stature.
48:05
No.
48:09
Uh,
48:09
I'll think about that tomorrow and get
48:10
back to you.
48:11
I'll try to think who's the.
48:16
Yeah.
48:17
Yeah.
48:17
I'll look for it tomorrow.
48:20
He looks like a specimen.
48:22
You thought Harry Lightfoot was bigger
48:24
than you expected.
48:24
Yeah.
48:25
Harry looked big, not taller,
48:27
but he just looked thicker than I thought
48:30
Harry was.
48:30
Um, hopefully he's feeling better.
48:34
He looks good out there.
48:37
Um,
48:40
I didn't see the guy in cornrows.
48:41
I don't know what to tell you.
48:44
I just didn't see him.
48:47
Yeah.
48:48
So when I went down to the finish
48:49
line, Emma won that.
48:53
Yeah.
48:54
He was,
48:55
he was in this VIP area and he
48:58
leaned over the,
48:59
the barricade to like hug her and have
49:02
a conversation with her.
49:03
Yeah.
49:04
And that's, that's why I saw him.
49:10
Yes.
49:11
David Shrunke's cornrows look very similar
49:13
to Dave Castro's cornrows.
49:14
Oh, wow.
49:15
Okay.
49:15
Yeah.
49:17
You can't miss them.
49:21
My prediction is by tomorrow night,
49:25
James Frank will have a commanding lead.
49:31
How do you think he's going to do
49:32
a bench press?
49:33
I think that's the only trip up he's
49:35
going to have.
49:35
But he's gained so much strength.
49:38
Yeah.
49:39
Yeah.
49:40
So I think at worst it's a mid
49:42
pack and then he's going to kill the
49:44
run and he'll do the kill the other
49:48
thing too.
49:49
And he just looks like he's in that.
49:51
His family's here.
49:53
Like the whole damn family is here rooting
49:57
him on.
49:58
And I think that helps.
50:00
I saw his dad.
50:02
Danica was standing right beside me when I
50:04
was in the media pit.
50:06
She was jumping and shaking my camera as
50:08
I was trying to take pictures.
50:10
Wayne, you know,
50:13
I didn't think Laura looked good in the
50:15
chipper either.
50:16
I thought she looked great.
50:19
But for a handstand push-up workout,
50:21
I think she took eleventh.
50:22
Right.
50:23
I think she looked great.
50:31
She's going to do well tomorrow.
50:33
Laura's going to get a lot of points
50:35
tomorrow.
50:37
Who got the biggest crowd reaction and why
50:39
was it Colton?
50:40
It wasn't Colton KDL.
50:42
I think there's a kid here in the
50:44
early heats who I think is from
50:46
Indianapolis because he has his own
50:49
little, and they are loud.
50:53
I thought it was Will Kearney,
50:54
which I don't think he is from around
50:56
here.
50:56
I don't even,
50:56
I think he's from like England.
50:59
Maybe not,
51:00
but I know you're talking about, yes,
51:01
they have like twelve.
51:03
They have their shirts.
51:04
Yeah.
51:05
Um, he's actually getting cheers.
51:08
I've a lot of times when he's gone,
51:09
I've heard cheers.
51:11
Um, who else?
51:14
I mean, Lydia has her fish heads.
51:19
I thought Colton was going to tank event
51:21
too.
51:22
And then he came out of nowhere.
51:23
He paced that one really well.
51:25
Chris, I borrowed them.
51:27
Good.
51:28
I actually talked to Nick Johnston and
51:30
Kiefer on the way out.
51:32
Chris has big goals for this weekend.
51:35
Good.
51:36
He was mad he didn't make the games,
51:38
and he's been busting his butt to have
51:42
a big weekend this weekend.
51:44
This is Chris's games.
51:45
I love that.
51:47
I love that mindset.
51:50
So, yeah, that was really cool, too.
51:54
Yeah,
51:54
Chris looked good in the combine and –
51:56
the trip he looked really good like just
51:59
quietly he never was he never led but
52:02
he just was right there with the lead
52:04
pack and he was in the same heat
52:06
as james and james beat the time to
52:09
beat by thirty seconds right so his second
52:13
place finish in that heat was pretty good
52:15
it was excellent well i think that's it
52:19
i think that's it i think that's it
52:22
We'll be back at it tomorrow.
52:24
We'll let you know what we see tomorrow
52:26
night.
52:27
And hope everybody has a great night.
52:30
And we will see everybody next time.
52:33
Live from WFP.
52:36
And this touchpad is going to be the
52:39
death of me.