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Emily Rolfe - Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't have to ride away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how it win us, man.
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  Stick a fork in the head of
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  my dinner plate.
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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to the Clydesdale
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  media's semi-finalist
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  series this is our second
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  so far yesterday we
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  interviewed Scott Tetlow
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  didn't see that go check
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  that out it's on YouTube
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  now and today we're
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  starting our all like I
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  think it's Canada Day here
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  at Clydesdale media our
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  first Canadian of three
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  today Emily Rolfe what's
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  going on Emily hello
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  Yeah.
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  We've been accused of being Canadian bias,
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  and we're really proving it today.
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  Who isn't?
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  We're so nice.
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  So I'm so excited to have
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  you on the show because
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  last year it was like we
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  talked every week.
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  We followed you through the whole season,
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  got to know you really well,
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  and this year I haven't got
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  to talk to you at all.
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  Yeah, I know.
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  I mean, it's kind of flown by, though,
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  you have to admit.
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  Yeah.
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  It is.
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  It almost feels compressed, but it's not.
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  Yeah.
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  Like quarterfinals are done
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  and semifinals are almost here.
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  Yeah,
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  I think last year quarters were right
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  after the Open and then
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  there was a long until
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  semis and now it's like the opposite.
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  We had a few lull weeks there and then,
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  yeah, quarters and go.
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  So there's a lot of noise
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  around quarterfinals this year.
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  Were you impacted by any of that,
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  like emotionally, mentally,
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  anything like that,
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  just trying to get through the week?
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  Or did you just ignore it
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  and figured you'd come out
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  on the other side?
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  A little bit of both.
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  I think, like everyone,
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  I kind of naively just put
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  in my scores and was like, okay, sweet,
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  done.
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  And then when all the
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  penalties started rolling out,
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  it was like, ooh.
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  Yeah.
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  And like everyone knows,
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  I redid that first workout
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  three times because I had video issues.
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  So the benefit of that was I
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  watched my first video until it cut out.
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  And yeah,
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  I just picked out a couple of
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  tweaks and was like,
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  some of those step ups,
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  like if they want to be really strict,
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  they could be.
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  And yeah,
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  so really it was a blessing that
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  I redid it because who knows,
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  I could have been...
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  could have been on the other
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  side of that so really
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  lucky there it was painful
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  at the time but I'm lucky
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  and so I i kind of want to
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  dive into that a little bit
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  you know carolyn privo is a
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  part of our thursday night
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  show now she said she did
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  that workout looked at it
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  and said if they want to be
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  strict they could they
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  could know rep me here and
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  she redid it as well and
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  thank goodness because now
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  you're both are sitting in
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  the top 10 going into semifinals
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  Do you review all your
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  videos or was it just
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  because you had the clock issue?
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  Yeah.
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  Well, from now on I will, but no,
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  usually I don't.
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  So usually,
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  which is crazy now that I think about it,
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  cause so much can go wrong.
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  Um, but no, usually I just upload it,
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  copy the link to my notes
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  and submit it when, you know, I,
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  I check to make sure it plays,
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  but I've never watched it fully through.
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  Um,
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  Um,
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  which is a lesson that now I will for
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  sure.
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  Do you think that changes
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  across the board for all athletes now?
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  I think a little bit for sure.
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  Um, and I think it was hard because, uh,
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  maybe the angles at what
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  people videoed out were
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  different and because there was no,
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  there was no guidelines there.
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  So I think that made it tough for people.
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  Um, yeah, it's just unfortunate situation,
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  but cause again, if you're competing live,
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  your judge tells you once you fix it,
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  you missed the one rep.
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  Like you didn't fly through
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  the workout and then get told after,
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  which,
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  Yeah,
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  I feel for the athletes that that
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  happened to.
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  It sucks.
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  So I've made an argument
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  that probably doesn't put
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  me on the popular side of the athletes.
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  I don't know.
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  But I've seen a lot of
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  really good athletes not
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  get moved forward because of crap videos.
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  Yeah.
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  And people who do not meet the standards,
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  then they get to semifinals
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  or the next live competition,
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  and they're incapable of
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  doing the work that's
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  required at that level.
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  Yeah.
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  So I think it's a good step
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  if we're going to go in
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  this direction consistently.
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  Yeah.
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  And across the board,
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  like I think they should
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  have had quarters right
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  after the open to give more
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  time for video review to
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  make sure all the videos got that review.
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  Yeah.
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  Cause yeah, people are complaining that,
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  Oh,
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  like they didn't even look at three
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  and four or some people did,
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  but it's like,
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  I think they say they're
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  only going to look at one.
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  I mean,
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  they obviously have to look at more
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  for the top 40,
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  but basically if you have a
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  test and there's four tests
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  and you don't know which
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  one they're going to review,
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  you best do well on all
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  four because you don't know.
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  And I think that's what they
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  kind of go for, but I don't know.
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  Yeah.
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  I wish we could give them
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  more time or more staff to
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  be able to do it because it seems silly.
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  It's like drug testing one
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  or two people on a team and
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  you're good to go if one or two pass.
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  Yeah.
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  You know,
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  that seems to happen a lot with CrossFit.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So looking at your placings,
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  they've improved year over
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  year over year.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  What does that mean to you
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  when everybody around you
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  is improving and you're
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  improving at a level where
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  the leaderboard is showing
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  it year after year?
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  Yeah, it's very encouraging for sure.
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  That's kind of what keeps me going.
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  Like I just keep getting better and better,
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  which is, yeah, it's great.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  you're coming into the
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  semifinal in the third
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  position in the West.
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  That's the highest you've
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  ever entered semis.
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  Does that give you any confidence,
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  or do you just... Yeah, I think so.
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  I mean, we all know it doesn't matter.
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  You could come in the last
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  heat and make the games.
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  But yeah,
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  it does give you a bit of confidence,
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  and I think just this whole
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  year of training,
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  Kyle switched around a few things, and...
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  I think it's really, um, yeah,
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  I've really benefited from
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  it and it's been a hard year of training,
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  but a really good year.
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  And you yourself feel better
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  now than you have in past years?
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  Oh yeah.
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  Um, fitness wise and strength wise.
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  Um, and like I say,
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  like we've tried a couple
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  different things this year
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  and I think they're really paying off.
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  And, um,
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  Injury-wise, too.
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  Last year, at this time,
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  I was still dealing with
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  that calf that was just hampering me.
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  Knock on wood, going into semis,
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  I'm feeling really good.
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  We talked to Scott Tetlow yesterday,
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  and he actually backed off
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  volume this year.
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  He said it's the first time
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  he's going into semis with
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  a clean bill of health right now.
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  Yeah.
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  It's,
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  it's shocking at this level that to
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  not have something that's nagging.
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  I mean,
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  that's not to say I haven't had
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  injuries throughout the year.
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  Like I had a bad shoulder
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  injury right after
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  Wadapalooza and that took a
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  while to clear up.
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  Even going into the open, I wasn't great,
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  but yeah, it's, it's good now.
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  So feeling good.
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  Noticing a trend with
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  Wadapalooza and injury.
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  Yeah.
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  Maybe that's one you should
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  take off the list.
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  But it's so fun.
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  That was so fun.
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  And then we go for a cruise after.
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  It's just such a good trip.
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  So I want to get into both
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  of those things.
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  We've talked about it in the
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  past about doing every one
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  of the big three in the offseason.
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  You're one of the few people
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  that have done that in the past.
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  At one time we talked and you said,
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  you're not sure you're ever
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  going to do that again.
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  And then this year you do it again.
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  Yeah,
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  I think this year was the only year
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  that I did all three.
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  I would argue two years ago
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  you did all three.
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  Did I?
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  Geez.
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  Yeah, not the plan this year.
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  Okay.
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  Well,
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  now I know why you did it again
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  because you forgot you did
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  it two years ago.
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  I did forget.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah,
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  because we actually we had a
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  conversation about it and you said,
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  I'm not doing that again.
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  And then here we are two
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  years later and you did it again.
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  Wow.
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  OK, well, I won't do it again now.
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  So.
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  So you have a perspective of
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  hitting all three.
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  What do each one have that
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  the other ones don't that
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  make it worth going to?
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  I think, like I said,
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  Wadapalooza is just super fun.
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  It's probably like the most chill,
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  the most like party kind of atmosphere.
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  And it's warm in Florida in January.
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  It's a great time to leave Canada.
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  Yeah, that one's just all about more fun,
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  I would say.
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  And then Rogue is just great
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  because it's such high level.
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  You know,
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  it's always the top people from
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  the games.
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  Um, for me,
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  it's a really good challenge
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  because usually it's quite
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  heavy and like more strong
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  men kind of stuff.
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  Um,
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  and they also treat the athletes great.
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  Like they pay our way.
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  They put us up.
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  Um, yeah,
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  we're really treated really well
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  at Rogue.
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  So that's a special experience.
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  And then Dubai is just cool.
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  It's Dubai.
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  Like Dubai is so cool.
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  Such a cool city to be.
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  And, um, again, it's warm in December.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And it's just cool.
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  Like there's no other
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  opportunity probably that I
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  would go to Dubai.
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  Um, so yeah, it's a good opportunity also.
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  So you always,
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  you seem to piggyback
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  vacations or holidays with
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  these competitions.
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  And I, I've seen on your Instagram,
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  you did a cruise after Waterpalooza.
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  Did you do anything after
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  the other events?
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  So Dubai,
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  last year we went to Germany on
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  our way back.
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  This year we had to come
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  straight home because we
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  had to go to work.
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  And then after Rogue, oh,
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  we also did a cruise.
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  So yeah, we had a riot.
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  We had a blast on that cruise.
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  And I think it's just, one,
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  we work full-time jobs.
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  So if we have the vacation
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  off to go there anyways,
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  we just tack on a few extra days.
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  Um, that works out.
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  And then I take the week off
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  after I compete anyways.
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  So it's fun to just travel
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  and just not be sitting at
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  home for that week.
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  So I've never been on a cruise.
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  You did too last year when
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  you went to rogue,
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  did you go somewhere other,
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  did you do a cruise out of
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  Texas or did you go somewhere else first?
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  No, we flew back to LA, which was almost,
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  yeah,
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  halfway home and then went out to LA.
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  It was actually,
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  we booked that cruise after
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  the games and we actually
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  missed it because we missed our flight.
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  So yeah,
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  we um thank goodness for
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  american express we got got
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  our refund and then booked
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  it after rogue cool so
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  where did that one so where
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  did the two cruises go that
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  one was like la mexico
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  catalina island just around
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  there and then the one
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  after guadalupalooza is to
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  bahamas and back okay and
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  the private island stuff yeah super fun
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  Awesome.
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  And do you need that after
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  competitions to just kind of rejuvenate?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I don't need, I'll say I need it.
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  I don't need it, but I like it.
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  It's just nice to have some downtime,
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  especially because Kyle and
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  I are going through everything together.
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  He's my coach as well as my husband.
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  So it's nice for us to just chill out.
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  Yeah.
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  Still my favorite story is
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  when you guys had an
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  interaction as coach
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  athlete and he was writing
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  the apology as husband
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  while you were on the competition floor.
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  Yeah.
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  Sometimes it's like that.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, wide zombie jumps in with,
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  are you excited to have go
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  rock sponsoring the games?
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  Yeah, of course.
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  So when I signed with them was last year,
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  around this time, maybe a bit earlier.
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  I had no idea.
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  I don't know if they,
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  if it was in the works then or whatever,
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  but I had no idea that they
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  were going to be sponsoring the game.
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  So when that happened, I was like, oh,
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  cool.
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  It's like,
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  not like it's the brand that's
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  going forward,
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  but it's like kind of cool
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  to be a part of that.
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  Did you have a talk with
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  their newest athlete that
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  this is your house?
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  I did not yet.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm the OG.
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  No, it's super cool.
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  I mean,
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  of course Tia brings so much to the
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  table.
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  So yeah,
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  it's cool that like the two
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  athletes are me and her.
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  Yeah.
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  But does she have to always
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  go with the sponsor of the games?
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  Apparently she does.
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  Man.
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  Give other people some dude.
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  Yeah.
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  Now, I think that's really cool.
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  And you've talked about how
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  cool they are with you and
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  that you've actually had
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  input into the design of
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  some of the shoes and stuff like that.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah,
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  so they've – and they're super receptive.
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  So, like,
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  when their first trainer came out,
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  there was a couple of
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  things that I really didn't
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  like about it.
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  Like, my heel was slipping out.
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  And so I told them that,
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  and they fixed it right away.
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  And now their trainer is, like, amazing.
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  So their runners are great too, so –
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  Hopefully we can do the same
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  with their clothing.
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  How many pairs do you have?
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  Too many.
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  The closet is full.
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  Yeah.
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  And was last year at semis
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  the first time you got to
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  like sport them?
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  Yeah.
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  So it's been a year.
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  Yeah.
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  That's really cool.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And then I've seen their clothes.
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  They've always been a major part at Rogue.
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  And the one year I volunteered down there,
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  I sat right outside their booth.
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  Their stuff is really cool.
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  Really well made.
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  Yeah, their stuff,
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  I like it because it's kind of like...
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  I don't know how to say like
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  kind of grindy, kind of like military,
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  like hard ass, like that kind of stuff,
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  which is really good.
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  We're just,
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  I think they're going to
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  continue working on the woman's line.
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  And I think because a lot of girls,
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  they like color and they
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  don't want to be like dark all the time.
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  And that was one of the main
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  things last year.
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  I was like, okay,
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  like you got to have pink.
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  You got to have some pink somewhere.
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  So then they came out with
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  that like bright pink backpack,
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  which Kyle was sporting
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  throughout the games, which was great.
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  I love it.
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  Yeah,
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  we captured that in some of our
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  footage and stuff.
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  Yeah, he was easy to find.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, Greg Pasley says, uh,
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  go rock makes an excellent product.
• 16:05
  Several people, uh, wide zombie.
• 16:07
  Emily is my favorite.
• 16:09
  Oh, uh, Barry.
• 16:10
  Emily is my favorite too.
• 16:11
  Uh, so yeah,
• 16:16
  lots of people cheering you on
• 16:17
  in the chat.
• 16:18
  So, so now you have a,
• 16:21
  it seemed a much shorter
• 16:23
  time from quarterfinals to semis.
• 16:25
  Um,
• 16:26
  does training have to change this year?
• 16:28
  Do you have this Kyle have to like,
• 16:30
  actually, um,
• 16:31
  you can't use the template
• 16:32
  from last year because it's
• 16:33
  just different timing.
• 16:36
  Yeah, I mean,
• 16:39
  we're just continuing how
• 16:40
  we're going because I felt
• 16:41
  great going into quarterfinals.
• 16:42
  Quarterfinals went fine, went well.
• 16:46
  We're just continuing what
• 16:47
  we're doing because it
• 16:48
  works and I feel good.
• 16:50
  So I'm actually pleased
• 16:52
  semifinals are closer.
• 16:53
  Like I don't need another
• 16:55
  two months of training before semifinals.
• 16:56
  Like I want to go.
• 16:59
  And we talked about like
• 17:01
  when I said how you feel,
• 17:02
  you said you've changed
• 17:05
  some things and your
• 17:06
  fitness is high as well as your strength.
• 17:10
  So it's a well-known fact.
• 17:12
  Your whole has always been strength.
• 17:15
  Right.
• 17:16
  How much time do you spend
• 17:18
  on improving that?
• 17:20
  A lot.
• 17:22
  Like that's like my top energy.
• 17:25
  And you'll ask any athlete,
• 17:28
  like your weakness,
• 17:29
  that's what you have to work on, right?
• 17:30
  Like I don't go for runs ever.
• 17:33
  Like, I never run.
• 17:34
  My last big run was, I guess, Rogue,
• 17:37
  and then the 5K at the Games.
• 17:39
  And my next big run will
• 17:40
  probably be if we run at the Games.
• 17:41
  Like, I don't run.
• 17:45
  So, yeah, I think a lot of strength,
• 17:48
  a lot of, like,
• 17:50
  power output kind of things
• 17:52
  we've been doing this year,
• 17:52
  which really seem to have helped.
• 17:55
  Um,
• 17:56
  and I think like it shows that workout
• 17:57
  floor on the quarterfinals,
• 17:59
  like I'm closing that gap slowly,
• 18:01
  which is, that's all I can,
• 18:03
  I can ask for.
• 18:04
  So that's encouraging.
• 18:07
  And mentally, when you're looking at that,
• 18:09
  like you're never going to
• 18:11
  lift like Danny Spiegel.
• 18:12
  No.
• 18:13
  Right.
• 18:13
  Right.
• 18:13
  You're just trying to get to
• 18:14
  a point where it doesn't
• 18:16
  hurt you on the weekend.
• 18:18
  Yeah, exactly.
• 18:19
  Like I said,
• 18:20
  like we're just trying to close that gap.
• 18:23
  Yeah.
• 18:23
  Yeah.
• 18:23
  it's funny because like a
• 18:25
  few years ago I go to Christy Aramo,
• 18:27
  Connell's gym and I watched
• 18:29
  her like that was all she did.
• 18:31
  Like strength cycle after
• 18:33
  strength cycle after strengths.
• 18:35
  And she was just trying to
• 18:35
  get to mid pack.
• 18:37
  Yeah.
• 18:38
  Like that, that was it.
• 18:39
  Is that the same approach
• 18:40
  that you're taking?
• 18:42
  Yeah.
• 18:42
  And I think, um, yeah, pretty much.
• 18:47
  Um,
• 18:48
  Like I say,
• 18:49
  we've been doing a lot of like
• 18:49
  power things.
• 18:51
  Strength wise, I'm not terrible.
• 18:55
  It's more the power output,
• 18:56
  which we've really been focusing on.
• 18:58
  And that seems to help not
• 19:00
  only in that area,
• 19:01
  but in other areas in CrossFit too.
• 19:04
  So it's good.
• 19:07
  So I'm going to pull something up.
• 19:10
  At Rogue,
• 19:10
  you seem to be working on the
• 19:12
  strength or something in that manner.
• 19:14
  This made me just how
• 19:16
  because it seems so out of
• 19:17
  character for you.
• 19:19
  But your little promo video.
• 19:22
  I forgot about that.
• 19:29
  It just seems so out of character for you.
• 19:31
  And I just laughed and I had
• 19:33
  to bring it up somehow through this.
• 19:35
  It's a pretty good double bicep flex,
• 19:36
  though.
• 19:37
  It definitely is.
• 19:39
  And it shows that you've
• 19:40
  been working on some strength for sure.
• 19:43
  Yeah.
• 19:44
  And I think,
• 19:44
  especially after my arm injury,
• 19:46
  like I had to rebuild all
• 19:47
  that up and at the time it wasn't fun,
• 19:49
  but now I'm like reaping
• 19:51
  the rewards from that.
• 19:52
  Like I'm way stronger than I was before.
• 19:54
  I'm just focusing on those little things.
• 19:56
  So that's fun too.
• 19:58
  But yeah, that, that at Rogue,
• 20:01
  you're like in a green room
• 20:02
  and they're like, Hey, do something.
• 20:03
  And you're like, yeah,
• 20:05
  And if you don't have a plan
• 20:06
  or remember what you think
• 20:08
  you were going to do,
• 20:09
  you just kind of... I don't know.
• 20:12
  Throw up the peace sign or do a flex.
• 20:16
  The flex looks awesome.
• 20:18
  And the way they slow-mode it,
• 20:20
  it made it even cooler.
• 20:23
  And Rogue is so awesome at that stuff.
• 20:25
  Yeah.
• 20:26
  They're very professional.
• 20:27
  They always make the athletes look good.
• 20:30
  So...
• 20:34
  So when you do all those
• 20:36
  off-season competitions,
• 20:38
  how much of that is a
• 20:39
  learning process and an
• 20:41
  experiment process?
• 20:43
  Oh, a ton.
• 20:44
  That's,
• 20:45
  that's kind of when the time is to
• 20:46
  do it because you don't
• 20:48
  really want to be
• 20:49
  experimenting when you're
• 20:50
  trying to make the games.
• 20:52
  And obviously you train all
• 20:54
  year to peak at the games.
• 20:55
  So that's like,
• 20:57
  unfortunately you do
• 20:58
  experience a lot and
• 21:00
  experiment a lot at the games, but yeah,
• 21:02
  the off season is when you
• 21:03
  want to try new things and
• 21:05
  see what's been working and
• 21:06
  see what hasn't and yeah,
• 21:08
  all that kind of stuff.
• 21:09
  And I learn a ton every time.
• 21:11
  Like there's always so many
• 21:13
  things to take away that we
• 21:15
  put back into training.
• 21:17
  So that in that way,
• 21:18
  it's really beneficial.
• 21:20
  So for you,
• 21:20
  like rogue is important because
• 21:23
  that is experiencing and
• 21:24
  experimenting with things
• 21:26
  that you're working on.
• 21:27
  Yeah.
• 21:29
  Yeah, exactly.
• 21:29
  It makes total sense.
• 21:31
  And they have the best swag
• 21:32
  bag in the business.
• 21:34
  Yeah.
• 21:36
  I still wear my cowboy boots
• 21:37
  that we got a few years ago.
• 21:42
  It's so funny because either
• 21:44
  people love that or they're like, yeah,
• 21:46
  I gave that away as soon as I got home.
• 21:48
  Oh, heck no.
• 21:50
  I went to a country concert
• 21:51
  like two weeks ago and rocked them.
• 21:53
  It was great.
• 21:54
  Like...
• 21:56
  that's where I was actually
• 21:57
  stationed when I because go
• 21:58
  ruck was there the the
• 22:00
  fitting for the hat and the
• 22:01
  boots and all that stuff
• 22:03
  was kind of in that one
• 22:04
  corner and uh I watched
• 22:06
  everybody come in and get
• 22:07
  fitted and it was so funny
• 22:09
  oh I bet like and then and
• 22:12
  then I worked media for the
• 22:13
  weekend for rogue just
• 22:15
  trying to learn stuff but
• 22:17
  for that day I was
• 22:18
  stationed in there and it
• 22:19
  was really really cool yeah
• 22:22
  so and then we talk about um
• 22:25
  I want to I have a question
• 22:26
  about dubai I watch it on
• 22:29
  tv or stream and it looks
• 22:31
  like there's nobody in the
• 22:32
  crowd yeah is it just is
• 22:35
  there nobody there or is it
• 22:36
  just bad camera angles so a
• 22:38
  bit of both so they do
• 22:39
  condense the crowd to like
• 22:41
  the end of the finish line
• 22:42
  like think if you're
• 22:43
  watching a hockey game like
• 22:45
  where the goal like that area and
• 22:48
  um so there's that and then
• 22:50
  there's also like the
• 22:52
  stadium they do it it's
• 22:53
  pretty big and you're right
• 22:55
  like the crowd isn't there
• 22:56
  like in the u.s not at all
• 22:59
  um and I think mostly
• 23:01
  because it's so far like
• 23:04
  people yeah it's it's far
• 23:06
  and it's expensive to get
• 23:07
  there so and and it's and
• 23:11
  it's crossfit isn't as big
• 23:13
  in the middle east or no okay
• 23:17
  Not for girls anyways.
• 23:18
  I think there's a lot more men that do it,
• 23:20
  but not women.
• 23:22
  Okay.
• 23:23
  Is there ever an uncomfortable feeling?
• 23:25
  Oh, yeah.
• 23:29
  Oh, yeah.
• 23:31
  So it wasn't this year.
• 23:32
  It was the year before we went.
• 23:34
  And our luggage got lost for
• 23:35
  like four days.
• 23:37
  So Kyle and I had no clothes.
• 23:39
  All I had was one pair of
• 23:40
  workout gear that I put in my carry-on.
• 23:42
  So I was just hand-washing
• 23:43
  that for a couple days
• 23:45
  until we got some stuff.
• 23:47
  And I remember we were
• 23:48
  walking home from one of
• 23:49
  the gyms that I was
• 23:50
  training at just like on the,
• 23:51
  on the road.
• 23:52
  And of course I'm in my
• 23:53
  workout gear and yeah, they,
• 23:56
  you get a lot of stairs.
• 23:59
  I mean, they're not used to seeing women.
• 24:03
  I guess you could say like scantily clad,
• 24:05
  like in shorts and a tank top,
• 24:06
  like they're not used to seeing that.
• 24:08
  Right.
• 24:08
  So of course people are going to scare.
• 24:11
  They're mostly covered there.
• 24:12
  Right.
• 24:12
  Like, Oh yeah.
• 24:14
  Yeah.
• 24:17
  that just seems odd to me,
• 24:19
  but I know that that's the
• 24:20
  culture and that that's
• 24:21
  just the way it is.
• 24:21
  But so then what a Palooza
• 24:23
  I've always called that the
• 24:25
  CrossFit family reunion,
• 24:28
  because it's just everybody
• 24:30
  who's in the space is there
• 24:31
  that weekend hanging out chatting.
• 24:36
  How hard is it to actually
• 24:37
  then go compete with kind
• 24:39
  of all of that going on?
• 24:40
  Or are you really good about
• 24:42
  putting your blinders on
• 24:43
  and just doing what you're there for?
• 24:46
  Yeah, I mean, like you say,
• 24:48
  I've heard from people like
• 24:49
  that's the most fun crowd to be at,
• 24:51
  like more fun than the games.
• 24:52
  People just love Wadapalooza.
• 24:55
  But yeah, for me, it's not hard to focus.
• 24:57
  Like when I'm competing, I'm competing.
• 24:59
  And I've been lucky the schedule,
• 25:02
  like usually it's two day indie,
• 25:03
  two day team.
• 25:04
  And this year I only did indie.
• 25:06
  So I compete two days and
• 25:07
  then I have two days to
• 25:08
  just hang out with people
• 25:09
  and do what I want after.
• 25:10
  Do you have sponsor
• 25:13
  obligations during that time or?
• 25:16
  Sometimes.
• 25:17
  Okay.
• 25:18
  Yeah.
• 25:18
  I had a few events lined up this year,
• 25:20
  but yeah, it makes it fun.
• 25:23
  Cause I, I,
• 25:25
  I think there's more sponsors
• 25:26
  at Wadapalooza than there
• 25:27
  are at the games.
• 25:28
  Yeah.
• 25:30
  And,
• 25:30
  and I know like I've talked to some
• 25:32
  athletes where they're busy
• 25:34
  on their off day as much,
• 25:36
  if not more than when they're competing.
• 25:38
  Oh yeah.
• 25:39
  Like some people just
• 25:39
  couldn't do teams because
• 25:41
  they had like meet and
• 25:42
  greets lined up all day.
• 25:43
  And it was like,
• 25:46
  It's insane.
• 25:48
  If they could just fix the weather.
• 25:50
  I know.
• 25:51
  The rain, like, man,
• 25:53
  it's so hit and miss with
• 25:54
  the... It's either super
• 25:56
  nice or it's torrential rain.
• 25:58
  Yeah.
• 25:59
  Two years ago, it was freezing cold.
• 26:02
  Was it?
• 26:03
  Well, not for Indy.
• 26:04
  By the time the weekend came for teams,
• 26:06
  like, it was...
• 26:08
  I didn't, I didn't have a jacket.
• 26:09
  Cause you know,
• 26:10
  coming from the North to Miami,
• 26:11
  you're like, I don't need that.
• 26:13
  And then it got down to 40, like,
• 26:17
  what's that?
• 26:17
  Like 10 Celsius for you.
• 26:20
  Yeah.
• 26:20
  That's cold.
• 26:21
  Yeah.
• 26:23
  It was really, really cold,
• 26:25
  but you had injured your
• 26:26
  calf and like withdrawn from the team.
• 26:28
  So I don't know if you were, Oh,
• 26:30
  it was that year.
• 26:31
  Okay.
• 26:31
  Yeah.
• 26:32
  I was still around limping around.
• 26:37
  Yeah, if they could just fix the weather,
• 26:40
  that would be epic every year.
• 26:42
  Yeah.
• 26:45
  So now you're going to semis
• 26:47
  at one of the most iconic
• 26:49
  locations in CrossFit history.
• 26:52
  You never got to compete at
• 26:54
  the games in California.
• 26:57
  So how excited are you to
• 26:58
  compete at the tennis
• 26:59
  stadium where CrossFit was
• 27:03
  kind of birthed?
• 27:04
  Yeah,
• 27:05
  when I saw that it was going to be in
• 27:07
  Carson at the tennis stadium,
• 27:09
  when did they announce that?
• 27:09
  Like, way back in November or something.
• 27:11
  I was stoked.
• 27:13
  I was like, man,
• 27:13
  this is going to be so cool.
• 27:15
  Like, as you say,
• 27:16
  I think the last games
• 27:17
  there were maybe 2016?
• 27:18
  I don't know.
• 27:20
  I was barely into CrossFit then.
• 27:23
  I didn't make regionals until 2017.
• 27:25
  So...
• 27:29
  didn't really watch I
• 27:30
  remember it playing um on
• 27:32
  on the tv at the global gym
• 27:34
  I was going to um and I
• 27:36
  remember like looking a bit
• 27:37
  but like not wasn't even
• 27:39
  like in it by then and then
• 27:41
  um yeah looking back I see
• 27:43
  all this stuff and I'm like
• 27:44
  wow like yeah I'm super
• 27:46
  excited it's gonna be so
• 27:47
  cool I love I love
• 27:48
  competing outside I love
• 27:49
  that added element so
• 27:51
  that's really cool too
• 27:55
  So you said when you started CrossFit,
• 27:57
  you weren't really watching it.
• 28:00
  No.
• 28:00
  How fast did it take you to
• 28:02
  dive into all of the stuff?
• 28:06
  Very quick.
• 28:07
  As they say, I drank the Kool-Aid.
• 28:08
  Yeah.
• 28:11
  Yeah.
• 28:11
  I remember seeing it on TV.
• 28:12
  Someone at the gym was like, oh,
• 28:13
  you should do that.
• 28:14
  I was like, no, whatever, ignored it.
• 28:16
  And then, yeah,
• 28:18
  once I actually did a class or two,
• 28:20
  I was like, well, this is, I'm in it.
• 28:22
  Yeah.
• 28:24
  Yeah.
• 28:24
  I, I started in CrossFit in 2011,
• 28:27
  had no clue what the games were.
• 28:28
  And then in the games came around in 2012,
• 28:32
  like I was hook, line and sinker.
• 28:34
  Yeah.
• 28:35
  I think most people are like that.
• 28:39
  Like you just get,
• 28:40
  it's so addicting to like
• 28:43
  keep getting better,
• 28:44
  keep learning new skills.
• 28:47
  Yeah.
• 28:47
  It's just super fun.
• 28:49
  when I'm,
• 28:49
  and imagine when you first
• 28:50
  started in a class,
• 28:52
  every day is a competition, right?
• 28:53
  You're, you're new to it.
• 28:54
  You're competing with the class.
• 28:56
  You're trying to do as well
• 28:56
  as everybody else, you know?
• 28:58
  Right.
• 28:59
  And then coming in from like
• 29:00
  a background of gymnastics,
• 29:02
  track and field,
• 29:04
  like I knew how to weightlift.
• 29:05
  Like it was just,
• 29:07
  everyone likes doing things
• 29:08
  they're good at.
• 29:10
  Right.
• 29:10
  So you come in,
• 29:11
  you're already pretty good.
• 29:12
  People are like, Oh,
• 29:13
  it's like the open next month.
• 29:15
  Like, okay, sign me up, I guess.
• 29:18
  Yeah.
• 29:19
  For me,
• 29:20
  it was trying to master new skills.
• 29:22
  Even though some of the
• 29:23
  stuff I was okay at, I mean,
• 29:25
  I started at 500 pounds,
• 29:26
  so it was a different story than you,
• 29:28
  but learning how to master
• 29:32
  those skills over time is
• 29:33
  what kept bringing me back.
• 29:35
  I mean,
• 29:35
  I was a competitive swimmer in high
• 29:37
  school and college,
• 29:39
  and to get that competitive
• 29:41
  spirit back was everything to me.
• 29:45
  yeah I was the same like
• 29:47
  when yeah it felt like I
• 29:48
  was back in gymnastics
• 29:49
  competing so I can't
• 29:51
  imagine coming in fresh
• 29:53
  though without any
• 29:54
  weightlifting background or
• 29:56
  like never having done
• 29:58
  gymnastics like the people
• 30:00
  that come in from that
• 30:03
  that's pretty impressive
• 30:04
  like that must be so
• 30:05
  overwhelming to learn all
• 30:07
  that like I can't even imagine
• 30:09
  Yeah.
• 30:10
  So I, I mean,
• 30:11
  I did have some lifting background.
• 30:12
  It was more power lifting lifting.
• 30:15
  And I did, I was very athletic as a kid.
• 30:18
  I had a sport in every season and,
• 30:20
  and I actually flirted with
• 30:22
  gymnastic stuff just for fun.
• 30:24
  Okay.
• 30:25
  Like doing flips and stuff.
• 30:27
  So I,
• 30:29
  some of that muscle memory came back.
• 30:31
  Right.
• 30:33
  But I ask you,
• 30:34
  then you go to becoming a pro athlete.
• 30:37
  And a lot of times you're
• 30:37
  working out by yourself.
• 30:40
  So are you addicted to competition?
• 30:42
  And is that one of the
• 30:43
  reasons you keep signing up for Rogue,
• 30:47
  Dubai, Wadapalooza?
• 30:50
  I never really thought about that,
• 30:52
  to be honest.
• 30:54
  That's a thought.
• 30:56
  I don't think, I love competing,
• 30:58
  obviously.
• 31:00
  And yeah,
• 31:01
  like most days I'm down grinding
• 31:03
  in my dark garage alone.
• 31:05
  Like, that's no fun.
• 31:10
  But I was thinking the other day,
• 31:11
  like it makes you train so hard.
• 31:13
  If you,
• 31:14
  if you can push yourself through it,
• 31:16
  you train so hard because, you know,
• 31:18
  Kyle's making these
• 31:20
  interval split times and
• 31:22
  these goal times and goal
• 31:23
  reps and like things that I
• 31:25
  need to hit in the workouts.
• 31:27
  And I'm just killing myself
• 31:28
  to make those times.
• 31:33
  And I think if I had someone beside me,
• 31:36
  I would be a lot more, Oh,
• 31:37
  just stay ahead of them or
• 31:39
  just race them.
• 31:40
  And you kind of don't go to
• 31:42
  your full potential.
• 31:43
  Whereas when I'm racing the machine,
• 31:46
  what it says on the concept to machine,
• 31:48
  or I'm racing the clock, like there's no,
• 31:52
  you know what I mean?
• 31:52
  Like you just push so much harder.
• 31:56
  So I feel like if you can
• 31:58
  put your head down and be like, yeah,
• 32:01
  it's not as fun.
• 32:01
  Cause I'm not laughing and
• 32:02
  joking with someone and you know,
• 32:05
  Um, but if you can push through that,
• 32:08
  like I think training's actually better.
• 32:12
  So I can relate to that
• 32:13
  because in swimming, everything's,
• 32:15
  everything's intervals.
• 32:17
  Yeah.
• 32:18
  Like everything.
• 32:19
  And you're not,
• 32:19
  you're not swinging against
• 32:21
  one-on-one against anybody.
• 32:22
  There's like six people in a
• 32:23
  lane trying to keep that
• 32:25
  same interval going.
• 32:26
  Right.
• 32:26
  Right.
• 32:27
  And so it's not a competition.
• 32:28
  Then when the meat comes,
• 32:30
  like then I'm in a zone.
• 32:31
  Cause like now I get to
• 32:33
  release all that competitive.
• 32:35
  This and that meat.
• 32:37
  Yeah.
• 32:37
  I'm just curious if that was
• 32:39
  the same for you,
• 32:39
  like with water Palooza and.
• 32:43
  Yeah.
• 32:44
  I guess in a way it's,
• 32:45
  it's way more fun to
• 32:46
  there's 10 other girls.
• 32:48
  Now we get to race.
• 32:49
  Like that's way more fun than, you know,
• 32:52
  trying to hit these times
• 32:54
  that Kyle set out for me
• 32:55
  that are really tough, you know?
• 32:57
  So yeah, I guess so a little bit.
• 33:01
  And, and your fun,
• 33:02
  we've talked about this
• 33:03
  before is you're like one
• 33:05
  of the nicest people ever
• 33:07
  when you're just kind of hanging out,
• 33:09
  coming off the competition floor and,
• 33:12
  You give this look like I'm
• 33:14
  going to freaking kill you.
• 33:17
  Coming off or going on?
• 33:19
  Probably both.
• 33:20
  I just don't have access to coming on.
• 33:22
  Okay.
• 33:22
  That looks worse.
• 33:28
  And I interview a lot of
• 33:29
  people after events.
• 33:31
  Very few of them scare me like you do.
• 33:34
  Sorry.
• 33:36
  I wasn't aware of that, Scott.
• 33:37
  I'll work on that.
• 33:39
  I mean, I pushed through.
• 33:40
  I pushed through for the interview.
• 33:41
  But man,
• 33:44
  it's hard for me to remember the
• 33:45
  questions because you give
• 33:46
  the death stare.
• 33:48
  Yeah, I guess just, yeah, in the zone.
• 33:52
  And I can't imagine Kyle
• 33:54
  getting on the wrong side of you.
• 33:57
  Yeah.
• 33:59
  You should ask him.
• 34:03
  Jake Chapman asks,
• 34:05
  is Emily coming to rogue?
• 34:07
  I would love to.
• 34:08
  We'll see.
• 34:09
  Usually they do invites after the game.
• 34:12
  So yeah.
• 34:15
  Come in the top 10,
• 34:17
  15 of the games usually
• 34:18
  have a pretty good shot
• 34:20
  unless they decide to do it
• 34:21
  differently this year.
• 34:21
  I don't know, but Scotland's pretty cool.
• 34:25
  Jake's in Europe,
• 34:27
  so that's what I'm asking.
• 34:29
  They're excited that Rogue
• 34:30
  is coming there.
• 34:33
  Kyle B and Carson?
• 34:36
  Of course he will be.
• 34:38
  Pink Backpack?
• 34:41
  Pink Backpack and all, yeah.
• 34:43
  You can only buy him one year, though,
• 34:44
  because I don't know if we
• 34:47
  told you this story.
• 34:48
  There was a competition here
• 34:50
  called Canwest Games.
• 34:52
  And he coached me,
• 34:54
  but it was like a hot weekend.
• 34:56
  It was super hot.
• 34:57
  There was a beer garden at
• 34:59
  the competition.
• 35:00
  And you know how you have a
• 35:01
  lot of time in between events, whatever.
• 35:03
  He would just disappear.
• 35:04
  And, you know,
• 35:05
  we had friends there and whatever.
• 35:07
  And then he'd come back and
• 35:07
  I didn't really think anything of it.
• 35:09
  And then I realized he was just hammered.
• 35:13
  And when he was coaching me and I was like,
• 35:14
  what is wrong with him?
• 35:16
  And
• 35:17
  Yeah, never again.
• 35:18
  But I won.
• 35:19
  I won the competition.
• 35:20
  So that's his saving grace.
• 35:22
  He's like, oh,
• 35:22
  I still coach you to the W. But yeah,
• 35:27
  not again.
• 35:29
  That sounds like a fun time with Kyle.
• 35:33
  Kyle's always a fun time.
• 35:37
  Wadzomi says Canwest was the
• 35:39
  one with the big prize money, right?
• 35:40
  Yeah, the one that fell through.
• 35:41
  But this was before it fell through.
• 35:44
  So this was like 2017 or something.
• 35:46
  2018 I think yeah it was
• 35:49
  actually around for a long
• 35:50
  time before the big fiasco
• 35:52
  it was and it was a great
• 35:53
  competition I mean when I
• 35:54
  won the prize money was
• 35:55
  three thousand dollars so
• 35:57
  it was a lot less than what
• 35:58
  they promised a few years
• 35:59
  ago um but yeah it was
• 36:01
  really really a good
• 36:03
  competition when it was
• 36:05
  going there for a few years
• 36:08
  a wad zombie said he's a
• 36:09
  big dude he can do two beers
• 36:14
  And then Jake says,
• 36:15
  isn't he English or Canadian?
• 36:20
  Yeah, he is from the UK.
• 36:22
  So yeah,
• 36:24
  I know you guys can put away
• 36:25
  alcohol like no other.
• 36:29
  So, um, wow, that got us derailed.
• 36:31
  So
• 36:35
  So I wanted to ask you this, too,
• 36:37
  about quarterfinals.
• 36:38
  With the reduction in from 60 to 40,
• 36:43
  did that enter your mind at all,
• 36:45
  or was it just, I'm good enough,
• 36:47
  I don't have to worry about that?
• 36:49
  Yeah, it was,
• 36:50
  I'm going to make it through.
• 36:51
  Wasn't worried.
• 36:52
  I actually like that they cut people.
• 36:54
  Sounds savage, but yeah.
• 36:57
  I would rather they cut it to 30,
• 36:59
  to be honest.
• 36:59
  But yeah, so when that was announced,
• 37:03
  I was like, sweet, that's good.
• 37:05
  Um,
• 37:06
  I would say the only concern was just
• 37:08
  like, I remember saying to Kyle, okay,
• 37:09
  like we can't afford, you know,
• 37:12
  a large penalty or, you know,
• 37:14
  screwing up my video or like,
• 37:16
  we just have to make sure
• 37:17
  we're doing everything, um,
• 37:20
  the way it's meant to be done.
• 37:22
  Just like take care in the small things.
• 37:26
  So when we went up to 60 a
• 37:28
  couple years ago, the thought was, boy,
• 37:31
  it's going to be tough
• 37:31
  because if you do really bad in one event,
• 37:35
  a 60-place finish would be
• 37:37
  hard to come back from.
• 37:39
  Yeah.
• 37:40
  I mean, we saw Sydney do it.
• 37:43
  We did.
• 37:46
  Last year was such a weird,
• 37:48
  weird programmed year.
• 37:51
  it had all these like traps
• 37:53
  that people couldn't get past.
• 37:54
  Yeah.
• 37:55
  And so a lot of people had bad scores.
• 37:57
  Yeah.
• 37:58
  There was a lot.
• 37:59
  Like if you look at the
• 38:00
  people who made the games, people,
• 38:02
  there were very few
• 38:03
  consistent all the way through people.
• 38:06
  Like people were like
• 38:06
  bouncing all the way around
• 38:09
  in the events.
• 38:11
  Um, so yeah,
• 38:13
  who knows what this year will bring.
• 38:14
  So, um,
• 38:18
  Is the 40... Are you excited
• 38:20
  about the 40 because it
• 38:21
  kind of has a safetiness to it where,
• 38:24
  well, you can't fall too far?
• 38:26
  I think just it takes away
• 38:28
  some of the outliers.
• 38:30
  You know,
• 38:31
  the people that can make it
• 38:33
  because they're really good at one thing,
• 38:35
  but they can't do other things.
• 38:36
  Or, you know, like 40 to 60,
• 38:38
  a lot of those people, you know,
• 38:41
  they're just super strong,
• 38:42
  but they're not fit at all.
• 38:43
  Or, you know, they have other good things.
• 38:46
  And I think it just...
• 38:49
  I don't want to say get in the way,
• 38:51
  but they can kind of skew
• 38:52
  the leaderboard in some events.
• 38:53
  So yeah,
• 38:55
  it's just good to get rid of that.
• 38:58
  Yeah.
• 38:59
  I like what you're saying.
• 39:00
  I hate that we don't get to
• 39:03
  know more athletes.
• 39:05
  Yeah, so as an athlete that competes,
• 39:08
  I don't want to say I don't care, but,
• 39:10
  like, that's my thought on it.
• 39:12
  But I understand, like, you know,
• 39:14
  those athletes that are just over the 40,
• 39:18
  you know, what do they have?
• 39:19
  They're so close to semifinals,
• 39:21
  but they just can't get out
• 39:22
  of the virtual, like, the online,
• 39:25
  you know.
• 39:26
  So, like, for that, you know, really,
• 39:28
  40 to 100, like,
• 39:29
  they're still good athletes.
• 39:31
  It's just tough to make semifinals, so...
• 39:34
  you know,
• 39:35
  it would be cool if they had like a tier,
• 39:37
  you know, semifinal one,
• 39:38
  semifinal two or something
• 39:40
  like that would be cool.
• 39:41
  So they can just, cause people, you know,
• 39:44
  so many people thrive
• 39:45
  competing live and aren't
• 39:47
  good online or the opposite, you know?
• 39:49
  So it'd be nice to give those,
• 39:50
  those athletes an opportunity.
• 39:53
  Yeah.
• 39:54
  I've been, you know,
• 39:55
  I was on coffee pods and
• 39:56
  wads yesterday for their game show.
• 39:59
  And one of the things is how
• 40:00
  do we attract more people
• 40:01
  to North America semis?
• 40:03
  And I was thinking like,
• 40:05
  wouldn't it be cool to have
• 40:06
  like an event right before the event?
• 40:08
  Like the 20 that didn't make it in,
• 40:12
  you get like these three
• 40:13
  workouts and the number, whoever wins it,
• 40:16
  it's a wild card into semis
• 40:18
  or that'd be fun.
• 40:20
  just something to like bring
• 40:21
  more people there and
• 40:23
  something dramatic to do
• 40:26
  right before the event yeah
• 40:27
  that'd be cool I mean they
• 40:29
  have the event or I mean
• 40:31
  okay so they have to set up
• 40:32
  an extra day early or
• 40:33
  something but they have
• 40:34
  everything there it's
• 40:35
  already all the equipment's
• 40:36
  there like you know the
• 40:38
  people are there it's easy
• 40:41
  to add on really
• 40:42
  you don't have to stream it.
• 40:44
  You just let people come watch,
• 40:45
  set it up in the Plaza or the, you know,
• 40:49
  whatever.
• 40:49
  Um, and they get in,
• 40:52
  but they're kind of at a
• 40:53
  disadvantage because they
• 40:54
  just did three workouts,
• 40:56
  but they get a shot.
• 40:57
  Yeah.
• 40:57
  Cool.
• 40:58
  I like it.
• 41:00
  Just something I've been
• 41:01
  like flipping around in my
• 41:02
  head since the game show yesterday.
• 41:04
  So, um,
• 41:06
  So yeah.
• 41:07
  So the other thing that the
• 41:09
  reduction 40 does is if you
• 41:11
  guys get 10 in again this year,
• 41:13
  25% of the field go to the games.
• 41:17
  Yeah.
• 41:17
  That's high.
• 41:19
  I mean,
• 41:19
  I don't know if we're getting 10
• 41:20
  this year, but right.
• 41:22
  Probably a bit less, but yeah, that's,
• 41:27
  that's a big,
• 41:30
  that's a big chance you get
• 41:31
  really when you only had to
• 41:32
  pass the online portion.
• 41:33
  I get what you're saying there.
• 41:35
  Yeah.
• 41:35
  Yeah.
• 41:39
  I like the old regional
• 41:40
  format where three or five got in,
• 41:46
  but it was just your region.
• 41:47
  But it was 40 went, right?
• 41:49
  40 people?
• 41:51
  Yeah.
• 41:51
  The last few years, I went to sanctionals.
• 41:59
  And I think there were 30
• 42:00
  and I won and I made the games.
• 42:02
  And then the online games,
• 42:04
  I was top five out of, I think 40.
• 42:07
  And then 2022,
• 42:09
  I was top five out of 30 again.
• 42:13
  Last year I was top 10 out of 60.
• 42:17
  Like it's,
• 42:17
  I feel like every year that I've
• 42:19
  qualified,
• 42:20
  it's been a different scenario.
• 42:22
  Yeah.
• 42:23
  Yeah.
• 42:24
  So, I mean, that gives me confidence.
• 42:25
  It's like, okay, whatever it was,
• 42:27
  like I somehow jumped through the hoops.
• 42:30
  And got it done.
• 42:31
  You can file a heart attack
• 42:33
  as well as your fans.
• 42:34
  Yeah.
• 42:35
  But you always make it in.
• 42:37
  Standard.
• 42:42
  So what are you most looking
• 42:45
  forward to in Carson?
• 42:47
  I thought the programming
• 42:50
  for quarters was really good.
• 42:51
  I did too.
• 42:53
  I hope the set is also good like that.
• 42:56
  Like...
• 42:57
  Yeah, there was strength and skill,
• 42:58
  but it was like fitness.
• 43:00
  Yes.
• 43:01
  It's like why we all love CrossFit.
• 43:03
  Yeah.
• 43:05
  Do you think they'll
• 43:06
  continue that on for semis?
• 43:08
  I think somewhat.
• 43:09
  I mean, there's going to be change.
• 43:10
  It's going to be heavier.
• 43:11
  It's going to be harder skill, I'm sure.
• 43:13
  But I mean, you never know.
• 43:16
  I never try to predict what
• 43:18
  there's going to be.
• 43:19
  I don't want to say that's Kyle's job,
• 43:21
  but it's kind of his thing
• 43:23
  to make sure I'm kind of
• 43:24
  ready for everything come game time.
• 43:28
  yeah, whatever it is,
• 43:29
  you got to go out and do it anyways.
• 43:31
  So, yeah.
• 43:34
  So I'm going to,
• 43:34
  I'm going to finish with
• 43:35
  like two off questions.
• 43:37
  And that is,
• 43:39
  this has really been the year
• 43:40
  for women in sports.
• 43:42
  If you're following other women's sports,
• 43:44
  the women's NCAA tournament
• 43:46
  outrated the men's NCAA
• 43:49
  tournament for the first time in history.
• 43:54
  If you look at college NIL in the States,
• 43:56
  women are in the top 10 in
• 43:58
  NIL money with the men.
• 44:02
  How does it feel to be part
• 44:03
  of a sport that's always
• 44:05
  looked at women as equal?
• 44:10
  when you say it, it's like, wow,
• 44:12
  that's super cool.
• 44:13
  Like, but yeah, I mean,
• 44:18
  we're used to it because
• 44:20
  it's always been that way.
• 44:21
  So you never really think anything else,
• 44:23
  but yeah, you look at, I mean,
• 44:26
  basketball is huge right
• 44:27
  now with Caitlin Clark, but like,
• 44:30
  yeah,
• 44:30
  you look at what they're getting paid
• 44:31
  versus the men.
• 44:32
  And then I would say
• 44:33
  CrossFit's almost the opposite.
• 44:35
  Like,
• 44:37
  I remember my mom was telling me she
• 44:38
  was watching one of the
• 44:40
  comps just streamed.
• 44:42
  And, you know,
• 44:43
  they had the top 10 girls
• 44:45
  and the top 10 guys on the
• 44:47
  same floor competing together.
• 44:48
  And it was mostly watching the girls.
• 44:51
  And she was like, I wanted to see Pat.
• 44:53
  And I barely like it barely
• 44:54
  even showed Pat because it was all girls.
• 44:56
  And yeah,
• 44:56
  we're in sports bras and booty shorts.
• 44:58
  And maybe that that sells a little bit.
• 45:00
  But I think we're almost the opposite.
• 45:03
  Like people watch the girls
• 45:06
  more than the guys.
• 45:08
  I agree completely because
• 45:10
  and it's to me like.
• 45:13
  For the most part,
• 45:14
  the women are more
• 45:14
  approachable when I go to
• 45:15
  like talk to them or do a podcast.
• 45:19
  The men aren't as approachable.
• 45:21
  It's harder to get them on the show.
• 45:26
  And so my leaning is because
• 45:29
  I get to know you guys more
• 45:30
  than I get to know the men.
• 45:32
  So I want to watch because
• 45:34
  all the people I've gotten
• 45:34
  to know over the years are women.
• 45:37
  Right.
• 45:38
  Not all.
• 45:38
  I mean, there are exceptions, but.
• 45:40
  Yeah, it makes sense.
• 45:41
  If you know a person, you know their story,
• 45:43
  you know what they've gone through,
• 45:44
  like you're way more as a fan,
• 45:45
  you're way more invested in that person.
• 45:48
  Yeah.
• 45:49
  And so I just think it's cool.
• 45:51
  And I think it's this tide
• 45:53
  that's coming where women
• 45:55
  are doing as well as men in
• 45:56
  different things.
• 45:57
  And I think it's cool in
• 45:59
  college here in the States,
• 46:01
  name image likeness money,
• 46:03
  women are doing as well as the men.
• 46:05
  Yeah,
• 46:06
  and I think that's partly thanks to
• 46:10
  social media too.
• 46:12
  Yeah.
• 46:13
  But yeah, it's cool.
• 46:16
  So the last question I'm
• 46:17
  going to have for you is, again,
• 46:19
  Carolyn Prevost joined us
• 46:21
  on our Thursday night show.
• 46:22
  She takes a lot of pride in
• 46:24
  the fact that she's an
• 46:25
  athlete who's also a
• 46:27
  full-time employed worker.
• 46:30
  Right.
• 46:31
  You are as well.
• 46:32
  Mm-hmm.
• 46:33
  How much pride do you have
• 46:35
  that you're doing all of
• 46:37
  these amazing things and
• 46:39
  you're working a full-time job?
• 46:42
  Yeah.
• 46:42
  I mean, I think it's cool.
• 46:43
  And a lot of people, you know,
• 46:45
  I do get a lot of credit for it.
• 46:47
  Like people are always saying,
• 46:49
  and people forget like
• 46:49
  Carolyn does it too.
• 46:51
  I don't think she gets quite
• 46:52
  the hype that I get about it,
• 46:54
  but she's also doing it.
• 46:55
  She's working at, she's a teacher, right?
• 46:58
  Full-time.
• 46:58
  That's full-time.
• 46:59
  Yeah.
• 46:59
  So yeah.
• 47:02
  Again, I honestly think, you know,
• 47:04
  aside from some nights and, you know,
• 47:07
  I honestly think it helps my training.
• 47:11
  Like, I wouldn't be, you know,
• 47:14
  as soon as I wake up, like,
• 47:15
  going to the garage,
• 47:16
  doing a hard interval session.
• 47:17
  Like, if I didn't work that day,
• 47:18
  I wouldn't need to do that
• 47:20
  session and then get to the
• 47:21
  gym at a certain time and, like...
• 47:24
  I would waste so much more time.
• 47:26
  I think it's natural for humans.
• 47:29
  The more time you have,
• 47:30
  the more time you waste.
• 47:31
  As a result,
• 47:33
  my training is more productive.
• 47:35
  It's more intense.
• 47:37
  That's helping me as an athlete.
• 47:39
  Honestly, my job helps me.
• 47:43
  It's funny.
• 47:43
  Scott Tetlow said the same
• 47:44
  thing yesterday.
• 47:45
  He's active military.
• 47:46
  He has 90 minutes a day to
• 47:47
  get his work done.
• 47:53
  Right.
• 47:54
  And so he goes and he does that.
• 47:56
  And then if for some reason
• 47:57
  he gets a break,
• 47:58
  that's when he works on like his holes.
• 48:01
  Wow.
• 48:02
  That's a lot less time than I have.
• 48:04
  So I definitely a lot more
• 48:06
  training time than that,
• 48:07
  but good for him.
• 48:09
  That if he had more time,
• 48:10
  he doesn't think he'd be as efficient.
• 48:12
  No, you're not.
• 48:13
  Cause like, you know, you finish a workout,
• 48:15
  you're tired, you take a drink,
• 48:17
  you go on your phone for a bit, you know,
• 48:19
  you talk to other people,
• 48:20
  like you can waste so much time,
• 48:23
  but I'm like, okay, no,
• 48:24
  at two o'clock I need to be
• 48:26
  in the shower.
• 48:27
  So this piece takes 20 minutes.
• 48:29
  This take like,
• 48:29
  everything's mapped out to the T. Well,
• 48:33
  and at a competition, um,
• 48:35
  you're not,
• 48:35
  you don't get to choose when you can,
• 48:37
  when you work out or when you,
• 48:40
  I've done a few competitions,
• 48:42
  specifically the games last
• 48:43
  year when we had to have
• 48:44
  that condensed schedule for ESPN or SPN,
• 48:49
  the TV, whatever it was called.
• 48:50
  Yeah.
• 48:52
  And people were hurting, like,
• 48:54
  not to say I was just like, I'm fine.
• 48:56
  But, you know, I was used to it.
• 48:58
  I was like, Okay,
• 48:59
  this is how I train every day.
• 49:01
  Like,
• 49:01
  I don't need a long five hour break
• 49:04
  in between.
• 49:04
  And like, it's, it's,
• 49:06
  it's good to just like, prepare for that.
• 49:10
  Yeah.
• 49:12
  It's kind of funny.
• 49:13
  And I think Carolyn's the same way.
• 49:15
  Her lunch hour is one of her sessions.
• 49:17
  And then she doesn't get to
• 49:19
  choose when it is.
• 49:20
  It's when her schedule opens up.
• 49:23
  And it just makes you more
• 49:25
  flexible during competition time.
• 49:27
  And I think it's a byproduct
• 49:29
  of being a full-time employee.
• 49:30
  It is.
• 49:31
  And like, I noticed that all my days off,
• 49:34
  you know,
• 49:34
  sometimes I spend the whole day
• 49:36
  at the gym, but you know,
• 49:40
  I was half as productive as
• 49:41
  I was on my work day.
• 49:43
  You know, it's just like.
• 49:46
  When you go to the gym and
• 49:47
  you work out in your garage, what,
• 49:49
  what does the gym give you
• 49:51
  that the garage doesn't?
• 49:52
  Just high ceiling things.
• 49:54
  Rope climbs, muscle-ups.
• 49:57
  You know,
• 49:57
  I can do the little seated
• 49:58
  muscle-ups here,
• 49:59
  but bar muscle-ups I can't do here.
• 50:01
  I'll smoke my head on the roof.
• 50:04
  Just stuff like that.
• 50:07
  And then just... It's a good
• 50:09
  change of scenery.
• 50:10
  So I'll do one session here and...
• 50:13
  you know, there's, there's other people.
• 50:14
  We have our gyms like half boxing gym.
• 50:17
  So there's a bunch of people
• 50:18
  fighting in the back and yelling and,
• 50:21
  you know, it's just like some different.
• 50:24
  Wow.
• 50:24
  That's,
• 50:25
  we had one of those in Columbus and
• 50:27
  it closed half boxing, half CrossFit.
• 50:31
  Now it's just CrossFit and
• 50:32
  they moved out of that building,
• 50:34
  but that would be insane.
• 50:35
  Do you miss the gym if you
• 50:38
  can't get in there and you
• 50:39
  just have to do garage or vice versa?
• 50:43
  no because the next day I'll
• 50:44
  be at the gym like I'm
• 50:46
  still at the gym five days
• 50:47
  a week um the month after
• 50:50
  the games like I didn't
• 50:51
  think I i don't think I
• 50:52
  went to the gym all of
• 50:52
  august last year and then
• 50:54
  all of august the year
• 50:55
  before when I had my arm
• 50:56
  injury um so a little bit
• 50:59
  then and I think that's
• 51:00
  just the people I think you
• 51:01
  miss just being social
• 51:03
  that's just yeah social
• 51:05
  aspect do you ever miss the
• 51:06
  parking garage
• 51:10
  No, but sometimes I'll say to Kyle,
• 51:14
  I'm like, man, I was so hard.
• 51:17
  Like I remember that bar
• 51:20
  used to be ice cold some
• 51:22
  days and I would have to
• 51:23
  wear like I'd put on gloves
• 51:25
  and be squatting with like
• 51:26
  gloves on because the bar
• 51:27
  was so cold and like going
• 51:30
  outside before my night
• 51:31
  shift into the like, man, I was so tough.
• 51:36
  You've softened up over the years.
• 51:39
  Well now, I mean, the garage is in winter.
• 51:41
  It's still not warm,
• 51:42
  but then I think of that
• 51:45
  and comparatively and I'm like, Oh,
• 51:47
  I have a light here.
• 51:48
  I don't have cars driving by.
• 51:50
  Like I'm not half outside.
• 51:51
  Like it's pretty good.
• 51:53
  Sucking in the exhaust fumes.
• 51:56
  Yeah.
• 51:56
  Sucking in the fumes, wind coming in.
• 51:59
  You finally got all that
• 52:02
  cleared out of your system
• 52:03
  and that's why you're
• 52:03
  improving every year now.
• 52:05
  Yeah.
• 52:05
  It's like smoker's lung.
• 52:06
  I got rid of it.
• 52:09
  yeah uh wad zombie says I
• 52:14
  imagine canada just always
• 52:15
  being ice cold that's what
• 52:19
  yeah we we live in igloos
• 52:20
  pretty much I mean for
• 52:23
  salmon and yeah hunting and
• 52:26
  gather it's the hunting and
• 52:27
  gather lifestyle here
• 52:31
  Well, Emily, as always,
• 52:33
  it's been awesome having you on.
• 52:35
  Can't wait to,
• 52:37
  hopefully I can get to Carson.
• 52:40
  They have not approved media yet.
• 52:42
  So I have no idea like what's going on.
• 52:45
  Okay.
• 52:46
  So fingers crossed for you.
• 52:48
  Yeah.
• 52:49
  Hopefully I can get out there.
• 52:51
  But I heard you told,
• 52:53
  you told me via DM that you
• 52:55
  had already made your plans and
• 52:59
  Assuming you were going to make it.
• 53:01
  Yeah.
• 53:01
  Confident.
• 53:03
  Yeah.
• 53:03
  Kyle booked my flight.
• 53:05
  He was going to book it like way before,
• 53:08
  but I was like, just wait.
• 53:10
  And then, yeah,
• 53:11
  as soon as I finished quarterfinals,
• 53:13
  he just booked it.
• 53:14
  And then, like I say,
• 53:15
  and then all the penalties
• 53:16
  came out and I was like, but yeah.
• 53:21
  Well,
• 53:21
  you've learned that you have American
• 53:22
  express and like, if you need to refund.
• 53:25
  Yeah.
• 53:26
  They're awesome with that.
• 53:27
  So there you go.
• 53:29
  Well,
• 53:30
  thank you to everybody in the chat
• 53:31
  for being here.
• 53:32
  Thank you to Emily, as always,
• 53:34
  for just being a great
• 53:35
  friend and always coming on the show.
• 53:36
  We love you all,
• 53:39
  and we'll see everybody
• 53:39
  next time on the Clydesdale
• 53:42
  Media Semi-Finalist Series.
• 53:44
  Bye, guys.