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James St Leger | Athletes of the 2024 Legends Masters CrossFit Games · 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 a winner's made.
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Stick a fork in the head.
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what's going on everybody
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welcome to the Clydesdale
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media podcast where we are
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featuring the athletes of
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the 2024 legends masters
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crossfit games and I'm so
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pumped to have with me
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james st ledger what's
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going on james hey thanks
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for having me so um I'm
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gonna dive right into this
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yeah you qualified for the
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games during the covet year yeah
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What a bummer, dude.
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I know.
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I mean, I should, I,
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I should have been excited.
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I was excited.
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I was, I was proper pumped.
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And then, yeah,
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I found out in a very
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roundabout way that it wasn't happening.
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Um, but I, I, yeah, qualified, did it.
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And then, yeah,
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it's taken a few more years
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to recall if I,
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so I know here in the States,
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we have very few masters
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aged in-person events, um,
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And the whole season is
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pretty much online.
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You finally make it to that
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big stage where you're
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going to get to show your
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stuff at an in-person
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competition and it gets
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taken away from you.
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Is there anything you get to
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do in the UK to help with that?
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In terms of alternative competition?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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There are other events.
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Most of our larger events
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have a Masters category within them.
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Some of it is standalone
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Masters and some of it is
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like pairs events or teams of three.
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However, with that being COVID year,
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pretty much the whole world shut down.
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So in any other circumstance
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or situation and every other year,
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if I've decided to go for
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it and for whatever reason
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it's been cancelled,
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there have been alternatives.
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But yeah, that year, it just literally,
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the brakes were slammed
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pretty hard on it.
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Yeah, here in the States,
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we had the Masters Fitness
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Collective do a competition
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to kind of simulate the games.
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They couldn't call themselves the games,
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but like invited everybody
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who made it and tried to
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carry on with a ton of
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safety protocol and hardly
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anybody in the building.
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Yeah.
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That's great.
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And that would have been lovely,
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but our government just had
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slightly different rules on
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what you could do and where
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you could do it and who you
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could be around.
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And so any competition that
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might've been pushed
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forward would have just
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been another virtual event.
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So now it's four years later
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and you finally get that
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next qualification.
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Yes.
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New age group category.
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And so now, for the first time ever,
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you're going to be heading
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to the CrossFit Games.
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Yes.
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And I cannot wait.
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It's been a long time coming.
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And that's a healthy trip for you.
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You got to come overseas to do this,
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but it means that much to you?
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Yeah.
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I think along with what most
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people do when they enter the sport,
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They've seen a few videos and they're like,
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I can do that.
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I'm going to the games.
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And yet I was one of those people.
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I was like, I'm going to the games.
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I just didn't quite envisage
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how long it would take and
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the route that it would take me down.
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At the time when I first started it,
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regionals were a thing.
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So my initial first goal was
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I'm going to make it to regionals.
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And for whatever reason, sickness, injury,
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not quite having muscle ups,
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not quite having double unders,
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believe it or not.
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Something always tripped me up each year.
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And then I finally qualified
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for regionals in 2018.
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And little did I know that
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would be the last regionals
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they ever did.
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Yeah.
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You're kind of cursed.
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Yeah, I know.
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So when I look at your Instagram,
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it's very fitness forward.
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Has fitness always been like
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a big part of your life?
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Uh, yeah, from a young age, uh,
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I did gymnastics until I
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was about six or seven.
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It might even have been eight.
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Um,
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and then I started swimming and I did
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swimming right.
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And through up until uni, uh,
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with swimming, I've,
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I was doing all the various school sports,
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um, played rugby to a decent level, uh,
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gave up rugby because I was
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getting squashed every game
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stuck to swimming.
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And then a couple of years
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after I stopped swimming, yeah,
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I discovered CrossFit and
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it just sort of like
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scratched the edge that I
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had of being competitive
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and trying to always like
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further and better myself.
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I'm the oldest of four boys.
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And so naturally,
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if one of us does something,
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the other three have to
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give it a go and try and at
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least do it or do it better
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or faster or whatever it is.
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So yeah,
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we've always been competitive and
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sort of like driven each other along.
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So I don't know if you know this,
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there's some breaking news
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going on right now.
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As of five minutes ago,
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they've released the events.
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Are they?
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I've been waiting for this for so long.
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Do you mind if we go ahead
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and pull them up here on the show?
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Yeah, do it.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Get a live reaction as well from me.
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Yeah.
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So here we go.
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Event one.
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Four rounds for time.
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600 meter run.
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Round one, five deadlifts.
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Round two, 10 deadlifts.
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Round three, 15 deadlifts.
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Round four, 20 deadlifts.
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The barbell is 255 and 180.
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255.
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Trying to now do calculations about 120.
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Yes, 120, 130-ish.
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Okay, cool.
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That's going to be very hamstring-loaded.
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Uh, I love a deadlift.
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Um, I'm not, don't love running so much.
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That's probably due to my
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swimming background and
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having like really big feet.
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So yeah, not an actual runner, but yeah.
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Happy with that one.
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Um, event two, four rounds for time,
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four rope climbs to 15 feet,
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six sandbag carries one 50,
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140 foot handstand walk
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time cap 12 minutes.
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Yeah.
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Loving that.
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Is that handstand walk on broken?
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I guess we don't know yet, but yeah.
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Um, yeah, I love gymnastics.
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Um, I love sandbags.
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That's a good one.
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Yeah.
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The unbroken thing might
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vary from age group to age group.
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Yeah.
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Event three for time, 25 overhead squats,
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80-foot dumbbell walking lunge,
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25 overhead squats,
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time cap three minutes.
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Okay.
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Yeah,
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I was wondering what they would do
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for these very, very short workouts.
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On the initial schedule they released,
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there was two of these really short ones,
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so I was wondering what it
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was going to be.
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What's the loading for the barbell?
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Barbell is 75, 55.
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Oh, that's dangerous.
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That's really light.
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Yeah.
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And so the dumbbells are 50-30?
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50-35.
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Yeah.
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That's going to burn for sure.
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But yeah, I like that one.
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Yeah.
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Event four for time.
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Snatch Speed Ladder.
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Four at 135.95.
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Three at 165.115.
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Two at 195.135.
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And one at 225.155.
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Time cap, two minutes.
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Yeah, that'd be good.
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I like the look of them.
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I'm just unsure as to what
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everyone else would be like on it.
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But yeah, I quite like that.
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That's good.
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Event five for time, 75 wall balls,
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40 shoulder to overhead,
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30 dumbbell stepovers, 40 dumbbell snatch,
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75 wall balls.
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Time cap, 15 minutes.
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Wall ball, 2014.
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Box, 2420.
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Barbell, 115, 180.
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And dumbbell, 5035.
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Yeah.
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In the past,
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wall balls have tripped me up.
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in comparison to my peers.
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Um,
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but that's just a bit of a burner
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already.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I quite like that one.
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Event six round one, four minute work,
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one minute rest round two,
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three minute work,
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one minute rest round three,
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two minutes of work for completion,
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105 or 80 cows on the echo
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bike by an each round
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starts with 75 double unders,
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20 chest of our pull-ups.
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Okay, cool.
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So that's,
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I'm trying to get the format in my head.
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So skip, pull,
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and then just hop on the
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bike until you've done your cows.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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That's going to get Lenny seven,
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the standard.
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Oh, I'm happy with this.
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Cause I've done this twice
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in the past few months.
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So yeah.
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Happy.
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Event eight, eight rounds for time,
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eight bar facing burpees,
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eight toes to bar, one clean, 255, 180.
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Time cap, eight minutes.
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Power clean.
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I'll be happy with power clean.
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Squat clean,
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that's going to get quite
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painful on the legs.
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But yeah, that's a good one.
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Event nine,
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five minutes to establish a one
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rep max front squat.
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Okay.
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I wasn't too sure if they
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would do a standalone strength.
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I'm happy they have done.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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That's half decent.
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Although as event nine,
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you're not going to have much legs left.
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And then finally event 10, four time,
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eight, 12, 16,
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single arm dumbbell thruster,
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bar muscle up,
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Time cap, eight minutes.
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Dumbbell is 70, 50.
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Oh,
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on the assumption that's an even split
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on the arms.
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That's good.
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That's the last workout as well.
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They told us yesterday that
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there's going to be a cut
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leading into the top.
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There's a cut going into the
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last event and it's the top
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50% move forward.
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Yeah.
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And they rejiggered the schedule.
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So there was meant to be two
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workouts on the Sunday on
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the initial info we were told.
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And then, yeah,
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yesterday we were told that
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it's just going to be the one.
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So that's, that's, that's a good, heavy,
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heavy and different workout
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to finish off.
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Yeah.
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I like it.
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Yeah.
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That's a,
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that's a heavy dumbbell thruster
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to finish the week.
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I mean,
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I can't say I'm going to do well on it.
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I just like the look of it
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and it's going to be good to have a,
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have a go at it.
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Yeah.
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If, if I make it that far.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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So you were here for the breaking news.
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Excellent.
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Thank you.
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All the events announced now.
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Good.
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Yeah,
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it's going to be a tricky one to try
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these out just because of
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my travel schedule.
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I'm going to hit a couple of
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them just to get some feels for it.
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That's a great question.
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Like we're less than a week away.
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At this point, like,
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not going to get any better
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between now and next
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thursday right it's just
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really just feeling them
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out so you know kind of
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what to expect yeah 100
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yeah yeah you're not going
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to get any better but you
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could get worse um just by
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doing too much um yeah it's
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what we are now thursday
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now I fly saturday land the
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same day but it's probably
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going to take a day and a
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half just to get used to my
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bearings and managing the time difference
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And then it will be, what,
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three days before event time.
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So yeah, three days to have a little play.
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I'll pop into a gym over there.
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So whenever I fly west,
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it doesn't really affect me.
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When I fly east, it kills me.
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Yeah.
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Coming home is going to be tricky.
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Yeah,
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that's going to be rough on you going
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home.
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But hopefully it means
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you'll recover pretty quick
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for the event itself.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Um, yeah, coming over shouldn't be, I mean,
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it shouldn't be too much of a problem,
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but the timings for my age group,
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it's the equivalent of
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working out at midnight.
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Um, and I normally get things done,
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try to juggle around childcare,
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normally get things done in the mornings.
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Uh,
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then I occasionally train early evening.
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I don't train at midnight.
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Um, so that's the only.
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difference in the system really.
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I thought everybody trained at midnight.
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No, it's been a while.
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Yeah.
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Um, so are you,
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are you with any kind of
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camp or any kind of
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programming or do you do your own thing?
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Uh, I've had the same coach now for,
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I want to say nine years,
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ever since I've started to
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try and actually chase this properly.
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Um,
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I've been with a company and within
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that company,
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I've had pretty much the same coach, uh,
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throughout,
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A guy's called Sam Smith.
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And he lives in Arizona.
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And everything's done remotely, naturally.
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So this will actually be the
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first time I've met him.
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So we've done plenty of
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video calls and catch-ups
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and whatnot to discuss things,
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but I've not actually met
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him face-to-face.
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So he's coming with you to the games?
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Yes.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's cool.
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You're a husband and a father.
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Correct.
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Yeah.
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How do you balance all of
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that with the training you
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have to do for this?
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Oh, yep.
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I'm quite a good juggler.
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The wife is really supportive,
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as are various family
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members when we call upon
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babysitting needs.
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But training wise,
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Try and get things done, as I said,
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in the mornings where possible,
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just before the kids are up.
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So I'm not with them.
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In the evenings, if we've got a babysitter,
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then the wife and I will
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nip off to the gym together.
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That's kind of like our date
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day or date time.
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It's the one time that we
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are together without the kids.
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And then with my job,
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we're encouraged to
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maintain a level of fitness.
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So within that,
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we're afforded a bit of gym time as well.
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So I can train when I'm at
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work and the rest of it is
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just juggling around when
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the kids are either awake or asleep.
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What do you do for a job?
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I'm a firearms officer with the police.
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Okay.
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So in the UK, um,
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we don't routinely carry firearms.
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Um, there's like,
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there's certain teams that do.
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So I'm on one of those teams.
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I've been doing it for about 16 years now.
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Okay.
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Been a while.
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Did I see you coach as well?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I used to co-run a gym
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before COVID dismantled that.
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And then, yeah,
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I've moved around a couple
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of gyms and I currently
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coach the competitors squad at the gym.
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And I also do online
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coaching and programming
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for some of those guys and
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also other people that aren't at the gym.
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Does being a coach help you be an athlete?
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It opens my mind to more
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things that I might not
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necessarily just be going
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through on my own.
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Yeah,
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it gives me a broader understanding
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of what a multitude of
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people are going through.
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And with that,
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sometimes I can relate to it very well.
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So I can have an
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understanding and we can
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have a nice discussion about it.
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And then other times there's
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things that are thrown my
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way that are big curveballs
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and I've then got to
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learn,
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learn a bit more about the human
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psychology of things.
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And yeah, it's, it's good.
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What, when you're competing,
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how much of your inner
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dialogue do you fight with
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during a workout?
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I've never been in the point.
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I thought I once
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I'll come back to that.
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I've never been to the point
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where I've not been able to do something.
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It's always,
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it's more been about how hard can I push?
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And yeah,
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you've got to have a little talk
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with yourself about, you know,
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how hard do you want this?
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Like, what does it mean to you?
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You do replay various conversations,
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you know,
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remembering all the training
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hours you've put in,
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all the sacrifices you've
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made to get to that certain point.
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And yeah,
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once that little flick in your
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head is switched, then you can obviously,
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well, yeah,
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I usually bury myself quite
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deep in a dark hole.
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Make it hurt accordingly.
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Yeah,
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going back to the thing I said where
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I've never not been able to do a workout,
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there was a workout that
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completely broke me.
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I want to say it was 2017.
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Might have been 18 at the
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French Throwdown.
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Double dumbbells, pull-ups and
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So double kettlebell thrusters,
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burpees and pull-ups, I think it was.
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And for whatever reason,
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mainly the heat that weekend,
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because it was when Europe
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had a massive heat wave and
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the air conditioning unit
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inside the Velodrome was broken,
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I just wanted to stop.
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You can see the whole pack
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of the heat was moving past me.
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I was probably last in my heat, I think.
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And that played on my mind,
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and then the heat.
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And yeah, I just...
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just that's the first time
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I've ever not wanted to be
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there and do something and
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ready to throw the towel in
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with three minutes left and
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I was like no just let's
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just keep sticking it out
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keep chipping away again
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the whole inner dialogue of
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you train hard for this you
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know don't let yourself
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down don't let your
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supporters down yeah
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eventually finished the workout um
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Went back to the room that
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night and the missus had a word with me.
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I was like, what are you doing?
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Do you want to be here or not?
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I was like, well, yeah.
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It's just that workout was just horrible.
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So I came out the next day,
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absolutely smashed the
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first workout that day, came sixth.
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And if it weren't for a silly mistake,
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probably could have won it.
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So yeah, inner dialogue is strong.
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When you, when you almost quit, right?
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Yeah.
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Do you beat yourself up as
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much as the missus wanted to beat you up?
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I think she might've been
20:15
coming at it from a
20:16
slightly different angle in
20:18
terms of she knows how much
20:19
it means to me to,
20:20
to do this and to do well.
20:23
Whereas at the time I was
20:24
like pure survival mode.
20:26
It's like for whatever reason,
20:27
and the heat was a massive factor.
20:30
I just need to survive and
20:32
get through the workout as
20:33
opposed to push myself anymore.
20:36
I think because I've been
20:36
training and doing various
20:38
sports for so long, if I push too hard,
20:42
I can tip myself over the
20:44
edge and then recovery
20:45
becomes a massive factor
20:46
then that I'm not recovering properly.
20:48
So yeah,
20:50
that workout was definitely more
20:51
about just like survival.
20:56
Sorry, one second.
20:58
My door has just turned up.
21:03
I'm busy.
21:04
Sorry, one second.
21:06
Wait.
21:08
Elsie?
21:08
Sorry, guys.
21:11
One second.
21:13
Elsie?
21:16
Elsie?
21:16
Can you take Elsa upstairs, darling?
21:24
I'm still on this call, darling.
21:27
Okay.
21:28
Okay, sorry.
21:32
It's not about that balance
21:34
you have to enjoy.
21:35
Yes.
21:37
You stay here.
21:38
I'll go upstairs.
21:39
Get somewhere quiet.
21:56
okay sorry guys I'm back
21:59
it's all good it's all good
22:01
um usually it's my dog
22:02
getting in the way he's
22:05
definitely easier to lock
22:06
out the room though yeah um
22:09
so when when your your
22:11
brain does flip into that
22:13
like I'm gonna fight for
22:14
this and then you lean into
22:16
it yeah how good do you
22:18
feel after that workout uh
22:21
yeah good the adrenaline is
22:23
usually riding high um
22:26
more often than not the
22:27
result has then been good
22:29
so yeah definitely riding
22:30
off those definitely riding
22:33
off the position you're
22:34
finishing um more so than
22:38
the performance I've not
22:39
yet been in the position
22:40
where I've done the best I
22:43
can and I'm also then happy
22:45
with the place I've been in
22:46
if it's like way down the pack
22:50
So speak, so going in that direction,
22:53
what are your realistic
22:54
expectations for yourself
22:57
at this year's games?
23:03
Tricky one.
23:04
I'm not trying not to place
23:07
too much expectation on it.
23:10
And although I will be
23:11
looking at the leaderboard,
23:11
I'm going to try my hardest
23:13
not to be leaderboarding.
23:15
Every other event I've done,
23:17
including the Opens,
23:19
the ones that I've
23:20
performed at best are where
23:22
I've gone in with no expectation,
23:25
gone in to enjoy it and not
23:28
looked a leaderboard.
23:28
And for whatever reason,
23:31
not carrying that stress
23:32
around with you is always paid off.
23:37
Maybe the start of the
23:38
workouts on that particular
23:39
year or the particular
23:40
event has just fallen well
23:42
in how they've done the programming.
23:45
Um, but yeah, if I,
23:47
if I go in with too much of
23:48
an expectation,
23:49
I don't hit it that a hundred percent,
23:53
it's going to play on my head.
23:54
And I know it's not over
23:55
until the fat lady sings
23:57
and the last event is all
23:58
done and dusted.
24:00
And there's always moving days.
24:02
But if I'm focusing on the
24:03
fact that I'm either where I want to be,
24:05
or I'm not where I want to be, yeah,
24:08
that will definitely carry
24:10
over a level of stress.
24:11
I don't need to be managing.
24:14
or carrying with me.
24:15
So if I can manage it and
24:16
keep that stress level down,
24:18
I find that my performance
24:19
is often a lot better.
24:20
I would, however, with that,
24:24
keeping in hand today,
24:24
I would love top 10.
24:27
Pushing for top five is good.
24:31
I kind of think first,
24:33
maybe second are locked in,
24:36
but the rest of us, yeah, third,
24:40
three total,
24:41
10th maybe 15th we could all
24:43
be fighting for those near
24:45
podium positions but again
24:47
I've got no idea how these
24:49
workouts have fallen for
24:50
other people it could be
24:51
their wheelhouse workouts
24:53
or they could hate them I have no idea
24:56
it's so hard to tell like
24:58
where you even stand
24:59
because online competitions
25:00
are not the same as what
25:03
it's going to be like in person, right?
25:05
Yeah.
25:06
Best in person competitor.
25:08
And you have no idea where
25:09
you stand because
25:10
everything's been online up till now.
25:12
Yeah.
25:13
Yeah, totally.
25:14
I think the only expectation
25:15
I would like to carry
25:16
forward is to execute my plan.
25:20
So again,
25:21
I've only literally had that
25:23
quick glance of the workouts and,
25:25
i like most of them I think
25:28
I know how I'm going to
25:28
attack all of them and as
25:31
long as I can stay to my
25:33
game plan and execute as I
25:35
need to the leaderboard
25:37
will be whatever the
25:37
leaderboard is so as long
25:39
as I do what I go into what
25:42
I'm planning to do in the
25:43
actual workout and the plan
25:45
of attack for it if I can
25:46
execute that well and to my plan
25:49
Then I almost don't care
25:51
where I fall in the leaderboard.
25:52
If I'm near the top, brilliant.
25:54
If I'm near the bottom, that's also fine.
25:56
Providing I executed as per plan.
26:00
So this has been a long time coming.
26:02
How important is it for you
26:04
to make sure that you soak
26:05
in the experience?
26:09
Yeah, quite, quite important.
26:11
Um,
26:13
going back to regionals when I didn't
26:15
realize that that was going
26:16
to be the last.
26:18
regionals experience um I
26:21
did take a lot of time back
26:23
and trying to soak it in
26:25
walking around just without
26:27
overthinking too much um
26:29
really taking my time and
26:31
sort of trying to immerse
26:31
myself with the other
26:33
athletes uh and again
26:36
similarly I feel this time
26:37
um I would love to
26:39
re-qualify and come back um
26:41
in future years again I've
26:43
got no idea on how the
26:45
crossfit season is going to unfold
26:49
And yeah,
26:49
definitely going to be taking in
26:50
as much as possible,
26:52
but while still trying to
26:53
have my head in the game.
26:55
Corey Leonard says control
26:56
what you can control.
26:57
Let the rest fall away.
26:59
Yeah, exactly.
27:00
Yeah.
27:00
Yeah.
27:01
Yeah.
27:01
Fully in agreement with that.
27:05
If I do my best, that's all I can ask for.
27:07
And then the leaderboard
27:08
will be what the
27:09
leaderboard is and everything else will.
27:11
Yeah.
27:11
As she says, it will just,
27:13
it will just fall into
27:14
place as it was meant to.
27:16
Yeah, big props to Corey.
27:17
He's the one that let me
27:18
know that those workouts were released.
27:21
Thank you.
27:23
So we were able to share
27:24
those in the show.
27:26
Well, James, thank you so much for this.
27:28
This has been a blast.
27:30
We're going to be there in Birmingham.
27:32
We're going to be filming a
27:33
behind the scenes.
27:34
Excellent.
27:34
I'll make sure I come and stop by.
27:35
Say hi.
27:37
ellie hiller myself will be
27:38
backstage in the corrals in
27:39
the warm-up areas uh just
27:41
kind of capturing
27:43
everybody's experience
27:45
through this uh this
27:46
weekend and uh we'll put it
27:48
together in a multi-episode
27:50
documentary it should be
27:53
out after it's all over and
27:54
hopefully that allows you
27:56
to remember your experience
27:57
as well oh thank you yeah
27:58
that'll be good yeah I
28:00
can't wait to meet you in person
28:02
Yeah, likewise.
28:02
Likewise.
28:03
I seem to be doing an awful
28:04
lot of things online at the moment.
28:06
So yeah,
28:06
getting face-to-face with people
28:07
will be brilliant.
28:09
Yeah.
28:10
Well, thank you, James.
28:11
Thank you to everybody in
28:11
the chat for being here.
28:12
We will see everybody next
28:14
time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
28:17
Thank you so much, guys.