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Kelly Kelly | Athletes of The Legends Master's CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  Hey, hey, still.
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  Let's go.
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  I was born a killer.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now I 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 heater
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  on my dinner plate.
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  What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast,
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  where we're in the middle
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  of a series where we're
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  trying to highlight as many
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  of the Masters CrossFit
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  Games athletes as we possibly can do.
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  And today, I get to catch up an old friend,
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  Kelly Kelly.
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  What's going on, Kelly?
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  How's it going?
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  It's going great.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  So before we get into my questions,
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  Corey Leonard was here early and he said,
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  that is a fantastic picture.
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  The picture I chose for the thumbnail.
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  Yep.
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  That's been a popular one.
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  Yeah.
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  Your cheese grins or
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  whatever you want to call
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  them into the cameras are almost iconic.
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  I'm glad that's what I'm known for.
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  If I have to be known for something,
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  I don't mind that one.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's, um, as I was doing these, I was like,
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  I want to get as fun of a
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  picture as I can find of
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  the person instead of just
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  the standard workout picture.
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  But you know,
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  what's crazy is everybody does reels now.
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  That's right.
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  Yeah.
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  Nobody does pictures.
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  It's hard to find a still
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  photo these days.
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  It is so hard.
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  So then I have to like try
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  to screenshot it and hit
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  just the right moment that
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  it's not too blurry.
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  Yeah.
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  Or, you know, whatever.
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  But thankfully you still do
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  some still photography.
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  Well, yes.
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  Yeah.
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  My husband still does some
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  still photography.
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  You still post still photography.
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  Which is awesome.
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  Makes my life a whole lot easier.
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  Well, you will.
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  I'll tell him.
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  Yeah.
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  It's all about me.
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  Yeah.
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  So, um, man, it's been,
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  it's been a little over a
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  year since we've talked.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I guess semi-finals last year probably.
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  Um,
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  and back then you kind of threw out
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  that that was going to be
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  your last go and that you
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  were going to focus on
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  other things in life.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's what I did.
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  And here we are a year later,
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  and you're going to your
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  first ever CrossFit Games.
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  I am.
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  The irony.
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  Isn't that wild?
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  I know.
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  It's pretty crazy.
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  So let's clean up some stuff.
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  You actually qualified in
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  the elite individual semifinals again.
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  I did.
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  And you chose to...
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  decline that invitation and
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  focus on masters.
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  Yep.
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  Can you explain to us why
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  that was the decision?
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  Is it just the new focus or other things?
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  Um, there were a lot of factors involved.
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  Um, there were,
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  I yeah,
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  I wasn't really expecting or
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  planning to qualify in the open division.
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  So I just I guess that
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  wasn't the expectation.
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  So it was a nice surprise to
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  know that I could.
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  But we were doing we were in
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  like a big building phase
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  for the some of the
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  programs that I'm working on right now.
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  And I was in, you know,
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  a big pivotal phase
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  trying to get on seminar
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  staff and all of those things.
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  And so it was just kind of
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  not in the life priorities.
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  It would have been really
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  hard to like put together the time,
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  the energy, the money,
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  it would have meant that I competed.
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  Like, you know, it would have been,
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  I think it was quarterfinals.
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  I forget which came first,
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  individual semifinals,
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  master's semifinals,
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  all within like a four week period.
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  Flip it and you're right.
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  Yeah, that one.
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  Faster semifinals than
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  individual semifinals.
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  Yeah.
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  And I was just, that was just kind of like,
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  it would have been a lot
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  within a really short
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  timeframe and it would have
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  totally pulled my focus
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  away from everything that I
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  was trying to prioritize in my life.
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  I would have had to focus on
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  competition just to like
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  take care of my body and
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  make sure that I didn't
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  break in all of that.
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  And so it just, you know, and plus the,
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  like the, you know,
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  the travel and the expense and everything,
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  we were kind of just like, you know,
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  this is,
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  This is just, it's a really cool thing.
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  It would have been,
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  there was definitely a
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  bittersweet moment of like, oh,
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  they brought it back to the
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  tennis stadium.
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  And of course,
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  like the year it's at the tennis stadium,
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  I said, no.
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  So, you know,
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  like hopefully they do that
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  again in the future and, you know,
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  maybe I'll be in a
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  different place next time.
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  But this year it just, you know,
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  wasn't the right thing to prioritize.
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  So you said something there
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  that I learned.
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  And so we're going to dive down that road.
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  I know as many times as I've talked to you,
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  coaching is very important to you.
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  Yeah.
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  You were,
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  you were trying to make seminar staff.
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  How did that go?
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  And what, when did that become a priority?
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  Yeah, no, I am.
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  I'm on seminar staff now,
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  so it went really well.
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  Yep.
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  So I started coaching seminars and yeah,
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  I mean,
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  seminar staff has been a goal that
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  I've wanted to chase since
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  I got my level two many years ago.
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  And I just knew that I
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  couldn't do that and be a
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  competitive athlete at the
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  same time well.
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  There's a lot of travel.
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  It's a demanding schedule.
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  It's demanding on your energy.
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  And I just wanted to make
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  sure that I could give
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  what I needed to give to it.
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  I don't like doing things halfway.
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  Thank you for whoever said congrats.
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  Uplift WOD.
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  Yeah.
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  That was us.
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  I think is who's sending that.
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  Thank you very much.
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  Yeah.
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  It was a, it was a really big goal for me.
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  And so that was one of the
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  things that I had in mind
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  when I said last year was
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  going to be my last, you know,
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  year prioritizing competition.
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  As soon as my season was done,
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  I immediately started the process of,
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  applying for seminar staff
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  and going through their
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  internship process and all of that stuff.
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  And it's,
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  it's a long process and it takes
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  a lot of work.
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  Um, and even when you're on staff,
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  there's still a huge learning curve.
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  Um,
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  so there's a lot of studying and a lot
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  of learning and a lot of, you know,
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  you're taking a lot of
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  feedback and you're iterating.
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  And so it's, it's a big commitment.
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  It's, it takes a lot of time, um,
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  just even outside the
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  seminars to learn all the
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  material and be able to
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  present well and learn
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  their format and everything like that.
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  So if you've ever been to an L1,
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  there's lots of pieces to it, right?
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  And someone different
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  teaches each piece generally at an L1.
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  And then there's a flow
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  master who kind of keeps it all together.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Is the eventual goal to be
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  able to do all facets,
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  including be a Flowmaster?
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  Or are you just, hey, I'm here.
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  I'm just getting in and
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  learning what I can.
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  And then we'll worry about
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  those goals next year.
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  No,
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  the goal is always to go to the top of
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  whatever I'm doing.
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  So.
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  So, yeah, no,
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  I want to learn as much as I can.
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  I want to, you know,
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  get as much experience as I can.
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  And it's definitely I don't
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  think it happens quickly.
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  You have to get a lot of
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  seminars under your belt.
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  It's like a very slow step
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  by step process.
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  But yes, that is the path we're on.
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  And that's the long term
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  goal is to be able to, you know,
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  coach every piece of the L1
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  and hopefully take a
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  leadership role someday.
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  That's that's and of course you will.
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  Yeah.
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  So I was watching something with Dave.
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  He's done so much lately.
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  It's hard to figure out which one it was.
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  He mentions your name in
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  something where he was like,
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  I think he was on with
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  Savan and he was talking about how,
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  that he didn't know many of
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  the athletes he interviewed,
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  but there were some
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  athletes he did because he
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  uses them a lot for testing
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  because they're close.
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  And he mentioned your name.
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  How lucky are you that you
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  lived close enough to form
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  that relationship with Dave
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  and be his tester?
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  And did that help you in
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  gaining seminar staff status?
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  Um, I, well, I'm so lucky.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, that was just an amazing, um, yeah,
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  amazing, amazing, uh,
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  opportunity to just be
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  asked to come test and, um, you know,
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  be Dave's punching bag for, you know,
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  whenever he needed me.
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  Um, and it's been super fun.
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  It's always fun to go down
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  to the ranch and be a part of that,
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  you know,
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  creative process that he goes
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  through and creating a programming.
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  I always think it's super
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  fascinating to like watch
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  his brain work and watch
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  him put pieces together and, you know,
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  make adjustments and, um,
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  Yeah, and to play a role in, you know,
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  giving feedback on how
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  things felt or what my
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  strategy was or what my approach was.
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  And yeah,
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  all of that is a super cool
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  process to be on the other
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  side of things.
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  And I feel very,
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  very lucky that I've had
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  the opportunity to be part
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  of that for the last several years.
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  And I think that's a cool thing to even,
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  you know, be a part of now.
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  It's kind of like, well, hey,
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  now that I'm not competing, you know,
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  I got...
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  no horse in the game in the
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  individual field.
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  So, you know,
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  throw me in wherever you want.
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  Yeah.
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  And it says a lot about you
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  because a tester isn't just
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  doing the workout and
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  they're observing and
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  taking the time down.
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  They want the feedback from
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  you as to how it felt,
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  what your strategy was, all those things.
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  And that had to go a long
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  way in helping you prepare
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  for seminar staff.
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  Yeah, I mean, in terms of seminar staff,
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  I think it was,
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  I don't think that I would
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  say it helped me get on
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  seminar staff in the sense that, like,
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  it's a pretty rigorous process.
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  Like, you have to, it's definitely not,
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  you know,
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  people who got good
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  connections are in kind of game, you know,
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  like you, like I took a lot of feedback,
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  you know,
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  no matter how much experience
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  you have as a coach,
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  even the people who have
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  been on staff for a decade, you know,
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  like that's part of the
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  culture is you're like
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  constantly taking lots of
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  feedback and expected to be
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  constantly improving.
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  And so like a big part of it
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  is them just figuring out, you know,
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  if you're the right person, you know,
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  if you're the right
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  the person to fit in with that culture,
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  you know, um,
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  can you take a lot of feedback, you know,
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  are you about the right
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  things and are you, are you living,
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  you know,
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  the values that you're preaching?
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  Um,
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  but I do think it was really valuable
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  in the sense that, um,
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  being in Santa Cruz gives me access to,
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  um,
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  I've just known a lot of the OG
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  CrossFitters, you know, I've, I've
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  being around Santa Cruz has
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  given me access to people
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  like Annie Sakamoto and Pat
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  Barber and Paulus.
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  And, you know, like I just, there's,
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  you know,
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  seminar staff members that have been,
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  you know,
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  on seminar staff for decades or
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  Flowmasters and have a lot
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  of experience with that format.
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  And so,
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  the fortunate thing for me
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  that I think really
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  benefited me is just that I,
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  I know those people and I
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  was able to reach out and, you know, say,
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  you know, Hey, can you help me?
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  What should I do?
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  You know, how should I prepare?
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  Can I, can, can you watch me coach?
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  You know, if I,
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  if I show you what my plan is,
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  can you give me some feedback?
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  You know?
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  And I, I really utilized that to,
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  you know,
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  I guess for guidance, for mentorship,
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  you know, and,
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  and I think that's
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  definitely valuable if you're, you know,
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  just being local and having
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  those connections.
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  Uh,
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  Corey Leonard says Pat Barber's facial
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  hair is fitter than I am.
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  It's probably true for most people.
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  It's pretty impressive.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, well, I think that's,
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  that's really awesome.
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  Um,
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  I think that the, the,
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  the sport and the
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  methodology for lack of
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  better term seminar staff,
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  there was a time where so
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  many of the athletes were
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  on seminar staff and,
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  and we've gotten away from that.
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  And I think that the more we
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  can make that connection.
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  And I think some of the
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  athletes are gravitating back to that.
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  And I, and I love seeing that.
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  Um, and so you jumping into that is,
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  is just a cool, cool thing to happen.
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  when I was growing up in CrossFit, I mean,
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  I was older when I started CrossFit,
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  I guess.
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  So I didn't grow up in
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  CrossFit the way that the
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  kids grow up now.
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  But all of my idols,
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  all of my CrossFit idols
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  were on seminar staff.
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  You know,
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  they were athletes and they were
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  incredible athletes.
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  And they were also on seminar staff.
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  And they were teaching, you know, this –
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  methodology that I think was
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  so new and revolutionary at the time.
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  And, um,
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  so that was a big influence on me.
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  Yeah.
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  So let's talk about your
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  season a little bit, um,
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  because of this and, and,
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  and going through that
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  journey of getting on the seminar staff,
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  how important was the season,
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  even in just the master's part?
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  Um,
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  how important was it like on
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  the priority list?
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  Oh, I see.
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  Was it, was it top three?
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  Was it top five?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Um,
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  it was maybe around your four position.
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  Um, yeah, we, you know,
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  like it was sort of, um,
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  career and family time and then training.
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  Um, and, and,
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  you know,
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  the career had kind of a couple
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  of pieces to it, you know,
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  between seminar staff and
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  some of the programs that
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  I've been working on, you know,
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  and then I needed to sort
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  of balance my life out and
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  spend time with family and friends and,
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  you know,
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  work on taking care of my
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  relationships that matter
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  most to me in my life that, you know,
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  definitely some of that
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  stuff gets put on the back
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  burner more than I would
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  have liked when you're,
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  competing at the level that
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  I was competing at.
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  And so it, um, yeah, I guess third ish.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  So you go into, you go into quarters,
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  you finish 10th in your age
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  group and you go into semis,
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  you finish 12th.
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  I would say,
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  I'd say you're a better in
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  person competitor than you
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  are an online competitor.
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  For sure.
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  I would say that too.
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  So kind of,
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  The weird thing and the cool
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  thing for you is Masters
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  finished in early May,
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  maybe for semifinals.
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  And then you have this long
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  break until the games,
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  until Labor Day weekend.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Are you able,
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  or do you have any desire to
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  pick up the training as you
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  get closer to the games and just say,
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  okay, family time.
• 17:15
  I want to do that, but just for four weeks,
• 17:19
  six weeks, I can do this.
• 17:21
  Yeah.
• 17:22
  Yeah.
• 17:23
  Yeah.
• 17:24
  That was the plan.
• 17:25
  I did have a plan of like, all right,
• 17:29
  eight weeks before the games,
• 17:31
  we're going to do
• 17:33
  a slightly more intense training cycle.
• 17:35
  I can shift my schedule back to, you know,
• 17:39
  do get a little more
• 17:40
  training volume in and feel
• 17:43
  a little more prepared for
• 17:44
  the CrossFit Games.
• 17:47
  And it's not totally working
• 17:50
  out the way that I had planned.
• 17:52
  So I got sick, probably COVID,
• 17:59
  like week one.
• 18:01
  I was like, all right,
• 18:02
  week one of this eight week program.
• 18:04
  And I'm out.
• 18:05
  I was out for the whole week.
• 18:07
  Six or four.
• 18:08
  Yeah.
• 18:10
  So like, all right,
• 18:11
  this is a seven week cycle, you know?
• 18:14
  Um, and then, uh,
• 18:17
  literally yesterday we were like,
• 18:19
  all right, started rebuilding.
• 18:20
  You know,
• 18:20
  it took me maybe another week to
• 18:22
  get my lungs back after that.
• 18:24
  And, um, and started rebuilding and, uh,
• 18:27
  literally yesterday, um,
• 18:30
  Our dog, she needs a double knee surgery.
• 18:37
  We were really hoping that
• 18:39
  we could hold off on it
• 18:40
  till after the games.
• 18:43
  But she's got to do it now.
• 18:46
  So she's going in next week.
• 18:49
  And it's going to be an
• 18:51
  intense two weeks before the games.
• 18:56
  uh yeah so we'll see I mean
• 18:58
  I'm I'm doing what I can
• 19:00
  but we yeah we just
• 19:01
  launched our um fire
• 19:04
  pre-academy program that
• 19:05
  I've been working on I've
• 19:06
  got a seminar in a couple
• 19:07
  of weeks I'm coaching and
• 19:10
  my dog is getting surgery
• 19:12
  so those are just you know
• 19:14
  things that are more
• 19:14
  important on the list right
• 19:15
  now and uh I'm getting the
• 19:18
  training in where I can I'm trying to
• 19:21
  get as much volume in as I can and,
• 19:23
  and at least expose myself
• 19:25
  to some of the heavier,
• 19:27
  more unique things that
• 19:28
  show up at the games.
• 19:30
  Um, we'll see how it goes.
• 19:34
  So, wow.
• 19:37
  It's just, it's just,
• 19:42
  so your dog's name is Harley, right?
• 19:44
  Yes.
• 19:45
  And big dog.
• 19:48
  Yeah.
• 19:48
  She's a 85 pound pity mix.
• 19:55
  from pictures almost looks
• 19:56
  great Danish size,
• 19:59
  but maybe not that big.
• 20:00
  Not that big.
• 20:01
  Yeah.
• 20:02
  She's, she's more of like a, a thick girl,
• 20:05
  you know, a little stocky,
• 20:07
  maybe a little taller than
• 20:09
  your average pity.
• 20:10
  But, um, but yeah,
• 20:14
  you see who our sponsor is, right?
• 20:16
  That's right.
• 20:16
  Well, and we're, we're sponsored by thick.
• 20:20
  That's right.
• 20:20
  Uh-huh.
• 20:21
  Yeah.
• 20:21
  Yeah.
• 20:24
  So we need to get her some clothes from,
• 20:26
  from.
• 20:27
  Absolutely.
• 20:27
  She'll rock them.
• 20:29
  Yeah.
• 20:31
  So the recovery for that,
• 20:32
  I'm assuming is going to
• 20:34
  put a lot on you.
• 20:36
  Yeah.
• 20:37
  Yeah.
• 20:38
  Wow.
• 20:41
  Double knee surgery.
• 20:42
  And yeah,
• 20:43
  and my husband just launched his
• 20:45
  apparel brand.
• 20:47
  So we're just doing a lot of things.
• 20:51
  We decided everything at
• 20:52
  once was the good strategy.
• 20:54
  Let's pick the busiest time in our lives.
• 20:57
  And that's all done in two months.
• 21:01
  That's right.
• 21:02
  Yeah.
• 21:03
  Yeah.
• 21:05
  And I saw Lance is launching
• 21:09
  the Barbells and Breakdowns.
• 21:11
  Barbells and Breakdowns.
• 21:13
  Apparel, which is so cool.
• 21:15
  I watch his videos on
• 21:17
  Instagram all the time.
• 21:18
  Do you?
• 21:19
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:21
  And I love that when games
• 21:23
  athletes jump in and send them back.
• 21:26
  Yeah.
• 21:27
  It's great.
• 21:27
  It's great stuff.
• 21:29
  Yeah.
• 21:29
  That's awesome.
• 21:31
  So...
• 21:34
  So with all that,
• 21:35
  what are your realistic
• 21:37
  goals for the games?
• 21:41
  Yeah,
• 21:43
  I actually just had this conversation
• 21:45
  with Hunter, my coach, because I was like,
• 21:49
  all right,
• 21:50
  I need some help with
• 21:51
  expectation management here because yeah,
• 21:56
  it's weird going in to the
• 21:59
  biggest competition of the year.
• 22:02
  feeling less prepared than I
• 22:03
  normally do um but that I
• 22:06
  think that was gonna feel
• 22:07
  like that anyway you know I
• 22:08
  put so much into
• 22:11
  preparation and training
• 22:12
  the last three years that
• 22:13
  anything less was gonna
• 22:14
  feel like being unprepared
• 22:15
  to me so um so it
• 22:18
  definitely is a weird
• 22:19
  mental thing to work around
• 22:20
  um but and I think that
• 22:25
  what has come out of it for me is that
• 22:30
  There's so many other things
• 22:31
  going on that are big
• 22:33
  priorities and I'm really
• 22:34
  focused on training and
• 22:36
  competing need to stay the
• 22:38
  fun part of my day on a daily basis.
• 22:42
  And that's sort of our.
• 22:46
  operating plan right now is
• 22:48
  you know I need to have fun
• 22:49
  with training I need to
• 22:50
  keep my body healthy you
• 22:52
  know I need to um I need to
• 22:56
  have fun at the games I
• 22:57
  need to enjoy the
• 22:57
  experience and soak it up
• 22:59
  and you know have a good
• 23:01
  time against a really
• 23:04
  impressive group of
• 23:05
  competitors you know and
• 23:07
  I'll test myself I'll push
• 23:08
  myself you know three two one go like
• 23:11
  you turn it on and, and hopefully I'll,
• 23:14
  you know,
• 23:15
  have what I need in me when it's
• 23:17
  time to go.
• 23:21
  But yeah, at the end of the day, it's,
• 23:25
  it's the fun part of my life right now.
• 23:27
  So we're just,
• 23:27
  we're going to go and enjoy
• 23:28
  the experience and compete
• 23:31
  as hard as we can see where
• 23:33
  that lands us.
• 23:37
  I'm going to try to phrase this the best I,
• 23:39
  so you were,
• 23:41
  You were epically known for
• 23:43
  just missing the games a
• 23:44
  couple years in a row.
• 23:45
  Yep.
• 23:49
  And in these iconic finishes
• 23:52
  where one point made the difference,
• 23:54
  right?
• 23:54
  Yep.
• 23:54
  A couple of times.
• 24:00
  Will anything you accomplish
• 24:02
  in Masters overtake that
• 24:06
  that you missed out then?
• 24:07
  Um...
• 24:10
  Yeah.
• 24:11
  I think that's, that's a hard question.
• 24:15
  You know,
• 24:15
  like I don't have the answer to that yet,
• 24:17
  I guess.
• 24:18
  There were some big moments, you know,
• 24:20
  but I, I think there's always,
• 24:25
  it's just different, you know?
• 24:26
  I think you're proud of different things.
• 24:29
  I guess,
• 24:29
  I guess like there were some
• 24:30
  really big moments when I
• 24:31
  was competing on the teams as well.
• 24:33
  You know,
• 24:34
  I was a team athlete for a really
• 24:35
  long time first and there were some,
• 24:39
  really incredible moments
• 24:41
  while I was competing on the team.
• 24:43
  And, you know,
• 24:45
  the teams don't get as much attention and,
• 24:47
  you know,
• 24:47
  we were competing in the weird
• 24:48
  sanctional year where
• 24:50
  everything was everywhere.
• 24:51
  And it was kind of hard to follow,
• 24:53
  but like,
• 24:55
  there were some really cool
• 24:56
  moments that I'm really proud of.
• 24:58
  And,
• 24:59
  and we're really special because you
• 25:02
  were with a team and you
• 25:04
  were so close and you'd
• 25:05
  been through so much together.
• 25:06
  And, you know,
• 25:07
  that was a shared experience
• 25:09
  that meant a lot to me.
• 25:12
  And so I,
• 25:15
  Those are big highs.
• 25:17
  And I've had some big highs
• 25:18
  on the individual field.
• 25:19
  I'm really proud of the work
• 25:21
  that I've done and what
• 25:22
  I've accomplished.
• 25:24
  And yes,
• 25:24
  there's all those bittersweet
• 25:26
  moments of just missing the target.
• 25:32
  But I think there's some
• 25:35
  moments in there that are
• 25:36
  just as big but different.
• 25:38
  And I don't know that I
• 25:40
  could stack one over the other.
• 25:44
  Because it's just such a
• 25:45
  different phase of life.
• 25:46
  It's such a different feel.
• 25:47
  And I think that maybe that
• 25:49
  will be the case in the
• 25:51
  master's division as well.
• 25:53
  You know,
• 25:56
  I expect that there's going to be
• 25:57
  big moments in my future in
• 26:00
  the master's division.
• 26:01
  I expect that there's going
• 26:02
  to be things that I'm really proud of.
• 26:04
  And maybe those will be special because
• 26:07
  I'm doing other things that
• 26:09
  are important to me in my
• 26:10
  life at the same time.
• 26:11
  You know, like I'm building my career.
• 26:13
  I'm spending time with my family.
• 26:15
  Eventually we want to have kids.
• 26:16
  You know,
• 26:16
  I'm going to do that and I'm
• 26:18
  going to compete.
• 26:19
  And, you know, it's going to be, I think,
• 26:22
  maybe a really fulfilling
• 26:23
  experience to be able to do
• 26:24
  that and compete and achieve success.
• 26:30
  things that I want on the
• 26:31
  competition floor as well.
• 26:32
  And, and I think that, you know,
• 26:34
  maybe those things will
• 26:35
  just feel like big
• 26:36
  accomplishments in a different way.
• 26:39
  Yeah.
• 26:41
  That makes,
• 26:42
  Yeah.
• 26:43
  I mean, when I had my daughter,
• 26:44
  like everything in
• 26:45
  perspective of everything changed.
• 26:47
  Yeah.
• 26:48
  Because you're then sharing it with, with,
• 26:51
  with, with something that,
• 26:53
  or someone that you never
• 26:54
  even imagined the love that
• 26:56
  you could have.
• 26:57
  Right.
• 26:58
  And so everything just became different.
• 27:02
  So I can see that totally.
• 27:04
  Yeah.
• 27:04
  And you're doing it for a
• 27:05
  different reason.
• 27:05
  You know, like you,
• 27:06
  everything has a different
• 27:07
  purpose behind it.
• 27:08
  Everything's all about like
• 27:10
  the example that you set
• 27:11
  for her and what you're
• 27:13
  showing her is possible.
• 27:14
  And like, that's,
• 27:17
  I think that's everything.
• 27:21
  So Corey says at three, two, one,
• 27:23
  she becomes Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.
• 27:25
  Yeah.
• 27:26
  We just add more Kelly's.
• 27:27
  That's right.
• 27:33
  And then Uplift What asks,
• 27:34
  what did you do when you
• 27:35
  found out your spouse's
• 27:36
  last name was Kelly?
• 27:40
  The first thing I did was I
• 27:42
  told him that he couldn't tell anyone.
• 27:50
  I definitely,
• 27:51
  I was on the team at that
• 27:53
  point and I was like,
• 27:54
  my teammates will never leave.
• 27:57
  He's like, I'll never hear the end of it.
• 27:59
  They will never let me live this down.
• 28:03
  You can't tell them.
• 28:07
  I'll be honest with you.
• 28:08
  So I,
• 28:09
  I met you as Kelly Clark and then you
• 28:13
  became Kelly Kelly.
• 28:14
  And I thought at first it was a joke.
• 28:16
  I thought you were just like
• 28:18
  doing a joke on Instagram
• 28:20
  that became your handle, whatever,
• 28:22
  whatever.
• 28:23
  And then it took me,
• 28:26
  midway through interviewing
• 28:27
  like a one-time interview
• 28:29
  it is kelly clark the next
• 28:30
  time it became kelly kelly
• 28:31
  and then it was it just was
• 28:33
  weird yeah it's just me
• 28:36
  trying to figure it out
• 28:37
  like what was reality and
• 28:38
  what was she joking was she
• 28:42
  and then I got it about this so
• 28:50
  It took me a little while to embrace it.
• 28:51
  At first, I was like,
• 28:52
  I don't know if I can do this.
• 28:57
  We might have to talk about
• 28:58
  different last names.
• 29:02
  But I don't know.
• 29:03
  The longer we went,
• 29:05
  the more I sat with it.
• 29:07
  It's kind of one of those
• 29:09
  things where you either
• 29:10
  have to cut it off and say, no,
• 29:12
  we're not doing that,
• 29:12
  or you just got to embrace
• 29:13
  it and run with it.
• 29:16
  And it's turned out to be really fun.
• 29:21
  Yeah.
• 29:22
  Yeah.
• 29:23
  I can just imagine going to
• 29:25
  like the DMV or whatever.
• 29:26
  And they're like, what's your first name?
• 29:28
  Kelly.
• 29:28
  What's your last name?
• 29:29
  Kelly.
• 29:30
  No, no.
• 29:30
  Your last name.
• 29:31
  Yep.
• 29:32
  Yeah.
• 29:32
  Every time.
• 29:33
  All paperwork.
• 29:34
  So confusing.
• 29:35
  Yeah.
• 29:37
  I want to finish up with
• 29:38
  just two fun questions or
• 29:40
  about things outside of the
• 29:42
  competition space.
• 29:43
  We talked a couple times ago
• 29:45
  about a program you started called K2.
• 29:48
  Mm-hmm.
• 29:49
  And at that time it was very
• 29:52
  much in the fire department
• 29:54
  and developing training to
• 29:56
  keep firemen fit for their jobs.
• 30:00
  Yep.
• 30:01
  It appears now that you've
• 30:03
  made this like a full
• 30:05
  remote programming that
• 30:07
  anybody can get into,
• 30:08
  or is it still like first
• 30:11
  responder specific?
• 30:14
  Well, so yeah,
• 30:14
  we have a few different branches.
• 30:17
  The remote program is
• 30:19
  something that anyone can get into.
• 30:21
  We started it for our firefighters,
• 30:26
  but we were beta testing it
• 30:27
  at the gym with classes at the gym.
• 30:31
  And it ended up going so
• 30:33
  well that it's just expanded.
• 30:34
  We've had to add more and
• 30:35
  more classes at the gym.
• 30:38
  And
• 30:39
  It's been really great for
• 30:42
  our older population of athletes.
• 30:44
  It's been great for the gym
• 30:46
  is owned by a physical therapy clinic.
• 30:48
  And so it's been great for
• 30:50
  people who are kind of
• 30:51
  graduating from physical
• 30:52
  therapy and returning to activity.
• 30:55
  Maybe they still have some
• 30:55
  limitations and some rehab
• 30:57
  they have to work through.
• 30:59
  And so it's been really great for that.
• 31:01
  And then
• 31:04
  uh, yeah, so we,
• 31:05
  we put it out and available.
• 31:08
  The individual program is
• 31:09
  available remotely for
• 31:10
  anyone that wants to use it.
• 31:12
  Um,
• 31:13
  and then the fire program has expanded.
• 31:16
  It's the ongoing program.
• 31:18
  We work with, uh, local fire department,
• 31:21
  Santa Cruz fire here as an
• 31:24
  ongoing live program.
• 31:26
  So we give them programming
• 31:29
  on a weekly basis, uh, that they do,
• 31:32
  they can do five days a week.
• 31:33
  And,
• 31:35
  Then we're just starting to branch out.
• 31:38
  We're working with Pasadena
• 31:40
  Fire now to do a lot of
• 31:44
  injury risk assessments and
• 31:47
  movement assessments.
• 31:50
  And then we've written a
• 31:52
  pre-academy preparation
• 31:54
  program that just launched yesterday.
• 31:57
  Um, so we're taking their, again,
• 31:59
  you had to fit everything into two.
• 32:01
  Everything had to be right
• 32:02
  at the same time.
• 32:03
  Um, yeah,
• 32:06
  so it's a 10 week program that
• 32:08
  their recruits for the fire
• 32:10
  Academy are going through
• 32:11
  to prepare them for the fire Academy.
• 32:15
  So we went down to Pasadena
• 32:16
  for a couple of days.
• 32:16
  We did a whole lot of testing, um,
• 32:19
  all the movement screens
• 32:20
  and injury risk assessments.
• 32:22
  And, um,
• 32:24
  based on that,
• 32:25
  they get a corrective
• 32:26
  exercise program and then
• 32:27
  they get put through this
• 32:28
  10 week remote program.
• 32:30
  Um, and they get access to us as coaches.
• 32:33
  They get to, you know, con, you know,
• 32:34
  talk to me and send me,
• 32:35
  I'll send them feedback.
• 32:36
  They send me videos.
• 32:37
  We, you know,
• 32:38
  track their progress and all
• 32:40
  of that stuff.
• 32:41
  Um,
• 32:42
  and the goal is that they are fit
• 32:46
  enough to make it through
• 32:48
  the academy and,
• 32:50
  as bulletproof as we can
• 32:52
  make them so that they
• 32:53
  don't get injured during the academy.
• 32:55
  And then the bigger goal is
• 32:57
  to give them the tools that
• 32:59
  they need to make sure they
• 33:01
  know how to train appropriately,
• 33:03
  they know how to take care of
• 33:04
  any issues or flare-ups that
• 33:06
  might come up.
• 33:07
  They know how to rehab their body.
• 33:09
  They know how to recover
• 33:10
  properly from both the
• 33:12
  physical and the mental
• 33:12
  stress of Academy.
• 33:13
  And we really want to like
• 33:16
  provide them the tools that they need,
• 33:18
  not just for the Academy,
• 33:19
  but then setting themselves
• 33:20
  up for a successful career.
• 33:23
  Yeah, it was a very innovative program.
• 33:26
  And yeah,
• 33:28
  If I remember correctly,
• 33:30
  and please correct me if I'm wrong,
• 33:31
  it's a lot about like
• 33:32
  listening to your body and
• 33:33
  giving you alternatives.
• 33:36
  If you have those nicks or
• 33:38
  aches in a place that you
• 33:40
  can kind of avoid that or
• 33:42
  rehab that as opposed to
• 33:44
  just doing the class
• 33:45
  workout that's written as on the board.
• 33:48
  Yes.
• 33:48
  Yeah.
• 33:49
  Big part of the K2 program
• 33:51
  is its emphasis on recovery work,
• 33:54
  but using movement as a recovery tool.
• 33:56
  So you still get your
• 33:57
  movement practice and
• 33:58
  you're still taking care of
• 34:00
  your body and making
• 34:02
  forward progress with your fitness.
• 34:04
  But making sure that, you know,
• 34:07
  we're doing like a low
• 34:09
  intensity flush that we're
• 34:12
  reestablishing good
• 34:13
  movement quality and activation patterns.
• 34:15
  There's a lot of like very
• 34:17
  PT,
• 34:18
  prehab influence into our recovery flows.
• 34:20
  But yeah, it requires that, you know,
• 34:23
  that you learn your body and you learn,
• 34:25
  you know,
• 34:25
  when you need to prioritize
• 34:28
  recovery and when you need, you know,
• 34:30
  when you're able to go hard.
• 34:32
  And then, you know,
• 34:33
  we give you the tools that
• 34:35
  you need to decide which
• 34:37
  one's best for you.
• 34:39
  Yeah, it was so super cool.
• 34:41
  And I'm glad that it's
• 34:42
  expanded and it's doing so well.
• 34:44
  And if people are interested,
• 34:45
  they can just reach out to
• 34:46
  you on Instagram or... Yeah,
• 34:48
  on Instagram.
• 34:50
  K2 Performance has an Instagram account.
• 34:53
  The programming is on StreamFit.
• 34:56
  So it's available there.
• 34:57
  And yeah,
• 35:01
  probably the best way is to reach me.
• 35:03
  Back to your name.
• 35:04
  You actually can't fill out
• 35:05
  paperwork wrongly.
• 35:08
  You know how many times I've
• 35:09
  put my last name in the
• 35:10
  first name column and vice
• 35:12
  versa and then had to get
• 35:13
  the white out out or whatever.
• 35:15
  Um,
• 35:16
  although the problem is that they
• 35:20
  always hand it back to me.
• 35:21
  They're like, excuse me,
• 35:22
  you did this wrong.
• 35:23
  Yeah.
• 35:29
  So my last question is,
• 35:31
  you're a Misfit athlete.
• 35:33
  They always do an amazing
• 35:34
  job with shirts for you
• 35:36
  guys every year that are
• 35:39
  individualized for each one of you.
• 35:41
  And I just wanted to ask why
• 35:44
  your shirt has the stuff it has.
• 35:46
  So I'm going to pull it up
• 35:48
  so everybody can see it.
• 35:51
  And this is your game shirt.
• 35:55
  Yeah.
• 35:57
  So the wolf in its pack, uh,
• 36:00
  beauty and strength and
• 36:03
  first and last name Kelly
• 36:05
  and a second Kelly.
• 36:07
  That's right.
• 36:08
  Yeah.
• 36:09
  Um, yeah, the, the wolf, um,
• 36:12
  has always been, you know, I,
• 36:14
  I have my roots in, in team competition,
• 36:16
  uh, as a team player.
• 36:18
  And so, um,
• 36:21
  you know,
• 36:22
  that Rudyard Kipling quote has
• 36:24
  always really resonated with me.
• 36:27
  And even on the individual field,
• 36:29
  I think that a big strength
• 36:30
  of mine has been the
• 36:31
  support team around me and
• 36:33
  the community that is behind me.
• 36:35
  And so, um,
• 36:37
  that's something that always
• 36:38
  means a lot to me.
• 36:39
  Uh, and so I kind of just see the wolf as,
• 36:43
  you know, a pack animal and, um,
• 36:49
  Yeah, and then, yeah, flowers, you know,
• 36:52
  being strong and fierce,
• 36:56
  but also beautiful and graceful.
• 36:58
  I kind of see that in the wolf as well,
• 37:01
  that the flowers kind of bring that,
• 37:03
  you know, feel to it as well.
• 37:07
  And then that little Celtic symbol there.
• 37:13
  is the Celtic symbol for inner strength.
• 37:16
  Kelly is a Celtic name at its roots.
• 37:20
  And I think that a big part
• 37:25
  of my journey has been
• 37:28
  working on myself and
• 37:29
  working on the internal
• 37:31
  strength that it takes to
• 37:33
  compete and to succeed.
• 37:34
  And so that's been an
• 37:37
  important part of my growth in the sport.
• 37:42
  That's really cool.
• 37:43
  And then are those colors
• 37:45
  picked by Misfit or you?
• 37:48
  You know what?
• 37:54
  I think Ted, who is the designer at Misfit,
• 37:57
  I think he threw those
• 37:58
  colors out first and I went, yes,
• 38:01
  absolutely.
• 38:05
  Team effort for all.
• 38:07
  Yeah.
• 38:08
  He knew what I liked.
• 38:10
  Well,
• 38:11
  my last question about Misfit is
• 38:15
  they're sending Paige to the games.
• 38:17
  I know they have a lot of
• 38:18
  Masters athletes too.
• 38:21
  Do you find yourself rooting
• 38:22
  for fellow Misfit athletes
• 38:24
  when they're on the floor?
• 38:25
  Oh, yeah.
• 38:26
  Okay.
• 38:27
  So it's like a team concept to you.
• 38:29
  Yeah.
• 38:30
  Yeah, for sure.
• 38:32
  I think that's another reason that I –
• 38:35
  like Misfit is that they,
• 38:38
  they kind of foster that
• 38:39
  team environment and that feel.
• 38:42
  And I really like that.
• 38:44
  Thoughts on Dave putting out
• 38:45
  that there's going to be a
• 38:46
  training camp winner from the games.
• 38:51
  I know that sounds really cool.
• 38:53
  Well,
• 38:53
  Misfit will definitely have the
• 38:54
  coolest athletes out there.
• 38:55
  Yeah.
• 38:57
  That's one of the judging criteria,
• 38:59
  but it should be.
• 39:02
  Yeah.
• 39:04
  Um, well, I want to thank you, Kelly,
• 39:06
  for taking out some time as always.
• 39:09
  Super fun talking to you.
• 39:10
  Um, we're going to be in Birmingham.
• 39:13
  Sweet.
• 39:14
  We are doing a full,
• 39:15
  we got access to do a full
• 39:17
  behind the scenes.
• 39:18
  All right.
• 39:20
  So Vaughn does with the regular games.
• 39:22
  We are doing that for the
• 39:23
  masters athletes.
• 39:25
  Super cool.
• 39:27
  So we want to do that so
• 39:28
  that you guys have
• 39:29
  something featuring you
• 39:31
  guys and all that you've
• 39:32
  accomplished behind the
• 39:34
  scenes and getting to know
• 39:35
  all of you better.
• 39:36
  And this is the first step
• 39:37
  in that is interviewing as
• 39:38
  many of you as we can.
• 39:41
  That's amazing.
• 39:41
  This is super cool.
• 39:43
  I always love talking to you, Scott.
• 39:45
  Yeah.
• 39:45
  So we will see you in Birmingham.
• 39:47
  Can't wait.
• 39:48
  And I can't wait to see you
• 39:49
  crush it on the floor.
• 39:50
  Yeah.
• 39:51
  Last question.
• 39:52
  With all this other stuff
• 39:53
  going on in your life and less training,
• 39:55
  does your body feel better
• 39:56
  than it has in the past?
• 39:58
  My body does feel better.
• 39:59
  Yeah, my body feels great.
• 40:01
  There's a silver lining to all this.
• 40:03
  It's true.
• 40:04
  It's nice to go into
• 40:05
  competition being like, hey, I feel good.
• 40:08
  Yeah, yeah.
• 40:10
  Well, with that then,
• 40:10
  maybe that's what you need this year.
• 40:13
  Maybe it is.
• 40:15
  All right.
• 40:15
  We'll see you in Birmingham.
• 40:16
  Thank you so much, Kelly.
• 40:17
  Thank you to everybody in
• 40:18
  the chat for being here.
• 40:19
  You guys make the show what it is.
• 40:21
  And we will see everybody
• 40:23
  next time on the Clydesdale
• 40:24
  Media Podcast.
• 40:26
  Bye, guys.