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Mariana Rose Bell - The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't have to ride away.
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  When they 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 hater on
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  my dinner plate.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast,
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  where we are featuring the
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  athletes of the 2024
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  CrossFit Games Semifinals.
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  I'm so privileged to have with me today,
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  Mariana Rose Bell.
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  How you doing, Mariana?
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  I'm good.
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  So you are at... I now have
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  an echo that we were just talking about,
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  so I might have on my phone...
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  Yeah, so I hear it too.
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  While you kind of do that,
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  we'll work through this.
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  So Marietta is in Iowa.
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  She goes to Kilo 2.
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  And while she flips to her phone,
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  we will just take a second.
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  But super excited to talk to her.
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  We did a test before this to
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  see about the echo and it
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  wasn't there the minute we
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  went live the echo came in
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  so she's hopping on her
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  phone with some headphones.
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  And When that comes in,
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  we will switch her over to that.
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  Alright, so
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  There we go.
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  Now we got to get, so I can't hear you.
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  You're muted.
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  There we go.
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  Now we got to get, so I can't hear you.
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  Okay.
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  How are we now?
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  You're muted.
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  Good.
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  So I can hear your computer.
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  I just turned it off.
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  Oh, but I have the live stream open.
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  Yeah.
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  There we go.
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  There we go.
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  We can do it.
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  I can do this.
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  All right.
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  Now we're rolling.
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  Now we're rolling.
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  So you said that that was your work setup.
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  What do you do to support yourself?
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  Yeah, I'm the technical director,
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  production manager at the
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  Hancher Auditorium,
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  which is like an 1,800-seat theater,
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  plus we have a black box space,
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  plus our whole lobby at the
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  University of Iowa.
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  So we do Broadway shows, we do dance,
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  we do...
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  rock shows, comedians, jazz groups,
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  all kinds of stuff.
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  Are you into the
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  entertainment world or was
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  this just by circumstance?
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  This is like my, I guess, career path.
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  I was a performer way back
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  when and got into the tech aspect of it,
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  got into management aspect
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  of it and kind of just
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  Worked my way from actor, dancer,
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  to stage manager, to company management,
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  to venue management,
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  to production management.
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  And you were a dancer.
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  How much has that helped in
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  your CrossFit world?
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  I want to say it has,
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  but probably not so much.
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  It's given me hypermobile
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  hips and a decent amount of injuries.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  So I think I gathered like
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  the body awareness and a lot of stability,
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  like core stability, ankle,
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  hip stability.
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  But it just contributed, I think,
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  more to my mindset piece,
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  kind of like playing sports does.
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  Okay.
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  Did you play any sports
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  growing up or were you all
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  about the dance?
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  Yeah, no,
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  I danced and I played soccer in
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  college as well.
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  Okay, wow.
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  Yeah.
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  So I was very, very busy.
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  Did you go to Iowa or another college?
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  No, I went to school in upstate New York,
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  a small school called William Smith.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  There's a lot of
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  CrossFitters from upstate New York.
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  There are.
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  And there are a lot of
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  CrossFitters in Iowa too.
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  I know.
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  Crazy little hotbeds all over the country.
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  Yeah.
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  We've only been here since
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  June of last year.
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  So not even a year yet.
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  And there's a lot of CrossFit out here.
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  There is.
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  Made famous by one Mr. Colton Mertens.
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  You can't discredit the Kilo team, though.
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  They roll deep.
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  They've had Street.
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  You had Luke Schaefer.
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  They had the team every year.
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  Unfortunately,
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  this year we had some logistical issues.
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  So I'm glad you brought the
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  team up because I saw that
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  you competed with them at quarterfinals.
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  I did.
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  Was your intention this season to go team?
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  Not at all.
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  So they had their four.
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  And Deidre Franzen,
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  one of the strongest women in CrossFit,
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  she got really sick.
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  There was like a bug going
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  around the gym that week.
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  And she had the fever, the chills,
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  the whole thing.
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  And was basically like, can you do it?
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  And of course, I mean,
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  anything for the team.
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  And it was a really great opportunity,
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  and I'm glad I was able to
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  step in and help him out.
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  Unfortunately,
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  we had an issue with one of
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  our guys not finishing all
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  of his open workouts at the gym,
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  so we got disqualified.
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  Yeah, that was a shame.
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  I actually did, I think,
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  a little mini riff on
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  whether that should
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  actually be a rule and how
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  hard should you stick to it.
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  it's tough because they've
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  had so many different rules
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  with the teams and how they
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  structure the season.
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  It seems very simple.
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  I think for these guys,
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  they had a different guy
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  than they did because
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  Brandon didn't come back.
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  Brandon didn't come back.
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  And so they had a couple
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  different guys going.
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  They were going to have a
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  different guy that wasn't Colton.
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  But then his wife was pregnant.
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  and she was due, you know,
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  during the games.
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  So they went through a few
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  iterations of who was going
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  to be on the team.
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  And I think that that
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  confusion led to a little bit of it,
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  but it's what it is.
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  Yeah.
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  So, I mean,
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  I've heard from Colton and Allie,
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  how like amazing the gym is itself,
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  right.
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  That Colton attributes a lot
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  of like where he is today
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  by the base built by Kilo,
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  Kilo two and their training.
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  Um,
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  you just moved there a year ago.
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  Did you CrossFit New York?
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  Uh, no.
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  So I was just in New York
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  when I was in college and
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  then in the city a little bit working.
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  I didn't start doing
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  CrossFit until I moved to Florida.
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  Um, Jacksonville area.
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  So it, was there a difference in the,
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  in the way training went in
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  Florida compared to Kilo?
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  For sure.
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  Um,
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  I think Jacksonville,
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  Florida is a pretty hotbed for fitness.
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  There's a lot of gyms out there.
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  There were a lot of regional
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  athletes out there back in the day.
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  I mean,
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  she had Brooke Haas who was out there,
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  Mark Hutchinson, Colleen Lehane.
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  So a lot of old regionals athletes.
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  So there's a big history of
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  CrossFit in that area.
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  Um, so a lot of experience,
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  a lot of people that I got to learn from,
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  which was cool.
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  Uh,
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  But very just different.
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  I mean,
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  I didn't go to a competitive gym ever.
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  Not to say that Kilo 2 is
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  like all they do is competitive.
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  We've got a fantastic
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  community there of just GPP
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  regular people.
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  But training alongside
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  people that are better than
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  you is always going to make you better.
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  Did you go into the season
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  with the goal of getting to semifinals?
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  Yeah, I think the last,
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  this year included the last three years,
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  that was definitely the goal.
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  But being in the East, as you know,
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  is one slip up,
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  one slip up and you're done.
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  So I think that it was tough.
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  I mean,
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  like I had weaknesses that every
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  year I thought I found them.
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  I thought I did what I needed to do.
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  Every year CrossFit does the
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  magic and they show you
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  something that you still
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  need to get better at.
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  And that's why we love it.
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  But yeah,
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  so this was the last three years.
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  I think I've been really chasing it.
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  I mean, taking into consideration,
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  like I have a full-time job,
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  have a life outside of this,
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  like responsibilities.
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  But this is like a very
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  exciting thing to see it
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  all kind of play out.
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  Yeah,
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  when I look at your worldwide rankings,
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  like in quarterfinals,
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  they kept getting better
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  and better and better.
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  But then you're in that
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  stacked East and sometimes
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  better isn't better enough.
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  Yeah,
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  everyone just keeps... Everyone is...
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  They're so good.
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  The women of the East are...
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  They're so good and they
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  keep getting better.
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  So that's...
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  That's a hard challenge.
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  It's a big mountain to climb.
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  And it kept me pushing to get better.
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  I knew that everyone around
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  me was just improving.
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  And then they let an
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  Australian move into the East.
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  I know.
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  To make it even worse.
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  So you're in the West.
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  Yes.
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  So this year,
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  and you finished
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  quarterfinals in 42nd place.
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  That is a very tenuous spot to be in.
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  because there's penalties
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  there's people going team
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  there's and you kind of
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  have to wait for all that
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  to flush out at 42 um how
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  nerve-wracking was that um
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  I think it was and it
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  wasn't like I got my so the
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  the real stress was that I
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  actually submitted my score
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  wrong for workout four
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  So I was one of the many who
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  said I did 28 reps instead of 58.
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  So that was the first issue
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  was that my score was wrong
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  and is CrossFit going to fix it?
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  So that was the first panic.
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  I wasn't really concerned
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  about anything else.
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  I was just like, well,
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  I wanted to reflect the work I did,
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  not a mistake I made.
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  So they got that fixed, which was great.
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  And then I got my workouts reviewed.
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  I had penalties assessed and everything.
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  And then
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  It's kind of just waiting.
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  I mean, we had an idea that, you know,
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  Andrea Nessler was going to go masters,
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  uh, Rachel green,
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  who is also from the Iowa area.
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  And some people at the gym know her,
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  she was going to do masters.
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  So we were like, okay, well,
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  maybe do we train?
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  Do we not?
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  What do we do?
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  Uh, and so, yeah, you just like, wait,
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  I think there was a lot of peace.
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  Like I did what I could with
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  what I had this year.
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  Um, and it was going to be what it was.
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  And if I got the opportunity to go,
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  then this is the first time
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  I get to experience that.
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  And I'll be really excited
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  and I'll do my best no
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  matter what I have to bring.
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  It's funny you kind of talk about it.
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  I heard of another athlete
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  in the East who was in the same situation,
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  went out and thought her season was over.
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  So he did the pizza, did the burgers,
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  did the wine, did the whole bit,
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  and then got the email that said, hey,
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  you're in.
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  And all of a sudden she had
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  to get back into training.
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  And the first couple of days
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  back were rough because of
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  what she had kind of celebrated with.
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  Yeah, I think fortunately for me,
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  my schedule is pretty
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  routine in the sense that it's chaos.
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  So I had a lot of things to
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  distract me that following week.
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  I was super busy with work.
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  We had a lot of events here.
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  I had a Broadway show.
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  You know, we had a bunch of graduations.
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  So I didn't really have too
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  much time to sit and dwell.
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  I had to go do my job.
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  So that.
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  Yeah.
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  Did you hit the gym still that week?
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  Like normal?
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  No, I took, I think I went in twice.
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  I went in like Wednesday and
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  did class and it was
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  partner workout and I got
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  whooped by my partner.
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  And then I think I did
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  another like bike burpee piece,
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  maybe Friday or Saturday.
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  And I was like, that's good.
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  So did,
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  did you get the email from CrossFit
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  that you'd qualified after
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  the leaderboard had closed?
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  Yeah,
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  I got it on the day following the
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  first round of submissions.
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  So I think that would have
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  been the Saturday.
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  Okay.
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  Wow.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I was like,
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  I was on my way to work.
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  I decided to stop and get
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  coffee because treat yourself.
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  And I opened my phone while
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  I was waiting and I got the
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  email and sent the
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  screenshot to my fiance,
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  gave them my money.
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  I was like, okay, here we go.
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  We're going to time to train hard.
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  So looking at your numbers,
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  you haven't been in this sport very long.
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  Yeah.
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  Are you aware of the lore
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  and the iconicness of Carson?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  So I have a very vivid
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  memory of watching ESPN and
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  seeing Annie Thor's
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  daughter running into the
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  tennis stadium or maybe it
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  was a soccer stadium.
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  One of the years that they
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  did Murph and it was on ESPN.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's,
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  I didn't know what CrossFit was
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  at the time, like many people.
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  And I saw this and I was like, well,
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  that's so cool.
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  And it wasn't until 2018
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  that I went and did CrossFit.
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  You know, so I knew what it was.
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  I was in the, like, I trained,
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  I was playing sports.
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  And then I didn't really get
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  into it until I moved to a
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  new place and I needed to meet people.
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  So the gym I originally
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  joined was doing like a
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  six-week challenge.
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  And I was like, well,
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  I don't know anybody.
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  I just moved to Florida.
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  I'll go do this.
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  And the coaches at the gym,
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  after the six-week challenge,
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  a lot of people left.
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  And they were like, you're going to stay,
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  right?
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  And I'm like, I guess.
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  I don't really have anything else to do.
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  They're like, you should stay.
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  You should stay here and train with us.
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  And
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  yeah,
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  those guys invested a lot into me and
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  I really am super grateful for it.
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  So,
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  so you're going to Carson and I've
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  talked to a lot of athletes
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  this week who are really
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  kind of worried about that
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  first event because the,
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  the energy they're going to
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  feel the adrenaline,
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  like they keep saying
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  they're going to have to
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  grab the reins and try not to blow up.
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  Oh,
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  those people must run five minute miles.
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  Yeah, I don't know, but the one guy said,
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  I'm probably going to –
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  being in the tennis stadium,
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  going out on a run,
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  I'm going to blow up if I'm not careful.
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  Yeah, I think – so fortunately,
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  another member of our gym,
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  one of the members of the Kilo 2 team,
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  is also going.
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  So Austin Nadelkov.
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  Okay.
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  So this has been a super
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  cool time because something
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  brand new to me, and I have a veteran –
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  just hanging out.
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  He has, I mean,
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  this wasn't his plan for
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  the season and he's making
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  the best of it and he's
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  going to go send it,
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  but he's competed at Carson, you know,
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  he's competed in Madison.
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  He's been to the games.
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  He's been to regionals and
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  he's got a lot in his brain
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  and he's like super willing
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  to share it and make sure that, you know,
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  he knows this is a first for me.
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  And he's like, remember, you know,
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  do what you can do.
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  Like this isn't your race or, Oh,
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  this one is your race.
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  Reminding me that like,
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  I have my strengths,
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  I have my weaknesses and to
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  play on those and a workout like this.
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  I'm not a gazelle.
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  I'm going to run my best,
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  but I'm not a runner.
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  So know where I can make up
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  time and move efficiently
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  and know what I do,
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  what I need to do to do my best.
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  Would you consider... So
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  tell me what kind of an athlete you are.
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  So I definitely used to be a strong guy.
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  Not that I'm not anymore.
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  I just... I think about four years ago,
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  I kind of decided that if I
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  kept doing what I was doing,
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  which was lifting a lot and
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  being really strong,
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  that I wasn't going to be
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  better at burpees.
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  So I...
• 18:26
  told my I spent a lot of
• 18:27
  time running I spent a lot
• 18:28
  of time on machines doing
• 18:30
  cyclical work um and doing
• 18:33
  things I wasn't good at and
• 18:35
  I let the things like
• 18:37
  strength work one rep maxes
• 18:39
  high power output kind of
• 18:41
  go to the wayside and so I
• 18:43
  could focus on the things I
• 18:44
  wasn't good at to bring
• 18:46
  those up and it doesn't
• 18:48
  always show you know like
• 18:50
  your hard work won't always
• 18:52
  show to other people but
• 18:54
  A great example of that is
• 18:55
  like the wall ball burpee
• 18:57
  box jump over workout from quarterfinals.
• 19:00
  So, I mean,
• 19:02
  I don't even know if I'm
• 19:03
  finishing that last year.
• 19:05
  I'm definitely not finishing
• 19:06
  it two years ago.
• 19:08
  So it's like you see that all pay off.
• 19:12
  Whereas the clean and jerk ladder,
• 19:14
  I think I was lifting once a week,
• 19:17
  like this season, up until training for,
• 19:20
  you know, semifinals last.
• 19:22
  I was touching a barbell
• 19:23
  maybe once a week to back
• 19:24
  squat or front squat and
• 19:25
  once a week to Olympic lift
• 19:27
  and calling it good.
• 19:29
  So while that might not be
• 19:31
  my personal like best in that threshold,
• 19:35
  like in that workout,
• 19:36
  like for what it is walking around,
• 19:37
  I'm super happy of how I
• 19:39
  was able to execute it
• 19:41
  having done it twice.
• 19:42
  So when you go into semis
• 19:46
  and you have a snatch
• 19:47
  ladder and you have other
• 19:50
  stuff that's more
• 19:54
  balanced are you more
• 19:56
  looking forward to the
• 19:57
  balance to see where you're
• 19:58
  at or is it fun to like get
• 20:01
  your hands on that snatch
• 20:02
  one more time I'm I think
• 20:05
  I'm excited for both I
• 20:07
  think I'm really excited to
• 20:08
  see like the run that's two
• 20:11
  and a half miles of running
• 20:12
  with 50 clean and jerks
• 20:14
  that I'm I'm really excited
• 20:16
  to see how I can do in
• 20:18
  something like that knowing that you know
• 20:22
  two years ago, a year ago,
• 20:23
  I'm getting capped no matter what.
• 20:29
  And then the snatch ladder, it's battery.
• 20:33
  So like I practiced it a
• 20:36
  couple of times in a couple
• 20:37
  of different variations.
• 20:39
  And I think it'll be fun.
• 20:40
  Like lifting's fun.
• 20:42
  Lifting heavy is super fun.
• 20:44
  I would much prefer the
• 20:45
  ladder as opposed to like a one rep max.
• 20:49
  Um,
• 20:50
  so that I think it'll all be super fun.
• 20:54
  Um,
• 20:55
  there's obviously stuff that I'm not so
• 20:58
  thrilled about, but we all have those.
• 21:01
  I think I would love to see
• 21:04
  some GHDs always,
• 21:05
  but here we are and we'll
• 21:08
  get to climb a rope instead.
• 21:12
  So you, um, even all the work and getting
• 21:17
  and not working on the barbell,
• 21:19
  it's still kind of your favorite.
• 21:22
  Yeah, I think my favorite, well, I love,
• 21:24
  I do love like some grunt work,
• 21:26
  kettlebells, odd objects, stuff.
• 21:29
  I love to push a sled, um,
• 21:32
  external loading barbell.
• 21:35
  Barbell is just the most accessible,
• 21:37
  right?
• 21:37
  So everyone can get on a barbell,
• 21:39
  which is why we love it.
• 21:40
  Um, I love a good pull from the floor,
• 21:44
  whatever we're doing,
• 21:44
  as long as we're pulling from the floor,
• 21:46
  I'm on board.
• 21:49
  So what is your realistic
• 21:51
  goal this season?
• 21:52
  I mean, I think I, so if we're being real,
• 21:58
  like honest, I've achieved my goal.
• 22:01
  Like my goal this season was
• 22:02
  to qualify for semifinals and I did it.
• 22:06
  So now like setting that marker ahead,
• 22:11
  I think we're looking at
• 22:14
  like just the best
• 22:15
  execution that I can have
• 22:16
  doing the best I can do.
• 22:18
  And,
• 22:20
  Not getting injured.
• 22:21
  I think that's a big component of it.
• 22:24
  I don't want to leave the
• 22:25
  weekend next weekend with
• 22:27
  something massive that I
• 22:28
  could have avoided.
• 22:31
  But I do want to do my best.
• 22:32
  I'm going to go out there.
• 22:33
  I'm going to go out swinging
• 22:35
  and give it what I have.
• 22:36
  But I want to be smart
• 22:38
  because I have a fairly
• 22:40
  physically demanding job
• 22:42
  and I don't really want to
• 22:45
  jeopardize that.
• 22:47
  Yeah.
• 22:48
  But isn't it hard to go into an event?
• 22:51
  You don't want to think about injury,
• 22:52
  right?
• 22:53
  Right.
• 22:53
  Or it, it holds you back.
• 22:56
  Yeah.
• 22:57
  Yeah.
• 22:57
  I think that's super, that's true.
• 23:00
  But I, as we get older and I mean, I'm,
• 23:03
  I'm not a super spring chicken anymore.
• 23:06
  So, you know,
• 23:07
  your body and even though you
• 23:09
  are competing and you're
• 23:10
  not worried about that, um,
• 23:14
  you're not reckless, right?
• 23:17
  And so, you know,
• 23:20
  if you're going to do
• 23:21
  something to jeopardize
• 23:22
  your wellbeing and then
• 23:24
  you've made the choice to
• 23:25
  either pay attention to
• 23:27
  that or to disregard it.
• 23:30
  Yeah.
• 23:30
  It, it's really a yin and yang.
• 23:32
  I'm like just trying to think about it.
• 23:34
  When I was younger,
• 23:35
  like I would throw my body into anything.
• 23:37
  Yeah.
• 23:38
  Right.
• 23:38
  Like, and damn the consequences.
• 23:41
  I'm just going all out to whatever.
• 23:43
  Yeah.
• 23:44
  Yeah.
• 23:45
  And then as you get older,
• 23:46
  like you become smarter
• 23:47
  with those things.
• 23:48
  Like, man,
• 23:49
  I could do this or I'm going to
• 23:51
  be hurt tomorrow.
• 23:53
  Yeah.
• 23:53
  I think so.
• 23:55
  I talk about this with my
• 23:56
  fiance a lot because I
• 23:57
  never climbed a tree until
• 23:59
  I was an adult.
• 24:01
  Okay.
• 24:02
  Because when I was,
• 24:03
  I was dancing and I was playing sports,
• 24:05
  I was playing soccer when I
• 24:06
  was younger and we were specifically told,
• 24:09
  you know,
• 24:09
  no outside dangerous activities allowed.
• 24:13
  if they get hurt outside of
• 24:16
  the sport or outside of this thing,
• 24:18
  that's a problem.
• 24:20
  So when I was younger,
• 24:22
  it was very safe play, you know,
• 24:25
  for better or worse,
• 24:27
  I didn't do a lot of
• 24:28
  reckless stuff so that
• 24:30
  that's like a behavior
• 24:32
  that's been ingrained in me almost.
• 24:35
  Yeah.
• 24:36
  I get that.
• 24:36
  Cause I was a swimmer
• 24:37
  growing up and my coach was like,
• 24:39
  you know, no skiing in the winter time,
• 24:41
  no, no riding mini bikes, no, you know,
• 24:47
  but I was a kid who just
• 24:49
  loved adventure and yeah,
• 24:53
  I never went skiing.
• 24:54
  I never did that.
• 24:56
  Um,
• 24:57
  and I didn't really ride mini bikes or
• 24:58
  anything, but I, I had fun and I,
• 25:01
  I jumped off stuff.
• 25:02
  I climbed things I did.
• 25:05
  what a kid could do.
• 25:06
  And I'm glad I did.
• 25:09
  I'm glad I had that.
• 25:12
  But I,
• 25:13
  but I know that there's those
• 25:14
  moments when,
• 25:15
  when you're in an event and
• 25:16
  you're in a competition and like,
• 25:18
  you have to make the choice.
• 25:19
  Do I,
• 25:20
  do I go that one more gear knowing
• 25:23
  it's going to hurt or do I back it off?
• 25:26
  Yeah.
• 25:27
  I think these are, for me,
• 25:28
  they're very specific instances.
• 25:30
  Like I've had a,
• 25:32
  a reoccurring shoulder thing,
• 25:34
  like most people have, uh,
• 25:36
  and it's specifically
• 25:37
  triggered by a very few movements.
• 25:40
  One of them happens to be
• 25:41
  legless rope climbs.
• 25:43
  So I know that when I've hit my threshold,
• 25:48
  I have to be conscious of
• 25:50
  what that looks like.
• 25:51
  Right.
• 25:52
  Especially because it's
• 25:53
  early on in the weekend.
• 25:56
  And that's just taking them.
• 25:57
  I mean, I'm a realist, right?
• 26:00
  I'm here to do my best and
• 26:02
  put my best effort forward,
• 26:03
  but that's not my workout to win.
• 26:06
  And I'm, I know that.
• 26:09
  So that's my workout where
• 26:10
  I've got to go out there
• 26:11
  and I've got to get it.
• 26:11
  I've got to execute for me
• 26:13
  and I've got to do the best
• 26:14
  that I can do.
• 26:16
  And then that's what it is.
• 26:19
  I mean,
• 26:19
  I can't wait to watch some of these
• 26:21
  girls like Alex Kazam on that workout.
• 26:26
  She's,
• 26:27
  she's coming out hot and she's going
• 26:28
  to absolutely smash it.
• 26:31
  And that's amazing,
• 26:32
  but I'm not going to try to
• 26:34
  replicate what she's doing.
• 26:36
  Yeah.
• 26:38
  Yeah.
• 26:38
  She's the best in the world at,
• 26:39
  at Legolas.
• 26:40
  So like that's someone you
• 26:43
  would definitely want the
• 26:43
  blinders on unless you're,
• 26:46
  you're done and on the sidelines.
• 26:47
  I'm done.
• 26:48
  I'm on the sidelines.
• 26:49
  I want to cheer for her.
• 26:50
  I want her to absolutely set
• 26:52
  a record on that workout.
• 26:56
  Jeffrey Birchfield asks,
• 26:57
  so it's cross for your job,
• 26:59
  or do you do something else?
• 27:00
  Right off the top,
• 27:02
  we talked about that she is
• 27:05
  a theater production manager.
• 27:07
  Is that correct?
• 27:10
  Yeah, I'm the production manager,
• 27:11
  technical director, so I wear many hats.
• 27:14
  We've got a full-time team, but
• 27:16
  theaters we work with a
• 27:18
  local union of stagehands
• 27:19
  we've also got students
• 27:20
  that work here and we've
• 27:22
  got a couple full-time
• 27:22
  staff but there's a lot
• 27:24
  that goes on between like
• 27:26
  the rigging hanging lights
• 27:27
  pulling points um pushing a
• 27:31
  lot of carts so a lot of
• 27:34
  what I do in training I
• 27:35
  actually do a lot at work
• 27:38
  just in a different
• 27:38
  capacity uh taylor blanco
• 27:42
  had your back yeah that's my guy
• 27:48
  so so with with what you're
• 27:53
  doing like is this a
• 27:56
  learning year for you and
• 27:58
  then you have a bigger goal
• 27:59
  next year or will you
• 28:03
  always want to compete in
• 28:04
  this sport because you have
• 28:05
  that option with age group
• 28:07
  and masters and all of that
• 28:09
  where are you headed with
• 28:11
  this after this year I
• 28:14
  don't really know um
• 28:16
  I think this was a big year
• 28:19
  for me in terms of life, right?
• 28:22
  I moved across the country.
• 28:23
  I started a new job,
• 28:25
  started training in a new gym.
• 28:29
  And then I was in a new conference, right?
• 28:32
  I moved from the East to the West.
• 28:34
  Right.
• 28:34
  So with all of those variables,
• 28:35
  I kind of knew I was like, well,
• 28:38
  I should still give it a crack.
• 28:39
  Like I was, I mean, life's hard.
• 28:41
  You're working, you're tired.
• 28:42
  You're like, I still love CrossFit,
• 28:44
  but do I want to put in
• 28:46
  the work that I need to put
• 28:47
  in to do this competitively.
• 28:49
  And I was like, well, I got to, right?
• 28:55
  You go from the East to the West,
• 28:56
  not to knock anything,
• 28:58
  but I knew what my scores
• 29:00
  were last year and the year before.
• 29:02
  So I knew it was worth a
• 29:04
  shot and the effort.
• 29:05
  I think we'll take some time
• 29:10
  after the season's over.
• 29:11
  Our work busy season actually
• 29:15
  calms down a little bit and
• 29:19
  just enjoy a little bit of
• 29:20
  an off season and decide.
• 29:23
  I wouldn't be surprised if I try again.
• 29:25
  I mean, it is a learning year.
• 29:27
  This is the biggest stage
• 29:28
  I've ever made it to.
• 29:29
  I mean,
• 29:30
  as long as we're not counting like
• 29:31
  water Palooza.
• 29:32
  So it's a, it's a opportunity to learn.
• 29:36
  And I,
• 29:37
  I do think that I'll probably want
• 29:39
  to try again and go for it
• 29:40
  and see if I can qualify
• 29:42
  without needing a backfill.
• 29:44
  Um,
• 29:46
  But yeah, that's my,
• 29:47
  that's my thoughts there.
• 29:49
  Yeah.
• 29:49
  What a Palooza may be bigger
• 29:51
  in area and it may be bigger with fans,
• 29:55
  but I don't think there is
• 29:56
  a bigger stage than where
• 29:56
  you're going to be.
• 29:57
  Right.
• 29:58
  The iconic tennis stadium,
• 30:00
  what it means at this point in the season,
• 30:02
  that's a pretty big deal
• 30:03
  and you should be
• 30:04
  celebrated for making it to that level.
• 30:07
  Yeah.
• 30:07
  So like we said, big learning,
• 30:11
  definitely have
• 30:12
  accomplished the goal I set out to.
• 30:14
  So yeah,
• 30:15
  I mean, we're all competitors.
• 30:16
  I probably won't be able to say no.
• 30:20
  Yeah.
• 30:22
  Yeah.
• 30:24
  Jeffrey Birchfield said, okay, cool.
• 30:26
  I used to do community
• 30:27
  theater as an actor.
• 30:28
  Nice.
• 30:29
  And he also used to do some
• 30:31
  help with set building.
• 30:33
  That's the real magic behind it.
• 30:36
  Yeah.
• 30:38
  Well,
• 30:39
  it has been such a treat getting to
• 30:41
  know you today.
• 30:43
  We want to wish you luck in Carson.
• 30:46
  Uh, it, everybody in the chat,
• 30:48
  thank you for being here.
• 30:49
  You guys have been awesome
• 30:50
  making this a blast.
• 30:52
  Um,
• 30:52
  make sure you check out Mariana in two
• 30:54
  weeks, uh, going, uh,
• 30:56
  head to head with the best
• 30:58
  in the world in cars in California, uh,
• 31:01
  at the Northwest semifinals.
• 31:04
  Thank you so much for being
• 31:05
  here and everybody to chat.
• 31:06
  We'll see you next time on
• 31:09
  the Clydesdale media podcast.
• 31:11
  Bye guys.