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