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I was born to kill it.
I was meant to win.
I am down and willing,
so I will find a way.
It took a minute,
now it didn't happen right away.
When it get hot in the kitchen,
you decide to stay.
That's how it win us, man.
what is going on everybody
welcome to the collage dome
media presents the
semi-finalist series as
we've been doing for the
last couple years doing
again this year we are
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Man,
I've got one of the coolest ladies in
all of CrossFit.
This is our second Canadian today.
We're calling this Canada
Day at Clydesdale Media.
Canada Day.
We had Emily Rolf on a couple hours ago.
We have Gabby on, Gabby Spence.
She's with us now.
We have Hattie Canio later tonight.
So, Canada Day.
There we go.
I like your intro.
That was awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, I,
it's hard to not dance and then like
to stop it before we hit the live.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm going to hype you up a little bit.
I like it.
Yeah.
So, um, Gabby Spence,
this is third year in a row.
You've been on this series.
Um, interesting, fun fact.
You are hanging in my dining room.
I'm hanging in your dining room.
You are really.
My wife is very,
very meticulous about none
of my stuff ever makes it upstairs.
Yeah.
None of my stuff.
But we put together a
collage of me interviewing people.
Yeah.
And one of those interviews was with you.
So there's a picture of me
interviewing you in a
collage that's hanging.
The only thing I have in our living space,
you're there.
Oh, that's awesome.
I'll just send me a picture of that.
That's I'm honored to be there.
Yeah.
So, so cool.
And it was at the Mac two
years ago when we first met.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Backstage there.
Yeah.
When I had terrible lighting
and you couldn't,
it was a little dark and
gloomy back there,
but we're going back there.
We're going back there in the East.
You don't have to, but no.
Yeah.
I get, I get California this year again.
Yeah.
That'll be fun.
So we've been doing this for three years.
You have,
you kind of like burst on the
scene that first year, right?
Like I think you finished
top 20 in that first semifinal.
Oh boy.
What was that?
I think I was eight, 17 or 18,
something like that.
I think I have 19th.
19.
Yeah.
That sounds right.
Yeah.
So top 20,
you didn't come in at that
highly ranked and then kind
of did really well that weekend.
And so we talked to you quite a bit.
I talked to your family that
weekend quite a bit.
It was fun getting to know you.
Then the next year,
you improve in the quarterfinal area.
But when you get to semis,
it was a little bit slipped back.
Mm-hmm.
was it programming?
Was it nerves?
Was it,
I was trying to figure out because
like we had a bigger field, like,
cause when I was at the Mac,
it was 40 girls per semifinal.
And then, so last year it was, um,
60 at that semifinal.
So I was trying to kind of figure out,
you know,
since there was double the field, um,
how that kind of worked out too.
Yeah.
The anticipation going in
last year was with a 60 person field,
if you had a bad event,
it could really hurt you.
Yeah.
Your hole was too big.
You couldn't come back from it.
Like you couldn't have passed.
Yeah.
Sydney Wells made that a joke.
Yeah.
That was incredible.
By getting a zero and still
qualifying for the games.
But for the most part,
that did not happen at semis last year.
Nope.
Nope.
So then you go into this offseason.
In years past, you trained in the States,
which are truly from Alberta, Canada.
Yeah.
So what was – why the change
this year to stay in Alberta?
That's a good question.
I think –
There was a few things that
kind of came up.
Last year,
it was really hard to be away
from my family.
I just had some kind of
personal like family stuff come up.
I even had some health stuff
going on in the beginning
of the year just due to
kind of stress being away from my family,
especially in such a hard time.
And then I just really also
wasn't in a great space,
like mentally even going
into the semifinals.
Like I kind of just felt
like everything was kind of
crumbling around me and I
felt like I was just trying
to hold it together.
So during, you know,
the off season or whatever,
I kind of just tried to
take time to figure myself out,
tried to do, you know,
go to counseling and all
that kind of stuff.
And I just really felt like I needed to,
like it was time to stay home.
Um,
I just had peace about staying back
here with my family,
going back to my gym training,
training there.
Um,
it just felt like the right thing to do,
especially mentally.
It's like, you know, you say all the time,
it's like,
you can be as good physically as you want,
but if you're not, you know,
there mentally, then
It's a little challenging.
So when you were here in the States,
you would train at I Love It.
Yeah.
Which is like a hotbed of
CrossFit athletes.
Yeah.
Especially at the semifinal level.
They've taken teams to the games.
They've people right on the
cusp of making the games, but not quite.
Yeah.
So now that you're back at your home gym,
who's doing the programming for you?
Who's out?
What's it like working out
there without that hub?
Um, I'm still following, um,
mostly like mayhem programming,
but I'll always do the
class workouts at the gym there.
And Jason McDonald has been, um,
a big factor and you know
like I'll pick his brain
about you know if I have
pull-ups in the class
workout and there's
pull-ups in the mayhem
programming like I'll talk
to him and be like you know
like what should I sub here
for for this um he has so
much knowledge and also you know taking
knowledge I learned down
like in the States,
just talking to like Mitch and Kaylee.
They're so, so awesome and so smart.
So I feel like I've kind of
picked up on being able to
listen to my body, realizing that,
you know,
mayhem is very general programming.
It's not specific.
So kind of taking that and learning how to,
you know,
make things a little personal and,
I think that answers your
question a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you're saying from all the experience,
you're actually learning
how to kind of program for
yourself with some input.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
How good are you at
self-evaluating what you
need to work on to make
sure you hit those spots in
your training as well?
I think that I've come...
to be good at that.
It's definitely been a
learning curve and I still will,
like I said,
I'll pick other people's brains at my gym,
all the coaches there, especially,
you know, Jason,
Sue is another person like, yeah,
I think that I kind of know
where my weaknesses are.
And so trying to put an
emphasis on that for sure.
So I have a hard time.
Usually when I watch an athlete,
I know what their strengths are,
what their holes are.
With you,
it's difficult because you do
have some gymnastics ability.
You're strong.
You showed that in the bench
last year during Glinda.
So what do you think your holes are?
I think gymnastics.
For sure, I think.
And, like, gymnastics.
And then also I think that
one of my weaknesses is
kind of has been mentally.
I get really in my head and, like,
I kind of pull, like,
issues in or convince
myself that I don't really belong places.
And then that takes such a
big impact on my performance.
But it was interesting
talking to Kaylee after
last year because there was six events.
three of the events that
didn't have any gymnastics in it,
I placed in the top 30 and
the other three that had
gymnastics components,
I placed in the bottom 30.
So I thought that that was
also kind of interesting.
Um, just, I think that it's, you know,
something that's not natural to me.
Like gymnastics is a very
not natural thing to me.
So really having to try to
focus on building that up
has been a big challenge.
You're,
you're a bit taller than most
CrossFit athletes.
I would say so.
And so does that range of
motion hurt you in the gymnastics part,
or is it something you can overcome?
I, that's a good question.
I don't, I think that, you know,
it's very likely that
doesn't play to my favor, you know,
having longer
limbs on certain things.
And I think that I've
accepted that I might not
ever be like the best at
hands down pushups and all
that kind of stuff.
But I definitely know that I can,
there's still a lot of room
to grow in that area to
make that gap smaller.
So
so you work on all that stuff.
You, you need to test yourself.
Um,
I know you've done some off season comps.
How do you make those decisions?
Like where you're going to go to test, um,
and things like that.
Um, well,
I always like doing our local
competition here in Calgary because, um,
There's some good
competition here in Alberta,
and that's just kind of one
that's close to home.
It's fun,
and it's a good test of fitness
to go there.
And then I've kind of had my mind.
I competed at Guadalupalooza this year,
and I tried to qualify for
that competition, like,
I think three years ago.
And I didn't make it.
So then I was really in my
head and kind of weird
about even trying to do the
qualifier again,
because I was just nervous
that I wasn't going to make it again.
So this year I was like, okay,
like I need to,
I need to kind of overcome that and just,
just go for it.
Um, I think it's just kind of whatever,
whatever comes, comes up into my,
my head and whatever seems kind of smart.
And I'll, uh, you know,
talk to Jason about it and, um,
Yeah.
So here's a picture of
battle at the barracks.
Yeah.
Is that right?
Yeah.
You just happened to win it.
Just happened.
So there you are on the podium.
I believe four of you on the podium.
Yeah.
Are going on to semifinals.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Amy, Janie and Lindsay there.
And so when you say there's
some good competition in Alberta,
that's a great test for you.
Here's four semifinal
athletes that you got to go
head to head with.
And you brought home the
world championship belt.
Yeah.
Sitting right up there.
So how cool of a prize is that?
It's pretty cool.
It's just like,
Like,
when else are you going to get a big
old belt like that?
And I'm like,
I don't even know what I'm
going to do with this thing,
but it's super cool.
Yeah.
So is it metal and leather?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like pretty legit.
So it's heavy.
Yeah.
So...
I have thrown out that a way
for CrossFit to grow is to
have certain things that are,
that you name a champion for.
Like,
I don't know if you know about the
Colton Mertens, Jake Berman burpee off.
No.
So Colton Mertens went head
to head with Jake Berman to
see who could do a hundred
burpees for time faster.
Okay.
I think Colton won.
He should get a belt, right?
I'm the world champion burpee person.
And he gets to hold that
until someone challenges
him to take him on and wins the belt,
right?
Yeah, yeah.
And you could do that for...
grace and you could do it
for um fran you could do it
and for different things
right yeah and then you
have like these 15 belts
that travel depending on
who owns them at the time
yeah yeah I like that
because what's cooler than
being able to stand there
like the wrestling champion
or the ufc champion um and
you're the champion of the
world in that that event I like that yeah
So when I saw that on your Instagram,
I was like, man,
I have to pull that up
because that's super cool.
It is pretty cool.
Yeah, it's special for sure.
Yeah.
I like that idea.
Yeah, the traveling belt, see who.
Yeah, so back to you.
You compete here.
In these competitions,
do you learn anything about yourself?
Mm-hmm.
So what,
what did you learn at the battle
of the barracks?
Oh my word.
Yeah.
So actually that was a,
I think that was a big
turning curve for me.
Um, at least as a competitor, like,
like mentally, um,
I was like a few weeks out,
I was stressed,
like out of my mind to the
point where I was like, I was like, why?
Like just so stressed.
It's obviously like,
it's vulnerable whenever you,
you go and do a competition.
Um, and I know that there's, you know,
other very high level athletes.
So I was like, you know, it's, yeah,
it's kind of scary.
Um,
and then about like a week out from
competing, I just was like,
like I was talking to God and I was like,
what, like, what am I, you know,
doing this for?
And I just felt so much like, he was like,
You put in all the work.
You've done all the training.
You've done all of that.
Now it's time for you to trust that,
trust God,
and focus on the people there
at the gym and enjoying your time,
being encouraging to other people,
watch the other heats,
and just hang out with
just be kind and like share
the experience and enjoy it all.
And it made it the entire
weekend so much better.
And when I walked into the back after,
like they did like all the
prizes and everything,
I was collecting all my
stuff and I was like,
wow, that made winning so much more fun.
Cause I was like, what,
what fun would it be right now if I,
you know, got my super cool belt,
but I was miserable all
weekend and didn't enjoy it.
And I was just, you know, head down.
It's like, I just think that, you know,
you have to enjoy it and you have to like,
when people say go out there and have fun,
it's not just because you
have fun doesn't mean you're not trying.
It's like, you know,
So I'm going to come back to that.
Corey Leonard's in the chat.
I missed it.
How old is Gabby?
I'm 26.
I just turned 26.
Yeah.
I knew you were mid twenties.
I didn't know the exact number.
Yeah.
So as, but you,
you didn't start CrossFit till later,
right?
I started it when I was,
I think it was 19 or 20.
And I didn't,
I didn't really like start
taking it seriously until like three,
three years ago or so, six, six years.
But again,
not seriously until like just
three years ago.
So.
I'm going to dive into this
and hopefully it takes us a cool place.
But when you train with a
group like I love it, right?
Everybody has a different
way of how they handle a competition.
And you say that like,
and I know like there are some athletes,
like we just had Emily Rolf on.
She is very much in a zone
when she's at a competition.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
Blinders on,
focused on the task at hand
and not necessarily wanting
to like socialize in the back.
Then you have someone like
Ariel Lowen who like has to
socialize with everybody.
Yeah.
Right.
But yet they're both very
successful at what they do.
Yeah.
But they take very different approaches.
Yeah.
did you try one way thinking
it was the way you had to
be and discover this year
that you can do it the
other way and it's actually
more natural for you?
I would say so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you need to enjoy the weekend.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
How much of a relief is that
off of your shoulders discovering that?
Like a big, big relief.
So did Battle of the
Barracks come before or
after Wadapalooza?
Before.
Okay.
So then you go to Wadapalooza.
You have this new found idea
of how you need to be in a
competition weekend.
Were you able to play it out
at Wadapalooza?
Yes and no.
Um,
I felt like I was like mentally,
I was in a pretty good
space starting off.
And then, um,
event two was like the strict pull-ups.
Um, I didn't,
I didn't have the greatest
experience throughout that
workout as far as like with my, my judge,
unfortunately.
And it really kind of got
into my head and I sort of
spiraled and like the, the next day after,
um,
especially after if
something doesn't really go
ideally or like not my way
I pull issues sort of in
and kind of create this
chaos and get really
emotional so it's almost
like I kind of went back to
how I was at the semifinals
so like I went into it
really trying to bring that
same energy and the same focus I had
at Battle of the Barracks
and it was a little bit of
a different challenge
because nobody knows who I
am at Wadapalooza right but
like you know at the
barracks it was a little
bit easier because I was a
little bit more comfortable
people knew who I was but
then you're at Wadapalooza
nobody knows who you are
your face isn't up in you
know Vendor Village it's
other your competitors
right and it's like it's
hard to not feel and when I
say insignificant I don't
mean like anything against like
the fact that they're, they're up there,
but it does get in your
head a little bit if you let it.
And I think I definitely let it.
You know, it, it,
it may surprise you to know
that I get those feelings too.
In this media space,
there's a lot of times
where you can feel insignificant.
I don't have the most followers.
I don't have the most likes.
I don't have the most views.
And you have to fall back
on... I do this because I
love hearing the stories.
I love talking to the athletes.
And regardless of if two
people watch or 2,000 people watch,
it's what I love doing.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
And when you go in and when
you have that attitude,
the other stuff just happens.
Yeah, it's true.
Hey, so, so during, during what a Palooza,
uh,
did you get it righted that
weekend or did you come out
of there going,
we've got to figure out a
way for me to be,
to have some kind of tool
to not go down this road again?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I came out with it.
Like I felt like I was
finally able to kind of
identify that that's what it was.
And like, I,
I talked to my mom and then I'm like,
I need to, you know, catch this before,
before I let it spiral.
So really trying to, um,
yeah, just be,
be more aware of my emotions
and not try to like stuff them down.
But, you know, talking about what's,
what's going on and kind of, you know,
use the help that's, that's around you.
I'm not alone and I know that.
So I need to make sure like
that's on me to,
to use the people around me.
So you do the open in the
quarterfinals in your home gym,
I'm assuming.
Yeah.
Right.
And years past you did that.
And I love it.
What,
what is the difference in the support
group having family close
that you can lean on in those moments?
Oh, it was, it was great.
And like, even when I was down at,
I love it.
Like they're,
they're like family to me too.
Obviously, you know, it's,
it's a little different.
It's they're, they're like the gym,
gym family.
I think just,
having my family here they
add so much balance to my
life like because like my
mom just started doing
crossfit but besides
besides my mom um nobody
else in my family does does
it so it's been really
beneficial to me to be able
to have you know that part
of my life that isn't in
the gym and then doing the
open like back home here
with the same people I started
CrossFit with like I did it
at the the 915 class which
is the class I take every
single day and doing it
with with them was you know
it was amazing it was it
was a lot of fun so then
you moved to quarterfinals
yeah and same support yeah
did you have to do it
during a class or did they
no I did it yeah just
because setting up the the
camera and didn't want to
risk you know anybody coming in front of
the camera and then kind of
being able to work on my
schedule and Jason's
schedule just worked out a
little bit better to not do
it during the class.
Did people come in and watch?
Some people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What was that like for you?
Pardon?
What was that like for you?
Oh, it's awesome.
It's like the community is
always the best part of it.
Right.
Yeah.
And I'm like blessed to have such.
Yeah.
just such good people around me.
And then it makes you feel
like when you're doing the workout,
it's not just you.
It's like, you know,
people are there cheering
you on and yeah.
Like I'm just lucky that those, yeah.
The people I've known for three years.
So to have their,
their support and
everything just means so much to me.
So I had Rebecca Fuseli on last week.
Okay.
And she talks about how
doing it in front of her community is,
is almost charges her up
more than doing it on the live stage.
They've seen you hurt.
They've seen you.
They've seen you through all
of the hard training moments.
Yeah.
So to celebrate with them
during like quarterfinals
in the open is that much sweeter.
Totally.
Yeah.
I agree with that 100%.
It's like nothing gets you
more fired up than having
that community and
behind you and those people
yeah that that believe in
you it makes I was like
some people ask you how you
stay motivated I'm like I
could never do if it was
just you know just me going
into a gym and doing it
leaving like having no
interactions with those
people so I would get
burnt out so fast and a big
part of why I stay
motivated is just there's
just people around you that
believe in you all the time
and they want to see you do
good you want to see them
do good it's it's uh yeah
it's something special so I
want to touch on wataplooza
one more time the weather
conditions there are always
so unpredictable yeah
Was that a part of like what
got in your head?
Because they had to move
like gymnastic movements
from regular to strict for 50 reasons.
And like, and it was last minute.
They changed the workout
three times before you hit the floor.
Like they took unknown and
unknowable to a whole new level.
Yeah.
I loved it.
I think it was, it was a little stressful,
but like I'm a BC kid.
So,
and I loved playing in the rain growing
up.
So it was like,
Yeah, it was like a little bit hectic.
You didn't really know.
I didn't know what any of
the workouts actually were
until very shortly before the event.
And then
I liked being out there in
the rain during that, like,
strict pull-up one.
That's the one where I had
kind of that unfortunate situation.
But I was just, like, crying.
But it was, like, also raining.
And then the wall ball hit
me a few times in the face.
And I just kind of, like,
even though I was, like, very emotional,
it was also fun and funny
at the same time.
I just think I was able to enjoy it.
I think that's what I love
most about you is you don't
take yourself super seriously at times.
Like I go to your games page
and the picture you use as
your profile is the goofiest thing.
But it just says a lot about you.
Yeah.
Yeah, those faces.
Yeah.
So I can see where like you
being ultra serious is not good for you.
Right.
Competition.
Yeah.
It's not, no,
I don't think it's naturally who,
who I am.
It's almost like something I
feel like I almost have to, to do.
In fact,
I think I made a comment about one
of your faces during the year,
but when we DM back and
forth occasionally,
you're always like doing
the goofy face and yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
things make me smile that's
so good yeah so many people
like anytime I post
anything of my like my face
I always just get lots of
responses and I'm just very
expressive I used to think
that I was so good at
hiding the way I felt about
things until I started like
videoing myself like doing
workouts and stuff I'm like
I make my face goes crazy
like I can see exactly how
I feel and yeah
So picture a content creator
trying to find a good
picture for a thumbnail.
Where can I clip?
Where can I steal from?
Where can I... You don't
give me much to choose from.
I'll try to sneak a couple
in there a year.
Man,
I need to get to semis and I got this
really cool new camera.
I could snap a couple of pictures.
I'll try to smile for a few.
Yeah.
I mean,
even like I went back and looked at
the interview I did for me
with you coming off the floor last year.
Yeah.
You're being goofy in that moment.
Like the whole first part of
that video is like us just
chopping it up before we
get to a serious question.
Probably.
Just wait until you see.
I tried smelling salt with
one of my friends the other
day for the first time.
I haven't posted the video yet,
but you just wait until you
see my face in that one.
And you might have a good
picture for next time.
Chandra says, Gabby pulls the best faces.
That's my sister.
thanks jandra and uh so now
I want to talk about you
you going into semifinals
you put you send in your
quarterfinal scores all
hell breaks loose yeah
wednesday after that yeah
what was going through your
head for the for the week
leading up to the
scoreboard being final gosh
I was just thankful that
Once I got video one and two,
luckily I got those
validated pretty fast.
I don't remember what day I
got them validated, but I was like,
thank goodness, like,
those are validated.
And then in my head I was like,
I wouldn't be surprised if
three and four didn't get
even looked at because, like,
I was just like,
they're going to have to go
through everyone's.
videos um but I was nervous
like I was refreshing like
every hour and seeing if
three and four got
validated like and then
this Monday comes and then
they make it official and
I've just been exhausted
for like Monday until today
I'm feeling like kind of
normal but like I was just
stressed out and I was
trying to keep myself calm
and everything but yeah it
was crazy so crazy
So two questions.
One,
how good does it feel that your
movement standard was up to par?
It feels really good.
I was thankful that I had
Jay there judging because I
looked at the video and my
first box step up,
he gave me a no rep because
I wasn't fully extended.
And then every one after that,
I stood all the way up.
So I was happy that he called it.
I was happy that, yeah,
I stood the rest of them up.
My second question is you
come into semis in seventh position.
Yeah.
That is a massive
improvement over the last
couple of years.
Yeah.
What does that tell you that
your fitness is getting
that much better or you're
figuring stuff out?
I think I'm just figuring, like,
I do believe that my
fitness is getting better for, like,
100%.
But then I also just feel like, yeah,
I'm just figuring it out.
And, like,
I think I've gotten to a good
place of balancing, you know,
life and CrossFit.
And, yeah,
I just think I'm learning about myself.
So here's the tough question.
Every time you're on,
we talk about your faith.
Mm-hmm.
that's part of the balance, right?
You're starting to have some success,
but it, but I know as a Christian man,
it's, it's important to keep God first.
What do you do to keep
yourself grounded in these moments and,
and keep your faith where
it's supposed to be priority wise?
Yeah.
Um,
I've kind of discovered
something recently and it's
mostly when like I pray at
the end of the day.
I used to always think that
I had to say these perfect
words and I had to say them
out loud to pray or like
reflect and everything.
But recently I've just
gotten into just sitting
and being quiet and like
just thinking about my day
and almost like, almost feels like I'm,
letting myself see how good
God is and everything.
And like,
I always pray every day for like my,
just my interactions with people.
And then I just, yeah,
I just sit and I think
about my day and I think
like so many things,
so many moments come
popping into my head and
I'm just sitting there like, wow,
thanks God.
And I just think, and then I say, wow,
like thank you.
And then I go into, you know,
my praying about, you know, specific,
like,
things to pray on and I read
my Bible I think it's just
like I think I'm allowing
myself time to just really
see and believe that God is
using me for something in
this I'm not just you know
doing this for the heck of
it it's like I'm allowing
trying to set myself up for
God to be able to use me
however he wants to and it's
like if that's me at the
games and that's me at the
games if that's me and you
know 11th place at the
semifinals or 60th place or
40th place at the
semifinals it's like I've
come to accept the fact
that like I'm gonna be
wherever he wants me to be
and there's so much peace in that
So earlier we talked about
feeling insignificant at times, right?
When you see your face, not on the,
on the stuff.
And do you ever get mad at
yourself that you've,
you've let that happen when
that's not the most important thing?
Yeah, totally.
But then I also have to have
grace with myself too.
You know, it's like,
we're still humans and you know,
that's such like a,
I think that's a natural way to feel,
but then it's like,
you almost have to catch
yourself and be like,
bring yourself back to like, like this is,
this is you, like, this is your,
your journey.
Of course,
you're not going to be Danny
Spiegel on the board.
It's because you're not Danny Spiegel.
It's like, you're,
you're Gabby and you're doing like,
you just have to stay in your,
your own lane.
So I think it, yeah, I,
I definitely get a little
frustrated with myself sometimes,
but then, like I said,
you have to offer grace to
yourself and be like, okay, it's like,
yeah, sure.
You felt that way, but let's, you know,
come on.
Yeah.
Let's keep going.
Yeah.
I need to remember that at times too.
Yeah.
So I want to finish up with
kind of a fun question and
it can be faith partner or whatever,
but going into one of the
most iconic venues in CrossFit history.
Yeah.
with your current position,
you're going to line up in
a heat with Alex Kazan, Ariel Lowen,
Emily Rolfe, like the best of the best.
Yeah.
How do you celebrate that
without celebrating too much?
I went back and I started,
I watched some like the old
documentaries of like, you know,
when they were in, in that stadium,
Um,
I think I'm just allowing myself time
to kind of reflect almost like I,
cause I remember watching, you know,
those documentaries and be like,
those people are crazy.
I'm never going to do that.
And like,
here I am watching those
documentaries and being like,
I'm going to be in that
stadium or one of the ladies, um,
Nancy McCaig from our gym.
She was, um,
she used to compete in the age,
like in the masters.
And, um, she competed in that stadium and,
um,
I was like talking to one of the,
like Kirsten from my gym.
And I was like,
how many like assault bike
workouts have I done?
And like Nancy's face is up
on the wall with like her, her Jersey.
And like, it's like, that was,
she's such an inspiration for me.
Like, so it's like a personal one.
It's like, I think that, yeah,
just allowing myself to
like reflect and be happy and be like, I,
you know, I earned this,
that spot.
It's like, I do deserve to be there.
It's like, I do deserve to,
to be in seventh place.
I didn't just get there by a fluke.
You know, it's like, yeah, I,
I could not be happier for
you that you have had this season.
Um,
it's been fun watching you from 2022 on
that.
You're also getting a
uniform X semis this year.
Like that's never happened before.
Yeah.
It's going to be pretty sweet.
So you're going to have a Jersey.
Yeah.
How much is that going to mean?
Pardon?
How much is that going to mean?
Oh, a lot.
Like that's going to be special.
You going to wear it during
the competition?
Cause you're not required to.
No, I was trying to think of that too.
I was like, do I, do I wear it?
Do I just save it and like, you know,
hide it away somewhere or
like display it somewhere.
Like I'm still trying to,
figure all that out I was
like maybe I'll wear it for
for one of the events I had
it um yeah I was like I
don't know yet yeah I think
that's a really cool
element I know some people
have dogged on a little bit
but I think it's cool that
yeah a lot of athletes that
just missed the games or
yeah it's cool to have a
memento from making it the semis yeah
yeah like we got a cool like
a two pood belt last year
and I haven't used that a
single time I have it just
sitting in in my room it's
like you have to take time
to appreciate those things
and it it helps when you
have yeah something like
your your name and number
on a jersey like I think
it's I think it's super
cool and I think it's a
really cool cool gesture
that they're they're doing
I think it makes it special
and it yeah kind of it
almost like legitimizes it you know
some more and being like hey
like you know your top 40
in your region like that is
that takes a lot of time
you know like you know here
you go here's your name and
your number I think it's super cool yeah
Well, I can't wait to watch you.
If I can get there in person,
it'll be the best.
If not, watch you on the stream,
but we'll stay in touch.
And, um,
we're going to do shows from
during that whole weekend.
So maybe I'll reach out.
We'll get, have you on the weekend.
If I can't be there in
person to talk to you in person.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love that a lot.
Well, good luck in Carson.
And, uh,
And Hattie's yelling at me in the chat.
You better be there.
Hattie and I will come and
drag you wherever you are.
We'll get you there.
Well,
truth be told is I have not been
approved for media credentials yet.
What?
Which is really late for this.
So still waiting on that.
We'll sign a petition.
We'll start a petition.
We'll get you in somehow, I'm sure.
All right.
Well, Gabby, as always, such a treat.
Thank you to everybody in
the chat for being here.
Love you all.
And we'll see everybody next
time on the Clydesdale
Media Semi-Finalist Series.
Bye, guys.
Bye-bye.