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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdales.
Ryan State got one of those awesome
messages today on a team's message at
work.
I started CrossFit.
Couldn't be happier for a colleague to
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That's awesome.
Well, if you started CrossFit,
he's probably going to be telling you a
lot more.
Yeah.
I mean, that's part of the deal.
As soon as you sign up, it's like,
hey, you got to tell everybody you know.
Yep.
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Thanks, Ken.
Scott wrote it himself.
Welcome back, Corey.
Thanks, Vic.
Train all over to cowboy.
Um, yeah, good stuff.
A lot of people in the chat.
Um,
I made a thumbnail thinking that Corey was
probably still traveling and,
and so switch it all up.
We were going to be traveling and, uh,
yesterday afternoon or yesterday morning,
whatever it was,
Jennifer decided she wanted to go home
straight after.
And, uh,
Did my last event,
watched my buddy Chris punch his ticket on
the last event.
Went back to Airbnb, did all of the,
you know, get out of the Airbnb stuff.
We grabbed a bite to eat,
got on the road,
got home a little bit before eleven
o'clock last night.
Wow.
That's like four hours past your bedtime.
Oh, yeah.
One percent.
One percent.
I slept like an absolute boss last night,
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So awesome.
So I want to get a rundown of
how Magic City was on the whole.
Then after we're done with that,
we're going to go into how it was
for you.
Perfect.
Let me start by saying this,
and I told Nick of this,
I think yesterday,
whenever I stopped him for a little bit.
I have been to, as far as,
you know, large comps are concerned,
I've been to Legends, I've been to MFC,
I've been to Fitness to the Coast,
Monster Games, all that stuff.
This was not even close as far as
just straight quality is concerned,
you know, on the high end side, right?
Yeah.
volunteers everywhere paid judges um the
only the the only and just i don't
really even want to call it negatives but
i guess semi-bad things i could say is
that there weren't a whole lot of vendors
Right.
So like there's people that were selling
shoes.
There were people that were, uh,
there was food trucks outside in the
parking lot across the street from the
parking lot from us.
Wasn't that far of a walk,
but that was the only food that we,
uh, that there was to be had.
Um, but there was an IV, you know,
people, people doing IV fluids, uh,
that also had some free Norma tech boots
that I took full advantage of.
There was some other stuff in there.
The guys selling coffee were absolutely
smashing it.
They did a fantastic job.
When I tell you we ran on time,
we ran on time.
I've never seen anything like it.
Everybody to the corral, hey,
we are leaving in ninety seconds.
And we left in ninety seconds.
Got everybody out to the floor, situated,
talked to your judge, hey,
you're going to have about two minutes to
get your stuff set up.
We had two minutes to get our stuff
set up.
know wipe down the bar whatever whatever
else you need to do get moving and
get into the event uh the athlete the
warm-up area didn't seem like there was a
lot of stuff there but it was enough
stuff from how we were laid out to
where nobody was like you know fighting
over equipment or it didn't seem like it
was cramped or anything and it really
wasn't that big of an area but it
was
it's just well put together i don't know
a better way to put it um i
think every volunteer i possibly could um
on the on the way out of there
yesterday because of how well it actually
went fantastic no i take it they didn't
have asian flavor punch and i was shocked
honestly because i've seen them everywhere
i've gone and they weren't there this
weekend so they must have had another
another commitment somewhere else
um but on on as a whole event
from programming to flow to you know i
could nitpick stuff if i wanted to but
it really would be just that it would
be epic oh i'm not just ten out
of ten so from the stream it didn't
appear there were a lot of people in
the crowd now we got reports last night
that
cameras were kind of facing away from the
crowd they were they were how would you
assess the crowd um so friday was
definitely thin but it was friday right
you've got to work whatnot saturday a lot
more people showed up um my wife being
one of them uh and then sunday i
mean the place is huge
Like they need to understand that the
Birmingham crossplex is it's a giant is
absolutely massive as far as that's
concerned.
So there were people standing behind the
barricade for, uh, in the,
in bill Harrison arena,
but there are also people in the stands.
Now they were spread out because they
could be right.
And there's only one area to look like
there was no seating behind the stands.
There was no need for it.
Um, so standing behind the barricade,
people sitting up there, I mean,
from an athlete perspective, I mean,
the people I cared about were there and
yelling and the people that couldn't make
it were yelling from home.
So it really wasn't, uh,
it really wasn't that big a deal as
far as that's concerned.
I don't think I know that, um,
to get a decent spot,
like to sit down and watch, uh,
Gwen and whatnot.
There were a lot of people in the
stands, right?
So people standing on the railing,
people sitting down and whatnot.
It felt like there was a lot of
people there.
Uh, Corey,
did you catch up with my friend Jason
veins from Connecticut?
Jason vines and I are, uh, uh,
ridiculously tight that's my homie i love
that dude to death he and i are
finished uh yesterday and uh next to each
other on the floor which is where we
usually end up anyway um yeah one hundred
percent that's my boy love that dude and
becky his wife they are fantastic human
beings alita says there are a lot of
withdrawals no shows in men's thirty five
to thirty nine i think there just was
It was a disappointing showing,
and we talked about that going into the
event.
I was talking to some people last night,
and I'm going to try to do this
in a way that... Diplomatically?
Yes.
Got it.
There was at least one age group where
the twentieth-ranked person from the
quarters...
Maybe even lower than that.
And got their ticket to the games.
Got it.
Because they had to go down so far
in the invite list that that's just what
happened in that age group.
few people accepted that someone who
probably and that's in this is an older
age group where they're only taking
fifteen today right and so I think it's
it's tough when things like that happen
when you're trying to create and establish
something yeah
And especially, I mean, look,
Boz was there.
Chuck Carswell was there walking around
and shaking babies, kissing hands.
You know,
Bob's taking pictures with everybody,
chatting up everybody and whatnot.
They were very, very well.
I think I actually get a chance to
talk to Chuck.
He was very, very enthusiastic,
positive on the up and up about it.
You know,
as far as it being a thing,
you know,
it was given all the credit to Micah
for putting the whole thing together and
whatnot.
And I didn't see Micah stop moving every
time I saw him.
He was doing something.
Like,
for us to stop him and talk to
him for five minutes yesterday,
it looked like he was, like,
chomping at the bit to go do something,
you know,
to try to keep the ball rolling,
which that's concerning.
So, I mean, from an athlete's perspective,
I don't know anybody that was bitching
about anything that happened.
Does that make sense?
Like, as far as for us,
the athletes that were there competing was
concerned.
Alito says,
but also quarterfinals didn't test
strength.
So it is plausible that a different type
of athlete did well at quarterfinals
versus live competition in this particular
case.
And again, I'm not trying to,
they qualified based on the rules of this
season and those to them for doing it,
but their struggle was gymnastics in
quarterfinals.
And that is going to be a requirement
at the games.
So, again,
I think the way it was done this
year put too much pressure on the event
organizers to come up with workouts for
every age group within a matter of a
short amount of time.
everything was compressed legends magic
city in person in affiliate semis
compressed into three weeks,
which were ridiculous.
And with all of that,
I think they did a pretty darn good
job overall.
Some things we sure could,
but it was a lot.
And I,
and I argued last night pretty vehemently.
I, I don't think going for,
I think going forward,
we should do thirty five to forty nine
year olds in person till we figure it
out.
Cause it's easier to program for that
smaller batch of,
It's they're the ones that have more
attendance in the field.
And I might even leak that to fifty
four.
But even that I'm I'm wavering on with
even with myself a little bit.
We have to reduce the number of heats
that happen and we need to make it
a watchable experience.
If you're going to have in person.
I know by the end of the day
yesterday,
people sitting there watching Gwen,
it wasn't just the age group people who
cared about that age group watching the
people that were doing Gwen.
Everybody was in that arena watching
people doing Gwen,
if that's what they were doing.
And everybody was screaming like there was
a dude in thirty five, thirty nine.
Right.
That big dude at the very end who
was when I tell you the crowd was
trying to lift him up to finish it.
Like it was something that you'd have seen
at, at, uh, you know,
at regionals back in the day,
like people just screaming for him to just
not let go of the bar and you
can watch it falling out of his fingertips
as he was standing there with it in
the hang.
And it was like that,
there was a handful of moments like that
where people were just, you know,
the crowd was really into it,
whatever crowd it was there having to be
at a time that was,
that seemed pretty damn cool.
Um,
yeah but i think gwen lends itself to
be a cheering workout and you can't do
six gwen's right my wife said uh a
couple different times that's the probably
one of the best events she's ever seen
right but you you can't recreate that over
and over again so you need something
that's more yeah yeah i get i get
what you're saying for sure um
There were some decent races going on.
Fourteen point seven had some good races
going on that I got to see,
you know,
be a little bit of a part of
the commute, had some pretty decent races.
I mean,
there was there was some stuff going on.
You know,
Some of the age groups were a little
bit more lopsided than the other ones,
obviously.
I'm not taking anything away from Magic
City or the events or anything.
I thought it was well-programmed.
I thought if I were in person,
it would be awesome.
But you hit a fatigue level as a
spectator when you have fourteen divisions
with multiple heats.
I mean,
that's the nature of the beast at this
point.
That's why I'm saying maybe we reduce down
the number,
the age divisions that move into an
in-person semifinal until we can figure
out a better way.
Thinking about that and trying to come
over off the top of my head,
I don't know how much of a different
way you'd have to go about doing it
aside from having a completely separate
event or having to have another floor.
You know what I'm saying?
Because what they did over the weekend
was, if I'm in heat, eleven.
Heat eleven, half of us were forty-five,
forty-nine.
Half of us were fifty, fifty-five.
That is one critique I have.
I hated that.
Well,
I think that was a logistics thing to
keep everybody rolling on through.
But when it's mixed for three heats,
why is it mixed?
You could have full heats of each age
group.
I really don't know.
It was just confusing.
Yeah, it can be.
It made it really hard to watch at
home.
And I don't know.
I want to get to some other things.
And I talked about it a lot last
night.
And I see Vicki saying, I hear you,
but the live events was their choice,
wasn't it?
Live events was their choice,
but I don't think you need forty two
people in every age group.
And I don't think you especially when the
invites were going to number three hundred
ninety two.
Right.
Like we.
And I think what happened is the event
organizers, in order to make money,
got the money from the athletes.
And they needed a set number to make
their money back.
So there's got to be a solution to
this.
I'll say this as far as they get
their money from guys like me that wanted
to go compete in person is that,
like I said a couple weeks ago,
most of the guys that were signed up
were guys that compete against regular at
these big in-person events.
So, like,
they were going to compete one way or
another.
Now it just means something because if you
finish on the podium,
you get to go to the games.
So the guys that were going to be
going to, you know, not this year,
but MFC,
guys who were going to be going to
Legends,
the guys that were going to be going
to whatever and spending their weekend
competing out of state somewhere away from
home or whatnot.
Yes, they were.
Two hundred something down the list.
The dude, John Bleich,
that almost won my whole division,
finished quarterfinals like a hundred and
somewhat odd spot.
But when you get him in person,
he is an entirely different animal.
He is unbelievably fit.
I have been a big proponent of that.
But when you get to three ninety,
it becomes a little bit of a joke.
I don't disagree.
There's a happy here.
When you send out invites and that's who
responds to your invites,
what are you going to do?
You can't force the people who are the
top fifteen, the top thirty,
force them to come compete in person when
you're still giving them the option to do
it.
It's a point telling you something.
If people aren't coming,
then is this something we should even be
doing?
If that many people are turning it down,
Was it just a vocal minority who wanted
these?
Is it not organized in a way that
makes sense?
I've talked to a lot of people.
They didn't do it because it was so
close to the in-affiliate semi.
Yeah,
I'm not even in an in-affiliate semi
because it's my daughter's softball
tournament is this weekend and it's
Mother's Day.
So people made choices for different
reasons.
Again,
I think it's the nature of what happens
in CrossFit is there's a demand,
and then there's throw spaghetti at it,
and we didn't – it wasn't well thought
out.
And I'm not talking from the event
organizers.
Again,
they were dealt cards that they had to
deal with.
Yeah.
Why is in-person – or I'm sorry,
in affiliate semifinal in the middle of
the damn season –
Yeah, no, we had,
several of us had discussions.
How could that be held off until the
end of semis?
It should have been.
Right.
Why is my season different than the Elite
season?
The last chance qualifier for the Elite is
the last chance qualifier.
Why is in-person, oh, excuse me,
in-affiliate, blah, blah, blah,
which is essentially the last,
or should be,
the last chance qualifier for my age group
the week after
the second in-person semifinal that makes
no sense uh shelly says i disagree it
doesn't have to be a watchable experience
it is a participation experience just like
a marathon or high rocks the older age
groups paid their registration fee too in
the current rules i get what you're saying
shelly and i'm cool with that but if
you want it to sustain itself and you
it takes money to keep it going
So either you need to find a rich
benefactor who just wants to throw events
for participation,
or you need to make it a watchable
experience where it will attract vendors,
ticket sales, and streaming eyes.
I think you have a solid point.
It's not on...
It's not on Bob and Joe.
It's not on Micah.
It's not on the guys that are running
the LATAM, whatever.
It's the fact that CrossFit decided that
this is what our season was going to
look like.
Here's your in-person.
Here's your in-affiliate semifinal.
Well, we already planned out the LSO.
Okay, well, it's still this weekend.
That's a bad move.
Larry says, what are you thinking?
What you're thinking is as a spectator,
but when you invite a ton of,
you make the money off of participation
like High Rocks.
If that's what you want Masters to be
is a participation only that's not
streamed and just like High Rocks,
then I'll step out of the way.
You guys can have your thing and you
can become Masters High Rocks.
By the way,
Larry and Shelley Young are awesome
people.
I met basically the entire Young family
this weekend.
John, Larry, and Shelley.
Outstanding human beings.
They're great.
They're great.
Just because we disagree on something
doesn't mean they're not great.
Oh, by the way,
while I'm thinking about it,
John Young said to tell you specifically
that apparently Marissa Flowers can't make
it through an entire weekend.
In the Masters division?
I'm just telling you what the man said.
He stopped me yesterday and said,
I was talking to him yesterday,
right before we headed out, he said, hey,
tell Scott, I said, and I said, oh,
okay, here we go.
Well,
we'll see at the games when the best
of the best are there.
She is.
And I love that woman.
Like, she is awesome.
She is even smaller than I expected her
to be when I actually saw her in
person.
It is insane.
When you see how small she is and
you see how much weight she can like
lunge with over her head.
Jennifer was talking about her yesterday.
She was like, bro,
I need to know how much she weighs.
She's listed at one ten.
She said there's no way she weighs one
hundred and ten pounds.
And she was lunging with one hundred forty
five overhead like it was nothing.
At French Throwdown,
it's only a field of ten for all
masters groups,
and it was very hard to get in.
Guarantees a better competition, though,
and potentially a more spectacular one.
I would agree with that.
Um, blah, blah, blah.
Lots of the same stuff.
Yeah.
In older age groups doesn't work.
In person is also expensive for some.
If the in-person semifinals are not
getting the best in the age group,
there is a problem.
Right.
If you're not getting the best in the
age groups at these,
then just become MFC or become legends
offseason.
So here's the thing about that.
And Mark Phillips put it up there earlier.
John, who almost won the whole thing,
finished at the quarterfinals.
Chris, my very close, dear,
homeless-looking friend, who won,
finished at the quarterfinals in the
hundred and twenty-eighths.
He's also already been to the games.
He's one hundred percent sure of his win.
He was one hundred percent the best guy
there all weekend.
And in a, I would say,
pretty well-balanced test as far as all
the events were concerned.
So just because he just finished the
hundred and twenties in quarterfinals does
not mean that he's not the best dude
there.
And it's not going to go to the
games and wreck shop.
Like he is going to be a problem
when he gets to the games, you know,
in our age group.
I am, I'm not debating that, that far.
I think there's a problem with the online
format.
I do.
I do think there's that there's issues
with all this.
Larry comes in with Scott,
the games was empty to guess.
We should cancel them.
If people don't start showing up to them,
it will be canceled.
It's just a fact.
Yeah.
If nobody watches,
it just becomes another master's event and
it won't be the games anymore.
There's no prestige to it anymore either.
A smaller,
more exclusive field makes it more
desirable.
If anyone can get in, not so much.
Maybe put in person after on the line
to attract more higher level participants
and more participants.
I would say it needs to be on
one side or the other.
Smack dab in the middle was a terrible
idea.
Um, Mark agrees with Shanna.
Uh, Hexie lover,
just throwing this question out there.
If CrossFit spent two million of all the
franchisee dues, well,
their affiliate dues a year,
could it be feasible to create their own
filming of all games events?
I want to get back into that at
this point.
We'll see what the new CEO wants to
do.
Um,
I think taking affiliate money and putting
it towards the sport is not going to
go over well with the affiliates.
No, it's a bad idea.
And Shelly doesn't know why this is a
topic of conversation.
It's a topic of conversation because if
something doesn't change,
I lose something that I love to watch.
It means that much to me.
And I know I'm probably in the minority
at this point.
And even me,
who loves this sport and loves a lot
of the Masters athlete,
it was a tough watch this weekend.
It went from eight in the morning until
nine at night.
Like, my wife has me doing chores.
It was eight in the morning till nine
Eastern time.
Pretty much every day.
The broadcast?
Yeah.
We were out of there by five every
day.
Six o'clock your time.
That's just weird.
We were out of there by six,
by five.
We stayed and watched my friend Anna's
last heat show.
friday before we went uh yeah before we
went grab the burger friday night and i
mean it was we were we were still
we were back at our airbnb and like
it was by eight o'clock um all i'm
saying is every person i competed against
earned their right to be there there's no
kale layman's out there at least in my
division shelly i am not saying anything
about the athletes
you're fighting apples versus oranges.
But if you want a sport to survive,
you need to have eyeballs on it.
If you don't have eyeballs on it,
it's not going to survive.
It will become a local comp.
It just, I have,
everybody that was there with the rules
that were in place deserve to be there.
You got invites based on your finish.
You accepted those invites.
I love that you had that opportunity.
But on a grander scale, if nobody watches,
it's going away.
Unless the event coordinators keep upping
the registration fee and you,
the athletes, fund it yourself.
And I don't think that's fair either.
Everybody complains that Xenon at five
hundred dollars is way too expensive.
Legends was four twenty to enter.
And it's only going to go up.
Ken Walter, Shelley,
it costs money to put on.
There has to be a return on investment.
There does.
Mark says we're having a fruit fight now.
Apples versus oranges.
Mark needs to cheer me up.
So he bought five Clydesdale media
memberships today.
You are the man.
You are the man.
But devil's advocate here, Scott,
how can something so boring like disc golf
show up on ESPN three?
Because people watch it.
There's a niche for everything.
We put it on and everybody in the
community bitches about paying thirty
bucks membership to watch it.
I'm not dialed into the golf Frisbee golf
world.
I don't know about the stuff or whatever.
So I don't know.
Um
I can't say enough about Carolyn Prevost.
Scott,
you do have some quality friends looking
at you, Corey.
Well, speaking of Corey,
how do you feel your weekend went?
Oh, I mean, it started off fantastic.
It did.
So to anybody who...
Let me put this out there.
If anybody reached out, messaged me,
Instagram, text, blah, blah,
and I did not respond,
I'm going to take this opportunity to just
let you know my phone was on Do
Not Disturb all weekend long.
I did not get on Instagram.
I did not get on Facebook.
I did not get on anything at all
because I was trying to be as locked
in, focused, present, in the moment,
whatever you want to call it,
the entire weekend.
I would check my phone every once in
a while on base.
You just...
swipe through stuff like there's only a
couple of people i was even allowing to
get through the do not disturb well um
but after looking back at it like the
amount of you know support messages i had
was absolutely it was overwhelming um so
thank everyone for that uh first and
foremost
If you could have seen my first event,
everybody takes out on the run.
Three, two, one, go.
I tell you,
everybody took out on the run.
We had to run around the track.
They were getting it.
I was plodding along,
just minding my own business.
Not a big deal.
Then
after the second round i just started
passing people like left and right because
it's very very easy and everybody i said
everybody did it yeah uh mr kyle's in
crossfit i met him this weekend too
fantastic human being uh and everybody
everybody took off and i just i was
dead last on the run on the first
run
And then I wasn't dead last.
And then I wasn't close to being last.
And in the very last, the last set,
the last heat, the last round, excuse me,
it was just me and Alvin.
And I was right on his heels.
And he had broke every other round.
He was right next to me.
He had broke every other round.
And I didn't.
I went unbroken on the first three rounds.
And I figured he would break.
and what i would if i could my
cycle speed was a little bit faster than
his and the bastard did not he went
unbroken on the last round and i did
i had to i dropped it at sixteen
picked up did my last nine took second
in that one so i was pretty pretty
happy about that uh and then got to
and like you know cool second second my
heat whatever like trying to not let it
made me feel some type of way, right?
Get to Nate that I was super excited
about.
One of the ones I had circled on
my calendar, right?
Because Nate is the workout that we do
when we don't know which workout we want
to do.
In the first two rounds,
the first two rounds went fantastic,
like right on schedule,
moving right along and whatnot.
And the third round,
first two ring muscle-ups were fine.
And on the third one, my hand just...
i found the chalk that was on the
ring um first of all they were brand
spanking new rings all of them the whole
the whole set brand new rings so like
when we got there thursday to check in
went look at the floor would not jumped
up on it and grabbed it all turns
like oh they were slick slick plus chalk
plus frog grips is not usually a very
winning combination
And I had brought a wet rag with
me to try to,
cause we had two minutes and I was
going to, if I needed to,
I was going to wipe them down,
like get the chalk off of them before
we started.
Well,
I jumped up there and grabbed the whole
tone and I said, Oh no,
they feel fine.
It's a bad idea.
Bad, bad idea.
So as soon as that happened, came down,
took a breath, went back up,
finished that one, finished that round,
came back in and in round four,
just went.
right to hell it was it was absolutely
terrible at one point and i'm doing three
singles for my fourth round at one point
i looked at my judge and i said
i promise you i am way better at
this than i'm showing you right now like
i was laughing because it was silly um
brand new rings brand new straps and a
couple of anybody else in there will tell
you um my the lane i was in
for that one was lane three there's a
couple other ones where
At one point I looked up,
this ring was like this,
like it was supposed to be.
And this one was turned sideways and it
wouldn't unravel.
So now instead of just jumping out and
going like this,
now you're trying to jump up and like
turn that hand and catch this one to
kind of get it back.
that on top of more straps that i'm
used to and like it just completely i
let it throw me off my game um
and just completely pointed that one into
a stand and that one that's i should
have had a top five top seven at
least on that on that one got off
i was
simultaneously mad and you know kind of
laughing at myself a little bit mostly mad
um but set a timer on my watch
uh went and sat down and didn't talk
to anybody for ten minutes and just kind
of you know let it wash over me
i gave myself ten minutes to process it
whatever and then ain't nothing to do
about it it's over with move on get
on to the next one
That was the next morning was the commute.
It was in the afternoon, actually.
So the first one was the, oh, yeah,
the rope climb, double under, blah, blah,
blah, whatever.
Sandbags lunge.
That one,
I was kind of feeling the road about
before we ever started because I'm not a
super fast rope climber.
Five foot six.
It's a whole lot of pools when you
get all the way to the top.
And I'll probably overpace the rope from
the get-go.
Like double owners are fine.
Not a big deal.
Definitely overpace the rope climbs from
the beginning.
I should have trusted my abilities more.
It is what it is.
I saw my TV screen for a brief
moment during that event.
When you start, grab the sip of water.
Grab the sip of water.
Grab the chalk.
Yep.
Yep.
It's like we said with Jamie last week,
stop doing your shit.
Yep.
Uh, and then, so the,
I grabbed the sandbag and like,
this is where I'm gonna make my money,
right?
Sandbag lunges, anything on a sandbag.
I am usually pretty damn good at.
Oh,
a hundred fifty feet with a hundred pound.
No big deal.
The giant barbell voodoo sticker that's on
the floor.
It just as soon have been made out
of grease and ice.
Because as soon as my foot hit it,
I hit and it slid.
Not a whole lot,
but just enough to get your attention.
Dude,
it was super slippery and scared the
ever-living shit out of me.
I have no better way to put it.
It shook me because all I could think
of was that I have a hundred pound
sandbag on my shoulder.
If my foot slips all the way out
from underneath me,
I'm going to blow my hamstring and my
weekend's over with.
So went, turned around, came back.
I looked at my judge as I'm coming
back and like going back across the
sticker.
And I looked and I said, that's slippery.
Like, holy smokes.
And it's not just me.
Like there were stickers all like that all
over the floor.
That was that that everybody that I talked
to about it was like, oh, yeah, no,
they were absolutely slippery.
Well,
let's call it there because I do have
some afternoon meetings.
That's halfway through the weekend.
Yeah.
We'll finish up that later this weekend or
later this week, not end.
Yep.
But I just want you to know I'm
proud of you.
You went out there.
You fought like hell.
Did everything I could.
You got to be on the big stage
and.
Even though I'm trying to think of
solutions to make these things better,
it doesn't mean I hate what happened for
the Masters athletes.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Both things can be true.
I can like what happened,
and I still want it to be better
for everyone.
Right.
But I was super proud of you,
even though I was yelling at you.
Oh, you were the only one.
My wife was there.
She did a lot of yelling.
I was... My last set of dubs...
My last set of dubs, dude.
Hold on.
I'm like...
I told Vicky real quick that Corey looks
like he's having afternoon tea with the
queen.
My very last set of dubs,
because I got back to the rope on
the third round of that,
and I was like, okay,
I need to get these fifty,
because this is free reps, right?
And I'm like,
I'm just going to do them unbroken.
And I got to thirty,
and my body was like, no,
you're going to need oxygen before you can
actually finish these.
And my wife said she was yelling at
me, going, you don't need to breathe,
you need to move.
I was like, fantastic.
That's exciting.
But yeah, brother, get back to work,
and we'll finish this off tomorrow.
Yeah, we'll do that.
We'll also,
I know I talked a lot of stuff
about WFP last night,
but there were a lot of things that
WFP I enjoyed and I liked.
We'll touch on that tomorrow and talk
about some other stuff.
Is this too much for a CrossFit weekend?
Having three semifinals and the WFP all in
one weekend, was it just too much?
Oversaturation.
So with that,
we'll talk about his bike ride tomorrow,
Mark, and we'll get through all that.
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