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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.
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.
Stick a fork in the head of a man.
what is going on everybody
welcome to the Clydesdale
media podcast my name is
Scott Switzer I'm the
Clydesdale we are so stoked
to be able to profile all
the well not all but a lot
of the athletes from the
2024 legends masters
crossfit games and I have
with me tonight Lacey
Truelove Lacey how's it
going hey good thank you so
much for having me I'm
excited to be here a little
bit nervous but excited
Nothing to be nervous about.
We're just going to,
we're just going to chill
and have a good time.
Yeah.
How many times do you get asked?
Is that your real last name?
Oh, so funny.
Like all the time, all the time.
Everybody thinks it's a fake name,
but born and raised with it.
Never changed it.
Got married.
Never changed it.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's all mine.
It is very unique.
It is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's different.
I don't know the background of it.
I've always wanted to do one of those, um,
Big 23 and me to see where it came from,
but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
One day.
It's funny.
I'm friends with Ariel
Loewen and her maiden name is Armstrong.
Okay.
She always wanted to keep
that because her IG after her name,
she put
the arm, the strong arm, right?
And getting married,
she didn't want to take
Dylan's name because she
didn't want to lose that emoji.
Yeah.
You know,
I've always found it so strange
when you get married.
I got married, got divorced, kept my name,
thankfully, throughout the entire thing.
But it's always so strange
to me when a woman gets
married that she just has
to give up her name that
she's had her entire life.
And so it's
It's funny you say Ariel's
maiden name is Armstrong.
My children are true love
Armstrong hyphenated.
So they have the best of both worlds.
So now they can use the emoji.
They can.
They can.
Thank you, Ariel.
I will use that for my children one day.
There you go.
I've been I was researching
you today and I learned one
that you were doing Irish dance at two.
Oh my gosh.
Hilarious.
Well,
so I was from a very small town in
Strathroy.
They had no real sports
really at the time when I
had first started.
So my mom was like,
I have to put her in something.
So Irish dance was just this
little thing that they,
they had going on in a
teeny tiny little nook.
And she threw me in there.
They had a little gymnastics
class that followed.
There was maybe 10 girls in it.
It was tiny, tiny, tiny.
So yeah, Irish dance.
And that was not your
passion because you left
that to go to gymnastics.
Yeah, I did.
Yeah.
It's so funny.
My mom and I were talking
about that story just yesterday.
Um, I was so little,
I was so little at the time
when she had put me in it
and it was such a short lived experience,
but the girls who followed me were,
were gymnasts and I would
always just watch them.
I was so mesmerized by the
gymnast that followed.
And they were also very, very young.
They weren't like,
they were no Simone Biles by any means.
But they were just, you know,
walking on a low beam,
doing some cartwheels and somersaults.
But I guess I found that
more appealing than
tiptoeing around and doing
some high kicks for the Irish dance.
Yeah,
we actually have really good friends
whose daughter,
I think she still does
Irish dance in college.
Oh, really?
Wow.
Yeah, like she took it the whole way.
Yeah.
They're actually quite amazing to watch,
really.
The dress alone was, like,
extremely expensive.
Yes.
Yeah.
Maybe one day I'll give it a go again.
We'll see.
There you go.
Just for the dress.
Yeah, just for the dress alone.
So you do gymnastics.
It said in the article I
read that you wanted to be
an Olympic gymnast.
You wanted to be Spokehouse.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, much older than Simone Biles.
But yeah, I don't know.
At a young age,
I just knew that I wanted
to be excellent.
And so whatever sport that I
decided to go into,
the goal was to go as far
as I could go in it.
And so with the sport of gymnastics,
the Olympics,
that's the peak of success
within that sport.
So yeah, at a very young age,
I knew that it was either all or nothing,
really all or nothing.
I can relate to that because
I was a swimmer growing up.
Okay.
And the, the,
the only place you can end to
be the best is the Olympics.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And I realized in high
school that that was a
fleeting thought in my mind.
Right.
And then it just became,
can I pay for college?
Yep.
Right.
And then, you know, which is,
I know you hit that point, too,
where you realized the
Olympic dream was not there.
Yeah, yeah.
At such a young age, at 15,
like 15 years young, you realize,
you know what?
My life is not going to
amount to what I want it to
within this sport.
And so we made a decision to
switch sports.
But it's one of those sports,
gymnastics especially,
we know this about the sport,
that it's a young sport.
If you don't have it,
you know pretty quickly.
I'm not necessarily sure if
it was I didn't have it or
I didn't have the means to
succeed within the sport
because what we had
available within my city
and slightly outside of the
city just wasn't enough to get me there.
I do think I would have had
to have probably gone to
the States in order to make that happen.
At 15 years old, we weren't
We weren't going to move to
the States to do it.
It's not like I was going to
school or anything.
So that wasn't in the cards.
So we made a quick switch to
a different sport.
More towards my end of the spectrum,
and that is you were diving into a pool.
I was, yeah.
So gymnastics,
just instead of landing on our feet,
we landed on our head instead.
It's so funny you say that.
I was just watching a
YouTube video maybe two weeks ago,
and there's an influencer
who is a mega high diver from Canada.
Okay, yep.
Her name escapes me.
And then there's a gymnast
who was a gymnast at UCLA,
and they both have channels
where they try different sports.
Right, okay.
They came together,
and the gymnast tried diving,
and the diver tried gymnastics.
Right, okay.
And it was so cool.
The one thing they said is
the rotation was the
hardest part because in one sport,
you land on your feet.
In the other sport, you land on your head.
Yes.
Yes.
I would think watching that,
I would think the gymnast
would be thrown off far
more than the diver because in diving,
we would land on our feet.
In all of the buildups to the head entry,
you would do the foot entry
at some point.
And so it's a little bit, obviously,
in gymnastics,
the goal is never to land on your head.
So one of the sports has
access to the other side of the spectrum.
It's funny.
I think I used to coach a
girl when I was in Houston.
Her name was Ellie Smart.
She's a Red Bull cliff diver.
Sounds awfully familiar as
to the YouTube channel that
you're saying.
I just saw her put up a
video the other day of her trying.
maybe it was skateboarding.
It may have been skateboarding,
but just a one-off sport, but just a very,
very talented Red Bull cliff diver.
That sport is just, that's wild.
It takes it to the next, the next level.
Yeah.
This girl is a Red Bull cliff diver.
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah.
One of the girls I trained with in,
in Houston, she,
she competes for the
Netherlands in Red Bull
cliff diving and is just loving it.
Yeah.
I I've bungee jumped in my life.
But the older I get,
the harder like that big
heights thing is.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It's you have a respect for
life as you age.
You respect your time on this earth.
And so as you age, it's like,
I don't know about that.
When you're younger,
you just have this complex
of nothing can hurt me.
And so you age out of that, I think.
when I was in high school,
I was at a swimming meet
and they had a diving well beside,
and there was a girl
practicing on the 10 meter platform.
Yeah.
And she missed a dive and
smacked like the water hard.
They pulled her out on a stretcher.
Yep.
Then my buddies were like, Hey,
let's go off the 10 meter.
Let's do that.
Hey, let's go do that.
Yeah.
Don't sign me up.
Yeah.
I've had one of those,
one of those occurrences where,
where I had to be pulled out,
taken to hospital.
It was a whole ordeal.
It's a scary sport.
It's risky.
So what, what did you dive?
I was a 10 meter platform.
That was my specialty in
university because we were,
I was in the States.
And so it was the NCAA circuit.
We did all of them.
So we did the one meter springboard.
We did three meter,
we did synchro and my
specialty was 10 meter platform.
And so, um,
Yeah, there was a lot of smacks.
Let me tell you,
there was a lot of smacks.
It's scary.
There's a lot of fear
involved with that sport.
I know they've gotten better
with bubblers to break the
surface tension as much as
you can and all that stuff.
But it's cool that you were
a 10-meter specialist
because that even lends
itself even more to
CrossFit and that your
gymnastics background
because a lot of times you
start on your hands.
Yes, yes.
Yeah, so not just with gymnastics,
doing a lot of handstand work.
I actually got much better
with my handstand work when
I went into diving because
the difference in
gymnastics is you can fall down,
but you're just going to
kick up to handstand and
then land on your feet.
And diving, when you're on the platform,
you're 33 feet up in the air, 10 meters.
So we kick up into an arm,
they call it an arm stand
instead of a handstand.
You kick up, you have to hold it,
show the judges control and
then proceed to do your dive.
So you're kind of forced
into a situation where you
have to have that body
control in order to hold it.
And if you don't execute it properly,
then you've fallen off the
platform and then you're
just trying to survive at that point.
Fallen 33 feet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Crazy.
It's amazing what as young
individuals we will do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
Like I said, just fearless at a,
at a certain age.
I remember just not,
not having fear on the 10
meter platform until I
started to learn the big, big dives,
like the Olympic dives.
And, um, there were,
there were a few of them
where I would literally see
my life flash before my eyes.
And it was one of those, like,
we're going to survive.
We're not going to survive.
We'll find out kind of things,
but we went for it every time.
And, uh,
It's not dissimilar to
Olympic weightlifting, I always say.
Your body moves so quickly
that it's just the neural
pathways are carved.
Your body knows what to do.
Your brain knows what to do.
There's still fear involved.
But at the end of the day,
you're going to end up
landing on your head.
Olympic weightlifting, very quick.
Your body naturally knows
what to do because you've
put it through the movement
pattern so many times.
that it ends up pretty decent.
There's a couple of
technical flaws along the way,
but you're always going to land it.
Yeah.
My sister was a diver.
So I watched a lot of it.
Right.
And she was amazing.
Like as, as a tiny, tiny girl,
she was like eighth in our state,
like up against people much
older than her.
And,
and then she had a couple accidents
where she hit the board,
hit her head on the bottom of the pool,
hit her face on the bottom of the pool.
And then that,
that really like slowed her
progress way down.
Of course.
Yeah.
That that's a bit of trauma.
When something like that happens,
it's so hard to get past it.
I've seen it happen many times.
And it's something that
stays with you for every
single dive that follows.
So I would, yeah,
I would understand how that
would deteriorate pretty
quickly after that point.
So you were good enough to
make Olympic trials in diving?
Yeah, yeah.
I went in 2012, 2008, and 2012.
So here you are as a gymnast
wanting to be an Olympian,
have to give up on the
dream in just four short years where I,
I'm not doing the math well,
all of a sudden you're at
another Olympic trials for a different,
completely different sport.
And at least you have a shot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was wild.
My first, so retired from gymnastics,
retired at the ripe age of 15.
And then started diving, um,
just because honestly,
just because the sport is so similar,
I picked it up,
obviously quite quickly
qualified for my first
nationals after the first
competition that I had gone to.
And it all just moved very, very quickly.
And so I think because it moved so quickly,
I recognized immediately like, okay,
the Olympics is not off the
table for this sport.
So we trained really, really hard.
2008, we went to trials.
Four more years, we were like, okay,
next one.
Next one will be okay.
2012 came up.
We missed it.
That one was a hard one to miss.
We trained really hard for it.
There's girls in the sport
who have done it for a lifetime.
So whilst I had done
gymnastics for such a long time,
they had started in the
pool the same time I had
started gymnastics.
So that experience was just
far more robust than what I
had even just from the gymnastics alone.
But the experience was,
it was something that I
carry with me today into CrossFit.
Yeah.
I never got to go to the
Olympic trials in swimming,
but I did go to the Olympic
trials like two months ago.
Here in the States.
Yeah.
It was only like two hours from my house.
Okay.
It was the coolest, coolest experience.
Just being a spectator.
I cannot even imagine.
It's one thing to watch it on TV,
but then to be in the same place,
area as the athletes to see
how they move through space,
to see how they warm up,
how focused they are.
Swimming is a very different sport.
Those athletes are, um,
they're so dialed in.
I remember in university,
the swimmers were just at competitions.
They were like laser focused.
They always knew down to the,
down to the second or the
millisecond what their time
was going to be in their swims.
And I was always just so amused by
the detail that they put into their,
into their swimming,
regardless of the distance.
It could be a sprint.
It could be a long distance
and they knew exactly what
time they were going to get.
It was just wild.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's probably was my
problem is there was a
little variance there.
I could never figure out the
perfect pacing.
Right.
Like I had a private coach
we had and I could just
never hit that perfect pacing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I either went out too hot or
I didn't go out hot enough.
What was your specialty?
So for most of my career, it was distance,
200 free, 500 free.
In college, it was 1,000 and 1,650.
Okay.
1650.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yep.
That's, that's a good track.
And then my,
my favorite time is for a
brief moment in my career as an IMR.
And I love that.
I wish I could have done
that much longer in my career.
I think I would have been great at it.
Yeah.
Just a little more variety.
I just missed nationals by
like a half a second.
No.
And I,
and that's with not doing it my
whole career.
Like,
Yeah.
That's a, that's a tough one.
A half second.
And then you go through your mind and you,
you think of all of the
areas in which we could
have gained that half second.
That's always so tough.
I was a great butterfly or a
great backstroker and a great freestyler.
My breaststroke was atrocious.
Yeah.
There's so much technique.
There's so much technique in it.
Honestly, so much.
I've been swimming.
I'm not a swimmer, not a swimmer,
never going to say I'm a swimmer,
but I've been swimming in
preparation for the games.
Just at a YMCA, a local YMCA,
trying to do a thousand
meters of just like a front crawl.
And so I've been doing there
and back front crawl and
then breaststroke, front crawl,
front crawl, breaststroke.
And there's actual swimmers
next to me doing
butterflies and backstroke
and just smooth, just so smooth.
And here I am just trying to survive,
really, just trying to survive.
But it's a tough sport.
It's very, very humbling.
I wish CrossFitters would
just learn backstroke
because it's the best
recovery stroke because you
don't have to plan your breathing.
Your face is exposed at all
times and it's faster than breaststroke.
If a CrossFitter could just
figure that stroke out,
they would be so much
better in the water.
Okay, I'm taking that.
I'm taking it.
I'll go crawl, crawl, backstroke.
Taking the notes.
Going to use it.
One,
your arms are moving in the opposite
direction than they are
when you're doing front crawl.
Right.
So it's loosening back.
It's breaking up the lactic acid.
And your face is exposed the
entire time so you can breathe.
Okay.
Well, let's give it a go.
We'll see how it goes.
It's funny you say that.
I was just talking to one of
my teammates the other day.
We were laughing about Wadapalooza.
We had done some swim
training for Wadapalooza.
And then we get there.
and end up just swimming
with our head above water, no technique,
survival mode only.
Everything that we had
trained had gone out the
window because at that
point after worm thrusters and burpees,
it was just keep my head
above water so I don't drown.
All that training.
Yeah, yeah.
It's fight or flight.
Yes.
Yeah,
you do weird things that you don't
think you would do in
stressful situations.
Yes, yes, absolutely.
Well, I try to keep these to 30 minutes.
We're already at 20,
and I haven't even got into
your CrossFit.
All right, let's do it.
So we're going to try to
speed this up so I can be
respectful of your time.
But,
but I do have one more question and
that is you're from Canada,
which I don't even think
we've said on here.
Yeah.
And at a point you made the
decision to come to the
States to go to college at
the university of Houston.
Yes.
That is,
you said in this article that that
is frowned upon in the
sports world of Canada.
Yeah.
Go to the States.
I did not know that.
Can you,
cause I'm a co-host with Carolyn
Prevost on and she left
Canada to go to the
university of Wisconsin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's I can't say,
I don't want to blanket
statement it and say that
it's for all of the sports.
Diving is very big in Canada.
We're very well known for
high quality diving and,
And so they like to keep it
very close to home and
develop the athletes themselves.
And so the idea of an
athlete going to the States,
they've lost control of
that athlete at that point.
So, you know, when,
when I say frowned upon,
maybe not frowned upon,
but not overly encouraged
to step outside of the
training framework that
dive Canada has built out.
So it's, yeah, it's, um,
it's a tough decision for an athlete,
but opportunity is opportunity.
And so if there's an
opportunity to get a
university education while diving with.
At the university of Houston,
I had the opportunity to
dive with Russian Olympians and just,
you know,
level up my diving by putting
myself in an environment
where I was forced to watch
the best in the world train.
And I got to train with the
best coach in the world.
She's at the Olympics right
now and just won an Olympic silver medal.
So it was a huge opportunity.
and not something that I was
ever going to pass up.
Well,
and I guess like the weird thing in
my head was you don't want
to piss people off in a judge sport.
Yes.
Yes.
It's a tight knit community.
Yes.
And do you, you don't have to answer this.
Did it ever affect,
do you think it ever
affected your judging at
like Olympic trials?
Um,
Possibly.
Yeah.
Possibly.
Yeah.
It's yeah.
Judge sports are judge sports.
Right.
And I think when the judges
are all within that tight knit community,
you're going to have biases always.
And so there's certain areas
that excel and they have
additional funding and they have support.
And so those athletes often
get highlighted.
And if you're outside of that,
even within Canada, it's very difficult,
um, to be viewed in the same way.
So stepping outside of the
country and then coming
back into the country to compete,
it was a bit tough.
It was a bit tough.
Yeah.
Humans are humans and
they're going to have biases.
Of course.
It's only natural.
Yeah.
So, so you qualify for the,
we're going to skip way ahead now.
Let's do it.
You qualify for the CrossFit games.
You're a rookie.
Yeah.
Um,
Are you, I,
so I don't know your exact age.
Are you just turning into the masters?
I'm 35.
I'm 35.
So this is, yeah,
I will be the first year of, of masters.
Yeah.
So this was your first
opportunity to jump at this
plan all along.
No, was it the plan?
Oh my gosh.
No, I was at, um, so funny.
I was at Waterpalooza.
With one of my friends,
her name is Meg Garrett,
who also qualified in the
women's category.
She'll be going for 40 to 44, I believe.
She looked at me when we
were at Waterpalooza and she said, Lace,
like you could qualify for the games.
Do you know this?
And I said, Meg, you know.
I don't know.
I don't know if that's actually possible.
It's always been a dream,
always been a dream.
And so when she said that,
it just started the wheels turning.
And my coach was like, yeah,
I've known this all along.
This has been something that
I've always known you were able to do.
But for me,
because the games is like the
Olympics of CrossFit, amazing,
let's get there one day at
35 years old after having two kids.
owning a business,
starting a brand new
business within the year,
I didn't think that now
would be the time to do it.
So was it in the plan?
Probably in the master plan, yes.
But did I think it would
happen on the first go at being masters?
No, I didn't think so.
So it's kind of come out, not come out,
but
It's been revealed to us
that a lot of athletes that
are competing in the elite
division have the same
background that you have.
Gymnastics and diving seem
to be a really good mix for
body awareness or whatever
it is that gets you to that elite level.
So you came in with that behind you.
You've been doing this since 2014.
It's been a long time.
Your first Open was 2014.
Yes.
So 10 years into CrossFit,
you make it to the Games.
But your quarterfinals, you finish 40th.
Yeah.
Then,
I don't know what happened in the 20s,
between quarters and semis,
you finish 5th.
I finished 5th, yeah.
Skill level go up.
did the skill level go up?
Um, I, nothing changed.
My skill level didn't go up.
The workouts were beautiful
workouts for me.
I will,
I will be fair and honest when the
workout started to come out.
I was like, Oh, Oh, okay.
Another one.
Yeah, we can do this.
We can definitely do this.
And as they released,
it just became quite
apparent that this was, um,
Something that we could not
just qualify for,
but put ourselves in a
pretty good position going
into the games themselves.
And I have to say,
I've had a lot of help to
get to the point that I've gotten to.
I have an amazing programmer I work with,
Mammoth, and my coach, Billy Gooding,
is phenomenal.
We've worked together for
such a long time.
I've had some teammates that
have just been phenomenal.
The environment in which we train is
sets all elite athletes up for success.
And so I think it's been a perfect storm.
Really,
semifinals was a perfect storm for me.
So stepping into that and
executing the workouts how
I did has given me a lot of
confidence going into the games.
That's for sure.
Well, I'd say you finished fifth.
That would have qualified
you under the old rules.
Where they only take top 10.
Yeah.
You made it by a long shot
under the rules.
Yeah.
Do you train at your own
facility or do you train at
an affiliate or.
Yeah.
So our facility is a bit different.
So, um, I am an owner at the facility,
so it's team London hybrid
training center.
And we have Team London CrossFit,
the affiliate within the training center.
We have a hybrid program that we run.
We have a High Rocks
affiliate that we run in there as well.
We have a weightlifting club that runs.
It's a registered
weightlifting club as well.
So there's a lot of
excellence under one roof.
And what we've created
within our program is we
have Team London Academy.
So the Academy is a lot of
elite athletes and a lot of ex-athletes.
So a lot of football players,
track athletes who have
retired from their respective sports,
not dissimilar to when I
retired from diving,
who have come in and said,
I'm done with that sport,
but I still want to be
excellent at a sport.
And we all know that
CrossFit is so accessible.
And if you have a sport background,
stepping into it,
they'll have strengths in
different avenues because
they come from different sports.
But when you take
all of these elite athletes
and you put them under one
roof and have them train together,
magic happens.
And so that's the
environment that we've
created within our program.
And, um, it's,
it's nice because I'm a
product of that program.
Um,
and being an owner of the gym and a
creator of the program
itself has been such a
beautiful process to go
through wearing all
different kinds of hats along the way.
So.
How do you balance all of that?
How do I balance it all?
You're also a mom of two.
Yeah, I'm a single mom of two.
I have a lot of determination.
I'm stubborn.
You asked my coach.
I'm very, very stubborn.
I know what I want and I will work very,
very hard to get there.
Like I said before,
when a two-year-old decides...
that they want to go to the Olympics.
I think it's,
it was pretty clear that at a young age,
there was vision.
I've always had a lot of
vision and determination to get there.
So, you know,
the kids get to watch me do
it and that's just
additional motivation and
additional drive.
And there's so many people
within the affiliate and
the training center that we
run that get to be a part
of the process with me.
So it's, I've, I've always said,
it's not me doing it.
It's all of us doing it together.
How old are your kids?
My daughter is two and my son is four.
So they're at that wild age.
Yeah, they're busy.
So it's almost good that you
have a playground for them
to hang out at when,
when mom's doing some work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They,
they go wild when they're in the gym.
Usually I'll,
I'll only bring them in
really when it's off hours
because we have over 500
members at our gym.
It's very large.
It's a 20,000 foot square foot facility.
So it's very, very large.
So they'll have free reign of, of the gym.
I try to keep it when it's quiet,
I'll keep them in there when it's quiet,
but they love to, they love to watch.
I don't think they quite
understand yet what's happening,
but knowing that one day
they will understand is just, um,
It's something that I hold
really close when I'm training.
So, like, I'm super impressed by you.
Thank you.
One, you're the owner of a 500-member gym,
which is beyond impressive.
You picked up diving in a year,
made it to university,
made it to Olympic trials.
You did gymnastics forever.
This isn't a one-and-done
thing with CrossFit and the games, right?
Is it a one and done thing?
I hope not.
No, it's so funny.
Everybody's always afraid of aging up.
We're afraid of aging in general,
but I've seen this now as
this is a start point.
This is just year one.
You know,
when they released the new age
group of what, 70, 70 plus, I'm like,
okay, we're going to keep going.
We have a full lifetime of
games opportunity and just
encouraging so many people
to continue training.
Like there is,
there is opportunity beyond
the age of 30.
And so we have to train,
we have to change the way that we train,
but if we can just keep our mindset very,
very focused on what the
end game is and what the goal is,
it's just a start point 35
to 39 start point.
So yeah, this is, this is year one.
I'm hoping to go as long as
I can physically go while managing.
being a mom and business
owner and being excellent at all of it.
So this is my last question.
And this is,
this has gone nowhere where I planned.
And those are my favorite interviews.
So you're a business owner and a coach,
and I can tell that you love it.
And you speak like a coach.
Thank you.
What gives you more pleasure
and satisfaction?
Your success or your client's success?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, it'll always be theirs.
It'll always be theirs.
It's a different experience.
I think it's such a
different experience to...
I feel like all coaches say
the same thing to see their
athletes or their members.
You know,
we have elite athletes and the
elite athletes are wonderful.
They're spectacular.
They they're so driven.
They know what they want to do.
Then you have your gym
member base and a lot of
them come in with different
life experiences and have
no idea what they're capable of.
They have no idea what's
actually possible.
And so to watch them do things and
surprise themselves and feel
this sense of pride and joy
and what they're accomplishing.
I don't think there's any
better feeling than seeing that,
than seeing an average
everyday person put themselves in a scary,
scary position to be very
vulnerable and surpass any
expectations that they ever
had for themselves.
We, yeah, it's,
It's such a beautiful thing to be a coach,
honestly.
So hands down,
hands down what the members
are able to accomplish.
So last follow-up, and that is,
how hard is it for you to
be selfish enough to make
sure you're prepared to the
best of your ability going
into the CrossFit Games?
Yeah, it's hard.
It's really hard.
It's an emotional battle.
I'll be honest.
It's an emotional battle.
You feel like
This will be pure honesty.
You feel like you're not
doing enough in every category in life.
So trying to be the best mom I can be.
I'm trying to be the best
business and partner that I can be.
I'm trying to be the best
athlete that I can be.
And so sometimes when you're
trying to do all of it at the same time,
you feel like you're just
mediocre at everything
instead of excelling where
you truly want to excel.
There is a level of acceptance in that.
There is a level of a little
bit of guilt in it.
But at the end of the day,
I always look for the positives.
My children get to see this happen.
The members get to be a part of this.
The business gets to be a part of this.
We all get to grow together.
And I said, I said to my mom the other day,
you know,
it's not always rainbows and
butterflies getting to
train for the games.
It's not because you can, you know,
I've been lucky enough to
be able to do this.
I can physically do this.
I can mentally do this.
Doesn't mean that it's always the most,
you know, exciting experience.
It's exciting, but man, it is hard.
Training this much is very, very hard.
It's very hard.
Is it worth it?
Absolutely.
But it is, it's challenging for sure.
Are you taking a lot of people with you?
I'm taking my coach,
just my coach and I. Yeah.
Yeah.
It'll be,
I think it'll be exactly what I
need it to be.
It'll be exactly what it should be.
We've been working really hard,
he and I together for such a long time.
And so it'll be,
it'll be what it's meant to be.
I think.
Yeah.
Cool.
Yeah.
Well,
I want to thank you so much for doing
this.
It's been a treat getting to know you.
I will be there.
We,
we have negotiated full access to do a
full behind the scenes
masters CrossFit games.
So Ellie Hiller and myself
will be chatting with the
athletes in the back and
capturing as much of that
as we can and putting out
episodes of a documentary following.
That's amazing.
Good.
Okay.
Well, I'll get to meet you in person then.
So that will be lovely.
You will.
And everybody that is listening,
thank you so much for that.
We will see everybody next
time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
Thank you all so much.
Thank you guys.