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What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to Clydesdale Sunday
Night CrossFit Talk on a Friday night.
Time to get your party on.
with Carolyn and Scott as we
celebrate the fitness of
the Masters age groups.
Just finished up my shift over there.
They're still going.
I think what's left is some
team stuff and the men have
to get through that echo
bike workout to finish out the night.
But we wanted to get on, get through today,
and then maybe we'll finish
up with some of the men's
stuff tomorrow when we
first start off and then go
through the rest of the day.
But today is, I labeled this show,
today is the kind of day
that it's going to hurt a
little because it was sprint,
sprint weight lift or
sprint weight change.
Then it was a long chipper.
probably the longest event of the weekend.
And then back to a just all
out on the echo bike sprint,
trying to get as many
calories as possible.
And all three of them are
going to hurt in a different sort of way.
I don't know if the first
one hurt as much as, I mean,
egos were maybe hurt because I,
people were losing that are
much stronger because of
the change of weights.
I don't know if I would say
the first one was,
but we called that like prior to,
to the event that
changing weights twice on an
absolute sprint of a barbell workout.
That's taking people between
a minute and four seconds
to a minute and a half for
a lot of the top.
Like it's literally coming
down to how fast you're
changing the plates.
How fast is that, uh,
plate sliding on and off that barbell.
It can get sticky in the
same thing with the clips.
Um,
And it's unfortunate that
that's a factor in a fitness test.
So I think that they should
have either have gone a
little bit heavier or then
the change of weights isn't
as much of a race or you
have four barbells,
which I don't think the spacing wise,
they didn't maybe didn't
have enough room.
I don't know.
But the way it was set up made it.
that the change of weight
was too big of a factor for that event.
Around the middle to end of
the leaderboard,
they're taking a little bit
more time between the lifts,
but even then it's so fast,
it's a minute and a half, it's a minute,
forty-five,
a couple above the two minutes, but yeah,
it's very, very fast.
So I was having some
discussions with people at
the event today
You know,
in the thirty five to thirty nine,
Will Morad killed that event.
And it's he is a very experienced.
Games athlete who has been
through this and they're like,
because he has all that experience,
he can change the weights
fast because of that.
And I said to them exactly what.
But is that a test of fitness?
Or he also trained at proven,
which has access to, you know,
always like the exact rig of, of, um,
the games or the clips that they,
that rogue normally uses.
Right.
So it becomes what kind of
access of equipment you have, um,
And you're used to
practicing like I have the
clips that Rogue always
uses at comps because I
want to get good at
changing my weights because
that has been a factor at workouts.
So, of course,
the experience of Will Morad
would play a factor there.
And he's used to those clips
off and on and and has had
that experience of changing
weights like before in a workout.
So not surprised that come out on top.
I have those clips too,
but it's because I can get
them in Chicago bear blue
and it just looks cool.
So different reasons, you know, but still,
uh, but they are not easy to,
if you've never used them,
they're not easy to get on and off.
No, it definitely takes getting used to,
but some of them are just
like more worked in too.
And it just so happens that your lane,
your clip is just a little bit easier and
Luck of the draw.
So if you lined up like the
top athletes in that
division with Will Morad,
I would have picked
Bronislaw to win this event
because he just is the strongest.
And, but he cannot change weights fast.
That it was so evident watching him.
He was very slow at that,
at that transition.
Because he didn't have an
issue with any of the weight.
No, he was muscle snatching.
Yeah.
Full touch and go the whole way.
Yeah.
As many athletes did too,
the weights were not
challenging enough for that
thirty five to thirty nine
age group for to have a separation.
There was no there was no
separation there.
Like the the separation
happened at the change of weights.
So I talked to an athlete in
the back and I'll leave her
name out of this,
but she mentioned you
because I went to talk to
her after that event.
She goes, this is not a good time.
unless you want pure negativity.
And so I left the camera off
and we just chatted.
And she said,
Carolyn called it last night.
She called it right on your show and said,
this is what's going to happen.
And that's what happened.
And it's frustrating.
And she said,
just to give you an indication,
the overhead squat lunge workout,
she appealed, got five seconds back,
but that was seven places
on the leaderboard.
And we're talking about that
race being stopped on a stopwatch.
And the difference is one second,
two seconds.
And it just is the
difference between someone being happy to,
you know,
press the stop button a little faster.
So these are points, you know,
over the weekend that are
going to make a difference.
Like,
there's a lot of the
workouts that I do like,
but there is a lot of
problems in terms of the stopwatches.
I never liked that overhead squatting one.
I thought the weight was too
light and those movements
were going to be too fast for, um,
for the wad.
So it just became, you know,
judging discrepancy between,
between lanes.
I knew the,
the snatch one was going to
come down to the weights
switches for especially, you know,
the middle of the leaderboard,
like the top half of the
leaderboard there.
Um, we knew the echo,
we'll talk about the echo bike one,
but we knew that that was
going to be very, very hard to finish.
So they, you know,
they could have switched
maybe a little bit numbers.
Cause I don't know how many
they wanted to finish.
If they just wanted one per division,
except for the thirty fives,
then they got what they wanted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So something on a lighter note,
I was talking to Dex Hopkins in the back.
He hurt his wrist.
Oh my gosh, I saw.
Yeah, so you saw.
So I'm going to tell the story.
So last night,
he could not handstand walk.
So with the sandbag event,
he just had to sit on the
sandbag and take his place.
He was hoping the adrenaline
would get it where he could walk,
but he couldn't.
And so when he got to that last bar,
his wrist was not going to handle it.
So he switched, gripped the snatch.
All, all ten reps.
He told me only the last one.
Oh, okay.
Cause I think his Instagram
posts had showed,
or he had written all ten
reps or something.
Maybe I read it wrong, but yeah.
So he switched, gripped it, um,
like you would deadlift.
And snatch the heaviest
barbell with a switch grip,
which is insane to me.
Yeah, that's nuts.
I was wondering that about
him because I was, I was checking him on,
you know, the leaderboard.
Cause obviously he has,
he has a lot of experience and I was like,
Oh, something's gotta be up with him.
Maybe just,
he hasn't trained as much or
there's something like an injury.
And sure enough,
I saw the post with the
wrist that was that prior
to the competition or that
happened yesterday at,
at one of the events.
It happened in may.
Okay.
He's been fighting it the whole time.
And it really bums him out
because he's been waiting
essentially like twelve
years to get to Masters
because he he feels he's a
better Masters athlete than
he would have been an elite athlete.
And it's he lives there, right?
He does.
So hometown boy.
Yeah.
But, you know, typical Dex,
he's bragging in the warm up area.
He's telling the stories.
I've got a great piece for
the the behind the scenes
about the whole thing
jonathan ortega actually
has the lift in high def
with the switch grip so
we've got all that to show
amazing um through the
behind the scenes which is
pretty cool um but yeah
it's uh that one is started
the day and a lot of the
athletes were like
Actually,
the newer athletes were psyched
about that because it was
twelve lifts to get the butterflies out.
Before they had to go to that chipper.
So they were less anxious about that one?
They said that they're...
Because especially the guys
don't even get to the venue
until like one o'clock in the afternoon.
Okay.
And so...
So they're already on edge
because they've been waiting all morning.
I was talking to athletes
that usually work out at
three in the morning or
five in the morning, like Lex,
like crazy people.
And now they've got to wait
till one or two in the
afternoon to start their workouts.
And it's just like messing them up.
And they were like, well,
at least with the snatch ladder,
it's a quick twelve lifts
just to get the butterflies out.
And then they could kind of
set in and do a proper
warm-up for the chipper and so on.
But, yeah,
so I think that was kind of cool.
But the chipper was scaring people, right,
because it was a completely
different workout than
we've seen so far this weekend.
Definitely shoulder intensive with,
you know,
the wall ball going into the
shoulder to overhead.
Then you had the dumbbell
stepovers with the snatches.
Yeah, that one,
a lot of people finished it.
Most people finished it.
So that's good that the time
cap wasn't an issue.
I think most of the top
scorers were in that category.
ten to twelve if I want to
say um but there was
definitely some
inconsistencies I saw again
with the judging and uh the
short overhead reps
dumbbell snatches were
typically fine dumbbell
step overs were refined
there but the short
overhead I felt like some
of them were still in their
jerk position before
descending and then the
wall ball depth was I mean
it could have been the
angle of the camera I really want
the broadcast or like not the broadcast,
but, um,
the floor to put the name tags on
the floor.
Cause I'm, you know,
they're all wearing the
same outfits or same colors.
Yeah.
It can get hard to see who's in what lane.
I'll recognize like the ones that I,
that I'll know.
Um, but it would,
Even if the athlete brought
out their card and placed
it on the floor or something prior,
I think it would just
facilitate the... Yeah,
I find it odd that they
gave them all a placard,
but they're not using them.
But they're on the floor.
So it just would be...
useful if as the athlete
walks out they walk out
with their gear that they
need for the the wad and
their placard and they have
a certain spot that they
place it so that you know
you don't have to have all
these volunteers switching
in and out the the plaques
right um yeah I don't think
I don't think the placards
are on the plaques are on
the floor no they're not at
all like they're not so it's silly
So it's just like a little
memory of the games to have,
but it wasn't used too bad.
Cause even,
I think it's making it a tough
job on the broadcast team too,
that they're just having to
search the lane,
look at their notes for the number.
If they don't know all the athletes,
like it was just.
So that was one of my
conversations with Boz.
Yeah.
That I miss the Reebok days
because there were so many
different colors and
combinations that could be
made from that.
Once you found your athlete,
you knew who they were.
Because of that.
And now we're into these
blacks and whites.
Now they did bring in some green,
but it's still like, you know,
six people are wearing the same.
Yeah.
It'll be like, oh,
look in here in lane number
twelve with the black
shorts and the white shirt with the,
you know.
Yeah.
Sports bra and you're like,
they're all wearing that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah, I, Boz is like,
he misses that too.
Like just from a,
from a judging perspective,
it's easier to identify the
athlete when you're the head judge to,
to correct something with the judging.
Like,
and we don't even think about that
aspect.
Like here he is on a headset
trying to get to a judge to
tell them you need to call the snow rep,
but how do you describe
which one it is when
they're all in the same thing?
Yeah.
So I find that that was an
interesting conversation with him.
And he said it's actually
something they brought up
with sponsors to try to
differentiate people more.
But you can see where that's gone.
Have they been running
basically on time the whole time?
I think they've been really
good with timing.
Going through that many divisions,
most competitions fall behind.
So it's nice to see that it
looks very organized from
that perspective.
So that's great.
I will say from a logistics point of view,
The athletes are loving it.
They are right on call times.
They know when to go warm up.
They know when to get ready.
Everything is just running
like really smooth for them.
That's great to hear.
They're very excited about
how that is run.
Yeah.
I'm going to hit a couple of
questions before we move on.
But one thing I'll let you
talk about while I'm
looking through the questions is,
you know,
we talked to Jamie after the
snatch ladder,
they increased the cap time
from two to three minutes,
which I actually said on
the show last night,
because I'd heard that in the back.
But if some athletes didn't know that,
was it not briefed?
Was it not sent out to all athletes?
Yeah.
I didn't hear anything about it.
Obviously we talked about it yesterday.
So I figured that it was a
three minute time cap,
which makes sense for the
weight switches.
But I think for the most part,
people were under that two minute.
There were some obviously above the,
above the two minutes,
but like the top of the top
half of the field was
closer to that minute and a half.
But yeah,
That's something that you
hope is communicated either through email,
you know, prior to people warming up.
So like when they're looking
at their heat sheet in the warmup area,
you know, have the workout,
have what the time cap is.
There's been a change.
The workout is now three
minutes instead of two minutes, you know,
just so it's visual.
You have people from
different countries there.
You want to make sure that the message is,
is going out to all the athletes.
So Lex asked,
what is my favorite
interaction behind the scenes?
My favorite interaction
behind the scenes has been Haley Murillo.
That girl needs a camera on
her twenty four hours a day.
She is nothing but nonstop comedic relief.
And that is she will be the
comedic relief in this
behind the scenes every
time I talk to her.
And it has nothing to do
with what's going on in the competition.
Nothing, which is awesome.
Is Josh in the back with their daughter?
Yeah, they're so cute.
So he was back there not
with the daughter.
It was just the two of them.
I probably got five to six
minutes straight of the two
of them going back and forth.
And it is pure gold.
Awesome.
Today.
And then check in, she was a star.
Like she's going to end up
probably being the star of
this behind the scenes.
She's doing great too, right?
Like I think once I checked,
I think she was within the
top five or right there.
She did well in that episode.
She broke some news that she
wasn't supposed to break yet.
And I was like, oh, it's okay.
Cause this is, this is,
your episode isn't coming
out for six weeks.
She's like, perfect.
It'll be right on time then.
Perfect.
Uh, but that was cool.
So she definitely,
there's been a lot of great interaction.
Um,
but that one stands out just because
it's very different.
Um, Lex also says to judging,
this seems a bit atrocious respectfully.
I don't think they're certified judges.
I will tell you, I,
after you guys texted me
about the shoulder and overheads,
I went down to watch that event.
It was so bad, so bad.
And it's the shoulder to overhead.
You're right.
The snatches were fine for the most part.
I even would give the wall
balls a passing grade from my angle.
I thought they were pretty good.
But the shoulder to overhead
was atrocious.
And they're moving fast too, right?
Like it's a way they're just
cycling pretty fast.
And sometimes you can miss
that full extension a
little bit as you're
looking at many things going on at once.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I just don't know how often the
judges are getting changes
in their shifts because
these are long days for these volunteers.
I think they're changing out pretty quick.
Are they?
But it's hard to tell
because there's three floors.
That's the thing.
So they might be switching
to another floor.
Still working for a while.
But I know like they're
really good at treating the
volunteer area because we're in there.
The media is in there with them.
The volunteer area is really nice.
There is food for everybody all day.
There is bottles of water,
like plenty for the volunteers.
They are treating them very, very well.
Love it.
And so the volunteers are coming through,
getting food, getting water.
So I think they're getting lots of breaks.
It appears that way from
just the eyeball test, but I can't.
I'm not there all day to
like document who's in and who's out,
but it seems like they're
getting a lot of rest.
How was the crowd today?
A little bit bigger than yesterday.
Okay, great.
The snatch floor was packed
from start to finish.
And that's the one they didn't broadcast,
which I actually got texts
from people like,
that's the one I wanted to watch.
Like everybody likes to
watch the big lifts,
but that floor does not
have a camera crew.
Yeah,
it's the same one from the deadlift
and running from the other day.
The only reason I called it
weight switching-
Okay, so we won't see the maxes.
Yeah,
the only reason I knew about the
weight changes was
Bronislav had posted his
video of his lane,
and I've seen different
videos from people on their
own personal Instagram that
their lane is getting filmed.
Yeah, that's one that you'd want to see.
Yeah.
Ronica said there's no leader jersey,
which would be cool.
That would be a cool addition to have.
Cause you know,
Northern spirits there with their press,
like they're making shirts all weekend.
So I don't know why they
couldn't make a leader's
Jersey just as quickly.
Yeah.
There's a lot of divisions.
There'd be a lot more switches probably,
but.
But that's a nice incentive for the lead,
the lead athlete.
Yeah.
It's a good idea.
Yeah.
So, um, so yeah,
we talked about the wall
ball one pretty in depth.
And then we finished up today with the,
it's going to hurt echo bike.
So it's a buy-in of
seventy-five double unders
and twenty chest to bars
with whatever time left you
have in the first round, four minutes,
second round, three minutes, last round,
two minutes.
It's max calories on an echo bike.
Yeah.
Um,
fastest I saw people get onto the bike
was around the minute and
five seconds ish.
So on the first round, so you would get,
I'd say on average people
on the first round were
getting around two forty
five on the echo bike for the females.
Um,
and there were some impressive numbers of,
you know,
people that just were pushing the pace.
Um,
Right from the get go.
The thirty five to thirty nine women.
I think there were seven
ladies that finished four
of them in the second round.
Knisler,
Klutz and Kenzie Riley had a good
race between all of them.
And you could just see
Knisler was pushing hard
that that second round.
Our own Jamie Reimer smoked
it and got a second place.
Can we talk about Andrea Knisler?
What?
Eight months postpartum?
or if that uh she had her
baby in may maybe like
that's just silly so she's
not she's she's not eight
months she's yeah not even
like may june like four
months five four five she
was she was squatting like
three hundred pounds
I want to say like within
weeks after having her baby.
So like it was nuts.
I don't want to give
everything away from behind the scenes,
but I talked to an athlete
today and who is a taller athlete.
And I said,
this is going to be a good one for you.
You're a taller athlete.
She goes, yeah, I'm a heavy athlete too.
And I can really get on an echo bike.
And I said, well,
how are your double unders?
She goes,
not good since I gave birth to a
ten pound baby.
That those double unders
actually played a huge part, you know, as,
as they're getting on the echo bike,
as they get through that first round,
that lactic acid is
starting to go through those legs,
through the arms,
and they're getting to that
rope on that second round.
And you just thought you started seeing.
a lot of misses and all of a
sudden the chest of our
pull-ups were no longer unbroken for,
you know,
several athletes are having to
break those up.
And that time on the echo
bike was just obviously
decreasing with the
decrease in time each round,
but also decreasing in the,
in the time it was taking
them to get to the bike.
And you saw athletes not
even get to the bike in the
third round because their
conditioning was in there.
Their double unders were
starting to fail chest of bars,
et cetera.
Like some people would have
one or two cows left and,
after the second round and
never got it back to actually finish,
which is so defeating
because you're so close and
you got to redo that whole buy-in.
So that's, yeah, that's tough.
So Jen Nichols says she had
her baby in mid-March.
Okay.
So March to April, April to May, June,
July, August.
Five and a half months postpartum.
Pretty close to what Tia.
That's insane.
Yeah.
Alison Stahl's killing it too.
Yeah, she is.
And she's nine months or ten
months postpartum.
Yeah.
Man, you women are insane.
I haven't had a baby, so I don't know,
but they are insane.
They are crushing.
It is proof of what the sickness, wellness,
fitness continuum can do.
When your needle is all over
to fitness and you go
through something like that,
the recovery time is
getting shorter and shorter and shorter.
See, I don't know.
It's person dependent.
It really is.
Of course.
Obviously,
I think being fit can certainly help.
Absolutely.
But you can be super fit and have a long,
long process after pregnancy.
They're not the standard.
That's for sure.
Right.
Well, there are complications too.
Yeah, yeah.
But they're definitely impressive.
Yeah.
someone who had a very
complicated pregnancy that was,
it was very long for her to recover.
Yeah.
I think it's a person,
but I'm assuming that fitness would, um,
play a factor somewhat in
the recovery process, but yeah.
And in the other divisions today,
there wasn't a lot of finishes.
That's for sure.
Even with the decrease in
cows of the upper divisions at sixty five,
um,
wasn't as many, which is what we said,
that that was gonna be a very,
very difficult wad to finish.
You had to really want it
and want to suffer and
Yeah,
it'll be interesting because the men
can just,
like they just have that power output,
that sprinting ability that
is a little bit tougher to
get on the women's side,
even if the cows are lower.
So as the men heats go on here,
I'm curious to see how many
of them will finish and how
many will be able to finish
it within that second round.
Because the females today,
there weren't many finishes.
Like I think in Jamie's division,
there was one finisher.
Uh,
I think Val was the only one that
finished in that.
Forty five to forty nine division.
One person, I think,
who finished in front of Jamie?
Carleen.
Carleen Matthews, yeah.
And she's not a big body,
but her double unders and
her chest-to-bar were awesome.
She was barely jumping off the ground,
jogging to the rig.
She's always had great gymnastics,
and she really impressed me
on the machine.
to get those cows and to be
able to repeat that
intensity every interval.
You know what really
impressed me by her today
is in that chipper,
she was having a hard time
with grip on the box stepovers.
She dropped a lot and shook out.
And the minute she got to the snatches,
it was like,
Beautiful motion,
her going through those snatches.
And because she has like short levers,
it was fast.
And she caught a bunch of
people coming back through on that.
And then to do wall balls as
a shorter athlete, very impressive.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah,
that one's nice because you have a
mixture of movements that
favor different athletes again, right?
Like you have that wall ball that,
you know,
it definitely helps to be tall
and it's a little bit easier,
closer to the target.
The dumbbell snatches, you can be shorter,
but then the box step ups,
it does help to...
you know,
to be a little bit taller to step
onto that box.
So I thought that was a good
mixture of movements.
Shoulder to overhead was a
range of motion.
So I would say like half of
the movements favored
smaller athletes and half
the movements there favored
the taller athletes.
And then you obviously needed, you know,
muscle stamina the whole
time to do well in that event.
Yeah.
So just a couple overall
impressions of the day.
Um, the,
the athletes were complaining
about their legs a lot.
That overhead squat one,
that intensity that they
put into that workout was
very hard yesterday.
So,
and then you go into the wall balls today,
you got hundred and fifty, um,
squats there.
Like, yes, I normally,
like a lot of the athletes
normally feel their shoulders.
I think go out before their
legs in the wall balls.
Um,
And then they were saying
the echo bike finished for the day.
And then you finish on the echo bike.
That's tough on the legs, for sure.
So were they feeling their
legs after the end of the
day or at the start of the
day today from yesterday?
Yes.
And yes.
Yeah.
Cause I would assume that
those overhead squats,
like that speed of it that
you had to push, like,
even though it was light,
like people were definitely
saying that they're,
they were feeling their
legs after that one yesterday.
So I wouldn't be surprised
that there's a lot of
soreness and obviously with age too,
you know, that's, that's a lot,
that's a high volume weekend.
So recover is going to start
playing a factor, you know,
on Saturday and Sunday.
Um,
on how the body is going to
be feeling and the
intensity you're going to
be able to put in your workouts.
Yeah, we've kind of talked about it,
but the crowds were great
today around every floor,
especially the non-televised floor.
At both days,
that's been the most popular
place to kind of hang out.
I don't know if people think
I can go back and watch the
stream of the other ones if
they're competing or if
it's just the most popular
event of the day.
So, um,
a lot of people love the run
yesterday because they
actually went out like
under a bridge around a
cobblestone street.
Um, and people said that it was,
it was really cool.
And, you know,
it's nice to go out of the
building and get away from, you know,
inside the gym fitness, right?
So going out, you know,
it makes it feel more like a games,
right?
Like you had those outdoor
events that you're missing
at this competition.
So getting outside, coming back in,
like it just feels a little
bit more games.
And yesterday we actually
got a break on the weather.
It only topped out at like
eighty eight or eighty nine.
for birmingham that's not
that bad um and then today
maybe low nineties so
nothing like the hundreds
that everybody was fearing
um it's been it's been
actually kind of pleasant
and you said that there was
ac in the building too so
oh yeah yeah yeah the bay
door was closed today it
was not sticky it was very
cool in there most of the day
So let's just go through the
leaderboards real quick and
we'll kind of make comments as we go.
Again, the women started off the day.
So I'm going to start with
them because their
leaderboards are more
complete than anybody else's.
And I will pull that up.
Yeah, there's this complete right now.
It's a forty five to forty
nine men are going on that
echo bike when I'm not sure
if it's heat one or two of that.
Just seeing in the background over here.
So their divisions won't,
we'll only have two scores
in up until probably you'll
get the fifty to fifty four.
I'm assuming for the men.
All right.
So for the women on the sixty five plus,
we have Julie Holton third,
our very own Denise Moore
in second and Patricia McGill in first.
I got to talk to Denise today.
She thinks Patricia's
running away with it at this point.
Uh,
It's about a twenty point lead,
twenty one point lead.
But Denise had a good day.
Denise needs help from other people.
A lot of times when you get that, you know,
those two athletes that
kind of separate themselves
from the field,
it's about getting help to middle.
Right.
And if Patricia is super consistent,
which clearly she is on everything,
she's going to need some
help from other people, too.
On sixty to sixty four,
we have terrorists senior
or Sato Betsy Vandenberg and Laurie.
We said that Betsy and Laurie,
we're going to be battling
all weekend yesterday and
here they are six point separate the two.
And that's so that's going
to continue on for the rest
of the weekend.
For sure.
Women's, Fifty to Fifty-Nine.
We have Joanne Cooper.
Canadian.
T.U.
Mavre and Tia Vesser.
So Tia Vesser is one of the
people I had to watch.
The other two have surprised me.
Do you know anything about those two?
Cooper?
Yeah.
Yeah, she's been at the Games many times.
Okay.
Has she won before?
I'm pretty sure she's
Canadian and she's...
I want to say she's won before or she's,
she's always in the mix.
So no surprise there.
She has an event win three top fives.
She's been at the games many times.
I recognize her name from
many years at the game.
So she's, she's a, she's an OG.
Okay, cool.
I've probably met her at local comps too,
but all right.
Women, fifty to fifty four.
We have Kim Purdy in first,
Jen Dieter in second.
Third is Stephanie China.
So yeah,
Jen Dieter has always been a
consistent athlete.
She's won legends a bunch of times.
I don't think she's ever won the games.
I know she's been a few times,
but I'm not familiar with
Kim Purdy either.
Me neither.
So that one's pretty interesting.
Then we go to forty five to forty nine.
This is the Kelly Frio Valvo show.
Kelly actually had a pretty
great day today and took a
thirty point lead over Val.
which is pretty shocking
because Val seems to be at
the top on everything,
but she only got seventy points in event.
I think it's three maybe Kelly today.
She's one of those athletes
that was smashing the eco
bike in two rounds and had
almost finished it.
I think she was two or three calories
shy of finishing the echo
bike in the second round
and never made it back to, to it.
Um, started struggling on her double under,
started struggling on her
chest to bar in round two,
even the fact that she was
that close to finishing on round two,
I was surprised because she
was struggling on her chest
or she had gone to singles.
Um,
so obviously she's a power athlete on
that machine because she
was able to stay in the
race and still have a high
finish in that workout,
even though she'd never made it back.
Um,
But, yeah.
So then in the forty to forty four,
we have Carly Newlands in first,
Carly Matthews in second,
Andrea Pinheiro in third.
And just because she's a
part of this show normally
in fourth place is Jamie Latimer.
She killed it today.
This was supposed to be her bad day.
Hmm.
and she took a second in an
event that she was worried
about and she did pretty
well in the chipper and the
snatch ladder she did
damage control that she
needed to do hit the last
bar which she was not able
to do in testing love it
she did awesome so we are
super stoked for her um
yeah like I was very
impressed by her on the
echo bike today proud of
proud of our jamie yeah
Then in the thirty five to thirty nine,
Caroline Klutz,
we called that Andrea Nistler.
We called that Julia Holm as well.
All three phenomenal athletes.
But that Caroline Klutz,
Andrea Nistler battle is pretty tight.
It is six points as well.
Going into the last four events.
Nisler had a good day.
Um, those last two events,
she was able to slowly, you know,
chip her way or chip away
at the lead that Caroline had.
Um, but I've been very impressed with,
with Caroline Klutz.
I think she's very consistent overall.
Um,
it's a battle between those two really.
I, I don't,
I don't think anyone else
will challenge for those top two spots.
I really think those two are
separating themselves right now.
Yeah, and what's crazy is like for Andrea,
the run's gone.
Like she has that out of the way.
And that was probably going
to be her worst event.
And now, yeah.
But if you scroll down, though,
there's some studs there.
Mackenzie Riley, Haley Murillo,
Jasmine Sheehan, which I met today,
and I got footage from her
for the behind scenes.
Awesome.
Love her.
And I told her that you
called her out on the show last night.
Yep.
But, yeah.
Did Lepinen win last year,
the thirty-five?
Like, she's a
think she could have she
might have I thought I know
the podium was tovar and
I'll go look narrow no
tovar it might have been it
might have been maybe not
okay maybe it was the year before
Then we'll go to men's men's
sixty five plus.
John George, Dan Miller, Freddie Cherry.
I think that's pretty much
the same we saw yesterday.
So not much.
Lepinen won in twenty twenty
two for the thirty five to
thirty nine last year.
I don't think competed.
That's why I remember she'd won.
OK, I'm not crazy with my stats.
Men's sixty to sixty four.
Joe Ames, David Powell, Peter Harvey.
I had a nice conversation
with Tom Famry today.
I don't want to spoil the
behind the scenes.
He didn't expect to be
anywhere near the spot on
the leaderboard.
And now he's trying to
figure out how to
compartmentalize that and move forward.
Because this was not what he
expected at all.
So this would be after five
events for them?
Correct.
Right now,
so they haven't put in the last one.
Well,
the upper divisions don't do all the
events.
Okay, that's right.
So that could be their day then for today.
Yeah, I think that is their day.
Awesome.
Yeah, they're done.
Okay, so they get ten events.
Or no.
Eight.
Eight.
Eight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So then we go to fifty five to fifty nine.
Vic McQuaid, John Kim, Greg Geards.
John Kim was so elated in
the back about how he's doing.
It's awesome.
He did not expect to be
anywhere near here and is
it just live in his dream,
like which is awesome.
Fifty to fifty four.
Jamie McGarvey, Sean Ramirez,
Justin LaSalla.
Justin LaSalla was in first last night.
So there's been a little bit
of a shake up there.
Sean Ramirez moved up.
But Jamie McGarvey had a
great day and has a twenty
five point lead.
Twenty seven point lead on Sean Ramirez.
Is this his comeback year right now?
Sean.
Yeah, he did MFC last year.
I think it was his first
event that he was eligible for again.
Because he had four years
from a little bit in twenty nineteen,
maybe.
To twenty twenty three.
Yeah, I think that was it.
He may have tried to make it
back last year and didn't qualify.
It's true.
Now that I'm thinking about it.
So I think it might've been eight to two.
Okay.
He didn't qualify in and then, yeah,
I think that's right now
that I'm saying it, uh,
forty five to forty nine is Robbie McCord,
Kane Hayes and Jason grub.
So grub in third place last night,
he was in second, uh,
but he's tied for second
and they're only nine
points out of first.
Yeah.
That's those points seem very close.
So that's anybody's ball game.
And,
and between those three and that division,
I think is going right.
That's the forty five to forty nine.
Correct.
That's the division that's
finishing up right now on
their event six.
So a shakeup will be happening soon.
Yeah.
Um,
And it's probably a grub-type workout.
Maybe?
I don't know.
I bet he can hammer the echo bike.
You just don't know.
Sometimes some of the men, like Saez was,
that's a hard one to predict.
Some people are just so good
at the echo bike.
Yeah.
You can't only be good at
the echo bike here because
we saw people not get back to it.
You got to get there.
You got to get there.
Um,
and you can have one good round and you
can send it for that round.
But if you didn't pace
yourself based off your fitness,
like it doesn't matter how
good you are if you can't get back.
So, um, yeah,
Carly Matthews is the best
example of that.
Yeah.
It's, it's, uh,
It's consistency over the rounds, right?
And knowing your body on
where are you just under
the red line that you can
sustain and repeat.
So the forty to forty-four,
we're going to be missing an event.
Jonathan Edel,
That guy cannot stay in his skin.
He's so freaking pumped of where he's at.
I met him through our
athlete series of interviews.
He came over, gave me a big hug,
is just so pumped for where he's at.
But Julian Serna is in
second and Chicho Quesada is in third.
And then just because he's
been a friend of the show,
Rudy Berger is moved up to seventh.
Awesome.
He did appeal last the first events,
judging,
and did move up ten places
because of the appeal.
What was the appeal?
He was getting no rep for
extension over and over and over again.
I'm surprised that they're
giving time and reps back
because normally a no rep
in the rule book,
they don't let you appeal
those kind of things unless
it's a movement that takes a lot of time,
like a rope climb.
Yeah.
Like, I don't know,
a handstand walk and not
making it to the line and
you had to be brought all the way back.
But typically they haven't
done appeals or accepted
appeals based off of hip
extensions and stuff like that.
So it had to have been
probably bad for them to
accept it and give time back.
Yeah.
That's the only thing I can
think they could appeal in that workout.
But I could be wrong unless
unless like the judge made
him do more reps than he was supposed to.
And the judge miscounted.
That's something else that
you can appeal typically.
So.
And then finally,
thirty five to thirty nine.
Will Morad is absolutely killing it.
That's not, no, it's that's really.
Oh, wait.
That's just minus the last event.
So they're not even at four
hundred points.
So he's got almost a hundred point lead.
Yeah.
Slide over to the right.
That's crazy.
That's a huge lead.
What?
That's that's awesome.
That's consistency.
And there's not like a score
that's in that's not in for
certain people.
No.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's funny because I talked
to Will before the Syndicate crowd.
And he said that if the
prize money stayed the same,
he was going after the win.
Smart.
He's extremely in shape.
And then when he got hurt at Syndicate,
I was really crushed for him.
But apparently it was
something that he could rehab.
Yeah.
because here he is
dominating a pretty impressive field.
And it's cool that you see a guy like Will,
who has been a great athlete for years,
get a podium due in the Masters division.
Yeah.
I mean,
he was consistently within like
that close to that top
fifteen ish on the men's
side of the games last, you know,
a few years.
And he's been at the game so many years.
So unfortunate with his injury this year,
but happy that he's back in
and crushing it.
Shout out to Anna Polsky, too.
He's local here around maybe
an hour from Toronto.
He's someone that goes team
as well at the games.
And I'm finding that a lot
of former team athletes are in this.
Yeah.
I mean,
especially with the timing of the
competition that you can do both,
like why not have a
competition for yourself, you know,
test yourself against people of your age,
your peers.
So that's great.
But what they're also saying is that,
that it's very different.
Like it's almost a little
lonely because you're not
there with three other people.
So it's just a different
dynamic being back in the
back as opposed to like
with a team of four.
Yeah, for sure.
And Bronislav made his way
back too after that first event,
that running one,
which we know that wasn't great.
And he didn't do as well as
he wanted to on the snatch event.
I think he got a seventh or
an eighth place.
So for him to be back into
the podium position,
I think he'll be happy with
that at least.
Yeah.
You would assume that he can
push the echo bike.
I mean,
he can Turkish get up the echo bike.
So...
Yeah, he could.
He's got some crazy feats that he can do.
Yeah.
Did you notice he shaved his head?
Yes, I think I saw that, yeah.
Got rid of the top knot man bun,
whatever thing he had going on.
He's completely bald,
which a little streamlined effect.
Get him down the lane a little faster.
Yep.
But yeah.
So overall, it was a really fun day.
You know,
last night I was ready to
complain about some stuff,
but the pivots made today
have been really nice.
And it seems like they are
reacting to some stuff that's,
that's happened and trying
to make it better on the
fly instead of just letting
it go as is throughout the weekend,
which has been really kind of cool.
That's good to hear.
Um, and then, you know,
I've gotten a lot of
feedback from the athletes
in the back about this way,
as opposed to the old way.
And a lot of them are really
liking having their own event now.
Well, the spotlights on them,
like a lot of times I
wouldn't have had time to, you know,
sit down and watch, you know,
the masters go or the teenage go.
So it's put the spotlight on them.
I think.
People are going to be
walking more so than usual.
I hope they are.
The streams were close to
two grand again today.
Two grand.
Two thousand.
Yep.
Or over.
I wish that would be up a little bit more.
But the crowds here are really good.
I think the vendors are happy.
Are there a lot of vendors?
I didn't think the three...
There's quite a few.
Not like CrossFit Games
level or Wadapalooza level,
but like more than semifinals for sure.
Cool.
And Thickboy is a presenting sponsor,
and it's really cool seeing
his logo on the middle of
the floor that's not being televised.
I did see Thickboy.
So shout out to him since
he's our presenting sponsor as well.
Did you want to look over
the three wads for tomorrow quickly?
Sure.
I don't know what they are
off the top of my head.
Do you have the standard?
Oh, yeah.
Event seven is the thirty clean and jerks,
thirty ring muscle-ups, thirty snatches.
So I think that that will be fun to watch.
It's a fun event.
Now that we've seen it all play out,
do you think that there's
been too much snatching?
I mean, you have the dumbbell snatches.
You only had forty reps there.
That's not that's pretty low volume.
And the barbell snatch that they had,
you only had to do it one time through.
I don't think it's and this
is only thirty reps.
The volume of snatching isn't ridiculous.
Like it's I've seen higher at comps.
I mean, to see it three different times,
I don't think you need to.
Um,
especially cause you also had the
deadlift, you had those sandbags over, um,
sandbag cleans, right?
So you're hinging a lot in
these movements.
Um, but some,
some of the volume of it is
relatively light.
Like,
I don't think that that wall ball one,
that,
that dumbbell snatch needed to be there.
Right.
Like I think that one you'd,
Didn't need to have that in there.
We didn't need more shoulder
to overhead either.
No.
So, I mean,
I feel like you're kind of like
they have almost everything, right?
Like you, you already have the wall ball,
you have the clean and jerks,
you have the short overhead, you have,
what else is coming up?
Uh, I don't even know, but like you,
you're hitting most rope.
Yeah.
So,
so you got that one to start off.
I think that'll be a good race.
Hopefully we see, you know,
the woman finished on the
twelve minute time cap,
especially in the thirty
five to thirty nine.
I think you'll see some
people finish there for the females.
I think as you go up with
that same time cap and
keeping that same weight,
I don't think many of the
females will finish as they
kept that time cap for, I think,
all the way until maybe fifty years old.
I'm not sure.
Um,
Then you have that range of
motion workout and quick workout,
which is going to be a transition,
which is the eight round,
eight bar facing burpees,
eight toes to bars.
And then that one power
clean at two fifty five one eighty.
Basically an EMOM, right,
like you're doing all those
movements quickly.
it's going to be fast, right?
It's going to be who can
step up to that bar quickly
and get it because those
other movements are
unbroken and transitions
are going to play a factor.
Are you jogging to the bar?
Are you cycling your toes to
bars with a long motion?
Are you kind of kicking your
feet up to the bar to go a
little bit faster,
which might blow up your
core a little bit more,
but you're less time on
like on your grips.
So people will be playing
around with different
strategies for that one.
Do they have two or three
workouts tomorrow?
I think they have three.
Three and then just one on Sunday.
The front squat is only five minutes.
The other one is eight minutes.
The other one is going to be
a twelve minute AMRAP for
most of the females division.
For the men's division,
they should be fine
finishing that twelve minute time cap.
So for the majority of the
top of the field,
they will not have worked
for more than twelve
minutes the whole weekend.
That's is there's no twelve
to fifteen or fifteen to
twenty minute workout for
the majority of the field.
Yeah, but they're all events to watch.
That's Jamie's strength and
look where she's at fourth place.
And then for the front squats,
that one will be interesting.
What kind of change plates they have.
Right.
And with.
Twenty athletes on the floor,
however many they're going
to have on the floor, being able to see,
you know,
people's weights and stuff like
that could be could play a
factor on what people will try.
Will not be televised.
Yeah, that will be on that running floor.
There was a snatch ladder today.
The teams did it this
morning on that floor.
I didn't pay close enough
attention to the change plates,
but there were a lot of rigs out there,
like just a squat stand.
Yep.
All over the floor.
I'm excited to see some big
numbers being hit.
I think you're going to see,
you're going to be
impressed on the female side,
like someone like Andrea Nisler.
I know she just had a baby,
but that girl's strong.
So on the men's side,
Bronislaw is going to put up some weight.
I mean,
I know he's good with his snatches.
I'm assuming his raw strength is good.
Yeah, you're going to see.
With an event like that,
that you can have some
specialists that are going
to be playing on the leaderboard,
you could see some shakeup
of the leaderboard tomorrow
for sure with that one event.
That's that one event that
can affect the leaderboard
where someone that's been
in that twenty to forty
that whole weekend has been
waiting for that front squat.
So,
you're at the top,
you better have some
strength and consistency or
a big lead right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Someone to watch for that.
I was talking to her today,
Claudia Ragdale.
She's coached by Coach L from Strength.
Yep.
And Coach L said,
I only coach strong athletes because,
you know,
he coaches her and Kelsey and
like he goes,
all my athletes can put up weight.
Danielle is strong too.
Yeah.
When her back's right.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
It's just, it's just her back injury.
Her Olympic lifts are
actually really good.
Her snatches, uh, really good.
Yeah.
You look like Dave Castro
looking up at your, your outdoor screens.
I know you just watching
that echo bike workout as it's going on.
I can't even see much.
You don't know who's on the floor.
All right.
We'll let you get back to it.
Yeah.
I'm assuming the thirty five
to thirty nine should be soon.
So it'll be good time to see
who's going to win those races.
Dex told me he's finishing in round two.
Do you think he will?
What's the bet?
We didn't make a bet.
We should.
You didn't make a bet for him.
I should have.
Yeah, you should have.
And I said,
that's a pansy way to call out
that you're going to finish.
He said, okay, I will finish in two.
He's calling his, his shot.
Okay.
I'm looking for him,
but is his wrist going to
be fine for the chest of ours?
Is that, I'm assuming this is good.
It's when it's an extension.
So in deck speak, it's all good.
It's all good.
Looking forward to it.
So, uh, yeah, well,
everybody watch for that.
And if he doesn't do it,
like DM them on Instagram
and tell them how bad it is.
Rip them apart.
All right.
Well, with that, everybody,
thank you so much for being here.
It's been fun.
We'll be back tomorrow.
I have to do the late shift, uh,
covering the behind the scenes tomorrow.
So it might be a little bit later.
Um,
but I think we end earlier tomorrow
because of the last couple
are pretty quick.
So, uh,
With that,
we'll see everybody tomorrow night on,
it'll be Saturday night CrossFit Talk.
With that, bye guys.
See ya.