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to a special edition of
Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
We're here on a Thursday
night because I am live in Birmingham,
Alabama,
and we are going to talk about
the Masters CrossFit Games
that launched today with
three events for athletes
up to fifty-five, fifty-four,
and fifty-five to
sixty-five plus did two events today.
So with that, what's going on Carolyn?
I had my first day back at work today.
Not with the students, but first day back.
So it's been like catching
up on the Masters games as
soon as I got home.
Trying to just fast forward
through everything.
Was the deadlift one on YouTube?
I couldn't find that one.
So I believe that because
most of that occurred outdoors,
they did not stream it.
That's what I heard.
Okay.
Again, I was there,
so I didn't really watch
the stream at all today.
But before we dive into that real quick,
I saw an announcement on
your Instagram that Crash made.
Do you want to share with everybody?
I got an invite to crash
that's in October.
So looking forward to
testing my fitness there.
There's some great athletes.
I'm sure that will get released soon.
I've already seen two of
them get released.
Plus the field that
qualified through the qualifier.
So looking forward to that
as well as getting ready
for NorCal next week.
How excited are you?
Did you see the complex of,
I saw what you sent me and
it looks insane.
It's an audition for the LA
gymnastics Olympics.
It's, it's a routine.
I think I'm going to go like
this before I go and after.
And so I showed Ellie Hiller,
a semifinal athlete here.
She's like that people are
going to fall off the bar.
so dumb the front roll is
where she's like that gets
really crazy yeah it's very
technical I don't have it
yet I need to I've been
just looking at youtube
videos for it so I'll play
around with it this weekend
but I mean what are we
doing here yeah so I uh I'm
working with jonathan
ortega this weekend here um
at Masters Games,
he's gonna be at NorCal shooting.
So I said, hey,
can you mind getting a
couple shots of my friend
while she's out on the floor?
So hopefully we'll get some
stuff for you that way.
But yeah, I'm excited for Crash.
JR always puts on a show
with his programming and
really finds elements to
show off the athletes.
Absolutely.
That's what drew me in last year,
the programming, the events.
It's unlike any of the
events that we see really
in the offseason besides
maybe Rogue that does a
really good job with the
implements and stuff like that.
I think he gets very creative,
but not gimmicky.
not doing a circus trick um
or a routine but it's uh
it's well done it's very
organized uh I saw it and I
was jealous that I wasn't
there last year so I'm
super excited to have the
opportunity to go on the
floor this year yeah I'm
excited to see you there I
it's just so well run and
talking to my wife about
maybe driving down because
she has family in that area
So we may make it a long
weekend and pop in at least
for a day to check it out.
It's Canadian Thanksgiving
for me that weekend.
So that stresses me out less
because I mean, Thanksgiving,
like it's not as big of a deal, I guess,
in my family or sometimes
even in our country versus the US.
But to me, it's like, oh, great.
I don't have to take an
extra day off of work on the Monday.
Um,
so it's less stressful that it's a
three day weekend.
Like I get the, just the Monday off.
I don't get the Friday off,
but I'll have to take the
Thursday and Friday off,
but it's just less
stressful than taking three
days off for instance.
Um, I know as a teacher,
those days are very
valuable for you guys.
They are.
I, I absolutely hate missing.
So one last thing before we
jump into masters our friend,
Holly Dugan is in the chat.
I got to meet her in person
for the first time ever this morning.
And it was awesome.
She is so cool.
And the stuff she's putting out today,
when you think about all
the divisions and all in
both male and female,
and they have a team
competition going on and
she's covering that.
Everything she put out is so
freaking amazing.
And the people at CrossFit
HQ even commented about her stuff.
Well,
I think people have been sharing too.
Yeah.
I've been seeing a lot.
And so shareable.
Very easy.
Competition organizers would
see the value in someone like her.
Absolutely.
I don't know how you can't
see the value in it.
As an athlete,
it's easy to repost and to
send to your family or your
friends and whatnot.
Great job, Holly.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I tried to get her Wi-Fi today and
couldn't from the organizers.
So she's on a hotspot doing all that.
Wow.
Yeah.
Silly.
But there was a big event today.
It was three floors.
It was four hundred fifty
athletes and it was utter craziness,
but seemed to be pretty controlled.
there live at the event.
And it kicked off this
morning with the deadlift run.
or run deadlift,
however you want to put that.
They ran out of the bay door
in the back of the convention center,
six hundred meters down to
a cobblestone road,
came back and in and did
their deadlifts and then
back out they went.
And it was a really cool
event to see in person.
Was it six hundred meters?
Like, do we have accuracy on that?
Uh, nobody's complaining that it wasn't.
Okay.
Um, so I'd say that's a good sign.
Were most athletes unbroken
on the deadlift and it
became a running workout.
Very few were unbroken on
the deadlift on the last set.
Um, you know,
Corey's in the chat saying
Jamie's killing it.
Jamie was in second place
coming in after the last run.
And then she got to her bar,
got two reps before the
other person and never put the bar down.
And when the girl saw her going unbroken,
she broke.
Like it broke her.
And then Jamie won by nine seconds.
So it altered everything.
That's deflating when you
see someone just holding on.
You're struggling and you're like,
just put the bar down.
You see them keep going.
You're like, oh, okay.
Yeah.
So it's one of those where
Jamie was furthest away from the exit.
kind of at the beginning so
at the beginning she was
she had to like hustle to
get through the traffic and
then work her way and then
every round she reeled more
people in and more people
in and then at the in the
last round her entrance was
the closest so she was able
to get on that bar get the
rep started and that's
where she won the event
which is pretty awesome
And what was the time of that event?
Because I don't think people
were even close to the time cap.
No, no.
I want to say Tristan's in there.
Tristan, I think it was eight something.
No, not for that minute.
It would be like,
I think it was ten or
eleven minutes if I have to
go to the competition corner.
I got so much stuff in my head right now,
Carolyn.
I think it was ten or eleven minutes.
I'm sure Tristan knows.
But...
See,
that's the one thing that's missing
from the comp is if that
was their long event, you know,
the rest of the events,
we can talk about it after,
but they are going to be sub-ten minutes.
So the men were ten to eleven minutes.
What were the women on that one?
I'm trying to get to them.
Women.
So Jamie did it.
Jamie won that event.
In, no, she won that event in so,
so that was not eight, two minutes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just,
it just leaves no workout above
twelve minutes all weekend.
Yeah.
Which is a big hole in the programming.
Yeah.
And they actually started.
I like most of the events.
I don't,
we can talk about the overhead squat one,
which was a complete shit show.
I, we called it before.
I absolutely hated that event to watch.
Um, way too,
like way too much pressure on the judges,
but most of the other ones
are like CrossFitty, but which I like,
I like all of them,
but they're missing that longer event.
Yeah, the overhead squat one,
I wasn't even there.
So my friend Rudy went.
I wasn't there to get to see it.
I just was kind of in the back.
And everybody was coming
back saying he got screwed.
Because he got no reps nonstop.
And that's valuable reps and
time in that workout.
That workout's a minute and
just sub two for the ones
that are racing.
You can't get a no rep.
The lunges look terrible.
People were hunched over.
They weren't even completing
their lunges at the end of the line.
They weren't fully standing
up before dropping them.
They're just dropping them,
running to their barbells.
It just put a lot of
pressure on the judges
And it just,
it's so much pressure on them.
And it's not consistent lane to lane.
I talked to my friend, Jasmine Sheehan,
and she had the same issue too.
Like she was getting no rep,
but other lanes are just flying through.
And it's just like, as an athlete,
it's frustrating because I
feel like we're not testing
fitness at that point.
We're just testing what we
can flirt the line with.
And it's not the athlete's fault.
You kind of go with what
your judge is allowing.
Right.
Like you're going,
you're riding that line of, okay,
what's it going to be with this judge?
And you kind of adjust right
away once you get a no rep.
But if you're just, if you're letting,
if they're letting you do it,
then you just kind of do it.
So I talked to an athlete in the, I think,
fifty to fifty five, fifty four years.
And I said, like,
I've talked to a lot of
people that are getting no reps.
He goes, if you're not getting no reps,
you're not doing what you need to do.
Cause you have to find out
where the line is.
But like those, the, the,
the higher up you go, the speed of the,
of the movement is
obviously not what we're
seeing at like the thirty five,
the early forties and stuff.
Um, but I understand that, that comment,
it is, you're,
you're trying to find that line.
Yeah.
And that's what he said.
Like,
I'm going to I'm going to get no rep
trying to find the line.
Because in this event, you have to.
And this is someone that's
trying to win his age group.
Absolutely.
And and there's no room for error.
And what stinks is it was
kind of a fun it was a fun event to watch,
minus all of that crap.
It's a shame we can't get it
to a place where we get
consistent calls because it
was a fun race to watch.
Because it's so fast, it's fun to watch.
Because people are finishing
within seconds of each other,
it's fun to watch.
But I hate it.
As a spectator that like does the sport,
obviously like as, as you know,
us athletes,
you're just like looking at
the hip extension and
they're not finishing them.
And you're like, geez,
I would hate to be on the
floor right now and
watching some of the
movements and being like, can I like,
where's that line?
And just seeing other athletes being like,
like, I just know I was,
I was frustrated watching,
even though it's exciting
to see who's going to finish and,
I just don't know.
I didn't like that one.
But that's the one workout
of the weekend I didn't like prior.
Yeah.
Yeah, you said that this would happen,
and it did.
It's too fast.
It's too light.
Everything was light and not.
Yeah.
So the other event today was
the rope climb sandbag to
shoulder handstand walk event.
I liked the event as it went off.
I didn't like the way the
lines were on the floor
because it was confusing to
know what was the finish
line for the handstand walk.
They should have had a
different color on each end of it.
Yeah.
A lot of people came down
and walked too early.
I saw that the entire day.
of people coming down where
that's where it says the
number like of your lane or
eight ten or whatever um
yeah anytime you start and
finish a section it should
always be a different color
at semi-finals we had three
different sections of our
handstand walk I don't know
if you remember but it was
like I don't know certain
amount of feet a little bit
longer and then finally all
the way through and each
each one of those sections
finished with a different
color so you're like okay you're going to
the yellow one for round one.
Okay.
Now you're going to, I don't know,
red for round two and
you're going wherever for round three.
When you're upside down,
like that's what you're,
you're searching for that, right?
That color.
If everything's just that same color line,
you're like, okay, wait, one section, two,
like you're,
you're having to count in your head.
Sometimes as you're tired, um,
It's harder to do.
Sometimes judges are nice and they're like,
hey, one more, one more.
And then sometimes a judge
says nothing and doesn't help you.
And then you come down and you're like,
ah.
There we are again.
Not consistent.
Some people get the advantage.
Some people don't.
Yep.
Which sucks.
Yep.
The only other thing I'll
say about that one,
it was a pet peeve one for me,
is the finish line should
have been in the middle of the field.
They had people on both
sides of the field.
It should have finished in the middle,
crossing a finish line.
Done with the handstand, turn,
run to the middle.
I guess, would they run into each other?
I don't think they would.
It's a pretty big gap in the middle.
But when you just come down
from your handstand and you're done,
it's hard to tell if you're done or not.
And again, a no finish line finish.
No finish line finish.
And is it a stopwatch?
It is a stop.
There is no chip timing.
Like.
we want to be professional.
Like you can't have a stopwatch for this.
It's especially when people
are finishing within
seconds of each other on that,
that one workout, even the hands,
like there's still people
finishing really close to each other.
And it's like,
are they going to stop the
watch when your hands are crossed?
When your feet come down
from the handstand?
Like there's just so many factors.
There's the human just speed
of the stopwatch.
Um, it's not consistent.
And when you're talking about seconds,
it makes a difference, right?
Yeah.
Holly says there are a few
finishes that are just a
couple of milliseconds different.
And if you're doing it by hand timing,
who knows how accurate that is?
Yeah.
Even the sandbag, the shoulder,
some of them were a little bit in front,
especially the ones that
were going like touch and go,
like they weren't fully here.
I felt some of that was a little bit.
off is the real judging us
on that they made them come
like all the way up yeah
they were pretty strict
where I was watching and
again I'm back in the
warm-up area so I'm not
seeing everything yeah so I
like I've been watching it
on my tv here and like
there's still some people
here and some people are
having to open up hand
release obviously but like
the positioning on that is
Not consistent.
Are the ropes twelve feet?
Is that what I heard on the
like the broadcast?
Or is that just for the higher divisions?
Because it looks like the
same rig from semifinals, which the very,
very top beam would be fifteen.
The one underneath is
technically like fourteen that you touch.
It's a fifteen foot,
but they're calling it
twelve foot rope for the
older for the older divisions.
There's a line.
OK,
so I was having this discussion with my
friend Steph Roy that she was saying, no,
it's twelve feet.
And I was like,
it looks like the same rig as semis,
which is fifteen to the top
and fourteen to.
Yeah.
OK, that's what I was thinking.
It's fifteen to the top.
I mean, I've watched Jamie enough.
She's doing two full on
pools to get up there,
which is what she does for fifteen.
Yeah, I figured.
And I know the older
divisions were not going to the top.
That's what I thought was
twelve was twelve foot was
the because I could see
that one tape line.
It's the same one that we
did the legless the seated
legless at semifinals,
which was to the twelve feet there.
It's that same color.
So that's why I figured that
that was a twelve foot
marker and the beam is fourteen.
So there's a lot of people
in the chat talking about
that there's a lot on and
they're still going over
there at the convention center.
Yeah, I have it all right now here.
We had to make the choice to
go a little bit earlier tonight.
Probably do that the next couple nights.
The way we're breaking it up
for a team covering the
behind the scenes is I'm
covering the morning shift.
at least covering the evening shift.
And then we're kind of double,
double dutying in the middle.
Um, but just so that we're not there for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
hours a day, uh,
and able to at least do a show.
And then like,
I'll be up at six and back
over there in the morning, uh,
catching them as they're
warming up for the first event.
Uh, so that's,
that's the reason we're on now.
Yeah.
Right now it's the, uh,
thirty-fifths to thirty-nines,
I think is my friend, uh,
from Canada is competing.
Yeah.
Paul Trombley's there.
And who else?
His partner, Adam.
I'll go there.
There's some good athletes.
It's been cool looking at
all the divisions all day
and just seeing a lot of
athletes that you've seen
over the years at
semifinals or old games
athletes years ago.
Not their old, but older games athletes.
Yeah.
Craig Kinney is who I was thinking of.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Craig Kinney.
No, it's been really...
Yeah,
it just brings back memories on
different athletes just to
see the longevity of their
careers and where they're at now.
Yeah, it's cool to watch.
Tomorrow the teenagers start,
so I feel like I'll be
watching a little bit of everyone.
It's all these people I've
watched for years,
and they're the same
athlete they were ten years ago.
Paul Tremblay is still strong,
and running is not his jive.
That's okay.
You know, it's funny.
But Will Morad's in there too.
Yep.
He came back from that injury at semis,
sitting in second place
behind Mitch Wagner.
Yep.
I know that name too.
Like it's all names that
have been around semifinals, like games,
whether it's teams and stuff like that.
And then Julie and I are
staying ten minutes away from the venue.
It is crazy tonight,
just to paint a picture.
So there's the convention center,
and then right beside it is
the University of Alabama
Birmingham's football stadium,
which has a game tonight.
So half the streets around
where you need to get in
and out of are closed.
Oh, wow.
It is almost impossible to get an Uber.
We're about ten minutes away.
Kyle Ruth is staying here.
Mark Hutchinson is staying here.
I ran into some guys from Sweden.
Even though we're ten minutes away,
we still have a lot of the
athletes here in the hotel.
I'm sure people are... The
hotel prices and stuff
probably went up massively.
Ten minutes is nothing.
Yeah.
Tristan said, yeah, dude,
roads are closed and that crowd is rowdy.
And it took me an hour to
get my Uber Eats.
I believe it.
That's how I was for me at
semifinals this year.
It took a while to get my Uber Eats.
I wasn't sure whether it was
just busy or downtown with the events.
Yeah.
So a couple things I wanted
to just throw out there is
one of the guys we interviewed, Rob Davis,
is in first place after the first day.
Killing it.
Carly Matthews came to play.
I interviewed her after her first event,
which was the sprint overhead.
And she's a smaller statured athlete.
And so I said,
that's pretty much in your wheelhouse,
small levers.
And she said,
everything here's in my wheelhouse.
And I was like, what?
Classic CrossFit.
That's kind of what she said, but she is,
I have it on film.
It'll be in the behind the scenes,
but she is not lacking any
confidence coming into this weekend.
which is kind of fun to see sometimes.
Just an athlete that knows
they're in a groove.
Um, Rudy Berger struggling.
He, he got all those no reps.
He's down in the twenties.
Um, they'd still,
I still don't have a score
for him for the rope climb yet.
So he, hopefully he comes up into the,
where he's going to be in
the second heat.
Cause if you're not in that
second heat and Jamie found today,
like if you can't see what
you're going up against, it's,
it's tough.
Like she's,
she competed against Carlene
today in three events and
never got to go up against her once.
Yeah.
Like the, the,
where you are in the heat and that,
that race that you're able
to get that from being in
that final heat is, is huge.
It's a huge advantage.
So, um, I mean,
they've done one that I'm
assuming they didn't recede
after the first event.
He would like Rudy would still be with,
they did recede.
They have not receded at all today.
So all day today,
he should still be with his regular heat.
But there's ten scores.
And, you know, one event that is so –
based off of judging.
Like if I'm him, I'm not, you know,
I'm not counting myself out by,
by any means.
Like he's got so much experience.
He's, um, he should still do, you know,
great.
And there's not more sports
and there's still a lot of
room with two more events
in the day to get himself back into, um,
contention.
And even it's that,
that other heat was that
after two events or three
or one of it that he was in the twenties,
uh, after two events, uh,
He finished thirty seventh
in the overhead squat workout.
That sucks.
Yeah.
So what I'm going to do real
quick is I'm going to go through.
The top threes of all the
divisions real fast.
I'm going to start at the
top because maybe some of
the other scores will
populate as we get down there.
For women, sixty five plus.
It's Patricia McGill, Denise Moore,
our very own Denise Moore
and Sue Sue Lawson.
For women's sixty to sixty four,
it's Betsy Vanderberg in first.
She's always consistently good.
Laurie.
Meshishnack.
Also really good.
And Lynn Watt, always there as well.
Those are three heavy
hitters in that division.
In the fifty-five to fifty-nine,
it is T.U.
Maver, Lee Coates, and Shanna Bunce.
In fifty to fifty four, Carol Mezen,
Kim Purdy and number one, Cheryl Brost.
Again,
we talked about her whenever she's
in the competition.
Always wrong to watch out for her.
Yep.
Forty five to forty nine.
Allie Crawford's in third.
Kelly Friel defending champ is in second.
And the once retired Val
Vogel is in first.
Oh, gee, she looks good.
Yeah, you said teacher, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
She hasn't competed in a while.
She looked really good out there.
I don't know if you got to see it.
I was scrolling through a lot of things,
so I think I saw her division.
Women, forty to forty four.
Our very own Jamie Latimer
sits in third place.
Carly Newlands in second place.
And Carlene Matthews in first.
We also learned that Becca
Voigt can still do rope climbs.
Just in case anybody wonders.
And then she would lose time
on the other two movements a little bit.
And then who was she was racing?
Who was she racing?
Carlene?
who was faster with the
touch and goes and had
faster handstand walks.
So yeah, it was good.
Good little race.
Yeah.
And then in the thirty five to thirty nine,
we have Julia Holm in third.
Just outside is Andrea Nistler,
if you're wondering.
And fifth is Haley Murillo.
So those big names are fourth and fifth.
Shout out to Jasmine two and six,
my friend.
Jasmine Sheehan is in sixth.
Yeah.
Man, Mackenzie Riley's an eighth.
This is Allison Stahl in tenth.
What a loaded, loaded field.
Oh, yeah.
And then second is Sammy Scorzelli.
And number one,
who we actually said to look out for,
Caroline Klutz,
who kind of made a name for
herself last year at Crash.
Yeah, she would have done really,
really well on the individual side,
the open division or whatever it is.
Yeah.
I had to look up the second
place person on Instagram.
Lex made me look her up
because her doodle looked
exactly like one of my doodles, Callie.
So then I just, I followed her right away.
I was like, oh my God.
All right.
And then we go to the men.
Sixty-five plus.
Third is John Mariotti.
Second, John George.
First, Freddie Cherry.
Sixty to sixty-four.
We have third, Jose Luis Vaz.
Second, Stuart Swanson.
First, Joe Ames.
Fifty-five to fifty-nine,
Vic McQuaid in third.
Shannon McKibben in second,
and Robert Davis,
the guy we already talked about in first.
Fifty to fifty-four,
Sean Ramirez in his
comeback in third place.
Jamie McGarva in second, and Justin Las...
Lasala in first.
And then we go to forty five
to forty nine.
Nuno Costa in third,
Jason Grubb in second and
Kane Hayes in first.
We go to forty to forty four.
Looks like things have been updated.
And we have Chicho Quesada in third,
Julian Cerna in second,
and Jonathan Edel in first.
Another guy we interviewed
coming into this.
And Rudy snuck up into ninth
after the third event.
Finally, in thirty five to thirty nine,
we do not have updated
scores and it's all over the place.
But we talked about Mitch
Wagner being in first and
well more being in second
coming into this final event.
For the day, but scores are not populated.
The only other thing I'll
say about today is I was
amazed at how many
international athletes are here.
Came came through.
Yes.
I've talked to at least five
people from New Zealand,
three people from Sweden,
lots of people from South America.
So yeah,
the international flavor is
definitely here, which was great to see.
And you guys asked,
you and Lex asked about the crowds.
They are pretty robust for a Thursday.
Any CrossFit event, you know how it works.
It is...
It is more sparse at the
beginning of the week,
and then as you get to the weekend,
it picks up as people have
time off and can come watch
the whole day.
But yeah,
it's like the little stands they
have at each place are pretty packed,
and the barricades are
lined with people on all
three floors whenever
there's action going on.
That's good.
Games are posting like on their Instagram,
a little bit of highlights
on certain athletes prior to the comp.
I still would like for them
to share like the link or
the leaderboard more often
and draw people to the YouTube.
Like I think I saw around
close to two thousand maybe
on the live today when I
would be watching the
Um, but again, like I,
at first I was looking for the link.
I was thinking it was going
to be on the CrossFit games
at some point or like shared like on the,
on their YouTube.
And I wasn't following, um,
like the legends on, on, um, on YouTube.
So like I was, I was like,
where is the link?
And then I, and then I thought, Oh,
I'll go to the games
website and then see it from there.
And then
It's like, oh, okay.
I have to follow the legends one.
And then I also ended up
following the pit team
tonight so that I'm ready
to watch this weekend my
teenage group get to work.
Mentor doing her due diligence.
Yeah,
but just to make it easier for people,
because not all of us followed,
to begin with,
the Legends CrossFit channel,
like the YouTube channel.
So if they want to get more
people watching the stream
and have their investment in the stream,
you know,
be more worth it.
They need to be drawing people there.
So I feel like all day they should be,
you know, pushing people to, to that.
Um,
I will say that it was great to hear
Sean's voice.
Sure.
It was, I was hoping to run into him.
I haven't seen him yet.
Um, I've seen Tommy and chase, uh,
and Lauren, but I have not seen Sean.
He had some flight issues
trying to come in.
So he wasn't here yesterday
with the rest of them.
Um,
The last thing,
I'll keep saying the last thing.
I did hear some tea that
CrossFit did hire some
people to do many
documentary vignettes on a
handful of athletes.
Cool.
And those people are Mariah Moore Oldroyd.
Yep.
And Tyson.
Yep.
Are there filming these vignettes.
Awesome.
They do a great job.
Yeah,
so we've been complaining about the
lack of content that's been
coming out from CrossFit.
They have been putting some
out for the Masters and the teens,
and that they did hire
these guys to come in just
a week ago to do these vignettes.
So I was hoping Tyson out
because the bands, man,
the volunteer security are not –
equipped to handle the
different colored bands and
who gets access to what.
So I had to help him out a
little bit so he could get
where he needed to be, but it's crazy.
We'll talk about that after
the weekend's over,
but that's been a little bit of a,
the only down thing for us
as a team is just fighting
the fight again and again and
And again, everywhere we go, um, but, uh,
but we're getting good,
good content and can't wait
to put it together for you guys.
And we're really trying to
get episode one out next week.
Uh, the behind the scenes,
which will episode one will be the,
will be, um, check-in day.
What's on, what's on the agenda tomorrow?
Which, which ones are tomorrow?
Is it that,
is that echo bike one tomorrow?
That gross one?
Are they in order tomorrow, four, five,
and six?
Or are they out of place?
They are for the younger group.
But not for the – For the older group,
it's a little out of order.
Okay.
Yeah, it's four, five,
and six tomorrow in order
for thirty-five to fifty-four.
Okay.
And that starts a little bit
later in the afternoon.
Do we have that anywhere
where I can pull it up super fast?
Do you know where –
Uh,
here event four is event four is the
snatch ladder.
Another sub two work, two minute workout.
They added a minute.
They did.
That's what I heard today is
they added a minute to that
because of the weight change.
Okay.
Okay.
That's a three minute cap
instead of a two minute cap.
Okay.
And it's still a two barbells.
I believe so.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to be fast.
It's going to be racing.
For a lot of people,
it's going to be a weight
that they can push.
And then for some people, that last bar,
they're going to have to
focus and they might have
to squat snatch that one.
And if you want to be
competitive in that one,
execution is going to be huge.
Event five is the wall ball one.
The Karen,
the sandwich with three
movements in the middle of the dumbbells.
But I believe you said it
was not a symmetrical up
and down like you like.
Yeah, I'd like to be symmetrical ideally,
but it is what it is.
That one has a fifteen minute time cap,
so we'll see.
we'll see how long, you know,
they're going to go.
Cause sometimes the time
caps are close and sometimes they're not,
uh, event six is that gross, gross, gross,
nasty echo bike with the, uh,
double under and chest of our buy-in.
Did you ever test it?
No.
Can't get to that point.
Um, but just mathematically,
I just know where it would be.
Yeah.
It's going to be interesting
to see who sells their soul
on that to try to finish early.
I think the females is going
to have more trouble
finishing than the male.
I think the men, some of them can really,
really crank that echo bike
and get that power up,
but so high that the cows
just start going.
I think it's a more
difficult thing to do on the female side.
It's going to be close.
I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
fewer if you are gonna are
gonna be able to finish it
but what I'm curious about
tomorrow is they've they
had the bay door open all
day today for that run and
now the three floors will
have full air conditioning
with that bay door shut
today or tomorrow uh so
hopefully people aren't as
fatigued at the end of each event
And how's the warmup area
and cool down area?
Like they had not gone as
sponsorship or something with the ice, uh,
cold.
So there are no ice baths or
anything like that there,
unless you go upstairs to
the vendor village and
Boulder athlete has a couple.
Um, so the warmup area is nice.
It's big.
It's got lots of platforms,
lots of rig space.
Um,
but that was one of the
things we ran into today is
basically they gave us a
coach's band because so we
could be in the warmup area
to talk to them.
And it got so crowded in
there that they made their coaches leave,
which that means that our
orange band wasn't good anymore.
And,
and it was very frustrating because a
lot of it was from the team and
that isn't even part of the
games like a lot of people
back there want to be with
their teams and coaching
and it just was way too
many people when it got to
be the individual athletes
later in the day it wasn't
even that crowded there's
plenty of space are the
teams going on all weekend
I have not paid attention to teams at all.
Me neither.
But I don't know if it's
like two days and then the
rest of the time they can
spectate and be there.
Or if they're going all four
days and there's different divisions.
Yeah,
I know there's lots of divisions of it.
I don't... I think it's...
Hopefully it's just two days.
Because we're done super early on Sunday.
Like, it's done at noon here.
And then...
I don't know.
I don't know about teams.
I like the concept because
it brings more people to the party.
But like,
do they need the full games rig
set up to warm up?
Or could they have been put
somewhere else?
I haven't seen the space,
so it's hard for me to comment on that.
So I would like the athletes.
village area where you just
get to hang out there's no
warm-up area is massive
like it's half of a
convention center room like
huge you could have taken a
quarter of that and given
it to the teams to warm up
in and and then got them
out of the elite because
the elite athletes this is
their games this is like the big show
to have the teams back there
warming up on the same stuff,
hogging equipment,
all that stuff seemed to be
a little much.
Yeah.
Linda Jerry asks a random question.
Where do we know Kevin jurors from?
I just have seen him around
the master space for a long time.
Don't know from anything else.
I don't know.
But anyway,
day one's in the books and our
very own Jamie Latimer.
And I got my, my shirt today.
Let's go.
Jamie is in a podium position right now.
Keep going.
So she has a good day.
The rest of the good day tomorrow.
I think she gets to tomorrow.
She's gold.
Tomorrow's going to be,
it's going to have a couple events.
I think for her that she'll
have to stay in the mix, right?
Like that snatch ladder and
that power output as a smaller athlete,
I think will be challenging.
So I hope that she's able to
stay within the top to then, you know,
push where she needs to.
Yeah.
I agree.
So, yeah.
I think what's good is the
athletes she's at the top
with are also smaller athletes.
Yep.
You know, Carlene is a smaller athlete.
Carlene may be the only
person smaller than Jamie.
And the good thing is, you know,
confidence.
You start the weekend off
and you're doing well.
You know, that head space is huge, right?
Um, it plays a huge factor.
It's not just physical.
When you go to these competitions, it's,
it's about having
confidence and being in a
good mental space.
Like I know that's,
that's where I struggled
the most this year, um, was mentally.
And then I just had trouble
physically to go after.
Cause I was just like,
I was in a position.
I was never, ever in my career,
like added a competition.
So I had a better start.
Who knows?
what type of weekend I could have had.
So if she's having a great start,
let's ride that wave.
And, you know, who knows where,
where it can go from there this weekend,
even if it's a quote
unquote bad event for her, if she,
you know, is no,
that knows that she's
competing for a podium spot like that,
just all of a sudden puts a
little bit more, um,
energy into the pedals maybe, you know,
and, and pushes a little bit more.
Yeah.
And let's be honest,
it does the exact opposite
on the other side of the leaderboard.
Those people that have had a
bad start who are
struggling to get any kind of momentum.
Yeah,
I've beat people I had no business
beating in in certain wads,
and I've been beat by
people that shouldn't beat
me just because of where things are.
Like,
you don't know how people are that
weekend.
So, yeah, never know.
Well,
the last thing I'm going to say is it
was nice to be back to a
competition that was just
about the competition.
Even though that Lazar has
been addressed a lot this weekend,
there are athletes wearing
temporary tattoos with his
name on their arms.
Thick Boy is selling Juket
shirts with all proceeds
going to his family.
So there are people wearing
the Jukic jerseys and
wearing temporary tattoos
during the events to honor
him during the competition.
But it feels like a step forward,
like not forgotten,
but moving a little bit
forward to a new normal in the space.
And I got a lot of time to
talk with Boz and to...
Becky harsh, uh, which was really,
really good to do and enlightening and,
um, yeah, glad I got that opportunity.
Awesome.
So with that, tune in tomorrow night.
We'll do these every night
throughout the weekend.
The only night in question is Sunday.
We may have to pause that
till Monday because they
changed the schedule to end so early.
We may try to get out of our
last night of hotel bill
and hit the road to get
back so we don't have to do
eight and a half hours in one day.
With that, thank you, everybody,
for being here.
You guys are the best as always.
And enjoy those Masters athletes.
They are killing it,
and they're what this sport is all about.
Let's share that link, too.
People should be sharing
those links on their social
medias so that we get more
eyes on that YouTube channel.
And if you're able to be there in person,
get a ticket.
Let's support the Masters
and the teens as well this weekend.
Awesome.
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