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what is up everybody live in
Knoxville Tennessee we are
here at the best Western
and I might say the best
room we have stayed in in a
year that Jamie and I have
been on the road
is a little musty in here
but other than that no
bullet holes um seems like
a safe neighborhood I think
we we've hit the jackpot
semi with this one but
super excited to be with
you guys today um
we are just ending our day
we just got some dinner
we're back at the hotel and
before we kind of like
chill for the night we
wanted to jump on and talk
about what happened today
so it's weird with Jamie
behind me but then I can
see her in front of me yeah
but uh Kenneth the lab says
it's the East Coast it's
all a little musty
yeah okay well so we started
the day with a couple team
events and I guess we're
going to jump right into
this dinner was great we
went to outback steakhouse
by the way um got some
steak and chicken it was
really good got some
brussels sprouts jamie got
steak and chicken and stuff
steak we're really
expanding our horizons yeah
Maybe tomorrow night we'll
try something more local.
Yeah.
But yeah, got nourished.
It was a long day without
food at the venue.
We were living on beef jerky and water.
So, but that got us through.
Yeah.
So we started with team
events this morning.
We missed the first team
event as I stepped in a
hole on the way into the
venue and thought I lost my ACL,
MCL and my ankle.
But all is well, all is well.
And we got into the venue,
finally found where we could be for press,
got a tour,
and then event two was lining up,
which was the lift.
So we missed the first event.
We talked to Coach Krispy Kreme.
He said that it was pretty
much an all-out battle
between Peak 360 and 8th Day?
No, 8th Day was in heat, what you said.
Basically,
they set a blistering pace out
of heat one all by themselves.
And then peak 360 was chasing them down,
chasing their time down.
Okay.
So Peak 360 wins the event,
which will be probably the
theme of the day.
So we did that event.
Then we got settled.
We found a really cool place
to get some content.
And we were close to the
door to get the ramp,
which you guys saw on our Instagram,
the ramp that they had to
run up to get out onto the course.
And what you saw was the
first part of the incline.
So they came out of the
venue on the loading docks
up that ramp where Jamie
was capturing the content.
Then they made a left-hand
turn and still had to go up
for another 20 feet.
Yeah.
After the turn and then it
levels off and then they,
they would run through
vendor village and,
around that and then down
the hill on the other side
of the venue come around
and then back in at the
loading docks down below uh
so pretty cool little track yeah um
And that has nothing to do
with the second team event.
Yeah, you jumped at me.
Yeah, it's been a long day.
Long drive yesterday.
So our ramp shots were awesome.
Haven't heard anyone else
get any of the ramp footage.
There were other
photographers and content
creators on the ramp.
So I'm sure you'll see more
stuff out there.
It'll be coming.
Yeah.
But they were definitely out
there capturing the stuff.
We were not the only ones.
So let's finish with this
individual event and we'll
get back to teams because I
want to give them their due
because they're only here
for a couple days and then they're gone.
So anyway, we started with the women.
Yep.
First heat goes out.
Kenneth brings up Ellie Hiller,
said the incline was about
50 paces for her.
Okay.
Okay.
I feel like it might have
been more than that.
Yeah.
I would, I would have thought that too.
Um,
but we start with Ellie and Brooke
Wells at a blistering pace for heat one.
Brooke.
As well as I want to say
Elena Savage was in that
group for the first two rounds.
Did she have the tape around
her ankle or her,
her calf the whole time?
Yes.
Yes.
I have the start and it is
there at the beginning.
okay because she definitely
died off fast and she did
have her calf wrapped so
that it may have been a
re-injury to that brooke to
me never really slowed down
she came in from the run
immediately went to the bar
did her 10 clean and jerks
and immediately left there
was no transition time for
her ellie hiller ran well
but the cleaning jerks ate her up yeah
Um,
she started off strong and then by the
end she was getting no
repped on the clean and
jerks and actually a couple
people passed her.
Yeah.
Uh, at the end of that race,
just on the 10 clean and jerks.
Yep.
which was sad to see.
We were really rooting for her.
Then the big show came out.
Big number one heat with the
battle between Tia Claire
Toomey and Hayley Adams,
and it did not disappoint.
They were pretty much neck
and neck the entire race
until the very end of the fifth round.
Tia had gotten a little more
space on her on the final run.
And when I say a little more space,
maybe 10 more feet.
Yep.
All right.
They get to the barbell and
Tia's probably got three
reps in before Haley gets there.
But the baller that she was,
she continued to go touch and go,
even though she did not have to,
to completely dominate the,
that event.
Cause Haley could not go
touch and go at that point.
She was consistently doing her singles,
just like she had the entire race,
but Tia went to another
gear and went full on
baller and unbroken 10 reps to finish.
Yeah.
Thoughts on that.
Miss Latimer.
I, I mean,
I feel like Tia did exactly what
we all thought she was going to do.
Um,
she's clearly back,
but I am incredibly
impressed with Haley's performance.
I, I thought she looked happy, cool, calm,
composed.
She looked like she was
enjoying herself out there.
Um, and we know Haley likes to run.
So it was like,
what couldn't have been a
better event to start the
weekend off with.
And a second, 10 ish seconds behind Tia.
Incredible.
And I would say she was calm,
cool and composed and happy
after the event as much as
she was before.
Yeah.
Uh, waving to the crowd,
really kind of soaking it
in and really enjoying the moment,
which was fun to see.
Yeah.
That whole heat was just so fast.
Like, I mean,
looking back at the leaderboard,
when we got back to the room,
I was trying to like look
back and just digest everything.
And yeah,
I felt like heat one did good.
Like, especially those first like three,
four girls.
I was like, well, they did great.
And then you pull up the
leaderboard and you're like,
this didn't even,
this didn't even go well.
Like,
I think only two people are
in the top 10 from heat one,
so it just starts dropping off.
So that second heat was just crazy fast.
Sort of sucks for someone like Brooke.
Could the other heat have
changed that event for her?
Who knows?
She said she started out hot.
It might have been worse to
start out even hotter, so...
I think she,
I think she did ran her own
race and correctly.
And I, I think in my opinion, that,
that kind of transfers
through to the men as well.
I think it goes a step further to say,
you know, we've talked about reseeding.
It matters what heat you're in.
And we saw that today.
Yeah.
Really good people or teams
were completely affected
because of the heat they
had to run their race.
If Brooke was in that race
with Kira Napoli and... Not Kira Napoli.
She wasn't.
Yeah.
I can't...
Danielle and gosh, who else?
I don't know.
Yeah.
She would have been able to
run with them and to go toe
to toe with them on the
clean jerks at the end
because it was really a
matter of grit and who was
willing to try to go touch
and go at the end.
Yeah.
Oh, it was crazy to me.
And I mean,
you've seen this in the other
heats and you know exactly
what's going to happen.
It is crazy to watch someone you were like,
oh,
she's got third wrapped up and then
implodes and gets 10th in
the heat just because of 10
clean and jerks and
somebody able to touch and
go and somebody having to
take seven seconds of rest
in between each rep.
Like that time difference is
if you could have slowed
your rundown for 30 seconds
and gotten your heart rate under control,
I mean,
the game planning in that workout
is critical.
Like you can lose a minute
on that last barbell.
So Denise,
she actually beat Amanda Barnhart,
even not being in the same heat.
It was the Danielle Brandon.
And forgive me, I'm down to one screen,
so I don't have like the
leaderboard up with me.
But there was a race at the
end between about two or
three girls with Danielle
Brandon and a few others.
I do have my phone, I guess.
And I think if Brooke would
have been in that race,
she could have done some
damage at that point.
Oh, it was Caroline Stanley, remember?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Caroline Stanley and
Danielle Brandon went
toe-to-toe and just... And
Emily... Emma Lawson.
Emma Lawson, yep.
Yeah, those three.
If Brooke would have been with them,
she had a shot to beat at
least one of them.
But not being in that heat
was really tough for her.
Jess is in the chat.
Hey, wish I was there with you guys.
We wish you were here too.
Yeah.
We need a professional photographer.
Amen to that.
But Holly Dugan is making
lemons out of lemonade that we sent her.
So we highly appreciate that.
What was obvious, though,
and why the heats matter,
heat two was so much faster
than heat one.
So much faster across the board.
It was crazy.
And I think without the
receding at the end of this weekend,
it's going to make a difference.
Who impressed you in that event?
Probably Amanda Barnhart.
I, I didn't,
when I opened up the leaderboard,
I honestly didn't expect to see her.
Like I thought she was
further back than that.
So I don't know if it was
that last barbell or what
got her those places.
Um,
and I expect her to be slower on the
running.
So yeah, I, she was, I mean,
she's kind of on my like
bubble list of making it like,
I've been curious to see
how she's going to hold up
and I think she ran really well.
So yeah, that's probably my,
my my surprise was paige
demenza even though I
thought she would do really
well this weekend running
has never been like a home
run for her she looked
really good and a shout out
from heat one ashley wozny
he has never been a runner
really held her own in that
heat and looked really good
in the run yeah I would say
she's somebody who
probably practiced this one
enough and was very smart
about her own pacing
because she can move a
barbell well and if she
stayed just calm enough on
that run that she moved
that barbell 20 seconds
faster than everyone else
you can you can slow down
20 seconds fast on that run
and like she she ran that
race correctly and she went
touch and go at the end as
well yeah she yeah
So then we moved to the men.
I think everybody knew this
was going to be the rivalry
match between Roman and Jeff.
Another long run.
What was going to happen?
And Jeff Adler made a statement.
He sure did.
the lead just kept getting
bigger and bigger and
bigger with every run.
And I would say they were
pretty even on the clean and jerks.
Yeah.
But you'd come back the
first one and Jeff was
ahead by one side of the square.
Then he was ahead by two
sides of the square.
Then he was ahead by three
sides of the square.
It just, it was, it was almost methodical.
I would like to see Jeff splits again.
Yeah.
And you got to see him
outside up that hill around the corner.
He never looked,
he never looked like he was tired.
Not really.
I would say he was a little
more labored on his final run up the hill,
but not nearly the way I saw.
There were a lot of people
who were hunched way over,
pushing off their thighs,
basically walking up the hill.
And those were the people that you're like,
oh no, like they have imploded.
But yeah, Jeff, Jeff looked great.
The other thing was the race
for third place was crazy.
Holy smokes.
This is where the barbell mattered.
Yeah.
There were four guys all at the same time.
It was Saxon Pancheck, Will Morad,
Jason Hopper, all going at the same time.
And it was nuts.
And the crowd was going crazy.
And there was a crowd.
It's a pretty good crowd in
there for a Friday.
I mean,
I anticipate it'll be even louder
in there tomorrow.
Yeah,
definitely one side of the venue is
more full than the other.
Hatfield, yeah.
Yeah, Hatfield was in that.
The only person that called
Hatfield that high, Kenneth,
was John Young.
I think he called Hatfield
to win all six events and
be the next CrossFit Games champion,
I think is what he said last night.
Uh, Denise Moore says it's too bad.
The runs are also different, uh,
between all the semi locations.
It would be interesting to
be able to compare how
everybody did an event one
across the entire leaderboard.
I think it's fun that they're different.
There's there's positives and negatives.
I totally agree.
It would be nice to be able to compare.
Um,
but it's other than doing shuttles or
using an air runner.
It, you just, you, you can't,
they cannot be identical.
Um,
and I much prefer this alternative to
shuttles or an air runner.
So, um, the race between Emma Lawson,
Caroline Stanley and
Danielle Brandon was amazing.
The race between Saxon
Wilmore at Jason Hopper and
Austin Hatfield was amazing.
And we would not have seen
that on an air runner.
Right.
There's something to the
tracking someone down on a
run course like that's just exciting.
No, Kenneth, none of the chance today.
Somebody did yell during the run.
But no chance.
No,
like no chance in the stadium during
the run.
There was some do it for
Trump or I don't know,
like while while Taylor was running by.
Um, so let's talk about Taylor.
He wins heat one.
And again,
the difference between heat one
and heat two was monumental.
Yeah.
I mean, he's, he's 12, 11, 12, 11th.
I mean, yeah,
it's kind of a similar story to the women,
even more, even more so.
Um, it's crazy.
It's just crazy how much faster, uh,
I don't know.
Again, same thing.
I don't know how much faster
Taylor could have gone.
I feel like he was at his limit.
I don't know what Taylor's
limit is because I've seen
him push past it.
And I feel like he was right there.
But you just never know.
Every competitor asked,
would you rather have more
rest or be in the top heat?
And every competitor asked, said, yes,
I want to be in the top heat.
Give up the rest.
You want to be able to know
what you have to beat.
And he had no clue.
And on the last lap,
he stretched his lead so big,
he did not have to push to
win that heat at the end.
I don't think he could have moved to the,
I mean, he,
he didn't touch and go because
I don't think he could.
So I don't know that being
in the other heat would have helped him.
Saxon Pancheck moves so fast
on that touch and go.
And he went from like sixth to third.
Like it was,
he was the last one in first
one done in that group.
It was amazing.
Will Morad was right with him.
The old man still has some chops.
And speaking of old men,
Ben Smith ran pretty well.
He was in that slower heat,
but it was funny.
I was sitting beside Coach Krispy Kreme,
and he said,
you telling me that young boy
Nate Ackerman is going to
let dad bod shuffle pass him?
He sure did.
So Taylor moves up to the
third heat tomorrow.
Right.
They'll recede for tomorrow.
And he'll be held the center lane.
Yep.
Because he'll be in 11th.
And then if he can make a move,
they'll reseed again for Sunday.
They reseed again after the fourth event,
but they do not reseed
after the fifth event.
Still don't understand that at all.
Yeah.
But it was crazy fun in the
venue tonight with those two races.
so let's talk about some
teams their second event
was the big lift it was the
barbell complex by each
team member that they did
at semi-finals in 20 20 22.
2022. yeah that yeah 21 was
the max snatch to start the
weekend 2022 was the uh barbell complex
So, um, uh, people love a big bar.
They got to see a couple of them.
Um, Tolo Moracchio led the men with a 200,
345 pound complex.
Did not look like he had to
push too hard to get it.
And looked really good and
put it up pretty easy.
I think Noah complimented that with a 315.
Yeah.
And then the women didn't
really have to do much after that.
They ended up winning that event.
Ocean State something, something.
That's the Christine Best,
Christine Middleton team.
They came in second because
Christine Middleton is a
boss with a barbell with
245-pound complex,
tying Hannah Black's record
from West Coast Classic.
Yeah, she made that look easy.
We saw at least one other woman.
There may have been two
other women try that 245.
The Mayhem,
I cannot think of her name
right now off the top of my head.
But yeah, the second, the Liberty team.
She tried 245 and missed the
jerk right at the end.
Yes,
right after Middleton tried in her
lane on the far side.
I got video of it,
but she missed the jerk as well.
So a couple people went for it.
Middleton went for 250.
Oh, did she?
She did.
Did not make the jerk.
Okay.
Okay.
I take that back.
She missed the clean.
I think she was spent.
She had to go back too quick.
And it just was.
She did like two cleans on
the third clean.
She just let it kind of roll.
Rebecca Devine.
Sorry.
That's the name.
That's who failed on that clean.
Or the jerk at the end.
Yeah.
So many people,
so many people got to the jerk.
I know.
All that work.
Expand all that energy with three cleans,
two front squats, and then miss the jerk.
I mean,
that's what happens when you do all
that work.
You're a little bit tired.
Yeah.
So, um,
Really awesome there.
Fun to see that.
The only thing I hate about
everybody going at once,
it's just a cluster on the floor.
And no broadcast is going to
clean that up.
You couldn't see the weights
on the plaques.
It was just tough.
Now,
I think what they tried to do this
week is fix the broadcast
so everybody was facing the camera.
But the only people sitting
there are friends and family.
So everybody else got a side
view with the way this arena is set up.
So the spectators in the
house didn't get a view of
the weight placards and
that to be able to kind of
tell the story.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean,
the alternative is to do the
20-second lift portion and
rotate around the floor,
and that takes forever.
So it is what it is.
I mean, if you're going to throw a lift in,
this is probably how I want to see it.
Kenneth, attendance was pretty good,
I would say.
For a Friday,
I think it was pretty busy in there.
I anticipate it's going to be...
Not a full house.
I mean, it's a huge stadium,
but I think seats are going
to be pretty packed.
So what they did that's
super smart and why Wilson
Pack is so good at this,
they roped off the upper
section until the lower section filled.
So they made everybody sit.
It's all elevated seating,
and there's a lower bowl that's, what, 10,
15 rows?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it goes all the way down
one side and all the way down the other.
They roped off all of the
seats above that until those filled.
So that got pretty full.
And on our side,
that got full enough where
they opened up the upper
section and then that began
to fill as well.
So I think it was actually
really good for a Friday.
Yeah.
Really good for,
because traditionally
people are working on
Friday and the whole event
was over before five o'clock.
So everybody was out.
Everybody was heading home
before work hours were over.
So I think that does,
that makes pretty good sense.
And I liked doing that
because then on the broadcast,
the cameras usually only
catch the lower seats.
So when you catch the lower seats,
it does appear to be way more full.
Yep.
and I do believe there are
way more people here than
there were at west coast
now we'll see tomorrow
three individual or two
individual events tomorrow
two team events tomorrow uh
it's a saturday nobody's
working we'll see but we
walked through vendor
village twice that looked
pretty full too that's
where the community event is going on
And they plopped that right
in the middle of Vendor Village,
which was so smart because
all the people that are
watching can walk through Vendor Village.
They're buying their protein cereals.
They're checking out the two food belts,
all that kind of stuff.
Yep.
So, yeah.
Um,
so then we go to the final event for
teams and that is where the
heat individual.
Yeah.
It was their version of the
run clean and jerk only.
It was run and worm thrusters.
Yes.
So, uh,
So with that, Lynn says,
tomorrow is going to be packed.
Vendor Village already has
some stuff sold out for Northern Spirit.
Wow.
Yeah,
Vendor Village was packed every time
we went through.
Yep.
Usually, like,
FitAid is putting out tubs
of extras that they give away.
They had five cans left when we walked by.
Mm-hmm.
um so yeah so this one was
the run worm thruster it
two of your team members
leave 20 seconds later the
other two members leave and
then you cannot work the
worm until everybody's back
um eighth day crossfit was
in the first heat yep again
obviously set the time to
beat they beat everybody in
their heat by a couple
minutes like they were done
they were getting their
picture taken their family
was down there taking their
pictures on the finish line
they were posing doing all
the stuff before the next team finished
They beat everybody in the second heat.
Yep.
Yeah.
Then the third heat comes
and Peak 360 and Mayhem
Independence were pretty
dominant in that final heat.
And it came down to between peak 360,
Mayhem Independence,
and eighth day from the first heat,
it was seven seconds from third to second,
and like another 10 seconds to first.
And eighth day didn't get to
run their race with those two others.
And they took another second today?
They took second in the
first event from the first heat.
So no reseed.
So they're stuck in heat one,
even though they took a second.
They did really well in the lift.
Yep.
So they should be in the top heat.
And because they weren't,
there was no reseed today.
They had to run that race
all by themselves.
Yeah.
And it was a shame because
that would have been so
much fun to watch.
Three teams battling it out
on those worm thrusters to see who won.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah,
I would have liked to seen them push.
I think they probably had more in them.
I would have liked to seen
them push 360 and possibly
see them not win an event.
I feel like that was the
workout for them not to get
a win and just didn't line up that way.
So let me ask you this.
With the way that that is designed,
you're pretty much at the
will of your slowest runner.
Yeah.
So it doesn't even really
matter about the first runners.
Well,
we saw there was a team where the
girl would basically sprint out,
get ahead of everybody, come in first,
and just stand at a worm and recover.
For 45 seconds.
Waiting for the other three to get back.
I think it had a bad look.
And I know that no rule says
you can't do that.
But I think I like the rope
runs where you all have to
hold a piece of the rope
and kind of run together.
It just, it adds some synchronicity to it.
It adds, you know,
maybe you can pull the one person.
Maybe you're not a good slow down runner.
Like it just affects the whole,
the whole team a lot more.
but I do think the biggest
crime was eighth day,
not getting a chance to run with the big,
with the big guys.
Totally agree.
But they're crushing it out
of the first heat.
They're in third at the end of the day,
two events to go tomorrow.
I'm liking their shot.
That shout out.
That's my, that's my Michigan team.
So shout out.
Peak three 60 is killing it.
They are killing it.
They have swept the three events.
The synchronicity is so good
with that team.
And you could tell that it
was Tola and Lena and Noah
and Mathilde ran together
and they were not going to
leave each other's side during the run.
And then it turned out for
the last three rounds,
they all four pretty much
came in together.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They did a great job staying together,
which if you anticipate down the road,
there being a rope run of
some sort or having us together, you,
you might as well work on that too,
because Denise's Denise's
or Lynn is right.
Some good runners get more
tired running at a slow pace.
I mean, it just,
it throws off the cadence
of your footwork and,
Yeah, 100% agree.
Just to let everybody know,
Jamie informed me that if
she was doing this,
she would have run as fast
as that girl did and get
back and sit down on her
lawn chair waiting for her
team to get back so she
could get some rest.
Yeah, because I don't like thrusters.
I would have needed a break.
Without apology, she was like,
that would be me.
Yeah, so I understood that girl for sure.
Yeah.
Lynn says in peak 360,
we're running together the whole time.
Even held each other's
elbows to maintain pace
after the first two rounds.
They did.
Yeah.
We were talking about this
because Noah oftentimes up
the ramp would have his
hand on the back of Matilda.
Or Tola.
Or Tola, yeah.
Yeah.
There was one time he pushed Tola.
Yeah.
Like I saw him physically push him.
Let's go.
But with Matilda,
it was a much more gentle, like, hey,
I'm here.
I got you.
Let's get this.
It was really kind of nice to see.
Yeah.
That they work that well
together as a team.
And man, were they happy afterwards today.
I mean, it's fun to win.
It is.
So we come tomorrow with the
final two team events.
Yep.
They will take the podium tomorrow night.
We then have our next two
individual events.
Let's give our shot caller picks,
which I haven't even made yet.
Oh, goodness.
You're the one that brought up this idea.
All right.
So event two.
See how she does me people?
We got the double under, total bar,
front squat, five rounds.
I want to not pick Tia,
so I'm trying to rack my
brain for who I threw second in there.
Did Jamie end up getting to do the comp?
Well, I will tell you this.
We got back from the airport last night,
well after midnight.
That's true.
Because of the musty air,
I snored like a savage.
So she may have gotten three hours sleep.
I'm not even that tired right now.
I'll probably be tired tomorrow.
Maybe I'll sleep really good tonight.
I was looking to Ken.
I was trying to find a partner.
So this morning was the individual,
which I would have been willing to do,
but I didn't want to
reserve a spot for that because honestly,
I wasn't sure when I could get here.
Um, and like my flight got delayed.
So probably a good thing.
I didn't pick that one.
I was trying to find a partner,
a male partner to do
Sunday's community event.
It's male, female partner.
work out and nobody wants to
work out with me so I don't
know scott said hell no and
literally I mean I made a
post no nobody nobody wants
to work out with me um dang
event two travis
Event two, Travis.
He'll be good at that.
He does have one of the
fastest cycle rate on double-unders.
And being smooth there,
like I can see him not
really having any trips and
gaining seconds there.
But it's kind of a total bar workout.
Yeah.
I think, men-wise,
I think Hatfield's going to do well.
And I can see Taylor doing well.
I don't like the squats on Taylor's knee.
Yeah,
but like Tristan said when you had
him on.
I mean, had he got, what, third,
fourth in that workout by
doing six-four a couple rounds?
Like, Taylor doesn't,
and I don't know if that's
going to hold true with the men's crowd,
but...
I don't know that he has to
squat blazingly fast to be
top six in this workout.
True.
But we're picking the winner.
Okay.
So I am between... I'm
between Austin Hatfield and Will Moran.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, we saw it with Colton, right?
Like the...
the shorter levers are going
to have a huge advantage in this one.
And if you can move that weight quickly,
Jack Rosemont could do good.
He could.
I don't know what his toes are like.
Yeah.
Will Morehead's a veteran.
He just isn't going to make mistakes.
He's not going to make
mistakes on the dubs.
He's going to be fine on the front squat.
Guy's a powerhouse.
And that amount of toes to
bar for him will be nothing.
That's a good call.
And he looked so good today.
He looked so good.
It gives me confidence going into two,
which is probably where
I'll make my mistake.
I'm going to say,
I think I'm going to say Saxon.
i thought about him it's
just the range of motion
worries me on the front
squats I feel like he's a
pretty fast water okay but
okay honestly I'm thinking
when you say that he squats
below depth so yeah over
like hey maybe they'll be
really strict and some
people won't be in and
there'll be some notes on
the floor and go to his favor so ladies
um I think fee could do
really well at this one and
I think I think she needs
to have a good event um my
dark horse for this is annika greer
Yeah.
Great pick.
She needs it.
She is a fast squatter.
Yep.
She's really good at toaster
bar and she's really good
at double unders.
Yep.
But I mean, good gravy.
Like if,
if you're not picking Tia for
everything at this point, you're just,
Yeah, to be fair, I have Tia, and he won.
So I'm just trying to give alternatives,
like throw out some top threes or fives.
I think Emma Lawson is an
interesting look here, too.
Yeah.
Again,
I don't know that she's the fastest
squatter.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I almost wish Tyler would
bring back the cap of... Two?
Yeah, they talked about that a little bit.
Especially in a Tia case.
Yep.
And I think I'm already
going to lose the prop bet.
She's winning more than two
events this weekend.
I think I wrote three.
Maybe I wrote four.
I don't remember.
I did not write five.
I know that.
I picked two.
I may have done four.
um I picked her for I think
I picked her for three and
he won I picked haley for
the first event just so I
had someone to root it root
for um and when I can I
like to try to pick someone
other than tia all right so
I picked just you know okay
I did pick jeff and tia for
event one same because oh
no I picked haley and jeff
big so I told you last week
I'm done with these wild
outlandish yeah I think I
know something yeah
Going to be smarter.
I got to beat Lex.
So there it is.
I think DB's range of motion
is just so long.
Yeah.
I think she'll do great top seven,
eight easily.
But I don't,
I don't know if I'd pick her
for a top three.
Kenneth picked Pepper for the first event.
Yeah.
Oh, Ken.
Dallin did good for Dallin.
Dallin did good for Dallin.
He did.
He's just not going to do
well against Roman or Jeff.
What did you tell me before
we went on the air?
I don't know.
What did I say?
You said Roman and Jeff won
by over a minute.
Oh, yeah.
Roman and Jeff by like a
minute and Tia and Haley by
like a minute.
It was,
those two athletes were in their
own class.
Yeah, it was crazy.
Yeah.
Okay,
so then we go to the rope climb event,
right?
Yeah.
rope climb event with echo bike,
rope climb, box jump overs, rope climb,
and then start over again.
Yeah.
Six and three quarter rounds.
Yes.
Of that.
Um, who, who you got for,
who you got for the men?
trying to think who I put in
my heat one I may have put
hopper in this one and he
won yeah yeah gosh see this
is the one I'd want to pick
saxon on he is an amazing
rope climber he is an amazing box jumper
I don't think he has enough
on the Echo Bike to keep up
with Dallin Hopper, Roman, Jeff.
So my pick for this one on
the men will be Roman.
Okay.
And you know that takes a
lot for me to say that.
Pick Ken.
I think Taylor's a fine pick.
I don't know that... I don't
think if I'm being completely honest,
I don't think he can win it,
but I think it's an okay pick.
I think it's the same problem with Saxon.
That Taylor on the echo bike,
I think he's good,
but there are guys in this
region that are on another
level on that echo bike.
I see Lynn and Ken...
talked about.
Yeah, we'll talk about that.
All right.
After we're done with this.
All right.
So ladies, ladies.
I mean, it's Tia, but other than that.
I think if the echo bike's not there,
Haley could get her.
Haley's great on the rope.
That box is going to be
nothing for her and her height.
I don't know.
I mean,
but the echo bike makes Tia the winner.
I think there's other people
that would even be Haley in
a legless rope climb workout.
Um, but yeah,
that bike is going to throw a wrench into,
into this workout for those people like,
like Shelby, Neil, like a fee,
like that's a lot for them to overcome.
It is.
Now, Fee, according to Kenneth,
said that this is the one
she would pick for herself.
I love that.
I love that.
I think Emma will do really well.
She'll be right up there.
Yeah.
Should be a good event for Alexis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe that's who my non-Tia
pick would be is Alexis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's go with that.
Yeah.
I like it.
Because we could be boring
and tell you Tia for
everything and that isn't fun at all.
So my non-Tia pick is Alexis Raptus.
Yep.
And hopefully you can still hear us.
My indicator is that our
Wi-Fi here in the hotel is
not at optimal levels.
Best Western.
So hopefully you can still
get this broadcast.
So let's talk about the
disappointments from today.
On the men's side,
it's already been brought up.
Jack Farlow came in with all this promise.
Still has a chance.
This does not take him out
of the running by any
stretch of the matter.
But man, he looked rough after that event.
He sure did.
Medical had to help him off the floor.
It just was,
hopefully it's just cramps and
a little dehydration.
But he looked really fatigued.
It's not even,
it's not even that warm out.
It's not.
And it's,
maybe it's the shock from going
32 degrees inside the arena
to 70 degrees outside the arena.
It is freezing inside.
Hold the mic to your mouth.
It is freezing inside.
um yeah it is so cold I am
never ever cold I was
freezing today freezing so
maybe that's it was a shock
Our very own Carolyn Prevost
seemed to have hobbled up
with a cramp at the very end as well.
And she was helped off by medical,
hoping that it was just cramps.
Hopefully she's back better
than ever tomorrow and doing her thing.
And Kenneth, I did not shave.
I just trimmed it up because
it was getting a little bushy.
Yeah.
If I'm coming back to semis in person,
I wanted to be presentable.
So there's that.
A couple other
disappointments for me today.
I was really hoping Anika's
run had improved in the offseason.
Didn't seem to come to fruition today.
That was a bummer.
I don't know.
That's probably it for me.
That's probably it.
Yeah.
There was a crazy thing that
happened where one of the
teams had a member pass out twice.
Yeah.
Once in event one and once in event two.
Passed out in event one,
came to in time to finish the workout.
Then passed out after the lift.
But then was their best
runner on the last event.
So who knows?
Kenneth wants Prevo to win everything.
We all do.
Yeah.
It might be it's a hard
field to show improvement
in because the field is crazy.
It is.
That's fair.
And actually,
when you look at the leaderboard,
she wasn't as... Even Jack,
because of the speed of that heat,
wasn't last.
Yeah.
Like he was 33rd or 34th.
Yeah.
I think that's...
that's the people who get
caught up in that, in that race.
And it's just,
it's just too fast of a pace for them.
And yeah, they redlined even in, I mean,
even in teams, you saw people,
it's a lot of volume for the teams today.
And they were, you could tell,
you could see the leg
fatigue on some of those people.
I mean, having to walk hobbling,
like they look miserable.
uh kenneth said I know it's
not the same run but top
times in the east destroyed
the west well you got to
look at the third time
because I wouldn't like I
said like we said both the
men and women the top two
were a minute ahead of the
competition so I would look
at the third time of east saxon and emma
Yeah, I thought Caroline Stanley got her.
Fourth.
Caroline was fourth.
Okay.
Yeah, because I will take Tia, Haley,
Roman,
and Jeff in any run race in the
world straight up.
No matter what stairs, hill is involved,
I'm taking those four to be
the top two in each side.
And I already apologize, Emily Rolfe.
I just realized what I had done again.
I don't know if I ever
shared that on here.
I was going to.
But last week,
I had called Emily White to
beat Emily Rolfe on the
Heat One app at West Coast.
And Emily Rolfe called me
out on that and said,
you picked the wrong Emily.
Yeah, sure did.
And I sure did.
Kenneth says Lawson was third,
just creeping in the shadows,
waiting to pounce.
Yep.
She looked good.
She looked smooth.
Yeah.
And then there's a point I was, I was over,
I overheard some coaches saying like,
you don't need to push it here.
Like,
Well, yeah.
What did it matter if she was up?
You're not going to gain any
points on the two of them, right?
The minute behind was fine.
It didn't matter.
Yeah.
So take your time.
Don't overexert it.
Take your third.
Because even going touch and go,
you're still third.
Mm-hmm.
So I think that's everything from today.
Yep.
wishing Carolyn all the best
hopefully we see her back
on the floor tomorrow
crushing it and hopefully
Jack Farlow's back better
than ever and all of that
so it's the first live
competition of the game
season athletes want to
show out yeah Tia sure did
I think Tia wanted to make a statement.
I think other athletes are
here with a goal of doing
something at the games and
they're not trying to show out.
I think there are different mindsets.
That is not Tia's.
I think Tia's here to
destroy everybody by as
much... I think she was
getting annoyed that this
blonde girl was right
behind her the entire race
and wanted to go big baller
at the end and make a statement.
Yeah.
So...
Well, with that, guys,
thanks for jumping on with us.
We'll be back at it tomorrow,
throwing out some content.
Hopefully this time I
remember my camera battery
so that I can actually use
the new camera I bought
instead of my iPhone 15.
But there we go.
And Kenneth says, Tia is Matt,
but turned up to 11.
And we are the original.
Thursday, Friday, Sunday night,
CrossFit Talk Show.
With that, we'll see you guys next time.
Thanks, everybody, and see you tomorrow.