Kate Currie | The Athletes of the 2024 Legends Masters CrossFit Games

We meet Kate Currie who is competing at the Masters CrossFit Games in the 40-44 year old division.

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Let's go.

What is going on, everybody?

Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast,

where we are highlighting

the athletes from the 2024

Masters Legends CrossFit Games.

And I am so honored to have with me today,

Kate Curie.

Hi, Scott.

I'm so stoked to be here.

I'm a little nervous,

but I'm really excited.

Thanks for having me on.

No need to be nervous.

You're just here with friends.

True.

Okay, fair.

So this is your first time to the Games?

Yes.

This is.

Yeah,

I just aged up this season to 40 to 44.

It's a goal I've had since I

started competing in the

Masters division.

And thankfully to the expanded field,

I was able to qualify this year.

Expanded field.

For me as a spectator and a

lover of the Masters part of the sport,

only taking 10 when the

only way to get there was

online competition was unfair.

Yeah.

It was, yeah,

I think that that was

underrepresented for sure.

I think that when it was 20,

that felt like kind of a nice sweet spot,

still super like elite level goal,

but a little bit more attainable.

And candidly,

when they first expanded it to 40,

I was a little bit like, oh,

wondering like,

does that dilute this goal

that I've been striving for for so long?

Because last year in 35 to 39, I was 28th.

in semis.

So still, you know,

there's a big difference

between a number 28 and number 10 athlete,

right?

But I could see that it was kind of,

I was getting closer and

closer to that goal.

So initially, I was like, oh, man,

I don't know, the goalpost has moved,

but the goal was the same.

And it all worked out

because I got 33rd at semis.

So I'm very grateful for

that expanded field.

I think it'll actually be

really awesome to have way

more representation from like,

what happens on the

leaderboard throughout the

four days with the

the bigger competitive

fields in each age group.

So two notes to that one,

it only dilutes the field

for the people who don't do

well in person.

That's fair.

Right.

Yeah.

So if you're a better

in-person competitor and

you come in in 33rd, but finish in eighth,

then to me,

it shows more of the fallacy

in the online competition

than the dilution of the product.

I agree.

And I think it'll also be very interesting,

both the strength and those

that can kind of show up on

game day and compete in person,

but also just with 10 tests

compared to the four that we had in semis,

like there's still a lot

that we haven't done yet.

So there's still a lot of

opportunity to push that

larger field and sort of

see how things might shake

out very differently because of it.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm pumped to see what we have.

So Corey Leonard,

as someone who finished

157th in his age group,

does not dilute it.

I work at 40.

Yeah, no, I'm so, it's, whether I was,

you know, 40th or,

it doesn't matter to me.

I was able to qualify.

I can call myself a Masters Games athlete.

Like, that was the dream.

So regardless of how big that field is,

it's still, you know,

that accomplishment is the same.

And I would point out my own co-host,

Jamie.

Who I've known for years.

Yeah.

We're the same age.

Yeah.

You age up every year together.

Yeah.

She is so much better in person.

Oh, yeah.

When she gets to be in person,

she wins or podiums.

Yeah.

No, she is a force to be reckoned with.

It's those game day performers.

Like she shows up and I

think she's just so good at

knowing her abilities,

but also her ability to

kind of actually race and

see where other people are in the field.

She's remarkable in person.

Yeah, I've been competing against Jamie.

We did Granite Games together back in 2019,

which was like all of our

first large masters competition.

So yeah,

we've been coming up together for

a while.

The other thing this does

with 40 athletes is you're

going to have a lot more

specialists and people that

are going to mess with the

leaderboard a lot more than

when you only had 10 at the games.

So these 150 point wins are

not going to be as easy

that have been happening

the last few years.

than this year because

you're going to have

specialists crushing the

field in certain events.

I agree with that.

I think that's going to be

really cool with so many

people to see how much

things shake out from day to day.

I mean,

even at legends where there were 40 of us,

like the leaderboard was

very different as the weekend went on.

And I think that that's

really exciting and being

able to really lean in on

your strengths and having

more events between to maybe mitigate,

um,

uh something that you're not

as strong at I just I think

that that'll be really

really exciting for all of

us to to participate in and

hopefully for people paying

attention along on the

leaderboard fans family and

so forth yeah I think the

more movement on the

leaderboard the more people

watch I agree you know so

the other question I have

for you is last week the um

Organizers of the

competition had a Zoom call

with the athletes.

Any thoughts coming out of that?

I mean, I just, I'm so anxious.

They said that they'd start

releasing programming this

week and I haven't seen anything yet.

So it's just constantly like

refreshing emails to see if

we're getting anything.

They did mention that the events,

like the implement,

the types of equipment or

like the types of workouts that we'll be,

we'll be doing.

I'm paraphrasing are fairly

straightforward CrossFit.

So I think that's,

Good, because those are going to hurt.

And we all know how to

really push CrossFit style events.

It does, you know,

never having prepared for

the games before,

we've been doing a lot of

things that you typically

don't train during a normal

competitive season, pegboards, yokes.

handstand obstacle courses,

things like that.

So it sounds like those

won't necessarily be at play,

which is maybe a little bit of a bummer,

but I also understand.

So I'm just excited to see

what they're going to throw at us.

I'm somewhat familiar with

Bob and Joe's programming.

I don't know what level of

input from HQ there has been.

The workouts are always a lot of fun.

So I'm just really anxious

to see what they're going to have us do.

They also,

you now know you have 10 events.

Yeah.

You know time domains.

The first event is like two

minutes or something.

it's interesting yeah so we

have rough idea of time

domains without knowing

what actually what anything

is so I mean I think we

have events that are short

as two minutes and then our

longest is maybe like 18 so

it's nothing super long and

grindy we're not looking at

a 30 to 45 minute event

which makes sense just for

the sheer volume of

athletes that they have to

get through the competition

floors throughout the day

like I get it um but yeah I'm like

we're playing around with

two minute AM reps or like

max reps of X things this week,

just to like potentially

prepare for things that

could be thrown at us.

Yeah.

I, um, I wish they,

they would find a way to

get one long workout.

Yeah.

Me too.

Just because that's like very gamesy.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I agree with you.

Something that you could do

like a mass start or, uh,

and this is our first year.

So.

Right.

Yeah.

That's how the approach that

I've had for all of it.

It's like,

this is brand new doing it this way.

I know the masters community

can be very vocal in what

we want for better or for worse,

where I just want,

I'm just so grateful to

have this platform to

compete at this level.

Like the fact that they give

a crap to let us old folks

compete in an elite level is just like,

I think so incredible.

So it's like, let's go,

let's see how it is.

Let's make the most of it.

And hopefully this is a

great example of like a

really well run safe event

that we just build upon

from year to year and we'll

get more momentum, right?

All things go as planned.

Yeah.

I've heard a couple of

guesses on the short workout.

Corey's in the chat saying

two minute max calorie echo bike.

I've heard max handstand hold.

I would, I would like that one.

Yeah.

You have a gymnastics background, right?

Yeah.

I did gymnastics through college.

So I did division one

gymnastics at William and

Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia,

but that was, you know,

a lifetime ago when I graduated.

But yeah, it's the,

that foundation has been

super helpful for CrossFit.

Yeah.

I,

I saw an old post of yours on Instagram.

I do a deep dive where you

showed a picture of

yourself doing gymnastics

at William and Mary because

you cut the program.

They did, but then it was reinstated.

It was fun because that was

during the pandemic and it

was my husband and I got

married during COVID.

So it was already like super stressful,

crazy time.

And like a week before our

wedding is when they had announced,

I think there were nine

different teams that had

been cut from the varsity program.

And it was super tumultuous,

but eventually both men's

and women's gymnastics were reinstated.

And then a number of the

other sports were as well.

So it was super fun.

stressful for a little while

and I like couldn't get

involved because I was

getting married but a lot

of my teammates the alumni

associations like the

donors everybody got

involved and like the team

was doing great that's

awesome yeah um swimming

and diving was one of them

wow yeah my co-host cat's

son goes to William & Mary

oh really and he was he was

there on a baseball

scholarship um and then he

quit baseball but he's

still there as a student okay cool

Corey says his max handstand

hold is six seconds.

I haven't tested one in a long,

we had one during age group

semis last year.

It was like a part B after a

barbell cycling workout.

And I had really high

aspirations for what mine would be.

And then just because of

that gymnastics background.

And I was so smoked from

that event that I remember

it not going that well.

And I haven't really tested it since.

So we'll see.

Can that be a problem where

you're so confident in your

ability in one thing that

you don't address it as

much anymore because you

need to work on these other seven things,

right?

This freaking sport,

you have to be good at everything.

And at any given time,

that means something is

kind of taking a bit of a back burner,

right?

While you address your weaknesses.

So absolutely.

But then, you know, I,

I work with a coach and

he's really good at making

sure we're getting touches

on things regularly.

And if there's anything that

we would normally consider a strength,

and if I do it and I'm like, Oh,

that was a little bit more

challenging or I got more

fatigued than I normally would.

Like,

it just means we need some more

exposure to it.

So yeah,

hopefully there's nothing

that we've been totally

neglecting there's no way

to know like you're

preparing for the unknown

and unknowable but like

it's a constant mind f

being like turning up the

dials in certain areas and

turning them down in other

areas and like just hoping

everything levels out at

some point there's no like

gaping holes do you it

sounds to me like you're

the athlete that wants to

know what the workouts are ahead of time

Dude, I am like, yeah, I would, well,

I don't know.

I say that, I said that so confidently,

like, yes, I absolutely want to know.

But then with that comes a

little bit more anxiety.

It's kind of nice when it's

out of your control.

And I do like the level

playing field of people

kind of showing up and

getting the information at the same time.

Because depending on where

people are traveling from

and having the opportunity

to test things or not test things,

like...

or I don't want to have to question like,

do I need to do this in its entirety?

Are we doing intervals based

on what it is?

You know what I mean?

So it takes a little bit of

the guesswork out of it,

which is kind of nice.

Ignorance is bliss a bit,

but I am like by nature,

very much an over preparer.

I like to go into any scenario,

like with every T crossed and I dotted.

So I wouldn't mind at this

point knowing a little something,

a little bit more than we have now,

at least.

And hopefully they release

at least a few workouts this week.

It sounds like we'll get the

one with running where

we're leaving the

convention center and then

coming back in.

It sounded like that was

going to be the first one

that they release.

So we'll see.

I hope so.

But if not, like that's okay too.

So what do you do for your daytime gig?

My daytime gig.

I'm a professional CrossFit athlete.

I am not.

I work for a global architecture firm.

So I'm an interior designer

at a large architecture firm.

So we're an international firm,

but I'm at the Washington DC studio.

So I design commercial interiors,

primarily like workplace.

I do some civic project, like libraries.

We do some healthcare.

And I absolutely love, love, love my job,

but it has nothing to do with

CrossFit.

I think there's opportunities.

Like I love infusing my projects with,

you know,

health and wellness at the

forefront to kind of design

spaces that make people

happier and healthier and

more productive.

Um, but it's, you know,

I don't work in the fitness

industry per se.

That's really funny because

that is what my wife is degreed in.

Oh yeah.

yeah so I have everything I

own that is decorative is

in this room it's one room

of our house so is that

what you were allowed to

decorate and then he she

has domain of everything

else yeah that sounds about

right I have the podcast

center she has everything

else in the house yeah my

husband when we first moved

in together like

I think there was some

initial push about him

wanting more control over that.

But eventually, I mean,

it's also amazing how his

styles and like design eye

has evolved just since

we've been together.

But I think he can

definitely relate to that.

He's constantly asking, like,

can I just hang up this thing?

I'm like,

we'll find somewhere where not a

lot of people will see it

and we'll let you put it on a wall.

When we first got together,

I fought and I lost a lot.

And then we started watching

shows together.

So then, you know, I'm old.

I'm really old.

So we were watching Trading Spaces.

Oh, I remember Trading Spaces, of course.

All that kind of stuff, right?

Oh, yeah.

And then my design eye got better.

Like I was actually talking

to her in her language.

Yeah.

My husband,

he just became a co-owner of a gym.

It's a new CrossFit affiliate.

And as a part of the

affiliation and the rebrand,

we did some minor cosmetic

renovations associated with

this new brand.

And he had the best time.

I definitely leaned in to

kind of help with that,

but like from developing their logo,

like their typology and font,

their colors,

and then like how to apply

that within the gym to kind

of holistically make it

embody this new brand.

Like he ran with that and it

looks so great.

And that was all him.

Yeah.

For me,

it's all the stuff around this

media company that I have.

Yeah.

I design all the graphics.

It's your baby.

Right.

And I play around and I

change them every year.

I think my wife instilled that in me too.

Like they get a little bored with it.

So then the next year

everything looks a little bit different.

You can always evolve, tweak, improve.

Yeah.

I think that's especially

like when it's your ship to steer,

like that's one of the

benefits of being able to do that.

Yeah.

And you, and you,

does that give you like a

reprieve from the training

or does the training give

you a reprieve from your job?

Yes, both maybe.

I think that training is

definitely an escape for me still.

My husband has been in

CrossFit as a coach.

He was a competitive athlete

for a really long time,

and that's what he's

entrenched in all of the time, right?

So it can become...

not overwhelming but he

doesn't get that like

escape from it as much as

as I do like so I it's

really special that it's

something separate um it

definitely gets challenging

from a balance standpoint

the demands of of training

especially for something

like the games with the

volume that we're doing and

I mean I work a lot of

hours so kind of figuring

out ways to to make that

work but we've struck a

balance it's working and i

you know,

I would love to be able to spend

more time in the gym if I could,

but I also love my career

so much and the opportunity

to work with people in the

capacity that I do that.

It's just like,

whatever we need to do to make both work,

we're going to make it work.

And if we get to a breaking

point where things are like

tipping too far in one

direction or the other,

we kind of recalibrate and move forward.

But training and competing

is definitely like an

escape from the job that

can get very stressful at times.

So you live in the DC area.

I do.

The only thing that goes

through my head is avoid that place.

Like the plague.

Why?

Oh,

just because of everything going on

currently.

No, the traffic.

Oh, it's, it's awful.

It's not great.

Every time I would go,

like we would vacation in

the Outer Banks all the time.

We love the Outer Banks.

I grew up in Pennsylvania

and then moved to Ohio.

We have to go down near D.C.

to the Outer Banks.

And every time it's like, okay,

how do I reroute to avoid the D.C.

traffic at all costs?

How do you deal with that daily?

You don't get anywhere fast.

How do I deal with that?

Part of it is I've worked at

my firm for a very long time,

so I have a little bit of

flexibility where if that

means kind of coming in

after rush hour in the morning,

like working from home for a little bit.

So I train first thing in the morning.

I'm like a 6 a.m.

to 8.30 kind of gal.

And then I'll be working

from home in the morning to

then commute downtown.

And I'm only downtown like

three days a week.

So Mondays and Fridays,

I typically will work at home.

um but it's really just

trying to navigate around

rush hour because that gets

sticky um so that's

something that we're coming

up against so my husband's

new gym is 20 miles in the

opposite direction so I

work downtown we kind of

live equidistant currently

and eventually we'll be

moving out closer to his

gym um but that just means

another 20 miles to my

commute which for me is

like a future kate problem

like we'll look at that after the games

Cause I don't want to really

wrap my head around what

that would look like.

We'll make it work.

A new home to decorate.

Yeah.

Eventually again,

another future Kate problem.

Like that sounds fun,

but that's also sounds so

overwhelming right now,

just with everything else

kind of coming up on my immediate agenda.

But yeah, yeah.

We'll move out there.

Maybe like late fall timeframe.

Okay.

TBD.

The other thing I remember

is if you get on that outer belt and,

like buckle up and hang on

because everybody's moving

oh yeah it's just like it's

the wild west but then you

know it's the dmv area so

it's dc maryland virginia

and depending on where you

live you always think the

other people are the worst

drivers so if you're from

virginia you think the

maryland drivers are the

worst if you're maryland

you think people from

virginia are the worst you

know I think just

everybody's kind of that

driver because we're all in

a rush to get somewhere and

not getting anywhere that

quick and people are mad who knows

So you've mentioned your husband, Cam,

correct?

Yeah.

Cameron.

Yeah.

And you guys,

you guys didn't get married

all that too long ago.

We're coming up on four

years this September.

So yeah,

it was very much a pandemic

pandemic wedding.

We pulled it off.

It was small.

We wanted it to be small anyway,

and it was a little bit

smaller because of that.

But yeah, so we're,

we'll be four years married

on September 12th.

And he's an affiliate owner.

He is Cardinal CrossFit in Chantilly,

Virginia.

If you're in Northern Virginia,

come visit.

How did you guys meet?

On Bumble.

We met,

it was before I had started CrossFit.

Yeah.

And then we went on like a

date and then we ended up

reconnecting about a year

and a half later,

but it's because I had

started CrossFit and he saw

that I was like getting

really into it and getting competitive.

And it was his little in to

like slide into my DMs and be like,

Hey girl, I see you're doing CrossFit.

You're doing really well.

And that,

and we were engaged like six

months later.

Okay.

Yeah.

Never knew the slide into

the DM thing worked, but apparently.

i think I think I don't know

how many people probably

openly talk about he's

gonna be so embarrassed

that I told the story but

yeah it's probably more

common than you think I

don't know yeah he must

have written it really well

yeah no he's yeah he's

awesome so it wasn't it was

a tough for me to get

re-interested in that

situation and you have a dog pixie

We do.

You did do your research.

That's our girl.

She's coming to Birmingham with us.

We're driving from DC to

Birmingham so we can have a

car full of everything that we need,

but also to be able to bring her.

Very cool.

Yeah.

We like to take her as much

as we can when we travel.

And what kind of dog is she?

little pit bull mix we call

a little pocket pity she's

kind of small um but she's

she's special we joke that

we kind of got a lemon she

like gets sick a lot and

everything is wrong with

her at all times but she

was made for us you're

actually the second athlete

that told me they're

bringing their dog I can't

remember who the first one

was oh really but the

person was like listen in

between wasn't it kyle

wasn't it kyle ruth from

ttt it might have been kyle I think so

he's like I need to be able

to chill in between events

and nothing makes me chill

more than my dog it like it

really brings you just back

down to normalcy when you

like get home between an

event you need to go take

your dog out for a poop

just like normal normal

life right I did that right

before this podcast it's

just so that's pretty

normal must do's oh yeah um

I wish I could bring mine

Well,

you're welcome to come visit ours if

you want to.

So that's really cool.

So the event's coming up.

I can't even believe this in

like seven days, eight days.

It felt like because semis

was so long ago that we had forever.

And now it is crazy to wrap

my brain around how quickly

it's coming up.

So what are your realistic

expectations for this week?

I knew you'd ask me this,

and I still don't know how

to answer that.

I don't have a placement goal.

I'm not saying I want to be top 10,

I want to be top 20.

At least I haven't set one

of an outcome-based goal like that yet.

I do...

I want to come away from the

weekend knowing that I gave

my literal all on every

single event because I

think that with a

competition that has that many events,

I've had experiences when

you finish something up and

you know in your heart of

hearts that you left

something on the table.

An executioner,

I freaking fell on a dumbbell thruster.

Who falls on a dumbbell thruster?

I fell at Legends in 2022.

Stupid stuff happens sometimes,

but I'm not even talking about that.

It's just from the grit and the approach,

just staying in it and

walking away from each and

every event being like,

regardless of how I placed,

like that is where my fitness was.

I gave everything I could.

I'm really proud of that performance.

So I think that that's my,

and I don't know if that's

like a cheesy miscongeniality answer.

I want to be proud of my performance,

but I genuinely do.

I'm going to dive into this

a little more because what I'm,

I'm cool with the goal.

You're going to poke holes in it.

I'm cool.

Cool with the goal, but yeah,

I swam for a very, very long time.

Right.

And I would swim like two or

three events a meet.

Yeah.

In my entire career, in my entire career,

I swam at the perfect race twice.

Yeah.

That's fair.

And I don't say it needs to be perfect.

But that means I've left

something on the table.

Yeah.

At 99.9% of the time.

So what kind of goals were you setting?

I mean, that's time specific, right?

For swimming events.

Did you have specific time

goals that you were trying

to hit in each of those races?

Everything was a time goal.

Everything was hitting a time.

And it would differ

depending on the season and

how far into training I was

or taper or blah, blah, blah, right?

Yeah.

But for this – and I get

what – I think I get what

you're trying to get to.

Yeah.

Like the fact that I don't

want to leave anything on

the table in any event.

Trust me, by the end of the weekend,

there's going to be –

There's going to be something.

No, I don't disagree with you.

It's just hard for me –

to put specific outcome

goals on things where all

I'm in control of is my preparation.

And I had a conversation with my coach,

I think it was this past weekend,

just being really confident

in the work that we've put in,

knowing that I've done

everything I can to get ready for this.

taking a lot of feeling a

lot of accomplishment out

of that in and of itself

but at the same time I'm

not the girl like yes I

have the goal of uh

qualifying for the crossfit

games and I've done that

and it's not like a box

that I've checked that now

I'm gonna coast and just

have fun like I'm gonna

have fun no matter what

like competing is fun but I

am not going to the

crossfit games to have fun

like I'm going to the

crossfit games to kick ass

I just don't know what that

will mean comparatively to

this like amazingly stacked

international field

that I'll be competing against.

So what if we rephrase it?

I didn't mean this to turn into this,

but my therapy session, I'm into it.

Okay.

Is that what if we rephrase it as,

I know there's things that

are going to go wrong this

week and I'm not going to

give up on myself.

I like that a lot.

And if I can say I've done

that in every event,

I didn't give in to the mistake.

And I didn't give up on

myself and it's a success.

No,

I think that's a great way to look at it.

Because I mean, when you say realistic,

you have to say something's

going to go wrong.

You guys are doing 87

different movements in 14

different time domains.

Like with 20 people in a heat,

it's going to be like pandemonium.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that rephrasing it that way,

like gives you something a

little bit more tangible to

hold on to when you're evaluating like,

was this successful?

I mean,

would an amazing performance on the

leaderboard be successful?

Absolutely.

But I just,

I want it to be a little bit

more about the process and

kind of being in the moment

in each and every one of those events.

And then collectively across

each of those individual moments,

where does that put me at

the end of the weekend?

Yeah.

Well, in life,

we have realistic goals and that,

which is what we're talking about now.

And we have shoot for the moon goals,

right?

100%.

Right.

And we're not talking shoot

for the moon on these ones.

Just realistically,

what do you want to be the weekend?

And yeah.

Cause I mean,

thinking back to my own athletic career,

there's been times I've

given up on myself in the middle of a,

an event and that really makes me feel.

Oh yeah.

You feel like garbage after the fact.

Yeah,

where I made a mistake and then it just,

I gave up.

Yeah,

it's hard to bounce back from those

things.

But I think what's so great

about our sport and

competitions like this is

we have 10 chances, right?

It's not a one and done

where we've been preparing

all year for one thing.

There's going to be a lot of variety,

a lot of different

opportunities to kind of

step up and deliver.

So I'm just hoping I can do that.

Yeah.

And that goal gives you the

headspace of things are

going to go wrong.

Yeah.

I'm never going to quit on myself.

So then if you have a bad event,

you're not quitting on

yourself and you're ready for the next.

My coach Kyle would joke

when things get really hard

in a workout or if there's

a certain movement that I struggle with,

I'll text him after and be like,

I got really sad on those

dumbbell snatches.

Or I got really sad.

You hear people talk about grief burpees.

I got really sad on those

burpee box jump overs.

So we want no sad moments next week.

Um, what kind of athlete are you?

So you were, have a gymnastics background.

Yeah.

You like to hang from the rig.

You like to go upside down.

I do.

I do.

It's, um,

I like that stuff just cause it's

familiar to me.

I do feel like there's a

little bit of an edge when

it comes to like high volume,

higher skill gymnastics,

but we've been putting in a

lot of work and in my top end strength,

I've always been a little

bit of a strength limited athlete.

So, um,

I mean truly for years we've

been hammering top end

strength and then in this

past year alone I've put on

like eight pounds and that

man that's an adjustment

like mentally but like uh

from a performance

standpoint has been paying

off in dividends just in

terms of my ability to like

move weight so it's been

really interesting to see

because after gymnastics I

ran marathons for

Eight years.

And so I had become very

much like a long grindy kind of athlete.

Like I wanted the 20 minute

workout where I could just

settle into a pace and maintain it,

but slowly,

but surely over the cross of

this competitive career,

like my output is getting better.

And I'm,

I'm finding that some of the

shorter high output stuff

is more my wheelhouse than it used to be.

That sounds like you're set

up for success in this

event because of short power output.

Yeah.

Well, Kate, this has been a blast.

Yeah, it's been fun to talk to you.

I can't wait to meet you in person.

As I've said on every show,

we're going to be there

doing my behind the scenes.

So we'll be back.

Ellie Hiller and myself will

be back in the back talking

to the athletes,

recording your

conversations with other athletes.

And then we'll have a couple

of videographers doing some

stuff on the floor.

But we want to give you guys

a highlight reel of your

weekend in Birmingham.

We just,

I don't want to speak collectively

on behalf of the entire Masters community,

because I don't think that

I'm qualified to do that.

But just in terms of my

personal appreciation for

all of the support and

exposure that you bring to our community,

Scott, like,

thank you for everything that

you and your team does,

because it's very apparent

that you really value Masters athletes.

It's like, it's people like you,

it's people like Bob and

Joe that kind of allow us

to do what we love to do.

So I wanted to give you

like a huge thank you for that as well.

Well, thank you so much.

The Masters community means a ton to me.

You know, I'm an older athlete myself.

And I feel like I'm with my people.

So can't wait to be there

and can't wait to meet you.

Everybody in the chat,

you've been awesome.

Thank you so much for being here.

And we'll see everybody next

time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.

Thanks.

Bye, guys.