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Speaker 1: Back to your regularly scheduled hurdling Hurdle Podcast, a show

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Speaker 1: back with episode seventy eight, and today I am chatting

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Speaker 1: with Katrine David's daughter. She's a two time CrossFit Games champion,

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Speaker 1: She started doing CrossFit back in twenty eleven and she

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Speaker 2: and everyone welcomed her to the gym, and she ended

435
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Speaker 2: up being like, okay, like I might try this thing out.

436
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 2: And she starts doing CrossFit and then she's, you know,

437
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 2: might be listening to podcasts or she's looking through Netflix

438
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 2: and found that CrossFit documentary and she was like, and

439
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 2: I saw Catherine Davis letter talk about being the best

440
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 2: version of herself, and she was like, it really hit home.

441
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Speaker 2: And I was like, whether it was in school and training,

442
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Speaker 2: I was like, okay, like all right, I'm gonna do

443
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Speaker 2: my best now. And she was like, I'd be working

444
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 2: on pull ups and I couldn't do pull ups. And

445
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 2: so I was like, all right, if I just work

446
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 2: harder on pull ups and one day I could do it.

447
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,640
Speaker 2: I could do something that before, like I never thought

448
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Speaker 2: was possible. And she said it started translating into like

449
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:47,399
Speaker 2: other areas of her life, and that just that I

450
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 2: was like, oh my gosh, if she now has a

451
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 2: better life, she now works, if she can now achieve

452
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 2: things that she before I couldn't do, imagine like her energy.

453
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Speaker 2: Imagine if that spreads, if one of her friends is

454
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Speaker 2: now like, oh my gosh, like I want to do

455
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 2: that is kind of like a domino effect and all

456
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,919
Speaker 2: of that just because I get to do what I

457
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Speaker 2: do every single day, and because I'm good at what

458
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Speaker 2: I do, I get to be in your podcast and

459
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Speaker 2: share my story. I get to have Hebrew and mars

460
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Speaker 2: income and film me and be in a crossbit documentary.

461
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Speaker 2: I get to share what I do and I get

462
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Speaker 2: to impact people, and that to me makes it all

463
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Speaker 2: worth it. If that one girl here is my story,

464
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Speaker 2: if something resonates something that I do through my own actions,

465
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Speaker 2: I get to inspire her. That means more to me

466
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467
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Speaker 2: and I know why I do this, and that pushes

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Speaker 2: me and drives me through those days.

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Speaker 1: back to it. Twenty seventeen is after you've already won

496
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: the Crossway Games, So I want to just dial it

497
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: back just a smidge to kind of the earlier part

498
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 1: of your career, right because you go to the games

499
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Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, yep, go to the games in twenty thirteen,

500
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Speaker 1: and then in twenty fourteen, you don't go to the games.

501
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: How was that for you?

502
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Speaker 2: So? Yeah, I think I was good at Crossford right away,

503
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 2: and I think that was kind of dangerous for me

504
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 2: because I think that because I had that kind of

505
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 2: early success with the regional stages and I'd make it

506
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 2: to the Games. I liked being a Crossby Games athlete

507
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 2: and being able to make in it to the Games.

508
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 2: The rest of the year, I'm Across at Games athlete,

509
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 2: and then again in twenty thirteen the same thing. And

510
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Speaker 2: I think it can be kind of easy to settle

511
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 2: in on that. I didn't think I ever, you know,

512
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 2: thought i'd go win the games. But I was kind

513
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 2: of like, you can become content. And I was doing

514
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 2: a lot of things. I was a full time student,

515
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 2: I was a full time coach. I was trying to

516
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 2: train for Across A Games showing up at regionals that year.

517
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 2: We got to know the events a couple weeks in advance,

518
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 2: and my pulling isn't the greatest and definitely wasn't and

519
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 2: ten legless rope climbs for time show up and normally

520
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 2: at least things show up in like with other events,

521
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 2: or you know, they might show up with power cleans

522
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: or with running, so if my rope climbs are bad,

523
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 2: I can make up time in other places. And this

524
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 2: workout was just ten legless rope climbs and there was

525
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Speaker 2: nowhere to hide. And that was definitely before I kind

526
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Speaker 2: of I had my mentality now where I was very

527
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 2: focused on other girls. I'd be scared of workouts. I

528
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 2: was focused on where I was on the leader board,

529
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 2: and I knew coming into that I was like, if

530
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: I don't perform well enough in this event, like this

531
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 2: could be the event that keeps me out of the

532
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: crossbit game. So I was already like very nervous about it.

533
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 2: And that year I was definitely in better shape than

534
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: I'd ever been before, in better shape than I wasn't

535
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: in twelve and thirteen. So I start off the regionals weekend.

536
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 2: It's a three day weekend and it had seven events,

537
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 2: and I am doing so well. I think I was

538
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: in first place after day one, and every single interview

539
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 2: that anyone had done with me, they're always like like wow,

540
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 2: like congratulations, like you're really killing this, like how do

541
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 2: you feel? And all my responses were always like like oh,

542
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 2: thank you. I'm just like we'll see how I do tomorrow.

543
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 2: I'm just like focusing on the world climes. Like everything

544
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 2: was always about the world climes and about the world climes.

545
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 2: I could never just sit there and be like thank you,

546
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 2: like I did well on this event, like happy about it,

547
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 2: And sure enough the workout comes along and I'm doing okay.

548
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 2: I was trying to like, of course, like with competition

549
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 2: and stuff, you go out maybe faster than you intended to.

550
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 2: And then on the seventh rope climb, it was either

551
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 2: the seventh or the aid. I failed one. Like I

552
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: made it almost all the way to the top, and

553
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 2: you have to kind of like let go of one

554
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: hand hit the beam to get to get it counted.

555
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 2: And I knew if i'd like go of one hand,

556
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 2: I didn't have enough strength to just like hold on,

557
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 2: but I tried, and I just like slid down the

558
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 2: whole rope and immediately there's minutes left of the workout,

559
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 2: like the clock is still ticking, and immediately I start

560
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: bawling my eyes up because I was like this is it,

561
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 2: Like I didn't make the CrossFit games and it's so

562
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 2: crazy to think back, like we miss lifts all the time,

563
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 2: we miss rope combs all the time. You know, you

564
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 2: stand up and you take a couple of deep breaths

565
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 2: and you try again. But in that moment, I was

566
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: just like, immediately, I'm not gonna make the CrossFit Games,

567
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 2: and sure enough I didn't. And at the time, that's

568
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 2: all I wanted to do. I didn't have any plans

569
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 2: for the summer. I just wanted to train all summer.

570
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 2: I just wanted to go to the Crossmic Games. I

571
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: wanted to compete, you know, so that in that moment

572
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 2: that was kind of the hardest thing that could have

573
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 2: happened to me.

574
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a hurdle moment for sure, and

575
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: it's it's it's interesting because it's one of those scenarios often,

576
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: as we talk about on the podcast, where at the

577
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: time it felt like such a failure for you, like

578
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: you and you went into it. And I've done this

579
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: before as well, like last week on a long run

580
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: that I was doing, toward the end of the like

581
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: the middle of the run, I just started to feel

582
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: the wheels coming off, like it was like it's really humid,

583
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: I feel really tired. My right quad feels heavy, and

584
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: then like as time went on, it was just one

585
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: thing after another, and I was just like the failure

586
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: mentality was there, and I realized that when the run ended,

587
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: and I like literally sat on a park bench and

588
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: bowled my eyes out. I was like, you succumbed to

589
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: it instead of just taking it one thing at a

590
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: time and under standing that you'll get to learn from this,

591
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: and yeah, a lot of the tools that it seems

592
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: like you use as well now when things go not

593
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: as plan, Yeah, I just you know, let go. And

594
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: so now having that experience of the Games in twenty

595
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: fourteen and not going to the Games in twenty fourteen,

596
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: you know how to handle when that seventh or eighth

597
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: rope client doesn't go as planned.

598
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the same right after So Ben wasn't

599
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 2: my coach at the time. I had done like a

600
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 2: training camp with him and his team, so I knew him,

601
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 2: but he wasn't my coach. And after those regionals he

602
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 2: texted me and he was like, hey, like, I know

603
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: this isn't what you wanted. You probably can't see it

604
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 2: right now, but like this could be the best thing

605
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 2: that I've happened to you, and I remember just reading

606
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: that text and I was so mad at him. I

607
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 2: couldn't believe that he could even think that, like, how

608
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 2: could this possibly be a good thing or anything could

609
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 2: come out of this? And I didn't probably didn't respawn

610
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: for at least a week, and I definitely did not

611
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 2: see that anything good could come out of that. So

612
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: but after that, I kind of went on vacation with

613
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 2: my dad and my family, and then I came back and.

614
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: How did you come back? Like what was coming back?

615
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 2: Like? Yeah, I hated it, Yeah, because I hated the

616
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 2: fact that other people were going to the gym and

617
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 2: training for the CrossFit Games and what was I doing.

618
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 2: I was just going to the gym to train, Like

619
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 2: I absolutely hated it. And I think what I did

620
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 2: was Annie was training for the CrossFit Games, and I

621
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: just pretended that I was going. I literally just lied

622
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 2: to myself. I just pretended that I was going to

623
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 2: across for games too. I was probably the best workout

624
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 2: partner she could have found because I wasn't like a competition,

625
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: but I would push her every single day. And at

626
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 2: the same time, she really pulled me out of the

627
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 2: hole that I was in because I hated going to

628
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 2: the gym, but she made it fun for me and

629
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 2: she pushed me. And that then of course, like she

630
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: went to the Games, and I didn't really watch any

631
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 2: of the games, but I remember watching the last event

632
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 2: and I was kind of just like watching it for

633
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: my bed, and remember, you know, CAMEO wins the Games,

634
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 2: and I shut my computer and I remember waking up

635
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 2: the morning after and it was like a million pounds

636
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: were off my chest because no one hadmitted to the Games,

637
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: and it was a yeah, it was a clean slate,

638
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 2: and I think I kind of had a head start

639
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: in that year because other people had gone at the Games.

640
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 2: And it's really hard. It's a really hard mental like

641
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: you have like a mental like let because you're so excited,

642
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 2: you trained so hard, and you always have to come

643
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 2: back down after it, and your body takes a beating

644
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 2: at the Games and it takes like weeks and up

645
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 2: to a month to just recover from that. And I

646
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: had kind of trained for the Games but not competed,

647
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 2: so I was ready to go.

648
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: And I go through the depression phase. Yeah, yeah, totally.

649
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: The same things happened after a marathon when you've been

650
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: training for three four months, just like you're with this

651
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: one goal. Then you run the marathon and you don't

652
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: know what to do with yourself. You're like, I have

653
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,239
Speaker 1: all this time and you don't want to get right

654
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: back to doing what you were already doing. So it's hard.

655
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 2: So I think not making it really showed me how

656
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: much I wanted to be there. It showed me what

657
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: I was willing to do to get there, and I,

658
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: you know, made a promise to myself that I never

659
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: wanted to not make it if I was trying in it.

660
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: I think it kind of elevated me to a different level.

661
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: And I was so willing to learn, and I was

662
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 2: so willing to work hard, and you know, I want

663
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 2: I did a couple of training camps that fall, so

664
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 2: the fall of twenty fourteen, and I remember just kind

665
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 2: of like people always told me that my coach was

666
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 2: like he only takes four athletes, like he doesn't take

667
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 2: any more athletes, which is still true to this day.

668
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 2: But I remember being like, I didn't have a coach

669
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 2: right now, and I can either just you know, if

670
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 2: I don't ask, I'm just I'm not going to have

671
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: a coach, or I can go ask and either you

672
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 2: can say yes and I'll have a coach, or you'll

673
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: say no, and it's still don't have a coach. I

674
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 2: remember walking into his office and asking him if he

675
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 2: wanted to be my coach, and he didn't say yes

676
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 2: right away. He said he would like try it out

677
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 2: and he would send me some programming and see how

678
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 2: it'd work out. And at the end of that year,

679
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, I want to be your coach.

680
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: I'll do it.

681
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 2: And yeah. So I've been a team ever since then,

682
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,919
Speaker 2: and that was great. So we started working a lot

683
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 2: on He works a lot on mindset and characteristics and

684
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: what we focus on and what we don't. And I

685
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 2: think that year and I started reading a lot too,

686
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 2: a lot of sports biography, sports psychology, and I think

687
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,439
Speaker 2: it all kind of just like came together in one thing,

688
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 2: and I just truly loved what I was doing. And

689
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 2: other like, I've always been a great student, like I

690
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: love learning. I's got great grades. And that year i'd

691
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: been doing law and it was the first time in

692
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 2: my entire life I failed an exam and I was

693
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 2: shocked by it. And that's another thing that like, I

694
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 2: think things happened for a reason. I think I wasn't

695
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 2: supposed to make the Games that year. I think I

696
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 2: was supposed to fail that exam because other way, if

697
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 2: I would have passed, I would have kept going. And

698
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 2: because I failed, I was like, you know what, Like

699
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 2: I am going to take these six months off this semester.

700
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 2: I don't know what I want to do in school.

701
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 2: I know when do CrossFit, And I think the combination

702
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 2: of that paired with like I didn't make the games

703
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 2: and I knew I wanted to do CrossFit. I just

704
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 2: I gave it everything that I had, and I spent

705
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: I had that that semester off. So I spent more

706
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 2: time with Ben training with He had a great team

707
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 2: at Saphany that I was training with that pushed me

708
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 2: a lot. And yeah, we end up showing up the

709
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen games and we won that games.

710
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: And we just won the games. No it sounds yeah,

711
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: I have to ask then, So I was like, you

712
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: win twenty fifteen, you want you win twenty sixteen? Why

713
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: is training in twenty seventeen so blah for you?

714
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, I lost my grandma in twenty sixteen,

715
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 2: which was the hardest thing and the hardest thing that's

716
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 2: ever happened to me. And something that I don't think

717
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 2: I'll ever completely get over. But that happened in April

718
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 2: of twenty sixteen, and kind of to cope with that,

719
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 2: I never really dealt with it. I just went back

720
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,919
Speaker 2: to Boston and I just dove into training and that's

721
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 2: all I did. I just I did everything for her.

722
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 2: I turned harder for her, and I pushed for her,

723
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 2: and at the games, like I competed for her, and

724
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 2: I definitely like I can feel her so much. I

725
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 2: can always feel her with me, even more when I compete,

726
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 2: like I can literally like I can feel her holding

727
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 2: my hand, I can feel her energy there. And sometimes

728
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 2: I I'm off the field and I'm like, holy crap,

729
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 2: Like I have no clue how I pulled through red

730
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 2: at the right second or how I lifted that, and

731
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: I always came off and I was like, I was like,

732
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 2: how did I do that? I'm like, that was her,

733
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 2: you know. But I did everything for her. And then

734
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 2: after the games, you know, we win and it didn't

735
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 2: bring her back, and I kind of just like lost

736
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 2: a sense of like, all right, you know what am

737
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 2: I doing? What is this? And the same like kind

738
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 2: of what you were saying, like every single second of

739
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 2: every single day was directed towards something and I didn't

740
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 2: have time to think about it. And then after the Games,

741
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 2: I just had so much time and it was just

742
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 2: a hard year for me, and I didn't see a

743
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 2: purpose in what I was doing. I was very tired.

744
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I think a big part

745
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 2: of is too like you won and or we won

746
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 2: and we want again, and I don't know, there was

747
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 2: it was just not a good I think it's a

748
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 2: combination of a lot of things, but that was definitely

749
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 2: the biggest thing for for me.

750
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I mean I think it's firstly, uh,

751
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: it's always hard to lose someone that you love and

752
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: like figure out how to shift life from what you knew. Yeah,

753
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: for me, like I wear this wedding day, my Poppy's

754
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: wedding damn my finger every day and inside it says

755
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: inscribed from Eileen to Murray and literally the same thing

756
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: as you. Like whenever I'm going through a tough time,

757
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: back to our bracelet conversation, I'll like or if I'm anxious,

758
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: I'll like sit wherever I am and just like spin

759
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: this ring out of my finger and I look for

760
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: like strength and just like this idea that you know,

761
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: they're always with me no matter where I go, and

762
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 1: I can carry that to move forward. And I find

763
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,720
Speaker 1: it to be very admirable for you to be able

764
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: to learn and understand that's like that was a reason

765
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: or a part of the reason why you were struggling

766
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: and then to find a greater purpose, right because the

767
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: important thing that you learned from that after you read

768
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: that email from the person at the gym, was that

769
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: you have the opportunity again, this chance to inspire other people.

770
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: And that truly is what your grandmother would want you

771
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: to focus on.

772
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 2: She was the biggest light that I know in this world,

773
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 2: biggest of rightist and that's something that I wish everyone

774
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 2: could have gotten to know her. I really truly do

775
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 2: and this so I feel like the only way that

776
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 2: I can do that is to live through her, you know,

777
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 2: and to share her story and share her light.

778
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: Breaking into today's episode to give my sponsor Whoop a

779
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780
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781
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: into some of the patterns and the habits that I

782
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783
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784
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786
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789
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: there and be honest with myself about some of my

790
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,880
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791
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Speaker 1: off and to optimize the way you train. Tell me

802
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: and you started to talk a little bit about this

803
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: earlier kind of what a day looks like for you, You said, like,

804
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: I train, I eat, I train, I come home, I

805
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: have family time. So these days, what does a typical

806
00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: day look like for you?

807
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 2: Typical day be I wake up somewhere between six and seven,

808
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 2: and I normally start my day with some kind of

809
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: monostructural thing, whether that is go to the pool, whether

810
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 2: that's do a bike workout or do a running workout.

811
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 2: So that's the first thing that I do. And after that,

812
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 2: I come back home and I have breakfast. And I

813
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: love my slow mornings and I love being able to

814
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 2: cook breakfast, sit down. I normally have my cup of

815
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 2: coffee while I read a page out of the Daily Stoic,

816
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 2: and I love just kind of I love reading and

817
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 2: listening to things and kind of getting your mind to

818
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: think about something. And sometimes I journal. I kind of

819
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 2: go on phases whether I like to journal or not,

820
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 2: but the Dayly Stoic is I at least that one

821
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: page a day. And then I have my breakfast. I

822
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 2: might like scroll through Instagram, or I do a lot

823
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 2: of calling someone over breakfast just because of the time change.

824
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 2: It's a great time to call my dad or my

825
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 2: mom or any of my friends.

826
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: Don't glaze over what you're eating for breakfast.

827
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I always eat the same thing I want to, yeah,

828
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 2: every single morning. So I love making an oat milk latte,

829
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 2: So oat milk and then just a shot of espresso.

830
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 2: I have two eggs with egg whites, which I kind

831
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 2: of just like fry, and I put that over a

832
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 2: bed of green So I just put like a lot

833
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 2: of greens, kale, spinach, whatever, and that just kind of

834
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 2: like it makes me really happy that I'm getting in

835
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 2: a lot of greens in my body. Just yeah, at least,

836
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 2: like if everything else would go wrong during the day,

837
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 2: at least I got in my greens in the morning.

838
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 2: And then I put some apples and peppers and all

839
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 2: that's just fresh, a little bit of issamaic and then

840
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 2: I put the eggs over that, and then with that

841
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 2: I have oatmeal and I'm like a little kid with it.

842
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 2: But I love having my oatmeal with whole milk. That's

843
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 2: it's probably called porridge. So that's my breakfast. And salt.

844
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 2: Put a little bit of salt in your oatmeal makes

845
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 2: it so much better. And then just a big glass

846
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 2: of water and then on my way to the gym

847
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 2: all have pre workout. I'll take the Ascent pre workout

848
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 2: every morning, which is nothing but caffeine. So I don't

849
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 2: like the jitters. I don't like anything extra. I just

850
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 2: want caffeine. The raspberry lemon after. Yeah, that's my favorite.

851
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: Drink this morning. I drink it before everything.

852
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: Oh yeah nice, Yeah, I like that. That's almost my favorite.

853
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 2: And they actually just gave me two new flavors today

854
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 2: that I'm super excited about. I tried one, which I love.

855
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try the other one tomorrow and or I

856
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 2: have the z Va pre one. Sometimes I do that

857
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 2: over breakfast too. I do like my caffeine. I feel

858
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 2: like Annie One's we were staying together in Copenahan and

859
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 2: she's like, Katherine, you're the first person that makes me

860
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 2: feel really good about my caffeine intake. And I was like,

861
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's like a compliment or not. I

862
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 2: should start watching it.

863
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you raise your voice like you were Annie

864
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: and actually very much. Yeah. Yeah, so you go to

865
00:43:59,040 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: the gym.

866
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I normally am at the gym by

867
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 2: like nine thirty ten, and then Ben has always blocked

868
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: out two hours for me normally between like eleven oh

869
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 2: one and so like I want to be able to

870
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 2: use those hours because he is so busy, and I

871
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: love being able to work with him, like I love

872
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 2: being coached. I love being like a love life feedback.

873
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 2: I love being held to like like that higher standard

874
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 2: I just love. So I try and like always be

875
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 2: there in early so that I can finish all my

876
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 2: warm up and be completely ready for when he shows up.

877
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 2: And then after that session, I'll normally sit down and

878
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 2: have some lunch and depending on what I have left,

879
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 2: or I might go home and I might just sit

880
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 2: at the gym, sit in the norma text, have some lunch,

881
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 2: and then do my second session. And after that, I

882
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 2: try and at least once a day sit in the

883
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 2: norma text and I try and do it at the gym.

884
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,280
Speaker 2: Like sometimes I go through fate when I go home,

885
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 2: but I like keeping home is home, like I like

886
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,439
Speaker 2: finishing my work day and then when I go home

887
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: being able to just completely relax. So I do like

888
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 2: every now and then I'll do I have this mobility up,

889
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 2: it's go mobility. So that's something that I struggle with,

890
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 2: like stretching and mobilizing after and that one has like

891
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 2: a daily protocol where literally you can put an eight

892
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: minute swallow or twenty two. So if I don't have

893
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 2: any time, I'll put in the eight. At least I'm

894
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 2: getting in some stretching in norma teching, and if I

895
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 2: have it can be thirty minutes or it gonna be

896
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 2: an hour, just depending on what I'm doing. But I

897
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 2: do feel a difference even if it's just like even

898
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 2: if it was just my mind. If it's comfortable, I

899
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 2: don't mind the Placibo effect. But I actually do think

900
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 2: that it works. So I try and be home and

901
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 2: then I do actually like sauna too, so I have

902
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 2: a global gym membership, so sometimes on the way home,

903
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 2: I'll go sit in the sauna and that's kind of

904
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: like my mean time. I love like sitting in there

905
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,240
Speaker 2: for thirty minutes. I like the heat, I like the sweat.

906
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 2: I like that I just get to read and like

907
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 2: peace and quiet. And then you know, if I'm home

908
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 2: before six o'clock or so, and then we just sit

909
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 2: down and have dinner and then whatever, I just relax

910
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,280
Speaker 2: it and I watch the mindless stuff for wading. Actually,

911
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 2: when I'm in Boston, I get to pretty early, so

912
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 2: like I might be in bed by nine and then

913
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 2: maybe lights out by nine point thirty. I think that's

914
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 2: part that, like I wake up earlier here, and I

915
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: feel the day starts earlier in Boston. And also just

916
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 2: like the bridge rounds go to bed earlier. That's just

917
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 2: when like everyone starts winding down, everyone goes to bed

918
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 2: and in ice, and everyone stays up way longer and

919
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 2: sleeps in way longer. But I really like my routine

920
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 2: here and I feel a lot better when I'm in

921
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 2: that routine.

922
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: I love the segmentation of work versus home, and I

923
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: always think it's interesting because obviously you know that like athletes,

924
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: full time job is being an athlete, Like that is

925
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: your job, that's what you do. But sometimes to go

926
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: hand in hand with that, it can be a little differ,

927
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: especially and in case when you get injured. So have

928
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: you dealt with any injuries that have made your job

929
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 1: really hard?

930
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,919
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, I was injured for half the half

931
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 2: of this year.

932
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

933
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I came injured out of last year's games,

934
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 2: Like I wasn't able to use my shoulders at all,

935
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 2: and that was six months until I was doing any

936
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 2: kind of like overhead stuff or hanging or any pull

937
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 2: ups or anything like that. So it's that's probably the

938
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 2: hardest things that you know, athletes can go through because

939
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,439
Speaker 2: it is our bodies and we need our bodies so much,

940
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 2: and it's hard to stay motivated when I don't know,

941
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 2: when you're always doing something to compromise and you can't

942
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 2: train exec like you want to train, and those thoughts

943
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 2: like pop into your head, like you know, am I

944
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 2: gonna sit this season out? You know, am I gonna

945
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 2: be able to train? And if I can't get everything together?

946
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 2: Like what am I going to look like at the

947
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 2: end of like at the games or whatever? So yeah,

948
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 2: those are I can't remember what the question was, but

949
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 2: they're super hard. Yeah. Yeah.

950
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: Injuries. Yeah, when you weren't able to train the way

951
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: that you had hoped that you could train, Yeah, how

952
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: were you kind of delegating your time a little bit?

953
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 2: Differently, I try and make something really good out of it.

954
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 2: So I'm like, Okay, if I can't use my shoulders,

955
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 2: what good come out of this? And I'm like, I'm

956
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 2: going to become stronger than I've ever been before, because

957
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: if I were able to use my shoulders, I'd be

958
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 2: doing all this gymnastic stuff and over it stuff and

959
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 2: more workouts, and I would never dedicate so much time

960
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 2: to my legs and my squatting strength if I were

961
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 2: able to use my shoulders. So I decided to use that,

962
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 2: and we squatted more than I ever have before, and

963
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 2: we did come into this game stronger than I ever before.

964
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 2: So if there's anything good that can come out of that,

965
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 2: I'll use it.

966
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: Talk to me about what was the most challenging thing,

967
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: would you say, or the challenging event that you had

968
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: at the Games this year?

969
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 2: This year, hmm, definitely the sprint event, just because I

970
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 2: was sitting outside the top ten, they were cutting into

971
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 2: the ten and a sprint event is not in my wheelhouse.

972
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 2: And it hasn't been any kind of sprint events like

973
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 2: that that have shown up at the Games. Have I

974
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 2: haven't been placing in the top but I really I

975
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,439
Speaker 2: needed to move myself from outside top ten and into

976
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 2: the top ten if I wanted to compete. So I

977
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 2: was fully aware of walking onto that field that this

978
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 2: could be the last time that I was taking the field.

979
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,919
Speaker 1: In that moment, do you go to Catherine, who's about

980
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: to do the rope times?

981
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 2: No, you mean in the twenty fourteen one, like, do

982
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 2: you mentally I never want to be I never want

983
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 2: to be her again.

984
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's like a really beautiful thing,

985
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: right because again, like let's think about what you learn

986
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: from that. You're like, nope, like never gonna yeah, it's.

987
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 2: Never doesn't help me, like I and I can't treat that.

988
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 2: Like when I walk down the field, I can't. I

989
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 2: just knew I was running for my life and I

990
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 2: can't be thinking how fast anyone else is gonna go.

991
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 2: I can't thinking I can't do anything spectacular or special.

992
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 2: All I can do is run for my life. And

993
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 2: you know what, how do I do that? How do

994
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: I get from here? So you have to run at

995
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 2: the end of the field and was always exact, and

996
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 2: then you start or you finished back where you started.

997
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 2: And I was like, all right, how can I make

998
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 2: it back to this spot as fast as I possibly can?

999
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 2: And I looked at the first what's it called that?

1000
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 2: It's a kind of like a buoy on grass. Yeah, literally,

1001
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 2: that was the word I was thinking of, was booie.

1002
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 2: It's not a booie exactly what you're talking about. Pylon,

1003
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 2: that's what it is. So I literally looked at the

1004
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 2: pile and I was like, I'm going to get to

1005
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 2: that pile in as fast as I can. As soon

1006
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 2: as I hit that pilon, I'm going to make to

1007
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 2: that pilon as fast. I was just making it pilons

1008
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 2: pound as fast as I humanly possibly could. And once

1009
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 2: I finish that, I felt really weird. Finished my first sprint,

1010
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 2: like I just ran as fast as I can and

1011
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,359
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure where I was. I was like, I'm

1012
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 2: either sitting in tenth or eleventh and the next make

1013
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 2: it onto the next round of the sprints, and I

1014
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 2: kind of just like sat down on the sidelines by myself,

1015
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 2: and I just I didn't know. I was just waiting

1016
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 2: for the results. And they start calling up the people's

1017
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 2: and that had made it through, and finally intent they're

1018
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 2: like caturing and out. I was so surprised, and I

1019
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 2: stand up and it's probably the most like I was

1020
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 2: so thankful to have made it through, and I was

1021
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 2: like all right, like I got another shot to fight,

1022
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 2: Like I got another opportunity to fight for my life.

1023
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 2: And I ran half a second faster than I had

1024
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 2: in the first one, which is huge on a sprint event.

1025
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 2: So I come off of that field, and that was

1026
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 2: one of the hardest things that I've done too, because

1027
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 2: some of my best friends, like Annie, I know how

1028
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 2: hard she trains, I know how good she is. Like

1029
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 2: she was kind of she thought she hadn't made it through,

1030
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 2: so she is crying, and then Brooke Wallace is balling

1031
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 2: her eyes out because she kind of knew that she

1032
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 2: hadn't made it through. And at the same time, I'm

1033
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 2: not sure if I'd made it through or not. And

1034
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 2: all I can do is all you can do is

1035
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 2: give them a hug, and no one knows anything. And

1036
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 2: then we just went back to our room and I

1037
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 2: just sat and stared at the clock until they were

1038
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 2: announcing who made it through. So that was one of

1039
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 2: the hardest kind of like moments of the CrossFit games

1040
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: and definitely not fun at all that it was very

1041
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 2: just cutthroat, but that definitely showed me like every time

1042
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 2: after that, like I made into the top ten and

1043
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 2: like those girls didn't, and I know they belong there

1044
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 2: and I know how much they want to be there.

1045
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 2: Like it made me every time before I look at Vun,

1046
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 2: I'd be like, we have an opportunity to fight, and

1047
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 2: I was so thankful that I was entering the floor

1048
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 2: again and entering the field again. So I didn't take

1049
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 2: that for granted. It really made me appreciate that.

1050
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: Obviously, the training is a huge component, but as you

1051
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: were saying before, nutrition is a big component as well.

1052
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: It has the end body issue. Also, let's highlight that

1053
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: you were the first CrossFit female athlete to be showcased,

1054
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: which is just phenomenal and thank you. But in the

1055
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: interview it's funny because at the beginning they poke fun

1056
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: they're like, catch and brings her own scale everywhere, yeah,

1057
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: And then later in the article there they're like, she

1058
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: doesn't weigh her food everywhere.

1059
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's a time and place for it, of course.

1060
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: So obviously, like nutrition plays such a big part of

1061
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: your overall health and well being, you mentioned greens being

1062
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 1: super important. I feel the same way. A few years

1063
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,839
Speaker 1: ago I started supplementing with them just like as much

1064
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: as well as in addition to eating as much greens

1065
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: as possible, I now greens powder, and it's game changing

1066
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: for me and just my energy levels and how I feel.

1067
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: But aside from the greens, like what else are like

1068
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:48,919
Speaker 1: pillars in your nutrition that make sure to really get

1069
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: into your regular tea.

1070
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 2: I think the biggest one is just eating whole food.

1071
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 2: So I don't think anything can come instead of foods.

1072
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 2: Like I don't like supplementing with things. Some things we

1073
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 2: need to supplement with. But I try to always have

1074
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 2: the base as like foods, and I always say, like

1075
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 2: eat the rainbow, you know, trying to eat a lot

1076
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 2: of different kinds of fruits and vegetables, greens. I like

1077
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:17,240
Speaker 2: seafood way more than I do like chicken our meat,

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00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 2: so try and eat a lot of seafood. But I

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00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 2: eat like that. I am lone iron social beating more meat.

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00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 2: I'm just not a huge fan something that I'm trying

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00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 2: to get better at.

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Speaker 1: Personal lecture.

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00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. So I do like a

1084
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 2: scoop of I'm very picky with what I take, just

1085
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 2: because like I am responsible for what goes unto my

1086
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 2: body and trying to keep everything as clean as possible.

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00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 2: So like the Ascent protein, I'm actually like, but there's

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00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 2: five ingredients in it. I've been in their factory, I've

1089
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 2: seen how they work it. I take like a scoop

1090
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 2: of that. I try and keep my pre workout as

1091
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 2: only caffeine. I try and like, I don't know. I

1092
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 2: take creatine, just the pure one. I take d vinymin.

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00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 2: That's one thing that I have. I do blood tests

1094
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 2: throughout the year just to see where I am. And

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00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 2: that's one thing that I just can't seem to get

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00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 2: out of my food or their son or whatever. I'm

1097
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 2: always low. So that's something that I do supplement with.

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00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 2: I take Iceland always icelandic called of royal. That's something

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00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 2: that I've taken every single morning since I was a

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00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 2: little kid. And then yeah, lots of food, lots of vegetables.

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00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,439
Speaker 2: The carbs that I like are rice and oats. I

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00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 2: love oatmeal. And then I think seafood is great for you.

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00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 2: And maybe it's just because I'm from Iceland and we

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00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 2: get like the freshest like out of the sea and everything,

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00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 2: but I like that and lots of water.

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Speaker 1: Both the time you mentioned oameal, you're just so passionate.

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00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I love oame and they're best like

1108
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 2: when I cook them like myself with my salt and

1109
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 2: my whole milk. It's key.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned before that you geek out over sports psychology

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00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: and like reading and listening and absorbing, and I think

1112
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: something that's really big, not just amongst athletes, but specifically

1113
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: for you. And like staying positive is really identifying your values, right,

1114
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: And so it's clear that family for you is like

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00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 1: a top priority. What else would you say your values?

1116
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: What do you hold really dear to you?

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00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 2: It's definitely just the people around me. It's it's my family,

1118
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 2: and it's my best friends, and it's my friends that

1119
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,320
Speaker 2: I've become family. It's kind of like the team around me.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm very aware that I myself cannot and never

1121
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 2: have accomplished anything by myself, and nor would I want to.

1122
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 2: Like when you think about like like if I think

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00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 2: about why do I want to win the games or

1124
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 2: who do I want to do it for? If I

1125
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 2: think about, like take the games, or take you know,

1126
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 2: the job that you want or any the house that

1127
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 2: you want to buy, or any kind of big accomplishment,

1128
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 2: like imagine achieving that, but then take away everything else,

1129
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 2: take away all the family, all the friends, and you're

1130
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 2: staying there alone, Like do you still want that? It's

1131
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 2: like I don't think anything is really worth it or anything.

1132
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 2: You don't think you want to do things if it's

1133
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 2: not with the people that you're doing it with, and

1134
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 2: the journey to get there. So I think like it's

1135
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 2: definitely the people that you have with you. I value

1136
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 2: hard work a lot because I really truly believe that

1137
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 2: you can achieve anything that you want in this world

1138
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 2: if you're willing to do the work, and you can

1139
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 2: do everything that you want but not everything at the

1140
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 2: same time. So I think like, if you can show that,

1141
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 2: if you can work hard and if you can fail

1142
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 2: fast and try again and just try harder, it's hard

1143
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 2: work and being thankful. I think being thankful for the

1144
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 2: people that you have. It's being thankful for the opportunities

1145
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 2: that you have. It's being thankful for where you are

1146
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 2: at the moment and being aware that sometimes you're not

1147
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 2: exactly where you want to be. But if you can

1148
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 2: just trust that it's teaching you something or trust that

1149
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 2: you're not getting it experience that will get used to

1150
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 2: where you want to be.

1151
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: You're offering up a lot of really great advice. When

1152
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: you look at your time being an athlete, what would

1153
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: you say has been one of the best pieces of

1154
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: advice that you have been offered.

1155
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the best advice that I've gotten.

1156
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 2: I think is the best thing that I've ever read

1157
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 2: about and that I try livish is like be the

1158
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 2: best version of myself. And that's something that I talk

1159
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 2: a lot about and it's probably my most common answer.

1160
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 2: It's so within my control to be the best version

1161
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 2: of me, Like I don't have to do anything that

1162
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 2: isn't me. I don't have to do anything special, but

1163
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 2: it requires everything of me. And I really want to

1164
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 2: be able to look back, whether it's my career or

1165
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 2: my life and just be satisfied with what I did

1166
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 2: and be satisfied knowing that I don't want to have

1167
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 2: any regrets that I could have done something better. And

1168
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 2: I think it's super easy to compare yourself to other people,

1169
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 2: to compare myself to other girls, to be like, oh,

1170
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 2: they're so much better in me at that, or like

1171
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 2: I don't know, like I like theirselves so much better,

1172
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 2: or they're prettier, they're better a crossbit, or whatever it is.

1173
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 2: But we're all so different. We're also unique in our

1174
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 2: own way. And I'm going to be the best Katryn

1175
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 2: Davis Otter than Catcher and Davis Sara can be. I

1176
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 2: think that's the best I can be. And that kind

1177
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 2: of like that settles my mind and it takes me

1178
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 2: off the comparison train, and I don't know. I think

1179
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 2: I'm so much happier and I think I'm going to

1180
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 2: achieve so much more and be better for other people

1181
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 2: if I can focus on that.

1182
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: I wind on the podcast the same way every single time,

1183
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: by asking you have the chance right now to offer

1184
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: the Catine that is, in twenty fourteen, going through some

1185
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: hard times, that Hurtle moment a piece of advice looking

1186
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: back on it right now, what would you tell her

1187
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: during that tough time when she didn't make the Games.

1188
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 2: I would tell her that failure is not a destination,

1189
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 2: and I would say that sometimes it's the most important

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01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 2: thing that can happen to you, and just trust that

1191
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 2: you are where you're supposed to be. Like if you'd

1192
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 2: ask me now, do I wish that it hadn't happened, No, absolutely,

1193
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 2: I don't think i'd be who I am. I don't

1194
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 2: think i'd be where I am. I don't think i'd

1195
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:18,959
Speaker 2: have the people around me that I have. I don't

1196
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 2: think we'd won the Games in fifteen or sixteen. I

1197
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 2: don't think i'd be the person I am or athlete

1198
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 2: that I am if it wasn't because of that, and

1199
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 2: I think I had to go through that, and I

1200
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 2: think I had to learn, So I want her to

1201
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 2: go through that. But I just want her to trust

1202
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 2: that that she is not a failure. You know, she

1203
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 2: failed at that particular event and now she can learn

1204
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 2: and become better because of it.

1205
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: What are you excited about right now?

1206
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, A million things. I've had a lot

1207
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 2: of exciting things going on this year, which I'm super

1208
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 2: just like thankful and excited for. But honestly, right now,

1209
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 2: in this moment, I'm excited to be back in Boston

1210
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 2: in my rot I'm so excited to be back on

1211
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 2: my diet, to slave to work with my coach, and

1212
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 2: be back in training. That's what I'm excited about right now.

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01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: Just the little things. Man, thanks so much for hanging

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01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: out with me today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me take.

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Speaker 1: A moment and leave a quick review by clicking the

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01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 1: multiple hurdles in life. I want to hear about yours.

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Speaker 1: Where do they find you? How do they keep up

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Speaker 1: with you? Give me the detail.

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Speaker 2: I am mostly on Instagram and it's just Katrine and

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01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,320
Speaker 2: then Tanya, which is my middle name. So k A

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Speaker 2: t R I N t A n J A perfect.

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Speaker 1: I am at Emily a body. Another hurdle conquered. Catch

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