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Good morning, misfits.
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You are tuning into another episode of the Misfit Podcast.
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On today's episode we have a special guest Misfit OG and director of the Purple Mountain Throwdown, preston Shepard.
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Before we dive into all the good stuff the live chat, checking in with Preston talking through why the hell he would want to run a crazy event all that good stuff just a tiny bit of housekeeping here.
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Um, we got a seven day free trial um to jump into off-season block number one.
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Um, you can find that in our link in bio on social media or by heading to misfitathleticscom um and clicking your way through onto fitter.
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Um, also in the kind of uh, misfit affiliate phase right now, that would be the friendliest, I'd say, to jump in at any point.
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So we've got a 14 day free trial on sugar wad stream fit and push press for misfit affiliate um, so make sure you jump into that.
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Um, we're we're still, you know, at the lab here.
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Misfit jim Portland, seeing PRs left and right, people coming out of the open.
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All that good stuff.
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So, um, definitely the the kind of programming that that keeps morale high.
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Post open before we jump into any biases.
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Um, all right, shep.
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So we, we do, as you probably know we do live chat here.
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Um, to open the podcast.
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Uh, we'll give you some examples that will probably be all over the place but probably related to sports and golf, that no one wants to hear, and then we will move on to the meat of the episode.
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I think I'm going to start with the Misfit Athletics baseball preview.
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Baseball preview I'm the kind of person that gets very excited about opening day and then forget aside from the notifications my phone sends me that baseball season is happening for a while and then we kind of jump back in, which is probably a good thing, because the Red Sox suck and Raphael Devers has more strikeouts in the first handful of games than Tony Gwynn had in an entire season, with 585 played appearances.
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I thought that was a pretty solid stat to open up the season and the Yankees are cheating, so all is well here.
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I don't know, seb, if you've got any Dodgers updates over there.
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You guys aren't cheating yet but, like you, probably only have a few more years of good faith.
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You've got it from me because of mookie.
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I love dave roberts.
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Um, I appreciate you donating walker bueller once his arms stop working.
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Um, that was really friendly of you, but, uh, but yeah, I don't know how long the dodgers can stay America's sweetheart.
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Maybe it's the palm trees, I don't know what it is but if you guys keep spending $10 trillion a year, I don't know how long you're going to be everyone's friend we've always spent a lot of money and we've always come up pretty short, other than the Mickey Mouse world series we won back in 2020.
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I don't consider that a world series, but I think the difference between like a Yankees and I know if Kyle's listening to this, he's going to be mad but like, the Yankees fan base are just obnoxious, right, like they'll never watch the Yankees all year.
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They just tune in for the postseason and then everybody claims a ring.
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I think with the Dodgers is like you know, it's like they're battling with the Lakers, you know, and I think it's the Dodgers are our good team because you have, like you said, dave Roberts and Shohei Otani, and it's like what's not to love?
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But I think like if we become obnoxious like the Yankees, then it's like we'll be hated pretty early and we're 6-0, right, so we're doing pretty well.
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Yeah, we're not 6-0.
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Hunter, you got anything?
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I bet you got a serious baseball preview here.
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Yeah, big baseball preview.
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No, I mean, I grumbled about 24 hours ago about the fact that the golf course that's directly across from my window was covered in snow, but the weather has made it such that that is not the case anymore.
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So I am like 43 percent less irate than I was 24 hours ago, which is good, good um progress.
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I'm not all that happy that, uh, we're getting like two inches of rain allegedly, which will, uh, keep the old course soggy.
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But I mean, yeah, I guess beggars can't be choosers.
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At least it's not the fucking another snowstorm.
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So I keep telling my son like the snow's not coming back, and then it comes back yeah this like we have this spot where basically, like l-shape of trees blocks one area from getting melted.
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Yeah, so he just sits up and points because he wants to go down there and crunch his feet on it.
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He goes down and walks around, says crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch sick, yeah, and it just keeps coming back yeah, we are two weekends away from uh major season though the masters, masters and under.
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Well, I guess now little little under two weeks.
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So I'll, uh I'll definitely have a thoughtful and eagerly awaited by all of the listeners recap on the masters when we uh shoot that podcast.
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So stay tuned how does scotty lose on a public course?
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What happened there?
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Come on, come on, scotty, I mean he didn't lose.
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Min wu lee just played really well.
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Uh, decided to, decided to get it, get it going.
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But I mean, when the number one player in the world is finishing in like the top five in most place times that he competes, uh, you don't want to, you don't want to look out when the course gets hard.
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So this is a kid's show.
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What are you pulling up here?
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Every hole with Scotty Scheffler.
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What the love that love that step-by-step guide what?
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dude, did you guys see Scotty's menu for the masters?
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It was it's awesome.
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I do like, though I don't know if you heard last year the old guys, the tortilla soup hurt their tummies so he took it off the menu.
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This year, too spicy.
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People were like shit, damn it at dinner.
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That's funny I actually didn't see what the menu was.
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It's great, it's it's got a real.
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It's got a real like bro vibe to it.
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You can tell Scotty likes to go to Chili's Fuck.
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Thank you guys.
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Scotty likes apple-beast yeah.
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Tortilla chips and salsa.
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Big tortilla.
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What you got.
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Oh man, I kind of feel like I'm in the dead zone of sports right now, just because I'm a huge football fan the second that football season ends like every other sport, like I kind of get hyped for, like March Madness a little bit, but like it's not the same.
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You're almost forcing yourself, right.
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Yeah, I'm just like I have to watch something.
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Like the other day we were cooking dinner I think it was like a Sunday and my wife tried to get me to like, put some sports on.
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I was like there's nothing but hockey going on right now and newsflash.
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I'm not the hugest hockey fan in the world.
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Are the Avs good this year?
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You know, honestly, the only hockey team I can tell you about right now is that I got into Colorado College the college team here.
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That's actually pretty good and we got hyped up.
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I went to a game and then they ended up losing to Denver University, so that was a huge letdown as well.
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Another good hockey school there's also an excellent program.
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No, da's pretty good.
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From what I hear, abs are third in the Western Conference.
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Okay, so I'm going to have to be it I mean they have two of the best players in the NHL on their team so they have two of the best players in the nhl on their team, so that's usually helpful.
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The biggest thing I've noticed about hockey is that, like if I'm in person.
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I've gone to like two av games and those are fun, but like I, just watch it like sport live and you can take people that don't really know, like maybe we'll, maybe we'll cover two line pass and offsides.
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You know things of that nature, but like like you don't have to really explain too much and it's so impressive to watch and like the places go nuts with the goals.
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Yeah yeah, you got anything going on in life.
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Oh you know, it's Colorado, so, like our weather, decides to be like nice during the week, and then the second you want to go outside on the Saturdays decides to snow or hell or sleet on you.
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So I'm trying to get into some more biking this summer and every time I want to go on my long rides it's just Colorado's like no, how similar is Colorado Springs weather to Fort Collins Probably a little warmer.
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Yeah, it is a little warmer.
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I mean, you have to go all the way to.
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It's crazy the difference between just just like Colorado Springs, like Pueblo, um, but like I think the same would be said from like Colorado Springs to Fort Collins.
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So, yeah, we're going to be a little bit warmer.
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The snow might be a little nicer to us.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, all right Um, I wanted to ask I don't remember how you got started with Misfit Athletics.
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What's your Misfit origin story?
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Yeah, so like back in 2016, 2017, I was in, I was employed not employed but I was stationed at Fort Polk, louisiana, at CrossFit Leesville, and at the time I was kind of helping run their competitive fitness team, like their competitive CrossFit team.
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So like I was doing like the coaching for our competitive athletes, and one of the members of that team suggested to me that we leverage Misfit Athletics.
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So they were following it for like their daily programming.
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I was only programming for like two days out of the week.
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They would just come and get, like we would just bury each other and like workouts.
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But he like lived and breathed by like the fact that this was like this crazy program they started following and like it was helping him reach a whole bunch of gains.
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So I uh decided to try it out because I've never been a um, a gpp guy like I've never, even though I coached and and did everything.
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I was just always the type of person where I was either doing my own thing or I was following a program.
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I don't know if it's just like in my nature to do so, but I started following Mr Athletics back in like 2000, late 2016, early 2017.
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And I've never like looked back, never been like a program hopper.
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So like I got on it and it just kind of fed to my soul so I just started following.
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I like it, yeah, and you, you definitely immerse yourself in the community.
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I don't know, um, my my memory for specific dates and whatnot are not great, but you definitely, you know, started showing up at camps, um, and where you know one of the people and you know you get your little like camp posses or everybody you know starts to, you know, starts to rent Airbnbs together and go out in the evening and whatnot.
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Um, how did you so?
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So we'll we'll give a little bit of background here.
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I'll read some of my, my, my stuff.
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So, purple mountain throwdown CrossFit competition June 21st and 22nd in Colorado Springs.
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Website is the purple mountain throwdowncom on Instagram purplemountain underscore throwdown.
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You can find all of the stuff that you would need on Instagram through the link in bio.
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Signups are live through the end of May, but if you want a t-shirt, get your ass signed up in the next two weeks.
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Basically, april 15th is what you're looking for for people to get signed up.
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Right, like April 15th is what you're looking for for people to get signed up.
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So, purple Mountain Throwdown this is year two for you.
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I think you pass a major test when you throw a larger scale competition and then decide to do it again for the second year.
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So I want to know A what made you want to do it in the first place?
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And then what went into the decision to do it again the second time?
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Yeah, no, those are great questions.
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So for anyone that doesn't know, I was in the military for a long time.
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Considering my life, for a long time, ever since I graduated from college, I commissioned as officer into the military and at the same point in time I started doing CrossFit and throughout my time, having to move a lot and being kind of like a singular bachelor guy, like competing in CrossFit gave me a chance to not only kind of like fellowship with people, but really just kind of experience, like achievement.
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I was thinking about it earlier like the, the, the impact that just go into competitions and pushing myself and proving that I can do something to myself has, like really formed me as a human and I wanted to figure out a way to be able to give that back to people.
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Cause as you progress in like fitness and as you progress in like a CrossFit, you know there's there's there's barriers to on like what level of like what level of achievement you're going to be able to reach as a, as an athlete right, we talk about that a lot at camp Like if you're not willing to send it all to be like a games athlete then, like, you're going to hit a ceiling eventually where, like, what are you doing?
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Why are you doing CrossFit?
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What are you going to give back to this community?
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That's helped you out, and for me, I felt like I was uniquely structured as a person who's been organizing things since he was like 23 years old and connected in enough ways that, like there was no large scale fitness competition here in this community in Colorado Springs and even in like Colorado in the Eastern part, there was only one competition that tried to do it for two days and as I reached out and talked to the different gyms in the community, the only barrier to entry was that people didn't want to take the time to do it.
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And if that was it, then I was like, okay, like I can do that.
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Like I can connect with people.
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We can try to bring something where people can have the same experience that I had when I had a chance to compete at waterpalooza or when I had a chance to go down to beach, brawl and like and just really put their everything that they're working so hard in in the gym to the test, like.
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I feel like people people shy away from testing all the efforts that they give in the gym and a lot of times that's because it's it's scary or it's foreign.
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You have to travel to go do it.
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Like.
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If we can just give these guys opportunities to test themselves like they're going to get so much more out of their training, so much more out of the reason why they're doing fitness in the first place, which is going to keep them in it and that's kind of what we want holistically as a community.
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You know what I mean so hard to to create those environments for people, um, and I think it's cool that you have the divisions that you do, because you provide a little bit of like a roadmap to get to the point where you might trust yourself enough to go individual right.
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So you've got the scale division, you've got the team division, um, and I think those are really good ways to get a person to a point where they're like, yeah, I can go out there and execute on an individual level 100%.
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Like, I know at least three different athletes in this glide path that they used to perform out and throw down for.
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Last year, you know, we had a younger aspiring athlete who's trying to figure out if they are in fact a RX individual athlete yet figure out if they are in fact a rx individual athlete yet.
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So they, uh, they went on the rx team last year with a stronger uh teammate just so they can experience what it's like to be out there on the competition floor.
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Uh, we had a pretty advanced athlete who's uh, who wanted to push her chances in the masters category this year.
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Uh, she used the permount throwdown as her first competition rx to make sure she was on track and then went out to waterpalooza and, like, podiumed in her division.
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Uh, you know, um, and we had plenty of athletes try their first competition for the first time on a two-day competition.
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Uh, because it was a, it was a good environment for them.
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Right, it was, it was in their community drove out of their house, they went to the venue, uh, and they competed in it.
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And I feel, like you know, especially, I have a big heartstrings for the Colorado Springs community, so, like, I want them to have that chance to do it.
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It's Olympic City, usa.
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Why can't they compete in their own backyard?
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Why aren't we hosting something like that and then opening that up to the world, you know, bringing everyone in from across the states to come celebrate?
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Yeah, hell, yeah, that's awesome.
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Yeah, yeah, Hell yeah, that's awesome.
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Yeah, the the um, um.
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So there's basically a void there that, like, someone else wasn't going to be willing to fill and maybe there's, you know, in-house throw downs or things of that nature that are around, but obviously you took on something much larger scale.
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It's not in a CrossFit gym.
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There's an actual venue.
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It's a multi-day, which I'm sure I've never.
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I've never ran a multi-day competition, Um, or at least if I did, it was 10 years ago, Um, and inside of my gym.
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Um, I'm curious what things happened last year at the competition that you learned from that you were able to take into this year, like anything that was you know, cause, cause, like I'm telling everyone out there like even just the smaller stuff that we put together.
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It's a challenge for sure.
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It's not an easy thing keeping shit organized and running well.
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For sure.
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I think there's probably three big things.
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The first one is going to be for anyone that knows me but if you're listening to this podcast and maybe you don't know me quite as well some people think that, like this is what I do for, like my job.
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It's not.
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I have a full-time job and we try to work with all the volunteers to still make this event happen throughout the year.
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With that being said, it's a lot of stuff like you were saying, and when you're last year it didn't exist.
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It was a, it was an idea on our whiteboard in the back here and we bootstrapped it and created it into existence.
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And when you do that, you have to start from scratch, from zero, for everything Any documents, any volunteer packets, any athlete packets, any scorecards, any frameworks for what the floor plan layout looks like, any timelines for when people should show up to what space, what does athlete control it like, when people should show up to what space, what does athlete control it like, and when it's your idea and if you're not working on it, nothing's happening.
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Like that takes a lot of time and we tend to like want to hold our baby in and like not share it out to other people that want to support you and you can really easily reach burnout like that no-transcript two day event.
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Uh, maybe ensure that, uh, you know for your logistics plan if you're moving in six gyms worth of equipment, uh, maybe hire some movers and not just try to do it yourself in house.
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Uh, because my buddy, my, my best man at my wedding, mac, who's my operations director, uh, he, he, literally, uh, him and like one other person, moved six gyms like worth of equipment to the venue and then helped me adding a third person out of the venue, and it all night.
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We were just, we were just moving and staging stuff.
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Um.
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And then I think the last one is to remain flexible.
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Right, last year we had two kind of things that happened that we were able to adjust and overcome.
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The first one is funny to me because so, like I said, we have been moving all night and this includes like stall mats.
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Guys, like I didn't have, I don't have anything.
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Like we got stuff now but like we didn't have anything before.
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It's a bootstrap thing.
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So we budgeted enough to get 20 stall mats and then we pulled 60 from my home gym.
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So we're physically pulling these stall mats and moving them out.
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That's a rite of passage starts at seven and the only thing that had me going was my delivery of like barrier gates was supposed to come in at like four o'clock and that like would complete what my vision was for the floor Right, and that would like make me feel better as like an event director.
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And then I get this call at four o'clock that the guy overslept and he wasn't going to make it in time to actually set up these gates that we paid for.
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And he called me and he didn't even come make it in time to actually set up these gates that we paid for.
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And he called me and he didn't come up with an excuse, he just said hey man, sorry I overslept and yeah, I just don't think we're going to make it in time.
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I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
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I was like are you crapping me right now?
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Are you kidding me right now?
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You called me to tell me that you're not going to show up to establish this event that I paid you a couple of K's for.
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Like that's has, like you know, 150 plus athletes showing up to it.
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Like you're not just failing me on this one.
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Like why are you talking to me about this right now and then having to kind of bounce back mentally because it destroyed me.
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I was like no one's gonna take this seriously.
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There's not barricades, like it's not going to happen.
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But it went great.
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And then we also had the athlete village outside at the beginning on day one because we thought that made sense logistically.
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But the traffic flow just didn't work out and the vendors came up to our experience director at the time and talked to her about it and talked to me about it and then we moved them all inside the next day and it was like a game changer.
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It was so much better, the flow was so much better, and staying flexible, I think, is like the biggest thing that we want to carry over.
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Yeah, I mean your ability to do that when you are delegating, like this time around, because there's, you have to remain open because there are these like tiny little events that happen that you are uniquely qualified to respond to, and if you're doing 17 other things, then that moment becomes the thing that the like in our case, the members would remember like oh, they didn't have this part figured out, or whatever, but it's like no, if each person has their like thing to do, then they're able to respond within that.
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So I think I hope for you that you'll find that, when you do delegate, that you then have the opportunity to deal with the things that make it a really good experience for the athletes.
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Yeah, a hundred percent, a hundred percent.
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And I like, I want to shout them out too, because my, my staff are key event leaders, so we have floor leaders for each floor, the rotating floor schedule that goes on.
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Like they crushed it, they like took it over and that was their child, like each day, whatever event they had.
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And then our event experience coordinator, our head judge, my, my wife, uh, abby, uh, she crushed it, handled all those issues and questions so that Preston could sit like a zombie, uh, staring at things until, uh, preston needed to go deconflict something.
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So I'm thoroughly blessed.
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I like that you've disassociated from the version of yourself.
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That's the event director.
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You already know that that's not you.
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That's good, 100%.
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So, one of the things that we've said on this podcast before and it's the kind of thing that would take time but it would also take that first wave of people I would really love for your event to be a place in time where misfits from all over the country like came together.
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It's just a really cool place to be.
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You know, I'm obviously a big fan of the state of Colorado.
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I've talked about that before on this podcast.
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But, um, knowing that we could recommend something that we, that we put a bunch of time and effort to into with the programming, um, and have it not just be all 12 minute pulling gymnastics workouts like every other fucking competition, sorry, um, like, I think it would be really cool for that to happen.
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So it's just another call to the misfits out there to say, like, listen, if we get, you know, a group of misfits that want to go out, it doesn't matter if it's scaled RX team individual, um, you know, and and, uh, I would be stoked to come out and hang out.
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Um, you know, bring, bring Seb along and, you know, point the camera at you guys and get to know you a little bit better in person.
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Um, those are the things that really help solidify the community.
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So, um, I don't know, you know sort of what that looks like, you know right now, um, but it's just another call out there to the to the people in the Misfit community that like just another call out there to the to the people in the Misfit community that, like, if you're going to travel to a comp, I can tell you right now Colorado in June is is pretty awesome, um, and I think the workouts are pretty good.
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I'm a little biased, um, but I think it would be really fun to have that sort of thing, because it was always fun when, when that event was like Wadapalooza or something, but also really easy for like those types of meetups and things to get lost in the shuffle because of how crazy it is and how many things are going on all at once.
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I agree.
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I think the unique thing about the prospect of having the Purple Mountain Throwdown be a meeting point for all misfits is that when you have a waterpalooza it's this huge, huge, huge event're just trying to walk around and just like interact with people and you know we want to grow as a competition and get to that larger scale.
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But the beautiful thing about having a larger scale competition is not quite at the size of like Wadapalooza is that you really do have that community aspect in the sense that you do kind of get to know your competitors, you do kind of get to know your community, you do kind of get to know, uh, the staff that's running out there.
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And I think it would be a beautiful thing for you know all the misfits uh listening to this podcast and in the fall of the program, to be able to come together at something that's not as big a threat as like water Palooza and just really kind of enjoy each other and like validate our own training and see our own progress and ensure on each other in this environment.
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Yeah, totally agree.
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So we have three workouts so far that have been announced.
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Hunter, you're going to jump in here and maybe help the people out a little bit.
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So you're listening to this podcast and we're going to give you some insight.
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Hunter, you can go with strategy, you can go with.
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Here's what you should work on in the meantime, like that sort of thing I'm only looking at.
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I'm only seeing two right now on the website.
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Are we staying part a?
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okay, I'll read them to you, don't worry.
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All right.
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So event three seven rounds for time 16 12 calorie echo bike two rope climbs, 20 alternating dumbbell snatch with the 50 slash 35.
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What?
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would you do to strategize and or train for this event?