HYROX Las Vegas 2026 Race Report

0:00more six pack abs that you've ever seen there is a lot there's a lot of fit people and the Instagram thing everyone or most people that they show everyone is very, very fit, very ripped. There's also a lot of quote, quote, quote, normal people there, normies there. There's every shape, size, color, gender, whatever they're doing it and like getting out there and just challenging themselves, which I found to be really cool. Yes. Yeah. And there's really option. There's really. So there's adaptive people and wheelchairs with different abilities doing this as well. And everyone's really positive, chill and positive, surprising for how you know, like how many me had any kind of washboard app for when you have these super fit, you know, muscular types. It's not always the vibe. And this was a very positive, really awesome community, great vibe. Everybody's very positive. Everybody is very supportive, lots of cheering. Welcome to the Loatheye Boys, a swan run podcast. I'm Chip. And I'm Chris. And this is

1:12episode three hundred and twenty two of the show. Fresh off the heels of their partnership at high rocks, Las Vegas. They're here to give us their race report. Very excited about this. Kristen, welcome to the show. Second time on the show. Thank you. Thank you. At the last number two 50 to 50, the low tide was low tide. Yeah. That was a super popular episode. Very excited to have you back on the show. Now the idea, we're going to talk all things high rocks, but I think it's important to set the stage for this where you guys, Chipper told me about it. When you told me about it and for folks, you don't know, Kristen and I have this like five minute relationship where we're always a pick up for our kids at the go to same school. So that's where I get sort of my Kristen time. And she's like, oh, so we're thinking about doing high rocks. And I was like, just sign up, just do it. Like don't even wait, just sign up right now. And pretty soon after you did. So why don't you tell us like where the idea for this came from? I feel like you probably mentioned

2:17it first. Well, you know, Instagram. Yeah, I think the circles that we're in and Instagram were in their target audience. You know, Chris and I, and you also, you do bar workout three, four days a week. So work sort of active people on Instagram. I think we started getting targeted. And then a few of our friends kind of were doing it. And it seemed like kind of a, you know, even some former guests of the show were on. And then yeah, I was like, oh, that kind of looks fun. But, you know, nothing that we sought out. But then Kristen had sort of a new coworker join. Yes. I think that's a, that's probably what really pushes over the edge. I had a new coworker who joined in November. And she does the women's pro division. And really was talking up high rocks and was all about it. And I was like, oh, I've been kind of thinking about this a little bit. And so as she sort of talks about it more, it was getting a little bit more like, oh, Chipper, what do you think about this high rocks thing? Should we be serious? And he was like, okay, let's talk about this. Let's be serious. And you also happen to have a work

3:19event in Las Vegas. That same week. So it really just kind of worked out from like a logistics. One less flight to pay for one less hotel room night to pay for. So it all worked out quite nicely. And to be a little bit of serendipity there. By the way, this new hire, how soon in the interview that she started talking about being a high rocks person. It's pretty early on. It's like CrossFit. Pretty quick. It came up. It's like you guys. I don't know. I try. I don't know. You guys have to talk about your sport. I can't speak for Chipper, but I pride myself on not volunteering, swim running for me. But once you ask a question, like, you know, that's it, you know, if you're inviting further discussion, I'm happy. But I won't be wanting to bring it up, necessarily. That's fair. Sure. You know, you see you guys sign up. By the time you sign up, when the race happens, it's a couple of months. Probably about eight to six to eight weeks. I think probably eight weeks. Okay. So what I find really interesting, Chipper and I obviously talked about this stuff all the time. But the idea that's like, okay, you guys are doing something

4:19new for the first time. Case of first impression. Plenty of research to do. Plenty of content to consume. Yes. How did you go about kind of like figuring out what you were even going to be doing and how to train for it? I had coach Chipper and coach Claude. Pretty much do all of the workout planning. So I will say was very easy for me. He planned all of the workouts. Yes. We also have a training schedule. We have to work in. Yes, coach well. Coach Liz was informed shortly after this registration happened. And for those who don't know high rocks is there's eight stations that you do ski skier skier sled push sled pull burpee broad jump row farmers carry with some kettlebells lunges and then a hundred wall balls. So very kind of specific exercises. And in between there's and in between station, you run a kilometer. And then so because we did it as a team. So we can

5:24trade off the work at the stations. However, we wanted. So for the ski, we kind of had our own thing and how we mix it up and we'll we'll get into that later. But a lot of these movements and things were kind of new and you know, lunges and stuff like that and wall balls I hadn't really done before, but lunges obviously. But I think immediately Kristen does her bar workouts. And so it was like, okay, you better start doing the most weight that you can do in this class. And you know, very much commend you. You were showing up 20, 30 minutes before class doing extra kind of like wall ball like simulation thing. I sort of helped design the the training or the programming, but you know, you still had to do all the work. I mean, it was kind of fun to add it on to my existing workouts. The running though, the running, I'm sure I will hear about your thoughts on this episode about it. It's done finished it all. Yeah. So new type of an event, similar partner,

6:24swim run vibes in the sense, it's like, you got to work together. You got to cross the finish line together. You're not tethered, but the psychic tether is certainly connected. You're supposed to be within an arm's length of your partner at all times. Yeah, like, you know, she, you know, she can't go run off and do the station. I'm finishing up my lap. We have to stick together. So from that aspect, very much was looking forward to that just because, you know, obviously swim run the partnership there really enjoy that aspect of it. And I also don't get to do this kind of stuff together. You know, we'll go on family hikes and, you know, we've even done a half marathon. We've done the same half marathon, but we haven't like ran it together. But this was our first kind of real thing that we got to train together and do it together. So I was looking forward to that. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, Susan and I used to do half marathons together. I think we did like three. And then by the third one, I was like, this is this never a good idea. I think the first one, it was like her first half marathon. So she like, like, time you with her. But then she'd just get, I don't know, she's got a little bit annoyed at me. Yeah. I was trying to be super supportive. But she's like, you're not even sweating. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. Sorry.

7:28I'll stop talking. I'll stop talking. Anyway, so I'm curious. First time doing this, what did you guys discuss in terms of like goals, like what type of experience you're trying to get out of it and how do you kind of align on, you know, making sure that at the end of it, you were going to be, you know, still murdered. Well, you know, join, join the rest of your trip. Yeah. I think my main goal was just to finish and not to be to be hold into a certain time because I wanted to do it for fun. I was doing it also to hang out with you. It's kind of fun to do it. So I didn't have like any like hard goals for it. Yeah. I mean, our sort of time that we had in mind just basically. Yeah. I would say that was even like a goal time, but it was more of like, how long is this thing going to take us? Because, you know, if you go on Instagram for two seconds, there's everyone has their shirt off and they're doing it in an hour. Like, okay, well, we're going to have our shirts on. And how long is this going to take us an hour, 90 minutes, two hours, two, and like kind of, we didn't know. So we were trying to kind of figure that out,

8:31just to guesstimate how much, you know, cool work we would have to do. But yeah. And what time was that that you guys were thinking you could hit somewhere between an hour 32 and out to two hours. I mean, which is kind of a broad, pretty broad range. Christian had like another sort of I was hoping for under an hour 45. That's kind of yeah. And I thought I personally thought would that would be I'd be very happy with that. Yeah. And I was like, if we do around an hour 30, that would be a pretty solid first, first stab at it was kind of thinking, you know, we're running well. We hit all the stations. We're not, you know, you know, hanging out too long in the the transition area, which is a K the rock zone, they call it, where the water is and then the fuel and stuff. So there's a rock zone time as well. So you can't really dial in the transitions. It counts. Yeah, it counts. But yeah, we were just looking to have fun. Go out there, work out, sweat together. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, Eastbound and down. There was that joke from season one. It's like Trapalon. I'm not trying to be the best at exercising. That's what I feel like.

9:33Kyrox really is the best at exercise. Yeah, you guys certainly put the training in. I know you were doing these sort of like weekend simulations. And there's a whole Kyrox community that's built up even in gym. So tell folks at home about that stuff. Yeah, we were trying to figure out how to sort of supplement. Well, we could do it home. We have kettlebells at home. We have a wall ball, but we wanted to and the sandbag for the lunges. We wanted to actually do this gear in the row. And we found a local gym up here that actually is half a kid's like gymnastics training center. It has open droppin for the kids. So while we've been able to get our work out of the kids have basically had two hours. It's been it was. It has been absolutely amazing. The kids are like, are we going to the gym Saturday morning? So that's been really great. Yeah. So body, body English fitness in Petaluma. They're a high rocks kind of certified. It's a crossfit gym on one half. And just like Kristen said, a full gymnastics thing. So we would go up there at 9 a.m. The kids would run off due gymnastics for two hours. And we would kind of get to work in some of the because they had the

10:38ski. They had everything there. So we can start to simulate to kind of figure out like, okay, let's do a let's do a thousand meter ski and see what that's like. Okay, let's try me doing 500. Then Kristen doing five or 200 and 200 and kind of start to figure out how we're going to kind of attack and maximize these stations like war strategy on it, I guess. Yeah, so that's awesome. So so you do the training you had down there. What was the vibe like? Was it I mean, because it seemed it seems like a whole production marketing is on point, branding is on point. Social media games on point for sure. Yeah. So was that the Mandalay Bay one of their convention centers there. And it was, I mean, it's a thing. It's a it's a whole vibe. It is a loud, energetic atmosphere. There's DJ going. You sound like you're at a basketball and be a basketball game, loud music, loud tons of people. So it's highly highly energetic. Right. And situation. According to Kristen's five minute race report that she gave me the other day. Just like

11:43more six pack abs that you've ever seen. There is a lot. There's a lot of fit people. And I think for us to, you know, again, if the Instagram thing, everyone or most people that they show, everyone is very, very fit, very ripped. There's also a lot of normal people there, normies there. There's every shape, size, color, gender, whatever they're doing it. And like getting out there and just challenging themself, which I found to be really cool. Yes. Yeah. And there's really option. There's really. So there's adaptive people in wheelchairs with different abilities doing this as well. And everyone's really positive. Chill and positive. It's surprising for how you know, like how many meatheading and kind of what you have for these super fit, you know, muscular types. It's not always the vibe. And this was a very positive, really awesome community, great vibe. Everybody's very positive. Everybody's very supportive. Lots of

12:43cheering. Easy to score creatine there. For sure. They put in the water. You get your fluoride in your tree. It's coming out of the sink. Lot of free red bulls. They're giving them out. And the merch Puma is there and they have their carbon fiber kind of shoe. They have their own high rocks one. And so the way the spectating goes is there's like a loop around the outside of the you know, or it's inside the convention center, but there's a little track loop that they make. And then if you want to spectate and all the stations are on the inside. So they actually put you on the inside. So it was very spectator friendly. So we went the first day and you know, we had done simulation in at the gym. So we kind of knew, okay, we did all the stations to the limit that we're supposed to, but we only ran 500 meters instead. So we kind of figured out where we would be, but seeing it kind of in practice and watching people go through it was really eye-opening

13:44and like, oh, it kind of helped be that last puzzle piece about, okay, I see how this is going to work. Oh, you come in here and then you go here and it was very helpful. I felt and kind of calm some of the pre-race nerves in terms of like, how is it all going to work on race days? Plus we saw, you guys saw a swim runner. We saw a swim runner. Yeah. So James English from Austin deep in fitness was there. And that was really cool. And your friend or your co-worker and friend. My co-worker handled it as well. She raced as well. So we got to follow her around, capture her race, which was really cool. And I could see it be really fun to follow around your friends or, you know, people from your gym or wherever to do that. So I think you're a cheer station. Yeah. And very spectator friendly. All the stations are lined up. So you watch them do a station and they go run their two laps. And so you have time to go get positioned at the next station. So you can watch them do it. You know, it's very quick at each station too. So it's moving really quick too. It's fun. Yeah. Each station, I mean, the fastest people are doing it. And, you know,

14:45two to four minutes, normal people, you know, three to eight minutes maybe. So it's pretty quick. And then the kilometer run, you know, anywhere from three minutes to however long you want to take on that. Yeah. Cool. So you spectate, you get the lay of the land. What time was your wave? And how did you prep kind of go into that before we get into the actual play by play? So you sign up and you don't know what wave you're in. And then they kind of start releasing information coming up to it. And the event start anywhere from like, what was it? Like eight in the morning all the way through 930 at night. And they are releasing like every 15 minutes. They're a new wave of 20, 20, 30 people. Yeah. So they had 17,000 people do the race this week and over three days. So many people. It's a lot of abs. A lot of abs. Seven times six, maybe three for some people. One, seven, one abs. I got the two, the two,

15:45okay. So we found our our wave left at 830 p.m. on Saturday, which is by far the latest race that I've ever, well, I guess the correct radar. Yeah. But, you know, that was honestly the most challenging part of it. Like challenging in terms of just having to exert yourself that not that part, but just what to do. I mean, you know, I can't really sit still. So when we go place as me and Christopher, yes. Oh, you know, we're exploring Portland. We're walking to the watch a baseball game. We're on our feet a lot. And trying to not do that for basically the entire day was really tough. Yeah. And we did drop the ball a little bit on our eating because we were like, well, we don't need too much. But then we would wait too long. We're like, well, we're starving. We better, we have to eat now. And then we thought we were eating okay, but we ended up overeating. I know. Dinner meal with it for the race. You guys eat rice and beans in the quesadilla.

16:50Not like a lot of it. It's not like we had a lot though. I was eating this. I'm like, this is probably going to regret this. But, you know, it was okay. Yeah. So then you're like, get like a 10 minute warning or something like that. They put you in some pain. They have a whole warm up station. So they have all the stuff. So we went out there and it was kind of like, let's just touch and kind of like do, you know, 25 meter ski or yeah, pick up the kettlebells. Do one or two ones. Yeah, make sure your fingers. Yeah, make sure everything's working correctly. And then, you know, I had the fueling nutrition protocol dialed. Of course, because, you know, of course, precision fuel and hydration. So she's like, when do I need to take a job? Like, don't worry. I'll let you know. 15 minutes before we hit the calf, both in the 15 at night, hit the caffeine gel and kind of got, got ready to go. But yeah, we were in the start. They load you in this red bull start tunnel. Some guy comes in and starts hyping it up. You know,

17:51kind of gives the raw, raw speech and they count it down and they release you out. And there's how many races do you think are happening at the same time? So every 15 minutes, there's a wave. So we're on our first wave and there are people on their last running lap. And then there's people that are on their second. And it's like, you can't, I guess, some people take longer than others. So there's some probably, yeah, lapping. So it was really kind of a case of only worry about yourself, race your own race and really just kind of like heads up racing because multiple laps, we have to remember the station and all sorts of stuff. So really kind of head on a swivel type of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So the race starts. What are you feeling? Excited. Ready to go. It was finally there. A whole day. A little bit of relief too. Yeah. The big build up. Yeah. Yeah. It was a very long day kind of waiting for it to kind of come around. Yeah. We were kind of joking. Like, oh, we got breakfast. We're like, okay, only 12 hours until we start the race, you know, kind of thing like like that. But, you know,

18:55once six o'clock, hey, we kind of just went over there. We started, hey, we kept, you know, we were in the big hallways. You can kind of hear some of the music. And then 30 minutes later, we kind of moved to a closer to kind of start to amp the sort of our energy up. Yeah. I think the race went off. And it was, you know, keep it, keep it in your pants. Was the name of the game for the first lot. Everyone's excited. There's lots, it's lots of excitement happening. And, you know, we just Kristen set the pace on the run. That's good. Yeah. And that was kind of our strategy was because the running was going to be more taxing on you. Yeah. More challenging for you. So I would lead and end each station, no matter what. So that she can have the most recovery to get ready for the run. So that's kind of how it went. And, you know, if I wanted to go off and go crazy and, you know, rip on the skierg and freaking jack my heart rate to zone four, blow up, blow up. I had the runs to kind of recover on it. But yeah, how did the first lap and

19:57first station feel? Feel good at first. Feel good for a while. Feel good for a while. I think, you know, there was still a lot of the excitement, all that adrenaline, a little bit of that caffeine kick and it was good. Yeah. And was it like easy? Like, I guess what I'm asking was so many things, so many moving parts, there's music, there's DJs was a kind of obvious way you're supposed to go on what station is supposed to go or did you have to kind of have to keep very similar, very similar to swim run. We would come in station once year left and they split four stations run the left four on the right. It's like, okay, one more lap. We were just very communicated very much how it reminded me very much of swim run. Okay, Chris, we got a quarter mile coming up or a hundred meters until the swim, just kind of shouting it out. How are you feeling? How's the pace? Just a lot of communication, you know, kind of the same stuff that we preach about swim run, swim run races, but yeah, I think the ski, er, we hit that and they, you know, it's like when you go in, they just kind of line you up, first come, first serve. So you can finish before someone's ahead.

20:57It's like, oh, you kind of made some time up or if someone's finishing to the right of you, oh, you know, they went really fast, but you know, we were kind of just, yeah, focused on doing our own thing, but the ski was one, we kind of switched off every minute or so, which was like, you know, 200 to 300 meters of work. You had to do a thousand, had to do a thousand meters. So, yeah, I started that one. I did. We switched off a couple times. Yeah. And as we were running, we're like, okay, there's the sled push. Yeah, we would talk about what was next. So we didn't you know, get it wrong when we did run in there. What was the hardest? I don't even know what they're called discipline skills. I don't know. I think we probably have a different answer, I would say. I think the sled push and the sled pull were by far the hardest for me. I would not have been able to do those on my own. I think every other station I could probably get through on my own. In a longer amount of time, the sled push and sled pull were very hard. Yeah, three heavyweight.

22:02Yeah, three hundred and twenty five pounds on the push. It's kind of something that like, you know, all the low tide boys of high rocks world, you know, all the influencers there were like, oh, well, sometimes they use fresh carpet. And the piling hasn't been like broken in. We definitely had a case of that where I even was pushing. I was like, well, this is like on Velcro. It was like on Velcro. Certainly would have felt like Kristen would go and you would push it 10, 12 meters. And then you would just kind of stand up because it was too much. And I'm watching you like really like it's challenging. And it has to be like, you can't get behind her and kind of like push as well has to be just one person. Yeah. So you're literally walking right behind the person. So, you know, you would push. It was kind of like, I think it was good that we were practicing how far you could go before you felt like your heart rate was kind of getting to really a really uncomfortable place. Then I could jump in and go. I think one of them I just pushed it the whole way just because I was like, you know, possessed once he yeah, kind of once you

23:02get going. Yeah. But it's, you know, down and back four times. So 12 and a half, 12 and a half. And then, you know, to get to whatever that equals 50 meters. Then we then we ran another lap. Then the sled pull. So a little bit less weight on the pole. But we kind of fucked up. And we did an extra length. And so we're running away from the station. And I look back at ours. And it's on one side of the thing. And I look at literally everyone others. And they're all on the other side. And I'm like, I think we fucked up. But we know we were like, we did the four of so anyway. Yeah. And then we kind of got stopped. We ran back to like, you guys didn't finish back. I'm like, I've yanked this thing enough. Well, they were like, no, you guys want an extra. Yeah. So, yeah. Did they pull it back for you? Yeah. They did. That was good. That was a fun station. And there's also photographers like two feet away from you. And they're all up in your shit. Like, you know, they got it dialed in for there. There's a lot of apps for them. Take photos of

24:07not. Yeah. Not over there. A lot of matching outfits us included. Yeah. We noticed the matching shoes and everything. Yeah. We were racing in the adidas EVOS else. You have like a team name or anything. No team name, but the unofficial working team was mom and dad did a high rocks or do a high rocks. Um, that works. So after the sled pull and push, how are you feeling on the run? Because that was the run when you were kind of like, I think feeling it the most my legs were feeling it after that one. Because those I feel like the second half of the race is pretty leg heavy, but that that's a lot of straight. I think for me was that push because it takes a lot out of my thighs. So that was tacky on the run. Yeah. But did you ran every, every lap? Which I commend you. Yeah. That was I chipper exceeded expectations. In chipper's private race report to me, he mentioned several times how proud he was of you. Yeah. That is true. I'm like, he was like, he was legit impressed, which made me legit impressed. Yeah. Thank you. I was like,

25:09okay, because I did provide a run program for Kristen. And, you know, there wasn't 100% compliance. I'll just say that. What do you think the compliance rate was? It's like 25%. I was going to say 33%. Wow. Yeah. So I'll just go show. You can be 33% compliant. Yeah. Run program. You're just running a kilometer. And at you, you can, I think that's the main thing. It's very short distances. Then, you know, every station moves pretty quickly. And you can kind of really stick it out for three to six to eight minutes or whatever it is. Yeah. But we did optimize our strategies, set you up for the most success that we could. After the sled pole is the burpee broad jump, which that's kind of when shit starts to get serious is around that one. Your heart rate just never comes down on that one. Yeah. So that, um, you know, when you're like staring down a long hallway, you're like, fuck out the go all that way. And then

26:10turn the corner and go all the other way. Yeah. So, you know, we did it though. We did. That is one burpee at a time. One burpee at a time. I was going and I'm like, I need a little break. So it stopped. Kristen will go. And then I would jump back in there. The advice to me was don't try to jump too far so that I fall over or that I fall back. Yeah. So you're trying to get as much ground as you can. It's just don't want to do more. Yeah. Trying to get some super jump is not very not the best strategy. It's more a lot of these things I found in training and during the race was like, what kind of good rhythm can you get in? Cause then you can just fire out lunges. Boom, boom. You can just kind of get going wall balls. You can kind of you just got to get into a rhythm. If you can kind of lock into that rhythm, that's where it, you know, you hit that flow state, you know, a couple of my jumps got a little short. Yeah. I was like, one more and she took like half a smile. Really. Afterward, he was like, you could have jumped more. Telled me not to jump. Especially because it's like the last jump to get to the finish line or

27:12whatever. So you could take some huge jump. Yeah. I did do a Mondo jump to get to the finish line. Try to go like super, super jump on that. So that finished off our work on the one side of the thing. And then it's like, Hey, we're done with half of it. So we did our other run lap. And we, we went over and it was row, which was actually our slower. I think we kind of, some people say the row is like some people kind of use as a little bit of a recovery station. Cause but we also switched off a little bit more than I think we would if we were to do it again. Yeah. Probably just best of banging out like 500, 500 type of thing, but we didn't do that. So were you watching the clock at this point or you're just not really worried? I was running the only I had the only thing I had on my watch was lap, lap time and heart rate. And so I just want to know what heart rate zone or like where my heart rate was and then how long the lap was mostly just for the running. Because I'm like, okay, the kilometer is going to take a six, six or seven minutes. So I would know, okay,

28:14if we were like, Oh, do we go in? I could just be like, No, we're only at three minutes. We have another lap. That's really what I wanted wasn't looking at my watch or anything for how long as a ski taking us or we had I wasn't looking at any of that stuff. But they did have a clock as you would go by and kind of station six and seven. I was like, Oh, we're kind of, you know, we're kind of within this one hour, hour 30 hour 40 range. So started to kind of feel, feel pretty good about that. Yeah. The row uneventful. I was going to say the original playing was to kind of take in nutrition during the row too. That's when we were watching this day. We saw that's when most people had a few more seconds while their partner was doing the row to kind of take a gel. Yeah, 500 meter row is probably it's a couple minutes of you just kind of standing there and getting some good recovery in if you're doing a pairs one by that time it was also 915 at night. Yeah. I did have a pfh 90. But I was also feeling the large dinner as I know you were as well,

29:16which was yeah, not not ideal circumstance. So when did you stop fueling? So how many or how many gels did you take in general in total? Just the one before. Yeah, just took 90. Yeah. I'm probably finished it within the first 45 minutes. Oh, yeah. Mostly because I'm like, Oh, yeah, I got enough juice to get it done. And by 90, we're talking precision fuel and hydration, Mondo 90 gels, which is three gels and one, so less to carry. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, would just because the runs it was like so natural. And I think that's something that probably in retrospect would have been good to practice a little bit is like for us that's so natural to take fuel in when we're running. But for for you, when we go to the gym, it was like, oh, we'd sip a high carb drink in the water bottle where we're like, unwrap in the rates and stuff. So kind of some more race specific fuelings. Is that something you could run with as like a water bottle or something? So we did bring a soft flask with water and ended up having a hole in it. So it was like leaking a little bit because Kristen in our, you know, training, we were doing some gut training.

30:20And she liked the high carb mix. So we had like 60 grams of carbs in that bottle plus water. It's like, Hey, if we can skip going to any of these aid stations, that's going to save us five minutes, 10 minutes right there. Sure. So just carry the water bottle, but it kind of started. We realized it wasn't really something that we needed. So I ended up tossing it at one of the transitions. But yeah, we did drink. And how many eights to put eight stations every time you come in? Yeah. So they do two loops to come in. There's water and then they're like my protein, whatever electrolyte. So they had two aid stations on each side of the thing there. Cool. So we came in. We got the farmers carry two 24 kilogram kettlebells, which we also got in our garage. That one, I think we had discussed that over here in the studio. That was going to be a mostly chipper station. Yes. Because that is a lot. But I did probably 125 meters. You did 25 meters. And then I did the last 50 probably. Was it a hundred? It was 200 meters.

31:23Yeah. I probably did about 25. I was like, do you even want to do any? Because I could just keep going. And I was like, Oh, you want to do that? Yeah. Yeah. That's good. That's a good communication. Honestly, it's very important. Yeah. And I said, I didn't want to do a little bit still. I didn't want to not do any station. But yes, I was not going to do half of it. Yeah. And then another lap. And I was like, Hey, that's the penultimate lap only. Only we go after this. It felt good once we were on the back. We were coming home. You know, it was kind of like two stations left lunch. It's bedtime bedtime. I should have been asleep 30 minutes ago. And we came into the lunges. Yes. So 30 to 20 kilogram blunch. So like 45 pounds. Sandbag lunch, 100 meters, 80 meters, something. That was, you know, that was a rhythm. It was tough. A rhythm thing for sure. And then, you know, I would do. And yet to do the back-to-back handoff, it's a good thing. Yeah, you have to pass the sandbag off.

32:23And then we kind of trade it off. But I mean, we, I think we handled that station pretty well. I also agree. I think we did good with that one. It was very hard, though. And I was like, okay, last lap. Yeah. Okay. So you do the last station. I mean, you still got to be one more kilometer to then go to like the little. And then go to the wall balls. Oh, it's a wall ball. So you finish with the hundred wall balls, right? Which is like the whole weekend we're walking around. And, you know, we're walking from our, the, the, we stayed at the W and we're walkings connected there. And everyone, you can just see the people that have raised or there. And they're like, a fuck of wall balls. I hate the wall. Everyone's like cussing out the wall balls. And I'm like, yeah, you're totally wrecked. And you got to do a hundred. And, and there's judges and stuff that are knocking you. So there's two things. Yeah. There's an angle, a hip angle, and then there's a sensor up at 10 feet and then nine feet for women. And at the ball doesn't hit the sensor. It's a no rep. So you just, you're barely wasted. Yeah. And they're, yeah.

33:24Have a little iPad. And if you don't get low enough, they'll take one off. Yeah. That's the judges are there watching. And if you're really sad, they'll put a little stool, they bring the stool out for you. Man, that's, yeah. Yeah. Oh, they threw the stool at me. You know, got to make your butt touch the stool. Yeah. Oh, no. And so I think it's probably nice guide, though, too. Yeah. I mean, honestly, like if I kept getting, if I was going to get no reps on it for not going low, I'm like, give me the fucking stool. It's just like I'm not going to mess around with I don't want any more free reps. But I was feeling at that time when we had came in, it was probably an hour and 28 minutes or 29. Like I'm like, wow, we're, you know, sure, this thing could take us 10 minutes, but it's probably going to take us like five. I was like, wow, we like, I know. I'm kind of like, you know, hey, we're pretty good. You know, one more station to go. And yeah, so I started as off that one. And I was like, should I go hero mode

34:25and just go until failure, basically. I didn't do that. But I was like, yeah, it was great. So Christians, they're just watching me and I'm going and I was in a good rhythm. And I was like, okay, let's get 20 because that's kind of how we we do 20, 10, 20, 10. And we would kind of like practice that. And I was like, 20. And I'm like, let me just, let me get to 30. So I did 30. And I passed it off to Kristen. I did 10. Very nice. And I was like, okay, let's go. And I started going again. 30 more. Nice, dude. What are they? Yeah. Okay. And I passed off to Kristen. I did 10. Oh, yeah, because I was, I was going to stop on 69. And I was like, oh, I'll just get to 70. Then Kristen brought it to 80. And then, uh, it was like 20. I was like 19. I was just counting down. And the judge was like counting down. The judge is also counting down. Sorry. I'm excited. You know what the count says? You know, he was excited. He was also very impressed by the fact that you did two rounds of 30. Because he's also trying to let me know

35:30to like, oh, you're going to be up next. Like he's, he's doing the count, you know, to let him. You know what he's at? What is looking at? Yeah. Cause you can't see, when you can't see the screen. I mean, I wasn't really trying to look at it. I was just trying to like stay in the rhythm. He's trying to tell you what you're out to. And he's letting me know. And when you were going for 30, he looked at me. He was like, Oh, okay, dude. Oh, you got a good one. Oh, he's still going. It was great. Yep. Also, I was like smiling by this point, too. But he was really working. Oh, we're all done here. I was just celebrating. We're all done here. Yeah. He's lightening your load. Yeah. Oh, it was great. And then, yeah, it was like 99, boom, 100. And then you kind of like high five or like jump chest bump or something. We do. We grabbed hands. It's literally, you know, 10, a 10 meter little run up the ramp to the finish line. And so yeah, we just kind of like held hands ran across. And yeah, that was it. It's all right. It was great. Yeah, sweet. Congratulations. Thank you. So the finish time was what? 136, 134,

36:33something 134, 29. And they kind of put you into a corral and you, you know, they, you get a patch instead of a metal. Just kind of cool. You know, it says like Vegas and also something that's really useless. Well, they sell backpacks that you can get, you know, like the go-ruck backpacks or like several scouts. Yeah. Kind of like that. So every, you know, there was a people that had, you know, 10 patches on their things. And they route you through and you take a picture in front of a TV that they put your screen on your time on. And then we're like, let's get to bed. Yeah, everything. Well, our plan originally beforehand was we were like, oh, we'll have a really late dinner after. Yeah, absolutely not. We're like, oh, yeah, we'll go shower. We'll come down. We'll get like a beer and a burger at this place. It's open till four in the morning. Yeah, you're going to be wired out. You're going to be jacked up and stuff is like, oh, man, I'm so tired. We've got to be at the airport at six in the morning tomorrow. Oh, yeah. So, but it was, it was a lot of fun. I did get approaching shake after. Glad to. Yeah. So I guess like the, you know, the obvious question is, and I already know the

37:36answer, but you know, for folks at home, would you do another one? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. And it was the type of event that there's so many different events and ways to race that you could go with the group of people from your gym or your friends. And you all can do like probably two or three races that weekend. Yeah. So we can race as mixed doubles. But then me and you could race as pro men or and then we could do a relay or pro men. Well, pro is like the weight. How much weight you're doing? Yeah. So you do more sled, you're your sandbags heavier, the balls heavier. But there's a lot of different varieties to kind of race for the whole weekend. So you know, found it to be pretty, pretty fun. So it's coming for you next. Yeah. Well, Chipper was like, oh, we should totally, we should tell you which is interesting because I'm usually the one recommending hair-brained ideas. One thing I love about this idea was, I mean, I had nothing to do with this. All I did was like, yeah, you're like, you should. It's so much as there was kindling. I was more than happy to just like, you know, yeah. But yeah, you know,

38:38this is the idea that you guys came up with, which I think is so cool and that you had a positive experience. It's great. Now, who do you think this is good for? Do you think this type of race is good for swim runners or? Well, who do you think should try to kind of needs it? You can. I think yes, swim runners for sure, because the partner aspect, especially the partner's race was really cool. It's shorter than a world series distance. So I would say even if you're going slower on the runs or taking your time on the stations, two hours is a very, very approachable time to get on this. And really, what I liked about it and part of what motivated me to sign up was, you know, we talk about how great that strength training is doing. And this was something that definitely held me accountable. And we really had a lot of fun doing these workouts and the movements. You can totally just do them in your, you know, garage or whatever and get most of the strength in. That's what I really liked about it. So I would be down to have, like, you know, a couple of these type of events on the calendar every year, like if they were more

39:41local, just to kind of like keep the strength consistent and kind of fun and mix up those, the stimulus a little bit. Yeah, I would agree. And you know, you do you do bar a couple days a week. You're able to handle it. Yes, you don't run a ton and you could handle it. Approachable. Yeah. It's pretty easy to get into. I did not lift anything or push anything that weighed 300 pounds before this. So I think it was, you know, it's very doable. You still have to go in there and like try stuff out, but it was fun. Very achievable. Two months of training. We were able to do it. Yeah. I mean, obviously if you're a CrossFit type, you're probably already well aware of of this, but certainly a fun race to kind of mix and mix up and do something so you can just do it yourself as well, which that obviously would be much more challenging having to do all the work of the stations yourself. But again, just kind of and pace yourself a little bit more on it, but honestly, kind of opened to anybody doing it. There was huge, super jacked people and just totally

40:46normal people. Yeah. Everyone in between. The partner stuff was fun. I see why you guys do this. Yeah. I mean, we've been talking about this for a long time now. I'll be your high rock star. Go. Your son. And high rock stands for hybrid rock star in case that's probably like the worst part about high rock. Yeah. I'm glad you guys had a great experience. Congratulations on an awesome race. Chipper was like, I'll let you know how he did, but you'll probably be asleep and you were correct. Yeah, I was asleep, but I was, you know, best way to wake up was we did it. We did it. So that was awesome. Yeah. Yeah, congrats guys. Yeah. Thanks. It's good time. Yeah, it was very fun. You're a good partner. Hear that, Chris? Oh, I know. I already know this. She knows what I know. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, now I really know. We should have tethered. That's it for this week's episode. Thanks so much for listening to the show. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts

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