Road to the Games 21.01: MAYHEM FREEDOM & HALEY ADAMS

if i'm being 100 transparent honest i want to win every event that's what it is my confidence is so much more it's definitely up there just because i mean i've proved to myself and everyone else that i'm constantly in the top five and it's not just a fluke it's not luck it's not the event it's like it's every comp that i've been at and just showing that to myself and everyone else it's like i'm definitely coming for that podium this year and i was scared to say that last year because i wasn't sure but this year it's like no you're going for it people should be afraid of haley adams that's for sure like she she's coming for it and the difference from last year's games to what this year's games is going to be that girl's on fire she so is so i don't know what else to say i'm like she's she's coming [Music] knoxville tennessee and the mid-atlantic crossfit championship a city overflowing with history just 90 minutes down the road from cookville would make contemporary history in 2021 by hosting the first us-based in-person semi-final crossfit competition since covid19 wreaked havoc on the globe for a sport uniquely forged in camaraderie and collective suffering celebration was in order but for the athletes who would be taking the field of play emotions varied and nerves would have to be subdued as 18 months of rust were shaken off that first event you know walking in being under under the lights really because you're inside and having the crowd and just being in a really professional cool venue being in thompson bowling pretty incredible experience you know especially to go from nothing for what 15 16 months probably the longest in my career to just in a like a real setting quick was fun it was a little bit not shocking but a little you know you got to get the jitters out a little bit gotta gotta calm the nerves a bit it honestly felt like nothing had changed it it kind of made you forget about the whole last year i mean just having the crowd there it was so awesome and you know just getting the adrenaline rush and hearing all the people cheering for you and screaming and it was really it was just such an awesome experience and i'm excited for the games it was awesome it's definitely a different adrenaline rush than being just in the barn it felt really good it was kind of a wild experience just having so many people there and having a live event because we've been everything's been online and obviously the quarterfinals and the open and all that stuff so being in person felt really good the last time i was on the competition floor was watapalooza last year so right before right before covet hit which is it's a long time it's probably the longest i haven't been on the floor since i started competing in crossfit in 2015. so it's just a long a long time to just not be under pressure under the lights in a big stadium with fans you know it's just a different environment it's a different sort of stimulus nice to just you know feel that adrenaline rush and kind of get that going but it felt fine i don't feel like i really missed any beats having having that crowd there i'm you know i've said it multiple times i'm not much of a practice player you know i can i can push in the barn and i can get in that competitive headspace but it's so much easier and i i get so much from the crowd that it's i missed it obviously i miss it a ton so it was it was fun and everybody there was was awesome all the you know the crowd was into it and it was it was cool it was really cool but i forgot how much i missed it i guess you know like like i said last year with not having a competition i was like oh okay you know i think i think i could be done this would be the last one and then getting back out there i'm like i did miss that and it was fun getting back in that environment you know you almost dread it for the first event because of the nerves and just the the hype of it and then once you get that you know first first at-bat i think of you know as a baseball and you kind of settle into a rhythm and you're like okay this is this is where i'm supposed to be so yeah it was kind of lit that fire back a little bit made it more fun for individuals and teams alike the competition would start with a fan favorite the heavy barbell as mayhem freedom unveiled their 2021 roster for the first time in person game day decisions were less obvious than in years prior me i would have liked to snatch team-wise numbers-wise it made sense for chase to try to snatch and so you know talking to chase i'm like hey calm those nerves oh i just need you to hit this first lift and you're good like you're going to be fine what does he do just misses the first lift just throws it basically he overthrew it it's actually like my first event with freedom first event at an in-person competition and i got i think i don't know as soon as they said go lift that's a way i can hit easily and i just walked up i didn't even set up right all i did was just pull the bar and missed it so i think after that then i got the jitters out then um i just had to calm down but i was just like okay and so my head i'm like he's like what do i do do i go up and i'm like how did you miss like what did you miss it where did you miss it and he's like wow you just kind of i threw it too hard i threw it too high and i'm like i'm like don't go just hit 215. like we need a score on the board you know i just in my head i'm like he just missed that and so then he did great he hit 225 and then or hit 250 in the next and hit 225 you know i've been really nice for him to hit 235 245 because you're seeing all these heavy lifts go up so in my head i'm like all right i've i've got to hit a home run here i complete like i said rookie mistake went 345 thinking it was 355 hit that no problem and so i'm thinking 355 a 365 jump would have been 10 pounds i'm like that's kind of it's just safe you know so i was like 370 is a 15 pound jump from 355 but when 345 is a 25 pound jump so i actually hit that clean which i've not hit in five six years something like that the jerk if i hit a clean i'm going to hit the jerk i'm like all right just kind of settle here for a second maybe you can you know get past this and it wasn't happening so i was like all right we're going to put it down or else we're going down so lights we're going out i don't want to talk about the lifting but if we're going to uh that was really a huge disappointment for me personally first of all missed my first attempt on my first snatch we only had three attempts so obviously if you only have three attempts you want to make them all count i think i started out a little too heavy and i think i was honestly just a little just shaken up it's the first event i've done in so long and the lights and the floor and the bar was really whippy and so i wish i would have started a little more conservatively there and maybe ended a little bit heavier so i didn't leave as many points on the board so just kind of thinking that out ahead of time a little better would have been a good idea for me this weekend i did not perform lifting's supposed to be one of my strengths and i didn't really look strong i think i really got in my head about not going in being super warm only having three attempts i wasn't sure my body's not getting any younger i wasn't sure how that was gonna kind of hold up you know putting a bunch of weight on it when it was cold so yeah not not a strong point when i do team stuff i love doing it just because i don't want to let down a team so anything individually it's just yourself so that's why i was i just didn't want to be the let down ever again the whole weekend yeah i think we all had misses like i missed my first one rich missed his last jerk i think taylor missed her first one and then andrea might have missed her last jerk there was no finger pointing it outward it was finger pointing inward you know everybody's like well i screwed up well i screwed up well i did this so i did that you know so that was good that nobody was like hey hey chase you let us down hey rich you missed that you know as your fault even the girls were like hey we screwed up despite a less than perfect run mayhem accumulated 990 pounds resulting in a sixth place finish although far from devastation the result created an early hole to crawl out of the team was disappointed and eager to put the event behind them they now set their sights on cerberus a test that would unveil their prowess with the worm after that event we were all a little crabby for uh you know good reason but we knew we had a lot of fitness coming up and we knew we could make up a lot of ground with our fitness i think we were just ready for some fitness i think eventually was more confusing for the crowd than it was for us we actually had it kind of written down on our arms we knew when the transitions would be event two was really fun and it was honestly pretty straightforward despite the the layout it was it was pretty straightforward and we had practiced that beforehand so i felt pretty confident about that event it wasn't even that complicated it was just there was some strategy to it honestly i mean really it's not complicated in the fact that you have to get 30 cals on each machine and it's pretty straightforward but there was a little bit of strategy to the fact that you wanted to keep the males on the machines as long as you can and keep the transition time down as far as you can but all we had to do is just get to the worm we knew we could make up time on the worm and we were smashing the machines and i knew our worm cleaner jerks weren't going to go well i thought it would be a good kind of test to see where the other teams were at with the worm movements too so i was excited for event too i think we all were and feeling pretty comfortable and confident going into it i think we pr and the transitions were further apart the real run and practice were actually pretty similar our time at the event was faster i think adrenaline plays a huge part in that and our worm moved like i said very well i mean obviously we wanted to be in first after day one so i think we were all itching just to get out there and work out again just so we could prove that we can win at the end of day one i was still just super i was i don't want to know or i don't want to use the word sad but i was just sad with myself just because there's no other lift to kind of make up for it but it's hard not to dwell on that so i guess i was just feeling kind of meh we we knew that once we get to the actual fitness stuff that we would do just fine but you still you don't know you know who's going to be you know what other teams do and where they place and so i mean there was really five or six teams that were taking the same five or six spots and so we couldn't you couldn't at that point you couldn't figure out you know is it going to be westchase that keeps getting second or you know how's it going to work and what what's the point situation the only team to go sub nine minutes mayhem freedom elbowed their way into the top five with a dominant performance while the day ended on a high note for the team it was apparent their dynamics still needed refinement what'd you do what's what was wrong i was on the wrong side we always start on that side i just walked there all i looked at was the worm and that was it that's our only problem on that workout we did okay so smash that one just starting her day was the fourth fittest woman on earth 20 year old hayley adams despite the fact that lifting has been less friendly to adams in past competitions she approached og with excitement hoping to flex hard-earned gains from the past year of work oh the snatch that's one of the highlights of like my entire like crossfit experience like no joke that was so cool yeah when i saw the one right max match i was excited to show off like the strength work we've been putting in i've been hitting consistently 175 every single weekend so i knew that hopefully a pr a heavier snatch was coming it's still hard not to be a little bit nervous just because you only had three attempts and you know you never know like you could go out there and bomb you'd hope you don't but that is always a chance of that so i was a little bit nervous about it but as i'm sure everyone else was we had a plan going in so 165 175 and then depending how 175 felt she's gonna go either 180 or 185 i actually wanted to go 180 but tasia was like no go 185 which i'm super glad i did [Music] when the sometimes is i knew i wanted her to go 185 just from watching her snatch every day i'm like you snatch up to 180 easy all the time like this is it to try 185 165 easy as expected 175 easy as expected and she looked at me and she was like 180 and i was like 185. i'd only planned to try lift again if it was on the first one like if you just i was a little shaky or missed it because i was nervous or whatever because obviously if it was the next two lifts it was just too heavy to try it again but i don't know what happened i was just like i'm gonna step back and try it again somehow got under it she missed the first snatch and my favorite part of the entire thing haley's so smart you watch all those a lot of the other girls out there want to say all of them but like they snatch and they miss and they're right back on the bar because you have this perspective of 20 seconds which i totally get that would have been me like oh my gosh i have to get back on the bar to get this snatch because you had to finish it haley steps back she takes a breather knowing she had more time she sold plenty of time steps up and stands up that snatch and man i was so hyped and she was so hyped and it was just like the coolest moment to see all that hard work come to fruition because she's put in the work in the snatch it hasn't been that wasn't luck yeah we've been lifting seriously every day for the last few months following my hamburger strings so i know the work i've put in and i don't really it's it's not important to listen to what anyone else has to say especially when they have no idea what you've been doing so to see all that hard work just pay off in that moment for her and for it to be like just bright and shiny was really cool just being able to hit it under that circumstance and just being in the you know the arena it was so cool and definitely a highlight of my career and that was the one event like that was the one event she was kind of nervous about for it to be first to have all that adrenaline all the nerves still totally crush it um that was a good way to start after that i was like okay i've just felt so relieved because all the other workouts like it would be hard to do really bad on or something go wrong you know because it's just what i'm good at like crossfit and it was just a big relief knowing that that one was out of the way and everything went according to plan and i was ready to work out you know how the everyone always sounds like that one yes that was it dude you hit it on the second pulse it's because it was in your head if it would have been really heavy i would have tried it again but something in me was like go again yes go again because my it wasn't like it just felt like i was like you were right there yeah for adams her ninth place finish was a massive victory not to mention a lifetime best and her growing confidence was palpable after silencing doubters with the barbells she would now switch gears facing an event that had her name written all over it yeah i was pumped for that workout because it kind of was just like it was a chipper in a way and i love chippers but also i had never pushed like the tank before so i was a little bit nervous about that you know how it was going to feel was actually not bad at all tia and haley were like close and close like she was putting on a little bit of push to pace with tia so i remember it was cool to see tia looking at haley like i noticed that on the ski haley's incredible at ski in chesterbar and she executed it to perfection and i mean just the first real race with tia was definitely a highlight i feel like the workout ended up being more just about like the skierg and chess bar but yeah i had a game plan going into it i was just going to run my own race and i was pretty shocked i guess at how it ended up because there wasn't really anyone behind me for i guess like a minute but i wasn't too far behind tia so that was kind of cool for me to see haley just checking out the field she knows where she's at it was cool haley finished the event in second one minute faster than her next closest competitor and appeared to catch the attention of defending champion tia claire toomey when the dust had settled adams ended the day with a fourth position overall and a boatload of confidence i'm super happy with her right now i'm in fourth with all of my favorite events so fourth after a max lift for me i'm super happy with what i'm saying and i think we're all gonna go from here as the sun rose on the second day at rocky top the team's confidence was at an all-time high in their minds it was mayhem freedom's competition to lose just be real with me are you gonna win every event for the rest of the weekend yeah there's like one that could maybe go either way but we'll say top two so we knew going into that one that rich and andrew would be better after the thrusters so taylor and i decided to partner up that way we could get the work done and then just end with rusters push a little harder on that and then we'd be done it played out exactly how i thought it would i knew we might be a little slower you know chase and andrea or chase and taylor were a little worried about they thought they'd fall behind on the first part because taylor isn't comfortable doing handstand push-ups even though she's good at handstand push-ups she doesn't think she is i think we pretty much knew that the gymnastics portions of the workouts were pretty much going to be the girls and then the guys being like the accessories so they just make it synchro and the girls kind of run their race just because i think the guys are better at gymnastics than both of us are and that's just kind of the way it worked out a little nervous do a bunch of gymnastics with rich didn't want to be buried to the ground didn't want to let him down you know but as soon as people got to the barbell that was the separator that 205 barbell really slowed a lot of teams down that were better at gymnastics and then once they got to the worm it was a completely different story so once we get to the forum i think it was the same time as on track and when i looked over and they were dropping the worm i think after sets of 10 i was like all right we're all right it hurt really i was really messed up after that workout honestly thrusters are very hard for me i'd rather do 100 worm squats than 50 warm thrusters like any day i would rather do thrusters i don't think that i like anything with the worm except deadlifts but yeah i like i like thrusters and squats they're fine the workout was hard it was good though i liked it it was a different you know there's some strategy to it but not over you couldn't over complicate it if that makes sense it was fun i guess it was really hard yeah yeah is that one of the harder ones this weekend uh well to be determined it's the hardest one i've done so far in my mind probably everyone's mind yeah yeah what's the hardest part about it thrusters swarm thrusters for sure probably because that was the end of my workout too but it was just a really hard movement in general freedom was now approaching equilibrium on the leaderboard after the third event just one point out from first as they rounded the halfway point in the competition adams who started her day in a qualifying position now faced a sprint her strategy could not have been more simple go just go it's fast less than five minutes obviously touch and go in the sounds minimize no reps for sure how does here we feel about this one really good yeah i'm just gonna crush it day two started with gretel we knew that the workout was gonna be fast i mean it was just gonna be a burner you kind of had to send it and just hold on for everyone i knew that one would be an okay workout for me just because it is so short and like people can hang on for like that three minute range which is something i need to get better on is that super fast time domain that's not haley's strength necessarily she's still really good at like like cleaning jerks and burpees it actually ended up going pretty well i think i got six in it so not great not awful yeah but it hurts so bad like the last round i thought i did three things did two dropped it and he was like two and i was like oh god i was just so blacked out so i tried i definitely gave him all yeah she finished just as she needed to and what was cool too it wasn't like of course she want to come in first or second she came in i think six but she was like that was perfect that was exactly what i needed to do that was the best i got and it was yeah i mean i i knew that that was my all i didn't hold back or anything so i wasn't like upset without it it was just more of seeing something to work on despite a sixth place finish adams was still ascending in the overall standings more importantly she was flexing maturity and confidence total blackout like i think i dropped it at two you did i was on that last set what the hell are you doing but you were still honestly you were creeping there and i was like all right you're about to catch up what i'm saying like that three minute range still isn't it still yeah i knew that would be like it's still not that workout oh no you're next the teams would face a sprint of their own with a four-time champion in individuals and teams the 10th fittest woman on the planet in 2020 a four-time games team veteran and an ambitious newcomer expectations were high and there was only one option send it is there a strategy on this one you just go i kind of just go i practiced it with 32 inch box jumps because uh burpee box jumps because in the basement i'll have a 20 and a 12. it was really hard 32 was surprisingly way harder hopefully this should feel easier yeah it's an individual race going into that event was a little nervous but then taylor pulled ahead and then rich went we pulled farther ahead and then i got a little angry that i didn't have anyone to chase that one was really fun it was short it was fast it was power output but she had to be a little bit fit also i thought it was really fun it was well written individual so there's no one out there with you but it was a good time yeah i had one goal and that was to go unbroken on the dumbbell i'd tested that one a few times and i've been practicing trying to touch and go the hundredth yeah we needed we needed some points on the board at that point we needed to kind of pull ahead a little bit and i think that we all knew that was an event that we should do well at as well so we were hoping to to grab some points there which we did yeah no i think it's internally everybody kind of knew hey let's let's go out and win some events and do you know do what we can you don't know like i said you still you know lone star was right there wes chase was right there on track was right there yeah after day two we weren't pulling super ahead i mean we came in i don't know how many points ahead it wasn't it we were by no means running away with it mayhem freedom would end day two in the driver's seat for the first time now it comes to light that the competition isn't always across the lanes but sometimes within them nistler and williamson have a sibling rivalry it seems that supersedes the mac let's go back and watch the footage nick has the split times maybe maybe not let me say six seconds there's so much room for air in those six seconds let's race on the relay one tomorrow and get two fine muscle up snatch no longer happy with simply qualifying adam's focus appears to have shifted with a wheelhouse event in her sights it's time now to show what she's truly capable of stay controlled that's the only thing you need to worry about just do your own thing because i don't want to get on 450 first for 15. i mean obviously i'll be on breath but i don't want to be like oh no yeah 100 because i can like keep a decent pace for the whole run yeah all over if i don't go out you don't need to win the first round yeah it's not about that it's a long workout she's so wise she doesn't even like really need us at all she just needs to like say it to us so we can confirm it that's kind of what i've learned so going into inception i thought haley could beat tia like i really was confident in her ability to run ring muscle up and wobble more real love i need bigger stages i'm an attica energy more haters i'm a savage to enemies more paper rather than this nature lavish identity no favors number eight laker told my wife i might needs enemies yeah so i knew that was going to be probably one of my best workouts for the weekend it was definitely fun getting to raise tia the first few rounds i think it was a really cool thing for the crowd to kind of shift and see that there was someone that could push tia and they got behind that and we're excited about that i knew that we were i was already around the head of whoever was behind me and i wasn't going to be able to catch her so i just um just knowing that we started another day of comp and i just kind of chilled a little bit after that so i didn't have to like kill myself i was still trying hard but like i'm sure she did the same thing too yeah so just slowed down a little bit but it was really cool to be one of the only two women that finished that workout she would come up catch up on the run pass her on the run go back tea is great at muscle ups so she would pass her a little bit on the muscle ups and then they were about even on the wall ball so it was i felt like it was a shift in that workout in some ways of just people seeing that okay the torque event wasn't a fluke like she's back again just pushing tia and the rest of the field kind of was nowhere in sight nowhere near her i didn't think of like not finishing at all i guess i didn't really add much about the time in my head or how long it would take so i just went with the mindset of finishing it i mean i didn't know it wasn't an option they're the only two people to finish that workout for sure but just the next generation like haley is she is so fit and she's so smart so just dialed in and it's hard to even explain to like put it out there because she's so young she's so young there's still so much more so to see her and tia just at the end and tia who's won so many times and who's an incredible athlete to be pushing the pace with her it's really exciting i think i just i'm so used to being so humbled here at the barn that i don't really like hype myself up or think that i'm superior compared to anyone else so i don't know i didn't really think anything about it just was happy with how it did just seeing her confidence grow like even over the weekend she was more confident going into this competition than i've experienced with her and then for it to grow like throughout the weekend and be like yeah i i belong here like it's no doubt anymore because there's always those doubts those pre-competition doubts you're like have i done enough did i do enough the right things like we you're not sure and to show up and she said that to me on multiple occasions she's like what we're doing is working like it's working and i just need to keep doing it and stay dialed in and that's easy to work she's a workhorse so to have that affirmation of what they're doing is working so her enriching the training and all that is working i think that's huge hayley adams ends day two in second place overall the real victory of the day however is symbolic as one of only two women to complete inception adams found herself on an island with greatness the other woman joining her on the finish mat was four-time crossfit games champion tia claire toomey another day of competition complete adams maintained a calm and confident demeanor how are you feeling after day two you're good yeah um pretty early you like tomorrow [Music] on the final day of competition crossfit mayhem had all but cemented the top spot in the overall standings regardless they lacked confidence as they approached a lynchpin event that would take them all to their limits we have no plan at all and it can't go wrong the sunday the first workout was the one that really i was kind of like all right here we go you know like what's this going to look like yeah i actually i came into event or day 3 very uncertain knowing that taylor and i had to log our butts on this runner we're not runners that actually went way better than i thought i was happy i think we both might have pr at our two four miles i honestly didn't didn't know if we would win that workout if i was to look at one of them minus the strength workout that was the workout i was kind of like you know the girls aren't super comfortable they don't like running i hate running so we were kind of planning on holding about an eight minute mile or so we were both very nervous andrew and i for the run because we're just not good runners so this is a little sad but taylor and i will just race each other on the field so she's actually mad at me right now because i beat her off the true form because i wasn't honest with her to where i was and then i think we try to out do each other on even toes to bar we'll start with a pace and we'll get faster and faster like we both just don't want to be the one slowing the other one down and we want to prove that maybe you're better at something so we start running and we're kind of talking back and forth like okay i'm at point two okay i'm also at point two because neither one of us wants to be the last one off because we don't like to feel like we're holding the other one back so i get to the halfway point i'm like halfway and she's like okay cool i'm at four nines i'm like all right i'm just a sliver ahead great we're doing good and then she gets to 0.8 she's like i'm a 0.8 i was right there with her and i'm feeling good i'm not really that tired i'm like okay she's like i'm going to slow down a little bit like all right perfect so i kind of slowed down a little bit i was like i'm feeling okay so i kind of speed up a little bit and all of a sudden i'm at .95 and she gets off i'm like what do you i thought you were going to slow down she's like later she told me she just stopped looking at the monitor altogether assumed she slowed down which she didn't so she sprinted the last part and left me there alone but it all worked out we went really fast through the wall balls because we were both feeling pretty good after that we literally race each other through all the synchro stuff always still make it synchro but we just don't want to be the one slowing the other one down yeah they try to kill each other and then they try to kill us in the process and i'm like hey i'm not getting into this it's a different dynamic like i said i feel like in years past our girls have gotten along really well and like hey you know how can i help each other or whatever these girls are they get along really well they're like sisters but they also try to kill each other they're like i just want to smash her into the ground or i just want my time to be faster than hers or blah blah blah or you know we'll start something like we're not racing right you're like i mean the other teams not each other so it's fun though it's good you know it's cool i mean that's the type of mentality you want we had a pace that we were going to try to hold on the runner almost about around a seven minute pace on the run and i actually thought we would get a little bit of a break before we would have to go into wall balls but our girls completely smashed it so we got off the runner and went right to the wall balls we didn't have a strategy on rep scheme or nothing we're just like hey we're going to pick it up we need to drop we'll just communicate as we're going same thing on toes the bar a couple times we'd get some no reps on things and i'm like hey like on the wall balls like hey stop we're gonna stop here we're gonna collect figure out what's going on let's try to fix it instead of just keep trying to hammer away reps if you keep getting no reps what's the point in you know wasting it and then it came time to push a sled i know when the first female finished the sled they ran to the finish mat so when i finished the sled i took off running to the finish mat they stopped me told me to go back i thought maybe i didn't push the sled far enough so i push the sled to the next line turn around i run back to the finish mat they told me to go back out there so i'm like completely confused at this point so then i just stand there and then rich did his he didn't know there's a time cap technically i think we finished that one but according to their clock we didn't sled was so easy they weren't clear on what to do did you know i was supposed to wait back there with you no so i'm just looking like an idiot running back and forth you didn't the areas that were hard i knew it were going to be hard the run sucked and we had like three or four no reps and i was like okay we're off like let's stop for a second yeah once you start missing reps i was like okay let's chill out for a second what was the worst part social care got hard actually i was surprised i was like 20 at first and i was like at 15. once we got to 55 wall balls it started to suck yeah with another first place finish freedom's dominance was abundantly clear and another chapter in their dynasty was nearly written meanwhile in the individual competition it was impossible for anyone in the crossfit world to ignore haley adams rising star as she was preparing to start her final day it was truly amazing to hear how many people just like cheered for me and yelled for me and like even had my shirts on i would see so many of my shirts in the crowd it was such a humbling feeling too but i'm just i just couldn't believe that that many people were cheered for me it was cool we've talked a lot about how haley is a great competitor and she is she's absolutely incredible but i always want to talk about how amazing she is as a person and as a woman and how she is 20 and she's caring and kind and funny and she cares about inspiring young women helping them on this journey to be confident in their skin and what they're doing and so i i love that about haley because she is so much more than a crossfit competitor and she cares so much about the community and the people that she's around that i always want to make sure that people know that and they i think they do but she's just amazing all around yeah like tasia brought it up to me a few times she was like people really like you because you're relatable in a way you know like you're not a robot and you're not just you know you're haley you're different and people like that and parents would come up to me and say like you're such an inspiration to my daughter or young kids who come up to me ask me to take pictures and it's just it's cool to know that you're leaving that kind of impact like at the end of the day i want to be a good person too and i want to leave you know i want to be inspiration i am just just grateful to be her friend like truthfully to be her big sister and so proud of her she works so hard and she sacrifices so much and on top of all that she's a kind loving young woman that's you don't find that everywhere especially in the professional athletic world i i really don't think you do and i think that's why so many people love her they can sense that like i'm like there's something different about you haley like people love to see just the grit you've gotten the silliness like the dancing and all those things like you are you like authentically yourself out in the fields and you're not trying to pretend to be someone you're not seeing the beauty and wonder of her it was just so amazing to watch as a friend and sister [Music] adams now dipped her toes into the warm-up area to start her final day as mayhem freedom was planning a cannonball to finish their time at rocky top so we're up to over 500 now yeah are you really going to do it yes i'm going to go try some mustache over there [Music] oh right for the road like you have to pull it down for the road yeah i didn't know if you get my texting time but you did good totally he's gonna wear those on the con floor what's that it's for money he's wearing goggles [Music] it would have been better for hell diver because at least there was a reference you know what i mean i didn't know the names of any of these so i wouldn't have picked up on them it all started out as a joke she was like pulling stuff out of her bag and goggles fell out and she was like huh would uh would everybody give me to wear these goggles on the floor and everybody's like i was like out you know somebody said 100 bucks and then kept going kept climbing and kept climbing and it was like six or seven hundred bucks and then she was like wow i don't want to look like a jerk out there so she's like we're doing this rescue freedom event so i'll donate all that money uh to charity so then it kind of like snowballed from there but you know it was it was uh it was pretty funny because you're like you're gonna be a jerk and like we're up we're winning and then you come out in goggles so she was like well if i do it to charity then it's not as bad i knew that one would be a good one because we all tested that one all of us went unbroken we all knew each other's times so i knew if we finished quick we would get a longer rest leading into part b yeah i mean that event started off very straightforward everyone has a job to do you do it we all got through that part that was great the last deadlift burpee thing was so confusing there was just bodies everywhere we were getting no reps but we couldn't hear the judge saying that didn't know what number we were on we're just lucky we got through it there were some no reps well we were planning to drop we did the first 10 i think i'm broken and then from there on out it was like tens or fives or we'd start with a set of ten then do a set of five on the deadlift but as far as the no reps from what i could understand what they were saying is we had to make sure we were standing up all the way so i was like hyper extending pulling my shoulders far back but it was causing my knees to go forward so maybe my knees weren't locking out [Music] hey my dad is offshore and he really wants to take him to cellphone oh hi daddy it's working eggs yes freedom ends the competition in dominant fashion silence for the doubters and proof that their experiment to combine former rivals appears to be working very well all eyes now shift to adams who starts her day with an event that would produce the closest most exciting race of the weekend for the female field today great like even better than yesterday and yesterday was pretty good i was here like this she likes it very good movements for her we do a lot of toast a lot of biker a lot of thrusters a lot of lunching so it's convenient it works out when we get to this point on the final day going into those workouts i was in second and i wanted to stay in second just and i felt confident my ability to do that too so and believe it or not i think i had the most fun sunday like i wasn't as nervous just because like like you said um something would really have to go wrong to not make it so i think that the nerves part were out of it so in the triangles to come hayley put on a show that's for sure yeah that was one of the craziest finishes i've ever had i l she liked this workout going and i like this workout for her going in biker toe to bar thruster and lunch another workout that was just going to burn and hurt so tio she kind of got out in front early but there was a race between brooke and haley final round finished my thruster i i did get a few no reps two on my thrusters we're still not really sure why i finished my last thruster start my lunge my back foot slipped in some liquid and then ended up saving it somehow not falling in front of everyone and walked like a few steps forward so obviously that's no rep she sent it i'm like trying to think of what's the right word she just sent it at the end brooke finishes her thrusters so we both start lunging at the same time i'm like of course this would happen so it was an epic finish because we literally stepped across the line at the same time she still fought for it and then landed on top of the barbell with an exciting epic finish i'm glad she's okay me i'm like is she okay i'm so worried but yeah it was a show that's for sure i think i i technically got it but because i'd like landed on my bar and didn't technically go over the bar i got a one second penalty so i got third and she got second but it was it was just so crazy everything with half of that event and it was totally out of my control yeah so fun that's like you don't always get that in every workout there's you know a lot of just separation because people have strengths and weaknesses so to see brooke and her go on that lunge and race for it it gets you like up out of your seat like i was standing up like oh my gosh she's got it and they were neck and neck and they literally finished at nearly exact the same time so it's exciting and i think the crowd loves that too it was so loud in there i was launching i was like oh my goodness it's so loud yeah it's cool when it's you and you get to feel it it's definitely a doesn't come often before the final event she was four points out of second so four points behind brooke yeah no doubt she was gonna qualify but obviously she wanted to come in second she wanted to move up on the leaderboard i was super excited for the last event too so i had confidence going into that that workout the last workout was good for her we knew that was gonna be good for her so yeah there wasn't much i guess to worry about the chip timer favors brook wells at the finish line and the result visibly adds fuel to haley's fire i literally cannonballed on the bar i saw that yeah [Music] i wonder if we can fill in my pee okay i would say that's successful yeah she totally crushed it incredible she's gotten really good on the bike too i noticed she would like catch people on the bike yeah which i knew she was good on the bike but that was awesome from the outside looking in it's clear that haley adams is no longer a child participating with her idols she's playing to win and she knows she can yeah so i didn't corporal kip hit i think i did that at the game yeah try that and yeah i remember i went one two three four kid hit yeah because i remember it was uneven yes okay yeah it worked perfect then it was faster like on the road so one of the big moments in my head from the weekend was haley before that final event just seeing the confidence that she had going into it knowing that if she executed the workout as she's capable of that she would get that second place spot and that confidence is growing and that's been really cool to watch brooke is obviously a seasoned veteran and really wanting to eat tea or really wanted to beat haley and there was a four point separation so not only did actually haley had to beat brooke there needed to be a person in between them to guarantee that she came in second otherwise i think it was going to be a tie and then the tie break yeah i was excited for that last event too because i think a lot of people thought that that 70 pound dumbbell was going to be like hard for me i feel like even the announcers like on the live stream people were saying that they were like oh this might be a little heavy for her or whatever i'm like okay but i'm pretty sure i was one of the only few meetings here were the only ones to like touch and go all of them but yeah i was super happy with how that event went i took second pretty comfortably she's not afraid she's not afraid to go out there and just push someone who's incredibly fit in the sport and try to beat them that's what's cool about haley is she she doesn't have that fear she's not worried about anything exterior outside of just doing the best she can and following her own game plan to to win when the gauntlet was laid down adams stepped up finishing the weekend in second place overall i think it set me up great going into the games this was a good practice run going against the best in the world i consider this a pretty hard cough and i think it was great practice for what's to come you get like like right when do you like remember stage one when you danced like when do you do that like when does your emotion like cover you i don't do that right now because there's still a lot of work left to do this is just a small part just show that we're like on the right right yeah i think our performance how cool is it to compete in for all these people oh my god it since the games last year so like just hearing all the people yell for me like i didn't realize that people liked me although mayhem freedom is content to celebrate their victory they are still hungry occurs to those reaching for greatness is that good is never enough when you compete alongside rich froning the expectations are high and the shoes of past freedom rosters are hard to fill each team member carries with them a small burden from the competition a challenge to seek perfection in madison if i'm being 100 transparent honest i want to win every event yeah that's what it is there's definitely a lot more pressure to win just because we were they were winning before with super teams and i feel like i had personally uh extra pressure because rich taylor and andrea have been to the games i have not been to the games qualified but haven't competed so i feel like if we win we should and i feel like if we do bad then it could be a reflection of me maybe so there's just more pressure to to do good push harder i don't think i'm putting any pressure on the team i think each and every one of us are putting the same pressure on the team i'm excited to move forward i'm excited to keep training i'm excited to kind of hone in on some weaknesses that we have and and put on a good show at the games i think we can get a lot better honestly there's a lot of points there on the ground i guess it's just crossfit's just become a way of life for me i just feel like it's another year let's go so yeah this will be your seven at the games we're figuring out i guess at this point i just love it so much i don't i feel happy but also like i feel more like this was just a stepping stone to the games so it's kind of the first year where we've been more focused on the far future than we have what's right in front of us i'm just really excited to have this opportunity go back to the games again so that's been my life for some time now and just to have this opportunity while i'm in school it's just so unique it's awesome not many people get this chance it feels amazing to have like you know i said like we had the mac date now we have the games date we know what's going to happen we know you know it's familiar territory where last year you're kind of in this weird like limbo it's like oh we're training for no we're not nope we are nope we're not that's the only thing i'm focused on right now is games i'm not thinking anything past the games i just want to win i want to go and win we don't train as much as we do to not to show up and not win it feels good to win i like being on top of the podium it always hasn't always happened when we were against mayhem but i guess now that we've joined forces i'd like to get used to it i got a tank and a sword we got this too huh this is like christmas it's like christmas they got a tank and a sword the 2021 mayhem freedom team is getting used to standing on top as well they should their future in madison is very bright haley adams is also learning to wear a new persona underdog no more hayley adams is a contender for the throne yeah i'm super excited to have this one over with first and be heading back to the madison wisconsin for the games and just to show everyone that i'm going to be ready when the time comes and that we're on the right path and going for the podium this year i was expecting exactly what she did to be in second and but pushing tia for sure i it's been crazy for me to watch from the outside and she doesn't even know how fit she's gotten how much she's improved she i don't think she's fully grasped that yet she's definitely gaining confidence in that but i see it just like every day so how she even pushes rich it's it's pretty wild if tia wasn't there haley would have smashed everybody and everything else and so it was like i said it was just that confidence you could see it and it kept growing and kept growing and snowballing i mean you saw that in the final event too burned right through it very few people see the work that we put in every day and like just weighing every single single piece of food that goes in my mouth and just making sure i get enough sleep like very very few people see that and it really just comes down to discipline so getting to show that off and show the hard work that we've all been putting in is just it's so rewarding from my perspective as a competitor but also somebody that's with her you know every day training with her and doing those things it was cool to have her have that realization like the confidence piece of it you know because i look at haley as almost like a little sister of you know or you know like with my girls to see that confidence you know that's what you want to see and somebody that you know you respect that well and have around all that time so honestly that was the coolest part for me is to her to have that you know second place is incredible she's great but the the confidence that she gained and that just a little bit of like hey i can do this i'm like that's cool that's pretty cool it's like it's really hard for me to even kind of wrap my mind around because i remember when haley showed up here and she was fit she was really fit then and she's just grown so much and fought through so much and yeah there's more there's more to her than crossfit and she's amazing at crossfit it's going to keep smashing it and yeah i'm just excited for her future just in all aspects what an incredible young woman [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Wed Jun 16 2021