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“I'm very happy from the perspective of giving athletes the opportunity to race at the elite level that have never had the opportunity before. You know, even looking at the APAC races, apart from myself and John Wynne, everyone else on that male start line, that was their first elite-level race. Then on the female side, apart from Calypso, Gabby, and Jess Petro, everyone else was debuting as well.”

“Matlock revealed that Head 1 is coming. And that stands for Head, HED, is HYROX Elite Division 1 Which, as I understand it afterwards, is basically a B heat that will be run earlier in the day of if first through 15th, whatever roll downs, the 15 top athletes compete in heat one at a major next year. The 16th to 30th rank with X amount of roll downs, it wasn't specific, it will be run earlier in the day on the same grid course.”

“There's a reason why next year is a point system. Like, that's there's a reason why that had to happen, and that reason is you can't compare courses. Otherwise, at this point, it looks like if it was still just two times, then everybody would just be like, well, I'm gonna go to London and Berlin to get my qualifying times.”

“I think the Elite 15 is now established and like changing that would actually be diminishing the brand. I think being in the 15 is just, well, like from my end, like I do not take that lightly. I, ever since I've been in slash raced in the Elite 15, it's such a privilege. But now having a Divis[ion 1]... I've always thought the best way to expand slash grow the Elite side is doing exactly this.”

“The 16th to 30th rank with X amount of roll downs, it wasn't specific, it will be run earlier in the day on the same grid course. That's exciting. So, it gives more athletes exposure to the grid, more athletes exposure overall, professionalism of the sport, which is really talked about.”

“It's interesting the wording that people use to kind of think that is my game plan to come from behind. I mean, the truth about that is it's not necessarily my game plan. I'm proud to say that my fitness at that point of the race allows me to do what I've done for two races in a row, rather than it being a choice to start slow.”

“If you understand High Rocks well, you'll understand that you can't compare a course and a course. And I'm not trying to justify my time, but it was just interesting to get the comments of, like, oh, the APAC races were obviously slower than both London and DC. Like, sure, of course they were, but we all should know that especially now, you cannot compare a course at another course.”

“At that point, he did not have anything left. He gave everything he had to the ninetieth wall ball, and when he hit that finish line, the medics had to have been just keeping an eye on him. He put everything he had into that, and that was such a gutsy good race. That's what it takes for people to get that spot to go there.”

“And the event itself, sorry, the Coaches Summit was absolutely spectacular. And I think a lot of people understood like what it really meant to be there at that first Coaches Summit. And that conference that like, it really felt like the start of something. And to have, I think there are 300 or 350 coaches that signed up to be there.”

“Friday morning around 10, 10:30, I went and got my VO2Max measured in the booth right next to it, right next to the center. And just tons of fun. I had no idea what to expect. So I got the whole experience and I got my whole output readout that we can talk about and figured out how it compared to my Amazfit watch, what it says my VO2Max is versus what it was actually measured at.”