My first Games podium didn’t end on the podium. I finished off it and went home.
Six months later, a medal showed up in my mailbox. A competitor who placed ahead of me failed a drug test; the disqualification reshuffled the results, and my first podium arrived in a padded envelope.
That broke something useful. I’d been training for moments — the announcement, the ceremony, the thing people see. But moments can be revised by someone else’s test result. So I started training for the work instead. The work, logged and mine. Nothing in it can be revised.
You don’t stay clean because the system is fast. Six months slowly. You stay clean because the work is the point. If your training only matters when a ceremony validates it, you’ve built your house on someone else’s announcement.
The medal came by mail. The work was already in the bank.
7x CrossFit Games Masters Champion
Founder, Bolder Athlete
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