A Conversation with Pat Vellner

Talking Elite Fitness

Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Uncle Pat is back. Fresh off leading Team North America to their second-straight TYR Cup Championship, Pat Vellner sits down with Tommy and Lauren to talk about his experience in Southern California, how he's managing the competitive season and how he's dealing with the fact that the end of his competitive career is quickly approaching.

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0:00.0	One, two, three, go!
0:10.0	What's up, everybody?
0:11.1	Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness.
0:13.7	I'm Sean Woodland with Tommy Marquez and Lauren Kalil.
0:17.8	Lauren, we haven't seen you in a while.
0:19.1	How was Poland?
0:21.0	I know. It has been a while. How was Poland? I know.
0:21.8	It has been a while.
0:23.6	Poland was amazing.
0:25.7	If it's not in people's top lists of places to explore in Europe,
0:30.3	I think that they need to update their list.
0:32.1	Really?
0:32.4	Poland was beautiful.
0:35.3	And the hospitality with everybody,
0:41.4	the pierogies, the kilbasa.
0:45.9	I mean, I had a great little food tour while I was there.
0:46.3	Nice.
0:47.2	It was wonderful.
0:48.9	What city were you in?
0:54.1	Crackaw, like about an hour outside of there. Is that the capital? Did you hear it? Oh, yeah, I don't know. I should know that. That's like a fun sounding city name. Yeah. Like, crackow. There's an old Calvin and Hobbs. There's an old Calvin and Hobbs comic strip without word in it. We used space man spiff and yeah yeah that's a good one uh all right
1:12.7	well today we're talking to pat velner we'll get to that in the second uh but Tommy how you doing
1:16.4	how's the how's the construction business uh you know it's moving along we've uh hit some good
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