This is episode number 104 of the Feed Me Fumie Podcast with our special guest owner of Dark Horse Rowing, Shane Farmer.

Welcome to the Feed Me Fumie Podcast. My name is Jeff Thornton alongside my co-host Michael Anders.

Each week we bring you an inspiring person or message related to our three pillars of success.

Manifestation, business, fitness and nutrition. Our intent is to enrich, educate and empower our audience to take action, control and accountability for their decisions.

Thank you for allowing us to join you on your journey. Now let's get started.

Hey what's good fam? We're going to do another episode of the Feed Me Fumie Podcast. Jeff and Ders coming at you from the CrossFit Games with our special guest today, Shane Farmer of Dark Horse Rowing.

What's good man? Thanks for taking the time. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's me and you're proud.

Didn't anticipate running into you in Madison, Wisconsin. I didn't anticipate being here so it works up for everybody.

Right on. Right on. A little backstory on Shane and I. I was in San Diego for a conference and dropped into CrossFit and Victus.

And, uh, I've been to me, they run partner workouts, which isn't very conventional in the class model of conventional CrossFit.

And Shane turned out to be my partner that day. And it was wall balls and burpee box shimp overs.

And I went first and it was I go you go 10 rounds. And before I could catch my breath, Shane was done with his burpee box shimp overs. And I was like, fuck this guy's fast.

I said, five more rounds to go. This might hurt the heights always deceiving.

For everybody who doesn't know who you are, where are dark horse came from and all that good stuff. Give us the quick cliff notes of where you come from and how all that came to be.

So I, I have always felt I know this sounds super cheesy, but I've always felt like a dark horse in my own life.

And that's not like my elevator pitch. That's that's legitimate. I most of the things that I've done. I've always been very mediocre at.

And, um, and I never really, there's nothing that ever clicked for me. And so I kind of spent a lot of my life like wandering, feeling like I just didn't have a place.

I was a terrible student in high school. I played sports by always with the pine. I was like, just mediocre.

And so I ended up through a series of events transferring to school in San Diego. I thought I was going to play baseball.

Didn't get that shot. And so on a whim, I had nothing to do for the next year. A buddy invited me to try rowing, jumped into it, fell in love with it.

And over the next four years, just had this magical experience with rowing the sport went from this little no nothing private school team that shouldn't have done anything to the national championships.

And, um, and through that experience, CrossFit was our strength training. And so coming out of college, I was too small to be a heavyweight and too heavy to be a lightweight.

...