Hi everybody and welcome to another edition of Fitness with Friends. Sean Woodland and Tommy

Marquez here with you. Today we are talking with the woman who just finished first at

Wadapalooza, Paige Powers. Page had one of her best years competing in 2022. She finished second

at the Atlas Games to earn her first career trip to the CrossFit Games as an individual.

Powers would finish 25th in Madison and that included a sixth place finish in the

Echo Press event. We talked to her about her recent victory at Wadapalooza, the effect it had

on her confidence, the lessons she learned from her experience at the CrossFit Games and

what it's like being part of the CrossFit

Mayhem crew.

Let's bring in your 2023 Wadaplusa champion. Paige Powers. Paige, how you doing?

Good. How are you? Thanks for having me on.

Thanks for doing this. We really appreciate it. Impressive performance at Wadapluza.

And I want to start here and then we can work our way back. But you said something in your postgame interview with Nikki Brazier that really

kind of caused my ears to perk up. And that was when you said, I feel like I belong. Why is this now

the time that you feel like you belong amongst the best in the sport? I feel like, you know,

obviously winning has a bit to do with that.

But also just how I carry myself throughout the whole weekend and like the consistency that I

held for me, that was a huge win.

And just feeling like I was able to go out there and be confident in every single workout.

I had the ability to, you know, A, do it and get through it and, B, keep up with the other girls out there.

When does that confidence start to step in for you?

You know, like, is that something that you develop in training and you start to realize like hey

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