Ranking System Revealed and A Brief History of the Open
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
A major part of the 2023 Games season has been revealed. We now know how the worldwide ranking system will work. Sean and Tommy dive into all the details. With the Open right around the corner, it's time to take a look back at where we have been since 2011. Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham from the "Get with the Programming" podcast join the show to talk about the things that stand out to them about the Open and what we as a community need to do to get back to where we were in 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness, Sean Woodland and Tommy |
| 0:05.0 | Marquez here with you as we are now what two weeks away from the open? Two weeks, Tommy. |
| 0:11.9 | Can you believe that? Like we were just at the games. That's not a lot of weeks. That's 14 days. I |
| 0:18.2 | better start getting, I better start working out. Working out. what's that? I know, exactly. But we have, we got a lot to talk about today. We are going to talk about the worldwide ranking system. That article has just been released on the game site. We're going to run through that a little bit. On the new game site. The new, that's right. We're talking about that as well. We're going to spend some time on sort of a history of the open. And we're going to talk to our good friends, Chase Ingram and Bill Grunler about some of their open memories and about how they run successful opens in their affiliates. Chase Ingram no longer an affiliate owner, but he was for a long time. |
| 0:55.9 | Bill, of course, runs Crosson Inferno down in San Luis Obispo. |
| 1:00.5 | So we'll be talking to both of them. |
| 1:01.7 | Always good times when we have both of them on. |
| 1:04.0 | But as always, we're just going to start off with stupid fun time. |
| 1:08.1 | Tommy had his big run this past Saturday. |
| 1:14.1 | 100K, right? |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.5 | How did that go? |
| 1:17.7 | In theory. |
| 1:18.6 | Not great, Sean. |
| 1:19.8 | Not great. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm shocked by that. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, you know, it's, it's, it was weird. |
| 1:26.2 | So first things first, I didn't finish uh i made it through 41 of |
| 1:31.0 | the 60-ish miles that is still something to be proud of um and just like frankly put i didn't have a good |
| 1:38.3 | day it just wasn't my day um i trained hard i can definitely learn some things about how to better guide my training moving forward |
| 1:46.3 | for next time. |
| 1:47.9 | But from the outset, it was just one of those ones where like the body and the legs just |
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