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Hi, I'll welcome to blink,
the podcast about what it takes to win
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a lose race in the blink of
an eye. Before we get into my
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interview with Dana Cologg, a front
doubles driver who, along with his teammate
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Duncan Seeger, will be vying for
his first spot on the Olympic team,
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I wanted to acknowledge that this was
recorded prior to this weekend's mud slide at
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the track in karnigs Ay. If
you've competed internationally and Louge, or even
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listened to a few episodes of this
podcast, you know that this track is
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an iconic one that is listed as
a favorite by most athletes. It's been
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described as Yankee stadium or the Fenway
Park of lose tracks, as it is
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the oldest refrigerated track that is in
use on the World Cup circuit today.
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As an athlete myself who competed on
the track, it was unique. It
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was built perfectly into the base of
a mountain that shaded the ice from Sun.
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It sits next to the majestic Karnisay, or King's Lake. The track,
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specifically the starting areas, was rocked
quite literally by large amounts of mud,
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trees and boulders that came off of
the mountain during the catastrophic rain happening
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in the area. There is quite
a bit of damage done in the latest
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word is that there will be no
training or competing on the track for the
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twenty two season. Friend and US, a loge fan, Tim Reynolds,
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a journalist from the Associated Press,
updated us with the good news that while
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one hundred locals were evacuated, there
were no deaths or injuries sustained in the
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immediate vicinity. The preliminary plan stated
by the Germans is to have the track
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rebuilt by October of two thousand and
twenty two, but more won't be known
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until a thorough survey of the track
and its foundation is complete. We wish
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all our international sports friends health and
safety during this tragic flooding. Stay safe
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and our thoughts are with you.
Guys. Today we're here with Dana Callogg,
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who is on the national team.
He is a doubles athlete with his
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doubles partner, Duncan Seeger and I'm
really excited to have you on today's show.
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Thanks for joining us. Yeah,
thank you very much for having me.
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I Know Summers are really busy for
the athletes, especially this summer.
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Definitely. Can you tell me a
little bit about what you guys have been
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up to the summer? It's been
a lot of training. It's been a
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lot of like weight room time,
Jim Time, just as much, as
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much training as we can. We've
been doing Monday, Wednesday, Friday lifting.
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Tuesdays and Thursdays have been like tempo
work, AB work, Cardio.
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Were a bunch of bunch of different
things. Can you tell us what tempo
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work is? Yeah, it's a
combination. We usually do a combination of
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ABS and like some sort of running, whether it's sprints or just like strides
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or whatever it is. It's usually
just mixing it up between like ABS and
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a little bit of Cardia. So
I know you and Duncan had a little
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bit different season. Well, first
of all, everybody had a different season
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this year just because of covid but
you two had a more unusual season in
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that you stayed and like placid for
pretty much the whole season. Is that
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right? It is true. We
opted to stay in like placid to try
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to get as many runs as we
could here on our home track. We
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tried to just get as much training
in as we could. We thought that
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it would be better for US specifically
because if we had gone to Europe,
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we only would have had what seven, seven runs a week, but for
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training here we can get seven runs
in a day if we wanted to.
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So we figured it would be better
to just train here. And why was
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that important to you guys? We're
still growing, we're still learning. We're
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not quite at the prod at the
point in our career year where we can
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just hop on a sled, go
to whatever track and have that track down.
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We still need we still need all
the runs we can get. We're
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still trying to figure some things out
on the sled. It's just the the
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runs are one of the biggest things
that we can we can get right now.
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And would you say you were successful
in doing that this this year?
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I would say so. Yeah,
we had quite a lot of runs during
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this past winter. We got really
good training in on good ice and on
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not so good ice here in like
lascid, but it's good to train on
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both when you know run after run
after run was on one track. What
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were like some of the things that
you did to stay fresh and you know,
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what did you work on exactly when
on a normal day. During the
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season it was mostly consistency work,
I'd have to say. We worked a
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lot on getting the same runs every
time consistently, without much difference in between
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two runs back to back, which
sounds like it would be easy, but
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it's it's a lot harder than some
would think. When I was an athlete
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I found it really difficult to be
consistent, especially if you're on the same
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track over and over. It's like
surprising how difficult it is to stay consistent
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when you're doing the same run over
and over again. Definitely there was.
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There was times where we would end
up going almost on autopilot down the track
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and then something would happen where we'd
have a little bit of a scary run
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almost, and then it would be
a wake up call of Hey, let's
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let's refocus, let's get back into
into really trying to get these runs down
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the same every single time. When
the season was done, did you get
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a chance to go home so you
see your family and friends or, you
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know, have you just been in
like class of this a whole year?
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Yeah, we had a little bit
of offtime. We got to go home,
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just relax, decompress. It was
it's really nice to go home and
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see the family. It's something that's
becoming less and less off and now,
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yeah, especially with this with covid
and you know, you've got to keep
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yourself safe and your family safe and
and all that. And so I know
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that the Olympic and Paralympic training center
had some serious guidelines in place for the
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last year. Have they loosened up
a little bit now that people are getting
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vaccinated? How's IT looking at the
training center now they have started to loosen
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up? There used to be a
sign out sheet every time you wanted to
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leave. That's no longer in place. Used to be. I guess there
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still is temperature checks every time you
walk through the front door. There's No
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side door access. There's trying to
keep everyone as safe as possible with it
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just going into the front making sure
everyone's not coming in with a fever.
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Just trying to monitor that the best
they can. And wasn't it before you
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to have to like quarantine upon arrival
for a while before you could get a
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test and and the CE Mat?
Yes, originally it was. You'd you
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come in, you quarantine for I
believe it was a week, and then
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you'd get two tests back too,
back to make sure one of them wasn't
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a false positive. And then with
with everyone being vaccinated. Now, if
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you're vaccinated, you no longer have
to go through those the quarantine process.
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If you're not vaccinated, you,
I believe you still do have to go
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through the quarantine process, but it's
definitely been revised and made a lot easier.
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Do you guys have to wear masks
when you train? We do have
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to wear masks in the training center. We can take them off when we're
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in the cafeteria for eating. Obviously. We can take them off when we're
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in the weight room lifting, when
we're doing tempo work in the gym,
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any time we're explicitly training or like
eating, or we have a good reason
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why we can't wear one, then
we don't have to wear them anymore.
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But for just walking around doing laundry, all the day to day things,
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you still do need to wear a
mask. Have you guys crossed paths with
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any summer athletes? Have they made
it through the training center us? The
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rhythmic gymnasts just came through. I
believe they left today early in the morning
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to go to Tokyo. Wow,
cool. It's pretty crazy. I believe
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the Paralympic basketball team is coming in
very shortly. They're going to be here
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until they leave to go to the
Games as well, I imagine, for
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for the Olympia, the Summer Olympians
right now. And then you guys headed
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into your season. Like, even
if you are vaccinated, you still have
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to be very careful because, I
mean, if you get a positive test
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then that could mean the end of
your competition right. Yeah, it's it
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is scary to think about if,
if someone does end up getting covid it's.
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It would be it would be very
difficult. It's stress. It's just
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best to say Stafe, I guess, heading into the season. You know,
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of course, Chris Mazer and Jason
Tournament are a doubles team. You
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and Duncan are a doubles team.
Are there any other doubles teams that you
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see possibly buying for those two spots? Yeah, the doubles team of Zach
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Degoryo and Sean Holland are trying to
make a run for this these games.
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So they're deaf only going to be
a competitor. So what does that look
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like coming up this fall? Do
you have raceoffs to make the World Cup
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team? I believe for for the
Olympic team it's top finishers in the world
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cups coming up. I believe we
have we don't have more than enough doubles
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teams for World Cup spots, but
from what I from what I know,
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it's we're racing with the points we
accrue during the the World Cups and that
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that's going to be the Olympic team
deciding factors. Is there any difference between
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the way you're training the summer now
than you did, say, four years
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ago? You know, going it's
there both Olympics seasons, going into the
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Olympic season, but it's a you
know you've got a much greater opportunity this
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year to make the team. Like
what? How does that feel for you
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going into the season? It's it's
pretty crazy. It's pretty stressful as well.
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Before the last Winter Games, I
it wasn't even on my radar of
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being able to go. I think
we definitely just didn't have enough experience.
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We weren't we weren't even in contention
to go to the last games, but
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this year we have a pretty good
shot. I'm not it's it's it's been
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a lot of work and it's been
pretty stressful to what are some of the
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things that you do to cope with
the stress? You know, there's different
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things. It's whether it's just training
your heart out and trying to just get
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lost in the training. I find
that helps. Doing some extra curricular things,
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just being in the gym, staying
active, just doing any other sport
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really to get your mind off luge
also helps a lot. How start training
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going this the summer? I think
this is the first summer with timing and
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everything on the track over there.
How's that working out? The New Star
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facility is fantastic. I'm really enjoying
this. It's a much bigger step up
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from the last art house we had. We've got four different ramps we can
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go from instead of just three.
We can go back and forth on them.
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It's not just a one way thing. The timing is a lot more
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in depth. There's a lot more
split points going down the ramp. Yeah,
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it's it's a really, really awesome
facility that we have now. Do
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you feel that your start has benefited
from this new facility? I think so.
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Yeah, it's we're still working on
it. Me and Duncan don't have
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quite the fastest start that we'd we'd
hope for, but we're definitely only working
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on getting those start times faster and
progressing anyway that we can. Is that?
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Are you part of the w camp
or is it the National Guard Program
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for Olympic Athletes? Yeah, I'm
in the W cap program. It's the
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World Class Athlete Program. It's run
through the United States army. Myself and
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Emile Sweeney are on it, along
with a bunch of different athletes from different
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sports. We compete for the United
States and for the US Army. That's
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awesome, and so they help kind
of fund your your life. So you
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yeah, and you represent the army
as well as the United States while you
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compete. Yes, so they give
a were on active duty orders all the
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time. We get active duty pay. That comes with all the responsibilities from
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the military as well. So we
still have to keep up on all of
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our training, all of all of
the army things. It's it's a lot
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army as a lot of a lot
of things they push out all the time
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that we have to follow. But
yeah, it's it's a fantastic program and
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I'm really, really glad that I
joined the army to be in this program.
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Yeah, absolutely, I know a
lot of athletes do the program so
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that they can help meet make ends
meet and become the you know, like
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it's called, the world class athletes, so that they want to be.
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So it's a really great program.
Yeah, for sure, fantastic. As
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far as the season, I know
obviously the culmination is the Olympic Games in
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Beijing. Looking at the schedule,
are there any tracks that you're more excited
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to be competing on than others or, you know, what are you looking
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forward to the most? I'm definitely
looking forward to to seeing the new track
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and China. That'll be super,
super awesome. Have never been to souchie
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either, so that'll be super cool. If we can go to Soche,
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that'll be just something different, you
know. Yeah, really looking forward to
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go to KNING'S A. It's one
of my favorite tracks in the world's Yep,
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you guys did really well there are
a few years ago. Did we
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want to junior world up there in
I think it's two thousand and eighteen.
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Well, very cool. I appreciate
you taking the time. I know,
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like again, I know you're really
busy and you've got a lot of stuff
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on your plate, but it's I
just wanted to get an episode out about
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the summer training and all the good
stuff and all the different things that you
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guys are up to all summer long
and preparation for the Olympics this year.
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Yeah, thank you very much for
having me. All Right, talk to
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you later. It was great to
chop with Dana Callogg to hear how things
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are shaping up for the twenty two
season. We wish him and all the
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US team good luck as they prepare
for the Olympic season. Speaking of the
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Olympics, make sure you tune into
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Hi, I'll welcome to blink,
the podcast about what it takes to win
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a lose race in the blink of
an eye. Before we get into my
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interview with Dana Cologg, a front
doubles driver who, along with his teammate
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Duncan Seeger, will be vying for
his first spot on the Olympic team,
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I wanted to acknowledge that this was
recorded prior to this weekend's mud slide at
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the track in karnigs Ay. If
you've competed internationally and Louge, or even
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listened to a few episodes of this
podcast, you know that this track is
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an iconic one that is listed as
a favorite by most athletes. It's been
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described as Yankee stadium or the Fenway
Park of lose tracks, as it is
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the oldest refrigerated track that is in
use on the World Cup circuit today.
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As an athlete myself who competed on
the track, it was unique. It
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was built perfectly into the base of
a mountain that shaded the ice from Sun.
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It sits next to the majestic Karnisay, or King's Lake. The track,
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specifically the starting areas, was rocked
quite literally by large amounts of mud,
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trees and boulders that came off of
the mountain during the catastrophic rain happening
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in the area. There is quite
a bit of damage done in the latest
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word is that there will be no
training or competing on the track for the
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twenty two season. Friend and US, a loge fan, Tim Reynolds,
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a journalist from the Associated Press,
updated us with the good news that while
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one hundred locals were evacuated, there
were no deaths or injuries sustained in the
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immediate vicinity. The preliminary plan stated
by the Germans is to have the track
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rebuilt by October of two thousand and
twenty two, but more won't be known
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until a thorough survey of the track
and its foundation is complete. We wish
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all our international sports friends health and
safety during this tragic flooding. Stay safe
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and our thoughts are with you.
Guys. Today we're here with Dana Callogg,
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who is on the national team.
He is a doubles athlete with his
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doubles partner, Duncan Seeger and I'm
really excited to have you on today's show.
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Thanks for joining us. Yeah,
thank you very much for having me.
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I Know Summers are really busy for
the athletes, especially this summer.
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Definitely. Can you tell me a
little bit about what you guys have been
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up to the summer? It's been
a lot of training. It's been a
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lot of like weight room time,
Jim Time, just as much, as
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much training as we can. We've
been doing Monday, Wednesday, Friday lifting.
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Tuesdays and Thursdays have been like tempo
work, AB work, Cardio.
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Were a bunch of bunch of different
things. Can you tell us what tempo
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work is? Yeah, it's a
combination. We usually do a combination of
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ABS and like some sort of running, whether it's sprints or just like strides
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or whatever it is. It's usually
just mixing it up between like ABS and
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a little bit of Cardia. So
I know you and Duncan had a little
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bit different season. Well, first
of all, everybody had a different season
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this year just because of covid but
you two had a more unusual season in
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that you stayed and like placid for
pretty much the whole season. Is that
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right? It is true. We
opted to stay in like placid to try
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to get as many runs as we
could here on our home track. We
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tried to just get as much training
in as we could. We thought that
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it would be better for US specifically
because if we had gone to Europe,
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we only would have had what seven, seven runs a week, but for
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training here we can get seven runs
in a day if we wanted to.
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So we figured it would be better
to just train here. And why was
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that important to you guys? We're
still growing, we're still learning. We're
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not quite at the prod at the
point in our career year where we can
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just hop on a sled, go
to whatever track and have that track down.
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We still need we still need all
the runs we can get. We're
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still trying to figure some things out
on the sled. It's just the the
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runs are one of the biggest things
that we can we can get right now.
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And would you say you were successful
in doing that this this year?
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I would say so. Yeah,
we had quite a lot of runs during
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this past winter. We got really
good training in on good ice and on
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not so good ice here in like
lascid, but it's good to train on
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both when you know run after run
after run was on one track. What
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were like some of the things that
you did to stay fresh and you know,
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what did you work on exactly when
on a normal day. During the
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season it was mostly consistency work,
I'd have to say. We worked a
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lot on getting the same runs every
time consistently, without much difference in between
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two runs back to back, which
sounds like it would be easy, but
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it's it's a lot harder than some
would think. When I was an athlete
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I found it really difficult to be
consistent, especially if you're on the same
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track over and over. It's like
surprising how difficult it is to stay consistent
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when you're doing the same run over
and over again. Definitely there was.
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There was times where we would end
up going almost on autopilot down the track
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and then something would happen where we'd
have a little bit of a scary run
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almost, and then it would be
a wake up call of Hey, let's
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let's refocus, let's get back into
into really trying to get these runs down
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the same every single time. When
the season was done, did you get
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a chance to go home so you
see your family and friends or, you
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know, have you just been in
like class of this a whole year?
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Yeah, we had a little bit
of offtime. We got to go home,
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just relax, decompress. It was
it's really nice to go home and
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see the family. It's something that's
becoming less and less off and now,
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yeah, especially with this with covid
and you know, you've got to keep
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yourself safe and your family safe and
and all that. And so I know
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that the Olympic and Paralympic training center
had some serious guidelines in place for the
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last year. Have they loosened up
a little bit now that people are getting
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vaccinated? How's IT looking at the
training center now they have started to loosen
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up? There used to be a
sign out sheet every time you wanted to
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leave. That's no longer in place. Used to be. I guess there
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still is temperature checks every time you
walk through the front door. There's No
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side door access. There's trying to
keep everyone as safe as possible with it
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just going into the front making sure
everyone's not coming in with a fever.
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Just trying to monitor that the best
they can. And wasn't it before you
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to have to like quarantine upon arrival
for a while before you could get a
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test and and the CE Mat?
Yes, originally it was. You'd you
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come in, you quarantine for I
believe it was a week, and then
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you'd get two tests back too,
back to make sure one of them wasn't
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a false positive. And then with
with everyone being vaccinated. Now, if
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you're vaccinated, you no longer have
to go through those the quarantine process.
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If you're not vaccinated, you,
I believe you still do have to go
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through the quarantine process, but it's
definitely been revised and made a lot easier.
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Do you guys have to wear masks
when you train? We do have
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to wear masks in the training center. We can take them off when we're
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in the cafeteria for eating. Obviously. We can take them off when we're
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in the weight room lifting, when
we're doing tempo work in the gym,
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any time we're explicitly training or like
eating, or we have a good reason
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why we can't wear one, then
we don't have to wear them anymore.
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But for just walking around doing laundry, all the day to day things,
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you still do need to wear a
mask. Have you guys crossed paths with
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any summer athletes? Have they made
it through the training center us? The
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rhythmic gymnasts just came through. I
believe they left today early in the morning
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to go to Tokyo. Wow,
cool. It's pretty crazy. I believe
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the Paralympic basketball team is coming in
very shortly. They're going to be here
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until they leave to go to the
Games as well, I imagine, for
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for the Olympia, the Summer Olympians
right now. And then you guys headed
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into your season. Like, even
if you are vaccinated, you still have
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to be very careful because, I
mean, if you get a positive test
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then that could mean the end of
your competition right. Yeah, it's it
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is scary to think about if,
if someone does end up getting covid it's.
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It would be it would be very
difficult. It's stress. It's just
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best to say Stafe, I guess, heading into the season. You know,
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of course, Chris Mazer and Jason
Tournament are a doubles team. You
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and Duncan are a doubles team.
Are there any other doubles teams that you
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see possibly buying for those two spots? Yeah, the doubles team of Zach
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Degoryo and Sean Holland are trying to
make a run for this these games.
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So they're deaf only going to be
a competitor. So what does that look
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like coming up this fall? Do
you have raceoffs to make the World Cup
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team? I believe for for the
Olympic team it's top finishers in the world
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cups coming up. I believe we
have we don't have more than enough doubles
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teams for World Cup spots, but
from what I from what I know,
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it's we're racing with the points we
accrue during the the World Cups and that
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that's going to be the Olympic team
deciding factors. Is there any difference between
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the way you're training the summer now
than you did, say, four years
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ago? You know, going it's
there both Olympics seasons, going into the
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Olympic season, but it's a you
know you've got a much greater opportunity this
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year to make the team. Like
what? How does that feel for you
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going into the season? It's it's
pretty crazy. It's pretty stressful as well.
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Before the last Winter Games, I
it wasn't even on my radar of
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being able to go. I think
we definitely just didn't have enough experience.
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We weren't we weren't even in contention
to go to the last games, but
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this year we have a pretty good
shot. I'm not it's it's it's been
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a lot of work and it's been
pretty stressful to what are some of the
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things that you do to cope with
the stress? You know, there's different
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things. It's whether it's just training
your heart out and trying to just get
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lost in the training. I find
that helps. Doing some extra curricular things,
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just being in the gym, staying
active, just doing any other sport
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really to get your mind off luge
also helps a lot. How start training
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going this the summer? I think
this is the first summer with timing and
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everything on the track over there.
How's that working out? The New Star
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facility is fantastic. I'm really enjoying
this. It's a much bigger step up
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from the last art house we had. We've got four different ramps we can
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go from instead of just three.
We can go back and forth on them.
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It's not just a one way thing. The timing is a lot more
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in depth. There's a lot more
split points going down the ramp. Yeah,
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it's it's a really, really awesome
facility that we have now. Do
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you feel that your start has benefited
from this new facility? I think so.
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Yeah, it's we're still working on
it. Me and Duncan don't have
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quite the fastest start that we'd we'd
hope for, but we're definitely only working
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on getting those start times faster and
progressing anyway that we can. Is that?
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Are you part of the w camp
or is it the National Guard Program
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for Olympic Athletes? Yeah, I'm
in the W cap program. It's the
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World Class Athlete Program. It's run
through the United States army. Myself and
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Emile Sweeney are on it, along
with a bunch of different athletes from different
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sports. We compete for the United
States and for the US Army. That's
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awesome, and so they help kind
of fund your your life. So you
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yeah, and you represent the army
as well as the United States while you
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compete. Yes, so they give
a were on active duty orders all the
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time. We get active duty pay. That comes with all the responsibilities from
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the military as well. So we
still have to keep up on all of
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our training, all of all of
the army things. It's it's a lot
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army as a lot of a lot
of things they push out all the time
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that we have to follow. But
yeah, it's it's a fantastic program and
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I'm really, really glad that I
joined the army to be in this program.
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Yeah, absolutely, I know a
lot of athletes do the program so
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that they can help meet make ends
meet and become the you know, like
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it's called, the world class athletes, so that they want to be.
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So it's a really great program.
Yeah, for sure, fantastic. As
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far as the season, I know
obviously the culmination is the Olympic Games in
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Beijing. Looking at the schedule,
are there any tracks that you're more excited
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to be competing on than others or, you know, what are you looking
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forward to the most? I'm definitely
looking forward to to seeing the new track
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and China. That'll be super,
super awesome. Have never been to souchie
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either, so that'll be super cool. If we can go to Soche,
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that'll be just something different, you
know. Yeah, really looking forward to
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go to KNING'S A. It's one
of my favorite tracks in the world's Yep,
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you guys did really well there are
a few years ago. Did we
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want to junior world up there in
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Well, very cool. I appreciate
you taking the time. I know,
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like again, I know you're really
busy and you've got a lot of stuff
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on your plate, but it's I
just wanted to get an episode out about
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the summer training and all the good
stuff and all the different things that you
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guys are up to all summer long
and preparation for the Olympics this year.
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Yeah, thank you very much for
having me. All Right, talk to
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you later. It was great to
chop with Dana Callogg to hear how things
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are shaping up for the twenty two
season. We wish him and all the
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US team good luck as they prepare
for the Olympic season. Speaking of the
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Olympics, make sure you tune into
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