#985 – Ricky Garard | Would He Have Won the 2023 CrossFit Games?

Caleb Beaver (00:01):

That’s weird. The same one as

Sevan Matossian (00:05):

Normal, like crazy crisp. All right, I’m digging it. Look it. Oh. Oh shit. He was upside down for a second.

Ricky Garard (00:18):

Hello?

Sevan Matossian (00:19):

Hey dude. What’s up?

Ricky Garard (00:20):

Hey Sivan, how you doing,

Sevan Matossian (00:23):

Dude? Living the dream. How are you doing?

Ricky Garard (00:25):

Yeah, good. Just got home from the track.

Sevan Matossian (00:29):

Oh, serious. Yeah. This track?

Ricky Garard (00:32):

Yeah. Been doing some running.

Sevan Matossian (00:35):

Yeah. Oh, so I heard, are you prepping or did you do it? Did you do the High Rocks?

Ricky Garard (00:40):

Yeah, I did the High Rocks on the weekend.

Sevan Matossian (00:42):

How’d it go?

Ricky Garard (00:44):

Yeah, it was, it was pretty gnarly. It was a tough wreck. My legs are still recovering.

Sevan Matossian (00:51):

How’d you place?

Ricky Garard (00:52):

I got second. Second place

Sevan Matossian (00:56):

To Benny? To Benny Garrett?

Ricky Garard (00:58):

Nah, Benny got 17th I think. No

Sevan Matossian (01:02):

Shit. Benny’s still that good?

Ricky Garard (01:05):

Yeah, he’s still got it in him.

Sevan Matossian (01:07):

Dang. He’s still good. How old is Benny?

Ricky Garard (01:12):

He turned 35 today.

Sevan Matossian (01:14):

Oh no shit. Hey, would he make another run at it? You think he’d go Masters?

Ricky Garard (01:18):

Yeah, he, he’s planning on it.

Sevan Matossian (01:20):

No shit.

Ricky Garard (01:21):

Yeah, he’s keen. He’s still been training pretty hard with me and getting amongst it as often as he can.

Sevan Matossian (01:32):

Ricky Ard, one hour, two minutes, 21 seconds. High Rock’s race just out here proving that CrossFit prepares you for anything. God, Ricky Gerard is so good for the brand. Look at that. I’m going to get you a check for $10,000 from hq. Just for that line.

Ricky Garard (01:48):

Yeah.

Sevan Matossian (01:49):

No practice runs or any specific training. I think if I wanted to have a more competitive time, I dropped 10 kg. Really? You think you could drop 20 pounds?

Ricky Garard (01:59):

Yeah, I could drop that easy.

Sevan Matossian (02:02):

No

Ricky Garard (02:02):

Shit. Stop lifting weights. Stop eating, just run.

Sevan Matossian (02:07):

Hey Ricky, do you think Jason Hopper’s too big for CrossFit?

Ricky Garard (02:13):

I, no, I don’t think so.

Sevan Matossian (02:15):

He probably needs to drop 10 kg. You see how fucking big

Ricky Garard (02:18):

That dude is? I’m, yeah. I’m not sure what he weighs. What does he weigh?

Sevan Matossian (02:24):

Thousand pounds? I don’t know. He’s fucking huge. Where would you lose seriously? You would stop lifting and then just start running and biking and you think you could drop 20 pounds? Wow.

Ricky Garard (02:35):

Yeah, if I was serious about winning High Rocks, I’d just literally just run probably 30, 40 Ks a week and just drop 10 kilos and just focus on that. But that’s not my goal at the moment, is it?

Sevan Matossian (02:51):

No. You look good by the way. You look younger than I remember you.

Ricky Garard (02:55):

Yeah, maybe I had a haircut. That always helps.

Sevan Matossian (03:00):

Caleb, what was the original world record for? High Rocks. I know now it’s like someone broke an hour, but at some point would that hour and two minutes have been a world record? Like four years ago? Three years ago?

Caleb Beaver (03:15):

Lemme check.

Ricky Garard (03:17):

I’m not sure. I know it’s 54 minutes something at the moment.

Sevan Matossian (03:22):

It really is that fast.

Ricky Garard (03:24):

Yeah,

Caleb Beaver (03:25):

54 0 7 is the current,

Sevan Matossian (03:27):

Is it Hunter?

Ricky Garard (03:28):

That’s

Caleb Beaver (03:28):

Great. Yeah, it’s Hunter.

Ricky Garard (03:30):

I remember getting off the lunges I think it was, and I just started my run and it was 54 minutes. I was like, man, Hunter’s finished right now. That is quick.

Sevan Matossian (03:42):

Oh, that is crazy. Huge fan. Stay off the fucking bike. Yeah. When you say you were at the track, you mean you were on foot?

Ricky Garard (03:49):

Yeah, I was on the athletics track. Yeah, I was on foot. Okay,

Sevan Matossian (03:52):

Good. Yeah, that’s, thank you. Casual

Ricky Garard (03:55):

Racing. Benny in some a hundred meter sprints.

Sevan Matossian (03:59):

Hey, is he your premier training partner?

Ricky Garard (04:03):

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Majority of the time.

Sevan Matossian (04:07):

Are

Ricky Garard (04:07):

There. There are few other guys, but Benny’s probably the main one.

Sevan Matossian (04:11):

I wonder if there’s any other sibling duo out there. There’s this kind of, this theory going around the theory, you get two competitive guys together and they’ll push too hard, and now some people are saying, Hey, the reason why Justin Maderis didn’t do well this year is because he was just trying to beat Ellie and there’s all these theories, but I never heard anyone talk about what it’s like training with your sibling. Probably sounds like it’s a great match.

Ricky Garard (04:37):

Yeah, I don’t think you can beat it. I mean, we’ve been competitive towards each other since the day I can remember and yeah, we never want to lose to each other, so we always go as hard as we can.

Sevan Matossian (04:53):

And then since he’s your older brother, when he does beat you, are you proud of him? Do you like it

Ricky Garard (05:02):

After about an hour, two hours? I’ll get over it,

Sevan Matossian (05:06):

No. Okay, so you don’t want to lose him,

Ricky Garard (05:07):

Congratulate him.

Sevan Matossian (05:08):

Yeah. You don’t want to lose his do

Ricky Garard (05:10):

Nah, no. Never. Yeah, man, for 2120 years I couldn’t beat him at anything. Literally just always come second to him. It was running, it was bike riding, it was pinging pong, it was tennis, golf, anything he’d beat me at and then I started catching him in my twenties and now it’s done to reverse.

Sevan Matossian (05:39):

How does he take that? Does take, does he take it good?

Ricky Garard (05:43):

Yeah, he is good. I mean, he still beats me at pinging pong and tennis and golf.

Sevan Matossian (05:51):

You play tennis?

Ricky Garard (05:52):

Yeah, a little bit.

Sevan Matossian (05:54):

How often is A little bit? Once a month.

Ricky Garard (05:57):

Yeah, once a month.

Sevan Matossian (06:00):

The game with the yellow ball and the big court and the big rackets.

Ricky Garard (06:03):

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That’s it.

Sevan Matossian (06:04):

No shit. Yeah, that’s a great game. My wife just rolled her ankle doing that. What about that? You worried about that? I mean, I haven’t rolled my ankle, but are you worried about rolling your ankle, doing that?

Ricky Garard (06:14):

Last time I played it, actually my back tightened up heaps after it, so I haven’t played it in a little while, so not too worried, but since I hurt my shoulder, I haven’t honestly been doing much at all. I’ve just been doing CrossFit.

Sevan Matossian (06:31):

Is the shoulder better?

Ricky Garard (06:33):

Yeah. Yeah, it seems better. It’s coming along the rehab recovery has been great. Been putting a lot of work into it and putting a lot of time and effort in with physios and my rehab and anything and everything that I can do to help it, and I’m pretty much back to a hundred percent

Sevan Matossian (06:56):

No shit.

Ricky Garard (06:57):

Yeah. Could have competed at the games based off the workout, so I would’ve confidently been able to get through the games.

Sevan Matossian (07:08):

Let’s just cut to the Chase

Ricky Garard (07:10):

Ricky. It is what it is.

Sevan Matossian (07:12):

You ready? Or these your games to win?

Ricky Garard (07:19):

Yeah. Not going to lie, it was

Sevan Matossian (07:22):

Don’t lie.

Ricky Garard (07:23):

It was pretty good. Workouts for me would’ve been a great opportunity and pretty big chance that I could have taken it out.

Sevan Matossian (07:35):

I want to go through the workouts with you. Do you mind just, could you pull up the leaderboard? Susa? Yeah. We’ll just play a game and pretend like no one’s watching.

Ricky Garard (07:46):

Let’s do it. I may have already played this game with myself.

Sevan Matossian (07:49):

Yeah, good, good. It’s always good to do it with yourself a few times before you go live with it. Okay. What’s the very first workout, Caleb? What is it?

Caleb Beaver (08:01):

The 45 minute or 40 minute bike?

Sevan Matossian (08:04):

The bike ride. Now do you think you would’ve been haunted by your accident and you probably would’ve taken like 27th on this?

Ricky Garard (08:11):

Nah, definitely not. Definitely not. I mean, it’s a flat course. It’s not a 90 degree downhill course.

Sevan Matossian (08:21):

Dude, Ricky, I walked onto that fucking course this year and I stood in the spot where you won it the first year and you did a 180 as you crossed the finish line, and I was right

Ricky Garard (08:32):

There a big skid.

Sevan Matossian (08:34):

Yeah. Right next to you or whatever.

Ricky Garard (08:36):

I was really devastated. I couldn’t relive that moment and do another big skid.

Sevan Matossian (08:43):

So you put it to the Finn and the Canadian, you win this one?

Ricky Garard (08:50):

Yeah, I mean, Koski rode really well. I could see what he was doing throughout the race and he paced it really well and took his chance when he could. I would’ve rode a very similar race to him, but I feel like at worst case, second place, but I feel like I would’ve maybe had more power than him at the end to sprint the last lap and take it

Sevan Matossian (09:15):

And hey, here’s the other thing too. I suspect that that race had a bigger impact on the athletes than they ever expected.

Ricky Garard (09:29):

Yeah. Yeah. 40 minutes is a long time to be going at that speed. I mean, the aftermath on the legs would’ve been pretty brutal.

Sevan Matossian (09:39):

I mean, Emma Lawson was, I think she won the women and she was frozen on the ground. She couldn’t move.

Ricky Garard (09:48):

Yeah. Yeah. I did hear a lot of comments about people cramping and wanting to get sodium and electrolytes back in and try and recover for the next event,

Sevan Matossian (09:59):

And you’re adapted to that. You would’ve probably also, not only would you have done great at it, but you would be adapted to it.

Ricky Garard (10:06):

Yeah, I’d say so. Yeah. I’d do a lot of bike riding, so I kind of know what that feeling is.

Sevan Matossian (10:13):

God, it sucks. You weren’t here for this. I have no proof or evidence of this, but I have to guess that we’re not going to see bike riding like that again.

Ricky Garard (10:22):

Yeah. Depending on the venue, where they go.

Sevan Matossian (10:25):

I was just thinking because of all the crashes, there were a lot of crashes.

Ricky Garard (10:30):

Yeah, that’s true.

Sevan Matossian (10:34):

If you would’ve gotten in a crash on the course, would you have exchanged pleasantries? Do you exchange a fuck? What are you doing?

Ricky Garard (10:40):

I would’ve caught up to him and took him out. Alright,

Sevan Matossian (10:42):

Good. There was some drama there yesterday. Jake Gza reported that he thinks Ellie Turner maybe gave Alex Gaza a little.

Ricky Garard (10:53):

Oh yeah.

Sevan Matossian (10:54):

Yeah, a little.

Ricky Garard (10:55):

Yeah. I mean, what happens on the course stays on the course. Alright. It’s competition.

Sevan Matossian (11:02):

Hey, have you guys seen that clip going around with, I think it’s on the CrossFit Games Instagram with Patrick Vellner at the start of the race. Have you guys seen that?

Ricky Garard (11:11):

Nah.

Sevan Matossian (11:12):

Are you on your

Ricky Garard (11:13):

Phone? Did someone give him a nudge or something or a push?

Sevan Matossian (11:18):

It’s hard for me to tell, but it looks like maybe James Sprague fucking just shoved him from the back. I just can’t see James Sprague doing that.

Ricky Garard (11:25):

Oh, wasn’t that on the five K?

Sevan Matossian (11:27):

Yeah.

Ricky Garard (11:28):

Oh, you’re talking about the five K? Yeah.

Sevan Matossian (11:31):

Is that what happened? Can you freeze this Caleb? When we, not yet, but whenever we see, okay, so Vellner iss going?

Ricky Garard (11:41):

Yeah, doesn’t look like it yet. Oh yeah.

Caleb Beaver (11:44):

It looks like B K G did it.

Sevan Matossian (11:49):

God Veon looks like a

Ricky Garard (11:51):

Speed skater. Sprague was right behind him. Yeah, looks like he might’ve got him pushed in the back.

Sevan Matossian (12:01):

It’s on Vellner story. Does Vellner comment on it? Hey, that’s all fair, right? I mean that’s obviously you have to be a tough guy if you’re going to get to the front there, right?

Ricky Garard (12:11):

Yeah. I mean if someone’s in your way and you’re about to tread on ’em, you’ve got to give ’em a push.

Sevan Matossian (12:19):

Who is that in the black? That’s in front of Vellner is that yellow

Caleb Beaver (12:23):

Host, but B kgs to the left of Vellner here.

Sevan Matossian (12:28):

You like that running form right there, Ricky? That yellow hosts got just fucking straight pose running, right? Just lean forward.

Ricky Garard (12:35):

Yeah, that’s it. Yeah, it looks good.

Sevan Matossian (12:39):

I got bad news for you. Ricky Uhoh. Here we go. Greg ghosts, $5. I fuck Mary. Kill Danny. Spiegel. Tia, Tony, Laura Orva

Ricky Garard (12:55):

Conduit, man. I conduit.

Sevan Matossian (12:57):

You’re smart, man. You’re smart. Are you still got a girlfriend?

Ricky Garard (13:01):

My girlfriend’s watching.

Sevan Matossian (13:03):

Oh good. Hey, what’s your dog doing? Just standing guard for you?

Ricky Garard (13:07):

Yeah, security.

Sevan Matossian (13:10):

No one’s sneaking up on Ricky.

Ricky Garard (13:12):

Yeah, I live in a bit of a dodgy area, so he’s on lookout.

Sevan Matossian (13:17):

How many people is that dog? Bit be honest.

Ricky Garard (13:20):

Nah, no one. No one. It’s placid. Zero

Sevan Matossian (13:23):

Bites.

Ricky Garard (13:24):

Bunch of buddy. Zero bites.

Sevan Matossian (13:26):

Okay, let’s, let’s go back to the second event. Let’s see what we got. So I’m giving you first in that first one. I think it’s fair.

Ricky Garard (13:35):

Yeah,

Sevan Matossian (13:35):

Hook it up first. Hey, how’s your brain? Are you depressed at all that you didn’t go to the games or you accepted it?

Ricky Garard (13:42):

I accepted it.

Sevan Matossian (13:44):

You’re not on suicide

Ricky Garard (13:45):

Watch or anything? No. Just for a couple of days then I got over it.

Sevan Matossian (13:49):

Alright. Hey, what does that look like? Are you at home? Just fucking, are you tense during the games at home?

Ricky Garard (13:57):

Yeah. To be honest, I had a pretty short fuse. I normally got a really long fuse. Takes me, it takes a lot to set me off, but my fuse was pretty short

Sevan Matossian (14:07):

For that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Ricky Garard (14:10):

Yeah, for like five days. Yeah.

Sevan Matossian (14:13):

Swear.

Ricky Garard (14:15):

Best way to deal with it was just to go to the gym and do the workouts.

Sevan Matossian (14:19):

If someone touched your protein powder you’d be like, Hey, what the fuck are you doing?

Ricky Garard (14:23):

Pretty much

Sevan Matossian (14:25):

Kick the dog a little

Ricky Garard (14:26):

Bit. I just didn’t really speak to anyone, just kind of stayed quiet.

Sevan Matossian (14:32):

Pig chipper event number two, 10 pig flips. Is that too heavy for you?

Ricky Garard (14:37):

No. That’s cool.

Sevan Matossian (14:38):

Yeah. You proved you’re strong last year, right?

Ricky Garard (14:40):

Yeah, I flipped the pig pretty solid last year in that event.

Sevan Matossian (14:46):

25 Chester bar. I mean you could do those in your sleep. 50 toes to bar a hundred wall ball shots then 50 toes to bar man. You might.

Ricky Garard (15:01):

I mean, I did a hundred wall balls unbroken on the weekend at the end of the ROCs, but I definitely wouldn’t have done a hundred unbroken in this. Yeah.

Sevan Matossian (15:13):

I’m going to go to the leaderboard and I’m going to tell you who.

Caleb Beaver (15:20):

Here you go. Avon.

Sevan Matossian (15:21):

Okay.

Ricky Garard (15:22):

Roman and Azar.

Sevan Matossian (15:24):

Oh yeah. I’m going to give that one to you too, buddy. First place for that one too.

Ricky Garard (15:32):

Yeah, possibly. I mean, I feel like it would’ve been a good race.

Sevan Matossian (15:36):

Anyone in the comments have a fucking problem with that two First place for Ricky? Anyone? Good? Keep your mouth shut. What’s Ricky’s f t p on a bike. What’s that mean?

Ricky Garard (15:50):

Oh, 20 minute average wats Man, I did that. 334 or something. I think it was three 30 something.

Sevan Matossian (16:01):

What’s F T P?

Caleb Beaver (16:04):

Functional Threshold Power.

Ricky Garard (16:06):

Yeah, that sounds about right. Give me one second.

Sevan Matossian (16:09):

Jesus and Ricky. It’s a guy on a bike in his profile picture asking the question. Look at him. Oh

Ricky Garard (16:16):

Yeah.

Sevan Matossian (16:16):

He just wants to be like, I’m better at Ricky or something.

Ricky Garard (16:20):

I feel like that second workout was a lot to do with the toaster bar and then obviously having the grip and the strength to bring the pig flip home. So normally with a toaster bar workout, I’m normally up there with Lazar and Roman, so I feel like it would’ve been a good race.

Sevan Matossian (16:41):

Ricky would’ve won this game’s hands down.

Ricky Garard (16:46):

Thanks

Sevan Matossian (16:47):

Mason. Whatever that was. Thanks to Luke. Okay, so a third workout. So he’s two first. Two first. That’s good. That’s 200 points. A hundred plus a hundred. Okay. Third workout, inverted medley,

Caleb Beaver (17:04):

Melody.

Sevan Matossian (17:05):

Yeah. Yeah, that too.

Ricky Garard (17:08):

Yeah, I gave this one a go at the gym. I set it up as best I could. I really like the freestanding handstand pushups. I’ve always liked those, but I mean at the games it’s a different story. It’s a lot of pressure. You got to execute no mistakes and obviously doing it in your home gym’s a lot easier. A bit less pressure.

Sevan Matossian (17:32):

What was your time at your home gym? Do you know?

Ricky Garard (17:35):

3 34 I think it was.

Sevan Matossian (17:37):

That’s what I thought. First place again. Hey, what about this guy, Bailey Martin? Is he any good?

Ricky Garard (17:43):

Yeah, Bailey’s good.

Sevan Matossian (17:44):

You ever train with him?

Ricky Garard (17:45):

He’s a gun. Yeah. No, I haven’t trained with him, but I know pretty well. He’s a funny Ladd

Sevan Matossian (17:53):

Like good, funny.

Ricky Garard (17:54):

Yeah, good. Funny.

Sevan Matossian (17:55):

Like good sense of humor.

Ricky Garard (17:57):

Yeah, good vibes. Good sense of humor. Always a good climb.

Caleb Beaver (18:00):

Is he the guy that replaced you at the games?

Ricky Garard (18:05):

No, no, he didn’t replace me. Oh, wait, for the semifinals you mean?

Caleb Beaver (18:09):

Oh, maybe for semifinals? Yep.

Ricky Garard (18:11):

No, that was Zach Thomas.

Caleb Beaver (18:13):

Oh, okay.

Ricky Garard (18:14):

Different. Yeah, but he replaced me and ended up seventh I think at semifinals. She’s pretty impressive.

Sevan Matossian (18:24):

Yeah, that is impressive. Hey, was Bailey Martin the third dude out of Australia? It was Jake Crouch.

Ricky Garard (18:29):

Second. Second.

Sevan Matossian (18:30):

Who was the third?

Ricky Garard (18:31):

Jake Douglas.

Sevan Matossian (18:33):

Oh, that’s right. Oh, poor Jake. Poor Jake. Fucking something happened to Jake. The bike fucking sucked him of his

Ricky Garard (18:41):

Sucked life out of him.

Sevan Matossian (18:42):

Yeah, it did. He was, was not feeling good. That sucked. That felt horrible for him. You know him?

Ricky Garard (18:49):

Yeah, yeah, I know Jake. Yeah. Yeah.

Sevan Matossian (18:51):

Good lad. Yeah, he seems like a straight up dude.

Ricky Garard (18:54):

Yeah, he’s a good Ladd.

Sevan Matossian (18:55):

Okay, so you’re kicking ass, so you get where your three first places. Anyone? Go ahead. Someone say something, I dare you. Yep. Yep. Ricky first. Again, look. Yeah, I know. It’s crazy. Everyone knows I’ll take it. Everyone knows. Oh shit. Victor Harker talking some shit. Three 30 is okay. He’s heavy, so I’d expect three 50. Damn. Yeah, no, Ricky’s not heavy. You’re not heavy.

Ricky Garard (19:20):

2 0 5.

Sevan Matossian (19:23):

Oh, you are heavy.

Ricky Garard (19:26):

Pretty

Sevan Matossian (19:26):

Heavy. Chunky, Ricky. I didn’t know that. Okay. Did I say that out loud? Chunky. Ricky

Ricky Garard (19:31):

Been eating well.

Sevan Matossian (19:33):

Alpaca something. Redux. I don’t know the typo or something. That’s the one where you pushed that impossible sled that was bringing people to a halt. You got some rope climbs in there. Legless rope climbs. Wasn’t there something else?

Caleb Beaver (19:49):

It was a

Ricky Garard (19:50):

Jerk. Clean jerks.

Sevan Matossian (19:51):

Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How’s your shoulder overhead? You good?

Ricky Garard (19:55):

Yeah, I like that movement. It’s good.

Sevan Matossian (19:57):

That would’ve tested out your shoulder. That would’ve tested out your shoulder.

Ricky Garard (20:01):

Yeah, I’ve been doing those a bit, but yeah, it would’ve tested ’em out a bit, I suppose.

Sevan Matossian (20:10):

Are those kettlebells too heavy for you? 70 pounds?

Ricky Garard (20:14):

No, that’s good. It’s good.

Sevan Matossian (20:16):

What about that sled?

Ricky Garard (20:18):

What about that last year’s? Last year’s event? I was leading going into the last 10 reps and I failed my 10th rep on the clean inject and then got pipped on the sled coming home.

Sevan Matossian (20:33):

What’s that mean? Pipped? Is that Australian for something?

Ricky Garard (20:37):

Let’s just say Pipped.

Sevan Matossian (20:39):

What place did you take last year?

Ricky Garard (20:44):

I think seventh. Seventh in that.

Sevan Matossian (20:47):

See? See, it’s okay. I’ll pull this up here. Let see. I don’t want

Ricky Garard (20:52):

Pretty sure it’s

Sevan Matossian (20:52):

Seven. Got to make this fair. 2022 CrossFit games individual men, Ricky Gerard, the alpaca seventh.

Ricky Garard (21:01):

Yeah, I mean this one would’ve been, obviously it was a harder workout and it looked hot as hell, but legless rope climb are really good for me.

Sevan Matossian (21:13):

Well, here we go. Gee, wasn’t there, and let’s say Justin and Hopper wouldn’t have beaten you. They didn’t have a good year, those two. I dunno if you saw the games. They didn’t do that. Yeah.

Ricky Garard (21:25):

Didn’t go too well.

Sevan Matossian (21:27):

Okay, so we’ll let Roman, Sam and Patrick Vellner beat you on that. We’ll give you a fourth on that. You okay with that?

Ricky Garard (21:33):

Yeah. Sounds

Sevan Matossian (21:33):

Good. You’re going to punch me when you see me. You’re cool. You’re not going to be like, Hey dickhead, you gave me a fourth, you’re cool.

Ricky Garard (21:38):

Maybe.

Sevan Matossian (21:39):

Okay, first. First, not good and a fourth. Okay. God, I love this game.

Ricky Garard (21:47):

It’s fun, isn’t it?

Sevan Matossian (21:48):

Yeah, it’s fucking awesome. Okay. Ski bag. Ooh, it’s heavy. Oh, you’re good with the bag. You showed you’re good with the bag. You like a bag? Yeah.

Ricky Garard (21:58):

I don’t mind this. I don’t mind the sandbag. I actually did this one at the gym. I set it up

Sevan Matossian (22:04):

And

Ricky Garard (22:07):

From memory I would’ve got third with my time. I can’t remember what time it was.

Caleb Beaver (22:13):

It was like a four 30 something. I think I saw it on your story.

Ricky Garard (22:16):

Yeah. Yeah. 4 30, 4 37

Sevan Matossian (22:19):

Maybe.

Ricky Garard (22:20):

Yeah, something like that.

Sevan Matossian (22:24):

Okay. Sorry, I can’t have you beat Colt Merton’s in that. You okay with that?

Ricky Garard (22:30):

Yeah. That’s cool. I’ll give it to Calvin.

Sevan Matossian (22:32):

Okay, and Sam Quant. Can we give Sam quant second at 4 34?

Ricky Garard (22:37):

Yeah. Give him that.

Sevan Matossian (22:38):

All right. And then you squeeze in there. Third place, Ricky third first. First, first, fourth, third. So it’s a bad day for you. Friday’s a bad day for you. It’s not a great day for you.

Ricky Garard (22:51):

It was. I had been training two days in the leadup before these events. I didn’t take her or anything, just squeezed it in with the program.

Sevan Matossian (23:01):

Did you actually do all the workouts? Did you actually do them the days the athletes were doing them?

Ricky Garard (23:08):

I did ’em the day they would’ve done it while I was asleep and I’d wake up and see the events and I’d do it that day.

Sevan Matossian (23:16):

You did the whole entire games while the

Ricky Garard (23:18):

Game was? No, I only did six workouts out of the 12.

Sevan Matossian (23:22):

Alright, good. No reason to go on the 12. Yeah. Okay.

Ricky Garard (23:26):

The other ones are too hard to simulate.

Sevan Matossian (23:30):

Okay. Then we have Helena and the Champ fucking murdered that first place. 7 56.

Ricky Garard (23:39):

Yeah, that was fast. I did this one at my gym as well.

Sevan Matossian (23:43):

Oh, how’d you do?

Ricky Garard (23:46):

8 0 4? I did.

Sevan Matossian (23:48):

Okay. Okay.

Ricky Garard (23:50):

I tried to map out a 400 meter run that was a similar route to what they did.

Sevan Matossian (23:57):

Wow. You even did that with all those weird turns and shit.

Ricky Garard (24:00):

Yeah. I put markers on the footy field because there’s a big rugby field next to our gym, so it went out the gym, across the car park, around the markers on the footy field and back to the gym where there’s a rig. We got a rig outside the gym, so kind of worked perfect for that workout.

Sevan Matossian (24:24):

Carlos Ochoa, is he grabbing his dick for sure. Ricky is Goated, double Goated.

Ricky Garard (24:36):

Thanks Carlos. Not quite yet, mate.

Sevan Matossian (24:39):

Ricky top four and Helena. Okay. Yeah, I think we can give him a third in that after Jeffrey Adler and Wilmore ad. We’ll put you between 8 0 5 and 8 0 8. You good with that? Yeah. Okay. Tough. I’m really sorry about Saturday, a fourth, a third and a third.

Ricky Garard (25:00):

It’s hard gone.

Sevan Matossian (25:01):

It’s an emotional comedown off of

Ricky Garard (25:04):

Thursday day one. Yeah.

Sevan Matossian (25:08):

Okay, here we go. Did you think we were going to do this when you came on?

Ricky Garard (25:14):

Not quite. I thought you were going to ask me, but not everywhere workout. Yeah,

Sevan Matossian (25:19):

This is good. Don’t ruin it. Oh shit.

Ricky Garard (25:24):

Oh shit.

Sevan Matossian (25:25):

The cuts have happened. You survived the cuts. You’re probably still wearing the leader’s jersey and you got the five K. Let’s talk about the five K for a second. Did you hear about that? Did you hear

Ricky Garard (25:36):

About that five K?

Sevan Matossian (25:36):

Did you hear about that? Between Adler and Roman? Adler was chirping. Roman got all flustered.

Ricky Garard (25:42):

Oh no, I didn’t hear that.

Sevan Matossian (25:44):

Yeah,

Ricky Garard (25:45):

That’s funny.

Sevan Matossian (25:46):

Adler was chirping ’em. Roman was getting all flustered. All flustered

Ricky Garard (25:49):

Getting during their eyes,

Sevan Matossian (25:53):

And when I talked to Adler about the stories I was hearing when I was there, it was just that Roman was tripping because he didn’t mind the chirping. But that Adler actually touched him a few times, roughed him up a little bit on the track, and when I asked Adler about it, he’s like, Hey dude. When we were at the starting line, I purposely moved people over so he could get in the front with me

Ricky Garard (26:17):

Helping him out.

Sevan Matossian (26:17):

Yeah, helping a brother out. So the competition will though

Ricky Garard (26:25):

Adler was touching Roman and he was like, don’t F him, touch

Sevan Matossian (26:29):

Me. Adler says that he didn’t touch him.

Ricky Garard (26:35):

Who won the race?

Sevan Matossian (26:37):

You never, oh, jelly yellow. Hosta. Yeah,

Ricky Garard (26:40):

Jelly. Who won that? Adler and Rome.

Sevan Matossian (26:43):

Adler beat him by nine seconds. No, 11 seconds. 11 seconds.

Ricky Garard (26:52):

Oh yeah, that’s right. Roman looked like he was hurting and then he just sprinted off at the end. I was like, wow. Dude’s tapped.

Sevan Matossian (27:02):

When you see these, are you surprised that this finish right here? Or does this look about right to you? The hosted guy, Adler, Roman Lazar, ju Brent Falkowski. Jay Crouch.

Ricky Garard (27:13):

Yeah. I mean, Jay did really well, but yeah, that’s pretty much the top four I would’ve predicted. I knew Yellow Host was a good runner based off semifinals. But yeah, I did get the heads up that it was four and a half Ks, not five Ks, so I wasn’t too shocked when I seen the times.

Sevan Matossian (27:35):

How about Chandler Smith taking seventh? That’s impressive.

Ricky Garard (27:38):

Yeah, that’s really good too.

Sevan Matossian (27:40):

That’s a lot of dude to drag around.

Ricky Garard (27:45):

I did a five K here at home, just around the beach, and I did that in 1753. That was an actual five K,

Sevan Matossian (27:57):

1753 in actual five K.

Ricky Garard (28:00):

Yeah, so I think that works out to be like 16, 20 or something. Four and a half K.

Sevan Matossian (28:08):

Wow. And maybe even faster. You would’ve had a little juice there at the end.

Ricky Garard (28:13):

Yeah, yeah. I mean, if I was there running that race, I would’ve just sat with them. They all did in the group and then taken off at the end.

Sevan Matossian (28:23):

How have you been in other running events at the CrossFit games?

Ricky Garard (28:29):

Yeah, good. Last year we did the Capital Me, Lazar and Roman ran together all the way to the capitol.

Sevan Matossian (28:37):

Travis was the only one that broke off.

Ricky Garard (28:40):

Oh, Travis was in the heat before us.

Sevan Matossian (28:42):

Oh

Ricky Garard (28:44):

Yeah.

Sevan Matossian (28:45):

How’d you do in the Capitol?

Ricky Garard (28:47):

Yeah, I won it.

Sevan Matossian (28:48):

Oh fuck you get first place in this. Here we go. There we go. Done. Look at it. This is scientific. This is science

Ricky Garard (28:56):

All over it.

Sevan Matossian (28:57):

Okay. Oh, Patrick Clark Altitude training for Chandler. He’s also run six miles while in the Army. Oh, he’s run six minute miles. While in the army, Sean m Ricky would’ve won the five K.

Ricky Garard (29:13):

Thanks, Sean.

Sevan Matossian (29:16):

Would’ve been great to see Ricky and Roman battle it out and then see Ricky win over Adler. God, it’s crazy that you weren’t there. What a weird year

Ricky Garard (29:28):

Would’ve. Shoulda could have.

Sevan Matossian (29:30):

Yeah. This is just a fun game here we’re playing okay intervals. Which one was that? What workout is that? I can’t even picture. What was that one?

Ricky Garard (29:40):

Oh yeah, the box jumps

Sevan Matossian (29:43):

21 box jump overs, some burpee box jump overs, some more other 15 calorie row nine. I don’t even remember watching this six minute rest. I don’t even remember seeing this workout. I must’ve been interviewing

Ricky Garard (29:54):

People. It was in the col sand.

Sevan Matossian (29:58):

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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