January 21, 2020 • 34 mins
Meet Georgia Ellenwood, an aspiring Olympic heptathlete who has to hone her skills in seven separate events that take place over two days. Hear as Georgia reflects on her journey from NCAA champion to professional athlete, as well as the trials and tribulations she’ll face as she pursues a spot in the 2020 Tokyo games.
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I was going into the int Double A Championships ranked first.
I can't improve my ranking. It's either I stay the
same or I go down. It was tight the whole time,
like against me in this girl from Georgia, and going
into the eight hundred, I was five points ahead. Ever,
it was probably the most stressed out I've been in
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my life, so to say, just because the Instable A Championship,
people remember that forever. I can't believe that I'm in
a position where I could actually win, and I feel
like I will win if I do this, but I haven't.
I see this playing out the way I wanted to,
but I still have that task to perform. It hasn't
been done yet. I just want to get on the
line and run. Momentum is everything through the word hard work,
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through training, through competing, through recovery. It's building momentum. Momentum
helps athletes push themselves, push them to be better. It's
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a journey of improvement, a journey to push through. Welcome
to the new podcast. The Only Way is through a
collaboration between under Armour and I Heart Radio. Episode one,
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Georgia ellen Wood a portrait of an athlete. Every athlete
knows you have to hone your craft and through that work,
you'll be able to elevate yourself to the next level.
Georgia Ellenwood knows this probably better than most because she's
got to do a sevenfold. That's what the heptathlon takes
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to be the best. Dedication to every detail of each event.
The seven event challenge will break you. But George's cut
from a different claw. You caught up where in Madison, Wisconsin.
She's training right now for the Olympics in Tokyo. Come on, there,
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you go, come one nice an easy above head for me,
and it's like the hardest I think my strength is
Squatting means are okay. Like if it's like a quick movement,
I'm okay. If it has anything to do with my shoulders,
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my wrists, just no, no, But there's only one way
to get at it, so just suck it up. Stepping
to the baby. Oh god. This girl works. Each day
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revolves around way, training, practice, recovery, nutrition, and sleep. She
sacrificed a lot, but a commitment will pay off when
the time comes. Our partner in this series is legendary
interviewer and renowned journalist Cal Fussman. You'll hear him interviewing
all of our athletes in each episode. Here he is
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sitting down with Georgia to listen to her story. Georgia,
you are the first HEP tap let that I have
ever interviewed in my entire life. When you were seven
years old, were you thinking HEP taplin? That's me definitely not.
I don't think I could even say the word when
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I was saying, but I did know I wanted to
be a runner, or I wanted to do something that
involved a lot of running. Because we had a house upstairs,
there was like a little circle in the middle and
this is where this is in Langley, BC. It's a
suburb of Vancouver, and I would run around that circle
kind of like a track. I remember one time I
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like clipped my shoulder on one of the corners. I
would run it so tight. But maybe that's where it
all started. That's pretty good training for a heptap line exactly.
So I'm saying it's starting in my childhood. I was
made for it. Listing makes me feel like I can
go on the track and feel like a superwoman. So
it makes me feel more powerful. It's like explosiveness. It's
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scary and I have to confront a lot of my
fears in the weight room. I've confronted them on the track,
like I know what I can do. I know when
I can push myself, But I think in the weight
room it's always hard because I never thought I was strong,
and so now I'm like realizing that maybe I am,
and I can see why getting stronger in the weight
room is making me more powerful in this track. I
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don't know why it was such a critic of it before,
maybe just because I didn't like being in the way
room and getting stronger and gaining weight, But um, I
think now coming to every practice and feeling powerful and
even on bad days, when I feel the strength of
my legs and arms, it's so much more refreshing. So
the mental aspect of doing seven completely different events and
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they're always in the same water, what what sad water?
The first day is the hundred turtles, high jump, shot
put in the two d and then the next day
is long jump, javelin in the eight hundred is always
in that order, and it's it's on a point system,
so you get points for every single event. Yeah, so
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you don't technically have to win in any individual event.
See This is a crazy thing to me because somebody
can actually come in second place in all seven events
and be the winner even though they never won an event. Yeah,
and that's kind of what defines me because I never
really shine in any of the events. I just am
very above average and all of them. From what I
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was reading, basically people don't do it more than twice
a year. You need to do every single event at
a percent full intensity. You can practice every day because
you're working on things like you might slow something down
or exaggerate another thing. But when you're competing, you're going
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as hard as you can for even that short amount
of time. It's a lot of intensity, and it's a
lot of physical powers, a lot of mental power. I
think that's why it's so draining, and to shift gears
after every event, like, oh I just round the hurdles.
Now I have to think about hi jump, how I
get as high up in the air as I can
after I just tried to run as fast as I can.
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Giving that much intensity and such contrasting events can can
be really be difficult. So this is a case of balance. Yes,
it's to see who's the ultimate athlete, So who's most
well rounded in all the events, I'm constantly trying to
get everything on the same scale, and then you raise
the level of everything together. So it's tough to do
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that sometimes and it's tough to improve every single event,
but that's the ultimate goal. She's just such a humble person.
We talk about humble and hungry. She epitomizes humble and
hungry as an athlete. For me, she does epitomize everything
we stand falls Lebron. That's Paul Whisburgh, VP of Athletic Performance.
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That under armed quick background on Paul. He's a bit
of a mass scientist. He brings in the world's most
elite athletes to their facility important Oregon to study how
their body works and how we could get better. She
told us she's willing to try anything to gain and
edge on a competition, and because he does seven different events,
every detail in her approach matters. We first met Georgia
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at the start of nineteen. She came in and had
to look around the facility. We introduced her to our
footwear teams, and we also took her through the human
performance side of things. I think we piqued her interest
and she kind of looked at things and thought, hah,
that's interesting. I could learn a little bit more about myself.
So when the athlete comes back, that allows us to
really sweat the details and screen and test everything. And
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I think our processes more about eliminating the things to
free up more time to allow to do the things
that are going to make her better. We took her
through a deep dive on everything. So we we looked
at her state of readiness. We did like full three
le d c G. We looked at the brain activity
DC potential. We then started to measure her athletic intelligence,
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her competitive nurse. We looked at all different constructs are power.
So most people would say, oh, awesome, she can jump.
We we started to look at how much force she
can produce, how quickly she can produce that force, and
then how accurate that force production is. So you think
about her as a heppted athlete and she's jumping and throwing,
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and because she's doing so many events, and we call
it those tiny marginal gains that we can give an athlete.
If she can get a marginal gain across multiple events,
it then becomes significant. It's not just a case of
learning how to throw the javelin or the shot put.
If we can give her more range in the hip,
and then we can create stability in the lumber spine,
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which may add the three sentiment that she's looking for.
Balance is critical for these athletes. Embracing the grind and
grinding every day is not balanced, that's a sure fire
to injury and inflammation and poor performance. We sweat the
details on the physical side of things from a performance perspective,
and her and the culture sweating the details on the
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technical side, and you put that together and that's where
the magic happens. For sure. How many points do you
need to go to the Olympics. Where do you stand?
I think the Olympics standard is and to the Olympics Center,
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I'm about two points away, and that sounds like a lot,
but it's slight improvements in each event. When I see
my name being called for as a team, I can
start thinking about trying to make that podium. So you
gotta surprise yourself. I'm not going to say that I
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am going to be an Olympic champion, because I think
I need to be real with everyone else that I
am with myself. Georgia knows she's capable of greatness, but
won't say it until she does it. She's got to
prove it to herself. She's humble, something her parents taught
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her from the start. He's Carrie and David ellen Wood.
Georgia was a little different that way, where she always
um worked hard because she wanted to be the best,
and she always wanted to to win. Before we would
prepare her to get there. Now she prepares herself. I
think that's the difference that I see now. Um, how
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she's matured as an athlete is she does everything she
can to make herself better, and she's willing to hurt
and she's willing to put in the time. I mean,
at some point with all your kids and you say,
here's what you need to do to be successful. You
know you need to motivate your elf. You need to
understand what it takes when you get out of that.
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I'm the king of a little mountain, the queen of
a little mountain. Where's the next mountain? How do I
stack up? What does it take to get up that mountain?
It seems to me listening to you, that this whole
thing is so much about your mental strength, keeping that
focus for forty eight hours that really allows you to succeed. Yeah,
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it is, but I don't know if anyone could really
stay that tuned in for that long. I think a
lot of the time, I've taught myself to kind of
fun with it. Talk to the other girls, like, don't
get too competitive, like you're competing against yourself. For most
of the time, I try to keep it light and
have some enjoyment for what I do, because I chose
the sport for a reason, you know, and so just
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to show my passion and to get along with the
other girls and go through it together. Where others crack
under pressure, Georgia pushes harder than most. It's our attitude,
an approach to the game that gets a father that
she thought part she's relentless, but she does it with
a smile on her face. That kind of thing has
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an effect on people like her teammate c Double a
Chance Alivor. I've been privileged enough to see a lot
of athletes, a lot of professional athletes, be fantastic, And
the one thing I know is that the ones that
just always always on, always focus, no off switch kind
of mentality, they get to a point where they can't
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get past, like they get stopped. They can't get past
that barrier, they start to lose her, whereas with Georgia,
like she'll hit that barrier and she'll be like, Okay,
how do I get around this? She's able to use fun,
she able to use humor, She's able to be herself
and be able to go I can get around this challenge.
And for athletes to be able to think like that,
it's it's hard. It's her sport is it's hard. Seven events,
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it's just two days, like you can't be on that time,
and she's able to acknowledge that. So it's it's a
fantastic thing to learn from her. To be where she's
at is obviously physical first, physical abilities, but she's got
like the mental and emotional abilities and mindset. That's Jordan
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hers Brunner, juniors athlete at the University of Wisconsin. She's
one of Georgie's favorite training partners. Her lips are three
hours long, and she tells us how draining it is
every single day, like she's a human being. She has
breakdowns and watching her work through that and then come
to practice ten minutes later and have the same practice
that we do that's four hours long. Sometimes George is
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here from ten to six o'clock at night. That's an
eight hour day during recovery and everything that you need
to do she does. You can't just have the physical
abilities to be where she's at. You have to have
all three. I think the biggest change is my speed,
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just like knowing that we're power training so much and
then seeing that translate into sprints on the track, but
even just my starts or the way I come down
off the hurdle and there's just a lot more power
in my body and to be able to use that
and how it directly translates to the performance on the track.
It'll be pretty soon that it is put to the test.
So is your body like really physically beaten, because again
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it's like less than two minutes of work. It is,
but you don't usually feel it after you feel it
the moment you wake up and take your first step.
Sometimes it's great if you're not, if you're like, oh wow,
I'm not as sore as I thought I was going
to be. Sometimes it's like, how am I going to
do this? How am I going to do another day
of what I just did? I think that's also the
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mentally training part is you wake up with a body
that feels like it couldn't work through three more events
that are so taxing, and somehow you have to get
it to man. That's Kurt. Now we're talking about courage it.
Do you have the courage just say, I don't care,
I'm gonna nail it. I try and see the second
day as a whole new day, Like even if the
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first day was bad, let's let's try and bring a
new perspective to this day. After spending time with Georgia
and the people close to her, it's clear that the
pressure she faces is very real. If you don't work hard,
you don't win. But if you overwork and you don't
ease your mind with recovery, you can crack under pressure.
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Georgia walks the razor's edge carefully because she knows if
she tips one way or the other, it could be over.
Just like that, here's Ali or again. Because I think
with the sport, it's a roller coaster rights up and down,
and like when you go through those highs, it's really high.
When you go through those loads, it's really low. And
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I think to take a perspective of like an athlete's life,
George is able to say, hey, like, I'm an athlete,
but I'm also a human being, I'm a person. When
things aren't going her way, she accepts that, she dresses it,
but then she also goes what am I going to
do better? What can I improve on? But she's also
going to have fun with getting there and going through
that challenge and her competitive edge. She's a very competitive person.
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Her competitive edge helps her even though she's able to
stake a step back and have fun with and enjoy
a time. That's why when you see her competing and
when she gets to her lane, or when she gets
for that jump, for that throw, or for that race,
she's able to say, right, it's time to it's time
to go. The whole mental aspect of this, it almost
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sounds tortuous. Yeah, at times I think about it sometimes
like why do I do it? I feel like it
seems that stressful, But I think I'm so addicted to
like the satisfaction that you feel from completing something like that.
Some people might call me psycho, but you have to
be a little to be good, don't you. How did
you train yourself two block off physical pain? I win
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say get off. I just say, like, am I prepared
to experience this right now and most of the time,
if it's if it's to know that I will be satisfied,
because I've had moments where i haven't performed well because
I'm scared to feel that type of pain, and I
would much rather feel the pain and get rewarded for it.
So I think just the amount of maybe regret or
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the the amount of dissatisfaction that you feel from not
giving your all is never worth it. Do you ever
not reveal your injuries because you don't want your rivals
to know? Yes, I shouldn't ask you, Bob, I can
talk about my previous injuries right now I'm healthy. What
was the most difficult injury you had to deal with?
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I think last year when I had a tear in
my plantar fascia and I've been experiencing it for a while,
and I thought, oh, I'm tough, like I can train
through this, and so I tried to train through it
for so long. That was probably hurting you. It was hurting.
It was hurting a lot. I remember at the Canadian Championships,
I went to go warm up for the long jump
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and I couldn't warm up. What do you mean you
couldn't war m up. I was trying to jog and
I couldn't jog and do like some of my drills.
In my head, I'm like, wow, what am I gonna do?
And I was like, I need to finish the subtathlon
otherwise I'm not the Canadian champ. You know. I didn't
excel or like tried to do a run and it
was the most painful thing that I've ever experienced. And
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so I'm looking at your face and it's on your
face still. Yeah, it was always so horrible, and my
coach and everyone was there like a grandparents like everyone
was there, and so I was like I have to
be on the podium for them. They called my name
and I tried to do the first one and I
just rocked back and it was just so painful. And
then I ran off and I was I thought my
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foot was broken. I was like my foot was broken, Like,
oh this it wasn't broken. I was probably being dramatic
looking back at it. I just remember that pain and
I remember writing after two, just writing a little letter
to myself and saying like, remember how this feels. I
don't want to ever feel like this again. So working
around injuries is something every athlete dis with. It's one
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thing to feel pain when your body hurts. It's another
thing to feel pain when you can't do the thing
you love the most. For Georgia, it felt like a
punch in the gut. Here's George's mom carry once more.
George has never stopped to heptathlon once she starts, She's
always finished one. And I think to test to her
her nature that we've always taught the kids, if you
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start something, you finish it. She was managing, but not
well like. She was definitely injured. We could see on
her face, and she was trying to do everything she
could to recover after the first day to see if
she can compete. The second day, we showed up after
she had already gone to the track, and I saw
her crying over in a corner and she wasn't able
to run. She was still willing to try. She was
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actually willing to still try, and and she probably actually
may have even one, but the damage that she would
have done would have been irreversible. And so I went
and saw her on the track, sitting and crying with her,
you know, her head in her hands, and I just said,
it's okay, you know, you don't have to do this.
Georgia doesn't like to let people down, not just herself,
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but she doesn't like to let her coach down or
her family down. I had visions. I'm like, I'm this
close to being an Olympic team and I'm so because
I had I want to go to the World Championships
last year and like I was in a position to
go to the World Championships and then I could get
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selected because I was injured, and so I can't imagine
being in that position this year. It's like my worst
here seeing other athletes go through that and being injured
in like such a crucial time where they want to
make a team that they've been trying to make their
entire life. It's just sucks. It's just out of your
control and like it happens, and so like it can
it can really damage you mentally. But I think if
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you take the steps before you get injured, like now
I know what I need to do to prevent injury,
and so I'm not going to take that lately anymore.
And what was the lesson, M train smarter, not harder,
that you should have just given yourself the time off
for it to recover. Yeah, and I think this year
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before all else, before everything before, I trying to improve
that time, before any competition, I need to make sure
that I'm healthy. While Georgia is constantly focused on so
many aspects of her own game, she always treats her
competitors with respect. On the track. Her teammates and competitors
are equals in her eyes. It's essential to build all
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of them up by sharing them on and encouraging their dreams.
After all, it's a dream too. There's David ellen Wood.
Humility was huge with us. You've got to respect your opponent.
You've got to have great respect for the sport. You know.
For her, it resonates with her that message that we
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taught her. If you don't respect your opponent, if you
don't respect the work it takes to get great, then
what's the point in participating. And she has tremendous respect
for her opponents and the sport. That's when we knew
we did a good job. Which competitions have you won
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and it brought you the most joy? I think the
biggest one has to be the Instable A Championship. In
two thousand and eighteen, I was going into the Unstable
A Championships ranked first, and I was like, this is
the most pressure I've ever felt in my life. I
can't improve my ranking. It's either I stay the same
or I go down. It was tight the whole time,
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like against me in this girl from Georgia, and going
into the eight hundred, I was five points ahead of her.
So you're going into the final event, you're basically tied
and the eight hundred meters, you come to the line.
Are you looking at her? Is she next to you?
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She's right? Are you friendly at all? Yeah? We're friends,
your friends. What's her name? Do you shake hands? I
say good luck like she say good luck to Yeah,
she's nice. No, it was good. It was like an
honest competition the whole time, and we knew that we
were both I love that we pushed each other because
it was her and I huge gap everyone else. So
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it's just the two of you, your friends, you know
each other, and yet you gotta win. Yeah. The one
thing that Jackie joined, Kersey said, and she's probably the
best who ever did it. She said in the last
eighty yards of the eight hundred said, I felt like
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I was running backwards. I've had moments like that or
I feel the ground getting closer to me, and I'm
just like, am I gonna fall? But you don't know
because you can't feel your legs. So let's break this down.
Let's make this cinematic. So it's pouring rain and the
entire time. Do you like to run in the rain?
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Oh it's cold? It was cold too, And we're in
like you know, track uniforms, like there's not much there
and so and so we're I remember we were in
the holding room and that's like kind of like the
warmp area before you get walked out onto the track.
I remember teammates, the girls who are in the heptathlon,
So there's twenty four of us, and girls are coming
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up to me like you can do this, you got this,
and I'm just like wow, like this is insane right now.
Even girls from other events, girls who are running the
opening hunder are coming up to me and like saying,
don't worry, like just stay relaxed, you just see, you
can do it. You're in control. Going into the eight hunder.
Her personal best was too nineteen and my personal best
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to fifteen, so I should be the clear winner. And
I think that's what was more nerve racking is because
you can only fail yourself. Exactly. I have to run
this time. Otherwise she's better because she's to run that day.
So you you get to the starting line, she's right
next to you. Where's your head go? I mostly look
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at everyone else that's not running the hundred and say
I wish I was you. So the gun goes off
and pouring rains, very dramatic raising who breaks out her?
I do, because um, I'm a faster right under runner,
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so I want to get position, and Louise is right
behind me, so she's and I don't know, you don't know,
you can't see. So we do the whole first lap
like that. She's right there, like the whole time. I mean,
I don't In her mind, she probably said, I gotta
I gotta stay with Georgia no matter what, I gotta
stay with Georgia. Exactly what she's saying. And I'm sure
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her coach said that just stick on her the entire time,
to stick on her. Now you've finished the first lap,
you still don't know what happens. Then I pushed the
third two hundred as hard as I can. I think
one girl went in front of me. She tried to
make a little surge, and so I was like, I
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have to go with her or else I won't go
at all. This is where it starts to hurt, you know,
like four meters in it starts to hurt. You just
feel like your legs are getting heavier and heavier, and
you're trying to go against the current. You're trying to
push it harder when your body is failing you. That
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third two, I'm in pain, but my eyes are just
like locked in on the girl in front of me,
and she goes and so I go with her. And
that's where the separation starts between me and Louisa. But
I had no idea. I thought, she's still with me.
What's that expression? Don't look back? Someone maybe gaining on yet,
but she wasn't. I just try to keep that speed
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and hold on for like the last two The last
hundred probably was the scariest thing in my life because
my head, she's right behind me. Still, just keep pushing,
keep pushing, like what if, what if She's going to
make a huge surge at the end. And then about
ten ms and I was like, I like I won.
I actually won. And it wasn't emotional or anything. I
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think all the emotion. We're the three hours before where
I was like, I know I can win, but I
haven't yet. And so you win, do you feel a
sense of relief, complete relief. It's not even like joy,
excitement all emotion. It's just I did what I needed
to do, Like that's it, just Wow, I actually did it.
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You know I'm listening to when it almost sounds like
you just have a standard for yourself that you're trying
to meet. Yeah, it's realistic, like everything that I have
in my head. I see it playing out and it's
not like too far fetched. And I think I would
talk about me, you know, making the Olympic team or
scoring a certain point total if I didn't think that
I could do it. And so I think that's what's
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nerve wracking, is that I know that I'm capable of
doing it. It's just performing it at that moment. Okay,
So it's sort of like hitting the board on the
long jump. I can do it in practice every time,
but if I miss it that day and miss it
three times, then I'm I'm literally nobody that day, yeah, exactly.
Or if you don't, if it's not your day, if
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you feel a little bit sick, or you have an
egging injury and you don't put a heptap on together.
It's seven events that you have to combine together to
get that score. You can see it two ways. You
can see that there's seven opportunities for something to go
wrong or seven opportunities for something to go right. So
when you win, does joy ever come or are you
thinking of the next left that you got to reach.
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It was hard to wrap my head around. I think
even on my victory lap, people were like cheering like crazy,
and I was like, for me, like you're serious, congratulations Georgia.
It was an interesting feeling. I think it was just
like complete relief that I did what I knew I
was capable of doing. I actually I performed on that day,
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so all that pressure worked out the way I saw
it happening so many times, And I think that's our
biggest fear, is that it won't happen the way you
wish it to happen. My parents were overnoon, obviously, and
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I think they're a little bit overwhelmed too, because it
is overwhelming when when you get that much attention and
now it kind of sets up a little bit of
a future for you. On that day you performed and
now now you're the best woman in all the college.
It's hard to believe when when that happened, and I
don't think it would have happened if I didn't go
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through these steps three years prior. It makes you grateful
for the injuries, It makes you grateful for the mental
conflicts that you had to go through. It makes it
more rewarding when you know what you had been through
in so many years before that to get to that point.
That's when you start reflecting back on all the moments
that made you win that day. You know, it just
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sounds like you were so surprised when you won to
and see a championship. Would you be just as surprised
to see you do something on an Olympic stage? Do
you have to almost be there to see yourself do
it or feel yourself do it to understand that you
can do it? I think in a way yeah. I
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think with the inc double as it was hard because
I knew that I was in a position to win.
The reason I want is because on that day I
was confident. I thought to myself, like I just need
to do this to win, and so as a professional athlete.
I need to continue that mentality to understand that I
can be an Olympic athlete, and I can I can
compete with the best in the world and not keep
surprising myself. I think I need to just know what
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I'm capable of and just perform. What would it be
like to walk into an Olympic stadium? I play it
over and over in my head where I get announced
to the team and I'm looking at the list and
I see my name. Mor has A loved They have
traveled from all the burners of the earth and have
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spend a lifetime drain for this moment. Please welcome the
athletes of the Games of the thirty one Olympiads. I
feel like it would be like, Wow, this is like
the milestone. There's so few milestones in my life. A
few of them have been getting a full scholarship to
a D one university, winning a Big Ten title, winning
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n C double a championship, graduating from a really good
academic school, going to a World championship, going to Olympics,
and so a lot of those I have ticked off.
So this would be the next time that that I'm
hoping to tick off. You didn't say, Olympic champion. I
told you I'm realistic, and it's not that I don't
see myself as potentially getting there. I just think that
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I have a lot of work to do, you know,
like I want to do this because I'm passionate about
the sport. End of story. It's tough and it's physically taxing,
but I just I just see it as such a
such an opportunity. We hear you, Georgia, and we'll see
you in Tokyo. This has been the only way is
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Join is next time to hear more stories of athletic
performance and what it means to push yourself through m
I was going into the int Double A Championships ranked first.
I can't improve my ranking. It's either I stay the
same or I go down. It was tight the whole time,
like against me in this girl from Georgia, and going
into the eight hundred, I was five points ahead. Ever,
it was probably the most stressed out I've been in
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my life, so to say, just because the Instable A Championship,
people remember that forever. I can't believe that I'm in
a position where I could actually win, and I feel
like I will win if I do this, but I haven't.
I see this playing out the way I wanted to,
but I still have that task to perform. It hasn't
been done yet. I just want to get on the
line and run. Momentum is everything through the word hard work,
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through training, through competing, through recovery. It's building momentum. Momentum
helps athletes push themselves, push them to be better. It's
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a journey of improvement, a journey to push through. Welcome
to the new podcast. The Only Way is through a
collaboration between under Armour and I Heart Radio. Episode one,
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Georgia ellen Wood a portrait of an athlete. Every athlete
knows you have to hone your craft and through that work,
you'll be able to elevate yourself to the next level.
Georgia Ellenwood knows this probably better than most because she's
got to do a sevenfold. That's what the heptathlon takes
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to be the best. Dedication to every detail of each event.
The seven event challenge will break you. But George's cut
from a different claw. You caught up where in Madison, Wisconsin.
She's training right now for the Olympics in Tokyo. Come on, there,
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you go, come one nice an easy above head for me,
and it's like the hardest I think my strength is
Squatting means are okay. Like if it's like a quick movement,
I'm okay. If it has anything to do with my shoulders,
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my wrists, just no, no, But there's only one way
to get at it, so just suck it up. Stepping
to the baby. Oh god. This girl works. Each day
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revolves around way, training, practice, recovery, nutrition, and sleep. She
sacrificed a lot, but a commitment will pay off when
the time comes. Our partner in this series is legendary
interviewer and renowned journalist Cal Fussman. You'll hear him interviewing
all of our athletes in each episode. Here he is
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sitting down with Georgia to listen to her story. Georgia,
you are the first HEP tap let that I have
ever interviewed in my entire life. When you were seven
years old, were you thinking HEP taplin? That's me definitely not.
I don't think I could even say the word when
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I was saying, but I did know I wanted to
be a runner, or I wanted to do something that
involved a lot of running. Because we had a house upstairs,
there was like a little circle in the middle and
this is where this is in Langley, BC. It's a
suburb of Vancouver, and I would run around that circle
kind of like a track. I remember one time I
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like clipped my shoulder on one of the corners. I
would run it so tight. But maybe that's where it
all started. That's pretty good training for a heptap line exactly.
So I'm saying it's starting in my childhood. I was
made for it. Listing makes me feel like I can
go on the track and feel like a superwoman. So
it makes me feel more powerful. It's like explosiveness. It's
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scary and I have to confront a lot of my
fears in the weight room. I've confronted them on the track,
like I know what I can do. I know when
I can push myself, But I think in the weight
room it's always hard because I never thought I was strong,
and so now I'm like realizing that maybe I am,
and I can see why getting stronger in the weight
room is making me more powerful in this track. I
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don't know why it was such a critic of it before,
maybe just because I didn't like being in the way
room and getting stronger and gaining weight, But um, I
think now coming to every practice and feeling powerful and
even on bad days, when I feel the strength of
my legs and arms, it's so much more refreshing. So
the mental aspect of doing seven completely different events and
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they're always in the same water, what what sad water?
The first day is the hundred turtles, high jump, shot
put in the two d and then the next day
is long jump, javelin in the eight hundred is always
in that order, and it's it's on a point system,
so you get points for every single event. Yeah, so
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you don't technically have to win in any individual event.
See This is a crazy thing to me because somebody
can actually come in second place in all seven events
and be the winner even though they never won an event. Yeah,
and that's kind of what defines me because I never
really shine in any of the events. I just am
very above average and all of them. From what I
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was reading, basically people don't do it more than twice
a year. You need to do every single event at
a percent full intensity. You can practice every day because
you're working on things like you might slow something down
or exaggerate another thing. But when you're competing, you're going
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as hard as you can for even that short amount
of time. It's a lot of intensity, and it's a
lot of physical powers, a lot of mental power. I
think that's why it's so draining, and to shift gears
after every event, like, oh I just round the hurdles.
Now I have to think about hi jump, how I
get as high up in the air as I can
after I just tried to run as fast as I can.
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Giving that much intensity and such contrasting events can can
be really be difficult. So this is a case of balance. Yes,
it's to see who's the ultimate athlete, So who's most
well rounded in all the events, I'm constantly trying to
get everything on the same scale, and then you raise
the level of everything together. So it's tough to do
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that sometimes and it's tough to improve every single event,
but that's the ultimate goal. She's just such a humble person.
We talk about humble and hungry. She epitomizes humble and
hungry as an athlete. For me, she does epitomize everything
we stand falls Lebron. That's Paul Whisburgh, VP of Athletic Performance.
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That under armed quick background on Paul. He's a bit
of a mass scientist. He brings in the world's most
elite athletes to their facility important Oregon to study how
their body works and how we could get better. She
told us she's willing to try anything to gain and
edge on a competition, and because he does seven different events,
every detail in her approach matters. We first met Georgia
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at the start of nineteen. She came in and had
to look around the facility. We introduced her to our
footwear teams, and we also took her through the human
performance side of things. I think we piqued her interest
and she kind of looked at things and thought, hah,
that's interesting. I could learn a little bit more about myself.
So when the athlete comes back, that allows us to
really sweat the details and screen and test everything. And
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I think our processes more about eliminating the things to
free up more time to allow to do the things
that are going to make her better. We took her
through a deep dive on everything. So we we looked
at her state of readiness. We did like full three
le d c G. We looked at the brain activity
DC potential. We then started to measure her athletic intelligence,
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her competitive nurse. We looked at all different constructs are power.
So most people would say, oh, awesome, she can jump.
We we started to look at how much force she
can produce, how quickly she can produce that force, and
then how accurate that force production is. So you think
about her as a heppted athlete and she's jumping and throwing,
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and because she's doing so many events, and we call
it those tiny marginal gains that we can give an athlete.
If she can get a marginal gain across multiple events,
it then becomes significant. It's not just a case of
learning how to throw the javelin or the shot put.
If we can give her more range in the hip,
and then we can create stability in the lumber spine,
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which may add the three sentiment that she's looking for.
Balance is critical for these athletes. Embracing the grind and
grinding every day is not balanced, that's a sure fire
to injury and inflammation and poor performance. We sweat the
details on the physical side of things from a performance perspective,
and her and the culture sweating the details on the
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technical side, and you put that together and that's where
the magic happens. For sure. How many points do you
need to go to the Olympics. Where do you stand?
I think the Olympics standard is and to the Olympics Center,
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I'm about two points away, and that sounds like a lot,
but it's slight improvements in each event. When I see
my name being called for as a team, I can
start thinking about trying to make that podium. So you
gotta surprise yourself. I'm not going to say that I
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am going to be an Olympic champion, because I think
I need to be real with everyone else that I
am with myself. Georgia knows she's capable of greatness, but
won't say it until she does it. She's got to
prove it to herself. She's humble, something her parents taught
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her from the start. He's Carrie and David ellen Wood.
Georgia was a little different that way, where she always
um worked hard because she wanted to be the best,
and she always wanted to to win. Before we would
prepare her to get there. Now she prepares herself. I
think that's the difference that I see now. Um, how
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she's matured as an athlete is she does everything she
can to make herself better, and she's willing to hurt
and she's willing to put in the time. I mean,
at some point with all your kids and you say,
here's what you need to do to be successful. You
know you need to motivate your elf. You need to
understand what it takes when you get out of that.
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I'm the king of a little mountain, the queen of
a little mountain. Where's the next mountain? How do I
stack up? What does it take to get up that mountain?
It seems to me listening to you, that this whole
thing is so much about your mental strength, keeping that
focus for forty eight hours that really allows you to succeed. Yeah,
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it is, but I don't know if anyone could really
stay that tuned in for that long. I think a
lot of the time, I've taught myself to kind of
fun with it. Talk to the other girls, like, don't
get too competitive, like you're competing against yourself. For most
of the time, I try to keep it light and
have some enjoyment for what I do, because I chose
the sport for a reason, you know, and so just
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to show my passion and to get along with the
other girls and go through it together. Where others crack
under pressure, Georgia pushes harder than most. It's our attitude,
an approach to the game that gets a father that
she thought part she's relentless, but she does it with
a smile on her face. That kind of thing has
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an effect on people like her teammate c Double a
Chance Alivor. I've been privileged enough to see a lot
of athletes, a lot of professional athletes, be fantastic, And
the one thing I know is that the ones that
just always always on, always focus, no off switch kind
of mentality, they get to a point where they can't
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get past, like they get stopped. They can't get past
that barrier, they start to lose her, whereas with Georgia,
like she'll hit that barrier and she'll be like, Okay,
how do I get around this? She's able to use fun,
she able to use humor, She's able to be herself
and be able to go I can get around this challenge.
And for athletes to be able to think like that,
it's it's hard. It's her sport is it's hard. Seven events,
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it's just two days, like you can't be on that time,
and she's able to acknowledge that. So it's it's a
fantastic thing to learn from her. To be where she's
at is obviously physical first, physical abilities, but she's got
like the mental and emotional abilities and mindset. That's Jordan
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hers Brunner, juniors athlete at the University of Wisconsin. She's
one of Georgie's favorite training partners. Her lips are three
hours long, and she tells us how draining it is
every single day, like she's a human being. She has
breakdowns and watching her work through that and then come
to practice ten minutes later and have the same practice
that we do that's four hours long. Sometimes George is
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here from ten to six o'clock at night. That's an
eight hour day during recovery and everything that you need
to do she does. You can't just have the physical
abilities to be where she's at. You have to have
all three. I think the biggest change is my speed,
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just like knowing that we're power training so much and
then seeing that translate into sprints on the track, but
even just my starts or the way I come down
off the hurdle and there's just a lot more power
in my body and to be able to use that
and how it directly translates to the performance on the track.
It'll be pretty soon that it is put to the test.
So is your body like really physically beaten, because again
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it's like less than two minutes of work. It is,
but you don't usually feel it after you feel it
the moment you wake up and take your first step.
Sometimes it's great if you're not, if you're like, oh wow,
I'm not as sore as I thought I was going
to be. Sometimes it's like, how am I going to
do this? How am I going to do another day
of what I just did? I think that's also the
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mentally training part is you wake up with a body
that feels like it couldn't work through three more events
that are so taxing, and somehow you have to get
it to man. That's Kurt. Now we're talking about courage it.
Do you have the courage just say, I don't care,
I'm gonna nail it. I try and see the second
day as a whole new day, Like even if the
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first day was bad, let's let's try and bring a
new perspective to this day. After spending time with Georgia
and the people close to her, it's clear that the
pressure she faces is very real. If you don't work hard,
you don't win. But if you overwork and you don't
ease your mind with recovery, you can crack under pressure.
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Georgia walks the razor's edge carefully because she knows if
she tips one way or the other, it could be over.
Just like that, here's Ali or again. Because I think
with the sport, it's a roller coaster rights up and down,
and like when you go through those highs, it's really high.
When you go through those loads, it's really low. And
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I think to take a perspective of like an athlete's life,
George is able to say, hey, like, I'm an athlete,
but I'm also a human being, I'm a person. When
things aren't going her way, she accepts that, she dresses it,
but then she also goes what am I going to
do better? What can I improve on? But she's also
going to have fun with getting there and going through
that challenge and her competitive edge. She's a very competitive person.
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Her competitive edge helps her even though she's able to
stake a step back and have fun with and enjoy
a time. That's why when you see her competing and
when she gets to her lane, or when she gets
for that jump, for that throw, or for that race,
she's able to say, right, it's time to it's time
to go. The whole mental aspect of this, it almost
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sounds tortuous. Yeah, at times I think about it sometimes
like why do I do it? I feel like it
seems that stressful, But I think I'm so addicted to
like the satisfaction that you feel from completing something like that.
Some people might call me psycho, but you have to
be a little to be good, don't you. How did
you train yourself two block off physical pain? I win
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say get off. I just say, like, am I prepared
to experience this right now and most of the time,
if it's if it's to know that I will be satisfied,
because I've had moments where i haven't performed well because
I'm scared to feel that type of pain, and I
would much rather feel the pain and get rewarded for it.
So I think just the amount of maybe regret or
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the the amount of dissatisfaction that you feel from not
giving your all is never worth it. Do you ever
not reveal your injuries because you don't want your rivals
to know? Yes, I shouldn't ask you, Bob, I can
talk about my previous injuries right now I'm healthy. What
was the most difficult injury you had to deal with?
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I think last year when I had a tear in
my plantar fascia and I've been experiencing it for a while,
and I thought, oh, I'm tough, like I can train
through this, and so I tried to train through it
for so long. That was probably hurting you. It was hurting.
It was hurting a lot. I remember at the Canadian Championships,
I went to go warm up for the long jump
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and I couldn't warm up. What do you mean you
couldn't war m up. I was trying to jog and
I couldn't jog and do like some of my drills.
In my head, I'm like, wow, what am I gonna do?
And I was like, I need to finish the subtathlon
otherwise I'm not the Canadian champ. You know. I didn't
excel or like tried to do a run and it
was the most painful thing that I've ever experienced. And
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so I'm looking at your face and it's on your
face still. Yeah, it was always so horrible, and my
coach and everyone was there like a grandparents like everyone
was there, and so I was like I have to
be on the podium for them. They called my name
and I tried to do the first one and I
just rocked back and it was just so painful. And
then I ran off and I was I thought my
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foot was broken. I was like my foot was broken, Like,
oh this it wasn't broken. I was probably being dramatic
looking back at it. I just remember that pain and
I remember writing after two, just writing a little letter
to myself and saying like, remember how this feels. I
don't want to ever feel like this again. So working
around injuries is something every athlete dis with. It's one
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thing to feel pain when your body hurts. It's another
thing to feel pain when you can't do the thing
you love the most. For Georgia, it felt like a
punch in the gut. Here's George's mom carry once more.
George has never stopped to heptathlon once she starts, She's
always finished one. And I think to test to her
her nature that we've always taught the kids, if you
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start something, you finish it. She was managing, but not
well like. She was definitely injured. We could see on
her face, and she was trying to do everything she
could to recover after the first day to see if
she can compete. The second day, we showed up after
she had already gone to the track, and I saw
her crying over in a corner and she wasn't able
to run. She was still willing to try. She was
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actually willing to still try, and and she probably actually
may have even one, but the damage that she would
have done would have been irreversible. And so I went
and saw her on the track, sitting and crying with her,
you know, her head in her hands, and I just said,
it's okay, you know, you don't have to do this.
Georgia doesn't like to let people down, not just herself,
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but she doesn't like to let her coach down or
her family down. I had visions. I'm like, I'm this
close to being an Olympic team and I'm so because
I had I want to go to the World Championships
last year and like I was in a position to
go to the World Championships and then I could get
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selected because I was injured, and so I can't imagine
being in that position this year. It's like my worst
here seeing other athletes go through that and being injured
in like such a crucial time where they want to
make a team that they've been trying to make their
entire life. It's just sucks. It's just out of your
control and like it happens, and so like it can
it can really damage you mentally. But I think if
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you take the steps before you get injured, like now
I know what I need to do to prevent injury,
and so I'm not going to take that lately anymore.
And what was the lesson, M train smarter, not harder,
that you should have just given yourself the time off
for it to recover. Yeah, and I think this year
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before all else, before everything before, I trying to improve
that time, before any competition, I need to make sure
that I'm healthy. While Georgia is constantly focused on so
many aspects of her own game, she always treats her
competitors with respect. On the track. Her teammates and competitors
are equals in her eyes. It's essential to build all
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of them up by sharing them on and encouraging their dreams.
After all, it's a dream too. There's David ellen Wood.
Humility was huge with us. You've got to respect your opponent.
You've got to have great respect for the sport. You know.
For her, it resonates with her that message that we
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taught her. If you don't respect your opponent, if you
don't respect the work it takes to get great, then
what's the point in participating. And she has tremendous respect
for her opponents and the sport. That's when we knew
we did a good job. Which competitions have you won
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and it brought you the most joy? I think the
biggest one has to be the Instable A Championship. In
two thousand and eighteen, I was going into the Unstable
A Championships ranked first, and I was like, this is
the most pressure I've ever felt in my life. I
can't improve my ranking. It's either I stay the same
or I go down. It was tight the whole time,
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like against me in this girl from Georgia, and going
into the eight hundred, I was five points ahead of her.
So you're going into the final event, you're basically tied
and the eight hundred meters, you come to the line.
Are you looking at her? Is she next to you?
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She's right? Are you friendly at all? Yeah? We're friends,
your friends. What's her name? Do you shake hands? I
say good luck like she say good luck to Yeah,
she's nice. No, it was good. It was like an
honest competition the whole time, and we knew that we
were both I love that we pushed each other because
it was her and I huge gap everyone else. So
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it's just the two of you, your friends, you know
each other, and yet you gotta win. Yeah. The one
thing that Jackie joined, Kersey said, and she's probably the
best who ever did it. She said in the last
eighty yards of the eight hundred said, I felt like
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I was running backwards. I've had moments like that or
I feel the ground getting closer to me, and I'm
just like, am I gonna fall? But you don't know
because you can't feel your legs. So let's break this down.
Let's make this cinematic. So it's pouring rain and the
entire time. Do you like to run in the rain?
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Oh it's cold? It was cold too, And we're in
like you know, track uniforms, like there's not much there
and so and so we're I remember we were in
the holding room and that's like kind of like the
warmp area before you get walked out onto the track.
I remember teammates, the girls who are in the heptathlon,
So there's twenty four of us, and girls are coming
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up to me like you can do this, you got this,
and I'm just like wow, like this is insane right now.
Even girls from other events, girls who are running the
opening hunder are coming up to me and like saying,
don't worry, like just stay relaxed, you just see, you
can do it. You're in control. Going into the eight hunder.
Her personal best was too nineteen and my personal best
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to fifteen, so I should be the clear winner. And
I think that's what was more nerve racking is because
you can only fail yourself. Exactly. I have to run
this time. Otherwise she's better because she's to run that day.
So you you get to the starting line, she's right
next to you. Where's your head go? I mostly look
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at everyone else that's not running the hundred and say
I wish I was you. So the gun goes off
and pouring rains, very dramatic raising who breaks out her?
I do, because um, I'm a faster right under runner,
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so I want to get position, and Louise is right
behind me, so she's and I don't know, you don't know,
you can't see. So we do the whole first lap
like that. She's right there, like the whole time. I mean,
I don't In her mind, she probably said, I gotta
I gotta stay with Georgia no matter what, I gotta
stay with Georgia. Exactly what she's saying. And I'm sure
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her coach said that just stick on her the entire time,
to stick on her. Now you've finished the first lap,
you still don't know what happens. Then I pushed the
third two hundred as hard as I can. I think
one girl went in front of me. She tried to
make a little surge, and so I was like, I
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have to go with her or else I won't go
at all. This is where it starts to hurt, you know,
like four meters in it starts to hurt. You just
feel like your legs are getting heavier and heavier, and
you're trying to go against the current. You're trying to
push it harder when your body is failing you. That
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third two, I'm in pain, but my eyes are just
like locked in on the girl in front of me,
and she goes and so I go with her. And
that's where the separation starts between me and Louisa. But
I had no idea. I thought, she's still with me.
What's that expression? Don't look back? Someone maybe gaining on yet,
but she wasn't. I just try to keep that speed
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and hold on for like the last two The last
hundred probably was the scariest thing in my life because
my head, she's right behind me. Still, just keep pushing,
keep pushing, like what if, what if She's going to
make a huge surge at the end. And then about
ten ms and I was like, I like I won.
I actually won. And it wasn't emotional or anything. I
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think all the emotion. We're the three hours before where
I was like, I know I can win, but I
haven't yet. And so you win, do you feel a
sense of relief, complete relief. It's not even like joy,
excitement all emotion. It's just I did what I needed
to do, Like that's it, just Wow, I actually did it.
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You know I'm listening to when it almost sounds like
you just have a standard for yourself that you're trying
to meet. Yeah, it's realistic, like everything that I have
in my head. I see it playing out and it's
not like too far fetched. And I think I would
talk about me, you know, making the Olympic team or
scoring a certain point total if I didn't think that
I could do it. And so I think that's what's
(29:20):
nerve wracking, is that I know that I'm capable of
doing it. It's just performing it at that moment. Okay,
So it's sort of like hitting the board on the
long jump. I can do it in practice every time,
but if I miss it that day and miss it
three times, then I'm I'm literally nobody that day, yeah, exactly.
Or if you don't, if it's not your day, if
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you feel a little bit sick, or you have an
egging injury and you don't put a heptap on together.
It's seven events that you have to combine together to
get that score. You can see it two ways. You
can see that there's seven opportunities for something to go
wrong or seven opportunities for something to go right. So
when you win, does joy ever come or are you
thinking of the next left that you got to reach.
(30:01):
It was hard to wrap my head around. I think
even on my victory lap, people were like cheering like crazy,
and I was like, for me, like you're serious, congratulations Georgia.
It was an interesting feeling. I think it was just
like complete relief that I did what I knew I
was capable of doing. I actually I performed on that day,
(30:25):
so all that pressure worked out the way I saw
it happening so many times, And I think that's our
biggest fear, is that it won't happen the way you
wish it to happen. My parents were overnoon, obviously, and
(30:49):
I think they're a little bit overwhelmed too, because it
is overwhelming when when you get that much attention and
now it kind of sets up a little bit of
a future for you. On that day you performed and
now now you're the best woman in all the college.
It's hard to believe when when that happened, and I
don't think it would have happened if I didn't go
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through these steps three years prior. It makes you grateful
for the injuries, It makes you grateful for the mental
conflicts that you had to go through. It makes it
more rewarding when you know what you had been through
in so many years before that to get to that point.
That's when you start reflecting back on all the moments
that made you win that day. You know, it just
(31:33):
sounds like you were so surprised when you won to
and see a championship. Would you be just as surprised
to see you do something on an Olympic stage? Do
you have to almost be there to see yourself do
it or feel yourself do it to understand that you
can do it? I think in a way yeah. I
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think with the inc double as it was hard because
I knew that I was in a position to win.
The reason I want is because on that day I
was confident. I thought to myself, like I just need
to do this to win, and so as a professional athlete.
I need to continue that mentality to understand that I
can be an Olympic athlete, and I can I can
compete with the best in the world and not keep
surprising myself. I think I need to just know what
(32:17):
I'm capable of and just perform. What would it be
like to walk into an Olympic stadium? I play it
over and over in my head where I get announced
to the team and I'm looking at the list and
I see my name. Mor has A loved They have
traveled from all the burners of the earth and have
(32:38):
spend a lifetime drain for this moment. Please welcome the
athletes of the Games of the thirty one Olympiads. I
feel like it would be like, Wow, this is like
the milestone. There's so few milestones in my life. A
few of them have been getting a full scholarship to
a D one university, winning a Big Ten title, winning
(32:59):
n C double a championship, graduating from a really good
academic school, going to a World championship, going to Olympics,
and so a lot of those I have ticked off.
So this would be the next time that that I'm
hoping to tick off. You didn't say, Olympic champion. I
told you I'm realistic, and it's not that I don't
see myself as potentially getting there. I just think that
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I have a lot of work to do, you know,
like I want to do this because I'm passionate about
the sport. End of story. It's tough and it's physically taxing,
but I just I just see it as such a
such an opportunity. We hear you, Georgia, and we'll see
you in Tokyo. This has been the only way is
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