December 30, 2025 • 36 mins
On this episode of Throttle Therapy, Katherine Legge chats with the pod’s producer, Grace, about holiday traditions, lessons learned in 2025, and what it’s like to try to organize a race schedule over the holidays. Katherine shares her fitness and racing goals for this year, as well as the list of personal goals she keeps in her journal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Throttle Therapy with Catherine Legg is an iHeart women's sports
production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You
can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
wherever you get your podcasts. Hey you guys, and oh
(00:21):
welcome to the very special holiday edition of The Throttle
Therapy with Me Katherine Legg, and I hope you all
had a very wonderful Christmas. I still, for the life
of me, cannot get out of the habit of saying
Happy Christmas to everybody, and Everybody's like, what is happy Christmas?
It's merry Christmas, and I'm like, not where I'm from.
(00:42):
Speaking about where I'm from, I did not actually go
home for Christmas. I stayed in the United States. My
mum has obviously just been out to seeing me, and
I am up to my neck in trying to figure
out next year and working really hard on that and
also on health and fitness with the start of the
season being just around the corner, so I decided not
(01:03):
to make the trip across the pond and to save
that for later in the year. But today, today, my friends,
we have a very special episode because Grace, my wonderful
producer is going to help me do a holiday New
Year episode where we talk about hopes and dreams and
(01:27):
new Year, New Me and all that kind of stuff.
So thanks Grace for coming on again. We love having
you on the show.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Hi, Catherine, it's an honor. It's not great and happy holidays,
and you just got a new dishwasher, so we're really happy.
Did you buy it for yourself a Christmas? Actually, my
parents got it for me for Christmas. So that's my
Christmas gift from my family is my dishwasher. Wonderful, very practical,
fantastic gift. Again, I'm getting good use of it. Do
you have holiday traditions that you get up.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
To, Well, no, yeah, So I am a traditionalist and
in many senses of the word, I love the old days.
I love history. I hated history in school, but i
love history and I love traditions, and I'm very sentimental
(02:16):
when it comes to things like that, and so I
do not and I'm going to get so much hate
for this, but I do not subscribe to the As
soon as Thanksgivings out the way, let's get all the
decorations up and let's do everything, and let's make it
a whole big thing, because to me, that's very Hallmark
episode kind of like it's very commercialized idea of Christmas.
(02:40):
And I know Christmas is it means different things to
different people. To me, I did not grow up in
a religious family. Although I went to Catholic school and
I have faith, I don't know that it's traditional in
the sense of what a lot of Americans know it
is traditional. So I don't know that Christmas to me
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isn't growded in One thing apart from tradition, and that
going back hundreds of years, was that you put everything
up on Christmas Eve, So you put the tree up
and the lights up, and you do everything, and then
you'd have the twelve days of Christmas right part dry
jinniper tree and all of that. And so a lot
of European countries celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve, like Christina,
(03:25):
and I think a lot of Latin countries do that
as well. But we very much celebrated it on Christmas Day,
and it was like a magical Christmas Morning. It's always
way more magical with kids as well, which of course
they don't have any. I have a dog who I
had to buy a Christmas present for what obviously, but
it's to me it's family and tradition and like the
(03:50):
feelings that it invokes. It's about connection in so many ways,
to your friends, to your family, being grateful for what
you have, and you know, just kind of more like
that rather than all the lights and everything. Of course,
we had Father Christmas, and I think, do you call
him Father Christmas too? Personally?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No, I'm a Santa Santa person.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh, I think it was Father Christmas. So funny story.
When I was little, my granddad dressed up as Father
Christmas and apparently I outed my granddad to my sister
and other members of the family are the younger members
of the family, because I noticed that he had liver
spots on his hands in the same place that my
granddad did, and I was like, you're not Father Christmas.
(04:39):
And apparently my sister was like apoplectics, just beside herself
because she was so sad that it was fake Father Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So, yeah, was that your discovery the Father Christmas wasn't real? Yeah,
I think so that was it. I had my suspicions.
I mean, in hindsight, it was stupid because then we
didn't get any presents from father Christmas anymore. Right, it
was just a parent, but that one kept that rouge
going for a bit longer. I list I was and
to friends of mine who said that their kids don't
(05:06):
go rummaging for their presence. When I was a child,
let me tell you, I wanted to know what I
was going to get, So any hiding place that I
could think of when my mom wasn't looking, I'd be
in there trying to find out what I was gonna get.
Is that really bad?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean I was gonna say I found out that
Santa wasn't real because I was in my parents' closet
for some reason, as like a little kid, and I
found these like fairy wings, you know, and I put
them on and came out in delivering room and I
was like, thank you so much for the fairy wings.
And my parents were like those are for your cousin
from Santa. And I was like, oh, they were like,
(05:43):
you know, Santa isn't real, right, And that was I
know it is not sad heartbroken. I was so heartbroken. Obviously,
they let me keep the wings. They weren't going to
be like you can't have them. After I came out
there and it was all excited about them, but I
wound up buying myself fairy Wings as an adult, also.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
To rent it by. So this is going to sound
heartless and crass, but the holidays are a real pain
in my butt. And I say that purely because I
have come not really like to like this time of year.
And it's not the weather, which is sometimes gray and
cold and miserable. It's the unknown of the next season,
(06:29):
and it's the digging in and working for something and
you don't know which direction it's going to go, and
you're fundraising and you're trying to persuade people to see
your vision of how you want it to go, and
try and put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
And it's frustrating, and it's also debilitating in a way
(06:50):
because I am paralyzed and can't move because I'm waiting
for somebody to make a decision that impacts something that
somebody else is going to do that then impacts me,
and I freaking out and panicking. Like the last week,
I've woken up every night because everybody else is off
enjoying the holidays, and I'm like, yes, but we don't
have a race suit. If I'm doing Daytona five hundred,
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which I really want to be doing. We don't have
the team set up yet, but then what am I
gonna do about having a race suit? What am I
going to do about this? And so it's a very
stressful time of year. And I was actually, this is
very open and honest and probably TMI, but I was
talking to Christina the other day about I don't know
(07:32):
how much longer I can keep doing this. It's like
a constant fight. I think I'm getting aged by it
because it's never straightforward. It's never easy. It's never one
of those situations where you just roll into the next
season knowing what you're doing with a secure ride, and
I don't know why, Like what have I done wrong
that I can't just like settle with a team for
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a couple of years and just see where I end up.
It's always very transient and very insecure and uncomfortable feeling.
Like imagine if you had to change jobs every year
and you were looking for other jobs and you were
going out soliciting people for those jobs. They pick me,
pick me because I'm really good. Honestly, I'll do this
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and that and everything else. Like it's it's an emotional rollercoaster,
and so I will be very glad when next season
comes and I get to be race car driver Catherine
instead of matchmaker Catherine. In a way weird.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Do people actively work on that stuff during the holidays
or is it just something that's occupying your mind?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You know, everybody's working on it during the holidays. I
mean the teams are working on that because obviously they've
got to get cars ready and get crews in place,
and order race suits and do all the things you
need licenses, you need to get medicals done, you need
to get drug tests done, you need to So it's
kind of a continuation for them from the last year.
(08:57):
And luckily they're still working. But a lot of people
also take this time to go on VACA, and so
it's harder to get hold of them. And you also
don't want to push people during the holidays, you know, like, hey,
can you get back to me by Thursday, And they're like, no,
Thursday's Christmas. Of course not Honestly, I was thinking that
(09:18):
everything would be done by now. I always think that,
though I'm always like, yeah, I'm going to start working
on at the end of the season, and this year
I start to work on it before the end of
the season, right, But it's just I will do an
episode on how everything has gone down and why it's
been so complex and complicated. But I thought if I
work on it early, it'll be done by them, and
it's not because there's different factors that come into play.
(09:41):
And whilst I am the only thing at the top
of my mind twenty four seven, apparently I'm not on
the top of everybody else is mine twenty four to seven,
which I think it's criminal.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Really, we're on the top of my mind twenty four
to seven jobs. Do you want to reflect on twenty
twenty five a little bit and how that went?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, So twenty twenty five was an interesting year for
me for a number of different reasons. Did not go
as I anticipated it to go. I started off the
year thinking I would be doing the NY five hundred.
I started off the year doing Daytona in an ARC car,
thinking that it would be cool to be able to
(10:34):
be licensed to do more in NASCAR races, but not
really thinking of a full switch or career in NASCAR.
I had. At the beginning of the year, I had
the opportunity to do the Chili Bowl, which was really cool,
really interesting. I sucked and would need a lot more
practice to be able to actually compete in one of
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those cars. And I don't have the band to give
it any time at the moment, but maybe in the
future I would. I don't know. It's it's one of
those things I'm really glad that I did. But like
anything in competition, the people who were doing it all
the time are really freaking good at it, So I
(11:17):
think you can't just come in and cherry pick what
you want to do in the same way for a
NASCAR you know, I came in thinking that I would
qualify to do all these races really quickly, and I
got a reality check, honestly, like, hey, lady, you can't
come over here and think that just because you've done
other things that qualifies you to do stock car racing.
And so obviously we had a very turbulent year on
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the NASCAR side when we had decided to go NASCAR
because we couldn't get a car for the five hundred.
So I was very fortunate that my sponsors dropped light
and ELF stood by me and went down the NASCAR
road with me because it was a it was a pivot.
It was a I think one of those things that
(12:03):
I don't know. I think everything happens for a reason,
and I think the universe kind of helped steer it
that way, and I'm very glad that it did, because
I had an epic year and amazing experiences, and I
think it built strong relationships because you know, ELpH and
Droplight standing by me and making the pivot was pivotal
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literally for me knowing that somebody's got my back and
they're going to go to fight with me. And then
the it was very dramatic because we had Phoenix where
I spun and Daniel Squarez ended up taking him out.
(12:45):
He questioned into me and obviously got a lot of
attention and a lot of hate for that. And then
we rolled into Rockingham in the Expinity car and still
to this day claim that was one hundred percent not
my fault, but I got a lot of hate for that,
and then I had like a bunch of NASCAR fans
thinking that I was an idiot and that I didn't
belong to be there, completely unwarranted in my opinion, and
(13:08):
then really kind of buckled in and focused on it
and made a lot of really great friends. I had
a lot of great experiences. I had two wonderful teams,
you know, Jordan Anderson Racing. I made friends that all
asked a lifetime there. Love those guys so much. Same
with BJ and there Fast and everybody over there. You know,
(13:29):
it's just they made the NASCAR experience. I wouldn't say
seamless because it never is, but a lot easier. And
then we got some good results. I wouldn't say great results,
but I think for the equipment we were doing fine
with solid. I think that I proved that I am
no joke and that I am a serious race car driver.
(13:50):
I probably also proved throughout the season that I need
more time in a race car, which is really hard
to get. So the conundrum that there is is go
do lower formula, Go and do expinity for a season? Great. Yeah,
would love to, absolutely would love to, But you don't
have the same return on investment for the sponsors because
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it's not as in the public eye on television. You
don't have that many viewers, et cetera, et cetera. So
the sponsors want the big, flashy, high viewership, high B
to B Pro Cup stuff, which makes it harder. And
then when you do that, you can't The teams don't
have the ability to run more than ten races or
(14:34):
whatever because they don't have a franchise, they don't have
a charter, and so it's financially unrealistic. I mean, you
saw from the court case that NASCAR did how much
money those teams spent with a charter, and how much
the charter paid them back, like ten million a year.
And so sponsors aren't going to be prepared to pay
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ridiculous amounts of money for a race for an uncher
car for no particular reason. So they have to be big,
splashy racist like data and five hundred or coke six hundred,
or a brickyard or whatever however, and so juggling all
of that and trying to get the opportunities is really hard. Unfortunately,
I don't come from a wealthy background. I know that
(15:17):
we've had this conversation before. My dad wishes that he
was rich. I said to my mum earlier today. Actually
I was on the phone town and I said, I
really wish I came from generational wealth. And she went
nobody more than me, Catherine, nobody wanted me. But you know,
we fought for it and we ended up there's no
(15:38):
quit right. This year was about digging in and determination
and not quitting and not letting anything get to me,
and so I'm proud of the way that I handled it.
I learned a lot. But I also know that next
year is a pivotal year for me and it will
either be a springboard or it will be a fizzle.
And I am desperate for it to be a springboard.
I really want and I think I've mentioned this before,
(16:02):
I really want to finish my career over the next
whether it's year or three or four years, with knowing
where I stack up. And I think the only way
you know where you stack up is if you're in
equipment that can stack up, right, Like, nobody knows how
far up the grid that seventy eight car could have
(16:22):
finished at Indie, for example, maybe if somebody else's driving,
they could have got it in the top ten, and
maybe they would have been in the twenties. I don't know.
I feel like I got the most out of that
car and at times, but I also feel like there
was a lot more left in me at other times.
So I want the experience and the opportunity to align
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so that I know where I am, and I also
want to continue building relationships and knowledge in this paddock
as well as other paddocks for what comes next and
when I hand the baton over and I can hopefully
be part of whoever how comes up behind me. From
a female diversity standpoint, I want to have had a
(17:06):
positive impact on racing. So I want it selfishly for me,
but I also want it for the next steps. And
I think I have a few good years left in me.
If I can make next just sticks. So it's all
going to be there's a lot of pressure on next year.
I love Nascar. I really want to stay in Nascar.
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I really want to do the DY five hundred again.
That is, it's an itch that needs to be scratched
for want of a better word. And I was talking
to Clint from Branded about what happens then and like,
what else would be on my bucket list if I
had a bucket list, And I really want to explore Nascar.
I really want to do five hundred, And then I
(17:47):
was thinking, oh, we could do Lamon, we could do Bathhurst.
So there are things that I want to achieve and
tick off the list and have done and have made
connections in so that you know, when the lady abuse
of the world come up through the ranks, then I
can be there and go ooh, I know, I'll call
so and so and we'll help you out and we'll
go and do testing there, or go and do this,
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that and the other, so that she doesn't have the
same off season struggles, or whoever it is doesn't have
the same struggles that I have, so they can really
focus on racing and being the best version of themselves
that they can be. I also locked in on the
health and the Finnish side of things. So over Thanksgiving
I enjoyed some food and beverages, and then I got sick.
(18:34):
I had the cold, flu, man flu, whatever it was
for a week or actually it was nine days, and
it was brutal, and I was a big baby about it,
and then decided that there's nine weeks until Daytona five
hundred and so I need to lock in. So I
am on a very strict I'm using my body like
(18:56):
a lab rat at the moment, and I'm on a
very strict diet and fitness regime, and I'm doing two
days off a week only, and the other days I'm
doing two days apart from one, I'm doing one day
and I'm doing CrossFit and weight training and running, and
I'm also doing some yoga pilates stuff, which I suck
at and I'm immobile, but that's the reason I'm doing it,
(19:19):
because I need to be more mobile. And I'm also
locking calories, and so I've been experimenting. Apparently, according to
the in body machine that measures how much muscle you
have and everything else, I've done a beginning weight and
I've done a beginning picture, and I'm gonna hold myself
countable in eight weeks and we're going to compare the two.
But according to embody and chat GPT, my base metabolic rate,
(19:42):
I should eat fourteen hundred calories a day. Well, I
ate fourteen hundred calories a day for four days and
I lost four pounds, and I was like, holy moly,
Like okay, I'm obviously lucky. I can eat more than
fourteen hundred calories a day. I was training at this time,
but I thought I would only be in like a
three hundred calori day sep and I'd lose one or
(20:02):
two pounds a week. I lost more than that, so
I was like, okay, I need to up it. So
then I did eighteen hundred calories and I still lost
a pound. So I was like, well, I want to
build muscles at the same time, and obviously that's not
happening when I'm losing weight, so I'm uping it again.
So I'm going to find out what, like legit, my
base metabolic rate when I'm training is. And I'm also
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trying different things with regards to fasting before I train
or training after eating something. And today actually was the
first day that I made overnight oat meal that was
still warm when I got up in one of the fourishes,
and so I had that an hour and a half
before I went to cross Bit, and I was like,
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this is awesome. I have more power and more energy.
So I'm going to try it for three days and
see whether that works. Because I always trained fasted, so
I'm doing all these kind of like mini experiments to
keep my mind off of racing as well. So we'll see,
We'll see what my physique is like going into Daytona.
Am I going to be the fittest, strongest version of
myself that I can possibly be, or I'm just going
(21:08):
to be a confused mess who gave up and decided
to be a pint of ice cream.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Do you have like fitness schools that are like functional goals.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
No goals as yet? And I know on an earlier
episode we spoke to Chantelle and we were like, okay,
we should do a tough mudder or something like that. Well,
my CrossFit gym, I started doing high rocks and a
lot of other drivers also do high roucks, and that
is right out my alley, Like that is that is
me apart from the burpies. I hate burpies and maybe
(21:39):
the skier. I'm not a massive skier person either, but
they're running the slured the warbles like that's totally in
my perview. So I think, maybe you will try a
higher rocks next year and see how we get on.
I need to train specifically for it, but no, I
just want to see them the embody machine and then
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I've put on four pounds muscle and I've lost six
pounds of fat and I'm back at seven percent body
fat and we'll we get to get Oh my god, yeah,
you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I did the un body machine at my gym for
the first time a couple of weeks ago, and I
decided never to do it again, I did not. I
did not like my answers, Catherine, But again, I'm not
doing your intense fitness routine.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No, but how is the rest that you guys? Grace
does this insane ww F. What's that called? Now? Wwwe? Well, yeah,
i mean style wrestling where she literally picks people up
on body slamsom and it's awesome. How is that going?
It's good. My debut got moved.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
My pro wrestling debut got moved.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I know.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's so sad the other girl canceled. So now I
think I'm gonna I know I'm not my pro wrestling debut.
I think in February probably, if all goes according to plan. Awesome,
so very exciting. The first you have your race suit
and I have my class. What's your question you've made?
It's in progress. I have to get the I'm waiting
to get the design back. But that's so fun.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I love that. I mean, I'm all for anything like
that that makes you motivated to train, right, Like, I
think everybody needs a goal. It's so hard for people
to get the motivation just to go and pick up
heavy things and put them down again in the gym
and everybody else is doing the same thing and everybody's
got their headphones on, and it's like, unless you have something, yeah,
it's hard one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I mean, I don't want my strength to be the
limiting factor with it, which I guess is what the
I mean. I like weightlifting outside of that, I kind
of do that pretty regularly, but it definitely it's humbling
to do the pro wrestling.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's so fun. I know it's a lot of technique
and everything. But I remember when Ronda Rowsei went over,
and so I looked at it for a while because
I was a big fan of hers, and I'm like,
I don't know how you pick them up and you
spin them around and then you slam them down and
you do like but it makes it makes it look
like you can pick somebody else up and it weighs
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twenty pounds. The person weighs twenty pounds, not two hundred pounds.
It's bananas. Do you do New Year's resolutions? Do I?
I do actually do resolutions, but I don't know that
(24:25):
they are New Year's resolutions. They kind of come up
every now and again. So I write down on a
piece of paper. I wonder if it's still in my
diary from last year. But I write down on a
piece of paper, like what my goals are for the year,
if you like, and then I fold it out and
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what kind of person I want to be, like how
I want to improve, and I fold it up and
I put it in the back of my diary, and
I carry my diary around with me wherever I go,
and I hope it hasn't fallen out. I don't know whether.
I don't know whether I could read to you anyway
or not tell it all right, So this is last
year's one, as you can see, big oh yeah, big
(25:09):
piece of paper. Oh yeah. So obviously you've got the
keeping up with the fitness and the health stuff, not procrastinating,
wake up every morning and be the person that you
want to be. Be organized, be authentic, don't waste as
much time things whatever it may be. Spend more time
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with family, be a better friend every time, do what
I say I'm going to do, never be one of
those people who doesn't carry through. Learn to say know.
And obviously then you've got like the winning, racist thing
and everything else. I think, positively continue your self worth YadA, YadA, YadA.
So I will then do my version of this and
(25:58):
put it away and see at the end of the
year and whether I've achieved those those lofty goals of mine.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Do you think you achieved them? For twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I think I have to keep as a work in progress.
I have to keep picking myself up on it. Right,
Like I am a massive proponent of do the hard things,
whatever that's in I had a massive mind shift two
and a half years ago, probably, And actually Christina was
very prominent in that mindshift. She saw me through it
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and she's studying psychology now, so maybe I was such
a head case then it forced her into but massive
mind shift of doing the hard things, the right things,
and trying to be a better personal aspects of my life,
for example, with your relationships, like keeping up with your
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friends and checking in with them and not taking their
energy all the time, but like learning what they need
and how to give back. Is I'm very tough love
normally with myself with everybody else, and that's not what
everybody else needs. And so I'm learning to be a
better friend. I'm trying to do the hard things. I
(27:14):
don't want to go to the gym when I get
done talking to you today because it's cold and miserable
and raining and horrible outside. I want to curl up
on the couch and eat candy and cud all my
dog and watch a holiday movie. However, that's not going
to get me ultimately to where I want to be.
And I want to be the best version of myself,
(27:35):
so I continually make myself do all the things that
I don't want to do. I don't want to call
so and so because it's going to be a really
tough conversation. I don't want to have conflict about this.
I don't want to have to do that. I don't
want to have to travel back to England because it's
so far to go, you know, like I'm making myself
to do all the things to get ultimately where I
(27:57):
want to go. I think that the world has gone
a little bit soft, all the world, the Western world,
and we're not as disciplined and as focused and as
logical logical. I don't know that's the right time, and
I want to be able to look back and think
(28:19):
that I was headed in the right direction. I mean,
everybody gets derailed every now and again, right, But I
want to think that I was the best version of
myself and I didn't waste anything and leave anything on
the table and have any regrets.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is there anything that you're adding to your resolutions list
this year or your goals?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh? Probably yes, I'm going to add one that is
to Oh, this is really deep in meanif I don't
know that, I want to be this open on my podcast. Man,
I don't want to seek approval from other people as much.
I don't want to base my worth on what anybody
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else thinks apart from me and the people that I
respect and love. And so when it comes to that,
I need to seek less approval. Believe that I tell
me I'm good, and tell me I'm pretty.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You are good and pretty, You're great and pretty.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I definitely get that. That's a good one. I mean,
all of your list is good. I've impressed that you
keep it, keep it on you.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah. I wonder if anybody ever found my diary what
they be looking at. They be like, huh, she gets
the nails done a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And she's got a weird list, and she's got her
goals list. I have asked, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I have a list of attributes that I would like
in a partner. HM hmm yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Do you add to that often or is it just
is it a set list?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Honestly, it's been so unsuccessful that I think I'm gonna
have to start crossing them from it.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Then that's also constantly in the diary or yeah, YEA
love it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I might hang on a minute, mate, whatever you name is,
Steve Dave whatever, Yeah, do you check all these boxes? Okay,
just kind of my list really quick. Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I love a functional diary that's important to have around, and.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It's always written like it is a bound diary. It's
you can describe it chrace. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, that's a that's a full on it's twenty twenty
six already twenty twenty six planner. Yeah wow, so put together.
That's crazy, right, you're incredibly put together. I don't know,
it's actually insane. You're your goals in your day and
day life, and like everything you say about your lifestyle
makes me You're like, people aren't disciplined. I'm like, absolutely true,
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I'm not disciplined. My New Year's resolution last year was
to never fall asleep next to clean laundry, what without
putting it away? Yeah, basically, and a lot of people
didn't understand that at all. And I was like, these
people don't get me. You don't understand what it's like.
If that's not a relatable resolution, so my lack of discipline.
Do you take it out of the dryer and put
it on the bed or something? Sometimes yeah, and then
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it just stays on the bed.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And then it will stay on the bed. Oh my god,
I'm my I c d would have I would freak out.
I know clean, you can't get your clean washing on the.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
You're so right, you're so right, And yet I don't
have the I don't have the drive. I don't have
it within me.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It's one of those tasks.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Moving the laundry from uh, the washer to the dryer
is like a whole It's.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
A whole task, you know what I mean. I couldn't
mind I actually, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Well you can come to mine if you want to.
That would help.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Cleaning. I don't mind their laundry. I don't like vacuuming
and I don't like va Okay, we'd make a great pair, honestly, Yeah,
we would be great.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You could vacuum, I'll do the laundry. Yeah, I can
iron all that sold. I have a whole room for
sewing in my house and I have my ironing setup.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's cool. I'm on it sounds good. Whenever anything needs
fixed or anything, I send it back with my dad
to my mom, and my mom gets her sewing machine
and does it for me. I am capable. I just
I feel like that's what my mom thrives at. Give
a job.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
If I were a mom, I would appreciate that being
my job. I think, Yeah, I think that's cute. Yeah,
we all still need o mamas.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Wait, I have one more question before we close out?
What are your favorite holiday movies?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Oh that's a good question. I am getting ready to
watch the Downton Abbey movie, the last and latest that
came out. I keep meaning too, and then I keep
running out of time. But I love the classic English
ones Holiday or love actually or you know, gooey and
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and lovely fun fact. See I'm being I'm being very
open on this episode and get so much a stick
for it. I have this weird thing that I cry
at movies on planes. It's only on planes unless it's
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like a really sad movie. If an animal dies, I'll
cry like normally on planes. Any movie I'll cry it
like it doesn't it could be the Budweiser commercial and
I'll be bailing my eyes out because of the horse,
or the most embarrassing one. I was going Transatlantic. I
think I was flying with Brian Sellis, who was my
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teammate at the time, and we were driving for Bobby
Rayhall and we were watching Bad Moms and I'm ball
in my eyes are at like some scene of Bad Moms,
and I think it must be the oxygen deprivation. It
just like affects my brain in different ways. But the
amount of times people have come up to me and
they're like, are you ah, I'm watching a movie and
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I never normally cry, Like I'm not a crier, so
I've trained myself out of it because there's no crying
and raything wow. But yeah, it's just a weird tick
I have.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Are right, I absolutely am a crier and I absolutely
balled watching the live action Lelo and Stitch on my
last plane. Found my kindred spar Yeah, I'm definitely crying
on planes for sure, or or I watched I watched
a horror movie also on a recent plane, and I
was like literally jumping in my seat and everybody's trying
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to sleep next to me. I didn't scream, but I
absolutely jumped, you know, so sorry to whoever I woke up.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
That's hilarious. Can you imagine imagine screaming out though, imagine
somebody on the plane is screaming. I can absolutely imagine that.
I will not wear I went watch a horror movie
by myself here though, because I'm in the woods and
I would together living daylights out on myself. The dog
probably I can see that. Yeah, it's scary. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Well, on that note, Happy New Year, Grace, Happy New Year,
Happy holidays. Good to see you.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, thank you so much. We will see you next Tuesday, Wednesday.
We're changing. We should mention this. We are changing to Wednesdays, folks.
We made an executive decision and it's happening, and you'll.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
See us on Wednesday. You'll see Pathne on Wednesdays.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, bye, back home. Thanks for listening to Throttle Therapy.
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welcome to the very special holiday edition of The Throttle
Therapy with Me Katherine Legg, and I hope you all
had a very wonderful Christmas. I still, for the life
of me, cannot get out of the habit of saying
Happy Christmas to everybody, and Everybody's like, what is happy Christmas?
It's merry Christmas, and I'm like, not where I'm from.
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Speaking about where I'm from, I did not actually go
home for Christmas. I stayed in the United States. My
mum has obviously just been out to seeing me, and
I am up to my neck in trying to figure
out next year and working really hard on that and
also on health and fitness with the start of the
season being just around the corner, so I decided not
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to make the trip across the pond and to save
that for later in the year. But today, today, my friends,
we have a very special episode because Grace, my wonderful
producer is going to help me do a holiday New
Year episode where we talk about hopes and dreams and
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new Year, New Me and all that kind of stuff.
So thanks Grace for coming on again. We love having
you on the show.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Hi, Catherine, it's an honor. It's not great and happy holidays,
and you just got a new dishwasher, so we're really happy.
Did you buy it for yourself a Christmas? Actually, my
parents got it for me for Christmas. So that's my
Christmas gift from my family is my dishwasher. Wonderful, very practical,
fantastic gift. Again, I'm getting good use of it. Do
you have holiday traditions that you get up.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
To, Well, no, yeah, So I am a traditionalist and
in many senses of the word, I love the old days.
I love history. I hated history in school, but i
love history and I love traditions, and I'm very sentimental
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when it comes to things like that, and so I
do not and I'm going to get so much hate
for this, but I do not subscribe to the As
soon as Thanksgivings out the way, let's get all the
decorations up and let's do everything, and let's make it
a whole big thing, because to me, that's very Hallmark
episode kind of like it's very commercialized idea of Christmas.
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And I know Christmas is it means different things to
different people. To me, I did not grow up in
a religious family. Although I went to Catholic school and
I have faith, I don't know that it's traditional in
the sense of what a lot of Americans know it
is traditional. So I don't know that Christmas to me
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isn't growded in One thing apart from tradition, and that
going back hundreds of years, was that you put everything
up on Christmas Eve, So you put the tree up
and the lights up, and you do everything, and then
you'd have the twelve days of Christmas right part dry
jinniper tree and all of that. And so a lot
of European countries celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve, like Christina,
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and I think a lot of Latin countries do that
as well. But we very much celebrated it on Christmas Day,
and it was like a magical Christmas Morning. It's always
way more magical with kids as well, which of course
they don't have any. I have a dog who I
had to buy a Christmas present for what obviously, but
it's to me it's family and tradition and like the
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feelings that it invokes. It's about connection in so many ways,
to your friends, to your family, being grateful for what
you have, and you know, just kind of more like
that rather than all the lights and everything. Of course,
we had Father Christmas, and I think, do you call
him Father Christmas too? Personally?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No, I'm a Santa Santa person.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh, I think it was Father Christmas. So funny story.
When I was little, my granddad dressed up as Father
Christmas and apparently I outed my granddad to my sister
and other members of the family are the younger members
of the family, because I noticed that he had liver
spots on his hands in the same place that my
granddad did, and I was like, you're not Father Christmas.
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And apparently my sister was like apoplectics, just beside herself
because she was so sad that it was fake Father Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So, yeah, was that your discovery the Father Christmas wasn't real? Yeah,
I think so that was it. I had my suspicions.
I mean, in hindsight, it was stupid because then we
didn't get any presents from father Christmas anymore. Right, it
was just a parent, but that one kept that rouge
going for a bit longer. I list I was and
to friends of mine who said that their kids don't
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go rummaging for their presence. When I was a child,
let me tell you, I wanted to know what I
was going to get, So any hiding place that I
could think of when my mom wasn't looking, I'd be
in there trying to find out what I was gonna get.
Is that really bad?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean I was gonna say I found out that
Santa wasn't real because I was in my parents' closet
for some reason, as like a little kid, and I
found these like fairy wings, you know, and I put
them on and came out in delivering room and I
was like, thank you so much for the fairy wings.
And my parents were like those are for your cousin
from Santa. And I was like, oh, they were like,
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you know, Santa isn't real, right, And that was I
know it is not sad heartbroken. I was so heartbroken. Obviously,
they let me keep the wings. They weren't going to
be like you can't have them. After I came out
there and it was all excited about them, but I
wound up buying myself fairy Wings as an adult, also.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
To rent it by. So this is going to sound
heartless and crass, but the holidays are a real pain
in my butt. And I say that purely because I
have come not really like to like this time of year.
And it's not the weather, which is sometimes gray and
cold and miserable. It's the unknown of the next season,
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and it's the digging in and working for something and
you don't know which direction it's going to go, and
you're fundraising and you're trying to persuade people to see
your vision of how you want it to go, and
try and put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
And it's frustrating, and it's also debilitating in a way
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because I am paralyzed and can't move because I'm waiting
for somebody to make a decision that impacts something that
somebody else is going to do that then impacts me,
and I freaking out and panicking. Like the last week,
I've woken up every night because everybody else is off
enjoying the holidays, and I'm like, yes, but we don't
have a race suit. If I'm doing Daytona five hundred,
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which I really want to be doing. We don't have
the team set up yet, but then what am I
gonna do about having a race suit? What am I
going to do about this? And so it's a very
stressful time of year. And I was actually, this is
very open and honest and probably TMI, but I was
talking to Christina the other day about I don't know
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how much longer I can keep doing this. It's like
a constant fight. I think I'm getting aged by it
because it's never straightforward. It's never easy. It's never one
of those situations where you just roll into the next
season knowing what you're doing with a secure ride, and
I don't know why, Like what have I done wrong
that I can't just like settle with a team for
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a couple of years and just see where I end up.
It's always very transient and very insecure and uncomfortable feeling.
Like imagine if you had to change jobs every year
and you were looking for other jobs and you were
going out soliciting people for those jobs. They pick me,
pick me because I'm really good. Honestly, I'll do this
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and that and everything else. Like it's it's an emotional rollercoaster,
and so I will be very glad when next season
comes and I get to be race car driver Catherine
instead of matchmaker Catherine. In a way weird.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Do people actively work on that stuff during the holidays
or is it just something that's occupying your mind?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You know, everybody's working on it during the holidays. I
mean the teams are working on that because obviously they've
got to get cars ready and get crews in place,
and order race suits and do all the things you
need licenses, you need to get medicals done, you need
to get drug tests done, you need to So it's
kind of a continuation for them from the last year.
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And luckily they're still working. But a lot of people
also take this time to go on VACA, and so
it's harder to get hold of them. And you also
don't want to push people during the holidays, you know, like, hey,
can you get back to me by Thursday, And they're like, no,
Thursday's Christmas. Of course not Honestly, I was thinking that
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everything would be done by now. I always think that,
though I'm always like, yeah, I'm going to start working
on at the end of the season, and this year
I start to work on it before the end of
the season, right, But it's just I will do an
episode on how everything has gone down and why it's
been so complex and complicated. But I thought if I
work on it early, it'll be done by them, and
it's not because there's different factors that come into play.
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And whilst I am the only thing at the top
of my mind twenty four seven, apparently I'm not on
the top of everybody else is mine twenty four to seven,
which I think it's criminal.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Really, we're on the top of my mind twenty four
to seven jobs. Do you want to reflect on twenty
twenty five a little bit and how that went?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, So twenty twenty five was an interesting year for
me for a number of different reasons. Did not go
as I anticipated it to go. I started off the
year thinking I would be doing the NY five hundred.
I started off the year doing Daytona in an ARC car,
thinking that it would be cool to be able to
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be licensed to do more in NASCAR races, but not
really thinking of a full switch or career in NASCAR.
I had. At the beginning of the year, I had
the opportunity to do the Chili Bowl, which was really cool,
really interesting. I sucked and would need a lot more
practice to be able to actually compete in one of
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those cars. And I don't have the band to give
it any time at the moment, but maybe in the
future I would. I don't know. It's it's one of
those things I'm really glad that I did. But like
anything in competition, the people who were doing it all
the time are really freaking good at it, So I
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think you can't just come in and cherry pick what
you want to do in the same way for a
NASCAR you know, I came in thinking that I would
qualify to do all these races really quickly, and I
got a reality check, honestly, like, hey, lady, you can't
come over here and think that just because you've done
other things that qualifies you to do stock car racing.
And so obviously we had a very turbulent year on
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the NASCAR side when we had decided to go NASCAR
because we couldn't get a car for the five hundred.
So I was very fortunate that my sponsors dropped light
and ELF stood by me and went down the NASCAR
road with me because it was a it was a pivot.
It was a I think one of those things that
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I don't know. I think everything happens for a reason,
and I think the universe kind of helped steer it
that way, and I'm very glad that it did, because
I had an epic year and amazing experiences, and I
think it built strong relationships because you know, ELpH and
Droplight standing by me and making the pivot was pivotal
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literally for me knowing that somebody's got my back and
they're going to go to fight with me. And then
the it was very dramatic because we had Phoenix where
I spun and Daniel Squarez ended up taking him out.
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He questioned into me and obviously got a lot of
attention and a lot of hate for that. And then
we rolled into Rockingham in the Expinity car and still
to this day claim that was one hundred percent not
my fault, but I got a lot of hate for that,
and then I had like a bunch of NASCAR fans
thinking that I was an idiot and that I didn't
belong to be there, completely unwarranted in my opinion, and
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then really kind of buckled in and focused on it
and made a lot of really great friends. I had
a lot of great experiences. I had two wonderful teams,
you know, Jordan Anderson Racing. I made friends that all
asked a lifetime there. Love those guys so much. Same
with BJ and there Fast and everybody over there. You know,
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it's just they made the NASCAR experience. I wouldn't say
seamless because it never is, but a lot easier. And
then we got some good results. I wouldn't say great results,
but I think for the equipment we were doing fine
with solid. I think that I proved that I am
no joke and that I am a serious race car driver.
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I probably also proved throughout the season that I need
more time in a race car, which is really hard
to get. So the conundrum that there is is go
do lower formula, Go and do expinity for a season? Great. Yeah,
would love to, absolutely would love to, But you don't
have the same return on investment for the sponsors because
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it's not as in the public eye on television. You
don't have that many viewers, et cetera, et cetera. So
the sponsors want the big, flashy, high viewership, high B
to B Pro Cup stuff, which makes it harder. And
then when you do that, you can't The teams don't
have the ability to run more than ten races or
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whatever because they don't have a franchise, they don't have
a charter, and so it's financially unrealistic. I mean, you
saw from the court case that NASCAR did how much
money those teams spent with a charter, and how much
the charter paid them back, like ten million a year.
And so sponsors aren't going to be prepared to pay
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ridiculous amounts of money for a race for an uncher
car for no particular reason. So they have to be big,
splashy racist like data and five hundred or coke six hundred,
or a brickyard or whatever however, and so juggling all
of that and trying to get the opportunities is really hard. Unfortunately,
I don't come from a wealthy background. I know that
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we've had this conversation before. My dad wishes that he
was rich. I said to my mum earlier today. Actually
I was on the phone town and I said, I
really wish I came from generational wealth. And she went
nobody more than me, Catherine, nobody wanted me. But you know,
we fought for it and we ended up there's no
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quit right. This year was about digging in and determination
and not quitting and not letting anything get to me,
and so I'm proud of the way that I handled it.
I learned a lot. But I also know that next
year is a pivotal year for me and it will
either be a springboard or it will be a fizzle.
And I am desperate for it to be a springboard.
I really want and I think I've mentioned this before,
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I really want to finish my career over the next
whether it's year or three or four years, with knowing
where I stack up. And I think the only way
you know where you stack up is if you're in
equipment that can stack up, right, Like, nobody knows how
far up the grid that seventy eight car could have
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finished at Indie, for example, maybe if somebody else's driving,
they could have got it in the top ten, and
maybe they would have been in the twenties. I don't know.
I feel like I got the most out of that
car and at times, but I also feel like there
was a lot more left in me at other times.
So I want the experience and the opportunity to align
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so that I know where I am, and I also
want to continue building relationships and knowledge in this paddock
as well as other paddocks for what comes next and
when I hand the baton over and I can hopefully
be part of whoever how comes up behind me. From
a female diversity standpoint, I want to have had a
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positive impact on racing. So I want it selfishly for me,
but I also want it for the next steps. And
I think I have a few good years left in me.
If I can make next just sticks. So it's all
going to be there's a lot of pressure on next year.
I love Nascar. I really want to stay in Nascar.
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I really want to do the DY five hundred again.
That is, it's an itch that needs to be scratched
for want of a better word. And I was talking
to Clint from Branded about what happens then and like,
what else would be on my bucket list if I
had a bucket list, And I really want to explore Nascar.
I really want to do five hundred, And then I
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was thinking, oh, we could do Lamon, we could do Bathhurst.
So there are things that I want to achieve and
tick off the list and have done and have made
connections in so that you know, when the lady abuse
of the world come up through the ranks, then I
can be there and go ooh, I know, I'll call
so and so and we'll help you out and we'll
go and do testing there, or go and do this,
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that and the other, so that she doesn't have the
same off season struggles, or whoever it is doesn't have
the same struggles that I have, so they can really
focus on racing and being the best version of themselves
that they can be. I also locked in on the
health and the Finnish side of things. So over Thanksgiving
I enjoyed some food and beverages, and then I got sick.
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I had the cold, flu, man flu, whatever it was
for a week or actually it was nine days, and
it was brutal, and I was a big baby about it,
and then decided that there's nine weeks until Daytona five
hundred and so I need to lock in. So I
am on a very strict I'm using my body like
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a lab rat at the moment, and I'm on a
very strict diet and fitness regime, and I'm doing two
days off a week only, and the other days I'm
doing two days apart from one, I'm doing one day
and I'm doing CrossFit and weight training and running, and
I'm also doing some yoga pilates stuff, which I suck
at and I'm immobile, but that's the reason I'm doing it,
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because I need to be more mobile. And I'm also
locking calories, and so I've been experimenting. Apparently, according to
the in body machine that measures how much muscle you
have and everything else, I've done a beginning weight and
I've done a beginning picture, and I'm gonna hold myself
countable in eight weeks and we're going to compare the two.
But according to embody and chat GPT, my base metabolic rate,
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I should eat fourteen hundred calories a day. Well, I
ate fourteen hundred calories a day for four days and
I lost four pounds, and I was like, holy moly,
Like okay, I'm obviously lucky. I can eat more than
fourteen hundred calories a day. I was training at this time,
but I thought I would only be in like a
three hundred calori day sep and I'd lose one or
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two pounds a week. I lost more than that, so
I was like, okay, I need to up it. So
then I did eighteen hundred calories and I still lost
a pound. So I was like, well, I want to
build muscles at the same time, and obviously that's not
happening when I'm losing weight, so I'm uping it again.
So I'm going to find out what, like legit, my
base metabolic rate when I'm training is. And I'm also
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trying different things with regards to fasting before I train
or training after eating something. And today actually was the
first day that I made overnight oat meal that was
still warm when I got up in one of the fourishes,
and so I had that an hour and a half
before I went to cross Bit, and I was like,
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this is awesome. I have more power and more energy.
So I'm going to try it for three days and
see whether that works. Because I always trained fasted, so
I'm doing all these kind of like mini experiments to
keep my mind off of racing as well. So we'll see,
We'll see what my physique is like going into Daytona.
Am I going to be the fittest, strongest version of
myself that I can possibly be, or I'm just going
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to be a confused mess who gave up and decided
to be a pint of ice cream.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Do you have like fitness schools that are like functional goals.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
No goals as yet? And I know on an earlier
episode we spoke to Chantelle and we were like, okay,
we should do a tough mudder or something like that. Well,
my CrossFit gym, I started doing high rocks and a
lot of other drivers also do high roucks, and that
is right out my alley, Like that is that is
me apart from the burpies. I hate burpies and maybe
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the skier. I'm not a massive skier person either, but
they're running the slured the warbles like that's totally in
my perview. So I think, maybe you will try a
higher rocks next year and see how we get on.
I need to train specifically for it, but no, I
just want to see them the embody machine and then
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I've put on four pounds muscle and I've lost six
pounds of fat and I'm back at seven percent body
fat and we'll we get to get Oh my god, yeah,
you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I did the un body machine at my gym for
the first time a couple of weeks ago, and I
decided never to do it again, I did not. I
did not like my answers, Catherine, But again, I'm not
doing your intense fitness routine.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No, but how is the rest that you guys? Grace
does this insane ww F. What's that called? Now? Wwwe? Well, yeah,
i mean style wrestling where she literally picks people up
on body slamsom and it's awesome. How is that going?
It's good. My debut got moved.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
My pro wrestling debut got moved.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I know.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's so sad the other girl canceled. So now I
think I'm gonna I know I'm not my pro wrestling debut.
I think in February probably, if all goes according to plan. Awesome,
so very exciting. The first you have your race suit
and I have my class. What's your question you've made?
It's in progress. I have to get the I'm waiting
to get the design back. But that's so fun.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I love that. I mean, I'm all for anything like
that that makes you motivated to train, right, Like, I
think everybody needs a goal. It's so hard for people
to get the motivation just to go and pick up
heavy things and put them down again in the gym
and everybody else is doing the same thing and everybody's
got their headphones on, and it's like, unless you have something, yeah,
it's hard one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I mean, I don't want my strength to be the
limiting factor with it, which I guess is what the
I mean. I like weightlifting outside of that, I kind
of do that pretty regularly, but it definitely it's humbling
to do the pro wrestling.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's so fun. I know it's a lot of technique
and everything. But I remember when Ronda Rowsei went over,
and so I looked at it for a while because
I was a big fan of hers, and I'm like,
I don't know how you pick them up and you
spin them around and then you slam them down and
you do like but it makes it makes it look
like you can pick somebody else up and it weighs
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twenty pounds. The person weighs twenty pounds, not two hundred pounds.
It's bananas. Do you do New Year's resolutions? Do I?
I do actually do resolutions, but I don't know that
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they are New Year's resolutions. They kind of come up
every now and again. So I write down on a
piece of paper. I wonder if it's still in my
diary from last year. But I write down on a
piece of paper, like what my goals are for the year,
if you like, and then I fold it out and
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what kind of person I want to be, like how
I want to improve, and I fold it up and
I put it in the back of my diary, and
I carry my diary around with me wherever I go,
and I hope it hasn't fallen out. I don't know whether.
I don't know whether I could read to you anyway
or not tell it all right, So this is last
year's one, as you can see, big oh yeah, big
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piece of paper. Oh yeah. So obviously you've got the
keeping up with the fitness and the health stuff, not procrastinating,
wake up every morning and be the person that you
want to be. Be organized, be authentic, don't waste as
much time things whatever it may be. Spend more time
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with family, be a better friend every time, do what
I say I'm going to do, never be one of
those people who doesn't carry through. Learn to say know.
And obviously then you've got like the winning, racist thing
and everything else. I think, positively continue your self worth YadA, YadA, YadA.
So I will then do my version of this and
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put it away and see at the end of the
year and whether I've achieved those those lofty goals of mine.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Do you think you achieved them? For twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I think I have to keep as a work in progress.
I have to keep picking myself up on it. Right,
Like I am a massive proponent of do the hard things,
whatever that's in I had a massive mind shift two
and a half years ago, probably, And actually Christina was
very prominent in that mindshift. She saw me through it
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and she's studying psychology now, so maybe I was such
a head case then it forced her into but massive
mind shift of doing the hard things, the right things,
and trying to be a better personal aspects of my life,
for example, with your relationships, like keeping up with your
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friends and checking in with them and not taking their
energy all the time, but like learning what they need
and how to give back. Is I'm very tough love
normally with myself with everybody else, and that's not what
everybody else needs. And so I'm learning to be a
better friend. I'm trying to do the hard things. I
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don't want to go to the gym when I get
done talking to you today because it's cold and miserable
and raining and horrible outside. I want to curl up
on the couch and eat candy and cud all my
dog and watch a holiday movie. However, that's not going
to get me ultimately to where I want to be.
And I want to be the best version of myself,
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so I continually make myself do all the things that
I don't want to do. I don't want to call
so and so because it's going to be a really
tough conversation. I don't want to have conflict about this.
I don't want to have to do that. I don't
want to have to travel back to England because it's
so far to go, you know, like I'm making myself
to do all the things to get ultimately where I
(27:57):
want to go. I think that the world has gone
a little bit soft, all the world, the Western world,
and we're not as disciplined and as focused and as
logical logical. I don't know that's the right time, and
I want to be able to look back and think
(28:19):
that I was headed in the right direction. I mean,
everybody gets derailed every now and again, right, But I
want to think that I was the best version of
myself and I didn't waste anything and leave anything on
the table and have any regrets.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is there anything that you're adding to your resolutions list
this year or your goals?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh? Probably yes, I'm going to add one that is
to Oh, this is really deep in meanif I don't
know that, I want to be this open on my podcast. Man,
I don't want to seek approval from other people as much.
I don't want to base my worth on what anybody
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else thinks apart from me and the people that I
respect and love. And so when it comes to that,
I need to seek less approval. Believe that I tell
me I'm good, and tell me I'm pretty.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You are good and pretty, You're great and pretty.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I definitely get that. That's a good one. I mean,
all of your list is good. I've impressed that you
keep it, keep it on you.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah. I wonder if anybody ever found my diary what
they be looking at. They be like, huh, she gets
the nails done a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And she's got a weird list, and she's got her
goals list. I have asked, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I have a list of attributes that I would like
in a partner. HM hmm yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Do you add to that often or is it just
is it a set list?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Honestly, it's been so unsuccessful that I think I'm gonna
have to start crossing them from it.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Then that's also constantly in the diary or yeah, YEA
love it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I might hang on a minute, mate, whatever you name is,
Steve Dave whatever, Yeah, do you check all these boxes? Okay,
just kind of my list really quick. Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I love a functional diary that's important to have around, and.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It's always written like it is a bound diary. It's
you can describe it chrace. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, that's a that's a full on it's twenty twenty
six already twenty twenty six planner. Yeah wow, so put together.
That's crazy, right, you're incredibly put together. I don't know,
it's actually insane. You're your goals in your day and
day life, and like everything you say about your lifestyle
makes me You're like, people aren't disciplined. I'm like, absolutely true,
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I'm not disciplined. My New Year's resolution last year was
to never fall asleep next to clean laundry, what without
putting it away? Yeah, basically, and a lot of people
didn't understand that at all. And I was like, these
people don't get me. You don't understand what it's like.
If that's not a relatable resolution, so my lack of discipline.
Do you take it out of the dryer and put
it on the bed or something? Sometimes yeah, and then
(31:14):
it just stays on the bed.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And then it will stay on the bed. Oh my god,
I'm my I c d would have I would freak out.
I know clean, you can't get your clean washing on the.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
You're so right, you're so right, And yet I don't
have the I don't have the drive. I don't have
it within me.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It's one of those tasks.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Moving the laundry from uh, the washer to the dryer
is like a whole It's.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
A whole task, you know what I mean. I couldn't
mind I actually, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Well you can come to mine if you want to.
That would help.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Cleaning. I don't mind their laundry. I don't like vacuuming
and I don't like va Okay, we'd make a great pair, honestly, Yeah,
we would be great.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You could vacuum, I'll do the laundry. Yeah, I can
iron all that sold. I have a whole room for
sewing in my house and I have my ironing setup.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's cool. I'm on it sounds good. Whenever anything needs
fixed or anything, I send it back with my dad
to my mom, and my mom gets her sewing machine
and does it for me. I am capable. I just
I feel like that's what my mom thrives at. Give
a job.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
If I were a mom, I would appreciate that being
my job. I think, Yeah, I think that's cute. Yeah,
we all still need o mamas.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Wait, I have one more question before we close out?
What are your favorite holiday movies?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Oh that's a good question. I am getting ready to
watch the Downton Abbey movie, the last and latest that
came out. I keep meaning too, and then I keep
running out of time. But I love the classic English
ones Holiday or love actually or you know, gooey and
(33:00):
and lovely fun fact. See I'm being I'm being very
open on this episode and get so much a stick
for it. I have this weird thing that I cry
at movies on planes. It's only on planes unless it's
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like a really sad movie. If an animal dies, I'll
cry like normally on planes. Any movie I'll cry it
like it doesn't it could be the Budweiser commercial and
I'll be bailing my eyes out because of the horse,
or the most embarrassing one. I was going Transatlantic. I
think I was flying with Brian Sellis, who was my
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teammate at the time, and we were driving for Bobby
Rayhall and we were watching Bad Moms and I'm ball
in my eyes are at like some scene of Bad Moms,
and I think it must be the oxygen deprivation. It
just like affects my brain in different ways. But the
amount of times people have come up to me and
they're like, are you ah, I'm watching a movie and
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I never normally cry, Like I'm not a crier, so
I've trained myself out of it because there's no crying
and raything wow. But yeah, it's just a weird tick
I have.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Are right, I absolutely am a crier and I absolutely
balled watching the live action Lelo and Stitch on my
last plane. Found my kindred spar Yeah, I'm definitely crying
on planes for sure, or or I watched I watched
a horror movie also on a recent plane, and I
was like literally jumping in my seat and everybody's trying
(34:33):
to sleep next to me. I didn't scream, but I
absolutely jumped, you know, so sorry to whoever I woke up.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
That's hilarious. Can you imagine imagine screaming out though, imagine
somebody on the plane is screaming. I can absolutely imagine that.
I will not wear I went watch a horror movie
by myself here though, because I'm in the woods and
I would together living daylights out on myself. The dog
probably I can see that. Yeah, it's scary. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Well, on that note, Happy New Year, Grace, Happy New Year,
Happy holidays. Good to see you.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, thank you so much. We will see you next Tuesday, Wednesday.
We're changing. We should mention this. We are changing to Wednesdays, folks.
We made an executive decision and it's happening, and you'll.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
See us on Wednesday. You'll see Pathne on Wednesdays.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, bye, back home. Thanks for listening to Throttle Therapy.
We'll be back next week with more updates and more overtakes.
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