Hey everyone, welcome back! This is episode two of our new podcast, Europe is Coming. This time around we've got you an extremely honest interview with the rather amazing athlete Solveig Sigurdardottir. Recorded just a couple of weeks before she won the Madrid CrossFit Championship Sola and Vicki talk about Sola's early success as part of a team and qualifying for the CrossFit Games in 2016, her struggles to find herself as an individual athlete, her ongoing relationship with food and her body, social media, gender equality in CrossFit and a whole lot more. 

Min 1.00 Life in Iceland and post lunch depression
5.20 Sola talks about the high level of CrossFit in Icelandic gyms 
6.00 How Sola was inspired to start CrossFit after a year in Spain 
7.15 Sola talks about walking into a CrossFit box for the first time
8.15 Sola starts to realise that you could compete in CrossFit
9.00 2016 Regionals, what it was like going team for her first competition. Sola talks about her nerves when she first started competing, and throwing up in a chalk bucket! 
11.30 What was it like competing at the Games in 2016 in LA? 
12.20 Why did Sola switch from team to individual? 
13.20 Sola talks about her first individual competition in 2018 
14.20 Sola talks about mindset and recovering from a disappointing performance at Regionals 2018
15.50 Comparision is the thief of joy 
16.50 Sola talks about building herself back up, and who helps her
18.30 How to balance training and studying for a degree
19.20 Training in lockdown and online qualifiers, doing The 2021 Open on the street
20.48 Sola decides not to do the Quarter Finals and then is talked out of it 
21.20 Sola does better than she expected to! 
22.10 Sola starts to enjoy competing again. 
22.40 Sola talks about C23 and the support of the gym 
23.10 Sola talks about she is feeling now and her motivation. Europe is the toughest region in the world for women. 
24.00 Training for the Madrid CrossFit Championships, and how much she is looking forward to it. 
25.10 Invitation for LFit and plans for Wodapaloosa
27.00 Other ways of measuring success 
28.10 A perfect training day for Sola
28.20 Training with Jacqueline and Gabriela
30.00 Enjoying seeing her training partners doing well 
31.00 Sola talks about her nutrition and how she struggled with counting macros and how it has affected her in the past 
34.30 Struggling with "Being Good or Being Bad" with food 
36.00 Building a normal relationship with food again 
38.20 Talking to yourself like you are talking to your little sister 
38.40 Instagram, influencers and body image 
44.00 Wearing the cool leggings 
46.00 Wear the damn shorts 
47.30 Celebrating the muscular female physique
49.30 Equality in CrossFit
50.30 HWPO

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