For this episode we speak to Games Athlete Jacqueline Dahlstrøm.

Jac competed at the 2021 CrossFit Games, finishing 17th.
She is originally from Norway but now lives on the island of Mallorca in Spain.

We talk about her early years as a pony mad teenager, her studies as an engineer, her switch to professional sportswoman, her struggles, her injuries and her triumphs.

This episode was recorded on Jacqueline’s actual birthday, a couple of weeks before she went on to place third at the Madrid CrossFit Championships.

As the episode is released she and her training partner Gabriela Migala are in Texas in the US, preparing for the Rogue Invitational.

So good luck to both of them for the coming weekend,

Intro
Minute 5,00 Showjumping nerding out
6,20 Hardwork 
6,40 Developing as a rider
9,00 Why aren't there more women competing in showjumping?
10.00 Maths and physics? 
11, 00 Jac's reflection on life at 30 
11,40 Bodybuilding success  
13,30 Jac starts CrossFit 
14,20 Jac decides not to compete 
16,00 CrossFit in Norway 
16,40 Kristin Holte first Games was in 2014
17,30 Gymnastics 
17,50 Jac's previous life 
18,20 Jac quits her job and starts her life as an athlete 
19,40 2017 Women 38th 7th Europe
20,14 Jac's family's reaction and her Dad's pov
22,30 Jac meets John Singleton, who becomes both her coach and her partner
23,30 CrossFit divides Europe into two sections 
24,30 2018 failure to get to the Games 
25,00 Life in Mallorca and the decision to live on the island 
25,50 rest days and the sun 
27, 00 Mallorca training hub
28,00 2019 Games and qualifying strategy
30,30 Deadlifts versus Thrusters 
31,00 The French Throwdown injury 
32,00 The Ruck Run 
33,00 Injury details 
35,00 Adrenlin rush at The French Throwdown 
36,20 Recovery 
38,00 Bolted weight work 
38,30 Injury depression 
39,00 Losing a competition year 
40,00 Training as a woman, hormones and training cycle 
46,00 getting into the USA
47,00 The off season strategy 
Outro and goodbyes. 

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