Katie Knight returns! Plus former rival Bonnie makes her first apperance.
For those of you in Obstacle Course Racing and especially the media side of it, my showing up on Matt B Davis's podcast is probably a shock to you.
Shock to me too.
But so much has changed since the pre-pandemic times.
Let me get this out of the way.
I loved my time at MRG. I learned so much, and I learned that I LOVE this sport; I love everyone involved with it. It actually hurts to see the fact that something I poured so much of myself into is actually basically gone. IT HURTS. Though looking back, there was nothing I could have done, it was not my ship, and I could not make the decision to make the steps.
Also, trying to keep the ship alive for the first several months of the pandemic to only find that I had been locked out of the MRG Twitter account and taken off the staff page just made the hurt worse.
Sorry, I am not sorry for admitting it. Not blaming, it is what it is.
What about the anger? Because there are times, I got angry at ORM while I was at MRG.
There has been a lot of growing up and a lot of changes in the past couple of years, and I now consider Matt a friend.
People don't understand how much work it takes to cover the sport. You have to have a passion and love for the sport and the people who are in it. I don't want to know how many hours I put in above what I was paid for, but I did it because I loved it. Matt and I share that in common. He loves the sport. We might see it through different lenses, but the sport unites us.
And you have to be creative; actually realizing now how creative working for Russ at OCR Buddy.
When it became obvious that MRG would not pivot, I felt like I had lost my place in this sport. We had talked about so many opportunities to pivot and be of service to the sport but again, I was the social media manager not the owner. I could not make the decision. We just kind of all went our separate ways There are times and he knows this when I didn't agree with the way Matt handled some stories; I was in awe of his commitment to grow the ORM footprint and pivoting while places like MRG just kind of folded the tent (I am not willing to say closed at this point but you can read the handwriting on the wall) and gave up.
I thank MRG for all the learning experiences, that ignited my passion in the sport but that chapter is OVER.
Now? I am enjoying a different role in the sport, guiding OCR Buddy to growth, learning how to design graphics, how to market an app (a whole new ball game for me), and building communities.
