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Cadi Olsen

@caddii83

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🌟 sober mom
❤️‍🔥 Hybrid/OCR athlete
🥇Spartan NA AG Champ ‘26
🌎 DEKA Worlds Qualified ‘26
💪🏻 proving what’s possible in 40s
🖤 @raw__mvmnt | 💚 underdog

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Finishing strong in 2026! Stay tuned! 🔥

This year has changed me in ways I never expected. Through recovery. Through racing. Through doing hard things. Through the people who’ve walked into my life at exactly the right time, and finding a community that inspires me day in and day out. I’m grateful for every lesson, every setback, every finish line, and every training session. I’m grateful for 2026!!!!!!!!

Now it’s time to finish 2026 strong and build the foundation for an even bigger 2027. The goals are big—but so is my belief. Let’s go. 💥
@raw__mvmnt let’s goo! Dream.train.execute.repeat🔥
@underdog.fitness.gym it’s level up time and we know I’m all in @lucywelsh.athlete 💚
@kirkland_crossfit @endurx_fitlab my home away from home where I’ll keep putting in that work 👊 by @caddii83

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2 months ago

A year ago, I raced this exact race in a non competitive division with a smile on my face.

No one looking at the pictures from then would have known that I was quietly dying inside.

A year later, a lot of work later, sober, healthy, stronger, I came back to the same place to race in the competitive division —and this time I’m not quietly surviving. I’m living loudly. 🌟

I smiled through this race, all 13 plus miles and 30 obstacles. I pushed. I trusted my body. I trusted my mind. And I kept thinking about how incredible it is that I get to find out what both are capable of now. To be fully present and wide awake!

2:19:43.
🥇 F40–44.
🥈 female overall in Age Group division.
North American Championship Spartan Beast 2026. 🏆

But standing on top of this podium, the result almost feels like the bonus.

The real win is the woman standing there. The wife, the mom, the friend, the athlete…
I believe in her now. I’m truly living my best life for me. I’m doing what I love, with a body that allows me to push, meeting incredible people, dreaming big, and have more energy than I know what to do with. I’m me!

I genuinely cannot wait to see what happens next in this chapter.

So, hello world, apparently I’m an athlete. 😂
I just needed to find my lane

And apparently we’re just getting started. Grateful to my team, my people ❤️‍🔥
@raw__mvmnt @underdog.fitness.gym @kirkland_crossfit

#FueledBySobriety #MeVsMe #roadtoeliteracing #spartan #momathlete @spartan by @caddii83

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a month ago

2026 had been a GAME CHANGING year for me. The year I decided to take chances and try new things. This weekend it was my first Deka Fit. A race I once would have thought was out of my reach. That mindset changed, I changed and made a choice to go all in on a passion, to believe in me. I’m learning my strengths, my weaknesses, where I shine brightest. I’m finding myself. I’m having FUN!!! This version of me has quietly and patiently been waiting to arrive and here she is.

I stood on that course surrounded by incredible athletes who pushed me to be better. Every station, every run, reminded me that strength isn’t built in a single workout or a single race. It’s built in the moments when you choose to keep showing up—especially when it’s hard. I carried it all with me out there. My family cheering me on. My kids watching their mom chase big dreams. My coach @raw__mvmnt believing in me and challenging me to become the athlete I know I’m capable of becoming. My fitness community @kirkland_crossfit lifting me up. My sobriety, which gave me my life back. My grit. My competitive spirit. My true authentic kid-like joy for fitness and racing.

This finish wasn’t the destination. It’s another step in a much bigger journey. I’m chasing the strongest version of myself—not just for me, but to show my kids that dreams aren’t something you wait for. They’re something you work for. This weekend I proved to myself that I belong here. Sitting in the desire to race competitively has fueled the fire. DEKA Worlds…I’m coming. Whether it’s this year or next season, I’ll keep showing up, putting in the work, and chasing the athlete I know I can become, earning that invite. We’re just getting started.

Dreams don’t chase people.
People crazy enough to chase big dreams eventually catch them. Now back to work.
@deka.fit @deka.europe #momathlete #fueledbysobriety #hybridathlete #dreamsintoreality #keepshowingupforyourself💯 taken in Chicago, IL by @caddii83

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3 months ago

I have so many feelings about this one. 🥹❤️
July 2026.
I jumped headfirst into my first DEKA event - Deka Fit in Chicago. I barely knew what I was getting myself into. I just knew I wanted to try something new.

I wasn’t chasing a qualification.
I wasn’t thinking about Worlds, didn’t even know about Worlds 🤣.
I was simply doing something for ME.

Something that sobriety gave me the courage, freedom, and belief to pursue.

And somewhere between that first starting line and today, something shifted.

I started seeing myself differently.
I started believing bigger.

And today, I received my final and most meaningful invitation.

DEKA FIT AGE GROUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
The race that introduced me to Deka. This is my A race. This race introduced me to more races I hadn’t even heard of…introduced me to a whole new community…

And here we are, that 1 race in July…landed me…

4 races in December at Deka worlds 2026 🌍
And a version of myself I never could have imagined.

I don’t know exactly where this journey is going to take me, but I know I’m nowhere near finished.

For the woman I was. For the woman I’m becoming. And for every version of me that never thought this was possible. LETSS GOOO 🔥
#DEKAWorlds2026 #DEKAFIT #SoberAthlete #RoadToElite #NeverSettle

@raw__mvmnt 🖤
@underdog.fitness.gym 💚
@deka.fit ❤️‍🔥
@yancyculp 🔥💯 by @caddii83

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2 days ago

“Sobriety won’t open the gates to Heaven to let you in, but it will unlock the doors of Hell to let you out.” Look at my eyes.

In those first pictures, I was drunk.
Bloated. Vacant. Hopeless. Lost. Shameful.
I could smile for the picture, but I wasn’t really there.

Then I got sober. I found recovery, or recovery found me. 🌟

These pictures show me coming back to life this year
Little by little, coming back.

At first, sobriety was about putting one foot in front of the other. About being present. About rebuilding.

But then something happened that I never could have imagined.

A whole world opened up.

I found strength.
I found racing.
I found competition.
I found people who saw something in me — sometimes before I could see it in myself.

@raw__mvmnt A coach who believed in me well before I did. My homeboy!
Teammates and friends who stood beside me.
Training partners who became best friends. @keagan_naidoo9 @jamielel
Communities that welcomed me in, that are now chosen family. @underdog.fitness.gym @lucywelsh.athlete
A home away from home @kirkland_crossfit

An entire racing world that is me!!!
Spartan. DEKA. HYROX. Mountains.
Starting lines. Finish lines. Podiums.

Suddenly my life wasn’t getting smaller because I stopped drinking.
It was getting bigger.
So much bigger.

Goals I never knew I’d have.
People I never would have met.
Places I never would have gone.
A strength I didn’t know I possessed.
Dreams I get to have today.

Somewhere along the way, I found my people. I found my fire. I found adventure. And I found myself.

Go back and look at those first pictures again.
Look at my eyes.

Now look at them at the finish lines.
With my coach
With my teammates.
With my family.

That’s the transformation.

I had no idea how much life was waiting for me on the other side.

And the craziest part?
This is only the beginning. And I’m so excited! Excited for a life I once was hiding from, a life I was just existing in. But now I’m wide awake and living loudly ❤️‍🔥#momathlete #fueledbysobriety #justgettingstarted #thereishelpthereishope @underdog.fitness.gym @raw__mvmnt @endurx_fitlab @kirkland_crossfit @spartan @deka.fit by @caddii83

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4 days ago

Grateful for this journey.
Grounded in recovery.
Driven to see just how far I can go.
@raw__mvmnt 🖤
@underdog.fitness.gym 💚

#competitiveAGathlete #RecoveryToPodiums
#roadtoeliteracing
#dekaworldsAGqualifier
#spartannorthamericanAGchamp by @caddii83

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8 days ago

Still in my feels from the Seattle Spartan North American Championship 2026 🖤

Already plotting what’s next
Building the race calendar
Spartan 2027 season, coming soon
My biggest season yet
Time to level up and see what I can do
AG national series 😎
Time to take on my first elite race 🔥

Stay tuned, it’s gonna be fun!!!

A LOT more Spartans.way more traveling.more mountains.more terrain.more podiums to chase.more to prove.more noise to make

#Spartan2027 #soberspartan #HybridAthlete #momathlete #thedreamisbecomingareality
@spartan @raw__mvmnt @underdog.fitness.gym by @caddii83

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22 days ago

20 pounds on my back.
One mile. 10 DEKA zones.

And one goal.
Get the qualifying time for Worlds.

I knew this one was going to hurt. And somewhere near the end, it became very simple — stop thinking, keep moving, and give absolutely everything I had left.

26:22.

I crossed that finish line completely emptied. Zone 5. On the ground. Nothing left.

And then I found out.

I GOT THE TIME FOR WORLDS. 🌎🔥

That smile at the end says everything.

This season continues to teach me just how much more there is on the other side of being willing to get uncomfortable. I’m stronger than I was. Hungrier than I was.

And I know I have more to give.
More to give to all my Deka races.
So now we build.

From here, it’s 100% focus on Worlds.
stronger. Faster. Sharper.
To keep building the engine and find another level.

December, I’ll be ready.

Not just happy to be there.
Ready to see what I can do. 🌎

#DEKA #dekamileruck #DEKAWorlds #HybridAthlete #nextlevelenergy⚡️
@conquerwreckingcrew 🔥🔥
@raw__mvmnt it’s time to light it up 🖤
@underdog.fitness.gym it’s go time 💚
@frontline_athletic 🎒 by @caddii83

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16 days ago

Spartan North American Championship 2026🔥

Beast. Super. Sprint.
unforgettable weekend.
Trifecta complete. 🖤⚔️

BEAST
21K + OBSTACLES
2:19:43
🥇 1st — Women 40–44
🥈 2nd — Overall AG division Female

SUPER AG COMPETITIVE
10K + OBSTACLES
1:23:55
🥇 1st - Women 40-44
🥉 3rd - Overall AG division Female

SPRINT NON COMPETITIVE
5K + OBSTACLES

I came to see what I had in me.
I had the absolute best time.
I left knowing there’s more.

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. 🖤
@spartan by @caddii83

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23 days ago

Not bad for a newbie to the Deka season 2026! 🔥Decided to dive head first into the Deka racing world less that 6 months ago, started racing in Deka about 2 months ago, 100% found my place, that fire, sense of belonging in the Deka community, picked up a ruck a month ago, and decided to see what Deka ruck was all about. Here we are, first deka mile ruck race locking my spot in at worlds 🌎 and looking at strong top 30 roll down age group invites for worlds for my additional deka races (got to patiently wait a little longer for those 😉) @deka.fit @deka.europe ! Regardless, I’m so grateful and excited!!! This has ignited a passion!

I wouldn’t be in this season of life, living out big dreams, being brave enough to believe I can do these things, if I hadn’t met @raw__mvmnt ! In meeting my coach, he became a catalyst in my life changing, in me finally taking the hardest step to admit I needed help, to once and for all face my demons with alcohol, to take space to dig deep and figure out what I want for me, to tap into my inner athlete that had quietly been waiting to arrive, he helped me find me, and that alone helped me find my way to my people, my community @kirkland_crossfit @underdog.fitness.gym , the people meant to be in my life 💯

A great coach doesn’t just program exceptional workouts, which @raw__mvmnt does, he believed in me when it was hard, pushed me when I didn’t want to push myself!! A great coach doesn’t just support your dreams, but also makes your dreams their dreams. A great coach will push you to your limit, while also making sure you recover and play smart. A great coach will tell you how it is, without sugar coating, will tell you what you don’t alway want but need to hear, will lift you up when you are tearing yourself down. An exceptional coach becomes one of your greatest supports. An exceptional coach sees you and helps you see YOU!

Thank you for taking a chance on me!! These wins, they are our wins! Thank you for always showing up!

Let’s gooo coach!! Told you I race best when my coach is right there pushing me🔥🔥 #wejustgettingstarted‼️ #nowweruck #dekaworlds2026 #roadtoeliteracing #nowegetbacktowork by @caddii83

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a month ago

This moment means more than a podium.

It’s sobriety.
It’s showing up when it’s hard.
It’s becoming someone I’m finally proud of.

At almost 43… I found her, and it was clear on the course today who I am. Fueled by sobriety. Built through discipline and grit, resilience and commitment - the Spartan way.

This isn’t just a race result.
This is me finding my true self.

To @raw__mvmnt and @kirkland_crossfit —your belief in me became my fire. My people!!! Let’s goooo!!!! I’ll see ya tomorrow!!!!

And this, my friends - This is only the beginning.

If you feel lost or stuck… you’re not alone. There’s a way forward. I promise.

And to @spartan @realjoedesena —
I’m here. I’ve arrived. I’m ready. And I’m just getting started. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 by @caddii83

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5 months ago

Congrats Cadi on your first place finish this weekend at Deka Fit in Chicago! We are so proud of you! You are a fierce competitor full of dedication and hard work!! 🏆 taken in Kirkland CrossFit by @caddii83

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