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JANUARY 13, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7 opponent if I got to the (wres- the show is just as noteworthy. When her best friends were tling) pit – but it wasn’t meant graduating from McNary High to be,” Dent said. She said the biggest dif- School, Dent was already the ference between Broken Skull mother to 2-year-old twin Challenge and other competi- boys, Isaac and Noah. “I was raising them and tions she’s entered was the lack of a coach standing by to offer married to a Marine who was advice. Contestants were also deployed,” Dent said. She’d gotten given only a few pregnant at 16 minutes to strat- and two more egize after learn- sons, Eli and Joey, ing what they arrived before will need to do she put a new fo- to advance. cus on her fi tness. “Mentally, it “When I was very differ- started working ent than any- thing I have ever — Natalie Dent out I had four boys under 8 done. Physically? years of age. My The fi rst chal- lenge may have been the hard- youngest was 9 months old, est thing I have ever done in so while I wouldn’t say that competition … and that’s say- was an obstacle, it defi nitely wasn’t convenient,” she said. “I ing a lot,” she said. While she didn’t have a per- couldn’t workout at a gym, so sonal coach on-hand, Dent said we slowly collected bits and Austin himself made for an ad- pieces of used equipment so I could do CrossFit on my own. mirable stand-in. “When the cameras weren’t I read a lot and watched a lot of rolling he was that calm reas- videos to help me understand suring voice saying to all of us, how to essentially be my own “You guys can do this,” and you coach and properly move my really did feel like he was root- body.” The more she learned about ing for you,” she said. Dent’s adventure alongside CrossFit the more she enjoyed “Stone Cold” Steve Austin the challenges of whole-body make her story attention-get- workouts rather than focusing ting, but the path that led her to on one aspect each day. And her TOUGH, continued from Page A1 pits fi tness buffs against each other in a series of physical tests. Dent’s particular challenges included a modifi ed tug-of-war that saw her have to drag her opponent across a playing fi eld, carrying increasingly heavy stone balls through a pool and, fi nally, fl ip increasingly heavy tires down a track before hoist- ing them over wooden posts. “The whole (tug-of-war) fi ght was longer than what was aired on TV and, at one point, I felt like I was just pulling her for an eternity and not mov- ing,” she said. The fi rst test made carrying the stones more taxing, but it was because she could still feel her legs “wrecked” from the fi rst event. Dent was eliminated just be- fore making it to the fi nal chal- lenge, which would have in- cluded wrestling her opponent. She simply couldn’t leverage the last tire over the post. “My body just stopped working when I got to the third tire. It was the strangest thing and really frustrating be- cause I knew I could take my TAX, continued from Page A1 “I needed to break down some barriers within myself.” Submitted Natalie Dent with her sons. new routines changed not only her body, but her view of her- self and what she could expect others to think of her. “I experienced so many challenges early on that shaped how I viewed myself and how society viewed me. I was a high school dropout, a pregnant teen, a young mom. There is such a huge stigma that goes along with that and I guess I needed to break down some barriers within myself and in society. I didn’t want that to de- fi ne me anymore,” Dent said. “I began this journey into Cross- Fit while my boys were young and impressionable. Now, I see them pushing themselves in ev- erything they do. I would like to think that by watching me train and being by my side at competitions that they’ve ab- sorbed lessons that I didn’t fully realize I was teaching them.” However, because the rev- enue generated would be- come a dedicated parks fund it could be considered a “tax,” “user tax” or “fee” within the boundaries widely accepted. That squishiness is problematic in determining which term to use for the parks surcharge be- ing discussed. In his 2013 study, Hench- man points out that “taxes fund general benefi ts to everyone while fees fund particularized benefi ts to the fee-payer.” By those measures, the proposed parks fee resembles a tax since it would be charged to all resi- dents’ households on their util- ity bills – not just park users – and the benefi ts of parks are felt throughout the city in terms of higher property values, reduced crime and 240 acres of public green spaces. 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