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. At the same time,
a fee designation is also appro-
priate since the funds would
be used to recoup the costs
of maintenance and improve-
ments within the park system.
So, would the added charge
be a fee or a tax? The answer
may depend on how paying it
makes you feel.
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