- This isn't childish.
[crew laughs]
Hey, it's only childish if there's no moderation, okay?
This is not childish.
This is essential.
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Hey, GQ, I'm Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
and these are my 10 essentials.
I am a candy connoisseur.
Gummy bears are my super food.
I eat these before I run,
not right before I run, but the night before.
They probably give me superpowers.
Candy is my go-to
and my husband will tell you I low-key have a problem
which I'm working on taming
because it's not good to do as a professional athlete.
But if there's candy in my house
it's not staying for more than 24 hours.
I promise you that.
There's no candy drawer, there is no candy bowl.
It will not last, between me and my husband,
it will be gone within seconds.
Spikes are essential for track runners
because the pounding that we do on the track
as well as just the traction
when you're sprinting really fast.
We have little spikes on the bottom here.
You can have anywhere from like six to eight
and these help you just with that pulling down motion
of being able to propel yourself forward.
Obviously we got the SYD on there
and red, white and blue for Team USA.
These right here are my everyday running shoes.
These are a version of the Fuel Cells.
I used to wear the 880s
but I fractured a sesamoid in my big toe in college
and I have not been able to run the same since.
So these are really good for me.
I am an UNO master
and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
I have carried UNO with me for years.
I bring it to restaurants,
I bring it to track meets, business meetings.
It doesn't matter where we are,
I promise you, I have UNO on me.
Small one for a purse size.
This one is a vintage.
And then if you kind of just want all the smoke
we can do giant.
I don't stack, I don't think stacking is appropriate.
We are gonna play the game, the full game,
the way it's supposed to be played.
And what makes a good UNO player
is you know when to use the right card.
I am saving my draw four till the end to destroy all of you.
Like that's just how it's gonna go.
I just think you have to be smart and patient
and I am both of those things.
Okay, I am gonna tell you guys a story
before I get into this next essential.
I did a skincare routine that is on YouTube
and I got completely roasted
because they basically said
my skincare resembled that of a child.
I probably still need help
but it's working for me right now.
So I'm gonna take you guys through it real quick.
This is my face wash from Cetaphil.
I get this at CVS.
I'm sorry if that offends you.
And then I will follow it up with my pimple cream.
I do, it's an acne spot treatment also from CVS,
affordable.
After that, I will use my moisturizer.
This one is Summer Fridays.
It's actually the jet lag mask
but I use it as a moisturizer every day.
And then I follow it up with my eye cream.
This one's also Summer Friday's vitamin C and peptides
which is really good.
Sunscreen from Supergoop.
This is the glow sunscreen
gives you a little bit of radiance,
you know what I'm saying?
And then if I'm doing something before bed I'll...
Before anything, use the face mask, clean out my pores.
Really deep cleanse.
This one's from Kiehls.
Great.
It's like a mud mask,
which is really strong at pulling out whatever dirt
and grime you have in there.
My eye mask, this is just Sephora brand.
Pretty generic.
I usually use the cucumber ones.
They didn't have them, so here's watermelon.
And then if I have some sort of pimple
that's a really big one
that I don't think the acne cream is fully gonna get to
I will put a pimple patch on.
These are the best things in the world.
Debatable.
Well, these are like one of the best things in the world.
I bring these with me everywhere.
They work.
So this is my skincare routine
and I'm sorry if it's still bad, but I don't care, so.
My next essential, I actually have two of them,
are my TAG Heuer watches.
My black one and my silver one, which I'm wearing right now.
This is the Aqua Racer with the diamond bezel.
And this one I normally wear
for more of like a fashionable look.
Like it kind of goes with this outfit, you know cute?
And then my black one here, the link.
This one, I actually have worn this every time
I've broken the world record.
So this is kind of like my race watch
if I know we're really going after it.
It's the world record watch at this point.
You know what I'm saying?
They just add to the pizzazz when you cross the line.
Shine.
I do not wear contacts, but I actually can't see very well.
And it's kind of been a problem
because when I get close up to a hurdle,
I have to blink a lot in order to clear my eyes
so that I can see what I'm about to jump over.
But it is what it is.
I tried contacts, couldn't do it, it's fine.
But my everyday glasses for reading
these ones are actually from Christian Dior.
Yeah, I'm not gonna put them on, but you know
you get the gist.
I would probably wait until after my career to do LASIK
just in case, for whatever reason,
something goes wrong, I need to be able to see.
My next essential item is my necklace.
It says, "All 4 God".
Right before any race I kind of just think about it
and focus on what it is I'm doing
and what I'm going out there to do
which is glorify and honor God.
I ordered this actually
right before the Olympic trials last year
just as something that I could put on
kind of like getting ready for war almost.
Just like the watch, this,
I've had since the first world record.
I used to wear a fanny pack everywhere
but when we grew up we had to put away childish things.
And now I wear a purse like a grown woman.
And this is my new purse, Ralph Lauren.
They just dropped a new collection.
It's so beautiful.
Everything is kind of like this vintage,
farm barnyard kind of look.
And this is my newest, I got this like two weeks ago.
This is my first time wearing it out of the house.
Doesn't match this outfit
but I would wear it just for the sake of it.
I've been working on memorizing Colossians 1:13 and 14,
"He has delivered us from the domain of darkness
"and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son
"in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
And this is my bigger MacArthur Study Bible that I love.
It has not only the text, but on the bottom,
it has descriptions that help you have a
deeper understanding of what you're reading.
Being able to dive deeper into God's word
wherever I am with whoever I'm with,
it's just such a crucial part of my life
and my daily process.
So my Bible is my lifeline and I just got this mini one
because it fits in any purse, any bag, anything like that.
I'm already starting to mark it up and everything.
So this is just my custom Gatorade bottle.
Says McLaughlin on it, bang!
Gatorade is one of my go-tos when I'm working out,
especially the amount that my coach makes me run.
Electrolytes are crucial and I love the G-Fit
because it also has vitamins, antioxidants
and some carbs in it, which is beautiful for running.
And all of the calories that I'm burning,
I need this in order to stay focused,
in order to stay awake
because the mileage that my coach has me doing
sometimes makes me wanna pass out.
So these are crucial.
Thank you guys for listening to me explain my 10 essentials.
I'm Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and see you guys later.