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HopeStory’s One Leg Up at the NYC Marathon · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, yesterday was a great day in
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  New York City because, quite simply put, this was the sound of the
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  marathon, the first Sunday November, as it always is here at Central Park.
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  Yeah, if I knew that, that's right. We were at the
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  marathon yesterday afternoon and it was exciting. You know. I always enjoy the
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  ones that finish a little longer than the faster runners. You know why,
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  because those are the winners. Those are the stories that we will take with
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  us, and those are the stories. The ones who completed twenty six point
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  two miles will have a story to tell forever that they completed a marathon in
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  the greatest city in the world known as New York City. And did I
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  want to take Gaby and I to the finish line. Yeah, but it
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  was crowded and it was just cool to see all the orange capes of successful
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  marathon runners with their medals. Who did it. They accomplished something not many
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  of us kind of accomplish. They went twenty six point two miles and believe
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  me, someone who's run five of those miles in Central Park, I know
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  it's a little bit all around the park, but Still it's a very hilly
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  area toward the finish line, up and down and around Central Park. But
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  imagine doing that for twenty six point two miles. It's a feat with the
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  feet. I guess you say it's a feat with your feet. Right.
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  Well, anyway, I got the chance to interview. You know, I
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  want to get more, but I kind of was a little shy about it.
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  But this guy I mentioned on my Instagram, Richard from Hope Story,
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  Well he gave us a great interview after the marathon, and after he was
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  all well and fed, and you know, he was able to regroup a
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  little bit after twenty six point two miles. It was Richard's first ever marathon,
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  and I got the chance to talk to him with Gabby outside All Stars
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  Bar and Grill. You know, the New York City Marathon. I've got
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  Richard from Dallas, Yeah, Alito, Texas. Yeah, first ever marathon
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  though, right complained And here in New York. What was it? What
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  was it like? It was the most incredible thing I've ever done and also
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  the hardest thing I've ever done. So the high between all the different boroughs
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  was indescribable, and I will say those hills are no joke, So get
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  buckle up. Mile twenty three is uphill and you got you got a really
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  dig deep Central Park also was pretty hilly. But I woke out. Did
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  you say, all right, I got this? Oh god, I'm sort
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  of have some doubts about mile eighteen, so I would say I thought I
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  had it until eighteen and then it was when my own is that first people
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  that may not know my eighteen yes, uh, eighteen out of twenty six?
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  Yeah, like it's up whatsout the bridge or where? Oh you know,
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  I'm not I don't know. Is my first will never okay, my
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  first time I ever want to give to a marathon? So how'd you train
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  for this? I did the hal higdon Uh, there's a there's different programs
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  so it's okay. It was like the intermediate one. You said a foot
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  level and you it's an eighteen league planned. Okay, So I recommend it
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  for anybody who wants to ever try run a marathon. There's a couch to
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  marathon, all different plans do it. Now you're from you're from Texas.
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  You having a lot of support team up here though? Is bringing you on
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  or we're all we're all here? Yep? Oh very cool. Yep,
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  well, congratulations, thank you. And one last thing when you hit Central
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  Park, there's gotta be a thrill of getting to tabern on the green right,
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  I mean that whole run up to the finish line. Yes, yeah,
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  yeah, so getting there was it was tough. Toy willsy saw you
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  want you get into Central Park? I would say one tip I would I
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  would help any runner to have your name printed on your jersey. I'm showing
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  him no, but it's on change. People will yell your name. People
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  like me need that and that and the whole way is so loud and encouraging.
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  Did you run for anybody special this year? Or be rid for Hope
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  story? It's a non profit, so they really target the ifty downs.
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  They actually were paving away for us, buying the scenes to get through the
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  traffic up uh on the route so that we know about them all. They're
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  great and so they are community for for downcing for parents who have a new
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  downstage of diagnosis that give them a network, give them resources and to give
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  them hope. Well congratulations, yeah you brother? All right? How cool
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  is that? Man? We got a change to talk to a first time
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  marathon runner in our own city of New York and he's from Texas, and
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  of course that whole area is now celebrating a Rangers World series. But I
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  gotta say the whole thing about the finish line. And you'll find out more
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  about hope story when I tag them in the description below. Personally seeing these
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  runners, seeing how running is a religion in New York City, seeing how
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  running is a community. I mean the throngs of people, not only the
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  runners, but the supporters of the runners, the families of the runners.
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  That is what it's about. And it reminded me about my dad was always
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  on the route with me. Somehow he'd meet me at the third mile,
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  the fifth mile, those five mile races. Somehow he'd meet me as I
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  hit the corners of the different routes, you know, I remember the Abbot
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  five k. He'd be running with me up to sixth Avenue and then we'd
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  turned down turn up sixth and go to fifty seventh and then go through the
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  park up to the finish line. I mean, those things stay with you.
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  But that finish line was not always fun, and believe or not,
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  I was kind of shy back in the day real fast, and that was
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  when I was three years old, and I kind of collapsed at the finish
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  line because I don't know what to do with all those cheering. But here
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  we are, many years later, watching those who make an effort every year
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  at the New York City Marathon, even first timers of course, and they
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  do it and they don't care how fast or slow they go. They just
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  are excited to do it. And that's pretty damn cool. And there's a
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  lot of emotion. There's a lot of tiers I saw on New York and
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  NECO, some engagement going on, like people popping the question behind the behind
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  the finish line after the runner raced. It's so cool what goes on on
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  a marathon Sunday. So if you ever want an uplift, if you ever
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  want to watch and get motivation, come to New York on marathon Sunday.
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  It'll be worth the trip. It'll be worth the while, and you'll thoroughly
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  enjoy it. I know you will, because even as bystanders, you can't
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  help but get moved by those who are about to complete a journey of a
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  lifetime aka twenty six two twenty six point two miles at the New York City
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  Marathon. Is there anything like it in the greatest city in the world.
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  That's up for you to decide, but I'll let the cheering do the talking
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  the rest of the way. Have a great night here on the Alex Garrett
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  podcast Network, one of