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First Thanksgiving engaged; Covering the 2023 Port Washington Thanksgiving Day Run 11-23-23 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, Happy Thanksgiving, and this morning
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  we got to witness something very awesome, the twenty twenty three Port Washington Thanksgiving
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  five mile run. But before that, I had Gaby and I record this
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  little message to all of our friends and family, including the podcast family.
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  All right, well, being that this is the first time I've ever been
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  engaged on Thanksgiving, and y'all know my fiance by now. Gaby and I
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  want to wish you a happy to be Thanksgiving. It is special to be
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  engaged to her and thankful to her, and to have our family's blessing when
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  it comes to our engagement. And we love everyone very much and am thankful
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  for each other. I'm thankful for Gabby, and thankful for my family,
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  Thankful that even from above, my Dad's spirit is with us this Thanksgiving,
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  and very thankful to have gotten the chance to talk to many different people lonely
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  not parade route, but racing route in Port Washington. Well, if you
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  were on the Port Washington Thanksgiving Day run this year, you heard the voice
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  of Bobby Keller greeting you and cheering on the finnage line. Bobby, thanks
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  for joining my podcast for a minute. Absolutely my pleasure. I always love
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  how you guys as the announcers that I've running for years pump the runners up.
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  What does I mean to do this second year? Now? Right,
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  it's my second year I run the Community Chest and this is an amazing event
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  for Paul Washington. So what I want people to know is that this is
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  a charity run. Every year we raise money for all the amazing charities here
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  in Port Washington. This year we raised over three hundred and eighty five thousand
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  dollars amazing for twenty eight Port Washington charities to help them do all the good
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  work they do here. And that's what Thanksgiving is about, isn't en?
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  It truly is. And I'm grateful for every one of our runners okay this
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  year to help us well. Hopefully next year I'll be in this thing.
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  But congratulates on all the great work you do. And what's your message on
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  this Thanksgiving? My message on this Thanksgiving is we are one community here in
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  Paul, Washington, and we come together as a community every year to run
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  and the Thanksgiving Day run and now known is the Run for the Red Feather.
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  And tell me what it means to be the community chests for our community
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  here. Well, the community chest has been here in Paul, Washington for
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  most seventy five years, and we embrace it everybody in this community and encourage
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  him to think about others in our community that they need help, don't have
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  as much as they do, and to think perhaps about giving their donation to
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  healthcare friends and neighbors. Well, I'll be sure to tag you guys on
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  it. Are you on social media? Yeah, we're on Facebook, Instagram
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  and LinkedIn. All right, I'll be sure to tag you. Thanks so
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  much, so much. I'm with Mary Johnson, who's actually running on a
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  prosthetic leg. And how many races have you done with the turkey trot?
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  I've been doing a turkey trot ever since I lost my leg seven years ago.
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  Tell me about how that happened to me. A month it was an
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  accident, Dasstaiam. Tell me about your running journey. So you've been running
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  your whole life, I imagine, or tell me about adaptings the like if
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  you don't like to have to learn d walk again and learn, and then
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  I wouldn't be able to run. I didn't accept that for an answer,
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  and so I did whatever I couldn't remember had to do to learn how to
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  run to be able to tell me about the journey, because I mean,
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  I know this is part of the moment. But tell me how many races
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  you've run since losing the leg and how many process you actually had to run.
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  I just had to just want to walk and went to run. It
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  took me several years to learn how to hold a few years to get a
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  running pross crocuses as my leg, and then once I had it, it
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  took me a few years to learn how to ride. Any I still like,
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  it's not perfect. It's always a learning process. So now do you
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  run here in the city, are in port or do you run on the
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  island? New York City? Where do you exactly run? I don't know
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  whoever happened to me? Fort Washington, sometimes kan New York City. I
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  always run the adaptive communities. So I learn taxing texts from other people like
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  Achilles International. Achilles, Yes, yep, yeah, yeah. They've been
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  trying to at me wrong with them forever. I've been running since I was
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  three years old, so I kind of relate. You know, you're really
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  great people. So is the recovery time with the processes A lot or do
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  you recover and bounce back after e rach or how does the recovery time I
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  bounce back pret quickly? Maybe just as I'm young. I don't know very
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  much. So yes, well, thanks so much, marrying God bless happy.
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  Thanks sitting by the way. Yeah, call me here at the twenty
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  twenty three Turkey Trot and I got someone who addressed in an actual Turkey suit.
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  Rebecca, congratulations on completing this race. Oh, thank you so much.
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  It's so much fun. How many? How many has you've been doing
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  this? That it's my fifth year doing the race, but my third one
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  in the Turkey costumes? Tell me what it means to run this whole event
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  every year? Oh, it's really great to see the whole media come together
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  and really you see all differents loans up anleticism from the kids coming back after
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  their first year of college and just rushing it. You know, people have
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  been doing this for years and years now. A lot of pies get donated.
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  It's just a really great way to kick off the day. Now,
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  what do you do? Are you in port or where do you run?
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  Yeah? I'm here in Fort Washington. Yeah very cool. Well, what's
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  your you know a lot of people that run the race as well on the
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  gathering. Yeah, so a lot of people from our gym we go to
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  Island Athletics are doing the race, so we all get together afterwards. Your
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  husband is also dress in the turkey. Yeah, tell me about your olechny.
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  My name is Jeff. Welcome to the Alex Scarrat podcast. Tell me
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  about your run today in this turkey costume. You know what, I tried
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  my best. It was warmer than I thought it would be, so the
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  turkey costume really made me overheat there for in the end stuck with it and
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  almost passed out, and then it was fine. Now you guys are the
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  only ones I dress up in gear during this day, right, Yeah?
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  You know our favorite ones are the reindeer with Santa. So I think there's
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  a group of nine the run together. Oh yeah, there's another guy with
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  inflatable turkey here. But yeah, it's always fun to see what kind of
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  creative things too. How do you good plays for Thanksgiving? The rest of
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  the day we'll cover cover from the rum My favorite part of dressing up for
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  the turkey. Costumes are around the corners and groups of kids are like,
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  look at that perfectly and they go, wow, he's going kind of fast.
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  That's great. Well, congratulations again, and one more thing, did
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  your times get better as the years go on? Here or no? My
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  best year is my first, My bedtime is the first. Guy's a turkey
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  cost Oh but you know so well, congratulations again, Rebecca, Thanks so
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  much, God bless you so there you have it. And no matter how
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  you celebrate today and where you're at, being thankful for family, being thankful
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  for friends, and just being thankful, we're here today to once again celebrate
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  Thanksgiving is all that it's about, and thanks be to God on top of
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  it all. Talk Too Soon on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network