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Episode 7 | Erin Cassidy · Age Groupers

0:00
SPEAKER_03: So what's our intro gonna be?
0:01
SPEAKER_03: Age groupers.
0:03
SPEAKER_01: Pew So I wanna ask you about something before you really get into it.
0:16
SPEAKER_01: About you said something in the text messages about when it's cold outside.
0:20
SPEAKER_01: Can we talk about that?
0:21
SPEAKER_01: What is that?
0:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
0:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh, so um it's called rain odds.
0:24
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
0:25
SPEAKER_00: And it is uh I guess it started about five years ago.
0:29
SPEAKER_00: Um and it it's just like you lose circulation in your like for me, it's fingers and toes.
0:35
SPEAKER_00: Um and so I'll have like a an entire finger will just turn completely white when it's too cold.
0:39
SPEAKER_00: It happened today on the trail.
0:41
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was like 75 and it was just it was too cold for my hands.
0:45
SPEAKER_00: Um and it kind of hurts.
0:47
SPEAKER_00: Like it's funny.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: I think uh Roddy has a shirt that's like Reynolds Awareness Month or something because he thinks he's funny.
0:52
SPEAKER_00: Um but uh and it is.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, but it it kind of hurts, and like the only way to fix it when it happens is to like submerge my hands in really hot water.
1:01
SPEAKER_00: So if it's my hands and my feet, then I'm just like I have to like fill up a bathtub so that my hands and my feet can all be in the water.
1:10
SPEAKER_00: Um it's not frostbite.
1:12
SPEAKER_00: It's not no, but and so probably not within like a few hours or something.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: But I mean if they just stayed cold forever, I guess.
1:18
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
1:19
SPEAKER_00: It's never really gotten to that point because it doesn't feel good.
1:22
SPEAKER_00: So I'm always like, okay, I gotta like, I gotta do something.
1:25
SPEAKER_03: Um is there really a Reynods awareness month?
1:28
SPEAKER_00: I think it's February.
1:29
SPEAKER_00: Okay, cool.
1:30
SPEAKER_00: Um and that's when the shirt comes out and starts showing up on morning runs.
1:35
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna have to get me one.
1:36
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:36
SPEAKER_03: Roddy, if you can uh get a hold of one for me, I'll take a large.
1:40
SPEAKER_03: That's funny.
1:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm sure he'll be more than happy to find one if it's something to like make fun of somebody.
1:46
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'd had to ask because I'd never heard of that before.
1:49
SPEAKER_03: And uh you mean I actually meant to look that up because I thought you were joking.
1:52
SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, I think she's serious.
1:53
SPEAKER_03: No, I looked it up, it's real.
1:54
SPEAKER_01: Okay, but I wanted to hear it from her.
1:57
SPEAKER_01: Uh well, Aaron, thanks for coming.
1:59
SPEAKER_01: We really appreciate this.
2:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, if you would just tell us about you.
2:03
SPEAKER_00: Uh well, so I'm a runner and a mom, obviously.
2:08
SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of the running part, is why I'm here.
2:11
SPEAKER_00: Uh, my kids inside.
2:12
SPEAKER_00: So um best of luck to you.
2:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so cool that she came, by the way.
2:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think it's really cool.
2:16
SPEAKER_00: We hang out all the time.
2:17
SPEAKER_00: She doesn't really have anywhere else to go other than just you know hanging out with me.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: But she's kind of obsessed with me, so she kind of always wants to be where I'm at anyway.
2:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, I think that's a stage.
2:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna hang on to it as long as I can.
2:27
SPEAKER_00: Uh so she runs with me in the morning.
2:30
SPEAKER_00: She's a 4 a.m.
2:31
SPEAKER_00: runner.
2:31
SPEAKER_00: Um, sometimes she sleeps, and sometimes she starts out demanding to walk, and it's like, okay, you can walk until that light pole, and then you bribe her with gummies to get in this truck.
2:40
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
2:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, so she is a runner's kid through and through.
2:43
SPEAKER_00: Uh what else is there about me?
2:46
SPEAKER_00: Um, so I wore I wore my sorrel shirt because, of course, like you know, I uh I'm involved with the San Angelo Road Lizards, um, directing the dino race that's coming up.
2:56
SPEAKER_00: Um on my feet I have uh rabbit socks.
2:59
SPEAKER_00: Um so the running brand um rabbit.
3:03
SPEAKER_00: I am an ambassador for them for the 2026-2027 years.
3:07
SPEAKER_00: So I wanted to kind of represent both um of the of the companies or um I don't know, sorrel's not a company, it's a nonprofit um that I represent and that I feel like are supportive of me.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: Um and then uh I work at DeVita dialysis.
3:22
SPEAKER_00: So I actually um I'm the facility administrator for a clinic in Midland.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: So I drive to work two hours every day.
3:29
SPEAKER_00: That's why I run so early every day.
3:31
SPEAKER_00: So four days a week usually.
3:33
SPEAKER_00: Um lately it's been every day because we've had just like some survey activity going on.
3:38
SPEAKER_00: Um, anything in healthcare, you know, you have to like be recertified.
3:41
SPEAKER_00: Um but going forward, it'll be again like the four days a week uh driving back and forth.
3:47
SPEAKER_00: So that's rough.
3:47
SPEAKER_00: That's why I run so early.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: I don't necessarily love waking up at three in the morning.
3:52
SPEAKER_00: Um it's more of like if I don't do it then, then I'm not gonna run any other time, uh, especially in the summer, because no one wants to run when it's a hundred degrees in the evening.
4:01
SPEAKER_03: There's a bit of a 4 a.m.
4:02
SPEAKER_03: club though, too.
4:03
SPEAKER_03: It's not just you and Aurora, right?
4:05
SPEAKER_03: There's a couple of y'all.
4:05
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
4:06
SPEAKER_03: A few of y'all.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: There's a few of us.
4:07
SPEAKER_00: Um, and we have dubbed ourselves the night crawlers.
4:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I saw that too.
4:11
SPEAKER_00: I saw that play too.
4:13
SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's just a little, it's the early morning sorrel runners.
4:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh we usually meet at my house.
4:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, started because uh Roddy and I were trying to bring back that Monday run that Sorrel used to do.
4:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I was like, I don't know if I can wake up.
4:26
SPEAKER_00: I think it's too early.
4:27
SPEAKER_00: I just, you know, I had a baby who was not sleeping through the night.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: So we were like, we'll start it just the two of us.
4:33
SPEAKER_00: We'll start it at my house so that I don't have to worry about driving anywhere.
4:36
SPEAKER_00: Um and then we just started bringing more people in uh that are crazy enough to run, I guess, that early in the morning.
4:42
SPEAKER_00: Um and then more recently it's become like, and and now you're you could fall victim to this too because you live so close.
4:49
SPEAKER_03: Um I've seen you guys a couple of times when I'm super early.
4:52
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
4:52
SPEAKER_00: So basically, anyone who's within like a two and a half mile radius of my house is at risk for getting their driveway tagged.
4:59
SPEAKER_00: Um so we've been chalking people's driveways, which has been kind of fun.
5:03
SPEAKER_00: Um that is fun.
5:04
SPEAKER_01: I saw that this morning because you said something about you forgot to turn your watch off.
5:08
SPEAKER_01: And so now we know it takes four minutes, I think it's what you said to tag a driveway.
5:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
5:13
SPEAKER_00: The best part about that is Caleb laughed at me um for not turning my watch off, and then apparently he didn't turn his off either.
5:19
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's amazing.
5:19
SPEAKER_00: So he had an even an even longer mile than I did.
5:22
SPEAKER_01: Um too funny.
5:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's been pretty fun.
5:25
SPEAKER_01: Um, okay, so going back to um your your work schedule, how do you balance?
5:32
SPEAKER_01: I know you have to start in the morning, but that's a long day.
5:35
SPEAKER_01: You start at 3 a.m.-ish, and then you run, and then you have to drive two hours to Midland, ish.
5:42
SPEAKER_01: And then so just walk us through like how do you balance that?
5:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, the word balance sounds nice.
5:48
SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't know if I'm balancing it or if Aurora's just watching me experience burnout, um, which I think is probably true for any parent who is trying to have uh like do their job well and to have some type of hobby that they love and stay moderately healthy.
6:07
SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't say I'm, you know, like the most healthy in the world, um, and and just still also trying to like be a good parent to them, spend some time with them, um, keep a partner happy.
6:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's a lot that you're squeezing in.
6:21
SPEAKER_00: So I feel like a lot of times I tell myself, like, oh, I'm balancing this really well because I have really good weeks.
6:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, it is a lot of getting up early.
6:29
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I think there's things you can do.
6:32
SPEAKER_00: Like, I like to get up like an hour early before I run, um, just to kind of make sure I'm fully awake.
6:36
SPEAKER_00: I want to eat, but not too close to when I run because then I'll get a cramp.
6:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, so you want to be fueled, but you um so I'll like make some coffee, I'll drink a little bit of coffee, I'll eat, I'll kind of like wander around, maybe like listen to some music.
6:51
SPEAKER_00: Um, sometimes I'll read for a little while.
6:53
SPEAKER_00: This morning I did none of those things.
6:55
SPEAKER_00: I woke up and I was like, I have five minutes to get out the door.
6:58
SPEAKER_00: Um, so I try to find a way to make that the time I have to myself um during the day.
7:04
SPEAKER_00: Um because you know, once once I'm running, um obviously that's what that's what I'm doing at that time.
7:10
SPEAKER_00: And then it's like the rush back to get ready for work, to get her ready for daycare.
7:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, and usually because my my drive is so long and I'm really strictly bound by daycare.
7:21
SPEAKER_00: They open at 7, they close at 5.30.
7:23
SPEAKER_00: So I can drop her off at 7, I have to be back to get her by 5.30.
7:26
SPEAKER_00: So I use those two hours for like work calls, um, catching up with teammates, maybe that I I won't have a chance to sit down and talk to face to face in the clinic.
7:35
SPEAKER_00: So that when I'm there in the clinic, I can do like what I need to do with patients, with team, um, anything like that.
7:41
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes during that hour in the morning, I'll actually do a little bit of work because my um in dialysis, the patients start really early.
7:48
SPEAKER_00: So the team starts early, they clock in at 3 50.
7:51
SPEAKER_00: So I can actually go ahead and go in and fix their time cards.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I can do some little like just um like administrative stuff, um, fix things from the day before, look at outcomes and our electronic uh medical record, things like that.
8:07
SPEAKER_00: So a little bit of the balance is about figuring out how to manage your time, um how to use it as well.
8:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it doesn't, it doesn't look the same every single day.
8:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then uh the evenings, you know, I get her and it seems like, I mean, with her age, we get home 545, it's feed the dogs, feed the kid.
8:30
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I talk about doing some strength training, and I it doesn't happen.
8:34
SPEAKER_00: Um, sometimes I just do like some weird Pilates stuff in the living room while she watches Mickey Mouse.
8:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, every once in a while I'll get lucky and she'll like let me go in the garage and actually use weights.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: That's not super often.
8:47
SPEAKER_00: Um and then I mean, 7:30, you're basically done for the night because you're getting up early.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: So it's like, you know, that's what I'm like, I'm gonna melt into the couch for a little while.
8:57
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna watch Frozen or Cocoa, whatever it is.
9:00
SPEAKER_00: And that's like the me and her time, like read some books, sometimes play games.
9:03
SPEAKER_00: So um, but there's not, I think the one thing that you can't fit in um is like a really booming social life.
9:14
SPEAKER_00: But also once you have a parent and you have this little person, like you don't really need that as much.
9:19
SPEAKER_00: So my social life becomes those morning runs with with the you know, the friends that are doing that with me.
9:24
SPEAKER_00: And the group changes.
9:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I think that's why like as an adult, I've kind of fallen in love with running, is because um I can go run with you in the morning and we can have a great conversation, and that can kind of fill my cup as far as like what I need from some adult interaction, and then I don't feel like oh, I'm missing out on something later on.
9:44
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, this is exactly where I need to be, and I've had a little bit of something that I need somewhere throughout the day.
9:50
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
9:51
SPEAKER_01: I uh yeah, I kind of feel the same way in that regard where I don't miss like the social events as much that I used to do before I started running and working out as much as I do now.
10:01
SPEAKER_01: That kind of fills the cup in that regard, especially when you're with other people.
10:05
SPEAKER_01: So that's really cool to hear you say that.
10:07
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
10:07
SPEAKER_03: No, and I love uh I mean you you're talking about just kind of squeezing in like your strength training and stuff, like where you can get it with like I mean that's why we have a TV in here.
10:16
SPEAKER_03: We put whatever up there, the kids will watch it, they'll go play, and we're just in here moving around doing what we can do.
10:22
SPEAKER_03: But uh I mean I love that.
10:23
SPEAKER_03: I think you know, when your kids, your kids see that they're literally born into it and they're just like, oh, this is what normal life is, this is what we're supposed to do, you know.
10:33
SPEAKER_03: Um, I just think that's really cool.
10:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
10:35
SPEAKER_03: Sounds like you've got it somewhat figured out.
10:37
SPEAKER_03: I think you could write a book.
10:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, some I mean, some days I have it figured out, and then some days it's you know, just just like everybody else, or I mean I hope like everybody else maybe has these days, um, where you know, like there's some tears in the car, and I'm like kind of like ugly eating some donuts to like relieve some stress.
10:52
SPEAKER_00: And you get that out before you pick the the the children up.
10:55
SPEAKER_00: But um, I mean I don't hope people have those days, but I I do hope I'm not the only crazy one out there who sometimes is just like, well, what am I doing?
11:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, am I trying, am I am I trying to fit something in that just doesn't fit anymore, like at this age or in this stage of life?
11:08
SPEAKER_00: But um, I think overall, yeah.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'll write a book someday.
11:11
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
11:12
SPEAKER_03: It's okay to take the L.
11:13
SPEAKER_03: You just you just gotta keep moving.
11:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
11:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
11:16
SPEAKER_01: So let's uh rewind a little bit.
11:18
SPEAKER_01: I wanted to take it to talk about all that because we got here somewhere, or somehow rather.
11:24
SPEAKER_01: So what is what is your I guess athletic journey look like?
11:28
SPEAKER_01: How how far back do we go?
11:30
SPEAKER_01: Like, where did this all start?
11:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, so with running, really it didn't start until um like I ran a little bit in high school, not not on part of a team.
11:41
SPEAKER_00: Um, but my dad, um he ran track in high school.
11:46
SPEAKER_00: So he was, I don't know, I know he did hurdles and he was like a 400.
11:50
SPEAKER_00: There are 400 to 800 guys.
11:51
SPEAKER_00: So he's amazed, by the way.
11:52
SPEAKER_00: He thinks I'm incredible.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: He's always like to my sisters, he's like, Oh, girls, you hear this?
11:57
SPEAKER_00: Like, Aaron can run a half marathon at an 11-minute pace, and like he's like, Oh, it's pretty quick.
12:02
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I don't think you really know much about running because that's not it's not overly fast, dude.
12:07
SPEAKER_00: Um, so with running, it's kind of been like off and on since high school.
12:12
SPEAKER_00: A little bit in high school with him.
12:13
SPEAKER_00: Um, we would go and run like little 5Ks.
12:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then in college, actually, sadly to admit, you know, sad to admit this, but I would just get up in the morning and run to like split out a hangover just on a treadmill that was in the kitchen.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: Um so I would do that.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: And then um, when I started working for De Vita, they're actually um every year in September they have uh what's called Move It with Purpose.
12:37
SPEAKER_00: And then they also in the past, they didn't do it this year, they have um a thing called Tour de Vita.
12:42
SPEAKER_00: And so both of those are Tour de Vita is like a bike event across America.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, like Tour Tour to the United States.
12:49
SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah.
12:49
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
12:50
SPEAKER_03: Um and then don't disrespect the Tour de France in front of Zach.
12:54
SPEAKER_03: What do you mean?
12:55
SPEAKER_03: What did I do?
12:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, just don't just don't disrespect it.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: Do you love Tour de France?
13:00
SPEAKER_00: Are you also a like an avid cyclist?
13:03
SPEAKER_01: I pretend to be.
13:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, cool.
13:05
SPEAKER_00: Um so the move it with purpose.
13:07
SPEAKER_00: When I I started with Devita nine years ago, uh, moved down here to Texas from West Virginia and stayed with them.
13:13
SPEAKER_00: And when I started, I worked in Odessa, so I've never worked in San Angelo.
13:17
SPEAKER_00: Um I worked in St.
13:18
SPEAKER_00: Angelo as the or in Odessa as the social worker.
13:22
SPEAKER_00: And at the same time that I started here, um, we got a new facility administrator, his name's Hector.
13:29
SPEAKER_00: Uh, he was my boss then, and like weirdly, he's my boss now after multiple changes for both of us.
13:34
SPEAKER_00: Um, but we just got really competitive with each other.
13:38
SPEAKER_00: Like, we were making shirts and we were trying to get more steps than each other.
13:42
SPEAKER_00: And so I was going home from work every day and just running five miles on my treadmill because I was determined to have more steps than him.
13:48
SPEAKER_00: I think he beat me every time.
13:50
SPEAKER_00: I've never won in eight years of working with this guy.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: I've never won.
13:55
SPEAKER_00: But like I always go in there thinking like this is the year I'm gonna get him.
13:59
SPEAKER_00: Um, and he just he he outshines me every time.
14:02
SPEAKER_00: He'll probably see this someday, and that's just disgusting.
14:04
SPEAKER_00: But shout out to Hector, man.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, shout out to Hector.
14:07
SPEAKER_00: He but he like that whole thing really motivated me, and he did, and then there was of course others on our team, but um, throughout the years, every September, like he's someone that I'm always like, uh I'm gonna get out there and beat him.
14:22
SPEAKER_00: And so that's when I really got into running.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: And so I told myself, this was 2021, um, I went through a divorce, and I was like, it felt like it would never end.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: It was only like a two-month thing, it was very easy.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I was like, oh, if this ever ends, I'm joining a run club.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: And so I found the road lizards and I showed up, got lost the first time.
14:43
SPEAKER_00: Uh Daniela came to find me.
14:45
SPEAKER_00: She's like, Are you going further?
14:46
SPEAKER_00: Or I was like, Oh no, I'm not trying to go any further.
14:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm just, I don't know where I'm at.
14:52
SPEAKER_00: So you did you admit you were lost?
14:53
SPEAKER_03: Or you're like, yeah, I'm just trying to get like super dumb amount of miles in out here.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so like the rest is history.
15:00
SPEAKER_00: I became the secretary, and then uh the next year I became the president.
15:03
SPEAKER_00: And so I I did other things, you know.
15:06
SPEAKER_00: I started, I did dance and I did gymnastics for a little while, played soccer for a year.
15:11
SPEAKER_00: Um, but really running is the only thing that has really stuck.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, and like no shade to runners, obviously, because we're all runners, but I feel like it's the only thing I'm athletic enough to do because it's like one foot in front of the other.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: I don't have to be able to like kick a ball, I don't have to have any much eye-hand coordination.
15:27
SPEAKER_00: I'll still fall.
15:28
SPEAKER_00: I've messed my face up on Knickerbocker.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: Like I, but I'm like, don't don't add anything else into it.
15:34
SPEAKER_00: I can't even look up.
15:36
SPEAKER_00: So uh the night crawlers, I don't know if y'all know Nikki Jones.
15:40
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: She she's always like, Oh, look, you can see Jupiter tonight.
15:43
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I can't look up and run.
15:46
SPEAKER_00: And so we were talking about this yesterday.
15:48
SPEAKER_00: If I look up, like I'm gonna trip, or I'm gonna end up like off this, off the the Red Arroyo trail, like in the grass, because it's like right here.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: You're right here.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: There's some places out there you wouldn't want to fall to.
16:01
SPEAKER_01: Definitely not.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: Uh speaking of Nikki, we're trying to get her on here.
16:04
SPEAKER_01: No pressure.
16:05
SPEAKER_03: All the pressure, Nikki.
16:06
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, all the pressure.
16:08
SPEAKER_03: She said she's like 90% there.
16:10
SPEAKER_03: And so you gotta you gotta encourage her to get over here.
16:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
16:14
SPEAKER_03: Even if you have to come and sit here and hold her hand, it'll be okay.
16:16
SPEAKER_03: We'll do it.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if she'd let me hold her hand, and if I tried, like I'm a little scared of her.
16:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if y'all know she carries a knife.
16:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I'll I'll drive her over.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: I'll make sure she gets here.
16:25
SPEAKER_00: We can do like a what do they call it?
16:27
SPEAKER_00: Like a police escort, but it won't be the police, it'll just be like me.
16:30
SPEAKER_03: Um you can be her PR person that way.
16:33
SPEAKER_03: If you, you know, you're like, wait, redact.
16:35
SPEAKER_03: Let's redact that.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: Nikki might be like one of the best athletes I've ever met.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I've gotta be one of the best in St.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Andrew.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: She's an absolute beast.
16:43
SPEAKER_00: Like, I feel like there's nothing.
16:44
SPEAKER_03: I've followed her for a long time.
16:46
SPEAKER_03: Uh my wife, Sunya, like Nikki's one of her idols.
16:49
SPEAKER_03: So yeah.
16:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
16:50
SPEAKER_03: She's a gangster.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: And Nikki and I became friends on Strava.
16:53
SPEAKER_00: So when I Ah, same.
16:55
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
16:56
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
16:56
SPEAKER_03: I've met her a couple times, like in person, but like I've never met her.
16:59
SPEAKER_03: I've conversed with her so much on Strava just because you know that's the place to converse.
17:03
SPEAKER_01: She's always, it doesn't matter what time it is, it's either you, but it's usually her as the first person to like my activity.
17:10
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how she gets to it so quick.
17:11
SPEAKER_03: Maybe I don't like her then because I'm the ultimate giver of kudos.
17:15
SPEAKER_03: I don't miss one with Nikki for sure.
17:17
SPEAKER_03: Okay, Nikki, I'm coming.
17:18
SPEAKER_03: I'm coming.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she's good.
17:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, I want to go back to the road lizards.
17:22
SPEAKER_01: Uh I I can't say it enough how much I love the road lizards and how well the events are run that you guys put on.
17:30
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
17:31
SPEAKER_01: You still hold the president seat?
17:32
SPEAKER_01: Is it still okay?
17:33
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
17:35
SPEAKER_01: They're always so well organized, they're always so much fun.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: Um so can you talk about the road lizards a little bit?
17:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:41
SPEAKER_01: Like who are they?
17:42
SPEAKER_01: What do they do?
17:44
SPEAKER_00: Um, so this is 2026.
17:46
SPEAKER_00: They started in 82.
17:49
SPEAKER_00: Um, so what math is a little bit hard sometimes, but um so they started in 82.
17:54
SPEAKER_00: Um y'all probably know Kent, Kent Fish.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: He and his wife Anne.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: Um, they are two of the founding members.
18:02
SPEAKER_00: Um and it was, you know, they all they all started.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: Uh he moved here, he was looking for people to run with, he found those people to run with, they started the Road Lizards.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: Um, what I know about now, um, so we do have a board, a pretty large board.
18:17
SPEAKER_00: I think there's 12 of us.
18:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, and we have a little board chat that we use on Facebook Messenger.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: That's how we kind of get together for like the weekly runs.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: If there's anything that's gonna change, things we need to vote on, you know.
18:30
SPEAKER_00: Of course, we have like our meetings and stuff, but um, the weekly runs have been the same for as long as I've I've been here.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: So the Tuesday has not changed.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: Um the Friday has not changed except for the location once Soko closed.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: Um and then the change within the Saturday run, it used to be 3R.
18:46
SPEAKER_00: So Kyle Barron and Nicole Lindsey were 3R training.
18:49
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then they gave that to us uh just this year, actually.
18:53
SPEAKER_00: And so we've kind of done a few different things with that.
18:55
SPEAKER_00: Um at Mary Lee Park, one of the main reasons is when you get when you're going down uh fisherman, it's just not stroller friendly.
19:03
SPEAKER_00: Um and so for me that was a big deal.
19:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, and also like we want to see you know families coming out with their kids because we need this next generation of runners.
19:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, and we talk about this a lot within the board because you know, not that any of us are like old, but as we get older, like you're not getting a lot of like young people in their 20s, even early 30s on the board.
19:24
SPEAKER_00: And so we're like, we've got to be raising up these this next generation of um not only runners in San Angelo, but but who's gonna take over the run club because the hope is that it continues for as long as it can.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
19:36
SPEAKER_01: Um another 40 years.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: Another 40 years would be great.
19:39
SPEAKER_01: It's super impressive that it's been around that long.
19:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I had no idea.
19:42
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's so cool.
19:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it actually, so I don't know if this club still exists, and I'm I'm not the best historian.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: I just know I've heard Kent talk a little bit about it, so if I'm a little bit wrong, give me some grace.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: But um it started out including um like somewhere in Brownfield, like the West Texas Running Club or something like that.
20:02
SPEAKER_01: Brownfield, really.
20:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it included the whole it was like a lot of like West Texas, and I know that like one of the um that one of the guys, um last name Borger, which is a place up above Dumas, so like all of this West Texas area was included at first, and then um another one of the founding members was actually the grandfather of um Adam Casares.
20:22
SPEAKER_00: So he used to be on the board, he and his wife Kyla um both joined the army, and so they're gone.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: But he is like sorrel royalty, kind of, because it was his great-grandfather, I believe.
20:32
SPEAKER_03: Um that is that's really cool.
20:34
SPEAKER_03: I mean, I've seen both of them, but I did not know that.
20:36
SPEAKER_03: That's super cool.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so um hopefully someday they'll be back.
20:40
SPEAKER_00: You know, they're they're pretty young too, but to have that like personal connection, um, to bring have them on the board and to, you know, to know that like there's someone like going forward that cares about sorrow as much as like everybody else does that's on the board.
20:53
SPEAKER_00: Um so with the Saturday run, sorry, I got off on a little tangent, but um the Saturday run, you know, we want families and and kids to come out, you know, your kids, I see them running and stuff too, and it's like, yeah, you want maybe it's gonna be 20 years before they're ready to kind of like be a club that like meets up and runs together.
21:13
SPEAKER_00: But if they meet this young, if we all have our kids out there, then eventually, hopefully, we'll have that next generation.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then we started the Monday run, it's been a couple of years now, I think in 2023.
21:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, and it's just every other Monday.
21:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I don't remember why we started it every other Monday, but it seems to work.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: Um and that one, it's that kind of like goes up and down um with as far as attendance because Mondays are tough.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: So if you get off work and it's at five thirty, but um we've we do see a good amount of people that get out there.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: Um, 'cause at one point I was uh I asked the board like, Hey, should we just cancel this one?
21:51
SPEAKER_00: And and then they were like, No, let's not.
21:53
SPEAKER_00: And then all of a sudden now like you can get like seven people.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: I mean, seven people's enough.
21:57
SPEAKER_00: Um get out there, yeah.
21:59
SPEAKER_00: So Um, and then as far as the races, um Dennis and I direct, he directs most of them, Dennis Hall.
22:06
SPEAKER_00: Um, I have just Dino, and then in the past I've done Hustle with Your Honey.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: Um, we're actually not gonna do that one this year, um, just because I know it's kind of disappointing.
22:16
SPEAKER_00: Um, and it was a fun race that I think at some point will come back.
22:20
SPEAKER_00: So this was one that was done in the 80s downtown, um, and then it happened for a few years, and then we brought it back in I can't remember what year, 2022 maybe.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: Um but if you think about the Shana Trail series and you think about the crazy desert, and then you think about some of the other races, so like we have Trail Series, but in the middle of that you have Bandera, and a lot of the road lizards go and run Bandera.
22:43
SPEAKER_00: That's true.
22:43
SPEAKER_00: Um and then it always ended up that Hustle with Your Honey was on one of the same weekends as Rocky Raccoon.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: So there's like I think there's a 50 and a hundred miler.
22:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and so everything just kind of comes together at that same time, and it's a fun race.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: We all loved it, but I I don't know that right now is the best time.
23:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think that's the only race on y'all's calendar that I've never done.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: Just for that reason, like I can just never make it for whatever reason.
23:08
SPEAKER_03: So we've hit them all.
23:10
SPEAKER_03: I think this last year it got like quote unquote rained out.
23:13
SPEAKER_03: Everyone still went, but we had our our youngest was like brand new.
23:18
SPEAKER_03: She was still, I mean, she was out of the oven, but she was a fresh bred, and we were like, ah, we probably shouldn't take her out there, you know.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:25
SPEAKER_03: There was some lightning, and we're like, ah, yeah, you were like, hey, let's go ahead and get started.
23:30
SPEAKER_00: I thought it probably sounded just like that.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, if too like if you want to run, you can go ahead.
23:36
SPEAKER_00: Like, and the thing about that one is it's not overly competitive, so um, it's mostly for fun.
23:42
SPEAKER_00: You find someone, whether it's your spouse or your best friend, your child, and you're running together.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: And the point of it is to like just go and enjoy downtown.
23:51
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then for individuals, there's some cool prizes because you could get, and this is how I met Renee.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, the top prize for uh male and female is a six months free membership at the Bar Athletic Club.
24:05
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: And like that's that I don't I couldn't tell you all the details, but like me getting that sponsorship from Tommy led to somehow me knowing Renee.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: I had never seen him before, so I'm at the bar one time.
24:21
SPEAKER_00: Like that sounds crazy.
24:22
SPEAKER_00: The athletic club.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: And I'm um The bar, not the bar.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the bar.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: And I'm sitting in Tommy's office, and this guy walks in, and I was like, Hey, it I've met you on Strava and Facebook Messenger.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so and that was Renee, and then now sometimes he runs at 4 a.m.
24:42
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, you know.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, I kind of got lost.
24:48
SPEAKER_03: You know.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: But I think that that with Renee and building that friendship through Dino last year, then he was like, hey, I know this guy, Tyler, who has like an off-road vehicle and uh that you could use for your race.
25:03
SPEAKER_00: And hey, I have all these generators.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I don't really know if we need generators, but then like lo and behold, half of our generators started not working.
25:10
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, hey, you saw that generator?
25:12
SPEAKER_00: And then someone hurt their ankle out on the trail in the middle of the night or something, or yeah.
25:16
SPEAKER_00: And so I was like, I'm gonna need that, whatever this is called with the large tires.
25:22
SPEAKER_00: Never driven one before.
25:23
SPEAKER_00: Didn't tell you that, Tyler.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, you're finding that out now.
25:25
SPEAKER_00: I made it back.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: I don't think I put any scratches on it.
25:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, saved Brandon.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: I don't say saved, but you said I think you saved him, yeah.
25:33
SPEAKER_03: I didn't heard that story.
25:34
SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
25:35
SPEAKER_03: That's wild.
25:36
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he like, I I I think he he I don't think he broke it, but he messed it up pretty much.
25:40
SPEAKER_03: It was bad, yeah.
25:41
SPEAKER_03: It was it was jacked up.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: I would say he had like what six weeks at least of like trying to trying to get back out of there.
25:46
SPEAKER_00: You wouldn't know it now because he's just like he was before, like running every day and all that.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: But you know, and this this kind of goes back into like the social aspect of like run clubs.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: So I like to run, but I don't necessarily love racing.
25:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm not overly competitive when it comes to like I don't want to be in a group of people and try to be the best.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: I just want to like try to like beat someone from afar, like you know, like my boss.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: Um just Hector.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: You don't care about anyone else.
26:11
SPEAKER_00: I'm just trying to be Hector.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: If there's ever an opportunity to beat Hector, I'm gonna try to do it.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: I think he knows that, but he also knows it's never gonna happen.
26:18
SPEAKER_01: Is Hector on Strava?
26:19
SPEAKER_00: He is not on Strava, but he's on Facebook.
26:22
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
26:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, or if he is on Strava, we're not friends yet.
26:25
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
26:26
SPEAKER_03: Maybe he's hiding from incognito.
26:28
SPEAKER_00: He could be, yeah.
26:29
SPEAKER_00: He could be hiding.
26:30
SPEAKER_00: He will he would love to be to be famous though.
26:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, but one of the cool things is even just in directing, so when Brandon hurt his ankle, um, and I had his wife, Sarah, and we rode out together because I was like, you know, I I imagine that when you hurt yourself, like you probably don't just want some like random person that you don't know all that well.
26:49
SPEAKER_00: Like you'd probably rather see the face of someone that you enjoy.
26:53
SPEAKER_00: Um so I was like, yeah, you know, let's and she was worried, so I was like, let's, you know, let's go out there together so that he can, you know, everyone can just feel better about what's going on.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: And since then, it's like now I know Sarah a little bit, and like I have her number in case there's ever anything that, like, you know, and then after the race, um, when everyone was cleaning up, I got to go over and say, like, introduce myself briefly to Tyler's wife.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: Don't forget to take out your trash cans.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: Hey.
27:18
SPEAKER_03: Thanks, Siri.
27:19
SPEAKER_03: Shout out.
27:21
SPEAKER_03: That's amazing.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, so you really like, because I feel like your running community doesn't just consist of the runners.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: Like the people who are running are part of the equation, but especially when you you go out in this like mixed bag of people, and and then half of the spouses are probably like, who the heck is this person?
27:38
SPEAKER_00: Or who the heck is this person?
27:39
SPEAKER_00: So it's nice to be able to like to know who your people are with, but also to know a little bit more about the people that you're running with.
27:45
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
27:46
SPEAKER_00: Because your spouse, your kids, your job, they're all part of who you are.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: And so I just think it's like that's what I like about the the smaller community and like being in directing the races is that I can like be out there and I can see like who's out there supporting who, especially if someone does get hurt.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't, you know, you don't have to like go out and just like on the loudspeaker, like, hey, is there somebody out here for you know, like I can be like, you know what, we don't have to announce it to the world.
28:09
SPEAKER_00: Let me just go over because like there's his wife or there's you know his mom.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: So um, but just another part of that social aspect of of running and like the tight-knit running community, getting to know everybody.
28:20
SPEAKER_03: And yeah, I mean, that's what's what's really cool.
28:22
SPEAKER_03: I mean, you guys, obviously, y'all's events were the first events I even did um and like got me hooked on running, and I guess I'd love to do actually.
28:32
SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah, the Shannon Trail series specifically.
28:34
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
28:34
SPEAKER_03: You know, shout out to Zach for literally bothering me for months to finally sign up for one.
28:39
SPEAKER_03: I did, and it was funny.
28:41
SPEAKER_03: The very my very first uh deal with you guys was the Shannon Trail series.
28:46
SPEAKER_03: I did the short course, and somehow I ended up uh like third place overall male just because nobody showed up to all the races.
28:54
SPEAKER_03: But once that happened, I'm like, all right, now I've done now I've gotta keep going, you know?
28:59
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, um, but that's what's cool about Rundad Run too.
29:02
SPEAKER_03: You know, the Dino Run is how how well geez, I can't talk.
29:05
SPEAKER_03: That's how we all started training together, you know.
29:08
SPEAKER_03: Um and that's why we like kind of formed Rundad Run, and then um, you know, so that's what we love supporting you guys because shoot, without you guys, I I don't think we'd have Rundad Run and now age groupers, and so yeah, I mean just and y'all's the thing about like y'all's races are so dang affordable too.
29:28
SPEAKER_03: Like I that's what I that's what I love.
29:30
SPEAKER_03: Um you know, you you if you sign up for any other events, they're outrageous.
29:34
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
29:34
SPEAKER_03: Um and uh so you you and you guys are the best of the best, man.
29:38
SPEAKER_03: I y'all's events are so awesome.
29:40
SPEAKER_03: Well thank you.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: And I think those affordable prices are by design.
29:44
SPEAKER_00: Um and that's one of the I mean part of it is because of who Sorrel was intended to be when they were formed.
29:51
SPEAKER_00: Um and so the all that credit goes to the founders and saying, like, this is you know, if you look on our website, it says something about um like the our purpose, our mission is to like is to promote running as a form of fitness.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: And and to us, running is also walking and hiking and rucking, it's all of those things.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: It's not you don't have to think people are intimidated by a run club.
30:11
SPEAKER_00: You go out like in a big city and they're like, oh, if you're going to a run club, that you're gonna head out there at like a 730 pace and you're just gonna do that for five miles.
30:18
SPEAKER_00: And no, like sometimes running is just walking.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes it includes just a lot of different things.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's that's one part of it for sorrow, but um, and because we're a nonprofit, um, we're actually we're able to um everything is just at cost, so the only thing we're charging for is just for us to have enough money to to pay our vendors, you know what I mean?
30:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, and a lot of race companies are for profit.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: So if you're paying$200 for a race and you're getting a shirt and a hat and like some kind of goodie bag, you're probably actually paying, and and maybe the the permit, of course, which aren't that expensive, um, especially not in San Angelo.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: But you know, the$25 you're paying for a$5k, that's paying for everything that you get for SARL.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: So anything above that would just be to like make money, um, which because we have sponsors, um, which some of those are like our, you know, we have Texas Trust, we have Shannon, we have North Bentwood Veterinary Hospital and Boarding.
31:19
SPEAKER_00: That's like the longest one.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: That's the title run or title sponsor for Dino.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, and and then we have sponsors like Run Dad Run.
31:27
SPEAKER_00: I consider them a sponsor for Dino because y'all are doing the um the first place overall for the 24 hour.
31:33
SPEAKER_00: Um, because we have those sponsorships, it allows us to make things even cheaper or we can do more.
31:39
SPEAKER_00: You know, we can have like we can have like better snacks out there.
31:43
SPEAKER_00: We can, you know, sometimes it goes towards maybe like getting a new banner or a sign.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, but that's by design because we don't want cost to be the reason that someone can't come out and run.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: Um, so like cost and pace, those are probably the two things that you should never have to worry about if all you're trying to do is find a way to move your body.
32:01
SPEAKER_00: Um and I think that's why, too, like um it's easy to partner with Run Dad Run um because y'all kind of have this same mission.
32:09
SPEAKER_00: Like, not everybody is an elite runner, hardly anybody is.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: We're all just kind of like, even if you're not a parent, like we're all trying to work, we're going to school, we're we're doing all this stuff, and we're just trying to like I don't know, keep our bodies moving and maybe like good heart health.
32:25
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
32:26
SPEAKER_00: It's a thing to try to live longer while also having like a little bit of fun doing it sometimes.
32:31
SPEAKER_00: Because you make really good memories, even if you have like a crappy run, yeah, you can still make good memories.
32:36
SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's what I hope people think of when they think of sorrel is like they want to do a race, even if every race isn't gonna be a PR, but you know what?
32:44
SPEAKER_00: Like, it doesn't matter because I'm I'm gonna put a few bucks into this, and and you can get a five-dollar discount if you don't get a shirt because not everybody wants a shirt.
32:53
SPEAKER_00: I actually have too many shirts, most people do, and you'd be surprised at how many people do that.
32:58
SPEAKER_00: They uh that they don't want the shirt.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: They don't want the shirt, yeah.
33:01
SPEAKER_03: Wild to me.
33:01
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, just take the shirt.
33:03
SPEAKER_03: Most of the time I sign up for an event is because I have to have the shirt.
33:05
SPEAKER_00: Everybody wants a medal.
33:06
SPEAKER_01: I've signed up for events before that I'm not gonna make it to, and I know I'm not gonna make it just because I want the shirt.
33:11
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
33:12
SPEAKER_03: There's been multiple times where Zach has signed up and he'll be like, hey, I can't do this one, but will you pick up my packet so you can get my shirt?
33:18
SPEAKER_03: Got his shirt so many times.
33:19
SPEAKER_03: It's not even funny.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: But sorrel shirts are all I wear.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: Like if I'm at home.
33:23
SPEAKER_03: Oh, I've got a closet full.
33:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like actually, I should say, if I'm not working.
33:27
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like much.
33:28
SPEAKER_00: If you see me in public, I'm probably wearing some form of sorrel shirt.
33:31
SPEAKER_03: You're catching me in some race shirt that is or like a run dad, run mom shirt.
33:38
SPEAKER_01: Um how can people support sorrel or what's the best way to support them?
33:42
SPEAKER_01: And then how how can they find out more?
33:44
SPEAKER_00: Um, so we have a website, um, roadlizards.org, and that's the best way to find out like more.
33:51
SPEAKER_00: Um and the this year we've started, so it used to be um Dennis and I did a lot of Dennis did all of the website stuff.
33:59
SPEAKER_00: Um and it gets to be a lot, you know, when you're when you're the only one doing something.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: So we've we're using um run sign up for our website.
34:07
SPEAKER_00: And so we have someone, Chris Houston, um, he's a board member.
34:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if everyone he goes to Trail Tuesday a lot, and then he and his uh family will come to Saturdays.
34:15
SPEAKER_00: Um he is helping keep that webpage up so that like if um we're gonna try something with the monthly challenges that we're doing.
34:24
SPEAKER_00: Um October was the KOA.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love them.
34:28
SPEAKER_00: And we're gonna try to be like, hey, the this this month in October, the runs will, the Saturday runs will be at the KOA.
34:34
SPEAKER_00: Not overly stroller friendly, so I will not be the one leading that.
34:37
SPEAKER_00: But like, and then next month, wherever that challenge happens to be, which I do have a couple of ideas, um, then we'll host those Saturday runs in that spot because it encourages people to either go out and like get the loops they need, or it just shows somewhere else to run because there's lots of little places you can run in St.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: Angel that no one knows about.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: We think of the Arroyo and downtown, State Park, things like that.
35:00
SPEAKER_00: Um and so um he's helping keep up with that website where you can go to it and it's always a source of truth where it's always gonna say like what time and where, and there's like the little link that can actually take you to the starting point.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: So um sometimes middle concho on Tuesdays, like we've had a few people who've had a hard time finding it.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, so you can get that link to the starting point.
35:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, the best way to support, honestly, for an individual is to volunteer.
35:26
SPEAKER_00: Um because we are so highly dependent on volunteers, and as a lot of these races get bigger, um it's hard to find enough volunteers.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: So Dino's pretty easy, especially this year with it just being one big aid station.
35:40
SPEAKER_00: But when you look at Run in the Sun, Crazy Desert, especially, um, in the trail series, like volunteers are needed.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: And so people think like, oh, I'm running, I can't volunteer.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: But you can because there's packet pickup, you know, the the week before.
35:52
SPEAKER_00: There's there's setup, there's teardown, there's like just little things you can do kind of along the way that helps.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: I know um Tim's daughter a lot of times, like uh will just unpack the medals because they come.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: Each metal is individually packaged in like a little piece of plastic.
36:09
SPEAKER_00: They don't get scratched, yeah.
36:10
SPEAKER_00: Um, but someone has to take all those off, and the and they're in little groups of 20, so you have to like take the rubber band off.
36:16
SPEAKER_00: Um so there's a lot of ways people can volunteer, and that's honestly um, you know, we're we're lucky, we're blessed, like as far as our financial sponsors, because we have those bigger, those bigger things, and we have you know, run dad run who who does various things for us, but um feels like we're always kind of scrambling for volunteers.
36:35
SPEAKER_00: So one of our board members, I feel like I'm just dropping a lot of names here, but um everybody in St.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: Angelo should know Nicole Lindsay.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: She's like an eight-time Boston qualifier, she's a beast, amazing.
36:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
36:48
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I don't know if y'all know this, but she like when she runs, like she's just so good at it that she can just like text.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: She's just like running and texting during marathons.
36:58
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, how do you get to that point?
37:01
SPEAKER_00: Um, so she's incredible.
37:02
SPEAKER_00: Um, she is our like volunteer coordinator.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: So um she's the the best person, like especially around race time, to say, hey, like um, I want to volunteer.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, how can I help?
37:14
SPEAKER_00: So she's on Facebook.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, you can email us.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: We are why don't I know our email?
37:20
SPEAKER_00: I have it, I have it on my phone, but I we can add it later.
37:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna make myself look silly as the president.
37:26
SPEAKER_00: I don't know our email.
37:26
SPEAKER_01: Uh you got a person for that.
37:28
SPEAKER_00: Okay, perfect.
37:29
SPEAKER_00: Um, you could you could drop that uh somewhere in the notes.
37:35
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
37:35
SPEAKER_03: I'll get I'll get you.
37:36
SPEAKER_00: So that's the best way.
37:38
SPEAKER_00: Um I feel like that's what we're always scrambling for.
37:39
SPEAKER_00: Aid stations set up.
37:41
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the crazy desert, it's like we need people to like, hey, go get some extra ice.
37:46
SPEAKER_00: Um like kind of like running back and forth.
37:48
SPEAKER_03: I always try to make it a point to thank the volunteers and each one because I've you know I've done an event where I've gone to the no manned water aid station and there's no water, and it's just because there literally wasn't enough people to get there to give it.
38:00
SPEAKER_03: It wasn't one of y'all's.
38:01
SPEAKER_03: Um, but I mean that's a race killer.
38:03
SPEAKER_03: Like, I was deep in it, I was dehydrated, it was rough.
38:08
SPEAKER_03: Um, when we did Dino, y'all did have that one aid station out there and they were playing music.
38:13
SPEAKER_03: And uh Tyler will say it every time.
38:15
SPEAKER_03: He was like, you know, down at the dump since 3 a.m.
38:17
SPEAKER_03: and you're tired, but you come up to that, the party aid station where they're bumping music and got that disco ball, yeah, and that gets you going for another like 30 minutes.
38:25
SPEAKER_03: So, like, I yeah, the volunteers, man, you're spot on.
38:29
SPEAKER_00: So when you I'm gonna name drop again because these volunteers, there's a couple of them that just deserve so much credit, and you'll know these people too.
38:37
SPEAKER_00: One of them's Haley Haynes, so she ball of energy.
38:42
SPEAKER_00: She had reached out because uh maybe a year and a half ago because uh Farnsworth Orthodonics wanted to volunteer at Run in the Sun, and so they came and Dennis is like, have them pass out medals, dude.
38:54
SPEAKER_00: They brought all the spirit, first of all, like these great smiles.
38:58
SPEAKER_00: So you're coming through the finish line, and the first thing you see is Haley and her friends, and they are like, they're thrilled to be there.
39:04
SPEAKER_00: And she was like, We had so much fun.
39:06
SPEAKER_00: No one likes handing out medals.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: Haley loves it, it is she belongs there.
39:10
SPEAKER_00: So then she offered to volunteer for a dyno, and I was like, Absolutely, yes, like whatever you've got, like we'll take it because I know what you mean.
39:19
SPEAKER_00: Like you're about to give up, and you're and you're everything hurts, and you're thirsty, and you're just like, Who does this for fun?
39:27
SPEAKER_00: And then you you get to an aid station and there's Haley, and you're like, This person might get me to the next aid station, not all the way around the loop, but she'll get you to the next one, or at least back to her so that like you can get that.
39:40
SPEAKER_00: The other person who they they like, I don't know, they need to be separated because I don't know if it'd be too much hype in one spot, or if like you just need to have it kind of spread out.
39:52
SPEAKER_00: But Kristen Roberts is the absolute aid station queen.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: There was a time when Dino was at the state park, like it would start at Bell's Trailhead and like the actual, like the original Dino course, and you'd be like a half a mile away and you would hear her, and she's like, Woo! And she's and we were like, Oh, we're coming up to Aid Station.
40:12
SPEAKER_00: No, you're not.
40:13
SPEAKER_00: It's just that Kristen is so loud, but people would come back and be like, like, she really got me through because that's it gives you that energy.
40:23
SPEAKER_00: So, like Haley and Kristen, and they're both great runners too.
40:27
SPEAKER_00: Like, they're they're great, but I always appreciate when people like that are um are willing to go and like really hype up the the people.
40:36
SPEAKER_03: That's what um we'll mostly be supplying at the Rundad Run eight station for Dino is gonna be Ricky Runs uh giving out harsh words of encouragement.
40:45
SPEAKER_03: So if you want to quit, you just go see him and he'll take care of that real quick.
40:48
SPEAKER_00: So should we put y'all right in the center then?
40:51
SPEAKER_00: Because it's gonna be kind of like a party.
40:53
SPEAKER_03: I won't be there.
40:54
SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
40:55
SPEAKER_03: Tyler, Tyler's obviously running it, and then Renee said he'll be there.
40:58
SPEAKER_03: So I'd say put him front and center, but you gotta make him wear his bucky shirt or something, like be partying.
41:04
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
41:04
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
41:04
SPEAKER_03: He has a costume he might wear too.
41:07
SPEAKER_03: We might have karaoke set up.
41:08
SPEAKER_03: I don't know what Tyler's got planned, but yeah, we'll see.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: Karaoke works because I want it to be like one since we're not doing aid stations, like everything you need, just one big party.
41:17
SPEAKER_00: Come hang out, and you gotta have something for like the kids to do if they're waiting.
41:20
SPEAKER_00: I know you like your kids came last year.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: Um didn't Tyler's wife have a baby like two days after.
41:27
SPEAKER_03: I was like, I know he's not gonna be able to drive her to be four, I think it was like uh four or five days after or something.
41:32
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, she could not walk.
41:34
SPEAKER_03: She was nursing him, like yeah.
41:37
unknown: Yep.
41:38
SPEAKER_03: Well, not nursing him, but she was nursing.
41:41
SPEAKER_03: Oh, she wasn't nursing him.
41:43
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, nurse the baby.
41:48
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, she was she was uh like she had to pack up, I think, most of that stuff.
41:53
SPEAKER_03: I think Sydney might have helped her a little bit, but yeah.
41:55
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because I was over there, I had to protect my top male title.
41:59
SPEAKER_03: I was like, dude, sorry, you're on your own.
42:00
SPEAKER_03: Pack up.
42:01
SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm winning.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
42:03
SPEAKER_03: And you did, didn't you?
42:04
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
42:04
SPEAKER_00: He did.
42:05
SPEAKER_00: That's great.
42:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
42:06
SPEAKER_03: Mainly because Aaron was like, dude, just keep just you got like one more loop.
42:09
SPEAKER_03: Just keep going.
42:10
SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, oh god.
42:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know as well at that point.
42:12
SPEAKER_00: And really, I don't know if this is that the way you think about things too, but like, I don't know who told me this, but you're only as good as your last game.
42:18
SPEAKER_00: So a lot of times if I win something, I just never do it again.
42:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
42:22
SPEAKER_00: And so maybe just don't run dyno again, the 24 hour, and then you can always be like, hey, the last time I ran that race, I was first place, and then just do the 5K.
42:30
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
42:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
42:32
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
42:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, well, Aaron, uh, do you have any advice or parting words or anything that you would want to leave people with?
42:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh gosh.
42:41
SPEAKER_00: Um, I would say my only advice, like, and I don't know, this is probably the you know, the same thing we've kind of talked about the whole time, is just like um when it comes to running, like you can enjoy it without being fast.
42:52
SPEAKER_00: You can enjoy it without being elite.
42:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, and don't ever feel discouraged from coming to either a a sorrel event or a run or something hosted by Run Dad Run, which y'all have this Saturday.
43:04
SPEAKER_00: Um I'll see people say, Well, but I'm not very fast.
43:08
SPEAKER_00: So is there someone who's gonna be a little slower?
43:10
SPEAKER_00: Someone's gonna run with you.
43:11
SPEAKER_00: If you're running with sorrel or you're running with the guys from Run Dead Run, you are not gonna be left behind.
43:17
SPEAKER_00: No one's gonna judge your pace.
43:18
SPEAKER_00: What we want is for y'all to be out there.
43:21
SPEAKER_00: Um we just wanna see people moving, doing whatever it is that you can do.
43:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, so I guess, yeah, just don't don't be shy.
43:29
SPEAKER_00: Um, come out there, make friends, and and you just never know like kind of where you're gonna end up or what you're gonna end up running.
43:37
SPEAKER_03: That's so true.
43:38
SPEAKER_03: Straight up.
43:39
SPEAKER_03: And especially if if Tyler Reese is out there, you will absolutely not be the slowest.
43:46
SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
43:47
SPEAKER_03: Good.
43:48
SPEAKER_00: Man, just ending it with uh crush bullying Tyler.
43:52
SPEAKER_01: It's all right, he'll get him back.
43:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he'll get it back.
43:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, thanks for having me, guys.
43:57
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
43:57
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.