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243: From Boylston to Tower Bridge: The Rise and Run Family Takes on the Boston and London Marathons · Rise and Run

• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: We're all having a great time the first and the rise and running on the pants cruise.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: We are here at the Pesky Parrot and we're celebrating everybody who just did the springtime surprise weekend.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: And those of us that attended the cruise or just having a fantastic time, wish you all were here.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: There we go, Kathy.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, Kathy from the Pesky Parrot on board Utopia of the Seas.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: We got a bunch of those friends, so I guess you'll be hearing them for the next couple of weeks.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, my friends.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to episode 243 of the Rise and Run podcast.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: Delighted as always that you've joined us this week.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Bob and I'm here with Jack.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_16: Hiya.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: With John.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, how you doing?
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: With Alicia.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_16: Hello.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: And with Greg.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: He he he Robert.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: You okay, Greg?
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: Are you okay?
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, I was using Google Translate uh to translate hey, hey, hey into Dutch.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_04: And apparently it's he he he with some accent over it, so I'm sure I butchered it regardless.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_04: So to uh Laura, I'm sorry.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't it be funny if you found out that the accent actually made it come out to hey, hey, hey.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: Well, friends, I'm glad you're with us.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: This week we go back in time a little bit and we recap a couple of the world majors that we missed while we were on the road, or at least I was, and some of us were on the sea, and we're going to do a recap of the Boston and London Marathons this week.
• 2:28
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• 2:34
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• 2:37
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• 2:48
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• 2:59
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• 3:09
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• 3:13
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• 3:31
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• 3:34
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• 3:36
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• 3:37
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• 3:38
  SPEAKER_04: Apparently, they all really want to hear the answers to Tom's questions.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: So all except Tom, apparently.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_04: I'm a little concerned because this episode has been up for over a week now, and it's been crickets from Tom.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_04: And to me, I think that means he's just plotting something massive against retaliation.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm I'm sitting over here shaking in my boots a little bit.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever it is, I know you'll handle it.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, I'm sure I will.
• 4:04
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• 4:10
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I cannot believe that we are just a few weeks away from the unofficial start of summer, and you're going to be getting on the summer vacation.
• 4:19
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• 4:40
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• 4:47
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• 4:58
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• 5:03
  SPEAKER_04: Uh right now we are in the process of gathering some data for Magic Bound and for us as well, about a potential second rise and run cruise uh in the future.
• 5:13
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• 5:19
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• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: Sounds good.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Greg.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate that.
• 5:31
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• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate everything you do.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, let's see.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: Friends, we're gonna take a couple minutes here, like I did last week, if you'll recall.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: I I want to talk to you just a minute or two.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: At the beginning of the episode last week, I went through where I had been uh three weeks before and I kind of left something out at the end.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: I when we got back, we got back on a Tuesday, and on Wednesday, the people who take such wonderful care of our dogs while we're gone brought the dogs back.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: And it was evident right away that something was wrong with Lily.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh this wasn't normal at all.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh making the story as short as I can, we took her to the vet the next day, and the vet said she's a 14, almost 15-year-old dog and she has some real heart problems.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: And we did what we could.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: We we took some extraordinary measures, but uh they didn't work.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: She was fading very fast, and last Thursday she left us.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you know, those of us who are pet owners know that we invite these wonderful animals into our lives, and we know, we know when we get them that they're not going to be with us forever.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: But somewhere along the way we forget about that.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: And we think, well, maybe our we don't become rational anymore.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: And then when the end comes, it's it's very, very hard.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Lily was so special to me.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: She was no more special than your pets are to you, but to me she was the best pet I ever had.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: It was funny.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_01: She was with me so much, she would have nothing to do with me at the beginning.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: But we went to obedience classes together.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: They were for her, not for me.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um and we bonded over that.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I walked her every day, as I mentioned on Facebook.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think we probably walked, I don't know.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: My best estimate is over 4,000 times and over 3,000 miles.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: It was funny because we started walking because Becky said, We're gonna get up early before work and we're gonna walk Lily every day.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we did once, and then the rest of the time I did.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: So the other 3,999 times.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that's not entirely true.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: Becky joined us sometimes.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but what made Lily special is that, and I've told this story before, I haven't told it in a while, and I I'm sure we have some friends who are new who probably haven't heard it.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: When I was in my probably from the time I was in my early 40s to I was in my mid-50s, I was a sports official.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: I refereed basketball and soccer, both of which take a lot of running.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: And uh my soccer career, my soccer officiating career ended when I tore my Achilles tent.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't rupture it, but I tore it.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: When I got out of the cast, the doc says, Look, this looks good, but and you can go back to what you were doing, but if you do, you're gonna be back here.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I took that to mean I couldn't run anymore.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: So I didn't.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: So in those early days when I started walking Lily, she was a puppy.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: She wanted to run.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I run with her.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: And we'd go a yeah, we'd go maybe a mile.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: After a couple of times doing this, I went, you know, I feel okay.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure what the problem is.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: I actually talked to the doc and he said, Oh no, you can run, you just can't do that cutting and back and forth and starting and stopping and like that.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: So that's how I got back into recreational running.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: Now, would it have happened otherwise?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: I have no idea.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: I have no idea, but I know that I got back into recreational running because of that little white dog.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: And if I hadn't, I wouldn't know any of you.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, fate is funny.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: There may have been a different path, but chances are I wouldn't have known any of you.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I know in her last hours I was thinking to myself, you have no idea how many lives you've touched, little dog.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh gosh, it hurts.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: I want to finish by thanking this wonderful family so much.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: The outpouring of love and support.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have words to tell you how much it meant to me.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: Made me cry.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: You made me cry.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: Now, why'd you do that?
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: But but it meant a lot.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: It meant an awful lot.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: So many of you shared, and it I'll always be grateful to you.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll always remember that it all started with a little white dog.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_02: Caution runners, change of topic ahead.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: All right, friends.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: Let's uh thanks for listening.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: Let's keep rolling, let's go to the training schedule.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, we're still a couple weeks, actually, about six, five or six weeks away till we start training for wine and dine, which occurs in 22 weeks.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: That race weekend starts.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna keep counting it down, it'll get there.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh reminder, I haven't looked.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Space Coast is about half a year away.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh bird in hand, 114 days.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: Looking forward to seeing everybody there.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: So we're kind of in this little training, I want to call it a little valley, not a lull.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: But do we have any training updates, friends?
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_16: Uh last Thursday I gave myself a challenge of doing 10,000 steps for 30 days.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_16: So you know what?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_16: That was harder than I thought it would be.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_16: I I honestly didn't really realize what I was saying yes to.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_16: I'm very happy for it, but like today was like one of those days where um I could have easily just got home, um, did whatever I, you know, be done with the day and sit on the couch, and I would still have 6,000 steps.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_16: And I I told my husband, I was like, oh, we need to go for the walk.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_16: Do you want to come with me?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_16: And so we had a lovely time going for a walk, getting to know our neighborhood a little bit more, and came back.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_16: And I already crossed over 10,000 steps for the day, and I felt so good.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_16: And even on Sunday, I went to the parks um since I live near Disney now.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_16: And um I I ran around, I took a run that morning around the monorail loop area, and then I came back home, and that was my first run in Orlando, and I got it on camera.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_16: I don't know how good it's gonna be because the the camera was what whopper jaw, wonky, whatever you want to call it.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_16: Um and I I can't wait to share it in the first place, but um, but yeah, so I did that and then I went back out to the parks after a shower.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_16: I got like 25,000 steps in on Sunday.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah, I think that equates almost to a half marathon, maybe.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's about right.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah, but uh I feel pretty good, but gosh, that's a hard challenge, and I'm not even a whole week into it.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Jack, here's my advice for you is I I did this, I got this actually as a uh Christmas present for my wife a couple of years ago.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_04: And it's great if like, you know, it's you know, now that you're in Orlando now and it's too hot to go outside, get one of those walking pads, so then that way you can just you know have it in front of a TV and you know you can watch whatever content you you watch and while getting those steps in.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_04: But if you do go that route, just be careful because one of the first times that I got onto the walking pad, I fell off of it twice because I've just gotten so used to the width and the length of a treadmill that I just employed that same thought process and the fact that they're a lot shorter and skinnier, it really made me pay attention with my balance and stuff like that.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_04: So it's great that the help you hit that that step goal, but just be careful and make sure uh you have somewhere soft the land in case you do fall off of things.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_16: Greg, I am accident prone.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_16: We all know that at this point in life.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_16: I don't even know if that's the safest object for me to use.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: So you're selling those handrails, Greg?
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_04: Well, you know, it's funny enough, my wife and sister sent me an Instagram reel the other day of it was called the foolproof plan of how not to fall off your walking pad.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_04: And it was essentially like a walker that you could set up on the front of it so that way you could just hold on to it while you do your steps and keep your balance.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_16: That's so smart.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_16: There is this one guy that I I watched on like Instagram, and I'm not on social media very often, but I did see this one pop up on a reel where he walked his entire shift at work because he was working remotely, and I think he did a marathon walking while working.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_16: I was like, that's so impressive because I don't think I can multitask like that.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that and that would take a while too.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the thing with the 10,000 step challenge.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's not physically, I don't think it's that much of a challenge for somebody like you, Jack, is getting the time to do it all.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah, and I feel like when you prioritize, I'm I'm learning, I think with this challenge, I'm learning more about prioritization and being a healthier me because I have been sitting so much because of like work in general, yeah, that I've kind of forgotten that your body needs to get up every once in a while.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_16: So, like during lunch breaks, I will actually go on the treadmill at my gym in my apartment, and I'll go on it for like 30 minutes, come back, and you know, whatever.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_16: But like, yeah, it's it's interesting.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_16: I like it.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, training updates, uh summer, Greg's talked about Memorial Day, traditional first day of summer.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, down in Florida, it's more like Valentine's Day, traditional first day of summer.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's really warm, but it's going to be that way.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I love it here, so that's just Jack, it's something you gotta put up with.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Umgging's away, treadmills are away, or just getting out.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, where I live, getting out and early in the morning doesn't help that much.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: When you live real close to the water, the temperature, I'll get up in the morning.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you an example.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: I was gonna I'll talk about it again at the race report.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the temperature of Key West at 7 o'clock this morning was 85 degrees.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and they did the Keys 100 this week.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_16: Oh, I thought that was bad when I went on my run.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_16: I was like, God, it's 79 degrees at 8 a.m.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_16: I'm suffering.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, I'll wake up, I'll wake up the temps in the 80s.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's not that unusual, especially as the Gulf starts to warm up.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: But I think the thing to remember is we and we've talked about it a couple times.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's a little valley here uh in terms of Disney training, but don't stop.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Do something, do the walking thing like Jack's talking about.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Get out there, I'll get out tomorrow morning and do my 30 to 45 minutes.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I did my Saturday run, did a uh Magic Half Mile.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: We haven't talked about those for a while.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: I think we'll I think we'll wait a little bit longer before we talk about magic half miles.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: But I do one of those this weekend.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, keep it up.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_04: You know, hearing you guys talk about the heat, you know, up here in the northeast, you know, I'm sure John and I are experiencing the same things right now.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_04: We're we're actually in the midst of a heat wave right now, which is very not typical for the Northeast this time of year.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_04: And yet by uh by the weekend, we're gonna be now like 10 degrees below average.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_04: Like I feel like this spring, we have not had spring.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_04: We've either had 10 to 20 degrees above average or below average for like the last three months, and you know, so it's just either been fake summer or fake winter, and then we'll go right into real summer.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_04: But um, this past weekend, you know, was probably my my first run in a really long time where you know heat did play into a factor, and I I feel like we should save a lot of this for you know a conversation maybe in a couple of weeks, because there's a lot of good tips, but just in in terms of what I experienced is that for now, what I will say is do not beat yourself up if your average paces start dipping over the course of these next couple of months.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_04: That is not indicative of your training or your physical fitness level.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_04: You know, just know that it's just that time of the year, and obviously we all have big goals and we have big aspirations.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_04: Bob, like you said, we are just a mere you know, five or so weeks away from starting the training for the biggest challenges of the Run Disney calendar.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_04: Sure, at the time the mileage is going to be low, but I think that is it is just a good reminder so that you don't cause damage to yourself.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_04: That's gonna derail your training for those races in October or January or February.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_04: Um, you know, this is the time to just maintain and have that small base.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_04: Worry about the speed and the times and you know the intervals and the hills and stuff like that.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_04: Worry about that at the tail end of the summer and the beginning of the fall when things you know do start to cool down.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_04: So just just be safe and be smart.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Can I can I say it for the first time this season?
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_04: You may.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Summer training leads to fall PRs.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: There it is.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: Go slow in the summer, go slow in the summertime.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_04: And check your dew points, folks.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Check your dew points, which is 75 right now here.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: 75.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_13: Yeah, we yeah, I was out there uh Sunday because uh grandkids were over, so I still want to try to get out early because I knew that and and we also had to record at that Sunday.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_13: We we don't record all the time on the same day.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_13: So I wanted to get out early before the sun was supposed to be like 90 something degrees on Sunday.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_13: So I tried to get out early.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_13: It was 84 83, 84.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_13: It was kind of uh a little little warm, but I took our gang's advice.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_13: I you know, I hydrated, I uh adjusted my paces and uh I got through it and I did not really You're here to talk about it, John.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's the big thing.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_13: Yeah, I I I didn't go too crazy because I know it's hot.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_13: It's I'm going from almost a 15 to 20 degree swing in the next couple of days.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_13: It's not worth, you know, what do you call being a hero.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: No, you're right.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, the temperature swings like that, yeah, they're tough.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: They are tough.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: So do your best, hang in there.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the big thing I want to emphasize is don't quit.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Don't just say, uh, I'll pick it up.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: You've you've done all this work to lay a base, try to maintain that base, and you'll be happy that you did in the long run.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_02: Caution runners, the topic is about to change right now.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: So with that, I turn to the microphone and I ask, what would Alicia do?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_18: So, Bob, we talk a lot about um in the summertime adapting to the temperatures and things.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_18: One other thing that I really like to focus on is rest and recovery.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_18: Um, and so I know for myself, I have taken a couple extra recovery days listening to my body lately.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_18: Um, and I really like to do some yoga um and making sure that I'm taking time for stretching.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_18: Um, I've been adding in um some creatine to help um my body recover as well, but I'm curious, what do you all like to do for recovery for yourself free running?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_16: I don't know if this necessarily counts as recovery, but I like having a um after my workouts, especially runs, especially during the summer, I like having those electrolyte ice pops.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_16: Because one, it cools you down, and two, I feel like I I'm getting a little bit more life back into me after feeling so drained during the run.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Is it something you make?
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_16: No, um, I actually just get them off of Amazon.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_16: They're like these Pedialite electrolyte ice pops.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_16: Okay.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_16: Um, yeah, and it comes in like four boxes, so it lasts me a hot second, but they're fantastic.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_16: I love them.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_16: That sounds amazing.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I remember maybe it was one of the first times we had Kristen and Devin on years ago, and I remember they stressed the importance of protein following a run or or or just a workout um in general.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_04: And to me, whenever I I've bonded with like whey powder or or just you know, pre-made shakes or something like that, it you know, they're usually a little bit thicker in nature, and you know, so whether it's like a chocolate or a vanilla, or I think right now I have like cookies and cream in the fridge or something like that.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_04: But the the consistency of that sometimes for me, post run, it's not what I'm craving at at the time.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_04: My co-worker told me about this protein powder.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_04: I'm just gonna spell it because I don't know how to pronounce it.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_04: S-E-E-Q.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_18: I know what you're talking about.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_18: I don't know how to say it either.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_04: So they have protein powder.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_04: Now, it's not as much protein as say like a fair life or a premier protein or something like that, but the flavors um are very nice.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_04: And to me, it it's a little bit lighter.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_04: So, like right now, my jam is um one of my favorite flavors, they have a uh strawberry lemonade flavor, and then what I'll do is I'll you know do a scoop or two of that, I'll cut up some fresh strawberries and then ice and water, put it into my magic bullet, and I'm getting that that refreshing feeling, like you were talking about, Jack, in terms of your ice pops.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_04: I'm getting that, but then I'm also getting the protein, uh, and I really, really do enjoy that.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_04: And then I would say the other thing that um I've been incorporating more and more, and again, I will give my many thanks because I was influenced by uh Tony and um Natalie over at the Stride Sisters podcast.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, I'm not sure if they're still carrying them, but Costco was selling their knockoff brand of the Norma Tech boots.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_04: Um I got those for I mean, I got them for Christmas, but I think at the time they were retailing for like$150 or something like that.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_04: And I just lay on the couch, I you know, put on the ball game or something like that, and I sit there for 30 to 45 minutes.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, I've I've worked my tolerance up to level four of five on the on the squeezy-ness factor of them, and um that that has really helped my recovery.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: I have squeezy boots.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: I I I got them too.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_18: They're a game changer, especially if you're doing a challenge like Dopey.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:35
  unknown: Yeah.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: I don't yeah, and I don't I don't pull them out very often.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: After real long runs or something like that, I'll pull them out.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm I'm one of the world's worst at stuff like this, but I do have a couple things.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh on a particularly hot day, I might just run back here and jump in the pool, number one.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: Number two, uh, I've got an outdoor shower here, which is just cold water.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's cold water from the hose.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'll do that.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Gatorade makes a 30 grams of protein uh protein bar.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I've got those, and I kind of like them, so I'll do that from time to time.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: I will occasionally, after a real long run uh on a hot day, grab a Coca-Cola, a full sugar Coca-Cola.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: I don't drink them at any other time, but when the body's depleted of everything, sometimes that helps.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, those are all things that I will do from time to time.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: In terms of a do it all the time, every day, every time.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um I don't really I don't do that so much.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_13: I actually walk after my runs.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_13: I that's a good idea.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_13: I I not long.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_13: I I'll like I'll stop running.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_13: I then I'll just walk like two or three minutes just to kind of bring my my my heart rate down so I'm not like going from you know 160 beats per minute down to and then try to drop down to zero so it gradually goes down.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_13: And then I'll go in the house, get get an electrolyte drink, eat some pretzels, get some salt back into my system, uh and then you know the boots, and actually I do have they're they're called knee sleeves, they're like uh they're like a wetsuit type material, and but you put it in the freezer.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_13: So they're compression, they're compression and ice together at once.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_13: So they last you know, probably like 10 minutes to get the coldness on it, maybe if I'm lucky, but yeah, helps keep keep the swelling down and uh you know and keep it smooth and what do you call cools you off.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_18: Well, to our listeners, remember rest and recovery is super important if it's grabbing electro-like popsicle, making sure you get your protein, or even taking a cold shower.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_18: Um, or if you have other ideas, we'd love to hear what you do for recovery.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_18: Um, it's a super important part of the wrong process.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: And that is what Alicia would do.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: Caution runners, change of topic ahead.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: Friends who do world majors deserve to be recognized.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: And we've had other things going on, so we've missed a couple of world majors.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: Let's start with one that ran in April, and of course, the granddaddy of them all, the oldest marathon, the oldest running event I think in the United States, the Boston Marathon, was run.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: And we've got a couple of guests here with us tonight who are going to tell us about their experiences.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: Let's start with Tara.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: Tara, welcome back to the podcast.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_11: Thank you, thank you.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_11: Yes, Tara from Ottawa Ontario, Canada.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_11: This is actually my sixth world major.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_11: So as I'm holding up a six-star medal.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_11: Um, never thought I'd get to this point, but I am over the moon, excited uh to actually say that I am a six-star finisher and um I'm here to chat all things Boston, all things six star.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_11: It's fantastic.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's great.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_15: Amazing, congratulations.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know what's neat in in the podcast, not quite at five years now.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen a lot of our friends, not a lot, that's an exaggeration, but I have seen friends who have gone from their first and have now knocked out number six, and I think that is just fantastic.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: So congratulations on that.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: Margaret, where are you in that chase?
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_10: Um, I started with Berlin a couple years ago, and actually Tara's there as well, too.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_10: And last year I did Chicago, so I am halfway there.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: Halfway there, and I think I stepped on her.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: This is our friend Margaret from the Council of Costumes, who lives in the Orlando area and travels on over all over.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: And while it's an audio podcast, I don't want anybody to be disappointed.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: Margaret has shown up in unicorn costume for the Boston discussion.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Margaret.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_10: And unicorn horn and ears that I wore for the race that day.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_10: Oh, perfect.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_10: So I was like, this is a perfect occasion.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_10: Yep.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: It sure is.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Hey Dale, welcome.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_01: Good to see you.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: Glad to be here.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: Where are you from, Dale?
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: From Charlotte, North Carolina, and this is my first world major.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, that's a that's a good one to start on, buddy.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it really is.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of folks put this one off until later, but hey, if you're gonna go, go big, right?
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_03: Right, yep, exactly.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: All right, excited to hear about it.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: And Amy's with us also.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, welcome, Amy.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's good to see you.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_15: Thank you.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_15: I am here from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and um this is my third world major, um, London, uh, Berlin, and then um Boston, all in this year.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_15: Um calendar, not calendar year, but from last April to this April.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, within 12 months.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_15: Um yes, within 12 months, and my second Boston.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: Second Boston, and you said third world major, right?
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_15: Yes.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, so I mean if I counted Boston twice, it would be fourth, but it doesn't work that way.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's all right.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's all right.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_01: You towed four four world major starting lines.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm gonna go out on a limb.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: Did you grow up in the New England area, Amy?
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_15: I did, yes.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: You did.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't hear it.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_15: I know.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_15: I I I trained for broadcast journalism and theater and got rid of that New England accent.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_15: If my friend Heather, who um ran Boston with me, if she was on, you can definitely hear her New England accent, especially when she gets mad.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_18: All right, Dale, I'm gonna start with you.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_18: This was your first world major.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_18: Um, so a little bit different than Disney races that we might be used to.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_18: How is the expo for you?
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_18: Um, any exciting moments there?
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_03: So we came in on Saturday um from Charlotte.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_03: We landed very early, went straight to the expo, and um we were there uh maybe an hour after it opened, and the line was crazy.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um just back and forth.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it it was it was like Disney, back and forth, back and forth.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but moved very quickly.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_03: They got you inside, um, inside the convention center, wrapped around, wrapped around, get your bib, go on to the expo floor, saw the merchandise, um, spent entirely too much money at the in the merchandise area.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but the rest of it to me was a little underwhelming.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um, it's smaller.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_03: It's very it's small, and my my understanding from talking to people that have done different ones is Boston only allows um people, the actual sponsors to have booths at the interesting.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_03: Um so uh Morton's um Sam Adams.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_03: Um I saw I saw our sneaker guy.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_03: I got a bag.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um so I told him, I was like, I saw you on, I heard you on Rise and Run.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I feel famous now.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_03: He was a really nice guy though.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: He is.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: As an aside, Steve, I was looking for him in Cincinnati.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: There was a different woman there who I had met online from that same Sneakers for a Good organization.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: Steve wasn't there.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: That fellow's name is Steve.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: He wasn't there, he was in Pittsburgh that week.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: So they get around, man.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_15: I will say the um Boston Expo used to be so much better until Adidas made their contract that very disappointingly blocked out all of the other retailers.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_15: And so they made it so no one who sells sneakers, clothing, hats, sunglasses can be there anymore.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_15: So now what the city of Boston has done, which is amazing, it's kind of the pro to that con, is now there are pop-ups all up and down Boylston Street, which is the street that um the marathon finishes on, and Newbury Street, which runs parallel to Boylston Street.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_15: And so there are different vendors that partner with Marathon Sports and with Dix and with a number of different um companies.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_15: And then even empty shops have pop-ups, including there was one that was like small businesses that banded together to have one shop, and you went in and you got to see all different small vendors.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_15: So it's much more an extended experience rather than all in one space.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_18: So Tara, having done all of the world majors now, well, except for the new ones, the the six, how was this um expo compared to the other ones?
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_11: Yeah, just like I'm just saying, it's it is definitely smaller.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_11: Um yeah, it and I arrived on I I basically drove down on the Friday morning and got to the expo probably mid-afternoon on Friday.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_11: And it was super quiet.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_11: Like there really wasn't that many people.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_11: I missed the rush.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_11: And it was kind of a in, you know, we we did the bib pickup and some there's some photos and whatnot.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_11: Um, it really wasn't too crazy to like too many things to see.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_11: You can just get around.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_11: Um, although Meb was there, so I actually had Meb um sign my uh bib, which is really exciting.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_11: So that was fun.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_11: Um, so yeah, it really wasn't that that thrilling.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_11: I mean, you did your thing and then you kind of left.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_11: But on the Saturday, I loved being able to go to Newbury Street and yeah, check out all the pop-ups, like Ian was saying.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_11: It's just it's more exciting um to really, I guess, enjoy the, you know, all the I'm gonna say styles, because they could really be creative in how the pop-ups were um out of these kind of old historic buildings.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_11: And I just love that style of things.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_11: So um yeah, I I had fun just having the two different experiences.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_11: So, you know, out of all the uh the other expos, it was kind of a more quieter, chill, small, quick in-it-out kind of experience.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_11: So yeah, but both things it up.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_18: Margaret, I know that you had some excitement, but not necessarily from the expo itself, from your own adventures of getting there.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_18: Do you want to tell the podcast about all of um the excitement around trying to get from place to place with your journey to Boston?
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_10: Yes.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_10: So this kind of became the spike challenge as I had a friend kind of don it.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_10: Um, so I had springtime surprise that I had already signed up for uh, you know, when signups came out.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_10: I actually wasn't planning on doing Boston.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_10: I was planning on joining all of you guys on the Rise and Run cruise.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_10: We're like looking forward to that for the past two plus years.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_10: And my good friend Tara wanted to make sure that I got the Boston experience when she did.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_10: And she had kept telling me she got on early on in the process.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_10: She kept telling me, like, hey, I can put in a good word with you for my charity, blah, blah, blah.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_10: And I was like, no, I'm going on the rise and run cruise.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_10: Well, a day before I was leaving for Disneyland, uh, the opportunity came up to uh join a charity team that had gotten some new hibs, and it was kind of like, hey, here's a second chance for people that had applied.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_10: One of our other friends, Melissa had applied, or if you know of somebody is first come, first serve.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_10: So it was kind of more guaranteed.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_10: I was like, oh my goodness.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_10: So I thought long and hard, but I went ahead and went with Boston and canceled the cruise.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_10: So I was signed up to do, went back to the actual race weekend.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_10: So I was signed up to do um springtime surprise, the challenge.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_10: So I did all that, and this happened the Monday after.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_10: So I did all that, and right after the 10 miler, we ran to our car.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_10: We, my husband, meaning my husband and I ran to our car and we changed either in the parking lot, uh combination of the parking lot and on the way to the airport and got all cleaned up thanks to the fleshy fissies, uh little tabs.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_10: I wanted to make sure to mention that.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_10: I still had some of those right now.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_10: Oh, the towelots, yeah, no, no.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_10: Yes, thank you.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_10: Uh, for those.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_10: Um, I actually had a lounge booked at the airport, but I wanted to see if I could make my first flight there, which I ended up making.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_10: So um about an hour and 45 minutes after I finished the 10 miler, I was sitting on a plane to go to Boston and made it there um the day before.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_10: The the thing is the expo closed at six that day.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_10: And it's a hardcore, you gotta get your bib, you know, the day before.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_10: There's no like morning day pickups.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_10: All the other days they were open until seven, except for the day before, the the last day.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_10: So I had to make sure to get there by six.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_10: And so um thankfully everything went out went well.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_10: Um, well, as well as it could have.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_10: And uh we ended up getting there on time and I got to expo like three hours before they closed.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_10: Um, it was very quiet, of course, for me.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_10: Um but when I went in, um, when actually even before I went into March, when I went to go get my bib, it was really an neat experience because when it's your first time doing Boston or when it's um, I guess maybe Tara had this experience too, or when it's like your six star, they have it marked on your bib, so they know and they like ring the cowbell and everything too already, like as you're picking up your bib.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_10: I've heard that.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_10: Yeah.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_10: And then um got their you go through the merchandise area first.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_10: They kind of like make you go through that.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_10: Um and thankfully Tara and some other friends had picked up some stuff for me, but they still had a good amount of stock of like shirts and jackets.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_10: I mean, they were out of a few sizes, but as far as that was concerned, they had a good amount of stock.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_10: They didn't have like some of the mugs or some things like that, but they had tons of spikes, the little unicorn um there.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_10: So I was I didn't realize they'd had a name.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_10: That's nice.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_10: Yeah.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_10: So um, and then it was like there was no line, but I saw where the stanchions were at of like what would have been the line zigzagging through to try to get, you know, there and that everybody was like all the registers were available, like I don't know, 15, 20 of them, whatever it was.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_10: And then we go over to the act the other expo side, and yeah, it was like it was me and not that many other people.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_10: And I was like, wow, this is small.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_10: I can't imagine like what this must have been like when the mass people were here and all.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_10: So but it was neat, found my name on the main wall with all the names of all the participants, and then they also had a charity kind of wall um structure that had Boston's a BOS, and then it had our names on there too.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_10: So I found our names on my name on there too.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_10: And then they also had which was like really, really neat, was um almost like a little museum in there with like eight or 10 different areas from prior runners that had significant runners that had either like won it um or had ran it for 25 years straight and things like that.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_10: And it had even like their shoes that they wore.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_10: Oh wow.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_10: Um some of the things like yeah, like some shoes like back from like the 70s that are like probably more flat than a Converse.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_10: Pair of shoes, like wow, how did they run in that and then win in that too, you know?
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_10: So so that part was really, really neat from that.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_10: Um yeah, so then other than that, it's quiet and then um got my bib and was ready for the next day.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_10: Can I actually go back a bit?
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_11: Because I know we we got right to the expo, but I'm actually kind of curious.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_11: Um, I know Margaret mentioned part of her story, and I'd like to tell my part of the story and hear about how everybody else got to Boston.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_11: Because I mean, that's that's the big thing is like how if you're so-called not fast, like uh I know I'm not fast for being able to qualify, it's you either have you either qualify by speed or you you get in through a charity.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_11: And it's not easy getting in through a charity.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_11: That was that was quite a challenge.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_11: And and like my experience is like I, you know, you read different things, and it was, oh, don't apply to too many charities.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_11: And then others say, well, apply as many as you can.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_11: And and it was quite a process.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_11: Like, I, you know, I was like, well, I don't want to do too many and not enough.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_11: And so I applied to I think six or seven, and I never heard from nobody, nothing, nothing, nothing.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_11: And then um, this one charity reached out and it wasn't my top one, but I was like, oh, what am I, you know, and then it goes to the well, what am I gonna do?
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_11: What if nobody else reaches out?
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_11: Or, you know, so I decided to do an interview and and I was accepted.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_11: I mean, I just the you know, the worry that I wouldn't be able to get um a bib, but I'm so grateful that the light foundation took a chance on me as a Canadian uh to run uh with them.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_11: So that was uh a wonderful experience.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_11: And then the story goes is that so I was able to get in and um I so I've started this journey, this six-star journey with Melissa Ponte, and her and I have done all of the races together.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_11: And so this was the last one.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_11: And I thought, what's my chances of me asking and seeing if they had an extra bin?
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_11: And she's like, oh, let me see about that.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_11: Literally the very next day, I heard she got in.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_11: And it was like amazing, amazing.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_11: So the two of us are thrilled about this, and of course, yeah, that's when I was like, okay, Margaret, you know, why don't she's very set on on you know going on the on the um uh cruise with you guys.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_11: But anyway, so then the story goes is yes, so my friend Melissa also applied to um active, right, Margaret?
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_11: That was that was a charity.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_11: And so then in January, when they said out the email to my friend Melissa saying hey you know if you miss the bid here's your second chance and that's when we actually sent that email to both Margaret and our other friend Sarah and so um Sarah jumped hold of it and I was really shocked when Margaret's like yeah let's do it I just I'm thinking springtime surprise right to Boston I amazing but yeah so it's such an experience just to you know go through this high and low and I'm gonna go and not sure if we're gonna go and so yeah so Sarah Melissa and I we all finished our um our our journeys together and uh all going through a charity super thrilled and Margaret on her journey and Amy Dale what how did you guys get in I'm curious to know my employer is one of the major sponsors um so we get a separate set of bibs um and then I had to apply um and go into a lottery but within my company so a little bit better shot I didn't get in last year um obviously got in this year um and it's one and done um if you get in even if you my understanding is if you get in and you can't you decide later that you can't do it you still can't apply again after you've been accepted your first time you either run it or you don't okay that's that kind of seems fair you know did you have to raise money?
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_03: I did not it was an option um but I raise I always do charity for my dopey bibs um so I I leaned away from raising funds for Boston.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah yeah yeah I can understand that that's that's I guess Tara the the other way is being one of the either sponsors who have a number of the bibs or um there are the Boston Marathon gives the towns along the route some of the running clubs along the route gives them a certain number of bibs as well.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_15: And often what they'll do is they'll auction not auction but they'll um either do a lottery amongst their members or some of them do it like if award it to someone who's volunteered a lot during the year for their running club or something like that.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_15: So that's one of the ways but I I raised money for a charity.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_15: So I have been in both both times.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_15: So the first time I did it in 2015 it was for Nord the National Organization for Rare Disorders.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_15: And back then um it was I want to say it was like 8500 was what we needed to raise and I I raised over 1000 but then um now it's gone up and um I did it for the West End House Boys and Girls Club and um you had to raise a minimum of 15,000.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_15: So it's quite the commitment to to do it for a charity.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_11: So with our charity um with the Light Foundation and me being an international so-called international runner um we actually had to pay up front so I pay 15000 and for me US dollars which actually converts to around 22000 Canadian dollars.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_11: So it was a little overwhelming um so I've had wonderful um sponsors uh to be able to support and and collect the money back but it's uh it's definitely an undertaking so I mend all of you know the the um fundraising charity runners who are able to to do this because it's a one and done for me I don't think I could do this fundraising against that amount of money it's uh it's a challenge.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_01: Well that was interesting guys I learned I I always thought there were just two ways speed or charity bibs and I've learned that there are other ways.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_01: So thanks for that.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_15: So one of the really cool things about the expo I want to balance it with my you know saying some of the negative things about it um is that they do have um a really comprehensive um uh list of different events happening and talks going on throughout the weekend and they have different um runners who and and previous Boston marathon winners and other record holders and things like that.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_15: So and and talks on women's say running safety and um nutrition and all different things.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_15: So you can really make a weekend out of it in a different way than just kind of like the consumer way that we all lean on.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_15: But one of the coolest things was um we were there on Saturday when I don't know if you heard, but Ashley Paulson was there um on the treadmill to break and she did it.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_15: She broke the hundred mile record on a treadmill by doing it in 12 hours and 47 minutes and 10 seconds and like the whole place was gathered around that treadmill.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_15: I have pictures of it like we were all going crazy as she broke this world record.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_15: And it was like so that was like another really cool thing that obviously you had to be there around that in those 12 hours but um that was a really neat thing with the expo and then there are a number of different podcasts that are being recorded.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_15: So that's an idea for you in the future is to come to Boston and you know do a podcast at all different pop-ups and at different times around the city they were doing those and Boston also did it so that they spread out some of the official things too they had in City Hall Plaza which is like two and a half miles or so away was they had like another whole area with like different unicorn giant unicorn things to take pictures with and different events.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_15: And one of the best ones was on Sunday morning Abbott was giving away world major bibs.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_15: And I don't know if any of you signed up for this but it was so exciting because you you could like register online but then you had to be there to win and as they would draw the names and that we thought they were giving away one to um each of they were doing seven because they did to Sydney too and um people were going crazy and when people weren't there when their names were drawn and they weren't there and like you felt so bad one guy's name was drawn twice.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_15: Oh my goodness two different bibs and he was not there and we were like oh it's not his day but then Abbott even went on to do a whole other round like when when they had done the first round and they're like you know what that's not enough we're gonna we're gonna award two bibs for the crowd went wild and oh the crowd was insane and then they awarded two more that people got to pick which ones they wanted to do.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_15: So it was like so while the expo isn't that fabulous in Boston the way that the whole city embraces the marathon is really exciting.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_03: The expo's over it's Monday morning the start of the race so how is the start of the race and uh how did you guys all do in the race Gail let's start with you um um so I guess what I wasn't prepared for was the number of people at the Boston Commons to get the buses it was mass chaos um and I I didn't I guess it just wasn't thinking through like I knew how many people were in the race it just didn't quite comprehend that many people waiting on buses.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_03: But very efficient I mean just bus after bus lined up they all left at the same time and then the next round just came in and loaded up and bus ride was longer than I thought I got to the point where I was like holy cow we have to run all the way back um got there to got to the athletes village um you know my normal pre-race stuff um was a little different trying to adjust my nutrition um because I'm used to the Disney races and you're eating at 4 30 in the morning and it's now 1030 in the morning.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_03: So trying to work through that um but I just stuck with what I normally do.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_03: Had my bagel stretched um got ready and then you walked was it about three quarters of a mile to the start line.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_15: So I actually was very lucky in that my husband insisted on driving us to Hopkinton.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_15: And so that made us so that we could skip the main buses, but you still had to get in a yellow school bus um it because you can't actually be dropped off at Athletes Village.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_15: So there's there are two drop-off places that you can be dropped off and then you have to get on the bus for it but it's only a 10 minute drive from there.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_10: And I we had a bit of a little bit of a different journey because with our charity well actually it was Terra's charity they had access to get on a charter bus and to invite guests to like pay to be able to get on the charter bus.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_10: So we chartered over there.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_10: We met up with a big group of people uh got on I don't know four or five six charter buses headed down there um we're not quite sure if we had the police escort or not I think we did to get over there but we got to one point please chime in Tara if I'm forgetting anything so we get to one point where it's near the start line and some of like there was different uh levels of uh people starting at different times so some of the people got off earlier and walked over but then we our plan was to stay on as long as we could to you know to stay in the heat whatever um so then at one point in time the bus was asked to move so they moved out of there and they were supposed to go I guess to closer to the athlete's village.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_10: And somehow we were I don't know we were lost we were going the opposite direction then we were going back up and around this is all after the race had started.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_10: So mind you like part of the streets are blocked um there's now a lot of cars like crunching in um there was times where like our buses are asking the cars to let them through because they had runners on the bus.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_10: And then we made it over to the athlete's village in plenty of time to get off and still go to the restroom and we are our times our colors were not called yet.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_10: So there was uh six different colors you waited in the athlete's village until they called your color and there were still like two colors ahead of us that they were calling at the time.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_10: So we went to court of potties there and we just waited to be called and and they line you up in these um they put you in these like little like a pavilion type covered area and then then they let you go through so as meanwhile if the colors under you or the colors ahead of you rather um if they are running up they can come around you and then they let you go through and get the actual corrals.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_11: Tara did she did she did she miss anything no other the fact that there was actually a number of people who were uh freaking out on the bus because they were like oh my gosh like where are we going?
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_11: What are we doing?
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_11: Why I actually don't think we went to the right spot to start with we weren't at Athletes Village.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_11: We were almost where like the corrals um were so it's that three quarters of a mile after that walk so we weren't at the right spot and then they said oh no you could just stay here and and so we thought well yeah let's just relax and then then they started leaving we had no idea where they're taking us and I was I I actually looked at my GPS and we are literally going in the opposite direction.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_11: And I thought maybe they come around by the top I I didn't I didn't really know what they were doing.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_11: So yeah it was just it was quite the journey I mean we were actually quite relaxed because we had plenty of time and it's great.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_11: We got there we got to the school it was because they and we're basically the start village is it's literally high school middle school high school basically and uh you know they they do have it set up nice so that if it is raining or whatnot there's there's a nice big tent but it is a little could be muddy so that was the the one thing that they did mention.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_11: But no lots of portabodies um but yeah we had just the right amount of time and then slowly made our way over and and uh yeah it was quite a long like the three quarter of a mile walk out it was interesting though because you're literally just walking down a like a village like a town street and there's people in their houses and they're kind of waving and you're just walking along in this big crowd with the fences on the side right in front of people's houses.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_10: I'm thinking okay these poor people they know every year they are not moving from house this whole day they absolutely right across the actual driveways of the people but yeah some of them are just kind of out there with their kids and just waving and having a good time it's it's a big day they embrace they embrace it oh go ahead how how was the weather Amy it was actually beautiful okay all right hold that's it was hold that for a second margaret how was the weather really cold and I knew it was more layers to I did that on purpose but I interrupted you Amy you go ahead why we stayed on the bus.
• 58:15
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah no no no no so I I will say it was cold but I I need to just juxtaposition this a little bit for you why I thought it was beautiful it was because it was dry.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_15: So the first time I ran it the entire time from before until after what year so and I'm really slow it was 2015.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_15: It happened again in 2018 and 2000 right and because 2018 also had the winds added to it that it like surpassed 2015 but I can tell you 2015 was beyond miserable miserable yeah and it was by the you talk about that three quarters of a mile walking to the start by the time we got to the start we were all ready it was like we jumped in a pool.
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_15: And even though we had all brought dry sneakers to run in and were leaving our sneakers that we wore to Athletes Village in Athletes Village it didn't matter none of it mattered and so even though it was a cooler morning that I would have liked like it for the day's run and there was one point where it started misting and everything and almost even looked like it snowed for a second that day.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_15: But that passed and it was pretty yeah so it it was cooler but it was way better than it being wet.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_15: I still did bring I still did bring the my running sneakers and left a donation pair in Athletes Village and I had like all the layers because everything you leave in Athletes Village when you strip down to go to the start all gets donated anyway.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_15: So it's it's worth it.
• 1:00:11
  SPEAKER_15: But I will say they have improved as much as Dale I know that the getting on the school buses and all of that it is miserable.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_15: And there are just so many throngs of people now that they've added this year that sixth one, um, the sixth start and the sixth wave and have times for people to go to Athletes Village rather than letting everybody go at the same time it was so much better than it was in the past and also way more porta potties and the lines were way shorter.
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_15: And so it it has improved but if it's your first experience I can see it being like wait this is horrible.
• 1:00:55
  SPEAKER_03: Well let's just say that I can't imagine that as a free for all that would have that would be bad.
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah I was going to ask Charlotte I was going to ask Charlotte what the weather was like then I remember Margaret's from Orlando so and actually I was going to go Canada in Orlando but Tara just got done talking so I did New England and Orlando I got the response I was expecting anyway it's all good.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Dale what was the hardest part of the course for me mile 22 is where I hit the pain cave really good first half um of the race second half hills and it just started to get hard um my hips I've had hip issues um and it started to act up and it became hard at that point um but I changed I I had Jeff in my head um and I changed my intervals good um and I cut back and you know gave more walk breaks and it worked great.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_11: I was expecting the hills to be worse but um I I think I went into it with such a fun I mean this this was my my my last you know uh six star race so I was just I was I was totally excited about every part of this race so I actually didn't find I mean it's completely rolling hills and when they say oh yeah it's downhill and then you got a couple no no it's literally like up down up down up down the whole right but there it's really not that that I really don't didn't think it was that bad.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_11: Some people say yes like the four Newton hills are bad with actually the second one being worse versus heartbreak hill and it was definitely an uphill but it's it's definitely you know not as extreme granted I was not trying to PR this race and a shout out to Melissa who PR'd her race uh five hours and six minutes and Sarah who'd her race at five hours and 34 minutes.
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_11: They rocked it I'm just like I'm just gonna enjoy every minute of it so I didn't I didn't hit the wall I enjoyed every minute.
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_11: So yeah the rolling hills are actually quite nice but I I don't know if anybody else heard a lot of a lot of others but they said it was a very good PR race.
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_11: It was uh just not it was people were more just flying because of the um I guess it was the wind was up our backs and the downhill and everybody was fine.
• 1:03:10
  SPEAKER_11: So it's um you know kudos to to everybody who PR their race.
• 1:03:15
  SPEAKER_18: Margaret did you have a favorite part of this this race course for Boston after mile 21 was the best for me.
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_10: And I would say overall it was not as hard as I thought that it would be um I'd done some pretty good hill training were possible here in Central Florida, which is Claremont.
• 1:03:34
  SPEAKER_10: But the weekend before I had ran in New Holland which is near burden hand a very very hilly course that I actually found to be more challenging than that.
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_10: The good thing about Boston is that it does start with a downhill for many miles.
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_10: And the first about three four miles are a bit steeper than the rest of it than it does have some rolling hills.
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_10: And um I had to do a lot of crunch research and homework on the course to make sure I was properly prepared for it.
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_10: And a lot of it was saying make sure that you are like holding back as much as you can the first bit of it especially the first half of it mile 16 is where the hills start.
• 1:04:16
  SPEAKER_10: Like if you burn yourself out then you're done pretty much at mile 16 and a lot of people are like mile 16 is where the marathon really starts you know so I had a game plan of like you know going slower down the hills and I would say in a kind of odd way the hardest part was going slow enough because at first those hills are actually the incline down is actually so steep that it just like takes you.
• 1:04:41
  SPEAKER_10: So it's actually harder to kind of hold yourself back.
• 1:04:44
  SPEAKER_10: And I was in my mind all I wanted to do was finish within a six hour time period.
• 1:04:49
  SPEAKER_10: In my mind I'm thinking like okay if I'm like maybe about 1215 to 12 and a half minute mile for those first few miles to make sure I don't overdo it.
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_10: Then even if I'm taking you know 13 to 13 and a half minutes for the hills I'll be fine.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_10: First mile like hear my tracker go off it's like 1050 then I'm like okay well let me hold back a little bit more you know but not overdo it on the holding back then it was like 1055 and I was like oh my goodness I'm like maybe I'm going too hard in on this um but my body felt great and I just kind of went with it I try to do intervals as fast as possible.
• 1:05:23
  SPEAKER_10: I was doing um 45 30s running 45 walking 30s but at times it was hard to stop to walk partially because there were so many people around you but the inclines were just taking you.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_10: So you have gravity and I would say as long as you're going with the gravity and your body's feeling comfortable with it and the flow just go with it.
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_10: Because then I got to mile 15 way sooner than I thought.
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_10: So then I think time I think energy also um which is unheard of and then when we went through those hills oh the other thing too that I was Um linkfroging a lot with Sarah.
• 1:06:02
  SPEAKER_10: Sarah and I started together.
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_10: And Sarah had ran this course during the training runs because they have training runs where they uh for the track clubs where they actually run the course.
• 1:06:12
  SPEAKER_10: She had ran every part of this course at one point or another, 21 miles at one period.
• 1:06:17
  SPEAKER_10: She was calling the shots like play by play, like this is what's going to come up next, this is what's going to happen.
• 1:06:22
  SPEAKER_10: So that was very helpful too.
• 1:06:24
  SPEAKER_10: But by the time I got to mile 16, and then we for the most part walked up the hills, like sidewalk up the hills, and then we ran down the hills.
• 1:06:32
  SPEAKER_10: And it's four hills between 16 and 21.
• 1:06:36
  SPEAKER_10: So you're talking about the span of like probably almost a mile-ish of going uphill to then come back downhill.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_10: Although a couple of the hills did have like a little bit of a roll at the top where you kind of go down a little, then come back up a little.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_10: I would just say as long as you, you know, you do some hill training, you hold back at the beginning, and I loved it actually.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_10: It was great.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_10: I had so and then they also say the last 10K is so fun.
• 1:07:01
  SPEAKER_10: And I just had so much fun with it.
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_10: Like I just really loved it.
• 1:07:05
  SPEAKER_11: But that's also Margaret, that's your fourth race in four days.
• 1:07:08
  SPEAKER_11: So that was your your adopte.
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_11: So I I again um kudos to you because that's just incredible that Boston was on the fourth race.
• 1:07:16
  SPEAKER_10: Yeah.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_10: Just a lot of I guess a lot of um doing proper recovery.
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_10: Like I wanted to make sure you say that too, because so like the weekend before I ran New Holland, I'm used to running a lot of flat land.
• 1:07:28
  SPEAKER_10: Like I'll run through my neighborhood 10 miles and maybe pick up 60 feet.
• 1:07:33
  SPEAKER_10: New Holland, it was like over 800.
• 1:07:36
  SPEAKER_10: Um, same thing with Boston, but for oh no, Boston was like 1200, but for like a full marathon.
• 1:07:42
  SPEAKER_10: Um so just like doing like the hill work, but also the recovery, like afterwards, like making sure like I'll do the um ice baths, um the legs up the wall the day before, long runs, um, just making sure I stayed off my feet as much as possible.
• 1:08:00
  SPEAKER_10: I'm normally the one that likes to stay till like they kick us out of the party area at Disney, but this time around I was like, okay, how do you like have a self-restrain?
• 1:08:08
  SPEAKER_10: And then just left shortly after, you know, each of the prior day races.
• 1:08:12
  SPEAKER_10: So that helped a lot too.
• 1:08:15
  SPEAKER_10: Eating properly, also like feeling properly.
• 1:08:18
  SPEAKER_10: Um, both like, you know, with the protein afterwards, but feeling up leading up to it.
• 1:08:22
  SPEAKER_10: And it's not just like all the carbs either.
• 1:08:24
  SPEAKER_10: It's like making sure you're getting enough protein also and the carbs and all the nutrition from veggies and all that stuff too.
• 1:08:31
  SPEAKER_01: Amy, what was the finish like?
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_15: The finish was quite an event.
• 1:08:35
  SPEAKER_15: So I similar um to some others, I just wanted to be under six hours because I had had the heartbreaking experience, my first Boston of as I ran on Boylston Street and was feed away from the finish line, watched as they turned the clock off.
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_15: And so that was really, really painful.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_15: Um, and so this was really rewriting that memory for me.
• 1:09:04
  SPEAKER_15: But I was also running with uh a good friend, my actually elementary school best friend, who was running with a foot who is broke was broken in two places.
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, golly.
• 1:09:17
  SPEAKER_15: But she did not want to miss running Boston and she didn't know when she would have the chance again.
• 1:09:24
  SPEAKER_15: Her daughter was also running, and we all three of us were running for charity.
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_15: And so her her daughter was much faster, and we just had her go.
• 1:09:32
  SPEAKER_15: But I had Heather stay with me and do the run walk intervals, and uh, that is really what got both of us through it.
• 1:09:42
  SPEAKER_15: Um, we both loved the entire thing and had a really great time, but getting to the finish and getting her there, I had to start to push her to make sure we were gonna make it and we did five hours, 52 minutes, and nine seconds.
• 1:10:01
  SPEAKER_15: So we we got through.
• 1:10:03
  SPEAKER_15: But the second we crossed the finish line, she could not move.
• 1:10:08
  SPEAKER_15: And so had to get a wheelchair, get her to the medical tent, and then um got her into the medical tent, then they didn't, they had already run out of crutches.
• 1:10:21
  SPEAKER_15: And so the way that the finish line area is, I actually ended up giving someone across the barrier, there was a CVS right there where they could buy crutches.
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_15: I didn't have any credit cards or anything on me to give anyone.
• 1:10:37
  SPEAKER_15: So I gave someone walking by my phone and my phone passcode to go into the CVS to buy her.
• 1:10:44
  SPEAKER_15: I I've just watched for the most trusting looking person and said, you know, my friends injured.
• 1:10:51
  SPEAKER_15: They went in, they bought the crutches and came back with my phone.
• 1:10:54
  SPEAKER_15: There haven't been any major charges.
• 1:10:56
  SPEAKER_15: So um, but it made it quite the eventful finish.
• 1:10:59
  SPEAKER_15: And then they were actually wrapping up the medals by the time she got out of the medical tent and they like opened a box and gave us our medal.
• 1:11:11
  SPEAKER_15: So all's well that ends well.
• 1:11:13
  SPEAKER_15: But I will say that the one of the most amazing things about Boston is people, and it's similar with other world majors, but just people of every single type of person, young, old, every nationality, every everything along the way, cheering the whole entire way and high-fiving you and giving you that energy that you feed off of.
• 1:11:40
  SPEAKER_15: And what I do the whole way is thank all of the volunteers, all of the first responders, all of the police officers, all of the volunteers handing out water or raking up the water cups.
• 1:11:52
  SPEAKER_15: And that's what really fuels me and like keeps me smiling the entire 26.2, even though it's almost six hours.
• 1:12:02
  SPEAKER_03: Coming down Boylston was main street on steroids.
• 1:12:07
  SPEAKER_03: Um, my watch told me that I was in too loud of an environment.
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_03: Um I was like, not much I can do about this, but it was just loud and everybody cheering, and um, that's where I got emotional was right, right coming up a hundred yards from the finish line.
• 1:12:27
  SPEAKER_01: You should.
• 1:12:28
  SPEAKER_01: You absolutely should.
• 1:12:30
  SPEAKER_01: I'd feel bad if you didn't.
• 1:12:32
  SPEAKER_01: So good for you.
• 1:12:33
  SPEAKER_01: Tara, finish number six.
• 1:12:35
  SPEAKER_01: How'd that feel?
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_11: Coming up to the finish line.
• 1:12:38
  SPEAKER_11: I actually thought I'd be more emotional.
• 1:12:39
  SPEAKER_11: I was more just excited and happy.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_11: And I I mean, all of the photos is just me with a huge smile.
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_11: And good.
• 1:12:46
  SPEAKER_11: So I crossed the finish line, I got my Boston medal.
• 1:12:50
  SPEAKER_11: And then the exciting part is that I continued on to the six-star um medals.
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_11: And the exciting part is though I saw Katie.
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_11: So our friend, mutual friend Katie, came from Ottawa, and that all she was doing is just handing out these medals, and she wanted to do this for us.
• 1:13:08
  SPEAKER_11: So we got to be there.
• 1:13:10
  SPEAKER_11: So Melissa finished before me.
• 1:13:12
  SPEAKER_11: She got her medal given to her by Katie.
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_11: And then Katie actually um gave my medal to Melissa, and so she put it on me, and just the emotion just set in there.
• 1:13:23
  SPEAKER_11: And so her and I, who started this journey together, finished it by her putting my six-star medal on me.
• 1:13:30
  SPEAKER_11: So it was just an incredible experience.
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_11: And then Sarah comes around and she gets her medal, and then we're waiting for Margaret, and then Margaret comes with her Boston Marathon medal, and it was just the absolute best way to finish the marathon, surrounded by friends, joy, happiness, emotion.
• 1:13:49
  SPEAKER_11: It was just incredible.
• 1:13:51
  SPEAKER_11: And then we just went back to a hotel and had a whole bunch of pizza and champagne and chatted and just spent time together.
• 1:14:00
  SPEAKER_11: And there was gosh, what Margaret had like 14, 15 of us all there.
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_11: So it was just all of our spouses and families, and it was just an amazing experience.
• 1:14:08
  SPEAKER_11: So so my dear friend Liz and her husband Mark, they went all the way from Michigan, came to um to cheer us on.
• 1:14:16
  SPEAKER_11: They actually brought, I don't know, Amy and Dale, if you saw um huge raccoons, big um blow-up raccoons.
• 1:14:24
  SPEAKER_11: They're my friends Liz and Mark.
• 1:14:26
  SPEAKER_11: Yeah, so they are cheering on.
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_11: They tried to come and join us uh further on, but they were having so much fun cheering that every time they started to take off their the outfits that um people were like, no, no, no, I needed to have a photo.
• 1:14:41
  SPEAKER_11: So they had such a blast, and they were like really the only character stops the whole way.
• 1:14:46
  SPEAKER_11: So they were like taking the show.
• 1:14:48
  SPEAKER_11: And so yeah, shout out to Liz Amar, guys.
• 1:14:51
  SPEAKER_11: That was amazing that you were able to come and cheer us on.
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_11: It's so sweet.
• 1:14:54
  SPEAKER_11: So we really had such a great crowd and and so so many of us that um it's just it really made it special.
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_10: I would add is that um this course makes it difficult for spectators, unlike Chicago, where like my husband was able to see me like eight times.
• 1:15:11
  SPEAKER_10: He was only able to see me twice here.
• 1:15:13
  SPEAKER_10: Um, but our families, our four families, and Liz and her husband Mark, they like team tagged it and were like at different spots for us at different times, and then all of them like joined together at mile 22 for us.
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_10: So that part was like amazing to be able to see different faces that we knew and loved ones along the way and then see them all at the end.
• 1:15:31
  SPEAKER_10: So I just wanted to make sure to mention that because it makes it tough because it's point to point, and they like uh Dale was saying, like they literally will take you from like the finish all the way to the start, and then you know, and then our family would have to find like go on trains and Ubers and everything just to you know make it there and then make it around and make it in time before we got there.
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_10: So um, but on the finish, so turning on Boylston, and mind you, I'm like half an hour from like where the cutoff is, and there's still a ton of people out there.
• 1:16:01
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 1:16:02
  SPEAKER_10: It is like this granduous finish.
• 1:16:04
  SPEAKER_10: It's probably still like what about 0.2 of a mile or like away.
• 1:16:08
  SPEAKER_10: It's not like super close, it's like still like almost a quarter mile away, but you see it and you see this massive like runway basically that you're gonna go down, and it was just amazing.
• 1:16:16
  SPEAKER_10: Like, I think like my cheeks hurt the most because I was just like I could not just stop like smiling so hard and laughing at everything, and it was just it was amazing.
• 1:16:26
  SPEAKER_18: Dale, did you get a PR during this one?
• 1:16:28
  SPEAKER_18: I did.
• 1:16:30
  SPEAKER_18: Congratulations.
• 1:16:31
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 1:16:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, anybody else?
• 1:16:34
  SPEAKER_18: I did.
• 1:16:36
  SPEAKER_01: Not a girl.
• 1:16:37
  SPEAKER_01: Well, listen, I I love the enthusiasm, the excitement.
• 1:16:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm happy that all four of you joined us.
• 1:16:43
  SPEAKER_01: I get the feeling we could go on another hour, but we gotta cut it at some point.
• 1:16:48
  SPEAKER_01: So we're at the finish line.
• 1:16:50
  SPEAKER_01: I think we're gonna cut it here.
• 1:16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for your time and for telling us all those great stories about the anybody know what number this was?
• 1:17:02
  SPEAKER_01: 130.
• 1:17:03
  SPEAKER_15: 130.
• 1:17:04
  SPEAKER_01: 130.
• 1:17:06
  SPEAKER_15: 130.
• 1:17:07
  SPEAKER_15: And thank you for letting us share our experiences.
• 1:17:10
  SPEAKER_15: It was fun reliving it.
• 1:17:11
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody here's a perfect Boston marathoner, are we?
• 1:17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh 130?
• 1:17:16
  SPEAKER_01: No, okay, all right.
• 1:17:17
  SPEAKER_01: I thought I'd check.
• 1:17:18
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, friends.
• 1:17:19
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, and I'm I'm glad I could tell you had a good time.
• 1:17:23
  SPEAKER_01: We could hear the excitement in your voices, and we look forward to talking to you later.
• 1:17:29
  SPEAKER_15: Awesome, thank you so much.
• 1:17:31
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, caution runners.
• 1:17:33
  SPEAKER_02: The topic is about to change right now.
• 1:17:37
  SPEAKER_01: All right, friends.
• 1:17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it was great hearing from our friends in Boston, but we had another world major occur while we were off gallivanting and carrying on and having a good time.
• 1:17:49
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, that's London.
• 1:17:51
  SPEAKER_01: So let's pick it back up, another world major, and we've got friends here with us today to talk about the London Marathon.
• 1:17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Friends, welcome to the podcast.
• 1:18:01
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't you go ahead and introduce yourselves, please?
• 1:18:03
  SPEAKER_09: Hi, I'm Sarah Ann.
• 1:18:05
  SPEAKER_09: So I'm based in the lovely state of New Jersey, and this was actually my first world major and my second marathon.
• 1:18:13
  SPEAKER_17: Hi, I'm Divya.
• 1:18:14
  SPEAKER_17: I'm from uh Hershey, Pennsylvania, right now.
• 1:18:17
  SPEAKER_17: Uh, this was my sixth marathon and my uh second world major.
• 1:18:21
  SPEAKER_14: Hey, I'm Janelle and I'm from New Jersey, and this was my first world major, but my fifth marathon.
• 1:18:27
  SPEAKER_19: Hey, I'm Jake Walker.
• 1:18:28
  SPEAKER_19: I'm from Boston.
• 1:18:29
  SPEAKER_19: This was my second world major and my sixth marathon.
• 1:18:33
  SPEAKER_12: Hi, this is David.
• 1:18:34
  SPEAKER_12: I'm from Cape Coral, Florida.
• 1:18:36
  SPEAKER_12: This was my first London marathon and my sixth overall marathon.
• 1:18:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, cool, friends.
• 1:18:41
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 1:18:41
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for taking the time to join us.
• 1:18:43
  SPEAKER_01: We'd like to ask questions.
• 1:18:44
  SPEAKER_01: We asked questions of our Boston runners, uh, how they got to Boston this year.
• 1:18:48
  SPEAKER_01: They had some interesting stories, but being all the way over in London, Jake, how'd you get over to the marathon this year?
• 1:18:56
  SPEAKER_19: I woke up a year before, oh, whatever it was, 350 days before the London Marathon.
• 1:19:02
  SPEAKER_19: And I booked a flight from Boston direct using my frequent flyer miles for me and my family.
• 1:19:08
  SPEAKER_19: And uh I felt great about that.
• 1:19:10
  SPEAKER_19: And then um, I don't know, three months later I got a message that uh we booked the daytime flight, so we didn't have to deal with the jet lag, uh, which is perfect, right?
• 1:19:19
  SPEAKER_19: Uh about three months later, I got an email.
• 1:19:21
  SPEAKER_19: We're canceling that flight and we're not running it anymore.
• 1:19:24
  SPEAKER_19: So instead of uh switching to the night flight, we wound up uh shooting down to New York the night before and taking the daytime flight from New York, which was perfect because we wound up, you know, you spend the whole day flying, but you don't have to deal with uh jet lag as badly as you do when you fly overnight.
• 1:19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Anybody else have uh interesting travel stories?
• 1:19:42
  SPEAKER_01: Hope did anybody have any trouble getting over?
• 1:19:45
  SPEAKER_14: It was pretty smooth sailing for me and Sarah.
• 1:19:47
  SPEAKER_14: We were on the same flight.
• 1:19:48
  SPEAKER_12: So I was lucky that uh my company offers uh company I work for here offers a special award after five or ten, fifteen years and happened to coincide with my 10-year anniversary.
• 1:19:59
  SPEAKER_12: So they uh honed up um a substantial amount of money in a couple of three weeks.
• 1:20:04
  SPEAKER_12: So it worked well.
• 1:20:06
  SPEAKER_12: So I used that money and I actually did fly virgin upper class on the way out so I could sleep on a flat bed, and that was awesome, absolutely awesome.
• 1:20:15
  SPEAKER_12: The only problem with that, of course, is that once you've gone upper class, you don't want to go around.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_12: You don't want to go up there, you don't want to go in there and take a right, you only want to go in there and take a left.
• 1:20:25
  SPEAKER_12: But uh it was it was awesome, really, really good.
• 1:20:27
  SPEAKER_04: David, you're absolutely right.
• 1:20:29
  SPEAKER_04: I I watch Adam Hann's vlogs all the time on YouTube, and whenever he travels over from the UK, I feel like nine times out of ten he's an upper class, and those seats look phenomenal.
• 1:20:39
  SPEAKER_04: So I don't blame you one bit, though.
• 1:20:41
  SPEAKER_04: You know, once you get a taste of the good life, uh you definitely don't want to go back.
• 1:20:44
  SPEAKER_04: But obviously, it sounds like not a ton of you had you know interesting travel stories, but obviously the one interesting aspect of this particular race is all five of you are going across the pond, and you know, Jake, as you mentioned, having to deal with the jet lag.
• 1:21:04
  SPEAKER_04: Divya, did you experience any jet lag?
• 1:21:06
  SPEAKER_04: Or and if you did, what kind of tips and tricks can you give future participants, whether you know it's London again or Berlin or or Sydney, you know, how to cope with that along with then going to run 26.2 miles a couple of days later?
• 1:21:24
  SPEAKER_17: Yeah, so I did take an overnight flight, which I think did not help with the jet lag, but I was also working nights off and on for like four weeks leading up to London.
• 1:21:32
  SPEAKER_17: So I was kind of confused anyway.
• 1:21:34
  SPEAKER_17: Um, so I don't know if I really had jet lag or just a general confusion about what time it was.
• 1:21:38
  SPEAKER_17: So I don't know if I have the best advice.
• 1:21:40
  SPEAKER_19: At the end of the day, Greg, you know, we're used to it from the Disney stuff.
• 1:21:44
  SPEAKER_19: The mornings are uh uh it's nothing like the 2 a.m.
• 1:21:48
  SPEAKER_19: wake-up call.
• 1:21:49
  SPEAKER_19: So uh I think we're all well trained for the for the five or six hour difference over to Europe.
• 1:21:54
  SPEAKER_12: I tend I tend to go over obviously quite often.
• 1:21:57
  SPEAKER_12: You can tell by my accent, I'm not from these here parts.
• 1:22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um and I had you I had Baton Rouge on my mind.
• 1:22:04
  SPEAKER_12: No, I always follow the same um idea as I get there, and then I pretend that it's basically the same day, the same time.
• 1:22:14
  SPEAKER_12: So I don't worry about the time difference.
• 1:22:16
  SPEAKER_12: And I just go out, like for instance, I I flew in on the Thursday morning, there was a um uh subway strike, so that was a problem.
• 1:22:25
  SPEAKER_12: I found my way over to the expo, which is quite a ways out from where I was staying, um, and just went about the day as per normal and just ignored the fact that it was a five-hour time difference.
• 1:22:36
  SPEAKER_12: And once that was done and I got back to the hotel, I slept through and I felt great the next day, much better.
• 1:22:41
  SPEAKER_12: Um, but you know, that's the if you go over there a couple, you've got to build in a couple of days beforehand, whatever happens.
• 1:22:47
  SPEAKER_12: There's no question about that.
• 1:22:48
  SPEAKER_12: You cannot go the day before.
• 1:22:50
  SPEAKER_12: You've got to build in some time just to recover from the because it does take it out of here, no question.
• 1:22:55
  SPEAKER_13: What was the expo like?
• 1:22:56
  SPEAKER_13: Was it uh a large expo, small expo, and where was it at?
• 1:23:00
  SPEAKER_14: The expo is very large, actually.
• 1:23:02
  SPEAKER_14: It was it's way bigger than Disney's, and it is so much easier to navigate and stress-free.
• 1:23:11
  SPEAKER_14: Um, but it is a far distance from actually where you are running the marathon.
• 1:23:16
  SPEAKER_14: So you have to either take the tube, a bus, or an Uber.
• 1:23:19
  SPEAKER_17: Um, I went on Friday, um, which I think was just like uh there was Saturday in between, and then the race was on Sunday, so it was definitely pretty crowded, uh, I think compared to Disney.
• 1:23:28
  SPEAKER_17: Um, and maybe I've done Chicago, so it was like slightly less organized than Chicago, but I think it was still really well organized.
• 1:23:34
  SPEAKER_17: Um, there were a ton of people, especially in that like new balance merge section.
• 1:23:38
  SPEAKER_17: Um so it was a little bit chaotic, but I think it was still a really good expo.
• 1:23:41
  SPEAKER_19: I thought it was really well organized.
• 1:23:42
  SPEAKER_19: One thing I thought was really interesting.
• 1:23:44
  SPEAKER_19: I don't know, maybe this is just I don't know, it was not interesting to anyone but runners who do this all the time.
• 1:23:48
  SPEAKER_19: But um this is the first time I've ever seen.
• 1:23:50
  SPEAKER_19: They were they actually printed your bib on site.
• 1:23:54
  SPEAKER_19: So you would check in and they had laser printers behind them.
• 1:23:57
  SPEAKER_19: And um, so you, you know, you scan your QR code and they printed your number onto a blank, a blank bib and then stuck a um, you know, timing device on it and scanned it again to link up the timing device to your bib.
• 1:24:09
  SPEAKER_19: I thought that was both interesting and also really efficient compared to having to, you know, float through 60,000 bibs trying to find your exact number.
• 1:24:16
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's interesting.
• 1:24:17
  SPEAKER_14: Well, lines moved very fast when you were picking up your bibs for even with them printing.
• 1:24:22
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, I had to pick up my bib and somebody else's, and I wasn't sure what that was gonna look like because Disney obviously it's Fort Knox, so you can't get somebody else's bib.
• 1:24:33
  SPEAKER_09: I had a copy of someone's passport, their QR code, and then like an email stating like I give you know so-and-so permission to pick up my bib.
• 1:24:42
  SPEAKER_09: They were they were wicked nice about it, and they were it was super efficient.
• 1:24:45
  SPEAKER_09: They like did mine and his at the same time, and then they were like, okay, off you go.
• 1:24:50
  SPEAKER_09: And it was just I was like, maybe Disney needs to start doing this.
• 1:24:55
  SPEAKER_13: So it's a sticker on the back of the bib or is it a timing chip for your sneaker?
• 1:25:00
  SPEAKER_19: It was a uh sticker with a timing chip built into the sticker, so they stuck it right onto the back of the bib.
• 1:25:04
  SPEAKER_19: The other thing that was uh interesting that I didn't realize until uh the night before was that maybe because of the way they were printing them, there were no holes in the um bibs themselves.
• 1:25:14
  SPEAKER_19: Uh and I brought my bib board.
• 1:25:15
  SPEAKER_19: So I was I was using the screwdriver, the um corkscrew in the hotel to try to make holes for my bib boards uh late the night before.
• 1:25:22
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly what I did, yeah.
• 1:25:24
  SPEAKER_13: Very creative, guys.
• 1:25:25
  SPEAKER_13: Very creative.
• 1:25:26
  SPEAKER_13: So I guess a pro tip if you're going to London, bring a hole punch.
• 1:25:29
  SPEAKER_13: Bring a corkscrew or a corkscrew.
• 1:25:31
  SPEAKER_13: Uh TSA might bang you on that one.
• 1:25:33
  SPEAKER_04: That's a good point.
• 1:25:34
  SPEAKER_04: You know, David, you brought up being in the new balance section, and you know, when it comes to merch and the world majors, the last big memory that I have is people just lambasting the uh the Chicago marathon from last year, the that terrible, terrible design merch in terms of the designs and the types of things that you know New Balance was offering there.
• 1:26:00
  SPEAKER_04: How would you say that that compared to other races that you've been to or um you know other world majors?
• 1:26:06
  SPEAKER_17: I thought there was a really good variety.
• 1:26:08
  SPEAKER_17: There was like you know, the general jackets and that sort of stuff, but they also had a lot of cute designs that I felt were like more London specific, like there was a design with like a teacup running uh and stuff like that.
• 1:26:18
  SPEAKER_17: So like I thought it was overall a pretty good variety, a lot of different types of things.
• 1:26:22
  SPEAKER_17: Um I thought it was pretty good.
• 1:26:23
  SPEAKER_12: Was it ever expensive though?
• 1:26:25
  SPEAKER_12: Oh my word, was it ever expensive?
• 1:26:27
  SPEAKER_04: Do a comparison for us, David.
• 1:26:28
  SPEAKER_04: Are we talking Run Disney expensive, the equivalent, or even more than that?
• 1:26:33
  SPEAKER_12: Run Run Disney's cheap in comparison to the prices.
• 1:26:35
  SPEAKER_12: Really interesting.
• 1:26:36
  SPEAKER_12: Okay.
• 1:26:37
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, the finitive finisher's jacket, which I didn't bother with.
• 1:26:40
  SPEAKER_12: Um nothing, no great shakes.
• 1:26:41
  SPEAKER_12: It was probably a wind cheater or like just light rain type of thing.
• 1:26:44
  SPEAKER_12: So 145 pounds.
• 1:26:46
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, that's basic dollars, give or take.
• 1:26:49
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, uh, just ridiculous.
• 1:26:51
  SPEAKER_14: I will say though, for the price, my jacket had color bleeding.
• 1:26:55
  SPEAKER_14: I got the hot pink one.
• 1:26:56
  SPEAKER_14: It was just a rogue thing that happened.
• 1:26:58
  SPEAKER_14: New balance gave me back my money, no questions asked.
• 1:27:02
  SPEAKER_14: There was they literally admitted, like, yeah, there were some issues.
• 1:27:07
  SPEAKER_14: So easy to work with.
• 1:27:08
  SPEAKER_14: So for the price, like I know Run Disney probably doesn't charge$145, but if that had happened with a Run Disney piece of merchandise, it would have been so like too bad, so sad, we can't help you because that's happened to me so many times.
• 1:27:21
  SPEAKER_12: The one issue I I felt could have been addressed, or maybe just because I wanted it to be different, was that there was no finisher's t-shirt um exchange like there is at Disney.
• 1:27:34
  SPEAKER_12: So for instance, I um pre-ordered, not pre-ordered, basically when you when you go through the whole rigmarole of where you're gonna start, your time, etc., it says what what is your size?
• 1:27:45
  SPEAKER_12: So I picked my size, and then on top of that, I also paid the extra 14 pounds to have my name printed across the bottom because everyone said, Do that because people cheer your name, which is wonderful.
• 1:27:56
  SPEAKER_12: So when I got to the actual pickup of the finishers.
• 1:28:00
  SPEAKER_12: T-shirt, which is right at the end, you don't get a bitty bit, it's right at the other end of the exposure on your way out.
• 1:28:06
  SPEAKER_12: And I picked it up and I put it on.
• 1:28:08
  SPEAKER_12: I thought this is just it's okay, it's a bit tight, it is a bit tight.
• 1:28:11
  SPEAKER_12: So I said, Can I exchange this?
• 1:28:13
  SPEAKER_12: They said, No, you um they might have some at the end after after the race.
• 1:28:18
  SPEAKER_12: And I thought, well, okay, fair enough.
• 1:28:20
  SPEAKER_12: But I've already paid$14 pounds to have the name put on.
• 1:28:23
  SPEAKER_12: So in the end, I put the name on um because I paid for it, and I thought, well, I'll just run in a different shirt.
• 1:28:31
  SPEAKER_12: And then in the end, I actually did run in that shirt.
• 1:28:33
  SPEAKER_12: So I got back here and I thought I really want a nice shirt just to run in, you know, regularly run in.
• 1:28:39
  SPEAKER_12: Have you seen the prices on eBay?
• 1:28:41
  SPEAKER_12: They weren't like 65, like$100 for the t-shirt.
• 1:28:45
  SPEAKER_12: And I mean, even the medals.
• 1:28:46
  SPEAKER_12: I've seen medals on US eBay,$300.
• 1:28:50
  SPEAKER_12: Who buys a medal if they didn't run the event?
• 1:28:54
  SPEAKER_12: That's another story.
• 1:28:55
  SPEAKER_12: So the prices were high, and I think that it would have been useful like to have been able to swap your shirt out if it was a necessity.
• 1:29:02
  SPEAKER_12: As it is, I'm I've got a shirt which I'm never gonna run it because it's got my name on it.
• 1:29:06
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, who's gonna run my streets with my name on it?
• 1:29:09
  SPEAKER_12: Um so it I would like to get you know a shirt, and I'm still looking on eBay.
• 1:29:15
  SPEAKER_12: My son's in England, he he said he'll buy it and you know ship it over to me.
• 1:29:18
  SPEAKER_12: But trying to get one at a reasonable price is just impossible.
• 1:29:22
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, David, you mentioned something earlier about uh a subway strike.
• 1:29:25
  SPEAKER_01: Friends, did that impact you guys at all while you were over there?
• 1:29:29
  SPEAKER_09: Yes, it was horrible.
• 1:29:31
  SPEAKER_09: I wouldn't say it was horrible, it was like pretty bad.
• 1:29:34
  SPEAKER_09: Like Thursday for me getting to the expo, it took me like over an hour and I felt like I was just in standstill traffic because I stayed over in um like the Hyde Park Notting Hill section.
• 1:29:49
  SPEAKER_09: And I kept telling Janelle, I'm like, I'm on my way, I'm on my way.
• 1:29:51
  SPEAKER_09: And I I do run very fashionably late.
• 1:29:55
  SPEAKER_09: This was like to a whole new, whole new extreme, and it was like that for like the first two days.
• 1:30:01
  SPEAKER_09: And then once the tube started running again, Janelle's like, oh, now you know how to be on time.
• 1:30:05
  SPEAKER_09: I'm like, yes, I just need public transportation, not a car.
• 1:30:08
  SPEAKER_01: Did it impact you all getting to the start of the race?
• 1:30:11
  SPEAKER_14: The strike was over by then, so we were able to get to the race very easily.
• 1:30:15
  SPEAKER_14: It was just Thursday and Friday, and then Saturday it was business as usual, same with Sunday.
• 1:30:22
  SPEAKER_19: It's a very polite strike.
• 1:30:24
  SPEAKER_19: It's announced months ahead of time, and they schedule it from noon to noon.
• 1:30:28
  SPEAKER_19: And you say, you know, it's coming at least.
• 1:30:29
  SPEAKER_19: It's very it's friendly in that way.
• 1:30:31
  SPEAKER_12: But it was done, it was done deliberately because obviously um the the strikers knew full well there was going to be 60,000 more people in London at exactly that time.
• 1:30:40
  SPEAKER_12: So let's bring pressure to bear on the bosses to get whatever it is they wanted.
• 1:30:44
  SPEAKER_12: Whether or not they did, I don't know, but it was tactically well put together, but incredibly inconvenient if you were there the Thursday and the Friday beforehand.
• 1:30:53
  SPEAKER_04: Very, very interesting.
• 1:30:54
  SPEAKER_04: I I feel like I I've seen that experience many times.
• 1:30:57
  SPEAKER_04: I know once I was in Paris for work, and that you know, they in European nations sometimes you know that there's like public transit strikes like you know every other Tuesday or something like that.
• 1:31:05
  SPEAKER_04: So but I'm glad you're all able to navigate it.
• 1:31:08
  SPEAKER_04: But you know, Bob was asking about using the tube to get to the race.
• 1:31:12
  SPEAKER_04: Let's actually get there and let's talk the start line.
• 1:31:18
  SPEAKER_04: Jake, you you know, you said this was your second major, but what was your mindset as you approach the start line and and then starting off in the race?
• 1:31:28
  SPEAKER_19: I I thought the start line was incredibly well organized for what they had to pull off, right?
• 1:31:33
  SPEAKER_19: Which is getting 60,000 people across the um across the start.
• 1:31:38
  SPEAKER_19: And it turns out actually, um, probably pretty interestingly, there are three separate um starting lines.
• 1:31:44
  SPEAKER_19: And the course is separate um for the first um, I don't know, 5K or so.
• 1:31:49
  SPEAKER_19: Uh two of the three lines joined together about two miles in, and then the third line joins and merges together.
• 1:31:54
  SPEAKER_19: So everyone's eventually on the same course um by about 5K in.
• 1:31:59
  SPEAKER_19: But that's one of the ways in which they sort of separate everyone out.
• 1:32:02
  SPEAKER_19: It was really well done.
• 1:32:04
  SPEAKER_19: They had um, it was just this big park, so a huge, you know, grassy area that you could kind of hang out and wait in.
• 1:32:11
  SPEAKER_19: Um, I did something called uh they call it Team Green, which is basically if you didn't bring what they call a kit bag, you know, your bag to check, um, which they would, it's a one-way race, right?
• 1:32:21
  SPEAKER_19: So they'd have to uh truck it back to the finish line.
• 1:32:24
  SPEAKER_19: If you didn't do that, then you could be in this special area where they had like hot coffee and uh tea and um extra seating and maybe a little bit more room, uh which was nice, um a nice benefit.
• 1:32:36
  SPEAKER_19: So I took advantage of that.
• 1:32:38
  SPEAKER_19: Um, and then they had um, you know, you had basically group numbers, and the group numbers went from, I don't know, one to 15 or something like that.
• 1:32:45
  SPEAKER_19: And they had three different stalls.
• 1:32:47
  SPEAKER_19: So you would just kind of wait and stage, and you know, group one would go, and then they would start calling group four to get ready while they were letting group two and group three go.
• 1:32:55
  SPEAKER_19: And they're coordinating all that amongst the four different groups.
• 1:32:58
  SPEAKER_19: It was really quite an operation.
• 1:33:00
  SPEAKER_19: I mean, it was um, it was as well done as anything I had I had seen in actually getting started.
• 1:33:06
  SPEAKER_09: I think even the different start times too was really nice.
• 1:33:10
  SPEAKER_09: Instead of like, you know, Disney, where you have to be there by a certain hour or you can't get into your corral.
• 1:33:16
  SPEAKER_09: We were Janelle and I were in the same wave.
• 1:33:19
  SPEAKER_09: So it was nice because we both had a little bit more time.
• 1:33:22
  SPEAKER_09: So, like if you like myself have nerves for like your first world major, it gave us the opportunity to like chill a little bit before getting there.
• 1:33:30
  SPEAKER_09: But then once we got there, I just felt like I was meeting a large group of people before and just kind of all doing the same.
• 1:33:37
  SPEAKER_09: Like everybody was very kind, I felt like too, which was really nice.
• 1:33:41
  SPEAKER_13: With the uh three separate start areas, do they still all start at the same time?
• 1:33:48
  SPEAKER_13: And how was the merge at uh mile three, I guess?
• 1:33:52
  SPEAKER_14: So all of the different like colors and routes that you were at, we all had different start times.
• 1:33:58
  SPEAKER_14: So like they didn't release everyone like group one at eight o'clock.
• 1:34:02
  SPEAKER_14: It was like every 10 minutes a different color and a different path was going off so that when we did get to merges, it was like absolutely seamless.
• 1:34:12
  SPEAKER_14: And I will say that like me and Sarah were in the 515 group.
• 1:34:17
  SPEAKER_14: Um, and they do let like the seven-hour marathons, eight-hour marathons, they let them on the course before us, and there's never any like congestion because the way the roots all worked, it was just like it blew our minds.
• 1:34:30
  SPEAKER_14: Like it was absolutely amazing.
• 1:34:33
  SPEAKER_14: And even at Disney, like I get stressed out even though I know the course.
• 1:34:36
  SPEAKER_14: And here it was just like there was never a part where you're just like getting frustrated because you can't move, or at least that's how we had it for our route.
• 1:34:44
  SPEAKER_14: Red 13, we loved.
• 1:34:47
  SPEAKER_19: Yeah, I would say it was really look, it was there's a lot of people, it was congested.
• 1:34:51
  SPEAKER_19: You you it's not like you had open road.
• 1:34:54
  SPEAKER_19: Um, but they had it figured out.
• 1:34:56
  SPEAKER_19: I mean, you were also weren't there was no stop there, you know, there was not like a standstill at any point, even at these merges or anything like that.
• 1:35:02
  SPEAKER_19: It was it was pretty well um, you know, the flow was pretty well, they've got it pretty well figured out.
• 1:35:08
  SPEAKER_19: They they pack just about as many people as they can in, I think, without, you know, I think if you added another 500 people, it might it might screw it all up.
• 1:35:16
  SPEAKER_01: No problem at water stops or anything like that?
• 1:35:18
  SPEAKER_17: Well, one thing with the water stops is they give people like water bottles instead of cups, um, which was kind of interesting.
• 1:35:25
  SPEAKER_17: So I think I did see some people like tripped on water bottles later on because they told you to empty them if you weren't going to drink the whole thing, but I think not everyone did.
• 1:35:32
  SPEAKER_17: Um, but they had enough water and like that was never an issue that I ran into.
• 1:35:36
  SPEAKER_19: I thought um I was surprised they only had water stops often, maybe not every time, but most of the times, uh only on one side of the road, um, which was which was uh strange to me, um, just given how many people there were, so how much kind of cutting over there was.
• 1:35:52
  SPEAKER_19: And of course, we were in the UK, and so if I was doing my run walk, I thought I happened to be on the left and not on the right and the water on the right.
• 1:35:58
  SPEAKER_19: So it was a lot of back and forth in that way.
• 1:36:00
  SPEAKER_19: Um, and there were, I would say probably fewer, um, certainly fewer, and this affected me in the race, I think.
• 1:36:07
  SPEAKER_19: Um uh fewer, um, they call it Lucas A, but it's Gatorade essentially, like electrolytes.
• 1:36:13
  SPEAKER_19: Way fewer of those than um than uh there should have been.
• 1:36:18
  SPEAKER_19: There should have been more, frankly.
• 1:36:19
  SPEAKER_19: Or I just should have been more thoughtful about bringing my own.
• 1:36:22
  SPEAKER_19: Um they didn't come all that often.
• 1:36:24
  SPEAKER_19: And and when they came, it was like a really small the water cups were great, but electrolytes were really lacking.
• 1:36:29
  SPEAKER_14: Ours were in bottles.
• 1:36:31
  SPEAKER_14: Like anything we got on the course was in a bottle.
• 1:36:34
  SPEAKER_14: So me and Sarah got, I guess, lucky, but we had like the big bottles of electrolytes that we got to run with.
• 1:36:40
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 1:36:40
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, it was really nice.
• 1:36:42
  SPEAKER_01: I could have used one.
• 1:36:43
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, we could have one.
• 1:36:44
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 1:36:45
  SPEAKER_01: That's where they were, Jake.
• 1:36:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I could have used one.
• 1:36:48
  SPEAKER_14: Maybe the back of the crowd.
• 1:36:49
  SPEAKER_14: I don't know, because we were 13, so we were towards the back of like releases.
• 1:36:54
  SPEAKER_14: So maybe they were just like, we don't need cups anymore and just started giving out bottles, but we had plenty, like there was an overflow of options we had to grab them.
• 1:37:03
  SPEAKER_04: David, in a few minutes, we're gonna talk about course highlights in terms of landmarks or just you know, personal, you know, highlights or lowlights.
• 1:37:11
  SPEAKER_04: But I think the one thing that I find um unique about the London Marathon is that I mean, sure, whether it's Run Disney or an Abbott World major, there are some people that do these in costume.
• 1:37:24
  SPEAKER_04: But for some reason, I feel like London gets the most costumes.
• 1:37:27
  SPEAKER_04: Like I've seen you know people dressed as rhinos.
• 1:37:31
  SPEAKER_04: I think this year there was a guy that did the whole thing with a refrigerator strapped to his back.
• 1:37:37
  SPEAKER_04: Over the course of the race, did you encounter anyone dressed in um you know a funny costume or participating in a funny situation at all?
• 1:37:46
  SPEAKER_12: I got overtaken by a flapping chicken at around about miles six.
• 1:37:51
  SPEAKER_12: Um, but I I hunted him down.
• 1:37:53
  SPEAKER_12: I hunted him, I got him, and I did see the guy with the fridge on his back.
• 1:37:58
  SPEAKER_12: And you you need to research the story behind that because it's incredibly sad.
• 1:38:03
  SPEAKER_12: And well, won't go into it now, but it it's an incredible story.
• 1:38:07
  SPEAKER_12: But that there were other people dressed as all sorts of things.
• 1:38:10
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, it was it was not as prevalent as Disney, by any, in my opinion.
• 1:38:16
  SPEAKER_12: From where I was on the course, I really saw maybe half a dozen people in costume.
• 1:38:21
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, that was it.
• 1:38:22
  SPEAKER_12: If I look at the highlights, going back, there's more.
• 1:38:25
  SPEAKER_12: Maybe I just missed it, but but from where I was and where I was running, three or four people in costume.
• 1:38:31
  SPEAKER_12: Um, very elaborate, very well done.
• 1:38:34
  SPEAKER_12: Um although I I would say that judging by the amount of uh people who ended up flat on their backs or on stretches or gurneys or we call it here now, um, a lot of people I think uh miss the miss the point that it's 26.2 miles dressed as a giraffe or whatever without adequate training and nutrition, it's only gonna go one way.
• 1:38:57
  SPEAKER_12: And so many people just didn't even make it because I think of you know of that, people dressed as unbelievable.
• 1:39:03
  SPEAKER_12: There were a couple of girls I went past who were dressed as like donkeys, I think.
• 1:39:07
  SPEAKER_12: One in the back and one in the front.
• 1:39:09
  SPEAKER_12: Oh geez.
• 1:39:11
  SPEAKER_12: You know, that distance dressed like that, and you think that's gotta be something.
• 1:39:15
  SPEAKER_12: So hats off to them for trying it, and it's all for charity.
• 1:39:18
  SPEAKER_12: Oh, I guess, yep, yes, great for charity, no problem at all.
• 1:39:22
  SPEAKER_12: But just realize what you're involved in here, you know, and then and some people I've read about who actually were in costume who who got to mile 25, and the next thing they know is they're waking up in a hospital bed because they just went straight over, and it was you know, lack of preparation, and it was warm, it was a warm day.
• 1:39:41
  SPEAKER_12: Um I thought it was, yeah.
• 1:39:43
  SPEAKER_12: You know, people people just kind of you know, the the the costumes and the fancy dress were nowhere near like we see at Disney.
• 1:39:50
  SPEAKER_12: Um, nowhere near, um, in my opinion, from what I saw.
• 1:39:53
  SPEAKER_17: I think Daddy Pig ran from Peppa Pig.
• 1:39:56
  SPEAKER_17: That was like a big story.
• 1:39:58
  SPEAKER_19: I was very excited to to pass Daddy Pig at about mile 10 and feeling very good about myself.
• 1:40:04
  SPEAKER_19: And maybe I'll move on to it.
• 1:40:07
  SPEAKER_19: You know, we'll move on to it later.
• 1:40:08
  SPEAKER_19: But I wound up having a very, very difficult um end of the race.
• 1:40:12
  SPEAKER_19: And so um uh I didn't see it happen, but when I crossed the finish line, who's there being interviewed but Daddy Pig, who apparently passed me again.
• 1:40:21
  SPEAKER_19: Uh um and he started a half an hour before I did, so I still have him on time, but uh you know that's that's kind of how the end of my race went, just to give you a sense.
• 1:40:30
  SPEAKER_01: So so Jake passed a pig, David passed a chicken.
• 1:40:34
  SPEAKER_01: Anybody else pass anything interesting?
• 1:40:37
  SPEAKER_14: We passed the prawn, me and Sarah.
• 1:40:39
  SPEAKER_14: We ran together.
• 1:40:39
  SPEAKER_14: So Sarah and I were together most of London the whole time.
• 1:40:44
  SPEAKER_04: That's great.
• 1:40:44
  SPEAKER_04: That's wonderful.
• 1:40:45
  SPEAKER_04: You put all those together and you have a wonderful stoof.
• 1:40:48
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 1:40:50
  SPEAKER_04: All right, but costumes aside, Divya, talk to us about some landmark, you know, course highlights, or just, you know, if you know the the sights and sounds of London, you know, you know, maybe you had tunnel vision the entire time.
• 1:41:06
  SPEAKER_04: Give us your race highlights.
• 1:41:08
  SPEAKER_17: Yeah, um, I did have a little bit of tunnel vision at the start.
• 1:41:11
  SPEAKER_17: I was trying to follow like that blue line they paint, and I did not realize you ran past Cuddy Stark, which is a giant chip that I just didn't realize until the next day somebody told me we ran past.
• 1:41:20
  SPEAKER_17: Um but I think uh just the amount of people, I don't think I've ever seen that many people cheering on a race before.
• 1:41:27
  SPEAKER_17: Like that was really incredible.
• 1:41:28
  SPEAKER_17: Um, I put my name on my top two for the first time from the expo, uh, and so many people were shouting my name.
• 1:41:34
  SPEAKER_17: They also all could like pronounce my name properly, which I have not encountered in the US.
• 1:41:38
  SPEAKER_17: Not very often, right?
• 1:41:40
  SPEAKER_17: Yeah, but uh I just like that amount of encouragement I don't think I've ever seen at a race before.
• 1:41:44
  SPEAKER_17: I don't think there was a single part that like didn't have spectators cheering.
• 1:41:47
  SPEAKER_17: So that was really great.
• 1:41:49
  SPEAKER_13: This this course was record breaking this year.
• 1:41:52
  SPEAKER_13: Uh it was so was this a fast course or was it just uh was like for this course?
• 1:41:57
  SPEAKER_13: Is it flat?
• 1:41:58
  SPEAKER_13: This has how'd it go?
• 1:41:59
  SPEAKER_14: The course is rolling hills.
• 1:42:01
  SPEAKER_14: Um Sarah thought it was flat, but I knew it was rolling hills, so I was having the time of my life running them.
• 1:42:09
  SPEAKER_14: She wasn't kill me.
• 1:42:10
  SPEAKER_09: She was doing great, and I'm like, I thought this was a flat course, and she's like, Who told you that?
• 1:42:14
  SPEAKER_09: I'm like, I don't know, I thought somebody said it to me.
• 1:42:16
  SPEAKER_09: I was wrong.
• 1:42:17
  SPEAKER_09: It was not a flat course.
• 1:42:19
  SPEAKER_12: I think it was it was relatively hilly on the outskirts of London when we started, but once you get into town, it's I thought it was I I think Cam is worse at Disney with the overpasses, to be honest, but maybe maybe I went the wrong way.
• 1:42:34
  SPEAKER_09: No, you probably did it correctly because like once I once we got into London, I was like, why wasn't it like this from the start?
• 1:42:39
  SPEAKER_09: I wouldn't be gassed and exhausted and all the things.
• 1:42:43
  SPEAKER_19: Yeah, and a big downhill to really start, which is real, which is pretty tricky too.
• 1:42:47
  SPEAKER_19: Um in the first uh 5k or so um it was a net downhill, including a reasonably steep um you know, kilometer or so um of the of the start of the race.
• 1:42:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that is a tough way to start because you don't want to go out too fast, but that certainly encourages you.
• 1:43:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh any other comments on the course?
• 1:43:05
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, uh you got these wonderful famous London landmarks.
• 1:43:08
  SPEAKER_01: How was that?
• 1:43:09
  SPEAKER_12: I was gonna say that the I mean, obviously Cutty Sark was fabulous.
• 1:43:12
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, I've my my dad used to take me to Cutty Sark when I was a kid before it burnt.
• 1:43:17
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, and uh that was awesome just to run around that.
• 1:43:20
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, I was just looking up at it, going, oh my way, I'll look at that.
• 1:43:23
  SPEAKER_12: You know, coming across Tower Bridge, just fantastic.
• 1:43:26
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, that's that is the equivalent for me for Main Street USA to that was just something else.
• 1:43:34
  SPEAKER_12: And then, of course, you know, you run past um you know, House of Parliament, Big Ben, you're going along the Thames, you get to fucking Palace, the Mao.
• 1:43:42
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, it's it's it's everything, it's very century overload.
• 1:43:45
  SPEAKER_12: But the the to your point earlier, the the volume, the crowd.
• 1:43:52
  SPEAKER_12: I have never ever been involved in anything where the crowd would tending from virtually from the start, the noise just got more progressively more and more as you went further into the race.
• 1:44:06
  SPEAKER_12: I think I said in the race report, I was wearing um shocks or whatever it was, um slightly in-ear ones rather than the bottom conductors, waste of time.
• 1:44:15
  SPEAKER_12: Waste of time, even on full volume, couldn't hear a thing because the the the crowd noise, just the crowd noise, regardless of the the orchestras, the drums, and all the other bits of was just immense.
• 1:44:28
  SPEAKER_12: And it was it was absolutely phenomenal.
• 1:44:30
  SPEAKER_12: It really was.
• 1:44:31
  SPEAKER_12: I've never experienced anything like that, and it was just brilliant.
• 1:44:34
  SPEAKER_09: They were also kind.
• 1:44:35
  SPEAKER_09: Like I got sick, Janelle, what like after the halfway point, like after Tower Bridge.
• 1:44:40
  SPEAKER_09: It was like really bad.
• 1:44:42
  SPEAKER_09: And I went over to the side, and like someone actually came out of a pub and was like, Do you need anything?
• 1:44:46
  SPEAKER_09: Like and I was just like, my God, like they they're like, they're so kind, and like as we progress, like I couldn't get over.
• 1:44:53
  SPEAKER_09: I'm like worried for my next world major.
• 1:44:55
  SPEAKER_09: I'm like, is the crowd gonna be just as good as the people over in London?
• 1:44:58
  SPEAKER_09: Because this was it was just so incredible.
• 1:45:01
  SPEAKER_19: I I expected the 10 deep kind of phenomenon at the major spots, and I had read some things before, you know, here's where you can some places that are less well attended, you could have your family visit and things like that.
• 1:45:12
  SPEAKER_19: There was nothing like that.
• 1:45:14
  SPEAKER_19: I mean, I think maybe a mile or two out of the 26, it was only one or two deep.
• 1:45:19
  SPEAKER_19: But other than that, it really was for the entire, I mean, it's hard to explain for the entire 26 miles.
• 1:45:26
  SPEAKER_19: It was, you know, at least three or four deep, and you know, expanding out to 10 and 12 deep in places, and it never ended.
• 1:45:33
  SPEAKER_19: It never ended.
• 1:45:34
  SPEAKER_19: It was really amazing.
• 1:45:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we we do these recaps from all the world majors.
• 1:45:40
  SPEAKER_01: I I truly believe that the host cities take great pride in putting on a good show for the runners because they know they're coming from all over the world.
• 1:45:50
  SPEAKER_12: In England, uh, the London Marathon has always been a national treasure, always has been since it started.
• 1:45:55
  SPEAKER_12: It's become a big thing.
• 1:45:57
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, it's it's currently televised throughout the country and is something that people look forward to, um, whether to participate, which is very difficult nowadays, or to spectate.
• 1:46:10
  SPEAKER_12: It it's become an institution over the last 20 odd years.
• 1:46:14
  SPEAKER_12: Certainly, it's something else, it really is.
• 1:46:16
  SPEAKER_12: So very proud to have uh you know been able to go and do my home marathon if you want.
• 1:46:21
  SPEAKER_12: Yeah, it really was something.
• 1:46:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I lived in the Boston area for a while.
• 1:46:26
  SPEAKER_01: Same thing up there.
• 1:46:27
  SPEAKER_01: Great civic pride in the Boston Marathon, well deserved.
• 1:46:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Debbie, let's get to the finish.
• 1:46:33
  SPEAKER_01: Anything special about the finish line or the last couple miles or anything that you can recall?
• 1:46:39
  SPEAKER_17: So I think a lot of the major sites were kind of like those last few miles from what I remember.
• 1:46:44
  SPEAKER_17: So I think that was really cool.
• 1:46:46
  SPEAKER_17: Um, and then I think just finishing, um, I think it was a great experience in general.
• 1:46:51
  SPEAKER_17: Um, it was definitely, I think, got a lot more crowded towards the finish.
• 1:46:54
  SPEAKER_17: Um, but it was nice, you know.
• 1:46:56
  SPEAKER_17: I think the volunteers you went through the finish, the volunteers were like putting the medals on your neck, and everybody was uh taking pictures of each other.
• 1:47:02
  SPEAKER_17: So I think it was overall a pretty nice thing.
• 1:47:04
  SPEAKER_17: Uh, it finishes in like a park.
• 1:47:06
  SPEAKER_17: Um, so I did get a little bit lost trying to figure out what exit to use because there were quite a few places that you could go once you were done.
• 1:47:12
  SPEAKER_17: Um and then I guess the other thing is they don't give you like post-race food, which I think normally they do.
• 1:47:18
  SPEAKER_17: They give you like a drink and like I think a yogurt drink or something, but they don't give you like any other food afterwards.
• 1:47:23
  SPEAKER_17: So that was a little surprising.
• 1:47:25
  SPEAKER_17: But other than that, I think it was good.
• 1:47:26
  SPEAKER_01: No cheese.
• 1:47:28
  SPEAKER_01: How about the rest of you?
• 1:47:29
  SPEAKER_01: How did it feel finishing this world major?
• 1:47:31
  SPEAKER_14: It did.
• 1:47:32
  SPEAKER_14: It felt amazing.
• 1:47:33
  SPEAKER_14: Um, the crowd support was insane.
• 1:47:37
  SPEAKER_14: And Sarah did get sick during the marriage, like she was fighting so many demons.
• 1:47:42
  SPEAKER_14: So just seeing her accomplish a world major after I was with her that whole time, like seeing that, like if you look at our finish line photos, like I'm literally like just staring at her because I'm just like so like incredibly proud of her for making it to that finish line.
• 1:47:57
  SPEAKER_14: And like, and then my family also won tickets to sit in the mall, so they were like right at the finish line.
• 1:48:03
  SPEAKER_14: So it was like I'm looking at her, they they're looking at me.
• 1:48:07
  SPEAKER_14: It was just yeah, the finish line was absolutely a core memory for me that I will never forget.
• 1:48:14
  SPEAKER_12: You come you come off of Bow Cage Walk, you go around the path of Buckingham Palace on the left-hand side, and you go around into the mall.
• 1:48:21
  SPEAKER_12: But before you get there, there's a big banner across the that says 365 yards or 385 yards to go.
• 1:48:27
  SPEAKER_12: That's the toughest 385 yards you're ever gonna do.
• 1:48:32
  SPEAKER_12: But once you go down there and you get through, it's just unbelievable because you go straight through and it's so well choreographed, you know, you're through in metal, water, whatever else, and then they close off the mall so that you can't go off into the parks either side.
• 1:48:47
  SPEAKER_12: You have to walk down to the entrances to stop people coming back on themselves, obviously.
• 1:48:51
  SPEAKER_12: Fortunately, I'm I'm there at this at this at the finish, and my hotel is there on the left.
• 1:48:56
  SPEAKER_12: And I had to go all the way down the mall and then come all the way back up to St.
• 1:48:58
  SPEAKER_12: James's Piccadilly.
• 1:49:00
  SPEAKER_12: But well, there you go.
• 1:49:01
  SPEAKER_12: But just to go to the end part of that, when I got back to the hotel, it's really nice.
• 1:49:06
  SPEAKER_12: Well, as you're walking back to where you come from, everybody's saying congratulations and whatever else, and that was really nice.
• 1:49:12
  SPEAKER_12: And then I got back to my hotel, walked into the lobby area, there's lots of people in there, just regular guests at the hotel, and they all started applauding.
• 1:49:18
  SPEAKER_12: And it was just ah, how nice.
• 1:49:20
  SPEAKER_12: It really, you know, got me choked up.
• 1:49:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, how nice, really.
• 1:49:25
  SPEAKER_12: And funny enough, actually, when I got to the departure lounge at Heathrow, before we got on the plane, one of the airline people from Delta actually put over the tanoy and said, uh, over the ogre head and said, and just before we boarded, I'd like to offer congratulations to everybody who ran a successful London marathon.
• 1:49:41
  SPEAKER_12: It was it's that kind of thing where they really do appreciate the marathon and appreciate the people who take part in it.
• 1:49:48
  SPEAKER_12: So it was you know really good, really good.
• 1:49:50
  SPEAKER_12: The whole thing, the whole experience.
• 1:49:52
  SPEAKER_12: Can't fault it.
• 1:49:53
  SPEAKER_12: Better than I hoped it would be by times 10.
• 1:49:56
  SPEAKER_12: I mean, it's unbelievable.
• 1:49:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad to hear that.
• 1:49:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad to hear that.
• 1:50:00
  SPEAKER_01: Heads shaking, yes.
• 1:50:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm glad I'm glad to hear it.
• 1:50:04
  SPEAKER_04: Jake, let's go back to your finish and and the the mental anguish getting passed by Daddy Pick again at the end.
• 1:50:13
  SPEAKER_19: Yeah, I I had a um I had a really tough so I had a great training um you know few months and I was feeling so optimistic heading in.
• 1:50:22
  SPEAKER_19: Uh and I actually had a 26-mile training run that I took treated as a training run um three weeks to four weeks beforehand.
• 1:50:30
  SPEAKER_19: And I wound up like three quarters of the way through that looking at my watch and realizing I was pretty close to I did it at a marathon, but I was doing it as a training run.
• 1:50:39
  SPEAKER_19: I was pretty close to a PR.
• 1:50:41
  SPEAKER_19: And I wound up kind of going so I I PR'd my training run four weeks before this.
• 1:50:45
  SPEAKER_19: So I was like so excited about this race.
• 1:50:49
  SPEAKER_19: And this is the it was a it was a winter of training in Boston, very cold.
• 1:50:54
  SPEAKER_19: I didn't have a warm, I hadn't had a warm run in four months, right?
• 1:50:57
  SPEAKER_19: The entire sort of training block.
• 1:50:59
  SPEAKER_19: And this was the first warm run I had.
• 1:51:01
  SPEAKER_19: And I just, I really, I think just um I just messed up my fueling.
• 1:51:07
  SPEAKER_19: Uh and I had a very, very difficult the last seven or eight miles.
• 1:51:11
  SPEAKER_19: And and when I say difficult, the last two miles, I mean 22 minute like stopping.
• 1:51:18
  SPEAKER_19: And and I didn't know I was gonna make it, honestly.
• 1:51:21
  SPEAKER_19: Um, my family was on a uh uh a 630 flight back to Boston to get my son back to school.
• 1:51:29
  SPEAKER_19: And I didn't know if I was gonna hop on the plane with I had seats on that, but I could cancel them.
• 1:51:33
  SPEAKER_19: I didn't know if I was gonna hop on that with them or just take one the next day, which I had another flight book for.
• 1:51:38
  SPEAKER_19: And I winded like not even, they had to leave before I finished.
• 1:51:41
  SPEAKER_19: So that was kind of on my mind.
• 1:51:43
  SPEAKER_19: And um, God, it was a tough, it was a tough, tough finish for me.
• 1:51:47
  SPEAKER_19: Uh, I was so glad to to get to the finish line though, and and and pick up the medal.
• 1:51:53
  SPEAKER_19: And it was um as a it was a learning, uh, a learning experience for sure.
• 1:51:58
  SPEAKER_19: I reg I regret the um not being able to really enjoy and take in the last few miles because there was so many great sights and things those last few miles.
• 1:52:06
  SPEAKER_19: But um I was really, I was both glad to get it done and then the few times that I was really like bowled over and stopped those last few miles, so much encouragement and whatnot from the crowd.
• 1:52:16
  SPEAKER_19: And it was uh that part of it was a was a great experience.
• 1:52:19
  SPEAKER_19: So the the longer that it's gone since since I finished, the the better I feel about having done it.
• 1:52:25
  SPEAKER_19: Um, but uh, but it was tough.
• 1:52:27
  SPEAKER_19: I had a tough, a tough last uh couple of hours.
• 1:52:30
  SPEAKER_19: But we're proud of you.
• 1:52:32
  SPEAKER_13: Okay, so the race is over.
• 1:52:33
  SPEAKER_13: How did you get out of there?
• 1:52:35
  SPEAKER_13: And did any of you guys do anything exciting over in London after the race, spent some time there?
• 1:52:40
  SPEAKER_04: Like, did anybody see Paddington the musical?
• 1:52:42
  SPEAKER_04: Like, that's all like if anybody did that, I'll be insanely jealous of you.
• 1:52:47
  SPEAKER_19: I looked for tickets.
• 1:52:48
  SPEAKER_19: They were uh not just not that they were expensive.
• 1:52:51
  SPEAKER_19: I don't think, I mean, I'm sure if you had enough money you could figure it out, but it wasn't easy to even if you wanted to pay a ton of money, it wasn't easy to figure out how to do it.
• 1:52:59
  SPEAKER_04: Or even the greatest showman.
• 1:53:00
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, the the West End has such good theater right now.
• 1:53:03
  SPEAKER_04: So if anyone experienced that, let me know.
• 1:53:06
  SPEAKER_14: I went to see Dracula, and then I also went to do Hercules, and they were amazing.
• 1:53:12
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 1:53:13
  SPEAKER_17: I went to a uh Sherlock Holmes-themed pub afterwards with some people.
• 1:53:17
  SPEAKER_17: Oh, interesting.
• 1:53:18
  SPEAKER_12: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:53:19
  SPEAKER_17: That's fun.
• 1:53:20
  SPEAKER_12: I was like my son, my son lives in uh south of England, about three or four hours south of London.
• 1:53:26
  SPEAKER_12: He came up with his girlfriend and uh stayed fairly local to where I was.
• 1:53:30
  SPEAKER_12: So they were there before the race at the end of the race and for a while afterwards.
• 1:53:34
  SPEAKER_12: So it was nice to connect with him after a period of time.
• 1:53:37
  SPEAKER_12: He lives there, I live here.
• 1:53:38
  SPEAKER_12: And um, I was very also very blessed that a couple of our raid rise and run family people, uh Amy from the UK and Heather had arranged to meet me on the course.
• 1:53:48
  SPEAKER_12: So they, you know, literally theyather saw me and I saw Amy, and literally it was a run over hug photograph, and Heather gave me gels and off I go again.
• 1:53:58
  SPEAKER_12: So I had more gels on me than I actually finished with gels, which was quite surprised.
• 1:54:03
  SPEAKER_12: Um, and that was really nice to see them, and they made the effort.
• 1:54:07
  SPEAKER_12: In fact, Heather, I think, flew in from New York that morning and came straight from Hydro to home and she what she used lids right on mile 15 or something.
• 1:54:16
  SPEAKER_12: So that was kind of cool to see them, and uh yeah, it's just been nice to have that support as well.
• 1:54:22
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that wonderful worldwide?
• 1:54:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:54:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's just fantastic.
• 1:54:26
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, now one question because you know, obviously, we will wrap this up with our our patented what is next for you all.
• 1:54:33
  SPEAKER_04: But hearing all these positive experiences of London, obviously, you know, news broke probably was it right before the race or or during that race weekend about how there's the rumors now that they may expand the field and you know maybe run it twice or something like that.
• 1:54:52
  SPEAKER_04: Based on everyone's experiences, would anyone ever do London again?
• 1:54:57
  SPEAKER_14: A hundred percent.
• 1:54:58
  SPEAKER_12: I've always done, I mean, literally, I mean, I I'm owned the ballot, but forget that because you're never gonna get in.
• 1:55:03
  SPEAKER_12: I'm actually do I did this time going with the sports tours and yeah, it was it was phenomenal.
• 1:55:08
  SPEAKER_12: And yeah, the only thing is, of course, the amount of money I spent, I could have done Club Run, Disney, Platinum, and every race, the whole thing next time afterwards.
• 1:55:18
  SPEAKER_12: It was horrendously expensive.
• 1:55:20
  SPEAKER_12: Luckily, my company picked up some of that, but it's that's nice.
• 1:55:23
  SPEAKER_12: It was only it's only money, David.
• 1:55:25
  SPEAKER_12: Yeah, well the hell you can't take it with you, can you?
• 1:55:27
  SPEAKER_19: Yes.
• 1:55:28
  SPEAKER_19: I I use sports tours for this one.
• 1:55:30
  SPEAKER_19: I thought they were great.
• 1:55:30
  SPEAKER_19: I mean, it was costly, um, but uh yeah, but bus to the start line, um, really well organized, and didn't have to worry about the ballot.
• 1:55:40
  SPEAKER_12: It was um it was all the pressure off as well because everything is that's why I like you know, doing that is because you don't there's no stress.
• 1:55:49
  SPEAKER_12: The shakeout run, the buses to the start, the the the the pre-race briefings and all of that, it's taken care of.
• 1:55:55
  SPEAKER_12: Yes, it costs, but it takes a lot of the stress and strain and the worry of of not being in the right place at the right time and this, that, and the other.
• 1:56:03
  SPEAKER_12: Um, I I mean I've been looking the problem is that my problem is that having done one major now, I want to do them all.
• 1:56:10
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, yeah.
• 1:56:11
  SPEAKER_12: But you know, I I'm in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, well, at my age, can I continue to run at this level for how long?
• 1:56:17
  SPEAKER_12: How long can I do this?
• 1:56:18
  SPEAKER_12: And then trying to get into Boston unless you know you're sub whatever it is to get in on yeah, yeah, I still have to qualify in time.
• 1:56:26
  SPEAKER_12: That's for sure.
• 1:56:26
  SPEAKER_12: So I'm kind of thinking to myself, well, I'll go in for the ballots for New York and Chicago and see if it happens, and possibly go to Sydney because you can buy your way into that one fairly easily.
• 1:56:36
  SPEAKER_12: Um, but certainly London, definitely do that again next year.
• 1:56:39
  SPEAKER_12: Whatever happens, I'm doing that.
• 1:56:40
  SPEAKER_13: So, did you all go through a tour group or did anybody get lucky?
• 1:56:44
  SPEAKER_14: I went through charity.
• 1:56:45
  SPEAKER_14: So I ran for MS Trust, um, and they were absolutely amazing to work with.
• 1:56:50
  SPEAKER_14: They made everything stress-free and they don't really take many Americans.
• 1:56:54
  SPEAKER_14: I was only one of five that was accepted because it is a UK charity.
• 1:56:58
  SPEAKER_08: Wow.
• 1:56:58
  SPEAKER_14: Um, but they were absolutely one of the best charities I've ever worked with.
• 1:57:03
  SPEAKER_09: I ran with Team Max and they were, you know, equally the same.
• 1:57:06
  SPEAKER_09: They were really great.
• 1:57:07
  SPEAKER_09: And I got in last minute.
• 1:57:10
  SPEAKER_09: I think I got in in what Janelle was at like the first week of March.
• 1:57:13
  SPEAKER_09: I called her in tears and I was like, all right, I'm doing London.
• 1:57:16
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, how about that?
• 1:57:17
  SPEAKER_17: I did a tour group too.
• 1:57:18
  SPEAKER_17: So it was a different tour group.
• 1:57:20
  SPEAKER_17: I think it was a little cheaper than sports tours because they didn't have as much uh extra stuff, but it was good.
• 1:57:24
  SPEAKER_01: So when will we see you next?
• 1:57:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what's your next race?
• 1:57:28
  SPEAKER_01: And when will we see you at Disney?
• 1:57:30
  SPEAKER_09: So my next race as a world major, I'll be doing Berlin in September.
• 1:57:35
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, good.
• 1:57:36
  SPEAKER_09: Um yeah.
• 1:57:37
  SPEAKER_09: And then I'm actually running for the American Lung Association.
• 1:57:40
  SPEAKER_09: So it's so close to home because it's for my grandmother who passed away from stage four lung cancer.
• 1:57:45
  SPEAKER_09: So I'm incredibly excited about this opportunity.
• 1:57:48
  SPEAKER_09: And then my next Disney race is a redemption marathon.
• 1:57:52
  SPEAKER_09: Even though I did finish this past year doing Dopey, I'll be there for the marathon this coming January.
• 1:57:58
  SPEAKER_09: Because my goal is to get on Everest.
• 1:58:00
  SPEAKER_09: So you've all heard it here.
• 1:58:01
  SPEAKER_09: It's gonna happen.
• 1:58:02
  SPEAKER_09: We're gonna manifest it, and then that's it.
• 1:58:05
  SPEAKER_01: Good for you.
• 1:58:06
  SPEAKER_01: I hope you make it.
• 1:58:06
  SPEAKER_01: I've never done it in uh how many seven marathons at Disney?
• 1:58:10
  SPEAKER_01: I've never done Everest, but good for you.
• 1:58:13
  SPEAKER_17: Um, so my next big race is also Berlin.
• 1:58:15
  SPEAKER_17: Um, I got lucky with that one and got into the lottery after my own.
• 1:58:18
  SPEAKER_08: Oh, cool.
• 1:58:19
  SPEAKER_17: So I'm gonna do that uh in September, and then I'm doing wine and dine, and then I think all the people on the Rise and Run Discord convinced me to do Dopey.
• 1:58:26
  SPEAKER_17: So I'm doing Dopy for the first time.
• 1:58:28
  SPEAKER_17: So we'll see how that goes.
• 1:58:30
  SPEAKER_14: So my next is um Chicago, and I'm very excited for that one.
• 1:58:36
  SPEAKER_14: And then I will be doing goofy this year because Sarah convinced me to do goofy and she didn't get into goofy.
• 1:58:46
  SPEAKER_09: It was really great.
• 1:58:47
  SPEAKER_09: I was like, let's do a goofy.
• 1:58:48
  SPEAKER_09: I was like, I'm done with Doby, one and done.
• 1:58:50
  SPEAKER_09: I was like, let's try for goofy.
• 1:58:51
  SPEAKER_09: And she's like, I got in.
• 1:58:52
  SPEAKER_09: I was like, yeah, I didn't.
• 1:58:53
  SPEAKER_09: I just got in for the marathon.
• 1:58:56
  SPEAKER_19: I am at the end of the month.
• 1:58:58
  SPEAKER_19: I am running a half marathon inside Fenway Park.
• 1:59:01
  SPEAKER_19: So it's like 57 laps around the warning track.
• 1:59:05
  SPEAKER_19: Holy cow.
• 1:59:06
  SPEAKER_19: It's gonna be gonna be interesting.
• 1:59:08
  SPEAKER_19: Um, and uh I'll be uh I'm gonna do the 5K and 10k at wine and dine.
• 1:59:13
  SPEAKER_19: Um, I don't want to do the half because I'm gonna be doing New York the next week.
• 1:59:17
  SPEAKER_19: Okay.
• 1:59:17
  SPEAKER_19: Wow.
• 1:59:18
  SPEAKER_19: Wow.
• 1:59:19
  SPEAKER_04: Well, and and you're uh looping it up with us.
• 1:59:22
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I am.
• 1:59:23
  SPEAKER_04: I am.
• 1:59:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:59:24
  SPEAKER_04: Can't wait.
• 1:59:25
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, can't wait to see you down there.
• 1:59:26
  SPEAKER_12: Next big one is Wine and Dine weekend.
• 1:59:29
  SPEAKER_12: We're after doing the challenge.
• 1:59:31
  SPEAKER_12: Then Space Coast Marathon in November, which uh Bob and I we've discussed this and then uh Dopey again, fourth Dopey in a row.
• 1:59:42
  SPEAKER_12: And the next the last thing on the camera so far is next year's on the marathon.
• 1:59:45
  SPEAKER_12: But um, I am so tempted to do Berlin because there's still spots with sports tours to do Berlin.
• 1:59:52
  SPEAKER_12: And and I'm I don't know if she can hear me, but I might do it.
• 2:00:00
  SPEAKER_01: But maybe we'll see.
• 2:00:01
  SPEAKER_01: Well, this is wonderful.
• 2:00:03
  SPEAKER_01: It looks like we'll be talking to at least four of you and maybe all five of you again later this year for more world majors.
• 2:00:09
  SPEAKER_01: Friends, thanks for taking the time to visit with these.
• 2:00:12
  SPEAKER_01: The world major recaps.
• 2:00:14
  SPEAKER_01: We can always sense the excitement and the enjoyment that the participants got out of it just by talking to you here.
• 2:00:23
  SPEAKER_01: So thanks.
• 2:00:24
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see you soon.
• 2:00:25
  SPEAKER_01: Caution runners, change of topic ahead.
• 2:00:30
  SPEAKER_01: Little addendum to the London run.
• 2:00:32
  SPEAKER_01: David reminded us after we finished recording that he in fact PR'd that race.
• 2:00:38
  SPEAKER_01: He he said he didn't want to make a big deal out of it, but by golly, David, you did it.
• 2:00:43
  SPEAKER_01: Here's your PR bell.
• 2:00:46
  SPEAKER_01: And our friend Emily was in London also, didn't make it to our recap, but Emily PR'd.
• 2:00:52
  SPEAKER_01: Emily PR'd by 52 minutes.
• 2:00:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, way to go, Emily.
• 2:00:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's a great run.
• 2:00:59
  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations to everyone who finished London.
• 2:01:03
  SPEAKER_01: But I wanted to highlight those two PRs.
• 2:01:05
  SPEAKER_04: Although, quick correction, Bob.
• 2:01:06
  SPEAKER_04: Because it was a British race, is the PR.
• 2:01:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, in fact, David used that term, if you'll remember.
• 2:01:13
  SPEAKER_01: He said, I got a PB.
• 2:01:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:01:15
  SPEAKER_01: So you are correct.
• 2:01:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's peanut butter, Jack.
• 2:01:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, let's see.
• 2:01:22
  SPEAKER_01: No Zoom this Thursday.
• 2:01:24
  SPEAKER_01: We will have one next Thursday, I think, kids.
• 2:01:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to be at Disney World.
• 2:01:31
  SPEAKER_01: But uh I can certainly start it and maybe join you on the phone.
• 2:01:35
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see what's going on.
• 2:01:36
  SPEAKER_01: Next week on the podcast, Fireman Rob joins us.
• 2:01:42
  SPEAKER_01: Great interview.
• 2:01:44
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of fun talking with Rob.
• 2:01:46
  SPEAKER_01: We know you'll enjoy that one.
• 2:01:49
  SPEAKER_01: And now.
• 2:01:53
  SPEAKER_01: Please stand clear of the door.
• 2:01:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's time for a race report.
• 2:01:59
  SPEAKER_01: Abord Montingancy, Alejado de la Super.
• 2:02:03
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• 2:02:09
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• 2:02:17
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• 2:02:26
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• 2:02:28
  SPEAKER_01: He may still be taking people.
• 2:02:29
  SPEAKER_01: I am not sure.
• 2:02:32
  SPEAKER_01: Let us see.
• 2:02:33
  SPEAKER_01: In the race report, I need to let our friends know that we are recording this episode a day earlier than we normally do.
• 2:02:44
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, Brandy, it's my fault.
• 2:02:46
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 2:02:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, she's racing over in Thailand.
• 2:02:51
  SPEAKER_01: I typically I start accumulating the race report on Saturday.
• 2:02:57
  SPEAKER_01: I work it all day.
• 2:02:58
  SPEAKER_01: Saturday, all day Sunday, all day Monday, and I also work it on Tuesday, but Tuesday is tomorrow, so I can't do it.
• 2:03:09
  SPEAKER_01: So if you didn't get it in by Monday at about five o'clock, it probably didn't make it this week.
• 2:03:14
  SPEAKER_01: I apologize if we missed anything monumental.
• 2:03:18
  SPEAKER_01: We'll go back and catch up on it.
• 2:03:20
  SPEAKER_04: You can send all your hate mail to Greg at Rise and RunPodcast.com.
• 2:03:24
  SPEAKER_01: No, send it to Greg in Amsterdam.
• 2:03:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:03:31
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 2:03:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh let's start out.
• 2:03:34
  SPEAKER_01: This weekend we had a big event in the Chattahooshi National Forest in Georgia, the Cruel Jewel 100.
• 2:03:45
  SPEAKER_01: And our buddy Adam did that one.
• 2:03:47
  SPEAKER_01: This one's a hard rock 100 qualifier.
• 2:03:50
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Adam, my friend, I did the best I could to summarize your report here.
• 2:03:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Adam wrote a long report, well worth reading on Facebook.
• 2:04:01
  SPEAKER_01: Take a look in there.
• 2:04:02
  SPEAKER_04: Absolutely.
• 2:04:02
  SPEAKER_01: He had an A-goal of finishing this extremely challenging 100-miler in 35 hours.
• 2:04:09
  SPEAKER_01: And bottom line up front, he did it in 34 hours and 39 minutes, so he nailed it.
• 2:04:16
  SPEAKER_01: So congratulations for that, Adam.
• 2:04:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's amazing.
• 2:04:20
  SPEAKER_01: I know that's not a 100-mile PR for Adam, but this is a much different 100-miler than the one he did down in the Keys, which, by the way, we'll be talking about also in just a moment.
• 2:04:32
  SPEAKER_01: So Adam ran this thing with his friend Stan King, was awesome.
• 2:04:36
  SPEAKER_01: They stayed together for the first half.
• 2:04:37
  SPEAKER_01: Now, around mile 38 of this 100-miler, he loses his Ziploc bag of salt pills and gels.
• 2:04:45
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't get to replenish them until he gets to mile 48, gets a fresh set there.
• 2:04:50
  SPEAKER_01: At that point, he was eight minutes behind the pace that he wanted.
• 2:04:54
  SPEAKER_01: But he he felt strong and he attacked the biggest climb that came up to the next aid station.
• 2:05:01
  SPEAKER_01: And by the time he got there, he had gone from eight minutes behind to 54 minutes ahead.
• 2:05:06
  SPEAKER_01: Then he started having shins problems.
• 2:05:09
  SPEAKER_01: His shin started hurting real badly.
• 2:05:12
  SPEAKER_01: That made downhill running almost impossible.
• 2:05:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm I'm never going to do an event like this, but I can picture the stress of trying to run downhill and the shock and the and the soreness on the shins there.
• 2:05:27
  SPEAKER_01: Towards the end, he got things under control.
• 2:05:32
  SPEAKER_01: He completely forgot how far it was to the end.
• 2:05:36
  SPEAKER_01: He gets on a camp road and he panics and starts going, then all of a sudden sees the finish line and took off with what he had left.
• 2:05:44
  SPEAKER_01: So Adam, uh, congratulations.
• 2:05:47
  SPEAKER_01: You're you're crazy, you know that.
• 2:05:49
  SPEAKER_01: But uh we all is yeah, we all admire and appreciate what you've done.
• 2:05:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:05:54
  SPEAKER_04: I was following his live tracking, and every time the it would reload, and I would just see the thousands upon thousands of feet of elevation that you deal with is is mind-boggling.
• 2:06:05
  SPEAKER_16: Well, what it was like 20,000 feet of elevation gain.
• 2:06:09
  SPEAKER_04: About I think the last time I looked, it was over 16, but yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if it ended in the twin the 20s, yeah.
• 2:06:15
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah.
• 2:06:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's about four miles.
• 2:06:18
  SPEAKER_01: Not quite, but round numbers.
• 2:06:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's about four miles.
• 2:06:23
  SPEAKER_01: An elevation change.
• 2:06:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Adam wants to make sure to thank everyone who made the event possible for him.
• 2:06:29
  SPEAKER_01: All his support, both at home and on the course.
• 2:06:33
  SPEAKER_01: So again, congratulations, Adam.
• 2:06:35
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go to uh Wellesley Island, New York for the Thousand Islands Half Marathon and 5K weekend.
• 2:06:41
  SPEAKER_01: Allie and Matt were there Friday and Saturday.
• 2:06:44
  SPEAKER_01: Great weather all weekend.
• 2:06:45
  SPEAKER_01: They did the Island Double Dare, the 5K and the 10K.
• 2:06:48
  SPEAKER_01: Matt felt good on the 5K.
• 2:06:50
  SPEAKER_01: Allie elected to sit that one out because she'd had a really hectic work schedule.
• 2:06:54
  SPEAKER_01: She needed to rest.
• 2:06:55
  SPEAKER_01: She wanted to make sure to do that 10K, which they both did on Saturday.
• 2:06:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh now Allie's rehabbing a knee injury, so she didn't push it, so they didn't push it.
• 2:07:05
  SPEAKER_01: Seemed like a larger event this year than last.
• 2:07:08
  SPEAKER_01: They both wore their Run Disney shirts.
• 2:07:10
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of comments on that.
• 2:07:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, same medal for both races, but at least the ribbons were different.
• 2:07:16
  SPEAKER_01: And congratulations for finishing those two races, Allie and Matt.
• 2:07:20
  SPEAKER_01: All right, turning to Saturday out in Windsor, California.
• 2:07:24
  SPEAKER_01: The Windsor Half Marathon, Kylie with her husband.
• 2:07:28
  SPEAKER_01: Her personal goal was to get under an hour.
• 2:07:31
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't quite get there, but did get P.O.T.s for future run Disney events.
• 2:07:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's great.
• 2:07:37
  SPEAKER_01: Proud of herself for getting to this point.
• 2:07:40
  SPEAKER_01: Thankful to her husband for going on the journey with her.
• 2:07:44
  SPEAKER_01: See ya at Wine and Dine.
• 2:07:47
  SPEAKER_01: Melody was in Greenville, South Carolina.
• 2:07:51
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, the mountains to Main Street goes from Traveler's Rest to Greenville.
• 2:07:56
  SPEAKER_01: Melody says it starts out in the neighborhood of Hills, then hops onto the Swamp Rabbit Rail Trail.
• 2:08:03
  SPEAKER_01: Takes you down, down, and down into town.
• 2:08:06
  SPEAKER_01: Happy to report a nice three and one half minute PR.
• 2:08:13
  SPEAKER_01: Lori in Canton, Ohio did the Hospital Heroes Against Tonger 5K.
• 2:08:18
  SPEAKER_01: She's going to take it easy, but ended up running a post-total knee replacement PR and probably her fastest 5K in the last 20 years.
• 2:08:27
  SPEAKER_01: Her friend Valerie was a rabbit for the first mile.
• 2:08:30
  SPEAKER_01: She did amazingly well.
• 2:08:32
  SPEAKER_01: Valerie also is running after a knee replacement.
• 2:08:36
  SPEAKER_01: So who says you have to hang up your running shoes when you got a new knee?
• 2:08:41
  SPEAKER_01: Lori plays first in her age group.
• 2:08:43
  SPEAKER_01: Valerie plays second.
• 2:08:45
  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations.
• 2:08:46
  SPEAKER_01: Way to go, ladies.
• 2:08:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, here we go.
• 2:08:48
  SPEAKER_01: Here's the same race I talked about just a moment ago, but a little different title, so I didn't notice it.
• 2:08:53
  SPEAKER_01: Daniel was also at that Mountains to Main Street event in South Carolina.
• 2:08:58
  SPEAKER_01: Daniel had a great time.
• 2:09:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is first half marathon.
• 2:09:01
  SPEAKER_01: We know what that means.
• 2:09:04
  SPEAKER_01: Met some amazing people.
• 2:09:06
  SPEAKER_01: The running community is amazing.
• 2:09:08
  SPEAKER_01: Daniel, looking forward to seeing you at Wine and Dine.
• 2:09:12
  SPEAKER_01: Fort Smith, Arkansas, that's gotta be Joe.
• 2:09:15
  SPEAKER_01: And it is.
• 2:09:16
  SPEAKER_01: He ran the Phil Christiansen Memorial 5K.
• 2:09:19
  SPEAKER_01: The two amigos were there for this fundraiser for a kid's summer camp.
• 2:09:24
  SPEAKER_01: Gary finished age group one.
• 2:09:26
  SPEAKER_01: Joe finished age group second.
• 2:09:31
  SPEAKER_01: In South Florida.
• 2:09:33
  SPEAKER_01: Well, if Fort Smith is Joe, South Florida, it's gotta be Robbie.
• 2:09:38
  SPEAKER_01: In Sunrise did the Florida Panthers service and sacrifice 5K put on by the NHL team to honor first responders and military.
• 2:09:48
  SPEAKER_01: Ran around the parking lot in the perimeter of the arena, starting and ending in front of the Panthers' home uh ice.
• 2:09:59
  SPEAKER_01: Steve was in Binghamton, New York for Gigi's Playhouse 5K-for Downs Syndrome, a fun family event for a great cause.
• 2:10:09
  SPEAKER_01: His plan was to take it easy and enjoy the run.
• 2:10:11
  SPEAKER_01: Started dead last, but finished just about in the middle, 85 out of 150 runners.
• 2:10:17
  SPEAKER_01: Also took some of that rise and run energy and reused his Dalmatian costume from Marathon Weekend 2025.
• 2:10:26
  SPEAKER_01: The event gave medals, t-shirts, plenty of post-race food.
• 2:10:31
  SPEAKER_01: They had a planking contest, which Steve decided he didn't want to participate in.
• 2:10:35
  SPEAKER_01: Last he checked before he left, the people were planking for 12 minutes and still going strong, and he figured.
• 2:10:43
  SPEAKER_01: No thanks.
• 2:10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Answers why.
• 2:10:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Good move, Steve.
• 2:10:48
  SPEAKER_01: I alluded to it earlier in the podcast.
• 2:10:51
  SPEAKER_01: The Keys 100 was this weekend.
• 2:10:54
  SPEAKER_01: It uh goes from Key Largo to Key West, I believe.
• 2:10:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll repeat, as of seven o'clock this morning.
• 2:11:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now the race went this weekend, so it it ended Sunday.
• 2:11:06
  SPEAKER_01: But seven o'clock Monday morning, uh the temperature in Key West was 85 with a dew point of 75.
• 2:11:12
  SPEAKER_01: So it had to be much like that over the weekend.
• 2:11:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's crazy.
• 2:11:17
  SPEAKER_01: Our friend Angie was there on a team.
• 2:11:20
  SPEAKER_01: Team, oh, that's a lot of miles.
• 2:11:23
  SPEAKER_01: Hot and humid.
• 2:11:24
  SPEAKER_01: They expected it.
• 2:11:25
  SPEAKER_01: Scenery was great, though.
• 2:11:26
  SPEAKER_01: They had a good time hanging out with the other runners.
• 2:11:28
  SPEAKER_01: Running an event with a team like that can be a whole lot of fun.
• 2:11:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, they got to finish and watch the solo runners at the end of the race.
• 2:11:37
  SPEAKER_01: That was inspiring.
• 2:11:38
  SPEAKER_01: Because Angie said she had trouble with her 16.
• 2:11:41
  SPEAKER_01: She couldn't imagine being out there for a hundred.
• 2:11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Angie, congratulations on finishing a 16.
• 2:11:47
  SPEAKER_01: I can't imagine it being out there for a hundred either.
• 2:11:51
  SPEAKER_01: But our friend Dean could.
• 2:11:52
  SPEAKER_01: Dean ran the hundred miler this week.
• 2:11:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's not his first time.
• 2:11:56
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 2:11:57
  SPEAKER_04: I'll say is this his third?
• 2:11:59
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know.
• 2:12:01
  SPEAKER_16: I feel like he's done more than that.
• 2:12:03
  SPEAKER_16: I every year I feel like wow, he's doing another keys.
• 2:12:07
  SPEAKER_04: This is the thing I don't understand about the Keys 100.
• 2:12:10
  SPEAKER_04: I it sounds like I mean, for those that are crazy enough to do it, a great event, but obviously I'm it it it takes people out.
• 2:12:18
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, like, you know, Coach Twix has told us that he will never ever run this race again.
• 2:12:23
  SPEAKER_04: But the part that I don't understand is now I I understand it's Florida, it's warm most of the year.
• 2:12:29
  SPEAKER_04: Why is it this time of the year?
• 2:12:31
  SPEAKER_04: Why don't they do this in like January or February?
• 2:12:34
  SPEAKER_04: February could potentially be a little bit cooler.
• 2:12:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:12:37
  unknown: Yeah.
• 2:12:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's part of the challenge, Craig.
• 2:12:39
  SPEAKER_04: I guess.
• 2:12:40
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I do not know the answer to that, Craig.
• 2:12:43
  SPEAKER_01: It it it will not get a whole lot hotter.
• 2:12:46
  SPEAKER_01: It will get hotter, but not a whole lot hotter than it is right now.
• 2:12:50
  SPEAKER_01: And the dew points are up, and I don't know the answer.
• 2:12:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it it seems it seems pretty crazy, but but folks do it.
• 2:12:58
  SPEAKER_01: Regardless, congratulations to everybody.
• 2:13:00
  SPEAKER_04: I'm just I'm always intrigued by it.
• 2:13:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 2:13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:13:03
  SPEAKER_01: Big event in Brooklyn, the New York Roadrunners RBC, Brooklyn Half Marathon.
• 2:13:08
  SPEAKER_01: Over 30,000 runners, a record for this race, and the largest half in the United States.
• 2:13:15
  SPEAKER_01: Bunch of friends there.
• 2:13:16
  SPEAKER_01: Grace was there.
• 2:13:17
  SPEAKER_01: Rob said the downhill part's great, but there's no shade.
• 2:13:20
  SPEAKER_01: I thought this was kind of interesting.
• 2:13:22
  SPEAKER_01: There was no shade.
• 2:13:23
  SPEAKER_01: It was hot compared to, and you guys were both talking about it in the Northeast, how you'll have cooler weather, and then boom, it'll be hot and then it'll cool off.
• 2:13:31
  SPEAKER_01: It was pretty warm this weekend.
• 2:13:33
  SPEAKER_01: But the way they ran it, the sun hadn't made it over the buildings.
• 2:13:38
  SPEAKER_01: So there was a shadow on that side of the street.
• 2:13:41
  SPEAKER_01: It turned out it was the left-hand lane of a six-lane road.
• 2:13:45
  SPEAKER_01: So everybody's running on the left-hand side.
• 2:13:48
  SPEAKER_01: The water stops were all on the right hand side.
• 2:13:51
  SPEAKER_01: So the whole group would snake from the shade to the water stop back to the shade.
• 2:13:58
  SPEAKER_01: I've got to imagine that was interesting to look at.
• 2:14:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Rob said he ended up doing almost 13.4 miles in his 13.1 mile run because of it.
• 2:14:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I think they still had a good time.
• 2:14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Holly was there.
• 2:14:11
  SPEAKER_01: Holly's from Florida, so she didn't have too much trouble with the heat.
• 2:14:16
  SPEAKER_01: She had trouble with the hills.
• 2:14:18
  SPEAKER_01: The hills from the Hurst 7 miles were killer.
• 2:14:20
  SPEAKER_01: She describes the weather as gorgeous with plenty of course support.
• 2:14:23
  SPEAKER_01: They had sprinklers set up.
• 2:14:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's always nice on a hot day.
• 2:14:27
  SPEAKER_01: Brooklyn came out to support in a big way.
• 2:14:30
  SPEAKER_01: The finish is on the boardwalk, and the after party it's Coney Island.
• 2:14:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of neat.
• 2:14:36
  SPEAKER_01: So good job, Holly.
• 2:14:38
  SPEAKER_01: Caitlin was here.
• 2:14:38
  SPEAKER_01: Caitlin brought her own water so she could stay on the left-hand side of the road and stay in the shade.
• 2:14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Shivani was there, as was Marilyn, and finally Kelly did this one virtually.
• 2:14:51
  SPEAKER_13: You know who else for this race, Bob?
• 2:14:53
  SPEAKER_13: Greg might know.
• 2:14:54
  SPEAKER_13: I know Greg's uh into that kind of stuff.
• 2:14:56
  SPEAKER_13: Carrie Renee Fuller.
• 2:14:58
  SPEAKER_13: She plays Alphaba on uh in Wicked, so she ran the race and then performed uh the uh the show afterwards.
• 2:15:04
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay.
• 2:15:05
  SPEAKER_04: I yeah, I'm not super familiar with with the current casting, but I guess that's the trend now because it was a Jordan Lynz.
• 2:15:13
  SPEAKER_04: Uh now he's not I think he moved over to the West End uh production of Wicked, but he was the guy that ran the New York City Marathon last year and then went on to go do two performances of Wicked on on Broadway in the same day.
• 2:15:25
  SPEAKER_04: So it must be that's that's impressive.
• 2:15:27
  SPEAKER_04: There's something going on in the Gershwin Theater right now with runners and such.
• 2:15:32
  SPEAKER_04: Uh so it Caesar, you're you're you're in the basement of Wicked.
• 2:15:35
  SPEAKER_04: If you're listening to this, let's see you up the ante on this.
• 2:15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh gosh.
• 2:15:41
  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's move along.
• 2:15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Denise was in Hickory, North Carolina for the Young Life Clowrun 5K, challenging 5K.
• 2:15:47
  SPEAKER_01: Some downhill, mostly uphill for almost a mile to the finish.
• 2:15:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uphill to the finish should be illegal.
• 2:15:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just putting that out there.
• 2:15:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh hey, Denise, first in her age group.
• 2:16:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, way to go.
• 2:16:01
  SPEAKER_01: Much better than expected.
• 2:16:03
  SPEAKER_01: Can't do much better than that, Denise.
• 2:16:04
  SPEAKER_01: Nice job.
• 2:16:05
  SPEAKER_01: There was an Iron Man in Jacksonville this week in Jacksonville, Florida.
• 2:16:09
  SPEAKER_01: Our friend Magus was there.
• 2:16:10
  SPEAKER_01: Megan was there as a volunteer.
• 2:16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh in Boston.
• 2:16:15
  SPEAKER_01: Avery ran the Harpoom 5 Miler.
• 2:16:19
  SPEAKER_01: Kayla was in Kanoga Park, California for the Cobra Kai 5K.
• 2:16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Laura and Brian are in Samamish, Washington for the Soaring Eagle 10K.
• 2:16:34
  SPEAKER_01: The Brunch Run had a later start and fewer people than the earlier run, which was ideal for the single the Windy single track.
• 2:16:46
  SPEAKER_01: I love the idea of a brunch run.
• 2:16:49
  SPEAKER_01: Fewer people she was able to score first female.
• 2:16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Laura, way to go.
• 2:16:55
  SPEAKER_01: We by the way, Laura, we never tell how many people were in a particular group.
• 2:17:00
  SPEAKER_01: You were first female, that's all anybody needs to know.
• 2:17:04
  SPEAKER_01: She felt like she was soaring over the rolling hills with a 700-foot elevation gain.
• 2:17:09
  SPEAKER_01: The finishers' medals are actually wooden handmade coasters, which looked really nice.
• 2:17:15
  SPEAKER_01: So that was cool.
• 2:17:16
  SPEAKER_01: Continuing out in Colorado in Denver, this is part of the Colfax Marathon, was the Colfax Urban 10 Miler.
• 2:17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Sia did it.
• 2:17:25
  SPEAKER_01: She did a start near the start is right in front of the famous Mexican restaurant, Casabonita.
• 2:17:33
  SPEAKER_01: Any South Park fans here?
• 2:17:36
  SPEAKER_01: No?
• 2:17:37
  SPEAKER_01: Somewhere there's a listener who can picture Cartman running around.
• 2:17:41
  SPEAKER_01: Casabonita?
• 2:17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
• 2:17:44
  SPEAKER_01: A lot less people there.
• 2:17:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so much easier, so much easier to get to the bathroom at the start of this one.
• 2:17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Weather started cool, got hot kind of quick.
• 2:17:54
  SPEAKER_01: Sia dressed in a uniform, unicorn costume.
• 2:17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Not a uniform, a unicorn costume.
• 2:18:01
  SPEAKER_01: Got lots of cheers from the crowd and from the other runners.
• 2:18:03
  SPEAKER_01: One of her favorite parts of the race is running through the mile high stadium.
• 2:18:07
  SPEAKER_01: The best part for Sia was that her son made a sign saying she may not be the best runner, but she's the best mom.
• 2:18:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's nice.
• 2:18:20
  SPEAKER_01: Brian was there.
• 2:18:21
  SPEAKER_01: Brian did the marathon, his first marathon.
• 2:18:27
  SPEAKER_01: It went out way too fast.
• 2:18:29
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the world of marathons, Brian.
• 2:18:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's not unusual at all.
• 2:18:34
  SPEAKER_01: Feeling good until he came to the hill shortly after the Broncos Stadium.
• 2:18:38
  SPEAKER_01: About mile eight.
• 2:18:39
  SPEAKER_01: That kind of crushed things for him.
• 2:18:41
  SPEAKER_01: From mile 10 on, it was a battle.
• 2:18:43
  SPEAKER_01: Marathons are.
• 2:18:45
  SPEAKER_01: Could have been avoided if he started slower, but you learned something, my friend.
• 2:18:49
  SPEAKER_01: Want to say a huge thanks to his wife for her support throughout the training.
• 2:18:54
  SPEAKER_01: Michael for running with him, and for everybody who's encouraged him throughout the journey.
• 2:18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Again, especially for all the holler hypes.
• 2:19:02
  SPEAKER_01: It occurs to me that there may be friends out there listening who hear us talking about holler hypes, don't know what it is.
• 2:19:10
  SPEAKER_01: Just search for the app, Holler Hype, H-O-L-L-A-R-H-Y-P-E, and download it and then join the Rise and Run group in the Holler Hype there.
• 2:19:22
  SPEAKER_01: If you're not familiar, you will catch on.
• 2:19:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's not hard to learn.
• 2:19:25
  SPEAKER_01: You'll catch on real quick.
• 2:19:27
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 2:19:27
  SPEAKER_04: Three things real fast.
• 2:19:29
  SPEAKER_04: Number one, is this the race weekend that Brittany uh Charbonneau was the race announcer for?
• 2:19:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it is.
• 2:19:34
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 2:19:35
  SPEAKER_01: Colfax Marathon.
• 2:19:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh her and uh Kree Kelly.
• 2:19:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, awesome.
• 2:19:39
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 2:19:39
  SPEAKER_04: Number two, did not have on my bingo card that out of the five of us, Bob, you would be the one to watch South Park.
• 2:19:45
  SPEAKER_13: Yeah, I think me too.
• 2:19:47
  SPEAKER_13: I've I've watched South Park.
• 2:19:49
  SPEAKER_13: I haven't watched it like in five, six years.
• 2:19:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:19:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I got that thing's been around a lot longer than you probably realize.
• 2:19:56
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm sure.
• 2:19:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:19:58
  SPEAKER_01: 97, I think.
• 2:19:59
  SPEAKER_01: I I know my daughter introduced it to me when she was at Auburn.
• 2:20:04
  SPEAKER_01: All right, undergrad.
• 2:20:06
  SPEAKER_01: My daughter, who has retired from the army now for six or seven years.
• 2:20:10
  SPEAKER_01: So it's been around for quite a while.
• 2:20:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's a 97 Sounds right, John.
• 2:20:14
  SPEAKER_01: And it's still out there.
• 2:20:15
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't I can't recall the last episode I watched.
• 2:20:18
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 2:20:19
  SPEAKER_13: First episode, August 13th, 1997.
• 2:20:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 2:20:23
  SPEAKER_13: And I remember those little things they had before the Christmas one that actually got them the uh gig for uh South Park.
• 2:20:30
  SPEAKER_13: Oh yeah?
• 2:20:31
  SPEAKER_13: Yeah, and then yeah.
• 2:20:33
  SPEAKER_04: But on a much more serious note, going back to Hollerhype, I I know um we forgot to address this at the top of the show, but um major thanks to the Hollerhype team for putting together that beautiful tribute for Lauren that they posted to our Facebook.
• 2:20:47
  SPEAKER_04: I it's about 13 minutes long, and I had to shut it off five minutes in because I was just an emotional wreck.
• 2:20:55
  SPEAKER_04: But what a beautiful tribute.
• 2:20:57
  SPEAKER_04: So to the Holler Hype team, thank you so much for putting together all of those encouraging messages that Lauren would would send to us um you know within this amazing community.
• 2:21:06
  SPEAKER_04: It was it was a really, really special.
• 2:21:07
  SPEAKER_01: I know Emily had a lot to do with that.
• 2:21:10
  SPEAKER_01: Emily Zaccardi from Holler Hype.
• 2:21:12
  SPEAKER_01: So appreciate that.
• 2:21:14
  SPEAKER_01: I agree.
• 2:21:14
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for bringing it up.
• 2:21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go to Ohio, and I believe this is right, Gallipolis, Ohio.
• 2:21:22
  SPEAKER_01: The Gallipolis in Lights 5K.
• 2:21:26
  SPEAKER_01: Jennifer with her friend Christina, first running race for Christina ever.
• 2:21:32
  SPEAKER_01: PR.
• 2:21:35
  SPEAKER_01: So they're at Walt Disney World Half Marathon training for January.
• 2:21:41
  SPEAKER_01: The two of them.
• 2:21:42
  SPEAKER_01: That wraps up Saturday.
• 2:21:43
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go to Sunday, the Marine Corps Historic Half in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
• 2:21:52
  SPEAKER_01: Jennifer was there saying that despite great weather before and after the race, race day was record-breaking hot.
• 2:22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the race is the definition of Rolling Hills with the worst two at miles 11 and 12.
• 2:22:07
  SPEAKER_01: Again, Hills at the end.
• 2:22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Boo.
• 2:22:09
  SPEAKER_01: She finished top 25 women and top 10 in her age group.
• 2:22:13
  SPEAKER_01: Good run, Jennifer.
• 2:22:14
  SPEAKER_01: I know that I know that you're accustomed to better, but you did really well and we're proud of you.
• 2:22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Fireman Robb was at that race also.
• 2:22:24
  SPEAKER_01: In Newington, Connecticut, the library, the Newington Library 5K Challenge, Sue was there.
• 2:22:31
  SPEAKER_01: Had a great visit with the guest of honor, Bill Rogers, a hometown hero.
• 2:22:38
  SPEAKER_01: This one was hot, but always a fun race.
• 2:22:41
  SPEAKER_01: In D.C., the Capitol Hill Classic 10K went off this weekend.
• 2:22:45
  SPEAKER_01: Jenny was there, Jenny Lee.
• 2:22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Course started and finished near Capitol Hill.
• 2:22:49
  SPEAKER_01: They ran a loop around the Supreme Court building, passed by the Capitol and the Library of Congress.
• 2:22:56
  SPEAKER_01: It was really warm.
• 2:22:58
  SPEAKER_01: Not the weather she was used to coming from Oregon.
• 2:23:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I say?
• 2:23:02
  SPEAKER_01: If it's hot where you are, it's hot.
• 2:23:04
  SPEAKER_01: And this was hot for Jenny.
• 2:23:06
  SPEAKER_01: The weather got to better over.
• 2:23:08
  SPEAKER_01: She decided to take it slow.
• 2:23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Still had a great time, though.
• 2:23:11
  SPEAKER_01: No finisher's medals on this race.
• 2:23:14
  SPEAKER_01: Now, in Greenland, New Hampshire, they had the margarita half marathon.
• 2:23:20
  SPEAKER_04: Was Alicia at this one?
• 2:23:22
  SPEAKER_01: She was not.
• 2:23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I'm not sure if they had medals.
• 2:23:24
  SPEAKER_01: We'll find out in a minute.
• 2:23:25
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
• 2:23:26
  SPEAKER_01: But I bet they had margaritas.
• 2:23:28
  SPEAKER_01: Because our buddy Rob was there.
• 2:23:29
  SPEAKER_01: He said it was hot and hilly.
• 2:23:31
  SPEAKER_01: Played it smart early on, lowered his pace goals, added some extra walk breaks.
• 2:23:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's the way to do it.
• 2:23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Making sure he actually enjoyed the day.
• 2:23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Crossed the line in two hours, 14 minutes.
• 2:23:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's still a rock solid half marathon time.
• 2:23:46
  SPEAKER_01: Celebrated afterwards exactly how you're supposed to.
• 2:23:50
  SPEAKER_01: With pizza and a margarita.
• 2:23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Christina was there.
• 2:23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Christina did the 5K that weekend.
• 2:23:58
  SPEAKER_01: The Cleveland, Ohio Marathon was this weekend, and Emma did it.
• 2:24:03
  SPEAKER_01: Said the weather was gloomy and cold cooler almost every day since springtime surprise.
• 2:24:11
  SPEAKER_01: But of course, coming to this marathon day, all sun, full blast, attempts in the upper 70s.
• 2:24:20
  SPEAKER_01: Still, she knocked it out, and she is a marathoner, completing her first event.
• 2:24:27
  SPEAKER_01: Got to ring the bell at the site.
• 2:24:30
  SPEAKER_01: Gets this one here also.
• 2:24:34
  SPEAKER_01: Over in the UK in Devon, in fact, the Plymouth half marathon.
• 2:24:39
  SPEAKER_01: Anna ran this one.
• 2:24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Now Anna points out that Plymouth was the departure point for the pilgrims in 1620, landing in Massachusetts at how ironic that they would depart from Plymouth, sail all the way to Lap Massachusetts, and land at Plymouth Rock.
• 2:24:57
  SPEAKER_01: What are the odds?
• 2:24:58
  SPEAKER_01: By the way, Plymouth Rock, one of the most disappointing tourist attractions in the country.
• 2:25:07
  SPEAKER_01: But it is there.
• 2:25:11
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't seen it forty 40 or 50 years.
• 2:25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, back to the race, so Anna says it's Hilly.
• 2:25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Great support along the race route.
• 2:25:22
  SPEAKER_01: She enjoyed it kinda and got the bling.
• 2:25:25
  SPEAKER_01: Dressed as everyone's favorite duck, Donald.
• 2:25:30
  SPEAKER_01: And a thank you to everyone who sent a holler hype that really helped when she was cramping up at Miles Sick.
• 2:25:38
  SPEAKER_01: There was a Dragon Dash 5K in Lake Orion, Michigan.
• 2:25:44
  SPEAKER_01: Bethany and her son Maverick, nine years old, did this one.
• 2:25:49
  SPEAKER_01: Maverick's first 5K.
• 2:25:51
  SPEAKER_01: Maverick, here's a PR bell.
• 2:25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Back in the Northeast, the Rhode Island half marathon.
• 2:26:00
  SPEAKER_01: Charlotte did the half.
• 2:26:03
  SPEAKER_01: Cassie said it was a warm day.
• 2:26:05
  SPEAKER_01: The uphill in mile 10 really slowed her down through mile 12.
• 2:26:08
  SPEAKER_01: Had to dig in deep to finish.
• 2:26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Thankful for her brother who paced her the whole way.
• 2:26:13
  SPEAKER_01: Finished with a 15-minute PR and a first ever run Disney proof of time.
• 2:26:21
  SPEAKER_01: Great job.
• 2:26:24
  SPEAKER_01: Avery was in Mystic, Connecticut for the Mystic Half Marathon.
• 2:26:27
  SPEAKER_01: In Metary, Louisiana, Mandy ran the Fat Boy Nola 5K.
• 2:26:34
  SPEAKER_01: She did it, and for the first time, she did it pushing a chair for Angeles Angels.
• 2:26:40
  SPEAKER_01: Good job, Mandy.
• 2:26:42
  SPEAKER_01: Needs to get back into strength training because she's sore, but she loved it so much.
• 2:26:46
  SPEAKER_01: She wants to do it again.
• 2:26:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh yeah.
• 2:26:49
  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations.
• 2:26:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's great.
• 2:26:52
  SPEAKER_01: Glad you did it.
• 2:26:53
  SPEAKER_01: And we're proud of you.
• 2:26:55
  SPEAKER_01: Back in the UK in Sunderland, the Sunderland City 10K, Andy and Jamie did that.
• 2:27:02
  SPEAKER_01: In Norristown, Pennsylvania, not far at all from where I grew up, not terribly far from where Greg lives now.
• 2:27:09
  SPEAKER_01: The ALS Run for Hope 5K.
• 2:27:12
  SPEAKER_01: Natalie ran it.
• 2:27:13
  SPEAKER_01: She's house sitting for a best friend who's on a Disney cruise.
• 2:27:18
  SPEAKER_01: She needed to get three miles in this weekend, training for burden hand.
• 2:27:23
  SPEAKER_01: So uh since her children lost their grandfather to ALS this year, this was a fitting event to enter.
• 2:27:31
  SPEAKER_01: Said it was hot and hilly, but all in all, a great run.
• 2:27:35
  SPEAKER_01: And that's it, friends.
• 2:27:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's the race report for episode 243 of the Rise and Run Podcast.
• 2:27:41
  SPEAKER_01: All right, friends, and if you run, you know you are our friend.
• 2:27:45
  SPEAKER_01: No Zoom this week.
• 2:27:47
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see you next week.
• 2:27:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's getting warm.
• 2:27:51
  SPEAKER_01: If you're in the south, it's already warm.
• 2:27:53
  SPEAKER_01: You got some periods of warm in other parts of the country.
• 2:27:57
  SPEAKER_01: Just stay the course.
• 2:27:58
  SPEAKER_01: Remember to slow down, get that training in, do the best you can.
• 2:28:03
  SPEAKER_01: Until we meet again.
• 2:28:05
  SPEAKER_01: Happy running.
• 2:28:16
  SPEAKER_04: The Rise and Run podcast discusses general information about Run Disney and is in no way affiliated with Run Disney.
• 2:28:25
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