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161: Listener Questions: Inquiring Minds Want To Know
Our 161st episode is a celebration of community, growth, and the shared passions that unite us. We explore essential tips for tackling long training runs and upcoming runDisney events, delving into nutrition, hydration, and pacing strategies that can transform your running experience. With a special focus on the Chicago Marathon, we celebrate incredible personal records and heartwarming stories of perseverance and triumph.
Prepare for a magical journey through the world of runDisney as we recount unforgettable encounters with cast members and the enchanting experiences that make each race unique. Reflecting on our first Disney races and the lasting impact they've had, we share practical advice for first-time participants, ensuring you make the most of every moment, from receiving your expo pass to celebrating at the after-party. Our lively discussions cover everything from the excitement of the vendor expo to race day nerves, all set against the backdrop of a supportive and vibrant community.
As we wrap up, we delve into the joys and challenges of marathon running, with a spotlight on recent race recaps and heartening personal achievements. From the Detroit Free Press Marathon's breathtaking views to the emotional journeys of runners at the Chicago Marathon, we celebrate the camaraderie and resilience that define these experiences. With a look ahead at upcoming Disney events and the anticipation of our community meetup at Disney Springs, this episode is a testament to the shared dreams and goals that bring us together, inspiring us to lace up our running shoes and embrace the adventure ahead.
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3 am again. Why did I ever think this was a good idea? Welcome to the Rise and Run podcast. Join our group of Run Disney friends. As we talk about running at Walt Disney World and beyond. We'll discuss recent runs, training, upcoming races and surprise topics suggested by you, our listeners. Well, the alarm's gone off, so let's go.
Speaker 4:Hey, Rise and Run podcast. It's Dan Kelly coming to you from mile 19.24 of a 23-mile dopey training run.
Speaker 6:You are listening to the Rise and Run podcast. Now how about that? Dan's out doing his 23-mile training run and towards the end he manages to leave us an intro. Dan, way to go, buddy. Thanks for doing that. We appreciate it. Hello, my friends, welcome again. Welcome to episode 161 of the Rise and Run podcast. We are so happy that you have joined us. I'm Bob and I'm here this week with Greg hey hey, hey With John.
Speaker 4:Hey, how you doing With Alicia, hello.
Speaker 6:With John hey how you doing With Alicia. Hello, and with Allie, hi friends, good to see you, my friends Happy to have you here. Let's take a look this week. On this week's episode, we tackle some listener questions, questions you sent in, probably so long ago that you don't remember you sent them in, but we kept them. We kept them on file and we're going to tackle some of those tonight. In the Race Report Spotlight we've got a pretty good group of Rise and Runners who join us to talk about this year's Chicago Marathon.
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Speaker 8:We also want to thank our Patreon members, whose support keeps us rising and running here on the Rise and Run podcast, and if you'd like to join the Patreon team, please check out patreoncom slash rise and run podcast.
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Speaker 8:Universe. Yeah, I'm very excited I absolutely love Super Mario Brothers, and so I'm really excited to be able to walk into that land a lot of folks are excited and it sounds like an exciting thing.
Speaker 6:I think it's going to be a tough reservation at first, which is probably a very good reason to use the resource. Use the help from a travel agent to book your room and your ticket packages. So if you're interested and I think it's going to be fun give our friends at Magic Bound Travel a holler. Magicboundtravelcom is the website. Check them out. Let's take a look at what's up on the training schedule. Let's see. Wine and Dine weekend is coming up in. Did I carry the three Next week? We'll see you there next week.
Speaker 6:Friends, we do have runs, training runs yet you should have done your long one for Wine and Dine and this training week 17,. Training runs yet you should have done your long one for Wine and Dine and this Training Week 17,. If you're doing the half, three miles just to keep your legs nice and loose, if you're doing the challenge, it's four miles. Marathon Weekend is now 11 weeks away. Also in Training Week 17,. We had a long one for marathon weekend. In fact, I think many of you I know I did, many of you had a simulation where you had back-to-back running or walking days. So this one takes it back down a little bit, it is five miles for the long run this weekend.
Speaker 6:Disneyland half marathon weekend 14 weeks away. Training week four. The distance there is five miles and I don't have a drum roll button. I've got a cutoff button Coming up. Princess training starts this week. Princess is 17 weeks away. This is training week one. The long run is three miles. Hey guys October. Hey guys, october 22nd that's a special day. We've already talked about it. I know y'all know what day that is bob and becky's anniversary yeah, it is the day before my birthday.
Speaker 10:Yeah I didn't know that too.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is that too yes, no, that happy birthday.
Speaker 6:So by the time this is released, it would be yesterday, and then we get into that. Back to the future scene again Three years. The Rise and Run podcast first aired on October 22, 2021. Yeah, this is year number three.
Speaker 2:I did look it up earlier today, the third anniversary. Uh, gift is leather, so I went out and I bought everybody wallets.
Speaker 6:So, uh, I'll be mailing those out shortly well, we can just get them from you at a race weekend. Greg, that is very nice of you. We appreciate it. I didn't know, I'm not sure what I would have gotten, but it's all good, all right. Who thought we would have been here for consecutive weeks and we haven't? I don't know. Have we missed? Yeah, we've missed a couple weeks where we've played repeat or highlight shows, but even on those episodes we recorded something. I don't think we've had a week where we've just done a complete airing of an old show.
Speaker 8:No, we've never taken a vacation, we've never taken a day off. I was going to say, Bob, is this your roundabout?
Speaker 2:way in saying that you want to take a short break this holiday season. I don't know.
Speaker 6:I'm kind of I don't know. We're on a run and I was thinking today that I have now weathered two surgeries and two major hurricanes and have still really only missed. Well, there's one episode that I'm not on at all. That's early on. I was on a cruise. Other than that, I don't think there's another episode that I'm not on Now. There were some that I wasn't, but we have recorded parts earlier and I think I'm on all one. I'm on 160 out of 161. I need to get a life. 261. I need to get a life. Well, for example, I am in fact here recording the Rise and Run podcast on the evening of our 47th wedding anniversary, and my wife just expected it. She didn't even bat an eye. God bless her. God bless her. I think I'll keep her.
Speaker 4:If it was 50, I think you'd have a different issue, Bob.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I agree there. Yeah, but I already took a look. It's going to be three days out of sync, so we'll be okay.
Speaker 2:Oh perfect.
Speaker 6:I don't know what we'll do for 50. We have to arrange something, all right, but it is the anniversary of the podcast three years. Did you really think we'd make it three years? I mean, that's a legit question I was thinking three months yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2:I. I'm not shocked by the the length, I'm shocked by the response oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just gonna say that, greg and you know the each and every day goes by. I mean, you know, and it's odd, you know, even though this you know. I mean, yes, you know, each and every day goes by. I mean, you know, and it's odd, you know, even though this you know. I mean, yes, you know, bob and John, you guys are retired and have a little bit more free time than the rest of us.
Speaker 2:But you know, even in my day to day, every single day, I think at some point about run Disney or or or this podcast, and I never thought I would be saying that and that is truly a testament to not only my beautiful friends that I get to record with each week, but the absolutely amazing community that we have backing us up each and every single day, whether that's backing up one another in terms of our running journeys, but the bonds and the connections that are created.
Speaker 2:We're there to support each other through life as well too, and it's amazing to have this wonderful group of friends and supporters. Not only do we have locally with us in terms of our local friends and family, but we have this national and international family too. That's right. And that and that just blows my mind each and every single day, so thank you.
Speaker 6:Yeah, well said, well said. I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 8:And it's not something that we haven't been doing for a while too, because even before this podcast, I knew a lot of you guys and I had been making really great friends through the Run Disney First Time Marathoners Facebook group and with the Zoom meetings that we used to be on. So even before we started podcasting, I felt like I had known you guys forever and that we'd been through a lot, and so when we broadened it open onto the quote unquote airwaves too, it just became this thing that other people really loved to be a part of this community, and it's just been like you said, just no words to say, like how wonderful it is to be able to hear from people on a regular basis or think about run disney daily I think it's a huge testament to our friends and and we really wouldn't be here without you guys.
Speaker 10:So thank you for listening and thank you for being part of it. We really do appreciate it and I think all of us are just still, three years later, overwhelmed with the response and and we love you guys so much.
Speaker 6:And and we'll talk about this more as the episode goes along Can't wait to see you next week.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 6:That's the, that's the highlight, that's it. Well, three years down, no end in sight. We'll see how it goes, but, as all of my friends here have said, thank you, friends, thank you for building this wonderful Rise and Run family and for being such a great part of it. Guys, gang, let's talk training. I do want to share a little bit about training from this weekend.
Speaker 6:Uh, I had three, eight and 20 this weekend, and I know, yeah, well, that's customized training and what Chris does is he looks at where the Disney races fall out and the other races that I've signed up for and he kind of front loads a little bit. I believe that the Galloway training plan had, I think the long was 17 and I don't know what.
Speaker 6:Yeah correct, it might've been five and 17. I can't recall, but I did have three, eight and 20. I love. I like to share this because I want to let our friends know that this is, this is look. We've got some very fine runners out there. We talked with one last week, mark who, who can knock out seven consecutive sub three hour marathons. And we've got other wonderful runners out there who can take on dopey and run all four events at a competitive rate of speed. But for a lot of us and for me, it's a challenge.
Speaker 6:It's a challenge mid to back of the packer and I find it difficult. Now my last two long runs and I've had two weeks in between all of these 14 miles 17 miles before this weekend where the long run was 20 miles. I came back from the 14 and the 17 and I was a wreck. It was warm and while I take my hydration vest with me on those long outings, I came back to the house nauseated, not sure that I was going to keep my lunch down, pretty much came in and hit the bed and laid down for an hour or two before I was really felt like moving at all. It wasn't fun. And so I've got three, eight and 20. Well, I walked a three, walked the eight and the alarm clock goes off for the 20. And I don't want to go. God, come on. Who wants to feel like that after a run?
Speaker 6:I did a couple things this week that are I paid more attention to my nutrition. I'm not great at this. I am admittedly bad at paying attention to my nutrition but I paid attention not just the day before. I think that's a little too late. I paid attention the last 48 hours to make sure I was eating healthy and not eating a bunch of junk. I did not have any alcohol. I am not a heavy drinker. I haven't. There have been times in my life where I drank a little too much, but I haven't. I haven't been a heavy drinker for years and years. It's rare that I have more than one drink at a meal or something like that.
Speaker 8:Just one tipsy ducks in love.
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's it. I just, I really, I honestly just don't drink that much, but this week I had nothing, no alcohol. I took my nutrition as normal and I made up my mind to go slow, so did a lot of walking. I didn't really have any rhyme or reason. I might walk a mile, run, walk a mile. I think I was doing. 25 seconds run, 30 seconds walk. I didn't.
Speaker 6:My speed limit, which you hear us talking about, based on your magic mile, my speed limit for long run training is 15 minutes a mile, but I walk faster than that. At a comfortable walk I walk 1440 or so. I'm always a little faster than that, but doing all those things this week I came back and I was tired, but I was fine. I didn't have any of those other symptoms that I had had before, so I got over it. Well now, the fact that it was 10 degrees cooler might've helped too, but uh, what's the moral of my story? One go slow, there's another, you know. There's another reason for going slowly. We talk about preventing injury, we talk about building endurance. You do your long training run on Saturday. That's not the end for you. You've got to come back, and Tuesday you're out running again. So if you put a hard effort in on Saturday, you're not going to feel like going hard or going at all on Tuesday. But I went out this morning. I felt fine, so we've got that going for us.
Speaker 8:I kind of took that also as you know, kind of see how you feel and see where you're coming from. If you don't get a good night's sleep or, like you said, you focused on your nutrition If your nutrition was kind of crummy this week, then you just have to adjust.
Speaker 6:And going slower can be one of those adjustments that you make. I mean, I literally got up on Sunday and I felt okay, I didn't have stiffeners or soreness. That's from going slowly. That's from going slowly and from taking it easy. Interestingly to me, I looked after I got everything done. I looked at I told you 14 and 17 were hard, 20, I felt good, my difference in pace per mile in all three of those runs at two seconds, two seconds a mile different than all three of those. So look, my friends, gosh, I say this all the time this is the hard part. The training is the hard part. There's no question that the training is the hard part of these running events, especially the long ones, especially the marathon and the long challenges in January. And this is the hard time in the training. You're doing it by yourself. You don't really see a reward for what you're doing yet, but the reward is out there and it's worth doing, and if it wasn't, we wouldn't keep doing it.
Speaker 8:If you had to do them over again, would you hope for no bad training runs, or do you feel like you learn a lot from those training runs that?
Speaker 6:are a little bit harder. I would honestly, I would rather not feel like I felt after those 14 and 17. I mean, I feel really bad, but I should know better. I've done this before, I should know better. I've done this before, I should know better.
Speaker 8:I always feel like you learn something from them. You do.
Speaker 6:That's a good point, allie. You do learn something from them and I think I have learned something and I hope that I've passed something along that will help you out, friends and yours. You can do it, stick with it. It's not easy, it is. Do it, stick with it. It's not easy, it is worth it. Hey, we, as a collective group, I'm going to say, are guilty of doing this. We concentrate on the long runs with, especially marathon weekend, wine and Dine's coming up. We've got a bunch of friends who are going to be heading to Disney for their first time for a Run Disney event. What can we help them with our first-time friends who are going to be at Wine and Dine?
Speaker 8:One of the things that I always want to tell people is that there is transportation to all of the events, and I know that sounds like a simple thing, but my first run Disney event, I didn't really realize that there was buses to take me to the expo and there was buses to take me at the beginning to the races and where they would be, and so they're always gonna be out in the front of your Disney hotel and there'll be signage telling you what time they'll pick you up, and usually people at the desk also know. But just know that if you have to go to the expo there's always buses going back and forth, and the same thing in the morning. You want to get there, you want to get there pretty early for the buses and make sure that you know there can be a line sometimes but it's not too bad and you'll always have transportation.
Speaker 6:That's good.
Speaker 10:The thing that I wanted to bring up was that I know it can be intimidating, especially when it's the first time that you've done something, but one of us will be at every single race, and so we meet by the bleachers before the races. Come say hi. We're there to support you. We're there to be your friend and our meetup as well. I know, again, it can be intimidating, but please come say hi. We want to help support you. If you have questions, you can always message us too, and we're happy to help get you through the weekend.
Speaker 6:Thank you, alicia. I had just made a note here to talk about our meetup before the race. Let me explain a little bit better again. Folks who haven't done this before Whether you take the bus to the start of the race or whether you drive and park in the Epcot parking lot, you're going to go through the same security area and you're going to enter the race area the same way.
Speaker 6:When you come into it's, it's kind of a long walk, it's. I don't know, it's quarter mile or so, maybe half a mile. Uh, when you come into the area where everyone is gathering and getting ready, there are there is a food tent that Disney puts up. I say food tent. It's coffee. I think you can get some oranges, maybe some donut holes. You're not going to get a meal there. There are food trucks there so you can get other things, but that's available.
Speaker 6:As you continue on in this area, you will see a stage and also there will be character photo opportunities on either side of the stage. If you want a character photo, get there early because the lines get long really fast. True, as you are looking at the stage, there will be bleachers set up about I don't know 100, 200 feet back from the stage, looking at the stage, at the bleachers on the left-hand side is where we hang out prior to a race and, like Alicia said, please come say hi. You can say hi to us there. You can say hi to us whenever you want If you see us.
Speaker 14:But please yeah please do.
Speaker 6:Yes, we I chuckle, we're not making this up we really love to see you, we really do. And and I get embarrassed because every once in a while someone will come say hi, and I'll be involved or something, and I'll turn around and they'll be gone and I hate when that happens, but we'll, we'll do the very best we can. Another great place to say hi.
Speaker 2:I wanted to talk about the expo just a little bit and speaking of the expo, bob, the, the one piece of advice that I would like to instill upon first timers is always keep in the back of your mind that this is an extremely fun and rewarding weekend. That being said, though, there are many places and opportunities throughout the weekend where it can get stressful, and that's why I want to just say continue to think about. I'm here to have fun, I'm here to make new friends. I'm here to have fun, I'm here to make new friends, I'm here to have a good time, and the expo can be one of those places that can create stress. You know you're walking through and you just see hordes of people and where exactly do I go? And you know what is this building for, what do I do at that building.
Speaker 2:There are so many cast members and other friendly runners not just part of the rise and run community, just the the typical run disney community in general that if you have a question, please do not be afraid to ask. But when you know when you're at the expo obviously the first place that you're going to pass by you don't have to go in there right away, but you know you'll have the run disney merchandise in the arena that is off to your right-hand side as you're walking into the complex itself, and then, once you get past the globe and go up the hill, the building to your left is going to be the area where you're picking up your bibs, right across the pathway. That's where you'll be picking up your rac shirt, and then that's the Vendor Expo. So if you want the opportunity to go, say hi to Jeff Galloway and we encourage you to do so, whether it's talking to Jeff or some of the Galloway Pacers go see our friend Brooke over at BB Brooke. There are so many wonderful people that we have developed relationships with that can help enhance your Run Disney experience that will also be able to be there to guide you as well too.
Speaker 2:So, just again, enjoy the heck out of the expo. Yes, you know, sometimes, you know, another stressful point can be the buses, because, sure, these out-of-town bus drivers might not exactly know where they're going, but again, there'll be plenty of people around, regardless of the size of the resort that you're staying at. That you'll be able to get the direction. So, when it comes down to it, just ask for help if you need it, because there will be someone there to be able to help you out.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I love, I love the expo. I love the first day of the expo. I hang out there for hours and just you walk into the ESPN Wide World of Sports area and there are photo opportunities there. There are pictures of the medals you can get. And I don't mean pictures, I mean big stands, big stanchions that show the medals. You can get pictures there. I love it.
Speaker 6:It doesn't take very long to run into somebody we know and I'm easy to find friends. No excuses, I'm the tall old guy. If you bother another tall guy too bad, he'll be in good, I promise you'll be fine. You see a tall guy, that's me. He'll be in good, I promise you'll be fine. You see a tall guy, that's me. Other first timers advice. You talked about a bunch of things.
Speaker 6:Greg, you should get your expo pass in the email, in an email a couple of days before the event. Just have it ready on your phone. It's going to help you out. Uh, I got my ticket for the wine and dine after party in the mail. It comes in a plain white envelope. There's nothing to identify it except the return address is Lake Buena Vista. That's the only thing out there that identifies. It doesn't even say, card enclosed or ticket enclosed or anything like that. So you either should have those by now or should get them very soon. Yeah, make sure that you've gone on to the Run Disney registration site and signed your waiver and taken care of those.
Speaker 6:But the bottom line is, if you forgot your Expo Pass and didn't sign your waiver, I can get fixed. They're not going to say no. One's going to say to you oh, your waiver, I can get fixed. They're not going to say no. One's going to say to you oh, go home, it can get fixed, just take you a little more time. Love hanging out over in the vendor expo. Greg talked about going to see Jeff. Please do. You. Won't meet a nicer person.
Speaker 8:Another little tip is you can go back to the expo. So if it's, really busy the first day and you can't kind of get through the vendors and stuff. I go back pretty regularly to the expo. I'll get also get my knees taped up if they start hurting, because there's usually a kt tape place or like they usually have some recovery booths there. So I'll go try out your quotes.
Speaker 8:I'll go try out there yeah the recovery tools and stuff, so it's a really great place to be able to go back to and the buses still run back and forth.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I usually wave at Jeff on the first day and then go back to see him the next day when I get a couple minutes to talk with him, because I really, really I enjoy those moments. He's a great human being.
Speaker 4:If it's your first time ever doing a race there. I mean I know you're going to be nervous. Don't be nervous. Like they said, there is thousands of people there that are your friends. Even if they're not even us, they're your friends. And just sit there, relax, take it in, talk to the people in the corral, open up some conversation. Who knows you might be doing? You might be having what do you call it? A friend for life? That?
Speaker 3:you had never met before.
Speaker 6:It's a wonderful environment. I envy you for doing it for the first time. You only get to do it for the first time once, and I remember my first time, and it was. It was a lot of fun. All right, let's see. Oh, the only other thing that we didn't mention for first time people is the after party. The after party is fun If you, if you're running the marathon or the half marathon, whether by itself or as part of the challenge, you get a ticket. You'd have to buy one for another guest. You can go in using that ticket at 5 pm I believe it is and then the after party runs till 1. Nothing formal. I'll be at Regal Eagle. We'll be at Regal Eagle, the barbecue joint by the American Pavilion, at 10 pm.
Speaker 2:Bob might be wearing his 5k costume. We're not 100% sure?
Speaker 6:Yeah, probably not, probably not. It would be appropriate, but I probably won't. I may bring my Sam Eagle drinking cup with me. I may do that. All right, yeah, nothing special there, it's just. I like it. It's a chance to say well, it's kind of a chance to say goodbye after the first weekend. But sometimes we get together and we walk around a little bit, go to different character photos or take on some of the rides.
Speaker 8:I rode a roller coaster with some friends and listeners too last time, and it was wicked fun.
Speaker 4:Just another tip about the after party. You might want to take a little nap after the half and before you go out back to the party, because I did that one year. I stayed up from God knows what time in the morning two, one, whatever that. One o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning, whatever the time change was and try to stay through the end and by 12 o'clock I was done.
Speaker 10:Yeah, I did that last year. I tried to take a nap, but then something was going on at the hotel and I wasn't able to take a nap and it was rough. So yes, I agree, john, try to take a nap, don't be a hero.
Speaker 6:I'm very pro-nap. The older I get, the nappier I get. So I'm very pro-nap.
Speaker 4:The things you hated when you were a kid, that your mother told you to do Right, right.
Speaker 6:Right. Oh, one last thing. I have no guarantee on what the weather is going to be, but the weather in Florida right now is terrific, a little humid. Today We've got a cold front coming through which will take the dew point down some. I would say you can expect overnight lows in the low 60s and daytime highs Remember, daytime highs are going to be middle of the afternoon, they're not going to be when you're running Daytime highs mid to lower 80s, 83, 84, something like that. So the weather's been terrific. There is no rain in the long extended forecast but again, it's a long way out. No guarantees.
Speaker 2:And it's Florida.
Speaker 6:Yeah, but I'm optimistic. All right, I think that's enough. I think anything else would be spoilers. We want our friends who are going for the first time to have some adventures, so let's move on. Disneyland Half Marathon in January. Medals were released today. I thought they were okay. Comments.
Speaker 4:Quack, quack.
Speaker 8:Well, I immediately was going through the medals and I kind of like the style of them. They're like an interesting color combination. But then when I got to Dumbo I was like, oh, is this a half marathon? Because it's got like an angry Donald Duck on it. And then I looked closer and I was like, oh, that's Dumbo. And he just looks like a duck to me, which is once I saw it, once I like looked harder. I was like, oh, that's Dumbo.
Speaker 6:And now you can't unsee it though.
Speaker 8:Now I can't unsee it. He definitely has a duck bill to me.
Speaker 6:And all of our friends listening who are heading out there. They can't unsee it either.
Speaker 8:Sorry.
Speaker 10:Sorry, the coloring on it just seems off. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4:It's like an overexposure To me. It looks like especially for Mickey and the Dumbo Double Dare and the kids race. It's like they overexposed it. They're playing with filters too much, I don't know.
Speaker 8:I love it. I actually am the opposite. This is my hot take. I actually love where normally it would be like a shadow color and they decided to use a really bright color. I kind of love that design. I especially love the Kids Races one that's so bright and colorful. And I love, I just love Safari Mickey. So much it may be because I love Animal Kingdom, but I just think it looks really interesting and neat.
Speaker 2:When it comes to these medals, I kind of align with. You know bob's famous phrase of from an ingrand. This is from a graphical design of them. They're nice, but what I find unique about these metals and and very special, is I enjoy the shape of the metals each of them is extremely, extremely unique.
Speaker 2:You know I love the cutouts that you see with the group metal for the 5k. It almost kind of reminds me of the design of the 5k metal that everyone will be getting next week for the, the swedish chef one. But like the idea, like I mean, even though we already talked about um, you know dumbo, the, the ducky elephant, you know I, I like how it's got that. You know royal, like you know circus top kind of you know shape to it. I think that's unique and you don't see that you know very often in terms of um, you know run, disney metals, in terms of just just the overall shape.
Speaker 8:So so kudos to them for thinking outside the box when it, when it comes to, uh, that aspect of the design the one thing, though, I can say that I don't like about the medals is that I am not going to be earning the group medal and I know that jack likes guardians of the galaxy and I know oh yeah john. Both love star wars so probably would want that ahsoka medal.
Speaker 4:But ahsoka medal is by the best one out of all for sure it's awesome.
Speaker 8:Uh, but they look cooloka medal is probably the best one out of all of them. Yeah, for sure it's awesome, but they look cool. They've got like the spinners going on, it looks like, and they're just the classic Disney kind of bright and colorful huge medals that you get.
Speaker 6:The medals always look great when you hang them around your neck, for sure, and in general they look better in person than they do in the photos. So kudos to our friends who are heading to disneyland.
Speaker 6:none of us are going which is unfortunate, but I I sure hope you enjoy it. It'll be great. It'll be a great weekend and it won't be 106 degrees and I think you'll have a wonderful time and you're going to enjoy those medals. Before we get into our listener questions, I just want to make a comment. We saw again a young woman attacked and murdered in Nashville while she was out for a run Dr Elisa Lokitz, a PhD up there in Nashville. This is beyond tragic. We hear about it too often. Once is too often and it seems we hear about this three or four times a year and our hearts just go out. We did an episode on running safety back in episode 89. I think it's time to look at one again. But golly, I wish there was, I wish there was more we could do, I wish this didn't happen and I just feel so helpless.
Speaker 8:Yeah, well said.
Speaker 10:I just want to say quickly that to all of the runners out there listen to your gut instinct. I know that there's been a viral realist going on to not feel badly about listening to your gut and so just being aware of your surroundings. Be loud if you need to be loud, and keep yourself safe and do the things that you need to do. Unfortunately, we have to have things in place to keep safe, so make sure that you keep doing those, because we want everybody to come home safely from every run.
Speaker 6:Yes, I couldn't agree more Again, I think we need to dedicate an episode to this coming up here in the coming weeks. But in the meantime, be safe, my friends. You mean so much to us. We don't want to lose anyone, whether it's someone a friend of ours or whether it's just another. Not just another, don't be silly. Just another runner. We haven't met yet another friend we haven't met yet. We don't want to lose anyone. Okay, let's move on. We wanted to tackle some listener questions. Now, we've had these questions for a while, friends, but we're looking for an opportunity. We'll take them on and I'm going to ask John to start us off with the first listener question. Okay, guys.
Speaker 4:When did each of you start running Run Disney races and what made you sign up for the first one?
Speaker 10:I guess it depends if you count the Castaway Cay 5K.
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah, right.
Speaker 10:Because, technically that was my first Run Disney race in 2012. I did the 5K there. Oh yeah, right, wine and Dine. And what made me originally sign up for it was because it was a night race. But it wasn't a night race. They changed it. But that was my first one, and the reason that I decided to do the Castaway Cay challenge was I just wanted something to challenge me, and when I first started running in 2012, I couldn't even run a quarter of a mile, and so just something to push me while I was in college and I got into it, and here I am doing marathons now.
Speaker 6:Castaway was my first too, alicia, I forgot about that. It was 2015. I was not in college. We'd gone on a cruise. I'd learned about run Disney from actually the first from Facebook, christopher Sapienza's site. Uh, run Disney and beyond was the first one I really got involved with. Your site came along not much longer after that, but I wanted. I just didn't know enough about it because I was ready to go to wine and dine in 2015,. But I didn't get registered. So wine and dine 2016 was the first time I ran at Disney.
Speaker 8:My first run to Disney race was the Disney princess 2019 half marathon and I had bright red hair and I dressed like Ariel.
Speaker 6:It was red then, huh.
Speaker 8:Yep.
Speaker 6:Because the first time I saw you it was blue. Yeah, it changed a lot back in that time period.
Speaker 4:Mine was also in 2019, but it was Star Wars and you can imagine why I wanted to do Star Wars race. But he goes. There's a race in Florida. They give you Star Wars medals and a shirt. Okay, when?
Speaker 10:do I sign. Anything Star Wars John's done.
Speaker 4:Yes, please.
Speaker 8:Yep, I did it that year too, and that was once I did that. I was like I'm doing the Star Wars every single year, and then they did it one more year after that Virtually, virtually too, right Last year, yep.
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's the only Star Wars I did was the virtual. It was. Well, it was the last thing I did before a lot of things went bad.
Speaker 10:All right For our next question. Jennifer wants to to know what is the greatest thing that a cast member did for you or your family during a disney vacation that made your experience super magical oh, wow, yeah, I got one.
Speaker 8:So my husband and I we got married and we honeymooned at disney world and we went to the what's the orange bird place.
Speaker 4:Orange bird Sunshine Surprise, isn't it? Yeah, Sunshine Terrace.
Speaker 8:Sunshine Terrace. Yeah, yeah, yeah, married pins or something like that. And we went up to the window and we ordered our ice cream and the person said, oh, hold on a second, there's a phone call coming in. And then he went and like got the phone call and he went uh-huh, are you sure? Okay, you're the big guy, I got to do it. And then he hung up the phone and he said these are on Mickey Mouse. And he handed those over.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I've had that phone call thing done also.
Speaker 8:It's very cute.
Speaker 6:I would go overall and say Disney cast members are wonderful and a lot of wonderful things have happened. I don't know if this is the greatest thing, but it's the first one that comes to mind. It's the first one that comes to mind. Becky and I, even before Run Disney, liked to go around our anniversary, which is about this time of year, by the way. We go to the Food and Wine Festival and we wear the buttons. I'm celebrating, in fact, happily ever after.
Speaker 6:Anyway, the buttons have changed, but we used to wear the anniversary button and a cast member saw it and all of them will say something. But a cast member saw it and says oh, I need to do something nice for you and she gave us these Mickey Mouse stickers Big deal. What am I going to do with a sticker? Well, later that day I'm in the parking lot waiting for a tram and there's a little guy there, I don't know, five or six Turns out he's from England. Didn't know it at the time. I said, hey, would you like a sticker? And his eyes lit up like saucers and the smile on his face and I went. I'm on to something. Henceforth I travel with stickers in my wallet for children, and I do it because that cast member showed us his kindness my.
Speaker 2:My favorite story goes back to. This is pre-Rise and Run. My wife used to work at a children's home for children who have severe mental and intellectual disabilities that require around-the-clock care, require around the clock care, and every five years or so they select a couple of kids and they they go down to to disney for a week. And there is this one little girl that lives there.
Speaker 2:Uh, her name is sunny and she is the most, absolutely precious person in the world and she arrived at my wife's former uh job about like two weeks into her starting that job and the two of them have formed this inseparable bond and she was one of the flower girls at my wedding and she's, just again, one of the most incredible human beings that you know, even though she cannot speak and she can barely hear and is mostly blind.
Speaker 2:This, this small child, has just taught me so much in my life. But anyway, in in this trip, um, you know she was selected to go and the one day we, just my family and I, just took her away from the group for the day, because they were just having a down day at a special care facility that they were staying at and we just went through Magic Kingdom and we went on the mini adventures of Winnie the Pooh and we're standing there for a while because she needed to be in the special honeypot that you can roll a wheelchair onto, and so we're waiting for that and we go through the ride and you know that section of the ride where it's Tigger and it simulates the bouncing and all that jazz.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah Well, she started giggling like I had never heard her before in my entire life and she stayed like that through the rest of the attraction and we and so we fought, we finished the attraction and we're getting ready to like unhook her wheelchair and everything like that, and the cast member turns to my wife and I and goes you want to go again?
Speaker 2:and we're like sure, because that was the. You know, he saw her and her reaction as the first thing as we entered off and we're like sure, and you know it was funny because my dad and my sister were in the honeypot in front of us, so we had to like signal to them like don't get out of the honeypot, don't get out of the honey pot.
Speaker 2:So we went and you know we're like, okay, you know, this is, this is gonna be it. Well, lo and behold, we get to the tigger scene again and she and she starts losing it again and again held it the entire rest of the attraction and same cast member is manning the post and he goes send them again.
Speaker 2:We rode poo four times in a row and it was just one of the most magical moments I've ever experienced. It and it's, it's something I'll truly, truly, never forget. And that's, you know, even though it's just a very simple fancy land dark ride, it's, it's one of my absolute favorites.
Speaker 4:It wasn, wasn't really for me, it was for my son. My son, growing up, loved the monorail. When he got his first trip into the front of the monorail, it was like the greatest thing in the world for him. Then, finally, he kept asking can I sit in the chair and drive the monorail? He did not drive the monorail, but he did. He was able to sit in the chair behind it and I got a picture of it and that was what made his day. That was, he didn't have to do that because that's you know, know, some seven year old kid start pushing the lever forward and boom, yeah it's such a bummer that we can't ride in the front anymore because I remember that as a kid too.
Speaker 10:I do remember that too.
Speaker 6:Nicholas got to do it.
Speaker 4:I have like 37 monorail driver cards. Every time he learned oh, he'll just run in front of me, he goes, can I get in the front? And they go hold up. Yes, you could Come on in.
Speaker 10:I actually have two special memories of Casper. I mean, I have a lot but two that come to mind. So the first one. I don't know if you guys remember, years ago they did like 24 hour days at magic.
Speaker 10:So one of the times that I was there, my mom and I were going to do every single ride at magic kingdom and we were down to our last four rides and we're getting on the barnstormer and I was like dang it, we're not gonna make the last three rides. And the cast member overheard me and pulled out those um magic pass like the little slips, yeah, that they'll give for like popcorn and stuff, and made us slips for three rides so we could go to the front of the line for the last three so we made all of the rides, so that was super special, and the other one was years ago.
Speaker 10:Um, we got chosen to be part of the Halloween parade, so we were randomly selected as we were walking past um to be in the front of the Halloween parade. Um and got to be in Walt's car, which was really really special and a memory that I will never forget.
Speaker 6:I bet.
Speaker 10:Yeah.
Speaker 6:Well, I'm going to summarize it Cast members. Cast members are one of the things that make Disney World, disneyland, the Disney parks in general, special. They're unique. You'll find other nice people at other parks, but it's not the same. I'm going to move on to a question that Peyton, christina, heather and Carly asked. At least some version of that is gang. What is your favorite race weekend outside of a run Disney event.
Speaker 8:Oh, that's easy for me. That's going to be ghost train in Brooklyn, new Hampshire. It's just every time I go there it feels like I don't know. It's just a celebration of fall and it feels so wonderful to be out and the leaves changing and the weather's great. It's spooky season, so it's a spooky race. It's just, it's my jam.
Speaker 6:And it was last weekend.
Speaker 8:It was last weekend. We'll talk about it a little bit later.
Speaker 6:Talk about it a little bit yeah.
Speaker 8:I think I know what Greg's going to say yeah, let's go to Greg.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say I don't need to go on a long soliloquy here. I think it's pretty simple. It's all about the Bird in Hand weekend, and if you're a first-time listener and you have no idea what Bird in Hand is, I highly suggest you just rewind a couple of episodes back and we did a whole recap on the weekend. I mean, I know I said it at that time too. I think I'm even more excited for next year because, hearing the momentum that came out of that weekend and how many listeners now want to either come back or try it for the first time, I just can't wait to see the size of the group that we'll have out there next year. So, yeah, easy enough Bird in Hand.
Speaker 6:Yeah, bird in Hand's a good one, I'll piggyback on one that's like it down here on the east coast of Florida, that's Space Coast Marathon. We get the similar crowd, the Run Disney crowd, the customized training crowd and it's a well-established, great event. Good weekend, first Sunday after Thanksgiving, giving Thanksgiving. Uh longest, uh, yeah, longest running marathon in Florida. Been going for the most consecutive years, but I usually take on the half, and the half is a lot of fun.
Speaker 4:I got to say hills, camels and chicken Bird in hand.
Speaker 8:And road apples.
Speaker 2:And road apples. Yeah, all right. So this question comes from Heather and I want the record to show she wrote this comment herself. She is pretty sure that she borrowed this question from our friends over at Will Run For, so I don't want to hear any crap from them that I'm stealing their inside the runner's studio questions. Here You've given proper attribution You're good. If you could be part of any TV family, which one would it be, and why?
Speaker 6:All right, this is not hard for me because the lead characters about actually, I got two of the lead characters about my age, but it's going to be one. You guys don't know, I think. Leave it to Beaver.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 6:Very welcome answer, Bob. I led the Leave it to Beaver.
Speaker 8:Uh, yes, I led the answer, bob.
Speaker 6:I led the, I led the leave it to beaver life growing up. The only difference is I was the oldest brother and we had a sister in there, so it was a family of three. They had two boys and leave it to beaver, but that was. That was suburban Life in the 1960s and I loved the show and it was perfect. The other one I would say is Ron Howard and I are like a month apart in age, so whether you want to go Andy Griffith or Happy Days, I've lived both of those too.
Speaker 2:I can picture it now Bob, just dressed in a leather jacket, going over the jukebox to see any of the plays a song well, it's spooky season, so I feel like my answers.
Speaker 8:I can't decide between one or the other, but I'm watching agatha all along and I would. I don't know if you guys are watching it, but I would love to be part of that witch's road crew, that coven that's going down the road, that sounds like really awesome. Or if you watch what we do in the shadows, I would love to live in that house in Long Island with them. So either a witch or a vampire family.
Speaker 8:I thought you were gonna say the monsters no, that would be good too, actually, yeah, the adams family would probably adams family yeah you rang yeah yep for sure for me, and then this is gonna be a little bizarre.
Speaker 2:Um, I would love to be part of the golden girls family.
Speaker 8:Yes, that would be which. Which golden girl would you be, or would you be your own?
Speaker 2:I would be my own Golden Guy, okay, which apparently I read this many years ago that apparently in the first couple of episodes of season one there actually was a guy that lived in the house, but then he got ridden out of the show for some reason. But anyway, I would want to hang out with them because um sophia reminds me of my 95 year old grandmother. She is just so smart and quick-witted and she will knock you down three pegs so fast. Let you get up again and then take you right back down another four pegs. That personality aligns with her. And the fact that I can handle my grandmother, I can handle Sophia. Plus, I do empathize a little bit with Rose, because if you told me right now that gullible was written on the ceiling, I would be looking up, and there's also nothing wrong with eating uh cheesecake in miami uh 365.
Speaker 8:so yeah, for sure, I think estelle getty was like the youngest cast member yes, yeah, that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 2:Yep, yeah, they were.
Speaker 8:They were in their 50s I know it's so crazy, it's so I don't know if it really counts as a family.
Speaker 10:I mean they are a family, but the I Love Lucy, Ethel and Lucy. I would like to hang out with them for a day. Just getting into it with all their shenanigans, I feel like that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 6:I could see that.
Speaker 4:I would probably go with Bob. I mean, I would like to be Chuck Cunningham.
Speaker 6:Yeah, who appeared in what? Two episodes Like the first season.
Speaker 4:He goes off to college, never comes back. The whole family gets married and Chuck never comes back. Joni gets married and Chuck's not there.
Speaker 6:He dribbled a basketball up the steps one day and we never saw him again.
Speaker 4:Is that all the Waltons? No no no, no, no.
Speaker 8:I have a question from Tom from the We'll Run For podcast and Tom asks what is one thing at Disney that you wish that they would retire for good?
Speaker 2:Ooh this is a good one.
Speaker 8:I like to think like, like, where would you use the space if you think it's just taking up space and it could be something else? Is that what he's asking?
Speaker 2:Well, if you're talking about physical space, then obviously the answer is super easy. For me it's the magic carpets of Aladdin. But I'm actually going to reference a process or a product and I know I mentioned this on our hot take show that we did a little, a little about a year ago or so I would get rid of. Well, at the time I think we, when we talked about it, was fast pass. Now it's. It's lightning lane. I would get rid of lightning lane because, for as much as I love Disney, they drive me nuts because they're. For as much as I love disney, they drive me nuts because they're they're making the process of going to the park so convoluted and granted yeah, because we love disney so much, we force ourselves to learn this.
Speaker 2:But like the fact that, like now, there's like 84 different versions of a skip the line service, you know, like you know, and they're changing every other tuesday, you know, it's just, it's hard to keep my head wrapped around it because I I go back to the canceled marathon weekend of 2021, where you know there was, uh, you know they had canceled all the fast passes, they had canceled all the dining reservations and and everything like that, and everything was just a standby line and it just goes to show how effective just having that is. I mean, I remember, over the course of that trip, I want to say the longest wait, no great, I understand there was a lot less people in the park too, but like, for example, uh, you know, because of social distancing, sure, the line for seven dwarfs, mine train like wrapped all the way around, like all the way almost back to like voyage of the little mermaid, but because you were constantly moving, I think the longest we waited was like 35 minutes, and you know. So it just goes to show that when you don't have another line intersecting the main line, things can move quickly. But I also understand that the Walt Disney Company is a business and they have shareholders that they need to hold up to and they need to make money.
Speaker 2:And what I am kind of secretly hoping for is I actually just watched a video about this, for because I actually just watched a video about this and to me it makes a ton of sense that new insanely priced lightning lane service that they just announced last week, where you you're paying, you know, a couple hundred dollars to just walk up to any attraction and go into the lightning lane. I'm actually kind of hoping that that becomes the only product available and they get rid of multi, multi-pass and single pass and they just leave that and they can make the same amount of money that they're making now and there'll be less people in that lightning lane and and then the standby lines can go a lot faster and make everyone's experience better. End of rant. I now step off my soapbox.
Speaker 10:So I don't have one to retire, but one that I wish isn't retiring, which is dinosaur.
Speaker 6:I've got one I want to retire. I want to retire the park reservation system.
Speaker 2:I mean it's mostly gone, but yes, for annual pass holders it's still there.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's still there. It's a nuisance. Yeah, I agree with that one.
Speaker 4:Bob, I always said it, I was happy when they did it. The dining plan I think the dining plan ruined the restaurants because they brought down the quality of the food so they can keep it in line with the dining plan, because they were offering free dining plan. So I think the meals and the menus were really affected when they had the dining plan in place.
Speaker 10:I agree, Tom.
Speaker 8:I just simply wish they would retire the turkey legs. I think they're gross.
Speaker 6:I need to have one first.
Speaker 4:They should retire racing their prices every like six months. Our friend Helena asked what do you suggest to move from the 5k to the 10k? I'm a run walk. I'm a run walker and I'm curious how to get there physically and mentally. My goal is to do Princess 10K in 2025.
Speaker 8:I think that's a great question, helena. It's really hard to go from doing a single distance to doubling that distance. Mentally I feel like that's really really tough. I can't speak for everyone, but I can say for myself I really have learned to trust the training plan.
Speaker 8:So if you can find a really good training plan, like the ones that are on the Run Disney website. They'll take you slow enough where you go Every week you'll start to go. I can't believe I ran three miles. I can't really, really. I ran three and a half miles week. You'll start to go. I can't believe I ran, you know, three miles. You can't really really I ran three and a half miles. And you'll start to just add on to your distance every week and you'll have recovery time in there and it just will kind of take you through these, this journey of oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm running farther and farther, and this goes for anything. When you go from the 10K distance to the half marathon distance, you're going to go. Oh my gosh, it was really hard to tackle 6.2 miles. How the heck am I going to do 13.1 miles and it just slowly takes you there and as long as you are consistent with your training, that will kind of just take you there.
Speaker 10:Now the mental side. I don't know. Maybe someone else can speak about that portion a little bit. Yeah, I have something for that, allie.
Speaker 10:So I mean, we talk about this a lot in marathon training, but the same type of thing goes along with somebody who's moving from the 5k to the 10k level is break it up into smaller increments in your head. So knowing that you can do two miles, break it up in your head to a couple different two-mile segments, can make it easier for your brain to process, rather than looking at all of these miles that you need to do. That's something that can really help so that you're able to get over that mental hurdle. Also, having good podcasts or audiobooks can help as well. But, like Allie said, working in small increments is going to be super beneficial and we have enough time right now to get before, princess, that if you move slowly, you'll get there and you'll see yourself progressing and see those wins week after week, which can also help in the mental aspect so piggybacking off of the conversation that we were talking about with the with training plans, is just make sure that you are prepared to be training longer than what you had originally planned.
Speaker 2:You know, like when you look at a galloway program, for example for a 5k, that is a set number of weeks, whereas if you look at a galloway program for a 10k, that might have a few more additional weeks attached to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so what I? You know my wife loves to harass me, um, about this all the time. That you know, especially if I'm like trying to like figure out when I need to go, like to the airport or something like that is, I always use a backwards method. So what I would do is, you know, you know, look at when that 10k is going to be for princess, and then you know, use whatever training plane you're going to use and make sure you're counting back so that way, you know, this is when I need to start training and, regardless if it's a Higdon plan or a Galloway plan or a couch to 10K plan, that you are giving yourself enough time to be able to get all the training in so you can be successful when you go to Princess.
Speaker 8:Yeah, you can use like a calendar app or something like that and just put all your training runs in there, see them laid out. You'll also have to. You'll also have to start thinking about fueling and stuff on a 10K versus a 5K, so you might start thinking about, you know, um, trying some different gels or goos or something like that that you might take on with you to race day.
Speaker 4:And just going back to the mental thing it's, you're only got to look at the mile you're in right now. You know, just don't think about okay, I got five more miles to go, I got four more miles to go. Okay, one more mile, one more mile, one more mile. Then you're like, wow, I have one more mile left. And you just realize you're there and like Alicia said something to distract your mind, because your mind's going to tell you you want to quit at mile four but your body could go to mile seven. You don't realize it.
Speaker 10:Yeah, Our bodies are super amazing things and we can do really hard things. So keep going, keep working at it, keep working hard. So the last question that we're going to do for this set of listener questions is from our friend, Alan Young. He asks prior to starting running did you ever imagine where you are today?
Speaker 6:No, no. Now, prior to starting running, I'm going to go back, because I kind of have two running segments in my life One when I was on active duty and I was living in Hawaii, but the other started about seven years ago and, uh, yeah, no, actually a little, a little, for a little longer than that, probably around 2014,. Probably about 10 years ago. No, I didn't expect to be running as much as I am at my age. I'm glad. Which is about Alan's actually older than me. I want to.
Speaker 6:I want that noted for the record Alan's not much, not much. I don't even think it's a full year. It might be a year, but I'm not sure. Um, but no, I didn't, I didn't see this. I'm glad I still can, and the reason I can is you, or the reason I do it is you is the friends who are here and the friends who are listening. I wouldn't do it otherwise. Heck, no, it's too easy to just lay in bed and go. You know it's a whole lot easier to not run than it is to run. Uh, but I didn't see it happening, alan. But I'm glad I did, because, if not, I wouldn't have had you as my friend. So I appreciate the question.
Speaker 10:Yeah, when I talked about this earlier, when I started in 2012 and I couldn't even run a quarter of a mile, I wasn't really a runner when I was younger, um, I know we talked in previous episodes about our stories and I'm not going to tell the full story, but I did a bunch of sports growing up, um, and I was a sprinter. I was never a runner, um, and so doing that 5k was a really big deal. And then deciding to move into the half marathon, I thought, okay, that's the end for me. I'm not going to move past that point. And even in 2018, when I decided to then sign up for the marathon, I truly didn't think that it was something that I could do.
Speaker 10:But seeing that my body is able to continue to do this, and being grateful, running is a huge, huge part of my life. Being a run coach, having I mean, it's truly my passion now and getting to be a part of this community, I really never thought that I would be where I am today in my running, but I'm so grateful every day and I tell my runners all the time make sure to take the time to appreciate every step, every mile that you take, because not everybody can do that, um, and so being able to do something like that is a great accomplishment, but also a great, a great thing that our bodies can do, and so just being grateful and moving, so yeah, anyway, I didn't think I was going to be at this point and I'm very grateful for getting to train for yet another marathon.
Speaker 8:It is truly a privilege to be able to move your body and I don't share my story a lot, but I do have multiple sclerosis and I assumed when I got diagnosed that in you know, five or 10 years that I would be using some sort of mobility device or something like that and come to find out that I started running because I was diagnosed and I wanted to do something crazy.
Speaker 8:Four marathons later, you know a dopey, a couple goofies.
Speaker 8:I've been able to combat that and a lot of the times the doctors are saying you know, this is actually helping you stay healthy and stuff like that. So I certainly didn't think that I was going to be in the spot that I am right now and, like Alicia said, every day I'm grateful because I can move my body in a way that I did not expect to move it. And then, you know, did you expect where you'd be, where you would be today? Some of the best friends that I could ever make through run Disney races and I just couldn't even imagine some of these friends including you guys, including, you know, my friends that I run every race with, but also the friends that message me on occasion and I see at their run Disney corrals or maybe I only see at their run Disney races and I give them a huge hug Like I couldn't have imagined having a family like this when we first started running, I just thought running was a thing you did by yourself, and I was 100% wrong.
Speaker 6:Well, I'm glad you were Wrong and running both of them.
Speaker 2:For me, this answer is kind of twofold, in the sense that one, I never thought that I would be a runner, in the sense that growing up and doing with, being a kid of the 80s and the 90s and having to be subjected to that, arnold Schwarzenegger, america's physical fitness test or whatever.
Speaker 8:We are trauma bonded in that, yes, we are in that?
Speaker 2:yes, we are. Uh, you know that that mile always like terrified me, and now it's an activity that I do three to four times a week.
Speaker 2:It is, I mean that I would have never expected that but then the second part of the answer is once I did get started running, I you know like, for me, I always thought the end goal was going to be the half marathon and that was going to be it. And the fact now that it's so many half marathons that I've lost count by the end of marathon weekend this year I'll have six marathons under my belt, and that I've participated in unique running events you know, similar to like loopy looper, you know, I would have never thought I'd be part of a relay team that would, you know, run for you know 12 to 24 hours and just do the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2:You know that that that part of the running journey has just always surprised me. And you know, I guess I could continue to say, well, you know, I mean, that's pretty much, I guess all I'll do. But if I thought, you know 10 years ago that you know the half marathon was going to be my max distance, and here I am now, you know who knows what, how I can surprise myself in the next decade. So yeah, I'm, I'm always surprised, but excellent question now.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I just. I used to think dopey was impossible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, literally impossible.
Speaker 6:Yeah, this year I'll do my fifth one.
Speaker 8:Yeah, it's, it's weird going from oh that's something other people do, I could never do that. Yeah To going. I'm amazing and, like Alicia said, like the body is, it can do amazing things and it can do really hard things.
Speaker 6:Well, friends, thanks for the questions. We still have more and I'm sure we'll get to them in a future episode. Let's move on. We've talked about where we're going to be and where we would love to see you come race weekend. I have posted the meetup to the Facebook group. Instructions are there. Our meetup is Saturday afternoon at 3 pm at the food truck area at Disney Springs. I said something about coming out of the Lime Garage. It at the food truck area at Disney Springs. I said something about coming out of the Lime Garage. It's actually the Orange Garage you come out of Either way. You're going to turn left. You're going to head to the balloon and to the left of the balloon, to the left of Starbucks, that's the food truck area, and we'll be back there. We really, really look forward to seeing you there. As I said in a past episode, folks who come once come back. They look forward to it. We spend more time there than we can imagine and it's a wonderful event. So we really, really look forward to seeing you there.
Speaker 8:They're not even there to see us, they're there to see each other.
Speaker 6:That's what.
Speaker 8:I love. Yeah, it's. It's like we could not even be there and it would still be really fun.
Speaker 6:And I couldn't be prouder. I couldn't be prouder of that, that we could go away and that our friends would still be there. That's wonderful, that's just a great thing. Hey, reminder on the 101 Dalmatians shirt After Wine and Dime, we got to do some serious thinking about how we're going to get these couple hundred Dalmatian puppies together before the 5K at Marathon Weekend. But this will be the last episode. Well, yeah, this will be the last episode. I'll mention it because it'll be too late next week. Last chance to order the shirt from alec is race weekend wine and dine. Race weekend alec at kawaiian pizza apparel. There is a link in the featured section on the facebook page. Uh, the shirts are 30. I'll explain it one more time. We have a discount code with Alec. It's Rise and Run, all one word, but it does not apply to this shirt. If, however, you order a second item from Alec, you can use that Rise and Run code, get your discount on the second item and then use FreeShip50, freeship50, all one word for free shipping on your order.
Speaker 4:Guys, do yourself a favor. Don't wait until the last minute, you know, because things do happen. I mean, there could be a problem in the mail, there could be a problem with anything.
Speaker 2:So if you want your shirt, I would just err on the side of caution and try to get in by the end of this week baba, I want to go back to something you said earlier about how to organize all this, and I just I do have one suggestion for you. Uh, use canine crunchies. I think that was the, uh, the dog food that was used in 101 dalmatians. Like, if you just set up a trail from, like, the Epcot bus depot, all the way to the family reunion area.
Speaker 2:I think that might be able to get everyone corralled together.
Speaker 4:It's going to be exciting. Just get a big fire hydrant and leave it out there we go, it's going to be exciting.
Speaker 6:One of the things I need to work out is how are we going to get a picture of this entire crew?
Speaker 2:A drone.
Speaker 6:Well, one of the things I'm thinking of is, if we meet up where we typically do before a run, somebody can get on the top of the bleachers there.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a good idea.
Speaker 6:And shoot backwards. That might work. Well, wait a minute, tony will be there, I think, so we'll have a Disney photographer. I also want to remind friends that next week is the Rise and Run Wine and Dine Roll Call. So I saw some folks adding their names to the race report for this week and we'll be doing the roll call next week. If you haven't been a part of that before, we call the names first names only last initial. When we need to. Everyone who has signed up for the race you get an idea how many Rise and Run friends will be there.
Speaker 6:Another quick reminder Run Gum. I talked about it. I will have some with me. I got a couple boxes in the mail today, so I'll have some with me at Wine and Dine weekend. I'll probably try and get like a fanny pack or something and carry them around that little. What I like about it is a subtle energy boost. You chew the gum, you get rid of it and then a couple of minutes later you go gee, I'm doing real well. I feel a little better than I have. It's just that little subtle boost that caffeine can give you, so I think it's worthwhile. I've got a code. You can use my code BobR20 or the code rise and run, and I think they're linked. I think that if you use one, the other one won't work, but that'll get you a discount from the run gum folks.
Speaker 6:Next week's episode. Well, it's wine and dine week, so we'll have the roll call and we'll think of other things to do for episode 162. All right, my friends, it's time for the Race Report. The Race Report brought to you by our friend Tom Stokes at Stoked Metabolic Training, stokesfit slash. Riseandruncoaching is the site to check for Tom's latest offering in training and in metabolic training. Again, that link is at the featured section in our Facebook group page. I hope to have Tom on pretty soon. It's been a little while since we've talked with Tom. It'd be good to get back with him. Friends, let's start the race report by going back a week Now. If you recall, lots of stuff was happening last week. We had weather issues and power issues and we couldn't arrange to get our Chicago Marathon runners on last week. So we're a week behind. But I want to give these fine Rise and Run friends a chance to tell us about accomplishing a world major. We've got a bunch of them with us tonight, so let's say hi. Let's start with Tony.
Speaker 11:Hey there, first time running Chicago, probably the shortest travel arrangements for me out of everyone here.
Speaker 6:Oh, there you go. Yeah, just down out of Wisconsin. That's good, jen, you traveled a little further.
Speaker 9:Yeah, so from South Florida when fortunately our flight got out after having a tornado seven miles from our house. But my first world major and a PR for my marathon, so 31 minutes.
Speaker 6:You did a marathon in 31 minutes. Oh, a 31 minute PR. Oh, okay, okay, jen, that's good, that's wonderful, that's wonderful. Nancy PR oh, okay, okay, jen, that's good, that's wonderful, that's wonderful, nancy welcome.
Speaker 1:Thanks, bob. I am also from South Florida like Jen, but I was visiting my son in Illinois before, immediately before the race, so that probably makes my commute a little bit shorter than Tony's. But maybe, maybe, maybe, you know. Uh, second world major, um, seventh overall marathon, especially if I add in the disney ones so of course you should.
Speaker 6:Yeah, what was? The other uh, what was the other world major nancy?
Speaker 1:new york.
Speaker 6:New york last year very good very good yeah michael, how about a welcome buddy? Good to see you, see you.
Speaker 12:Thank you, good to see you. Well, I came from Wrightsville, pennsylvania. Chicago was my first major and my third marathon overall.
Speaker 6:Outstanding Chad welcome.
Speaker 13:Thanks for having me. Uh chad, from seven fields, pennsylvania, chicago was my first world major and honestly I have no clue how many marathons overall. It's not a big number, it's just I don't track them well, it depends on.
Speaker 6:It depends on how you count them, because there will be times that chad will go out and do the equivalent of, oh, six or seven marathons at one setting. So, yeah, chad's run some. Well, chad's been with us before he's run some big time distances. Uh, ryan's with us. Ryan's paced this one, didn't you, ryan?
Speaker 5:well, unofficially unofficially okay unofficially all right, yeah, uh, ryan from central florida. I had two flight changes because of the storm, but we ended up getting there and getting to the expo. This is my first time running Chicago and first world major.
Speaker 6:Outstanding. We'll get back to that unofficially thing in a little bit. Okay, I'm kind of curious. Meanwhile, amy's with us. Good to see you, amy while Amy's with us.
Speaker 7:Good to see you, Amy. Hello friends, yes, I am from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and got to stay with my brother-in-law in Chicago, which was wonderful. It was my first world major and my third charity bib, so I was very fortunate to get in that way.
Speaker 3:Outstanding to get in that way Outstanding. Let's see Bridget Hi, bridget Hi. So I'm from New Jersey and it was my first world major and my redemption marathon from I did not finish in 2023.
Speaker 6:So Okay, you can tell us about that if you want to. You don't have to. And let's see last but not least of course I'm just going in the order that I see them on my screen. Amanda has joined us.
Speaker 14:Hey friends.
Speaker 6:I'm.
Speaker 14:Amanda from Signal Mountain, tennessee, first time running Chicago and first world major and a PR.
Speaker 6:Awesome. And fourth marathon Good Good stuff, outstanding. Well, welcome, welcome everybody. Thanks for taking the time to join us.
Speaker 4:We're we're certainly happy that you did okay, so before you have to run the marathon, you have to pick up your bib at the expo. So, uh, how was the expo? And uh, was it bigger than you thought? Not, as was it more. Was it bigger than you thought? It was not. Not as daunting as the Disney Marathon. Look at Tony laughing over the corner.
Speaker 11:The Expo was a lot bigger than I expected. I guess I don't know what to expect when there's 50,000 plus runners. It makes Disney look like dwarfed next to it. So I was crazy busy. We went on Saturday because we drove down Friday night. It was nuts. I was more worried about losing my daughter than finding anything in there. I picked up a few things in the Nike section of it, looked at the line, put them back, so I didn't buy anything at the expo, I just got my shirt. I swapped sizes in my shirt. That was really easy and seamless. So everything else about it was cool.
Speaker 11:They had a lot of really great photo backdrops and whatnot, even ones that weren't technically set up as a backdrop. Like I was watching people take pictures in an entrance way next to a Chicago sign because there was no line of people waiting to take a picture. So people got really unique with that. They had Calvin Kipton's kit that he wore when he set the world record the year before. They had a nice display of that, so that was cool to go there and take a picture. And then they handed out stickers for your bibs with his world record time as like a memoriam to him.
Speaker 6:That's cool.
Speaker 9:They had a really cool photo spot where they scanned your bib, and your bib and your name came up on a screen. I thought that was the coolest part of the expo. I did wait in the 30 minute line. It kind of wrapped all around the Nike spot. I wanted a tank top and I wanted a long sleeve shirt and I got them. They had a lot of merch but they didn't have the finisher jacket there. You had to wait for the Nike store till the next day. They actually sold them the day before the race. So I went to the expo on Friday. But I thought the expo was awesome. There was lots of freebies Like I got a free full-size bio freeze gel and just lots of great information.
Speaker 9:Like there was other people there from like even the Gasparilla run and grandma's marathon there was a lot of representation so, and a lot of charities were there, so I thought there was a lot of representation, so, um, and a lot of charities were there, so I thought it was a really cool expo I went on friday um, right after it opened about maybe half hour hour after it opened and I did uh, I thought I thought it was easy getting into.
Speaker 13:Um, I made the mistake of going into the main merch area straight ahead, which locked you in if you passed the exits. I thought it was a little weird. You couldn't exit. Oh really, you had to backtrack a little bit. We found that a little odd. It also seemed like some of the vendors duplicated. I felt like if I went on the right side I saw them again on the left side. Maybe that was just me or I guess made loops, but I tried to meet people and I thought it'd be fun idea to wear one of the original rise and run shirts with, like the mickey hand pointing up. I was asked by no less than 10 people if that was my podcast.
Speaker 13:So okay just just an fyi for future merch. Uh, maybe not the big hand pointing up to just I had to laugh. No was the answer, but it was no Bob.
Speaker 2:Bob is this your way of telling me that I'm no longer on the podcast that chat is replacing Calm down, okay, all right.
Speaker 13:No, Greg, no, no, no, you're not being replaced at all. I have zero technical abilities that you have and I don't think they can afford you on a per diem basis right now. Good, point.
Speaker 2:So, even though we're all here to talk about the world major in the Windy City, there's actually a second event that takes place, and actually there is a 5K that precedes the big event on Sunday. Jen, why don't you tell us about your experience on that?
Speaker 9:Yes, I ran the 5K and funny story I went over the timing mat in the beginning and the end but they had me as a dead last finisher. I did not finish it as dead last, but apparently I did. So I wrote to them. I haven't heard. It didn't really matter. I wasn't doing it for time. I actually did 30, 60 intervals because I was supposed to walk the whole thing but I didn't want to come in dead last, but I did so.
Speaker 6:I think I might take that as a source of pride.
Speaker 9:Yeah, so according to the timing, I came in an hour and seven minutes, but my Garmin timed me at like 42 minutes, so, but I was still. You know it was great and, um, there was a lot of crowd support for the 5k too, so, um, it was fun.
Speaker 2:And, um Mando, how about your experience? Uh, what, uh, what highlights do you have of the 5k, outside of that awesome beanie that you get?
Speaker 14:Well, I I of course, have to mention the beanie. The beanie was was awesome and I had to wear it. I've never run in a beanie before I actually let my hair down. The weather was cool, so it worked out good. There were a lot of people out during the 5k. There were a lot of people cheering and it was a really good warmup for what was to come the next day. The most interesting thing for me during the 5k is my watch. My GPS watch went crazy. I wasn't trying to do it for time, I was just doing it as a shakeout. I looked down at one point and said my pace was seven minutes 30 seconds only if I sprouted wings. That is not achievable for me. And then the next second it went to 15 minute miles. It was because of all the buildings. So that gave me a clue of what to expect the next day, which that also happened to me the next day. But it was a really really fun, really fun experience.
Speaker 2:No, that makes a ton of sense with the buildings that I can just really throw. You know the the GPS is out of whack. So yeah, it definitely provides some very, very unique paces.
Speaker 14:I ran with two other people and we were shoulder to shoulder like the whole time and when we finished and we stopped our watches the exact same time, we all had different paces. We all had different garments, but we all had different paces, so the buildings really mess with your GPS.
Speaker 2:Very, very interesting. All right, let's move to the big show on Sunday. And obviously, lots of sights, lots of sounds, lots of great support. Michael, tell us about your experience during this world major.
Speaker 12:So it was. It was definitely emotional. I had my sights set on a goal and that was to get a sub three. I didn't accomplish that. Just for you know, all the stars didn't align, the weather was great. I mean, I don't think you could ask for you know, better weather than that morning, could ask for you know better weather than that morning. Just had some slight issues with the glutes and the fatigue, but the crowd support was electric. It's unlike anything I've ever seen in my life. It was just nonstop. It was so loud it was just enough to keep you going the entire time. Um, and I ended up finishing it. Um in three, oh, three, um for the marathon. So I just missed my goal, but, uh, I can take notes from it and um, the next one.
Speaker 2:That's mighty impressive, Mike. Oh, that's amazing. That's excellent, yeah. Let's keep talking about the crowd support a little bit. Tony, I know over the weekend one of the first things that you had texted me was dude, what an electric atmosphere. What was your thoughts on just the support along the course for all 26.2 miles?
Speaker 11:Yeah, it was incredible. I remember before we started they announced 50,000 plus runners and over a million spectators and I was like, okay, let's see, you know, and it was shoulder to shoulder multiple people deep, both sides of the road, 26.2 miles. It was the most unreal thing I've ever experienced. It was no matter where you were. There was different things going on, whether it was just people cheering a block party as you went through a neighborhood. Um, I was lucky enough to have quite a few people cheering in multiple parts along the course. So, like it was definitely the most special marathon. I don't think anything can top the experience that I had for this this whole weekend and the entire race is.
Speaker 2:It was special all the way around awesome, important, important follow-up question did you leave your shirt on the entire time?
Speaker 11:yes, and I did see that. You said that it's illegal to run without a shirt in a major and I saw numerous people without shirts on.
Speaker 2:So well, maybe there was a small asterisk there for you, or something like that. Amy, tell us about us, about your experience.
Speaker 7:Well it was. I was so thankful for the unofficial pace team Um it was. I was so worried about getting it done.
Speaker 7:Um, because my this, this whole marathon for me, was mastectomy to marathon and I accomplished that and but you know I didn't get to start running until July 22nd, so I was just terrified that I wasn't gonna make it or get swept and I'm gonna be longer than six and a half hours. But Ryan and the group just they were great, kept us on track and I still don't understand how you do running math while you're running and but I'm appreciative, it was great. You, you don't need headphones. I was warned between like mile 17 to 22. You know, have your headphones ready, because it's dead zone.
Speaker 7:It was just I think they had the charity, some of the charity tents there then, so it was just electric the whole time. And then I also put my name on my jersey, which really it helps you when somebody hollers out go Amy, or you got this Amy, or whatever. That was really energizing, at least for me it was. That was really energizing, at least for me it was. And so I thank all of you that were there in the back of the pack, the party group and I got it done in six hours and seven minutes which I know that's slow, but I was so thankful.
Speaker 7:So, thank you, ryan, and, of course, thank you to Customized Training because it got me there.
Speaker 6:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And speaking of unofficial pacing, I know someone else was part of that gang, Jen. I know you were part of that crew as well, too. Throw kudos onto Ryan and what he did for that entire group.
Speaker 9:Well, it all started when Ryan told me that he would pace me. And then our group just grew and grew and grew and the goal was six hours and we all got around six hours. So it was just absolutely perfect. But, yeah, he had us. He was cheering on the whole time. There were people constantly coming and going in our group. We always had at least what like five or six people.
Speaker 9:Well, right from the beginning, amy got us to the front of Corral Inn, so that got us started and but it was just amazing. I mean, everybody was. You know, is this a pacing group? What's your pace? What intervals are you doing? And then we'd have people. We had a guy singing with us at the end. It was just, it was just really awesome. And then I think we were around. It was right before mile 25. Ryan says something very inspirational. I have it on video and he's like okay, guys go, this is your moment. Well, I just started bawling, I'm like bye, and I just took off and I just had to be by myself because I didn't want to have the ugly cry with my friends.
Speaker 6:So Nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 9:There's nothing wrong with that, but I got my sub six in my pr and um. Ryan was amazing and we ran with some other galloway people and some other perfectly great strangers and it was just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2:Just couldn't ask I'll admit I was very confused on sunday because I saw your video and you're like all right team, here we go. And I was like wait, there's no official like official Galloway Pacers. And then when I saw like this whole group, I was like that is absolutely amazing. So my next question is Ryan, what are you doing the Sunday before Thanksgiving? Because I have a very similar time goal at the Philly Marathon and I'd be interested to know what your services are.
Speaker 5:I would absolutely love to come to Philly and run that marathon. It has a special place in my heart because it was my first marathon.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, awesome, awesome. I don't know if we can pull off the travel arrangements that quick, that's quite all right, but tell us about your not only only just you know pacing all these wonderful people, but your individual experience as well too.
Speaker 5:For me it was just unbelievable from the get. This was the first time I applied for Chicago, so there's that.
Speaker 4:And then yeah, and then from there, like Jen said.
Speaker 5:I reached out and offered to pace her. I said what's your time goal? And she said six hours. I said you reached out and offered to pace her. I said what's what's your time goal? And she said six hours. I said you know what, I'll pace you. I was on the fence and I asked coach twigs, you know, do I run this for time? Do I race it Cause it'll probably be good weather, or it's my first major.
Speaker 5:You know you always hear, take it in, enjoy it. Um, and Chris and I always end up saying like I will just make the decision race day. If everything lines up, then go for it, otherwise go with the other. And so that that answered that question. Um, then again from there on a customized call one night. More people ask hey, can we run? Absolutely? Um, nancy throws two people at us in the corral.
Speaker 5:So, we had a solid like seven to start and I'm like, well, okay, I guess I'm calling the run walks. Um, I didn't intend to be as loud as I am at Disney, but it happens. Um, and yeah, people just kept joining us. It was so cool, everybody's happy, we're having fun back there and we. We get just past the half marathon mark and I turn around and there's this sea of people and I went are they all? With us yeah.
Speaker 5:So you know, I just go all out. At that point it's like okay, we're a pace group that's cool yeah, it was so, so cool and I'm just so appreciative, like every single person that came and joined with us. I got to chat with people from around the world like I'm selling people on Jeffing Cause they're from the UK.
Speaker 6:Right, right.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 6:It's not run walk in the UK, it's Jeffing.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and he was all into it. That was our singing guy, um, and then, yeah, I, I, you know I get so much out of it and just the smiles on people's faces when they take off for their finish, like that's what it's all about for me and it was just such an amazing experience Start to finish, like our meetup before we went to the corrals, the race itself. It was so amazing. Chad, I actually was not privy to a Slurpee. We ran into Matt Kreps on the course. I hugged him and then he said at the next seven 11, I'm getting Slurpees and we're like okay, and then he comes whizzing by us carrying a tray of Slurpees like a waiter.
Speaker 2:I'll be darned so Slurpees is the uh, is the Chicago equivalent to the margarita at the margarita?
Speaker 5:well, I believe, in Matt's case, hash browns okay there we go.
Speaker 2:oh yeah, true, very true, very true. So let's change the the concept of the conversation a little bit. Nancy, I was just in Chicago this past weekend for work and got out for a twilight run and I was running up along Soldier Field and you just turned the corner and I got this amazing shot of the Chicago skyline. What are some of the landmarks that you found to be really interesting to look at as you were running along this course?
Speaker 1:Oh, you asked the wrong person. I remember nothing other than I'm sticking to the blue line. And I remember chinatown, because my stomach didn't like chinatown and I like chinese food. But in that moment those smells were not no bueno, no, no bueno. But I didn't even see the bean until after, like when I'm finished the marathon and we're like walking to the car, my son is like there's the bean oh, I got you. I'll be darned you want to walk over there and I said no.
Speaker 6:I didn't want to walk anywhere yeah, exactly no yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But I will add that I want to just emphasize what Ryan did. This was his first world major and instead of running his race, he made sure that everybody else got their race, and that's just an incredibly selfless act.
Speaker 6:So very nice. Yeah, very nice, very nice.
Speaker 2:All all right, bridget. First of all, great to see you. It's been many years since you and I ran together in that one Disney marathon. Uh, what was your experience like here in Chicago?
Speaker 3:um, so it's definitely different. Um, so you haven't seen me in a while because I got married and then I got pregnant and so I had a DNF at Disney in 2023. I was eight weeks pregnant and I was just not there. I was not finishing that, I swept myself in Animal Kingdom, so I was really nervous for Chicago because this was my first race.
Speaker 3:I'm 13 months postpartum and I had just finished weaning my daughter from nursing, like two years prior, so I finished, I think, like three minutes ahead of the official pace car okay. I think my official time was like six hours and 35 minutes, so technically I was over their time limit.
Speaker 6:But oh, you're fine.
Speaker 3:I still counted, I got my medal, yeah, proved to myself that I could still run a marathon, but, um, it was definitely, it was, the atmosphere definitely helped a lot. I mean, you know, my brother lives in chicago, um, which is why I applied, because we applied to run together and then I got in, he didn't, so I ended up running. Oh, how about that?
Speaker 3:yeah, that'll happen, yeah he basically did a marathon running all over the city with my husband and my daughter to cheer me on, so, um, I think he had just as much fun, if not more, and uh, so, but the crowd, and I mean I don't know, there was a lady at mile like 20 who was handing out capri suns and, um, she went for my favorite person because for some, reason that was just what helped me.
Speaker 6:Good Friends. It's great. It's wonderful to hear all these great stories. I'm glad everyone had a wonderful time. Before we start wrapping up, I want to make sure that you've had a chance to say what you want to say. Is there anything you'd like to add that you haven't said so far?
Speaker 7:Oh, friends, I tell you, do it, go to Chicago, try out for any of the world majors. I did it through a charity, but do it, do a world major. It was an amazing experience. They do a beautiful job at the race, the expo, the everything. Don't be afraid, don't. Whatever your pace, don't be afraid, do it.
Speaker 6:Amy, that's great. I will tell you, we hear that when we talk to our friends, whether it's Berlin, New York, not a lot of folks in Tokyo, but London, yeah, they all say the same thing that it's a once in a lifetime type of deal and it's wonderful and for those of you that are interested in, you know, putting your name into the hat for chicago for 2025 day of recording here on tuesday, the lottery did officially open.
Speaker 2:I can't remember how long it is open for, but I know they do do the drawing, uh, in the middle of december. So if it's something that you have on your bucket list or you can arrange travel plans for you know, definitely consider now you know, getting your name entered into that. But uh, nancy, I think you add something you wanted to mention as well too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, like Amy, ran for a charity. I ran for the Parkinson's Foundation because my father was suffering from Parkinson's. And when I was running there was a gentleman in front of me and he had a sign on his back that his name was Michael and he was running with Parkinson's. So I stopped to talk to him and I'm like, hey, I'm so glad you're out here, way to go. And he saw my shirt and he's like wait a minute, you're running for Parkinson's too. Did you have a family member? You know what connection.
Speaker 1:And I explained I had lost my father, but I was running in his honor and he told me that he was running with both his sons and and I just said I would have given anything to run with my father yeah, and that running for charity was a way for me to run with my father that's what I will tell you is all four of us were balling I imagine, you know the ugly cry, which means we were walking, because you can't run if you can't breathe. I think, benefit of hindsight if I hadn't stopped I probably would have made my pr okay, but I wouldn't trade that experience at all. It was invaluable, invaluable, and that's why we run right it is for those experiences like that it was all worth it.
Speaker 6:That's wonderful, great story.
Speaker 11:Thanks, nancy one last thing I wanted to point out was like just the run disney community general that came to support, I mean, run Disney changed my life.
Speaker 11:It changed probably everyone on this call's life from a health perspective, running and everything like that. We had friends from the East coast, midwest, all over the country that came just to cheer. Like that was crazy, you know. So like a lot of them took my family in and helped my wife and daughter see me numerous times on the course and it was just special, like I wasn't there to run time, I was there to have fun, take it in. Every time I saw them, I embraced them all on the course numerous times and then, you know, cross the finish line, see them after then, after my buddy Mike finishes, I see him at the finish in the reunion area. Jen comes up to me in the reunion area, my buddy Jermaine. All these people were there that we only know each other because of Run Disney and that's what I think made it so special to me that these people three, four years ago none of us knew each other. And here we all are accomplishing this huge goal and being supported by one another.
Speaker 6:I agree, it's amazing. It's a big family and family. I'm glad you were able to run this event and I'm so happy you had time to share it with us. Thanks, we look forward to. Let's go real quick. When are we going to see you? And I'm just going to ask when we're going to see you at Disney again, and I'm going to go in reverse order Bridget, when are we going to see you? And I'm just going to ask when we're going to see you at Disney again, and I'm going to go in reverse order Bridget, when are we going to see you at Disney again? I'm doing Dopey in.
Speaker 3:January.
Speaker 6:Okay, chad, I don't know that I've ever seen you at Disney. I've done two Dopies and I'll never say never. Okay, nothing on the docket though. Yep.
Speaker 5:Nothing on the docket. Okay, amanda, how about you? I'll be back for dopey. Okay, ryan, I'll be pacing the wine and dine.
Speaker 6:I figured I'd see you next week. That's cool, michael I won't be doing disney this year.
Speaker 9:I have boston oh, that's a big I'm working on this this coming boston so awesome, awesome, nancy, great jen halloween party all nighter into the 5k wine and dine I'll be there with you at that party, amy uh, no, disney, but I have um las vegas marathon next weekend oh, cool and tony
Speaker 11:I'll be at wine and dine and solo my best buddy and my wife.
Speaker 6:Wonderful, wonderful. All right, thank you friends, thanks for joining us and congratulations on finishing a world major. Well, it's great to have so many friends with us. Every time we feature a major marathon, we get that same level of excitement. So we will do it for New York excitement. So we'll be. We will do it for New York Now. Again, we'll we'll delay that a week because we've got the Wynodyne recap to do first, and we'll catch New York the week after that.
Speaker 6:I wanted to. I did it quickly last week. I'll do it one more time. I wanted to mention the folks who weren't on the spotlight, who ran Chicago, and that is Alicia, who got a nine-minute PR in Chicago. Claudia Dan, who ran a 3.33, and that's a PR Gary, jacqueline, jesse, katie, kelly, two Kellys, kelly B and Kelly T, lauren around this one. Lisa, michael, randy, rob, sarah I felt bad for Sarah. Sarah dropped in on the race report spotlight about 15 seconds before we had to shut it off. Good to see you, sarah. Sorry. I am sorry that you couldn't get there earlier and be part of it. We'll catch you next time. Susan and Yuria also ran in Chicago.
Speaker 8:Wow, that's a ton of fun family members.
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's crazy, crazy. Yeah, it was a good event. All right, let's take a look at this weekend. Let's start on friday with the gator gallop fun run in gainesville. Hannah was there. This was the university of florida's homecoming weekend. She did this 2.2 mile run in a little under 24 minutes, happy with that first official race, excited to do more. We're that First official race, excited to do more. Wait a minute, first official race. That's a PR Way to go, hannah. Before I go any further, I got to tell you this is a long report, so if I'm truncating your race reports, friends, please understand.
Speaker 6:It was a big weekend in Detroit, the Detroit Free Press Marathon weekend. First of all, let's look. The marathon was run on Sunday, october 20th. Julia ran it. Our friend Heather was there in the push rim division said that, and a lot of folks said this. Beautiful sunrise on the Ambassador Bridge. A lot of folks said this beautiful sunrise on the ambassador bridge. Heather said she had several amazing bike guides as a push rim racer and, although she's not really claustrophobic, the tunnel that was involved in this race got to be a little tough. And she's not the only person that said that. Heather finished second in the push rim division for the marathon. The half marathon was also run on Sunday. Gina did it, not a PR but good practice leading into her first dopey. Bethany thinks this is a really underrated race. Again. The sunrise on the bridge, the enthusiasm along the river in Canada, the underwater mile that's the tunnel and the excitement of the Detroit crowd made it fantastic. Really happy with their overall pace. Let's see the bridge and tunnel have steep inclines, so she quit her intervals during those. That's a smart thing to do. Doug was there. Mentions the bridge. That's an exciting one. This event for a couple of years couldn't cross over the bridge because of COVID, so the fact that the bridge is back in the part of it, I think it's very exciting. It's a marathon. You get to run through two countries. That's pretty cool. Doug said he listened to the podcast for a good portion of the race. Thank you for that, doug. He enjoyed the discussion about the new Brooks affiliation in the shoes and Doug knocked out a new PR. Just a little over two and a half hours for Doug, good job.
Speaker 6:Jeanette ran with her mom and her husband. She also did the Saturday one-miler with her four-year-old daughter. Her husband did one of the challenges. The challenges I'll talk about in a minute had great names. Crowds were fun, wonderful weekend. Caitlin, great weather, talks about the bridge, the breathtaking view, little, warm, dusty, survived. Came out with a new PR. Way to go, caitlin.
Speaker 6:First race report from Nicole. She was registered for this one last year, got through a bunch of the training, then got pregnant, put on bed rest so she had to defer. She'd been waiting for this one for a long time. Ran it with her sisters, had so much fun. She put in a great report. I really can't do justice to it. They finished at a 1243 pace, which is wonderful for a. Let's see this is the half marathon Outstanding. This was her first half in seven years and it was Mallory's first half ever, so that's for sure a PR. Christina was there, met with Nicole. Christina says this is her favorite local race. She beat her personal record time for a half by a minute, finishing in 254. Now the Detroit Free Press Marathon had two challenges. I love the names the Supreme Challenge and the Temptation Challenge. What a wonderful salute to Motown. That's cool.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, that's awesome.
Speaker 6:We talked about. Let's see, was it? Whose husband was it? I've already forgotten Jeanette's maybe. Yeah, jeanette's husband did the Temptation Challenge. The Temptation Challenge was on Saturday the mile and the 5K. Now, Laura did that and then she ran the marathon. That made it the supreme challenge. So the mile, the 5K and the marathon. Laura set a new one-mile PR in the Temptation Challenge. Great job there. Laura Talks about the marathon and the awesome course support, no PR, but an awesome experience. Sounds like a really great weekend. Up in Detroit.
Speaker 6:Saturday the Gold Rush 5K in Dahlonega, georgia. Amber was there. Baltimore had a running festival. Again, several friends there, several distances. Tara ran the marathon in Baltimore, jack ran the half. Amanda ran the half, said she set a different kind of PR. Her PR was this is the first time she beat her husband in a race and there's a photograph of it at the finish. That's her with the big grin on her face, beating her husband. She caught him with about a half mile to go, then ran ahead at the very last minute. Kristen was there. Around the 10K.
Speaker 6:Baltimore had a challenge that they call the Baltimore Moron Moron, baltimore Moron-a-thon challenge, the Baltimore Moron-a-thon challenge. So 5K and a half. In the same day Taylor ran it. It says it was hilly. Let's see here. It says it was hilly. The race merged with the marathon at mile 16. The start line marathon participants were going by. That was cool. I had a chance to meet up with a college friend on the course Hotel she stayed at gave her a late checkout so she had enough time to go back shower before driving the two miles home. State number eight Taylor's trying to do all 50 states half marathons. Christina was there, did it and a lot of folks are doing this too. Taking long races now and using them as catered training runs Did this for dopey training. Great weather Got to see some folks dressed up in costume outside of a Disney race.
Speaker 2:I was following along with Taylor's journey this weekend and I got to say that it's pretty impressive to be able to do a 5K and then turn around and have to run a half. I did that one time where I went from a 5K then like a half an hour later doing a 10K and that really kicked my butt. So the fact that it's a 5K and a half, that's really impressive. So congratulations, taylor, and everyone else who completed that very, uh, that very special challenge.
Speaker 6:I can't remember. I think we may have some of those 5Ks, 10ks further down in the report here. I know over in Gasparilla there's four races in two days and there is a way for you to do all four. I'll never do it. Let's go to Kansas City, the Kansas City half marathon. Sarah decided the night before that since she had 17 miles in her training plan, might as well sign up for the half as a catered training run. Great weather, it was hilly. She got a PR anyway. Kansas City fashion pulled pork sandwich at the finish.
Speaker 6:Little Rock, arkansas, the Creep and Crawl Half Marathon. Shelby Allison had 17 miles on her dopey training schedule so she did four miles before the half marathon. A little warm in the late afternoon, high 70s, but got chilly when the sun went down Late afternoon. Start on this one. Kept up her pace till mile nine. Started feeling a little sick. Finished two miles in the dark. Still finished strong, got a glow-in-the-dark sweater at a PR Way to go. Sa In Fort Smith, arkansas, the Survivors Challenge 5K Joe was there.
Speaker 6:Joe finished second in his age group. His friends the other two of the three amigos ran a different distance at that race. In Townsend, tennessee, nikki did the very scary 5k. Of course went through a spooky tunnel and uphill for mile two. A lot of fun, great to get in the Halloween spirit. She said a decade PR time. We give credit for decade PRs. Nikki. Good job In the Pocono Mountains the Pocono Mountains Marathon Race Festival.
Speaker 6:Actually, in Greentown, pennsylvania, jenny was there for the half marathon. In Solomons, maryland, the Calvert Health Breast Cancer 5K. Family Run. Carrie, joseph, joyce, andrew did it. I forget who put the report in, but whoever did got a PR. So here's a PR bill for you. I think it's Carrie, I'm not sure. Special event because it's a worthy cause and because it was the first race that Catherine and she did in 2019 that got them running together. Should have taken better notes. That one actually popped up at the last minute, so I have a little bit of an alibi on that one. In Boston College up in Boston, massachusetts, the Wells Crowther Red Bandana 5K. Megan did this one. It was a special one for Megan. It's a virtual. We don't usually talk about virtual virtuals, but this was a big deal for megan, so good job, megan. Waterbury, connecticut. The saint vincent de paul 5k. Sue 61st birthday. Beautiful weather for town number 167 two to go for sue.
Speaker 4:That'll be done by what next week heck.
Speaker 6:She might be done now. I don't know. She's done two in a weekend before. I'm sure she has a plan For that last one. You know that's a lot special one. I'm sure she has a plan. That's really cool.
Speaker 6:Hartford, connecticut, the Hartford Marathon. Monica ran her first marathon. Well, that's a PR. This one was important to her because it was on her deceased uncle's birthday and in her home state. Beautiful course run through Hartford. The first half had some foot issues. Then came to the part that closes the course after five hours, kept moving on the sidewalk and finished anyway. They kept the finishing arches. I think that's great. They kept the finishing arches up for her Family was there to greet her. Some of the volunteers stayed, so they did a good job on the course for this one. Our cousin also got to walk her across the finish line and one of the race directors was there to give Monica the medal. So, monica, that's good. Congrats on finishing your first marathon and I'm glad to hear that the race organizers held it open for you. That's cool.
Speaker 6:Robbie was in Conway, south Carolina, for the Halloween Hustle. It's a challenge a 10K, a 5K and a one mile all three back to back. Binghamton, new York. Steve and Brenda did the Booze B-O-O-S. It's Halloween, you know Booze and Brews 5K Brenda in her lobster costume. Grandson Nathan was there as Sonic Part trail, part road, with scare actors in the woods. They had kind of cool foggy air which was really perfect for a Halloween Wait scare actors in the woods.
Speaker 6:That's what they're telling me.
Speaker 8:That sounds like everybody probably got a PR.
Speaker 6:Because they were terrified. Go running faster, huh yeah. Great day, great time, a very happy grandson with his medal. In ermo, south carolina, laurie did the pumpkin runs 5k, chilly 45 degrees to start. We're starting to see those temperatures in some parts of the country. Uh, cooler temps and training paid off with a PR. Summer training equals fall PR. Great time Ran it with her daughter, Hannah. Great job In Cornwall. Over in the UK, the runway run around in. Oh Anna, I'm going to butcher this Perenporth in Cornwall. I'm sorry, my friend, I hope I didn't make it too bad.
Speaker 6:Anyway, anna had a lot of fun in this one. It was sunny. The description said fancy dress. To us on this side of the pond that would be costumes. So she read that as mandatory Went with her friend Kate dressed as witches for the run, even though with the wind keeping the hat on was hard. It turned out to be the only ones dressed up, but they had a blast. Good job, anna.
Speaker 6:At the villages in florida, theages running of the squares 5K. Carrie did her slowest 5K. That's cool. She's recovering from an ankle injury Just a week and a half ago. Decided to do it very easy, smart move, and she thinks it was the smartest thing too. All she wanted to do was stay ahead of the balloon lady pace, which she did. Good job, carrie. In St Augustine, florida, the Jailbreak 5K Joy, no PR, but that's okay. Fun and the medal was pretty darn cool. And I saw the costumes in that one. They look pretty neat too. The Clinton, tennessee 5K Jimmy did this one after being sick all week, had one of those weeks that at least ended better than it started. That's good. Jimmy Didn't really want to run, hasn't really been wanting to run, but hopefully that will change. I have no doubt that it will. Last one I have here on Saturday Kim and I didn't see a report from Kim. I really was hoping that I would. She did the Champions of Hope 10K in Dothan, alabama.
Speaker 8:A special event to me because that's the very first run I did back in 2015 when I got back into running as an adult. I have a race report from Brookline, new Hampshire. On Saturday I crewed for the Ghost Train Ultra Marathon 30-hour race that Jen and Molly both ran. The weather was gorgeous this weekend, if not a little bit cold overnight, but no rain. The leaves were in peak foliage at the time and it was just a wonderful race. I got to see Rob Fiero, who's the race director. We had him on a few episodes about a year ago and he put on an excellent race again.
Speaker 8:Everyone was in great spirits, but I was on the other side of it this time. So I got to see everybody running and achieving these amazing goals. I saw a few people run across the finish line and do their hundred miles um, you know, collapsing in tears with their families and stuff like that, and I I can't even tell you I I would go watch another ultra marathon again because it's just that amazing. And I got to put on my stilts and my pumpkin head costume and kind of cheer people on and make people smile. Maybe around mile, probably around mile, like 70 or 60, 60 to 70 miles for people. So I feel like that's important too. But everybody had really great campsites set up. We decorated ours, everybody decorated their campsites and the people cheering back at base camp were, I think, very helpful for people as well too. But it was awesome.
Speaker 8:And I got to see Kent who ran his 100 miler last year. When I ran my first ultra last year and it was weird because I was just walking up, I had just gotten some smoothies for Jen and Molly who finished 100K, and I heard somebody's voice and I said I know that voice and I turned around and it was Kent and we just kind of hung out for a little bit before he drove back to DC. So we got to meet each other, just like in this chance meeting that you know, we ran into each other and we crossed paths so it was awesome. But to everybody who finished great job and I hope you're not too sore and if you haven't done this race and you want to try an ultra, this is a really great one to run, cool.
Speaker 6:Cool. Thanks, allie, and it was good to see Kent. I mean you see a photo of Kent and see his post to the Facebook page. I haven't seen Kent for a while. I know he's been battling injury but it sounds like he's getting better.
Speaker 8:Yep, he's on the mend.
Speaker 6:That's a good thing. I appreciate it. Well, let's take a look at Sunday in Austin, texas, race 2 in the Austin Distance Challenge, the Daisy Dash 10K. Derek was there In New Hope, pennsylvania, not far from Greg. The Scarecrow Shuffle 5K. Sue and Kathleen did this one dressed as scarecrows. They looked great. So much fun. Followed it with a wine, slushie and nice day walking around Peddler's Village In the UK.
Speaker 6:In Portsmouth, the Great South Run. I think this is kind of the sister run to the Great Northern Run which was a couple weeks ago. Sadly, harry and that's H-A-R-R-I was scheduled for this. It was canceled due to bad weather but a lot of people went out and ran it anyway in the streets of Portsmouth. It was fun to see that. Sorry, the race got canceled, though that's too bad.
Speaker 6:In Durham, north Carolina, the Bull City Race Fest Half Marathon Courtney and Andrea. Courtney says part of her 17-mile doping training great running weather Course goes through downtown Durham, a lot of beautiful but hilly neighborhoods. Highlight for her was the crepes each runner got after the race. Andrea says she jeffed her way through the Bull City half for a PR Faster than her last and only other of more than 10 years ago. Good job Andrea. Good job, courtney. Nice job on the Bull City half marathon In California, the Cloverdale Vineyard races.
Speaker 6:Abel hadn't been feeling well during the week but he had 20 on his schedule for dopey training so he parked three miles from the start line. The race started. He realized this one was going to be a little hilly, kept his cool, kept moving forward. That's the way to do it. One of the most scenic courses he's been on, but the hills started to take their toll. He's going to do this one again. One other aspect he wanted to talk about of the weekend was the Jeff Galloway masterclass they had at Packet Pickup. Jeff was there, spent a couple of hours with a small group, talking, running, answering questions. Abel even got a signed book from Mr Galloway.
Speaker 6:In Des Moines, iowa, the IMT Des Moines half marathon, matthew. I saw Matthew who was doing his first half marathon, so this is a PR. I saw his ready to go photo, but I didn't see a finish report. So, matthew, I'm assuming you finished. We already gave you the bell. So it you know it's gotta be to be. Sarah was there. This was part of the Des Moines Marathon weekend Super fun, lucky to have beautiful weather, her first in-person race and her fastest time yet. We call that a PR. In Ljubljana, in Slovenia. The Ljubljana half marathon Emma, first time in Slovenia. That's cool, well-organized and well-supported run on the first half of a marathon course. Despite not really the best training over the last month, she actually felt strong during the race 240 flat for her. Chip time is her second fastest half ever.
Speaker 8:Is this our first race report from Slovenia?
Speaker 6:It's got to be.
Speaker 8:Can we get a PR bell for?
Speaker 6:ourselves. It's got to be.
Speaker 10:Checking off another.
Speaker 6:That's so fun my I'm proud of myself for knowing how to say ljubljana, that's, that's actually. That's actually the capital of slovenia.
Speaker 8:So it's not that I should know it you've been practicing a lot for the slovenia um for the first ever slovenia yes, I have, and finally I got to use it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 6:That's good. We're going to Georgia, not the Georgia that isn't far from Slovenia, the Georgia that isn't far from me, peachtree City in Georgia. The Peachtree City Classic 15K AJ was there. This is a town. If I'm not mistaken, peachtree City was more or less built by Delta for their pilots. It's a little bit south of Atlanta. They got over 100 miles of paved golf cart paths there, so the race took advantage of those. That's kind of cool. A couple of hills. It's a hilly area. There's a hill at the end of the course of the finish line. That's the most brutal. That's always the way, aj, great race though definitely worth doing.
Speaker 10:In Chattanooga, tennessee, the Seven Bridges Marathon weekend was happening. Anita did the half marathon, which goes over four of those bridges. She said this one was a little bit difficult with all the ups and downs of the bridges and unfortunately there was a lot of potholes and a lot of people that were getting injured along the course because things weren't marked very well. She said she had a good time but the race directors need to spend a little bit more time on some of the logistical side of things. But the biggest thing about this race was she missed her PR by a very tiny amount, but she cut 24 minutes off of her time from last year, so great job.
Speaker 6:Way to go. Yeah, yeah that's. I mean that's a lot of time in a half that's a lot of time in a marathon for crying out loud a minute and a mile, but in a half it's obviously close to two minutes a mile.
Speaker 10:Yeah, I'm very proud.
Speaker 6:Yeah, good job, anita. Let's head out to Riversideia for the mission in run 10k. Kayla did this one nice weather out in california 10k course ran through parks and residential areas. She brought the pixie dust with her tinkerbell costume and disney music. Respect kayla way to go near the end fatigue set in and has a way of doing that at the end of races, but the cheers from the spectators and the playlist revolved her spirits and she finished strong, nicely done.
Speaker 6:In Columbus, ohio, the nationwide children's hospital half marathon. Brandy start was chilly but they had throw throw away items. Don't don't wear your mile. Are across the start line, brandy. Every mile had a child champion who's undergoing or is undergoing treatment at the hospital. They and their families on the course were there to encourage the runners, which they did. Mile 11 is the Angel Mile in remembrance. There were some families there with their loved one. A bit emotional, I can imagine that it was After the race. Brandy did this one with Emmy. Brandy and Emmy had to do extra miles for their dopey training. The perfect incentive. There was a donut shop three miles from the finish, so they ran there. I like it. Emmy finished that three miles earlier. She picked up the donuts. Carol was there. This was Carol's first half in well over a year. When the pain hit around mile nine, the inspiration from the kids being out there took over and helped her get to the end of this half, to the end of this half.
Speaker 2:And speaking of the uh, the, the race in Columbus, uh, I also want to give a shout out to my friend, steph, who ran the marathon portion of this race. Not only did she get an PR of over 11 minutes, but she has been trying to get a sub four hour marathon for 11 years and she finally got it, and she came in at just over 355. So, steph, congratulations, I am so proud of you and I can't wait to see you during marathon weekend in Orlando, florida, the you can finish five-mile and two-mile race race.
Speaker 6:Three of six in this season's Track Shack Fanatic Series Bunch of folks there. Tracy was sleep-deprived because she had been to a local wedding until 4.30 in the morning. She's going to keep it steady. Wanted to keep going after the finish line to make it a 10K. She has some Garmin badge she needs to acquire. Wanted to try not doing walk breaks to push her endurance a bit and did just that Consistent miles achieved. Good for you.
Speaker 6:Jared was there. Jared is a UCF alum, which is where this race took place, university of Central Florida, so it's one of his favorite races. Had an amazing pace even in the 10-minute range. That's great, jared. Both races for both the 5 and the 2-miler, proud of himself and of course it's always better with friends. Fall arrived in Central Florida. Yeah, jared, it's gone again. It came for a day or two. That's nice.
Speaker 6:Uh, patrick signed up about as late as he could for this event on a whim. Was going to be on campus anyway. Glad he did. Beautiful morning, uh, first solar run in a while which gave him a chance to open up. Did better than he thought he would. Decided his run goal was a sub-55 pace, finished with a chip time of 52.36, beating his best five-mile time by four minutes. Of course that's a PR. Tabitha and Esther were there. Tabitha beat her two-mile pace by two minutes, so that's a PR. When she crossed the start for the five miles she was one of the last ones to cross. It saw a lady walking and they started talking. It was that lady's first ever race so they decided to walk the course together and five miles is a lot for a first race so it was fun doing that. Appreciative of the company. Very nice.
Speaker 6:Move on to naperville, illinois, the naperville half marathon. Vicky, 10-year anniversary, great conditions, temps in the 40s and 50s. Finished with a very respectable time of an hour 34 minutes, not a PR, but a four-minute improvement from her half marathon last month. Also good enough to place 77th out of 1,300 runners, 11th female overall and an age group third place finish for Vicky Very good and an age group third place finish for Vicki, very good.
Speaker 6:In the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, marathon number four for our friend Laura, first one in the Netherlands and first one for charity. Weather was windy and humid so with the humid conditions, let go of her time goal, hoping to run pain-free as long as possible. She was able to do that and enjoy it. Finished in just a tiny bit over five hours. That's a good pace, laura. Now it's time to focus on the dopey challenge, because if it was easy they'd call it the happy challenge, right, laura? That's one of my favorite Laura quotes. This race gave Laura confidence she can do it again, which I know she can.
Speaker 6:In Stowe, vermont, the Hetty Trotter four miler at the Alchemist in Stowe, andy was there. In Dawson Lake, illinois, the Damn Sight Half Marathon. Not Stephanie's best half, but it's a new decade PR because she just turned 40 last month. So that's great, that's a PR. She is ready for the Wine and Dine Challenge Back in Atlanta, the Atlanta 10 miler, dorothy.
Speaker 6:Dorothy had a little trouble parking so she ended up in the back of the corral. Got to the back of the last corral four minutes before the wave was released, felt okay through mile four, but by five the hills and foot pain got to her. Just physically tired, muddled through in a balloon. Lady Legal 238, which she calls a win. I do too, dorothy. Good job.
Speaker 6:Caitlin was at this race, as were Patrick and Elizabeth had a blast. Course was congested starting out, thinned out once they got into the hills, which apparently three quarters of this race was uphill, which is interesting because it's a loop, but somehow three quarters of it was uphill. That could be. Could be that could be. That would be one pretty steep downhill at some point. Anyway, got to run through some cool parts of Atlanta, including Piedmont Park. Even with the hills, it was a fun event. In Winter Garden, florida, the Bears who Care October Fest 5k run fun run. Kayla and Mary were there. Mary says it was a beautiful morning for running. They had gummy bears for fuel at the water station and Bavarian no wait a minute, bavarian, there's no bear in there. Bavarian pretzels at the finish line instead of bananas. New decade PR for Mary. Way to go, mary.
Speaker 2:Paul, would you say that this race had all the bare necessities?
Speaker 6:Oh, it was unbearable, greg, absolutely unbearable. In Long Island, new York, the Suffolk County Marathon Weekend. Dinah Dina not Dinah Dina Dina ran the half. Signed up for this last year as a catered training run for Dopey but got injured couldn't do it. So he's been waiting for a year to run it. Well worth the wait. Weather was perfect, views from the bridge were spectacular and an extra year of training under her belt and the perfect weather made for an amazing race and a 15-minute PR and a half.
Speaker 6:Lexi ran the 10K Sub 60 10K. That's a PR and quite an achievement. A sub 60 10K is quite a milestone, lexi. Good job, a lot of temps, a hot, sweaty summer of training led to a fall PR. Happy to finally achieve this. We're glad for you, lexi. Way to go. The Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, hitchcock, chad. The Chad Hero 2024 running the 5K in Hanover, new Hampshire. Lori was there, mid-30s and foggy at start. The Dartmouth. A cappella group sang before the race and a presentation of the families and kids who have benefited from the life-saving services from the hospital was shown. Great motivation there. Kids and families stepped on stage, counted them down as they left the college, misty-eyed moments for all. Lori's goal was a PR. She got it by improving by a minute and 28 seconds.
Speaker 8:Bing bong kid.
Speaker 6:Still in New England the Concord New Hampshire Delta Dental New England Half Marathon. Avery and Kate ran this one. Kate says 4.30 wake up, made it to Concord and got on the first bus. This sounds familiar.
Speaker 8:Yep, I've done it.
Speaker 6:Yeah, and in first bus fashion, it got lost on the way to the start. No, yeah, kate ran this one tank top and shorts in 30 degree temps.
Speaker 8:It probably warmed up pretty quick, though, cause it's it was just gorgeous weather this weekend.
Speaker 6:Well, she had a Mylar and some throwaway layers. Always dispose of your Mylar before crossing the start line, which she did Gnarly hills about towards the end of the course here. Let's see here About a mile of running on trail, which wasn't expected. I think I messed up her gait. She says a little bit Thankful. She pushed the pace to that point because she was able to watch her footing on this one.
Speaker 8:pull it together in the last few miles and finish this half in an hour 42, good enough for an age group win so the funny thing about that race is it used to be mostly on dirt roads and then a little bit of road race and now it's mostly road race with like a little bit of trail in it, but it's still net downhill, Cause it comes from Contuca, New Hampshire, and then goes down to Concord. So it I was going to say it seems like she'd probably get a good time in there, and you did.
Speaker 6:That's a good time. What I said?
Speaker 8:an hour 40, hour 42.
Speaker 6:Yeah, and you did. That's a good time. What did I say? An hour 42. Yep, yeah, Good one, Kate. Let's wrap this thing up in St Louis, Missouri, the Go St Louis Halloween 10K Chris very first race 12 years ago. Is this one that Chris did? He's still wearing the same shirt. I think he's changed it in the interim, but he's got his shirt from 12 years ago. This one was meaningful to Chris. It's the last time probably that he'll race in St Louis as he is moving to Vegas next week. And there we have it, friends. The race report for episode 161.
Speaker 4:Also, guys, while you guys are all down in uh disney world for the wine and dine weekend, our friend doug and our friends at the will went for podcast are setting a new york city marathon meetup in bryant park on saturday, november 2nd, between 2.30 and 4.30. And Doug said he will be bringing cookies.
Speaker 6:That's nice. I think that's great. Doug made an event on the Facebook page, so it's there. The information is there and I think that's fantastic. I hope you all have a wonderful time. I hear, and have always heard, nothing but great, great things about the New York City Marathon. All right, my friends.
Speaker 6:That brings episode 161 of the Rise and Run podcast to a close. There is no Zoom meeting this week. The next one is scheduled for next week, but guess what? We're going to be at Disney World next week, so we'll push it one week away so we can all talk about the Wine and Dine weekend.
Speaker 6:When we get back together here in a couple of weeks, my friends and if you run, you know you are our friend we cannot wait to see you. A quick reminder we'll see you at the Expo, we'll see you before the races, we'll see you at our formal meetup and we'll be looking for you at the after party. And if that's not enough and you just happen to see us walking around, please say hi. All right, please say hi, alright. It's taper time for you folks who are wine and dine. Only those of us running in January have some more big miles to do, but right now it's time to relax and enjoy the victory lap that is running at Disney World. Hope you have a good time. Look forward to seeing you. Until then, happy running.
Speaker 2:The Rise and Run podcast discusses general information about Run Disney and is in no way affiliated with Run Disney or the Walt Disney Company. Any information or advice discussed on this podcast should not be considered medical advice and should always consult with your health care provider or event organizer.
