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166: Rise and Run Rewind: A Conversation With Taryn Terrell
The title may read “Rewind” but most of this week’s episode includes fresh material. Starting with our introduction from Mara, who is out training with Rise and Run’s latest #dopeybaby, and rolling right through to the Race Report, featuring Greg’s recap of the Philadelphia Marathon episode 166 kicks off your Thanksgiving Weekend and, perhaps, your long challenge training run.
This is truly the hard part of your marathon training regime. We hope we can help with our treasure trove of tips, including the benefits of slower, comfortable long runs and the importance of being present during your runs and ensuring proper nutrition and recovery.
We’re happy to celebrate Thanksgiving with a heartfelt rewind with our friend Taryn who shares stories of running, wrestling, and Hollywood stunt work!
Greg shines in his spotlight on the Philly Marathon (a PR no less!).
This episode is a celebration of dedication, community, and the joy of running, reminding us that while training can be challenging, the race weekend is where all the hard work truly shines.
Happy Thanksgiving, Rise and Run family.
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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:What's up, Rise and Run crew, I'm Mara from Wellington Florida.
Speaker 5:I am currently 13 weeks pregnant and I just finished a 15-mile training run for Dopey.
Speaker 6:Me and my Dopey baby are so excited to see everyone in January.
Speaker 7:Happy running All right. Another hashtag Dopey baby on the way, mara. Thanks for that. Good luck. 15 miles 13 weeks pregnant that's impressive young lady. That's cool. Thank you for the intro. Hello, my friends, welcome to episode 166 of the Rise and Run podcast. We're so happy that you joined us again. This week I'm Bob and this week I'm here with Greg.
Speaker 2:Waka, waka waka.
Speaker 7:Oh, greg. Greg will explain in a minute, lexi.
Speaker 9:Hello.
Speaker 7:John, hey, how you doing Not so good, john. Greg's bringing everybody down. I'm trying to bring us back up, all right, well, here you go. This will bring us back up. And Alicia, hello, there you go. See, I can always count on Alicia to be positive and bring us back up. That's cool Friends this week. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Speaker 2:Yes, happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7:Hope you're having a wonderful time with family. We know historically that Thanksgiving is a low download time for us, so we're cheating. We're doing a rewind for part of the episode, our primary interview. We're going to revisit our friend Taryn. We haven't played that interview in quite a while and it's fun, so we hope you enjoy that. And on our spotlight tonight. A little bit different again, we're going to let our friend Greg tell us about the Philly Marathon. I'm excited to hear that. I haven't even talked with Greg about that yet, so looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2:yes, yes, I am down at the dumps, um, but I think this is a perfect uh opportunity for you to um to book your next trip, uh to walt disney world with magic bound, because, um, the the greatest attraction known to man that has ever been on premise at walt disney world, and and that is muppet vision 3d, uh is is officially going away at some point, I guess it's moving right along, Greg.
Speaker 2:It is moving right along. So if you're interested in booking any Disney trip or cruise or other destination, be sure to chat with our friends over at Magic Bound and their website, magicboundtravelcom.
Speaker 7:Check it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, check it out, and be sure to check out Muppet Vision 3D, since Disney is doing me really, really, really dirty.
Speaker 7:Yeah, all right, in the apology and alibis section haven't done one for a while and this is a tie in here. When we chatted with Pamela last week from Fluffy Fizzneys, she talked about her new venture, entrepreneurship at sea, entrepreneurship at Sea. What she wanted me to tell you, friends, is that she has partnered with the folks at Magic Bound Travel for that Entrepreneurship at Sea adventure on which she is embarking. So there you go, pam. I said it straight for you. I set it straight for you, friends. Let's look at the training schedule. We are now six weeks away from marathon weekend. Six weeks from today, we will be running the 5K Training, week 22. This is the first of the two big dopey or goofy simulations. We'll talk about the dopey simulation. It has three runs on it. The simulation does Now you've got your regular training, but you've also got a 4, a 10, and a 23-mile training event this weekend. Let's take a look at the rest of the schedule and come back to that. Okay, cause I want to talk about, or we want to talk about, the big simulation For Disneyland half marathon weekend. We are now nine weeks away. We're in training week nine and where you had a relatively long training weekend last week. This weekend is three miles Princess training. Princess Weekend is now 12 weeks away. This is training week six and the long run is six and a half miles.
Speaker 7:Another event worth looking at, worth noting Disneyland Halloween race. Registration is Tuesday, five days from the day of release. There is a group chat for the 2025 Disneyland Halloween race If you want to join us in the chat group during registration. We've done a good job of helping one another get ready and get registered for that. I don't know, I'm not expecting a difficult time registering for that one, but we'll just have to wait and see. We never know. All right, let's come back to the long training weekend for Marathon and gang. We got 4, 10, and 23 on the schedule. Any thoughts we want to share with friends who are doing this perhaps for the first time?
Speaker 2:There's two things that come to mind for me, and I think one is a given because we talk about it all the time regardless of what the mileage is when it comes to the long run, and that is you can't go too slow. I mean sure, if you decide to take it slower, which, again is completely acceptable and totally fine and, frankly, a good strategy yes, it could feel like you're slogging it out there for a really, really long time, but no, but I think always keep in the back of your mind that while, yes, it is taking longer, I think it will benefit you in the long run. So definitely do not lose sight of that. And then the second thing I'll say is for the specific portions that just say walk. You know, we've heard. You know, we've heard Jeff talk about this, we've heard Coach Twiggs talk about this, we've talked about this, you know, amongst ourselves, on the podcast as well is you know, when it says walk four, walk 10, do I have to walk, walk 10, do I have to walk? And obviously we probably encourage you to do so so that you are saving yourself for that long run at the end of the simulation. And obviously you do you.
Speaker 2:But if I could give one recommendation I know we've talked about this phrase several times on the podcast and that is the concept of gwinning, and because what we've learned about gwinning is that technically, that is a walking exercise to help speed up your walk a little bit. So the traditional ratio there is a light jog, you know, light run for 30 seconds and then you walk for two minutes. So if you just feel like you're out there forever in a day, definitely, uh, definitely, try, you know, give that shot. Maybe that's something you maybe want to try on the four miler as opposed to the 10 miler, possibly, um, but again, it's just an idea. And then the last thing I'll say before I'll let our resident run coach on the podcast speak here. Use for run, walking are going to be different and you're going to feel it in different areas, so just be prepared for that and make sure that you are recovering properly between each and every single day.
Speaker 9:Alicia. I'll want to remind people that this is the hardest part. Training is truly the hardest part Once we get to the actual race weekend.
Speaker 9:That's when you win. That's when you get to experience all of the effort that you've put in. So take some time while you're doing these miles, these mock weekends, to really enjoy the experience. Even if you have some things that don't go quite right, that's going to teach you a lesson in what you need to do on the next simulation. I also encourage people to maybe on those walks, if you're going to walk them, take off those headphones and really pay attention to nature. If you have a chance to go outside, off those headphones and really pay attention to nature if you have a chance to go outside.
Speaker 9:I know that when I've done dopey in the past, I got to experience a lot of animals and different things that I hadn't noticed previously. So that was a really cool experience to just really be in in it with my miles and experiencing every step. But as for the actual running aspect of it, I just want to remind people that this is a mock simulation for whatever race you're going to do for that weekend, and don't forget about recovery and things between the days. You want to make sure that you're giving yourself some protein, taking that time to recover, getting good sleep in between the days, because it's going to make sure that you're going to get the best experience for the next day when you have to do four miles again and again.
Speaker 7:I just wrote that down. Great minds think alike, Bob I wrote the word nutrition, I was thinking in a different aspect. Yeah, same idea. I was thinking here is a time for you to pay attention to what you eat before your races and think about it a couple days ahead of time. Carbs to prepare protein to recover. I just recently did my 4-10-23. I can't remember. It was two weeks ago, I guess, or were we at wine and dine two weeks?
Speaker 7:I don't remember, but I did them. But I do. Now. Look, I've said this before. Not everybody's going to walk the 4 and the 10. I did, I walk. I've said this before. Not everybody's going to walk the four and the 10. I did, I walk at a decent pace.
Speaker 7:The 23, just like Alicia said, this is the hardest part. We say that all the time. Okay, this is the hardest part. If you're fortunate and you have a running partner, a training partner, it's a little bit easier. But a lot of us are doing it on our own and this isn't fun. The end result running at Disney. That's fun. This part's not fun. So the miles are very important. Run easy because the training continues. You'll do 410-23 and then Tuesday you're back out training again. So that's another reason, as Greg talked about, you don't want to go too hard During your long one. It's going to be run-walk, but if you find that you need to walk a mile, heck, I'll tell you a lot of times. I'll go out, I'll run, walk a mile and then walk a mile and then run, walk a mile, and I'll alternate. I'm out to finish when we get to Disney World. My objective is to finish upright with a smile on my face and enjoy it, and I train that way. So it's an important one.
Speaker 2:it's a hard one, but you can do it one resource that I definitely recommend for people, you know, because I mean, you know, this is why we talk about it. We don't want to sugarcoat this, you like. You know the the Run Disney tagline is you know, every mile is magic. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Most of the time it's magical when you're at Disney World, but when you're doing it by yourself and whatever town that you live in, sometimes it might not be as magical and you know, we can hit those physical and mental walls, those physical and mental walls.
Speaker 2:And if that happens for any reason whatsoever, the resource I recommend that you check out is our training chat thread on the Facebook group because, I know that has been really helpful for people that if you are struggling again on the emotional or the physical front, just jot a note in there and I guarantee you there will be someone in that chat who is going to be able to there to encourage you, whether that's one of us or it's, you know, another one of our awesome, you know, rise and run family members we're going to. We're all here to support one another to get you through these simulations.
Speaker 7:Great, yeah, you reminded me of something, greg. I didn't mean to interrupt you, I'm sorry, but it goes on with what you're talking about. I did that. There's a great trail that's about three miles from here and I had. I was doing part of my 23 miles on the trail and I got to a bench and I sat down and I thought, oh heck, I'm just going to call Becky and have her come get me. I've got 20 in, what the heck? And I got on the training update thing and said, okay, I've finished 20, three to go. I didn't tell people I was thinking about it, I was, I hadn't quit, I was thinking about it. And then all of a sudden I get all this you can do it, bob. Go. You almost there, bob, and I go oh crap, now I got to do it, I can't, I can't wimp out now, I've already committed. So thanks a lot, friends. I appreciate it, but I finished and it was good. But it is a good resource.
Speaker 8:Something else. If you don't have a good weekend and in your simulation don't worry about it, you have another one coming up in a few weeks. Uh, just as long as you get out there and give it your best shot, that's all that matters. I mean, it's a rough week anyway. You got Thanksgiving on Thursday. You're probably eating all those leftovers on Friday. Oh, yeah. So you might not be at 100%, where you would be on a normal training week. Percent, where you would be on a normal training week.
Speaker 5:So just if you don't do well, don't think all hope is lost. And you know, truthfully, this is a practice run. This means that you're there to learn. You know there may be some things that you try that you're like, oh I don't need to do that on race day. So you've got to give yourself the grace to learn those things and to practice it. And then you have another chance to try it again in a few weeks and then you have another chance to try it again whenever you're doing the race. So you know this is the time to. You know, maybe your nutrition doesn't work. It is not the end of the world. It does not mean that you're not going to finish dopey. This is a practice run.
Speaker 7:Yeah, this is the penultimate long training weekend. What do you think guys? Pretty good, huh.
Speaker 2:That was very good. That was very good, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7:I think we are three weeks away. Typically, you got three weeks till the last one, and the last one will include, at least on the schedule, it'll include a 26 mile run, and when we get there we can debate whether you need to do 26 or not, but we'll hold that for when we get there. All right, hey, look, get out there, do the best you can. If we can help, like Greg said, reach out and we'll do it. I actually have a half marathon on Sunday, so I'll be looking to see if anybody's out there.
Speaker 4:Friends, let's visit with our guest for this week's episode, so I am extremely hyped for our next guest. Here we have Taryn, who is a retired professional wrestler with a career with WWE, impact Wrestling and NWA. She was the TNA Knockouts champion, with having a reign that lasted 279 days, which actually became the longest reign in the title's history, until 2019. But you know, if that didn't impress you already, she is also a stunt woman which I'm super like, in awe of, with some of her highlights in TV and movies, like Now you See Me, jurassic World, and even most recently, she stunt doubled as Catherine Zeta-Jones in the new National Treasure Show on Disney+. Again, she's a trick-or-treating. She's not only a stuntwoman, but she's also an actress, which is super cool.
Speaker 4:And now you are a Run Disney addict like us. Welcome to the family, my friend. Thank God I found it. So we are really super excited for you to be here and we are just so excited to also hear your story. So, first off, welcome to the Rise and Run podcast. Thank you, I'm so excited to be here and we are just so excited to also hear your story. So, first off, welcome to the Rise and Run podcast.
Speaker 6:Thank you, I'm so excited to be here First off, if it's okay.
Speaker 4:Can you tell us your story and how you became a pro wrestler?
Speaker 6:Oh my gosh. Okay, so we should remind about 20 years where I was much, much younger and I got out of high school. I was a power lifter in high school and a cheerleader, and then I cheered in college and then I was like I think a lot of people can probably relate to this, because when you are a high school athlete, a college athlete, and then you're done with that, it's almost a mourning process where you're like, oh my gosh, like this was my whole life and it was something athletic. What do I do with that? Like it's just gone.
Speaker 6:So at the time I kind of was like going through that process and I also really was always intrigued by the entertainment industry and so I sort of had it in my brain that like I was going to somehow get there. I didn't know how, but somehow I was going to get there. So I started modeling, just doing like convention modeling, like working as like trying to sell oil rigs and all kinds of like crazy stuff. That I was like, hey, would you be interested in buying this new plastic that you know, like that type of conventions? And then I, like that kind of evolved and I started working in LA a little bit to like bigger modeling jobs.
Speaker 6:And then I was doing an appearance in Las Vegas and WWE happened to be casting at the same hotel that I was doing a modeling, and so I had a friend who was like super humongous wrestling fan and he was like dude, you got to go, you got to go. Ok, I had no voice at the time, like completely hoarse, and I went and then I ended up booking their like reality show that they were doing at the time and I made it all the way till fourth place. So that kind of was my journey into wrestling.
Speaker 1:Cool.
Speaker 6:Oh, wow.
Speaker 4:That is so cool. And then so going from wrestling into stunt work. How did that transition go into?
Speaker 6:it. So when I used to work at WWE, we always had a stunt coordinator on staff. His name was Ellis Edwards and he was like he was just great and he had all of this information. I used to sit back in like the production lounge and just sort of like pick his brain about it, because it's something I was always interested in. And, like I said, I mean I knew I was at WWE and that was like really cool job and I loved it.
Speaker 6:But then I was like, hmm, what could be better than this? Stunts, why not stunts? And I mean essentially like we're literally just we're doing fights all day, every day. So I'm like this could really transition you know well into that. And so I would ask him and I was like so when are you going to tell me about stunts?
Speaker 6:And he's like I honestly, if I tell you anything, vince McMahon was running the company at the time and he was like Vince would be so mad if I was like here's a new career. Leave, leave this career. So he's like I can't tell you anything. So when I left there, I got in touch with him right away and then he was nice enough to give me his contacts because it's a huge reputation and like, um, you know who, you know type of business. And so he got me in touch with a couple of stunt coordinators and I was like, okay, this is it, I'm gonna make it. And they were like, yeah, sorry, you don't have your sag card, which is the screen actress right and you can only get it if you work, and you can only work if you have it.
Speaker 7:That's yeah, catch 22.
Speaker 4:It's so hard because I know Atlanta is not necessarily like that, Cause I know LA is completely different. You can get your SAG card. I believe you have to work three background gigs or something like that, or or anything of like lines or whatever. I know. In Atlanta it's, it's optionable, but after a certain point I think you are required to get it.
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's exactly right. You are right to work state and so you can, you can work. But I think, yeah, I think there's like a cutoff to where it's like, okay, if you're continuing to work in this career, then you have to, you have to choose one or the other, and then also like just to get the benefits of the union and stuff that's. That's obviously worth it for a lot of people. So, yeah, so then I was like, well, shoot, how am I going to get my SAG card? So I ended up trying to act because I was like I don't know, no stunt coordinator would give me a job and I was like, okay, cool. So then I started going out for acting gigs and I booked one. And I booked one line on the campaign and that was it. I was like, yes, I'm in. And then I was able to start hustling and making my connections from there.
Speaker 7:Taryn, was there not a union associated with wrestling? No believe it or not?
Speaker 6:I know completely non-union, um, it probably would have been beneficial. I mean it does, it helps protect people. You know, I mean there's, they're not. They're not rosy and perfect, but you know it does help of course yeah nothing, yeah. So I mean, and and there was a a thing like back in the day where they tried to unionize and it got shut down immediately, so nobody ever tried to do it again. Everybody was like oh yeah, we're going to lose our jobs if we make a union, so we're done.
Speaker 4:Is there like one that you prefer over the other? The acting or stunts? Stunts, 100%, I knew it. That sounds more like fun right.
Speaker 6:Well, it's like I've always been physical, so for me, like I know how to work, like with my body and how to act with my body. But then, like when you tell me that you're going to be in my face, and okay, here's an example, I had an audition. This was the worst day of my life I was like, oh, my God, so I go and they tell me that I need to. I'm on a zoom call. He's looking at my face. He goes okay, I need that. You just look like you're in pain. First, you stub your toe. Second, you get punched in the stomach. Third, somebody drops an anvil on your head and so I start going through that. And he goes no, no, no, you're making it with your face. I don't want to see your face, I only want to see your eyes move. Show me those three reactions with just your eyes. And I was like, uh, what I?
Speaker 6:did not book that job. I got off the phone with them and I called my husband and I was like yes, so thanks for prepping with me on that. I definitely didn't book that, so that was kind of a waste of time. But here we are, yeah, so I like stunts so much more Now. I do enjoy stunt acting, which, like occasionally, I do, and that's really fun. I have an upcoming gig where I get to die, which is like kind of what I do most of the time. That's so amazing, dying Like what are you doing today? I'm going to go die on set. It's going to be great.
Speaker 6:So and that's fun, because it'll actually be me yeah, I don't know if I have any lines. It's weird because as actors you know if you have lines going in as stunts, you don't necessarily know. Oh really, you'll show up the week before and they're like oh yeah, you have this line.
Speaker 4:Oh great, I could have prepared for that, but it's fine. So, like with the stunt work, is it more word of mouth, or are you working through an agency, because I know you said stunt actor as well, so I know in that respect you might have an agent that will get you along the lines with that. Or is it just literally word of mouth?
Speaker 6:Word of mouth.
Speaker 6:It's literally just it's really hard. And, jack, I saw that I was listening to an episode recently and you were talking about stunts, um, and I was like, oh, shoot, but um, I, yeah, I, I. It's so hard because there is no agency for acting. You can sign up and then fit this mold and every or you fit this character and they submit you to those characters. For this. It's just like you have to hustle and send your resume, out your headshot to stunt coordinators, know what's going on, what's filming, and just make friends and that is. That is the industry.
Speaker 3:I have a friend who's a stunt woman and she only specifically does stunts on roller skates.
Speaker 2:And that's her like niche yeah. So she was in.
Speaker 4:she was in the birds of prey movie with like um, oh marco robbie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so she did. She stunted, marco robbie yeah oh, that's so cool.
Speaker 6:Did she, didn't a motorcycle pull?
Speaker 3:there were two um roller roller skating stunt people and I don't think she ended up being the one that did that, but she did do it as, like you know, they had both of them do it, but it's really funny.
Speaker 6:The motorcycle's gonna pull you in roller skates.
Speaker 2:Let's see what happens what could go wrong right nothing, it's fine well, actually that was a question that I was going to ask because you know, obviously you said you're really good at dying, but you know what other types of you know physical stunts do you have to do like? You know, really the closest thing that I can think of to stunts in my life that make a Disney connection here is when we all go to see the Indiana Jones epic stunt spectacular. You know, that's what you know, my definition of stunts are. So like, what physical types of things do you do outside of dying each time you're on set?
Speaker 6:um, well, okay, okay. So, for example, this the past two weeks I've been filming a sword fight and I don't die. So I, since I said I don't die, I'm not going to tell you what it was, but when it comes out I'll tag you guys. So you know what?
Speaker 6:show it was so, cause that could be a spoiler alert and then the network would be really unhappy with me. So one of the other. I mean, I've been set on fire, hit by cars, fell downstairs, jumped out of. You know, four foot build. Not, I don't do anything too high, like some people go up to like a hundred feet. I'm good at four floor.
Speaker 8:I'll jump out of that.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I'll leave that to somebody who has, like, a better specialty. You know a specialty, um, and then, like there was a, there was a movie called daddy's home, where will ferrell throws a basketball and it hits a cheerleader in the head and she goes she's, you know, flat back. So that was me. So that was fun because it's like you know, I don't die but I took a basketball to the head. That's cool. And on that note, let me tell you a Disney, a Disney stunt connection which is really cool is my husband was a stunt man at a lights motors action for many.
Speaker 2:Oh cool.
Speaker 6:Yeah, so we're like when we go, every time you know we're in Star Wars. Um, we're like we go and we see the little thekarts that are lined up and I guess it says Lights Motors Action in a different language or something. I don't know the exact, but that's pretty cool. So when I met him and I saw that he was, he told me he worked for Disney and then he showed me his little cast member thing. I was like that's it, I'm in love.
Speaker 7:Awesome.
Speaker 4:So, with all these different types of skill sets are you going to? Are there certain stunt gyms you go to? And maybe and we'll get into this a little bit later do you use this sometimes as cross-training efforts for running as well, or like so? How does that all work? But yeah, how do you learn all these different kinds of skill sets, cause they all sound so amazing? First off, where did you learn how to get set on fire?
Speaker 6:Thankfully, there's a lot of amazing people in the industry and once you're in, there's a lot of people that are willing to teach you what they know. And so at the time when I first got into it, there was a stunt gym in New Orleans, you know, and there's a lot like in Atlanta, in LA, obviously. But I went there to sort of learn basic, like basic parkour. I'm never going to get a job if it's a parkour job, but there are times that maybe I'm doubling an actress, that she has a parkour move, so I need to know how to do like basics of everything. Wrestling taught me how to fall, so I need to know, how to do like basics of everything.
Speaker 6:Wrestling taught me how to fall and at the end of the day, that was that's your number one, because I will hit the ground super hard and I will hit the ground that same with that same punishment, time after time after time, and then I'll complain when I get home. So, and I think there's things like sword fights, like that is not a specialty of mine. Some people they've trained in swords their whole life, so the two or three jobs that I've had that are working swords. There's been somebody on set who teaches you the choreo, and so then you just learn it. And the other thing with wrestling is that it really teaches you how to pick up choreography super quick. So you know that's. It's really easy for me to just have somebody show me what to do and I'm like, okay, cool, and then I got it, you know.
Speaker 6:So a lot of skills are learned on set, some stuff like getting set on fire. Thankfully, you have a whole team of people who work on you. They have clothes and ice and gel and honestly, I will tell you, it feels like you're in. You're in clothes that just came out of the dryer and you're like, oh, this is nice. I feel like I'm being given a hug.
Speaker 7:That's interesting.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay. So this is wild question, but can you do like a Black Widow thing, where you climb on top of the person and then like wachaw it them to the ground?
Speaker 6:As long as they were willing to get wachawed to the ground. I will say that, like the last time I was in Disney uh, disneyland, and I was, um, I was watching the stunt people and Spider-Man and stuff I'm like you know what, when I retire, I think this is where I want to go. I'll just be black widow every day for the rest of my life. My husband goes you're going to be old and I'm like it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'll be.
Speaker 4:Lady Tremaine, and Lady Tremaine will turn into a stunt woman maybe lady tremaine and lady tremaine will turn into a stunt woman and you know who you could be is in phantasmic elizabeth swan.
Speaker 6:Oh okay, I can handle that. Yeah right, see, I've got my retirement plan. All like this is this is perfect there you go yeah these are just such fascinating stories.
Speaker 2:Now, the one thing that I want to know, with your time being on set, you know, like Jack mentioned in your intro, you know you've done stunt work for Catherine Zeta-Jones. You know, in that new series right now, when I was doing some research to prepare for this interview, I saw I think you were Christina Applegate's stunt double in Bad Moms stunt double and bad moms. When you go to do the stunt work, do you get to meet the person that you are supposed to be stunting for? Or is it one of those things where, like, okay, they call, cut their offset, and then you get ushered in and you don't get to talk to them at all?
Speaker 6:So it's, it's a mix. So, um, the day I, um the days I doubled uh, christina I was doing her driving for her, so she was on another set filming. Doubled Christina I was doing her driving for her, so she was on another set filming, and then I was doing her driving because they don't need to see that On that particular movie. I also doubled Catherine Han and we actually were working side by side because there were I would run and I would trip over. I would trip over. It's like a little chain link fence.
Speaker 6:That was you, hey, that was you, hey, that was you.
Speaker 4:I remember seeing those bloopers. I thought that was the funniest thing.
Speaker 6:Oh my, are there bloopers for it? Are there? Oh yeah, you have to see that, because they totally were. It just hung there and it just kept going back and forth. That's me. Because they wouldn't yell cut and so I would get one time I got tripped up and I was like dang it, and then another time they let me just keep running and they were never yelling cut and they're like let's see how far she's going to run.
Speaker 4:I'm going to send you that video for you.
Speaker 6:I didn't even know that existed. That's so fun. Yeah, that was a really fun day. So then they'll do like it's called a Texas switch, where I like fall out of frame but then Catherine would pop back up into frame. So you know, so we're working together on that. So, yeah, it's about it's a mix. And then, like when I doubled Catherine on National Treasure on driving days, she wasn't there. On National Treasure on driving days she wasn't there, but on fight days she was.
Speaker 2:So, in the interactions that you've had with high level celebrities, who's been like the most friendliest person that you have ever interacted with? Obviously, I'm not going to ask who's the worst, because I don't want to get you in trouble, I don't want to ruin your street cred in the biz, but who's the one that's taken you most surprise or like was the sweetest person you've ever met?
Speaker 6:I will say the majority of the time. Um, the actors are wonderful and super and a part of our job too is to take care of them, because they're our actor. We want to make sure they're safe. We make sure, provide pads for them to fall on, teach them choreography, um. So a lot of actors are really excited to do that. They're excited to have a little bit of action.
Speaker 6:I this, I was doubling an actress named Kelly Sullivan this past week and she, if any of you are familiar with the show Henry Danger, she was the mom on this show. It's a kid's show. I know it because my kids watch every single episode and I was able to, you know, teach her the choreography and she got really comfortable doing the choreography. So that's really fun because then you're, you film, you know some of the harder stuff and the falls and that sort of thing, but I also can get the actress comfortable with doing it herself. So a lot of times you know that's how that sort of scenario works. But I will say the very the most incredible is Will Ferrell, and that is because I have a story and I don't. I was a nurse, okay. So I've worked with him three times. I'll get into this. It's a crazy story. As long as we can talk about nursing and having a baby on this show, then I can tell this story.
Speaker 2:We're all inclusive here. Go for it.
Speaker 6:So I filmed the campaign with him. Then I filmed a movie called Get Hard with him and Kevin Hart.
Speaker 7:I remember yeah.
Speaker 6:Yeah, and we were filming a scene and it was in a bar, and so okay, first of all, every time I see Will, he remembers my kids, he remembers, oh nice.
Speaker 6:He's just like oh you know, don't you have a daughter and a son? He's a little younger and so I always found that to be very kind. He doesn't need to remember that. I mean, can you imagine doing all of those lines on a film? And then you also remember that the stunt girl you're working with has kids. So I always thought that was really kind. Um, and I've. So the stunt with him was um on that film was I had to come from the top of a truck and, like I splat onto the windshield while while we're driving it and they didn't hire. They did have a sun driver, but they did some of it themselves and then I get thrown off. Well, but prior to that, I'm in the bar. The set was a bar and I had just given birth five weeks ago and so all of a sudden, because there's long hours on set, I didn't have time to pump and milk starts, oh no.
Speaker 6:I was like god oh my god, what am I gonna do? So Will ends up. He like I catch his word of this happening. He shuts down the whole set and was like we're gonna take 10 or 15 minutes. Taryn, go take care of what you need to take care of.
Speaker 6:I mean literally like shut everything down and the makeup artist brought me in the back, she helped me, she brought my milk back to the makeup trailer and and we moved forward. So that was um. I just thought that that was such a kind thing to do.
Speaker 7:It is. It's a great story.
Speaker 6:Yeah, every, every minute on a film set is money and he was like you know what. We're going to take some time and you go take care of that. So I thought that was really really great. And then the basketball one that I filmed with him where he has to hit me in the head was really good.
Speaker 6:I filmed that at a live Lakers Pelicans game and had six minutes to get this shot and the audience knew we were filming a movie, but they didn't know what was going to happen, because they wanted real audience reactions audience reactions of you know what they would do when they see a girl get hit with a basketball um, and so that was really fun, because we're like we're looking at each other right before we're about to go out and he's like I hope I hit you and I'm like I hope you hit me too, but don't worry if you don't. We have two chances to get this right. We're gonna get it. It's gonna be fine. He pegged me in the head perfectly both times, so it worked out great nice taryn so far power lifter, stunt person, part gymnast, part acrobat.
Speaker 7:How do you become runner? How does that get started? How do you get started running and how do you get in to Disney?
Speaker 6:I will tell you that I constantly told myself I was not a runner. Always my whole life I was a power lifter in high school. I said that. And then, um, I was convinced. I remember watching the girls that I knew that ran and I watched, I looked at the way their bodies were shaped and compared it to mine.
Speaker 6:And I said, my body's not built like that. I don't have the long legs, I don't have. You know, I just saw these like long, lean people that ran, and so I had convinced myself that, oh well, I just wasn't meant to run. And so fast forward many, many, many years later, which I have spent my life doing like CrossFit type workouts, you know, always weightlifting. And then, once I really started into CrossFit, I was sad that I couldn't run a mile, I'm sure or you guys are familiar with Murph, the Memorial Day workout. So I was always bummed that I couldn't just run the whole mile. I was like what the heck? This is not cool. That was one of the motivations for me to be like, okay, wait, I should be able to run a mile. I was watching people with multiple different body types able to run a mile.
Speaker 6:That was motivational to me. The other thing was that I got into obstacle course racing and I told myself that this wasn't really running, because I would run to an obstacle, do an obstacle, and you know, and so I had the obstacle breaks, so you know. So to me it was like, oh yeah, well, I will do like a Spartan super and used to be a Spartan super was somewhere between like eight and 10 miles, so I would do that and it's trail running and you know. So there's, and there's like times that you're like walking through water and so it just didn't feel like a real, a real run to me.
Speaker 6:But between those two things I was like, okay, I wonder how under if I could start doing this. So there's a race in new Orleans called the Crescent city classic and it's like it's a 10 K, and so that kind of became my goal as I started doing that. And then when COVID hit is really when I really started like I did the Crescent city classic the year before, and then when we were in lockdown, it was like, huh, well, there's nothing else to do except to go outside and run, and I live by. It's a 22 mile trail, okay, concrete trail, which is great.
Speaker 6:So I was like you know what I'm going to start and there was a virtual challenge to run like as many five miles as you can do in one day, and I made it up to 50 in one day.
Speaker 7:And.
Speaker 6:I was like huh I can do that. So then it just was unlocking these ideas of I am capable so much more than I thought I was, and then what's the next thing I could potentially do? And so then I just kind of started like I started just looking for more races and that sort of thing and then just really training it hard. And then I hurt my hip and I was down and I was like no, all of this hard work has gone to. Nothing.
Speaker 6:So I got a couple of rounds. I mean my body is done Like when I tell you I have beat the ever living, you know what out of it. I mean my body is is done Like when I tell you I have beat the ever living, you know what out of it it is in so much pain at all times. So um I got PRP injections in my hip.
Speaker 1:Um.
Speaker 6:I got three rounds of that and then. I got my hip working order and then I kind of just again just started and I love it. I mean I know you all feel the same.
Speaker 6:It's just a cathartic thing to do. Um, I just you know. And then I really started for me. I was like you know what CrossFit means? I have to go to the gym and I have to like it's this time going there and time going back and I'm like I can just put my running shoes on and go out the front door and have the best, the best hour of my life.
Speaker 6:This is great, so yeah. So then that sort of led me and then I just kind of was researching races and I go to Disney all the time, all the time, like I mean, for someone who doesn't live in Florida, I guess, you know, I'm like there every two to three months because I just am obsessed. So I was like, and then I would see the tents and I would see the big balloons in the air and I'm like what is that? I don't know what that is. So then I started like researching it. I was like, wait a second, I can find these two things.
Speaker 9:What.
Speaker 6:So, I did, and I my first one was Wine and Dine, and I was this past, this past one.
Speaker 7:Oh, okay, just recently Okay.
Speaker 6:Oh, this past, this past one, oh, okay, just recently, okay, oh wow, recently. And I was like, oh my gosh, what in the what? I've been missing this for all of these years. And I hear all the stories of people that you know perfect dopies and all of this stuff, and I'm like I I could have been doing this all of these years, but, um, oh my gosh, I can't, I can't. I was telling somebody recently, after Marathon and seeing you know the actual goats that they had out, and I'm like yes.
Speaker 6:I was just excited to see the goats, as I was any other character. I'm like gorilla, goats, I don't know. It was amazing, like it's the best of every world you could potentially, and then gosh the community of people.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 6:Like what gosh, the community of people, yeah, like what, it just warms my heart, I mean turning on a main street, I just like tears.
Speaker 6:Oh yes. So I just I think that was yeah, and then I'm I'm sold and I never want to miss another race. I actually sadly hurt my pcl um at training for marathon. I've potentially well. I tore it seven years ago and I think it's potentially just irritated, but it is not stopping me. I am doing, princess. I just got a gigantic brace to put on my knee so I'm like there's no way that I'm missing it. So I I've just been training on the Peloton and just hoping that's going to be enough.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, you'll be good on the peloton and just hoping that's going to be enough. Oh you, yeah, you'll be good. Yeah, oh my gosh, okay. So I absolutely love learning about how everybody gets into the run. Disney addiction, because it isn't an addiction, because once you do one you're like okay, next year I gotta do it again. Or if you want to do like the perfect season, are you trying for the perfect season? Are you trying for the perfect?
Speaker 6:season. Right now I am going to take springtime off. I know I keep in my mind because every time that it opens back up, I'm like do I, do, I do no, like I don't know, um, I, so I, I'm, I'm torn, I'm like if, if the universe wants me to do it, it's going to open up and I'm, my knee is going to be feeling really good that day and I'm signing up, so, um, it's also like during a crazy season of, um, my daughter's competitive cheerleader, so we're very nice on there, like a week before, a week after, like something, something inconvenient, um for that timeline, but but I may. But my goal for like going forward is every single race, every single time nice yeah, whether or not it will happen, I I'm dying to.
Speaker 6:I was super jealous in a good way. I'm very happy for everybody that got to do dopey um.
Speaker 4:But I was like, oh, I want in that club mm-hmm people always found it weird that, like I was more, I was really. I guess I don't know if I would say I'm more nervous. I was more nervous doing dopey than I was training for like Sonoma 50 miler. And they're like why you're an ultra runner and I'm like because there's a certain level of exhaustion that you have to train yourself into and all that you're running is done all in one day and you just keep using your adrenaline to get you to the end even though you're exhausted, whereas every day with dopa you have to wake up and you're like, oh god, but it's like literally. I hope you do it because, even though it was so exhausting, it was one of the most magical experiences that I've been very grateful to have taken part of and I think everybody should at least do it once because it's it's like nothing else.
Speaker 6:I just love the camaraderie of everybody too. That's like, you know, just standing in line for pictures afterwards and talking to them about the dopey experience that they had. And you know, and it's it even though everybody's kind of lim experience that they had. And you know, and it's even though everybody's kind of limping and they're in pain, and you know, they're so happy, they're so happy and all of the soreness does not matter because they're just like I did that, and this past marathon was my first marathon ever.
Speaker 7:Very good. Congratulations, congratulations.
Speaker 6:So for me that was like like that was enough, but next time I have to do more, you know yeah you're in, I, I can hear it you're hooked, you're in I love it so much I stopped for every character. Um, I like I need every picture, I the whole thing.
Speaker 4:I wrote everest and nice, nice I was gonna ask you that I didn't do that I was so excited.
Speaker 6:The only thing I didn't know is that the Tower of Terror. I was like I don't know because my do I have time, do I not have time?
Speaker 4:I would almost recommend saving that one for after, because that's where I used to work and I can tell you the process, from the point that you get into line to the point where you get out. That attraction itself is about four minutes long. If you include the library aspect of it as well, that's another minute and a half, and then to get through the fast pass. Oh, you made the right decision. As much as I would love you to. For you to do Tower of Terror during the race.
Speaker 6:I know it was. It was worth skipping for sure, and that's what I did. I ended up I was by myself too. I went to Disney totally by myself, and just made friends everywhere I went. Afterwards. I went to Hollywood Studios, I sat at Oga's Cantina, made friends with some other racers next to me, and then I went and rode Tower of Terror and Rockin' Roller Coaster. I'm like no better way to end the day, taryn, we've talked about Disney World.
Speaker 9:Are you planning on doing the Disneyland races when they happen?
Speaker 6:coming up, Not this year, so I will probably do it the following year. My kids love LA and then we get to work out there, you know, quite a bit, and so it's so much fun because when my husband will be on set he works a lot more than I do these days just because you know I like to be like mom, PTA mom, the whole thing. So but yeah, that is definitely a plan. I mean I would like to hit Disneyland Paris when that comes, like the whole thing, and I have been to Disneyland Paris twice, but I think it would be fun to run there as well. But yeah, I, I would, I want them all. I really do, I want, I want, like my entire wall shrine of my Disney.
Speaker 7:I don't know what that's like.
Speaker 6:Well, they're. Currently, it's all obstacle courses, which I yeah, I've done so many of those Tough Mudders, Spartans, Savage Races and and, like I said, those have really taken up my time. And then I think too, like we, I'm sure you guys are really similar with anytime it's a new year, you kind of sit down and you start looking at your race schedule and you're like, okay, these are my race, these are the races I want to do in each month and and try and plan them out. So, um, I've got my, got my Run Disney races in there, and then in between those I've got obstacle course races and then local 10Ks and local halves.
Speaker 2:So obviously we know that you are quasi a Run Disney newbie, since you just started your first race in this past November at Wine and Dine. What have you learned from the past two race weekends that you're like okay, I have to do this next race weekend, you know, I know you're running Princess or you know, for next year, you know what is that? One thing like you know, you saw somebody like, oh, I wish I would have done that or I would have done that, what anything you know, spark an idea there for you.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I want my costumes to just continue to get bigger, that's why I am.
Speaker 6:The funny thing is is that I am actually I've already started planning. I've got wine and dine costumes, um, like planned out. I've got, obviously princess, because that one's coming up, um. But you know, I that I I've as far as something like actually practical um the food situation. I get nervous before races every single time and I don't eat and I'm like I just it's like out of my mind and I ended up having to like force myself to eat the night before marathon and I knew I didn't have enough carbs. And so when I got to mile seven only mile seven and marathon I hit a wall and I was like, oh my gosh, this is not good. So I really just don't think I prepared enough and I had a Snickers and that's like the best thing that I have ever tried. I've never brought.
Speaker 6:I know it's new, on race day. I've never used a Snickers, but that thing saved my life.
Speaker 7:That would work. Yep, lots of carbs.
Speaker 6:Yeah, so. So I definitely feel like I need to make sure I and I got in really late, like I literally flew in the day before um marathon, and so I really think it's important to get there a couple of days and just act like yeah, yeah, yeah, it is of days and just actually yeah, yeah, yeah it is it's much more, much more comfortable for you and all that.
Speaker 7:Yeah, I kind of get your sleep, you know, yeah, or lack of a little bit yeah lack of sleep.
Speaker 6:Oh my gosh, that alarm clock I can't and that's. And then I've also, like, when I did wine and dine, I showed up kind of later, like I got on the bus at 3, 15, 320, 320. And then, um, and then of course I realized that when on half I did the challenge at wine and dine. So then on half marathon I did the same thing and I was like, oh gosh, we're, we're starting this I had no idea about the mile and a half, you know, walked in the house and I was like, oh, shoot, I need to start getting there earlier. And so I really like, at first, going into it, I was like, eh, I'll be fine, just showing up, and then all the stuff. Of course, that happened with marathon, you know, and like people not being able to get into their corrals. I've realized, forget about the sleep, you'll be fine, you can sleep later, get there.
Speaker 7:That's right. That's right. Yeah, we call that the alley method Showing up at the last minute and heading right to the corral, just walk, walk right on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's the alley method. I do that with airports, I do that with, with everything of it. I like to get as much sleep as possible she's good at it. Yeah, you know what I've gotten? I've, I've actually I've gotten um influenced by these fine folks, and I do get there earlier now.
Speaker 6:It's because I like to chat now and yeah, we see my friends, yeah it is fun and it's just like being around all of those people. It feels so magical and you know, until you're in the corrals and then people are starting to fight for space, and then you're like you're a stunt woman.
Speaker 8:You're training for running. I guess you get injured. What's your rehab type schedule for this? I mean, like you you gotta be doing. Are you lucky that you're not getting hurt doing stunts or, like you said before, your body's hurting all the time?
Speaker 6:Yeah, I do. I am constantly nursing some injury and so I think one of the things is that I go get IV therapy a lot. I do cryotherapy, red light therapy, infrared sauna, foam rolling, yoga, all of those things. So I really just try and focus. Here's my biggest problem is when I go out for a run. I have so much trouble warming up because I'm so excited that I just am ready to go for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 6:And then by the time I'm cooling down and, like you know, I really should take the time and like, let myself cool down, but I'm usually running into a house of kids and it's insane and it's chaos and I'm just like, okay, like my cooling down is like, mom, can you make me some chicken nuggets?
Speaker 7:That's not cooling down Exactly my, so that's not cooling down Exactly.
Speaker 6:My heart rate's still going.
Speaker 7:I'm like oh, it's going 100 miles an hour in a different direction. That's awesome.
Speaker 6:Yeah, definitely. So I really just try and listen to my body and as hard as it is, actually I tore my AC joint and I wish I could say I did it doing something fun. But I was doing a Spartan race Still didn't do something fun. I was staying a Spartan race still didn't do something fun. I was staying at a tree house and it was a loft style bed with a library ladder. So I was climbing up the ladder and the ladder goes flying and I had to grab it and my AC joint blew out.
Speaker 7:I was like no, that stinks. Well, it's like.
Speaker 6:I think the problem is is that I have beat up my body so much that it's like barely hanging on. So it doesn't take for something to go. So I really I just try and prioritize the things that are easy for me, which, like I said, are I can go to, like you know, a place down the road and hop in a cryo booth and that sort of thing and put my I had my Norma tech boots and those things lay in bed, kids lay with me.
Speaker 6:We're just like, just like. Hey, this is the best life ever they're good, they sure are yeah I watched you.
Speaker 8:I'm wrestling, I'm a big wrestling geek. I mean shut up, oh please back during the monday night wars I had a tv that picture in picture and two vcrs going okay. So that's how crazy I was I love that so I heard you retired. Do you think you got one more left? You think that still burning in the back of your head?
Speaker 6:You know? It's funny that you say that because I, you know, I don't know how big of a wrestling person you are, do you? If you know Simon Diamond? He was a wrestler from a long time ago but he's kind of been my mentor through a lot of my career, him and Tommy Dreamer.
Speaker 8:Tommy Dreamer.
Speaker 6:yeah, yeah, and so and he kind of was like you know, when you start going out and it feels like work, it's time you're done. And so I think I got to a point where I was in pain and I could valet and that, um, billy Corgan, who's?
Speaker 6:the president of NWA. He was, so he was amazing and he was willing to let me just be a character on the show and just um walk out with if you know, if you're not familiar with the valet. It's like the girl that walks out to the ring and cheers them on while they're wrestling. But the problem is is I was a wrestler and so I watched what's happening in the ring and cheers them on while they're wrestling. But the problem is is I was a wrestler and so I watched what's happening in the ring and I feel sad because I'm like I'm not doing that and I love I.
Speaker 6:What I would love, inevitably, is to work behind the scenes. I love creating stories, I love helping tell stories through action and through wrestling. So can I still take bumps in the ring? Yeah, I can. I'm going to pay for it because my body hurts really bad and I still do it with stunt work. But, like I said, I take less stunt work than I did in wrestling, or I take less stunt work than I used to.
Speaker 6:But the other thing is is that with wrestling, it's live performance. So you know you got to give it all. You got every single time, and while, yes, you have to. In film as well, things get filmed in sections and so you're not necessarily having to go out for 10 minutes and beat yourself up. You know it could be today we're filming this one fall and maybe do it three or four times, and then the next day is we're going to film this section of the fight. You know, so it's, it's, it's been easier on my body and I can kind of pick and choose what stunt jobs I want to take. But I don't know. I mean, certainly if somebody called and they were like we have the best storyline for you to be a part of I probably wouldn't say no.
Speaker 4:So it's been absolutely amazing having you here and listening to your story and just meeting you. You're just such a wonderful, lively person and we can't say enough how grateful we are to have you here tonight. But to round this out and I asked if valley was okay with this, and I know we haven't done this in a while I was wondering if you would like to do some rapid fire questions to kind of round this out?
Speaker 6:Definitely, but I talk a lot, so you're going to have to shut me up.
Speaker 7:Yeah, you fit right in. All, right, you ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 4:Okay, marathon weekend, princess, ready, I'm ready. Okay, marathon weekend, princess, springtime surprise or wine and dine.
Speaker 6:Wine and dine. That's. My favorite too is wine and dine. I know I mean. This year I noticed there was a lot less people than marathon weekend. So, that was kind of I felt like there were so many people running and it got. You know, it got clogged up so much more than wine and dine.
Speaker 7:So I, I like, I like that you know what happens a lot to disney runners their favorite race becomes the first one they did yeah and I think that's, I think that's what I hear here also that's when I discovered the magic.
Speaker 6:So yeah yeah brings me to that happy place, all right.
Speaker 4:So the next one is Avatar Flight of Passage or Cosmic Rewind.
Speaker 6:Oh my gosh, that's a hard one. Oh, okay, I'm going to have to say Flight of Passage, because the first time I did it I cried. Okay, apparently, I'm just a cry baby. No, I cried too. I cried too. Don't worry, I've asked other people and I'm like I feel so weird that I cried on it. No, I cried too, so it's not Okay. Cool, so that's now three people. Thank you, jack.
Speaker 4:You're very welcome. I'm here for you.
Speaker 6:It's so beautiful.
Speaker 4:Okay, so now distance wise marathon or half marathon. Half marathon, I feel you on that one.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I, it's like the perfect hard distance but you can still, you know, kind of have a nice day the rest of the day.
Speaker 4:So if you could dream up anything for any run Disney race, what would it be?
Speaker 6:Ooh, you know I I don't actually know because, like I said, I'm new to all of this, but I've heard that there were potentially more immersion type things in the past at Run Disney Races. I'm not sure what those things were, but I will say, on the like, I love the screens. I feel like we could just keep going. We can keep adding stuff, adding people, adding characters, adding walkthrough 3d things, I don't know. I mean, sky's the limit, right.
Speaker 4:I mean, if there was an obstacle course, would you do it?
Speaker 7:There's the obstacle course, wow.
Speaker 4:I would do it hands down. I've always wanted to do an obstacle course.
Speaker 7:I'm trying to picture it you have to do it.
Speaker 6:I'll send you my list of ones that I'm doing this year, please do.
Speaker 4:Seriously, I'm like yes.
Speaker 6:They're so much fun and you end up like you're done with them and you're bleeding and you've got cuts and scrapes and all of this stuff. But you feel like you jump over the Spartans, you jump over fire at the end and you're like, I'm a warrior.
Speaker 6:It's the same superhero feeling when you cross the finish line and it's not as emotional. For me, the marathons, the run Disneys are emotional and I'm crying and I'm like, oh my God, I can't believe I did that and this will be a story for another day. But I have lung disease, so for me, being able to do these things is incredible to push my body. But the race is the obstacle where you just feel like a warrior from a movie for sure. You're like Xena the warrior princess.
Speaker 4:All right. So my last question for you would be if you had a secret dream race, whether run Disney or not what would it be?
Speaker 6:Okay, I came up with this one while I was running marathon. It was a zoo race where you had because the goats and the pig and the snake, and you would just have animal encounters the entire time.
Speaker 7:Neat I love that.
Speaker 9:That sounds so much fun. That goat gave me life during the marathon.
Speaker 6:It was so chill. He or she didn't know what it was, but it was so chill and I was like oh, I love you, thank you. So I was like we could have animals the whole way.
Speaker 9:This would be incredible. I was going to say did you see the pig on the course?
Speaker 6:I saw the pig. I got a picture with a pig and he refused to show his face. Oh, no.
Speaker 2:How dare he, you guys?
Speaker 6:have a pig? I didn't see no pig. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 8:I don't know I didn't see it.
Speaker 6:I don't know the reason I asked is because, um, it reminded me of pumba. I was like, oh, this must be pumba I think it was.
Speaker 8:I think it was a pig, ah, shoot maybe that's why he wouldn't show his face I'm an imposter so you truly are just a master of all trades.
Speaker 4:It's so cool. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 6:We thoroughly enjoyed this time with you. It was so nice talking to you guys. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:Well, it was so great hearing Taryn's voice again. She's a just bubble full of joy in our community and I love hearing her stories and I'm so glad that we've gotten to know her. And she's a great follow on Instagram too, because I know this year she has been battling some injuries. But she signed up for Dopey and I don't know if anybody else saw this on Instagram but because of her injuries and stuff, she's a she's way behind on her training. So she asked chat gpt to come up with a dopey training plan for her and she's been like documenting it, um, you know, ever so briefly on her instagram story. So that's going to be an interesting follow over the course of, essentially, how do you cram six months of training down into two? So, taryn, we're real excited to see how this turns out, but we can't wait to see you during Marathon Weekend.
Speaker 7:You know you reminded me we haven't got the two standard questions that we get every year. I think our friends are getting brighter. Question Question one what will the weather be like? Yep, okay. And question two hey, I haven't started training. Is it too late? We haven't got those, but Taryn will be able to answer question two for us.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 7:If anybody can, she can. All right. Fun talking with Taryn Friends. Our holiday Christmas card list that should be, if you signed up for it. Our friend Jenny's working on getting those lists emailed out to you so you can get those going. That was a neat idea, Jenny. Thanks for doing that.
Speaker 7:In 101 Dalmatians land, or 201 or 301 or however many we wind up with, our friend Alec has some what she calls oopsie shirts Shirts that aren't quite right that she has listed for 50% off on her website Kauai and Pizza Apparel. They're a good quality shirt and, if I know, Alec, the oopsie is probably very small and you might want to look into it. You know, if you order one, you probably. There's no guarantee you'd get it in time for the January 5K, but you might. I'm looking forward to that. We're going to talk more about that. We got to make some plans. I want to get our friend Monica, whose idea it was who I blame for all of this. I want to get Monica to join us and we'll make some plans for that. We talked last week with the new owner of Fluffy Fizzies, Michelle, Pam's sister, Michelle. I have noticed that Fluffy Fizzy's orders are starting to be filled, so that's pretty cool, and we have other friends in the small business world who you might want to know about.
Speaker 5:And if you know anything about all of what goes on past Thanksgiving. You know there's always Black Friday, there's always Small Business Saturday, and then Cyber Monday and Travel Tuesday. Those are like the named days after Thanksgiving. But we just wanted to also give a shout out, you know, if you're going to be making any purchases over the next few days, check out. I mean I would love to list all of them. I'm afraid I'm going to miss some. But we know Zippity Tees, we know Crowned Athletics, we know Fluffy Fizzies.
Speaker 2:Bebe Brooke. Bebe Brooke.
Speaker 5:Bebe Brooke, Kauai and Pizza Apparel. There's all of these really great companies that are not corporate, that who knows they might be having sales over the Small Business Saturday. But definitely check those out and we can link some of them in the show notes as well.
Speaker 7:Let's see Coming up next week episode 167. You asked for it. It's coming back. The Family Feud episode is here. That's going to be fun, I'm sure. All right, friends.
Speaker 7:It's time for the race report. The race report is sponsored by our buddy, tom at Stoked Metabolic Training. Stokesfit slash rise and run coaching is the link. If you head up to the top of our Facebook group page there's a section explaining all of Tom's various options the Accelerate program, the Foundations program and, of course, his one-on-one training. I'm still doing it. I'm a little bit of a hiatus here until I can lift stuff again. That's a different story that we won't go into this episode, uh, but it's a good program. Again, you might want to check that one out.
Speaker 7:Before we get deeply involved into the race report, I want to acknowledge our friend Adam. Adam's been on the episode before. Adam's a good friend of the podcast. He is a Galloway pacer and he just finished a grueling 100-mile event in Cape Town, south Africa. I mean, I think he just got back. This is Tuesday. I think he just got back Monday, maybe even no, he got back Monday, I think. But we heard Adam tell us about it on customized training this morning. He and another good friend, chad. Chad went over to work to support, to be Adam's support group in that 100 miler in Cape Town. So really impressive, adam, congratulations.
Speaker 7:On Wednesday of last week Krista and Phil did the Castaway Cay 5K. I think you friends who tell us that you've done the Castaway Cay 5K are just kind of rubbing it into us that you're on a Disney cruise and we're not. But congratulations, there's no bad way to do the Castaway Cay5k. I'm glad you had a good time. Krista did it in costume as daisy. She was the only one in costume. What's the matter with the rest of those people? Krista phil had his rise and run shirt on. That's impressive. I'm glad you guys had a good time you know something I just thought of.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've watched a couple of vlogs, but I haven't done any recently. Do we know? Have they set up a 5K course at Lighthouse Point yet, besides the- I don't know that massive bridge you have to go over to get it from the ship to the island.
Speaker 7:I have no idea. Okay, no idea. I know the Castaway K5K is not what it once was.
Speaker 2:Correct yes, We've talked about that before.
Speaker 7:But it's still there and you can still do it and you still get a medal for it. So that's neat. So congratulations guys. I'm glad you did that, I'm glad you had a good time and I'm sure it was hot. It's always hot doing that thing. It's. Look at Friday. Friday the give kids the world village gingerbread run. But a bunch of folks did it. Aaron and Chad did it. They did a five K. I think it was a five K.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was.
Speaker 7:Um, aaron and chatter. They uh, chad wanted to go in an early wave so we could get back to watch the Bama game, which turned out to be the Oklahoma game. So they kind of really didn't need to go early after all. Margaret and John was there. Robert Roundup we're going to hear from Robert later on. Stephanie, josh and Alex were there, as was Laura and Sam, let's see here. It was a cool night to enjoy all the lights. Met with Stephanie and Jenny and her kids Along the course, saw the great lights, the Star Wars characters, dc characters, therapy dogs, santa, of course, gingerbread friends and many more.
Speaker 7:Now this is Laura talking gingerbread friends and many more. Now this is laura talking. She says sam. Sam said he ranks this one above the sea world reindeer run, but not as high as the disney 5k. I get it. Sam um I, I get it. That's cool. Now his complaint was they had to do multiple loops and one of their friends who was with them, who will remain nameless, might have miscounted. And then Stephanie did an extra loop. Oops, I gave it away. Stephanie was with Josh and Alex. They were there, let's see. And Brooke and John were also at the Give Kids, the World's Village run in Kissimmee.
Speaker 2:I can't remember if she had put up a race report, but I know our friend Jennifer was also there. I was having an extended conversation with her on Instagram over the weekend and the point that she wanted to let me know is that she was so impressed with the turnout that they had at this event because I think this was the the first time in a while where they've had um it on the property and at night with all the lights. You know. I know that they've done a couple of different iterations since covid um.
Speaker 2:So she was super, super impressed and, like she said, it was a really impressive turnout. So you know, hopefully this continues to gain popularity. It brings more awareness to the village and hopefully maybe in years to come we can get like a real big rise and run contingent out there, especially since we have so many listeners in the greater Orlando area.
Speaker 7:We do and I'd like to get over there. The timing's usually not good, though. I love doing Space Coast and the idea of going over and coming back, and going over and coming back, and it just doesn't work for me. But yeah, I forgot Greg. When they first started this they had it off site. They had it at a different location. Yeah, so that's good. Glad you had fun, guys.
Speaker 7:Let's turn to Saturday and the start of the Philadelphia Marathon weekend. On Saturday they ran the half and the 8K. Now Brenna did the half, as did Sabrina. Sabrina said the first two miles were a little tough because for her it was cold, but seeing her family cheer her on and all the good vibes all throughout the city was a great motivation. Her goal was to hit a sub-2.30. She finished in 2 hours 30 minutes and 31 seconds, which is pretty darn good. Not only is it a good time, it's also a PR. They had the 8K. Chrissy ran the 8K. We'll be back to Philadelphia in just a moment. Still, on Saturday in Granbury, Texas, the Run Run Rudolph 5K. We had a bunch of the youngsters out running this week.
Speaker 7:Rachel and her son, Caleb did this one Christmas themed race before Thanksgiving. A little odd, but they were excited to participate. It was an out and back course that passed through several parks in the town. That's neat. It's a new event supporting a great cause. Caleb encountered his school coach, which energized him to sprint around the final turn, finishing with smiles and high fives. But Caleb, buddy, we need to talk about that tattoo you got on your arm. I mean, Caleb's got like a sleeve. I can't believe Rachel. Let him get that. He's kind of young, I think.
Speaker 2:I was more surprised that she allowed him to grow a mustache.
Speaker 7:Yeah, yeah. Well, I'll be looking for him next time. I see you two Staying in Texas, this one in Fort Worth, the Pumpkin Spice Half Marathon. Well, I'll be looking for him next time. I see you two Staying in Texas, this one in Fort Worth, the Pumpkin Spice Half Marathon. Jason says it got warm kind of quickly, but Jason still PR'd this thing by five and a half minutes Fun race and he'll do it again. Shonda got there, put in three miles before and four miles after to make up the 20 that was on her schedule. That's not easy Now. I've said this before. I find that difficult, especially doing it after the race is over. Everybody else is sitting around celebrating and you've got more miles to do. That's tough. It is worth it though, and Shanda now is feeling much more optimistic about finishing just the marathon.
Speaker 7:In January In Delray Beach, florida, holly did the Delray Beach Turkey Trot First 5K of the weekend. We'll hear from Holly again later. It was freezing. At the start in Doha it was 51 degrees. I don't know how she even got out there 51. This is down around Fort Lauderdale, I believe. Beautiful course. It goes on the A1A, which is a famous highway, right up and down the east coast of Florida. Summer training brings fall PRs? Yes, it does, and here's another one. She finished, then walked back to meet her mom who was walking and finished again with mom and then walked part of the way home because she needed eight miles for training on that day. Good job, holly.
Speaker 7:Kayla did the quack attack on poverty 5K in Orlando. Brandy did the great Houston pie run 10K Great weather, appropriately enough. Yummy pie at the end and she had a turkey hat and skirt that got many shout outs. I don't know if you saw the turkey hat or not. Brandy's hat reminded me. There's a it's an old episode of friends where at some point Matt LeBlanc and Courtney Cox both get a turkey on their head and and Brandy's running around with a hat. That just just reminded me of that. Lots of rise and run in Disney Pals at the race. Post-race she did more miles too because she's going to Honolulu and also getting ready for Goofy In Fort Pierce, florida. Jacqueline ran the St Lucie Skeeter Scoot 50K An ultra Good job, jacqueline. Oak Ridge, tennessee, the secret city half and 5K. A couple runners did this one Secret city. You guys know why Oak Ridge is the secret city, right.
Speaker 2:No, I don't.
Speaker 7:No, really, it was part of the Manhattan Project. World War II, the making of the atomic bomb.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 7:Out of Oak Ridge, tennessee, the testing and all that was out in Los Alamos an actual building of the bombs. But a lot of the work was done in Oak Ridge, beautiful city. Amanda ran this. She was fascinated by the history the metal is. She says the metal is the synthetic element tennessine that was added to the periodic table in 2010. It really it's not. It's probably brass or something, but it's kind of a representation of the metal tennessine, tennessean. I had to look this up. It's a radioactive and it doesn't last for long, so you can't make a metal out of that element. Anyway, she set a challenge for her 43rd year of doing three halves in seven weeks. She's got two of them. She's doing Rocket City in Huntsville soon. Let's see. Lisa was there. I like when Amanda made a nice post and I like this happens a bunch I wouldn't know that you had done it, otherwise Lisa runs in a comment and says good job, I was there too. So Lisa was there too. Congratulations, lisa. And Jimmy was there. Jimmy didn't do the half, he did the 5k, and the 5k isn't in the metal Tennessee, it's in the metal secret city. Anyway, it was a good metal wrapping up Saturday in central Louisiana. No, I think it's actually the name of the city, central Louisiana.
Speaker 7:The Running of the Elves 5K. Heather did it with her husband and her two infant daughters and her mother-in-law. Along. With a race t-shirt, you get an elf hat for the race. That's nice. Her daughters are really young and surprisingly not surprisingly it was a first 5K for both of them. So, girls, I don't know if you're old enough to understand PRs, but here's some PR bells. Heather said both of the girls ran more than she thought they would. They had a blast. Took it at party pace PR'd in fun, also All right. Uh, took it a party pace PR and fun also All right. The moment I've been waiting for. Let's move to Sunday, the city of brotherly love, philadelphia marathon weekend. Greg, you weren't the only one there, but, my friend, tell us about it please.
Speaker 2:I was very fortunate to run, uh, this race. Run this race because it's actually quite a funny story. A couple of months ago I had no intention of running the marathon in Philly. I was going to either find something else or maybe do Frosty Looper again as my final training run for for marathon weekend.
Speaker 2:And then my college roommate's wife had already signed up for the marathon and, um, she also ran the broad street run in the spring and she won a raffle with the american association for cancer research for a free entry into any race during the philly marathon weekend. And so she got contacted and they were like congratulations, you know, sign up. She's like, oh well, I'm already signed up, so can I just defer, uh, my paid entry to 2025 and then I'll run on your, on your charity bib? And they were like no, you can't do that, oh geez. So she made a post on instagram and I I jumped at it and, um, I I was so thankful that I did, and I was glad to be able to fundraise on behalf of the American Association for Cancer Research, because they had and actually I thought this was a great deal, it was, if you raised a minimum of $250, you had the opportunity to be in their VIPip tent for pre and post race.
Speaker 2:So it was heated tent, food, water, snacks, oh nice, um, you know, a little meal, um. What was nice is it was um underneath the tent they actually put down like padding on the floor. So it wasn't you know the cold hard ground or anything like that. They had private bathrooms and everything. Private gear check.
Speaker 2:It was yeah, so I was very fortunate. So, and I know there were many rising runners out there that, uh, that pledged support for that. So for those of you that donated, um you know, to that cause, I uh, I greatly appreciate it. But, um, this race was a unique one for me because, you know, usually races with our friends this kind of falls into one of three categories I'm running it as a catered training run, I'm running it for fun, or I have some type of goal in mind, and I decided that I was going to pick two out of those three. I was going to run this as a catered training run for marathon weekend, but because this is a at least what I had heard flat and fast course, I was like, maybe this is my opportunity to get a pr, because we all like, even though disney is my pr marathon, we all know that a disney race is different than other races oh yeah, outside of that right.
Speaker 2:So coach twigs did a phenomenal job of of getting me ready for this. You know, him and I had talked about strategies and over the last couple of weeks leading up to this race, I had three goals in mind. So, and and this is something that I would love to to impart on our listeners is that when you, when you, come up with goals for yourself, it's okay to have more than one goal.
Speaker 7:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So, um, so my, my marathon PR time is uh is just over six hours and 27 minutes. So my a goal was sub six, my B goal was sub six, 15. And then my C goal was a PR. So I knew that if I could hit any of those goals I was coming away with a PR. So worked with coach twigs to come up with a, um, you know, interval strategy and pacing strategy to at least get me in the range of of one of those three goals.
Speaker 2:And essentially what this race turned into was a tale of two half marathons. The original plan was that I was going to for every five miles I was going to build up my interval and so I was going to start with the most conservative and and and work my way up. So that most conservative interval that I've been training at uh for my long run paces is a um, 15 second run, 45 second walk. And I was looking at my watch and I was at about mile four and a half and I realized that I was well ahead of a goal pace using that most conservative interval. So I was like you know what, let's forget about the whole five miles and changing up, like, let me just maintain this for a little bit longer. So I even I extended that out to pass the 10 K mark as well and I was still ahead of a goal pace.
Speaker 2:So you know, while I was taking like a slightly extended walk break, I pulled out my phone and I voice texted coach and I said like listen, this is the situation that I'm in. When should I start pushing? And he was like maintain this, and when you hit mile nine, start start pushing a little bit and then we'll, we'll take it from there. I was like perfect. Well, mile nine, if you're familiar with the city of Philadelphia, a mile nine is in West Philadelphia, in the University City section where the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University are, and I had visited Drexel University while I was on my college search and I totally forgot that that is actually pretty much one of the very few sections of Philly that actually has hills in it. Yeah, so I think it was just an inopportune time for me to start pushing when there were in, when there was inclines and that started to to weigh on on my legs and everything like that.
Speaker 2:But even up through the, the half marathon mark I was, I had fallen off from ahead of a goal pace to a goal pace and then we were in.
Speaker 2:So after the half marathon mark, we were now in the uh, the fairmount park section of uh of the city which, if you like want to draw a comparison, it's kind of like philly's version of central park.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, you know it's where the you know the largest areas of green spaces are, the uh, the famous please touch museum is there, um, and, but that is the hilliest section of the city and it just, you know, the hills did get to me and I started falling, falling off a little bit more, and and again, and that was, and that was okay, and again, this isn't like, this isn't the best phrase, but I would say where the wheels fell off the bus a little bit is.
Speaker 2:I was probably at like mile 16 or so and I started what I am dubbing the out and back from hell, because you, you started on um, a road of um kelly drive that that leads you from the, the philadelphia museum of art, you know, the AKA, the Rocky steps Right and take and it's a very long winding road that gets you out to like it almost kind of feels like the suburbs of the city, but you're technically still within the city limits and essentially you ran four miles to the turnaround point, came back those four miles to where you started the out and back and then you still had to go on the exact same road to to get to the finish line, back back to the art museum.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I got excited because, as I entered the start of the out and back, coming off this, this decline, there were tons of people cheering.
Speaker 2:And back, coming off this, this uh decline, there were tons of people cheering and I was like this is going to be phenomenal. This is what's going to push me, you know, and make sure that I don't hit any walls or anything like that and I'll talk about cheering in a second. But the issue that I ran into and where I kept falling off, even a little bit, more and more and more, is, by the time I was coming on the back of the out and back, all those people that I originally saw were gone. Oh yeah, myself, but there weren't a lot of people around me. And and and this is my advice is that if you are a back of the packer like myself, I actually would not recommend the philadelphia marathon because the you know it is advertised as a you know, flat and course and a lot of people BQ Heck my college roommate's wife. For her to BQ, she would have needed to run a 335 to qualify for.
Speaker 2:Boston she ran a 312. Wow, she smashed it. Yeah, ran a 312. Wow, like she smashed it, yeah. So I mean that that goes to show that, like I mean, you know, if you're a real solid runner and and and your paces are up there, like you, you can, you can do some damage on this course. But so I think that's what happened is there are a lot of fast runners that come to this and not necessarily a lot of mid to back of the Packers, and it's not like at Disney there was no party pace and sure, there were some people that still stuck around for those of us in the back and cheered but not what it was like for the front and the middle.
Speaker 2:So end all be all, probably in the last, I would say, five miles of the race. Um, you know, my legs were feeling it, um, and I, I, just I continued to slow but like I kept like looking, because Philly was great in terms of almost every 5k you were hitting a timing mat and then it would update and then I could like look at my phone on the marathon app and see like your projected finish times and and all that jazz. So at that point, when I had hit mile 20, I was teetering on, uh, beagle or seagull pace and I was like, okay, listen, even if I continue to do extended walk breaks, I still have a really, really good shot of of obtaining one of these goals. And by the time I finished I hit seagull territory.
Speaker 2:it is not much, but I did the math this morning I got an 87 second pr bingo and and you know, and even though it was not the minutes that I was hoping for, I am, I'm thrilled with it, so so thrilled to the point where I told, I told coach twigs on the call this morning that, um, you can take any speed work off of my calendar between now and marathon weekend.
Speaker 2:Now grant and grant, and I respect this because you know, as I learned through him, you know they're only there is a certain number of weeks that you hold on to marathon fitness before it falls off. So he is going to have me do one more long run, uh, between now and marathon weekend, which I'm totally fine and totally at peace with, but I'm just glad to get you know, get you know, get that PR, get that, get that off.
Speaker 2:Um, you know my brain because I it, I it's been playing with me. Um, you know, emotionally, you know for for these last couple of months. But I learned two things during the race. The first is that in 2025, I need to focus more on strength training, and because I mean sure, because of Run, Walk, run, I have recovered faster than the average bear in terms of someone you know straight up runs the entire time. But I am still really feeling it in my quads and in my hamstrings and I, you know, was, you know, like I was thinking about our friends tom and our friend kristin and devin. Yeah, dad, like if I had put a little bit more focused on there, I wonder if I would have been a little bit more successful in terms of not only maybe getting that B goal or something like that, but also having recovered faster as well too.
Speaker 9:I just want to say I'm super proud of you, and a PR is PR, so even if it was a second, it would still count, but you had some special guests that came and surprised you, did you not?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yeah, I definitely do not want to leave the special guests out. So the story was our friend, lizzie, who I had first met at Bird in Hand this past year for the first time, and then her and I ran that Ghostbusters themed 5k last month and she lives in the city, so she's like I'm definitely going to come out and cheer. You know, and over the course of the last couple of days or whatever, I was getting texts from Lizzie and I was getting texts from k and uh ally, without an e, you know, and just you know, just real encouraging stuff and I absolutely loved it and you know, and so I'm sitting in the tent, uh, because I was in the last corral so I knew I didn't have to rush out there, so I was going to enjoy the warmth of the tent, for as long and Lizzie texts me and she goes uh, stay to the right.
Speaker 2:um, I'll see you. Just before mile one. I was like perfect. And then, maybe like a couple of minutes after that, kay texts me and she says be sure to stay to the right, there might be someone there waiting for you. And I was like, oh yeah, I know it's Lizzie, her and I have already texted. And kind of like the response that I got from Kay was like, oh gosh, darn it, she ruined the surprise, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:And so I'm approaching mile one and I just just start here, lizzie screaming her head off, so I like I pick up the pace, but then I realize that there's someone standing next to Lizzie and it's Allie, without a knee, and you know, even when she had texted me that morning, like I remember texting her back and I said, you know, you know, thank you for the text, but this is still way too early. Go back to bed.
Speaker 2:And now I know why she was texting me and I just have to give her and Lizzie such massive kudos. They should be as exhausted as I am. They saw me five different times throughout the course of the race At mile one, at mile five, then they met me just before the half marathon mark and at that point Allie now had a grocery bag of snacks. A grocery bag of snacks and ending, and this and this goes to show how much of a loving and supportive community.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we have. Oh yeah, and granted and I didn't know this about a week beforehand not only are alley with an e, but alley without an e were facebook messaging my wife and essentially saying what kind of like candies or snacks or drinks does greg like so that we can get him these things over the course? So the fact that my wife was in on this too, um, you know, I, I just and the fact that she, like, kept it a secret from me was was awesome um, you know, so like there was this bag of starburst and um reese's peanut butter cups and swedish fish and stuff like that so that was perfect.
Speaker 2:And then I remember at one point the girls were like is there anything else that we can get you?
Speaker 2:and then I went back to my, my terrible 23 miler and what, what twigs had told me about getting caffeine and I was so when they were like we're gonna see you at mile 20 and um, so I was like boy, if I could get a coke zero, like that would be incredible. And then and then, apparently once I said that now Kay was on the case researching convenience stores along the route that the girls could go to to pick me up a Coke Zero which they had for me at mile 20.
Speaker 2:And then, once I hit 20, again like I didn't hit a wall or anything like that, but they walked with me Because at that point the course was wide open, you know. So they walked me for a little less than a mile and then they hoofed it back to the art museum to be there at the finish. So, ladies I know I kept saying it over and over on the course I love the hell out of you and I greatly appreciate your support and and I also greatly appreciate the support of all my rise and run friends who were texting me throughout the race, sending me Instagram messages, facebook messages. It kept me distracted at times and I greatly appreciate that. I also uh, you know, just want to go on the record because I know she's she's listening in the other room right now and I know she she feels guilty as hell that that she didn't come.
Speaker 2:But to my wife and to my daughter, even though you weren't there on the course, I know that you were following along and supporting me each and every step of the way, because before I knew you know I always joke that you know she had this strict marathon or better distance now in terms of cheering and supporting me and everything like that, and she's like, well, but I should be there there and I'm like parking in philly can be a nightmare. I'm like I'm not looking to put stress in your life and I actually felt a little guilty about that, but I I had, you know, just as much love and support from the two of them as I did lizzie and ally and everyone else who reached out to me online. So I'm so in debt to all of you and I love you all so much and I again just the support is just so overwhelming in so many ways that I just I greatly appreciate it. But the last thing I'll say, and because I know I've been rambling for a while, oh, you're good, you're good.
Speaker 2:I also did learn something else, um, during this, this race, and granted, I'm not going to utter the phrase, I'm not going to say that I am retiring from marathons after january, but I think I'm ready for an extended break, uh, from them and and the and the reason being is I just, I think, where my body is from a health standpoint, is it anger, and the proof is in the pudding with my paces, I mean, like I I looked at them today. I held that a goal pace up until the half marathon mark and then it just trailed off. So I think, right now, my body, in the state that it's in, is just destined for that and and I'm okay with that, and and I'm gonna make course corrections to improve my body, both physically and mentally. Um, but in the meantime, I think from you know that particular distance I'm ready to take a break and improve on those shorter distances and, and that's something that that does excite me. So for that, those whole contingent of people right now that are trying to peer pressure me into the Marine Corps marathon for 2025. Your chances aren't high, unfortunately, but yeah, so, and this is why I love running, because you, I mean great, I know sometimes we make harsh decisions, either like in the moment of the run or just after the run, but the fact that, like 72 hours later, this idea has still stuck with me, I think, is going to go to show that this is the best course of action for me. But then the last thing I'll say, too, is I appreciate the number of people that reached out to me after I shared my experience of my 23 mile training run, uh, a couple of weeks ago, and how I really beat myself up over it.
Speaker 2:Um and I, I went with two mantras and it helped me so greatly. Um, the first is from finding Nemo, and that is just keep swimming, just Keep Swimming. It's a mantra that is super, super important to my wife and I, because when we were going through our journey of starting our family and all the challenges that we dealt with from that front, that was the phrase that I would utter to my wife over and over and over again, every time we got some piece of bad news and I knew that that could be applicable to my running and that, and that really, really helped me. And then the the.
Speaker 2:The second one that I used, and and the credit I want to offer here is to um, one of the Galloway Pacers, um who's who's very active in our group, ryan, his pace group had passed by us during the Wine and Dine half last month and I forget what group he maybe he had like the three-hour group or something like that, and I remember his pace group had passed by us as we were exiting hollywood studios and at like the at the exit there they had a couple of uh sweeper buses and he told his group every time that they passed by a bus that they would yell at the bus and be like not today and not today bus, or something along those lines.
Speaker 2:And that really stuck with me because that was, you know, to me encouraging that you know, the people that were, that were following along with him, were capable of great things and every time that I had a negative thought during the course of the marathon, I thought of ryan and I thought of that moment and I said not today, uh-huh. And because, like, I knew that there, you know, like, especially when I was doing that, that like essentially eight mile out and back from hell, I was like, you know, I just saw all these people run really, really fast and I and I, I was starting to get down on myself and I'm like, oh boy, like they're. They're already a mile 24 and here I am and I still got a while to go while ago. But then I'm like no, greg, not today, not today this is your race.
Speaker 2:Stop comparing yourself to the other side of the people on the highway. This is your race and you need to keep going, and that did wonders for me. So, ryan, even though you I know you were there with me in spirit because I know you had reached out to me, um, but you were very instrumental in this as well. So, but again to my host here and to the rising around community and my beautiful wife and my beautiful daughter and ali and lizzie and k and and all the other people I'm free to mention, uh, thank you so much for the support, and it feels awkward ringing my own pr bell but, greg, I'll give you one, greg go.
Speaker 8:Say kwan one, greg Go.
Speaker 7:Saquon, I was going to remind you to ring the PR bell. I didn't want you to forget. I thought you might. It might pass by, but good for you. We're proud of you, buddy. Nicely done. Thank you Congratulations. Now we had other friends in Philadelphia. Let's see Our friend from Camden County. Jack was there.
Speaker 2:He smashed it too. I had him on my tracker as well, did you? He was maybe only 10 minutes behind my roommate's wife, so I know he pulled, I think, a sub-330, too. So way to go, jack. Great job yeah.
Speaker 7:We know Jack is an accomplished runner. He's closing in on the Camden County deal. He's, sometime early next year, should have all the streets. We're going to get him back when he does that. That's a good one. Let's see. We have Alexi without a knee who says she said the weather was great Greg.
Speaker 2:Oh it was. I mean it was 50s massive cloud cover. I think I only had to put on my sunglasses, like a total of like three minutes the entire time. I mean we had some wind coming off the Schuylkill. That was bothersome during the out and back, but outside of that, yeah, you couldn't have asked for better weather.
Speaker 7:Good. Well, that's good. Great crowd support. Lexi said People were handing out beers and shots along the course. You didn't mention that, greg.
Speaker 2:I did not because I didn't train with beer shots. Because what do we always say? Nothing new on race day.
Speaker 7:That's wise. She liked the tour of the city and the medal. It's a nice medal. They do a good job with the medals in Philly. Lexi's biggest complaint no toilet paper in the porta-potties. Oh no, Apparently that's a problem in the area, A problem with the Philly Marathon. Our friend Chrissy ran her first marathon. Clearly she PR'd. Chrissy ran her first marathon. Clearly she PR'd 5.38 for a first marathon. That's a nice job, Chrissy.
Speaker 2:Way to go, that's great.
Speaker 7:Even while she stopped and pet some dogs, took some selfies, listened to the latest episode of Rise and Run. I don't think we did a five-hour episode, I think we did two plus that. Got through half. Lots of high fives said she saw a fellow with no arms or legs skateboarding the race and she was very thankful to have tired legs. I think that does put things in perspective. Chrissy, absolutely Chrissy, is ready for dopey. See you in January, chrissy. So that's the Philadelphia Marathon. Well done, everybody. Another marathon this week in Florence, italy, and I think our friend Ruth ran this one last year, because Ruth puts her name on the race report and I remember thinking, oh boy, I want to hear about that one, but I didn't see a report on the Facebook page and I I don't know if Ruth was the person who ran it last year or not, but would love to hear about it. In Parkland, florida, we had the Anthony Rizzo Foundation walk off for cancer 5K. Holly with her mom, kathy, did this one. You guys know Anthony Rizzo.
Speaker 2:The first spaceman for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 7:Well, one and the same, Hopefully.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if he's going to be back next year.
Speaker 7:Pre-agent time Yep, anyway, holly's a big Yankee fan. I said that she needs to talk to you. Guys Must do. She got to meet Riz Anthony in person. Perfect weather in Parkland on Sunday. The list of goodies you got at the end of this was really impressive. No medals, but a nice t-shirt and Nike bags for all the participants. A nice t-shirt and nike bags for all the participants. In debari, florida, the advent health central, florida legends half marathon, daniel ran this one and our friend robert left us this race report.
Speaker 1:This is robert from lutz, florida, with a race report for the central Florida Legends Mermaid Half Marathon Easy to say which I had the pleasure of running this past Sunday with my two adult sons, which was great joy. It was a really nice race, mostly through Gemini Park. It was chilly a little bit at the beginning 45 degrees, but comfortable 68 by the time I finished. I had a good number of exhibitors and food at the finish, included, of course, bananas, but also apples, pizza, chicken tenders, beans and rice and, most importantly, beer but also mimosas, if you're not a beer person.
Speaker 1:It was my oldest son's first half marathon, so a PR for Austin and my youngest son, cody, just missed his PR by a minute, and my youngest son Cody just missed his PR by a minute. And for me, thanks to the excellent customized coaching of coach Twiggs, I set a new PR of over 20 minutes and took first place in my age group, which I share with you, bob. It was a great race. I highly recommend it and have a great running season to all of my Rise and Run friends and you. If run, you know you are my friend.
Speaker 7:See how easy that was. Friends, 727-266-2344. You can make my life easier. Leave your own race reports.
Speaker 7:Now let's go to Norfolk Virginia. They had the Norfolk Harbor Half Marathon and 5K and 10K and they have a series of challenges. We'll start with Taylor. Taylor ran the half for the fourth time. This event was actually the first half she ever did four or how many years ago. She was trying not to look at her watch the whole race, but she snuck a peek at mile 10, realized it was possible to get a PR and she did. She finished in 2.12. Nice job, taylor.
Speaker 7:Now this is a nautical-themed race. So the challenges were the Get Naughty Challenge Ooh, get it N-A-U-T-I. Get Naughty Challenge Ooh, get it N-A-U-T-I Get Naughty. Hannah Marie did the Get Naughty Challenge, which is the 5K and a half. A little tough. She's had some injury and illness problems lately. I started feeling it around mile eight, but that's when the training kicked in. That is what it will do Went easy the rest of the way she finished. She's got a marathon in three weeks, let's see.
Speaker 7:Shannon did the Get Naughty Light, which is the 5K and the 10K, and other family members, her husband Jerry, her sister Erin and her brother-in-law Brandon, did that aforementioned get naughty. 5k and half. Jerry ran an 18-minute PR in his third half ever. Erin and Bill were running their third half of the year. They also PR'd year. They also PR'd. And all four of them will be at the Dopey Challenge. She says next year. I presume she means in January, which is in fact next year. In Shreveport Louisiana, the Sports Spectrum's Log Jammer Marathon. Jessica started off nice 48-degree temp but it heated up kind of fast pretty sunny. First 15 miles went pretty well. Started to hit a wall around 18. Powered through it Got just three minutes outside of her time goal but still PR'd by. Get this PR'd by 52 minutes.
Speaker 2:That's phenomenal.
Speaker 7:Yeah, way to go, jessica, she's been doing really well.
Speaker 2:I've been enjoying seeing all of her posts in the Facebook group and she's been doing some great work and I got to say between that medal that she earned and the pumpkin spice one, those tie as my two favorite medals that I saw posted this weekend, Between that medal that she earned and the pumpkin spice one.
Speaker 7:Those ties are my two favorite medals that I saw posted this weekend. They were really, really creative. There were some good ones. Jessica is going to be at Dopey. Got to finish up Dopey training In Tulsa, oklahoma, the Route 66 half marathon.
Speaker 7:Avery was there, as was Caitlin. Caitlin says it was hillier than she expected, but maybe Oklahoma flat isn't the same as Illinois flat, where she's from. Yeah, I reckon they're different. I don't know which one would be flatter or hillier, I don't know. Caitlin says folks were handing out donuts and bananas and coffees and pickle juice, lots of adult beverage options. She's anointed herself for not grabbing a donut. What was she thinking? Who knows? State number 10 for Caitlin, great post-race party. Right after she got the medal, she got a slice of pizza. So what more do you need? Good job, caitlin.
Speaker 7:Technically, I think in Strongville, ohio, we had the Cleveland Fall Classic Half Marathon. Leslie and Aaron ran this. Leslie and Aaron, I don't know if you two know one another, but you submitted almost exactly the same race report. The picture is in exactly the same spot. The two of you started using exactly the same phrases and I'm thinking oh gee, I've done this one twice. But no, Leslie did it said, it was cold, windy, painful, but awesome. Flat course Out and back twice. Plenty of treats after the race.
Speaker 7:Thanks to Jeff Galloway and her strength training she ran a sub 230. That's a PR, erin. And this is where things are a little different. Erin joined a wait list on Monday for this half. She wanted to test her fitness, she wanted to go for a PR, but the race was sold out and there were 58 people ahead of her on the wait list. So she just kind of figured yeah, oh well. But on Friday she found out she was in so she went all out. Her previous half PR was 236. She PR'd this one. After giving birth to three children she PR'd in 206. Awesome, awesome, aaron and Leslie. Nice job in that one.
Speaker 7:On Monday night, I think, because the information was a little sketchy Lori and her two daughters did the sleigh bell trot four, four miler, and the only one I could find with that name was in Columbia, south Carolina. So, lori, if that's not it, you have to correct me later. If you recall from I think it was last week we talked about the Alton towers run in the UK. Maybe two weeks ago we said that Alton Towers was the UK's biggest theme park. Our buddy, andrew did that race and he's got a video up in his YouTube the roller coaster of running so you can find out about England's biggest theme park and the Alton towers race.
Speaker 7:And that's it for the episode one 66 race report. Congratulations everyone. All right, friends, and if you run you know you are a friend. A wonderful, happy, happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
Speaker 7:As we mentioned at the top of the episode, next week's race report is the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot Race Report. It's the biggest race weekend of the year in the United States. I encourage, we encourage you to put those reports on there, share your photos, show us your medals, tell us all about it. But we're going to have to abbreviate things on this one, probably just hitting your name, the race, the city and if you had knocked out a PR, which you really shouldn't be doing on Turkey Day, but if you did, let us know about that. So be prepared for a long but abbreviated race report next week.
Speaker 7:If you're going to be at Space Coast, I'll see you there. I look forward to it. We have a get-together 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon and I forget where it is right now, but that information is on the Facebook page. I hope to see you there. Of course, no Zoom meeting this Thursday, on Thanksgiving Day. We will be back and see you next week. That's going to do it. Good luck on your long training run. If you're knocking it out this week, good luck. One foot in front of the other, you can do it. It's a big one and until we see you again, happy running.
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