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207: 2025 Disneyland Halloween Half Weekend Recap
Running truly connects us across continents, time zones, and finish lines—a truth brilliantly illustrated in this globe-spanning episode. We begin with a comprehensive look at the triumphant return of Disneyland racing through the Halloween-themed race weekend that kicked off the 2025-2026 runDisney season. Our panel of runners shares firsthand experiences navigating the Disneyland expo, enjoying extensive park time during both the 10K and half marathon, and discovering how the California races differ from their Florida counterparts in delightful ways.
The adventure continues halfway around the world as we visit with Carrie, who conquered the Sydney Marathon—recently designated as the seventh World Major. Despite challenging hills that surprised this Florida runner, she achieved a personal record while taking in breathtaking views, including the iconic Sydney Opera House. We learn about the unique medal design and how the Abbott World Marathon Majors program is evolving as it expands beyond the original six races.
Our international tour concludes in Newcastle, England, where the Great North Run—the world's largest half marathon with an astonishing 60,000 participants—captivated both runners and the 200,000 spectators lining the course. Andy shares how this nationally televised event has become a cultural touchstone in Northern England, complete with helicopter coverage and a deeply personal connection as he continues trying to beat his father's time from decades ago.
Between these major events, we explore dozens of race reports from community members conquering everything from trail challenges to local 5Ks, demonstrating that whether you're stomping grapes like Alysha or pushing through marathon training, the running journey connects us all. With Wine and Dine just six weeks away and marathon weekend training intensifying, there's never been a better time to find your place in this worldwide community of runners.
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Speaker 2:Hi fans this is Adrian coming to you from we rise and run. Hi friends, this is Adrian coming to you from Leander, Texas, fresh off a 23-miler on a treadmill. Here's to hoping you find the joy in training, even when it's hard, but on a treadmill Happy listening and see y'all the next race weekend.
Speaker 3:That was Adrian from Texas who finished 23 miles on a treadmill. Now Adrian broke up a little bit at the end, but what I heard was happy running. See you at the next race weekend and I need to follow up with a little apology and alibi in a bit, but before I do that let me say welcome, my friends, Welcome to episode 207 of the Rise and Run podcast. I'm Bob and I am here this week with Greg, hey, hey, hey. With Lexi, Hello. With John hey, how you doing. And with Alicia, Hello, Hello. My friends, Great to see you, Great to have our friends listening with us this week.
Speaker 3:Big week, Gosh. It's kind of like race reports on steroids right now. This week we're going to step back a little bit and talk about the Sydney Marathon. The Sydney Marathon. We're going to visit with a bunch of Ryzen runners who christened the 25-26 run Disney season out in California during the Disneyland Halloween race. We know there was a big race in Pennsylvania this week too, but we got so much going on we're going to put that off for a little bit. However, in the race report spotlight, our friend Andy from the UK ran the Great North Run. That's kind of interesting. That's a major event, one of the biggest in the world, that a lot of us in the US are not familiar with.
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Speaker 3:Let me explain the intros. Adrian, actually was supposed to be the intro for last week, but for the first time in 206 episodes I screwed it up so badly that even Greg couldn't fix it. It's very true. So you may have noticed, there was no recorded intro last week. So if you sent one and when you do it, I I like to message you and say okay, we're going to use you in episode 207, 208, 209. Just add one to whatever I said. So I think we. So I think we've got three more in the can. But whatever I told you, your number was just add one and hey you know, if I go another 209 or 207, I'll consider that a success.
Speaker 5:Although I will laugh my bottom off if one of these days we do get a Rise and Run listener named Shasta. Yeah, one of these days we do get a. Rise and Run. Listener named Shasta.
Speaker 3:A little inside joke there. All right, let's take a look at the training schedule. Of course, disneyland Halloween race comes off the board and it's kind of sad because what I do, I have a schedule here in a spreadsheet and I typically, when one race weekend ends, I take it from the top and I put it down at the bottom so as the days and weeks and months progress, it climbs back up. Didn't do that this time. Took Disneyland Halloween race weekend and just said delete row because we don't know when that's coming back. However, wynodine, we know, is now six weeks away. Six weeks away we are in training week 12. This is something else I may have had wrong in previous episodes, I'm not even sure, but I counted them out. Today we're in training week 12. You have an 11-mile long run if you're doing the challenge this week and I'll tell you what I probably messed up you probably have some mileage on Friday also to walk If you're doing the challenge.
Speaker 9:I'll check for you, Bob Hold on.
Speaker 3:Thanks, john. While you're doing that, let me take a look at Walt Disney world marathon, now 17 weeks away. Training week Dopey and Goofy. This is a short week. Dopey and Goofy is three miles and, from the experienced marathon schedule, there's some speed work. On the Galloway plan it's four times one mile repeats, so if you're running, I'm not going to go into it. You know what those are and how you're supposed to do them, but you got four times one this week. What'd you find, john?
Speaker 9:So, bob, if you're doing the challenge, you might want to do three miles a day before the 11.
Speaker 3:Okay, thanks John, it makes sense. Three and then 11. How's the training going, friends?
Speaker 6:So my training is going really well. We've talked about how my back was hurting and I, for the last couple of years, I've been my own coach. I know that my training plans work well. Um, but I was lacking motivation, um, to get myself out the door. And so, starting last week, I actually started working with our friend Brittany and doing her happy meal program, which basically, yeah, she just gives a plan through a marathon weekend for that one. But I just needed that extra little push to get me out the door and I mean, so far it's working great and I'm on track, so yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was thinking you could just listen to a good motivational podcast and we'd get you out.
Speaker 6:Usually it's my mom saying, aren't you going to go for a run today? And I think she was getting sick of that. I was like I need something else. Um, um, but yeah, I mean her plan is great and um, yeah, I'm excited to see what I can do this season. Yeah. Hopefully this year's marathon will go better than the last couple.
Speaker 5:What was the toy that came with the Happy Meal? I'm very yeah, right.
Speaker 3:Right, the collection of Lincoln pennies. Um, I love that. Yeah, I'm. I'm back on what I'm calling a training plan. I'm getting out and walking nearly every morning. I I walked four miles this weekend, more on that later, like much later. But I walked three today.
Speaker 3:I am not at my normal walking pace. I am not at my normal walking pace. I feel great kids, I feel maybe a little too good, but I'm following rule number one. Remember, last week I talked about recovering injury? Rule number one pay attention to your medical team. I've got this silly. Well, it's not silly.
Speaker 3:I've got this back brace that I'm supposed to wear for the first couple weeks. I don't feel as though I need it. Uh, I went out what's today? Today's Tuesday, I went out oh gosh, I forget when it was not long ago and I'm walking along and I feel really great. And I go, oh boy, this is good.
Speaker 3:I feel like, oh, I forgot to put the brace on. So I'm ready to go do my walk without the brace. And I'm thinking, dang nabbit, you just told everybody rule number one pay attention to you. So I came back in the house, threw the thing on it's it, uh, I don't know restricts my motion a little bit and slows me down, but I still feel fine walking. So my objective right now I I see the doctor next Wednesday, so it'll be after next episode and we'll see what's next. I don't, I don't, I won't know till then, but I will continue walking. I plan to walk six miles this weekend and with the objective of being able to walk the total distances for the Wine and Dine Challenge by the time that comes around. So we're making progress, friends.
Speaker 5:You know, Bob, I know you're not at 100% walking shape. You're typical walking shape. Right, there's someone who's coming for you. I don't know if you noticed this, but Hollywood has started, I think, prescribing to the Bob walking program and he's putting up some pretty impressive paces that I think maybe at one point, maybe in like a run Disney corral before a race, we should have like a quick, like you know, 200 meter walk off.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it may have to wait quite a while. I I hope to pick up some of my speed. Um, when he gets under 12 minutes a mile, let me know, okay.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 3:Now, when he gets under 12 minutes a mile, let me know. Okay, all right, now I've only done that for two miles, all right, it's not like I've done it a lot, but I have done it.
Speaker 7:Alicia, what you said about finding motivation, it really makes a difference when you're doing workouts that you are really enjoying, because I mean, y'all know my story with the burnout that I was experiencing last year and how, just not wanting to go run, um, but I mean, I'll tell you, I've been going to the gym, um, to train with my trainer, uh, three times a week now for four weeks, I think three weeks, since I got back from Japan.
Speaker 7:Four weeks, I think Three weeks. Well, since I got back from Japan, and I'm having so much fun and you know, just waking up and being like, okay, I mean sometimes, yeah, I wake up and I'm like I don't really want to go train right now, but then I go and he'll say something like oh yeah, it's Lexi, she's my strong one, coming in and I'm like I'm the strong one, but it's, you know, it's welcome to feel that feeling of going to a workout and getting done with it and like, yeah, I did it. Or doing 10 reps and then hearing my trainer say, no, let's do, let's do five more. Or like I was on the stair climber Saturday. Yeah, today's Tuesday, I was on the the stair master thing. We were going to do five minutes and then I got to five minutes I was like I'm gonna do like a minute more and I ended up saying that four times and doing 10 minutes good for you, great job it was, it was good it was, it's cool yeah, it reminds me of an expression do you like running?
Speaker 3:well, I like having run.
Speaker 7:So right, I like finishing. It's the feeling afterwards that you're like, yeah, I did that John any training update?
Speaker 9:Yeah, I had a long run this weekend, so I decided to hook up with Greg and Bob and about 45 other friends and did a half marathon. But we'll talk about that next week.
Speaker 3:Okay, john, all right, good stuff. Hope your training's going well. Friends Caution runners.
Speaker 5:Change of topic ahead.
Speaker 3:You know what we could do right now. We could ask what would Alicia do?
Speaker 6:Are you ready for this one?
Speaker 3:Oh heck yeah, I've been waiting all day. Are you ready for this one? Oh heck, yeah, I've been waiting all day.
Speaker 6:So what would Alicia do? Alicia?
Speaker 3:would go grape stomping. Grape stomping. Yeah, you're making wine yeah.
Speaker 6:I love Loopsie episode where they grape stomp.
Speaker 9:First thing I thought of.
Speaker 3:That is a classic scene in American comedy.
Speaker 6:Absolutely, that is a classic scene in American comedy, absolutely, and so this was something that a friend of mine posted on Instagram and it wasn't far from me, and so I decided I wanted to do it, but something that I do each month.
Speaker 6:I actually do it with the new moon, as that starts a good time for intentions and goals, but I always have a goal to try something new, and so I was trying to figure out what to do for the month, and when I saw that I was like I'm going to go grape stomping and I went and I there was going to be in between the grape stomping competitions there was going to be just individual like you could go up and grape stomp, which is what I went to do originally and I got there and that wasn't going to happen for like two more hours, and so I was like, okay, I guess I'm going to be in a grape stomping competition. I got second place. There was only my mom there to cheer me on. I did get a lot of other cheers, but the man next to me had a lot of people there, so he won um. But my question with this is um, is there anything that you guys have done that has been on your life list, um, that you always wanted to do and you've done.
Speaker 5:Or maybe you want to do and haven't gotten to do it yet I really thought the question was going to be have you ever been invited to be part of a food competition? Well, you can answer that too, greg, if you'd like, okay well, if that's the case, then yes, alicia, I do have something all right so, oh god, this.
Speaker 5:This was a couple years ago, but my dad was on a committee in the town where I grew up, uh, and there was a fall festival and one of the events during the fall festival was a holupki eating contest you gotta help me with that craig, okay, uh holupkin. Uh, holupki, it's a. It's an eastern european dish. I feel like every culture has its own version of it, but my grandmother calls it hlupki. So it is rice and ground beef wrapped in cabbage, steamed within like a tomato sauce poured over top of it.
Speaker 9:Sounds good. Cabbage roll that's what my grandmother called it, yeah.
Speaker 5:So the committee decided to do this halupki eating contest and they had two people that signed up who didn't show up, so my father entered me into the competition uh unbeknownst to me, so that was fun to prepare for yeah and, uhless to say, I got annihilated because I think the guy that won didn't have many teeth, so I think he was able to slurp them down a lot faster, whereas here I'm trying to chew through the cabbage and everything, and it was quite the mess, so I didn't do my family proud that day.
Speaker 3:Oh, I don't know, Greg. Based on what I've seen from some of these eating contests, I think I'm more proud of the fact that you didn't win.
Speaker 5:I mean going into it. They were saying I was the Joey Chestnut of Holupki eating oh well, that didn't last long, but again, that's probably good.
Speaker 3:I'm probably happy for you there, alicia, I can't think of anything. All I could think of is boy, I'd be really good at stomping grapes. Yeah, that's a big feat, um and and we try. We haven't done it for a while. I started to do it when I was here. Becky and I would go to a different brewery every fr. We called it Brewery Friday and we go to a new one. That's kind of fun. Yeah, we may do that tomorrow. A lot of breweries in this area are independently owned, so that's neat. But I think it's neat that you went grape stomping girl. I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 9:Did you keep the wine? What's going on with this?
Speaker 6:So if you won the competition, you got a free bottle of wine. I, for entering the competition, got a free glass of wine, so I got that. There was also an apple orchard there and a cidery, so I got to experience those as well. So it was fun.
Speaker 3:Alicia, what was the criteria for?
Speaker 6:winning Just the amount of cheers that you got.
Speaker 9:Oh, okay.
Speaker 6:I did put a reel on my personal instagram um runner girl alicia, if you want to check it out. Um, but I should have one.
Speaker 5:He just had way more people, yeah okay, see, I, I I call, I call baloney here because, like when you started describing this like the only thing I could like, I mean outside of, I love lucy. The other thing that went to my mind is like one of those like physical challenges from double dare where, like you, had to like stop enough grapes to like fill up the bucket to get past the line and the wind.
Speaker 5:So the fact that it's based on cheering like yeah, great for the moral support but if you, if you got more volume than that guy, right you, you should demand a yeah, it's fixed yeah it was.
Speaker 6:I definitely made those run disney moments of like having fun and enjoying life um into the competition and I was turning around and dancing and stomping those grapes, so yeah I hope that inspires some of our listeners to go out and do something fun um, or maybe cross something off their bucket list.
Speaker 3:And that was what would Alicia do.
Speaker 5:Caution runners. The topic is about to change right now.
Speaker 3:I've said it a couple of times already. I'll say it a couple more times before the episode's over. It was a big race weekend this weekend, but right now we want to talk about the start of the 2025-2026 run Disney season, which started at Disneyland with the Halloween race weekend, which started at Disneyland with the Halloween race weekend. Now, none of the Rise and Run gang were there, but a bunch of the Rise and Run family was there and we are so excited to have these friends with us this evening. I'm going to ask them to introduce themselves and let's start with Alan and Grace.
Speaker 14:I'm Alan from Anaheim. I'm Grace. We're happy to have a local race and to be part of the Rise and Run.
Speaker 3:We're proud to have you guys, I promise.
Speaker 15:Hi, this is Chrissy from Bedford, Pennsylvania. This is my second time going to Anaheim and running at Disneyland and excited to be here and share what happened. Go birds Exactly.
Speaker 8:I'm Leslie from Colorado Springs. This was my third Disneyland race weekend. But about final count, it's like my 10th visit to Disneyland. My first time was December 89.
Speaker 11:Hi, I'm Megan. I'm from Ohio. This was my second trip out to Halloween weekend and it was my attempt at redeeming myself after last year not going so well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we wanted to give you a chance to tell us about that, Megan.
Speaker 4:I'm Courtney. I'm from Long Island, new York Island, new York. This was my second time out to Disneyland. First time doing the Disneyland half and completing my coast to coast.
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm Dorothy. I'm from Kennesaw, georgia, and this is my third time going out to Disneyland and my second coast to coast Hi everyone, my name is Lauren, I am in Decatur, georgia, and this is my first time in Disneyland.
Speaker 10:So my first Disneyland race, my first coast to coast, and it was my 40th birthday on the 10K.
Speaker 3:That's yes, I knew that. I knew that. Happy belated birthday. What a great way to celebrate. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah. Well, friends, thanks for joining us. It would have been a pretty dull race recap without you, so we're glad you're here. Let's start. And let's start and talk about the expo now. Everybody got to the expo, probably on different days. What I'd like you to tell our friends about is how was it? And if you have experience at Disney World, how much different is it out there at Disneyland? And let's kick it off, megan, why don't you start that for us please?
Speaker 11:Well, I didn't get to the Expo till Saturday because I didn't get into late Friday night. There was surprisingly a decent amount of merch. I was actually able to get the cotton t-shirt, not just like the techie ones, but they were completely out of ornament shoes so I was really bummed about that. Oh sorry, my collection is now incomplete. The one thing I did really enjoy I am not a beer or cider person, so I never get the cups at walt disney world because I can't justify that. But this time for the cups they had a lime dole whip with tequila and that I could handle wow, I that I didn't realize it had tequila in it yeah, but the cups?
Speaker 6:were really cute and I love that they had the Dole Whip.
Speaker 3:Run that by us again. A lime Dole Whip with tequila.
Speaker 11:Yes, you could get it with or without tequila.
Speaker 3:Almost made the trip worthwhile. It's like a frozen margarita. That's what it sounds like, yeah.
Speaker 6:Up my alley Margarita.
Speaker 3:That's what it sounds like yeah, my alley, yeah, right, right.
Speaker 8:I went on Thursday. I got to my hotel about 945. So I walked over, got there about 1030. There was kind of a line to get into the bibs and you did what kind of you expect probably happened before, like the tape that they will tape down the queue line. So it didn't take long to get through that. So got my bib, got my shirt and kind of walked around the expo a little bit and I also took advantage of the compression boots because during my last run before the race, which was Saturday before, my right calf kind of had a spasm so I was trying to do everything I could to make sure that I could do my race.
Speaker 10:I got there on Thursday. I think I got to the expo about 1 PM. There was no line to pick up my bib at that point and when I was walking around the expo there was some merchandise I wanted and I saw the really long line for the queue and the only other Disney race I had done was princess, and I showed up at the expo the day after it had opened so I did not know I needed to actually sign in for the virtual queue. I think I was in the line as number 193, like group 193, and they were on 53 or something so about four hours later I got to get online but they had plenty of merchandise like Megan talked about.
Speaker 10:I'm sorry you didn't get the shoes. They did have plenty of them. I wish I would have. But no, I mean, it was a great experience as far as everybody knowing what they were doing and ushering people in just helping out.
Speaker 4:So um, so I went friday afternoon. Um, I came straight from the airport, so I got there around 12 pm and I was able to walk right into everything. There was no line at all, except for the brooks uh sneakers. That was the only thing that there was a line for, but everything else they still had quite a bit of merchandise. They still had the shoe ornament on Friday afternoon. But, yeah, it was really easy and very different from Disney World with having everything so spread out there. But it was just two floors really at Disneyland.
Speaker 2:So I got there Thursday morning. But I'm part of Club Run Disney, so it was a little bit different of an experience. And when I went, I guess the first time last year, it was a really long line even to get in for Clever and Disney, so I kind of let the lines die down. They opened up, I want to say, at seven or 730. I didn't get there till close to eight and there was no line. You just walked right on into the merch section. It didn't seem as crazy as it was before. It was pretty simple. I was kind of disappointed they didn't have any new Coast to Coast merch, because this was when I was earning my Coast to Coast medal and the medal was so pretty this time I was really hoping they had some additional merch, but not yet. So keep an eye out for that. And then, yeah, I picked up my bib and everything was way more streamlined than I think it had been in the past, or maybe I was just more familiar with it this time around.
Speaker 5:So do we think that there was no coast to coast merchandise because of the races unfortunately going away soon.
Speaker 2:So in the chat I had mentioned it and somebody said that they had talked to a cast member and they were kind of redesigning the merge. So we'll have to see if new stuff comes out. But I mean, this was a time a lot of people were able to earn it. So I was really surprised. There wasn't anything to the point where I was like wait, did I miss it?
Speaker 15:do I need to go back and like no, it just wasn't there yeah, so that was the rumor that they weren't going to make any more because it would start a new year, but it doesn't really make sense when you still have wine and dine to happen. So that could have been your first race at Disneyland to get coast to coast this year. So I actually had bought my coast to coast stuff when I was doing dopey and I had so many people ask me where'd you get your shirt, how did you get that? And so there definitely would have been people buying it, so it didn't make sense not to make more.
Speaker 5:Disneyland in 2026, you would still be eligible as long as you did a half marathon or even the 10-miler at springtime in 2026. So yeah, I don't think they should be stopping merchandise by any means, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Speaker 9:Has they officially announced the 2026 coast-to-coast. That's the thing. There's nothing on their website about it yet.
Speaker 15:Oh, good point, good point so, talking about what's different about disneyland and disney world, with the expo you're not doing as much, maybe walking, because it's more compact in disneyland, but I did feel like disneyland was less handicap accessible, so there were like little steps in the um expo area and then you had and I think you would have had an elevator to go up and get your bid, but it just the hallways were tighter. So like I just thought about that that you know for some of our racers that are in wheel divide, like how difficult that might have been for them to navigate there. It's also a little disappointing. They have, um, no characters there.
Speaker 15:Club Run Disney people got some characters but in general characters weren't there and they only had like two or three photo opportunities. But they were still really nice photo opportunities. So I just think like if you're going to these two races like it's hard to really compare them you should just go and enjoy the experience, that it is Right, and so just like, look for the things that you really enjoy. So I really enjoyed that it was so compact and I wasn't putting a bunch of miles on my legs just on Expo Day, so that was a bonus.
Speaker 11:The only other comment I wanted to make the other thing that I didn't get to get that I get at all the races is the half magnet. Um, kind of sounds like there's a little controversy. The I saw someone posted a picture of it. They got it the first day and the one was missing from the 13.1.
Speaker 6:Oh, really, I think they pulled them all, so we weren't able to get half magnets either it was actually on their doubly so, like the middle said 13.1 and then in one of the upper corners it said 3.1, and so they I think they pulled them because of it did you get a chance to say hi to jeff?
Speaker 11:I did. I stopped and talked to him and talked to one of the pacers, and then saw him again later on.
Speaker 2:I saw Jeff too. They got him a chair. I was very happy to see.
Speaker 3:I was glad to see that he gave him a chair. I was glad to see that 80 year old man.
Speaker 2:It's about time he gets his chair yeah, so I was like, oh, and it was like one of those like tall director chairs, so you're still like I with them. It's perfect, loved it.
Speaker 3:Alan, you think they'll get us a chair in a couple years. We need one now all right.
Speaker 6:So, corny, I think it was you that mentioned the brooks shoes. Having this be a new race weekend, we saw a new shoe which had those glow-in-the-dark bottoms. Um, did anybody, corny you had mentioned you were there did you get them? Did anybody else get them?
Speaker 4:I got the purple Halloween pair nice.
Speaker 11:They were sold out by the time I got there, really in any of the sizes that I would have fit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was not a problem at Disney World.
Speaker 11:I think it's. I don't know if they had less but I know, like the purple I think, was a lot more popular than any of the ones they had's springtime. I don't know if they had less but I know, like the purple I think, was a lot more popular than any of the ones they had at springtime. Like purple ones were sharp.
Speaker 3:That's. I'm sorry to hear that, cause I know you know people were excited about getting them.
Speaker 7:Has anyone seen if they're posted Like, because I know after the last race weekend they were posted on.
Speaker 3:Tomorrow yeah the rumor is tomorrow that oh really yeah, which means, which means yesterday yeah they will have posted by the time.
Speaker 15:People are listening the other rumor yeah, the other rumor I heard is that we're only going to have the mickey and minnie shoes for a little bit, and then those are going to change too. So, and Minnie shoes for a little bit, and then those are going to change too. So I don't know if it's true. I didn't hear it from Brooks, but that's something.
Speaker 7:I heard, so get them now if you want them okay, expo always fun.
Speaker 3:I love it. Get a chance to see our friends back, and this one especially, you know, back to run Disney time. It'll be that way at wine and dine it's back to run Disney time. It'll be that way at Wine and Dine it's back to run Disney time. The expo's how we kick it off. They did have yoga, but I don't believe anyone here attended the yoga. Is that correct? Yep, okay, for those of you who are listening, a lot of people are shaking their heads. No, okay, for those of you who are listening, a lot of people are shaking their heads. No, okay Now. You told us before we kicked off that none of this group here had run the 5K. However, lauren, you said you spectated the 5K, so you are now our 5K expert, lauren. How was the 5K you are now our 5K expert, lauren.
Speaker 10:how was the 5K? 5k was amazing. So I got to the Esplanade to watch. I think I got there probably two minutes before the lead runner or I think the lead will device came through. And then the runners came through, looked good. I stayed out there about an hour, made a friend and chit-chattedatted with her for a while. She kind of explained to me where I needed to be, but uh, we shouted encouragement and screamed and yelled for everybody and uh, there wasn't a ton of people out there um that early or in that area where we were.
Speaker 10:So it was nice. Um, I felt like everybody was actually hearing us scream and yell for them, rather than just being lost in the crowd. So it was really cool. We had a lot of really cool costumes to see.
Speaker 5:That's awesome. Now again, lauren, you only spectated, so maybe you didn't hear a full story or maybe you talked to another runner to get their perspective, but we had heard reports that during the 5K I guess, the course got shortened ever so slightly for the, I guess, crowd D or beyond. Did you hear any stories about that or hear about anyone who might have been affected by that?
Speaker 10:I saw a few people posting about it. I didn't hear anything while we were out there, but a few people said that I think that their watches clocked them at 2.9 or something like that.
Speaker 5:Um, where they had, they deviated from the course just a little bit. Yeah, okay, yeah, the. The big thing I saw was, um, our friend amanda, over at once upon a marathon. She had put up an instagram story just showing, like a the course map and then what was a set in, like the, the deviation that they made, and I mean it looked like it was just as you were running through California Adventure you just went straight and you didn't loop into Avengers Campus. So I mean it wasn't. It's not like it was a massive cut by any means, but obviously you know every little bit helps in terms of those logistical things.
Speaker 6:So I can confirm that, greg okay, I did talk to sarah, who was also there, um and did it and yes, she said they just didn't um take that first left turn. They went to adventures campus.
Speaker 3:So do we know why?
Speaker 6:um, they were very strict at these races for the timings, and so I guess they made the decision, since it ended in the park, that six o'clock would be the cutoff for that specific piece, although the parks didn't open until 8 am. But that's what I've heard.
Speaker 8:Okay, I think Disneyland had early entry and the DCA had eight o'clock. So just for those planning to go out in January, just note that those parks open an hour earlier than Disney World.
Speaker 3:Okay, and the 5K starts in Disneyland, right.
Speaker 15:Well, the 5K and the 10K are like almost all in the park. Yeah, they're all in the park. There's very little all in the park. Yeah, they're all in the park.
Speaker 8:There's very little outside of the park yeah, but the 5k starts on main street kind of by, like you see the matterhorn like right there I read somewhere um that they were going to cut out opening early for the hotel guests sometime next year, but I don't know what that is.
Speaker 10:So, um, I guess, when you check out um, if it's happening in january, just make sure um before you plan on getting.
Speaker 5:Oh, yes, I, I did read that. Yeah, I think that I I want to say that is ending. It is ending before the race weekend, so hopefully that won't be a, you know, a major issue. Um, I, I think, like a disney rep said, like not a lot of people were were, you know, taking advantage of it or something like that, and this was my favorite part, though not to go into tangent here but they're, instead of doing the early entry, they're giving everyone one lightning lane for free, and not per day just one total you gotta love it all.
Speaker 3:Hey, better than poking the eye with a sharp stick, right, I guess. So All right, all right. 5k ends on Friday. Saturday is 10K day Now. We had folks running the 10K. So, chrissy, how was the 10K?
Speaker 15:First I got to tell about how I got into the 10k.
Speaker 15:So originally, I was just gonna go do the half marathon, do my coast to coast, because I, you know, didn't have a lot of vacation time and everything. But a few weeks before I built a Dalmatian Lego set and I was just like, oh my gosh, I gotta have that medal. So I was able at the last minute to get a charity bib and it was a really quick turnaround with the fundraising. They did reduce the amount I had to do, but I was so excited to get into that and I didn't have to change like my hotel and flight or anything like that, cause I was already going to come in on Friday, um, but I feel like they did a fabulous job with the theming. So they had Cruella on a stage and she was just, she was amazing, she just was so in character and lots of great photo opportunities with her.
Speaker 15:and then they had another area which had like the crunchy canine tv display with the little Dalmatians and you could get inside and be in the tv and that was really cute and then when you got towards the finish, we were coming around this turn and corella's vehicle was there and you could get your picture with the car, um, so that all was just awesome.
Speaker 15:They did cut some character photo lines early. So around mile five was Mickey and Pluto and they cut the line and at that point the balloon ladies had just hit about mile three, so there was still plenty of time so and the line wasn't that long. So that was a little disappointing, but I think it goes back to like what we said about the five K. You know, this is all in the park. They got to get ready to open the park pretty quickly after the race, so there was still, you know, plenty of great opportunities and those characters that you missed at the 10k if you were doing the challenge, I mean, some of them were there the next day as well. So I I thought, you know it was great to be in the parks most of the time and just a really great race.
Speaker 8:Yeah, I got a really good picture because they were doing projections on Small World so it was like Ruella color and puppy paw print, so I was able to get a really good picture of that. I thought their character selection was much, much better because I did the January races last year. So the first race weekend they came back and they were like I don't know three character stops and so those lines were really really long. And I do remember going through Pixar Pure. You had a lot of Incredibles characters. I think I remember Mr Incredible, I remember Edna. So it was like a really good just mix of characters between the theming for the backdrops but also characters just kind of complementing the area of the parks they were in. And then you also have the opportunities for selfies and I remember Black Panther was up on the riser of Avengers and trying to remember if there was like Stormtroopersopers up on the rise of in galaxy.
Speaker 15:The storm troopers were there for the half for me, but I saw kylo ren at the 10k.
Speaker 8:So when we came into galaxy's edge and there was, it wasn't at the millennium falcon, it was in another part where they were standing and we could do selfies yeah, there weren't many character stops with photopass photographers oh, mostly selfies, huh yeah, selfies, or like there would be a cast member and you would hand them okay and then they would take your with your phone, uh, but it wasn't like the professional photographers which is a bum bummer, because PhotoPass is included with Disneyland races.
Speaker 15:I was just about ready to say that.
Speaker 5:And you would also think too that if you wanted the lines to be more efficient with Disneyland having the PhotoPass photographer there, that would actually make it go quicker.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Because, as opposed to okay, I got to open my phone.
Speaker 5:I'm going gonna hand it off now I gotta position it and I gotta figure out where the you know the shutter button is on the phone and and such like that. Yeah, that that is a little disappointing but hopefully, you know, run disney takes that feedback and I know they're going away in january but hopefully they you know they do make that adjustment for january now. Uh, chrissy and leslie, the, the question I have for you is all of my co-hosts here always love to poke fun at me because whenever we talk about a walt disney world race I always say that the crescent lake 10k course at walt disney world is the quote-unquote perfect 10k course. But I would have to imagine that Disneyland would say Greg, hold my beer. Oh, I think so With this course. Do you agree or disagree with that statement?
Speaker 15:Oh I agree, absolutely, 100% agree. Yeah, that 10K course at Disneyland is perfect.
Speaker 3:It's great.
Speaker 15:Now I will say there are some parts that were a little tight. You know you're in the park, so there's only so much room to run and you're sitting backstage, like the backstage would be pretty tight.
Speaker 8:But I think the first mile marker was by Grand Californian and when we popped out on stage in DCA it was in Cars Land and so, like all of the lights in Cars Land were up and we just just like snaked our way around. I think we hit almost every spot in that park before heading to Disneyland.
Speaker 15:And again, I think we hit everything that you could and that's like you said, leslie, like it's like you get in there and the first thing is just boom, there was like Cars Land and all these lights, and it was just like magic. And then you know you get to go over to Pixar Pier and you see, you know the Ferris Wheel like lit up and just the amazing pictures you can take there on the bridge. And then you know you get to go through galaxies. It's just, if there's anything you like about Disney, you're going to get it on that course at some point it is a good course.
Speaker 3:All right, so the 10k finishes. Now, saturday afternoon, it's meetup time. Alan and grace, I would like to thank you for taking the lead on the meetup, and why don't you kick it off by telling us how you thought the meetup went, please?
Speaker 14:I thought we had a great turnout. We had even more people than we expected. We had a lot of cookies and everybody had a lot of fun. People were getting there I know Karen Jessup was getting her hair braided, so we had a lot of activities going on, but everybody was very friendly. Everybody got along and shared cookies and drinks and stories and it was a great time.
Speaker 3:And it wasn't 107 degrees.
Speaker 14:It was at least 10 degrees cooler.
Speaker 8:And we were in the shade. I felt it felt really nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is a nice area. Who else went? What did you think, guys?
Speaker 11:I did. I got there literally as they were about to snap the picture and so I snuck into the front of the picture. So, if you see it, I still have my backpack on and everything, because I literally had just rounded the corner. But then I ended up staying and talking. Like I think it was 4 o'clock by the time we started heading into the park again, so it was nice.
Speaker 3:That's good, because y'all started it too.
Speaker 15:Yeah, yeah, we got there right at two and went right for the cookies and they were amazing. I got there.
Speaker 8:I got there at tuesday about an hour, traded friendship bracelets, so let me try to get one of alan's and alan, just so you know, it does glow in the dark at pirates, it glows in the dark at buzz and it glows in the dark at haunted mansion I.
Speaker 12:I thought the meetup went well and we got a lot of people. We got 50 plus people. I want to thank Mary and Kelly and Grace for doing the cookies. There was really no setup. The weather was a lot better. We were in the shade. The bracelet thing had started onursday and the people that actually wanted the group of bracelets were the brooks people, because the halloween shoe was glow-in-the-dark. So the halloween shoe is going to sell out and wine and dine is getting their own shoe okay, okay, that's interesting to know, alan, that wineed down to get their own shoe.
Speaker 3:That's cool. We can look forward to that that'll be neat.
Speaker 12:So I don't know if they, unless they have extra of the uh halloween shoe that's not gonna be at world in I gotcha, I gotcha.
Speaker 3:It says disneyland on the back. So I kind of didn't think it was coming to disney world anyway.
Speaker 12:So I think right now, each one of the races is going to have their own shoe and then, potentially, there's going to be a new mickey, mickey and minnie shoe in january okay, well, we'll have to see what happens it seems like whatever the race theme shoe is, is is the ghost model and then the other shoes are the glycerin.
Speaker 15:So again, if people are into Brooks, you know, knowing that, that might help make a decision.
Speaker 10:I tried to walk over to where I thought the picnic or the meetup was about 2.10 and I didn't see anybody, so I kept on walking. But I did see somebody posted a map and had the exact spot where it was after and I was like man, I wish I would have walking. But I did see somebody posted a map and had the exact spot where it was after and I was like man, I wish I would have seen this. I don't know how I missed you guys, but hi and I was looking forward to meeting everybody.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry you missed it. They are a lot of fun. Well hidden behind the hedges, it is. It is, but we did our best to explain where it was and I'm glad uh, I'm glad a bunch of you found it and and had a good time, those that made it.
Speaker 7:that's neat so we're done with the meetup and moving on to sunday with the half marathon. So tell me, how did it go like in the starting corrals? How was the entertainment and the start of the race?
Speaker 4:I was in g corral so I was like middle back, um. It was kind of interesting because they had them all in a straight line, since the corrals are quite a bit smaller than at disney world, um, so they just kind of ran straight back. It was very convenient because I was staying right next to the start line so I just could walk right back and it was great. But yeah, I did notice there was a lot less PhotoPass photographers along the course, along the course, um, and, like everybody else was saying that, they were mostly using your phone, so the lines were a bit longer, uh, than I was expecting. So I didn't get a ton of character photos, but I did get a picture with the anaheim duck once we were on the okay. So you know, that was my fun photo of the race, um, yeah, it was nice. It was, you know, pretty warm for me coming from New York and not being quite as warm and sunny, so it's a little warm, but you, you know, still had fun, still liked it.
Speaker 10:This was my first time to have a corral B start and um I it made a major difference as far as the path not being quite as crowded as normal or, as you are, with the uh, further the corrals, further back. Um. I also think that it made a big difference with the heat, where I know last year it was supposed to have been like really, really hot. I wasn't there last year, thankfully, because I would have melted, but this year I think that it was a lot better and I think I sweated more on Saturday than I did on Sunday, actually doing the 10K than the half.
Speaker 2:So a little bit of a difference there, for me at least 10k than the half, so a little bit of a difference there, for me at least. I actually put my Garmin watch on for a walk because I wanted to see exactly how far it was from my hotel room to the Star Corral, and it was 0.65 miles. So that was a huge difference compared to Disney World and it took me 18 minutes. So I actually set my alarm at 3.30 in the morning, which felt like sleeping in for a run Disney race. I left at four and was in the corral by 4.20.
Speaker 2:And that was with a stop, for I got a picture at one of the backdrops they had. So there's not, you know, there's not characters out front, so you don't need to spend too much time like in the starting corral areas. But they did have some nice backdrops up and I, you know, asked a couple people to take some pictures, um, and then I went and hopped in my corral and that was that. That is like one perk of disneyland over disney world for sure is that a pr for 0.65 miles, did you?
Speaker 2:it has to be I mean, I felt like I could walk that, just like to get to through security at Epcot. So it was, um, it was nice, I was gonna say the the course. I really did enjoy the course. You had so much park time, um, and I've like out and backs rather than a loop. So once we got out onto the city streets of Anaheim, you had a couple miles where you know we were going down at like mile you know seven or eight, and people were coming back at mile 10 or 11 or 12. And it felt more run Disney-ish. Even though you didn't have characters out there, even though you didn't have you know as many photo ops, you still had a lot of DJsjs. I felt like they did a better job with um course entertainment with djs, and then you could see all of the people running in the opposite direction as you and their costumes and their and and what they were wearing and their signs and everything and it just I liked that better than just like a big loop around around the city.
Speaker 11:So I enjoyed that that piece just for the starting kind of stuff. I stayed at Motel 6, which is right by the start line. But the problem I ran into is I wanted to check gear and when I went to get to the like last year I stayed there also and it was very convenient to get to my corral. But this year, in order to check gear, they made me walk all the way around to the other entrance and to go in the far side to go to the gear truck. And by the time I got back to the corral I had done 0.75 miles and my hotel was like right there Was that a pit Never mind.
Speaker 11:And the other thing just kind of going to the end of the race. I'm not a fan of where they have the gear trucks because they are far from the finish. It's kind of a hike to go get your stuff afterwards too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you're not kind of in the mood at that point, are you?
Speaker 11:Yeah, exactly. And then just about kind of piggybacking on what Dorothy was saying, I had heard kind of the horror stories of boring Anaheim streets and this was the first time I'd gotten to run on them and I concur 100%, it was very I liked having the other runners coming the other way and getting to see them and it just it made it more interesting. It made it more exciting. And I enjoyed the streets.
Speaker 5:Lauren, I want to come back to something you said about the weather and the fact that you thought you were sweating more during the 10K than you did the half marathon. Coach Twiggs had posted in not only Rise and Run but all of the Run Disney groups on Facebook that the decision was made that, due to heat and humidity, all of the Galloway Pacers were going to fall back one spot. Obviously, the weather was nowhere near anything like it was last year, but did it get a little bit, you know, hotter and and more humid as the race went on, or or was it pretty even keel for for you?
Speaker 10:made sense, especially, I think, once we were hitting probably mile nine or ten and, like I said, said I was with Corral B so I had an earlier start, so the folks that were starting in later were out in the sun longer. I was keeping up with the 220 pacers for a while, but I've realized that they probably weren't running 220. So and I kept hearing them say we need to slow down, we need to slow down, so they were telling themselves they needed to slow down, we need to slow down, like. So they were telling themselves they needed to slow down.
Speaker 2:Um, so I it was interesting hearing how they were trying to like figure out how what they needed to do and I feel like on the out part of the out and back you were running into the sun and that's where it got toasty. Once you started coming back and the sun was at your back, I felt like I cooled off a little bit.
Speaker 5:But that stretch from when the sun came up to when you turned around, that that was pretty warm good call and obviously I don't blame the galloway gang and run disney at all for for making this decision. Unfortunately, you know there was a tragic event that happened at the end of the the race last uh season, uh, with that one gentleman who who passed away, you know, after the race but so but again, obviously much different weather conditions, but you know glad to see that they were. They were taking caution as well too, uh, throughout the course of the race weekend. So so good on everybody, uh. But Chrissy, I think you had, you thought you wanted to share yeah, so just talking about that?
Speaker 15:um, one thing that I did find interesting I ran last year for the half and this year, and both times I was in corral b? Um this year they really emphasized how the pacers were going slower and all that. But my understanding is the very last group of pacers who would have been at that 16 minute mile pace still had to stay at the 16 minute mile pace.
Speaker 15:They didn't go, which I thought was really you couldn't add like 15 more minutes to the overall rate. Like I thought that was a little unfair because they were in the hottest part of it and, as others said, like I'm in Corral B and the sun's hitting me in the face when I hit the streets of Anaheim, but I can't imagine what that was like, you know, a couple hours later. So I think there's still some work that needs to be done with those adjustments for heat. They definitely had plenty of water stops and, from what I heard, nobody didn't run out of water at all. So even people that were back in the pack still had plenty of water. So that was good.
Speaker 2:And they had Powerade at the first water stop station too, so I was happy.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's great.
Speaker 11:They also did Powerade first and then water at each station.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 11:Which I actually ended up really liking, and I don't know why or if it made a difference. And as far as being in the back of the pack, the second to last water stop. They started handing us actual whole bottles of Powerade and bottles of water because they had so much, but I think most of us. I took a bottle of powerade and then realized I can't carry this. It's way too big, bulky and heavy. And you saw then lots of bottles along the way which I felt bad, but oh yeah they did that last year too.
Speaker 6:Um, they were handing out the bottles when it was so hot, yeah they were also warm, so it didn't really help.
Speaker 10:Oh, a few of the ladies spoke about, uh, the hotels they stayed at. Um, I stayed on the in the disneyland hotel resort because I was unaware, like this was my first disneyland race. I didn't know. It wasn't like the disney world bubble where you kind of needed to stay on the resorts. Um, I was in a pixar place and they did not have a shuttle. But if you walk to grand california or disneyland hotel, there was a shuttle that would take you to the start line. Um, I think some people missed the race at the 10k because they lined up outside the hotel, um, the pixar place hotel, thinking there was a shuttle. Like somebody lined up and then people followed. So I heard a rumor about that.
Speaker 10:So I just wanted to clue everybody and that if you're there in January um check to make sure what um shuttle if you're gonna do that well, good advice.
Speaker 3:I hope that's not true. I hope it didn't nobody missed the race, but that's still good advice, thanks.
Speaker 4:I was kind of in the back of the pack-ish by the time I got to mile 10, the balloon ladies were two miles behind me Because you could see them on the out and back coming. And it got pretty warm back there for me Because we were running directly into the sun at one point and then having the sun beat down our backs coming the other way. So, um, by that point it was, uh, pretty hot and everything. But like everybody was saying they had plenty of water. Um, there was one stop that they couldn't fill the water fast enough for the people coming in, so they were making people cross over to the other side, which got a little dicey.
Speaker 4:A bit, you're kind of playing yeah, imagine you know you're shuffling about and everything, but it it wasn't terrible and stuff. But running along the streets of anaheim was really fun because you had people outside handing out candy, um, handing out donuts.
Speaker 4:Uh, people have their dogs out and you can pet their dog, so that was a lot of fun, nice, so pretty well supported by the city, huh yeah, yeah, that was really nice to see, like people um coming out and you'd see them at like one mile and then you'd see them come down to like a different marker when people passed by. So you saw the same people about like three or four times during that span, including the stormtrooper giving up taking his case for bringing the star wars half back.
Speaker 6:Oh yes, that was my favorite, ellen and grace. We haven't heard much from you and I wanted to get your perspective on it. Having done all of the disneyland races before, how did this one go for you and how did it compare to other races that you've done there?
Speaker 12:I like the fact that and a couple points that were brought up. Number one when it was really hot, even the run Disney people were going to pull the water and make people drink Powerade. So that's why Powerade was in the first Second. The water stops. If you looked at, it were color coded so that blue was the water and yellow was the powering, so you could just look at that and that's why all the cups were pretty well neutral. They were all white. I think it was run pretty well. They have to basically clean it and they have to check after we're done running. So that's why there's kind of a time limit and a time crunch on the 5K and the 10K and I think that the out-and back one worked and and we enjoyed the course this year.
Speaker 14:I. I'd like to say I, I like the first six miles of the half marathon, so much of it being in the parks between California Adventure and Disneyland. That was really cool because by the time we went by the casting building I believe it was like 6.4 miles and it was fun with the out and backs, even though it was a little loopy, which was fine. But what was fun was having people the other runners that you know cheer for you, having them say hi. So it was good entertainment to see our pacing friends get to yell at them and say hi and having them cheer you on, having other friends that you recognized, and so that part really was a lot of fun.
Speaker 14:I didn't know how much people would like or dislike the Out and Backs, but we had a great time running and seeing each other on on the course, you know, in the various, and we got to start together in C, which was nice. I did feel really bad for some of the people in the back because as I came back to finish they were like on Lewis by the swap meet market that's over there and you know there's just so much heat at that point because it was dark when it started, but the later it got into the morning the more it did get hot but was thankful it was a few degrees cooler than last year we just have to give a shout out to anaheim and grace and alan, you guys have a beautiful city.
Speaker 15:I mean it was. I felt safe, it was. You know, at three o'clock in the morning I was walking from a hotel that was a good 0.75 miles and you get out and you just see everybody walking from different hotels on the street and just beautifully lit up, and so I've been to a lot of different cities, been to street races and I just think you know they do a wonderful job taking care of the space. And then to have the mayor, who's also a Disney runner, that's really awesome. Yeah, so she was at the start line and um, so, yeah, really cool yeah, she ran it um.
Speaker 8:When I was getting my 10k medal I heard the announcers um calling her in as she was finishing, so I know she did at least the 10k.
Speaker 2:I don't know about the half, but she does the races very nice she said this was her 49th half, I think when she was on the stage before the half. So she's she's for sure a runner and a friend, disney supporter that's impressive I was just gonna ask if anybody had a castle picture like a photo pass picture, because I saw photo pass photographers but there wasn't a line and then I didn't see any come up in my box yeah, they had like the loop at the bottom yeah, the pictures.
Speaker 15:I have the castles behind me and I'm running out of it well so.
Speaker 10:So there was, you could take a picture in front of the castle for the 10k, but they didn't have it where you could stop in front of it, um, for the half. Um, because I stopped, I only did two photo stops one was in front of the uh ferris wheel and one was in front of the castle on the 10k one thing I just wanted to mention.
Speaker 11:I mentioned already kind of about making it towards the end. I did manage to finish this year, so I redeemed my two DNFs from last year and I actually finished five minutes ahead of the Balloon Ladies and so and it was, I did my intervals like the whole time and felt really good about it, and so I'm looking forward to Disneyland so I can try and do the whole challenge again.
Speaker 3:Megan, you've been doing. Megan was on the podcast last week week before Two weeks ago. You're doing very well, but you really are doing very well and as far as redeeming yourself, you don't need to redeem yourself for us. We're proud of you, whether you make it or not. We're just proud to have you with us. So, but I know it feels good for you, so congratulations.
Speaker 9:Disneyland, just proud to have you with us so, but I know it feels good for you, so congratulations, disneyland. Halloween is in the books. Uh, what's up next? What's your next one?
Speaker 11:disney race, uh, megan so I will be at wine and dine doing the challenge and I have a little local 25k I'm going to attempt before then, so that should be cool, leslie um, so I will be part of the group going to honolulu and I'll be doing the 10k okay, and then?
Speaker 12:I am doing, uh, the princess, 5k and 10k alan and grace I'm I'm doing the full in uh, just the full in january. There's a rumor about the 5k, but that one we're still kind of questioning what I'm counting on.
Speaker 3:I'm counting on you guys. We'll be dressed up.
Speaker 14:I thought a costume was posted on facebook, all right so we'll dress up for the 5k and then the uh, the full registration just went down for the 5k.
Speaker 9:You know that.
Speaker 4:Okay, uh, courtney uh, my next race is gonna be a local 15k here, but then my next run, disney race, will be the 5k and the challenge for princess weekend hey dorothy so I've got a local 5k coming up in a couple weeks and then I'll be at wine and dine for the half and marathon weekend.
Speaker 2:For the 10k and half.
Speaker 9:Chrissy.
Speaker 15:I'll be at wine and dine for all three races and it'll be my 25 year old daughter's first run Disney 5k and her first 5k race. So excited to be able to do that with her and get her addicted to all this and lauren so I have a local half coming up in about a month.
Speaker 10:Um, I am sitting out run disney for the 25 26 season but I plan on doing a perfect season 26 27 okay, looking ahead, looking ahead.
Speaker 3:Okay, looking ahead, looking ahead. Friends, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for talking about the Disneyland Halloween event. We run Disney seasons now off and running. You got it started real well. We hope we can continue in Florida. We know we will. It's great to see you here. We look forward to seeing you again at a future event.
Speaker 15:thanks a lot, thank you, hi everyone, thank you caution runners.
Speaker 5:Change of topic ahead. Well, thank you everyone for a wonderful recap of the official start of the 2025-2026 Run Disney Race season. Again, as we mentioned several times, we are glad that the weather was much, much better and much more pleasant than it was the previous year and just hearing the stories from everyone and seeing all of our friends in terms of posts on Facebook and Instagram to see how much fun was had and the you know the amount of entertainment and storylines that went into that weekend Just really, really fabulous to see.
Speaker 3:Greg, I wanted to add you know we we don't have time to go through in a typical race report everybody who ran Disneyland, orland, or burden hand for that matter. But I did wanted to make note. I think lauren lauren mentioned she ran on her 40th birthday. I think she told us she pr'd the 10k. But if she didn't, here's a pr bell for lauren laura. Ann went out there got 10-minute PR in the half marathon, holly PR'd the half, caitlin PR'd the half, morgan PR'd the half by 11 minutes, by 11 minutes and Aiden finished his first kids run for the one to three year old. So, aiden, this is your first PR bell.
Speaker 5:All right, so congratulations everyone on those PRs. Next thing we wanted to quickly chat about are friends over at the will run for podcast, which, which, by the way, they still haven't invited me, uh, to participate in any of their episodes, even though I'm I'm supposedly the fourth host over there. So, gang, I'm still waiting for that, uh, that invite link for the recording. But anyway, they have very, very exciting, and that is I can't remember if this is the third or fourth year now, but they are continuing their virtually live run. This year that run is going to be occurring on November 22nd, which I believe is Aaron's birthday. We're very, very close to Aaron's birthday.
Speaker 5:But this year it's going to be a little bit more of a simplified process, because in the past Will Runford has done an amazing job with these beautiful, beautiful wooden medals and lots of great swag. In the past they've done socks and hats and and everything like that, but this year they're just leaving it as just a bib and I think they're even, um, looking into getting stickers or such. But what I really appreciate about what they're doing this year is that the price point is extremely manageable. It is is $5 to join for this run and then, as you go through the registration process. What they're also asking you to do, because they're keeping that entry level low, is they're asking for donations for the organization Unite for Her, which is one of the charities. When Aaron did that, you know, in lieu of flowers, you know, michael and the family were just asking that donations be sent towards that organization, which supports breast cancer and ovarian cancer patients, whether it's for various services, education, therapies, so that, you know, these patients do not have to pay these costs, and help to be able to offset some of that.
Speaker 5:So, if you are interested in participating in this beautiful, beautiful event, uh, if you go to the will run for instagram page, uh, they do have a link in their bio right there you can click again. It's five dollars to sign up and then usually what I believe they do is, at a given point in time during the morning, they will have a zoom link that will go live as, like, the official start and then you can do whatever distance you want, and then I think they pick up that zoom link a little bit later on the day as just a celebration slash happy hour. It's a wonderful, wonderful community to be a part of, so if you want to be able to support the Will Run For crew, and especially Aaron, and Unite For Her. Be sure to sign up for the 2025 version of the Will Run For virtually live event.
Speaker 3:I've done it twice. It's the fifth year. Oh, wow, fifth, okay, fifth, okay, okay. Live event. I've done it twice. It's the fifth year. Oh wow, fifth, okay, fifth, okay, okay, I've still only done it twice, but they do, they do a terrific job and it is. It is a little different, a little more special this year. I understand that, but I just want to tell our friends, many of whom listen to the will run for podcast also, that this is a worthwhile it's just a worthwhile activity to support period, but it's fun and they do a good job with the run. And I'm going to sign up November 22nd. I don't think I have anything going on then. And, yeah, hop on the Zoom at least for a couple minutes. So check it out, guys. Worth doing All right.
Speaker 3:Now that Disneyland is over, I will make a Facebook group event for the Wine and Dine meetup at 3 pm on Saturday in the food truck area for Wine and Dine weekend. I didn't want to do it too early because we do here in Disney World. We do our meetups at 3. They did that one in California at 2. I didn't want both of them in the Facebook group at the same time and risk somebody reading the wrong one and showing up an hour late, although it sounds like there still would have been a pretty good sized crew there if you did. However, wine and dine weekend, 3 pm. Saturday meet up in the food truck area, be there or be square. It's a lot of fun. Folks who have been before will tell you. If you haven't been, please show up, we'd love to see you. Hey, something that we make a lot of use of in our Facebook group is the community chats, and apparently they're going away in Facebook Now. We are working John is working on a way to come up with something to replace those, but we'll keep you apprised as we go along.
Speaker 3:All right, friends, looking ahead and not far ahead, this is a Zoom Thursday. I'm looking forward to this one, because here's a chance for everyone who was in California and everyone who was in Pennsylvania and everyone who just wants to hear what was going on or wants to talk about something else that's fine too to join us on Zoom this Thursday. Upcoming episodes we've alluded to it already next week the Bird in Hand race recap. And now Please stand clear of the door. It's time for a race report. And clear of the door. It's time for a race report. Por favor, manténganse alejado de las puertas. The race report is sponsored by our friend Thomas Stokes. Stoked Metabolic Training, stokesfit, slash, riseandruncoaching is the site, but instead of me continuing on, let's hear from Tom himself. Hey, fam, how we doing tonight. Good to see you my friend.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're all doing well.
Speaker 17:Good to see everybody Great to be back.
Speaker 6:We're so happy to have you here, Tom, so we just did. We just finished up the eight-week challenge that you had this summer. How did it go? We had a lot of friends that were there in this challenge.
Speaker 17:It went incredible. This time I actually had to close down the registrations try to keep down, keep space for, you know, my current crew to join in every time and what about over a hundred registrations before I pulled the plug outside of the current crew. So it was absolutely incredible. And you know, this is the third one I've done, third one I've done with you guys and I just keep trying to add a little more and I feel like we've gotten. I've personally gotten better, but it's become more and more fun just because the community is incredible. So this time we added many challenges along the way to earn points and that way it just wasn't always about hitting PRs, because you guys know all the runners out there. You can't hit PRs every single day. So added some mini challenges, whether it was a digital detox or just staying hydrated throughout the day all things that you know go into the overall health spectrum, just to help people stay focused through the busy summer months.
Speaker 3:I thought you did a nice job, tom, and I didn't go to all of them. I thought you did a nice job with the and I got to keep it straight. You had Tuesdays and Thursday evenings and I forget you had two different groups, but the challenge, I think, was on Tuesdays right, when you would meet up in Zoom.
Speaker 17:We did challenge calls. Challenge calls every Monday and Wednesday night and then Thursday nights. Thursday nights is my is my normal group coaching call, where I have the the accelerated crew in. So they were blessed with me for three nights a week. Some of them spent three hours with me weekly. It was probably more time than I spent with the wife during that challenge.
Speaker 3:Who the heck was I talking to on Tuesday nights, then Twigs. Twigs has Tuesdays.
Speaker 9:Us.
Speaker 3:No, it was the Rise and Run crew. But yeah, monday, I should have known better. I knew it wasn't Tuesdays, because I'm busy on Tuesdays.
Speaker 17:We're going to gift you a calendar because I get notifications when somebody logs on to my Zoom and one night that we didn't have a call. I just got a notification Bob has logged on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that sounds about right, but I was lonely, but what I was getting at was I thought you did a nice job of organizing those and, to the ones that I attended, you had a presentation ready to go with slides and everything, and I thought that was very professional. I'm not trying to blow your skirt up, tom, your tutu, I'm not trying to blow your tutu up, but I really did and I appreciated that, that you had some structured work and gave all of us a chance to learn something a chance to learn something.
Speaker 17:I mean outside the workouts, outside the nutrition. I think there's a much bigger, much bigger picture in the health and wellness spectrum. That really all ties in. If you know. One question I get asked all the time is what supplement should I take on a journey, on the journey? So I said let's do a night focused on that. Let's let's do a night focused on hydration, focused on recovery.
Speaker 3:Recovery. I remember yeah.
Speaker 17:Really stuff, you know, if you can incorporate it absolutely, it's great.
Speaker 3:It was all worthwhile.
Speaker 17:I'm glad you had a good time. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3:You had to work on it. I just got to watch it.
Speaker 17:I mean it was wild too. This was the smallest difference I had in the first and second place. It's based on percentage of overall loss and really it's not just about the number on the scale but a lot of other things going in. But when we're looking at the winner, and 12.56% lost on a first place, 12.31% on second place oh wow, I mean it was so tiny of a difference. Blake Robertson got to give him a shout out because he rocked it and Joe Cormier gave him a run for the money.
Speaker 3:Yeah, good for both of those guys. Yeah, we know them both. That's awesome.
Speaker 17:You know, fun for me because you get to a certain point. I said what can I add to this? And this time, many challenges along the way, way to earn points. And you know, ryan, ryan, sino, sino, sino, ryan, I'm butchering your last name. I see him at all the races. He's local to Orlando and he rocked it on points. But he's been with me since challenge number one. So that's incredible. Bob, you're very familiar with Val. Val down in Argentina.
Speaker 17:She came in second place. Good for her. And the wildest part to me is the comments. You know, the comments she made after was I've been working with you one-on-one. We just hit a year one-on-one together and I'm still making progress. I'm still hitting PIs.
Speaker 3:I'm proud of her. I'm proud of all of them. That's awesome. I got to give one more shout-out.
Speaker 17:unless you cut me off, please do. The third place in the points race girl Heather from North Dakota, heather Madsen, just incredible, where we started one-on-one back in. I want to say it was November of last year and she had a big goal and we discussed. You know, once she gets to that goal I don't think she needs to see me every week. Let's go into the group coaching and shift things over.
Speaker 17:But she lost 60 pounds, oh, awesome before I kicked her out of my one-on-one crew, you know I gave her the boot and she dialed in. She buckled down for the eight weeks of the challenge and continued to her goal of losing an additional 20 and she beat herself up by by not hitting the points by. You know she lost by 20 points on that, but she still gets a little little prize. So I got to just shout them all out because it was so much fun and meet new people. But I'll talk forever.
Speaker 6:Absolutely so. If our friends that were in the challenge want to stick with you, um, how did they do that? Or if people are listening that want to join in your regular coaching, how do they do that?
Speaker 17:Easiest way you know to. You know I've got two different groups one-on-one and group coaching. But the easiest way would be to head to stokesfit slash coaching tiers and then you'll get a little primer on both of those. But I recommend, recommend anybody just do the application and you know I've got the rise and run coaching signup link as well, which I'm sure Bob will share with this. But have the one-on-one call either way. It's 30 minutes, it costs you nothing, even if you think you're perfect. Maybe there's something I can help unlock in that 30 minutes. Sometimes it goes for an hour. That's on you. If you want to unpack your life story, I'm here for it as long as I got the time on the calendar. But even if it just provides you a little clarity, it's you know as you can tell, I geek out over this stuff.
Speaker 3:You're usually so shy I don't know You're coming out of your shell this evening. I'm proud of you, young man.
Speaker 17:I'm trying. Good stuff Also, accepting costume ideas for the upcoming season.
Speaker 9:Thank you so, Tom this challenge is just over. When's the next one coming up? Is there anything on the horizon? As you?
Speaker 17:say the challenge is ending, I get asked. There's always like 10 people who message me two days after we start Like hey, I missed the challenge, when's the next one? And I would love to do them all the time, but it's intensive. I'm doing three hours of calls a night, giving up time with the wife, and also I'm in dopey training too. So I got to balance things out and make sure balance is important, friends.
Speaker 17:So I say what could I do to segue until January, keep myself busy but also continue to give back. So you know, I'm going to start doing monthly workshops, so free workshops, and I asked myself like hey, what would benefit people the most? And the first one I came up with it was a strength training for runners workshop. So all about helping runners realize, you know, strength training is, is just. I think it's essential, I think it's the missing piece for a lot of people and, you know, spread that message.
Speaker 17:Free webinar about an hour long, on Wednesday, the 24th of September. That'll be the first one, but it's really designed to help all runners learn to level up, you know, improve speed and endurance, and I'm talking two to three short strength workouts a week, you know, helping avoid nagging injuries that keep people on the sidelines. Because that's the one thing that drives me nuts is hearing somebody's story where, hey, I trained so hard from June up until December and then, bam, something happened. How do we avoid those? I said it before balance how do we balance a little bit of lifting with all of the mileage so that they complement each other and don't just compete?
Speaker 3:complement each other and and don't just compete. Yeah, man, that's one. That's one thing, that up until the problem I had with my spine, I was able to stay injury free for a good long period of time by doing the strength training I that's what I credit to staying injury free, cause it's been, it had been a while for me that I didn't have pulled this strained, that, and I think the weight training really helped.
Speaker 9:It really did too. Same with me After some of the, because what I like about your program is you throw a lot of I'll call them like not generic exercises in there, like you know okay, like leg press or stuff like that, like you know you're doing, we're doing the Romanian deadlifts and all that other stuff. That helped, I think, for me personally getting some of those different movements in my legs so that my knees did not feel as bad afterwards.
Speaker 17:I'm glad you mentioned Romanian deadlifts, cause cause. On that workshop I'm going to talk about. You know, even if you don't end up working with me, I want you to leave with something. So three exercises that I think everybody should incorporate, and that is. That is one of them, the romanian deadlift and that's one that you can do body weight at home if you're. You know, gym intimidation is a real thing. I know people get scared of the gym, but romanian deadlift is is one of my essentials. On that, you're making me smile, John.
Speaker 9:No, it's good. It's hard to get him smiling.
Speaker 3:You know that the time I say it every week. It's a good program, I believe in it, and I may need to do a better job of sticking with it, but I'll be back with you I promise I'll be back.
Speaker 17:I'll plan to see you Thursday night, then We'll see If you want to check out. You know, free workshop it'll probably. You know, those nice people at Zoom charge an arm and a leg when I want to go from a hundred people to 500. So it'll most likely be. Oh yeah, it'll most likely be limited to the first hundred people unless I get a whole lot of registrations. But you can head over. Let me not butcher the web address Stokesfit slash running strong.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay, running strong, check it out.
Speaker 17:And there might be a little five-day mini challenge announced at the end of that, beginning the following Monday. That incorporates all of the exercises.
Speaker 3:Tom, keep us up to date on these. Let us know, you know, when we can tell our friends when to be there, how to get there, how to register, because you got a lot of you got to, you have a lot of friends in the Rise and Run family and you're helping a lot of people out and friends with that.
Speaker 17:I will say when I shared the link on the page I'm going to I to remember, I'm going to ask that question. You know, free webinar, give you as much information as I can in that hour, but throw it in the comments. If there's something you want to see me cover, just let me know. I, like I said, with the challenge, I geek out on this stuff. I spent hours making content. It was just, it was a blast for me.
Speaker 3:He's not making that up, my friends, it was just, it was a blast for me. He's not making that up, my friends, he really does. He really enjoys it and it shows. It shows in the quality of his work and the joy he has in doing it. Tom, it's always a pleasure. Thanks for joining us. We're going to see you at Wine and Dine.
Speaker 17:You'll see me at Wine and Dine 510 and a half two-two'd out, two-two'd out.
Speaker 3:I would expect nothing less. Got to start working on those costumes. All right, buddy, all right. Thanks for joining us, tom, thanks for having me See you guys. Always good to see Tom, and again, his program really is worthwhile. So it was two weeks ago now a lot of great races this weekend, but it was two weeks ago that the Sydney Marathon was a world major for the first time. Not the first time this race was run, but the first time it was a world major, and you know, my friends, that we always invite world major finishers on to talk about their races, on to talk about their races. Now the only rising runner who put in a report is our friend Carrie, and we're happy that she's with us either this evening or this morning, depending on who's talking. Hi, carrie.
Speaker 16:Okay, how's it going?
Speaker 3:We're good. You want to explain to folks why I'm not sure if it's morning or evening.
Speaker 16:So I am actually living in Tokyo. So it is Wednesday morning for me, while it's Tuesday night for you guys.
Speaker 3:I know and she won't give me the winning. Tuesday night lottery numbers. I can't believe it. Pretty selfish, I think, Carrie. Thanks for doing this. Thanks for making the time, especially eight o'clock in the morning. You look good for 8am, Carrie. I got to give you credit for that.
Speaker 16:Thank you, thank you, I'm still adjusting to time zones a little bit. I've only been here for about three weeks now, so I'm still waking up pretty early. But give it a couple more weeks and I'll be fully on Tokyo time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it takes a little while. I used to deploy to Korea in the Army. It takes a little while, but that's something I hadn't thought about.
Speaker 16:What is the time zone difference between Tokyo and Sydney? Between Tokyo and Sydney, it's actually only one hour Sydney is only one hour later. So that worked out great because I didn't have a huge time adjustment coming from Florida like I would have.
Speaker 7:Oh, my goodness. So it's half a day, so it's already a little bit adjusted for Sydney.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah Well, good, well, great. Hey, listen, let's start out Well. Coming from Tokyo, it's not that tough of a trip for you. So I usually ask our stateside friends, when they're traveling along, how their accommodations were, how they got there. But pretty straightforward for you, right?
Speaker 16:It was. It was just a direct flight, nine hours from Tokyo to Sydney, so it was pretty easy.
Speaker 3:That's still a long way. Nine hours pretty much due south the whole way.
Speaker 16:Yep exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, In the terms of the world majors. Carrie, is this your first or have you done others?
Speaker 16:It was my second. So I up until last year had only done Disney and Space Coast and I somehow, very luckily, got a lottery spot for New York last year and after doing that I was like I did one, I mean I have to do the rest of them now. Right? So I put in for Sydney. I did one, I mean I have to do the rest of them now.
Speaker 16:Right. So I put in for Sydney, not thinking that I would have any chance at it. And I got it, saw the charge on my credit card and was like wait what happened?
Speaker 5:Is that for?
Speaker 16:real and got in and went and ran and told my husband hey, we're, we're going to Australia, and that was before any of the move to Tokyo had come up, so so, yeah. So now I've got the bug and I'm doing Tokyo in March and my goal is to do one each year until I get through all of them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean sure You're in Tokyo, take advantage, right.
Speaker 16:Might as well. Just take the train straight to the start line from my house.
Speaker 3:Now, how did that affect your training? You were in Florida and you said you moved three weeks ago.
Speaker 16:I did so. My training actually went the time. It worked out perfectly. Training wise, I was part of the Lakeland Galloway group, so they are a fantastic, have a fantastic marathon training group. So we have a couple of people that were doing New York City as well and Space Coast. So we had a training plan all the way up until my final 23 miler and then my taper was during the move time.
Speaker 3:So that actually worked out great. That did work out well for you. That's good.
Speaker 6:So, carrie, tell us about this race. Did you stay near the start of it and how did you get to the start of the race?
Speaker 16:So we stayed a little bit outside of Sydney just because it was so much cheaper and they have great public transportation. The trains, the buses were fantastic and everything for race day was really clear and the instructions really laid out well. So it was really seamless to get, even from a hotel, you know, 20, 30 minutes outside of town to get into the race, so went straight to the start line. That morning I still have a little bit of a Disney run Disney in me where I still get there like four hours early even though it's absolutely not required anywhere else.
Speaker 16:So stood there for a long time in the cold before we could actually get into the uh, the corral areas. But, um, but yeah, no, it was really smooth to get in and to get there and they did a great job directing everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I forgot it's. Uh, it's just coming out of winter in Australia, it is.
Speaker 16:So it was a little chilly in the morning. I was really glad to have, uh, throwaways and, um, some warmer clothes with me, cause it was chilly in the morning. I was really glad to have throwaways and some warmer clothes with me because it was chilly in the morning, but once the sun came out, it was absolutely beautiful. Could not have been a more perfect day.
Speaker 5:All right, Carrie, talk to us about the course. We know that you know Boston is known for Heartbreak Hill. New York's got the bridges. Berlin, typically, is probably one of the flattest ones in terms of the world majors. Any terrain difficulties in this one? Tell us about the course and any major landmarks you saw as well.
Speaker 16:First off, so hilly coming from. Florida. It was so hilly. We got there the week before the race and as we were walking around downtown I kept being like I hope this hill's not on the race, I hope this hill's not on the course, and it was when I got back and they were yeah, the first thing I said to my husband was that big street was on the course.
Speaker 16:No, it was hilly, hardly any flat sections, a lot of up and down. So that was definitely something different than what I had trained with in Florida. But you know you couldn't ask for a more beautiful course. You start out on the north side of Sydney, come across the Sydney Harbor Bridge, which was absolutely amazing. You see the Opera House, go through all different sections, all different neighborhoods of downtown Sydney. The crowd was just fantastic. There were people out everywhere. So it was a really fun course.
Speaker 5:Now one site. I want to know if you saw it, because probably one of the most important things to me when it comes to Australia is Bluey. Bluey dominates this household and it dominates my soul. Did you see any blueys out on the course?
Speaker 16:I don't think I saw any blueys and, to be honest, I don't know if I would have noticed if I would my son all right, fair enough, I'm outside. I was not in the bluey era of parenting okay understood, completely understood.
Speaker 3:Um, you already mentioned the crowd, but you know some. Okay, quite as thick as New York City is, but great crowd support out there, music bands, people along the way, people handing out Twizzlers and things like that as we went.
Speaker 16:So that was really fun. A lot of signs, a lot of kids out giving high fives. So that's always fun and energizing to see those as you're going through.
Speaker 3:Was there a favorite or a remarkable sign that you remember Was there?
Speaker 16:a favorite or a remarkable sign that you remember? Oh, my gosh, there's not.
Speaker 3:I always just love the power-up signs, the people that have little power-ups. That gives you an excuse to run over the side.
Speaker 16:Punch the side give someone a high five and say thanks for being out here, especially if it's a kid holding it up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, because they get a big kick out of that they do, they love it. Yeah, yeah, because they get a big kick out of that.
Speaker 16:They do, they love it.
Speaker 6:Having done New York and then now doing Sydney, is there any considerable differences that you noticed coming from the States and then doing one in another country?
Speaker 16:I think the biggest difference between the two for me was just the difference in the start times. I'm a back of the packer, so starting towards the end, I'm a back of the packer, so starting towards the end. So starting um at eight, 30 in the morning versus I think it was 11 for New York, was really nice to finish um in the sun time in the sunlight, still in the daylight, so that that was really nice difference from New York.
Speaker 3:Okay. So, carrie, did you? Uh, you took out on this one. Did you run with a pace group or did you just go out on your own?
Speaker 16:I did. I ran with a pace group, so I've been part of a Galloway training group for a couple of years, so I was really hoping there would be Galloway pacers at the race. So on the first day I went to the expo and went straight to the pacing booth and they weren't sure. The gentleman who was at the booth wasn't sure if there were run-walk paces or not, and so he let me look over the schedule and I was looking in my corral and the 515 pace leader in my corral was Chris Twiggs and I was like I know that name. This is perfect.
Speaker 16:I was so excited so I was like he is, he does run-walk, so 515 was going to be a stretch for me. But I was like I cannot pass up this opportunity. I can do this. I am going to find that pace group, I'm going to run with Chris and I'm going to make it through, so yeah. So found them on race morning and was so excited to be able to do intervals.
Speaker 3:Did you hang with him the whole race?
Speaker 16:Almost Made it all the way to 20 around. I think it was about 19 and a half to 21-ish. There was just a slow constant hill and it was one of those where I started getting a little bit behind and lost it at about 20. Switched from the 60-30 they were doing and I just had to switch myself to 30-60 and came in about seven minutes behind them.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's great. I think that's terrific Carrie, for a tough marathon course like that. That's awesome Congratulations. Is that a marathon PR?
Speaker 16:It is, which was thrilling, given that I have never run a course that was that hilly, so I was ecstatic to get that. Oh, that's terrific Congratulations.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's terrific.
Speaker 9:Congratulations, you finished the race, you got that medal. That medal was very interesting. It has a little landmark kind of a landmark built into it. Can you kind of give us an update, an overview of what the medal is like?
Speaker 16:It does, so it's really cool. It's very shiny and it has at the bottom a cutout of the Sydney Opera House, so it's really cool. And if you look online, a lot of people did pictures where they held it up to the Sydney Opera House, so you get the opera house in the cutout section, which I thought was really neat.
Speaker 3:Oh, it was. It was really neat, Because otherwise it just looks like a shark took a bite out of it or something it does. I saw that as well.
Speaker 16:Or a Death Star.
Speaker 3:I've heard several times that it looks like the Death Star, John. Why didn't you think of that? I didn't think of the Death Star.
Speaker 9:The unfinished Death Star. Maybe Death Star 2, maybe.
Speaker 7:There you go yeah.
Speaker 16:All right, anyone you know got their seventh or whatever they want to call star there that you know of there were a couple people in the pace group that were running that this was their seventh star, um, but nobody that I knew personally care.
Speaker 3:You may not know this, but I know that sydney is the seventh major now, but they're still recognizing the six star major. Do you get to pick and choose your six now, or do you have any idea how that works?
Speaker 16:I think from my understanding the original six are still the six star and that's still the six star medal until they get to the full nine. And once they get the nine and add the Cape Town and the Shanghai I think it is, then it'll transition to a nine. So for right now on my Abbott profile it says two stars, but then it says one of six for the for the metal.
Speaker 3:Great answer, thank you, that's. That's interesting to know, boy nine.
Speaker 9:Here you go, you get your six. Before the nine comes out, you get two medals.
Speaker 3:So here you go, you get your six before the nine comes out, you get two medals.
Speaker 16:There you go. That's true, that is motivation.
Speaker 3:I'm just thinking about how much money nine world majors would cost the average person.
Speaker 16:I don't want to think about it.
Speaker 3:I thought Disney was a lot. Ooh baby, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 9:You're down in Australia. Did you have any of their specialty foods? I know the big thing from being an 80s guy Vegemite sandwiches, Anything like that.
Speaker 16:I have tried Vegemite before and was not a fan, so I did not try that on this. Go around no. Nothing new before race day no, new foods.
Speaker 3:Good for you, good for you. I can picture the disaster that that could have been yeah.
Speaker 6:So speaking of that, like run disney will give the boxes after we get done with the races. Do the world majors give out food boxes and did they have anything special in there that you were excited to see there?
Speaker 5:was the cheese actually cheese and not plastic? Oh, it's just.
Speaker 16:It's just not the same without plastic cheese at to see, there was the cheese, actually cheese and not plastic, it's just. It's just not the same without plastic cheese. At the end there was no plastic cheese and no chips. Um, there was a little bag so it had powerade. Um, I think it had a little protein like a granola protein bar in it and an apple. Um, no skittles, no, no plastic cheese. But it was good All right, carrie.
Speaker 3:So you're going to do Tokyo, you're in Japan. I can't imagine you're coming over for any Walt Disney World runs in the near future.
Speaker 16:Well, I am signed up for Dopey. Oh good for you. There may be a return trip to Orlando in January coming up.
Speaker 3:Well, we certainly would be excited to see you there. That would be terrific. Yeah, I hope you get over. That'd be great.
Speaker 16:I'm hoping it's on my to-do list. Got to start looking at flights.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like a 13-hour time difference or something. No big deal.
Speaker 16:Yeah, it'll be fine. It'll make 2 am wake-ups easy when it's 1 pm.
Speaker 3:That's right. It does do that. There's no question about it. You'll be up is what'll be happening.
Speaker 16:I'll be good to go, you will All right, carrie.
Speaker 3:Congratulations on your marathon PR. All right, carrie. Congratulations on your marathon PR, congratulations on finishing your second world major and thank you for joining us from Japan this evening. Slash morning.
Speaker 16:Thank you so much.
Speaker 3:That sounds like a great event. I'd just love to go to Australia, but the Sydney Marathon sounds terrific. All right, race report. Now let's get into it. I'm going to do something I don't typically do. I'm going to go back a week Now. I scour and I look hard and I try to get everything done. Sometimes I miss them, sometimes you're a little late, to be honest, and this one falls in that category, and normally I don't say anything. However, valerie ran the pro football hall of fame half marathon 13 miles and pr'd by 47 minutes.
Speaker 9:Holy cow yeah, you do, you can go back to that one, bob, you got it.
Speaker 3:John, you do that. We'll go back and ring the pr bell. So there you go, valerie. I'm glad you brought it to our attention. Okay, let's get back now to this weekend. And boy, it was a big weekend. As many of you know, we just got done talking about the Disneyland half. We only touched on the Burden Hand half. We'll recap that next week.
Speaker 3:But there was a major, absolutely major event going on in England, in Newcastle upon Tyne, and if you know our friend Andy, you know that's his hometown and he ran this race, as he's done before. But I wanted to invite him to come on here and tell us about it in the race report spotlight. Andy, it's good to see you. How are you doing? I'm really good. Thank you very much for having me on. Oh, you're welcome. I haven't seen you in a while. It's been eight or 10 days, I don't know. It's good to see you again. I'm glad we could work it out with this big time difference. Well, andy, this is. I don't think many folks in the US realize what the Great North Run is. Can you just give us a one over the world and tell us about this really pretty incredible event?
Speaker 13:Yeah, so it's actually. It's billed as the biggest half marathon in the world because it has about 60,000 people taking part in it, which makes it bigger than the London Marathon. So in the UK it's quite crazy that it's not known worldwide yet, and I think it was actually the first mass participation event that hit a million people, who have taken part in it as well, a few years ago. So, yeah, it's a half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields, which is on the coast, so you finish with some beautiful coastline um, and it's just, it's an an event that encapsulates what the northeast of england really is all about. It's very warm, uh, they, I say there's 60 000 people who take part. There's 200 000 people estimated to be spectating the event along the course, so everyone in the region gets involved, that's cool, that's cool.
Speaker 3:Look, it sounds terrific.
Speaker 13:How many times have you done it? I think I've actually lost count, but, um, I'd have to get my medals up. I think I'm around 13 and the cool thing is it's been going since 1981, so my dad actually ran it when he was younger, so probably when he was a little bit younger than me. Um, and yeah, he's kind of always held this. He finished in just over two hours, so he's always challenged me to finish over your head does he, yeah, and I haven't quite been able to do it.
Speaker 13:I've got very close, so the hunt still goes on.
Speaker 3:You said I knew newcastle was in the northeast part of england. You said that it was very warm and you said that I think you were referring to the way that the community embraces it, and all that Typically at this time of year in that part of England. What's the weather?
Speaker 13:like it really varies, and it's sort of a bit of a joke. There's no point looking at the weather on the day of the Great North Run, because it's never right. You might as well just open your curtain to see what's happening. So, um, it was quite humid this year. We've had years where it has poured rain. We've had years where it's blazing hot summer. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 3:It's kind of that tail end of british summer where anything can happen all right, you touched on it, but tell us what goes on on the weekend when the races are and what they are yeah.
Speaker 13:So since getting involved in the run disney weekends I've kind of like looked at it as almost like a unofficial disney weekend for myself, because on the friday we have the great north 5k, which happens down on the quayside, so again along the banks of the river tyne, and that's probably a few thousand people. It's a lot quieter but it's the unofficial start to the weekend. And then on the week on the Saturday, the day later, they have what's called the Mini Great Run and the Junior North Great Run. So that's for the kids to get involved so they can get their medals. So I started with my daughter at 10 am on the Saturday and she did her Mini, which is just over a kilometer. So Lane was thrilled to her to get involved again yeah, that's neat, that's neat.
Speaker 13:And then the big event is the half on sunday yeah, a big event on the sunday, uh, where you can hear like the helicopters are in the air because they film. They go live on the bbc, so that's kind of tells you how big it is, um broadcast live to the entire country. So, yeah, you hear the helicopters over the house because I live probably about a 15 minute walk from the start.
Speaker 3:Well, that's convenient.
Speaker 13:Yeah, they shut the whole city down. The roads are all shut throughout the course and yeah, it's just a huge organization, the company who organizes it have spread out to do ones in in Manchester and down South in Brighton and things like that. So it's kind of morphed from what it was into a lot of different events, but the great North runs still, you know, the one that's close to a lot of people's hearts. Oh, imagine 60,000 runners.
Speaker 3:You ever been involved in anything like that, john, not running? Yeah, you've seen the New York City Marathon.
Speaker 9:And I've been at the ticker tape parades for New York City.
Speaker 3:Closest I can come was in Hawaii. The Great Aloha run would get 30 to 35,000. But you're getting half of that again. Oh, twice that Twice. That that's big. How does how does the start work? It can't be a 60 000 people mass start no.
Speaker 13:So, similar to disney, you are assigned a color and then a zone within the color, depending on how fast you're going to be able to do it. But there's no proof of time needed. You just put down your estimated finishing time when you apply and then you say so. For me, I was in orange, zone D, and the way it works is you have your elites at the front striped with their striped vest, then orange, then green and then pink. So what they do is they kind of split that up into let them have a few minutes before they set the next wave off. So you're in corrals, um, but it's a, it's an absolute spectacle when you see it from the bridge. As you're walking down towards it, you just see a sea of people and yeah, they, uh, they do like the big mass warm-up and see everyone kind of doing the clapping the hands above the head. It's it's really cool to see it's a neat thing.
Speaker 3:It really is. You're right, that's. That's cool. Now is there a a cutoff time? Do you have to finish within a certain time or they keep the finish line open?
Speaker 13:so there is a cutoff time when the roads have to open because it is, you know, it's a fairly major city. But um, what they do instead is they say if you can't finish I believe it's around about five hours- you can still finish, but move on to the past instead, so they can open up everything. So, um, it becomes a little bit more unofficial and the good thing is you get people who can. I think the record for the course is 58 minutes um set by some very elite athletes wow yeah, um, and mo, sir, mo Farah, he's run it a few times.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Mo Farah, yeah.
Speaker 13:Yeah, so he was up there and that goes all the way back to the. You know the guys and the girls in the pink party area at the back, where you know they are walking it. There's people who do this as a rite of passage in Newcastle or the UK because it's kind of so well known and they will take hours and they'll walk it. And there's people who will do it with fancy dress and they'll dress up in massive, elaborate costumes. There was a couple of guys who were carrying a big sort of scale model of the Tyne Bridge between them, so that was really cool. But yeah, it's really welcoming for any kind of ability similar to Disney.
Speaker 3:Sounds like it. All right, Andy. How'd the race go for you this?
Speaker 13:year, yeah. So this, I'll be quite honest about it I've been beating myself up a bit today. I've had a bit of a pain in the body, and this is all relative right, because I finished in 216 this year. Yeah, rock solid, yeah, and that kind of two hour one, that's that hunt for the two hour finish yeah, dad's still giving you grief, huh yeah um, but no, I think I want a little bit more.
Speaker 13:But um, as you know, I was out in disney for a two-week holiday in august, so I kind of blew up my own training, um, and didn't really get a chance to go out when it's as hot as it was. So, yeah, a bit unfortunate, but it doesn't deter me. I'll be back again next year, for sure. That's a good one. What's the course like? Flat hilly, undulating is probably a good word for it.
Speaker 13:A lot of it's like kind of on the roads that you would take from Newcastle to the coast anyway. So there's a lot of it's on what's called felling bypass. It is a little bit hilly. Um, there's actually towards when you're about to hit mile 12 it's. There's a reason why this, this course, can't be used towards any sort of world records or official records is because there's a steep bank down and apparently the gradient is too steep to be able to be included in the records. So yeah, there's's some ups and some downs and it's always fun to see people blow their legs out on that last mile, thinking they were about to hit the coastline, and then suddenly realize they've got one mile left.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you started that by telling us it's a point-to-point race, so it can't finish slower than it started.
Speaker 9:Yeah, Okay, so I'm looking at the medal they gave you. Very interesting, I guess that's the Thames River.
Speaker 13:There's a funny story about this. It's made the national news because it's supposed to be the River Tyne, with Newcastle on the medal. What they've actually done is Newcastle's neighbouring city, Sunderland, which they have a big rivalry with. It's actually the River Wecastle's neighboring city, Sunderland, which they have a big rivalry with. It's actually the River Weir that's on it. And it's been a mistake. So someone made a big mess up on that one. Yeah, indeed.
Speaker 3:Indeed, that would be like the Broad Street run having a map of Baltimore on it, john Something like that.
Speaker 9:I was just like, yeah, the one Newcastle was in blue, gateshead and South Shields was in like a goldish color. I thought there was some kind of thing going on there, but okay, so it's not even where.
Speaker 3:Is that a big football rivalry, Newcastle and Sunderland?
Speaker 13:Yes, it is one of the biggest rivalries in the country and, funnily enough, if you look close enough on the curve of the medal, where the river is, you can see Sunderland's football ground rather than St James, which is Newcastle. So yeah, there's a lot of back and forth going on.
Speaker 9:Oh, golly, that's great.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's funny. It's kind of a shame, but it's funny too.
Speaker 13:Okay so when's the next time we're going to see you at Walt Disney World or Disneyland? I'm going to be across for Dopey, the marathon weekend in January. I'm really excited about it and, yeah, training's already begun in earnest Good deal.
Speaker 9:Andrew, if people want to know more about this race or more about your running adventures how can they find out about that?
Speaker 13:luckily, I have a very handy uh youtube channel that people can check out, which is a roller coaster running. I know you guys have um, have kind of spoke about it before um, but it's um. This last week when I've done some of the great north run content, I did like a guide a 10 minute guide, so people could know a little bit more about it. Um is performed really well, so the channel is looking in pretty good shape. It's small but it's growing and I appreciate everyone who's already subscribed. Or, if you listen to this for the first time, there's a lot of Disney content on there as well. I record the races when I'm across there, so there's a good chance you'll find yourself on one of those videos if you go back and watch the Disney stuff.
Speaker 3:Way to suck them in buddy. That's good. Good job, good job. Hey, andy, thanks for taking the time. Man, I know it's evening time over in England and I'm glad we were able to arrange this, and this is an amazing event. That again that I don't think you say. No one outside the UK knows about it. Well, they do. Now At least your friends in the Rise and Run family do so. Thanks for joining us, andy. No worries at all. Now, andy wasn't the only Rise and Runner there. Katie was there, says.
Speaker 3:The race is so big it took Katie an hour before she actually got to the start line. Weather was okay, it wasn't too hot, the wind was actually kind of refreshing. This is Katie's first race back in a long time. She had strict instructions from her physical therapist that she wasn't allowed to enter any more races this year until they've sorted out her hip problems. So I don't know if this one counted or she did it on this. I don't know, but Katie did it.
Speaker 3:Katie lives in a flat area, so the hills in the Newcastle area were a bit of quoting her a bit of a slog, but the views were amazing. She loves the medal, even though, as we discussed with Andy. It was kind of messed up. Let's see. Ian was there. Ian says the crowds are insane with the spectators going wild every inch of the route. Ian was shooting for a 2.30 and finished in quoting him. Now 2 hours 30 minutes and 10 frustrating seconds, and to me I don't know what my friends think until that clock hits two hours and 31 minutes you ran a 2.30 half marathon. As far as I'm concerned, great job, although I do understand your point, ian. I do understand. All right staying in Europe on Friday.
Speaker 3:Our friend Danny good to hear from Danny. Haven't heard from Danny in a while. I hope he wasn't hurt or I hope he's doing well. But Danny ran the finance run in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Now I know Danny's run this one before because I remember it being on the race report. It's a relatively small run, about 1,500 people, only finance professionals in the run. They run for charity. Danny ran this one as a training run for an upcoming marathon next month and as part of DOPI training. So I'm glad we're going to see Danny in Florida in January. Weather was good for this one, about 70 degrees and cloudy, beautiful surroundings, running through a forest for this one. His plan was to run a one hour and 50 minute half, but he wound up running a little under an hour 44. It must be rough, danny. Good job, my friend, good job. Nowhere close to a PR for Danny, though that's a good run.
Speaker 3:On Friday and Saturday there was a big event at the Great Smoky Mountains Half and 5K in Townsend, tennessee, friday evening for the 5K, saturday for the half. This was a Vacation Races production. We had a bunch of people there, races production. We had a bunch of people there. A buddy, jimmy, volunteered at both the 5k and the half, got to pass out medals during the half and had a great time at the 5k. Aaron ran what's called the Black Bear Double Challenge at the 5k on Friday and the half on Saturday. Aaron said Friday was warm, lots of gnats and bugs flying around, yeah, then it rained heavily overnight but stopped just before the half the next morning. Beautiful course, about 70 degrees for most of the race. Aaron says the worst part for her was that the road they ran along was along the river and had kind of a pitch to it that followed around the mountain, kind of like being on one of the ramps at Disney World. Around mile 10, the 330 pace group passed her. Since she had walked so much she was ready to run again, decided to catch up with them. She had met a friend on the course, made a friend on the course but she kind of took off, left a new friend. Fastest mile of the entire race was mile 12 and she finished at 329. Good job at 329. Good job, let's see.
Speaker 3:Kristen was there. Ran the same black bear challenge the 5k and the half. Megan also ran the challenge. She walked the 5k so she could be ready for the half. Now she ran into Jimmy. Towards the end of the course there apparently was a playground with a sign that said slide for a shot Interesting playground. So I guess they went down the slide and got a shot of fireball.
Speaker 3:Not bad Saturday. She felt really good. Fireball must have worked. Never really hit a wall. Fireball must have worked. Never really hit a wall. Got a blister on her foot that was like on fire by the end of the race. But she pushed through and knocked 10 minutes off of her time from last year. Nice job, megan. Amanda ran the half and set a new PR Two hours, 52 minutes. For Amanda's PR. Again. She said the weather was great. No rain during either race. Also mentioned seeing Jimmy at the end who gave her a hug and her medal, and someone named Jacqueline was there and she's the only one who didn't submit a report. We'll hear from Jack next week. She'll tell us how she did in this half.
Speaker 3:Let's go to Saturday In Middleburg, florida, the SOS three hour run. Lisa Did this, an ultra trail race put on by Sombrero Running Events. Lisa got two loops in. Each loop was 2.7 miles. Lisa's got a bit of a problem with fibromyalgia it's flaring up so just tried to get a couple miles in without overdoing it. Melissa was also there. I saw Melissa in the photo that Lisa took, so they were together. That's cool. The Beat the Blurch 5K, 10k, half and full out in Carnation, washington. I love reading about this event every year. It's pretty wacky. Hero ran it. This is the race that got her started into running 10 years ago, back in 2015. Now this year it's her second half within two weeks. That's kind of tough, but so much more fun. So much fun, made even more so by having her husband and daughter cheering her on and having her daughter's boyfriend and his parents run the 10K and they also cheered her on. Hey, hero wanted us to know they have road apples in Carnation Washington too, and she sent the photos to prove it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but do they get theirs on a plaque that are bronze?
Speaker 3:I don't think so. I think that's unique to the amish country in chicago, illinois, the run mag mile 5k. A couple runners there, laura. So this one starts by the lake, runs through the skyscrapers not literally through them, but around them. You know how it is. Uh, weather was beautiful. Even though laura wasn't trying for it, she had her second fastest 5k ever. That's pretty cool. Uh, one of the best parts is now. The taste of chicago is the same weekend, so they got a couple taste tickets as part of the registration. I don't have the details on that, but that sounds pretty daggum good to me. The taste of Chicago, that's gotta be.
Speaker 5:I mean if it includes deep dish and broth. Sign me up.
Speaker 3:How could it not Greg? How could it not? Sarah was there, jeanette was there running the 5K both, and Tiffany did the 10K. Tiffany goes to bed thinking I do not want to run a 10k tomorrow, but dragged herself out of bed and, as usual, once she got going she settled in, had an enjoyable run. They had this thing called the Hoka Mile, hoka being one of the sponsors, hoka Shoe Company. You make a prediction of how fast you'd run the mile and you get a prize if you're within 20 seconds. Now the kicker on this is that with all the downtown buildings in Chicago they tend to block the GPS. So you really don't get an accurate signal on your watch at the time. So you can't cheat. Signal on your watch at the time, so you can't cheat. She ended up overshooting her prediction by 13 seconds, but that's in the plus or minus 20 second window. So she got a nice new water bottle courtesy of Hoka In Cedar City and I forgot to write down the state. The Cedar City Half Marathon. Emily was there, completed it for the second time. Thank you, sarah, for making the report on behalf of Emily.
Speaker 3:Up to Massachusetts for the Run to the Rock Half Marathon in Marshfield, massachusetts. Ashley said this was a wildly challenging hilly course Full of shade. That helps because it was kind of warm and sunny up in Massachusetts on Saturday. They ran out of water at mile nine. To me that's unforgivable, gang. You ever been in a race that ran out of water on the course?
Speaker 6:I have. Yeah, I have too. I was glad that I had my own.
Speaker 3:I don't take my own ever and they ran out at one stop, only at one stop, the St Petersburg half, which is normally a wonderfully run event, and I understand they had water after that, but they ran out. However. They ran out at mile nine here made the back half of the course kind of difficult. She didn't make her A goal, which was the heat, but she did run fast enough for a new proof of time she's going to use at Wine and Dine. Avery was also at this race In Mackinac Island in Michigan, the eight mile race.
Speaker 3:Liz did this one. She had six Disney running friends who met her up at this island in Northern Michigan for this 8.2 mile run right around the perimeter of the island. It just circles the island. Brooke and Nicole did their first eight miler, so there's two PRs. Debbie, another friend, had done it, but she PR'd by 13 minutes. We had a couple of Liz's Lizelle and Liz M and Colleen all completed the course together, waterfront all the way, since you're circling an island. So it was a beautiful race, nice job.
Speaker 3:In Erie, pennsylvania, michelle participated in the 12th and last Barber National Institute Beast of the Bay Spartan-style race, a 10-miler with 30 obstacles, including some in cold Lake Erie. There were swamps, there were walls to get over. You finish it off running through a wave pool with the waves turned on. It sounds like fun, michelle. This race benefits children and adults with special needs and is even an adaptive course for runners with disabilities. So, michelle, good for you, congratulations on finishing that one. Disability so, michelle, good for you, congratulations on finishing that one. While several of our burdened hand runners flew in and or out of Philadelphia but not on Saturday, and I know you weren't doing it because on Saturday Sean was busy running a 5k on the way in Philadelphia. It was cool seeing planes take off and land while he was running.
Speaker 5:Now what I hope to stay on theme for a Philadelphia airport themed race is that I hope it took him at least an hour to get his gear check bag. Because, if there is, one thing that Philadelphia is synonymous for it's taking forever at the baggage claim, so that would be a very fitting gesture.
Speaker 3:Cheesesteaks and slow baggage. Claim. You got that right. Yeah, it is. Could have lost the luggage too. All right, let's move to Sunday.
Speaker 3:The Hoot Half Marathon and 10K Trail Race took place in lewis, central ohio. Carrie did this. One trail race had lots of rocks, roots, rope, tree stumps, fallen trees and scenic views, and she took a couple of falls. At the start the announcer said that this was mostly single file running. He wasn't wrong. Carrie fell five times and cut her hand on the last fall. A shout out to Coach Tom, who we were just talking with, because Carrie thinks all the strength training helped her out and she can't imagine how much worse it would have been if she hadn't been doing that. Definitely earned her medal and a third place age group finish. Good job, carrie.
Speaker 3:In Renton Washington, jessica ran the Rave Green 5K with her two children her sister and her sister's oldest child. Her kid may have beat her, but she says she got some bonus time for having her 20 mile or two days before. Yeah, a little tough to go to do a 5K. Her biggest win was that she felt great at the end and both her kids asked to sign up for it. They got there and they ran the race without complaining. Jessica, on a future episode you can come and tell us how you pulled that off.
Speaker 3:In Danville, indiana, kathy did the fair on the square. 5k Temps in the low 50s at the start, wow. In Indiana, okay, a lot of the course was shaded. I'd be freezing, I'd be cold, kathy, but it was nice. Sure, it felt great. What made it extra special was that she was starting at the same time that horizon run family was starting in cal at the Disneyland race. She kind of felt the Ohana vibe and not leaving out those in Burden Hand, they started about 45 minutes earlier. So yeah, kathy, you had the two coasts and you were repping in the middle of the country. Good for you.
Speaker 3:In South Haven, mississippi, erin ran the DC 5K and set for her a new 5K PR. Our man in South Florida, robbie, was in Hollywood. That's right, there's a Hollywood in Florida. The Fire Hero 5K a race that supports fallen firefighters Nice, flat course, running right along the beach. Hot and humid, but flat beach, hot, humid, south Florida no surprises there. Up in Hampton, new Hampshire, mike did the Seafood Fest 5K A soggy morning. Now Mike said he is so glad that he listened to what is now last week's episode of the Rise and Run podcast because the what would Alicia do segment motivated him to accept the soggy, rainy weather and get out there and run, despite the weather and the race start and finish being on the sand. He only missed a PR by three seconds, which was not what he expected. He hasn't run in almost a month. He thinks he might sign up for another local race now just to chase that PR, mike. Good job, alicia. Good job, alicia, good job. Look what you did.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I'm glad that I was able to influence positively and I think that you should go and get that PR and go and try for another race.
Speaker 3:Oh, that'll happen.
Speaker 5:I can't wait to read the reports now of how many people are going to talk about stomping on grapes.
Speaker 9:The grapes stomp 5K now.
Speaker 5:like it actually you know what we need to. We need to elicit our friend, uh michelle in erie. Uh, I remember we were talking about that at the local high school in northeast, they are the grape pickers yeah, so maybe the great pickers can host a great stomping 5k.
Speaker 10:There we go.
Speaker 5:Sponsored by our friends at rise and run.
Speaker 3:Right, all right, let's wrap up the race report in Holland, michigan, holland Michigan, the Holland Haven marathon. I've been Holland, michigan. I was. It's been a long, long time, but I have been there. Bill did this when his first full marathon. So, bill, congratulations on your first full marathon and your marathon PR.
Speaker 3:A point-to-point race from Grand Haven to Holland, all on bike paths, on the side of the road which passed many beautiful homes on the shores of Lake Michigan. Bill followed the Galloway training plan for first-time marathoners Smart move, bill Stuck with 45-30 ratios and finished in 5 hours 48 minutes. A very solid time for your first marathon, bill. Congratulations your first marathon. Bill congratulations and congratulations to all of our friends in the race report for episode 207.
Speaker 3:Friends, it's been fun visiting with a lot of rise and runners this week. A lot of great input, a lot of training going into practice now as we get back into the race season. As far as the, of course, wine and Dine is coming up, as we said in six weeks, but that big marathon weekend in Disney World. We know the training's getting tough. The miles are getting long, still warm in a lot of the country. This is the hard part. This is the part where you're gutting it out. But you can do it. Let's talk about it on Thursday at our Zoom call. I sure hope to see you there, but until then, happy running.
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