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209: Get PhotoPass Ready with the Council of Costumes
Costumes transform runDisney races from mere athletic events into moving celebrations of creativity and character. In this lively episode, we welcome back the Rise and Run Council of Costumes – a panel of expert race-day costumers who've turned heads and sparked joy with their elaborate designs.
What makes a successful race costume? Our council reveals the delicate balance between showstopping aesthetics and practical functionality. From Tinker Bob to massive VHS tapes, from inflatable dinosaurs to illuminated barges, they share the triumphs and occasional disasters of their most memorable creations. You'll learn their three-rule system for effective costumes: they must be runnable, photogenic, and instantly recognizable in the fleeting moments runners pass by spectators.
Whether you're contemplating your first character-inspired outfit or seeking to elevate your existing costume game, our experts offer practical advice on sourcing materials, planning timelines, and avoiding dreaded "panic crafting." They discuss how to repurpose costumes across different races, where to find quality components without breaking the bank, and when it's worth investing in custom-made pieces.
Beyond the technical aspects, our panel reveals something deeper about the runDisney costuming experience – the genuine connections formed when someone recognizes your obscure character reference, the family bonds strengthened through shared creative projects, and the pure joy of bringing a smile to fellow runners' faces during those challenging middle miles.
As Wine and Dine approaches just four weeks away, let this episode inspire your own costume journey. Remember the wisdom shared by one council member that resonated throughout our conversation: participating in these events, in whatever outfit you choose, is ultimately "a gift" to be cherished.
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Speaker 3:Hi, this is Kayla Kaiser and I'm calling you from the boardwalk in Venice Beach in lovely, sunny Southern California, and I am so grateful for the Rise and Run podcast. I definitely count myself as a Disney runner, even if I can't afford to do a perfect season, because I love getting up early in the morning and listening to the Rise and Run podcast while I get in my miles. See you all out there, happy running.
Speaker 4:All the way from Southern California. It's Kayla to introduce this episode. Thank you, kayla. Hey, kayla, believe me, we understand about the perfect season thing and the financing, the whole deal. We, we get it, we're with you, but we hope to see you soon. Thanks for that intro, friends. Thank you for joining us for episode 209 of the Rise and Run Podcast. I'm Bob. I'm here this week with Jack Hiya, with Alicia Hello. With John hey, how you doing. And with Greg, hey, hey. Hey, good to see you. My friends, let's see Episode 209,.
Speaker 4:We have returning for the first time in just about a year, the Rise and Run Podcast Council of Costumes here to talk about all things Run Disney Costumes. Whether you're an experienced costumer or new to all of this, we think you'll enjoy hearing from our friends. Liz joins us for the Race Report Spotlight. Liz was with us a couple of months back with her brother, the Flying Fanglers. Liz completed the Connecticut 169. She ran her 169th race in a different town in the state of Connecticut and she's here to tell us about that Now. We know the Berlin Marathon was this past week, but on those events that are further away, we'd like to give our friends a little more time to get back. So we will be recapping the Berlin Marathon next week in episode 210.
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Speaker 4:Looking back, bird in hand. We missed this. I knew we'd missed something, our friend Kerry. We don't want to miss this part. Kerry PR'd the bird in hand half by two minutes. Sorry, carrie, I don't know how we missed you, but I'm glad we're able to make it up right now. All right, friends, let's look at the training schedule. Wine and dine. Wine and dine is four weeks. The expo is four weeks from today. Gosh, hey gang. You know for a lot of us, I know for Alicia and I know for Greg. We are about to enter our 10th run, disney season, and they all started. And John, I think you came a little later. And Jack, I'm not sure 2018.
Speaker 4:Okay, but 2016,. Wine and Dine was our first race at Disney World, and so this is the beginning of our 10th season. Remember how excited you were before that first race. Absolutely.
Speaker 5:Oh man, I do I feel like I was nervous, but I was very excited to experience something. I had never done a big race before, and so it was very new to me. Um, but having the atmosphere that was there and seeing all the people, I warmed up pretty quickly and enjoyed the experience.
Speaker 4:So yeah, I had done big races before. But I'll tell you what I remember as much. I remember two things. I remember being so excited when I got registered. The process was a little bit different back in those days, but not much same basic idea I remember. So I was at work and I was so excited. I worked on the ground floor, I went out and kind of ran around the parking lot for a while because I was so fired up that I got in. The other thing I remember, I mean, you know, 10 years ago I was already in my sixties and, uh, I had not done a half marathon in 25 years. And I remember being about halfway through it and thinking I feel great, the training has worked, I feel wonderful, I couldn't wait to get back. And that was the beginning.
Speaker 4:And here here we are now, going on 10 years. I don't have it in front of me. I don't know how many Disney races I've done in those 10 years. I don't think it's quite 80, but it's close. I know it's more than 50. Anyway, wine and Dine's coming up. We're in training week 14. So if you're using the Galloway plan, you've got a four mile Friday walk and a 12 and a half mile run, walk, marathon weekend at Disney world, 15 weeks away. We're in training week 13. We're back to a three mile training event this time and Disneyland half marathon at the end of January. Training for that starts next week. September 30th is the first training day, if you do Tuesday, thursdays, so you're a week away from starting your training for the Disneyland half. Let's kind of go around, let's get some training updates. How is training going, alicia? How's training going for you?
Speaker 5:So last week I talked about how I fell down the stairs and I was worried that I was going to be sore, which I was. Also thank you to everybody who reached out and sent heller hypes and all of the things I really do appreciate it, Luckily and all of the things I really do appreciate it, Luckily, running and walking I felt okay. So I was still able to get in my runs, which means that I continue with training and I'm feeling really, really good about my training. Having the training plan that I do now is really helping get me reinvigorated with running and feeling really good about my goals that I have coming up. So, yeah, I'm, I'm feeling excited.
Speaker 4:Well, I'm glad, alicia, I'm glad you didn't get banged up too badly. Thanks, yeah. Yeah, that's good news. Happy to hear that.
Speaker 7:For me. This past weekend I had a one hour prediction run on my my schedule. So again you I talked about this, you know, somewhat similar a couple of weeks ago about like this type of run. Um, you know, that coach twigs gives me is one of those very few galloway runs where you know you run race pace the entire time. But I I had to.
Speaker 7:I had to switch some things up because of some family commitments and for some reason last weekend I don't know why, but summer decided to return to the Northeast. So by the time I was ready to go out it was almost 90 degrees and clearly I wasn't going to be able to maintain an hour's worth of race pace in that type of temperature. So got the blessing from Coach Twigs to go and do that on the treadmill. And I think you know, in theory, I know you can't do a prediction run on a treadmill, but at least I could focus on the idea of let's try to go for an hour at that particular pace. Again, I'm still dealing a little bit with that confidence of you know. Can I, you know, be able to maintain these paces for long periods of time and such? And I'm was very pleased with myself that when I hit my watch at one hour I was dead on exactly at race pace for just shy of six miles and I was thrilled.
Speaker 7:I hopped off that treadmill. I felt young, I felt scrappy I felt hungry and, let me tell you, it is giving me the confidence I I need to figure it out, but I want to find a 10k that I can do in at some point during the, the, the course of the, the rest of 2025, and I think I'm ready to go for that pot again, proof of time.
Speaker 7:Yeah, yeah, I don't think, like I said, I still don't have the confidence yet to that. I think I could get the sub 230, but using the unofficial mcmillan calculator to figure that out.
Speaker 7:I think the 10k is somewhere like around, like 107 that's about right, yeah and and I think I can do that, and I mean especially if if my half marathon pace is right around 10 minutes, then clearly I have a lot of buffer when it comes to that and in theory I should be able to go even a little bit faster, uh, during a 10k. So that's my goal right now is find a local 10k hopefully it's not hilly smash it and then that way I can at least use a pot for, you know, the next two years or so. So again, it was a very surprising training workout, but it was a very positive one at that good deal, good deal.
Speaker 4:I I like doing prediction runs on the treadmill, greg. I always end up exactly in the right spot. You know, it's remarkable.
Speaker 6:You put up a good point, greg. If your goal race is the half marathon, you know, and the 10K is a good POT place to go sometimes because you know, yeah, you're going to tail off a little bit at the end of the half, but at that 10 K you can maybe push it a little bit harder to get under that goal. I think I was telling somebody else that one time I go. If you think you're too close for the uh to be close on that half, try it to 10 K if you're only going to do a half marathon.
Speaker 7:I mean in theory, you can also use a 10 miler as well too. I just know that. I don't want to say statistically, but that's a harder distance to find a grant. I'm very lucky, you know. I'm being local to philadelphia. I have the broad street 10 miler, which is, I believe, the largest 10 mile race in the country in the country.
Speaker 7:It is great so you know I'm lucky on that front, but for others, finding that 10 mile is not as easy as I mean heck. I think it might be even harder. You know, sometimes to find a as well too, as opposed to, you know, I feel like you see a lot of 5Ks and a lot of half marathons, so, but they're out there, just you know. Then there's plenty of resources to be able to find those.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 10K is not too terribly tough, but that's good, Good. Good to hear Greg.
Speaker 6:I went out there again this weekend, got out there, did another little long run, trying to keep myself at a constant tempo, constant pace. You know some stuff. Sometimes you know you got to stop at the corner for the cars to pass you know those cars those cars in the road are not really fun, you know.
Speaker 4:They got to get out they should know what are they doing there? I?
Speaker 6:need one of those ambulance symbols that when you're coming down the road it sends a sensor so you get the green light going straight through you know yeah. But you know I'm working on that, but yeah, but I was very, very happy the way I ran and hopefully this is going to pay off and I'm going to have a really fun wine and dine.
Speaker 4:No doubt, no doubt about it. A couple of notes on training. Now, this isn't exactly training, but I'm going to bring it up to our friends anyway. I got my flu shot today. Now, I didn't have to train for that, but I think it is a worthwhile thing to do before you go to any place where you've got tens of thousands of people from all over the world. Your best friends are all going to be huddled together. This is a good time to get your flu shot About now.
Speaker 4:The mileage for training on most training schedules is starting to get up there. You heard what it was for wine and dine. It's only three for marathon weekend right now. If I went to the right week and I think I did. But it's going to build and I'm seeing more and more people in their posts on their training say this is the furthest I've ever run. I did 12 miles today. That's the furthest I've ever run. A typical question we get as people are building into this is when does this stuff get easier? And my answer is I don't think it. Does you just get faster? But one thing I always point out to folks when they're starting to do 12, out to folks when they're starting to do 12, 14, 18 miles is remember when you thought three miles was a long run, wasn't that long ago, wasn't that long ago?
Speaker 4:Now you look at your schedule and you go oh, I only have four this weekend. Oh, great, that's going to be easy. So that's when you know things are starting to get easier. I've been on the theme of recovery from injury and recovery from injury, illness, rebuilding, getting healthier. I want to talk a little bit. I've actually got a race report this weekend, so I'll save some comments for that.
Speaker 4:But I want to share this thought which really came to me as I was on my 15K this weekend. You hear me say this, and I say it maybe too much, but I mean it is that the support that we all have for one another not the support you show for me, which I love, one another, not to support you show for me, which I love, but the support that we all have for one another is. It should be uplifting to all of us. I think about it in recovery all the time the number of people who I know are pulling for me and they're pulling for you too. So just sometimes stop and think about that. And the other thing and I spoke about this this morning on customized training, if you've been around me at all, listened at all. You know I grew up in the Philadelphia area. You know I'm a big sports fan. Well, the Phillies, my beloved Phillies baseball team, acquired a ball player at the trading deadline who's really really been playing well, been a real shot in the arm for the team, and he has a saying that's caught on with the team. It's kind of become a mantra for them and he says it's a gift.
Speaker 4:Whatever the situation is, stop and think about what you're doing. And again I can. Literally, when I was five or six miles into this 15K this weekend, that phrase came to me. I'm not moving very fast, I'm not running at all, I'm walking. I think there are only four or five people behind me on the trail. It's a gift. It is a gift to be able to get out there. It's a gift to be able to walk, to be able to run, to be able to finish, to be able to be a part of this wonderful community. So you know things are getting a little tough and you're thinking, gosh, can I finish this? Or this is getting hard. Just try those three little words. It's a gift, see if it doesn't help you out. Caution runners. Change of topic ahead.
Speaker 4:So now I stop and I ask the question what would Alicia do?
Speaker 5:So funny, bob.
Speaker 5:The big theme of the topic that I want to talk about this week goes along with what you were just saying. So on my run last weekend I really took time to stop and enjoy nature, watched a monarch butterfly if I passed, looked at the different things that I hadn't really noticed before. And a big theme that I have when we get into these really long training runs that I'll say constantly on the podcast is take time to enjoy it, because you get to do this, which is basically what you were just saying, bob. It is, it's a gift. We get to go out there, we get to experience it. So I was curious if there's anything that you guys really look to to find that motivation or something that really has brought a smile to your face that you noticed while you were on a run, um, or a place that really resonates with you while you're out there I would say for me right now and and this is a relatively recent thing and I'm sure this can resonate with a lot of people it's this holler hype app absolutely.
Speaker 5:How about that?
Speaker 7:you know it's. It's a situation where, like, thankfully I've never had to use it in the sense where, like I've had to like go in and like change my status and be like friends I'm I'm in a bad place, help me. But just putting out the generalized workout and getting all sorts of messages of whether it's just a very generic hey, I hope you're enjoying this or there are some people that go out there that really do hype you up and heck, are doing cheers. Not to single someone out, but I call her one of the Holler Hype MVPs, our buddy Debbie down in North Carolina.
Speaker 7:Anytime I am on that app, I can guarantee you I am getting a hype from her. She always comes up with some type of rah-rah cheer at the end. My God does. It put a smile on my face. And anytime I hear my podcast turn off or or my music dip, any anybody's voice just brings me joy. Because not only do I love hearing from my friends and from this community, but you know it, just you know, sometimes, even if I'm in a bad mile, someone just taking the time to leave me a 30-second message really can turn that frown upside down and can change that workout. So, yeah, I credit everything right now to Hollerhype.
Speaker 4:Absolutely. It's funny, greg. I was thinking this morning a contacting and I can't remember the young woman's name, who there are two of them who who run holler hype. But I was thinking about contacting her and saying, look, I knew this was going to be popular with our group, but I didn't know how popular it would be. Is there anything else that we can do to help spread the word and to help you out? And I still may do that and see if we can help those guys? I don't know, it means all these things mean so much to me and I'm so grateful for them and that's what I do, I I I do stop and think about that and it makes me smile.
Speaker 11:I would say two things for me. One is, sometimes you know when you're like getting ready to go out for a run and you're trying to get your run in before work and then you get out there you don't want to be there at first, and then all of a sudden you see all these other people that woke up early before work around you and you're like these are my running buddies, these are my like. And it's always funny because, like I noticed when I was doing that, I was like I would see the same people and so it was like it was like an accountability buddy without being accountable, like if, if they were not there that morning, it'd be like are they okay? Right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11:Yeah, and then in terms of really just taking in the moment for something, sometimes if I'm getting frustrated with a run, I'll really just take a moment and just stop thinking so much about how the run is going, but where I'm at with it, and be like, be very grateful, like if I'm out on the trail and I'm getting very frustrated because I feel like I'm not doing the times that I was planning to do or hoping to do, and not that it happens very often in terms of that, because I really do love all of my training for the most part.
Speaker 11:There are some days that are a little bit harder than others, but when it's a harder day, sometimes just taking a breath, and then I will notice that I've been looking at the ground way too much, that I forget to look up and see all the beauty around me, and I think in those moments I'm very, very grateful and be like you know what. It is a great day, to have a great day. Let's go have running, run a great day. And I feel like when I look up more, I feel like I enjoy my runs more because I'm not in my head.
Speaker 5:Absolutely. You can see all the things around you and experience those little things that you might not have noticed before, which can help make you appreciate it all the more.
Speaker 4:And that is what Alicia would do Caution runners? The topic is about to change right now.
Speaker 4:Friends, you know, of course. You know, run Disney season is back. It started in California early this month was the Halloween race weekend and, as we said at the top, four weeks from now we kick it off at Disney world. That means costumes and that means the Rise and Run Council of Costumes. It's been a while, it's been about a year since the council has visited. We have some old members, we have some new members, so please allow me to introduce you to the 25-26 season edition of the Rise and Run Council of Costumes and welcome Kay.
Speaker 12:Hi guys.
Speaker 4:Glad you're here, Kay Kristen.
Speaker 13:Hey how you doing. Sorry, john.
Speaker 4:Kristen. No, we got to start over again. See, that's just, I'm only kidding. We're not starting over again. Fred Fred is joining us in the council this time. Hi, everybody, good to see you, fred fred. You were here once before, but not for the council, right? Or were you here for?
Speaker 4:oh right, that was a perfect season that's right, you were here for a race recap. Yes, good to see you again. Thanks for joining us from the west coast. We appreciate that. Thanks, yeah, buddy, you're welcome. Couple more og co seers. Pamela is here hey, friends and after what won't make any sense to our friends who are listening. But after a whole lot of effort, margaret's with us too hi gang I gosh it's.
Speaker 4:I look forward to talking with you all. We look forward to talking with y'all. It's so much fun. We're really glad you're here. Thanks for giving up your time for us. We're going to talk. Friends who are listening. I know a lot of you have done some costumes. Maybe some of you are new to run Disney. You're not quite sure what happens with the costumes. We hope tonight we can give you some ideas, get a little feel for how all this goes, maybe give you some suggestions. But I'm going to start off and, because we've talked to most of our council members before, I'm just going to start off with this question about getting started for this evening, and that is how did you, how did you get started into running in costume? What made you do it? Did you start at Disney or did you start somewhere else? Kristen, what did, how did you get started in all this?
Speaker 13:slowly. I started by just bounding, which I know we've talked about and defined before, where you do something very simple that is reminiscent of a character. My first costume that I ran in was a Minnie Mouse bound and that was during Princess 10K of 2019. And ever since then, I just slowly added an element to the costume of more advanced skirt or something a little more flashy, and it's just. You don't just go. Most people don't just go all in on their first costume. Fred does, but most people.
Speaker 4:That was going to be my next question. I was going to ask Fred, but you go ahead, Kristen.
Speaker 13:Yeah, no, you just start slowly and then you get inspired by what you see on the course that other people have done and it's just. Yeah, it's a slow process, it can be. It doesn't have to be, but it can be.
Speaker 4:Now, fred, kristen sent that, set that up and and actually, at honest to goodness, I was going there because I've seen some mighty elaborate costumes out of you, my friend. How did you get? How did you kick it?
Speaker 14:off. Well, a friend of mine, aaron Newell, was running and he asked me to come watch. So I was one of those people on the boardwalk, one of the hundreds, and I watched the people run by in costume and I had never run a race in my life. I'm the type of person to only run if someone's chasing me. I was inspired, literally, by the fact that it was like a Halloween you know, a Disney Halloween event right to me in my mind. I was like, oh, costumes, I'm there. And the first costume we did was the lounge flies. I don't know if you guys remember oh yeah, we were lounge fly guys for a while. That was your first. Yeah, we had the idea of this dressing as a lounge fly bag, and then that turned into a whole thing which was super fun. What race was that, fred? Oh gosh, kristen, do you remember? I think it was after COVID, so 2022, I think 2022, because that's when we met.
Speaker 13:That's when we met Yep and we have costuming to thank for our friendship. We do.
Speaker 4:I think that's neat. I really do. Margaret, do you remember how you started?
Speaker 15:Yes, it was definitely at Disney, and I'm definitely one of those people who love to dress up for anything.
Speaker 15:I'm always like the one to volunteer, to go like all out of the costumes, whether it was like a group type event thing or like homecoming or whatever it was.
Speaker 15:And I actually started with Run Disney, mostly volunteering a lot, and I would see all those runners come by in costumes and it was amazing and it was inspirational both to start running and to run in costume. And, like many others, I did start kind of on a smaller scale with like sparkle skirts and tutus and just like graphic shirts and stuff like that. And then, like I just built upon it and um, and then it was actually kind of like after COVID also, that it was like, okay, now it's like we, we had braces taken away from us and we didn't know when they were going to be back and it's like, okay, now it's time to. We had braces taken away from us and we didn't know when they were going to be back and it's like, okay, now it's time to really just go out and do full-on costumes and that's what I did and it's been so fun ever since yeah, you've you.
Speaker 4:We'll get into them later, but you've also had some very elaborate costumes, thank, you yeah pretty cool stuff. Yeah, they have, Pamela. You've been at this for a while, I think.
Speaker 9:Yeah, mine goes way back. I mean, I was a theater kid and so everything is like theatrical as far as I'm concerned. And so even when I was an aerobic instructor in the 90s, I had custom aerobic instructor outfits made. So I've been doing this a long time.
Speaker 4:Of course you did.
Speaker 9:But back in the summer of 2012,. I was trying to remember when this happened. It was the summer leading into me being the PTO president at our kids' elementary school and I thought how can I do a team building activity with my team? You know everybody that's on the PTO. So I said, hey, let's do the Dirty Girl Mud Run. And so it was this great way to kind of before the school year started, before we have to do all the fundraising, all that kind of stuff. It was a way for us to figure out how do we communicate with each other, how do we work together, what can we do?
Speaker 9:And so we did the Dirty Girl Mud Run and we made tutus. We knew that we're going to be disposable because it's pretty gross at the end of those races. And we just went to you know, joanne, and got elastic and a bunch of tulle, and we did the old fashioned cut everything into strips and make your own tutus. So, and then we would sit around almost like a quilting bee, but we were doing our tutus. So, and then we would sit around almost like a quilting bee, but we were doing our tutus, and it was a real bonding experience.
Speaker 9:And then someone else was in charge of the name and t-shirts and things like that, and in my community our city is known as the cake eaters, so I told us I we made up the name, we were the mud eaters for this mud run and it was great because it was connected to edina and you know the whole thing. So yeah, I go way back, but my first half marathon was at disney world and I was dressed as donald with like a lululemon white tennis skirt, tennis skirts upside down. So you can put a ball in there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's right In there.
Speaker 9:So we've come a long way with great compression shorts and skirts that can hold your pockets or hold your phone and your goos and all that kind of stuff. So I feel like we've come a long way and same thing. I mean I feel like I've always been pretty costumey in my races, but certainly they've gotten more elaborate and way more expensive.
Speaker 4:Oh golly, yeah, that's the truth. Yeah, pamela, I see you in costume on Facebook.
Speaker 9:You know, on a Tuesday yeah, if there's a spirit week at my school, I am all in on whatever the theme is.
Speaker 15:So it's great, and Pam and I have actually been on challenge teams before where they'll set up certain weeks where we have to dress up to certain things just to go for training runs throughout our neighborhood and we just do it.
Speaker 4:All right Now, kay. Do you remember how you got into running in costume and do you remember how long it took before the disney photopass guy found you and took a picture?
Speaker 12:oh, wait a minute oh wait, I might remember the second question, but the mine is run disney as well. I did. I was not costuming before Run Disney and I think before Run Disney I think I did a half marathon and I'd done Broad Street, but those were like my big, big race events. I came to Disney for the marathon and I my story is very much like yours, kristen. I am you, you are me, I'm like everything you were saying. It's totally me, because I was mini as well from my very first and I was bounding and I got there, and so my first one was the return of the races uh after COVID still where you know people, some had on masks, some didn't, and we couldn't come close to the characters.
Speaker 12:It was all those things. I didn't get to fully see everything, but while I was there I'm like, oh my gosh, I am not in a costume at all in comparison to what everybody else had. So it was gradual, for me too as well, kristen, which was what I was sharing. For me too as well, kristen, which was what I was sharing before we started recording Fred, that, my attempt at Belle, that next year, like I did, an attempt at going bigger or deeper into the costuming, and then it just kind of took off by that wine and dine, I guess, of 2023, to become something bigger. But I will say embracing it at Run Disney. I now do it at other races and I'm intentional about doing it at other races and there are reasons for that, but yeah, so. So Run Disney inspired me to embrace costumes at other races.
Speaker 4:Who else does it at other races? Anybody else, I do as well, pamela.
Speaker 13:Well, Pamela does. If I ran other races, I would.
Speaker 4:Margaret, I was going to say yeah, Margaret comes in costume for this audio-only podcast.
Speaker 15:Yes, and all the local races and even yoga.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, Expo too. Yes, yes, Expo yeah.
Speaker 15:All the opportunities.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 9:I'm totally into bounding now, just in my park days. I mean, I've kind of always been doing that, but now I'm like getting way more into it. Like I love my Mr Toad bounding costume that I wore during Disneyland. I think I got more comments and compliments on that than almost anything else and it was just a skirt with a sweater and a bow tie.
Speaker 13:Like I know I actually I did not mean to tell a lie. I did dress up for the Bluebell Fun Run in Brenham. I dressed as a tub of homemade vanilla ice cream and, yes, and they're like PR. People loved it. I was in one of those like floofy skirts and then I had my friend print the like the logo of Blue Bell and homemade vanilla on like a um, a yellow looking tank top. And the nice thing about Bluebell is, when you're done with the race you can then go to the creamery and eat all of the calories that you just got rid of in the run. And so they had me like holding a pint of homemade vanilla, like up against the cream Anyway cool.
Speaker 13:Anyway it was. So yeah, that's neat, so I did. I have dressed up outside of disney, but that's the only.
Speaker 4:That's the only one so far hey, I'm not in your league, but I remember the first time my first outfit was sam eagle and I did it because jack made me rightfully so it was a big.
Speaker 11:It was a big hit.
Speaker 5:How do you all balance the creativity that you come up with to make these costumes with comfort, making sure the costume looks amazing, like they always do, but also making sure that it's good for a long run? Pamela, I know that you've had some epic wigs that you've worked through epic wigs that you've worked through.
Speaker 9:Yeah, I I would recommend to people to run into there and try things out beforehand. But I do not do as I say. I just design and like, get all my pieces together and then just like, well, I'm only gonna have to do it for six miles or I'm only going to have to do it 13 miles. I don't practice running in wigs or carrying props or I just figure it out as I go and it's always been fine as long as I have my tried and true, you know shorts that I always wear underneath and I have my jog bra that I know doesn't chafe. Everything else is just fluff. However, it works out. It works out.
Speaker 13:That's what I was going to say too. As long as I have a base layer that I know works, then everything on top of that is gravy. But I also make sure that if I need to shed something, I can easily take that off myself, or whoever's with me can quickly help me get that off. But as long as the base layer works, like the shorts and, like Pamela said, the bra or the tank top, then I don't. I'm not out running the streets of Austin and full costume.
Speaker 13:So, although nobody would look twice, I guarantee you.
Speaker 9:I'll bet they would Never stray from the socks that I need to wear and the shoes that I need to wear. I'm not going to wear a random shoe that I haven't worn.
Speaker 4:That's just good advice in general.
Speaker 11:How far in advance do you guys plan your costumes?
Speaker 12:Straight. Today. When I hear the theme, my mind is already turning. When I hear the theme, my mind is already churning. I'm thinking through who I'm going to pick, to figure out what materials to use. But I like to prepare in advance to know that. That's one less thing I have to worry about, because a lot of my stuff is really mental. So the training is mental for me, my running is mental, and so if I can just clear the mind then I'm good to go. But freaking out at the last minute, oh snap, I don't have a costume, this new hashtag, panic crafting thing.
Speaker 15:I can't, I'm not either.
Speaker 14:It gives me anxiety because you're already worried about making your flight and being prepped. So I'm the same way I prepare. As soon as I hear the theme, I start to think of ideas and go from there.
Speaker 13:Well and Fred. In our little group we have a collection of ideas that are just waiting.
Speaker 14:Oh really, because we're like which one are we going to get to do and then Kristen and I always ask do we want to be pretty or do we want to be funny? Which one? Which one are we looking for?
Speaker 4:Yes, I gave up on pretty a long time ago, friend.
Speaker 13:Well, in Springtime, Surprise the 10K. You were definitely funny for sure, with the want to buy a watch or sundial before we get completely away with that, away from it, I want to go back.
Speaker 4:Does anybody run in their costume in training, or do you? We all just go, let's do it no, I do look, everyone's like hard, no, hard pass, absolutely not.
Speaker 12:Um, my question might not be, or the answer might not be, as strong after this season, because I am a Floridian now.
Speaker 4:Gets tougher.
Speaker 12:I think that might be why Kristen's also like hard no in Texas, but I used to, because it's like the nothing new on race day, right. So I would try to run in it and and in doing so there were some adjustments I had to make to costumes, and so I was glad that I had the chance to run and it was always fun. I may have talked about this last year, I don't know, but it was fun for me to run in and do a when we did our simulation weeks. It was so that would be when I would do it.
Speaker 4:That's a smart way to do it, Kay.
Speaker 12:Like two weeks before or in advance, right, but it was fun to watch people snapping pictures.
Speaker 4:I'm sure I'm on.
Speaker 12:TikTok or whatever right, Because this crazy person is out. At the time I was in Maryland streets in costumes by myself. I'm sure you look great, though I embrace it. I did not shy away. I saw some people taking photos. I don't even care.
Speaker 13:They put those on that Nextdoor app.
Speaker 15:Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right, that is the thing.
Speaker 4:I've never done it. Neither Groot nor Tinker, bob, nor nobody has ever run around Largo, florida, and I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Speaker 12:I will say that this last season I did not. There were some very last minute, even up until Springtime Surprise, the day day before a piece of the outfit showed up. So I did not, I get it running costume and I will not be running in what I shared with you. All right, I'm not gonna say, but I will not be running the florida street in that.
Speaker 15:So no, I get it so I used to a lot more at first run in like full costume just to kind of get a hang of it. But I also used to like, especially like, if I had like a big ball gown or something like that that I wanted to wear, I would actually just wear it around the house to like do laundry or just moving my arms around just to get a like feel of what my body feels, like this in motion, so that way I could adjust things if I needed to.
Speaker 15:but now I feel like I've felt such a high tolerance level for what I can wear that in mostly any kind of weather, because I do live in florida and run in the middle of the day um pretty native also.
Speaker 4:So I feel a pretty high tolerance level.
Speaker 15:So now I'm kind of like, just oh, I I'll just buy this or that or I'll make this like um and like the half marathon. For for Halloween I ran as Maleficent with like big horns and cape and feathers and everything and what seemed hot for some people and it was kind of spicy out there. You know, I was just kind of like it was still tolerable, not that it was amazing, but it was still tolerable to run in. But again was just kind of like it was still tolerable not that it was amazing, but it was still tolerable to run in.
Speaker 11:But again, that's kind of like, you know, starting at a very small scale and building up through many years and I also just want to put out there, in terms of training your costume, if you know that the weather is probably going to not be ideal like one year. I think it was like raining really bad during wine and dine race and I didn't realize how my skirt was fine running in it normally, because I ran it with a 5K. It poured down, the skirt was falling down and I had to hold it up the entire race oh.
Speaker 4:I remember that, Jack.
Speaker 11:Oh.
Speaker 4:I remember that story.
Speaker 11:Train in your outfits, friends, if you can.
Speaker 7:Well, Jack, I think that is a lovely segue into our next question here, if you can well jack, I think that is a lovely segue into our next question here, and that is obviously the overall theme here is we're not training in our costumes and we're we're. We're screwing over the number one important rule in running of nothing new on race day. Pamela, I'm going to go to you first here what has been the most challenging costume you have run in, in the event that you don't train with it and you learn on the course oh, something's off here or something, it's not going right a.
Speaker 9:I couldn't train in it because I didn't get it till I got to florida, because the person was making it up until we got to florida. Um, it was my hardest costume because it was basically like wearing a sleeping bag and it was a really hot springtime. Surprise 10K. I was boo as a monster.
Speaker 9:And it was a completely stuffed costume, like it really was like wearing a sleeping bag. And so the lovely thing about um Walt Disney world run Disney races is that the aid stations are so prepared for you that I would get a bag of ice at each aid station and stick it in either in the front, and then the next time I would put one in the back, and so that got me through. And not only did I have that on, but I was wearing a wig, and then on top of the wig I had a headband, so I was extra keeping all the heat in.
Speaker 9:It was like I was in Minnesota. It's like a bottle cap. All the heat in, but it was very humid.
Speaker 7:Fred, when you ran with all those sundials, did any of them poke you throughout your chest Was? Was that issue you had to deal with at all?
Speaker 14:I was smart enough, greg, that I buffed down the pointy part of the sundial, because when I did try it at home, it scratched up my body like a cat. The cat was on me. So so, yeah, but I have more traumatic one is. So I just turned 50. And of course, um, only Fred Faisalahi would pay tribute to himself. I was in Fantasmic Friends with a Certain Prince. So for my 50th for Princess last year, I wanted to pay homage to Fantasmic and I recreated the barge that Snow White and the Prince dance on. That I used to do five nights a week and intricately, I lit it, I painted, you know all the glow in the dark light, and I did not get past the half mile point when that barge started to rip and fall and poor Snow White was in the trenches pulling off the poor barge. So, yeah, my, my craft lasted about six and a half minutes, oh, as mick was then closed for renovations I'm sure it was a challenge you don't such a challenge that I had.
Speaker 4:I had, uh, two friends tara and rachel had to help me dress after I got off the bus, because if I put it on on the bus I could not sit down had to go to the bathroom oh, oh, it was a 5K, oh, okay. I mean, had there been an emergency, we planned for that. Had there been an emergency, I could have, but I'm not sure I could have gotten into the porta pot.
Speaker 13:I'm just picturing you trying and it's awesome.
Speaker 14:Oh, it would have been funny and I love the answer that it's a 5K. There's no bathroom in a 5K. And I love the answer that it's a 5K. There's no bathroom in a 5K.
Speaker 4:It's a 5K. No soup for you, no coffee in the morning right. Oh, I didn't, Grant John, honest to goodness, I didn't. I didn't have coffee that morning for that reason. And the other thing is that Son of a Gum was hot and again only a 5K, but oh my goodness, that was warm.
Speaker 13:I think the one that I remember being the most, I don't know, loved to hate it, but I mean I love it. It's still my favorite one to this day. It was the VHS box. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 13:That was a Margaret's one too. Yeah, yes, ours was made out of that corrugated plastic that Tara had. A friend who owned a print shop print that for us, and so we had, like, the arm cut out cause, you know, our left arm went in it and it sat, you know, on top of that shoulder, and then we could open it where we were then wearing a VHS tape on the inside, complete with the be kind, rewind sticker you know, yeah anyway, but we, um, we learned that as we were moving and walking really fast, we realized really quick that we couldn't run in it, because when we ran it would move up and down and it would knock.
Speaker 13:I had a massive bruise across this top of this left shoulder, from where that that box was just like pushing repeatedly, and so it got to where we actually have a picture of it from PhotoPass, where we, up underneath it, held our hands like this to keep it like from bouncing, and then when we did that, it hid most of our face except our eyes.
Speaker 13:And so so we're just. It was. I mean, it was great, great, it photographed, great, it was so fun to run in, but that's the only costume that has left me with an injury so um, it's, yeah, it was, but I loved it. I just I loved, loved that costume it was good.
Speaker 4:Margaret you had same weekend. You had a similar costume. Did you have trouble with that one?
Speaker 15:um, yeah, the blockbuster tape. Um, not the same type of trouble that, uh, kristin had, because one of the challenges with that one for us was that we enclosed one side, so the one side where, like she had her arm hanging out, we enclosed, but the challenge that that presented was that it only left us with the ability to use our other hand and arm for anything else, like drinking water, or we had to, like move our head off to the side to take a sip of water and stuff like that. So that was kind of the other challenge on that did y'all's boxes open?
Speaker 13:I don't remember they did not.
Speaker 15:No, they did not, yeah and we used um kind of like a athletic material with velcro on our shoulders so kind of allowed it for to have like a little bit of bounce to it so it wouldn't like hurt us, and kind of like let us move a little bit more freely, um, so we didn't have that problem, but yeah, but then we couldn't stick our arms out, but we couldn't use our other arm we were yeah hindsight I would have padded that shoulder, but anyway yeah you live and learn.
Speaker 13:Yeah, you do you, and that's what that's really. The ultimate tale of costuming at Run Disney is you learn from things that you know, you experience on the race weekends or that other people tell you about.
Speaker 15:So I would have to say that my most challenging one, though, was when I dressed as Luxo the Pixar lamp oh, that's right, that one was when I dressed as Luxo, the Pixar lamp. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 15:That one was pretty challenging from a perspective of even having to put it on, pretty much assemble it by my car. I'm local so I drive in, assemble it by my car, and a lot of times I do have to drive in and then put on different parts of my costume. But that required a lot of assembly. And then also I like to use a lot of like Velcro and elastic for my costumes because I believe I feel like it adds flexibility. Plus, if Velcro comes apart you can just like snap it back on. And so on the part of like my harness on me, I had the Velcro sewn on, but then I wanted to create bolts for it. It had to have bolts because it had to be like the whole thing, so, but on the bolts what I to be like the whole thing, so, but on the bolts what I did was I used the same material that I used on the rest of it. And well, this was the malfunction that I had with it. So I use material that I use for the rest of it.
Speaker 15:But I put too much, I kind of over glued it with fabric glue, so it made it heavy. So then, and then I had the Velcro there glued on with hot glue gun, so that came off on a couple of them, but then what I ended up doing was just carrying that kind of as props. But then the other challenge was that I used a dog collar to create the lampshade that was basically around my face. So it kind of inhibited my peripheral view a little bit. So I had a friend that was with me the whole time and she was. It kind of inhibited my peripheral view a little bit. So I had a friend that was with me the whole time and she was just kind of like okay, you know, on the right, on the left, whatever.
Speaker 15:So that was, I would say, the most challenging cost.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I remember that one.
Speaker 12:Everything that we're sharing right now. It comes back to me, to the question that you asked, I think, alicia too, about how you balance the creativity with comfort, because those are some of the filters that I have right now is like to try to make sure whatever costume I am coming up with of course 5k and 10k is whatever, but then I have free, I'm free in my arms, like my arms are free. And then I've also considered the fact, the bouncing that you all are talking about, I'm trying to make sure that the costumes, they don't move too much, or how do I find ways to keep it tight and does it block my legs, right? So, like we're talking about challenging costume, right, I just want to make sure that I can move the arms, like all the parts that we're really supposed to be using, we're like running. Can I still use all of those, fine, and not be challenged or, like it blocked my ability to like finish out the race.
Speaker 13:That was something that I remember springtime surprise of 23, when Tara and I were the cozy cone motel and I was the. It was the sign there was such like sensory deprivation in that cone for me, cause it was just my face, so I couldn't hear anything. And so if you're somebody who doesn't do well, like with a sensory deprivation, like cause it was making me dizzy because I couldn't, I felt like I was just like in a bubble you know um always be mindful of that.
Speaker 13:So just you know, cause I remember at the end of the race, like you know, we all love to stand around and hang out and talk, but I kept looking at her going, I can't hear what anybody's saying, so and I was not about to decostume and like ruin the effect. So we, just, we just left right.
Speaker 11:Yeah, that's right we've been talking a lot about making costumes, but if you are, if one of our listeners is like I don't know if I have enough time to make a costume, is there a certain um companies or people that you go to either through etsy or instagram, what would, what do you guys do in that situation?
Speaker 4:I love amazon yeah, amazon's good halloweencom I was gonna say, yeah, that one.
Speaker 12:they're a little pricey because their costumes are like pretty legit. If it's halloweencom or halloweencostumescom, they might be different companies um.
Speaker 4:They look an awful lot alike online, don't they k?
Speaker 12:do and funcom is all three the same okay, yeah, so those two are like some of my go-to's and yeah well, I started thinking about all the different costumes.
Speaker 9:I feel I always say I like to um, help everybody out, every company out. I wouldn't ever want to be an ambassador. I say that now. I wouldn't ever want to be an ambassador. I say that now, I wouldn't ever want to be an ambassador for one particular company because I want to be able to wear what I want to wear. So I love Dottie for running. Sparkle Athletic Top Stitch Couture Tomorrowland Run. So Repeat my friend Tracy. She makes amazing skirts, but she's not officially in business making skirts, but she makes amazing skirts, so probably just reach out to her and she'll make you one Run. So Sweet, Etsy, Amazon, you name it. I support everyone.
Speaker 4:Let us not forget our friend at Kauai and Pizza.
Speaker 13:Kauai and Pizza. Oh yes, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Because she makes those are good quality. It's mostly shirts, but just great work.
Speaker 15:I've used her a lot too for especially like custom fabric pieces, because she can print kind of whatever you want on fabric. So like when I did Marine Corps, I wanted to dress up as the Washington Monument.
Speaker 4:Yes so.
Speaker 15:I had her print a dress that was like the Washington Monument bricks. And then she also printed additional fabric for me so I could make the cone to put at the top of my head to look similar like the top part of it. And then for the Berlin Marathon I wanted to be the Brandenburg Gate, so I had her print the Brandenburg Gate for me, so I could make a top. Burke gate so I had her print the Brandenburg gate for me, so I could make a top. And then she printed the quadruped that's at the top. That's like the horse and chariot. And then I created a headpiece from that too. So keep that in mind with her also. It's not just what she has on her side. If you let her know within time she can get some amazing like off the wall things too.
Speaker 12:I will say, with a quick turnaround time too. I haven't used her yet, but I know one of our friends I'm not going to give away her costume, but we've been talking about springtime surprise 2026. And she had a thought, she gave her the idea and she already has her shirt, like she was like, just give me a second, let me finish. And so yeah, just since you brought her up, I forgot I am yeah I ordered from alec last night.
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Speaker 13:I am a big fan of getting, like the base piece of pieces from well. For example, when I did, when Fred and I did the Hercules thing for springtime, that Hercules costume was from halloweencostumescom or funcom or whatever and getting base pieces like that and then like zhuzhing up other parts of it to make it your own, because a lot of people will be out there in that same costume but maybe they don't have the belt bejeweled or you know things like that, so you can always make something your own by getting just a normal base piece. But then it was. She was already lisa from top. Stitch is absolutely fantastic. Uh, she's the one that helped me do that custom small world skirt for disneyland um, that had my mimi's birthday on the bow. Um, in the small world numbers, um, and that was just so special, and she took everything that I envisioned for that and made it a reality. Um, she's the one that did my Wine and Dine half marathon skirt last year, she did your perfect skirt too.
Speaker 13:Right yeah, she did my perfect skirt, which was a piece of every one of my costumes was in that skirt. So there's very creative like. I feel like I'm a creative person in coming up with a concept but I'm not great at executing it, and so having people that you can reach out to, like Lisa or even Fred or other people that are like, well, this is how you could do this, that's so helpful. But if you just Just to drive the point home, if you can get a good base layer from you know, like Target right now it's their Halloween costumes are out. Get something from there and then zhuzh it up, make it your own and and go with that.
Speaker 4:Listen, I got to make the show notes. Can you spell zhuzhing for me? Zhuzh that would be.
Speaker 12:That's okay, it's all right, t-z-u-j, I think. Oh, I like it there really is a way to spell it there really is and.
Speaker 13:I don't know what it is, yes, okay.
Speaker 6:Okay, so have you guys ever repeated costumes?
Speaker 12:Oh, oh wait, I'm about to.
Speaker 14:Controversial. Controversial question.
Speaker 4:Ah, why so Fred?
Speaker 14:controversial, controversial question. Ah, why so, fred? Well, I feel like um, when you repeat um, your it's almost like you're shelving your creativity, that race, I mean, I know, due to um, those um budgets and and time frames, sometimes you have to repeat I've done it before, um, but it it to me sometimes can feel like um, I've put something on the back burner, you know. So I try not to repeat all right, fair answer anybody else?
Speaker 9:sometimes repeat something in a local race that I wore I'll repeat stuff at local races too.
Speaker 15:In fact, we did some blockbuster costumes at a local race and won best costume. So it's like it was ready to go and it was just like right there, we put it on and went for it. And then I also recently repeated something, actually at Halloween my Ursula costume that I had worn I don't know, maybe five, six years ago, because I keep all my costumes but I embellished it some more. And then I added costume that I had worn I don't know, maybe five, six years ago, because I keep all my costumes but I embellished it some more and then I added her eels at top just kind of floating over the top of her seaweed and everything.
Speaker 15:Because this time it was for a 5k. When I wore it before it was for a half marathon many years ago. This time it was for 5k, so I added that embellishment off my back.
Speaker 12:And then Fred mentioned something I will just say for those of our listeners out there that do have the budget constraints I don't want you to feel bad If you do have, like, princess Weekend. We've had episodes where you all have like counted how many times they bring back a princess, right? So if you have costumes that you have used before and the princess is coming back, please do not be embarrassed or ashamed to bring it back and own it the same way you owned it before when you're out there.
Speaker 11:I'm usually one that has a tighter budget. I would say in terms of especially, especially with costumes, what I will usually do if there's more than one race that weekend that I'm doing, I only choose one new costume and then switch around the distance that I wore the original costume from. So if I ran it for a half marathon before, I'll switch it up for a 10K and then put the new costume for the half, or something like that.
Speaker 9:Well, I'd say I just building new costume for the half or something like that. Well, I'd say I just building off of what Margaret said, I mean for my amazing Cruella costume I just wore for Halloween. I actually wore it during that very rainy Wine and Dine 2021. And so there's like two pictures of me in it, and then what I did was I zhuzhed up and had a much fancier skirt.
Speaker 3:And then what I did was I zhuzhed up and had a much fancier skirt.
Speaker 9:But I'm wearing the same top and the same wig, but I have different arm sleeves, I mean.
Speaker 9:so I think that's a way that you can reuse these yeah that's fair and certainly in one of my running groups we have a brown skirt. We call it sort of our nostalgia skirt. We wear it for all kinds of different races by adding just another top layer or patches or something else on it. So then we're not spending so much money because you know, all those skirts can be a hundred dollars each or $80 each or whatever they are, and if you have a skirt that you can just sort of like add different things to and it looks like a completely different thing by just doing a different top or whatever the theme is, I think that's a really. We're really trying to be smarter about how we reuse our costumes.
Speaker 12:I'm doing the same that you all just talked about. So because Princess has, so because Rapunzel is coming back, I've learned. So there were a couple of fails with the costume when I came as Rapunzel before that. I would like to make some changes to that. So I want to bring the costume back, but I want to try to do it now and take the learnings and make it actually look more like me than than whatever it was. I attempted.
Speaker 15:Yeah, and Pam's comment reminded me too that for the half marathon during marathon weekend the one that got shortened I had this Donald's like outfit that was like all glammed out and glittery and feathery and everything and I still wore it, but I hardly got any pictures. I didn't get a finish line picture and I've been waiting for the right moment to bring that one back for sure, because it's like I put a lot of work and effort into that and then it was kind of like oh yeah do it there are no pictures, margaret, so it didn't count right, so there's a few pictures, so it didn't count, yeah.
Speaker 13:Yeah, that was the race that I was, captain Hook, and in all of my PhotoPass pictures I have my rain jacket on and then just like this burgundy skirt, and people are like I don't know what you were. And I was like I don't either, because the feather on my hat got blown off in the wind. Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 4:I've repeated a couple, but I repeat them because they kind of have an identity of their own.
Speaker 13:Like Tinker Bob.
Speaker 4:Tinker Bob.
Speaker 14:Tinker Bob. Yeah, we need a moment for Tinker Bob.
Speaker 4:Tinker Bob's been around three times, I think, and Sam Eagle's been around a couple of times Iconic. I enjoy that Now Groot is sitting in my garage. I don't know what the heck I'm going to. I enjoy that Now Groot is sitting in my garage.
Speaker 14:I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with that I can't imagine I don't know what to do with it. Tinker Groot, anybody want to? I know, bob, you and I are almost the same height. Maybe we need to get into this. There you go. You want to be my pig.
Speaker 4:Why not?
Speaker 12:Why not, oh, a costume exchange program?
Speaker 11:Yes, bob, I got it. This is how you're going to reuse it, okay. You need somebody to get to Snow White, and then you need somebody to be a fan in the back so that it looks like it's windy and you can be the tree running after Snow White in this scary, like you know, fred's been the tree before. See there you go that would be perfect.
Speaker 13:Yeah, like I, fred's been the tree before.
Speaker 11:See, there you go. That would be perfect.
Speaker 4:All right. Well, yeah, like I said, it's in the garage. We've got to do something with it. Hey, here's. Let me take us a little different direction, Because one of the things that I think is neat about running in costume is the joy you bring to the other participants in the race and the people who are out there. Can you think of any particular stories where you had a notable reaction to the costumes you were wearing?
Speaker 9:I mean mine wasn't at Disney, Mine was during the shutdown of everything and I would run around my neighborhood in a different costume and the kids in the neighborhood started noticing that I was running around the neighborhood and they would yell out they're like who are you today? I'm like.
Speaker 9:I'm, you know, I'm from Star Wars and they're like that's so cool or I'm Rapunzel or whatever it was, and so I feel like one of my missions in life is just to spread joy and I feel like that's one way that I do it. And same thing like if I'm walking around the neighborhood on Thanksgiving morning and everybody's kind of like, kind of grumpy because they have to run and get you know, whatever, I'll change their expressions.
Speaker 9:They're in their car and I can see that I'm wearing this full turkey costume and I can see their facial expressions changing because they started off, you know, looking kind of like, oh I got to get this done and this done, and then they stopped for a second and smiled.
Speaker 13:So that's my contribution to society.
Speaker 4:I can imagine.
Speaker 13:So this is actually how Fred and I met was I made a comment about his costume, we were, it was Wine and Dine of 22. And it was the 5k right when it the yes, it was. And we were backstage at Epcot and it was that little like that choke point where you're coming back on stage at the in the UK, where you're coming back on stage at the uh in the UK. And we were kind of bottlenecked there and I look over and there's just this like conglomerate of chimney sweeps next to me and I was um dressed as oh, I was the uh guitar. I was um Ernesto de la Cruz's guitar from uh Coco.
Speaker 4:Oh, I remember that too, yeah.
Speaker 13:And I look over and just you know, I've never met a stranger, I'm going to try to be friends with everyone, and so we're all kind of stopped there and I just look over and go. I wish y'all would have worn that tomorrow when I'm, when I'm Jolly Holiday, mary Poppins, and it was. Fred, and that's how we met.
Speaker 14:Nice, nice, we should have been Kristen's entourage. We should have known Kristen. You didn't get me and then, of course, I fangirled because I had been following her for a while and that's how we met. But that's a great segue, because you talk about spectators that come up to you. But really the true thing for me and I'll try not to cry is just inspiring my family, my my mom and dad and my friend and and people that have seen me have so much fun in these costumes. It's inspired them. My mother is I shouldn't say her age on on on here, but she's turning 79 and my dad is 81. And they're doing another 5k with me in January and specifically so we can do the costumes. That's awesome. I think that part is really important to me, too is just hiring people to be healthy.
Speaker 13:I think that's terrific, and his parents get into it because I've been in a group with them. We were the Alice in Wonderland group and his sweet little mom was Alice and his dad was the Mad Hatter. I was the White Rabbit and Fred, you and Thomas were the trees that were in the forest. And it was just. I remember that.
Speaker 15:I didn't realize that was all Fred's family.
Speaker 13:Yeah it was.
Speaker 15:That was awesome yeah.
Speaker 4:That's interesting, fred, because Becky just thinks I'm nuts. Okay, so I don't think I inspire her, I amuse her, but I don't think I inspire her.
Speaker 12:I amuse her, but I don't think I inspire her. You guys were really wonderful, eric and ariel, when I loved that one, when you all did that oh gosh, you're right, I've forgotten that one k yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, becky got into it for a couple, not too many, but she did greg, does your daughter want to dress up with you?
Speaker 7:Yes, well, I mean, here's the thing, and we're going to have to loop in another person, one of our guests here. She usually doesn't care what I want to wear, she's more concerned about what Kay's going to wear. It goes to Kay first, and then it comes to me.
Speaker 12:So, I'm chopped liver in this scenario he was one of my, so she is one of my favorite stories, um, and memorable costumes, and she is the reason why it had nothing to do. Like you know, I've done costumes, but that costume was because and the only reason why I did the race to, to be quite honest, I got a message, hey. So I wanted to know, and I can't say no to Riley so I did sign up for that race and I found out what we were going to do and I'm like I think I have the perfect costume then and the pictures with her that's what made that costume for me during that race is to look back at the pictures and see the joy on her face, see the joy on my face for running with her, and that was Gamora at Springtime.
Speaker 12:Oh yeah, last year, because she was going to be Groot, and that one will stay in the books for me. What is it? Core Memory? That one's a. Core books for me. What? What is it with core memory? That one's a memory. And that was also the one where the jacket showed up the day before because, right like no, it's okay, no, it's not okay. I have to commit fully to this costume.
Speaker 11:I have to do by by Riley is there, like any character idea you've always wanted to do but haven't done yet?
Speaker 15:I would say that I've already done like my two top like bucket list ones, which were Luxo and Aurora, in a full gown. But I do love doing like all the princesses and I like staying on theme, and I'm waiting for them to bring some of the other princesses on board so I can complete my collection. And then I have a long-term goal I love dressing as Minnie also, so I have a long-term goal of doing Minnie in a hundred different versions or outfits.
Speaker 4:Wow, that's ambitious, margaret. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 14:Like all a hundred in one race. Are you going to be pulling them off? Oh, I like that.
Speaker 4:I like that, Fred. Yeah, that's cool. Oh, that's an idea. Is that a challenge, Margaret?
Speaker 15:No, so I'm probably about 20-something in now. So just kind of for each race, like just reaching up to 100, because she has so many amazing outfits, you know you could do.
Speaker 11:You could be like the wardrobe from beauty and the beast and have every outfit underneath. So whenever you open up the drawers, you know it's like there's the outfits. I don't know.
Speaker 4:I love that I thought about being jimmy the cricket, but that's john's thing so I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 12:Yeah, I thought I didn't have one um because I think I know, until I joined the Run Disney community and realized I really don't know anything about Disney at all. So I don't have like this back knowledge. I hear you Kay. It just clicked Disney Afternoon. So if I would love it and I think y'all said that when Disney listens, so Run Disney I would like a springtime surprise theming.
Speaker 6:Star Wars, star Wars. Oh no, john, I can't help you there.
Speaker 12:Oh yeah, wait, you want 2027, right, okay, so I want 2028. So 2028 run disney. Can you please create theming around the disney afternoon? Amen sister all the different shows gummy bears yes, I would absolutely love to do.
Speaker 12:You know, it was gummy bears goof troop duck tail tailspin um tailspin and darkwing duck yeah, darkwing duck yeah I can't remember the others, but pick, pick any of them from the lineup that you all had and I will absolutely join, and that would be a costume I would want to do I think, one that I would love to do.
Speaker 13:There's a couple that I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it. Anything with Small World, because you all know that's my ride. That has a very sentimental place in my heart.
Speaker 12:Are you going in January?
Speaker 13:Yes, yes, just for that one that got me that half marathon. It was like that's going to be a very quick weekend trip, but I will be there. Not, there's no way I would miss that at all, but I. So my grandmother, mimi, that was her favorite ride. So that's the sentimental part of that for me. But she had a favorite room.
Speaker 13:Like you know, you go through the different rooms and it's the one like at Disney world it's it's at the very end before you get off the ride. It's the one where it's just like all the you know, white and Aqua and gold and anyway. So there's a, there's a girl in there on like the carousel that has a very distinct look that I would love to do. So that's kind of filed away. I just got to figure out how to do it, because I don't think that it would translate just standalone. Just they'd be like you're going to. Really that's cool, I guess you know. But then the other one would be to do a version of Walt. So I need to figure out. Tara did a hilarious version of Walt when we were in Disneyland for 24, january of 24, like with the mustache, and getting ready that morning in the room was hilarious because I was helping her pick out her mustache. But yeah, those would be my two dream ones, and I would love to do a Cinderella again, because Cinderella is my favorite.
Speaker 14:Yeah, I'm big. Anybody that knows me knows I'm a big Pocahontas stan, okay, and I've never dressed as her. But I want to do it with the colors of the wind engulfing me, the leaves, so I'm trying to think of how I can make that work. Okay, um, so stay tuned.
Speaker 13:We'll workshop that, fred, okay.
Speaker 4:My money's on you, Fred. If anybody can pull it off, I'm in your corner on that one. Thank you.
Speaker 7:So clearly you all have been invited onto this episode because you inspire us to then want to inspire the run Disney community in terms of the costumes that you make. I mean, heck, I could even go as so far to say that all of you in some capacity have also inspired run disney to put out new costume guidelines about things protruding from us. Uh, aka fred as big ben and kristin and margaret as massive vhs tapes and kristin as a guitar. So clearly you've had lots of great inspiration all across the board.
Speaker 13:You're welcome.
Speaker 7:So do you think or have you had interactions on the course or in the corrals or in the family reunion area where people have come up to you and be like you're my costume inspiration? Has that ever happened to any of you?
Speaker 12:I don't know if they've said like those words, right, you're my costume inspiration. But I have definitely had, uh, people along courses, both both disney and non disney. But but at disney I would get friendship bracelets right Because they loved the costume so much and just like compliments like that, like oh my gosh, or sometimes they're not even looking forward anymore because they're still looking and like talking to me about the costume. So I've had like moments like that along courses where I could tell I impacted. I don't know if I want to use the word inspire, but I guess I should use the word inspire, but I've inspired or impacted people along the way, both on course, and I've gotten messages, to be honest, from friends off course. That let me know I have been an inspiration. And if I could just share real quick one of our cards, you know when we did the card exchange, yes.
Speaker 12:When I got a card I'm not going to call out who she is, she knows who she is in the card she left me a note to tell me that I have inspired her with my costuming and doesn't know how much that meant to me, because life was lifing. I wasn't doing a great job at balancing life at the moment. I wanted to just say forget it, you know, and getting that message I'm like do not quit your costume, keep going Like someone is actually looking at what you're doing, just it's. It's not just you're not just in your own world and your own bubble, it's bigger.
Speaker 4:Oh no, that's very true. That's very, very true that you can see it on the faces of the people out there that they you are adding to their enjoyment of the race weekend with your costuming in a lot of cases.
Speaker 13:Going back to the, to the VHS box. I remember we were on the boardwalk right off of Yacht Club, no Beach Club, and there's usually like the mile four markers right there in that corner, you know, and we were just bebopping along and this sweet guy who now is a friend of mine, ryan Phillips, the fit flounder on Instagram and TikTok, but anyway, he like ran past, stopped, turned around and was like, oh my gosh, that's my favorite movie and because I was wearing the Little Mermaid one, and so we like took pictures and he was telling me about how much that movie meant to him and like, and there, you know, a friendship was built off of that. And then you've got other people who recognize you just based off of your costume, that maybe their, their costume, is in the same movie, and so they want to get a picture with you too, and that's that's always fun to meet people that way. Fun to meet people that way. So, but I, I agree, kay, there are people in our lives who speak into those areas of. I just don't want to do this because I don't think it looks good.
Speaker 13:Um, the, a great example of that for me is going to be princess, this, this last February where I was trying to pull off a Jafar look and I was coming across as a cheap magician, like I could not get it to look like Jafar. I looked like a run of the mill magician. I was joking, I'll just wear it and carry around cards and be like is this your card, you know? But anyway, somebody was had reached out and said have you tried doing this? And it was the what I ended up doing, which was going and finding at I think it was Hobby Lobby maybe seat cushions, like seat cushions, and forming them and wrapping them in material to make the like the triangular shoulder things.
Speaker 13:And the minute those went on it was immediately Jafar. But I was so ready to just hang up that cheap cape and be like nevermind. So you get through this community. You get people who encourage you to not just throw in the towel or hang up the cape in my case, and that's so special. But you don't have to be a costumer to have people speak into you like that. Just the community does that. And that's what's really special about Run Disney and about this little Rise and Run family.
Speaker 15:And I would say I just continue to be inspired by so many amazing creative costumes out there and I just love after the races just talking to people about their ideas, how they made what they made and then just trying to learn like new skills and crafts, and just kind of continue to build off of that. Yeah, it's just amazing.
Speaker 9:I think my favorite compliment came from Halloween race. I was finishing the half. I'm coming in the finisher shoot. Carissa Galloway sees me. She stops what she's doing, she's got it on the microphone. She's like and here comes Pamela, you know the best mashup of pain and panic. And like it's like oh okay, that's cool. And then crossing the finish line, and then everybody's like I heard Carissa call your name. I'm like yay.
Speaker 4:I'm going to ask one overarching question here. We've we've discussed a whole lot of things, and you have already made some of these points, but if we've got friends listening who are about to do a costume for the first time, what advice would you give them? I have I do.
Speaker 14:I have three rules that I think a Kristen and I use them all the time. One of them we talked about is runnable. The three rules One of them is runnable, has to be runnable. Another one is photogenic, like a lot of times we come up with these costumes and then, once we get through the photo, pass and everything. It might be too dark, it might not be bright enough, and then you don't have the great memories after the race. And then the other thing is readable, and what I mean is like if you can have the funniest thought or say, well, I'm going to be this deep dive character and everybody's going to think it's so funny and great. But if you're running past them and they just have that three seconds to know who you are, if they don't get it and if it's not readable, then you might have failed. So those are the three things that Kristen and I volley all the time.
Speaker 9:I think my advice is to go rogue, do whoever you want to be Like if there's a theme and you don't like the theme, but you have a favorite character and especially if it's your first time doing it. You want to wear a character that you really like and speaks to you, so don't worry about what the theme is. If you really like Zootopia, do Zootopia. Even though they're going to do it in the spring, do it at Wine and Dine.
Speaker 4:Not that someone's not doing that. No, I think it's good. I think it's good.
Speaker 12:I would say do it well. And when I say that I don't mean in the execution of it, right, I mean in embracing it. Pamela, like you said, if you want to go rogue, choose it. Whatever it is that you choose, enjoy every moment that you are out there running in that costume. Remember all the love and care or choice and decision-making that you put into this costume. When you get out there, find the PhotoPass. People Enjoy those moments with the PhotoPass to capture what you actually did and remember and remember who you are right. So, whatever the character was that you chose, remember that you're running in this character. When you're out there, just enjoy that, enjoy the reactions from the crowd. So that's my way of saying do it well, just embrace it when you do it and embrace every moment.
Speaker 7:That's a great point, ladies, In theory. While your costumes may invoke joy in others, it's most important that it's giving you joy first.
Speaker 15:And that should always be your focus.
Speaker 15:One bit of technical advice that I would add is that I may not practice running in my costumes, but what I do practice a lot is putting on my costumes, especially as the more technical ones and that have different parts and pieces. Sometimes it's like you want to put on the wig first, or you want to do the other part first, or whatever the case is. Sometimes I'll have various trial runs of putting it on and putting it on in the right order, because we all get up super early in the middle of the night and the last thing we want to do is waste time figuring out like, oh no, that part didn't work quite right on first. Let me try doing this over again. So I'll usually have that kind of pat down and I'll know okay, this I'm putting on at home, this I have to take in my vehicle to go put on once I get there. So that'll save me some time in the morning.
Speaker 13:Whatever you choose to do whether you're new or this is your first time back in costuming, you kind of fell out of it whatever you choose to do will be perfect, and it's all about going out there and having the best time. So if you feel like your best version of yourself in a tank top and a sparkle skirt, wear that. You need to be wearing a costume for you and not to try to one-up the next person who you don't even talk to outside of, at the heart of it. You need to wear it because you feel great in it and you're excited about it, and it's a character that you love, a race distance that you love, and that's going to make for the best pictures, because we all take the best pictures when we feel the most confident, and so that's just. That's my like. My big takeaway is whatever you choose to do, like Kay said, do it to the best of your ability, own it and have the best time.
Speaker 4:All right, council, I'm going to let Kristen have the last word there and I'm going to thank you all so very much for joining us, for sharing all of this information about costumes. I sure hope our friends who are listening enjoyed and, I hope, learned something. It's been great to see you all again. It truly has. I miss you. We haven't been together for the season yet. I didn't get out to disneyland, but I will see you at disney world. A lot of us will and we look forward to that. And with that council, you are dismissed. So long bye, guys caution runners.
Speaker 12:Change of topic ahead Council, you are dismissed.
Speaker 8:So long, bye, bye. Bye, guys. Caution runners. Change of topic ahead.
Speaker 4:We had a wonderful visit with our Council of Costumes. But and gosh gang, this is on me because I almost forgot this Our friend Margaret is actively involved in a charity fundraiser related somewhat to costumes and we wanted to let her share some information about that with you. So, margaret, tell us about this charity you're working on.
Speaker 15:Yeah, so I am running the Chicago Marathon, coming up with an amazing team of Run Disney runners called the Run Disney Villains. We are running for the American Cancer Society, and there are over 90 of us that also include several many very active members also in the Rise and Run community, and we have two amazing team members that have donated so that we can raffle off two deluxe resort stays. One is at animal kingdom lodge in april and the other is at saratoga springs during springtime. Surprise, and it's only 23 19, so 23 and 19 cents to enter Think Monsters Inc.
Speaker 15:Okay, yep, and you have until Friday, september 27th, so the day after this airs, to put in your entry, and so I will post details on the Rise and Run page so that way it's like fresh, so everybody can find it with the link as well too, and from there you can pick a team member and donate exactly $23.19. So $23.19. And please don't include the processing fees, because then that won't show up on the report that we need to see all the entries. But if you're feeling generous, you're welcome to enter multiple times, either with the same team member or with other team members. As a side note, you may want to pick someone who is below $2,600, because that's the next big milestone that many are trying to meet, so that it represents $100 for every mile. Um, so, regardless, just please enter for a chance to win one of these amazing stays and help us make a significant difference for the American Cancer Society. And again, I will post the details.
Speaker 4:Wonderful Margaret. Thanks for staying around and sharing that with us. I appreciate it and I hope our friends get out there and hope somebody to somebody's have a wonderful state at a great resort.
Speaker 15:Absolutely. Thank you guys. Caution runners. The topic is about to change right now.
Speaker 6:That was a great interview with the costume of costumes again. But there's some things that you realize. I know we focused on Disney characters or Disney IP. You can use something from the other park, maybe like Cat in the Hat, and have fun, or no costume at all.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I mean, I went years without running in costume and even now, on the long run, half and above T-shirt and shorts, I don't wear a costume on the long run heck.
Speaker 7:Even think about our friends over the slackers. You know the oxen spoon gang, you know a lot of times they come up with great group costumes that are not even related to that particular. Oh yeah, I mean heck. Take the legendary bill stewart himself. The number of times that man is dressed up as Ronald McDonald the freak Carissa out is just is a joy to watch.
Speaker 4:Right, but you will. I mean you, if you're new to this and you get swept up in. Oh what? What can I do? I don't have a costume, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Show up in your shorts and t-shirt, have a good time. Maybe, maybe later you'll get into costuming. Maybe you don't have to, but it is fun.
Speaker 7:Well, speaking of other races that you can dress up for, the aforementioned Margaret, I believe, also dressed up for this event last year, as I just saw her advertisement on Facebook. Our wonderful, wonderful friends over at Give Kids the World are in the process right now. They have opened their registration for their 2025 Gingerbread Run 5K. This event is taking place on Saturday, november 8th, at 6 pm. Uh, it is occurring at the village. Uh, so to me, what I like to describe this race as is, if you missed out on the opportunity to see the osborne family lights at that they used to do at hollywood studios this is probably the closest thing you will get to that.
Speaker 7:They do a wonderful job of decorating the village during the holiday season and they just put on such an amazing event. It's going to have dance parties. Some of the characters that are part of the village will be there, so hopefully maybe that means some like character stops or something like that. Uh, there is going to be a themed medal. There will be merchandise food. It's such a wonderful event. I know we did have a small contingent again that went to this race last year and I remember they just waxed poetic about it. So if you are interested and I'll be sure to post a link on our Facebook page and I'll have John include it in the show notes. But our friend Mark, who heads up the charity bid program over there, he sent me a note the other day. He wanted to let us know that if you are interested in attending this event in person at registration, if you use the promo code RISE registration if you use the promo code rise, you will save 25 off the registration fee which I think was extremely, extremely generous of him.
Speaker 7:So, again, if you're in, if you're local to the central florida area, or even just you know florida in general, you want to take a part in this event. Uh, be sure to sign up for that. And I should mention as well, there is a virtual option for this as well.
Speaker 4:So if you're interested in supporting the village, uh, this holiday season, go check out the gingerbread run yeah, speaking of virtual options, our friends at the will run for podcasts have their virtually live event coming up november 22nd. You can still register for that. Registration is only five bucks. It's a a great, great event, great charity. You can go to their Instagram, the We'll Run For Instagram account. Find the link there to register. Please give it a shot. It's fun. It's five bucks. I would like a lot of us to to swamp. I don't not to about overwhelming. I just want to support, I just want to support the group and it is a good event, and I haven't registered yet, but I will, I promise. One more note Marathon weekend, our 5K for marathon weekend. Our friend Alec at Hawaiian Pizza Apparel has those alien shirts for sale. The link is pinned to the top of our Facebook group page. It's going to be fun, so see if you can get your alien shirt. I heard Coach Twiggs today saying he had an alien shirt.
Speaker 7:Yes, I was very surprised to hear him say that this morning yeah, all right, that'll be fun.
Speaker 4:Let's see friends. This is a zoom week, so this episode releases on thursday. We'll be on zoom this evening. Upcoming episodes AJ AJ Wolf, who wrote the book Disney Adults and is also part of the Disney Food Blog a really neat blog I've been looking at for years should be with us next week as we will also recap the Berlin Marathon. And now Please stand clear of the doors. It's time for the Race Report. Please stay away from the doors. The Race Report sponsored by Thomas Stokes at Stoked Metabolic Training. All right on to the race report.
Speaker 4:I want to thank many of you who, I guess, listened last week and put your race location and the day of the race up front in your report Very helpful. I also said that we would get to a point where we may have to abbreviate some of the reports. Well, this is that time. We got a lot of races to cover, so I love and I read all the reports you put in and I would encourage our other friends to look through, especially if something you hear about catches your fancy and you want to read more about it. There's probably more in the Facebook group, but I had to abbreviate them this week just to get them done. Now there's one. I didn't abbreviate too much and it's the first one I want to talk about A weekend-long event, the UTMB grindstone 100 ultra at natural natural chimneys park in virginia.
Speaker 4:This race is actually over 100 miles. I believe it ended up being 106 point something. Miles 21 000 feet of vertical climb, 21,000 feet, about four miles of vertical climb. In this race we had two friends involved, adam and Tony. This one's been three years in the making. They've been at it, they've tried it the last two years, both great runners, great long distance runners who put a whole lot of work in, but they haven't completed it yet.
Speaker 4:Now Adam took off on this one. This is a really technical trail race and if you it's a 21,000 feet, but if you look at the charts, oh my goodness, it's just one climb after the other. The only, I guess, saving grace is I can't quite compare it to Hard Rock. Hard Rock has actually more climbing. This one tops out at about 4,000 feet, so you don't deal with the altitude and elevation problems as much. Nevertheless, this is for me to say. Anything other than this is insane is not doing it justice. So this one's a technical race. You got trails, rocks, very steep climbs, steep descents, rocks, very steep climbs, steep descents.
Speaker 4:About 20 minutes before Adam arrived at his last aid station, which I don't know where that was 95 miles or so thunder and lightning started and then it started to pour and climbing was tough because of the mud, but Adam was afraid. Then, once he got to the top of that last climb, the descent how difficult was that going to be on a muddy course? Well, he managed. He did it. He got out of the aid station. He had 30 minutes to spare. He wanted to finish under 30 hours, but at mile 106, his speed on that five-mile section, the last five-mile section, was sub-12-minute miles. He wanted to finish in under 30. He finished in 28 hours and 53 minutes.
Speaker 16:That's epic.
Speaker 4:Oh man, that put him 27th overall out of all the racers, third in his age group. Out of the 100, about 107 miles, he had two miles where he ran less than 11 minutes mile two and mile 107. Thanks.
Speaker 4:Unbelievable, unbelievable. His friend Tony, tony called it off he DNF. Tony's a tough guy, good runner, trains hard, but these things, my goodness, nobody. Nobody knows when they tow the line in a race like this, whether they're good, whether they're going to finish or not. Tony made a wonderful race report and I would encourage you, tony Contreras, I would encourage you to go in and read it, because it's a real study in what can happen to you on a race, and I don't have the ability to summarize all of it here, I just want to. This is something I copied straight out of here, and Tony says that at a race like this, it's just a good opportunity to learn and to try to make some changes or readjustments, striving for improvements and growth. I don't know what else to say. I mean that's awesome. Congratulations to both you guys. I also want to mention Kent, who crewed for them. Not an easy thing to do. He was an invaluable part of the team. So, kent, great job to you also. So let's continue.
Speaker 4:We got a couple other weekend long events. Sean. Sean did a Ragnar. The Michigan Ragnar 200 mile relay went from Traverse City, michigan, to Muskegon, michigan. Took the team 36 hours to do about this 200 miles. That's pretty good. Sean got to run a 9.4-mile leg, 9-mile leg and a 3.6-mile leg. They had a great team, there was no rain during the event and decent temperatures. It was a great time. We've talked about these before. I only have done one such event in my life, but they're memorable and a lot of fun.
Speaker 4:The other weekend long event is kind of two separate events. The Orca Half in Seattle, washington. Laura and Brian ran a half on Saturday. That wasn't enough because they ran a half on Sunday also. They both did back-to-back halves on the two different days. Let's see Saturday's run all sunshine, sunday a little bit rainy. Laura took it a bit easier on day two but only ended up being about eight minutes behind what she had done the day before. They finished the weekend with chips, a Celsius, some Beecher's cheese and soup. That's got to be a West Coast thing, beechers with a capital B, I'm not familiar with it. But two medals for each of them.
Speaker 4:Let us move now to Saturday and visit with a friend who's been on the podcast before. You may remember if you have all of the episodes memorized. You may remember that on episode 187, liz and her brother Stephen were with us the Flying Fanglers. It was a good episode. We enjoyed talking with them. Liz is back now, though, because, as a member of the Connecticut 169 Society and we've talked about them before she just finished race number 169. We want to celebrate that. Liz. Welcome back. We're glad you're here.
Speaker 16:Thank you, it's good to be back.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's fun to have you. We're not going to ask you the questions. We had a lot of fun talking with you and your brother, whose name I didn't remember until right now, until you reminded me anyway, but it's good to have you now. Look, you finished race 169 on Saturday in Basra, connecticut, right?
Speaker 16:Yes.
Speaker 4:And what was the race, please?
Speaker 16:It was the Basra Volunteer Fire Department. 5k 5K.
Speaker 4:Now, was this a plan to finish at this one, or did it just fall into place for you? This was where it came on your journey.
Speaker 16:I would say that I guess it ended up just becoming a plan to finish there, because just as I got closer and counting down on towns, I was like okay, where would I rather finish? Would I rather finish in the middle of nowhere, or would I rather finish in the tail of Connecticut?
Speaker 4:In the bustling metropolis of Basra. How many people, john, in the city Town? Town, not city in the town.
Speaker 6:I got to go back there. Hold on, it's like 2,000 something yeah.
Speaker 4:See, we learned from talking to our 169 Society friends that there are no cities in Connecticut, they're all towns. I'm buying it, I'm not questioning, okay.
Speaker 6:It was 2,429 people from the 2020 census.
Speaker 4:Yeah, which I think makes it the sixth largest town in Connecticut. Is that right? No, I'm picking on Connecticut now. I know there are bigger towns than that. I'm just messing around, so this ended up being your last one. Tell us how this one went, please.
Speaker 16:This one went pretty well. It was a smaller race than some of the other ones I've done. This was probably it was still over like 100 people that did it and yeah, it was a pretty good course. It was easy to follow just out and back and just do what you did going out and do the same thing back, with a little bit of rolling hills, but it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 4:See, that's important to you, liz, that's not important to me or a whole lot of our friends, because we always have somebody to follow. We don't care if the course is marked Well, we just follow who's in front of us. There's always somebody in front of us, lots of somebody's in front of us.
Speaker 6:And if they make a wrong turn?
Speaker 4:we make, we do too. We do too, but that's not always the case with you. 169 races now in Connecticut. How many of them did you were you first female finisher?
Speaker 16:First overall female finisher in 167. 20 towns as overall, not only overall.
Speaker 4:Yeah, beat the guys too.
Speaker 16:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I gotcha. Well, what were you doing? Goofing off with the other two of you. You weren't feeling well right, Got to the start line late. Probably Corral P problems, liz, I'm that. That's. That's fantastic. First, first place female in 167 of the 169 races. And no joking, what happened in the other two?
Speaker 16:I'm sure you finished towards the top and the other two also yeah, one of them was first in my age group and then the other was, uh, third top three female finishers.
Speaker 6:I was third overall those two that you did not win. Win overall, female or overall. Are you gonna go try back and win those two? We'll see it would irk me that's an honest answer.
Speaker 4:I I was amused by how easily it came. Yeah, I don't, what do I care? I won 167. What do I care?
Speaker 7:follow a question to that, though of all those races that you did win, how many of those races were your, was your brother also at and did?
Speaker 16:you beat him um, that's a very good question. I want to say that it's probably over a hundred at least wow, all right that's. That's just my estimate, going back to when we got interviewed for another local paper back in 23, when we were really starting to rank up to in a lot of these towns.
Speaker 4:When you were hot.
Speaker 7:So, needless to say, you are the far superior flying fangler of the family.
Speaker 16:Yes, I guess you could say that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you can say it, because your brother's not here. Go ahead.
Speaker 5:So, liz, you finished the 169 races. Do you have any new challenges that you have on your radar that you want to do?
Speaker 16:I would say eventually doing like a race in every state. I haven't really haven't really ironed that out too much yet, but I think that that would be like a good challenge and or doing like a half in every state.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and you say you haven't really considered much of that. But have you done any other? I imagine you have right. About how many states do you think you have now Just guessing? Oh, I imagine you have right.
Speaker 16:About how many states do you think you have now Just guessing? Oh, I only have about. Are we counting college races into this?
Speaker 4:It's your call, Liz. You're the one who decides.
Speaker 16:If we're not counting college races into this it's about, it's only like three.
Speaker 6:Okay, and we know one's Florida.
Speaker 16:Well, I mean, then you throw, and we know one's, florida. Well, I mean, then you throw in Connecticut, so that's four. So I should probably count that one.
Speaker 5:Yeah, only 169, at least there yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah Well, Liz, you coming to.
Speaker 16:Disney. Anytime soon We'll see.
Speaker 4:We'll see. We'll see. All right, will you let us know?
Speaker 16:if you do, Can I get a voice registration please?
Speaker 4:Oh, you're not kidding.
Speaker 16:Will you let us?
Speaker 4:know if you do, yeah, maybe oh for crying out loud.
Speaker 4:Liz, We'd love to see you. Hey Liz, We've been to see you. Hey Liz, We've been joking around a lot and I enjoy it. Thanks for being a good sport, Thanks for joining us and, by golly, congratulations on, I mean, the 169 is a really, really neat thing. I think Connecticut's uniquely placed to do something like that. It's the right size state. I mean you couldn't do it in Florida, but I think it's great. But congratulations on that. It's the right size state, it's. I mean, you couldn't do it in Florida, but I think it's great, but congratulations on that. And that incredible number of 167 first places, that's really impressive. So good to see you again, my friend. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 16:Thank you, it's been great. Thank you.
Speaker 4:So congratulations again, liz. All right, we know that this was the BMW Berlin Marathon weekend. We're going to dive into that next week. We always like to give our friends, especially on the overseas world majors, give them a chance to get back and get settled before we talk with them. However, I do want to recognize there was a 5K on Saturday and Luciana and Jonathan participated in that 5K.
Speaker 4:Back much more locally for me in Orlando, florida, the Miles to Go 4th Annual 5K, who are looking for a way to make a difference in the Orlando community by providing now over 12,000 bags of essentials for the homeless in the area. We had a couple people at this event. Tracy and her daughter Gigi were there. Tracy, back from Burden Hand, and her daughter Gigi were there. Fun course at Bill Frederick Park, which is near Universal Studios Two loops, an amazing after party with a rock wall, crafts for the kids, 35 vendors, massages, free coffee, raffles and beautiful items for the silent auction. Now Gigi is Tracy's daughter. Big event for Gigi 5K PR. Way to go. Gigi, gigi Now let's see. Jen was there and so was Esther. Esther completed this one a month after being in a traffic accident in which her vehicle was hit from behind. So, esther, we're glad you're doing well. And back out there In Northport, new York, megan ran the Great Cow Harbor 10K, rated as one of the 100 top races in the US.
Speaker 4:I'm not sure by who, maybe Runner's World, something like that but the Great Cow Harbor 10K All right. It's a hilly course, winds through a beautiful town on Long Island's northern shore Really good weather this time of year, great support from the town. Now Megan's been struggling a little bit with some Achilles tendon problems. Wasn't expecting the run very well, but her goal of PRing in fun actually led to a PR in this 10K. Way to go, megan.
Speaker 4:Framingham, massachusetts, jack's Abbey, united Way 5K. Rob ran this one, a fantastic local course that supports the United Way. As the name implies, the route winds through downtown Framingham, finishes with a long straight stretch, perfect for picking up pace. At the end Rob was happy with his performance, finishing in just under 26 minutes. Yeah, I guess. So, rob, that's an outstanding 5K time.
Speaker 4:Kim was running in Bainbridge, georgia, the River South 5K. Our buddy Joe married Joe's Stampede 5K in Fort Smith, arkansas. This gave Joe a chance to try out his Disney 10K costume and he got first place in his age group. Way to go, joe. The three amigos were together again in Fort Smith. Joe's buddy. Gary got second in the 5K and Johnny, he got first in his age group in the 10k. Joe's, happy, faster than balloon lady pace. That's all we care about, joe, nicely done. In macon, georgia, katherine lee did the joshua's wish. 5k joshua's with is a charity for childhood cancer. Kind of a rough course, some yucky hills. But today Catherine set a new PR for her fastest mile and fastest 5K, shaving off more than a minute and a half from her previous 5K PR. Well done. Not only that, third place in her age group, catherine Lee. Way to go. In Texas, the University of Houston 10K. A couple of friends there. Brandy forgot her water belt.
Speaker 7:My fault.
Speaker 4:And her coffee.
Speaker 7:My fault as well.
Speaker 4:Her snacks fell out of her pocket at mile two.
Speaker 7:Also my fault.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Greg, I don't know. Golly, I don't know. Construction all around the university Temps in the 80s. Other than that, everything was great. So she pushed for a PR and just missed. Now she feels wrecked and tired and is thinking of moving to Australia. And it's all Greg's fault.
Speaker 7:What did I tell you?
Speaker 4:Yeah, we don't want her moving to Australia, Greg. That's too far for a brand new.
Speaker 7:Well, no, no, no, that we do not want her to do.
Speaker 4:No, absolutely not. That's too far to get back for your run Disney events. Let's see, also at this event, katrina, lucas and olivia. They all dressed up as demon slayers. Hot and humid. It's still hot and humid in the front in the south, my friends. It's hot and humid here in florida. Let's see this family pr'd in fun, saw the college mascot and they even end up being their own character. Stop, that's the way it goes sometimes.
Speaker 7:You know, speaking of those demon hunters, my kiddo finally turned it on because all the kids were talking about it, oh yeah. And I was like and it was a really, really cool animation style. I didn't sit through the whole thing because I had to get through work, but my God, let me tell you those songs are pretty darn catchy.
Speaker 4:Okay, See, I have no idea but, I take your word, give it a shot.
Speaker 7:Give it a shot, bob Just load up that Netflix Kids and you're in for two hours of enjoyment.
Speaker 4:We'll see, we'll see. All right, let's head out to Colorado. Run the Rockies 10K at the Copper Ski Resort. It went from the ski resort to the city of Frisco Sia was there. They ran next to a river through the gorgeous Aspen groves as they were changing colors for fall All downhill that's nice started at over 9,000 feet of elevation. That made it a little difficult to catch your breath, but it was worth it. No medal, but you got a token for a meal at one of the food trucks at the end of the race. You know, friends, you hear me talking about it. I really do love Florida, but if there's a time of the year I miss in the northern climes, it's this time, and it's when the leaves start to turn and they're so pretty, so glad you got a chance to see that see ya, and here I thought you were going to say you really miss shoveling snow no, no, I do not know.
Speaker 4:The race report's too long or I'll tell you about. Let's move to cincinnati, cincinnati, for the Cincy Brewery run 14K. Sarah noted it was an unusual distance. She's not sure about a PR for this one, but she did run negative splits. This one ends in Oktoberfest, cincinnati, with beer tickets included with the race, and she tried out her costume for Wine and Dine, which looked very nice. Sarah and our friend from the area that we know from the Flying Pig races, julie, was there too. Julie was in bird in hand with us as well. In Dallas, texas, the USA Women's Half Marathon Maggie, her first race since becoming a mom two years ago. She set a new PR on this warm Texas day Plus. She got to share the Jeff Galloway method with some other solo runners and she became known as the Glitter Girl Racer. We'll have to try to remember that, maggie. Use it when we see you at Disney. Let's see, this is a Metal Madness half marathon and I don't know where this one occurred, but I know Hannah did it Wait you didn't do your internet sleuthing this week.
Speaker 4:No, greg, there's too many. There were too many Too many. As I mentioned at the top here, I do appreciate a lot of our friends. Uh, put all the information up front. So I again, I appreciate that. But now Hannah had 17 on the training schedule so she did four miles before then ran this half marathon that she registered for at the last minute. Smart way to do it, hannah, because, as you observed in your report, doing the 13 first and then going okay, I got four more. Yeah, that usually doesn't get done. This was one of those races where they chose leftover medals. I think we had another one this weekend also, and we're going to hear more friends saying this as the training goes on. This is 17 miles is the furthest Hannah has ever run. Back in Canada, in Ottawa, the 10K army run. Tara commented on this hilly course, but she finally did this one. Oh no, it's not that she finally did this race. What Tara finally did was not only PR, but broke 60 minutes in a 10K.
Speaker 7:I was so happy to see this post from her Way to go, Tara.
Speaker 4:That is a big deal. The first time I did it in my 60s. In my 30s I could do it. In my 60s I did it and, honest to goodness, 59 minutes 59.5 seconds. But I broke it. And so you broke it too, terry. Good for you. The medals were dog tags. That's appropriate for an Army 10K. Marina was there too. She ran the Commander's Challenge, which was the 5K, followed shortly by the half. Marina commented she saw a lot of run Disney racers on the course. At least that's what she got from their costumes.
Speaker 4:Okay, Beth was in Stockton, new Jersey, for the run the vineyards at the federal twist vineyard. She signed up for this one on Thursday night, ran it on Saturday her first non run Disney 10 K husband and daughter at the finish line. And she enjoyed the complimentary glass of wine in the souvenir wine glass. Complimentary glass of wine. They hand you a complimentary glass of wine. They hand you a glass and say you're looking lovely today. Things compliment, never mind. Okay, wow, greeley, colorado, the superhero 10k card exchange. Jenny was there along with Sonny, carrie, kimberly and Jamie. A fun little event. Beautiful, cool morning in Colorado, and the course itself was scenic Only a few hills, that's nice. I'm sure Colorado can get rough. Each of them had different goals for the day and they all finished feeling accomplished with their runs. That is a successful day.
Speaker 4:Vanessa, out in Washington, eastern Washington, participated in the Ultra Fest and did her first ultra, a 50 mile run. An amazing experience. The ultra community is so welcoming. Vanessa is going to be celebrating her 50th birthday this year, so she figured this was the time to do a 50 miler. This area in the Pacific Northwest is spectacular. The temperature has fluctuated by about 20 degrees from start to finish. She noticed that when she got home she got the 100k medal instead of the 50 mile medal. So now she needs to go back and earn the 100k. But Vanessa, congratulations on knocking out your first ultra. That's APR, a 50 mile medal. So now she needs to go back and earn the a hundred K. But Vanessa, congratulations on knocking out your first ultra.
Speaker 6:that's a PR, bob. You only did 48.6 on your 70th. Come on, bob, you got to step it up.
Speaker 4:I'm slacking, yeah, I'm slacking. Oh well, I'm not. Yeah, that's going to stay that way, john. I'm not. Yeah, that's going to stay that way, john. Okay, let's see, that's all right. Yeah, that's it. Let's go to Armada, michigan, where Christina ran Blake's Monster Dash 5k. She did two races this weekend. This was the first. This course takes you through their orple orple. How about apple orchard farm with live spooky actors. No medals, no medals. But you get a donut and cider at the finish.
Speaker 7:That's pretty cool this is what happens when the race report gets a slung pop.
Speaker 4:We start running in, we start running. In orple orchards, we start running. Yeah, all right, let's see, we're, uh, we're winding up. Saturday. We're at sanford, florida, at the airport, to be specific, where heather was rolling at the b well 5k. Dj cj was there and this is the best racing surface heather has rolled on. It's perfectly flat and she broke out her old flight suit for this event. Flight suits are one-piece garments that in the Florida summer, you're not good for racing in, says. This might have been a mistake, but it was worth it for the reaction. So good for you, heather. I'm going to finish up Saturday.
Speaker 4:I don't usually talk about park runs, but Lisa did a park run in Jacksonville on Saturday and she did it as a fundraiser, and the reason I mention it is because she ran it in an inflatable dinosaur costume. Good photos. All right, let's move to Sunday. Now. The big event on Sunday was again the Berlin marathon. We'll talk more about it next week. Let me just run down the names here I have of people who were on, who put their name on the race report. That would be Brian, jay, jeremy, jonathan, kristen and Michael, and for Michael, this was his sixth star race, so we'll hear from some of those folks next week.
Speaker 7:Quick question, bob, for our Berlin recap next week, is Harry Styles also joining us as well?
Speaker 6:Is that Stedman? What was his name?
Speaker 4:He didn't respond to my text, Greg.
Speaker 7:Oh, okay, Because I mean a sub three.
Speaker 10:He got a 24 minute PR. I mean that's wild, he got a 24-minute. Pr.
Speaker 7:I mean that's wild. Yeah, he must have been drinking a lot of watermelon sugar.
Speaker 4:You think he'd want to talk about it?
Speaker 7:You would think so.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Let us move to St Petersburg, Florida, for the Fort DeSoto Oktoberfest 5K 10K 15K event. It is still summertime in Florida. A Fort DeSoto Oktoberfest 5K 10K 15K event. It is still summertime in Florida. Tampa had a record high of 95 degrees that Sunday. Of course, the race was over by the time it hit that high temperature. We got to see something really neat. There was a SpaceX launch right at dawn. Now the Cape is I don't know what the true distance is 90, maybe a hundred miles other side of the Florida peninsula, but at dawn, with the sun at a very, very low angle and there was very, almost a cloudless sky, you can see the launch pretty well. It's pretty spectacular. So we got to see that. And also, since at the very top of the race report we were talking about a race that had 21,000 feet in elevation change, this one was close 21?. This 15K had five feet of elevation. 5 feet, I kid you not, it's right down on the Did you go over a curb oh, thank God.
Speaker 4:No, geez, I couldn't have done all that climbing. 5 feet total throughout the course. I mean it's right down on the beach though it's a trail, but it's right on the beach. I was there. I walked my 15K. I was happy to do it. I averaged a little under 14 minutes a mile for the 15K. I got to do a little bit of jogging. I had a doctor's visit last week. I visited the surgeon who did my procedure, so then it was good. He says, uh, hey, look, he's learned me a little bit. He says, hey, you can jog a little bit if you want. And I think my face lit up and he goes now, go easy, go easy, don't do too much. So I didn't. I genuinely didn't do too much, uh, but I was glad to be able to do that. I saw our friends trina and jeff there. Congratulations to trina and jeff for making it to the start line on time. They'll get it. They'll get it the uh.
Speaker 4:The last race I did in fort de soto was last spring and I'm starting out I don't know how long, it was probably probably a 10K and I see my friend Trina walking along. She's walking the wrong direction because she just got there, so she was real proud of making it to the start line on time. Now she made it to the start line on time and started out a little bit too fast and after mile four she started slowing down but she held steady and she finished strong. Jeff finished also. Like I said, it was a warm morning, nice event, really nice place for a run. Joy was there, had a fun race. I'm not sure what race Joy did, I think maybe the 15k. I do know that duncan and her daughter were there for the 5k. I did not get to see them because the 5k the 15k goes off first. The 5k went off about 30 minutes later, so I missed them. Uh, and god bless them, they didn't wait around for me. I don't blame them. Duncan said she walked almost all of it because she's dealing with some ankle issues. She talked about the space launch, which was really neat, and she mentions that, and I think this is a good thing because her daughter now wants to do a 10K, wants to do a 10k.
Speaker 4:Let's go to Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, where our good friend Laura ran the NN Dom to Dom Lope 10 mile race. This is one that starts in Amsterdam and goes to the next city, zandam. I believe this is actually the largest race in the Netherlands with about 48,000 finishers. Pretty cool Race went well. A little bit of rain but that helped cool off. Laura wanted to finish sub two hours in this 10 miler and she killed it at an hour and 50 minutes. Way to go, laura.
Speaker 4:Let's go to Canada, montreal, specifically, where Lucy ran the Marathon. Beneva, montréal. At least that's the way I'm pronouncing it. I'm sticking with it. This is Lucy's first race outside the US, her first big city marathon, seventh marathon overall and ta-da, a 10-minute PR down to three hours 25 minutes. Woo, that's smoking. Our crowd support throughout the race was top-notch. Turns out, says Lucy, that being yelled at in French is really motivating. Definitely recommend this one. Nice job.
Speaker 4:Nashville, tennessee, had the Whiskey Run, nashville 10K and Allie was there on this warm September day. Quite hilly race. Nashville sure can be hilly. Allie paced herself pretty well, stuck to her intervals, but there was this massive hill about four and a half miles into it Almost took her out of the race. She pushed herself on to the last mile, wanted to catch back up and she did. And not only did she set a new PR, but she's got a new run Disney proof of time.
Speaker 4:Down in South America, in Buenos Aires, argentina, our buddy, jj Juan Jose, ran the 42K Buenos Aires. I think most of our friends know 42K, that's marathon distance. Now JJ is an excellent runner but he couldn't train for three of the last six weeks because of a big toe injury. I know sometimes it doesn't sound like much a toe injury, but my goodness, a toe injury can really lay you up for a long time. Ask the quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals. Jj's plan was simple If the toe didn't hurt, he was going to enjoy the race and that's exactly what happened. Weather was all over the place. It went from warm to rainy, to cold and windy, but in the end he ran a strong race and he's got a brand new marathon PR of three hours two minutes, one second. Now, how cool is that? Three, two, one, go Way to. How cool is that? Three, two, one, go Way to go, jj. Nicely done.
Speaker 4:In Detroit, bethany did the 10K at the Women Run, the D event. It's a race that she'd been training for in hopes of getting a proof of time. Course is gorgeous. You can see the Detroit city line, but you can also see Windsor, canada. It appears there was some confusion, according to a report, a confusion at the end of the race that there were different finish lines for the different race distances, and she wasn't sure when she was done her 10K. So now she's not sure if her one hour eight minute time for a work will work for a proof of time or not. A little bit disappointing, but still an outstanding race, bethany, congratulations on that.
Speaker 4:Up in rochester, new york, ally and matt did a 5k at the rochester half marathon and 5k chilly, chilly morning in Rochester, great running weather once they got moving, nice run along the Genesee River and it was all ruined by a steep hill in the middle of it. Nonetheless, matt had a good time and survived at a slightly faster. They survived at a slightly faster than intended pace. That's always a pleasant surprise. In Rockville, maryland, divya ran the park's half marathon. She used this as part of a 15-mile long training run. Ended up starting late because of the long corral P line. We know what they needed, right.
Speaker 16:Guy with the whistle.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, that's what they needed. Most of this is on a paved trail through one of the local parks. Very beautiful, especially again the start of fall in Maryland. Overall nice to have a supported or, as we call it, a catered training run. Suzanne ran her second 10k at the Memphis Runners Track Club Road Race in Memphis, tennessee. Vicki and her dad, victor, did the half marathon in St Charles, illinois. At the Fox Valley Marathon races In Exeter, new Hampshire, mike was there for the Connors Climb 5K. Now, you guys remember this a couple weeks ago. Well, mike was with us on the spotlight, mike was one of our volunteers, remember. And then, not long ago, mike talked about doing a 5K where he missed his PR by three seconds and he said I'm going to go do another one. All right, he did another one. Let's see. He ran through his neighborhood, made his kids come out to cheer and beat his old PR by 56 seconds.
Speaker 7:Way to go, mike.
Speaker 4:There you go, mike, well done. Just up the road in Clearwater, florida. The best damn race leftover 5K. My friends Richard and Krista did this one. Now we talked about seeing the launch at fort de soto, seeing the spacex launch. Of course they could also see it in clearwater pretty spectacular. This thing goes from coachman park in clearwater up and across a really significant bridge. That is a heck of a climb and then turns around and comes back. Now these uh leftover races. What they did is at packet pickup they could choose a shirt leftover from a previous bdr run and at the finish they got to pick two leftover medals. That I guess that's kind of fun. I haven't done these. I've seen them. They've been a couple in the area but I haven't seen them before. I haven't done one before. Judy was also there, bob. Oh, judy was there. Thank you, john.
Speaker 6:Yes, she was. Yeah, Judy was there?
Speaker 4:Yeah, she was. Thanks, I'm sorry I missed that. In Almonte, Michigan, christina was there for the Almonte Heritage Festival 5K. This is Christina's second race of this weekend. This course takes you through a small town which is mostly fast and flat, one big hill right before the finish Worst place for it. Participants in this one get a medal, a donut and other items such as a fanny pack and a key chain. That's some pretty good swag for a 5k. And we bring this race report to a close with the Island Luau 5k, which, of course, the Island Luau in that famous Polynesian area, pennsville, new Jersey.
Speaker 7:Ah yes, they always say that Pennsville is like the Hawaii of New Jersey. That's right, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:If you saw the photos, they had a whole lot of answers and they did it up right. The vet was there. The vet said the weather was perfect, no metal, but you got to lay and a fun luau show afterwards. So it was a good event.
Speaker 7:You know, I put Yvette in the category as, like our friend Lori and Tracy, who I feel like are on the race report week after week after week. It's truly, truly impressive Way to go everybody.
Speaker 4:Well, I think it's great, I think it's fun and then, although it gets long and gets a little bit challenging, I just love the fact that everybody participates in this and and I sure hope, as I said again at the beginning, I sure hope I didn't miss anybody, but it's, it's getting big and thanks, thanks and congratulations to everyone who finished the race this weekend. All right, my friends, and if you run, you know you are our friend. Thank you for hanging with us. Hope you enjoyed the Council of Costumes. It was good to talk with all of our friends again. Hope they gave you some good ideas and, as I said, coming out of it, you don't have to do this, but it really is fun. Reminder this is a zoom weekend. Zoom thursday this is a zoom thursday. Information on how to log in will be on the facebook group page. Training miles are building. We're getting closer to getting together at disney. I hope you're as excited about that as we are, because until we meet again, happy running.
Speaker 10:The Rise and Run podcast discusses general information about Run Disney and is in no way affiliated with Run Disney or the Walt Disney Company. Any information or advice discussed on this podcast should not be considered medical advice and should always consult with your health care provider or event organizer.
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