215: The NYC Marathon And Some Hollarhype Heroes

The sunrise hits the Staten Island Ferry and everything changes. We go from small talk to big miles fast—unpacking 2026 Coast to Coast qualification, why Wine and Dine is sticking to October, and how that choice ripples into Marine Corps and New York City plans. If you’re eyeing runDisney weekends or plotting a world major, the booking and timing intel here will save you stress and money.

We dive into medal craft and course design, celebrating Disneyland’s cohesive 70th set and a Coast to Coast slider that moves without breaking. Then the conversation gets honest about training: long-run fatigue, proof-of-time attempts, and the mindset of A-through-D goals that still end in a PR. Safety takes center stage with clear, calm advice on being vigilant, from alarms and tracking to GoGuarded, especially with darker evenings.

Emily from Hollarhype returns with more than hype and a few friendly randos—it’s connection that lands when the hill shows up. Real-time voice encouragement now includes Tags that broadcast who you are and what you’re chasing—Dopey training, first marathon, getting back to it—plus new Communities for early birds, night owls, cancer survivors, and recovery. You choose where your signal goes every time, and it’s free to join with code “Rise and Run.”

The heart of the episode belongs to New York City. Hear ferry-to-bridge logistics, the quiet drum of footsteps on Queensboro, First Avenue’s endless stretch, and a finish pulled through by crowds that never quit. A sub-4 PR, an ankle that held together on will and Advil, a fall saved by a handheld, and a medal that reveals the course profile when you tilt it on its side. We close with final-finish fireworks after midnight and a race report tour across the country, packed with PRs, proof-of-time builders, and community wins.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Hellos, Weather, And Warm-Up Banter
• 2:50 Show Teases And Community Shoutouts
• 5:05 Sponsor Notes And 2026 Travel Advice
• 7:55 Missed PRs, Tech Glitches, And Life Updates
• 12:00 Training Block Check-In And Goals
• 15:40 Community Milestones And Motivation
• 18:40 2026 Coast To Coast Rules And Dates
• 22:40 Wine & Dine Date Shift And Race Conflicts
• 27:20 Disneyland Medal Designs And Cohesive Sets
• 31:20 Safety On The Run And Gear Tips
• 34:24 Holler Hype Returns With Friendly Randos
• 39:20 Why Live Voice Hype Works
• 43:10 Tags And New Communities In The App
• 48:40 Free To Join And Future Badges
• 51:40 Housekeeping, Discord, And Partner Perks
• 56:00 Race Report Intro And Global Highlights
• 1:00:30 New York City Marathon Panel Begins
• 1:04:40 Expo Wins And Merch Mayhem
• 1:09:20 Ferry Vs. Bus: Getting To Staten Island
• 1:15:00 Course Stories, Bridges, And Crowds
• 1:21:30 PRs, Injuries, And Grit
• 1:27:10 Medal Design, Ponchos, And Finish Walk
• 1:31:30 Final Finishers And Project Finish
• 1:35:40 What’s Next: Dopey, Goofy, And Beyond
• 1:38:30 More NYC Shoutouts And PRs
• 1:43:40 Nationwide Race Highlights And Wrap

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:45

Good morning and welcome to the Rise and Run Podcast. This is Brandy from Houston, Texas, calling you from the start line of the University of Houston, 10K. Run for the plastic cheese.

SPEAKER_10: 0:56

Brandy running for the plastic cheese from a few weeks back. Thanks for the intro, Brandy. Thank you, my friends, for joining us on episode 215 of the Rise and Run Podcast. We're so glad that you're here. I'm Bob, and I'm here this week with John. Hey, how are you doing? With Lexi. Hello. With Craig.

SPEAKER_15: 1:20

Hey, hey, hey.

SPEAKER_10: 1:21

And with Alicia. Hello. Hello, my friends. Good to see you all. Hope your weather's as nice where you are as it is here. It's a nice pleasant evening here in Central Florida. How are we doing in the rest of the country? Pretty well. I know it's starting to cool. Fall, y'all. Fall, yeah.

SPEAKER_12: 1:39

Yeah, it's definitely fall. I mean, it's chilly, but when I was on my run today, it was actually really nice. So good.

SPEAKER_03: 1:46

Good. I'm glad to hear it. I hope 20 20 degree swings in the morning and the afternoon. That's about it.

SPEAKER_17: 1:52

Not that cold, but I did see in Atlanta next week. The low is supposed to be 26.

SPEAKER_10: 1:59

There is another coal front coming through. Yeah, but it does mostly for us right now. It'll get cool here. It never gets cold. Well, I don't want to say never. It hasn't. In the six years I've been here, I have not seen freezing temperatures. But uh the uh coal fronts now bring the humidity way down. That's sweet. We like that. So unfortunately they didn't do it on wine and dine weekend, but they did the week after. I don't know how many times I don't know how many times I've been out running the week after a Disney race going, gosh, this weather is so much nicer. It's just the way it works.

SPEAKER_17: 2:34

If wine and dine had been when it used to be normally is. Yeah, it it would have been cool.

SPEAKER_10: 2:40

It wasn't that bad. I don't I didn't think. I I mean it was warm, but I was I was could have been worse.

SPEAKER_17: 2:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10: 2:49

All right, let's take a look at what's coming up. We got a couple of things this week. We hope you enjoy. I know that the Ryzen Runners love Holler Hype. We had Emily from Holler Hype on a couple months ago. She's back with us. She brought some friendly randos with her. You need to stay tuned to figure out what that is. Why Debbie and Troy are friendly randos. Neat term. Uh in our race report spotlight this week, we had four friends joining us who finished the New York City Marathon. They spent some time telling us all about it.

SPEAKER_17: 3:27

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SPEAKER_03: 4:00

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SPEAKER_16: 4:35

But don't worry, it will be special to everybody else in the matter of time.

SPEAKER_10: 4:38

Thanks, guys, and thank you, Monica, for being our latest Patreon. We appreciate all of our Patreons.

SPEAKER_16: 4:44

The Rise Around Podcast is sponsored by our wonderful friends over at Magic Bound Travel. Now, uh I'm gonna do another podcast tease here, but we're gonna be talking about this in just a couple minutes. But we learned some news over the weekend about a future race weekend date. Uh, you know, maybe uh about a race that some of you just ran not too long ago. And uh, so now that we know that date, I think it's imperative that you get a room booked uh before uh the rates start going up and up and up. And you know who can take care of that for you? Our friends at Magic Bound Travel. So uh head over to MagicBoundTravel.com, fill out that no obligation quote uh to get your room booked for all the upcoming race weekends at Walt Disney World in 2026.

SPEAKER_10: 5:35

I'm looking, if you'll recall last week, the race report went on for the best part of Monday and Tuesday. Anyway, I uh I explained that I tried my best, but I missed a couple of PRs. Wine and Dine, Catherine PR'd the half. At the Marine Corps Marathon, Randala, who is a new member, ran her first marathon, so that's a PR. And Holly did a 15-minute PR. I hope I've caught them all. But if I haven't, if I haven't, do another one, we'll get you next time. Okay. We'll get you on your next PR. Hey friends, don't adjust your set. If I sound differently than I normally do, my computer just decided it had had enough. It's like, you know, mile 22, the marathon, and he goes, I'm just not gonna finish. Well, my computer decided it was done working for me, so I am recording this on my sweet wife's iPad. So I know it sounds different. I'll have I'll be back on the regular microphone next week. Uh speaking of my sweet wife, I was all day in the hospital. She had her rotator cuff operated on. That took a heck of a lot. That took about four hours. And it had a little bit of a complication in there, the doc told me, but everything worked out all right. But here's the thing, it's her it's her cookie scooping arm. Oh no. So I'm really worried. Oh no. Yeah. I'm really worried she's going to be on injured reserve until at least at least December. But hopefully we can have her back in the lineup for January. Don't you have a relief cookie scooper? Well, yeah.

unknown: 7:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10: 7:29

Bob. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like that guy in the uh in the ads, you know, the the relief uh photo taker or the relief carbacker in her. Yeah, I'm the relief cookie scooper. We'll we'll work on that. But yeah, she's doing okay. Not a uh not an easy surgery. But I told her no more curveballs, and we'll see if we can't get her ready for spring cany next year. All right, speaking of training, let's take a look at the training schedule. Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend. Nine weeks away, friends. Nine weeks away. Count them on the fingers of two hands now. Don't need to take your shoes off anymore. We're in training week 19. And if you are training on the beginner's marathon schedule, you have a long run of 20 miles. If you're doing the goofy or dopey challenge, you have runs, you have a walk of eight and a half miles and a run walk of 20. And a note, friends, if you arrive at Disney World on Expo Day, which is January 7th, your advanced dining reservation day is coming up this week on November 8th. So there's there's a note. You can back that up. You know when you're going to get there. You can back that up. But ADRs are coming up soon. Well, listen, we're we're trained for this.

SPEAKER_16: 9:02

I mean, think about the number of times during Run Disney races where people would pull their phones out on course at 7 a.m. to get like a virtual queue for like Tron or something like that. So obviously, if you're doing one of those races, you got a really long, long run this weekend. So, you know, when if you're out there and it's 6 a.m., you just pull out your phone and start booking beacon barrel.

SPEAKER_10: 9:26

Yeah, right, right. Beacon barrel, Art Smith's brunch, all that good stuff. Uh that's that's for Disney World Marathon Weekend. Disneyland half marathon weekend, not long after. It's three weeks after, it's 12 weeks away now. Training week six, long run of six and a half miles, and we're into the princess training schedule. Now Princess weekend is 16 weeks away. Only the second week of training in the long run is four miles. Friends, I'm gonna take a I'm gonna stop here for a moment. You know, I consider and we consider Rise and Run a family, and occasionally something happens in the family that we want to draw to your attention. I got a message from Joe telling me that Carrie and Katie's dad, Billy Ray Wahlberg, was in the hospital on Friday with uh double pneumonia. Uh they were able in the hospital to get some medications, had some success, and had a great day on Saturday. He was sitting up, eating, got a chance to sit with his loved ones, talk to them, say that he loved them, but by Sunday he took a turn for the worst, and on Monday he passed. So our our hearts go out. Our thoughts and prayers to our members of uh Billy Ray Walber's family. I'm sure he'll be missed. He was a he was a Navy veteran and uh 30-year government employee and about I believe he was 80 years old when he passed. So I thanks thanks for notifying us, and I'm sorry to pass that along, but like I said, we're family and we celebrate together and sometimes we grieve together. Friends, back to training. What do we got in the way of training updates?

SPEAKER_12: 11:27

I did 16 miles today. Um when I came back from wine and dine. Unfortunately last week I missed my long run, which I don't love to do, obviously. Um, so today was anywhere between 15 and 18. Um, I definitely could have done the 18. It wasn't a matter of that. Um, but I start my new nursing position tomorrow and I was already pretty tired.

SPEAKER_10: 11:54

That's a big deal, yeah.

SPEAKER_12: 11:55

Yeah, it's it is a big deal. Um I was already pretty tired, and so I was like, I'm gonna reserve the energy um and decided to end it at the 16 instead of going around for another two miles. But that's good though. It was good.

SPEAKER_10: 12:09

Numbers are getting up there. But just as an aside, what will you be doing in your new nursing position?

SPEAKER_12: 12:15

So um I've been working in memory care for 13 years. Yeah. Um, I'm gonna continue in that. So I'll just be switching to the RN position um in the same facility of long-term care.

SPEAKER_10: 12:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_12: 12:28

In memory care. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10: 12:29

Congratulations. I think it takes somebody special to do that, Alicia. That's I don't think that's easy to do. So I congratulate you on that. That's great stuff. Thank you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_16: 12:40

Uh in terms of my training, I am now just a couple of days out from the Rocky run and my uh new PR and POT attempt. Uh, so I got a uh I got a couple of goals in line, you know, and I'm kind of tackling it similar to how I did the Philly Marathon last year, you know, some A A through D goals, and even if it's the D goal, the D goal is still a PR. So um, you know, I'm hoping that that puts me in a good uh mental spot. But I will say that you know, I had one last set of uh speed work uh this past weekend. Uh I had 10800s, which I forgot takes a lot longer uh than I was uh anticipating. But uh the music nerd in me uh enjoyed this one, but also was a little bit challenging too. Because so I did uh I did Ted 800s with the local marching band. And as someone who did nine years of marching myself, if you ever have done marching band or or drum core or something like that, you'll know the the instrument called Dr. Beat, which is essentially a metronome uh that projects out you know like through speakers, so that way you can hear it above the drum line and everything. So trying to battle the music that was in my headphones, the doc that was that's one tempo, Dr. Beat that's going another tempo. If the band and and the you know the the pit are at another tempo as they're separately practicing, my mind was all over the place. And so trying to hit paces in terms of what I needed to run was quite a challenge. But at the same time, the bando in me loved it, uh, you know, all the same and everything. So had a little bit of trouble towards the end. You know, probably by like my eighth one, I was like, okay, I'm over this, but I knew it's imperative to get it all done, and hopefully that will uh will give me good news come uh come this upcoming weekend.

SPEAKER_10: 14:36

I'm surprised you didn't trip with all those different uh cadences going through your head, Craig. Left, right, left, left. Oh no. Good job. Good job. I'm seeing uh I'm seeing on Facebook a lot of our friends are doing well in their training. I'm seeing a lot of fall PRs. Congratulations. Not surprised, that's good stuff. Weather cools down. You do all that tough summer training, those fall PRs just follow naturally. I'm also seeing a lot of friends, uh especially those training for the marathon or goofy and dopey, posting saying, I did this many miles in training today. It's the furthest I've ever run. Congratulations, you should feel good about that. That's the key. Sticking with the training is the key. And you it just makes for a very enjoyable race weekend if you can stick with your training and uh and take the victory lap at Disney World.

SPEAKER_15: 15:35

Caution Runners, change of topic ahead.

SPEAKER_10: 15:40

Well, Disney World, Disneyland, we got some information on coast to coast for 2026. Last time we'll see it for a little while. What was the news, guys?

SPEAKER_16: 15:52

Yeah, Bob. So over the weekend, actually, I want to say it was I can't remember if it was Saturday or if it was Sunday, which I thought was odd for something like this to get posted. But I mean, it's a it's a little buried on the uh the Run Disney website, but they announced all of the information in order to earn the Coast to Coast in 2026. So for those of you that are brand new to Run Disney, this is a special medal that you can receive as long as you run a 10 miler or greater at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. So the qualifications are uh so for Walt Disney World, you need to run either the half marathon or the marathon during Marathon weekend, the half marathon during Princess, the springtime surprise 10 Miler, or the half marathon at Wine and Dine in 2026, and you have to run the Disneyland half marathon that is occurring on February 1st of 2026. As long as you do that, you qualify for the Coast to Coast Challenge, which is a very special medal. And then again, it also the other thing I should mention too is you know, if you're doing like one of the multi-event challenges, so Goofy, Dopey, Dumbo, Fairy Tale Challenge, Two Course Challenge, the um, you know, any of those, that does count towards uh your qualification uh in this particular uh event. So again, those are the uh those are the stipulations in order to qualify. And then usually when you get your registration information at the second of those two races, uh it will tell you whether you are eligible or not. And then I believe you get like a wristband or something like that, and then that will be the indicator that when you finish the second race, that you will get uh the special medal. The interesting thing that came out of this news though, and what we found to be a little surprising, and we're all gonna chat about this now for a little bit here, is without releasing the race calendar for next season, they told us when wine and dine is going to be in 2026, and they are sticking with October again for the second year in a row. So, according to this graphic that they posted, the wine and dine half marathon is occurring on Sunday, October 25th, 2026. So that means that the wine and dine race weekend that year will start. Um, the expo that me would be on the 22nd, the 5K will be the 23rd, 10k the 24th, and again the half on the 25th. So again, yeah, that's why, like I said, during that MBT ad, if you know you want to do wine and dine next year, you might as well get on the horn now to get that room booked since we know the dates now. So anybody have any speculation or you know any theories as to why they kept it in October as opposed to uh pushing it to you know back to the typical weekend in November?

SPEAKER_03: 19:19

I did some research on past dates. They never had I guess when it first came out, it was the first week of October. Uh back in October, was it? Yes. When it was the old night race? When it was the old night race, it was back in the old days of October. Then uh they said it's gonna be the first full weekend of November. So there's so, but I guess the first full week in November now after with this Halloween, there was no weekend where Halloween came across. The only year that was was 2020, which we know that was not the race weekend, so that never happened. So this is the first time it's been around. But the first full weekend after that blends into Jersey Week, Veterans Day, all the other holidays. So I'm guessing that's why they pushed it up. And I guess they want to celebrate my birthday. That's why. Well, yeah, I agree. That's true. That's very true.

SPEAKER_10: 20:14

That part of it yet.

SPEAKER_17: 20:15

Well, we know they listen to the podcast, so you know, obviously, that would be the reason.

SPEAKER_10: 20:21

I think we've I think we run on a Veterans Day weekend before. I wouldn't swear to it, but I think we have.

SPEAKER_17: 20:26

I know Veterans Day has been on the Monday of the race weekend before.

SPEAKER_10: 20:32

Yeah, that's what that's what I'm saying. Veterans Day is always on a Monday. It's typically it's the 11th of November traditionally, but it's it's a floating holiday now. It goes to the Monday.

SPEAKER_16: 20:41

You know, the one thing I I'm just thinking about now, and I'm I'm Googling it as I talk. Um, I wonder if this is going to create a conflict again with Marine Corps. I think it does. Yeah. And if if Google is correct, uh yes, so uh no, I'm not 100% sure if it's on the Marine Corps website yet, but yeah, this is saying that Marine Corps will be on the 25th of uh of October. So you can't do both um again, but and speaking of the other race that we're gonna talk about in this episode, that does mean though that you could run wine and dine and the New York City Marathon in that would be back-to-back weekends, but that's something you can do because because New York next year is on November 1st.

SPEAKER_17: 21:30

Yeah, the New York City Marathon is on November 1st, so you could do back-to-backs.

SPEAKER_10: 21:35

Yeah, but we had people do uh back-to-back Marine Corps in New York this year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_17: 21:41

You could technically, like some of our amazing crazy friends did, you could do the 5 and 10k wine and dine, go do the Marine Corps marathon, and then go do New York. The next one.

SPEAKER_10: 21:56

I guess that I guess that's but that'd be tough. I guess that's possible because you have to get up to DC. I don't know how you get your bib. That'd be tough. But we do have people, we did have people do the 5k and then go to Marine Corps, yeah.

SPEAKER_17: 22:08

Maybe not the 10k, but still, you could do all three. Yeah, I suppose. What would we call that? What kind of challenge would we call that?

SPEAKER_10: 22:15

We'd call it crazy.

SPEAKER_16: 22:16

We we still need to come up with the name of everyone who I I grab. I I cannot remember the name the name of the race that occurs before springtime, but I remember there was there was someone talking about doing a maybe cherry blossom, possibly.

SPEAKER_03: 22:31

That's I think that in uh the one in Pennsylvania, the for the Oh, Garden Spot.

SPEAKER_16: 22:38

Okay, yeah, that's right. Yeah, we we still need to come up with a name for people that want to do Garden Spot, then go to Springtime Surprise, do the cruise, and then get off the ship and then go do Dollywood the weekend after they get off the ship. We we we gotta come up with a name for that.

SPEAKER_03: 22:55

Tend to throw one more flying pig the week after Dollywood.

SPEAKER_16: 22:59

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_03: 23:00

Oh man.

SPEAKER_10: 23:01

That is gonna be a busy, busy time. I think I I haven't committed yet. I think we're going to do flying pig. Uh the one I have committed to is I'll get the coast to coast this year. Assuming I finish the marathon, you gotta finish your long races to qualify for the coast.

SPEAKER_03: 23:18

Well, you have two sh you have two shots, though. Yeah, I would. That's right. You have three shots.

SPEAKER_10: 23:24

Well, yeah, you're right. If I didn't, yeah, if for some reason I didn't finish the marathon in January, yeah, I would have this princess, and then I'd have springtime, and then I'd have wine and dine. So yeah. But this will be, I think it's well, I don't think this is gonna be my last Coast to Coast medal because I golly, I don't know when they're gonna come back.

SPEAKER_15: 23:44

Caution runners, the topic is about to change right now.

SPEAKER_10: 23:49

Uh we did see the Disneyland medals this week, also, didn't we? Mm-hmm. Yes, we did. They look pretty daggum good. I think they're really nice.

SPEAKER_03: 23:57

New adjectives out of Bob. Yeah. That that half marathon medal is like sweet. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_10: 24:04

The uh the small world medal. It's really like the colors. Yeah, colors are good.

SPEAKER_16: 24:11

I I like it. Yeah, I I like how they're they're continuing with the the cohesive set idea. Uh, I know we we we chatted about that in terms of the marathon weekend medals. Uh, but um I right there with you ladies, I I love the fact that they incorporated the colors of the Disneyland 70th into that. You know, it it really, really pops. And I don't know if there's any movement to them, but you know, even if there's not, I still think it's a great set. And if they're starting to move away from less and less movement, I'll be thrilled with that too, because hopefully that that leads to you know less you know damages and breakage and and such like that. But no, I I I think this is a second solid set in a row of cohesion, and I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_17: 25:04

I did notice that the coast to coast metal has a slider.

SPEAKER_16: 25:07

So yeah.

SPEAKER_17: 25:08

Yeah, so it goes back and forth from each castle.

SPEAKER_03: 25:11

Like it sliders back and forth across coast to coast. All right, that's good.

SPEAKER_17: 25:15

It's not a big slider, it's like no, it's a tiny small.

SPEAKER_10: 25:20

I'll be all right then. Yeah, I didn't like that. I I got the one coast to coast medal from like a year and a half ago. I thought it was dull.

SPEAKER_12: 25:29

I like this one a lot better than some of the other ones.

SPEAKER_10: 25:32

Me too, yeah.

SPEAKER_12: 25:33

I do think one of the race weekends for sure. I saw something that could have been a moving piece, but I do agree that I I kind of hope that they go away from that and just give us good quality metals.

SPEAKER_03: 25:45

Yeah, good looking, yeah, yeah. Even our half metal this past weekend, there was just a little spinning star. It wasn't that much, there wasn't much spinning and action in them that would usually break.

SPEAKER_10: 25:58

Right. It was the challenge metal that opened up, right?

SPEAKER_16: 26:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other thing that I really like about this set too is that not only is it it including the colors of the Disneyland 70th, but now looking at them a little further, obvious outside of Coast to Coast, that is, I like how they have included the number 70 in each one of them, uh, too. It was cool. I thought that was a a really neat uh design touch.

SPEAKER_12: 26:24

Somebody pointed out too if you do Dopey, and then I think if you do all of them at Disneyland, it will be around 70 miles, which I thought was a cool little tidbit. Well, oh that's cool. I don't know.

SPEAKER_10: 26:36

I didn't do the math, but well, it's close. It's close. It's 48.6 and uh 22.4. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's that's 70. Yep. Right. Nice.

SPEAKER_17: 26:50

Is anybody here doing Disneyland?

SPEAKER_10: 26:53

Yeah, I'm doing Disneyland. Jack is too, I think. Jack is two, yeah. Between the two of us, we have all three races covered, but we're not running any races together. She's doing the five and ten, and I'm doing the half, but it'll be fun. I'll see her out there.

SPEAKER_17: 27:07

And there'll be a meetup, of course.

SPEAKER_10: 27:08

Yeah. There'll be a meetup on Saturday in that uh picnic area. They have a great area for a meetup at uh at Disneyland. I really like it. I I am told that it can be cold there in January. Uh we'll see. It was not obviously I was there for when it was really hot, so we'll see how it goes.

SPEAKER_15: 27:29

Caution runners, change of topic ahead.

SPEAKER_10: 27:34

You know what I'm wondering, guys? I'm wondering what would Alicia do.

SPEAKER_12: 27:44

I have kind of a serious topic this time. Mini trigger warning for people who are listening. Um, but while I was on um vacation, a woman got assaulted in my neighborhood. Um, so I just want to remind our friends about safety measures. Um, I also had a scare today. That guy has been caught, but on my run, um I did have a gentleman, there was a lady running ahead of me, um, and he stopped walking and was staring at her and kind of gawking, and then noticed me and did the same thing. Um so I did actually stop another woman and let her know. And he could have been completely harmless, but um it just seemed very creepy. Intentional. Yes, very creepy. Um so just a reminder to our friends to be vigilant while you're out there, um, especially if you're a woman. I mean, it can happen to anybody. And I did make sure um we talked to GoGuarded in episode 89. Our code for 15% off is still good for them. It's R, capital R, capital A, capital R. So if you're interested in those products, I were I I will be honest, normally on my runs, I put it in my pocket unless I'm in the trails. Um, and today I had it on for a good 90% because um I just was being extra vigilant. Um, and it does help make me feel safer. I know not every state you can have those, but yeah, having alarms, tracking apps, all of those things. Um just to our friends to remember them, please be safe. We are a family.

SPEAKER_10: 29:28

Alicia, I think her products are legal everywhere that I'm aware of.

SPEAKER_12: 29:33

I thought she said that there was certain states that you couldn't.

SPEAKER_10: 29:37

Well, I'll tell you what, I would encourage our friends, especially our women who listen, women friends who listen. What episode? Just eighty nine did you say? Yes. Yep. Yeah. That was a good episode.

SPEAKER_17: 29:48

It was.

SPEAKER_10: 29:49

And it's very it's a it's a serious topic. Uh I I would encourage you to listen to that one. I I don't know that if we invited her back, we would say anything new. So, but it's out there. And I'm glad to know that the code still works.

SPEAKER_03: 30:04

And this is that's really a good point, too, Alicia. Now with the uh the time change and the and especially you people running after work, it's dark at four o'clock. Some place.

SPEAKER_12: 30:15

Absolutely. Well, some place.

SPEAKER_03: 30:17

Someplace.

SPEAKER_12: 30:19

But yeah, I mean, we say it all the time that we're one big family and we want to keep our family um safe as possible. So um just having those extra measures.

SPEAKER_10: 30:29

Well, I'm glad you brought it up. Good, good topic. We haven't talked about it in a while. It's uh it's certainly one to consider. And that is what Alicia would do.

SPEAKER_15: 30:39

Caution runners, the topic is about to change right now.

SPEAKER_10: 30:44

A couple months back, our friend Emily got in touch with me. B said, I've got this neat thing called Holler Hype, and she described it to me, and I said, This rise and run family is gonna love this. And they have. They have hyped thousands and thousands of times. It's really impressive. So, what we are doing this evening, we've asked Emily to rejoin us, and she's brought a couple of friendly randos with her, and we'll explain that in a minute. First, and she's gonna tell us a little bit what we'll repeat a little bit about what holler hype is and talk about some of the new things that are going on with Holler Hype that we think you're going to enjoy. So, Emily, welcome back. It's good to see you.

SPEAKER_18: 31:32

It's so good to see you too, Bob. Uh, when we first met, we were both excited, like you said, about bringing Holler Hype to the horizon, run family, but like introducing anything new, there was still that like sit back, make some popcorn, what's gonna happen. And I just couldn't be happier than to uh, you know, be syncing back up with you and looking back, talking about how it's been going and and all those things. So thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_10: 32:03

Oh, you're welcome. How about introducing our friendly randos and telling our friends what the heck that is? I've been throwing that term around because I think it's great. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_18: 32:13

Yeah, right on. Um, so friendly randos is a special role that one can have at Holler Heights. And perhaps I'll explain very quickly what Holler Hype is so we can kind of picture a friendly rando getting tagged in for duty. Um, basically, people are using this Holler Hype app to receive real-time voice messages when they're in the middle of a challenge. And these voice messages like magically clay overing music. You almost forget you even turned it on. You know, maybe you're going up a hill, you're in the middle of your last long run in a huge training cycle, and all of a sudden, um, you know, maybe like your best friend or your mom or someone from the rising room community just chimes in and you can tell they're saying it right now in this moment. It feels like you're almost together because you are. Um, that's what a hype is, and that's why people use the Holler Hype app to get back to Friendly Randos. When you go live on Holler Height, you can uh choose the group you're going live to. And we got a huge and awesome rise and run group. But you can also say, you know what? I want to hear from some friendly randos. It's like rolling the happy dice of humanity and just saying to yourself, like, what's gonna happen? I know it's gonna be great. I'm gonna hear from someone. I don't know who they are, but like I'm game for it. And that's what a friendly rando is. And we're always on the lookout for folks who just bring their realness, bring their best foot forward when they're hyping, and then we reach out and say, like, hey, do you want to be a friendly rando? So with us, we have Troy and we have Debbie, who are both now friendly randos in Holler Hype and members of the Rise and Run family.

SPEAKER_10: 34:04

Big time. Say hi, Debbie and Troy. Good to see you.

SPEAKER_13: 34:07

Hi, I'm Debbie from North Carolina, and when you're doing a friendly rando, I can't say part of your rise and run family, but it is a super honor to be doing this for Holler Hype.

SPEAKER_04: 34:16

Hello, this is Troy from Spring Hill, and I absolutely love sending out the holler hypes. It uh it's a lot of fun to send and to receive, but uh I I too think it's an honor to be uh asked to be a friendly rando. That's a pretty cool term.

SPEAKER_10: 34:30

It's quite an honor. And that's how that's how I mean that's almost your name now, Troy from Spring Hill, Florida. That's how everybody in the holler hype community knows who you are. And yeah, this friendly rando. I'm not a friendly rando. We haven't been selected. That's okay. I think it's I think it's awesome.

SPEAKER_13: 34:47

I would just like to say it is super awesome because believe it or not, I had a guy that I friendly randoed probably three or four times, and then he came up running Chicago, and I was so excited that I got tagged in again on the same guy, and I was like, hey, it's Debbie from North Carolina again. I've been on this whole journey with you, we've never met, and I'm so excited to cheer you on for Chicago. So that's the superpower of the app.

SPEAKER_10: 35:09

It's something our comp our our community really, I know I knew Emily. The moment we talked, I knew they were going to love it, and they genuinely have. Now, just in case somebody's going, wait, I've never heard of this before, how would they get started?

SPEAKER_18: 35:27

Right on. So there's a couple of ways. One, you can go straight to the app store, Google Play or the App Store for iPhone, search Holler Hike, H-O-L-L-A-R, H Y P E. It's one word, it's gonna come up right away. Um, you download it, and then when you're making an account, there's a little prop for like, hey, do you have a promo code? And just type in Rise and Run one word, and that will like unlock your magic door into the Rise and Run group. This isn't like a social media site where you know, like you're searching for friends to follow. There's no place to comment on things. Um, people really do only join groups that they know um, you know, like the nature of the group. So yeah, just just type in the code RISE and RUN and you'll get the face group.

SPEAKER_10: 36:22

That's important. And that's I think some people had trouble at if they forget to do it initially, is there a way later to get back into the Rise and Run group?

SPEAKER_18: 36:34

Yes, they could if they're on if they're on the Facebook group. I know that we have the Holler Hype link in the Rise and Run Facebook group. And if you tap that link from your mobile phone, that will also prompt you to download the app, but then automatically drop you in the group. So that's another way that you can do it.

SPEAKER_16: 36:55

I will say, you know, if I were a betting man, and I'm not really a betting man, but I would put lots and lots of money down that when I'm on a run, I can guarantee that within probably the first 15 minutes of that run, I'm gonna hear from Troy from Spring Hill, Florida, and I'm gonna hear from my buddy Debbie in North Carolina, and it brings me so much joy when I hear the two of you come through my headphones. But Debbie, I'm gonna start with you first. I think you like to bring joy, but I also think you like to make people jealous because a majority of the time that I'm getting hyped from you, you're coming to me live from Disney World. And sometimes when you're on a run, that really stings. Which is where she is right now. I know. I'm trying to figure out based on her background where on Walt Disney World property she is right now. She's in Hollywood, and Troy was there this weekend. And but now outside of Disney World, though, sometimes I also get concerned about where Debbie's coming to me from because uh I got a hype from her a couple of weeks ago where she told me she was on her roof. So, so Debbie, tell tell me how loud is the alert on your phone when someone goes live so that you can hype them up no matter where you are in the world, whether that's in the happiest place or the most magical place on earth, or you potentially dangling from your roof.

SPEAKER_13: 38:23

That is so funny. So I was on my roof putting up the Christmas lights because we have to get started super early. But it's funny, man just comes up and it goes ding on the phone, and I get so happy when the holler hype thing comes up because it lets me share in other people's lives. Because then I know what you're doing, and then I can relate what I'm doing back to what you're doing, and it goes back to something Brandy Copley did. Someone dragged Brandy into this. But she was at the master, and I was out on a run, and Brandy's like, hey, and she's whispering, I'm coming at you live.

SPEAKER_08: 38:57

I'm mastered.

SPEAKER_13: 38:58

And I was like, that is so cool. And then I thought, you know what? Not everybody wants to hear I'm running too. Sometimes they want to hear something distracting when they're running. So maybe like me coming at you live from Toy Story Midway Mania, or me coming at you live from the contemporary club level, which might have happened.

SPEAKER_08: 39:14

Yeah, that was it.

SPEAKER_13: 39:15

Yeah. But you know, I am it's so cool because I've made the coolest relationships. Like there's a friend, Katrina, and Houston. She and I played Holler Hype Tag one day. I was out on a 14 by 800 run. Oh my gosh. And so I hyped her and she hyped me back, and we went on and on for about an hour. And now every time she comes on, I have to hype her at least two or three times. And I've not met her, but I will at Marathon Weekend. So I think part of that is bringing the joy, not only from what they're doing, but maybe a little bit of what I'm doing now distracts you, or maybe you relate to that. And that's how I got to be friends with Troy, because Troy commented back to me one time because of where I was running was in Charlotte. And then I hyped him back. I said, How come you live in Florida and you know about Charlotte? And so we got to talking, and then we met at what was it, on Memorial Day weekend? Troy down at Pop is when we got together with our respective significant others. And so that's how Hollerhype just brings people together. It's just awesome.

SPEAKER_16: 40:12

Troy, talk to me about the the emotions and and the inspiration that goes through you as you're picking up your phone, most likely seven days a week, to do this for you know, people, not only just in the in the rise and run community, but you know, as Emily has been saying, randos across the internet.

SPEAKER_04: 40:32

Whenever we're out running, there's so many of us are out there running. Oftentimes we're alone, right? And it's just you and your headphones, you're all alone out there on the road or on the track, and there's something about long-endurance sports that like think about when you're at Disney, the roar of the crowd just kind of provides that that crucial mental and physical push to overcome something that's like significant or like pain or whatnot. And it also takes your mind off of it for a minute as well. So if I can provide that for just 30 seconds to someone randomly, then uh I I get a I get a I get a charge out of it. It's equally uh as validating for the person sending the hype as it is the person receiving the hype. Um and it it's uh it's something that I enjoy doing. Um I could be out on a long run and it goes quiet for 45 minutes, just me and my music, and out of nowhere, here comes a voice for 30 seconds with some kind of words of encouragement. And uh I will take a page um from Debbie's chapter as well. I like to sometimes throw in a little gig about where I'm at, just to kind of get people to laugh. I was hyping people this weekend. Hey, I see you're out there doing you know, whatever race it was, maybe it was Marine Corps, cheering you on poolside of the Polynesian with the margarita in my hand. That kind of stuff, just to just to take somebody's mind off their pain. So true.

SPEAKER_10: 42:01

I got to I got to do them live from the uh hot tub on the cruise ship last week.

SPEAKER_04: 42:08

Yes, I was laughing hysterically when I heard that. I was like, yeah, you're doing some reconnaissance, all right. I know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_13: 42:15

Another thing I really enjoy doing is hyping while I'm running because I do most of my running alone and I do run, walk, runs. So during my walk breaks, I'll whip the phone out and hype somebody. I'm like, okay, this person's coming up on the next break, this person on the next break. And this past weekend during the 10K, the PhotoPass people caught me hyping. I Emily, I sent that picture to Jordan. Yeah. But they caught me in the act of hyping people, which is it's just so fun. And I'll echo what Troy says. It's so much fun to hype people. Um, it's just as much fun to do it as it is to receive it back. And then when they hype me back and say, Hey, I remember you hyping me, it's just the coolest thing.

SPEAKER_04: 42:48

Well, it it's a positive way to build community and strengthen bonds among people who have something in common, uh, whether it be sports, swimming, biking, hiking, you know, walking, whatever the case may be. Um, it helps you overcome that feeling of being kind of by yourself. It boosts self-esteem. And uh it it's it's it's a it's a means for uh you know just sending out some positivity out there, especially at a time when it might be crucial for someone who's really, really struggling with with a run or whatever challenge you know that they might be encountering.

SPEAKER_10: 43:20

Well, Troy, you've kind of led me back into that's what's really great, but I think Emily has some new ideas and some new plans for Holler Hype coming up.

SPEAKER_18: 43:32

I've got to say, Debbie and Troy and Greg here in you all right now talk about like the relatability aspect of Holler Hype, like seeing what you have in common with somebody else and kind of like latching on to that to help you think about like what you want to say and what you want to hype forward. There's just no better segue into the thing that is new and as of today in the rise and run community, where we just launched what we're calling tags. Okay. Um so before, when we talked about the recap, what is it gonna be like to join Holler Hike? You know, promo code rise and run run, one word, and then bingo, you're in the group, you're off to the races, you can go live for hypers, or you can start hyping other people as you see the day go live. Um, now there's gonna be an added step where you can choose tags that you might look at and say to yourself, like, which ones connect with me? Like, am I a Dope alum? Am I training for Dopey right now? Am I um a first-time marathoner? Or am I training for a 10K, a half marathon? So each of these beats that I'm mentioning right now are different tags. Um, there's other ones too, by the way, but that's just like to kind of paint a picture. Now, what would we do with these? The reason why they are very meaningful is because when Troy goes live next time, and maybe he has just chosen um I know you're doing Dopey Troy because you told us today in your status that you're getting back on the Dopey training wheel, right? So we know these things because sometimes we share them in our status, but now when Troy adds the Dopey tag, all of us will be able to see, you know, he doesn't need to type it out every time. We'll see, like, oh, he's training for Dopey this year. And if someone else is training for Dopey, that tag's gonna light up in green. So you're like, oh, we have that in common. So it's just as interesting to see the tags that you had in common with each other as it is the ones that are maybe different, just to give you a little bit added bonus context um for how you want to relate and connect with that person who's live. And after you get the hypers, you're able to see what tags that person has as well. So, like you guys were saying, like we get to know each other through the hyping and those really, you know, like authentic connections start forming. But sometimes we get hypes from people that like are new to the community or we've just never crossed paths at the same time before. And now it's kind of like this fun Easter egg treat when you look at your hypes to see, you know, oh, Alexandra is a dopey alum and she's just getting back at running because there's like a getting back to it type of tad, which is the one that I currently have. If anyone needs to know now, when you're hyping me, like Emily's struggling over here, you know, now you know. So, anyways, um, that's what tags are all about. Um Troy was helping me think about what the starter pack of tags were gonna be. But you guys tell me what do you what do you think about the new features?

SPEAKER_03: 46:55

Okay, okay, we can do that on Facebook. I have a question about the tags. So can you like can you tag yourself multiple times? So I could say first time marathoner, first time dopey, first time runner. If you're doing that, you're really very motivational. But uh, but yeah, like something like that, because that's how they can do with tags, or is it just one tag per session?

SPEAKER_18: 47:17

That's exactly right, John. So meaning you can choose more than one tag, as many as you feel connect to like your profile or who you are, so to speak. Like for me, I'd probably choose the 5k tag and the just getting back into it tag. Um maybe I'll sign up for like springtime, I'll choose the springtime tag, and now people can kind of see that bundle to get an idea of like my vibe. And you can always go back and change them too. Like maybe maybe you have uh chosen World Disney World weekend for one of your tags, and now all of a sudden it's February, and you want to change it to yes, you can change it, you know, that kind of a thing.

SPEAKER_10: 48:03

I'm looking for the old guy tag here, Emily. I oh let's move on. Let's move on. Let's move on.

SPEAKER_18: 48:10

Yeah, so that's one new thing. Um we are also launching a new space in the app. And for those that are familiar, you'll find this new space on the groups tab of the app. You can't see it right now, but it will be launched this weekend called Communities. So Rise and Run is a group, even though it is like technically a community. In Holler Hype, it's classified as a group because it's like private. It's like um, you know, it has definition to it. It's not like a general theme. Um, the community section of the app is going to be wider themes where people across Holler Hype can like decide they want to join it based on a lived experience. And we've had a lot of feedback really over the past many months about bringing people together over shared lived experiences. So, for example, one of these communities is going to be like cancer patients and cancer survivors. And we have really been looking forward to creating this space in Hollerhype because we partner with a number of cancer organizations. And by way of doing that, especially when we started launching tags with them, we saw that a number of charity runners on teens like longevity, for example, um, and a bunch of other charity-related organizations would choose the tag patient or choose the tag survivor. And, you know, during the Chicago Marathon, I saw that there was an ACS runner with the survivor tag. And I don't know who this person is, but I was in the group because I joined our partner groups. And I just was stopped in my tracks thinking, like, wow, this person is at mile 20. I'm hyping them in real time right now and letting them know, hey, my aunt just started her second round of chemo. And the fact that you're out there finishing a marathon as a cancer survivor, as a stranger, is is the kind of thing that like gives a family like mine hope, like, yeah, like people, people get through this and then they do marathons. Like, that is just so remarkable. And that's because she chose the survivor tag. So I was able to know um this is somebody who has gone through that. So we wanted to create a space just to give one example. There's others, you know, for people that are going through that specific kind of journey to um find common ground within this like planet hype that we've built so that they can um, you know, start getting hyped from each other. Otherwise, they wouldn't really know how to find each other in the app.

SPEAKER_10: 50:57

I love the terms, my friend. Planet hype, friendly randos.

SPEAKER_18: 51:02

Yeah, very unconventional language.

SPEAKER_10: 51:05

Oh, it's wonderful. It's wonderful. What else would you like our friends listening right now to know about this?

SPEAKER_18: 51:13

So I so I shared the Cancer Patient and Survivor Group as the first example, but we will be launching with like five, like a starter pack, so to speak, of five communities that will be public uh view come this weekend. Um, a few others just to give a preview. Um, we're gonna have an early bird Eastern time run club, a night owl run club. And um we're excited about that because what we've noticed is that there are a lot of folks who love going live on Holler Hype at like five in the morning. Um, but not necessarily everyone else in their group is awake that early. But what happens is that sometimes when we're looking at the database, we're like, there were so many people that were running at five in the morning, but they uh didn't know that because they're not in the same groups, you know, it's like their wavelengths don't cross paths. So now there will be a way for you to join the early Burr Eastern Time run club where it won't just be rise and runners, it'll be people from other holler hype too. But that's that thing that you all have in common is hey, we like to get up early and like chase down the sunrise or whatever it may be. And so that's one of them. Um we are shaping up an addiction recovery related group for folks to find relatability around that lived experience. Um, and just as a reminder to anybody listening, when you go live on Holler Hype, you decide every time which groups you want to send your bat signal out to. And setting your bat signal is like means you go live and then everyone in the group gets the push notification. So some of these communities are a bit more like personal and sensitive, like the cancer journey or like an addiction recovery journey. And just to make clear, if you want to go live with maybe like a more personal status that day, it doesn't mean it has to go out to every group that you're a part of. You can decide in the moment, oh, I'm gonna go live just to this one group this time. And then maybe on a different day when you feel like I'm gonna go on a 10-mile run and I want hypes from everybody in all of the groups that I'm a part of, you can make that different decision that other day. Um, so that's what we're pretty excited about with the launch of communities, is that it helps people maybe find an even deeper and secondary connection to other folks on Planet Hype, um, in addition to the amazing um community vibes from Rise and Run. So, out of curiosity, how much does it cost to join Holler Hype? Zero dollars. Holler Hype is free. Yep, it's gonna be free for you to join the Rise and Run community. Free to download it. If you want to make a personal group and invite your friends and your family, it's free for them to join too. Once you make a group above a certain limit, then you just gotta email us for all sorts of other reasons, but it's not cost related. So long answer is it's free.

SPEAKER_10: 54:32

There you go. It's great. If you friends, if you haven't tried it, and I know many, many of you have. 21,000 hypes, Emily. Last count.

SPEAKER_18: 54:43

Oh, I just like updated the count for this very meeting. 23,508 hypes to date.

SPEAKER_10: 54:51

Well, I bet a bunch, I bet a bunch. We had Marine Corps Marathon weekend, we had uh wine and dine weekend. I bet a bunch went out over those. Yeah, all good stuff.

SPEAKER_18: 55:00

But we can reveal this live too, Bob. Um, Troy has surpassed my hype count, so I tip mine to you, Troy. Wait, how many is it? You've passed the founder.

SPEAKER_04: 55:13

Oh wow. I can look, I don't even know how many hypes I've sent. I can have I've had to look and see. Here, hang on.

SPEAKER_18: 55:18

Yeah, you got your hype counter. I want to say it's like 1500 or 1800.

SPEAKER_04: 55:24

I've sent total 2700 2741. So 10.

SPEAKER_13: 55:31

I'm at I'm in 2619, but you can't tell which ones are friendly randos versus whatever rising. Yeah, 2619.

SPEAKER_18: 55:40

They all count. They all count. Bob, I know we're wrapping up, but one sneak peek into the future is that we are working on like special special awards or badges that you can unlock. Might not know what they are, but they just kind of unlock as you hit them. And the things that came up in this call relay, we're working on one of um like the warrior hyper who um will go to any length to send a hype. So this scenario where Debbie's like on the roof, like from a roof, yeah. Risking it all to send the hype, it's like that would unless you know what putting out the Christmas decorations with one hand, hyping with the other hand.

SPEAKER_13: 56:22

Like, let's go. Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_18: 56:24

Yeah, I love it. Just just for fun planting that seed. We're working on it.

SPEAKER_10: 56:31

There's a bottom line right there, Emily. For fun, the group loves it. And please, you know, whatever we can do to help you make this stronger, because you're doing uh you're doing a whole lot to help us make the Rise and Run family stronger, and we appreciate it. And we appreciate the three of you spending some time with us this evening. So, Debbie, you can go back to the park. And Emily, it's just always a pleasure talking with you. And again, keep us a prize, keep us up to date, let us know what we can do to help you out because you're doing a lot to help us.

SPEAKER_18: 57:03

Thanks so much, Bob. It's truly been a pleasure. We love the Ryzen Run family over on Planet Hype. Um, we just talk about how much we love this serendipitous um opportunity to start talking in the first place.

SPEAKER_10: 57:22

We need we need to talk marketing, Emily. I can see planet hype t-shirts in our future.

SPEAKER_18: 57:27

We can make we can do that.

SPEAKER_10: 57:29

All right. All right, friends, thanks a bunch. We'll we'll hype you later.

SPEAKER_13: 57:34

Thanks, Bob. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, Bob. Thanks, Emily. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_15: 57:38

Great seeing all you guys. Thank you. Caution runners, change of topic ahead.

SPEAKER_10: 57:44

So keep hyping, friends. It's a big deal. I love seeing the uh race reports that you put on Facebook saying thank you for all the holler hypes. I'm not I'm not good at this. I you anybody here do a lot of hypes? I do some, but not many.

SPEAKER_12: 58:02

I do some. I should do more. Yeah, I definitely see the notifications, but I feel like whenever I'm looking at my phone and I see them, I'm always like going to get in the car to drive or somewhere that I can't hype people, but I do appreciate the hypes.

SPEAKER_16: 58:17

I I put I put myself somewhere more more often than Bob, but not as much as Troy. Oh well, you you heard the number those good.

SPEAKER_10: 58:27

I think I think I'm up to about a hundred total. Total. Um, I'm actually looking here. I I know there's very, very little chance that someone is out there right now, but it would be cool if they were. Let's take a look. Nope, nobody's out there. I thought I thought we could have had our first hotter hype on the podcast, but nobody's out at uh almost 9 p.m. on a Tuesday night. Oh 9 p.m. Eastern time on a Tuesday night. All right, friends. Hey. Let's see, just some uh administrative type notes. Of course, by now we know that the group chats, Facebook has the group chats are still up, but they're read-only, and they will soon be coming down. The Discord chat groups are working, but we don't have nearly the number of people in them that we did when we had the Facebook group chats. John, we have any update on the Discord group chats.

SPEAKER_03: 59:32

So we I think we've created every chat that we had in the uh Facebook group chats. Uh we there's a link on the top. I think it's still in the featured, I'm not sure. You might have to scroll over. Uh uh that link should be good for a while. The they they usually had the links expire, but I think the one I just put in there now will not expire. You do have to get approved now. So there's a couple questions we ask you. Uh you know, one of them is what's your your Facebook group page, your Facebook tape page name, so that we know that you're not some random person trying to hop in. Because before we knew everyone with the Facebook group was a member member. So, but that's it. And uh we can create chats at chats at will if you need. If you guys, I know the one chat that I thought is really interesting, and I don't know if you guys is the off-topic chat that became a puppy posting chat group for a while.

SPEAKER_16: 1:00:32

So that's yeah, I I want to say in the um in the off-topic group, I saw something today. I think that everyone wants a frosty looper chat now as well, too. So I I'm not sure as if us as moderators if we can do that or anybody can do that, but we're okay, we're still learning the kinks of this, but uh but I'm at least I'm I'm happy that people are active on it who are members of it right now, which is which is a good sign.

SPEAKER_10: 1:01:00

Agreed. Agreed. Yeah, I'm disappointed, but the but hopefully this will grow a little bit. Uh again, some notes. Our friend Mona was at the meetup for us, and she she sprinkled some pixie dust on us in the form of uh chap. The chapstick is a registered trademark. Lip bomb. Yeah. Lip balm. That was nice. Um it's amazing.

SPEAKER_12: 1:01:27

I had the um tangerine one, and I was like, I wonder how the spearmint one is. And I love that one just as much as I love my tangerine one.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:35

Good.

SPEAKER_12: 1:01:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:36

I was like meh by ran with it for the half.

SPEAKER_12: 1:01:39

There you go.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:40

There you go. I got it. I didn't get the same results for some reason, but I did run with it.

SPEAKER_10: 1:01:46

I'll bet your lips were every bit as well protected. They were so they're perfect. Yeah.

SPEAKER_16: 1:01:51

I can't wait for her to come out with like exotic flavors. Like, you know, I mean, I know we talk about, you know, tangerine, but maybe like Dole Whip or beef jerky or something like that. You know, something to really throw people in.

SPEAKER_10: 1:02:02

Beef jerky.

SPEAKER_16: 1:02:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_10: 1:02:04

But Mona MoonNaturals.com is her website, and she's got a discount code for us. R Run Fam. R-R-U-N-F-A-M. We got other friends out there. Our friend Hannah with the temporary tattoos. Those are cool. Uh, we'd have Alicia and I were talking earlier. Remember when Greg asked if they would stay on through dopey or whatever? Yeah, they'll stay on until your 75th birthday, I'm pretty sure. They stay on. Uh I I take I'd take a spatula and scrape, not quite. You pretty much have to scrape them off after a couple days. So they're cool. Uh that's her website. Is help me out, kids. I didn't look it up. It's uh the Start Line Co. Start Line Co. That's right. And Fluffy Fizzies will be back at the expo for Marathon Weekend. Not with Pam, but with her sister Michelle. So Fluffy Fizies is out there. If you're wanting to run the 5K with us on Marathon Weekend, well you can, but we're we're encouraging folks to get an alien shirt. We're gonna run is the aliens from Toy Story. This one. We had a lot of fun last year with 101 Dalmatians. The alien shirts are available at Alex website Hawaiian Pizza Apparel. So and we're we're coming up on the cutoff date to order those, I'm pretty sure. Because we're only what I just said a little while ago, we're only nine weeks away. So it's getting close. Uh grab your alien shirt if you want to be part of that. That was a lot of fun. What else we got going on, kids? Oh, I know what our friend Card Exchange Jenny is circulating the Christmas card list for this year, for this year's holiday season. Uh, last year was a big success. You can sign up, you can exchange really any number of cards that you want. But Jenny will put together a list for you. And uh that that was fun last year. I think I ended up sending out 15 or 20 cards to people, and I got I hadn't I hadn't gotten holiday cards in a long time. I mean that when I was a youngster back in the day, kids. We used to get so many Christmas cards that uh they'd you go into somebody's houses and they'd be strung up in the living room. And does anybody remember that? Yes, people. Thank you, John. No, you get like five, you're like happy. Oh, if you that's a lot. Well, you know, what happened was the price of the cards went way up and the price of the postage went way up. And the selection of cards have gone way, way down.

SPEAKER_08: 1:05:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10: 1:05:08

But anyway, we've got that opportunity. That is pinned to the featured section on the Facebook group. There's a form there where if you're interested, just sign up. And then as we get close to the end of November here, usually right around Thanksgiving, Jenny will send out the a list for you of names and addresses to send your cars to.

SPEAKER_09: 1:05:33

And now, please stand clear of the doors. It's time for a race report.

SPEAKER_10: 1:05:42

Abord mantengancy, Alejandra, the race report sponsored by Tom Stokes of Stoked Metabolic Training. Stokes.fit slash rise and run coaching is the site. Talking with Tom last week. I still need to. Tom, I've been so daggum busy. I'm getting old. We got all these medical appointments, but I still want to get back in. I know Tom's got a little mini mini challenge going on in his group right now. But uh great training, great strength training, great nutritional training, too. I think we overlook that sometimes with Tom. Because I mean, you look at Tom think strength training. But he's great on nutritional training too. All right, let's take a look at the race report, and uh we start on Saturday with it was Hong Kong Disneyland 10K weekend. There was a Zootopia 5K, Luciana ran that one. There was a Duffy and Friends 3K, Luciana ran that one because the start times, those two races are 45 minutes apart. We are hoping Luciana lives in Italy, so the time differences are tough, but we're hoping to get her on to tell us about those Hong Kong races. In Ocean City, Maryland, the Ocean City Running Festival Chessy Challenge was this week. Kelly and Kim were there running the 5K. Up in Panama City Beach in the Florida Panhandle. Jackie did the Iron Man Florida event up there. It was chilly up there this weekend and the water's getting cold. So I'm sure that was exciting. Ash was in Clarksville, Tennessee. They had a half marathon, and the half marathon had a ruck category. Uh a ruck march, a rucksack is a backpack on a frame. It's a type of physical training that gives you strength and endurance. Ash says that the podcast gave him the inspiration, inspiration to train for this thing. Didn't get any medals for rucking, but you did get patches. Ash got a PR improving over eight minutes from the last time he did that, since his last last half marathon rook. I told him he was reminding me of my army days. I didn't do a lot of that, but did some. Haven't done it once since. And I'm probably not going to. Hey Joe, despite the fact that he did all three races on Wine and Dine weekend, was back at it just one week one week later. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes River Run 5K in Fort Smith. The three amigos were there. His buddy Johnny took first place in the 10K. Gary took third in the 5K. Joe didn't place. We can forgive that. You know what, you know what impresses me is in that age group, the 75 plus or the 70 plus, whatever it is, there's enough people, enough men running that Joe didn't place. I mean, I'm 70 plus in the races here in Tampa. Not not Fort Smith, Arkansas. Not that there's anything wrong with Fort Smith, but Tampa's a little bigger. And there'd be times I'll be the only person there. So there are times when I tell you I won my age group. I was also last place. Anyway, uh Joe did well. I think it's neat. I think it's neat to have been that many uh older guys out there. His pace was okay. He's trying not to push it. He says if he'd seen a balloon lady though, he could have kicked it up a notch and stuck with her.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:34

Well, he only did 22 miles last week, right? Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_10: 1:09:38

I know. Yeah, that's absolutely dynamite. So great stuff. Uh the Lake to Lake 10K took place in Lakeland, Florida, of all places. Good place for a lake to lake race. Kimberly was there. In Ontario, Hamilton, to be specific, the Hamilton Marathon Road to Hope 10K. Phaedra did her hometown race there. Last year she did the 5K, upped it this year to the 10K because she's ready for more. Uh course is pretty flat and scenic along the city's paved waterfront trail. Sounds very pretty. I'm sure it's pretty this time of year, and probably cool up in Ontario. Uh second 10K race ever. So she PR'd. Her goal was an hour 15. She came in almost two minutes under that. Phaedra, you're doing great. And then I like the photo you posted of your uh weight loss journey. Also, you're doing fabulous in that, too, as well. Uh let's see. Kelly was at the Meadows Mile 5K in Pennington, New Jersey. This is Kelly's first trail style race. They're running on a combo of grass, dirt, crushed gravel, a little bit of pavement scattered throughout. She matched 10 or 5k PR, despite slowing down more often to avoid missteps on some of the uneven surfaces. Post-race, there was a pizza truck and cake pops for everybody. They also had a 10K kids' races and other kid-friendly activities. Definitely a great community vibe in Pennington, New Jersey. Come on south a little bit to Aiton, South Carolina, where Jessica did the whiskey road race, was supposed to be a 10K, turned into a 5K because a volunteer stood in front of a sign at the place where the courses split. So she was planning on a 10, she got a 5. She's on track to PR, the 10. But after this mid-race snafu, that didn't happen. She did, however, get her fastest mile time ever during this event. And I'm thinking this one is somewhere in the Philadelphia area because Yvette did two races this weekend. This was the first. A tapping of the Great Pumpkin 10K, mostly on trails. Yvette says she came in last. I mean she had to course all to herself and got lots of bananas for banana bread at the end. Let's kick off Sunday with the big one for this week. Boy, we've heard about this one in the past. It's a lot of fun. We got friends with us this evening to tell us about their adventures in New York. We'd like to welcome Matt.

SPEAKER_02: 1:12:31

Hi, I'm Matt. This is my uh first world major, first New York and uh fourth marathon.

SPEAKER_10: 1:12:38

Not bad. Grace?

SPEAKER_11: 1:12:40

Hi, I'm Grace. Uh, New York was my eighth marathon. Um, I've run three of the majors, but this was my fourth New York because I am coming to you live from New York.

SPEAKER_10: 1:12:51

Very good. Yeah, I remember seeing that, Grace. So four times in New York, two other world majors, and then two other marathons, right?

SPEAKER_11: 1:13:02

Both at Disney.

SPEAKER_10: 1:13:03

Both at Disney. Yeah, that that's yeah, that's cool. Devon is with us.

SPEAKER_14: 1:13:09

Hi, this was my first New York marathon. It was my sixth world major and my 20th marathon.

SPEAKER_10: 1:13:15

Sixth world major. If I had my normal setup today, I'd I'd hit the round of applause button on the sixth world major. Congrats for that. We want to hear more about that in a little bit. And Laura is with us.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:27

Hi, I'm Sam's mom, aka Laura, coming from Winter Garden, um, Florida. This is um New York was my first New York, first world major marathon number six, and it was my first marathon outside of Disney. So I've done that.

SPEAKER_10: 1:13:43

Okay. Well, friends, thanks for joining us this evening. We we got some time. We want to hear your stories about New York. And Devin, you can tell us a little bit about uh knocking out that sixth star. That's a big deal. But let's take things in order. And I'd like to always ask folks, especially on an event as big as this, was there anything significant about the expo? How did the expo go, Laura?

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:12

I loved it. Um, so I flew in Friday morning and got to the expo probably around two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was easy peasy to get in, get my bib. Um, I had maybe one person in front of me to pick up my bib. Um, from there, you walk right into like the new balance official merchandise. Now that was a little bit crazy. Um lots of people, lots of picking up things and putting things down, kind of like how you see in the Run Disney merchandise area where things are just all over the place. Um, I had pre-ordered a few things, so I really didn't need to buy anything from New Balance. I did buy the boys some bears. The line, though, was outrageous for checkout. They have like a hundred checkout registers, but the line just snaked. It snaked through all of the merchandise, and then there were two different queue rooms that it snaked through. It kept moving, um, but that was a little crazy. And then the expo itself, I I love expos, and this one did not disappoint. There were a lot of um great booths, um, some freebies, and uh a lot of photo opportunities, which was fun.

SPEAKER_10: 1:15:28

Nice. Devin, did they Devin, did they have those big lines when you got there also?

SPEAKER_14: 1:15:34

Um, I actually got there pretty early afternoon on Thursday, shortly after they'd opened. So there's a bit of a wait to get in to get the bib, but otherwise it was fairly smooth sailing. It was packed, but um, like as Laura already said, it, you know, nothing compared to what we've been through at Run Disney. So to me, it was like pretty easy as far as like getting merch and whatnot.

SPEAKER_10: 1:15:53

Grace, you live nearby. Easy trip for you to the expo?

SPEAKER_11: 1:15:57

Yeah, so I um I always go Thursday after work. I because I'm not traveling for this race, I work Thursday, Friday. Um, and so I was I've done this expo before. I kind of know exactly what I want to do. Um I I will say they they rearranged things at the expo this year. And I don't know if because I like Laura, I noticed that the New Balance merch was much more, it felt more crowded to me than usual. And I don't know if that's because they switched things up a little bit this year. They they flipped how things were organized at at the Jabbit Center. Um, but that that was kind of it. I I had a long work day. I had to, I'm a lawyer, I had to be in court in the in the morning. So I was kind of trying to get in and out. And we also had pretty torrential rain on Thursday. So I think people I think people held back until a little bit later in the day if they were scheduled to go on Thursday, just because there it was pouring rain on Thursday during the day.

SPEAKER_10: 1:16:55

So Matt, I'm just curious, did New Balance, and I know they do this sometimes, did they make a special shoe for the marathon in New York this year?

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:06

I think they did. I saw, yeah, there was a couple people that had them. I never really went to the shoe area because I already had a pair of the SC Elites that I was gonna wear. But uh they did have like a little, it was a very small section they had for like the shoes, and it was within the uh within the actual, you know, the New Balance merch, kind of mixed in with everything else. And it was I was this there the same time as uh Laura and it was it was crazy.

SPEAKER_08: 1:17:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:33

But I will say the only thing that they didn't mention, um, whenever you check out if you're a first time runner at New York, they like make a point and like cheer you on and like get everybody's attention and say first time runner, and like they all ring cowbells. That that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_12: 1:17:47

I saw videos of that, and I thought that was a really cool touch. That is nice.

SPEAKER_11: 1:17:51

They will ask you, even if it's not your first time running New York, they will ask you if you want the bell most of the time.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:58

I I was a fan, I I I like that type of stuff, so that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_11: 1:18:02

I don't, but it is always fun to watch them you know hype up, especially the first-time runners or first-time New York runners.

SPEAKER_10: 1:18:07

So hey John, take a note, okay? At the next meetup, we need to ask if it's the first time at a meetup and we ring the cowbell or something. What do you say?

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:16

I got the I got the cowbell. I know you do.

SPEAKER_16: 1:18:18

All right, Grace. Since you're the local here, we'll start with you first on this portion. We always like to say that the logistics of a Run Disney race is uh is a little bit more different than most because you know you gotta you know get to the front, see Myra if you're standing up pop centric, get on the bus and then and then make your way over the Epcot, and you got a long walk. Something tells me with New York City, that race says, hold my beer when it comes to logistics to get into a start line. There's many different ways. I know sometimes there's private transfers, sometimes you can get a bus at Midtown, or you can take the lovely and still free to this day, Staten Island Ferry. Wow. So what uh mode of transportation did you choose to make all your way, uh to make your way out to Staten Island for the start of this race?

SPEAKER_11: 1:19:07

So I also have a secret option, I don't know, three, four, five. Um I run with a local club here, and we have our own private uh bus that picks us up from the neighborhood and takes us to the um to takes us to the start village. Now, I did not take that, and I will explain why. Um, the buses have to get over the bridge before the race starts. So they have to be there before seven because then everybody hauls the other way. So because I start in wave four, which doesn't go off until 10:55, my hack is I am still asleep when the buses leave, and I am on the 7:30 ferry to Staten Island. So I I I just hop on the subway. Um, there's a direct subway line right from near my apartment, right down to South Ferry where you pick up, where you pick up the ferry. And then I take the ferry across and then wait for the buses and head to Staten Island. It does take uh head to Fort Wadsworth. It does take a little bit longer, but for me, a little bit extra sleep is always nice. Um, you know, I I think I I encourage anybody who's starting in the later waves to at least consider taking the ferry, um, even though the the midtown buses are a little more direct, just because it's really kind of nice to take the ferry over and you do get a little more sleep.

SPEAKER_10: 1:20:24

And it just dawned on me that you guys got the advantage this year that we usually get it on and dine. You got the transition to standard time. So you already got an extra hour.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:35

So I got a question about the start area in Staten Island. Do they close that off? And I know, like you said, you went at 10:30. Do they close the entrance of that off at any time? Or can you stroll in at 9.30 if you had to?

SPEAKER_11: 1:20:50

No non-runners are allowed. It's only runners and volunteers and and New York Roadrunner staff. Um, but I I actually don't know because even though, even though I, you know, I start in wave four, I I do tend to kind of I I I got I showed up at the um at the start village as wave one was going off, as basically right as the cannon sounded.

SPEAKER_16: 1:21:09

So, Matt, following your adventures on Instagram, I saw you also chose the ferry option. Uh when you were on the ferry, was this the first time you ever saw the Statue of Liberty?

SPEAKER_02: 1:21:19

So the day before I saw it from the shoreline, but this was the first time I got to see it that close. And uh I so I was on the 545 ferry, and that was I didn't realize this at the time, but it was when the sun was coming up. And so on one side of the boat you got the the Statue of Liberty, and Nike, I can't remember exactly what it said, but Nike had a sign on like cargo like a cargo ship, and they had like an inspirational little sign. Does anybody remember what they said had said on it?

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:49

New York City won't carry you, it pushes you. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_02: 1:21:52

Yeah, so that was that was pretty awesome to see as you're sailing in. And then I went to the other side of the ferry, and the sunrise is coming up over the city, and that was that was pretty awesome. I was, you know, everybody always kind of I've I always heard that like getting there was a hassle, but like I really enjoyed out. My hotel was right next to the subway, so I got on the subway, right down to the ferry, got on the ferry, and then that was like a 20-minute ride, and then we get on the buses, and that was a nice little chance that I could take a nap on the bus. And so that was just you're on the bus for about 20 minutes, and then you're in the runner village, and I did not realize how huge the like the runner village was. I mean, it is like a little mini city. I mean, it's it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_10: 1:22:37

Great photo of the statue, Matt, that you put on Facebook.

SPEAKER_16: 1:22:40

All right, Laura, did you use planes, trains, or automobiles to get to the start? What was what was your journey?

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:45

Um, so I always heard if it's your first one and maybe your only one to take the ferry. Um, and I 10 out of 10 recommend the ferry. I um took this, as Matt said, you know, my hotel was right next to a subway, um, very easy to get on. It was a very peaceful subway stroll. Um, and then it lets you write out there. And um, Morton was there and was handing out more energy gels and handwritten notes. They had their um their team members wrote a thousand handwritten notes, and so they were handing out in Morton gel with a note, and and just it was an encouragement. And so I carried that note with me the whole time. Um, I got on the 730 ferry. Uh, it was a little um like herding cattle, getting everybody onto the ferry, but once you were on, there was so much space. I picked in outside, just enjoyed seeing New York, you know, and the whole ride over. Um, I'll tell you, the buses were extremely efficient. I don't know how many buses they had. It had to have been over 20 because I was I got in the number 19 line. But as they left, so they loaded them up, they packed all the buses in, they loaded them up. The second that last person got into the bus, the door closed and that bus was on its way. Once that last bus was gone, all of a sudden you saw the next set of empty buses coming in to start at number one. And it was just like that. I think we I had to wait maybe like two or three rows before I got on one, but it was quick and efficient, and the ride was, you know, it's like a 15-minute ride from the ferry to the start. And then there was um security, but each bus has its own security. So you didn't have to wait in line with all, let's say, 25 buses. It's you waited in line with just your bus and got through.

SPEAKER_16: 1:24:44

Something tells me maybe Myra has like a food sister or something like that. And she she moons moonlights uh at the New York City Marathon. That's awesome to hear.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:54

My favorite sign in Staten Island by Nike was the one that says, We'll cross that bridge when we go over it.

SPEAKER_16: 1:25:01

That's great. All right, Devin, what was your journey like?

SPEAKER_14: 1:25:05

Um, so I'm the only one who guessed who took the bus. Um good job picking the ferry. Um, so I just I took the 530 bus. I think I got into the start village at I'm gonna go with like eight something. Um so that probably answers that as to whether or not you should take the ferry. Because my start was like at 910. So it ended up being a little bit rushed. Um, and it was in fact like 20 buses trying to get through security. Um, so it took about 45 minutes, I think, to get through security. Um, so that was interesting. Um, but I was just afraid of taking the ferry because I was like, I don't know if it'll like make me like motion sick or something because I hadn't like taken a ferry before running a marathon ever. So I was trying to play it safe, but it worked out. I would probably take the ferry if I ever did it again.

SPEAKER_10: 1:25:57

I don't think many people have taken a ferry before running a marathon. It it may be unique to New York. I don't know. Maybe there's one the Pacific Northwest or something, but that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_12: 1:26:08

So we've gotten to the start line, um, which means that you guys were ready to start. So let's go and talk about each of your journeys. Grace, let's start with you. How did your journey of the New York City marathon go this time?

SPEAKER_11: 1:26:22

So um this was kind of a fun one for me because uh as I've mentioned, I've run this race before, and there are three different starts. Um they're very slight variations. It kind of depends. There's blue, orange, and pink. Blue and orange go over the top of the Verizona Bridge to start the race. Pink starts on the bottom level. Um, this was my first time starting in pink. A lot of people get kind of disappointed if they have to start on the bottom, but I was excited because I've done the other two before. Um and so I I will say anybody who gets pink, do not worry. It is still great. You still get great views, you can see the skyline. And there's kind of a solidarity to everybody running in pink because you know, when we passed mile one, there were lots of cheers and it really echoes because you're underneath the bridge. Um and I felt like I I don't know if this is real or just perceived, but it does feel like it's a little bit less steep going up pink. So um, so that there are pros and cons to each. I I think each one is great, and so don't worry about which one you get assigned to. Um so, in terms of the actual race, I was pretty honest with myself before I started this. I knew I didn't have the best training cycle, and so I just really kind of held back in the first um first half of the race. I got to see some friends, including our friend Doug, um, in in Park Slope. Um, and I always love running through Brooklyn because I used to live in a couple of different neighborhoods there. So it's fun for me to run through the places where I used to live. Um, I saw a bunch of friends and coworkers on the course um at different places. I love the the crowds always come out, they never disappoint. Um, you know, and you know that those last miles get tough. Um, that that climb up Fifth Avenue will humble you. Um, but it's all worth it when you turn into Central Park at Engineer's Gate. And for me, that's always really special because I do most of my runs in Central Park. And so it's like running, you know, a world major marathon, but it's also running in my backyard. So um, so that was a lot of fun. I got to to see my local run club there and was uh really, really happy with my finish time because I I had hoped to hit maybe 5.15, 520, and I ended up coming in at 5.13. So, you know, not my best time, but given where my fitness is, I was really happy with that.

SPEAKER_12: 1:28:43

All right. So, Matt, this was a first time um for you to do New York. How did your experience go?

SPEAKER_02: 1:28:50

It it was it was pretty incredible. The um so just like the start on the bridge. I I was in blue wave, so I was on on the top right, and just as you're walking up, like just seeing it, it's like, oh man, this this thing is a this thing's big, this is a long bridge. And uh, but it was really cool. The cannons go off, and you hear Frank Sinatra, New York, New York. That was I mean, it's like you you feel that it's something special you're you're doing. And uh so I I had my my goal was for this race was the PR because all my other marathons, all three of them had been at Disney World, so you know I'm stopping for characters and um Everest, you know, all the things that you do at Disney. And so my goal was anything, you know, sub four. That that was just just the goal. And so started off the first miles were pretty great. I kind of could tell I I uh took my the days before I toured New York City because it was my first time being there, so I got was getting like 30,000 steps a day. Don't don't recommend that and And so I could tell I was tired, but um Brooklyn was awesome. I also saw Doug. I mean, you don't realize how loud it's gonna be until you are just in it, and I mean it is loud, and so you know, those miles went by pretty quick. Uh getting the halfway point, it's it's going fine. About mile 15. I mean, things started I knew it was gonna be tough. I I I I thought my training was pretty good, but it was just I don't know, something about the it wasn't my my day, but kept pushing uh the Queensborough Bridge was that was something. Uh you just hear footsteps.

SPEAKER_10: 1:30:40

Yeah, we've heard about that before. That's there's no spectators there.

SPEAKER_02: 1:30:45

No, no, there's like there's there's like yeah, there's like one guy on like like the that's like works at the race or volunteers, and he's got like a little megaphone and maybe like sit say something. But other than that, it is just footsteps for you know a mile, mile and a half. And uh as you're exiting that, you can just kind of hear the the cheers. I is it first avenue? Is first avenue after that? Yeah. The first avenue was really tough for me. It is just the longest stretch of race, and you can see for forever. And I that's that's when uh things got really hard, and kept pushing, kept pushing, and finally got uh got through, and I was fighting a mental battle the whole time as far as if I wanted to like actually get a PR. I or I was gonna be a PR, but whether or not I was like gonna stay on track for sub four or not. And fought my way through Central Park. Okay, it's kind of mean. There's a lot of hills in there. Okay. But the crowds, the crowds got me through it. I mean, if it was not for all the spectators, I mean just thousands of people hollering, cheering. Um, I mean, it it was pretty dang cool. And they pushed me to the end, and I got in right at uh three three hours and uh 58 minutes, 24 seconds. So I was pretty stoked about that.

SPEAKER_10: 1:32:04

That's a PR?

SPEAKER_02: 1:32:06

It was a PR, yes, sir. And then one other thing I just wanted to mention, it was funny. Um I kept hearing people like it was in uh Brooklyn. People kept saying my name. I was like, go Matt, go Matt, go Matt. And I had my name on my bid, but it wasn't very big. I was like, no way people are like seeing this. And I like look behind me, and there's a guy, and he's got Matt, like big bold letters on his shirt. And I mean, he's right behind me. I like turn around, I was like, dude, that that's my name, too. He's like, Oh man, they're cheering for both of us, as though we ran like a mile together. I mean, they were just hollering Matt the whole time, but that that was a cool moment.

SPEAKER_16: 1:32:41

That is cool. Now, Matt, I have to imagine running the streets of New York City, you know, there are a lot of food carts um, you know, on the streets, and you know, I imagine some on the pathway. Uh, by any chance, did you stop for a pizza cone uh over the course of the 26.2 miles?

SPEAKER_02: 1:32:59

You know, I did not. I New York doesn't seem to have pizza cones. I've had pizza cones.

SPEAKER_10: 1:33:03

That's a crying shit. Come on.

SPEAKER_02: 1:33:07

It is. I you know, I looked for them. There's a lot of food carts, but there's none with with pizza cones. But uh, I did have some pizza in New York. This is you know, like I said, this is my first time in New York. So we me and my buddy that went, we were going all over the place doing all the New York things. But no pizza cones. They they they gotta add that.

SPEAKER_16: 1:33:26

All right, I I I have a business venture for you and I because one of my favorite New York vendor uh foods to get is like the halal food. So we should come up with with like a halal cone. We should do it. Just like some swarm, you know, swarma and some rice, and um we'll we'll make thousands at Run Disney. It's gonna be great. We'll we'll we'll we'll talk offline.

SPEAKER_02: 1:33:46

Probably should probably shouldn't eat it before a race, but no, no, no, definitely not.

SPEAKER_12: 1:33:50

I do have a quick question before we get on to the other ladies, but wanting to hit um a sub four time, did you find, especially in the beginning, when I know we've seen these videos and these pictures of all these people going across the bridge, did you find it hard to like maintain your pace, or was it pretty easy to like keep moving forward?

SPEAKER_02: 1:34:10

It was so like the first half, it was easy to keep moving forward for sure. It was hard to maintain a, I feel like a consistent pace because my watch was like all over the place. It was yeah, it was, I mean, and I clocked, it was uh 26.6, so it was ahead, you know, a good bit. Um, so that was hard, and it was easy up until uh honestly, about the last six miles, it got really hard to like. I I stopped what I did, my strategy was at every eight station, I I walked, you know, got a Gatorade in a water, then kept going. And those last three eight stations, I did not want to keep going.

SPEAKER_08: 1:34:51

But you do.

SPEAKER_12: 1:34:52

I was just curious. I've seen all those pictures. So, Laura, how did your experience go? I also am wondering from you. I know at Run Disney races we've run together before, and you do run, walk, run. Did you do that during the race as well? Maybe you can throw that into your story.

SPEAKER_01: 1:35:07

Absolutely. Yeah, so I felt really good um getting to the start line. Um, my training was, I would say I nailed it 85%. Um, and I felt really strong thanks to Coach Twiggs getting there. Um, the day was beautiful. I mean, you couldn't have asked for a better day. Uh, I think the highs was like high 50s, maybe 60, um, and sunny, and yeah, it was gorgeous. So as um Grace was, I was also pink, and I did have that initial, like, oh no, I'm not at the top. But then I thought about it, I was like, well, maybe my incline won't be so much because we're not going all the way to the top, or you know, we're just you know starting at the bottom. But when you're going over on the ferry and you see that bridge, it's very daunting looking because it's huge. But uh once we started and the cannon went off, um, you know, I crossed the start line and I waited about 30 seconds before I started my um timer, and I stayed to the right and I really felt comfortable after the first few like run walks. I was like, okay, as long as I put my hand up, I looked over, made sure no one was directly behind me. Um, I got very comfortable and was like, okay, I can do this. Um, I did hold back, uh, tried not to go out too fast, and I felt good on the bridge. Um, going into Brooklyn was awesome. They know how to party. Um, but unfortunately, somewhere between mile four and five, or somewhere around there, it was on a decline. Um, I got clipped. So I was thankfully holding a um water bottle in my left hand. And as I was slowly going down and realizing all of my time dreams were coming to a close, I put that hand down. And so my water bottle caught my fall, um, but my foot got cut under me. So there were people around me and going, oh my gosh, are you okay? And of course, you know, as runners do, you know, they make sure and help you up. And I, of course, the adrenaline's rolling, I'm good, I'm good. Um, but the second I put my left foot down, I knew I wasn't good. It felt like I hyperextended my big toe, um, which is exactly what I did because I got it checked out today. Um, so I was in a very dark place for a little bit, not knowing should I stop, should I keep going, is this gonna cause more damage? Um, the crowds were still amazing, uh, you know, calling out your name because I did wear my name on my shirt. And then I saw Tara and Doug and got hugs, and they told me just, you know, keep going and how amazing I'm doing and how proud they are. And um, so that slowly got me out of where I needed to go. And eventually I figured out how to place my foot so I wasn't in too much pain. Um, and about the halfway point, I found a good footing and kept going. Um, but yeah, the crowds were just amazing. I will say the water stops, the first one for the back of the pack, I was glad I had my own handheld because they couldn't keep up with how many people were coming through. So if you wanted water, a water cup, people were waiting for it. Um, so I ran through that one. And then also being I was wave five, so I was the last wave, didn't start till 11:30. Um, there was so much cup sludge. Um, and I read somewhere there was 220,000 pounds of like debris that they picked up off the road, which was crazy, but I can understand because going over some of that cup sludge, I was a little nervous about slipping and sliding. And then your feet stick for quite a bit afterwards. I mean, really sticking to the floor. Um, the things I saw on the course, lots of signs. There was a lot of six, seven between miles and seven. Um, a lot of signs that says um you run better than the government. Um and I what I wasn't prepared for is how many people hold out a tissue box. So many people were just holding a tissue box for you to grab a tissue. And um, one lady actually had a sign saying you don't need a runny nose. Um that was fun. And um even though it wasn't how I wanted to run, it was such an amazing experience. There were times that was a little overstimulating with the whistles and the cowbells. Um, I really enjoyed the Queensborough Bridge for that calm moment, like the quietness. I was okay with hearing my footfalls. Um, I really didn't feel fifth Ave that inclined. So I again props to my training because and all the hills. Um I felt good. And I was such a blubbering mess at the finish line. Um, the holler hypes that came in were amazing, the ones that I could hear, because sometimes the crowds were so loud you couldn't hear them all. And then um Tara was braving the subway connected with Lizzie, and I saw them a couple more times, and that just it was amazing to have you know people on the ground cheering for you and knowing that they're there. Um, and it was just yeah, it was a it was a great race. I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:40:45

Okay, Devin, you're the last one here, and this was your sixth star. So can you tell us about your race and your sixth star?

SPEAKER_14: 1:40:55

Absolutely. Um, so I also ended up starting in pink, which I was happy about because I uh re-injured my ankle in Berlin um at that, just like I don't know, a couple of months ago or something, however long ago that was. So I was happy to not have as much incline. Um, but then I did hurt it um, or it started really hurting around like 13 to 14 on the Pulaski Bridge. And so I was like, I'm not in my mind, I was like, I should probably not run anymore. But I was like, I'm never doing this again. So um I took Advil and I just kept going and it started working by like mile 16, and so that was like the Queensborough-ish bridge. So that was probably that one of the highlights because I was like, oh good, I'm not in like severe pain anymore. Um, and so from there it was just really just like wanting to finish and like not DNF. And I was like, okay, I have like Advil functioning for me, so I need to like run fast enough before it stops working because I have no more Advil on me. So my goal is just to like finish before the pain came back. Um, and so I was like really thrilled that it didn't hurt until I crossed the finish at like 327. So I was happy um to get like a BQ in uh what I called MMA territory, being from originally Boston. Um, and then they like you know whisked me away to get my medal, and then I proceeded to get lost, trying to get back to my hotel, but that was all really part of the experience, I think. Lots of road closures, but yeah, it was it was a great experience overall.

SPEAKER_10: 1:42:22

Devin, can you compare it to some of the other world majors?

SPEAKER_14: 1:42:26

Um, so it is a really cool start village like Boston. Um, Boston also has like a bus to get to. Uh the bus, there was no security in Boston, like you just kind of like get out and get in. Um, this was kind of like if Run Disney like made you take everything out of your pockets and not just walk through a security thing. And so it took like longer than TSA. Um yeah, this was like probably going through TSA at like um Hartsfield, Jackson or something.

SPEAKER_03: 1:42:54

So it was one of the things that New York is you can't wear a vest.

SPEAKER_14: 1:43:00

You can't wear, yeah, you can't wear a vest. I think you can't for Boston either, just it's a security thing, which I'd appreciate. You can wear a vest, but you can have bottles in the front, I believe. But they made you take like all of the things off. Like everyone was like dumping stuff out, like they were just going through. Like, I get the security part, but that part was similar, just having that like massive start village. I thought it was similar and it was well organized, tons of port-a-potties, more porta-potties than I've ever seen in my life. I hear it's second only to the Rose Bowl. Don't know why that's relevant, but that's that was a fun stat I learned while I was there. So kudos to them on their porta potty volume. Um, the race course, um, yeah, I mean, it's technically challenging. It's you're just constantly up and down and up and down. I don't, I didn't really feel like anything was flat. I remember being told like Brooklyn would be flat. I felt like there's a lot of down in Brooklyn and then some up and then a lot more down. And then likewise, first didn't really feel that much flat. It just seemed like a constant rolling. So definitely a challenging course.

SPEAKER_10: 1:43:55

What's the flattest world major?

SPEAKER_14: 1:43:57

I think it would probably I mean, I don't know if Berlin is considered one of the flattest. It was 80 degrees when I ran it and I was limping. So um I but I think that's technically the flattest. Tokyo felt really flat, Chicago felt really flat.

SPEAKER_16: 1:44:10

Speaking of the elevation of this course, this is something that we can chat about now that the four of you have proverbially crossed the uh the finish line in your stories. Here is I want to talk about this metal. It looks incredibly simple, and and we got a couple of friends holding it up right now. But what I love about this design, Matt, can you talk to us about because you and Laura just did the exact same thing, you turned it on its side. What is the significance of that?

SPEAKER_02: 1:44:38

So I I saw a uh uh Instagram reel on this, and I didn't know it initially, but it's so cool because um it's got basically the elevation changes. If you hold it sideways, you can see like all the hills of the court, you can see the bridge, you uh you can see all the hills and and everything. And I mean it's just a super simple but super amazing design, and it's probably my favorite metal I've ever gotten. And I mean it's just it's so cool. I don't know if anybody else has a better description or something else to add on it, but like just it's uh it's so it's so cool.

SPEAKER_10: 1:45:16

You know, you know what I thought it was, Greg? Hidden Mickey. That is pretty neat though. And I mean if it was my first world major, it would be my favorite medal too. But it is a it is a gorgeous medal, it really is. New York medal is very pretty, but they're all nice.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:36

So so did you all get them engraved the next day?

SPEAKER_11: 1:45:40

Yes. There are a couple of different options. They they have the the Roadrunners has an option where you can pay for it, and then there are a bunch of like other businesses, um Volvo, Nike, a couple of others that that offer it for I think for I think for free. Um so there there's there's a lot of like activations for for Metal Monday that you just kind of have to know where to look for.

SPEAKER_10: 1:46:03

Cool. There's one more thing about New York that I view as unique, and I've never run it, I've only seen photos, but uh I always see photos of people walking out of Central Park with the poncho or the the rain poncho that they give you to leave, and we're seeing some right now that are orange this year. Uh what was what was that like? It's a pretty long walk, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02: 1:46:30

Yeah, it's a very long one. So I I just thought about this. It almost feels you remember the march of the mylars that Disney used to have the start. Yeah. It feels like that, but after Disney Marathons. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_10: 1:46:44

So you can make the case at Disney that was a warm-up. That was seven-tenths of a mile. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:46:49

You could make the case that was a warm-up, but this man you're excited at at Disney at this, you're yeah, I mean, you're excited, but you're also your legs are dead and you think you're gonna die.

SPEAKER_16: 1:47:01

I mean, that's the one thing I always find interesting about this race because uh, I mean, from the spectating side of things from afar, I got incredibly frustrated with the New York Roadrunners app because it I mean, Alicia and I were talking all day on Sunday. That app was not working at all. Thankfully, someone put in the Discord chat that if you use the tracking via the web, then things were a lot better. And the thing that I always forget about New York is I mean, number one, they're awesome because there's literally a timing mat almost every single mile, which is great. So it like gives you like the most up-to-date pace. But the final tracking mat is not the finish line, it's the tracking mat that when you exit Central Park, it will give you an alert. So I think that's great in terms of meeting you know, family members and such. So, yeah, so it just goes to show uh I guess how much of a hike it is. Um, once you you know get your poncho and get out of the park, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01: 1:47:56

Talking about like numbers and having knowing people are there to spectate, it's almost worse than runner's math. Because Tara would like text me, she goes, I'm on 125th and fifth Ave or something like that. And trying to remember those numbers while running, and so I'd be like looking at my phone again, what I don't remember what street it is, and you know, at that point, I think we were like weaving in and out of somewhere, and I go, Where's fifth av? So yeah. Um, and I think Doug was the one that described it as the zombie walk at the end because everyone looks like a zombie, it does, you know, all in orange.

SPEAKER_16: 1:48:36

You speaking of our buddy Doug, uh, did anybody here attend the second annual Rise and Run meetup featuring the Will Run For podcast that had no host of Rise and Run at?

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:48

I did.

SPEAKER_16: 1:48:49

You did, Laura. Okay, how was that?

SPEAKER_01: 1:48:52

It was fantastic, it was so much fun. Um, you know, met up and got some good pizza and um just had a nice evening, relaxed. Um, so yeah, it was funny. And you know, we tried to, I didn't have a rise and run t-shirt, but Tara did, so we made sure I had my bracelet, so we tried to troll Michael. Um we did the best we could.

SPEAKER_16: 1:49:16

Excellent. Well, though I think the last thing we want to chat about here, but I think before we we wrap this up is I mean, the social media presence coming out of this race. I mean, I don't know about the rest of my co-host here. I had such bad FOMO, and even here on a Tuesday evening recording, my FOMO is still through the roof that I'm already researching how I can make this happen for next year. But some of my favorite videos, and and and Grace, I I want you to comment on this, is the the the fact that the number of people that are out there still cheering for those final finishers. I think I saw the video, the final finisher crossed at like 12:30 in the morning on Monday. Just you know, did you go back out yourself to cheer on or or or what what's what was uh your experience with all of that?

SPEAKER_11: 1:50:07

Yeah, so I've gone to final finishers before, and I I couldn't go last year because I had actually just moved. Um, but this year I really, really wanted to go back because it is uh incredibly inspiring and just so much fun. Um so the finish line stays open as long as everybody anybody who's moving forward is going to be allowed to finish. Um there is, you know, there's technically a sweep bus and they do reopen the roads, but everybody can move to the sidewalk and they can keep going. As long as they're moving forward, they are going to be allowed to finish. Um and so I think about 10 years ago, I I don't remember exactly, that people started forming this group. It's called Project Finish to come out and cheer those last finishers on. And it's grown exponentially. I mean, even since I was last there two years ago, it was there were way more people this year. They had um like light, um, like those glow sticks and everything, and and cowbells and and people had signs and and were coming out, and there was just lines of people in the finish line. Um, they they open there, there's heavy security getting to the finish line up until about 7:30 in the evening. Um, but then after that, it's pretty much open and anybody can come in and cheer for the final finishers. And I just, if you're ever, ever in New York City for Marathon weekend, I highly recommend coming out. Those people that have been out there for, you know, 10 hours or more, they they will truly inspire you and and um and and lift you up, and you'll have a blast. They have they have music, they have cheer, cheering and uh hosts out and everything. And it's just it's a lot of fun. And I I think I get way more out of going to it than than I'm able to give back to to those runners. And and I just hope that they know how much we we admire them and and think how inspiring they are.

SPEAKER_02: 1:51:57

I I also went to the final finish just for about 30, 40 minutes. Me and my buddy were there, and we saw about 10 people cross, and I mean they really take like time. Like uh like I basically an announcer will come out and like get their name and like walk or run with them to the finish line, and I mean the crowd just goes crazy for them, and it's really cool. The just the like the camaraderie on the course and just um amongst the runners was really cool. I met a lot of people, like people on the subway. We kind of you know, I followed a couple of people on Instagram and we chatted after the race. In the corrals, I I met this uh one girl from London, and you know, we chatted for about an hour just sitting around waiting for the start because you you do wait for a while. And then in the corrals as we're walking to the bridge, I was talking with uh another guy and a girl, and he was he's this was his fourth New York, and he's from New York, and um he was just you know giving me me and this other girl like tips and tricks along the course, like don't start too fast, make sure you hold back as you're going downhill on the bridge. And then, you know, after the fact, walking around the city, there's not as many, but there's you know a bunch of people wearing their medals, and you can just you know say congratulations. And a lot of times when I say congratulations, that they didn't speak English back, but they like you know gave me the head nod or like thumbs up or something. It was it was really cool.

SPEAKER_10: 1:53:26

Outstanding.

SPEAKER_01: 1:53:27

I just love to just shout out my running Ohana. There was a sign at the very end in Central Park that says ohana means no one runs alone. And I definitely was not running alone at all during that day between the holler hypes, my messages from my peeps, you know, near and far, and just everyone on the course. It was it was very inspiring and amazing to be there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:53:50

So are you gonna do it again?

SPEAKER_01: 1:53:52

If I get lucky through the lottery, sure.

SPEAKER_11: 1:53:55

I'll go back.

SPEAKER_03: 1:53:56

Anyone else?

SPEAKER_11: 1:53:57

I will, but I I do nine plus one. So I I think I'm gonna take next year off. Um I've I've been doing quite a few, I've done three back-to-back marathon cycles, and my body is is telling me that maybe after Dopey I should take a break, but um I will definitely be back. It's just a question of time.

SPEAKER_03: 1:54:14

So great. So real quick, uh for the people that live local, uh go over the nine plus one.

SPEAKER_11: 1:54:19

Sure. So nine plus one is a program that New York Roadrunners runs where if you run nine of their qualifying races in a calendar year and then volunteer at one other race for a qualifying volunteer spot, not for not every race and not every volunteer spot qualifies, then you get guaranteed entry into the next year's uh marathon as long as you're a member of New York Roadrunners. Um, and so it's a lot of people who live locally. That's how we um how that's that's how we get into the marathon.

SPEAKER_02: 1:54:52

I would love to go back. Uh you know, I have I hope to maybe one day do the uh the all the majors, so we will see. Maybe maybe New York is one I come back and do uh after I've conquered the rest of those.

SPEAKER_10: 1:55:05

So you gonna do any more, Devin?

SPEAKER_14: 1:55:07

Um I'm qualified again for Boston, so I'll be doing that in April. Um I'm probably gonna stick to Boston and Chicago. I really like those courses a lot. Um, but I was gonna say one thing that was really cool and inspiring during this race is I got to run part of it um sort of like unknowingly until it like I figured out um sort of as I was passing. But I ran with uh Paralympian for part of the way, um Allison Truett, uh a swimmer. Oh wow, um, who's like attacked by a shark. And so it was kind of cool seeing her like crew kind of together. And I was like, it's you know, runner math is hard. And I'm like, I know that person, like who is that person? Like, figured it out miles later. And so it's just cool. You don't, I haven't really had an opportunity to run with someone so inspiring before.

SPEAKER_10: 1:55:49

So you I find all four of you inspiring finishing a world major. That's impressive. And uh and thanks for taking the time to join us. Real quick, I'll go around the room. What's next and when do we see you at Disney again? Matt, I'll start with you.

SPEAKER_02: 1:56:05

I uh have uh I'm doing the Goofy Challenge coming up in uh January, and that's the only one I got on the schedule right now. Um I have a little bit of FOMO. I've done dopey the last three years in a row. So just doing goofy this year.

SPEAKER_10: 1:56:19

That's plenty. That's plenty. Yeah. Uh Jeff Galloway, I've done five dopey. Jeff Galloway gave me permission to retire. So I give you permission to take a break after three. Grace, how about you?

SPEAKER_11: 1:56:29

Um as I mentioned, I'm doing dopey in January, and then I swear I'm taking a little time off from marathons. I'll also be at Princess. Um, and then uh I will be running races locally for nine plus one, et cetera, et cetera.

SPEAKER_10: 1:56:43

Um Devin.

SPEAKER_11: 1:56:46

Dopey number four.

SPEAKER_10: 1:56:47

Okay. All right, we'll see you there.

SPEAKER_01: 1:56:49

Boston and Chicago.

SPEAKER_10: 1:56:50

Yeah, cool. And Laura.

SPEAKER_01: 1:56:53

Um, once the foot heals, Sam and I have a few 5K's coming up in the season, and then I'll be there for Goofy.

SPEAKER_10: 1:57:00

Laura, quit quit letting them meet you, okay?

SPEAKER_01: 1:57:02

Well, I don't think I have a choice right now.

SPEAKER_10: 1:57:07

My friends, thank you. Thank you, and uh once again, congratulations. But thanks for taking the time to join us and tell us about this exciting world major event. We'll see you later. I want to thank our friends for joining us to tell us about the New York City Marathon. We had other friends there. I do not want to ignore them. Auger Wall was there. As was, we had two Ashleys, uh, Ashley B and Ashley W. Ashley W PR'd by about 40 minutes and got her first star. It was awesome seeing so many Disney friends out on the course in their Run Disney attire in New York. Christopher finished his first world major. That's a PR. Ran this one for tunnel tunnels to towers. Uh lost three of his friends and co-workers in a light of duty crash last November, so this one was for them. Usually runs intervals, but the energy coming from everywhere on this one made him want to just run, so he was able to run the first ten miles before starting 30-30 intervals. Uh walked, hobbled away with a one-hour and one minute PR. His friend Allison also ran this race and killed it as well. Lizzie came all the way up from Philly to cheer him both along with their significant others. Courtney was at New York, first non Disney marathon, and first world major. We heard from Grace. Haley was there. Haley said a 28-minute PR. Jackie ran her first world major, been a dream of hers, even since before she started running. She ran with Team for Kids, a great charity with a lot of wonderful perks. Got to march in with the Team for Kids in the opening ceremony. Uh it says nothing can prepare you for the crowds and the cheers of running through New York City. Tough course, but the people carry you through it. She finished with a 30-minute PR and a sub-six hour marathon. Jenna was there. Jen. Jen finished uh Marine Corps last week and knocked out this course. Just five minutes over her PR. So marathon number nine was a lot of fun for Jen. Jennifer did her first world major. John was there, said Brooklyn was one of the largest block parties he'd ever seen. Course is tough. The hills are no joke. Thank goodness he trained in the hills in South Carolina. Day went as planned, not only finished his first world major, but got a 23 minute PR. Kazay did her first world major. We heard from Laura. Lori was there. Lisa, her first. Non-run Disney marathon. First world majors. Got pickles from strangers. Didn't hear about the pickles from our friends. A lot of high fives. Got to pet all the dogs, danced in the streets, had the best diet coke at mile 23. Celebrated with dinner with her support crew at Carmines. Toenails are questionable at the moment. You know, I've never lost a toenail in a race. How about you guys?

SPEAKER_12: 2:00:31

Not in a race, but I mean after that. Yeah. Many times. I've never had that problem.

SPEAKER_10: 2:00:40

I don't maybe it's because I I don't lift my feet up, I don't run very fast. We all need to see Bob's podiatrist. Right.

SPEAKER_03: 2:00:47

Yeah. Yeah. He's manicurist. Oh, that too, yes.

SPEAKER_10: 2:00:51

Pedicurist, John. Pedicurist, yeah. You know, I actually do before uh the marathons. I do go to get a pedicure. And I think it's not a bad idea. Uh let us see. Wrapping up here. Stephanie was there. Stephanie did Marine Corps, and she did York City. And Michael from the Will Run for group was there. Congratulations, all, in New York. Let's continue on in the Camden, Philadelphia area. Yvette is back for her second run of the weekend, the Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge. You run over the Ben Franklin Bridge from Camden to Philly, and then back again along the waterfront of the Delaware River. The medal's got Ben Franklin on it, of course. You know what she says? The best part of this race was first time using Holler Hype. We talked Hong Kong Disneyland. It was 10K also. Luciana did the Pixar 10K and the Frozen 3K. So four different races, different distances over in Hong Kong over the weekend. In Alpharetta, Georgia, Dylan ran the Alphoretta women's half marathon or 5K, I'm not sure which. The hot chocolate races are starting to show up. We got hot chocolate races all over the country. They're kind of neat if you've never done one before. I did one in Tampa. It doesn't get very cold, but we had a hot chocolate. Usually a lot of nice swag at the hot chocolate races. Mostly roads, a lot of room to maneuver, but even the last third on the lake front path wasn't too bad. Race area was easy to get around. The hot chocolate finisher mug was delicious. So if they got one by you, uh Jennifer would recommend it. And so would I. Didn't quite make her goal time, in part thanks to taking a brief stop to check on a potential medical emergency on the course. Divya is a physician, so thank you for doing that, Divi. Remind me to run with you whenever I get a chance. Luckily, that person turned out fine. Met a dopey runner before starting the race and overheard other runners talking about dopey while in the start corrals in this race in Harrisburg. The Oulala hot chocolate run, 5K, 10K half in Geneva, Illinois. Caitlin said it was a beautiful morning. Lots of chocolate treats at the end. Best parts was it was just a five-minute walk to her apartment. So she was able to skip Corral P and use her own facilities. That's always nice. Vicky did the 10K at this event. Ileana was in Huntington, West Virginia, Virginia, on the campus of Marshall University for the Marshall University half. Second time doing this one, Drizzly, but surprisingly not freezing at this time of year. Now uh Ilyana is a, I think, high school teacher, but she ran into some of her former students who are currently students at Marshall, and they came and cheered her on at the end. That's nice. Her husband and kids were there, tracking her, sending her all the good vibes. The highlight is always finishing on the football field, carrying a football. I don't know if she brought her own football or if it was provided, but she did it. Said a PR of two hours and ten minutes. That is a fine pace, Ileana. Good for a Disney proof of time. Plenty good for a Disney proof of time. Sarah was in Louisville, Kentucky for the half marathon there. Cold rainy day. Course was hilly, pretty secluded. Most of it was on a local trail system. Gorgeous, but no crowd support. If it's a rail trail, like I think it probably was, yeah, there's no real room for spectators there. She battled some nasty vertigo through this one, but pushed through and had the best support as she cruised to the finish line, saw her boys cheering her on. Dan and his daughter were in Innsdale or Hindsdale, Illinois, for the Love Like Sean Family 5K. This race is named after a young man, Sean Richards, local boy, who was tragically hit by a car and killed a couple years ago before he entered his freshman year of high school. Dan was completing his first goofy simulation yesterday, but his daughter decided at the last minute that she wanted to do the race on Sunday, so he signed them both up. He ran it as super easy using short intervals, but she, on the other hand, had different ideas and ran it faster. She says she didn't run that fast, but she managed to finish sixth of 25 in the 11 to 14-year-old category, and she's at the younger end of that category. 18th out of 174 overall females, pretty good for not that fast, eh? Jake was in Cape Cod, Massachusetts for the Falmouth in the fall run. This is a seven-mile course. He liked it so much in August, they decided to come back for the fall running. Same course. 1,500 runners this time instead of the 10,000 that were there before. Much more laid back. Beautiful fall day in New England. Must be one of the most gorgeous oceanfront courses around up there in Fallman. Shaved almost nine minutes off of his August time, picking up his speed in the last three miles and finished just a little over hour two. So that's a PR for the seven-mile distance. Celebrated in the most New England way with a cider donut and a cup of clam chowder at the post-race party.

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Bob, you didn't say it right. Allie's going to be disappointed. Chowder? There you go.

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Chowda. Yeah. I'm trying to picture a guy dipping a cider donut into a cup of clam chowder. Glad you enjoyed it, Jake. That's cool. All right, let's go. Our man in South Florida, Robbie. I got a chance to see Robbie at uh at uh Wanidon. That was nice. He did the United with the Blue 5K in Lake Mary. Small race in support of fallen and injured law enforcement personnel. A nice cold Central Florida morning. Cold meaning it was probably 65, but this start. Flat course on a walking trail in the neighborhood. In Spencerport, New York, Amy did the barbecue bash quarters. Kind of interesting. A looped course, so you could run a quarter marathon, a half marathon, three quarters of a marathon, or a marathon. Amy had 12 miles on a training calendar, so she decided to do two loops for a half. The race had, because of all those distances, and they're all in the same area, the race had a generous seven and a half hour cutoff time. Of course, it was a lot hillier than she expected. She said she'd been taking lessons from Jack. Jack's not here to defend herself, but Amy didn't look up the course elevation. Anyway, beautiful day for a run, and as you might expect from the name of the race, there's barbecue at the finish. Let's see, the inaugural Santa Clarita Trail Race. A 10K Mark ran this one. Took a tumble mile two, leaving, as he put it, some DNA on the course. Kind of a nasty cut, looks like on the back of his leg. Still had a fun time, though, and finished this 10K. And we wrap up the race report in Connecticut. The Stonington Vineyards Wine Turkey Trot. Sue did this one. Tough cross-country course, but beautiful New England fall day. Had a great time meeting up with lots of other 169ers from Connecticut. Cute shirt, great metal, glass of wine at the end. There we have it, friends. That's the race report for episode 215. Congratulations to all of our rise and runners. Alright, no Zoom this week. We'll be back together again next week. Training miles are long. I read them at the beginning. I forget what they were, but I know they're long. Hang in there, talked about it a couple times. This is this is the tough part. Training miles are getting long. You can't quite see the end yet, but it's all going to be worth it. We'll be back together again in January. But until then, happy running.

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