August 30, 2025 • 18 mins
This is our recovery run, where we go over all the moments from the week where we intentionally made time for ourselves and each other… however this week has been a huge logistical challenge, but it ends with a hard earned finish line and a lot of celebrating.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome everyone to this Saturday edition of Morning Run. We'd
like to call it our recovery Run. It is Saturday,
August thirtieth, Amy roboc here alongside TJ. Holmes, and this
is the time of the week where we talk about
what we did to give ourselves a beat, to give
ourselves a break from all of the stress and craziness
(00:23):
that our Morning runs and our lives actually unfold each
and every day. So yeah, it's about being intentional, about unplugging,
about taking time for yourself, taking time for your relationship.
And so by doing this podcast, we hope to inspire you,
but we also try to keep ourselves accountable.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How we doing this week, Babe?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Not great, But it's been good stuff. It's been fun stuff.
We just haven't you know. It's the rest. We haven't
gotten the proper rest. That's man, that's going to be
on my tombstone, right.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
He only slept, If only I could have slept more.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But yeah, we just had some travel involved this week
and we've been all over and my goodness, the girls,
we've been a lot of parenting lately.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well. So the cool thing about this week to me
is that it has marked the end of.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The summer of daughter.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So we are now on a bit of a retreat.
Now I say a retreat because this is kind of
a maybe an experiment of sorts, because we are on vacation. Technically,
technically we are on vacation, but take issue with that.
This is a work run fun getaway is how I
would describe it. It's a work run, fun getaway. We
(01:34):
are actually overseas, and so the cool thing about this
is that the time change has been kind to awesome.
We're just kind of leaning into it where I actually,
I know you might not have been sleeping as well,
but I have been getting for the last two nights
in a row, seven plus hours a night of sleep
because morning run is more like afternoon run where we are, and.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I have not been getting the same amount of sleep.
I've been up later and I've been up earlier. It's typical,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You watched me fault. You said you watched me store
last night.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, okay, and then you left me while I was
still sleeping in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, all those things happened. So but I feel fine.
I feel good, I feel strong, I feel it's always
fun traveling with you, and it's fun checking out a
new place. I take issue with vacation because we happen
to be somewhere, at least in my mind, you cannot
vacation somewhere where you need a coat and that this,
(02:34):
So this doesn't count the.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Vacation, even though we're in a hotel in a storied
city yep, and are having a blast while we're working.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So it's cold, it's out. If you cannot be in
shorts and a tank top in said location, you are
not vacationing.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So this is our first kid free getaway since Memorial Day.
We did have a little bit of a getaway Memorial Day. Yeah,
we did a quick little lake get away in Memorial Day.
And then since then the entire summer, it has all
been about the girls.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What about this year? Have we not done as? Have
we not flown anywhere together? No? We went to Vegas
for your for my birthday?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes, so, but this so this marks This is a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
This is marking like both of my daughters came back
to live with me, which I think is going to
be I hope is going to be a one and
done situation. It was it was bittersweet because I knew
it was the last time us three girls would live together.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But that ship is now.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
More better than or sweet.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's both.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I think it's equal parts because yeah, because it was hard.
There were hard moments when you have three adult women
living together in one house with different priorities and different
ways of living. Yes, and yet one person still paying
for all of it. Yeah, there's some bitterness there.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
We couldn't keep rosecco or toilet paper in the house
for three months.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That's actually true, even scary all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But yeah, so now this marks this time where yes,
Analysa is off to college, but Apa has moved out
for real, for good. So we we could say we're
now on this week to start focusing towards one another.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We haven't gotten the chance to do that yet though.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It is so annoying. It annoys me so much that
we sit in the same room for hours and act
like we don't know each other. And we do that
because I say that, because we're sitting quietly, we're staring
at a screen, we're working, we're focused on something. Sometimes
you are texting somebody, you're texting our producers and whatnot,
and I'm getting the text in the next room, like, are.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You sending stuff right now, I'm like, yes, I am.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That thing, and it just it drives me absolutely not,
And I'm just as guilty of not recognizing the blessing
of first and foremost. I am with you, I am
with the person I love. I am with my life partner.
I'm sitting here with you, and we have.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Work to do, a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Versus right now, I'm at work and she happens to
be here right As a different mindset, sometimes I have
this is just fun. What if I just take this
as I get to hang out with the person I
love and just talk shit into a microphone. That's a
good time. But if I have the attitude, Okay, we
(05:22):
gotta work, we gotta do this, it's it's a total mindset.
But I have and we have failed in a durassical.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Phrase, right, So we're still working on that balance.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But it's funny because when people when you say you're
getting away and you're going somewhere and you're working the
entire time you're on vacation. That's one thing, But what
about if you also made a decision to take a
to take time away and work the entire time, but
also add to that running a half marathon.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, that sounds fun.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Should we say where we are though, because we are
running an official half marathon? Not yet?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Maybe after the fact, yes, wait, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Say I don't want to end up in an ambulance
or something in it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So yes, we traveled far to run a half marathon,
and that is actually happening later today.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This is a very unique experience for us.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So we say we're gonna unplug now because actually we
are wrapping up our work for the week, and so
I hope today Saturday and all day tomorrow we actually
just have fun and we don't work because we've prepped
our feed so that we've got podcasts for everyone to
listen to throughout the weekend. But we hopefully will be
able to unplug. And it all, honestly, is going to
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begin when we prep for this half marathon, which starts
normal runs, and any runners out there will know it's
the first thing in the morning. You wake up seven am.
Star time pretty much is standard, and that way you
get the coolest weather, but you will also start your
day with the run. That's how a lot of folks
do it because it kind of affects what you eat
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everything like how you sleep, what you eat, your level
of fatigue, like you don't want to go halfway through
the day and then start running right or what do
you eat.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm still trying to figure this out.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But this race starts at three point thirty in the
afternoon and it is throwing me.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Is it throwing you? I'm not sure what to expect.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's the thing on this trip I'm looking for. To most,
I am so excited. I am. I'm excited to test
out this foot see if it holds up. I'm excited
to run around a city where we're essentially going to
get the best tour of a new place that you
can get, which is to run thirteen miles all the
way around it, which is what we're about to do.
So I am this is the highlight of the trip
(07:30):
for me. This is what I'm looking for to most,
and you please stop calling this vacation. I have not
worn a T shirt outside.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, But and I know we have this conversation too,
and it's runners have very specific preferences when it comes
to the perfect conditions for running, and my preference is
the cooler the better. In fact, my best half marathon
I have ever run was the coldest half marathon I
believe on record in New York City, where it was
(08:01):
a sub freezing half marathon from start to finish, and
the real field temperatures, the windshills did not get out
of the teams.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And I had the best run of my life.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And I once I remember, had the worst run of
my life race or practice run, folks, The worst run
of my life that made me want to literally quit running.
Was the same frickin' race she's talking about. Is the
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best one she's ever had. You all, that is not
a joke, the same race we had. It was her
best and was my absolute worst experience.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes, and then flip it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And when it's super hot, you are thriving, and I
am absolutely dying on the vine. I mean, if it's
over seventy degrees, I start to get stressed because I
know my body is gonna get hot. Now, a half marathon, no,
but a full marathon over the temperature of seventy degrees
that gives me nightmares because I just my body can't
cool down.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Sixty five to sixty seven, that's my sweet spot in
the half marathon. Sixty five or sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, do you know what the high is tomorrow, babe,
sixty six?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Boom boom?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Is it really yes?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The high tomorrow is sixty six yes, so to me, yes,
it's a little cold in the morning and it doesn't
really get to be as hot as you'd like it
on vacation. But tomorrow, I mean sorry today, sorry today
for this half marathon. Today is going to be the
perfect weather day for this half marathon, so I hope
we can lean into that and have an incredible run today,
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which is so strange again to start the race at
three point thirty in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'm even more excited. I didn't realize the weather was
going to be right smack dab in the middle of
my perfect temperatures.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
All right, so we've got the race to look forward
to later today. But I think to cap off our
recovery run and the week that this is going to
set up for us in terms of more intentional leaning
in on what we want to do and celebrating us
and finding those moments. Well, I can't wait to share
with you what we're going to do to celebrate crossing
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(11:15):
run for August thirtieth, where we're actually getting ready to
go on well a lot more than a recovery run.
We're about to go on a thirteen point one mile run,
a half marathon here in this city.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
That we have traveled to to relax. How relax do
you feel, Vabe.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You know it is stressful, and again, this recovery run
is for us to I mean, we try to give
some advice, some tips, or even some inspiration for making
sure you carve out time. We just haven't done a
very good job this week. The stress has come from
trying to do the job somewhere else where. You also
(11:54):
try to enjoy where you are right so it's not
even a matter. We have the same amount of time
in the day as we do back in New York,
but we're trying to run out the door to go
check out the sites. We're trying to go to this
new restaurant. We're trying to do all these things. So
that part has been awfully, it's felt stressful. It hasn't
felt relaxing just yet.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But that is going to change once we.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Cross that finished across the finish line for this half
marathon later today, and we have plans. First of all,
we're going to find a great restaurant. I think that's
going to be such a great meal tonight when you
and I can just look at each other, undivided attention,
just you and me, no work, no daughters. No, Oh
my god, we have to run a race tomorrow. No,
(12:39):
it's all the sense of accomplishment and the fact that
we did it together is going to hit us.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But to celebrate, we have a big day planned for Sunday.
We are going to a museum. And you don't typically
like to go to museums. Ever we travel. I think
I always go because I feel like I should. I'm
kind of like an obligatory museum goer. There are things
that you I feel like like when I went to Florence,
(13:07):
I felt like I had to see David. When we
went to Florence, you were like, I'm good. When I
went to Rome, I felt like I had to see
the Sistine Chapel, and and you said, yeah, I feel
like I know what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So you're a little bit more extreme than me.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Extreme. I like to just keep it pushing. I'm not
a I'm not a sites guy.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Have you gone to the Louver when you go to Paris?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I walked by it because it looks cool from the outside,
But you.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Didn't go see the Mona, Lisa.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I think it was closed when I went.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay, see here's the deal. I've already seen a lot
of these museums. So if you say you don't want
to go, I am not going to push.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I am just not the guy. I'm not a I'm
not an excrusion guy. I'm not a let's go get
a ticket and get in line guy. I want to
walk up and down and see the sites. I want
to those stone streets.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You are anti tour guide. You don't even want the
idea of you being in a tour is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I like bus, not I don't want to be enough.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Bus, but I don't mind having a guide explain what
you're looking at and what the history is behind it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
But you have zero, zero desire.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
But you know my whatever it is about me, I
just like being on my schedule. I don't like I
don't even want to wait for you to finish the
answer about the history of this building. I've heard enough,
let's go move. But he keeps talking. That's why I
don't like tour guides, and that's why I certainly can
you imagine a tour group? I would explode if people
(14:32):
keep raising their hands. Well, can you tell me about
the first the first friar who was assigned to. No,
that's what you're hilarious.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, So we've established for anyone who didn't know that
you are not a museum.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Not a museum.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And I have not pushed the issue because there hasn't
been a museum that I really wanted to go to
that I thought was worth like actually checking this offer.
I'm like, know that I'm actually getting I'm asking you
to do something I know you don't want to do.
So that has changed because tomorrow we are going to
a museum.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Are you excited?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I am looking forward to it because I know how
excited you are. And again, you've been talking about this
for a while, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yes, Okay, So this is a museum that pays homage
to and again, we don't want to give away where
we are yet, we'll do it soon enough. But one
of the best selling popular music groups in the history.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Of recorded music.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yes, this is a museum about this group and this
group and I go way back. I have so many
amazing memories of sitting in front of my dad's eight
track stereo and playing this music ad nauseum and then
following along and finding the lyrics, and my dad, who
is such a patient man who didn't raise his voice
(15:54):
very often, but I used to drive him to his
wits end singing these songs.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So I am so.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Excited to go to this museum tomorrow, and I'm just
really happy that you've agreed to come. And it's just
going to be a fun way for us to have
some fun, to enjoy something that we would never ever
normally witness or attend, and do it with the wonderful
race behind us.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm excited that you're excited about it. Obviously, this is
not this group is not my jam. There are other
groups and other music you've introduced me to that I
am more in line with this one. I just don't get.
I don't get, I don't like. It's just not my
coup of tea. I respect the hell out of it
what they've been able to do, but I just this
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is so I'm very curious to see this stuff tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
What are you going to ask me to go see
or do at some point that I have zero interest
in and that you will be really excited to show me.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
A basketball game?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I like basketball game.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's not hard, and I'm trying to think of what
you like that I would not be that interesting no,
but this.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Isn't a thing. It's not like this is a hobby
of yours. No, this is a one off thing. Oh no,
this is fun. Sorry. I think the hiking is the
only consistent thing that just says it's not my jam,
I don't appreciate that, and that is something that you
would like to do frequently. That. But other than that,
we don't. We don't have those kind of hobbies that
it's true split us apart. Yeah, and if this is
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a one off, this is a one off, I can
obviously what I'm gonna say. You'll be fine, oh with that. Oh,
this is fun. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We're gonna have a blast and so yes, and we'll
share some some photos online.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Oh yeah, they're gonna be a whole document dump about
this strip.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
All right. Well, anyway, we hope that well, at least
our intention will inspire you. And you know, we can
all relate the fact that we don't always get it
right and we don't always figure out how to prioritize
that time that we need to preserve for ourselves and
for the ones we love, and to not always be
focused on work and duty and what we have to do.
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But let's find time to do things we want to do.
So thank you for listening to us on this Saturday
morning run. On this recovery run, I made Roebuck alongside
t J.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Holmes.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Can't wait to update y'all real soon.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Have a great day.
Welcome everyone to this Saturday edition of Morning Run. We'd
like to call it our recovery Run. It is Saturday,
August thirtieth, Amy roboc here alongside TJ. Holmes, and this
is the time of the week where we talk about
what we did to give ourselves a beat, to give
ourselves a break from all of the stress and craziness
(00:23):
that our Morning runs and our lives actually unfold each
and every day. So yeah, it's about being intentional, about unplugging,
about taking time for yourself, taking time for your relationship.
And so by doing this podcast, we hope to inspire you,
but we also try to keep ourselves accountable.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How we doing this week, Babe?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Not great, But it's been good stuff. It's been fun stuff.
We just haven't you know. It's the rest. We haven't
gotten the proper rest. That's man, that's going to be
on my tombstone, right.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
He only slept, If only I could have slept more.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But yeah, we just had some travel involved this week
and we've been all over and my goodness, the girls,
we've been a lot of parenting lately.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well. So the cool thing about this week to me
is that it has marked the end of.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The summer of daughter.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So we are now on a bit of a retreat.
Now I say a retreat because this is kind of
a maybe an experiment of sorts, because we are on vacation. Technically,
technically we are on vacation, but take issue with that.
This is a work run fun getaway is how I
would describe it. It's a work run, fun getaway. We
(01:34):
are actually overseas, and so the cool thing about this
is that the time change has been kind to awesome.
We're just kind of leaning into it where I actually,
I know you might not have been sleeping as well,
but I have been getting for the last two nights
in a row, seven plus hours a night of sleep
because morning run is more like afternoon run where we are, and.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I have not been getting the same amount of sleep.
I've been up later and I've been up earlier. It's typical,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You watched me fault. You said you watched me store
last night.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, okay, and then you left me while I was
still sleeping in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, all those things happened. So but I feel fine.
I feel good, I feel strong, I feel it's always
fun traveling with you, and it's fun checking out a
new place. I take issue with vacation because we happen
to be somewhere, at least in my mind, you cannot
vacation somewhere where you need a coat and that this,
(02:34):
So this doesn't count the.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Vacation, even though we're in a hotel in a storied
city yep, and are having a blast while we're working.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So it's cold, it's out. If you cannot be in
shorts and a tank top in said location, you are
not vacationing.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So this is our first kid free getaway since Memorial Day.
We did have a little bit of a getaway Memorial Day. Yeah,
we did a quick little lake get away in Memorial Day.
And then since then the entire summer, it has all
been about the girls.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What about this year? Have we not done as? Have
we not flown anywhere together? No? We went to Vegas
for your for my birthday?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes, so, but this so this marks This is a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
This is marking like both of my daughters came back
to live with me, which I think is going to
be I hope is going to be a one and
done situation. It was it was bittersweet because I knew
it was the last time us three girls would live together.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But that ship is now.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
More better than or sweet.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's both.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I think it's equal parts because yeah, because it was hard.
There were hard moments when you have three adult women
living together in one house with different priorities and different
ways of living. Yes, and yet one person still paying
for all of it. Yeah, there's some bitterness there.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
We couldn't keep rosecco or toilet paper in the house
for three months.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That's actually true, even scary all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But yeah, so now this marks this time where yes,
Analysa is off to college, but Apa has moved out
for real, for good. So we we could say we're
now on this week to start focusing towards one another.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We haven't gotten the chance to do that yet though.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It is so annoying. It annoys me so much that
we sit in the same room for hours and act
like we don't know each other. And we do that
because I say that, because we're sitting quietly, we're staring
at a screen, we're working, we're focused on something. Sometimes
you are texting somebody, you're texting our producers and whatnot,
and I'm getting the text in the next room, like, are.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You sending stuff right now, I'm like, yes, I am.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That thing, and it just it drives me absolutely not,
And I'm just as guilty of not recognizing the blessing
of first and foremost. I am with you, I am
with the person I love. I am with my life partner.
I'm sitting here with you, and we have.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Work to do, a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Versus right now, I'm at work and she happens to
be here right As a different mindset, sometimes I have
this is just fun. What if I just take this
as I get to hang out with the person I
love and just talk shit into a microphone. That's a
good time. But if I have the attitude, Okay, we
(05:22):
gotta work, we gotta do this, it's it's a total mindset.
But I have and we have failed in a durassical.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Phrase, right, So we're still working on that balance.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But it's funny because when people when you say you're
getting away and you're going somewhere and you're working the
entire time you're on vacation. That's one thing, But what
about if you also made a decision to take a
to take time away and work the entire time, but
also add to that running a half marathon.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, that sounds fun.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Should we say where we are though, because we are
running an official half marathon? Not yet?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Maybe after the fact, yes, wait, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Say I don't want to end up in an ambulance
or something in it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So yes, we traveled far to run a half marathon,
and that is actually happening later today.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This is a very unique experience for us.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So we say we're gonna unplug now because actually we
are wrapping up our work for the week, and so
I hope today Saturday and all day tomorrow we actually
just have fun and we don't work because we've prepped
our feed so that we've got podcasts for everyone to
listen to throughout the weekend. But we hopefully will be
able to unplug. And it all, honestly, is going to
(06:30):
begin when we prep for this half marathon, which starts
normal runs, and any runners out there will know it's
the first thing in the morning. You wake up seven am.
Star time pretty much is standard, and that way you
get the coolest weather, but you will also start your
day with the run. That's how a lot of folks
do it because it kind of affects what you eat
(06:53):
everything like how you sleep, what you eat, your level
of fatigue, like you don't want to go halfway through
the day and then start running right or what do
you eat.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm still trying to figure this out.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But this race starts at three point thirty in the
afternoon and it is throwing me.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Is it throwing you? I'm not sure what to expect.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's the thing on this trip I'm looking for. To most,
I am so excited. I am. I'm excited to test
out this foot see if it holds up. I'm excited
to run around a city where we're essentially going to
get the best tour of a new place that you
can get, which is to run thirteen miles all the
way around it, which is what we're about to do.
So I am this is the highlight of the trip
(07:30):
for me. This is what I'm looking for to most,
and you please stop calling this vacation. I have not
worn a T shirt outside.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, But and I know we have this conversation too,
and it's runners have very specific preferences when it comes
to the perfect conditions for running, and my preference is
the cooler the better. In fact, my best half marathon
I have ever run was the coldest half marathon I
believe on record in New York City, where it was
(08:01):
a sub freezing half marathon from start to finish, and
the real field temperatures, the windshills did not get out
of the teams.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And I had the best run of my life.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And I once I remember, had the worst run of
my life race or practice run, folks, The worst run
of my life that made me want to literally quit running.
Was the same frickin' race she's talking about. Is the
(08:34):
best one she's ever had. You all, that is not
a joke, the same race we had. It was her
best and was my absolute worst experience.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes, and then flip it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And when it's super hot, you are thriving, and I
am absolutely dying on the vine. I mean, if it's
over seventy degrees, I start to get stressed because I
know my body is gonna get hot. Now, a half marathon, no,
but a full marathon over the temperature of seventy degrees
that gives me nightmares because I just my body can't
cool down.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Sixty five to sixty seven, that's my sweet spot in
the half marathon. Sixty five or sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, do you know what the high is tomorrow, babe,
sixty six?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Boom boom?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Is it really yes?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The high tomorrow is sixty six yes, so to me, yes,
it's a little cold in the morning and it doesn't
really get to be as hot as you'd like it
on vacation. But tomorrow, I mean sorry today, sorry today
for this half marathon. Today is going to be the
perfect weather day for this half marathon, so I hope
we can lean into that and have an incredible run today,
(09:37):
which is so strange again to start the race at
three point thirty in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'm even more excited. I didn't realize the weather was
going to be right smack dab in the middle of
my perfect temperatures.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
All right, so we've got the race to look forward
to later today. But I think to cap off our
recovery run and the week that this is going to
set up for us in terms of more intentional leaning
in on what we want to do and celebrating us
and finding those moments. Well, I can't wait to share
with you what we're going to do to celebrate crossing
(10:09):
the finish line at the half marathon. Before we go
to break, I have to tell you about new leggings
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(10:32):
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(10:54):
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off and free shipping. Welcome back to our Saturday recovery
(11:15):
run for August thirtieth, where we're actually getting ready to
go on well a lot more than a recovery run.
We're about to go on a thirteen point one mile run,
a half marathon here in this city.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
That we have traveled to to relax. How relax do
you feel, Vabe.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You know it is stressful, and again, this recovery run
is for us to I mean, we try to give
some advice, some tips, or even some inspiration for making
sure you carve out time. We just haven't done a
very good job this week. The stress has come from
trying to do the job somewhere else where. You also
(11:54):
try to enjoy where you are right so it's not
even a matter. We have the same amount of time
in the day as we do back in New York,
but we're trying to run out the door to go
check out the sites. We're trying to go to this
new restaurant. We're trying to do all these things. So
that part has been awfully, it's felt stressful. It hasn't
felt relaxing just yet.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But that is going to change once we.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Cross that finished across the finish line for this half
marathon later today, and we have plans. First of all,
we're going to find a great restaurant. I think that's
going to be such a great meal tonight when you
and I can just look at each other, undivided attention,
just you and me, no work, no daughters. No, Oh
my god, we have to run a race tomorrow. No,
(12:39):
it's all the sense of accomplishment and the fact that
we did it together is going to hit us.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But to celebrate, we have a big day planned for Sunday.
We are going to a museum. And you don't typically
like to go to museums. Ever we travel. I think
I always go because I feel like I should. I'm
kind of like an obligatory museum goer. There are things
that you I feel like like when I went to Florence,
(13:07):
I felt like I had to see David. When we
went to Florence, you were like, I'm good. When I
went to Rome, I felt like I had to see
the Sistine Chapel, and and you said, yeah, I feel
like I know what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So you're a little bit more extreme than me.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Extreme. I like to just keep it pushing. I'm not
a I'm not a sites guy.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Have you gone to the Louver when you go to Paris?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I walked by it because it looks cool from the outside,
But you.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Didn't go see the Mona, Lisa.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I think it was closed when I went.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay, see here's the deal. I've already seen a lot
of these museums. So if you say you don't want
to go, I am not going to push.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I am just not the guy. I'm not a I'm
not an excrusion guy. I'm not a let's go get
a ticket and get in line guy. I want to
walk up and down and see the sites. I want
to those stone streets.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You are anti tour guide. You don't even want the
idea of you being in a tour is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I like bus, not I don't want to be enough.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Bus, but I don't mind having a guide explain what
you're looking at and what the history is behind it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
But you have zero, zero desire.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
But you know my whatever it is about me, I
just like being on my schedule. I don't like I
don't even want to wait for you to finish the
answer about the history of this building. I've heard enough,
let's go move. But he keeps talking. That's why I
don't like tour guides, and that's why I certainly can
you imagine a tour group? I would explode if people
(14:32):
keep raising their hands. Well, can you tell me about
the first the first friar who was assigned to. No,
that's what you're hilarious.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, So we've established for anyone who didn't know that
you are not a museum.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Not a museum.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And I have not pushed the issue because there hasn't
been a museum that I really wanted to go to
that I thought was worth like actually checking this offer.
I'm like, know that I'm actually getting I'm asking you
to do something I know you don't want to do.
So that has changed because tomorrow we are going to
a museum.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Are you excited?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I am looking forward to it because I know how
excited you are. And again, you've been talking about this
for a while, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yes, Okay, So this is a museum that pays homage
to and again, we don't want to give away where
we are yet, we'll do it soon enough. But one
of the best selling popular music groups in the history.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Of recorded music.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yes, this is a museum about this group and this
group and I go way back. I have so many
amazing memories of sitting in front of my dad's eight
track stereo and playing this music ad nauseum and then
following along and finding the lyrics, and my dad, who
is such a patient man who didn't raise his voice
(15:54):
very often, but I used to drive him to his
wits end singing these songs.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So I am so.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Excited to go to this museum tomorrow, and I'm just
really happy that you've agreed to come. And it's just
going to be a fun way for us to have
some fun, to enjoy something that we would never ever
normally witness or attend, and do it with the wonderful
race behind us.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm excited that you're excited about it. Obviously, this is
not this group is not my jam. There are other
groups and other music you've introduced me to that I
am more in line with this one. I just don't get.
I don't get, I don't like. It's just not my
coup of tea. I respect the hell out of it
what they've been able to do, but I just this
(16:39):
is so I'm very curious to see this stuff tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
What are you going to ask me to go see
or do at some point that I have zero interest
in and that you will be really excited to show me.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
A basketball game?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I like basketball game.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's not hard, and I'm trying to think of what
you like that I would not be that interesting no,
but this.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Isn't a thing. It's not like this is a hobby
of yours. No, this is a one off thing. Oh no,
this is fun. Sorry. I think the hiking is the
only consistent thing that just says it's not my jam,
I don't appreciate that, and that is something that you
would like to do frequently. That. But other than that,
we don't. We don't have those kind of hobbies that
it's true split us apart. Yeah, and if this is
(17:24):
a one off, this is a one off, I can
obviously what I'm gonna say. You'll be fine, oh with that. Oh,
this is fun. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We're gonna have a blast and so yes, and we'll
share some some photos online.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Oh yeah, they're gonna be a whole document dump about
this strip.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
All right. Well, anyway, we hope that well, at least
our intention will inspire you. And you know, we can
all relate the fact that we don't always get it
right and we don't always figure out how to prioritize
that time that we need to preserve for ourselves and
for the ones we love, and to not always be
focused on work and duty and what we have to do.
(18:01):
But let's find time to do things we want to do.
So thank you for listening to us on this Saturday
morning run. On this recovery run, I made Roebuck alongside
t J.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Holmes.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Can't wait to update y'all real soon.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Have a great day.
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