197: Hooked on #runDopey and High on Shenanigans

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Speaker 2 (00:04):
3 am again.
Why did I ever think this was agood idea?
Welcome to the Rise and Runpodcast.
Join our group of Run Disneyfriends.
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
This is Christy from Pennsylvania, and boy are we
having to rise early with thisheat and get those runs in.
But super excited for my secondDisneyland half marathon coming
up and can't wait to see somany of you out on the West
coast celebrating our love ofDisney and running, and friends
and family have a great runeveryone.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Christy, getting ready for her second Disneyland
half marathon, left us an introfor episode 197 of the Rise and
Run podcast.
Hello, my friends, we are soexcited to have you here with us

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again.
This week I'm Bob and this weekI'm joined by Lexi Hello.
By John hey, how you doing?
By Greg, hey, hey, hey.
And by Jack, Hi.
Good to see you, my friends,Wonderful to have you here on
this warm, at least where I am.

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Evening Warm throughout a wholebunch of the country.
Right now we may talk aboutthat a little bit as the episode
goes on.
Let's see.
This week we continue to visitwith friends from the first 200
episodes of Rise and Run.
This time the Run Dopey hashtagRun Dopey crew is with us,

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instigating their normal amountof shenanigans After all, as you
will learn, they areshenanigators In the Race Report
Spotlight special guests willtalk about it when we get there.

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Well, let's dive into thetraining schedule.
It's getting kind of busybecause Disneyland Halloween now

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nine weeks away.
That's right.
You can count it on two handswith your fingers, that's good.
Don't need to take your shoesoff anymore.
It's getting closer, nine weeksfrom today.
Count it on two hands with yourfingers, that's good.
Don't need to take your shoesoff anymore.
It's getting closer.
Nine weeks from today, the daythat you're listening to this is
Expo Day.
You are in training week numbernine and you have this weekend

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three miles with a magic mile.
I'm going to talk about magicmile in just a minute when I
wrap up my training for thisweekend.
Wine and Dine now 16 weeks away, training week number two and
the Saturday run for Wine andDine is four miles.

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And drum roll please.
I don't have a drum roll, I'vegot a rim shot.
That's about all I've got.
That's so good, I don't have adrum roll.
Okay, walt Disney World MarathonWeekend is on the training
schedule.
Woo-hoo, pew, pew, pew yeah.
Yeah, 27 weeks away, 27 weeksstill, just a little over half a

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year away, it's training weekone and we have chosen to use
the experienced runner trainingschedules for the model juice
that we're going to talk withyou about.
If you're not sure, you can goto the rundisneycom site and
there's a training tab there youcan download the training

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schedule that's appropriate foryou.
Our friend, mark, also does alovely job of creating training
schedules.
Those are on the Facebook page.
He posts them there.
Now Mark can make thoseavailable to you.
Mark sometimes uses those and Ithink this is very appropriate.
As a fundraiser.
He races for charity a lot oftime.

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But I want you to understandwhen you hear the numbers that
we're going to give you here.
They're off the experiencedrunner schedules.
They may not be the ones thatyou're using Now.
This one I found kind of unusual.
If you're using the experiencedrunner dopey training schedule

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Saturday, you have a three milelong run.
If you're using the experiencedrunner marathon training
schedule Saturday, you have fiveand a half miles.
I'm not sure why.
I'm not sure why, but I doublechecked it and that's what we've
got.
So there you go.
Disneyland Halloween, wine andDine and Walt Disney World

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Marathon Weekend are all on thetraining schedules now.
Well, let's take a look at thatgang.
Let's talk about that a littlebit and let's talk about
training for these events.
And we tend to, you know, wetend to target or emphasize that

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marathon weekend.
That's not because you'rebetter if you do one of those
races.
It's not because the othersdon't count, they all do, but it
is the biggest and it's the onethat most of us kind of those
races, it's not because theothers don't count, they all do,
but it is the biggest and it'sthe one that most of us kind of
point to.
So, with that said, anythoughts as we officially now

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enter, we'll call it dopeytrading.
Whether we're running dopey ornot, we'll call it dopey trading
.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
The one thought that I had reading everyone's just
wonderful posts today, day ofrecording, that is, you know,
across various social mediaplatforms is it's, it's so great
to see the excitement, yeah,behind everyone.
You know I know we always chatabout.

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You know, like you know, thethree most exciting days when it
comes to marathon weekendtraining is the day of
registration, the first day oftraining and then when the race
actually, you know, gets hereitself across the finish line,
yep, yep, and and, as youpointed out, bob, you know
that's 27, you know, 27 weeksaway, more than a half a year
from now until we hit, you know,that third exciting day and and

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, frankly, you know, the, themost important, yeah, and the.
The point that the two pointsthat I wanted to make is that,
number one, while these racesare more than a half a year away
, you have to stay present inthe moment.
Yes, I know everyone loves to.

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You know I've seen so manypeople printing out big poster
size calendars of the trainingschedule so that they can hang
up next to their medals and beable to cross that off and and
and that's, and.
That's awesome and I am, and Iam so happy for whichever way
you decide to track yourtraining, but keep it in a

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minimalist style and stay in theweek that you're in and stay in
the run that you're in, becausewe know that the mileage is
going to creep up.
It's going to creep up fast,you know, as we enter the, you
know the different phases of ofthis training.
So, especially in the event that, like, say, you go out and you

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have a bad run, make sure tojust be like okay, I had a bad
run, I'm going to move on to anew week and that's it, as
opposed to, oh, I had a bad runand that run was, let's say, six
and a half miles.
And then you start thinkingabout the simulation weekends
come November and December andlike, my god, I gotta do like

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four times that.
There's no way I'm gonna beable to do that here.
We try at rise and we do ourabsolute best to remain positive
throughout the entire trainingcycle and we don't want that
negative energy to creep intoyour running journey.
So again, try to stay in therun and try to stay in the week
that you're in.

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The other thing I was going tomention too and I guess this
sort of kind of relates as welltoo is also remember that your
training and your journey inthis is not going to be linear.
There are going to be some runsthat are fantastic and you knock
out of the park and thenthere's going to be some

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clunkers in there and that'sokay, because if we think that,
okay, we're just going to keepgoing up and up and up and
things are going to get betterand better and better.
Let's be honest, that's notgoing to be the case, and I
think a perfect example to showwhy this journey is not linear
is let's actually look at theGalloway training program itself

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.
Sure, you build up the miles,but then every, let's say, two
to three weeks after you have asizable long run, that mileage
dips back down, because that'sreally going to help in your
recovery.
So, in theory, yes, the mileswill go up, but you're going to
keep this like seesawing effecta little bit for a while and
that's in there for a purposeand not and not having it be

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linear is normal and as part ofthis journey and that's okay and
as long as you're, you keepthat focus throughout your
training.
I think it's really going tohelp as you're crossing, whether
it's one finish line duringmarathon weekend or all four so
something I really want to, um,really kind of emphasize, with

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it being the beginning ofDopey's kind of.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
actually two things.
One, don't feel like you'realone in this.
If this is your first timedoing a run Disney race, there
are so many ways to kind of getto be a part of the community,
one of which is by joining theRise Run podcast Facebook group,
because there's so many peopleout there encouraging you,
motivating you to get out thereand do your runs, and hearing

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everybody's stories is always soinspiring.
Know that you're not alone andthat we're all doing this
together.
So if you ever feel like youwant to reach out, go for it,
we'll respond.
And then the other part is withsocial media.
Just remember, every person'sjourney is different.
It's really easy to docomparison games when you kind

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of look at everybody's trainingschedules because they're
posting about how fast they'rerunning, how long they're
running, and so on, andsometimes it kind of I know, for
me at times it's like oh, maybeI'm not doing enough, maybe,
you know, maybe I should bedoing more.
No, if you got your schedule,stick to your schedule, stick to
what you're doing, because thatis what's built for you and
what works for you.

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Um, I don't know if I'm sayingthis correctly, but like no jack
.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
that's a really good point, especially right now,
seeing that the trend right nowon social media of everyone
who's coming up with thoseutterly creative Strava videos.
I agree, I love looking at them, but that leads to a point that
you just made about, you know,being able to compare yourself.
So while they're fun to look at, it could cause that thought

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process.
So so really good on you forfor making mention of that.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, I was going to say I heard a quote the other
day and it was just perfect fordopey training or any training.
Comparison is the theft of joy.
Yes, did you make that?

Speaker 4 (14:53):
up, john, that's good no I heard it no come on, john,
I made it up yeah, johnoriginal it is, it makes perfect
sense.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
You could have compared yourself.
If I compared myself to Jack,I'd be like I should just quit
now.
Oh, stop.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
No, that's it.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
We're all quit, but you know, you got to compare
yourself to yourself, and that'sbasically it.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah, you could even get trapped there, john.
You could even get trapped,comparing yourself to your
former self.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, it's the now.
It's the now.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
And that's also kind of one of the things that I
personally struggle with whenI'm running is I'm not the same
runner that I was back in whatwas it?
2021 when I did the Great SmokyMountains?
I'm actually eight minutesslower than that race and I've
been trying to chase it eversince, and you got to remember
like you'll get to whatever goalyou're trying to get to.
It just may be a longer journeythan others, but you'll get

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there.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
A lot of very salient points, guys.
Very well said.
I think looking ahead is one ofthe things that gets us in
trouble, and by golly I do itevery year.
I do it.
I know what numbers.
I don't have to look ahead.
I know what numbers are coming.
And I know that there are daysI go out for my 14 mile training

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run and I go.
How can I do almost twice this?
I'll be doing marathon numberseven.
I've done five dopies.
I'm not doing the dopey thisyear, but so I know it's coming.
I know this and I say it everyyear.
And yet we finish.
And we finish by doing all thethings my friends just said

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Staying together, stayingpositive, getting those training
miles in.
This is hard the challenge.
Whether it's dopey, goofy, themarathon or your first 5K, we
don't care if you're challengingyourself.
It's hard but it's alsorewarding.

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Okay, it's a very rewardingthing.
All right, let me back up aminute because I said at the
very start of the trainingcalendar that there's a magic
mile on the Disneyland Halloweenchallenge.
I did one this weekend.
I did the magic half mile and Iwill be doing that probably

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until October.
And I will be doing thatprobably until October because
it's just too warm to go out andgo hard for a magic mile.
So I did that this weekend andthen that went all right and I
wrapped that up and then I hadanother three miles after that

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and uh, didn't quite finishbecause I went splat with about
a quarter mile to go.
Uh, I'm good.
Thanks, hey, thanks.
I posted an Instagram thing ofme of of taking the uh, the uh,
post-race shower, but I I knewthat you could see I'd been

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bloodied up a little bit, so Ijust wanted to explain I'm fine.
I ran out and ran this morningLittle little worse for wear,
but I'm fine.
No, no long-term injuries.
The fact that at my age I canhit the concrete and bounce back
up is encouraging, but I didwant to thank you all.
At my age, I can hit theconcrete and bounce back up.
It's encouraging.
But I did want to thank you allthose of you who expressed hey,

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gee, I hope you're okay.
It means a lot to me, thanks.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Hey Bob, I was curious In terms of you doing a
magic half mile.
I'm curious to hear yourexperience versus mine.
How do you think your timefared to when you have done full
magic miles?

Speaker 4 (18:48):
I think they're really close, greg.
Okay, I think I pushed this onereally pretty hard for the half
and I had done a full-on magicmile.
Golly, maybe a month ago thisone ended up being maybe 15
seconds faster.

(19:09):
Okay, but at the times that I'mdoing right now, 15 seconds is
not a lot.
So I think it's legit and I'vetried it a couple times.
I wondered, especially when Ifirst heard about it.
I thought, oh geez, my numberis going to be too low.
But no, I, I think it's, Ithink it's about right.
That daggum, that galloway guyhe tends to know what he's

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talking about.
I don't.
I don't think it's luck.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
I think he's done this once or twice it's
interesting to hear you say thatbecause unfortunately I was not
able to join the uh, thecustomized call, today, you know
, to get my new paces.
But I also did a magic halfmile this past weekend and when
I hit the lap button on my watch, I was surprised, I was

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thrilled.
But for as thrilled as I was, Iwas also equally concerned
because when you double the timeand then add the 18 seconds, I
was about roughly about 45seconds faster than I was in my

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magic mile.
That's significant and and thatand grant I, I know I've been
on this weight loss journey andI.
I know that, that that playsinto it.
But then there's also a part ofme that was like, okay, I was
really pushing this half mile.
Could I have been able tosustain that for the rest of the
half mile?
And grant, and I do understand,that's where the 18 seconds

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right, you know it comes intoplay and everything like that.
So I'll be interested to get mypaces from coach, see how I
fare.
But like there's also a part ofme like in the back of my head,
like not that I'm trying tocreate self-doubt by any means
whatsoever, but there's a partof me that like wants to like
have a conversation with him, belike, hey, could we take the
paces from the, my last magicmile, and then maybe find like
the average between the halfmile and the mile and then like,
let that be like you know, ajumping off point, and then, if

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that is too easy, then you know,maybe let's go with the paces
from from the, the actual halfmile itself.
So I'll be interested to playaround with all the.
Be sure to report back to torest of the play around.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
I'll have to be sure to report back to uh, to
everybody on that.
I'm not sure.
I'm not surprised you'regetting faster.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's a good thing uh, but I understand what you're
saying so, greg, I need to giveyou an apology.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
I almost, I almost messed up.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Loopy, loopy for me and us jeez, okay, I can't wait
to hear this.
Yeah, this is intriguing.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
This could be really loopy.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yeah, this could be loopy.
So full disclosure.
I have a decently sized cyst onthe back of my shoulder,
between my shoulder and my neck.
It's about maybe a four-fingerlength away from my spine, and
it's just gotten bigger andbigger, bigger and Lexi can
contest to that and um.

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So I went and got it checked outtoday and um yeah, uh, because
it's it's continually growingand it's not going away.
And, uh, it's probably shouldbe better to go away, because I
could feel it pressed down into,like the muscle area of where
it's at, and especially when I'mlike working out and um, so

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yeah, the reason why loopylooper almost was a no-go for me
because they scheduled it forthe 29th of July and, uh, to get
it out, and I was like, okay,cool, cool, no worries, that
works great.
And then I thought about, I waslike, wait, am I allowed to
exercise after that, because ofit being on my shoulder and neck

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area, and she's like, no, you'dbe like not for like a week or
two, potentially, because of thestitches and everything.
I was like, oh no, is there anyway we could push it back?
So we got to push back so Icould do loopy looper oh, thank
god, because I'm gonna berunning enough miles that day.
I'm also not running your milesI like, I was like, yeah, that

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sounds wonderful, I can get itout before the race, so not be
like you know whatever.
And it's like no, it's like theactual stitches, not the glue
stitches.
And like, well, regardless,whichever way it would have been
, yeah, I didn't realize that Iwasn't going to be able to
exercise for a week after that.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Well, here's the bottom line, Jack.
I'm glad that it turns out tobe something that can be fixed
relatively easily.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Okay, it's an inch and a half.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, yeah, minor, given that minor surgery is
surgery that somebody else has,not me.
If it's me, it's major surgery.
This sounds like it's aprocedure that won't be too
tough oh no.
I'm glad that's good.
That's good to know that itwasn't anything serious.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Glad to hear that glad I remembered to push it
back alright, friends, let'svisit with our guests for the
week.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
As we approached episode 200, we really didn't
have any overarching idea whatwe wanted to do For 100, we had
laid it out weeks in advance andwe had friends make
contributions.
We found out that we were doingas we got close to 200 is we

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were inviting back friends whohad been with us in the early
days of the podcast.
Brittany joined us, ChrisTwiggs, Jeff Galloway's coming,
Alan and Grace Young are coming.
But tonight, tonight is special.
Tonight is special.
I'm already laughing.

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Our friends from the hashtagrun dopey group are here.
They were with us way back inJuly of 2022, episode 41.
And they were with us to do awonderful recap of the New York
City Marathon back in 2023.
And the other thing that makesthis really nice this is their

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sixth year anniversary.
Happy anniversary, Run Dopeycrew.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Now on with the shenanigans.
Let's introduce who's here, andI didn't set this up, so I'll
go around the room.
Chris, I see you up top first.

Speaker 8 (25:28):
Hi Chris Turner from Run and Dopey.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Paul is over there.

Speaker 9 (25:34):
Hi Paula Adams from New Hampshire.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
And Leslie's with us.

Speaker 7 (25:39):
Hi everyone.
It's Leslie Admeyer from Iguess I'm from Tampa.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
I don't even know where I'm from you.

Speaker 7 (25:44):
It's Leslie Admeyer from I guess I'm from Tampa.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
I don't even know where I'm from.
You are Well, wave, look,you're over there, okay, yeah,
and Adalis is with us too.

Speaker 10 (25:56):
Yes, Adalis Lopez, from the tropical island of
Puerto Rico.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
It's fun, guys, it's good to see you.
I'll tell you.
I mean this is nice.
Here we are in.
Well, it's July now, kind ofmidway between springtime
surprise and rise and run.
I didn't do the math, but it'sclose.
And I think about when we showup at four in the morning,
whenever in the heck we getthere, and I head over to the

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bleachers and I look to my leftand I look for the Run Dopey
crew and you guys are over there, always looking resplendent,
and it's it's, it's a highlightof the trip for me and it's good
to see you here this evening.
Hey, look, you've.
You've told us this before, butit was years ago.
You've told us this before, butit was years ago.
So let's go back to thebeginning and see if you can

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tell our friends how hashtag rundopey came to life.

Speaker 9 (26:54):
So there was two sisters, christine and Laura.
Christine kind of decided tostart a group, kind of on her
own, a little bit more of apositive focus mindset,
following the Galloway method.
They were both doing theirfirst OB challenge and were kind
of overwhelmed by other groupsand things out there.
So Christine had the idea tokind of start this
accountability group for Ibelieve what started as the two

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of them to kind of share and,you know, encourage each other.
Then she did a post in one ofthe other groups inviting other
people that had similar thoughtprocess, mindset, positive focus
, galloway method to try to jointhe group if they wanted to,
and it kind of started fromthere.
I know several of us joinedright away and just found a

(27:41):
really good community and wekind of clicked and we've become
very close friends a lot of usand the community has grown over
the last six years yeah, youcan tell us about that.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
So, in essence, then hashtag run dopey formed first,
then you ran dopey, yes that wasthe point of the group was to
really bring together people whowere training for Dopey.
But it was really primarilygeared for people who were doing

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Dopey for the first time and alot of us were first-time
marathoners.
Even and I know, for me, goinginto it, I had a lot of fear
about not being able to finishbecause I obviously had never
run a marathon before and Ithought why am I signing up for
this incredible feat of running48.6 miles in four days?
And I was like I need somebodyto hold me accountable.

(28:35):
And so when I saw this post inanother group, I thought this is
perfect, I'm going to sign upfor this.
It's a smaller community.
To sign up for this it's asmaller community.
So I don't feel like if I share, you know, not personal
information, but like you know,you're putting yourself out
there when you're sharing yourtraining runs.
And I decided I was going toyou know, go all in and share

(28:56):
everything with this group andreally hold myself accountable
for all my runs.
So that was kind of mymotivation for joining right
away and just diving right inand um, and then met these
wonderful people.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
It started around Dopey and this is perfect.
Again, this is great timingbecause, as we discussed earlier
this evening, official Dopeytraining began well the day that
we're recording this.
It began this week.
It started around Dopey, butthen it just became a Run Disney
.
We still call it hashtag RunDopey, but you are very much a

(29:31):
Run Disney group, wouldn't youagree?

Speaker 9 (29:33):
Yeah, I would agree to that.
I think it's a community ofDisney lovers.
Run Disney lovers.
People follow different plans.
People follow not necessarilyGalloway other people chasing
the six stars majors.
Everybody's encouraged andsupported.
And you know we kind of have aweekly post about what are you
training for, what are yourunning this weekend?

(29:53):
You know people kind of shareand hold themselves accountable
and kind of connect with eachother.
Oh, I'm going to be at thatrace too, and you know we should
try to meet up and it's areally positive, encouraging
community and very much Disneyfocused.

Speaker 8 (30:07):
Yes, it's definitely for anybody who's interested in
running at Disney or runningother races.
It took me I was in the groupfor three and a half years
before I actually ran Dopey.
I was supposed to run Dopey2021.

(30:30):
And that's why I joined thegroup.
But then I got so much out ofthe collaboration with other
people and support and you knowseeing what other people were
doing and celebrating with themand celebrating with them and
them celebrate with me that it,you know, I stayed.

Speaker 7 (30:54):
And I think that's a really good point, Chris is that
, even though we call ourselveshashtag, run Dobie, you don't
have to be a Dobie runner, youdon't even have to be a marathon
runner to be in our group.
We want, you know, we accepteverybody.
We want to support, you knoweveryone who's running.
We want to support those whoare running, you know, six
minute miles and those who arerunning 16 minute miles, Like

(31:14):
you know.
We want we really want to bethere for all of our members and
anyone who wants to be in ourcommunity and really have that
positive vibe and, you know,help, support each other.
That's the whole point.

Speaker 10 (31:33):
And sometimes people are not thinking about running
Dopey and then, because we aresuch enablers, they end up
signing up for Dopey.
So there's another point.

Speaker 9 (31:41):
Yeah, that's true, it should be a warning that you
might be encouraged heavily torunning Dopey.
It escalates quickly.

Speaker 10 (31:49):
You cannot ask should I sign up for dopey?
Because the answer is going tobe yes.

Speaker 8 (31:54):
Yes, it's a no judgment group.
Your pace is your pace.
That's good for you.
We're here to encourage you,not knock you down, just because
we don't think you're Olympicmarathon material.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Not a lot of that going around here.
No, not a whole lot of that.

Speaker 8 (32:19):
But you know we try to keep it.
You know we try to keep thingspositive.
We spend a lot of time in themod group, in the mod group um,
monitoring that, making surethat people are treated fairly,
and uh, you know that that'sanother really good thing about
it I know chris said you didn'trun dopey before you joined the

(32:43):
group.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Uh guys, when was the first time you guys ran dopey?
Did you join the group first?
I know some of you did, some ofyou didn't.
Or did you join it after you?

Speaker 10 (32:52):
you joined after you ran dopey so I signed up for my
first dopey 2020 um.
So I was like right in themiddle of starting my first ever
uh, dopey training and that'swhen I um joined the group.
So I none my friends run.
Like nobody runs in my familyor I have I had not running

(33:17):
friends by that time, so it waslike a crazy idea that I had
that.
Okay, so I think I'm runningdopey, so I was looking for some
accountability and people thatwere like in the same kind of
vibe like I was, because nobodyaround me wasn't that.

(33:37):
So it was and for me it workedlike perfectly.
And I always say that, um, mylife I can put it like before
hashtag Run Dolby, after hashtagRun Dolby, because it has
changed me so, so much, not onlyin the running aspect, but in a

(33:58):
lot of aspects in my life.
So it's definitely alife-changing experience, not
only the race, just the oldexperience in the group
experience.
Not only the race, just the oldexperience in the group.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
I agree with that, except for one thing.
You said none of your friendsrun.
I'm thinking of Dallas for allyour friends.

Speaker 10 (34:20):
Now I have a lot of running friends and all over the
country.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yes, you do, you sure do.

Speaker 10 (34:26):
All over the world.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (34:28):
We are blessed with that.
We sure do.
All over the world, yeah, allover the world.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, we are blessed with that, we sure are.
Guys, how fast and I didn'tlook this up to see how big you
were back in 2022.
And I really didn't look up tosee how big the group is now.
But how fast did the group growand what are the numbers right
now?
Just curious.

Speaker 10 (34:48):
So we always have like a big influx of people when
Adobe training, it's likecoming up.
But I'm happy to inform rightnow that we had our sixth
anniversary and we have 6,000members.
Like just hit the 6,000 membersand it was like just a nice

(35:08):
surprise.
When I screenshotted it, I waslike, oh my God, guys, look at
this, we are in 6K members rightnow.
That's so awesome.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
I think it is awesome .
I think that's really cool.

Speaker 7 (35:21):
When we completed the first OP that the group was
founded for in 2020, that thegroup was founded for in 2020.
We had about 600 members atthat point, and so you know it
was a lot smaller, but you know,but it was still a large-ish
community.
It was not bad right.
No, yeah, and I think whatreally grew the group was during

(35:45):
COVID and, you know, beingisolated from each other and not
being able to have to go tothose races, and people were
looking for online communitiesto kind of connect with, and we
had different virtuals that wewere doing.
We were always trying tomotivate each other with, you
know, whether it was running ona theme or something like that,
and our group really grew duringthat time and so I think that

(36:09):
made the first Dopey back afterquarantine and when the races
came back in 2022.
I think that made it even morespecial because we had grown so
close with each other, becausethat was the community that we
had during that time, that itwas amazing to meet all those
people in person I had done twodopies before.

Speaker 9 (36:31):
So I think when I joined the group so I did dopey
17,.
I think it was my first dopeyand then I think I had a couple
under my belt when I joined thegroup.
But I just loved the group.
I just connected with peopleand they were doing the training
posts every you know when theywere scheduled Tuesdays,
thursdays, weekends and itreally kind of motivated me and

(36:54):
kind of people were sharing.
Everybody would commentunderneath that they got their
run done and would beencouraging each other.
So I just really clicked withthat group.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Now, not necessarily thinking about this as
individuals, but as a collectiveof hashtag, run dopey outside
of the cheer tunnel that youformed for Bob during the uh the
monsters Inc 10 K.
What would you say is yourbiggest standout moment or

(37:25):
biggest memory from the firstsix years of the formation of
your group?

Speaker 7 (37:30):
and, leslie, I'll start with you oh no, don't come
to me first.
I don't know, I was eventhinking about this beforehand
and it's like there's so manymoments that, um, it's, it's
really hard to pinpoint, justone you can use.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
You can use the cheer tunnel.
You can do that, you can usethat the cheers.

Speaker 7 (37:48):
Let me tell you about the cheer tunnel.
First of all.
I'm wearing that shirt from thatrace, by the way um the little
you know, sorority shirt um, wehad so much fun with those cheer
tunnels, um, but so much sothat we didn't realize that we
were in a quiet zone when wewere doing that.
Over by the boardwalk, our sametunnel became a whisper tunnel

(38:11):
for a little bit and then we hadto, you know, hype it back up
again once we got back in thepark.
But, yeah, those are really fun, I think.
I honestly think that, you know, we got to see each other again
coming back from quarantinewhen we got together for Wine
and Dine in 2021.
And that was amazing.
But I still think that the ExpoDay for 2022 was just something

(38:37):
really special.
We had, like so many of ourmembers that we had grown close
to over the past, you know,almost two years and finally
getting to see them in personand hug them, and you know,
people coming from all over theworld that you know weren't
allowed to travel before, and itwas just, it was really

(38:57):
something amazing.
That, to me, I think, was areally special moment for our
group.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
So Dopey training started already.
As seasoned Dopey runners, howdo each of you approach training
?
Has your strategy evolved overthe years or do you still follow
the galloway mile for mile?

Speaker 10 (39:15):
so for me it's depending of what races do I
have on tap for the rest of theyear.
Um, I remember when I had newyork city, for example, I
started training like evenbefore dopey and then I tried to
just train for New York Cityand then when I ran New York

(39:36):
then I resumed Dopey like whereit was, like trying to adjust a
little bit after that.

Speaker 8 (39:43):
But if I'm not running like a full marathon, I
try to stick to dopey trainingas is, I had private running
coaches for four and a halfyears that did not use the
Galloway method.
This will be my first timeactually using the Galloway

(40:03):
method, for I'm not doing dopey,I'm doing goofy, do you get?

Speaker 2 (40:08):
kicked out of the group because of that or no?
No.

Speaker 10 (40:13):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Maybe not kicked out of the group, but do you lose
your moderator status because ofthat?

Speaker 9 (40:18):
No, Maybe I mean, let's try a little bit.

Speaker 8 (40:24):
They will no it.
You know, for four and a halfyears, when I was doing that
half marathon streak, that I hadI used private running coaches.
So they had me on like a halfready type of schedule and I did

(40:44):
my own schedule.
But I had a little bit ofburnout and finally, you know,
let them go earlier this year,which it was just time.
You know, after four and a halfyears of doing, doing that,
doing that stuff, it was justtime to to to take a step back

(41:05):
and uh, uh, I'm excited aboutdoing Galloway this year.
I really am, because it's Iused to run five days a week and
this'll be.
Like you know, this seems more,seems more doable, um and yeah,
and it, it.
You know, I, I taught, Iactually taught.

(41:27):
I wasn't going to do marathonweekend at all this year because
I was like I'm done with fullmarathons, I'm tired of it.
You know I was doing all thistraveling for my job.
I ran three marathons trying todo marathon training.
It was just too much.
But I was like, okay, let metry galloway one time.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
So that's what I'm doing, doing good you'll like it
like, honestly, I was the samelike you, chris, I did not do
galloway at all, I just ranstraight through the whole thing
and I tell you what, going fromthat to galloway, I'm kind of
liking galloway.
It feels'm like oh, I got abreak in about two minutes now,
okay, cool, like it's somethingto look forward to throughout

(42:16):
the race.
So our next question is withthe group being so big well,
6,000 members what is the mostcommon question you see in the
group about training or raceweekends?

Speaker 10 (42:31):
Probably about cross training, like the days that
they are not doing Galloway.
Normally it's like okay, so I'mrunning Tuesdays and Thursdays
and Saturdays, but what else canI do to get ready?
Because sometimes people feellike three days maybe is not
enough.
And that's for new people andeven people from you know that

(42:58):
has run Dopey before.
That's one of the questionsthat I've seen like repeatedly
over the years.

Speaker 7 (43:05):
There's that.
And then there's also peoplewho will say, oh well, I have.
You know, this weekend we'resupposed to run 13,.
But I have a half marathonscheduled for next weekend.
Is it okay to swap things?
And so lots of people askquestions like that, which I
mean I swap things around whichmaybe you're not supposed to.

(43:25):
You're not supposed to, but Ialso still follow the Galloway
method and it's worked for me sofar.
So I'm like, if it's not broke,don't change it.
So I'm just going to keep doingwhat works for me.
I'm not winning any placemedals, so I just want to finish
and have some shenanigans onthe course.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Shenanigans.

Speaker 7 (43:47):
Shenanigans.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Like a cheer tunnel in the quiet zone.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Yes, so we are unofficial Run Disney
Shenanigators Ooh.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
That's true.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Unofficial.
My vocabulary just increasedShenanigators.
All right, see you don't getthe same questions we get.
In a couple weeks We'll get aquestion what's the weather
going to be like?
Race weekend oh.

Speaker 7 (44:16):
I think we get that as we get closer.
I think as we get a littlecloser.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
No, no, no, no, no.
We don't get.
No, we get it now, as we getcloser.
The question we get is it'sDecember 15th and I haven't
started training yet am I tooold?

Speaker 1 (44:35):
oh boy, can I still finish?
I could, yes, you probablycould.
It might hurt like hell oh,you're gonna like it.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
You might be.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
I would say we also get a lot of questions about um
like fueling, um hydration, uminjuries, injuries.
There's a lot of people thattalk ask about injuries.
Um, thankfully, we have um ourour resident PT, elizabeth Keo,
who um can sometimes chime in.

(45:04):
Not that she's, you know,diagnosing anything, but she can
help suggest some stretches andthings like that, which is
really nice.
Um, she's, you know, diagnosinganything, but she can help
suggest some stretches andthings like that, which is
really nice.
She's pretty great.

Speaker 9 (45:14):
Packing.
We have an amazing packing listactually that we put together.
I think everybody's kind ofadded to it.
But over the years we've added,you know, packing lists, and
it's really great that's veryhelpful and I started thinking
about as we're talking here.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
We're all experienced in finishing Dopey, but we have
a lot of friends listening whoare where you were five years
ago or whenever, where they'retaking on their first challenge.
So stuff like that, stuff likehelping people with nutrition on
the course or a packing list,is great for somebody who hasn't
done it before.

(45:53):
First run Disney event, Ishowed up with no insoles in my
shoes.
Why I had taken them out, Idon't know.
I actually do.
It's a long story, it's old,but yeah.

Speaker 9 (46:07):
So I ran without any insoles in my I guess they were
new balance, I don't remember ohmy gosh, we all do stuff like
that, you, sometimes, you justyou get there and things are off
the rails with your packing, Idon't know yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
I also think that if you've done this a bunch, you
get complacent yes and a packinglist is a good idea for folks
who have done it a bunch too.
So there you go.
That's a good one.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
That's one of the reasons why I like the expo so
much, because I can always counton finding something Like same
girl, same as long as yourpacking list says credit card,
you're good to go.

Speaker 9 (46:49):
I feel like this year , edelis, you and I have both
forgot fuel, like how many timeshave we forgot fuel, like we
remind each other, I forgot myfuel again.
What the hell.
There we are at the expo buyingfuel, but thank God they have
it.

Speaker 7 (47:02):
But see, I have like superstitious things that I have
to buy at every expo even if Idon't need them.
I always buy a pair of featuresand I always buy salt tabs.
Because during the firstmarathon, that um that we did,
adalis and I were runningtogether and I was like
struggling.
And she's like hey, I have asalt tab, do you want a salt tab

(47:23):
?
And I'm like you know, in myhead I'm like don't use anything
on race day that you haven'ttrained with.
And I'm like no man, like Idon't want to get sick, like I'm
good, I'm good.
And then, like a couple mileslater, she's like no, really,
take the salt tab.
And so I had the salt tab andlike immediately felt like a
million bucks and I'm like manthat was so dumb to not take it
earlier.
But so now I religiously willbuy salt tabs and a pair of

(47:47):
socks, which the last time wewere at Disneyland they did not
have features socks, so I had tobuy some knockoff sock.
That was not great but stillsuperstitious.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
So that's a.
That's a good point too, leslie, for new runners, especially in
the high humidity, the saltshoes or the salt tabs can be
your friend.
It's something to experimentwith before you get down there.
Don't be like, well, I see youcan do it, but hey look, no, it
is a good idea.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
So, talking about race weekends, whenever you know
for any new people that mightbe listening, do you guys have
any meetups or special eventsduring each race weekend?

Speaker 9 (48:31):
Oh, yes, we have so every morning.
Well, first of all, let's startwith Expo.
We usually try to do an Expomeetup.
We do post that on the group,where it's going to be, what
time it's going to be at kind ofa location, and so we have a
meetup at the Expo.
It's kind of more casual, thatone kind of rolling through and
then throughout the expo we areoften wearing our hashtag run

(48:51):
dopey shirts kind of like.
We call it the uniform some ofus wear and we're easily
identified by that and it'sgreat to connect with people
there.
On race day we have race daymeetups every morning before the
race and it's very similar tothe Rise and Run podcast group

(49:12):
at the bleachers on theleft-hand side of the bleachers,
if you're looking at stage.
Rise and Run is our kind of ourwe call them our cousin or
sister group and we're right inthere with you guys and often
there's cross shenanigans andjumping and group pictures and
it it's a great time.
So, usually every morning.
But we'll post that in thegroup as we're kind of getting

(49:34):
close to race weekend, just as areminder and people can kind of
come and go and if they'regetting nervous they want to get
to the corrals.
That's fine too.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
That makes us adjunct shenanigators.

Speaker 7 (49:46):
It does.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (49:48):
You didn't even know it, did you?

Speaker 4 (49:50):
This is getting heavy .

Speaker 9 (49:53):
I mean it fits the build.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
Yeah, and friends, yeah, it does.
If the shoe fits, wear it right.

Speaker 7 (50:01):
I mean, we've all seen you in your Cruella costume
.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
so Pretty sharp.

Speaker 10 (50:06):
Very so I wanted to add all those meetups and stuff.
But everybody knows also thatwe have like an unofficial
meetup on the dance floor afterevery single race.
So we always meet with CJ andwe you know fireball and we- you

(50:30):
know Fireball, that's our song.
And everybody knows that we aregoing to be dancing and
stretching and having a greattime after every single race.

Speaker 9 (50:41):
Blow off steam and somehow Fireball has become our
signature song.
They play it for us and we havea great time.
It is actually therapeutic toget out there and dance.
You would think it's kind ofcrazy.
I just ran a marathon or I justran dopey, and that's probably
not what I should be doing.
But I'm telling you, if you getout there and dance a little
bit, it really helps loosen youup.

Speaker 7 (51:00):
So so true really recommended.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
It's good recovery, though, because you don't want
to sit down right after you runbecause that's actually going to
make your legs worse, so danceis great lateral movement when
you're kind of swaying.

Speaker 9 (51:12):
It stretches your hips and your legs honestly,
honest to god.
So come and dance with usactive recovery good stuff I
think too.

Speaker 7 (51:21):
Um, it's really cool that we have a lot of informal
meetups during the races whilewe're running oh, yeah, so
that's that's been.
One of the most amazing thingsis that you know, um, I think I
don't remember when the greenbow started.
Was that back in 2020, or wasthat for 2022?

Speaker 10 (51:37):
It was 2020.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
So we, um, we had said you know, how are we going
to identify each other, becauseat that point we didn't have a
ton of merch.
Um, you know, we, we justwanted to recognize who you know
, we just wanted to recognizewho you know was in the group.
And so we had said, okay,everybody put a green bow on
your left shoe, and so you know,so you'd see people kind of
walking around looking atpeople's shoes all the time, and
so, and then when you findsomebody, you would say oh my

(52:02):
gosh, are you in Rundobi?
And of course they were, and youknow conversations and more
shenanigans, but now it's greatbecause we have so much more
ways of identifying each other.
We have our shirts, we have ourgooders.
We have Pfizer's we have hats,we have you know all different
kinds of things that when peopleare wearing them you can easily

(52:22):
identify them.
You know, either on the courseor at expo or just walking
around at the parks and thatkind of lets you have that
little in of like oh my gosh,are you in?
Rundobi, you know, and starttalking to them about training
and stuff, because you know weall want to talk about running.

Speaker 10 (52:37):
I have to say, one of my favorite things ever is
like being at Disney or Expo oreven the course, whatever, and I
see one of my shirts that Ihandmade all of those shirts, so
it's like I know that I touchedthat shirt, I made that shirt
with a lot of love, you know,like that that's one of my
babies.
When I see, um, so it's veryspecial for me, um, seeing

(53:00):
people, and sometimes Irecognize, I know the people
because of the shirt, because itwas like a custom made, and
it's like, oh, my God, you arethese people, you know, because
I remember making the shirt for,especially for that person.
So it's like it's one of myfavorite things.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
I have.
I have a Dallas original.
I use it for training.
I don't run into that Disney,but it's a good shirt, kids, it
really is.
I like it for training.
I don't run into it at Disney,but it's a good shirt, kids, it
really is, I like it.
Hey, you already have almostsegued into this.
I want to ask do you have afavorite memory from any race

(53:43):
weekend, whether it's you orfrom the group or anything?
Any favorite memories?

Speaker 10 (53:54):
you, or from the group or anything, any favorite
memories?
Well, for me I have to say, um,we, obviously we love costumes,
right?
So we're gonna get to that, butgo ahead.
But one of the things is that,um, sometimes we wear a costume
and it's okay, it's fine.
But when you stayed on thecharacter of the costume for the
whole race, like I remember thefirst time that we did that was

(54:19):
for that first one and nineafter COVID that we were the
stepsisters, so we ran the whole13.1 miles in character, like
we were Obnoxious and we werelike following, like trying to

(54:40):
find Prince, and I remember itwas cold for that race.
It was cold.
And I remember this guy Ifyou're listening, sorry, this
guy um, that he was wearing likethis surgical, like um, uh,

(55:01):
scrubs it wasn't.
It was not a scrub, it was likea, a cloak, I don't know so A
gown, yeah, a surgical gown.
Yeah, like a gown, yes.
So we were like oh, this is asurgeon, oh my God, so tell me
about your bank account.
And we kept like me froggingall the time and it was like are

(55:23):
you married?
And the guy was like, oh my God, this lady is a gay.

Speaker 7 (55:29):
I'm pretty sure he ran faster to get away from her.

Speaker 10 (55:34):
Oh my God, that was so funny.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 7 (55:37):
We did have a blast.

Speaker 10 (55:38):
Yeah, it was a blast .

Speaker 7 (55:41):
But it was fun when we brought that back and we did
the whole Cinderella crew.
What year was that?
Was that 2023 for Dopey?
I think it was 23.
And we did the 10K and we hadPaula as our mom.
That was great.
Liz Minor was Lucifer the catand you know, everybody kind of

(56:05):
became different characters andwe just had so much fun again
being like really being thosecharacters for the whole race.
It was fun.
We met a Cinderella in line.
Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 10 (56:19):
It was amazing it was actually a fundraising idea
that we had people to pick thecostume that they wanted back
and that was the one that won.
Yes, and then we brought likethe whole crew um, to do like
the whole cinderella crew, andit was so fun.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
yes, all right well, let's keep going with with the
costume questions here, becauseone of my favorite moments of
any run disney race, regardlessof weekend, regardless of
distance, is the presence or theaura that is of all of you

(56:59):
making your grand entrance tostart your shenanigations in in
the, in the pre-race area, andall of you are just decked out
in these elaborate, beautifulcostumes.
So so we know the backstoryabout how this all got started.
But because you're so on themeand because it's so intricate

(57:24):
and it's race after race afterrace, when does your planning
and brainstorming start?

Speaker 10 (57:33):
oh my god, it's a lot.

Speaker 9 (57:34):
Let me tell you it's a long process and a lot very
easily, probably like when youask a songwriter I don't know
some people it comes very easilyand somewhere, like we're still
talking about ideas formarathon weekend, we're still
talking about ideas fordisneyland, and then some come
very quickly, are things we havethat we've been wanting to do,

(57:54):
that are on the back burner, andthen summer is new inspiration,
you know, but we start.
We actually were talking a lotlast night kind of brainstorming
together about some ideas,pulling up different costs, like
concepts and things like thatfrom online GPT chat.
That's a good tool.

Speaker 10 (58:18):
Good tool.
Yeah, I think it started likewith a brainstorming of ideas.
Like we started like justthrowing out there whatever
we're thinking and it's likekind of like aha moment, like oh
, we can do this.
And then we started like doingresearch about how to make that
idea possible, if we can findlike pieces on Amazon or on any

(58:40):
places, because, you know, wehave a lot of creativity and a
lot of imagination but none ofus can saw.
So it's like we need to findpieces that we can put together
you know, because we do somecrafting but it's not like super
elaborate, so kind of freaky tokind of find the right pieces

(59:03):
for each costume it's definitelyvery trial and error.

Speaker 7 (59:07):
I think, too, like we'll we'll get some things.
We'll try it out.
If it works, great, if not,we'll scrap it and move on to
something else.
So it's a process that takes, Iwould say, several months, and
I think we're always probablythinking about costumes.
I think every race weekend,anywhere I go, even when I'm
like just not even looking atanything running related or
Disney related, I'll think, ohman, that would be a great

(59:30):
costume.
Or huh I wonder how I couldchange that into a costume.
So it's like one of thosethings you kind of put it in the
back of your head or you, youknow, jot it down real quick,
and then the next time we'retalking about it you're like oh.
I had this idea of somethingthat I was thinking we could do,
and then you know how can wemake it work.
Is it good for this weekend orshould we save it for another
weekend?
So yeah, it's a long process,but it's it's really

(59:52):
collaborative and I think it'sreally great that we all kind of
pitch in and and have differentideas and have different takes
on everything.

Speaker 9 (01:00:00):
We feed off of each other too.
So, sometimes you know that'lltrigger somebody to think of
something else I have.
I have actually an ongoing listin my phone that I keep adding
to about different costume ideasor pictures.
I think is really cool, justrandom stuff.
I'll take pictures Like that'sa great.
Like you said, leslie, that'scool.
How can we kind of use that fun?

(01:00:24):
It's so, like you said,creative expressive, it's fun,
it's an outlet, it's just, it'sa lot of fun to do.

Speaker 7 (01:00:30):
I think it's been really fun too to be able to
have, like cause we'll do, youknow kind of I don't know what
you would call it like ourlittle core group, um, you know,
with the really elaboratecostumes.
But, um, we also like kind ofgetting trying to get our whole
you know our whole hashtagRandopi involved in a costume
theme.
So the first year that we ran,we actually had two big group

(01:00:57):
costumes that we wereencouraging everybody to
participate in.
One was Toy Story, and I thinkthat was for the 5K, and then
was it the 10K, it was Alice inWonderland, and so we did those
two themes for 2020.
I think that was for the 5k,and then was it the 10k, it was
Alice in Wonderland, and so wedid those two themes for um 2020
.
And then we did um, the Cocotheme, um, with the rainbow
skeletons, and we Adalys made areally amazing shirt that said,

(01:01:19):
um, I'm not a Poco Loco, I'm,I'm just dopey.
Is that what it said?
Yes, um, and she made beautifullike light up ears for us and
um, and so, you know, lots ofpeople could participate in that
way.
So it wasn't something that wastoo elaborate, but we were all
kind of matching and that wasreally awesome to see so many
people out there.
And then, of course, um, thispast marathon weekend for the

(01:01:42):
10k, um, we did the vintagedopey cheerleaders and that was
really awesome to see so manypeople on the course with the
shirts and you know, being allpart of the same team, rooting
each other on.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
I still have my shirt .
I should have worn it for thisget together.
I just saw it in the closetyesterday or so.

Speaker 10 (01:02:04):
Cool, and you know, I love that phrase because we
run it with Bob actually.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Yes, sure, yeah we sure did.
Yes, we did.
It's always fun when we gettogether with you guys.

Speaker 7 (01:02:18):
And we may.
We may have something coming upfor next Dopey yeah.
Might be landing here soon.

Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
So that was going into my question because I was
gonna say do you have thisyear's?

Speaker 10 (01:02:36):
planned.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
We are planning something, yes, so give us a
clue besides landing, becauseI'm we already did, I'm just
kidding.

Speaker 10 (01:02:47):
Well, it's still on early planning, but we can tell
you, you know, fasten yourseatbelt and we are getting
ready for landing.

Speaker 9 (01:02:59):
So, yes, we've been tossing around a lot of ideas.
The cool thing about this is wehave the idea of different
tiers of commitment, sodifferent levels of costuming,
so people that want to keep it alittle bit more low-key, kind
of easy.
We have something that wouldtie into that group costume
Chris is putting his hand upkind of mid-level if you want to

(01:03:23):
have like a little bit morecostumey but but not too
elaborate over the top.
Some some, some differentlevels, and then there's the
extreme If you want to do whatwe're high commitment, extra,
extra, like we like to do.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
I've seen Chris go full commitment to the costume.

Speaker 10 (01:03:39):
Oh yeah, it's an evolution of Chris.
We converted him.

Speaker 9 (01:03:44):
I think we're going to veto.
You can't be doing an easycostume.

Speaker 8 (01:03:47):
Well, I mean, you know, first you join the group
and you're like I'm not doingany costumes, and then, before
you know it, you're wearing likea Rapunzel gown for a 5K.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
I salute you for that one, my friend, that was
impressive.

Speaker 10 (01:04:06):
Or the guy that doesn't want to wear a costume
and they show up for a 5K with apair of jeans.

Speaker 8 (01:04:12):
Yes, oh God the Coco.

Speaker 9 (01:04:16):
That was smart.

Speaker 8 (01:04:18):
Oh, that was crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Well, speaking of all these hints that you're
dropping, and based on thosehints, one of my favorite group
costumes that your group did afew years ago or a few races ago
, was the soren flightattendants, and you all got you
all got published in somethingor featured in something.
I can't remember what that was.

(01:04:41):
What, what, what publication orwhat website were you all
featured on for that?

Speaker 10 (01:04:46):
I think it was on PhotoPass on Instagram and
Facebook, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Okay, so you entered the echelon right up there with
Tony in terms of getting yourRun Disney photos as part of the
PhotoPass specific account,okay, very cool, but we kept our
shirts on.
That's very true as well.

Speaker 7 (01:05:11):
Otherwise you'd have been in another magazine we go
with this we're trying to addthat to run dopey after dark.

Speaker 10 (01:05:17):
Yeah, yeah but that costume was amazing.
Like there was a lot of like.
People were like, oh my god, Ilove it.
And because, um, it startedwhen, uh, leslie and I were like
a version like more similar tothe cast member um uniform or

(01:05:40):
costume, um back in 2020, and,uh, we loved it, like it was
amazing.
And then it was our firstmatching costume.
It was our first matchingcostume yeah, the one who
started it all.
And then we were like, oh, whatif?
Because we have kind of ourtrademark of this dapper kind of

(01:06:05):
style, that we love that style.
So we were like, oh, maybe wecan rehash Soaring and do it
like dapper style, and this timewe can have our Patrick.
So because we had Joe, then hewas like, oh my God, I want to
do like a costume collaborationwith you guys sometime.

(01:06:26):
So we were like, would you runin a suit?
And he was like, yes, okay,let's do it, you are our Patrick
then.

Speaker 9 (01:06:36):
Oh, that was a fun race.
We had so much, so manyshenanigans.
Yes, A lot of things happening.

Speaker 10 (01:06:43):
And the pictures were amazing, like the colors
and stuff.
It was like very popping.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
All right.
As much fun as it's been, it'stime to bring this in for a
landing.
Just a couple more questions,gang, I want you to think about
this one how has your Run Disneyexperience, your racing
experience, changed over timewith Run Dopey?

Speaker 8 (01:07:13):
racing experience changed over time with Run Dopey
.
Run Dopey has totallytransformed how I feel about
running in a positive way.
When I first joined the group, Iwas pretty focused on how fast
I could run some of these raceswhich is okay, but I've had to
slow down a lot the last year ortwo due to health concerns and

(01:07:37):
I feel like if I didn't havepeople there that were telling
me that it was okay just tofinish the race, that I would
have quit running probablyentirely a long time ago.
So, yeah, I think it's been.

Speaker 10 (01:07:53):
it's it's been, it's been very positive for me, I
can say a hundred percent thatif it wasn't for Run Dopey and
all the Run Disney community, Iwould not be running at all.
Um, I, I started runningbecause I wanted to dress up at
Disney.
So that's the reality.
Um, I was like, okay, so I loveto dress up.

(01:08:15):
I cannot do it at the parks.
Um, that was before discoveringbounding, whatever.
But back to it.
Um, it was like so the only waythat I can like dress up at
Disney is like in run Disneyevents.
So I guess I need to startrunning.
So that was my, my, my why?
At first, not very deep, butthat's the reality.

(01:08:41):
It was like the community andlike the all the encouragement
and all the fantastic peoplethat it kept me running over the
years.

Speaker 7 (01:09:03):
For me, it went from being an event that was exciting
and that I would look forwardto, you know, just as an event,
but now it's like a familyreunion and it's um, it's not
just going for the running, it'sa whole experience, it's going
for the people, it's going forum, all the fun I know we're
going to have during thatweekend and um, and then, you
know, making new friends andencouraging them to to meet

(01:09:24):
their goals and um, I know Inever in a million years would
thought I, you know, would havethought that I was going to run
a marathon and now to say thatI've run several, like that's,
it's crazy to think of, but it's, you know, it's all really
because of this group.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
Do you guys ever get emotional at the finish line on
marathon day, especiallythinking about what the group
has become?

Speaker 10 (01:09:48):
For me.
I cry about everything.
Like I cry when I run throughMain Street, when I see the
castle, I cry.
Like all the time I ugly cry.
Like my first marathon I uglycried Like I couldn't like keep
my face straight.

(01:10:08):
And but, as I said before, oneof my favorite things, it's like
listening to people yellinglike hashtag Rondopi, on the
course, you know, because maybethey don't know your name like
right away or, but they dorecognize you and they know,

(01:10:28):
recognize you and they know thatyou are hashtag Grand Jopi.
So every time that I listen andit's like more and more and
more every time.
So it definitely works my heart, like every race and it's it's
just emotional.
Yeah, I want to share somethingvery special from this year
marathon day experience that Ihad.

(01:10:49):
So I've been battling thisplantar fasciitis.
It's very bad, like it's awful.
So this year marathon it was astruggle for me.
It was a lot of pain, a lot ofstubbornness, a lot of
determination, a lot of pain, alot of stubbornness, a lot of

(01:11:12):
determination, and that morningI was completely like obviously
I'm always confident and I'malways like I positive, but I
was in so much pain that I Iwasn't sure that I was going to
finish that race and JeffGalloway was on stage and he
said I'm going to be on thefinish line giving high fives.

(01:11:36):
So as soon as I listened to thatI was like I'm getting that
high five, I'm determined thatI'm going to get that high five
at the end.
And every time that it was verypainful, it was very hard, it
was like when the idea of justquitting it was crossing my mind

(01:12:01):
.
I was like nope, I just need togo for my high five from Jeff
Galloway, I just need to go formy high five from Jeff Galloway.
And when I finally got to thefinish line area, I saw Jeff and
I got my high five.
I was like crying like a littlebaby and actually Paula got

(01:12:25):
snapped a picture of that andit's like it was a very special
moment.
So it was, it was something.

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
Emotions run high at that event.
They absolutely do.
Friends, if you haven't done itbefore, this is some of what
you're in for and we're not.
We're not all a bunch of oldsofties here, I'm telling you.
It hits me too.

Speaker 5 (01:12:51):
So, to kind of sum this all up, if you could send
one message to every runnerwho's part of Run Dopey or part
of the Run Disney community ingeneral, what would it be?

Speaker 8 (01:13:02):
Don't.
Don't beat yourself up.
Let yourself have bad runs.
Let yourself have bad runs.
Let yourself have bad weeks.
Let yourself have bad months,because they happen.
Tom Brady his first pass incollege was a pick six.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
He should have quit right then and there.

Speaker 8 (01:13:22):
Right, exactly, that's exactly the point,
Exactly the point.

Speaker 7 (01:13:43):
I have no idea what that means Exactly.
That's exactly the good runs,the bad runs to really interact
with people in the group,because the more that you put
out there and the more that youshare, the more the group is
able to give back to you in theform of support and
encouragement, and I know thatwithout that I don't know what I

(01:14:05):
would have done.
That first OB.
I think that that's really whatgot me through my training.
You know, really trust thetraining.
There's a reason why so manypeople use this method.
There's a reason why you knowpeople keep coming back to it
and keep following it over andover again because we know it
will get you across the finishline.
So the you know, if you missone run, it's okay, but get back

(01:14:28):
to it.
You know, like Chris said,you're going to have bad days,
but don't let that stop you fromgetting back out there, putting
those shoes back on and gettingback to those runs and going
out for it again.
So that that would be my twowords of advice is um, trust the
training, keep at it one run ata time and really share with

(01:14:49):
the group and be vulnerable andlet us be there for you through
all, through all of it.

Speaker 10 (01:14:55):
My advice is that you are stronger that you think
always.
You are so much stronger thanyou think, like you need to keep
a positive attitude, like whenyou be positive, like everything
comes back to you and it's,it's.

(01:15:16):
It's a game changer.
I always said that for firsttime dopies, that that morning
of the full marathon, when youwake up, your first thought is
going to be there's no way I canrun 26.2 miles today.
There's no way I'm so trashed,I'm so tired, I'm so sleepy.

(01:15:37):
But believe me, you can Believein you.
You're stronger than you think.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
All right friends.
Gosh, it's been great seeingyou.
I knew I'd enjoy it.
We miss you and we're glad youwere able to join us this
evening.
Thanks for spending the time.
Thanks for giving what is somegood, solid advice.
Our friends are going to hearthose kind of things from us
over the next couple of months,but it's good to hear from other

(01:16:05):
people also, so we appreciateit, gosh, we're looking forward
to seeing you in October.
Most of you, I think, I'll bethere.
I see you at Dallas.
I see you shaking your head.
I know You'll be the firstperson I see at the Expo, I'll
bet you.

(01:16:25):
All right friends, thanks a lot, we will see you.
You All right friends, thanks alot, we will see you soon.
Thank you guys, I really enjoytalking with the run dopey crew.
I mean, we did, we met themearly on and they've been part
of our race weekends and ifyou're new to the rise and run
team, you'll see what I'mtalking about.

(01:16:45):
When we all get together and wewill mention it over and over
and over again.
As to where you can find usbefore the races, well, the run
dopey crew's right next to usand I always I'm chuckling just
thinking about it I'm making aprediction now.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
I think one of their costumes during this upcoming
race season will now havesomething to do with an
alligator, because if they'rethe shenanigans- the shenanigans
.
The shenanigans.
There's going to be some typeof Florida reptile theme going
on for one of these races.

Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
I feel like I like that idea.
We'll see what happens, butit's a fun group and they had a
lot of good things to say aboutgetting ready for Dopey A lot of
things that we'll repeat in thenext.
What did I say?
27 weeks, uh, but it's all good.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks, it was great to see you.
We look forward to seeing youagain soon.
Oh, let's see a couple ofannouncements.

(01:17:44):
If you're heading out toCalifornia for the Disneyland
Halloween race, there is ameetup Meetup at Disneyland.
I've got it as two in theafternoon on Saturday.
They've got a great place formeetups there.
It's the picnic area, and ifyou are in the area at

(01:18:10):
Disneyland and if you haven'tbeen there before, you'll be
able to figure this out.
There's an area betweenDisneyland what we from Walt
Disney World call Magic Kingdom,but Disneyland, and then
Disney's California Adventurewould be at your back.
So you're looking at the frontgate to Disneyland, look over at

(01:18:33):
about the 10 o'clock positionand there are some storage,
lockers, restrooms, restrooms,and around there there's a
hedged area that says picnicarea and you'll be able to find
it.
It's a great place to have ameetup.
So, two o'clock, two o'clock,saturday, our, uh, our friend

(01:18:56):
Alec at Hawaiian pizza apparelhas made the alien shirt ready
and available for the five K atWalt Disney world marathon
weekend marathon weekend, it's a.
She did, as always, a greatlooking job.
These are nice shirts.
I saw several of you havealready placed them on order.

(01:19:18):
Looks like fun.
That information is pinned atthe top of our facebook group
page in the featured section.
I saw something on Reddit aboutBrooks having shoes available
in the fall again.
Guys, did you see anythingthere?
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
I did see it looks like Run.
Disney and Brooks did acollaboration Instagram reel
this past week to make the uh,the big announcement that, even
though this will be the lastdisneyland halloween race
weekend, in in a while.
Uh, there will be specialtyshoes available at that expo, as

(01:20:00):
well as shoes this octoberwhich is still really weird to
say that we're having to rundisney race in october but for
wine and dine.
Uh, so you know the the two bigfall races, uh, the start off
this new season will continuethat awesome partnership with
Brooks.
So, uh, I cannot wait, uh, tosee the designs there, and I

(01:20:22):
think I also did see somethingthat the uh, I don't know if we
want to call them the OG Brooksshoes that got released during
Springtime Surprise.
Apparently, a bunch that wentout of stock post that race
weekend will be coming back instock.
Oh, okay, so we'll have to keepour eyes peeled.

(01:20:44):
So if you missed out duringSpringtime Surprise, you can
head over to brookscom and beable to purchase those Nice.

Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
Got to tell you I like mine.
I've been wearing my Mickeyshoes quite a bit and I like
them.
All right, my friends, it'stime for the race report.
The race report is brought toyou by our friend Tom Stokes of
Stoked Metabolic Training.
Stokesfit slash rise and runcoaching is the site.

(01:21:15):
Tom's eight-week challengestarts next week, July 7th, so
there's still time to get in.
It's a great deal.
So there's still time to get in.
It's a great deal.
Eight weeks.
Tom talks about strengthtraining and about nutrition and
perhaps a little weight loss inthere, but it's good stuff.

(01:21:37):
So that information is on ourFacebook page also and it's
pinned into the featured section.
Let's take a look at the racesfor the week.
We actually had one onWednesday in St Louis.
This one was rescheduled.
It was originally scheduled forGlobal Running Day but there

(01:22:01):
was some terrible weather in theMidwest and especially in the
St Louis area, so it wasrescheduled, went off this
Wednesday.
That's the Fleet Feets Big Run5K.
Katie was there.
Katie says that she wouldrather have run in the tornado
because the real fieldtemperature for this race at the

(01:22:21):
start was 100 degrees.
She used her come from awaymantra STFD.
In summary, holy heck, it washot.
Thank goodness they had dullwhip at the end and hallelujah
that it's over.
On Thursday we had the TomFleming Sunset Classic 5-mile

(01:22:48):
run and featured in this week'sRace Report.
Spotlight is the runner of thatrace, John.
Welcome to the Rise and Runpodcast.
Welcome Bob.
This is the highlight of mylife.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
Wait, when I interviewed you during your spot
or your quasi-spotlight theother week, that wasn't the
highlight of your life.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
This is the highlight of your life it's bob oh, I see
, okay, so all right, I'm gonnasee myself out for the rest of
the episode.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
Good night everybody so, uh, so, john, this this race
, the tom fleming sunset, wherewas it?

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
It's basically in Bluefield and Glen Ridge.
It runs to both towns.

Speaker 4 (01:23:33):
That's right near you right, right by me.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
Rides by my house twice so I have a.
We'll get to that later Twoextra aid stations there, if you
really want to look at it, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
So tell us, John, how did you get started running?
That's the standard race reportspotlight question how did you
get started running?

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
So picture this back in the summer of 77.
Oh, it wasn't, there was a girl.
No, there wasn't a girl.
I was playing stick ball and Iwas all ready to go up at bat,
got my Richie Jackson jersey onand ready to go yard and boom, I
hit that ball.
I hear crash right through theschool window and then, guess

(01:24:13):
what, janitor goes.
Who did that?
And I started running.
You haven't stopped, haven'tstopped since.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
That's not how.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
I started running.

Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
I was going to say that sounded like a Billy Joel
line.
I learned stickball as a formaleducation.

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
Yep, that's yeah.
But I did play stick ball in 77, but uh, who didn't?
If you're in the city, well,that's school, yeah.
So I started running.
Just, you know, in school didthe miles do all that stuff.
But this started up again laterin life, trying to, you know,
get in shape, lose some weightand get healthy.

(01:24:48):
You know the other other, not agirl story that starts why did
I start running?

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
OK, and when did you start running at Disney?

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
Star Wars 2019.
Unfortunately, it was the lastone.
Well, john, tell us about thisrace.
Well, this race, it's beengoing on, for this was the 37th
running of it.
I think it's been going, but Ithink it's been, you know, shut
down a couple of times becauseof COVID, other stuff going on,
but it started in the 80s, soit's been going on.

(01:25:23):
It's the last Thursday of Junefor the.
You know, it's the lastThursday of June, this race, and
I guess one of the reasons theycall it the sunset you run up
sunset street, so I don't knowthat's why they call it a good
reason.
Good reason, yeah, it's.
It's a five mile run.
It's uh a racist charity forthe best kids in our town, uh,

(01:25:45):
the special needs special, youknow, education children in our
town.
So it's a, it's a good cause.
I was sitting therecontemplating all week if I was
going to run this race becausethe weather forecast was not
looking good that week with thatthat heat wave we had where it
was still about 85, 90 degreesat night.

(01:26:07):
I'm I'm, like you know, at six,seven, six o'clock, seven
o'clock at night.
I don't think I want to do this, you know so, but luckily it
broke.
It was only 69 degrees at start.

Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
That's not too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
I said, okay, I'll do it, I'll make the run.
So some backstory also.
I kind of ran, not ran.
I kind of walked two and a halfmiles of that course before it
started because I had put the noparking signs out for the
street so that cars weren't onthe street that day.

(01:26:40):
So I kind of got a preview ofthe course.
So it was, it was, it wasinteresting.
So, but yeah, so I was by.
You said it ran by your house,huh, yep, twice.
So it was, it was, it wasinteresting.
So.
But yeah, so that was my.
Uh, you said it ran by yourhouse, huh, yep, twice.
So uh, I told my wife I go onthe back end of the course.
I'm probably at mile three andthree quarters, you know.

(01:27:01):
So, uh, I said, just have abottle of water ready for me,
ready to go, and uh and uh, so Icould keep going.
So she gave me the handoff ofthe bottle right there.
It was funny.
So some of the aid stations,like it says, people
volunteering, and you know someof them had bottled water.

(01:27:22):
Some of them tasted like 1977water with the garden hose.
So you know that garden hose,yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
that garden hose taste to it.
It was cold so it was good.
So, but it was good.
I went in with a goal sayingdon't want to finish last.
I didn't finish last, so I was.
I was very happy with it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
Well, that's good.

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
Afterwards they get hot dogs.
You get some ice cream whichthey had little Dole Whips.
So I had a little Dole Whip onthe way I saw your picture.
Yeah, it's not the same.
Trust me.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
I was going to say I wanted to ask your opinion
because I saw them in thegrocery store once, got so
excited and bought them and allI could taste was coconut.
I couldn't taste pineapple.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
It's not the same, they don't hit the same, I don't
know, so that then you get twobeers, so nothing special.
Bud Light, if you want to callthat beer, or Michelob Ultra.
So I took.
Michelob Ultra yeah.
That was it.
So then it was fun.
I mean, it's been fun.
I've been doing it for the lastcouple of years, so I want to

(01:28:28):
keep trying to do it again.

Speaker 4 (01:28:29):
Good deal.
Well, John, we'd like to thankyou for taking time out of your
schedule.
When will we see you at DisneyWorld?

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
Well, first I'm doing Bird in Hand and then I will be
going to Disney World inOctober to do Wine and Dine
Weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
Well, we hope to see you there, John.
I do Wine and Dine.

Speaker 1 (01:28:48):
Weekend.
Well, we hope to see you there.
John, I hope to see you too,and I hope to see Greg there too
, my favorite host of thepodcast.
Oh, don't start sucking up tome now, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
John, thanks for playing along.

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
I appreciate it.
Maybe it's Tom, I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 (01:29:03):
Yeah, all right.
Oh, good stuff.
All right, let's move on toSaturday and go to England.
The uh, regents Park, regentsPark 5k in London.
Valerie, who's still onvacation, and her husband, rick,
were there.
Rick, uh, this was his firstofficial 5k and though I don't
have a report from Valerie andRick, I think first official 5k.

(01:29:26):
Let's take a chance.
And Rick, this PR bell's foryou In and John, if you know,
you can help me out here.
Ronconcomo, new York, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Ronconcomo.

Speaker 4 (01:29:42):
Yep, all right, the Lieutenant Michael P Murphy run
around the lake half marathon.
The course runs three timesaround Lake Ronconcomo, named
after Lieutenant Murphy.
If you saw the movie LoneSurvivor which starred Mark

(01:30:03):
Wahlberg, I think, as MauriceLuttrell True story of a group
Lieutenant Murphy ended up beingawarded the Medal of Honor
posthumously for his activity.
He's become famous.
You've got this race.
He was from this area, he wasfrom Lake Placid.

(01:30:23):
I think Someone tells us wherehe was from.
I'm not sure.
I'll find out in a moment.
Yeah, and then every fallpeople do the MRF, which is an
insane number of push-ups andchin-ups.
You guys know what I'm talkingabout.
I bet Jack's done it the MRF.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
They usually do it.
I thought they do it likeMemorial Day weekend or
something like that.
Yeah, that sounds right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:48):
Yeah, the Murph, they usually do it.
I thought they do it likeMemorial Day weekend or
something like that.
Yeah, that sounds right.
Yeah, we had friends running it.
Megan ran it, so there weresome hilly parts.
Water stops every mile, whichis nice.
It made things more manageable.
Nice big celebration at the endof the race.
Came away with a good timedespite not really having a
great training cycle.
Would absolutely do this oneagain.

(01:31:09):
Regina was there.
Again, the course support worthnoting Water, electrolytes,
honey, stinger waffles and nutswith M&Ms Good stuff, no proof
of time.
Did, however, get a 29-minutehalf marathon PR Regina.

(01:31:31):
That's big.
Two minutes per mile, that'soutstanding.
Dina was there this year.
She leveled up to the half,which she had not done before,
hoping to PR this one.
This is not the time to PR.
We just said that Regina did.
But this, this is not the timeto pr.
We just said that regina did,but this really is not pr time.

(01:31:52):
This is too hot in most casesfor prs.
Uh, let's see the hills woredown.
She did finish strong.
Support must have been great,because all of our runners made
a note of it.
The race is special and Dinasays she's grateful to have been
a part of it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
Yeah, so Lieutenant Murphy was from Long Island.

Speaker 4 (01:32:18):
Long Island.
Thank you, I said Lake Placid.
He was from Long Island.
Thank you, john, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
Where the race was in Rock and Concomo.

Speaker 4 (01:32:26):
Yeah, that certainly makes sense Because Lake Placid
is upstate somewhere, it's notnot near there.
I knew there was an L in it,john.
So Lake Placid, long Island,they're about the same right?
Yeah, close, they're close.
Nashville, tennessee, held theall American firecracker four

(01:32:49):
miler.
We got one today, on Saturday.
We'll be back to this one onSunday.
Amy did this one, her firstfour miler.
Almost asked to run the eight,but she's glad she didn't.
The final mile of this race waswithout shade and uphill.
That should be illegal.
Charged hard into it.

(01:33:09):
Finished with an age groupsecond place finish.
Good job there.
Let's go to stevenville, texas,where our friend jason did the
second annual stevenvillerunning club beer run.
This is you guys talking aboutloopy loopers?
This is kind of the same idea3.1 mile loop.

(01:33:32):
You run as many as you want, asmany as you can, but you drink
a four ounce beer at theconclusion of every lap.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
I can guarantee we will not be doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:43):
I would not be good at this now.
Four ounce, that's not too bad,but I would not be good at this
Now.
Four rounds, that's not too bad, but I would not be good at
this.
Jason, I think, did pretty well.
He planned to do seven laps.
Let's see how he did.
First of all, it was hot, buthe stayed cool in his rise and
run shirt, so that helped himout.
Got started early, that wassmart.
He did nail his seven-loop goaland he did finish the cup at

(01:34:09):
the end of each loop.
So he ends up with 22 miles andseven cups of beer, plus a
couple of refills, becauseapparently seven wasn't enough.
And at the end he went to BJ'srestaurant and bar and
celebrated with pizza and no,not another beer, he had a

(01:34:30):
strawberry margarita this time.
Jason, good job, congrats.
Browning Montana.
Another vacation races, thisone the Glacier Half Marathon.
Sarah and her sister Emilystarted with a five-mile climb,
rewarded with incredible views.

(01:34:50):
I imagine they say add this oneto your vacation race wishlist
If you're traveling out in thatdirection.
It was a race in Doylestownthis weekend.
Greg, the dairy air 10 K I hadto say that carefully.
The Dairy Air 10K.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
I bet a lot of people were moving during that race.

Speaker 4 (01:35:16):
I guess yeah.
What you said, man.
What you said let's see hereWasn't great, Wasn't bad, it was
okay.
It felt good to be out therebecause I guess it was a little
cooler.
I know you guys went throughthat heat wave and it got a
little cooler over the weekend.
She joined up with a fellow runwalk run runner for the first

(01:35:37):
five kilometers A run Disneyrunner, but not a rising runner.
I do hope you worked on that,Yvette, and if you did, we
appreciate it.
Christine did her first ever10-miler in Stillwater,
Minnesota, the Lift Bridge RoadRaces.

(01:35:57):
First ever 10-miler, Christine.
That's a PR.
Lori's in Akron, Ohio, for theNational Interstate 8K, part one
of three races to make up theAkron Marathon Race Series.
She slowed down in the heat forthis one.
Good move.

(01:36:18):
Great post-race partyChick-fil-A, popsicles, beer or
soft drinks Good job again onthat, Lori.
Joe the true grits 5k.
Now joe never tells us wherehe's running.
I just assume he's running infort smith, arkansas.
Didn't place this time but hadan acceptable time, which was

(01:36:41):
nice.
Acceptable meaning balloon ladyor better time.
So good job, Joe.
Hard to place when the agegroup is 61 to 99.
I agree, I think that stinks.
I don't think they should dothat If they break out younger
age groups to five or 10 years.
They should do the same for theseniors In Orting Washington.

(01:37:04):
I could be pronouncing thatwrong, but I think that's right.
Jessica did the Foothills DashHalf Marathon Talk about last
minute.
She found this race on aThursday and entered it.
Forgot her fuel at home.
They gave her a Fig Newton whenshe registered so she used that
.
I like this.

(01:37:25):
She found a goo gel and a packof sports beans that been in our
car for a while.
They had melted together in theheat oh gosh she made do with
that.
There were oranges on the course.
Uh, wanted to take it easy likea training run.
Let's see she.
Uh, she did okay.

(01:37:45):
Finished faster than shestarted.
Negative splits Finished agegroup second.
That's pretty cool.
Last minute eating melted gooseand finished age group second.
First ever age group finish,nice job.
Let's go to Muskegon Michigan,where Bill did the Trinity

(01:38:06):
Health Seaway Run Great weather.
Third half marathon.
He was hanging around the 11minute pacer feeling pretty good
.
About mile 6 he had to stop fora water break and walk just a
little bit and when he headedback again, boom, no more 11
minute pacer Couldn't find him.
Still able to do a new PR,shaving 4 minutes off his

(01:38:27):
previous best time.
Finished in 226 and change.
That's good for a POT alsoNicely done.
And catch this 226 and changeis 13th out of 14th in the age
group.
That's a tough age group.
His wife, jen, and his son, hisdaughter, nicole, nicole, 10

(01:38:49):
year old daughter ran the 5k.
Nicole had a new pr 10 year oldnicole ran the 5k in 30 minutes
and 23 seconds.
Nicole, way to go.
This pr bell is for you.
30 minutes and 23 seconds 10 10years old, nice job.
Grace was in Central Park, newYork, for the New York LGBT

(01:39:11):
Pride Run for Mylar.
She says, very correctly, thisis not the weather for time
goals.
She says she's not in shape,even if it was good weather, but
that's I don't know.
Grace, that sounds like you'redoing all right.
Didn't have any goals for therace, but to enjoy herself and
after she finished, able to joinsome friends who were out

(01:39:32):
cheering, which was a great wayto wrap up the morning.
Let's move on to Sunday, theCambridge Summer Classic 5K Road
Race.
Cambridge, massachusetts.
Jake with his 8-year-old son,teddy, did this one Relaxed 5K
for Jake.
Jake had done a 20-miler theday before, so this was a nice

(01:39:59):
easy one.
But it's Teddy's first 5K.
Eight years old Teddy startedquestioning his life choices.
Around mile two and a half.
Dad reminded him that that'spretty normal Every race is
about.
There's some point when he'dlike to be finished.
But he also reminded Teddy hey,we got to get back to the car,

(01:40:20):
so we might as well keep onrunning.
That's exactly what he did andof course it wasn't long after
that he turned the corner, sawthe finish line and sprinted for
it.
So first ever 5K, teddy.
That's a PR.
Good job, buddy, we had someother friends there.
Rob was there.
He said it's a great course,fast and flat.

(01:40:43):
The race director called it orthe race announcer called it
flassed.
Look more words.
We got shenanigator and now wegot flassed.
I like that.
Yeah, a little warm.
Pr might have been a stretch, Iagree, not PR time, happy with

(01:41:03):
a 26.10 finish, which Rob saysis pretty good for him.
Rob, that's pretty good foranybody.
26-minute 5K, I think that'soutstanding, good job.
Sophie and Audrey were therewith their mom and younger
sister Hot at the end of therace.
Wasn't their day for a PR?

(01:41:24):
Yeah, we all agree on that.
Ladies, good job.
Bunch of folks out there inCambridge, mass and Livonia,
michigan, the Livonia Spree 5K.
This thing only cost $7.50 toenter.
Christy decided she couldn'tpass that up.
The price celebrates Livonia's75th anniversary, warm in
Michigan.
But she met her time goal.
Saw a student that she subbedfor many times who was

(01:41:47):
struggling near the end of therace.
As she passed him she calledhim by name, told him, hey, come
run with me, encouraged him todig deep.
Then her brain switched gearswhen she saw her family waiting
for her at the finish line andshe blew off that guy and just
ran, ran by.
Uh, no medals, did get shirtsand a great pancake breakfast.

(01:42:09):
I made that part up aboutChristy blowing people off.
I don't believe she would dothat In New Orleans.
The Pride Run 5K Christine didit, proud to say she had a great
race, did her first double backto go meet her husband on the
course who was walking it.
Yeah, he felt like a big shotgoing back out on the course to
meet somebody who's still outthere.

(01:42:30):
Finish again with him for atotal of almost five miles.
But first on her 5k she said anew 5k PR.
Nashville, tennessee.
We're back.
We talked about this oneyesterday, the all American
firecracker-miler.
On Saturday it was the 4-miler.
On Sunday Alex and Angela werethere.

(01:42:51):
What they did is they turtledthis race, which in this event
was essentially the BalloonLady's roll, breeze and cloud
cover in the last four miles.
That helped Dead last to start,dead last to finish.
Still a PR, because it's thefirst time they've done eight
miles.
Yeah, baby, okay.

(01:43:13):
Fort mitchell, kentucky.
Uh, the dummy run 5k.
Carol did this one.
Fort mitchell is the home ofthe vent haven museum, the only
museum in the us dedicated toventriloquism and ventriloquist
figures, and I loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
This was my favorite race report of the entire week.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
Yes, if you do the flying I'm sorry, no because,
you're not my hero john, if youdo the flying pig when you cross
over the bridge out ofcincinnati and into Kentucky,
yeah, that's not Fort Mitchell.
Fort Mitchell's not far fromthere, that's I forget the name

(01:43:55):
of that Newton Fort Mitchell's.
Close enough, greg, that if yougo to do the Flying Pig, you
can visit this.
It's only maybe 20 milessouthwest of Cincinnati.
Let's see.
The race goes on at the end ofJune and because of this they
call it the Dummy Run 5K.
About 300 people, each one ofthem representing their own

(01:44:15):
particular dummy.
The dummies, the ventriloquistdummies, lounge in the air
conditioner while the runnersare all out on the course.
That's cruel, kind of debatablewho the real dummies are.
Right, jack.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
I'm thinking duo costume for this in the future.

Speaker 5 (01:44:33):
I mean, if you do it, I would do it with you.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Well, I mean, I'll figure out a way to put you on
my lap while we run and we couldjust be a comedic act, Maybe
just for the 5K though.

Speaker 5 (01:44:45):
Yeah, I wouldn't want to do much more than that we
should have like the test track,like the original um soundtrack
in the background perfect idealet's see.

Speaker 4 (01:44:59):
Erin wanted us to know that she was on the disney
dream and five miles.
I guess she ran five miles.
I don't know whether she ranfive or whether she ran some and
the ship moved a little bit.
Anyway, she was wearing a Riseand Run shirt, so it all counts.
That's good.
And as of today, day ofrecording, happy Canada Day
everybody.
And, by the way, friends Ishould have mentioned this at

(01:45:21):
the top Happy Independence Day.
Here in the US.
On Friday Our friend Tara ranthe Canada Day 5K in Ottawa.
Could have been wet and stormy,but it turned out to be hot and
sunny.
Great turnout for the local 5KCanada Day race in the nation's

(01:45:44):
capital.
Tara says she's so proud of herhusband, a non-runner, for
joining her and getting it doneon this race.
And that, my friends, is therace report for episode 197.
That'll wrap it up, friends,and if you run, you know you are

(01:46:06):
our friend.
And please, please, join us onour Zoom call this Thursday.
Information is posted on theFacebook group.
We're off and running.
The countdown to the Disneylandand Disney World races is in
full swing.
Get the training done, but besmart.

(01:46:28):
Take it easy in this heat.
Do your best.
Happy running.

Speaker 2 (01:46:42):
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information about Run Disney andis in no way affiliated with
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Any information or advicediscussed on this podcast should
not be considered medicaladvice and should always consult
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