209: Get PhotoPass Ready with the Council of Costumes

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Rise and run From start to the run.
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hi, this is Kayla Kaiser and I'm calling you from
the boardwalk in Venice Beach inlovely, sunny Southern
California, and I am so gratefulfor the Rise and Run podcast.
I definitely count myself as aDisney runner, even if I can't

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afford to do a perfect season,because I love getting up early
in the morning and listening tothe Rise and Run podcast while I
get in my miles.
See you all out there, happyrunning.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
All the way from Southern California.
It's Kayla to introduce thisepisode.
Thank you, kayla.
Hey, kayla, believe me, weunderstand about the perfect
season thing and the financing,the whole deal.
We, we get it, we're with you,but we hope to see you soon.

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Thanks for that intro, friends.
Thank you for joining us forepisode 209 of the Rise and Run
Podcast.
I'm Bob.
I'm here this week with JackHiya, with Alicia Hello.
With John hey, how you doing.
And with Greg, hey, hey.
Hey, good to see you.
My friends, let's see Episode209,.

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We have returning for the firsttime in just about a year, the
Rise and Run Podcast Council ofCostumes here to talk about all
things Run Disney Costumes.
Whether you're an experiencedcostumer or new to all of this,
we think you'll enjoy hearingfrom our friends.
Liz joins us for the RaceReport Spotlight.

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Liz was with us a couple ofmonths back with her brother,
the Flying Fanglers.
Liz completed the Connecticut169.
She ran her 169th race in adifferent town in the state of
Connecticut and she's here totell us about that Now.

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We know the Berlin Marathon wasthis past week, but on those
events that are further away,we'd like to give our friends a
little more time to get back.
So we will be recapping theBerlin Marathon next week in
episode 210.

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All right, friends, let's seehere An update.
A couple of weeks back, ourbuddy, mark Lane Holbert, was
with us and Mark talked about ahandbook that they were working
on and they would have ready forus soon.
That handbook is ready now.
They were going, and Mark andhis friends I'm not sure exactly

(05:02):
how this worked out, but hesent me a note that said Bob, we
wanted to make it available forfree, but we're going to have
to put it on Amazon and byputting it on Amazon we've got
to charge something.
So it's 99 cents.
So Mark's handbook, which isthe mini handbook of running
therapy how movement becomesmedicine for the mind is

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available in a Kindle editionfor 99 cents, we'll have the
link available for you.
Looking back, bird in hand.
We missed this.
I knew we'd missed something,our friend Kerry.
We don't want to miss this part.
Kerry PR'd the bird in handhalf by two minutes.

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Sorry, carrie, I don't know howwe missed you, but I'm glad
we're able to make it up rightnow.
All right, friends, let's lookat the training schedule.
Wine and dine.
Wine and dine is four weeks.
The expo is four weeks fromtoday.
Gosh, hey gang.

(06:11):
You know for a lot of us, Iknow for Alicia and I know for
Greg.
We are about to enter our 10thrun, disney season, and they all
started.
And John, I think you came alittle later.
And Jack, I'm not sure 2018.
Okay, but 2016,.
Wine and Dine was our firstrace at Disney World, and so

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this is the beginning of our10th season.
Remember how excited you werebefore that first race.
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
Oh man, I do I feel like I was nervous, but I was
very excited to experiencesomething.
I had never done a big racebefore, and so it was very new
to me.
Um, but having the atmospherethat was there and seeing all
the people, I warmed up prettyquickly and enjoyed the
experience.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
So yeah, I had done big races before.
But I'll tell you what Iremember as much.
I remember two things.
I remember being so excitedwhen I got registered.
The process was a little bitdifferent back in those days,
but not much same basic idea Iremember.
So I was at work and I was soexcited.

(07:25):
I worked on the ground floor, Iwent out and kind of ran around
the parking lot for a whilebecause I was so fired up that I
got in.
The other thing I remember, Imean, you know, 10 years ago I
was already in my sixties and,uh, I had not done a half
marathon in 25 years.
And I remember being abouthalfway through it and thinking

(07:46):
I feel great, the training hasworked, I feel wonderful, I
couldn't wait to get back.
And that was the beginning.
And here here we are now, goingon 10 years.
I don't have it in front of me.
I don't know how many Disneyraces I've done in those 10
years.
I don't think it's quite 80,but it's close.
I know it's more than 50.

(08:06):
Anyway, wine and Dine's comingup.
We're in training week 14.
So if you're using the Gallowayplan, you've got a four mile
Friday walk and a 12 and a halfmile run, walk, marathon weekend

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at Disney world, 15 weeks away.
We're in training week 13.
We're back to a three miletraining event this time and
Disneyland half marathon at theend of January.
Training for that starts nextweek.

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September 30th is the firsttraining day, if you do Tuesday,
thursdays, so you're a weekaway from starting your training
for the Disneyland half.
Let's kind of go around, let'sget some training updates.
How is training going, alicia?
How's training going for you?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
So last week I talked about how I fell down the
stairs and I was worried that Iwas going to be sore, which I
was.
Also thank you to everybody whoreached out and sent heller
hypes and all of the things Ireally do appreciate it, Luckily
and all of the things I reallydo appreciate it, Luckily,
running and walking I felt okay.
So I was still able to get inmy runs, which means that I

(09:33):
continue with training and I'mfeeling really, really good
about my training.
Having the training plan that Ido now is really helping get me
reinvigorated with running andfeeling really good about my
goals that I have coming up.
So, yeah, I'm, I'm feelingexcited.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, I'm glad, alicia, I'm glad you didn't get
banged up too badly.
Thanks, yeah.
Yeah, that's good news.
Happy to hear that.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
For me.
This past weekend I had a onehour prediction run on my my
schedule.
So again you I talked aboutthis, you know, somewhat similar
a couple of weeks ago aboutlike this type of run.
Um, you know, that coach twigsgives me is one of those very
few galloway runs where you knowyou run race pace the entire

(10:18):
time.
But I I had to.
I had to switch some things upbecause of some family
commitments and for some reasonlast weekend I don't know why,
but summer decided to return tothe Northeast.
So by the time I was ready togo out it was almost 90 degrees
and clearly I wasn't going to beable to maintain an hour's

(10:39):
worth of race pace in that typeof temperature.
So got the blessing from CoachTwigs to go and do that on the
treadmill.
And I think you know, in theory, I know you can't do a
prediction run on a treadmill,but at least I could focus on
the idea of let's try to go foran hour at that particular pace.

(11:00):
Again, I'm still dealing alittle bit with that confidence
of you know.
Can I, you know, be able tomaintain these paces for long
periods of time and such?
And I'm was very pleased withmyself that when I hit my watch
at one hour I was dead onexactly at race pace for just
shy of six miles and I wasthrilled.

(11:23):
I hopped off that treadmill.
I felt young, I felt scrappy Ifelt hungry and, let me tell you
, it is giving me the confidenceI I need to figure it out, but
I want to find a 10k that I cando in at some point during the,
the, the course of the, the restof 2025, and I think I'm ready

(11:45):
to go for that pot again, proofof time.
Yeah, yeah, I don't think, likeI said, I still don't have the
confidence yet to that.
I think I could get the sub 230, but using the unofficial
mcmillan calculator to figurethat out.
I think the 10k is somewherelike around, like 107 that's
about right, yeah and and Ithink I can do that, and I mean

(12:08):
especially if if my halfmarathon pace is right around 10
minutes, then clearly I have alot of buffer when it comes to
that and in theory I should beable to go even a little bit
faster, uh, during a 10k.
So that's my goal right now isfind a local 10k hopefully it's
not hilly smash it and then thatway I can at least use a pot

(12:30):
for, you know, the next twoyears or so.
So again, it was a verysurprising training workout, but
it was a very positive one atthat good deal, good deal.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
I I like doing prediction runs on the treadmill
, greg.
I always end up exactly in theright spot.
You know, it's remarkable.

Speaker 6 (12:47):
You put up a good point, greg.
If your goal race is the halfmarathon, you know, and the 10K
is a good POT place to gosometimes because you know, yeah
, you're going to tail off alittle bit at the end of the
half, but at that 10 K you canmaybe push it a little bit
harder to get under that goal.
I think I was telling somebodyelse that one time I go.

(13:10):
If you think you're too closefor the uh to be close on that
half, try it to 10 K if you'reonly going to do a half marathon
.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
I mean in theory, you can also use a 10 miler as well
too.
I just know that.
I don't want to saystatistically, but that's a
harder distance to find a grant.
I'm very lucky, you know.
I'm being local to philadelphia.
I have the broad street 10miler, which is, I believe, the
largest 10 mile race in thecountry in the country.
It is great so you know I'mlucky on that front, but for

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others, finding that 10 mile isnot as easy as I mean heck.
I think it might be even harder.
You know, sometimes to find aas well too, as opposed to, you
know, I feel like you see a lotof 5Ks and a lot of half
marathons, so, but they're outthere, just you know.
Then there's plenty ofresources to be able to find
those.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah, 10K is not too terribly tough, but that's good,
Good.
Good to hear Greg.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
I went out there again this weekend, got out
there, did another little longrun, trying to keep myself at a
constant tempo, constant pace.
You know some stuff.
Sometimes you know you got tostop at the corner for the cars
to pass you know those carsthose cars in the road are not
really fun, you know.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
They got to get out they should know what are they
doing there?
I?

Speaker 6 (14:21):
need one of those ambulance symbols that when
you're coming down the road itsends a sensor so you get the
green light going straightthrough you know yeah.
But you know I'm working onthat, but yeah, but I was very,
very happy the way I ran andhopefully this is going to pay
off and I'm going to have areally fun wine and dine.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
No doubt, no doubt about it.
A couple of notes on training.
Now, this isn't exactlytraining, but I'm going to bring
it up to our friends anyway.
I got my flu shot today.
Now, I didn't have to train forthat, but I think it is a
worthwhile thing to do beforeyou go to any place where you've

(15:00):
got tens of thousands of peoplefrom all over the world.
Your best friends are all goingto be huddled together.
This is a good time to get yourflu shot About now.
The mileage for training on mosttraining schedules is starting
to get up there.
You heard what it was for wineand dine.

(15:21):
It's only three for marathonweekend right now.
If I went to the right week andI think I did.
But it's going to build and I'mseeing more and more people in
their posts on their trainingsay this is the furthest I've
ever run.
I did 12 miles today.

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That's the furthest I've everrun.
A typical question we get aspeople are building into this is
when does this stuff get easier?
And my answer is I don't thinkit.
Does you just get faster?
But one thing I always pointout to folks when they're
starting to do 12, out to folkswhen they're starting to do 12,

(16:09):
14, 18 miles is remember whenyou thought three miles was a
long run, wasn't that long ago,wasn't that long ago?
Now you look at your scheduleand you go oh, I only have four
this weekend.
Oh, great, that's going to beeasy.
So that's when you know thingsare starting to get easier.
I've been on the theme ofrecovery from injury and
recovery from injury, illness,rebuilding, getting healthier.

(16:31):
I want to talk a little bit.
I've actually got a race reportthis weekend, so I'll save some
comments for that.
But I want to share this thoughtwhich really came to me as I
was on my 15K this weekend.
You hear me say this, and I sayit maybe too much, but I mean

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it is that the support that weall have for one another not the
support you show for me, whichI love, one another, not to
support you show for me, which Ilove, but the support that we
all have for one another is.
It should be uplifting to allof us.
I think about it in recoveryall the time the number of
people who I know are pullingfor me and they're pulling for

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you too.
So just sometimes stop andthink about that.
And the other thing and I spokeabout this this morning on
customized training, if you'vebeen around me at all, listened
at all.
You know I grew up in thePhiladelphia area.
You know I'm a big sports fan.
Well, the Phillies, my belovedPhillies baseball team, acquired

(17:42):
a ball player at the tradingdeadline who's really really
been playing well, been a realshot in the arm for the team,
and he has a saying that'scaught on with the team.
It's kind of become a mantrafor them and he says it's a gift
.

(18:04):
Whatever the situation is, stopand think about what you're
doing.
And again I can.
Literally, when I was five orsix miles into this 15K this
weekend, that phrase came to me.
I'm not moving very fast, I'mnot running at all, I'm walking.
I think there are only four orfive people behind me on the
trail.
It's a gift.

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It is a gift to be able to getout there.
It's a gift to be able to walk,to be able to run, to be able
to finish, to be able to be apart of this wonderful community
.
So you know things are gettinga little tough and you're
thinking, gosh, can I finishthis?
Or this is getting hard.

(18:46):
Just try those three littlewords.
It's a gift, see if it doesn'thelp you out.
Caution runners.
Change of topic ahead.
So now I stop and I ask thequestion what would Alicia do?

Speaker 5 (19:10):
So funny, bob.
The big theme of the topic thatI want to talk about this week
goes along with what you werejust saying.
So on my run last weekend Ireally took time to stop and
enjoy nature, watched a monarchbutterfly if I passed, looked at

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the different things that Ihadn't really noticed before.
And a big theme that I havewhen we get into these really
long training runs that I'll sayconstantly on the podcast is
take time to enjoy it, becauseyou get to do this, which is
basically what you were justsaying, bob.
It is, it's a gift.
We get to go out there, we getto experience it.

(19:54):
So I was curious if there'sanything that you guys really
look to to find that motivationor something that really has
brought a smile to your facethat you noticed while you were
on a run, um, or a place thatreally resonates with you while
you're out there I would say forme right now and and this is a

(20:19):
relatively recent thing and I'msure this can resonate with a
lot of people it's this hollerhype app absolutely.
How about that?

Speaker 7 (20:28):
you know it's.
It's a situation where, like,thankfully I've never had to use
it in the sense where, likeI've had to like go in and like
change my status and be likefriends I'm I'm in a bad place,
help me.
But just putting out thegeneralized workout and getting

(20:51):
all sorts of messages of whetherit's just a very generic hey, I
hope you're enjoying this orthere are some people that go
out there that really do hypeyou up and heck, are doing
cheers.
Not to single someone out, butI call her one of the Holler
Hype MVPs, our buddy Debbie downin North Carolina.

(21:16):
Anytime I am on that app, I canguarantee you I am getting a
hype from her.
She always comes up with sometype of rah-rah cheer at the end
.
My God does.
It put a smile on my face.
And anytime I hear my podcastturn off or or my music dip, any
anybody's voice just brings mejoy.

(21:36):
Because not only do I lovehearing from my friends and from
this community, but you know it, just you know, sometimes, even
if I'm in a bad mile, someonejust taking the time to leave me
a 30-second message really canturn that frown upside down and

(21:56):
can change that workout.
So, yeah, I credit everythingright now to Hollerhype.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Absolutely.
It's funny, greg.
I was thinking this morning acontacting and I can't remember
the young woman's name, whothere are two of them who who
run holler hype.
But I was thinking aboutcontacting her and saying, look,
I knew this was going to bepopular with our group, but I
didn't know how popular it wouldbe.
Is there anything else that wecan do to help spread the word

(22:24):
and to help you out?
And I still may do that and seeif we can help those guys?
I don't know, it means allthese things mean so much to me
and I'm so grateful for them andthat's what I do, I I I do stop
and think about that and itmakes me smile.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
I would say two things for me.
One is, sometimes you know whenyou're like getting ready to go
out for a run and you're tryingto get your run in before work
and then you get out there youdon't want to be there at first,
and then all of a sudden yousee all these other people that
woke up early before work aroundyou and you're like these are
my running buddies, these are mylike.
And it's always funny because,like I noticed when I was doing

(23:06):
that, I was like I would see thesame people and so it was like
it was like an accountabilitybuddy without being accountable,
like if, if they were not therethat morning, it'd be like are
they okay?
Right, you know what I mean.
Yeah, and then in terms ofreally just taking in the moment
for something, sometimes if I'mgetting frustrated with a run,

(23:29):
I'll really just take a momentand just stop thinking so much
about how the run is going, butwhere I'm at with it, and be
like, be very grateful, like ifI'm out on the trail and I'm
getting very frustrated becauseI feel like I'm not doing the
times that I was planning to door hoping to do, and not that it
happens very often in terms ofthat, because I really do love

(23:51):
all of my training for the mostpart.
There are some days that are alittle bit harder than others,
but when it's a harder day,sometimes just taking a breath,
and then I will notice that I'vebeen looking at the ground way
too much, that I forget to lookup and see all the beauty around
me, and I think in thosemoments I'm very, very grateful
and be like you know what.
It is a great day, to have agreat day.

(24:12):
Let's go have running, run agreat day.
And I feel like when I look upmore, I feel like I enjoy my
runs more because I'm not in myhead.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Absolutely.
You can see all the thingsaround you and experience those
little things that you might nothave noticed before, which can
help make you appreciate it allthe more.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
And that is what Alicia would do Caution runners?
The topic is about to changeright now.
Friends, you know, of course.
You know, run Disney season isback.
It started in California earlythis month was the Halloween
race weekend and, as we said atthe top, four weeks from now we

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kick it off at Disney world.
That means costumes and thatmeans the Rise and Run Council
of Costumes.
It's been a while, it's beenabout a year since the council
has visited.
We have some old members, wehave some new members, so please

(25:17):
allow me to introduce you tothe 25-26 season edition of the
Rise and Run Council of Costumesand welcome Kay.

Speaker 12 (25:29):
Hi guys.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Glad you're here, Kay Kristen.

Speaker 13 (25:33):
Hey how you doing.
Sorry, john.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
Kristen.
No, we got to start over again.
See, that's just, I'm onlykidding.
We're not starting over again.
Fred Fred is joining us in thecouncil this time.
Hi, everybody, good to see you,fred fred.
You were here once before, butnot for the council, right?
Or were you here for?
oh right, that was a perfectseason that's right, you were
here for a race recap.

(25:57):
Yes, good to see you again.
Thanks for joining us from thewest coast.
We appreciate that.
Thanks, yeah, buddy, you'rewelcome.
Couple more og co seers.
Pamela is here hey, friends andafter what won't make any sense
to our friends who arelistening.
But after a whole lot of effort, margaret's with us too hi gang

(26:19):
I gosh it's.
I look forward to talking withyou all.
We look forward to talking withy'all.
It's so much fun.
We're really glad you're here.
Thanks for giving up your timefor us.
We're going to talk.
Friends who are listening.
I know a lot of you have donesome costumes.
Maybe some of you are new torun Disney.
You're not quite sure whathappens with the costumes.

(26:42):
We hope tonight we can give yousome ideas, get a little feel
for how all this goes, maybegive you some suggestions.
But I'm going to start off and,because we've talked to most of
our council members before, I'mjust going to start off with
this question about gettingstarted for this evening, and
that is how did you, how did youget started into running in

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costume?
What made you do it?
Did you start at Disney or didyou start somewhere else?
Kristen, what did, how did youget started in all this?

Speaker 13 (27:14):
slowly.
I started by just bounding,which I know we've talked about
and defined before, where you dosomething very simple that is
reminiscent of a character.
My first costume that I ran inwas a Minnie Mouse bound and
that was during Princess 10K of2019.
And ever since then, I justslowly added an element to the

(27:37):
costume of more advanced skirtor something a little more
flashy, and it's just.
You don't just go.
Most people don't just go allin on their first costume.
Fred does, but most people.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
That was going to be my next question.
I was going to ask Fred, butyou go ahead, Kristen.

Speaker 13 (27:56):
Yeah, no, you just start slowly and then you get
inspired by what you see on thecourse that other people have
done and it's just.
Yeah, it's a slow process, itcan be.
It doesn't have to be, but itcan be.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Now, fred, kristen sent that, set that up and and
actually, at honest to goodness,I was going there because I've
seen some mighty elaboratecostumes out of you, my friend.
How did you get?
How did you kick it?

Speaker 14 (28:21):
off.
Well, a friend of mine, aaronNewell, was running and he asked
me to come watch.
So I was one of those people onthe boardwalk, one of the
hundreds, and I watched thepeople run by in costume and I
had never run a race in my life.
I'm the type of person to onlyrun if someone's chasing me.
I was inspired, literally, bythe fact that it was like a

(28:46):
Halloween you know, a DisneyHalloween event right to me in
my mind.
I was like, oh, costumes, I'mthere.
And the first costume we didwas the lounge flies.
I don't know if you guysremember oh yeah, we were lounge
fly guys for a while.
That was your first.
Yeah, we had the idea of thisdressing as a lounge fly bag,

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and then that turned into awhole thing which was super fun.
What race was that, fred?
Oh gosh, kristen, do youremember?
I think it was after COVID, so2022, I think 2022, because
that's when we met.

Speaker 13 (29:23):
That's when we met Yep and we have costuming to
thank for our friendship.
We do.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
I think that's neat.
I really do.
Margaret, do you remember howyou started?

Speaker 15 (29:35):
Yes, it was definitely at Disney, and I'm
definitely one of those peoplewho love to dress up for
anything.
I'm always like the one tovolunteer, to go like all out of
the costumes, whether it waslike a group type event thing or
like homecoming or whatever itwas.
And I actually started with RunDisney, mostly volunteering a
lot, and I would see all thoserunners come by in costumes and

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it was amazing and it wasinspirational both to start
running and to run in costume.
And, like many others, I didstart kind of on a smaller scale
with like sparkle skirts andtutus and just like graphic
shirts and stuff like that.
And then, like I just builtupon it and um, and then it was
actually kind of like afterCOVID also, that it was like,

(30:19):
okay, now it's like we, we hadbraces taken away from us and we
didn't know when they weregoing to be back and it's like,
okay, now it's time to.
We had braces taken away fromus and we didn't know when they
were going to be back and it'slike, okay, now it's time to
really just go out and dofull-on costumes and that's what
I did and it's been so fun eversince yeah, you've you.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
We'll get into them later, but you've also had some
very elaborate costumes, thank,you yeah pretty cool stuff.
Yeah, they have, Pamela.
You've been at this for a while, I think.

Speaker 9 (30:45):
Yeah, mine goes way back.
I mean, I was a theater kid andso everything is like
theatrical as far as I'mconcerned.
And so even when I was anaerobic instructor in the 90s, I
had custom aerobic instructoroutfits made.
So I've been doing this a longtime.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Of course you did.

Speaker 9 (31:07):
But back in the summer of 2012,.
I was trying to remember whenthis happened.
It was the summer leading intome being the PTO president at
our kids' elementary school andI thought how can I do a team
building activity with my team?
You know everybody that's onthe PTO.
So I said, hey, let's do theDirty Girl Mud Run.

(31:28):
And so it was this great way tokind of before the school year
started, before we have to doall the fundraising, all that
kind of stuff.
It was a way for us to figureout how do we communicate with
each other, how do we worktogether, what can we do?
And so we did the Dirty Girl MudRun and we made tutus.
We knew that we're going to bedisposable because it's pretty

(31:49):
gross at the end of those races.
And we just went to you know,joanne, and got elastic and a
bunch of tulle, and we did theold fashioned cut everything
into strips and make your owntutus.
So, and then we would sitaround almost like a quilting
bee, but we were doing our tutus.
So, and then we would sitaround almost like a quilting
bee, but we were doing our tutus, and it was a real bonding
experience.
And then someone else was incharge of the name and t-shirts

(32:12):
and things like that, and in mycommunity our city is known as
the cake eaters, so I told us Iwe made up the name, we were the
mud eaters for this mud run andit was great because it was
connected to edina and you knowthe whole thing.
So yeah, I go way back, but myfirst half marathon was at
disney world and I was dressedas donald with like a lululemon

(32:34):
white tennis skirt, tennisskirts upside down.
So you can put a ball in there.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Yeah, that's right In there.

Speaker 9 (32:46):
So we've come a long way with great compression
shorts and skirts that can holdyour pockets or hold your phone
and your goos and all that kindof stuff.
So I feel like we've come along way and same thing.
I mean I feel like I've alwaysbeen pretty costumey in my races
, but certainly they've gottenmore elaborate and way more

(33:09):
expensive.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Oh golly, yeah, that's the truth.
Yeah, pamela, I see you incostume on Facebook.

Speaker 9 (33:16):
You know, on a Tuesday yeah, if there's a
spirit week at my school, I amall in on whatever the theme is.

Speaker 15 (33:25):
So it's great, and Pam and I have actually been on
challenge teams before wherethey'll set up certain weeks
where we have to dress up tocertain things just to go for
training runs throughout ourneighborhood and we just do it.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
All right Now, kay.
Do you remember how you gotinto running in costume and do
you remember how long it tookbefore the disney photopass guy
found you and took a picture?

Speaker 12 (33:50):
oh, wait a minute oh wait, I might remember the
second question, but the mine isrun disney as well.
I did.
I was not costuming before RunDisney and I think before Run
Disney I think I did a halfmarathon and I'd done Broad

(34:11):
Street, but those were like mybig, big race events.
I came to Disney for themarathon and I my story is very
much like yours, kristen.
I am you, you are me, I'm likeeverything you were saying.
It's totally me, because I wasmini as well from my very first
and I was bounding and I gotthere, and so my first one was

(34:33):
the return of the races uh afterCOVID still where you know
people, some had on masks, somedidn't, and we couldn't come
close to the characters.
It was all those things.
I didn't get to fully seeeverything, but while I was

(34:54):
there I'm like, oh my gosh, I amnot in a costume at all in
comparison to what everybodyelse had.
So it was gradual, for me tooas well, kristen, which was what
I was sharing.
For me too as well, kristen,which was what I was sharing
before we started recording Fred, that, my attempt at Belle,

(35:15):
that next year, like I did, anattempt at going bigger or
deeper into the costuming, andthen it just kind of took off by
that wine and dine, I guess, of2023, to become something
bigger.
But I will say embracing it atRun Disney.
I now do it at other races andI'm intentional about doing it
at other races and there arereasons for that, but yeah, so.

(35:38):
So Run Disney inspired me toembrace costumes at other races.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Who else does it at other races?
Anybody else, I do as well,pamela.

Speaker 13 (35:51):
Well, Pamela does.
If I ran other races, I would.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Margaret, I was going to say yeah, Margaret comes in
costume for this audio-onlypodcast.

Speaker 15 (36:04):
Yes, and all the local races and even yoga.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yes, yes, Expo too.
Yes, yes, Expo yeah.

Speaker 15 (36:12):
All the opportunities.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (36:14):
I'm totally into bounding now, just in my park
days.
I mean, I've kind of alwaysbeen doing that, but now I'm
like getting way more into it.
Like I love my Mr Toad boundingcostume that I wore during
Disneyland.
I think I got more comments andcompliments on that than almost
anything else and it was just askirt with a sweater and a bow
tie.

Speaker 13 (36:35):
Like I know I actually I did not mean to tell
a lie.
I did dress up for the BluebellFun Run in Brenham.
I dressed as a tub of homemadevanilla ice cream and, yes, and
they're like PR.
People loved it.
I was in one of those likefloofy skirts and then I had my

(36:56):
friend print the like the logoof Blue Bell and homemade
vanilla on like a um, a yellowlooking tank top.
And the nice thing aboutBluebell is, when you're done
with the race you can then go tothe creamery and eat all of the
calories that you just got ridof in the run.

(37:18):
And so they had me like holdinga pint of homemade vanilla,
like up against the cream Anywaycool.
Anyway it was.
So yeah, that's neat, so I did.
I have dressed up outside ofdisney, but that's the only.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
That's the only one so far hey, I'm not in your
league, but I remember the firsttime my first outfit was sam
eagle and I did it because jackmade me rightfully so it was a
big.

Speaker 11 (37:42):
It was a big hit.

Speaker 5 (37:44):
How do you all balance the creativity that you
come up with to make thesecostumes with comfort, making
sure the costume looks amazing,like they always do, but also
making sure that it's good for along run?
Pamela, I know that you've hadsome epic wigs that you've
worked through epic wigs thatyou've worked through.

Speaker 9 (38:10):
Yeah, I I would recommend to people to run into
there and try things outbeforehand.
But I do not do as I say.
I just design and like, get allmy pieces together and then
just like, well, I'm only gonnahave to do it for six miles or
I'm only going to have to do it13 miles.
I don't practice running inwigs or carrying props or I just
figure it out as I go and it'salways been fine as long as I

(38:32):
have my tried and true, you knowshorts that I always wear
underneath and I have my jog brathat I know doesn't chafe.
Everything else is just fluff.
However, it works out.
It works out.

Speaker 13 (38:47):
That's what I was going to say too.
As long as I have a base layerthat I know works, then
everything on top of that isgravy.
But I also make sure that if Ineed to shed something, I can
easily take that off myself, orwhoever's with me can quickly
help me get that off.

(39:08):
But as long as the base layerworks, like the shorts and, like
Pamela said, the bra or thetank top, then I don't.
I'm not out running the streetsof Austin and full costume.
So, although nobody would looktwice, I guarantee you.

Speaker 9 (39:23):
I'll bet they would Never stray from the socks that
I need to wear and the shoesthat I need to wear.
I'm not going to wear a randomshoe that I haven't worn.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
That's just good advice in general.

Speaker 11 (39:38):
How far in advance do you guys plan your costumes?

Speaker 12 (39:42):
Straight.
Today.
When I hear the theme, my mindis already turning.
When I hear the theme, my mindis already churning.

(40:12):
I'm thinking through who I'mgoing to pick, to figure out
what materials to use.
But I like to prepare inadvance to know that.
That's one less thing I have toworry about, because a lot of
my stuff is really mental.
So the training is mental forme, my running is mental, and so
if I can just clear the mindthen I'm good to go.

(40:32):
But freaking out at the lastminute, oh snap, I don't have a
costume, this new hashtag, paniccrafting thing.

Speaker 15 (40:40):
I can't, I'm not either.

Speaker 14 (40:42):
It gives me anxiety because you're already worried
about making your flight andbeing prepped.
So I'm the same way I prepare.
As soon as I hear the theme, Istart to think of ideas and go
from there.

Speaker 13 (40:59):
Well and Fred.
In our little group we have acollection of ideas that are
just waiting.

Speaker 14 (41:24):
Oh really, because we're like which one are we
going to get to do and thenKristen and I always ask do we
want to be pretty or do we wantto be funny?
Which one?
Which one are we looking for?

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Yes, I gave up on pretty a long time ago, friend.

Speaker 13 (41:41):
Well, in Springtime, Surprise the 10K.
You were definitely funny forsure, with the want to buy a
watch or sundial before we getcompletely away with that, away
from it, I want to go back.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Does anybody run in their costume in training, or do
you?
We all just go, let's do it no,I do look, everyone's like hard
, no, hard pass, absolutely not.

Speaker 12 (42:09):
Um, my question might not be, or the answer
might not be, as strong afterthis season, because I am a
Floridian now.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Gets tougher.

Speaker 12 (42:22):
I think that might be why Kristen's also like hard
no in Texas, but I used to,because it's like the nothing
new on race day, right.
So I would try to run in it andand in doing so there were some
adjustments I had to make tocostumes, and so I was glad that
I had the chance to run and itwas always fun.
I may have talked about thislast year, I don't know, but it

(42:43):
was fun for me to run in and doa when we did our simulation
weeks.
It was so that would be when Iwould do it.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
That's a smart way to do it, Kay.

Speaker 12 (42:53):
Like two weeks before or in advance, right, but
it was fun to watch peoplesnapping pictures.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
I'm sure I'm on.

Speaker 12 (43:02):
TikTok or whatever right, Because this crazy person
is out.
At the time I was in Marylandstreets in costumes by myself.
I'm sure you look great, thoughI embrace it.
I did not shy away.
I saw some people taking photos.
I don't even care.

Speaker 13 (43:21):
They put those on that Nextdoor app.

Speaker 15 (43:23):
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right, that is the thing.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
I've never done it.
Neither Groot nor Tinker, bob,nor nobody has ever run around
Largo, florida, and I don't seeit happening anytime soon.

Speaker 12 (43:39):
I will say that this last season I did not.
There were some very lastminute, even up until Springtime
Surprise, the day day before apiece of the outfit showed up.
So I did not, I get it runningcostume and I will not be
running in what I shared withyou.
All right, I'm not gonna say,but I will not be running the

(44:00):
florida street in that.

Speaker 15 (44:02):
So no, I get it so I used to a lot more at first run
in like full costume just tokind of get a hang of it.
But I also used to like,especially like, if I had like a
big ball gown or something likethat that I wanted to wear, I
would actually just wear itaround the house to like do
laundry or just moving my armsaround just to get a like feel

(44:24):
of what my body feels, like thisin motion, so that way I could
adjust things if I needed to.
but now I feel like I've feltsuch a high tolerance level for
what I can wear that in mostlyany kind of weather, because I
do live in florida and run inthe middle of the day um pretty
native also.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
So I feel a pretty high tolerance level.

Speaker 15 (44:45):
So now I'm kind of like, just oh, I I'll just buy
this or that or I'll make thislike um and like the half
marathon.
For for Halloween I ran asMaleficent with like big horns
and cape and feathers andeverything and what seemed hot
for some people and it was kindof spicy out there.
You know, I was just kind oflike it was still tolerable, not

(45:07):
that it was amazing, but it wasstill tolerable to run in.
But again was just kind of likeit was still tolerable not that
it was amazing, but it wasstill tolerable to run in.

Speaker 11 (45:11):
But again, that's kind of like, you know, starting
at a very small scale andbuilding up through many years
and I also just want to put outthere, in terms of training your
costume, if you know that theweather is probably going to not
be ideal like one year.
I think it was like rainingreally bad during wine and dine
race and I didn't realize how myskirt was fine running in it

(45:32):
normally, because I ran it witha 5K.
It poured down, the skirt wasfalling down and I had to hold
it up the entire race oh.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
I remember that, Jack .

Speaker 11 (45:41):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
I remember that story .

Speaker 11 (45:43):
Train in your outfits, friends, if you can.

Speaker 7 (45:45):
Well, Jack, I think that is a lovely segue into our
next question here, if you canwell jack, I think that is a
lovely segue into our nextquestion here, and that is
obviously the overall theme hereis we're not training in our
costumes and we're we're.
We're screwing over the numberone important rule in running of
nothing new on race day.
Pamela, I'm going to go to youfirst here what has been the

(46:07):
most challenging costume youhave run in, in the event that
you don't train with it and youlearn on the course oh,
something's off here orsomething, it's not going right
a.

Speaker 9 (46:20):
I couldn't train in it because I didn't get it till
I got to florida, because theperson was making it up until we
got to florida.
Um, it was my hardest costumebecause it was basically like
wearing a sleeping bag and itwas a really hot springtime.
Surprise 10K.
I was boo as a monster.

(46:42):
And it was a completely stuffedcostume, like it really was like
wearing a sleeping bag.
And so the lovely thing aboutum Walt Disney world run Disney
races is that the aid stationsare so prepared for you that I
would get a bag of ice at eachaid station and stick it in

(47:03):
either in the front, and thenthe next time I would put one in
the back, and so that got methrough.
And not only did I have that on, but I was wearing a wig, and
then on top of the wig I had aheadband, so I was extra keeping
all the heat in.
It was like I was in Minnesota.
It's like a bottle cap.
All the heat in, but it wasvery humid.

Speaker 7 (47:24):
Fred, when you ran with all those sundials, did any
of them poke you throughoutyour chest Was?
Was that issue you had to dealwith at all?

Speaker 14 (47:32):
I was smart enough, greg, that I buffed down the
pointy part of the sundial,because when I did try it at
home, it scratched up my bodylike a cat.
The cat was on me.
So so, yeah, but I have moretraumatic one is.
So I just turned 50.
And of course, um, only FredFaisalahi would pay tribute to
himself.

(47:52):
I was in Fantasmic Friends witha Certain Prince.
So for my 50th for Princesslast year, I wanted to pay
homage to Fantasmic and Irecreated the barge that Snow
White and the Prince dance on.
That I used to do five nights aweek and intricately, I lit it,

(48:15):
I painted, you know all theglow in the dark light, and I
did not get past the half milepoint when that barge started to
rip and fall and poor SnowWhite was in the trenches
pulling off the poor barge.
So, yeah, my, my craft lastedabout six and a half minutes, oh

(48:38):
, as mick was then closed forrenovations I'm sure it was a
challenge you don't such achallenge that I had.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
I had, uh, two friends tara and rachel had to
help me dress after I got offthe bus, because if I put it on
on the bus I could not sit downhad to go to the bathroom oh, oh
, it was a 5K, oh, okay.
I mean, had there been anemergency, we planned for that.
Had there been an emergency, Icould have, but I'm not sure I
could have gotten into the portapot.

Speaker 13 (49:20):
I'm just picturing you trying and it's awesome.

Speaker 14 (49:23):
Oh, it would have been funny and I love the answer
that it's a 5K.
There's no bathroom in a 5K.
And I love the answer that it'sa 5K.
There's no bathroom in a 5K.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
It's a 5K.
No soup for you, no coffee inthe morning right.
Oh, I didn't, Grant John,honest to goodness, I didn't.
I didn't have coffee thatmorning for that reason.
And the other thing is that Sonof a Gum was hot and again only
a 5K, but oh my goodness, thatwas warm.

Speaker 13 (49:48):
I think the one that I remember being the most, I
don't know, loved to hate it,but I mean I love it.
It's still my favorite one tothis day.
It was the VHS box.
Oh, yeah.
That was a Margaret's one too.
Yeah, yes, ours was made out ofthat corrugated plastic that

(50:09):
Tara had.
A friend who owned a print shopprint that for us, and so we
had, like, the arm cut out cause, you know, our left arm went in
it and it sat, you know, on topof that shoulder, and then we
could open it where we were thenwearing a VHS tape on the
inside, complete with the bekind, rewind sticker you know,

(50:29):
yeah anyway, but we, um, welearned that as we were moving
and walking really fast, werealized really quick that we
couldn't run in it, because whenwe ran it would move up and
down and it would knock.
I had a massive bruise acrossthis top of this left shoulder,
from where that that box wasjust like pushing repeatedly,

(50:52):
and so it got to where weactually have a picture of it
from PhotoPass, where we, upunderneath it, held our hands
like this to keep it like frombouncing, and then when we did
that, it hid most of our faceexcept our eyes.
And so so we're just.
It was.
I mean, it was great, great, itphotographed, great, it was so
fun to run in, but that's theonly costume that has left me

(51:13):
with an injury so um, it's, yeah, it was, but I loved it.
I just I loved, loved thatcostume it was good.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
Margaret you had same weekend.
You had a similar costume.
Did you have trouble with thatone?

Speaker 15 (51:25):
um, yeah, the blockbuster tape.
Um, not the same type oftrouble that, uh, kristin had,
because one of the challengeswith that one for us was that we
enclosed one side, so the oneside where, like she had her arm
hanging out, we enclosed, butthe challenge that that
presented was that it only leftus with the ability to use our
other hand and arm for anythingelse, like drinking water, or we

(51:48):
had to, like move our head offto the side to take a sip of
water and stuff like that.
So that was kind of the otherchallenge on that did y'all's
boxes open?

Speaker 13 (51:56):
I don't remember they did not.

Speaker 15 (51:58):
No, they did not, yeah and we used um kind of like
a athletic material with velcroon our shoulders so kind of
allowed it for to have like alittle bit of bounce to it so it
wouldn't like hurt us, and kindof like let us move a little
bit more freely, um, so wedidn't have that problem, but
yeah, but then we couldn't stickour arms out, but we couldn't

(52:20):
use our other arm we were yeahhindsight I would have padded
that shoulder, but anyway yeahyou live and learn.

Speaker 13 (52:26):
Yeah, you do you, and that's what that's really.
The ultimate tale of costumingat Run Disney is you learn from
things that you know, youexperience on the race weekends
or that other people tell youabout.

Speaker 15 (52:39):
So I would have to say that my most challenging one
, though, was when I dressed asLuxo the Pixar lamp oh, that's
right, that one was when Idressed as Luxo, the Pixar lamp.
Oh, that's right.
That one was pretty challengingfrom a perspective of even
having to put it on, pretty muchassemble it by my car.
I'm local so I drive in,assemble it by my car, and a lot

(53:01):
of times I do have to drive inand then put on different parts
of my costume.
But that required a lot ofassembly.
And then also I like to use alot of like Velcro and elastic
for my costumes because Ibelieve I feel like it adds
flexibility.
Plus, if Velcro comes apart youcan just like snap it back on.
And so on the part of like myharness on me, I had the Velcro

(53:23):
sewn on, but then I wanted tocreate bolts for it.
It had to have bolts because ithad to be like the whole thing,
so, but on the bolts what I tobe like the whole thing, so, but
on the bolts what I did was Iused the same material that I
used on the rest of it.
And well, this was themalfunction that I had with it.
So I use material that I usefor the rest of it.
But I put too much, I kind ofover glued it with fabric glue,

(53:45):
so it made it heavy.
So then, and then I had theVelcro there glued on with hot
glue gun, so that came off on acouple of them, but then what I
ended up doing was just carryingthat kind of as props.
But then the other challengewas that I used a dog collar to
create the lampshade that wasbasically around my face.

(54:05):
So it kind of inhibited myperipheral view a little bit.
So I had a friend that was withme the whole time and she was.
It kind of inhibited myperipheral view a little bit.
So I had a friend that was withme the whole time and she was
just kind of like okay, you know, on the right, on the left,
whatever.
So that was, I would say, themost challenging cost.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Yeah, I remember that one.

Speaker 12 (54:22):
Everything that we're sharing right now.
It comes back to me, to thequestion that you asked, I think
, alicia too, about how youbalance the creativity with
comfort, because those are someof the filters that I have right
now is like to try to make surewhatever costume I am coming up
with of course 5k and 10k iswhatever, but then I have free,

(54:44):
I'm free in my arms, like myarms are free.
And then I've also consideredthe fact, the bouncing that you
all are talking about, I'mtrying to make sure that the
costumes, they don't move toomuch, or how do I find ways to
keep it tight and does it blockmy legs, right?
So, like we're talking aboutchallenging costume, right, I

(55:04):
just want to make sure that Ican move the arms, like all the
parts that we're really supposedto be using, we're like running
.
Can I still use all of those,fine, and not be challenged or,
like it blocked my ability tolike finish out the race.

Speaker 13 (55:21):
That was something that I remember springtime
surprise of 23, when Tara and Iwere the cozy cone motel and I
was the.
It was the sign there was suchlike sensory deprivation in that
cone for me, cause it was justmy face, so I couldn't hear
anything.
And so if you're somebody whodoesn't do well, like with a

(55:44):
sensory deprivation, like causeit was making me dizzy because I
couldn't, I felt like I wasjust like in a bubble you know
um always be mindful of that.
So just you know, cause Iremember at the end of the race,
like you know, we all love tostand around and hang out and
talk, but I kept looking at hergoing, I can't hear what
anybody's saying, so and I wasnot about to decostume and like

(56:06):
ruin the effect.
So we, just, we just left right.

Speaker 11 (56:09):
Yeah, that's right we've been talking a lot about
making costumes, but if you are,if one of our listeners is like
I don't know if I have enoughtime to make a costume, is there
a certain um companies orpeople that you go to either
through etsy or instagram, whatwould, what do you guys do in
that situation?

Speaker 4 (56:29):
I love amazon yeah, amazon's good halloweencom I was
gonna say, yeah, that one.

Speaker 12 (56:35):
they're a little pricey because their costumes
are like pretty legit.
If it's halloweencom orhalloweencostumescom, they might
be different companies um.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
They look an awful lot alike online, don't they k?

Speaker 12 (56:46):
do and funcom is all three the same okay, yeah, so
those two are like some of mygo-to's and yeah well, I started
thinking about all thedifferent costumes.

Speaker 9 (56:59):
I feel I always say I like to um, help everybody out,
every company out.
I wouldn't ever want to be anambassador.
I say that now.
I wouldn't ever want to be anambassador.
I say that now, I wouldn't everwant to be an ambassador for
one particular company because Iwant to be able to wear what I
want to wear.
So I love Dottie for running.
Sparkle Athletic Top StitchCouture Tomorrowland Run.

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So Repeat my friend Tracy.
She makes amazing skirts, butshe's not officially in business
making skirts, but she makesamazing skirts, so probably just
reach out to her and she'llmake you one Run.
So Sweet, Etsy, Amazon, youname it.
I support everyone.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
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Speaker 13 (57:44):
Kauai and Pizza.
Oh yes, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Because she makes those are good quality.
It's mostly shirts, but justgreat work.

Speaker 15 (57:53):
I've used her a lot too for especially like custom
fabric pieces, because she canprint kind of whatever you want
on fabric.
So like when I did Marine Corps, I wanted to dress up as the
Washington Monument.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
Yes so.

Speaker 15 (58:08):
I had her print a dress that was like the
Washington Monument bricks.
And then she also printedadditional fabric for me so I
could make the cone to put atthe top of my head to look
similar like the top part of it.
And then for the BerlinMarathon I wanted to be the
Brandenburg Gate, so I had herprint the Brandenburg Gate for
me, so I could make a top.

(58:29):
Burke gate so I had her printthe Brandenburg gate for me, so
I could make a top.
And then she printed thequadruped that's at the top.
That's like the horse andchariot.
And then I created a headpiecefrom that too.
So keep that in mind with heralso.
It's not just what she has onher side.
If you let her know within timeshe can get some amazing like
off the wall things too.

Speaker 12 (58:46):
I will say, with a quick turnaround time too.
I haven't used her yet, but Iknow one of our friends I'm not
going to give away her costume,but we've been talking about
springtime surprise 2026.
And she had a thought, she gaveher the idea and she already
has her shirt, like she was like, just give me a second, let me
finish.
And so yeah, just since youbrought her up, I forgot I am

(59:09):
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Speaker 4 (59:11):
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Speaker 13 (59:26):
I am a big fan of getting, like the base piece of
pieces from well.
For example, when I did, whenFred and I did the Hercules
thing for springtime, thatHercules costume was from
halloweencostumescom or funcomor whatever and getting base
pieces like that and then likezhuzhing up other parts of it to

(59:49):
make it your own, because a lotof people will be out there in
that same costume but maybe theydon't have the belt bejeweled
or you know things like that, soyou can always make something
your own by getting just anormal base piece.
But then it was.
She was already lisa from top.
Stitch is absolutely fantastic.

(01:00:10):
Uh, she's the one that helpedme do that custom small world
skirt for disneyland um, thathad my mimi's birthday on the
bow.
Um, in the small world numbers,um, and that was just so
special, and she took everythingthat I envisioned for that and
made it a reality.
Um, she's the one that did myWine and Dine half marathon

(01:00:31):
skirt last year, she did yourperfect skirt too.
Right yeah, she did my perfectskirt, which was a piece of
every one of my costumes was inthat skirt.
So there's very creative like.
I feel like I'm a creativeperson in coming up with a
concept but I'm not great atexecuting it, and so having

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people that you can reach out to, like Lisa or even Fred or
other people that are like, well, this is how you could do this,
that's so helpful.
But if you just Just to drivethe point home, if you can get a
good base layer from you know,like Target right now it's their
Halloween costumes are out.

(01:01:13):
Get something from there andthen zhuzh it up, make it your
own and and go with that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Listen, I got to make the show notes.
Can you spell zhuzhing for me?
Zhuzh that would be.

Speaker 12 (01:01:25):
That's okay, it's all right, t-z-u-j, I think.
Oh, I like it there really is away to spell it there really is
and.

Speaker 13 (01:01:34):
I don't know what it is, yes, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
Okay, so have you guys ever repeated costumes?

Speaker 12 (01:01:42):
Oh, oh wait, I'm about to.

Speaker 14 (01:01:45):
Controversial.
Controversial question.

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
Ah, why so Fred?

Speaker 14 (01:01:54):
controversial, controversial question.
Ah, why so, fred?
Well, I feel like um, when yourepeat um, your it's almost like
you're shelving your creativity, that race, I mean, I know, due
to um, those um budgets and andtime frames, sometimes you have
to repeat I've done it before,um, but it it to me sometimes
can feel like um, I've putsomething on the back burner,

(01:02:16):
you know.
So I try not to repeat allright, fair answer anybody else?

Speaker 9 (01:02:21):
sometimes repeat something in a local race that I
wore I'll repeat stuff at localraces too.

Speaker 15 (01:02:29):
In fact, we did some blockbuster costumes at a local
race and won best costume.
So it's like it was ready to goand it was just like right
there, we put it on and went forit.
And then I also recentlyrepeated something, actually at
Halloween my Ursula costume thatI had worn I don't know, maybe
five, six years ago, because Ikeep all my costumes but I
embellished it some more.

(01:02:49):
And then I added costume that Ihad worn I don't know, maybe
five, six years ago, because Ikeep all my costumes but I
embellished it some more andthen I added her eels at top
just kind of floating over thetop of her seaweed and
everything.
Because this time it was for a5k.
When I wore it before it wasfor a half marathon many years
ago.
This time it was for 5k, so Iadded that embellishment off my
back.

Speaker 12 (01:03:07):
And then Fred mentioned something I will just
say for those of our listenersout there that do have the
budget constraints I don't wantyou to feel bad If you do have,
like, princess Weekend.
We've had episodes where youall have like counted how many
times they bring back a princess, right?
So if you have costumes thatyou have used before and the

(01:03:31):
princess is coming back, pleasedo not be embarrassed or ashamed
to bring it back and own it thesame way you owned it before
when you're out there.

Speaker 11 (01:03:44):
I'm usually one that has a tighter budget.
I would say in terms ofespecially, especially with
costumes, what I will usually doif there's more than one race
that weekend that I'm doing, Ionly choose one new costume and
then switch around the distancethat I wore the original costume
from.
So if I ran it for a halfmarathon before, I'll switch it
up for a 10K and then put thenew costume for the half, or

(01:04:06):
something like that.

Speaker 9 (01:04:08):
Well, I'd say I just building new costume for the
half or something like that.
Well, I'd say I just buildingoff of what Margaret said, I
mean for my amazing Cruellacostume I just wore for
Halloween.
I actually wore it during thatvery rainy Wine and Dine 2021.
And so there's like twopictures of me in it, and then
what I did was I zhuzhed up andhad a much fancier skirt.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
And then what I did was I zhuzhed up and had a much
fancier skirt.

Speaker 9 (01:04:30):
But I'm wearing the same top and the same wig, but I
have different arm sleeves, Imean.
so I think that's a way that youcan reuse these yeah that's
fair and certainly in one of myrunning groups we have a brown
skirt.
We call it sort of ournostalgia skirt.
We wear it for all kinds ofdifferent races by adding just
another top layer or patches orsomething else on it.

(01:04:53):
So then we're not spending somuch money because you know, all
those skirts can be a hundreddollars each or $80 each or
whatever they are, and if youhave a skirt that you can just
sort of like add differentthings to and it looks like a
completely different thing byjust doing a different top or
whatever the theme is, I thinkthat's a really.
We're really trying to besmarter about how we reuse our

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costumes.

Speaker 12 (01:05:17):
I'm doing the same that you all just talked about.
So because Princess has, sobecause Rapunzel is coming back,
I've learned.
So there were a couple of failswith the costume when I came as
Rapunzel before that.
I would like to make somechanges to that.

(01:05:37):
So I want to bring the costumeback, but I want to try to do it
now and take the learnings andmake it actually look more like
me than than whatever it was.
I attempted.

Speaker 15 (01:05:51):
Yeah, and Pam's comment reminded me too that for
the half marathon duringmarathon weekend the one that
got shortened I had thisDonald's like outfit that was
like all glammed out andglittery and feathery and
everything and I still wore it,but I hardly got any pictures.
I didn't get a finish linepicture and I've been waiting

(01:06:13):
for the right moment to bringthat one back for sure, because
it's like I put a lot of workand effort into that and then it
was kind of like oh yeah do itthere are no pictures, margaret,
so it didn't count right, sothere's a few pictures, so it
didn't count, yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:06:28):
Yeah, that was the race that I was, captain Hook,
and in all of my PhotoPasspictures I have my rain jacket
on and then just like thisburgundy skirt, and people are
like I don't know what you were.
And I was like I don't either,because the feather on my hat
got blown off in the wind.
Oh no, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
I've repeated a couple, but I repeat them
because they kind of have anidentity of their own.

Speaker 13 (01:06:52):
Like Tinker Bob.

Speaker 4 (01:06:52):
Tinker Bob.

Speaker 14 (01:06:53):
Tinker Bob.
Yeah, we need a moment forTinker Bob.

Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
Tinker Bob's been around three times, I think, and
Sam Eagle's been around acouple of times Iconic.
I enjoy that Now Groot issitting in my garage.
I don't know what the heck I'mgoing to.
I enjoy that Now Groot issitting in my garage.

Speaker 14 (01:07:13):
I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with
that I can't imagine I don'tknow what to do with it.
Tinker Groot, anybody want to?
I know, bob, you and I arealmost the same height.
Maybe we need to get into this.
There you go.
You want to be my pig.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Why not?

Speaker 12 (01:07:25):
Why not, oh, a costume exchange program?

Speaker 11 (01:07:29):
Yes, bob, I got it.
This is how you're going toreuse it, okay.
You need somebody to get toSnow White, and then you need
somebody to be a fan in the backso that it looks like it's
windy and you can be the treerunning after Snow White in this
scary, like you know, fred'sbeen the tree before.
See there you go that would beperfect.

Speaker 13 (01:07:47):
Yeah, like I, fred's been the tree before.

Speaker 11 (01:07:48):
See, there you go.
That would be perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
All right.
Well, yeah, like I said, it'sin the garage.
We've got to do something withit.
Hey, here's.
Let me take us a littledifferent direction, Because one
of the things that I think isneat about running in costume is
the joy you bring to the otherparticipants in the race and the

(01:08:10):
people who are out there.
Can you think of any particularstories where you had a notable
reaction to the costumes youwere wearing?

Speaker 9 (01:08:22):
I mean mine wasn't at Disney, Mine was during the
shutdown of everything and Iwould run around my neighborhood
in a different costume and thekids in the neighborhood started
noticing that I was runningaround the neighborhood and they
would yell out they're like whoare you today?
I'm like.
I'm, you know, I'm from StarWars and they're like that's so

(01:08:45):
cool or I'm Rapunzel or whateverit was, and so I feel like one
of my missions in life is justto spread joy and I feel like
that's one way that I do it.
And same thing like if I'mwalking around the neighborhood
on Thanksgiving morning andeverybody's kind of like, kind
of grumpy because they have torun and get you know, whatever,
I'll change their expressions.

(01:09:05):
They're in their car and I cansee that I'm wearing this full
turkey costume and I can seetheir facial expressions
changing because they startedoff, you know, looking kind of
like, oh I got to get this doneand this done, and then they
stopped for a second and smiled.

Speaker 13 (01:09:20):
So that's my contribution to society.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
I can imagine.

Speaker 13 (01:09:26):
So this is actually how Fred and I met was I made a
comment about his costume, wewere, it was Wine and Dine of 22
.
And it was the 5k right when itthe yes, it was.
And we were backstage at Epcotand it was that little like that
choke point where you're comingback on stage at the in the UK,

(01:09:48):
where you're coming back onstage at the uh in the UK.
And we were kind ofbottlenecked there and I look
over and there's just this likeconglomerate of chimney sweeps
next to me and I was um dressedas oh, I was the uh guitar.
I was um Ernesto de la Cruz'sguitar from uh Coco.

Speaker 4 (01:10:08):
Oh, I remember that too, yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:10:10):
And I look over and just you know, I've never met a
stranger, I'm going to try to befriends with everyone, and so
we're all kind of stopped thereand I just look over and go.
I wish y'all would have wornthat tomorrow when I'm, when I'm
Jolly Holiday, mary Poppins,and it was.
Fred, and that's how we met.

Speaker 14 (01:10:27):
Nice, nice, we should have been Kristen's
entourage.
We should have known Kristen.
You didn't get me and then, ofcourse, I fangirled because I
had been following her for awhile and that's how we met.
But that's a great segue,because you talk about
spectators that come up to you.
But really the true thing forme and I'll try not to cry is
just inspiring my family, my mymom and dad and my friend and

(01:10:52):
and people that have seen mehave so much fun in these
costumes.
It's inspired them.
My mother is I shouldn't sayher age on on on here, but she's
turning 79 and my dad is 81.
And they're doing another 5kwith me in January and
specifically so we can do thecostumes.
That's awesome.
I think that part is reallyimportant to me, too is just

(01:11:14):
hiring people to be healthy.

Speaker 13 (01:11:16):
I think that's terrific, and his parents get
into it because I've been in agroup with them.
We were the Alice in Wonderlandgroup and his sweet little mom
was Alice and his dad was theMad Hatter.
I was the White Rabbit and Fred, you and Thomas were the trees
that were in the forest.
And it was just.
I remember that.

Speaker 15 (01:11:37):
I didn't realize that was all Fred's family.

Speaker 13 (01:11:39):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 15 (01:11:40):
That was awesome yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
That's interesting, fred, because Becky just thinks
I'm nuts.
Okay, so I don't think Iinspire her, I amuse her, but I
don't think I inspire her.

Speaker 12 (01:11:54):
I amuse her, but I don't think I inspire her.
You guys were really wonderful,eric and ariel, when I loved
that one, when you all did thatoh gosh, you're right, I've
forgotten that one k yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
Yeah, becky got into it for a couple, not too many,
but she did greg, does yourdaughter want to dress up with
you?

Speaker 7 (01:12:12):
Yes, well, I mean, here's the thing, and we're
going to have to loop in anotherperson, one of our guests here.
She usually doesn't care what Iwant to wear, she's more
concerned about what Kay's goingto wear.
It goes to Kay first, and thenit comes to me.

Speaker 12 (01:12:29):
So, I'm chopped liver in this scenario he was
one of my, so she is one of myfavorite stories, um, and
memorable costumes, and she isthe reason why it had nothing to
do.
Like you know, I've donecostumes, but that costume was
because and the only reason whyI did the race to, to be quite
honest, I got a message, hey.

(01:12:50):
So I wanted to know, and Ican't say no to Riley so I did
sign up for that race and Ifound out what we were going to
do and I'm like I think I havethe perfect costume then and the
pictures with her that's whatmade that costume for me during
that race is to look back at thepictures and see the joy on her

(01:13:12):
face, see the joy on my facefor running with her, and that
was Gamora at Springtime.
Oh yeah, last year, because shewas going to be Groot, and that
one will stay in the books forme.
What is it?
Core Memory?
That one's a.
Core books for me.
What?
What is it with core memory?
That one's a memory.
And that was also the one wherethe jacket showed up the day

(01:13:34):
before because, right like no,it's okay, no, it's not okay.
I have to commit fully to thiscostume.

Speaker 11 (01:13:42):
I have to do by by Riley is there, like any
character idea you've alwayswanted to do but haven't done
yet?

Speaker 15 (01:13:49):
I would say that I've already done like my two
top like bucket list ones, whichwere Luxo and Aurora, in a full
gown.
But I do love doing like allthe princesses and I like
staying on theme, and I'mwaiting for them to bring some

(01:14:09):
of the other princesses on boardso I can complete my collection
.
And then I have a long-termgoal I love dressing as Minnie
also, so I have a long-term goalof doing Minnie in a hundred
different versions or outfits.

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
Wow, that's ambitious , margaret.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 14 (01:14:30):
Like all a hundred in one race.
Are you going to be pullingthem off?
Oh, I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
I like that, Fred.
Yeah, that's cool.
Oh, that's an idea.
Is that a challenge, Margaret?

Speaker 15 (01:14:38):
No, so I'm probably about 20-something in now.
So just kind of for each race,like just reaching up to 100,
because she has so many amazingoutfits, you know you could do.

Speaker 11 (01:14:49):
You could be like the wardrobe from beauty and the
beast and have every outfitunderneath.
So whenever you open up thedrawers, you know it's like
there's the outfits.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
I love that I thought about being jimmy the cricket,
but that's john's thing so I'mnot gonna do that.

Speaker 12 (01:15:06):
Yeah, I thought I didn't have one um because I
think I know, until I joined theRun Disney community and
realized I really don't knowanything about Disney at all.
So I don't have like this backknowledge.
I hear you Kay.
It just clicked DisneyAfternoon.

(01:15:27):
So if I would love it and Ithink y'all said that when
Disney listens, so Run Disney Iwould like a springtime surprise
theming.

Speaker 6 (01:15:38):
Star Wars, star Wars.
Oh no, john, I can't help youthere.

Speaker 12 (01:15:45):
Oh yeah, wait, you want 2027, right, okay, so I
want 2028.
So 2028 run disney.
Can you please create themingaround the disney afternoon?
Amen sister all the differentshows gummy bears yes, I would
absolutely love to do.
You know, it was gummy bearsgoof troop duck tail tailspin um

(01:16:09):
tailspin and darkwing duck yeah, darkwing duck yeah I can't
remember the others, but pick,pick any of them from the lineup
that you all had and I willabsolutely join, and that would
be a costume I would want to doI think, one that I would love
to do.

Speaker 13 (01:16:28):
There's a couple that I'm trying to figure out
the best way to do it.
Anything with Small World,because you all know that's my
ride.
That has a very sentimentalplace in my heart.

Speaker 12 (01:16:41):
Are you going in January?

Speaker 13 (01:16:42):
Yes, yes, just for that one that got me that half
marathon.
It was like that's going to bea very quick weekend trip, but I
will be there.
Not, there's no way I wouldmiss that at all, but I.
So my grandmother, mimi, thatwas her favorite ride.
So that's the sentimental partof that for me.
But she had a favorite room.

(01:17:03):
Like you know, you go throughthe different rooms and it's the
one like at Disney world it'sit's at the very end before you
get off the ride.
It's the one where it's justlike all the you know, white and
Aqua and gold and anyway.
So there's a, there's a girl inthere on like the carousel that
has a very distinct look that Iwould love to do.

(01:17:24):
So that's kind of filed away.
I just got to figure out how todo it, because I don't think
that it would translate juststandalone.
Just they'd be like you'regoing to.
Really that's cool, I guess youknow.
But then the other one would beto do a version of Walt.
So I need to figure out.
Tara did a hilarious version ofWalt when we were in Disneyland

(01:17:48):
for 24, january of 24, likewith the mustache, and getting
ready that morning in the roomwas hilarious because I was
helping her pick out hermustache.
But yeah, those would be my twodream ones, and I would love to
do a Cinderella again, becauseCinderella is my favorite.

Speaker 14 (01:18:07):
Yeah, I'm big.
Anybody that knows me knows I'ma big Pocahontas stan, okay,
and I've never dressed as her.
But I want to do it with thecolors of the wind engulfing me,
the leaves, so I'm trying tothink of how I can make that

(01:18:29):
work.
Okay, um, so stay tuned.

Speaker 13 (01:18:33):
We'll workshop that, fred, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
My money's on you, Fred.
If anybody can pull it off, I'min your corner on that one.
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:18:41):
So clearly you all have been invited onto this
episode because you inspire usto then want to inspire the run
Disney community in terms of thecostumes that you make.
I mean, heck, I could even goas so far to say that all of you
in some capacity have alsoinspired run disney to put out

(01:19:01):
new costume guidelines aboutthings protruding from us.
Uh, aka fred as big ben andkristin and margaret as massive
vhs tapes and kristin as aguitar.
So clearly you've had lots ofgreat inspiration all across the
board.

Speaker 13 (01:19:20):
You're welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:19:24):
So do you think or have you had interactions on the
course or in the corrals or inthe family reunion area where
people have come up to you andbe like you're my costume
inspiration?
Has that ever happened to anyof you?

Speaker 12 (01:19:39):
I don't know if they've said like those words,
right, you're my costumeinspiration.
But I have definitely had, uh,people along courses, both both
disney and non disney.
But but at disney I would getfriendship bracelets right
Because they loved the costumeso much and just like

(01:19:59):
compliments like that, like ohmy gosh, or sometimes they're
not even looking forward anymorebecause they're still looking
and like talking to me about thecostume.
So I've had like moments likethat along courses where I could
tell I impacted.
I don't know if I want to usethe word inspire, but I guess I

(01:20:21):
should use the word inspire, butI've inspired or impacted
people along the way, both oncourse, and I've gotten messages
, to be honest, from friends offcourse.
That let me know I have been aninspiration.
And if I could just share realquick one of our cards, you know
when we did the card exchange,yes.

(01:20:42):
When I got a card I'm not goingto call out who she is, she
knows who she is in the card sheleft me a note to tell me that
I have inspired her with mycostuming and doesn't know how
much that meant to me, becauselife was lifing.
I wasn't doing a great job atbalancing life at the moment.
I wanted to just say forget it,you know, and getting that

(01:21:04):
message I'm like do not quityour costume, keep going Like
someone is actually looking atwhat you're doing, just it's.
It's not just you're not justin your own world and your own
bubble, it's bigger.

Speaker 4 (01:21:16):
Oh no, that's very true.
That's very, very true that youcan see it on the faces of the
people out there that they youare adding to their enjoyment of
the race weekend with yourcostuming in a lot of cases.

Speaker 13 (01:21:31):
Going back to the, to the VHS box.
I remember we were on theboardwalk right off of Yacht
Club, no Beach Club, and there'susually like the mile four
markers right there in thatcorner, you know, and we were
just bebopping along and thissweet guy who now is a friend of

(01:21:53):
mine, ryan Phillips, the fitflounder on Instagram and TikTok
, but anyway, he like ran past,stopped, turned around and was
like, oh my gosh, that's myfavorite movie and because I was
wearing the Little Mermaid one,and so we like took pictures
and he was telling me about howmuch that movie meant to him and

(01:22:15):
like, and there, you know, afriendship was built off of that
.
And then you've got otherpeople who recognize you just
based off of your costume, thatmaybe their, their costume, is
in the same movie, and so theywant to get a picture with you
too, and that's that's alwaysfun to meet people that way.
Fun to meet people that way.

(01:22:40):
So, but I, I agree, kay, thereare people in our lives who
speak into those areas of.
I just don't want to do thisbecause I don't think it looks
good.
Um, the, a great example of thatfor me is going to be princess,
this, this last February whereI was trying to pull off a Jafar
look and I was coming across asa cheap magician, like I could
not get it to look like Jafar.

(01:23:00):
I looked like a run of the millmagician.
I was joking, I'll just wear itand carry around cards and be
like is this your card, you know?
But anyway, somebody was hadreached out and said have you
tried doing this?
And it was the what I ended updoing, which was going and
finding at I think it was HobbyLobby maybe seat cushions, like

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seat cushions, and forming themand wrapping them in material to
make the like the triangularshoulder things.
And the minute those went on itwas immediately Jafar.
But I was so ready to just hangup that cheap cape and be like
nevermind.
So you get through thiscommunity.
You get people who encourageyou to not just throw in the

(01:23:48):
towel or hang up the cape in mycase, and that's so special.
But you don't have to be acostumer to have people speak
into you like that.
Just the community does that.
And that's what's reallyspecial about Run Disney and
about this little Rise and Runfamily.

Speaker 15 (01:24:03):
And I would say I just continue to be inspired by
so many amazing creativecostumes out there and I just
love after the races justtalking to people about their
ideas, how they made what theymade and then just trying to
learn like new skills and crafts, and just kind of continue to
build off of that.
Yeah, it's just amazing.

Speaker 9 (01:24:23):
I think my favorite compliment came from Halloween
race.
I was finishing the half.
I'm coming in the finishershoot.
Carissa Galloway sees me.
She stops what she's doing,she's got it on the microphone.
She's like and here comesPamela, you know the best mashup
of pain and panic.
And like it's like oh okay,that's cool.

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And then crossing the finishline, and then everybody's like
I heard Carissa call your name.
I'm like yay.

Speaker 4 (01:24:53):
I'm going to ask one overarching question here.
We've we've discussed a wholelot of things, and you have
already made some of thesepoints, but if we've got friends
listening who are about to do acostume for the first time,
what advice would you give them?
I have I do.

Speaker 14 (01:25:11):
I have three rules that I think a Kristen and I use
them all the time.
One of them we talked about isrunnable.
The three rules One of them isrunnable, has to be runnable.
Another one is photogenic, likea lot of times we come up with
these costumes and then, once weget through the photo, pass and
everything.
It might be too dark, it mightnot be bright enough, and then

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you don't have the greatmemories after the race.
And then the other thing isreadable, and what I mean is
like if you can have thefunniest thought or say, well,
I'm going to be this deep divecharacter and everybody's going
to think it's so funny and great.
But if you're running past themand they just have that three
seconds to know who you are, ifthey don't get it and if it's

(01:25:54):
not readable, then you mighthave failed.
So those are the three thingsthat Kristen and I volley all
the time.

Speaker 9 (01:26:00):
I think my advice is to go rogue, do whoever you want
to be Like if there's a themeand you don't like the theme,
but you have a favoritecharacter and especially if it's
your first time doing it.
You want to wear a characterthat you really like and speaks
to you, so don't worry aboutwhat the theme is.

(01:26:22):
If you really like Zootopia, doZootopia.
Even though they're going to doit in the spring, do it at Wine
and Dine.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Not that someone's not doing that.
No, I think it's good.
I think it's good.

Speaker 12 (01:26:30):
I would say do it well.
And when I say that I don'tmean in the execution of it,
right, I mean in embracing it.
Pamela, like you said, if youwant to go rogue, choose it.
Whatever it is that you choose,enjoy every moment that you are
out there running in thatcostume.
Remember all the love and careor choice and decision-making

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that you put into this costume.
When you get out there, findthe PhotoPass.
People Enjoy those moments withthe PhotoPass to capture what
you actually did and rememberand remember who you are right.
So, whatever the character wasthat you chose, remember that
you're running in this character.
When you're out there, justenjoy that, enjoy the reactions

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from the crowd.
So that's my way of saying doit well, just embrace it when
you do it and embrace everymoment.

Speaker 7 (01:27:24):
That's a great point, ladies, In theory.
While your costumes may invokejoy in others, it's most
important that it's giving youjoy first.

Speaker 15 (01:27:35):
And that should always be your focus.
One bit of technical advice thatI would add is that I may not
practice running in my costumes,but what I do practice a lot is
putting on my costumes,especially as the more technical
ones and that have differentparts and pieces.
Sometimes it's like you want toput on the wig first, or you

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want to do the other part first,or whatever the case is.
Sometimes I'll have varioustrial runs of putting it on and
putting it on in the right order, because we all get up super
early in the middle of the nightand the last thing we want to
do is waste time figuring outlike, oh no, that part didn't
work quite right on first.
Let me try doing this overagain.
So I'll usually have that kindof pat down and I'll know okay,

(01:28:20):
this I'm putting on at home,this I have to take in my
vehicle to go put on once I getthere.
So that'll save me some time inthe morning.

Speaker 13 (01:28:30):
Whatever you choose to do whether you're new or this
is your first time back incostuming, you kind of fell out
of it whatever you choose to dowill be perfect, and it's all
about going out there and havingthe best time.
So if you feel like your bestversion of yourself in a tank

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top and a sparkle skirt, wearthat.
You need to be wearing acostume for you and not to try
to one-up the next person whoyou don't even talk to outside
of, at the heart of it.
You need to wear it because youfeel great in it and you're
excited about it, and it's acharacter that you love, a race

(01:29:14):
distance that you love, andthat's going to make for the
best pictures, because we alltake the best pictures when we
feel the most confident, and sothat's just.
That's my like.
My big takeaway is whatever youchoose to do, like Kay said, do
it to the best of your ability,own it and have the best time.

Speaker 4 (01:29:35):
All right, council, I'm going to let Kristen have
the last word there and I'mgoing to thank you all so very
much for joining us, for sharingall of this information about
costumes.
I sure hope our friends who arelistening enjoyed and, I hope,
learned something.
It's been great to see you allagain.

(01:29:55):
It truly has.
I miss you.
We haven't been together forthe season yet.
I didn't get out to disneyland,but I will see you at disney
world.
A lot of us will and we lookforward to that.
And with that council, you aredismissed.
So long bye, guys cautionrunners.

Speaker 12 (01:30:15):
Change of topic ahead Council, you are dismissed
.

Speaker 8 (01:30:16):
So long, bye, bye.
Bye, guys.
Caution runners.
Change of topic ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:30:23):
We had a wonderful visit with our Council of
Costumes.
But and gosh gang, this is onme because I almost forgot this
Our friend Margaret is activelyinvolved in a charity fundraiser
related somewhat to costumesand we wanted to let her share
some information about that withyou.
So, margaret, tell us aboutthis charity you're working on.

Speaker 15 (01:30:47):
Yeah, so I am running the Chicago Marathon,
coming up with an amazing teamof Run Disney runners called the
Run Disney Villains.
We are running for the AmericanCancer Society, and there are
over 90 of us that also includeseveral many very active members
also in the Rise and Runcommunity, and we have two

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amazing team members that havedonated so that we can raffle
off two deluxe resort stays.
One is at animal kingdom lodgein april and the other is at
saratoga springs duringspringtime.
Surprise, and it's only 23 19,so 23 and 19 cents to enter

(01:31:34):
Think Monsters Inc.
Okay, yep, and you have untilFriday, september 27th, so the
day after this airs, to put inyour entry, and so I will post
details on the Rise and Run pageso that way it's like fresh, so
everybody can find it with thelink as well too, and from there

(01:31:55):
you can pick a team member anddonate exactly $23.19.
So $23.19.
And please don't include theprocessing fees, because then
that won't show up on the reportthat we need to see all the
entries.
But if you're feeling generous,you're welcome to enter
multiple times, either with thesame team member or with other

(01:32:17):
team members.
As a side note, you may want topick someone who is below
$2,600, because that's the nextbig milestone that many are
trying to meet, so that itrepresents $100 for every mile.
Um, so, regardless, just pleaseenter for a chance to win one

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of these amazing stays and helpus make a significant difference
for the American Cancer Society.
And again, I will post thedetails.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
Wonderful Margaret.
Thanks for staying around andsharing that with us.
I appreciate it and I hope ourfriends get out there and hope
somebody to somebody's have awonderful state at a great
resort.

Speaker 15 (01:32:58):
Absolutely.
Thank you guys.
Caution runners.
The topic is about to changeright now.

Speaker 6 (01:33:05):
That was a great interview with the costume of
costumes again.
But there's some things thatyou realize.
I know we focused on Disneycharacters or Disney IP.
You can use something from theother park, maybe like Cat in
the Hat, and have fun, or nocostume at all.

Speaker 4 (01:33:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I went years without running in
costume and even now, on thelong run, half and above T-shirt
and shorts, I don't wear acostume on the long run heck.

Speaker 7 (01:33:36):
Even think about our friends over the slackers.
You know the oxen spoon gang,you know a lot of times they
come up with great groupcostumes that are not even
related to that particular.
Oh yeah, I mean heck.
Take the legendary bill stewarthimself.
The number of times that man isdressed up as Ronald McDonald
the freak Carissa out is just isa joy to watch.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
Right, but you will.
I mean you, if you're new tothis and you get swept up in.
Oh what?
What can I do?
I don't have a costume, don'tworry about it.
Don't worry about it.
Show up in your shorts andt-shirt, have a good time.
Maybe, maybe later you'll getinto costuming.
Maybe you don't have to, but itis fun.

Speaker 7 (01:34:22):
Well, speaking of other races that you can dress
up for, the aforementionedMargaret, I believe, also
dressed up for this event lastyear, as I just saw her
advertisement on Facebook.
Our wonderful, wonderfulfriends over at Give Kids the
World are in the process rightnow.
They have opened theirregistration for their 2025

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Gingerbread Run 5K.
This event is taking place onSaturday, november 8th, at 6 pm.
Uh, it is occurring at thevillage.
Uh, so to me, what I like todescribe this race as is, if you
missed out on the opportunityto see the osborne family lights

(01:35:12):
at that they used to do athollywood studios this is
probably the closest thing youwill get to that.
They do a wonderful job ofdecorating the village during
the holiday season and they justput on such an amazing event.
It's going to have danceparties.
Some of the characters that arepart of the village will be

(01:35:34):
there, so hopefully maybe thatmeans some like character stops
or something like that.
Uh, there is going to be athemed medal.
There will be merchandise food.
It's such a wonderful event.
I know we did have a smallcontingent again that went to
this race last year and Iremember they just waxed poetic
about it.
So if you are interested andI'll be sure to post a link on

(01:35:55):
our Facebook page and I'll haveJohn include it in the show
notes.
But our friend Mark, who headsup the charity bid program over
there, he sent me a note theother day.
He wanted to let us know thatif you are interested in
attending this event in personat registration, if you use the
promo code RISE registration ifyou use the promo code rise, you

(01:36:20):
will save 25 off theregistration fee which I think
was extremely, extremelygenerous of him.
So, again, if you're in, ifyou're local to the central
florida area, or even just youknow florida in general, you
want to take a part in thisevent.
Uh, be sure to sign up for that.
And I should mention as well,there is a virtual option for
this as well.

Speaker 4 (01:36:34):
So if you're interested in supporting the
village, uh, this holiday season, go check out the gingerbread
run yeah, speaking of virtualoptions, our friends at the will
run for podcasts have theirvirtually live event coming up
november 22nd.
You can still register for that.
Registration is only five bucks.
It's a a great, great event,great charity.

(01:36:57):
You can go to their Instagram,the We'll Run For Instagram
account.
Find the link there to register.
Please give it a shot.
It's fun.
It's five bucks.
I would like a lot of us to toswamp.
I don't not to aboutoverwhelming.
I just want to support, I justwant to support the group and it

(01:37:17):
is a good event, and I haven'tregistered yet, but I will, I
promise.
One more note Marathon weekend,our 5K for marathon weekend.
Our friend Alec at HawaiianPizza Apparel has those alien
shirts for sale.
The link is pinned to the topof our Facebook group page.

(01:37:43):
It's going to be fun, so see ifyou can get your alien shirt.
I heard Coach Twiggs todaysaying he had an alien shirt.

Speaker 7 (01:37:55):
Yes, I was very surprised to hear him say that
this morning yeah, all right,that'll be fun.

Speaker 4 (01:38:02):
Let's see friends.
This is a zoom week, so thisepisode releases on thursday.
We'll be on zoom this evening.
Upcoming episodes AJ AJ Wolf,who wrote the book Disney Adults
and is also part of the DisneyFood Blog a really neat blog

(01:38:25):
I've been looking at for yearsshould be with us next week as
we will also recap the BerlinMarathon.
And now Please stand clear ofthe doors.
It's time for the Race Report.
Please stay away from the doors.

(01:38:46):
The Race Report sponsored byThomas Stokes at Stoked
Metabolic Training.
All right on to the race report.
I want to thank many of you who,I guess, listened last week and
put your race location and theday of the race up front in your

(01:39:09):
report Very helpful.
I also said that we would getto a point where we may have to
abbreviate some of the reports.
Well, this is that time.
We got a lot of races to cover,so I love and I read all the
reports you put in and I wouldencourage our other friends to
look through, especially ifsomething you hear about catches

(01:39:31):
your fancy and you want to readmore about it.
There's probably more in theFacebook group, but I had to
abbreviate them this week justto get them done.
Now there's one.
I didn't abbreviate too muchand it's the first one I want to
talk about A weekend-long event, the UTMB grindstone 100 ultra

(01:39:54):
at natural natural chimneys parkin virginia.
This race is actually over 100miles.
I believe it ended up being 106point something.
Miles 21 000 feet of verticalclimb, 21,000 feet, about four

(01:40:20):
miles of vertical climb.
In this race we had two friendsinvolved, adam and Tony.
This one's been three years inthe making.
They've been at it, they'vetried it the last two years,
both great runners, great longdistance runners who put a whole

(01:40:40):
lot of work in, but theyhaven't completed it yet.
Now Adam took off on this one.
This is a really technicaltrail race and if you it's a
21,000 feet, but if you look atthe charts, oh my goodness, it's
just one climb after the other.
The only, I guess, saving graceis I can't quite compare it to

(01:41:04):
Hard Rock.
Hard Rock has actually moreclimbing.
This one tops out at about4,000 feet, so you don't deal
with the altitude and elevationproblems as much.
Nevertheless, this is for me tosay.
Anything other than this isinsane is not doing it justice.
So this one's a technical race.

(01:41:28):
You got trails, rocks, verysteep climbs, steep descents,
rocks, very steep climbs, steepdescents.
About 20 minutes before Adamarrived at his last aid station,
which I don't know where thatwas 95 miles or so thunder and

(01:41:51):
lightning started and then itstarted to pour and climbing was
tough because of the mud, butAdam was afraid.
Then, once he got to the top ofthat last climb, the descent
how difficult was that going tobe on a muddy course?
Well, he managed.
He did it.
He got out of the aid station.
He had 30 minutes to spare.
He wanted to finish under 30hours, but at mile 106, his

(01:42:21):
speed on that five-mile section,the last five-mile section, was
sub-12-minute miles.
He wanted to finish in under 30.
He finished in 28 hours and 53minutes.

Speaker 16 (01:42:35):
That's epic.

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
Oh man, that put him 27th overall out of all the
racers, third in his age group.
Out of the 100, about 107 miles, he had two miles where he ran
less than 11 minutes mile twoand mile 107.

(01:42:57):
Thanks.
Unbelievable, unbelievable.
His friend Tony, tony called itoff he DNF.
Tony's a tough guy, good runner, trains hard, but these things,
my goodness, nobody.
Nobody knows when they tow theline in a race like this,

(01:43:17):
whether they're good, whetherthey're going to finish or not.
Tony made a wonderful racereport and I would encourage you
, tony Contreras, I wouldencourage you to go in and read
it, because it's a real study inwhat can happen to you on a
race, and I don't have theability to summarize all of it
here, I just want to.

(01:43:39):
This is something I copiedstraight out of here, and Tony
says that at a race like this,it's just a good opportunity to
learn and to try to make somechanges or readjustments,
striving for improvements andgrowth.
I don't know what else to say.
I mean that's awesome.

(01:44:00):
Congratulations to both youguys.
I also want to mention Kent,who crewed for them.
Not an easy thing to do.
He was an invaluable part ofthe team.
So, kent, great job to you also.
So let's continue.
We got a couple other weekendlong events.
Sean.

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Sean did a Ragnar.
The Michigan Ragnar 200 milerelay went from Traverse City,
michigan, to Muskegon, michigan.
Took the team 36 hours to doabout this 200 miles.
That's pretty good.
Sean got to run a 9.4-mile leg,9-mile leg and a 3.6-mile leg.

(01:44:48):
They had a great team, therewas no rain during the event and
decent temperatures.
It was a great time.
We've talked about these before.
I only have done one such eventin my life, but they're
memorable and a lot of fun.
The other weekend long event iskind of two separate events.
The Orca Half in Seattle,washington.

(01:45:11):
Laura and Brian ran a half onSaturday.
That wasn't enough because theyran a half on Sunday also.
They both did back-to-backhalves on the two different days
.
Let's see Saturday's run allsunshine, sunday a little bit
rainy.

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Laura took it a bit easier onday two but only ended up being
about eight minutes behind whatshe had done the day before.
They finished the weekend withchips, a Celsius, some Beecher's
cheese and soup.

(01:45:52):
That's got to be a West Coastthing, beechers with a capital B
, I'm not familiar with it.
But two medals for each of them.
Let us move now to Saturday andvisit with a friend who's been
on the podcast before.
You may remember if you haveall of the episodes memorized.

(01:46:13):
You may remember that onepisode 187, liz and her brother
Stephen were with us the FlyingFanglers.
It was a good episode.
We enjoyed talking with them.
Liz is back now, though,because, as a member of the
Connecticut 169 Society andwe've talked about them before
she just finished race number169.

(01:46:33):
We want to celebrate that.
Liz.
Welcome back.
We're glad you're here.

Speaker 16 (01:46:38):
Thank you, it's good to be back.

Speaker 4 (01:46:40):
Yeah, it's fun to have you.
We're not going to ask you thequestions.
We had a lot of fun talkingwith you and your brother, whose
name I didn't remember untilright now, until you reminded me
anyway, but it's good to haveyou now.
Look, you finished race 169 onSaturday in Basra, connecticut,

(01:47:05):
right?

Speaker 16 (01:47:06):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
And what was the race , please?

Speaker 16 (01:47:10):
It was the Basra Volunteer Fire Department.
5k 5K.

Speaker 4 (01:47:16):
Now, was this a plan to finish at this one, or did it
just fall into place for you?
This was where it came on yourjourney.

Speaker 16 (01:47:27):
I would say that I guess it ended up just becoming
a plan to finish there, becausejust as I got closer and
counting down on towns, I waslike okay, where would I rather
finish?
Would I rather finish in themiddle of nowhere, or would I
rather finish in the tail ofConnecticut?

Speaker 4 (01:47:44):
In the bustling metropolis of Basra.
How many people, john, in thecity Town?
Town, not city in the town.

Speaker 6 (01:47:52):
I got to go back there.
Hold on, it's like 2,000something yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:47:57):
See, we learned from talking to our 169 Society
friends that there are no citiesin Connecticut, they're all
towns.
I'm buying it, I'm notquestioning, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:48:08):
It was 2,429 people from the 2020 census.

Speaker 4 (01:48:14):
Yeah, which I think makes it the sixth largest town
in Connecticut.
Is that right?
No, I'm picking on Connecticutnow.
I know there are bigger townsthan that.
I'm just messing around, sothis ended up being your last
one.
Tell us how this one went,please.

Speaker 16 (01:48:29):
This one went pretty well.
It was a smaller race than someof the other ones I've done.
This was probably it was stillover like 100 people that did it
and yeah, it was a pretty goodcourse.
It was easy to follow just outand back and just do what you
did going out and do the samething back, with a little bit of

(01:48:52):
rolling hills, but it wasn'ttoo bad.

Speaker 4 (01:48:55):
See, that's important to you, liz, that's not
important to me or a whole lotof our friends, because we
always have somebody to follow.
We don't care if the course ismarked Well, we just follow
who's in front of us.
There's always somebody infront of us, lots of somebody's
in front of us.

Speaker 6 (01:49:09):
And if they make a wrong turn?

Speaker 4 (01:49:11):
we make, we do too.
We do too, but that's notalways the case with you.
169 races now in Connecticut.
How many of them did you wereyou first female finisher?

Speaker 16 (01:49:26):
First overall female finisher in 167.
20 towns as overall, not onlyoverall.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
Yeah, beat the guys too.

Speaker 16 (01:49:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:49:38):
Yeah, I gotcha.
Well, what were you doing?
Goofing off with the other twoof you.
You weren't feeling well right,Got to the start line late.
Probably Corral P problems, liz, I'm that.

(01:50:01):
That's.
That's fantastic.
First, first place female in167 of the 169 races.
And no joking, what happened inthe other two?

Speaker 16 (01:50:09):
I'm sure you finished towards the top and the
other two also yeah, one ofthem was first in my age group
and then the other was, uh,third top three female finishers
.

Speaker 6 (01:50:19):
I was third overall those two that you did not win.
Win overall, female or overall.
Are you gonna go try back andwin those two?
We'll see it would irk methat's an honest answer.

Speaker 4 (01:50:37):
I I was amused by how easily it came.
Yeah, I don't, what do I care?
I won 167.
What do I care?

Speaker 7 (01:50:43):
follow a question to that, though of all those races
that you did win, how many ofthose races were your, was your
brother also at and did?

Speaker 16 (01:50:55):
you beat him um, that's a very good question.
I want to say that it'sprobably over a hundred at least
wow, all right that's.
That's just my estimate, goingback to when we got interviewed

(01:51:17):
for another local paper back in23, when we were really starting
to rank up to in a lot of thesetowns.

Speaker 4 (01:51:24):
When you were hot.

Speaker 7 (01:51:26):
So, needless to say, you are the far superior flying
fangler of the family.

Speaker 16 (01:51:33):
Yes, I guess you could say that.

Speaker 4 (01:51:35):
Yeah, you can say it, because your brother's not here
.
Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:51:40):
So, liz, you finished the 169 races.
Do you have any new challengesthat you have on your radar that
you want to do?

Speaker 16 (01:51:50):
I would say eventually doing like a race in
every state.
I haven't really haven't reallyironed that out too much yet,
but I think that that would belike a good challenge and or
doing like a half in every state.

Speaker 4 (01:52:05):
Yeah, and you say you haven't really considered much
of that.
But have you done any other?
I imagine you have right.
About how many states do youthink you have now Just guessing
?
Oh, I imagine you have right.

Speaker 16 (01:52:16):
About how many states do you think you have now
Just guessing?
Oh, I only have about.
Are we counting college racesinto this?

Speaker 4 (01:52:23):
It's your call, Liz.
You're the one who decides.

Speaker 16 (01:52:27):
If we're not counting college races into this
it's about, it's only likethree.

Speaker 6 (01:52:34):
Okay, and we know one's Florida.

Speaker 16 (01:52:37):
Well, I mean, then you throw, and we know one's,
florida.
Well, I mean, then you throw inConnecticut, so that's four.
So I should probably count thatone.

Speaker 5 (01:52:44):
Yeah, only 169, at least there yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:52:49):
Yeah Well, Liz, you coming to.

Speaker 16 (01:52:53):
Disney.
Anytime soon We'll see.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
We'll see.
We'll see.
All right, will you let us know?

Speaker 16 (01:53:00):
if you do, Can I get a voice registration please?

Speaker 4 (01:53:04):
Oh, you're not kidding.

Speaker 16 (01:53:08):
Will you let us?

Speaker 4 (01:53:09):
know if you do, yeah, maybe oh for crying out loud.
Liz, We'd love to see you.
Hey Liz, We've been to see you.
Hey Liz, We've been jokingaround a lot and I enjoy it.
Thanks for being a good sport,Thanks for joining us and, by
golly, congratulations on, Imean, the 169 is a really,
really neat thing.
I think Connecticut's uniquelyplaced to do something like that

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.
It's the right size state.
I mean you couldn't do it inFlorida, but I think it's great.
But congratulations on that.
It's the right size state, it's.
I mean, you couldn't do it inFlorida, but I think it's great,
but congratulations on that.
And that incredible number of167 first places, that's really
impressive.
So good to see you again, myfriend.
Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 16 (01:53:47):
Thank you, it's been great.
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:53:50):
So congratulations again, liz.
All right, we know that thiswas the BMW Berlin Marathon
weekend.
We're going to dive into thatnext week.
We always like to give ourfriends, especially on the
overseas world majors, give thema chance to get back and get
settled before we talk with them.
However, I do want to recognizethere was a 5K on Saturday and

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Luciana and Jonathanparticipated in that 5K.
Back much more locally for me inOrlando, florida, the Miles to
Go 4th Annual 5K, who arelooking for a way to make a
difference in the Orlandocommunity by providing now over

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12,000 bags of essentials forthe homeless in the area.
We had a couple people at thisevent.
Tracy and her daughter Gigiwere there.
Tracy, back from Burden Hand,and her daughter Gigi were there
.
Fun course at Bill FrederickPark, which is near Universal

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Studios Two loops, an amazingafter party with a rock wall,
crafts for the kids, 35 vendors,massages, free coffee, raffles
and beautiful items for thesilent auction.
Now Gigi is Tracy's daughter.
Big event for Gigi 5K PR.

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Way to go.
Gigi, gigi Now let's see.
Jen was there and so was Esther.
Esther completed this one amonth after being in a traffic
accident in which her vehiclewas hit from behind.
So, esther, we're glad you'redoing well.
And back out there In Northport, new York, megan ran the Great

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Cow Harbor 10K, rated as one ofthe 100 top races in the US.
I'm not sure by who, maybeRunner's World, something like
that but the Great Cow Harbor10K All right.
It's a hilly course, windsthrough a beautiful town on Long
Island's northern shore Reallygood weather this time of year,

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great support from the town.
Now Megan's been struggling alittle bit with some Achilles
tendon problems.
Wasn't expecting the run verywell, but her goal of PRing in
fun actually led to a PR in this10K.
Way to go, megan.

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Framingham, massachusetts,jack's Abbey, united Way 5K.
Rob ran this one, a fantasticlocal course that supports the
United Way.
As the name implies, the routewinds through downtown
Framingham, finishes with a longstraight stretch, perfect for

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picking up pace.
At the end Rob was happy withhis performance, finishing in
just under 26 minutes.
Yeah, I guess.
So, rob, that's an outstanding5K time.
Kim was running in Bainbridge,georgia, the River South 5K.
Our buddy Joe married Joe'sStampede 5K in Fort Smith,

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arkansas.
This gave Joe a chance to tryout his Disney 10K costume and
he got first place in his agegroup.
Way to go, joe.
The three amigos were togetheragain in Fort Smith.
Joe's buddy.
Gary got second in the 5K andJohnny, he got first in his age

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group in the 10k.
Joe's, happy, faster thanballoon lady pace.
That's all we care about, joe,nicely done.
In macon, georgia, katherinelee did the joshua's wish.
5k joshua's with is a charityfor childhood cancer.
Kind of a rough course, someyucky hills.

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But today Catherine set a newPR for her fastest mile and
fastest 5K, shaving off morethan a minute and a half from
her previous 5K PR.
Well done.
Not only that, third place inher age group, catherine Lee.
Way to go.

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In Texas, the University ofHouston 10K.
A couple of friends there.
Brandy forgot her water belt.

Speaker 7 (01:58:29):
My fault.

Speaker 4 (01:58:30):
And her coffee.

Speaker 7 (01:58:32):
My fault as well.

Speaker 4 (01:58:33):
Her snacks fell out of her pocket at mile two.

Speaker 7 (01:58:36):
Also my fault.

Speaker 4 (01:58:37):
Yeah, Greg, I don't know.
Golly, I don't know.
Construction all around theuniversity Temps in the 80s.
Other than that, everything wasgreat.
So she pushed for a PR and justmissed.
Now she feels wrecked and tiredand is thinking of moving to
Australia.
And it's all Greg's fault.

Speaker 7 (01:59:00):
What did I tell you?

Speaker 4 (01:59:01):
Yeah, we don't want her moving to Australia, Greg.
That's too far for a brand new.

Speaker 7 (01:59:04):
Well, no, no, no, that we do not want her to do.

Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
No, absolutely not.
That's too far to get back foryour run Disney events.
Let's see, also at this event,katrina, lucas and olivia.
They all dressed up as demonslayers.
Hot and humid.
It's still hot and humid in thefront in the south, my friends.
It's hot and humid here inflorida.
Let's see this family pr'd infun, saw the college mascot and

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they even end up being their owncharacter.
Stop, that's the way it goessometimes.

Speaker 7 (01:59:35):
You know, speaking of those demon hunters, my kiddo
finally turned it on because allthe kids were talking about it,
oh yeah.
And I was like and it was areally, really cool animation
style.
I didn't sit through the wholething because I had to get
through work, but my God, let metell you those songs are pretty
darn catchy.

Speaker 4 (01:59:54):
Okay, See, I have no idea but, I take your word, give
it a shot.

Speaker 7 (01:59:58):
Give it a shot, bob Just load up that Netflix Kids
and you're in for two hours ofenjoyment.

Speaker 4 (02:00:03):
We'll see, we'll see.
All right, let's head out toColorado.
Run the Rockies 10K at theCopper Ski Resort.
It went from the ski resort tothe city of Frisco Sia was there
.
They ran next to a riverthrough the gorgeous Aspen
groves as they were changingcolors for fall All downhill

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that's nice started at over9,000 feet of elevation.
That made it a little difficultto catch your breath, but it
was worth it.
No medal, but you got a tokenfor a meal at one of the food
trucks at the end of the race.
You know, friends, you hear metalking about it.
I really do love Florida, butif there's a time of the year I
miss in the northern climes,it's this time, and it's when

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the leaves start to turn andthey're so pretty, so glad you
got a chance to see that see ya,and here I thought you were
going to say you really missshoveling snow no, no, I do not
know.
The race report's too long orI'll tell you about.
Let's move to cincinnati,cincinnati, for the Cincy

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Brewery run 14K.
Sarah noted it was an unusualdistance.
She's not sure about a PR forthis one, but she did run
negative splits.
This one ends in Oktoberfest,cincinnati, with beer tickets
included with the race, and shetried out her costume for Wine

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and Dine, which looked very nice.
Sarah and our friend from thearea that we know from the
Flying Pig races, julie, wasthere too.
Julie was in bird in hand withus as well.
In Dallas, texas, the USAWomen's Half Marathon Maggie,
her first race since becoming amom two years ago.

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She set a new PR on this warmTexas day Plus.
She got to share the JeffGalloway method with some other
solo runners and she becameknown as the Glitter Girl Racer.
We'll have to try to rememberthat, maggie.

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Use it when we see you atDisney.
Let's see, this is a MetalMadness half marathon and I
don't know where this oneoccurred, but I know Hannah did
it Wait you didn't do yourinternet sleuthing this week.
No, greg, there's too many.
There were too many Too many.
As I mentioned at the top here,I do appreciate a lot of our

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friends.
Uh, put all the information upfront.
So I again, I appreciate that.
But now Hannah had 17 on thetraining schedule so she did
four miles before then ran thishalf marathon that she
registered for at the lastminute.
Smart way to do it, hannah,because, as you observed in your
report, doing the 13 first andthen going okay, I got four more

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.
Yeah, that usually doesn't getdone.
This was one of those raceswhere they chose leftover medals
.
I think we had another one thisweekend also, and we're going
to hear more friends saying thisas the training goes on.
This is 17 miles is thefurthest Hannah has ever run.
Back in Canada, in Ottawa, the10K army run.

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Tara commented on this hillycourse, but she finally did this
one.
Oh no, it's not that shefinally did this race.
What Tara finally did was notonly PR, but broke 60 minutes in
a 10K.

Speaker 7 (02:03:39):
I was so happy to see this post from her Way to go,
Tara.

Speaker 4 (02:03:43):
That is a big deal.
The first time I did it in my60s.
In my 30s I could do it.
In my 60s I did it and, honestto goodness, 59 minutes 59.5
seconds.
But I broke it.
And so you broke it too, terry.
Good for you.
The medals were dog tags.
That's appropriate for an Army10K.

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Marina was there too.
She ran the Commander'sChallenge, which was the 5K,
followed shortly by the half.
Marina commented she saw a lotof run Disney racers on the
course.
At least that's what she gotfrom their costumes.
Okay, Beth was in Stockton, newJersey, for the run the
vineyards at the federal twistvineyard.

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She signed up for this one onThursday night, ran it on
Saturday her first non runDisney 10 K husband and daughter
at the finish line.
And she enjoyed thecomplimentary glass of wine in
the souvenir wine glass.
Complimentary glass of wine.
They hand you a complimentaryglass of wine.
They hand you a glass and sayyou're looking lovely today.

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Things compliment, never mind.
Okay, wow, greeley, colorado,the superhero 10k card exchange.
Jenny was there along withSonny, carrie, kimberly and
Jamie.
A fun little event.
Beautiful, cool morning inColorado, and the course itself

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was scenic Only a few hills,that's nice.
I'm sure Colorado can get rough.
Each of them had differentgoals for the day and they all
finished feeling accomplishedwith their runs.
That is a successful day.
Vanessa, out in Washington,eastern Washington, participated

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in the Ultra Fest and did herfirst ultra, a 50 mile run.
An amazing experience.
The ultra community is sowelcoming.
Vanessa is going to becelebrating her 50th birthday
this year, so she figured thiswas the time to do a 50 miler.
This area in the PacificNorthwest is spectacular.

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The temperature has fluctuatedby about 20 degrees from start
to finish.
She noticed that when she gothome she got the 100k medal
instead of the 50 mile medal.
So now she needs to go back andearn the 100k.
But Vanessa, congratulations onknocking out your first ultra.
That's APR, a 50 mile medal.
So now she needs to go back andearn the a hundred K.
But Vanessa, congratulations onknocking out your first ultra.

Speaker 6 (02:06:09):
that's a PR, bob.
You only did 48.6 on your 70th.
Come on, bob, you got to stepit up.

Speaker 4 (02:06:15):
I'm slacking, yeah, I'm slacking.
Oh well, I'm not.
Yeah, that's going to stay thatway, john.
I'm not.
Yeah, that's going to stay thatway, john.
Okay, let's see, that's allright.
Yeah, that's it.
Let's go to Armada, michigan,where Christina ran Blake's
Monster Dash 5k.
She did two races this weekend.
This was the first.
This course takes you throughtheir orple orple.

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How about apple orchard farmwith live spooky actors.
No medals, no medals.
But you get a donut and ciderat the finish.

Speaker 7 (02:06:47):
That's pretty cool this is what happens when the
race report gets a slung pop.

Speaker 4 (02:06:52):
We start running in, we start running.
In orple orchards, we startrunning.
Yeah, all right, let's see,we're, uh, we're winding up.
Saturday.
We're at sanford, florida, atthe airport, to be specific,
where heather was rolling at theb well 5k.
Dj cj was there and this is thebest racing surface heather has

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rolled on.
It's perfectly flat and shebroke out her old flight suit
for this event.
Flight suits are one-piecegarments that in the Florida
summer, you're not good forracing in, says.
This might have been a mistake,but it was worth it for the
reaction.
So good for you, heather.
I'm going to finish up Saturday.

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I don't usually talk about parkruns, but Lisa did a park run in
Jacksonville on Saturday andshe did it as a fundraiser, and
the reason I mention it isbecause she ran it in an
inflatable dinosaur costume.
Good photos.
All right, let's move to Sunday.
Now.
The big event on Sunday wasagain the Berlin marathon.

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We'll talk more about it nextweek.
Let me just run down the nameshere I have of people who were
on, who put their name on therace report.
That would be Brian, jay,jeremy, jonathan, kristen and
Michael, and for Michael, thiswas his sixth star race, so
we'll hear from some of thosefolks next week.

Speaker 7 (02:08:20):
Quick question, bob, for our Berlin recap next week,
is Harry Styles also joining usas well?

Speaker 6 (02:08:29):
Is that Stedman?
What was his name?

Speaker 4 (02:08:33):
He didn't respond to my text, Greg.

Speaker 7 (02:08:35):
Oh, okay, Because I mean a sub three.

Speaker 10 (02:08:39):
He got a 24 minute PR.
I mean that's wild, he got a24-minute.
Pr.

Speaker 7 (02:08:43):
I mean that's wild.
Yeah, he must have beendrinking a lot of watermelon
sugar.

Speaker 4 (02:08:49):
You think he'd want to talk about it?

Speaker 7 (02:08:51):
You would think so.

Speaker 4 (02:08:52):
Yeah, Let us move to St Petersburg, Florida, for the
Fort DeSoto Oktoberfest 5K 10K15K event.
It is still summertime inFlorida.
A Fort DeSoto Oktoberfest 5K10K 15K event.
It is still summertime inFlorida.
Tampa had a record high of 95degrees that Sunday.

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Of course, the race was over bythe time it hit that high
temperature.
We got to see something reallyneat.
There was a SpaceX launch rightat dawn.
Now the Cape is I don't knowwhat the true distance is 90,
maybe a hundred miles other sideof the Florida peninsula, but

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at dawn, with the sun at a very,very low angle and there was
very, almost a cloudless sky,you can see the launch pretty
well.
It's pretty spectacular.
So we got to see that.
And also, since at the very topof the race report we were
talking about a race that had21,000 feet in elevation change,

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this one was close 21?
.
This 15K had five feet ofelevation.
5 feet, I kid you not, it'sright down on the Did you go
over a curb oh, thank God.
No, geez, I couldn't have doneall that climbing.
5 feet total throughout thecourse.

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I mean it's right down on thebeach though it's a trail, but
it's right on the beach.
I was there.
I walked my 15K.
I was happy to do it.
I averaged a little under 14minutes a mile for the 15K.
I got to do a little bit ofjogging.

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I had a doctor's visit lastweek.
I visited the surgeon who didmy procedure, so then it was
good.
He says, uh, hey, look, he'slearned me a little bit.
He says, hey, you can jog alittle bit if you want.
And I think my face lit up andhe goes now, go easy, go easy,

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don't do too much.
So I didn't.
I genuinely didn't do too much,uh, but I was glad to be able
to do that.
I saw our friends trina andjeff there.
Congratulations to trina andjeff for making it to the start
line on time.
They'll get it.
They'll get it the uh.
The last race I did in fort desoto was last spring and I'm
starting out I don't know howlong, it was probably probably a
10K and I see my friend Trinawalking along.

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She's walking the wrongdirection because she just got
there, so she was real proud ofmaking it to the start line on
time.
Now she made it to the startline on time and started out a
little bit too fast and aftermile four she started slowing
down but she held steady and shefinished strong.
Jeff finished also.

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Like I said, it was a warmmorning, nice event, really nice
place for a run.
Joy was there, had a fun race.
I'm not sure what race Joy did,I think maybe the 15k.
I do know that duncan and herdaughter were there for the 5k.
I did not get to see thembecause the 5k the 15k goes off
first.
The 5k went off about 30minutes later, so I missed them.

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Uh, and god bless them, theydidn't wait around for me.
I don't blame them.
Duncan said she walked almostall of it because she's dealing
with some ankle issues.
She talked about the spacelaunch, which was really neat,
and she mentions that, and Ithink this is a good thing
because her daughter now wantsto do a 10K, wants to do a 10k.

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Let's go to Amsterdam, in theNetherlands, where our good
friend Laura ran the NN Dom toDom Lope 10 mile race.
This is one that starts inAmsterdam and goes to the next
city, zandam.
I believe this is actually thelargest race in the Netherlands
with about 48,000 finishers.

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Pretty cool Race went well.
A little bit of rain but thathelped cool off.
Laura wanted to finish sub twohours in this 10 miler and she
killed it at an hour and 50minutes.
Way to go, laura.
Let's go to Canada, montreal,specifically, where Lucy ran the

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Marathon.
Beneva, montréal.
At least that's the way I'mpronouncing it.
I'm sticking with it.
This is Lucy's first raceoutside the US, her first big
city marathon, seventh marathonoverall and ta-da, a 10-minute
PR down to three hours 25minutes.

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Woo, that's smoking.
Our crowd support throughoutthe race was top-notch.
Turns out, says Lucy, thatbeing yelled at in French is
really motivating.
Definitely recommend this one.
Nice job.
Nashville, tennessee, had theWhiskey Run, nashville 10K and

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Allie was there on this warmSeptember day.
Quite hilly race.
Nashville sure can be hilly.
Allie paced herself pretty well, stuck to her intervals, but
there was this massive hillabout four and a half miles into
it Almost took her out of therace.
She pushed herself on to thelast mile, wanted to catch back

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up and she did.
And not only did she set a newPR, but she's got a new run
Disney proof of time.
Down in South America, in BuenosAires, argentina, our buddy, jj
Juan Jose, ran the 42K BuenosAires.
I think most of our friendsknow 42K, that's marathon

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distance.
Now JJ is an excellent runnerbut he couldn't train for three
of the last six weeks because ofa big toe injury.
I know sometimes it doesn'tsound like much a toe injury,
but my goodness, a toe injurycan really lay you up for a long
time.
Ask the quarterback of theCincinnati Bengals.
Jj's plan was simple If the toedidn't hurt, he was going to

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enjoy the race and that'sexactly what happened.
Weather was all over the place.
It went from warm to rainy, tocold and windy, but in the end
he ran a strong race and he'sgot a brand new marathon PR of
three hours two minutes, onesecond.
Now, how cool is that?
Three, two, one, go Way to.

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How cool is that?
Three, two, one, go Way to go,jj.
Nicely done.
In Detroit, bethany did the 10Kat the Women Run, the D event.
It's a race that she'd beentraining for in hopes of getting
a proof of time.
Course is gorgeous.
You can see the Detroit cityline, but you can also see

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Windsor, canada.
It appears there was someconfusion, according to a report
, a confusion at the end of therace that there were different
finish lines for the differentrace distances, and she wasn't
sure when she was done her 10K.
So now she's not sure if herone hour eight minute time for a
work will work for a proof oftime or not.

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A little bit disappointing, butstill an outstanding race,
bethany, congratulations on that.
Up in rochester, new york, allyand matt did a 5k at the
rochester half marathon and 5kchilly, chilly morning in
Rochester, great running weatheronce they got moving, nice run

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along the Genesee River and itwas all ruined by a steep hill
in the middle of it.
Nonetheless, matt had a goodtime and survived at a slightly
faster.
They survived at a slightlyfaster than intended pace.
That's always a pleasantsurprise.
In Rockville, maryland, divyaran the park's half marathon.

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She used this as part of a15-mile long training run.
Ended up starting late becauseof the long corral P line.
We know what they needed, right.

Speaker 16 (02:17:28):
Guy with the whistle .

Speaker 4 (02:17:29):
Yeah, yeah, that's what they needed.
Most of this is on a pavedtrail through one of the local
parks.
Very beautiful, especiallyagain the start of fall in
Maryland.
Overall nice to have asupported or, as we call it, a
catered training run.
Suzanne ran her second 10k atthe Memphis Runners Track Club

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Road Race in Memphis, tennessee.
Vicki and her dad, victor, didthe half marathon in St Charles,
illinois.
At the Fox Valley Marathonraces In Exeter, new Hampshire,
mike was there for the ConnorsClimb 5K.

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Now, you guys remember this acouple weeks ago.
Well, mike was with us on thespotlight, mike was one of our
volunteers, remember.
And then, not long ago, miketalked about doing a 5K where he
missed his PR by three secondsand he said I'm going to go do
another one.
All right, he did another one.
Let's see.
He ran through his neighborhood, made his kids come out to

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cheer and beat his old PR by 56seconds.

Speaker 7 (02:18:47):
Way to go, mike.

Speaker 4 (02:18:48):
There you go, mike, well done.
Just up the road in Clearwater,florida.
The best damn race leftover 5K.
My friends Richard and Kristadid this one.
Now we talked about seeing thelaunch at fort de soto, seeing
the spacex launch.
Of course they could also seeit in clearwater pretty

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spectacular.
This thing goes from coachmanpark in clearwater up and across
a really significant bridge.
That is a heck of a climb andthen turns around and comes back
.
Now these uh leftover races.
What they did is at packetpickup they could choose a shirt

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leftover from a previous bdrrun and at the finish they got
to pick two leftover medals.
That I guess that's kind of fun.
I haven't done these.
I've seen them.
They've been a couple in thearea but I haven't seen them
before.
I haven't done one before.
Judy was also there, bob.
Oh, judy was there.
Thank you, john.

Speaker 6 (02:19:50):
Yes, she was.
Yeah, Judy was there?

Speaker 4 (02:19:52):
Yeah, she was.
Thanks, I'm sorry I missed that.
In Almonte, Michigan, christinawas there for the Almonte
Heritage Festival 5K.
This is Christina's second raceof this weekend.
This course takes you through asmall town which is mostly fast

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and flat, one big hill rightbefore the finish Worst place
for it.
Participants in this one get amedal, a donut and other items
such as a fanny pack and a keychain.
That's some pretty good swagfor a 5k.
And we bring this race reportto a close with the Island Luau

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5k, which, of course, the IslandLuau in that famous Polynesian
area, pennsville, new Jersey.

Speaker 7 (02:20:45):
Ah yes, they always say that Pennsville is like the
Hawaii of New Jersey.
That's right, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:20:53):
If you saw the photos , they had a whole lot of
answers and they did it up right.
The vet was there.
The vet said the weather wasperfect, no metal, but you got
to lay and a fun luau showafterwards.
So it was a good event.

Speaker 7 (02:21:08):
You know, I put Yvette in the category as, like
our friend Lori and Tracy, who Ifeel like are on the race
report week after week afterweek.
It's truly, truly impressiveWay to go everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:21:22):
Well, I think it's great, I think it's fun and then
, although it gets long and getsa little bit challenging, I
just love the fact thateverybody participates in this
and and I sure hope, as I saidagain at the beginning, I sure
hope I didn't miss anybody, butit's, it's getting big and
thanks, thanks andcongratulations to everyone who
finished the race this weekend.
All right, my friends, and ifyou run, you know you are our

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friend.
Thank you for hanging with us.
Hope you enjoyed the Council ofCostumes.
It was good to talk with all ofour friends again.
Hope they gave you some goodideas and, as I said, coming out
of it, you don't have to dothis, but it really is fun.
Reminder this is a zoom weekend.
Zoom thursday this is a zoomthursday.

(02:22:08):
Information on how to log inwill be on the facebook group
page.
Training miles are building.
We're getting closer to gettingtogether at disney.
I hope you're as excited aboutthat as we are, because until we
meet again, happy running.

Speaker 10 (02:22:38):
The Rise and Run podcast discusses general
information about Run Disney andis in no way affiliated with
Run Disney or the Walt DisneyCompany.
Any information or advicediscussed on this podcast should
not be considered medicaladvice and should always consult
with your health care provideror event organizer.

Speaker 1 (02:22:58):
Rise and run.
Let the anthem be spun forevery heart that runs.
For fun, rise and run.
Let the anthem be spun forevery heart that runs for fun.

Speaker 2 (02:23:06):
Rise and run From start to the run.
Together.
We shine like the morning sun.
Rise and run.
We rise and run, we rise andrun.

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