215: The NYC Marathon And Some Hollarhype Heroes

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SPEAKER_00 (00:45):
Good morning and welcome to the Rise and Run
Podcast.
This is Brandy from Houston,Texas, calling you from the
start line of the University ofHouston, 10K.
Run for the plastic cheese.

SPEAKER_10 (00:56):
Brandy running for the plastic cheese from a few
weeks back.
Thanks for the intro, Brandy.
Thank you, my friends, forjoining us on episode 215 of the
Rise and Run Podcast.
We're so glad that you're here.
I'm Bob, and I'm here this weekwith John.
Hey, how are you doing?

(01:17):
With Lexi.
Hello.
With Craig.

SPEAKER_15 (01:20):
Hey, hey, hey.

SPEAKER_10 (01:21):
And with Alicia.
Hello.
Hello, my friends.
Good to see you all.
Hope your weather's as nicewhere you are as it is here.
It's a nice pleasant eveninghere in Central Florida.
How are we doing in the rest ofthe country?
Pretty well.
I know it's starting to cool.
Fall, y'all.
Fall, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 (01:39):
Yeah, it's definitely fall.
I mean, it's chilly, but when Iwas on my run today, it was
actually really nice.
So good.

SPEAKER_03 (01:46):
Good.
I'm glad to hear it.
I hope 20 20 degree swings inthe morning and the afternoon.
That's about it.

SPEAKER_17 (01:52):
Not that cold, but I did see in Atlanta next week.
The low is supposed to be 26.

SPEAKER_10 (01:59):
There is another coal front coming through.
Yeah, but it does mostly for usright now.
It'll get cool here.
It never gets cold.
Well, I don't want to say never.
It hasn't.
In the six years I've been here,I have not seen freezing
temperatures.
But uh the uh coal fronts nowbring the humidity way down.
That's sweet.
We like that.
So unfortunately they didn't doit on wine and dine weekend, but

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they did the week after.
I don't know how many times Idon't know how many times I've
been out running the week aftera Disney race going, gosh, this
weather is so much nicer.
It's just the way it works.

SPEAKER_17 (02:34):
If wine and dine had been when it used to be normally
is.
Yeah, it it would have beencool.

SPEAKER_10 (02:40):
It wasn't that bad.
I don't I didn't think.
I I mean it was warm, but I wasI was could have been worse.

SPEAKER_17 (02:48):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 (02:49):
All right, let's take a look at what's coming up.
We got a couple of things thisweek.
We hope you enjoy.
I know that the Ryzen Runnerslove Holler Hype.
We had Emily from Holler Hype ona couple months ago.
She's back with us.
She brought some friendly randoswith her.
You need to stay tuned to figureout what that is.

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Why Debbie and Troy are friendlyrandos.
Neat term.
Uh in our race report spotlightthis week, we had four friends
joining us who finished the NewYork City Marathon.
They spent some time telling usall about it.

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But we learned some news overthe weekend about a future race
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upcoming race weekends at WaltDisney World in 2026.

SPEAKER_10 (05:35):
I'm looking, if you'll recall last week, the
race report went on for the bestpart of Monday and Tuesday.
Anyway, I uh I explained that Itried my best, but I missed a
couple of PRs.
Wine and Dine, Catherine PR'dthe half.
At the Marine Corps Marathon,Randala, who is a new member,

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ran her first marathon, sothat's a PR.
And Holly did a 15-minute PR.
I hope I've caught them all.
But if I haven't, if I haven't,do another one, we'll get you
next time.
Okay.
We'll get you on your next PR.
Hey friends, don't adjust yourset.
If I sound differently than Inormally do, my computer just

(06:24):
decided it had had enough.
It's like, you know, mile 22,the marathon, and he goes, I'm
just not gonna finish.
Well, my computer decided it wasdone working for me, so I am
recording this on my sweetwife's iPad.

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So I know it sounds different.
I'll have I'll be back on theregular microphone next week.
Uh speaking of my sweet wife, Iwas all day in the hospital.
She had her rotator cuffoperated on.
That took a heck of a lot.
That took about four hours.
And it had a little bit of acomplication in there, the doc
told me, but everything workedout all right.

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But here's the thing, it's herit's her cookie scooping arm.
Oh no.
So I'm really worried.
Oh no.
Yeah.
I'm really worried she's goingto be on injured reserve until
at least at least December.
But hopefully we can have herback in the lineup for January.
Don't you have a relief cookiescooper?
Well, yeah.

unknown (07:27):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 (07:29):
Bob.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like that guy in the uh inthe ads, you know, the the
relief uh photo taker or therelief carbacker in her.
Yeah, I'm the relief cookiescooper.
We'll we'll work on that.
But yeah, she's doing okay.
Not a uh not an easy surgery.

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But I told her no morecurveballs, and we'll see if we
can't get her ready for springcany next year.
All right, speaking of training,let's take a look at the
training schedule.
Walt Disney World MarathonWeekend.
Nine weeks away, friends.
Nine weeks away.
Count them on the fingers of twohands now.
Don't need to take your shoesoff anymore.

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We're in training week 19.
And if you are training on thebeginner's marathon schedule,
you have a long run of 20 miles.
If you're doing the goofy ordopey challenge, you have runs,
you have a walk of eight and ahalf miles and a run walk of 20.

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And a note, friends, if youarrive at Disney World on Expo
Day, which is January 7th, youradvanced dining reservation day
is coming up this week onNovember 8th.
So there's there's a note.
You can back that up.
You know when you're going toget there.

(08:56):
You can back that up.
But ADRs are coming up soon.
Well, listen, we're we'retrained for this.

SPEAKER_16 (09:02):
I mean, think about the number of times during Run
Disney races where people wouldpull their phones out on course
at 7 a.m.
to get like a virtual queue forlike Tron or something like
that.
So obviously, if you're doingone of those races, you got a
really long, long run thisweekend.
So, you know, when if you're outthere and it's 6 a.m., you just

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pull out your phone and startbooking beacon barrel.

SPEAKER_10 (09:26):
Yeah, right, right.
Beacon barrel, Art Smith'sbrunch, all that good stuff.
Uh that's that's for DisneyWorld Marathon Weekend.
Disneyland half marathonweekend, not long after.
It's three weeks after, it's 12weeks away now.
Training week six, long run ofsix and a half miles, and we're

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into the princess trainingschedule.
Now Princess weekend is 16 weeksaway.
Only the second week of trainingin the long run is four miles.
Friends, I'm gonna take a I'mgonna stop here for a moment.
You know, I consider and weconsider Rise and Run a family,

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and occasionally somethinghappens in the family that we
want to draw to your attention.
I got a message from Joe tellingme that Carrie and Katie's dad,
Billy Ray Wahlberg, was in thehospital on Friday with uh
double pneumonia.
Uh they were able in thehospital to get some

(10:31):
medications, had some success,and had a great day on Saturday.
He was sitting up, eating, got achance to sit with his loved
ones, talk to them, say that heloved them, but by Sunday he
took a turn for the worst, andon Monday he passed.
So our our hearts go out.

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Our thoughts and prayers to ourmembers of uh Billy Ray Walber's
family.
I'm sure he'll be missed.
He was a he was a Navy veteranand uh 30-year government
employee and about I believe hewas 80 years old when he passed.
So I thanks thanks for notifyingus, and I'm sorry to pass that

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along, but like I said, we'refamily and we celebrate together
and sometimes we grievetogether.
Friends, back to training.
What do we got in the way oftraining updates?

SPEAKER_12 (11:27):
I did 16 miles today.
Um when I came back from wineand dine.
Unfortunately last week I missedmy long run, which I don't love
to do, obviously.
Um, so today was anywherebetween 15 and 18.
Um, I definitely could have donethe 18.
It wasn't a matter of that.

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Um, but I start my new nursingposition tomorrow and I was
already pretty tired.

SPEAKER_10 (11:54):
That's a big deal, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 (11:55):
Yeah, it's it is a big deal.
Um I was already pretty tired,and so I was like, I'm gonna
reserve the energy um anddecided to end it at the 16
instead of going around foranother two miles.
But that's good though.
It was good.

SPEAKER_10 (12:09):
Numbers are getting up there.
But just as an aside, what willyou be doing in your new nursing
position?

SPEAKER_12 (12:15):
So um I've been working in memory care for 13
years.
Yeah.
Um, I'm gonna continue in that.
So I'll just be switching to theRN position um in the same
facility of long-term care.

SPEAKER_10 (12:27):
Okay.

SPEAKER_12 (12:28):
In memory care.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 (12:29):
Congratulations.
I think it takes somebodyspecial to do that, Alicia.
That's I don't think that's easyto do.
So I congratulate you on that.
That's great stuff.
Thank you.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 (12:40):
Uh in terms of my training, I am now just a couple
of days out from the Rocky runand my uh new PR and POT
attempt.
Uh, so I got a uh I got a coupleof goals in line, you know, and
I'm kind of tackling it similarto how I did the Philly Marathon
last year, you know, some A Athrough D goals, and even if

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it's the D goal, the D goal isstill a PR.
So um, you know, I'm hoping thatthat puts me in a good uh mental
spot.
But I will say that you know, Ihad one last set of uh speed
work uh this past weekend.
Uh I had 10800s, which I forgottakes a lot longer uh than I was
uh anticipating.

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But uh the music nerd in me uhenjoyed this one, but also was a
little bit challenging too.
Because so I did uh I did Ted800s with the local marching
band.
And as someone who did nineyears of marching myself, if you
ever have done marching band oror drum core or something like
that, you'll know the theinstrument called Dr.

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Beat, which is essentially ametronome uh that projects out
you know like through speakers,so that way you can hear it
above the drum line andeverything.
So trying to battle the musicthat was in my headphones, the
doc that was that's one tempo,Dr.
Beat that's going another tempo.
If the band and and the you knowthe the pit are at another tempo

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as they're separatelypracticing, my mind was all over
the place.
And so trying to hit paces interms of what I needed to run
was quite a challenge.
But at the same time, the bandoin me loved it, uh, you know,
all the same and everything.
So had a little bit of troubletowards the end.
You know, probably by like myeighth one, I was like, okay,
I'm over this, but I knew it'simperative to get it all done,

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and hopefully that will uh willgive me good news come uh come
this upcoming weekend.

SPEAKER_10 (14:36):
I'm surprised you didn't trip with all those
different uh cadences goingthrough your head, Craig.
Left, right, left, left.
Oh no.
Good job.
Good job.
I'm seeing uh I'm seeing onFacebook a lot of our friends
are doing well in theirtraining.
I'm seeing a lot of fall PRs.
Congratulations.

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Not surprised, that's goodstuff.
Weather cools down.
You do all that tough summertraining, those fall PRs just
follow naturally.
I'm also seeing a lot offriends, uh especially those
training for the marathon orgoofy and dopey, posting saying,
I did this many miles intraining today.
It's the furthest I've ever run.
Congratulations, you should feelgood about that.

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That's the key.
Sticking with the training isthe key.
And you it just makes for a veryenjoyable race weekend if you
can stick with your training anduh and take the victory lap at
Disney World.

SPEAKER_15 (15:35):
Caution Runners, change of topic ahead.

SPEAKER_10 (15:40):
Well, Disney World, Disneyland, we got some
information on coast to coastfor 2026.
Last time we'll see it for alittle while.
What was the news, guys?

SPEAKER_16 (15:52):
Yeah, Bob.
So over the weekend, actually, Iwant to say it was I can't
remember if it was Saturday orif it was Sunday, which I
thought was odd for somethinglike this to get posted.
But I mean, it's a it's a littleburied on the uh the Run Disney
website, but they announced allof the information in order to
earn the Coast to Coast in 2026.

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So for those of you that arebrand new to Run Disney, this is
a special medal that you canreceive as long as you run a 10
miler or greater at both WaltDisney World and Disneyland.
So the qualifications are uh sofor Walt Disney World, you need

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to run either the half marathonor the marathon during Marathon
weekend, the half marathonduring Princess, the springtime
surprise 10 Miler, or the halfmarathon at Wine and Dine in
2026, and you have to run theDisneyland half marathon that is

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occurring on February 1st of2026.
As long as you do that, youqualify for the Coast to Coast
Challenge, which is a veryspecial medal.
And then again, it also theother thing I should mention too
is you know, if you're doinglike one of the multi-event
challenges, so Goofy, Dopey,Dumbo, Fairy Tale Challenge, Two

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Course Challenge, the um, youknow, any of those, that does
count towards uh yourqualification uh in this
particular uh event.
So again, those are the uh thoseare the stipulations in order to
qualify.
And then usually when you getyour registration information at

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the second of those two races,uh it will tell you whether you
are eligible or not.
And then I believe you get likea wristband or something like
that, and then that will be theindicator that when you finish
the second race, that you willget uh the special medal.
The interesting thing that cameout of this news though, and
what we found to be a littlesurprising, and we're all gonna

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chat about this now for a littlebit here, is without releasing
the race calendar for nextseason, they told us when wine
and dine is going to be in 2026,and they are sticking with
October again for the secondyear in a row.
So, according to this graphicthat they posted, the wine and

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dine half marathon is occurringon Sunday, October 25th, 2026.
So that means that the wine anddine race weekend that year will
start.
Um, the expo that me would be onthe 22nd, the 5K will be the

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23rd, 10k the 24th, and againthe half on the 25th.
So again, yeah, that's why, likeI said, during that MBT ad, if
you know you want to do wine anddine next year, you might as
well get on the horn now to getthat room booked since we know
the dates now.
So anybody have any speculationor you know any theories as to

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why they kept it in October asopposed to uh pushing it to you
know back to the typical weekendin November?

SPEAKER_03 (19:19):
I did some research on past dates.
They never had I guess when itfirst came out, it was the first
week of October.
Uh back in October, was it?
Yes.
When it was the old night race?
When it was the old night race,it was back in the old days of
October.
Then uh they said it's gonna bethe first full weekend of

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November.
So there's so, but I guess thefirst full week in November now
after with this Halloween, therewas no weekend where Halloween
came across.
The only year that was was 2020,which we know that was not the
race weekend, so that neverhappened.
So this is the first time it'sbeen around.
But the first full weekend afterthat blends into Jersey Week,

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Veterans Day, all the otherholidays.
So I'm guessing that's why theypushed it up.
And I guess they want tocelebrate my birthday.
That's why.
Well, yeah, I agree.
That's true.
That's very true.

SPEAKER_10 (20:14):
That part of it yet.

SPEAKER_17 (20:15):
Well, we know they listen to the podcast, so you
know, obviously, that would bethe reason.

SPEAKER_10 (20:21):
I think we've I think we run on a Veterans Day
weekend before.
I wouldn't swear to it, but Ithink we have.

SPEAKER_17 (20:26):
I know Veterans Day has been on the Monday of the
race weekend before.

SPEAKER_10 (20:32):
Yeah, that's what that's what I'm saying.
Veterans Day is always on aMonday.
It's typically it's the 11th ofNovember traditionally, but it's
it's a floating holiday now.
It goes to the Monday.

SPEAKER_16 (20:41):
You know, the one thing I I'm just thinking about
now, and I'm I'm Googling it asI talk.
Um, I wonder if this is going tocreate a conflict again with
Marine Corps.
I think it does.
Yeah.
And if if Google is correct, uhyes, so uh no, I'm not 100% sure

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if it's on the Marine Corpswebsite yet, but yeah, this is
saying that Marine Corps will beon the 25th of uh of October.
So you can't do both um again,but and speaking of the other
race that we're gonna talk aboutin this episode, that does mean
though that you could run wineand dine and the New York City

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Marathon in that would beback-to-back weekends, but
that's something you can dobecause because New York next
year is on November 1st.

SPEAKER_17 (21:30):
Yeah, the New York City Marathon is on November
1st, so you could doback-to-backs.

SPEAKER_10 (21:35):
Yeah, but we had people do uh back-to-back Marine
Corps in New York this year.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_17 (21:41):
You could technically, like some of our
amazing crazy friends did, youcould do the 5 and 10k wine and
dine, go do the Marine Corpsmarathon, and then go do New
York.
The next one.

SPEAKER_10 (21:56):
I guess that I guess that's but that'd be tough.
I guess that's possible becauseyou have to get up to DC.
I don't know how you get yourbib.
That'd be tough.
But we do have people, we didhave people do the 5k and then
go to Marine Corps, yeah.

SPEAKER_17 (22:08):
Maybe not the 10k, but still, you could do all
three.
Yeah, I suppose.
What would we call that?
What kind of challenge would wecall that?

SPEAKER_10 (22:15):
We'd call it crazy.

SPEAKER_16 (22:16):
We we still need to come up with the name of
everyone who I I grab.
I I cannot remember the name thename of the race that occurs
before springtime, but Iremember there was there was
someone talking about doing amaybe cherry blossom, possibly.

SPEAKER_03 (22:31):
That's I think that in uh the one in Pennsylvania,
the for the Oh, Garden Spot.

SPEAKER_16 (22:38):
Okay, yeah, that's right.
Yeah, we we still need to comeup with a name for people that
want to do Garden Spot, then goto Springtime Surprise, do the
cruise, and then get off theship and then go do Dollywood
the weekend after they get offthe ship.
We we we gotta come up with aname for that.

SPEAKER_03 (22:55):
Tend to throw one more flying pig the week after
Dollywood.

SPEAKER_16 (22:59):
Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_03 (23:00):
Oh man.

SPEAKER_10 (23:01):
That is gonna be a busy, busy time.
I think I I haven't committedyet.
I think we're going to do flyingpig.
Uh the one I have committed tois I'll get the coast to coast
this year.
Assuming I finish the marathon,you gotta finish your long races
to qualify for the coast.

SPEAKER_03 (23:18):
Well, you have two sh you have two shots, though.
Yeah, I would.
That's right.
You have three shots.

SPEAKER_10 (23:24):
Well, yeah, you're right.
If I didn't, yeah, if for somereason I didn't finish the
marathon in January, yeah, Iwould have this princess, and
then I'd have springtime, andthen I'd have wine and dine.
So yeah.
But this will be, I think it'swell, I don't think this is
gonna be my last Coast to Coastmedal because I golly, I don't
know when they're gonna comeback.

SPEAKER_15 (23:44):
Caution runners, the topic is about to change right
now.

SPEAKER_10 (23:49):
Uh we did see the Disneyland medals this week,
also, didn't we?
Mm-hmm.
Yes, we did.
They look pretty daggum good.
I think they're really nice.

SPEAKER_03 (23:57):
New adjectives out of Bob.
Yeah.
That that half marathon medal islike sweet.
Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_10 (24:04):
The uh the small world medal.
It's really like the colors.
Yeah, colors are good.

SPEAKER_16 (24:11):
I I like it.
Yeah, I I like how they'rethey're continuing with the the
cohesive set idea.
Uh, I know we we we chattedabout that in terms of the
marathon weekend medals.
Uh, but um I right there withyou ladies, I I love the fact
that they incorporated thecolors of the Disneyland 70th

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into that.
You know, it it really, reallypops.
And I don't know if there's anymovement to them, but you know,
even if there's not, I stillthink it's a great set.
And if they're starting to moveaway from less and less
movement, I'll be thrilled withthat too, because hopefully that
that leads to you know less youknow damages and breakage and

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and such like that.
But no, I I I think this is asecond solid set in a row of
cohesion, and I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_17 (25:04):
I did notice that the coast to coast metal has a
slider.

SPEAKER_16 (25:07):
So yeah.

SPEAKER_17 (25:08):
Yeah, so it goes back and forth from each castle.

SPEAKER_03 (25:11):
Like it sliders back and forth across coast to coast.
All right, that's good.

SPEAKER_17 (25:15):
It's not a big slider, it's like no, it's a
tiny small.

SPEAKER_10 (25:20):
I'll be all right then.
Yeah, I didn't like that.
I I got the one coast to coastmedal from like a year and a
half ago.
I thought it was dull.

SPEAKER_12 (25:29):
I like this one a lot better than some of the
other ones.

SPEAKER_10 (25:32):
Me too, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 (25:33):
I do think one of the race weekends for sure.
I saw something that could havebeen a moving piece, but I do
agree that I I kind of hope thatthey go away from that and just
give us good quality metals.

SPEAKER_03 (25:45):
Yeah, good looking, yeah, yeah.
Even our half metal this pastweekend, there was just a little
spinning star.
It wasn't that much, therewasn't much spinning and action
in them that would usuallybreak.

SPEAKER_10 (25:58):
Right.
It was the challenge metal thatopened up, right?

SPEAKER_16 (26:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The other thing that I reallylike about this set too is that
not only is it it including thecolors of the Disneyland 70th,
but now looking at them a littlefurther, obvious outside of
Coast to Coast, that is, I likehow they have included the
number 70 in each one of them,uh, too.
It was cool.
I thought that was a a reallyneat uh design touch.

SPEAKER_12 (26:24):
Somebody pointed out too if you do Dopey, and then I
think if you do all of them atDisneyland, it will be around 70
miles, which I thought was acool little tidbit.
Well, oh that's cool.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_10 (26:36):
I didn't do the math, but well, it's close.
It's close.
It's 48.6 and uh 22.4.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That's that's 70.
Yep.
Right.
Nice.

SPEAKER_17 (26:50):
Is anybody here doing Disneyland?

SPEAKER_10 (26:53):
Yeah, I'm doing Disneyland.
Jack is too, I think.
Jack is two, yeah.
Between the two of us, we haveall three races covered, but
we're not running any racestogether.
She's doing the five and ten,and I'm doing the half, but
it'll be fun.
I'll see her out there.

SPEAKER_17 (27:07):
And there'll be a meetup, of course.

SPEAKER_10 (27:08):
Yeah.
There'll be a meetup on Saturdayin that uh picnic area.
They have a great area for ameetup at uh at Disneyland.
I really like it.
I I am told that it can be coldthere in January.
Uh we'll see.
It was not obviously I was therefor when it was really hot, so
we'll see how it goes.

SPEAKER_15 (27:29):
Caution runners, change of topic ahead.

SPEAKER_10 (27:34):
You know what I'm wondering, guys?
I'm wondering what would Aliciado.

SPEAKER_12 (27:44):
I have kind of a serious topic this time.
Mini trigger warning for peoplewho are listening.
Um, but while I was on umvacation, a woman got assaulted
in my neighborhood.
Um, so I just want to remind ourfriends about safety measures.
Um, I also had a scare today.

(28:05):
That guy has been caught, but onmy run, um I did have a
gentleman, there was a ladyrunning ahead of me, um, and he
stopped walking and was staringat her and kind of gawking, and
then noticed me and did the samething.
Um so I did actually stopanother woman and let her know.
And he could have beencompletely harmless, but um it

(28:27):
just seemed very creepy.
Intentional.
Yes, very creepy.
Um so just a reminder to ourfriends to be vigilant while
you're out there, um, especiallyif you're a woman.
I mean, it can happen toanybody.
And I did make sure um we talkedto GoGuarded in episode 89.
Our code for 15% off is stillgood for them.

(28:49):
It's R, capital R, capital A,capital R.
So if you're interested in thoseproducts, I were I I will be
honest, normally on my runs, Iput it in my pocket unless I'm
in the trails.
Um, and today I had it on for agood 90% because um I just was
being extra vigilant.

(29:11):
Um, and it does help make mefeel safer.
I know not every state you canhave those, but yeah, having
alarms, tracking apps, all ofthose things.
Um just to our friends toremember them, please be safe.
We are a family.

SPEAKER_10 (29:28):
Alicia, I think her products are legal everywhere
that I'm aware of.

SPEAKER_12 (29:33):
I thought she said that there was certain states
that you couldn't.

SPEAKER_10 (29:37):
Well, I'll tell you what, I would encourage our
friends, especially our womenwho listen, women friends who
listen.
What episode?
Just eighty nine did you say?
Yes.
Yep.
Yeah.
That was a good episode.

SPEAKER_17 (29:48):
It was.

SPEAKER_10 (29:49):
And it's very it's a it's a serious topic.
Uh I I would encourage you tolisten to that one.
I I don't know that if weinvited her back, we would say
anything new.
So, but it's out there.
And I'm glad to know that thecode still works.

SPEAKER_03 (30:04):
And this is that's really a good point, too,
Alicia.
Now with the uh the time changeand the and especially you
people running after work, it'sdark at four o'clock.
Some place.

SPEAKER_12 (30:15):
Absolutely.
Well, some place.

SPEAKER_03 (30:17):
Someplace.

SPEAKER_12 (30:19):
But yeah, I mean, we say it all the time that we're
one big family and we want tokeep our family um safe as
possible.
So um just having those extrameasures.

SPEAKER_10 (30:29):
Well, I'm glad you brought it up.
Good, good topic.
We haven't talked about it in awhile.
It's uh it's certainly one toconsider.
And that is what Alicia woulddo.

SPEAKER_15 (30:39):
Caution runners, the topic is about to change right
now.

SPEAKER_10 (30:44):
A couple months back, our friend Emily got in
touch with me.
B said, I've got this neat thingcalled Holler Hype, and she
described it to me, and I said,This rise and run family is
gonna love this.
And they have.
They have hyped thousands andthousands of times.

(31:04):
It's really impressive.
So, what we are doing thisevening, we've asked Emily to
rejoin us, and she's brought acouple of friendly randos with
her, and we'll explain that in aminute.
First, and she's gonna tell us alittle bit what we'll repeat a
little bit about what hollerhype is and talk about some of

(31:25):
the new things that are going onwith Holler Hype that we think
you're going to enjoy.
So, Emily, welcome back.
It's good to see you.

SPEAKER_18 (31:32):
It's so good to see you too, Bob.
Uh, when we first met, we wereboth excited, like you said,
about bringing Holler Hype tothe horizon, run family, but
like introducing anything new,there was still that like sit
back, make some popcorn, what'sgonna happen.
And I just couldn't be happierthan to uh, you know, be syncing

(31:56):
back up with you and lookingback, talking about how it's
been going and and all thosethings.
So thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_10 (32:03):
Oh, you're welcome.
How about introducing ourfriendly randos and telling our
friends what the heck that is?
I've been throwing that termaround because I think it's
great.
Go ahead.

SPEAKER_18 (32:13):
Yeah, right on.
Um, so friendly randos is aspecial role that one can have
at Holler Heights.
And perhaps I'll explain veryquickly what Holler Hype is so
we can kind of picture afriendly rando getting tagged in
for duty.
Um, basically, people are usingthis Holler Hype app to receive

(32:36):
real-time voice messages whenthey're in the middle of a
challenge.
And these voice messages likemagically clay overing music.
You almost forget you eventurned it on.
You know, maybe you're going upa hill, you're in the middle of
your last long run in a hugetraining cycle, and all of a
sudden, um, you know, maybe likeyour best friend or your mom or

(32:57):
someone from the rising roomcommunity just chimes in and you
can tell they're saying it rightnow in this moment.
It feels like you're almosttogether because you are.
Um, that's what a hype is, andthat's why people use the Holler
Hype app to get back to FriendlyRandos.
When you go live on HollerHeight, you can uh choose the

(33:18):
group you're going live to.
And we got a huge and awesomerise and run group.
But you can also say, you knowwhat?
I want to hear from somefriendly randos.
It's like rolling the happy diceof humanity and just saying to
yourself, like, what's gonnahappen?
I know it's gonna be great.
I'm gonna hear from someone.
I don't know who they are, butlike I'm game for it.

(33:39):
And that's what a friendly randois.
And we're always on the lookoutfor folks who just bring their
realness, bring their best footforward when they're hyping, and
then we reach out and say, like,hey, do you want to be a
friendly rando?
So with us, we have Troy and wehave Debbie, who are both now

(33:59):
friendly randos in Holler Hypeand members of the Rise and Run
family.

SPEAKER_10 (34:04):
Big time.
Say hi, Debbie and Troy.
Good to see you.

SPEAKER_13 (34:07):
Hi, I'm Debbie from North Carolina, and when you're
doing a friendly rando, I can'tsay part of your rise and run
family, but it is a super honorto be doing this for Holler
Hype.

SPEAKER_04 (34:16):
Hello, this is Troy from Spring Hill, and I
absolutely love sending out theholler hypes.
It uh it's a lot of fun to sendand to receive, but uh I I too
think it's an honor to be uhasked to be a friendly rando.
That's a pretty cool term.

SPEAKER_10 (34:30):
It's quite an honor.
And that's how that's how I meanthat's almost your name now,
Troy from Spring Hill, Florida.
That's how everybody in theholler hype community knows who
you are.
And yeah, this friendly rando.
I'm not a friendly rando.
We haven't been selected.
That's okay.
I think it's I think it'sawesome.

SPEAKER_13 (34:47):
I would just like to say it is super awesome because
believe it or not, I had a guythat I friendly randoed probably
three or four times, and then hecame up running Chicago, and I
was so excited that I got taggedin again on the same guy, and I
was like, hey, it's Debbie fromNorth Carolina again.
I've been on this whole journeywith you, we've never met, and
I'm so excited to cheer you onfor Chicago.

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So that's the superpower of theapp.

SPEAKER_10 (35:09):
It's something our comp our our community really, I
know I knew Emily.
The moment we talked, I knewthey were going to love it, and
they genuinely have.
Now, just in case somebody'sgoing, wait, I've never heard of
this before, how would they getstarted?

SPEAKER_18 (35:27):
Right on.
So there's a couple of ways.
One, you can go straight to theapp store, Google Play or the
App Store for iPhone, searchHoller Hike, H-O-L-L-A-R, H Y P
E.
It's one word, it's gonna comeup right away.
Um, you download it, and thenwhen you're making an account,
there's a little prop for like,hey, do you have a promo code?

(35:49):
And just type in Rise and Runone word, and that will like
unlock your magic door into theRise and Run group.
This isn't like a social mediasite where you know, like you're
searching for friends to follow.
There's no place to comment onthings.
Um, people really do only joingroups that they know um, you

(36:14):
know, like the nature of thegroup.
So yeah, just just type in thecode RISE and RUN and you'll get
the face group.

SPEAKER_10 (36:22):
That's important.
And that's I think some peoplehad trouble at if they forget to
do it initially, is there a waylater to get back into the Rise
and Run group?

SPEAKER_18 (36:34):
Yes, they could if they're on if they're on the
Facebook group.
I know that we have the HollerHype link in the Rise and Run
Facebook group.
And if you tap that link fromyour mobile phone, that will
also prompt you to download theapp, but then automatically drop
you in the group.
So that's another way that youcan do it.

SPEAKER_16 (36:55):
I will say, you know, if I were a betting man,
and I'm not really a bettingman, but I would put lots and
lots of money down that when I'mon a run, I can guarantee that
within probably the first 15minutes of that run, I'm gonna
hear from Troy from Spring Hill,Florida, and I'm gonna hear from

(37:16):
my buddy Debbie in NorthCarolina, and it brings me so
much joy when I hear the two ofyou come through my headphones.
But Debbie, I'm gonna start withyou first.
I think you like to bring joy,but I also think you like to
make people jealous because amajority of the time that I'm
getting hyped from you, you'recoming to me live from Disney

(37:39):
World.
And sometimes when you're on arun, that really stings.
Which is where she is right now.
I know.
I'm trying to figure out basedon her background where on Walt
Disney World property she isright now.
She's in Hollywood, and Troy wasthere this weekend.
And but now outside of DisneyWorld, though, sometimes I also
get concerned about whereDebbie's coming to me from

(38:00):
because uh I got a hype from hera couple of weeks ago where she
told me she was on her roof.
So, so Debbie, tell tell me howloud is the alert on your phone
when someone goes live so thatyou can hype them up no matter
where you are in the world,whether that's in the happiest
place or the most magical placeon earth, or you potentially

(38:21):
dangling from your roof.

SPEAKER_13 (38:23):
That is so funny.
So I was on my roof putting upthe Christmas lights because we
have to get started super early.
But it's funny, man just comesup and it goes ding on the
phone, and I get so happy whenthe holler hype thing comes up
because it lets me share inother people's lives.
Because then I know what you'redoing, and then I can relate
what I'm doing back to whatyou're doing, and it goes back

(38:45):
to something Brandy Copley did.
Someone dragged Brandy intothis.
But she was at the master, and Iwas out on a run, and Brandy's
like, hey, and she's whispering,I'm coming at you live.

SPEAKER_08 (38:57):
I'm mastered.

SPEAKER_13 (38:58):
And I was like, that is so cool.
And then I thought, you knowwhat?
Not everybody wants to hear I'mrunning too.
Sometimes they want to hearsomething distracting when
they're running.
So maybe like me coming at youlive from Toy Story Midway
Mania, or me coming at you livefrom the contemporary club
level, which might havehappened.

SPEAKER_08 (39:14):
Yeah, that was it.

SPEAKER_13 (39:15):
Yeah.
But you know, I am it's so coolbecause I've made the coolest
relationships.
Like there's a friend, Katrina,and Houston.
She and I played Holler Hype Tagone day.
I was out on a 14 by 800 run.
Oh my gosh.
And so I hyped her and she hypedme back, and we went on and on
for about an hour.
And now every time she comes on,I have to hype her at least two
or three times.

(39:36):
And I've not met her, but I willat Marathon Weekend.
So I think part of that isbringing the joy, not only from
what they're doing, but maybe alittle bit of what I'm doing now
distracts you, or maybe yourelate to that.
And that's how I got to befriends with Troy, because Troy
commented back to me one timebecause of where I was running
was in Charlotte.
And then I hyped him back.
I said, How come you live inFlorida and you know about

(39:58):
Charlotte?
And so we got to talking, andthen we met at what was it, on
Memorial Day weekend?
Troy down at Pop is when we gottogether with our respective
significant others.
And so that's how Hollerhypejust brings people together.
It's just awesome.

SPEAKER_16 (40:12):
Troy, talk to me about the the emotions and and
the inspiration that goesthrough you as you're picking up
your phone, most likely sevendays a week, to do this for you
know, people, not only just inthe in the rise and run
community, but you know, asEmily has been saying, randos
across the internet.

SPEAKER_04 (40:32):
Whenever we're out running, there's so many of us
are out there running.
Oftentimes we're alone, right?
And it's just you and yourheadphones, you're all alone out
there on the road or on thetrack, and there's something
about long-endurance sports thatlike think about when you're at
Disney, the roar of the crowdjust kind of provides that that

(40:53):
crucial mental and physical pushto overcome something that's
like significant or like pain orwhatnot.
And it also takes your mind offof it for a minute as well.
So if I can provide that forjust 30 seconds to someone
randomly, then uh I I get a Iget a I get a charge out of it.
It's equally uh as validatingfor the person sending the hype

(41:16):
as it is the person receivingthe hype.
Um and it it's uh it's somethingthat I enjoy doing.
Um I could be out on a long runand it goes quiet for 45
minutes, just me and my music,and out of nowhere, here comes a
voice for 30 seconds with somekind of words of encouragement.
And uh I will take a page umfrom Debbie's chapter as well.

(41:39):
I like to sometimes throw in alittle gig about where I'm at,
just to kind of get people tolaugh.
I was hyping people thisweekend.
Hey, I see you're out theredoing you know, whatever race it
was, maybe it was Marine Corps,cheering you on poolside of the
Polynesian with the margarita inmy hand.
That kind of stuff, just to justto take somebody's mind off

(42:00):
their pain.
So true.

SPEAKER_10 (42:01):
I got to I got to do them live from the uh hot tub on
the cruise ship last week.

SPEAKER_04 (42:08):
Yes, I was laughing hysterically when I heard that.
I was like, yeah, you're doingsome reconnaissance, all right.
I know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_13 (42:15):
Another thing I really enjoy doing is hyping
while I'm running because I domost of my running alone and I
do run, walk, runs.
So during my walk breaks, I'llwhip the phone out and hype
somebody.
I'm like, okay, this person'scoming up on the next break,
this person on the next break.
And this past weekend during the10K, the PhotoPass people caught
me hyping.
I Emily, I sent that picture toJordan.
Yeah.
But they caught me in the act ofhyping people, which is it's

(42:37):
just so fun.
And I'll echo what Troy says.
It's so much fun to hype people.
Um, it's just as much fun to doit as it is to receive it back.
And then when they hype me backand say, Hey, I remember you
hyping me, it's just the coolestthing.

SPEAKER_04 (42:48):
Well, it it's a positive way to build community
and strengthen bonds amongpeople who have something in
common, uh, whether it besports, swimming, biking,
hiking, you know, walking,whatever the case may be.
Um, it helps you overcome thatfeeling of being kind of by
yourself.
It boosts self-esteem.
And uh it it's it's it's a it'sa means for uh you know just

(43:10):
sending out some positivity outthere, especially at a time when
it might be crucial for someonewho's really, really struggling
with with a run or whateverchallenge you know that they
might be encountering.

SPEAKER_10 (43:20):
Well, Troy, you've kind of led me back into that's
what's really great, but I thinkEmily has some new ideas and
some new plans for Holler Hypecoming up.

SPEAKER_18 (43:32):
I've got to say, Debbie and Troy and Greg here in
you all right now talk aboutlike the relatability aspect of
Holler Hype, like seeing whatyou have in common with somebody
else and kind of like latchingon to that to help you think
about like what you want to sayand what you want to hype
forward.

(43:53):
There's just no better segueinto the thing that is new and
as of today in the rise and runcommunity, where we just
launched what we're callingtags.
Okay.
Um so before, when we talkedabout the recap, what is it
gonna be like to join HollerHike?
You know, promo code rise andrun run, one word, and then

(44:16):
bingo, you're in the group,you're off to the races, you can
go live for hypers, or you canstart hyping other people as you
see the day go live.
Um, now there's gonna be anadded step where you can choose
tags that you might look at andsay to yourself, like, which
ones connect with me?

(44:37):
Like, am I a Dope alum?
Am I training for Dopey rightnow?
Am I um a first-time marathoner?
Or am I training for a 10K, ahalf marathon?
So each of these beats that I'mmentioning right now are
different tags.
Um, there's other ones too, bythe way, but that's just like to

(44:57):
kind of paint a picture.
Now, what would we do withthese?
The reason why they are verymeaningful is because when Troy
goes live next time, and maybehe has just chosen um I know
you're doing Dopey Troy becauseyou told us today in your status
that you're getting back on theDopey training wheel, right?

(45:20):
So we know these things becausesometimes we share them in our
status, but now when Troy addsthe Dopey tag, all of us will be
able to see, you know, hedoesn't need to type it out
every time.
We'll see, like, oh, he'straining for Dopey this year.
And if someone else is trainingfor Dopey, that tag's gonna
light up in green.
So you're like, oh, we have thatin common.

(45:40):
So it's just as interesting tosee the tags that you had in
common with each other as it isthe ones that are maybe
different, just to give you alittle bit added bonus context
um for how you want to relateand connect with that person
who's live.
And after you get the hypers,you're able to see what tags

(46:00):
that person has as well.
So, like you guys were saying,like we get to know each other
through the hyping and thosereally, you know, like authentic
connections start forming.
But sometimes we get hypes frompeople that like are new to the
community or we've just nevercrossed paths at the same time
before.
And now it's kind of like thisfun Easter egg treat when you

(46:21):
look at your hypes to see, youknow, oh, Alexandra is a dopey
alum and she's just getting backat running because there's like
a getting back to it type oftad, which is the one that I
currently have.
If anyone needs to know now,when you're hyping me, like
Emily's struggling over here,you know, now you know.

(46:41):
So, anyways, um, that's whattags are all about.
Um Troy was helping me thinkabout what the starter pack of
tags were gonna be.
But you guys tell me what do youwhat do you think about the new
features?

SPEAKER_03 (46:55):
Okay, okay, we can do that on Facebook.
I have a question about thetags.
So can you like can you tagyourself multiple times?
So I could say first timemarathoner, first time dopey,
first time runner.
If you're doing that, you'rereally very motivational.
But uh, but yeah, like somethinglike that, because that's how
they can do with tags, or is itjust one tag per session?

SPEAKER_18 (47:17):
That's exactly right, John.
So meaning you can choose morethan one tag, as many as you
feel connect to like yourprofile or who you are, so to
speak.
Like for me, I'd probably choosethe 5k tag and the just getting
back into it tag.
Um maybe I'll sign up for likespringtime, I'll choose the

(47:41):
springtime tag, and now peoplecan kind of see that bundle to
get an idea of like my vibe.
And you can always go back andchange them too.
Like maybe maybe you have uhchosen World Disney World
weekend for one of your tags,and now all of a sudden it's
February, and you want to changeit to yes, you can change it,
you know, that kind of a thing.

SPEAKER_10 (48:03):
I'm looking for the old guy tag here, Emily.
I oh let's move on.
Let's move on.
Let's move on.

SPEAKER_18 (48:10):
Yeah, so that's one new thing.
Um we are also launching a newspace in the app.
And for those that are familiar,you'll find this new space on
the groups tab of the app.
You can't see it right now, butit will be launched this weekend
called Communities.

(48:31):
So Rise and Run is a group, eventhough it is like technically a
community.
In Holler Hype, it's classifiedas a group because it's like
private.
It's like um, you know, it hasdefinition to it.
It's not like a general theme.
Um, the community section of theapp is going to be wider themes
where people across Holler Hypecan like decide they want to

(48:56):
join it based on a livedexperience.
And we've had a lot of feedbackreally over the past many months
about bringing people togetherover shared lived experiences.
So, for example, one of thesecommunities is going to be like
cancer patients and cancersurvivors.
And we have really been lookingforward to creating this space

(49:19):
in Hollerhype because we partnerwith a number of cancer
organizations.
And by way of doing that,especially when we started
launching tags with them, we sawthat a number of charity runners
on teens like longevity, forexample, um, and a bunch of
other charity-relatedorganizations would choose the

(49:40):
tag patient or choose the tagsurvivor.
And, you know, during theChicago Marathon, I saw that
there was an ACS runner with thesurvivor tag.
And I don't know who this personis, but I was in the group
because I joined our partnergroups.
And I just was stopped in mytracks thinking, like, wow, this

(50:03):
person is at mile 20.
I'm hyping them in real timeright now and letting them know,
hey, my aunt just started hersecond round of chemo.
And the fact that you're outthere finishing a marathon as a
cancer survivor, as a stranger,is is the kind of thing that
like gives a family like minehope, like, yeah, like people,

(50:23):
people get through this and thenthey do marathons.
Like, that is just soremarkable.
And that's because she chose thesurvivor tag.
So I was able to know um this issomebody who has gone through
that.
So we wanted to create a spacejust to give one example.
There's others, you know, forpeople that are going through
that specific kind of journey toum find common ground within

(50:47):
this like planet hype that we'vebuilt so that they can um, you
know, start getting hyped fromeach other.
Otherwise, they wouldn't reallyknow how to find each other in
the app.

SPEAKER_10 (50:57):
I love the terms, my friend.
Planet hype, friendly randos.

SPEAKER_18 (51:02):
Yeah, very unconventional language.

SPEAKER_10 (51:05):
Oh, it's wonderful.
It's wonderful.
What else would you like ourfriends listening right now to
know about this?

SPEAKER_18 (51:13):
So I so I shared the Cancer Patient and Survivor
Group as the first example, butwe will be launching with like
five, like a starter pack, so tospeak, of five communities that
will be public uh view come thisweekend.
Um, a few others just to give apreview.
Um, we're gonna have an earlybird Eastern time run club, a

(51:38):
night owl run club.
And um we're excited about thatbecause what we've noticed is
that there are a lot of folkswho love going live on Holler
Hype at like five in themorning.
Um, but not necessarily everyoneelse in their group is awake
that early.
But what happens is thatsometimes when we're looking at

(51:58):
the database, we're like, therewere so many people that were
running at five in the morning,but they uh didn't know that
because they're not in the samegroups, you know, it's like
their wavelengths don't crosspaths.
So now there will be a way foryou to join the early Burr
Eastern Time run club where itwon't just be rise and runners,

(52:20):
it'll be people from otherholler hype too.
But that's that thing that youall have in common is hey, we
like to get up early and likechase down the sunrise or
whatever it may be.
And so that's one of them.
Um we are shaping up anaddiction recovery related group
for folks to find relatabilityaround that lived experience.

(52:43):
Um, and just as a reminder toanybody listening, when you go
live on Holler Hype, you decideevery time which groups you want
to send your bat signal out to.
And setting your bat signal islike means you go live and then
everyone in the group gets thepush notification.
So some of these communities area bit more like personal and

(53:06):
sensitive, like the cancerjourney or like an addiction
recovery journey.
And just to make clear, if youwant to go live with maybe like
a more personal status that day,it doesn't mean it has to go out
to every group that you're apart of.
You can decide in the moment,oh, I'm gonna go live just to
this one group this time.

(53:27):
And then maybe on a differentday when you feel like I'm gonna
go on a 10-mile run and I wanthypes from everybody in all of
the groups that I'm a part of,you can make that different
decision that other day.
Um, so that's what we're prettyexcited about with the launch of
communities, is that it helpspeople maybe find an even deeper

(53:48):
and secondary connection toother folks on Planet Hype, um,
in addition to the amazing umcommunity vibes from Rise and
Run.
So, out of curiosity, how muchdoes it cost to join Holler
Hype?
Zero dollars.
Holler Hype is free.
Yep, it's gonna be free for youto join the Rise and Run

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community.
Free to download it.
If you want to make a personalgroup and invite your friends
and your family, it's free forthem to join too.
Once you make a group above acertain limit, then you just
gotta email us for all sorts ofother reasons, but it's not cost
related.
So long answer is it's free.

SPEAKER_10 (54:32):
There you go.
It's great.
If you friends, if you haven'ttried it, and I know many, many
of you have.
21,000 hypes, Emily.
Last count.

SPEAKER_18 (54:43):
Oh, I just like updated the count for this very
meeting.
23,508 hypes to date.

SPEAKER_10 (54:51):
Well, I bet a bunch, I bet a bunch.
We had Marine Corps Marathonweekend, we had uh wine and dine
weekend.
I bet a bunch went out overthose.
Yeah, all good stuff.

SPEAKER_18 (55:00):
But we can reveal this live too, Bob.
Um, Troy has surpassed my hypecount, so I tip mine to you,
Troy.
Wait, how many is it?
You've passed the founder.

SPEAKER_04 (55:13):
Oh wow.
I can look, I don't even knowhow many hypes I've sent.
I can have I've had to look andsee.
Here, hang on.

SPEAKER_18 (55:18):
Yeah, you got your hype counter.
I want to say it's like 1500 or1800.

SPEAKER_04 (55:24):
I've sent total 2700 2741.
So 10.

SPEAKER_13 (55:31):
I'm at I'm in 2619, but you can't tell which ones
are friendly randos versuswhatever rising.
Yeah, 2619.

SPEAKER_18 (55:40):
They all count.
They all count.
Bob, I know we're wrapping up,but one sneak peek into the
future is that we are working onlike special special awards or
badges that you can unlock.
Might not know what they are,but they just kind of unlock as
you hit them.
And the things that came up inthis call relay, we're working

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on one of um like the warriorhyper who um will go to any
length to send a hype.
So this scenario where Debbie'slike on the roof, like from a
roof, yeah.
Risking it all to send the hype,it's like that would unless you
know what putting out theChristmas decorations with one
hand, hyping with the otherhand.

SPEAKER_13 (56:22):
Like, let's go.
Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_18 (56:24):
Yeah, I love it.
Just just for fun planting thatseed.
We're working on it.

SPEAKER_10 (56:31):
There's a bottom line right there, Emily.
For fun, the group loves it.
And please, you know, whateverwe can do to help you make this
stronger, because you're doinguh you're doing a whole lot to
help us make the Rise and Runfamily stronger, and we
appreciate it.
And we appreciate the three ofyou spending some time with us

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this evening.
So, Debbie, you can go back tothe park.
And Emily, it's just always apleasure talking with you.
And again, keep us a prize, keepus up to date, let us know what
we can do to help you outbecause you're doing a lot to
help us.

SPEAKER_18 (57:03):
Thanks so much, Bob.
It's truly been a pleasure.
We love the Ryzen Run familyover on Planet Hype.
Um, we just talk about how muchwe love this serendipitous um
opportunity to start talking inthe first place.

SPEAKER_10 (57:22):
We need we need to talk marketing, Emily.
I can see planet hype t-shirtsin our future.

SPEAKER_18 (57:27):
We can make we can do that.

SPEAKER_10 (57:29):
All right.
All right, friends, thanks abunch.
We'll we'll hype you later.

SPEAKER_13 (57:34):
Thanks, Bob.
Thanks, everybody.
Thanks, Bob.
Thanks, Emily.
Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_15 (57:38):
Great seeing all you guys.
Thank you.
Caution runners, change of topicahead.

SPEAKER_10 (57:44):
So keep hyping, friends.
It's a big deal.
I love seeing the uh racereports that you put on Facebook
saying thank you for all theholler hypes.
I'm not I'm not good at this.
I you anybody here do a lot ofhypes?
I do some, but not many.

SPEAKER_12 (58:02):
I do some.
I should do more.
Yeah, I definitely see thenotifications, but I feel like
whenever I'm looking at my phoneand I see them, I'm always like
going to get in the car to driveor somewhere that I can't hype
people, but I do appreciate thehypes.

SPEAKER_16 (58:17):
I I put I put myself somewhere more more often than
Bob, but not as much as Troy.
Oh well, you you heard thenumber those good.

SPEAKER_10 (58:27):
I think I think I'm up to about a hundred total.
Total.
Um, I'm actually looking here.
I I know there's very, verylittle chance that someone is
out there right now, but itwould be cool if they were.
Let's take a look.
Nope, nobody's out there.
I thought I thought we couldhave had our first hotter hype

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on the podcast, but nobody's outat uh almost 9 p.m.
on a Tuesday night.
Oh 9 p.m.
Eastern time on a Tuesday night.
All right, friends.
Hey.
Let's see, just some uhadministrative type notes.
Of course, by now we know thatthe group chats, Facebook has

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the group chats are still up,but they're read-only, and they
will soon be coming down.
The Discord chat groups areworking, but we don't have
nearly the number of people inthem that we did when we had the
Facebook group chats.
John, we have any update on theDiscord group chats.

SPEAKER_03 (59:32):
So we I think we've created every chat that we had
in the uh Facebook group chats.
Uh we there's a link on the top.
I think it's still in thefeatured, I'm not sure.
You might have to scroll over.
Uh uh that link should be goodfor a while.
The they they usually had thelinks expire, but I think the

(59:53):
one I just put in there now willnot expire.
You do have to get approved now.
So there's a couple questions weask you.
Uh you know, one of them iswhat's your your Facebook group
page, your Facebook tape pagename, so that we know that
you're not some random persontrying to hop in.
Because before we knew everyonewith the Facebook group was a

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member member.
So, but that's it.
And uh we can create chats atchats at will if you need.
If you guys, I know the one chatthat I thought is really
interesting, and I don't know ifyou guys is the off-topic chat
that became a puppy posting chatgroup for a while.

SPEAKER_16 (01:00:32):
So that's yeah, I I want to say in the um in the
off-topic group, I saw somethingtoday.
I think that everyone wants afrosty looper chat now as well,
too.
So I I'm not sure as if us asmoderators if we can do that or
anybody can do that, but we'reokay, we're still learning the
kinks of this, but uh but I'm atleast I'm I'm happy that people

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are active on it who are membersof it right now, which is which
is a good sign.

SPEAKER_10 (01:01:00):
Agreed.
Agreed.
Yeah, I'm disappointed, but thebut hopefully this will grow a
little bit.
Uh again, some notes.
Our friend Mona was at themeetup for us, and she she
sprinkled some pixie dust on usin the form of uh chap.
The chapstick is a registeredtrademark.

(01:01:22):
Lip bomb.
Yeah.
Lip balm.
That was nice.
Um it's amazing.

SPEAKER_12 (01:01:27):
I had the um tangerine one, and I was like, I
wonder how the spearmint one is.
And I love that one just as muchas I love my tangerine one.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:35):
Good.

SPEAKER_12 (01:01:36):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:36):
I was like meh by ran with it for the half.

SPEAKER_12 (01:01:39):
There you go.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:40):
There you go.
I got it.
I didn't get the same resultsfor some reason, but I did run
with it.

SPEAKER_10 (01:01:46):
I'll bet your lips were every bit as well
protected.
They were so they're perfect.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 (01:01:51):
I can't wait for her to come out with like exotic
flavors.
Like, you know, I mean, I knowwe talk about, you know,
tangerine, but maybe like DoleWhip or beef jerky or something
like that.
You know, something to reallythrow people in.

SPEAKER_10 (01:02:02):
Beef jerky.

SPEAKER_16 (01:02:03):
Okay.

SPEAKER_10 (01:02:04):
But Mona MoonNaturals.com is her website,
and she's got a discount codefor us.
R Run Fam.
R-R-U-N-F-A-M.
We got other friends out there.
Our friend Hannah with thetemporary tattoos.
Those are cool.
Uh, we'd have Alicia and I weretalking earlier.

(01:02:24):
Remember when Greg asked if theywould stay on through dopey or
whatever?
Yeah, they'll stay on until your75th birthday, I'm pretty sure.
They stay on.
Uh I I take I'd take a spatulaand scrape, not quite.
You pretty much have to scrapethem off after a couple days.

(01:02:46):
So they're cool.
Uh that's her website.
Is help me out, kids.
I didn't look it up.
It's uh the Start Line Co.
Start Line Co.
That's right.
And Fluffy Fizzies will be backat the expo for Marathon
Weekend.
Not with Pam, but with hersister Michelle.

(01:03:08):
So Fluffy Fizies is out there.
If you're wanting to run the 5Kwith us on Marathon Weekend,
well you can, but we're we'reencouraging folks to get an
alien shirt.
We're gonna run is the aliensfrom Toy Story.

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This one.
We had a lot of fun last yearwith 101 Dalmatians.
The alien shirts are availableat Alex website Hawaiian Pizza
Apparel.
So and we're we're coming up onthe cutoff date to order those,
I'm pretty sure.
Because we're only what I justsaid a little while ago, we're

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only nine weeks away.
So it's getting close.
Uh grab your alien shirt if youwant to be part of that.
That was a lot of fun.
What else we got going on, kids?
Oh, I know what our friend CardExchange Jenny is circulating
the Christmas card list for thisyear, for this year's holiday

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season.
Uh, last year was a big success.
You can sign up, you canexchange really any number of
cards that you want.
But Jenny will put together alist for you.
And uh that that was fun lastyear.
I think I ended up sending out15 or 20 cards to people, and I

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got I hadn't I hadn't gottenholiday cards in a long time.
I mean that when I was ayoungster back in the day, kids.
We used to get so many Christmascards that uh they'd you go into
somebody's houses and they'd bestrung up in the living room.
And does anybody remember that?
Yes, people.

(01:04:55):
Thank you, John.
No, you get like five, you'relike happy.
Oh, if you that's a lot.
Well, you know, what happenedwas the price of the cards went
way up and the price of thepostage went way up.
And the selection of cards havegone way, way down.

SPEAKER_08 (01:05:07):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 (01:05:08):
But anyway, we've got that opportunity.
That is pinned to the featuredsection on the Facebook group.
There's a form there where ifyou're interested, just sign up.
And then as we get close to theend of November here, usually
right around Thanksgiving, Jennywill send out the a list for you

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of names and addresses to sendyour cars to.

SPEAKER_09 (01:05:33):
And now, please stand clear of the doors.
It's time for a race report.

SPEAKER_10 (01:05:42):
Abord mantengancy, Alejandra, the race report
sponsored by Tom Stokes ofStoked Metabolic Training.
Stokes.fit slash rise and runcoaching is the site.
Talking with Tom last week.
I still need to.
Tom, I've been so daggum busy.

(01:06:04):
I'm getting old.
We got all these medicalappointments, but I still want
to get back in.
I know Tom's got a little minimini challenge going on in his
group right now.
But uh great training, greatstrength training, great
nutritional training, too.
I think we overlook thatsometimes with Tom.
Because I mean, you look at Tomthink strength training.

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But he's great on nutritionaltraining too.
All right, let's take a look atthe race report, and uh we start
on Saturday with it was HongKong Disneyland 10K weekend.
There was a Zootopia 5K, Lucianaran that one.

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There was a Duffy and Friends3K, Luciana ran that one because
the start times, those two racesare 45 minutes apart.
We are hoping Luciana lives inItaly, so the time differences
are tough, but we're hoping toget her on to tell us about
those Hong Kong races.

(01:07:10):
In Ocean City, Maryland, theOcean City Running Festival
Chessy Challenge was this week.
Kelly and Kim were there runningthe 5K.
Up in Panama City Beach in theFlorida Panhandle.
Jackie did the Iron Man Floridaevent up there.
It was chilly up there thisweekend and the water's getting
cold.

(01:07:30):
So I'm sure that was exciting.
Ash was in Clarksville,Tennessee.
They had a half marathon, andthe half marathon had a ruck
category.
Uh a ruck march, a rucksack is abackpack on a frame.
It's a type of physical trainingthat gives you strength and

(01:07:51):
endurance.
Ash says that the podcast gavehim the inspiration, inspiration
to train for this thing.
Didn't get any medals forrucking, but you did get
patches.
Ash got a PR improving overeight minutes from the last time
he did that, since his last lasthalf marathon rook.

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I told him he was reminding meof my army days.
I didn't do a lot of that, butdid some.
Haven't done it once since.
And I'm probably not going to.
Hey Joe, despite the fact thathe did all three races on Wine
and Dine weekend, was back at itjust one week one week later.

(01:08:35):
The Fellowship of ChristianAthletes River Run 5K in Fort
Smith.
The three amigos were there.
His buddy Johnny took firstplace in the 10K.
Gary took third in the 5K.
Joe didn't place.
We can forgive that.
You know what, you know whatimpresses me is in that age
group, the 75 plus or the 70plus, whatever it is, there's

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enough people, enough menrunning that Joe didn't place.
I mean, I'm 70 plus in the raceshere in Tampa.
Not not Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Not that there's anything wrongwith Fort Smith, but Tampa's a
little bigger.
And there'd be times I'll be theonly person there.
So there are times when I tellyou I won my age group.

(01:09:17):
I was also last place.
Anyway, uh Joe did well.
I think it's neat.
I think it's neat to have beenthat many uh older guys out
there.
His pace was okay.
He's trying not to push it.
He says if he'd seen a balloonlady though, he could have
kicked it up a notch and stuckwith her.

SPEAKER_03 (01:09:34):
Well, he only did 22 miles last week, right?
Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_10 (01:09:38):
I know.
Yeah, that's absolutelydynamite.
So great stuff.
Uh the Lake to Lake 10K tookplace in Lakeland, Florida, of
all places.
Good place for a lake to lakerace.
Kimberly was there.
In Ontario, Hamilton, to bespecific, the Hamilton Marathon
Road to Hope 10K.
Phaedra did her hometown racethere.

(01:09:59):
Last year she did the 5K, uppedit this year to the 10K because
she's ready for more.
Uh course is pretty flat andscenic along the city's paved
waterfront trail.
Sounds very pretty.
I'm sure it's pretty this timeof year, and probably cool up in
Ontario.
Uh second 10K race ever.

(01:10:22):
So she PR'd.
Her goal was an hour 15.
She came in almost two minutesunder that.
Phaedra, you're doing great.
And then I like the photo youposted of your uh weight loss
journey.
Also, you're doing fabulous inthat, too, as well.
Uh let's see.
Kelly was at the Meadows Mile 5Kin Pennington, New Jersey.

(01:10:45):
This is Kelly's first trailstyle race.
They're running on a combo ofgrass, dirt, crushed gravel, a
little bit of pavement scatteredthroughout.
She matched 10 or 5k PR, despiteslowing down more often to avoid
missteps on some of the unevensurfaces.
Post-race, there was a pizzatruck and cake pops for

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everybody.
They also had a 10K kids' racesand other kid-friendly
activities.
Definitely a great communityvibe in Pennington, New Jersey.
Come on south a little bit toAiton, South Carolina, where
Jessica did the whiskey roadrace, was supposed to be a 10K,
turned into a 5K because avolunteer stood in front of a

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sign at the place where thecourses split.
So she was planning on a 10, shegot a 5.
She's on track to PR, the 10.
But after this mid-race snafu,that didn't happen.
She did, however, get herfastest mile time ever during
this event.
And I'm thinking this one issomewhere in the Philadelphia

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area because Yvette did tworaces this weekend.
This was the first.
A tapping of the Great Pumpkin10K, mostly on trails.
Yvette says she came in last.
I mean she had to course all toherself and got lots of bananas
for banana bread at the end.
Let's kick off Sunday with thebig one for this week.

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Boy, we've heard about this onein the past.
It's a lot of fun.
We got friends with us thisevening to tell us about their
adventures in New York.
We'd like to welcome Matt.

SPEAKER_02 (01:12:31):
Hi, I'm Matt.
This is my uh first world major,first New York and uh fourth
marathon.

SPEAKER_10 (01:12:38):
Not bad.
Grace?

SPEAKER_11 (01:12:40):
Hi, I'm Grace.
Uh, New York was my eighthmarathon.
Um, I've run three of themajors, but this was my fourth
New York because I am coming toyou live from New York.

SPEAKER_10 (01:12:51):
Very good.
Yeah, I remember seeing that,Grace.
So four times in New York, twoother world majors, and then two
other marathons, right?

SPEAKER_11 (01:13:02):
Both at Disney.

SPEAKER_10 (01:13:03):
Both at Disney.
Yeah, that that's yeah, that'scool.
Devon is with us.

SPEAKER_14 (01:13:09):
Hi, this was my first New York marathon.
It was my sixth world major andmy 20th marathon.

SPEAKER_10 (01:13:15):
Sixth world major.
If I had my normal setup today,I'd I'd hit the round of
applause button on the sixthworld major.
Congrats for that.
We want to hear more about thatin a little bit.
And Laura is with us.

SPEAKER_01 (01:13:27):
Hi, I'm Sam's mom, aka Laura, coming from Winter
Garden, um, Florida.
This is um New York was my firstNew York, first world major
marathon number six, and it wasmy first marathon outside of
Disney.
So I've done that.

SPEAKER_10 (01:13:43):
Okay.
Well, friends, thanks forjoining us this evening.
We we got some time.
We want to hear your storiesabout New York.
And Devin, you can tell us alittle bit about uh knocking out
that sixth star.
That's a big deal.
But let's take things in order.
And I'd like to always askfolks, especially on an event as

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big as this, was there anythingsignificant about the expo?
How did the expo go, Laura?

SPEAKER_01 (01:14:12):
I loved it.
Um, so I flew in Friday morningand got to the expo probably
around two o'clock in theafternoon, and it was easy peasy
to get in, get my bib.
Um, I had maybe one person infront of me to pick up my bib.
Um, from there, you walk rightinto like the new balance
official merchandise.

(01:14:32):
Now that was a little bit crazy.
Um lots of people, lots ofpicking up things and putting
things down, kind of like howyou see in the Run Disney
merchandise area where thingsare just all over the place.
Um, I had pre-ordered a fewthings, so I really didn't need
to buy anything from NewBalance.

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I did buy the boys some bears.
The line, though, was outrageousfor checkout.
They have like a hundredcheckout registers, but the line
just snaked.
It snaked through all of themerchandise, and then there were
two different queue rooms thatit snaked through.
It kept moving, um, but that wasa little crazy.

(01:15:15):
And then the expo itself, I Ilove expos, and this one did not
disappoint.
There were a lot of um greatbooths, um, some freebies, and
uh a lot of photo opportunities,which was fun.

SPEAKER_10 (01:15:28):
Nice.
Devin, did they Devin, did theyhave those big lines when you
got there also?

SPEAKER_14 (01:15:34):
Um, I actually got there pretty early afternoon on
Thursday, shortly after they'dopened.
So there's a bit of a wait toget in to get the bib, but
otherwise it was fairly smoothsailing.
It was packed, but um, like asLaura already said, it, you
know, nothing compared to whatwe've been through at Run
Disney.
So to me, it was like prettyeasy as far as like getting
merch and whatnot.

SPEAKER_10 (01:15:53):
Grace, you live nearby.
Easy trip for you to the expo?

SPEAKER_11 (01:15:57):
Yeah, so I um I always go Thursday after work.
I because I'm not traveling forthis race, I work Thursday,
Friday.
Um, and so I was I've done thisexpo before.
I kind of know exactly what Iwant to do.
Um I I will say they theyrearranged things at the expo
this year.

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And I don't know if because Ilike Laura, I noticed that the
New Balance merch was much more,it felt more crowded to me than
usual.
And I don't know if that'sbecause they switched things up
a little bit this year.
They they flipped how thingswere organized at at the Jabbit
Center.
Um, but that that was kind ofit.
I I had a long work day.
I had to, I'm a lawyer, I had tobe in court in the in the

(01:16:39):
morning.
So I was kind of trying to getin and out.
And we also had prettytorrential rain on Thursday.
So I think people I think peopleheld back until a little bit
later in the day if they werescheduled to go on Thursday,
just because there it waspouring rain on Thursday during
the day.

SPEAKER_10 (01:16:55):
So Matt, I'm just curious, did New Balance, and I
know they do this sometimes, didthey make a special shoe for the
marathon in New York this year?

SPEAKER_02 (01:17:06):
I think they did.
I saw, yeah, there was a couplepeople that had them.
I never really went to the shoearea because I already had a
pair of the SC Elites that I wasgonna wear.
But uh they did have like alittle, it was a very small
section they had for like theshoes, and it was within the uh
within the actual, you know, theNew Balance merch, kind of mixed

(01:17:26):
in with everything else.
And it was I was this there thesame time as uh Laura and it was
it was crazy.

SPEAKER_08 (01:17:32):
Okay.

SPEAKER_02 (01:17:33):
But I will say the only thing that they didn't
mention, um, whenever you checkout if you're a first time
runner at New York, they likemake a point and like cheer you
on and like get everybody'sattention and say first time
runner, and like they all ringcowbells.
That that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_12 (01:17:47):
I saw videos of that, and I thought that was a
really cool touch.
That is nice.

SPEAKER_11 (01:17:51):
They will ask you, even if it's not your first time
running New York, they will askyou if you want the bell most of
the time.

SPEAKER_02 (01:17:58):
I I was a fan, I I I like that type of stuff, so that
was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_11 (01:18:02):
I don't, but it is always fun to watch them you
know hype up, especially thefirst-time runners or first-time
New York runners.

SPEAKER_10 (01:18:07):
So hey John, take a note, okay?
At the next meetup, we need toask if it's the first time at a
meetup and we ring the cowbellor something.
What do you say?

SPEAKER_03 (01:18:16):
I got the I got the cowbell.
I know you do.

SPEAKER_16 (01:18:18):
All right, Grace.
Since you're the local here,we'll start with you first on
this portion.
We always like to say that thelogistics of a Run Disney race
is uh is a little bit moredifferent than most because you
know you gotta you know get tothe front, see Myra if you're
standing up pop centric, get onthe bus and then and then make
your way over the Epcot, and yougot a long walk.
Something tells me with New YorkCity, that race says, hold my

(01:18:43):
beer when it comes to logisticsto get into a start line.
There's many different ways.
I know sometimes there's privatetransfers, sometimes you can get
a bus at Midtown, or you cantake the lovely and still free
to this day, Staten IslandFerry.
Wow.
So what uh mode oftransportation did you choose to
make all your way, uh to makeyour way out to Staten Island

(01:19:05):
for the start of this race?

SPEAKER_11 (01:19:07):
So I also have a secret option, I don't know,
three, four, five.
Um I run with a local club here,and we have our own private uh
bus that picks us up from theneighborhood and takes us to the
um to takes us to the startvillage.
Now, I did not take that, and Iwill explain why.
Um, the buses have to get overthe bridge before the race

(01:19:30):
starts.
So they have to be there beforeseven because then everybody
hauls the other way.
So because I start in wave four,which doesn't go off until
10:55, my hack is I am stillasleep when the buses leave, and
I am on the 7:30 ferry to StatenIsland.
So I I I just hop on the subway.

(01:19:50):
Um, there's a direct subway lineright from near my apartment,
right down to South Ferry whereyou pick up, where you pick up
the ferry.
And then I take the ferry acrossand then wait for the buses and
head to Staten Island.
It does take uh head to FortWadsworth.
It does take a little bitlonger, but for me, a little bit
extra sleep is always nice.
Um, you know, I I think I Iencourage anybody who's starting

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in the later waves to at leastconsider taking the ferry, um,
even though the the midtownbuses are a little more direct,
just because it's really kind ofnice to take the ferry over and
you do get a little more sleep.

SPEAKER_10 (01:20:24):
And it just dawned on me that you guys got the
advantage this year that weusually get it on and dine.
You got the transition tostandard time.
So you already got an extrahour.

SPEAKER_03 (01:20:35):
So I got a question about the start area in Staten
Island.
Do they close that off?
And I know, like you said, youwent at 10:30.
Do they close the entrance ofthat off at any time?
Or can you stroll in at 9.30 ifyou had to?

SPEAKER_11 (01:20:50):
No non-runners are allowed.
It's only runners and volunteersand and New York Roadrunner
staff.
Um, but I I actually don't knowbecause even though, even though
I, you know, I start in wavefour, I I do tend to kind of I I
I got I showed up at the um atthe start village as wave one
was going off, as basicallyright as the cannon sounded.

SPEAKER_16 (01:21:09):
So, Matt, following your adventures on Instagram, I
saw you also chose the ferryoption.
Uh when you were on the ferry,was this the first time you ever
saw the Statue of Liberty?

SPEAKER_02 (01:21:19):
So the day before I saw it from the shoreline, but
this was the first time I got tosee it that close.
And uh I so I was on the 545ferry, and that was I didn't
realize this at the time, but itwas when the sun was coming up.
And so on one side of the boatyou got the the Statue of
Liberty, and Nike, I can'tremember exactly what it said,

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but Nike had a sign on likecargo like a cargo ship, and
they had like an inspirationallittle sign.
Does anybody remember what theysaid had said on it?

SPEAKER_01 (01:21:49):
New York City won't carry you, it pushes you.
Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 (01:21:52):
Yeah, so that was that was pretty awesome to see
as you're sailing in.
And then I went to the otherside of the ferry, and the
sunrise is coming up over thecity, and that was that was
pretty awesome.
I was, you know, everybodyalways kind of I've I always
heard that like getting therewas a hassle, but like I really
enjoyed out.
My hotel was right next to thesubway, so I got on the subway,

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right down to the ferry, got onthe ferry, and then that was
like a 20-minute ride, and thenwe get on the buses, and that
was a nice little chance that Icould take a nap on the bus.
And so that was just you're onthe bus for about 20 minutes,
and then you're in the runnervillage, and I did not realize
how huge the like the runnervillage was.
I mean, it is like a little minicity.

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I mean, it's it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_10 (01:22:37):
Great photo of the statue, Matt, that you put on
Facebook.

SPEAKER_16 (01:22:40):
All right, Laura, did you use planes, trains, or
automobiles to get to the start?
What was what was your journey?

SPEAKER_01 (01:22:45):
Um, so I always heard if it's your first one and
maybe your only one to take theferry.
Um, and I 10 out of 10 recommendthe ferry.
I um took this, as Matt said,you know, my hotel was right
next to a subway, um, very easyto get on.
It was a very peaceful subwaystroll.

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Um, and then it lets you writeout there.
And um, Morton was there and washanding out more energy gels and
handwritten notes.
They had their um their teammembers wrote a thousand
handwritten notes, and so theywere handing out in Morton gel
with a note, and and just it wasan encouragement.

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And so I carried that note withme the whole time.
Um, I got on the 730 ferry.
Uh, it was a little um likeherding cattle, getting
everybody onto the ferry, butonce you were on, there was so
much space.
I picked in outside, justenjoyed seeing New York, you
know, and the whole ride over.
Um, I'll tell you, the buseswere extremely efficient.

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I don't know how many buses theyhad.
It had to have been over 20because I was I got in the
number 19 line.
But as they left, so they loadedthem up, they packed all the
buses in, they loaded them up.
The second that last person gotinto the bus, the door closed
and that bus was on its way.
Once that last bus was gone, allof a sudden you saw the next set

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of empty buses coming in tostart at number one.
And it was just like that.
I think we I had to wait maybelike two or three rows before I
got on one, but it was quick andefficient, and the ride was, you
know, it's like a 15-minute ridefrom the ferry to the start.
And then there was um security,but each bus has its own

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security.
So you didn't have to wait inline with all, let's say, 25
buses.
It's you waited in line withjust your bus and got through.

SPEAKER_16 (01:24:44):
Something tells me maybe Myra has like a food
sister or something like that.
And she she moons moonlights uhat the New York City Marathon.
That's awesome to hear.

SPEAKER_01 (01:24:54):
My favorite sign in Staten Island by Nike was the
one that says, We'll cross thatbridge when we go over it.

SPEAKER_16 (01:25:01):
That's great.
All right, Devin, what was yourjourney like?

SPEAKER_14 (01:25:05):
Um, so I'm the only one who guessed who took the
bus.
Um good job picking the ferry.
Um, so I just I took the 530bus.
I think I got into the startvillage at I'm gonna go with
like eight something.
Um so that probably answers thatas to whether or not you should

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take the ferry.
Because my start was like at910.
So it ended up being a littlebit rushed.
Um, and it was in fact like 20buses trying to get through
security.
Um, so it took about 45 minutes,I think, to get through
security.
Um, so that was interesting.
Um, but I was just afraid oftaking the ferry because I was
like, I don't know if it'll likemake me like motion sick or

(01:25:47):
something because I hadn't liketaken a ferry before running a
marathon ever.
So I was trying to play it safe,but it worked out.
I would probably take the ferryif I ever did it again.

SPEAKER_10 (01:25:57):
I don't think many people have taken a ferry before
running a marathon.
It it may be unique to New York.
I don't know.
Maybe there's one the PacificNorthwest or something, but
that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_12 (01:26:08):
So we've gotten to the start line, um, which means
that you guys were ready tostart.
So let's go and talk about eachof your journeys.
Grace, let's start with you.
How did your journey of the NewYork City marathon go this time?

SPEAKER_11 (01:26:22):
So um this was kind of a fun one for me because uh
as I've mentioned, I've run thisrace before, and there are three
different starts.
Um they're very slightvariations.
It kind of depends.
There's blue, orange, and pink.
Blue and orange go over the topof the Verizona Bridge to start
the race.
Pink starts on the bottom level.

(01:26:43):
Um, this was my first timestarting in pink.
A lot of people get kind ofdisappointed if they have to
start on the bottom, but I wasexcited because I've done the
other two before.
Um and so I I will say anybodywho gets pink, do not worry.
It is still great.
You still get great views, youcan see the skyline.
And there's kind of a solidarityto everybody running in pink

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because you know, when we passedmile one, there were lots of
cheers and it really echoesbecause you're underneath the
bridge.
Um and I felt like I I don'tknow if this is real or just
perceived, but it does feel likeit's a little bit less steep
going up pink.
So um, so that there are prosand cons to each.
I I think each one is great, andso don't worry about which one
you get assigned to.

(01:27:25):
Um so, in terms of the actualrace, I was pretty honest with
myself before I started this.
I knew I didn't have the besttraining cycle, and so I just
really kind of held back in thefirst um first half of the race.
I got to see some friends,including our friend Doug, um,
in in Park Slope.
Um, and I always love runningthrough Brooklyn because I used

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to live in a couple of differentneighborhoods there.
So it's fun for me to runthrough the places where I used
to live.
Um, I saw a bunch of friends andcoworkers on the course um at
different places.
I love the the crowds alwayscome out, they never disappoint.
Um, you know, and you know thatthose last miles get tough.
Um, that that climb up FifthAvenue will humble you.

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Um, but it's all worth it whenyou turn into Central Park at
Engineer's Gate.
And for me, that's always reallyspecial because I do most of my
runs in Central Park.
And so it's like running, youknow, a world major marathon,
but it's also running in mybackyard.
So um, so that was a lot of fun.
I got to to see my local runclub there and was uh really,

(01:28:30):
really happy with my finish timebecause I I had hoped to hit
maybe 5.15, 520, and I ended upcoming in at 5.13.
So, you know, not my best time,but given where my fitness is, I
was really happy with that.

SPEAKER_12 (01:28:43):
All right.
So, Matt, this was a first timeum for you to do New York.
How did your experience go?

SPEAKER_02 (01:28:50):
It it was it was pretty incredible.
The um so just like the start onthe bridge.
I I was in blue wave, so I wason on the top right, and just as
you're walking up, like justseeing it, it's like, oh man,
this this thing is a thisthing's big, this is a long
bridge.
And uh, but it was really cool.
The cannons go off, and you hearFrank Sinatra, New York, New

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York.
That was I mean, it's like youyou feel that it's something
special you're you're doing.
And uh so I I had my my goal wasfor this race was the PR because
all my other marathons, allthree of them had been at Disney
World, so you know I'm stoppingfor characters and um Everest,
you know, all the things thatyou do at Disney.

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And so my goal was anything, youknow, sub four.
That that was just just thegoal.
And so started off the firstmiles were pretty great.
I kind of could tell I I uh tookmy the days before I toured New
York City because it was myfirst time being there, so I got

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was getting like 30,000 steps aday.
Don't don't recommend that andAnd so I could tell I was tired,
but um Brooklyn was awesome.
I also saw Doug.
I mean, you don't realize howloud it's gonna be until you are
just in it, and I mean it isloud, and so you know, those
miles went by pretty quick.

(01:30:16):
Uh getting the halfway point,it's it's going fine.
About mile 15.
I mean, things started I knew itwas gonna be tough.
I I I I thought my training waspretty good, but it was just I
don't know, something about theit wasn't my my day, but kept
pushing uh the QueensboroughBridge was that was something.

(01:30:38):
Uh you just hear footsteps.

SPEAKER_10 (01:30:40):
Yeah, we've heard about that before.
That's there's no spectatorsthere.

SPEAKER_02 (01:30:45):
No, no, there's like there's there's like yeah,
there's like one guy on likelike the that's like works at
the race or volunteers, and he'sgot like a little megaphone and
maybe like sit say something.
But other than that, it is justfootsteps for you know a mile,
mile and a half.
And uh as you're exiting that,you can just kind of hear the
the cheers.
I is it first avenue?

(01:31:05):
Is first avenue after that?
Yeah.
The first avenue was reallytough for me.
It is just the longest stretchof race, and you can see for
forever.
And I that's that's when uhthings got really hard, and kept
pushing, kept pushing, andfinally got uh got through, and
I was fighting a mental battlethe whole time as far as if I

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wanted to like actually get aPR.
I or I was gonna be a PR, butwhether or not I was like gonna
stay on track for sub four ornot.
And fought my way throughCentral Park.
Okay, it's kind of mean.
There's a lot of hills in there.
Okay.
But the crowds, the crowds gotme through it.
I mean, if it was not for allthe spectators, I mean just

(01:31:49):
thousands of people hollering,cheering.
Um, I mean, it it was prettydang cool.
And they pushed me to the end,and I got in right at uh three
three hours and uh 58 minutes,24 seconds.
So I was pretty stoked aboutthat.

SPEAKER_10 (01:32:04):
That's a PR?

SPEAKER_02 (01:32:06):
It was a PR, yes, sir.
And then one other thing I justwanted to mention, it was funny.
Um I kept hearing people like itwas in uh Brooklyn.
People kept saying my name.
I was like, go Matt, go Matt, goMatt.
And I had my name on my bid, butit wasn't very big.
I was like, no way people arelike seeing this.
And I like look behind me, andthere's a guy, and he's got

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Matt, like big bold letters onhis shirt.
And I mean, he's right behindme.
I like turn around, I was like,dude, that that's my name, too.
He's like, Oh man, they'recheering for both of us, as
though we ran like a miletogether.
I mean, they were just holleringMatt the whole time, but that
that was a cool moment.

SPEAKER_16 (01:32:41):
That is cool.
Now, Matt, I have to imaginerunning the streets of New York
City, you know, there are a lotof food carts um, you know, on
the streets, and you know, Iimagine some on the pathway.
Uh, by any chance, did you stopfor a pizza cone uh over the
course of the 26.2 miles?

SPEAKER_02 (01:32:59):
You know, I did not.
I New York doesn't seem to havepizza cones.
I've had pizza cones.

SPEAKER_10 (01:33:03):
That's a crying shit.
Come on.

SPEAKER_02 (01:33:07):
It is.
I you know, I looked for them.
There's a lot of food carts, butthere's none with with pizza
cones.
But uh, I did have some pizza inNew York.
This is you know, like I said,this is my first time in New
York.
So we me and my buddy that went,we were going all over the place
doing all the New York things.
But no pizza cones.
They they they gotta add that.

SPEAKER_16 (01:33:26):
All right, I I I have a business venture for you
and I because one of my favoriteNew York vendor uh foods to get
is like the halal food.
So we should come up with withlike a halal cone.
We should do it.
Just like some swarm, you know,swarma and some rice, and um
we'll we'll make thousands atRun Disney.
It's gonna be great.
We'll we'll we'll we'll talkoffline.

SPEAKER_02 (01:33:46):
Probably should probably shouldn't eat it before
a race, but no, no, no,definitely not.

SPEAKER_12 (01:33:50):
I do have a quick question before we get on to the
other ladies, but wanting to hitum a sub four time, did you
find, especially in thebeginning, when I know we've
seen these videos and thesepictures of all these people
going across the bridge, did youfind it hard to like maintain
your pace, or was it pretty easyto like keep moving forward?

SPEAKER_02 (01:34:10):
It was so like the first half, it was easy to keep
moving forward for sure.
It was hard to maintain a, Ifeel like a consistent pace
because my watch was like allover the place.
It was yeah, it was, I mean, andI clocked, it was uh 26.6, so it
was ahead, you know, a good bit.
Um, so that was hard, and it waseasy up until uh honestly, about

(01:34:36):
the last six miles, it gotreally hard to like.
I I stopped what I did, mystrategy was at every eight
station, I I walked, you know,got a Gatorade in a water, then
kept going.
And those last three eightstations, I did not want to keep
going.

SPEAKER_08 (01:34:51):
But you do.

SPEAKER_12 (01:34:52):
I was just curious.
I've seen all those pictures.
So, Laura, how did yourexperience go?
I also am wondering from you.
I know at Run Disney races we'verun together before, and you do
run, walk, run.
Did you do that during the raceas well?
Maybe you can throw that intoyour story.

SPEAKER_01 (01:35:07):
Absolutely.
Yeah, so I felt really good umgetting to the start line.
Um, my training was, I would sayI nailed it 85%.
Um, and I felt really strongthanks to Coach Twiggs getting
there.
Um, the day was beautiful.
I mean, you couldn't have askedfor a better day.

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Uh, I think the highs was likehigh 50s, maybe 60, um, and
sunny, and yeah, it wasgorgeous.
So as um Grace was, I was alsopink, and I did have that
initial, like, oh no, I'm not atthe top.
But then I thought about it, Iwas like, well, maybe my incline
won't be so much because we'renot going all the way to the

(01:35:49):
top, or you know, we're just youknow starting at the bottom.
But when you're going over onthe ferry and you see that
bridge, it's very dauntinglooking because it's huge.
But uh once we started and thecannon went off, um, you know, I
crossed the start line and Iwaited about 30 seconds before I
started my um timer, and Istayed to the right and I really

(01:36:13):
felt comfortable after the firstfew like run walks.
I was like, okay, as long as Iput my hand up, I looked over,
made sure no one was directlybehind me.
Um, I got very comfortable andwas like, okay, I can do this.
Um, I did hold back, uh, triednot to go out too fast, and I
felt good on the bridge.
Um, going into Brooklyn wasawesome.

(01:36:36):
They know how to party.
Um, but unfortunately, somewherebetween mile four and five, or
somewhere around there, it wason a decline.
Um, I got clipped.
So I was thankfully holding a umwater bottle in my left hand.
And as I was slowly going downand realizing all of my time

(01:36:59):
dreams were coming to a close, Iput that hand down.
And so my water bottle caught myfall, um, but my foot got cut
under me.
So there were people around meand going, oh my gosh, are you
okay?
And of course, you know, asrunners do, you know, they make
sure and help you up.
And I, of course, theadrenaline's rolling, I'm good,
I'm good.

(01:37:19):
Um, but the second I put my leftfoot down, I knew I wasn't good.
It felt like I hyperextended mybig toe, um, which is exactly
what I did because I got itchecked out today.
Um, so I was in a very darkplace for a little bit, not
knowing should I stop, should Ikeep going, is this gonna cause
more damage?
Um, the crowds were stillamazing, uh, you know, calling

(01:37:40):
out your name because I did wearmy name on my shirt.
And then I saw Tara and Doug andgot hugs, and they told me just,
you know, keep going and howamazing I'm doing and how proud
they are.
And um, so that slowly got meout of where I needed to go.
And eventually I figured out howto place my foot so I wasn't in

(01:38:02):
too much pain.
Um, and about the halfway point,I found a good footing and kept
going.
Um, but yeah, the crowds werejust amazing.
I will say the water stops, thefirst one for the back of the
pack, I was glad I had my ownhandheld because they couldn't
keep up with how many peoplewere coming through.

(01:38:24):
So if you wanted water, a watercup, people were waiting for it.
Um, so I ran through that one.
And then also being I was wavefive, so I was the last wave,
didn't start till 11:30.
Um, there was so much cupsludge.
Um, and I read somewhere therewas 220,000 pounds of like

(01:38:46):
debris that they picked up offthe road, which was crazy, but I
can understand because goingover some of that cup sludge, I
was a little nervous aboutslipping and sliding.
And then your feet stick forquite a bit afterwards.
I mean, really sticking to thefloor.
Um, the things I saw on thecourse, lots of signs.

(01:39:08):
There was a lot of six, sevenbetween miles and seven.
Um, a lot of signs that says umyou run better than the
government.
Um and I what I wasn't preparedfor is how many people hold out
a tissue box.
So many people were just holdinga tissue box for you to grab a

(01:39:30):
tissue.
And um, one lady actually had asign saying you don't need a
runny nose.
Um that was fun.
And um even though it wasn't howI wanted to run, it was such an
amazing experience.
There were times that was alittle overstimulating with the
whistles and the cowbells.

(01:39:50):
Um, I really enjoyed theQueensborough Bridge for that
calm moment, like the quietness.
I was okay with hearing myfootfalls.
Um, I really didn't feel fifthAve that inclined.
So I again props to my trainingbecause and all the hills.

(01:40:11):
Um I felt good.
And I was such a blubbering messat the finish line.
Um, the holler hypes that camein were amazing, the ones that I
could hear, because sometimesthe crowds were so loud you
couldn't hear them all.
And then um Tara was braving thesubway connected with Lizzie,

(01:40:31):
and I saw them a couple moretimes, and that just it was
amazing to have you know peopleon the ground cheering for you
and knowing that they're there.
Um, and it was just yeah, it wasa it was a great race.
I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:40:45):
Okay, Devin, you're the last one here, and this was
your sixth star.
So can you tell us about yourrace and your sixth star?

SPEAKER_14 (01:40:55):
Absolutely.
Um, so I also ended up startingin pink, which I was happy about
because I uh re-injured my anklein Berlin um at that, just like
I don't know, a couple of monthsago or something, however long
ago that was.
So I was happy to not have asmuch incline.
Um, but then I did hurt it um,or it started really hurting
around like 13 to 14 on thePulaski Bridge.

(01:41:18):
And so I was like, I'm not in mymind, I was like, I should
probably not run anymore.
But I was like, I'm never doingthis again.
So um I took Advil and I justkept going and it started
working by like mile 16, and sothat was like the
Queensborough-ish bridge.
So that was probably that one ofthe highlights because I was
like, oh good, I'm not in likesevere pain anymore.
Um, and so from there it wasjust really just like wanting to

(01:41:40):
finish and like not DNF.
And I was like, okay, I havelike Advil functioning for me,
so I need to like run fastenough before it stops working
because I have no more Advil onme.
So my goal is just to likefinish before the pain came
back.
Um, and so I was like reallythrilled that it didn't hurt
until I crossed the finish atlike 327.
So I was happy um to get like aBQ in uh what I called MMA

(01:42:04):
territory, being from originallyBoston.
Um, and then they like you knowwhisked me away to get my medal,
and then I proceeded to getlost, trying to get back to my
hotel, but that was all reallypart of the experience, I think.
Lots of road closures, but yeah,it was it was a great experience
overall.

SPEAKER_10 (01:42:22):
Devin, can you compare it to some of the other
world majors?

SPEAKER_14 (01:42:26):
Um, so it is a really cool start village like
Boston.
Um, Boston also has like a busto get to.
Uh the bus, there was nosecurity in Boston, like you
just kind of like get out andget in.
Um, this was kind of like if RunDisney like made you take
everything out of your pocketsand not just walk through a
security thing.

(01:42:47):
And so it took like longer thanTSA.
Um yeah, this was like probablygoing through TSA at like um
Hartsfield, Jackson orsomething.

SPEAKER_03 (01:42:54):
So it was one of the things that New York is you
can't wear a vest.

SPEAKER_14 (01:43:00):
You can't wear, yeah, you can't wear a vest.
I think you can't for Bostoneither, just it's a security
thing, which I'd appreciate.
You can wear a vest, but you canhave bottles in the front, I
believe.
But they made you take like allof the things off.
Like everyone was like dumpingstuff out, like they were just
going through.
Like, I get the security part,but that part was similar, just
having that like massive startvillage.
I thought it was similar and itwas well organized, tons of
port-a-potties, moreporta-potties than I've ever

(01:43:22):
seen in my life.
I hear it's second only to theRose Bowl.
Don't know why that's relevant,but that's that was a fun stat I
learned while I was there.
So kudos to them on their portapotty volume.
Um, the race course, um, yeah, Imean, it's technically
challenging.
It's you're just constantly upand down and up and down.
I don't, I didn't really feellike anything was flat.
I remember being told likeBrooklyn would be flat.

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I felt like there's a lot ofdown in Brooklyn and then some
up and then a lot more down.
And then likewise, first didn'treally feel that much flat.
It just seemed like a constantrolling.
So definitely a challengingcourse.

SPEAKER_10 (01:43:55):
What's the flattest world major?

SPEAKER_14 (01:43:57):
I think it would probably I mean, I don't know if
Berlin is considered one of theflattest.
It was 80 degrees when I ran itand I was limping.
So um I but I think that'stechnically the flattest.
Tokyo felt really flat, Chicagofelt really flat.

SPEAKER_16 (01:44:10):
Speaking of the elevation of this course, this
is something that we can chatabout now that the four of you
have proverbially crossed the uhthe finish line in your stories.
Here is I want to talk aboutthis metal.
It looks incredibly simple, andand we got a couple of friends
holding it up right now.
But what I love about thisdesign, Matt, can you talk to us

(01:44:31):
about because you and Laura justdid the exact same thing, you
turned it on its side.
What is the significance ofthat?

SPEAKER_02 (01:44:38):
So I I saw a uh uh Instagram reel on this, and I
didn't know it initially, butit's so cool because um it's got
basically the elevation changes.
If you hold it sideways, you cansee like all the hills of the
court, you can see the bridge,you uh you can see all the hills
and and everything.
And I mean it's just a supersimple but super amazing design,

(01:45:03):
and it's probably my favoritemetal I've ever gotten.
And I mean it's just it's socool.
I don't know if anybody else hasa better description or
something else to add on it, butlike just it's uh it's so it's
so cool.

SPEAKER_10 (01:45:16):
You know, you know what I thought it was, Greg?
Hidden Mickey.
That is pretty neat though.
And I mean if it was my firstworld major, it would be my
favorite medal too.
But it is a it is a gorgeousmedal, it really is.
New York medal is very pretty,but they're all nice.

SPEAKER_03 (01:45:36):
So so did you all get them engraved the next day?

SPEAKER_11 (01:45:40):
Yes.
There are a couple of differentoptions.
They they have the theRoadrunners has an option where
you can pay for it, and thenthere are a bunch of like other
businesses, um Volvo, Nike, acouple of others that that offer
it for I think for I think forfree.
Um so there there's there's alot of like activations for for

(01:46:00):
Metal Monday that you just kindof have to know where to look
for.

SPEAKER_10 (01:46:03):
Cool.
There's one more thing about NewYork that I view as unique, and
I've never run it, I've onlyseen photos, but uh I always see
photos of people walking out ofCentral Park with the poncho or
the the rain poncho that theygive you to leave, and we're

(01:46:23):
seeing some right now that areorange this year.
Uh what was what was that like?
It's a pretty long walk, isn'tit?

SPEAKER_02 (01:46:30):
Yeah, it's a very long one.
So I I just thought about this.
It almost feels you remember themarch of the mylars that Disney
used to have the start.
Yeah.
It feels like that, but afterDisney Marathons.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 (01:46:44):
So you can make the case at Disney that was a
warm-up.
That was seven-tenths of a mile.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:46:49):
You could make the case that was a warm-up, but
this man you're excited at atDisney at this, you're yeah, I
mean, you're excited, but you'realso your legs are dead and you
think you're gonna die.

SPEAKER_16 (01:47:01):
I mean, that's the one thing I always find
interesting about this racebecause uh, I mean, from the
spectating side of things fromafar, I got incredibly
frustrated with the New YorkRoadrunners app because it I
mean, Alicia and I were talkingall day on Sunday.
That app was not working at all.
Thankfully, someone put in theDiscord chat that if you use the

(01:47:22):
tracking via the web, thenthings were a lot better.
And the thing that I alwaysforget about New York is I mean,
number one, they're awesomebecause there's literally a
timing mat almost every singlemile, which is great.
So it like gives you like themost up-to-date pace.
But the final tracking mat isnot the finish line, it's the
tracking mat that when you exitCentral Park, it will give you

(01:47:44):
an alert.
So I think that's great in termsof meeting you know, family
members and such.
So, yeah, so it just goes toshow uh I guess how much of a
hike it is.
Um, once you you know get yourponcho and get out of the park,
that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01 (01:47:56):
Talking about like numbers and having knowing
people are there to spectate,it's almost worse than runner's
math.
Because Tara would like text me,she goes, I'm on 125th and fifth
Ave or something like that.
And trying to remember thosenumbers while running, and so
I'd be like looking at my phoneagain, what I don't remember

(01:48:17):
what street it is, and you know,at that point, I think we were
like weaving in and out ofsomewhere, and I go, Where's
fifth av?
So yeah.
Um, and I think Doug was the onethat described it as the zombie
walk at the end because everyonelooks like a zombie, it does,
you know, all in orange.

SPEAKER_16 (01:48:36):
You speaking of our buddy Doug, uh, did anybody here
attend the second annual Riseand Run meetup featuring the
Will Run For podcast that had nohost of Rise and Run at?

SPEAKER_01 (01:48:48):
I did.

SPEAKER_16 (01:48:49):
You did, Laura.
Okay, how was that?

SPEAKER_01 (01:48:52):
It was fantastic, it was so much fun.
Um, you know, met up and gotsome good pizza and um just had
a nice evening, relaxed.
Um, so yeah, it was funny.
And you know, we tried to, Ididn't have a rise and run
t-shirt, but Tara did, so wemade sure I had my bracelet, so
we tried to troll Michael.

(01:49:12):
Um we did the best we could.

SPEAKER_16 (01:49:16):
Excellent.
Well, though I think the lastthing we want to chat about
here, but I think before we wewrap this up is I mean, the
social media presence coming outof this race.
I mean, I don't know about therest of my co-host here.
I had such bad FOMO, and evenhere on a Tuesday evening
recording, my FOMO is stillthrough the roof that I'm

(01:49:36):
already researching how I canmake this happen for next year.
But some of my favorite videos,and and and Grace, I I want you
to comment on this, is the thethe fact that the number of
people that are out there stillcheering for those final
finishers.
I think I saw the video, thefinal finisher crossed at like

(01:49:57):
12:30 in the morning on Monday.
Just you know, did you go backout yourself to cheer on or or
or what what's what was uh yourexperience with all of that?

SPEAKER_11 (01:50:07):
Yeah, so I've gone to final finishers before, and I
I couldn't go last year becauseI had actually just moved.
Um, but this year I really,really wanted to go back because
it is uh incredibly inspiringand just so much fun.
Um so the finish line stays openas long as everybody anybody
who's moving forward is going tobe allowed to finish.

(01:50:29):
Um there is, you know, there'stechnically a sweep bus and they
do reopen the roads, buteverybody can move to the
sidewalk and they can keepgoing.
As long as they're movingforward, they are going to be
allowed to finish.
Um and so I think about 10 yearsago, I I don't remember exactly,
that people started forming thisgroup.
It's called Project Finish tocome out and cheer those last

(01:50:51):
finishers on.
And it's grown exponentially.
I mean, even since I was lastthere two years ago, it was
there were way more people thisyear.
They had um like light, um, likethose glow sticks and
everything, and and cowbells andand people had signs and and
were coming out, and there wasjust lines of people in the
finish line.

(01:51:11):
Um, they they open there,there's heavy security getting
to the finish line up untilabout 7:30 in the evening.
Um, but then after that, it'spretty much open and anybody can
come in and cheer for the finalfinishers.
And I just, if you're ever, everin New York City for Marathon
weekend, I highly recommendcoming out.
Those people that have been outthere for, you know, 10 hours or

(01:51:33):
more, they they will trulyinspire you and and um and and
lift you up, and you'll have ablast.
They have they have music, theyhave cheer, cheering and uh
hosts out and everything.
And it's just it's a lot of fun.
And I I think I get way more outof going to it than than I'm
able to give back to to thoserunners.
And and I just hope that theyknow how much we we admire them

(01:51:55):
and and think how inspiring theyare.

SPEAKER_02 (01:51:57):
I I also went to the final finish just for about 30,
40 minutes.
Me and my buddy were there, andwe saw about 10 people cross,
and I mean they really take liketime.
Like uh like I basically anannouncer will come out and like
get their name and like walk orrun with them to the finish
line, and I mean the crowd justgoes crazy for them, and it's

(01:52:19):
really cool.
The just the like thecamaraderie on the course and
just um amongst the runners wasreally cool.
I met a lot of people, likepeople on the subway.
We kind of you know, I followeda couple of people on Instagram
and we chatted after the race.
In the corrals, I I met this uhone girl from London, and you

(01:52:40):
know, we chatted for about anhour just sitting around waiting
for the start because you you dowait for a while.
And then in the corrals as we'rewalking to the bridge, I was
talking with uh another guy anda girl, and he was he's this was
his fourth New York, and he'sfrom New York, and um he was
just you know giving me me andthis other girl like tips and

(01:53:01):
tricks along the course, likedon't start too fast, make sure
you hold back as you're goingdownhill on the bridge.
And then, you know, after thefact, walking around the city,
there's not as many, but there'syou know a bunch of people
wearing their medals, and youcan just you know say
congratulations.
And a lot of times when I saycongratulations, that they
didn't speak English back, butthey like you know gave me the

(01:53:23):
head nod or like thumbs up orsomething.
It was it was really cool.

SPEAKER_10 (01:53:26):
Outstanding.

SPEAKER_01 (01:53:27):
I just love to just shout out my running Ohana.
There was a sign at the very endin Central Park that says ohana
means no one runs alone.
And I definitely was not runningalone at all during that day
between the holler hypes, mymessages from my peeps, you
know, near and far, and justeveryone on the course.
It was it was very inspiring andamazing to be there.

SPEAKER_03 (01:53:50):
So are you gonna do it again?

SPEAKER_01 (01:53:52):
If I get lucky through the lottery, sure.

SPEAKER_11 (01:53:55):
I'll go back.

SPEAKER_03 (01:53:56):
Anyone else?

SPEAKER_11 (01:53:57):
I will, but I I do nine plus one.
So I I think I'm gonna take nextyear off.
Um I've I've been doing quite afew, I've done three
back-to-back marathon cycles,and my body is is telling me
that maybe after Dopey I shouldtake a break, but um I will
definitely be back.
It's just a question of time.

SPEAKER_03 (01:54:14):
So great.
So real quick, uh for the peoplethat live local, uh go over the
nine plus one.

SPEAKER_11 (01:54:19):
Sure.
So nine plus one is a programthat New York Roadrunners runs
where if you run nine of theirqualifying races in a calendar
year and then volunteer at oneother race for a qualifying
volunteer spot, not for notevery race and not every
volunteer spot qualifies, thenyou get guaranteed entry into
the next year's uh marathon aslong as you're a member of New

(01:54:43):
York Roadrunners.
Um, and so it's a lot of peoplewho live locally.
That's how we um how that'sthat's how we get into the
marathon.

SPEAKER_02 (01:54:52):
I would love to go back.
Uh you know, I have I hope tomaybe one day do the uh the all
the majors, so we will see.
Maybe maybe New York is one Icome back and do uh after I've
conquered the rest of those.

SPEAKER_10 (01:55:05):
So you gonna do any more, Devin?

SPEAKER_14 (01:55:07):
Um I'm qualified again for Boston, so I'll be
doing that in April.
Um I'm probably gonna stick toBoston and Chicago.
I really like those courses alot.
Um, but I was gonna say onething that was really cool and
inspiring during this race is Igot to run part of it um sort of
like unknowingly until it like Ifigured out um sort of as I was
passing.
But I ran with uh Paralympianfor part of the way, um Allison

(01:55:29):
Truett, uh a swimmer.
Oh wow, um, who's like attackedby a shark.
And so it was kind of coolseeing her like crew kind of
together.
And I was like, it's you know,runner math is hard.
And I'm like, I know thatperson, like who is that person?
Like, figured it out mileslater.
And so it's just cool.
You don't, I haven't really hadan opportunity to run with
someone so inspiring before.

SPEAKER_10 (01:55:49):
So you I find all four of you inspiring finishing
a world major.
That's impressive.
And uh and thanks for taking thetime to join us.
Real quick, I'll go around theroom.
What's next and when do we seeyou at Disney again?
Matt, I'll start with you.

SPEAKER_02 (01:56:05):
I uh have uh I'm doing the Goofy Challenge coming
up in uh January, and that's theonly one I got on the schedule
right now.
Um I have a little bit of FOMO.
I've done dopey the last threeyears in a row.
So just doing goofy this year.

SPEAKER_10 (01:56:19):
That's plenty.
That's plenty.
Yeah.
Uh Jeff Galloway, I've done fivedopey.
Jeff Galloway gave me permissionto retire.
So I give you permission to takea break after three.
Grace, how about you?

SPEAKER_11 (01:56:29):
Um as I mentioned, I'm doing dopey in January, and
then I swear I'm taking a littletime off from marathons.
I'll also be at Princess.
Um, and then uh I will berunning races locally for nine
plus one, et cetera, et cetera.

SPEAKER_10 (01:56:43):
Um Devin.

SPEAKER_11 (01:56:46):
Dopey number four.

SPEAKER_10 (01:56:47):
Okay.
All right, we'll see you there.

SPEAKER_01 (01:56:49):
Boston and Chicago.

SPEAKER_10 (01:56:50):
Yeah, cool.
And Laura.

SPEAKER_01 (01:56:53):
Um, once the foot heals, Sam and I have a few 5K's
coming up in the season, andthen I'll be there for Goofy.

SPEAKER_10 (01:57:00):
Laura, quit quit letting them meet you, okay?

SPEAKER_01 (01:57:02):
Well, I don't think I have a choice right now.

SPEAKER_10 (01:57:07):
My friends, thank you.
Thank you, and uh once again,congratulations.
But thanks for taking the timeto join us and tell us about
this exciting world major event.
We'll see you later.
I want to thank our friends forjoining us to tell us about the
New York City Marathon.
We had other friends there.
I do not want to ignore them.
Auger Wall was there.

(01:57:28):
As was, we had two Ashleys, uh,Ashley B and Ashley W.
Ashley W PR'd by about 40minutes and got her first star.
It was awesome seeing so manyDisney friends out on the course
in their Run Disney attire inNew York.
Christopher finished his firstworld major.

(01:57:51):
That's a PR.
Ran this one for tunnel tunnelsto towers.
Uh lost three of his friends andco-workers in a light of duty
crash last November, so this onewas for them.
Usually runs intervals, but theenergy coming from everywhere on
this one made him want to justrun, so he was able to run the

(01:58:13):
first ten miles before starting30-30 intervals.
Uh walked, hobbled away with aone-hour and one minute PR.
His friend Allison also ran thisrace and killed it as well.
Lizzie came all the way up fromPhilly to cheer him both along
with their significant others.

(01:58:34):
Courtney was at New York, firstnon Disney marathon, and first
world major.
We heard from Grace.
Haley was there.
Haley said a 28-minute PR.
Jackie ran her first worldmajor, been a dream of hers,
even since before she startedrunning.
She ran with Team for Kids, agreat charity with a lot of

(01:58:56):
wonderful perks.
Got to march in with the Teamfor Kids in the opening
ceremony.
Uh it says nothing can prepareyou for the crowds and the
cheers of running through NewYork City.
Tough course, but the peoplecarry you through it.
She finished with a 30-minute PRand a sub-six hour marathon.

(01:59:16):
Jenna was there.
Jen.
Jen finished uh Marine Corpslast week and knocked out this
course.
Just five minutes over her PR.
So marathon number nine was alot of fun for Jen.
Jennifer did her first worldmajor.
John was there, said Brooklynwas one of the largest block

(01:59:36):
parties he'd ever seen.
Course is tough.
The hills are no joke.
Thank goodness he trained in thehills in South Carolina.
Day went as planned, not onlyfinished his first world major,
but got a 23 minute PR.
Kazay did her first world major.
We heard from Laura.

(01:59:56):
Lori was there.
Lisa, her first.
Non-run Disney marathon.
First world majors.
Got pickles from strangers.
Didn't hear about the picklesfrom our friends.
A lot of high fives.
Got to pet all the dogs, dancedin the streets, had the best
diet coke at mile 23.

(02:00:17):
Celebrated with dinner with hersupport crew at Carmines.
Toenails are questionable at themoment.
You know, I've never lost atoenail in a race.
How about you guys?

SPEAKER_12 (02:00:31):
Not in a race, but I mean after that.
Yeah.
Many times.
I've never had that problem.

SPEAKER_10 (02:00:40):
I don't maybe it's because I I don't lift my feet
up, I don't run very fast.
We all need to see Bob'spodiatrist.
Right.

SPEAKER_03 (02:00:47):
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's manicurist.
Oh, that too, yes.

SPEAKER_10 (02:00:51):
Pedicurist, John.
Pedicurist, yeah.
You know, I actually do beforeuh the marathons.
I do go to get a pedicure.
And I think it's not a bad idea.
Uh let us see.
Wrapping up here.
Stephanie was there.
Stephanie did Marine Corps, andshe did York City.
And Michael from the Will Runfor group was there.

(02:01:12):
Congratulations, all, in NewYork.
Let's continue on in the Camden,Philadelphia area.
Yvette is back for her secondrun of the weekend, the Cooper
Norcross Run the Bridge.
You run over the Ben FranklinBridge from Camden to Philly,

(02:01:34):
and then back again along thewaterfront of the Delaware
River.
The medal's got Ben Franklin onit, of course.
You know what she says?
The best part of this race wasfirst time using Holler Hype.
We talked Hong Kong Disneyland.
It was 10K also.
Luciana did the Pixar 10K andthe Frozen 3K.

(02:01:56):
So four different races,different distances over in Hong
Kong over the weekend.
In Alpharetta, Georgia, Dylanran the Alphoretta women's half
marathon or 5K, I'm not surewhich.
The hot chocolate races arestarting to show up.
We got hot chocolate races allover the country.
They're kind of neat if you'venever done one before.

(02:02:17):
I did one in Tampa.
It doesn't get very cold, but wehad a hot chocolate.
Usually a lot of nice swag atthe hot chocolate races.
Mostly roads, a lot of room tomaneuver, but even the last
third on the lake front pathwasn't too bad.
Race area was easy to getaround.
The hot chocolate finisher mugwas delicious.

(02:02:41):
So if they got one by you, uhJennifer would recommend it.
And so would I.

(02:03:15):
Didn't quite make her goal time,in part thanks to taking a brief
stop to check on a potentialmedical emergency on the course.
Divya is a physician, so thankyou for doing that, Divi.
Remind me to run with youwhenever I get a chance.
Luckily, that person turned outfine.
Met a dopey runner beforestarting the race and overheard

(02:03:38):
other runners talking aboutdopey while in the start corrals
in this race in Harrisburg.
The Oulala hot chocolate run,5K, 10K half in Geneva,
Illinois.
Caitlin said it was a beautifulmorning.
Lots of chocolate treats at theend.
Best parts was it was just afive-minute walk to her

(02:03:59):
apartment.
So she was able to skip Corral Pand use her own facilities.
That's always nice.
Vicky did the 10K at this event.
Ileana was in Huntington, WestVirginia, Virginia, on the
campus of Marshall Universityfor the Marshall University
half.
Second time doing this one,Drizzly, but surprisingly not

(02:04:21):
freezing at this time of year.
Now uh Ilyana is a, I think,high school teacher, but she ran
into some of her former studentswho are currently students at
Marshall, and they came andcheered her on at the end.
That's nice.
Her husband and kids were there,tracking her, sending her all
the good vibes.
The highlight is alwaysfinishing on the football field,

(02:04:43):
carrying a football.
I don't know if she brought herown football or if it was
provided, but she did it.
Said a PR of two hours and tenminutes.
That is a fine pace, Ileana.
Good for a Disney proof of time.
Plenty good for a Disney proofof time.
Sarah was in Louisville,Kentucky for the half marathon
there.
Cold rainy day.

(02:05:04):
Course was hilly, prettysecluded.
Most of it was on a local trailsystem.
Gorgeous, but no crowd support.
If it's a rail trail, like Ithink it probably was, yeah,
there's no real room forspectators there.
She battled some nasty vertigothrough this one, but pushed
through and had the best supportas she cruised to the finish
line, saw her boys cheering heron.

(02:05:29):
Dan and his daughter were inInnsdale or Hindsdale, Illinois,
for the Love Like Sean Family5K.
This race is named after a youngman, Sean Richards, local boy,
who was tragically hit by a carand killed a couple years ago
before he entered his freshmanyear of high school.
Dan was completing his firstgoofy simulation yesterday, but

(02:05:52):
his daughter decided at the lastminute that she wanted to do the
race on Sunday, so he signedthem both up.
He ran it as super easy usingshort intervals, but she, on the
other hand, had different ideasand ran it faster.
She says she didn't run thatfast, but she managed to finish
sixth of 25 in the 11 to14-year-old category, and she's

(02:06:14):
at the younger end of thatcategory.
18th out of 174 overall females,pretty good for not that fast,
eh?
Jake was in Cape Cod,Massachusetts for the Falmouth
in the fall run.
This is a seven-mile course.
He liked it so much in August,they decided to come back for

(02:06:34):
the fall running.
Same course.
1,500 runners this time insteadof the 10,000 that were there
before.
Much more laid back.
Beautiful fall day in NewEngland.
Must be one of the most gorgeousoceanfront courses around up
there in Fallman.
Shaved almost nine minutes offof his August time, picking up

(02:06:55):
his speed in the last threemiles and finished just a little
over hour two.
So that's a PR for theseven-mile distance.
Celebrated in the most NewEngland way with a cider donut
and a cup of clam chowder at thepost-race party.

SPEAKER_16 (02:07:11):
Bob, you didn't say it right.
Allie's going to bedisappointed.
Chowder?
There you go.

SPEAKER_10 (02:07:16):
Chowda.
Yeah.
I'm trying to picture a guydipping a cider donut into a cup
of clam chowder.
Glad you enjoyed it, Jake.
That's cool.
All right, let's go.
Our man in South Florida,Robbie.
I got a chance to see Robbie atuh at uh Wanidon.

(02:07:36):
That was nice.
He did the United with the Blue5K in Lake Mary.
Small race in support of fallenand injured law enforcement
personnel.
A nice cold Central Floridamorning.
Cold meaning it was probably 65,but this start.
Flat course on a walking trailin the neighborhood.

(02:07:56):
In Spencerport, New York, Amydid the barbecue bash quarters.
Kind of interesting.
A looped course, so you couldrun a quarter marathon, a half
marathon, three quarters of amarathon, or a marathon.
Amy had 12 miles on a trainingcalendar, so she decided to do
two loops for a half.

(02:08:17):
The race had, because of allthose distances, and they're all
in the same area, the race had agenerous seven and a half hour
cutoff time.
Of course, it was a lot hillierthan she expected.
She said she'd been takinglessons from Jack.
Jack's not here to defendherself, but Amy didn't look up
the course elevation.
Anyway, beautiful day for a run,and as you might expect from the

(02:08:40):
name of the race, there'sbarbecue at the finish.
Let's see, the inaugural SantaClarita Trail Race.
A 10K Mark ran this one.
Took a tumble mile two, leaving,as he put it, some DNA on the
course.
Kind of a nasty cut, looks likeon the back of his leg.

(02:09:02):
Still had a fun time, though,and finished this 10K.
And we wrap up the race reportin Connecticut.
The Stonington Vineyards WineTurkey Trot.
Sue did this one.
Tough cross-country course, butbeautiful New England fall day.
Had a great time meeting up withlots of other 169ers from

(02:09:25):
Connecticut.
Cute shirt, great metal, glassof wine at the end.
There we have it, friends.
That's the race report forepisode 215.
Congratulations to all of ourrise and runners.
Alright, no Zoom this week.
We'll be back together againnext week.

(02:09:47):
Training miles are long.
I read them at the beginning.
I forget what they were, but Iknow they're long.
Hang in there, talked about it acouple times.
This is this is the tough part.
Training miles are getting long.
You can't quite see the end yet,but it's all going to be worth
it.
We'll be back together again inJanuary.

(02:10:08):
But until then, happy running.

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