August 11, 2025 • 30 mins
This week on The Back of the Pack Podcast, we lace up in Greenwood, MO for the second annual Run to Bless 5K, an event supporting Fellowship Church and the mission trips they fund. We break down the race experience, the course, and the community spirit that made it a great Saturday morning run. Then, we shift to one of our favorite causes: the upcoming Rexy Run 5K, 8K, & 10K in Lawrence, KS. We sit down with Race Director Kristina to talk about this special 10th anniversary event, benefiting Baby Jay’s Legacy of Hope — an organization helping families cover expenses while their children battle cancer. The Back of the Pack Podcast is proud to sponsor a mile of this race and be featured on every runner’s giveaway bag. We want to see you out there on August 16th to help make this Rexy Run the biggest year yet!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello, everyone, greetings and salutations. Welcome back to another episode
at the Back of the Back Podcast. I'm your host,
Kyle Walker. Thank you so much for tuning in. We
were cruising right along through August, which is awesome. I
hope you were tuning into our Back of the Back
podcast second Wind episodes on Friday, as we are on
our march towards the two hundredth episode, which is going
to air on Friday, August twenty second. Very excited about that.
(00:33):
I really really liked and thankfully we've gotten good feedback
from this past Friday's episode where we talked about all
the different guests that we've had on the podcast over
the last almost two hundred episodes and three plus years.
It was really fun. It was kind of, you know,
a trip down memory lane, shall we say, just to
remember the people that we've talked to that maybe we've
lost contact with, or you know, everyone's just kind of
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off doing everything. But it was a lot of fun.
So that was a good episode, so I hope you
enjoyed it as well. This Friday coming up, we're gonna
continue to march on and then next week the week
after it's going to be our very first or our
two hundred not very first our two hundredth episode. So anyway,
as you can tell, very excited about it. So this
past weekend we were in Greenwood, Missouri for the Run
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to Bless. Five k was the second year for this race.
We did it last year as well, so we've done
both years that it has existed. Very good race. It
is still my five kPr. I definitely had to go
check my spreadsheet. Last year I ran my fastest five
k ever at this race. To be fair, it measured
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a little short last year. To be fair, it measured
a little short this year. Not quite as bad as
last year, but a little short this year. But as
we know, I go by chip timing. I do not
go by what my watch says or when anything else
says the chip timing of the race. Chip timing of
the race last year was my fastest five k ever
at the Run to Bless. This year, that five k record,
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that PR was in no danger. No danger this year
as my running lately as gone kept but it's not
been good for various reasons, most of which we've already
discussed on this podcast. But yeah, this year it was
kind of survive in advance now to be fair, last
year we had a great day for running. It was
like good weather for August, good conditions. I was in
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better shape and so had a great race. This year,
it was much warmer and there were storms dancing all
around the area. So it was very humid, and I
know I am not the only runner who struggled with
that humidity. It was a little little damp out there.
I won't use the word that everyone hates because I'm
nice like that, but it was very damp air. It
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was very thick, and it was getting warm, and so
the breathing was not the greatest thing. They've also altered
the coursis a little bit. Now. Can I tell you
how much elevation it may or may not have taken away? No,
I can't tell you. That certainly felt like there was
an extra hill in there, more than there was last year.
Last year, I remember just one hill, and that's spruce
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for all you Greenwood, Missouri people. I remember that hill.
But it felt like there was more than that this year.
So again, a lot of it also could have been me.
I just had more of a struggle due to the
temperatures and due to conditioning and whatnot. It was just
a more difficult race for me this year, but got
it done. It was still a wonderful event. I think.
I know it wasn't quite double, but they almost doubled
their registration from last year, and I think that's great.
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So congratulations to you guys. Another good event this year.
I did not partake in the post race pancake buffet.
I'm sure it was wonderful. Chris Cakes is great and
I think the race for offering it. I wasn't feeling
it doublely was not feeling pancakes after that event. I
was hot, I was gross, and I was ready for
the air conditioning of my car and it was just
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no I wanted to get home. Food was not high
on my list of things to do after that race.
So it was still it was a great event. So
two years in a row they've knocked it out of
the park. Lovely people, nice little community up in Greenwood, Missouri.
And then a fund race. It raises funds for Fellowship
Church and this is for their mission trips that they
do throughout the year to help people, whether overseas or
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you know, whatever their travel schedule is, which I don't
know off the top of my head, but a lovely church,
lovely congregation, and glad that we could do something to
help them out. So the race was good. Here's the medal.
If you take a look at your screen, it is
also Metal Monday today Run to Bless. They did well
on this year's Metal better than last year. Not that
last year's was bad, but they've improved on their medal
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and I always think that's a good thing to do.
So here's the Run to Bless Metal. There we go,
five K Metal super great. All right, coming up for
us big, big weekend a head two ten k's, back
to back ten k's for me personally, as I'm trying
to figure out what is wrong with my running world.
So I will just you know, go ahead and double
up on ten k's and really make a fool of myself.
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But no, we have Rexy Run coming up this weekend.
You know, Rexy Run is one of the biggest races
that I will ever pimp out over the broadcast airwaves
of this show. I want everyone at Rexy Run, and
I want everyone to be in Lawrence, and I want
you to be ready for that race. Five K, eight
k or ten k. I really don't care what distance
you're doing as long as you're there. They are getting
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close to it being the biggest REXI ever, it is
their ten year anniversary. There's just all the reasons to
go out there, and we're gonna go into more of
that here in just a second. Then on Sunday we
have the Heart for Ronald McDonald House Charities ten k
as well five k and ten k up in Parkville, Missouri.
I'll be doing the ten k. This is another great
race with a great cause. Jeffyals puts on a freaking
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fantastic race and so I can't wait to do that.
So Saturday ten k and Lawrence Sunday ten k in Parkville, Missouri.
We're gonna be all over the area and we hope
we will see you at either of these events. And
then on next week's episode, of course, we'll have our
race reviews for both REXI Run and Hearts for Ronald
McDonald House Charity, which again is a great race, and
they still have the award for the coldest water at
(05:53):
an eighth station. Ever, I'm so excited to do that
race just because I want to get to the ten
k turnaround and get that cold cold water again. Oh,
it was like the scene and water boy where he
gets the water from the glacier and it like rejuvenates him.
That's what it was like getting a drink out of
that ice cold cooler of last year. It was fantastic.
I loved every second of it. Best turnaround water I've
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ever drink in my life. But yeah, we'll have that
coming up and then we'll have the reviews next week.
So we're gonna do this week, Okay. I sat down
for a quick, last minute, almost to the last second
interview with Christina, the race director of REXI Run. So
I'm gonna kick it to that interview so that you
guys can hear everything she says. She's gonna tell you
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about this year's honorary REXI. You don't want to miss
this talk about this year's events. Look, if there is
anything you want in a race, this race has it,
not to mention, it just has a heart for kids
in the battle against pediatric cancer that not many people have.
Eric and Christina do and I want to do everything
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I can to help them and help this cause because
it's important to us. It's important to all of us,
and it should be more important to the powers that
be that hold the money. But we're gonna do what
we can, so we're gonna kick it to that interview.
I hope you enjoy it, and then I definitely hope
that we see you Saturday at REXI Run. All right, everyone,
welcome in our guest at this time, the race director,
(07:18):
the Queen Bee of Rexy Run, Christina's back with us.
Hello Christina, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'm good. We are ready for Rexy Run coming up
this weekend like it is, It's happened to everyone. It's
gonna air on Monday. So tell us how are we
looking this year for REXI Run? Give us, give us
an update last minute here.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
We are looking really good. Numbers are up. I would say,
I don't know if we've were above twenty nineteen, but
we're at least close to it. I think we're definitely
above last year at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So looking like, if not the biggest REXI Run, probably
the second biggest. So that's super, super exciting. We've seemed
to have got back on track, you know, after COVID
and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So good. Oh that that is fantastic. So are you
finding that adding or having all three distances is helping
get some runners out there?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yes? And no I was actually a little surprised at
how many people signed up for the ten K versus
the eight K. It may have been the special when
I first opened it up, and people are just like, Oh,
just get the most bang for my buck and do
the ten K. So that's actually a great question because
I did just set something up for anybody listening right now,
(08:37):
and you want to set an eight kPr and do
really well in kind of a smaller race. I just
set up a discount code. It's all capital letters, BOP eight,
and it's gonna be eight dollars off for the eight K,
so you want to get signed up and that will
be going until race day. So there's a code for
(09:00):
any listeners out there that maybe want to do the
eight K and aren't signed up yet.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So oh, perfect, I didn't see. I didn't even know
that was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I know, I know. But yeah, that ten K, there's
definitely like the same number as when we had our
very first ten K. So that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Wow. So means I'm definitely not placing in my age degree.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You never know, Kyle, you never know.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm pretty sure, pretty sure that's not going to happen.
So what else can you tell us about this year's Rex?
You run dazzle us with what's going on?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, I want to tell you about Amelia, of course,
our honorary Rexy. She just well, she's eight years old.
She will turn nine actually in September, so she's almost nine.
She has state and I am reading this everybody because
I want to make sure I get it right. Stage
four B cell lymp plastic lymphoma back in April of
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twenty twenty four. She's an active treatment. Her diagnosis journey
was difficult. Her tumor was misdiagnosed for four months by
four different doctors and imaging. And we won't go down
the tangent of that's because of underfunding of childhood cancer,
but we'll just throw that out there. It was ultimately
(10:19):
a plastic surgeon who ordered a biopsy after an incorrect
MRI diagnosis that led to the correct diagnosis. Oh wow, So,
and I'm going to read from her caring page. Yeah,
that was actually just posted an update on August six.
So she just had a visit up at Children's Mercy
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and she received her seventeenth spinal tap just like two
days ago. On August six and nineteenth blood transfusion. So
just to tell you all a little bit about her journey.
I mean, she's a years old and has had to
go through all that already, and I just can't, you know,
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it's just not fair. Her labs weren't looking great on
the sixth and she's in month fifteen out of twenty
nine months of treatment, so hopefully she's feeling good. But
that's the latest that I know about Amelia. Her faite.
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She has an older sister and two younger brothers. Her
favorite color is lime green, which is why our shirt
is like a mint green because they didn't have lime green,
so we weren't mit green. She likes sweet and salty
stuff like barbecue chips and popcorn, board games and arts
and crafts, playing Super Mario on the Nintendo Switch. Her
(11:51):
favorite princesses are Rapunzel and Elsa, and she likes Taylor Swift,
Travis Kelcey, the Chiefs. And we won't hold this against
her K State football. Coming from a KU fan, Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
No, oh, my goodness, that pain you to say, right.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yes, So that's a little bit about Amelia and her family,
and then the couple other things I just want to mention.
We of course, we'll have our quilt that is made handmade,
and all the proceeds from that will go directly to
a Milia and her family. So in addition to you know,
(12:29):
our donation from your race fees, that will be directly
to her. Something I really want to say is we
I'm kind of dubbing it as come for the run,
stay for the fun. We're gonna have three food trucks there.
Nice let's hear main Street Scoops, scoops and sweets out
of Udorra. They're gonna have ice cream and like protein balls,
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some healthy stuff in case you don't want ice cream
for breakfast. I know I'm going to have ice cream
for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That doesn't seem I want the ice cream exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But they are going to offer so many different other
things as well, silly Squeezers, which is lemonade, and they're
also gonna have coffee and hot dogs and chips. Okay,
so if you want an early lunch or like for me,
it will be an early lunch, but you know, I'll
be up since four o'clock in the morning, so it'll
be a normal lunch for me.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You're slightly busy on racing and then.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Also the Pretzley truck. So if you're listening from Lawrence,
it's a pink food truck. And they she's been doing
really well. Like they sell out. I guess of their
stuff all the time. So if you, you know, bring
your friends, your family, your neighbors, have them come afterwards.
They'll be there starting at seven thirty, but they'll start
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opening up at eight o'clock. Come, you know, come, come
for the fun. Have your family come for the fun.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
All right, Well, so for all the slow people do
in the ten k, you're gonna have to leave some
stuff at the food truck for us, all right, you
can't take it all?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yes, Then they will be there till eleven, So I
imagine they're gonna have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh yeah, wow, okay, so three hours of the food
trucks nice.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, you know, we're gonna have families there from that
Baby Jay's legacy of hope has helped, so talk to
the families, get to know about their kid, their warrior
or angel and what's going on in their journey. You know,
it's not always it can be a sombering thing, but
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it's also you know, that's your reminder of why you're running.
You're running for these families and for these kids. So
we're I think we're up to like ten families going
to be there. So that's true. And that doesn't even
include some of the runners that we know that have warriors.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So because this is the tenth anniversary run for Exit.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It is thank you, it is the tenth anniversary run,
so hoping to make it the biggest that we've had.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So I would hope so, and see behind me here,
I've got I see that need that ten right here
on the side ten.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And I will say, if you haven't done the Rexy
Run in the past and you're coming for the tenth year,
we do have some metals so we can go ahead
and hook people up, you know, just making maybe make
a little donation or whatever, and we'll give it to you. Surely. Sure, yeah,
no big deal.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I like it. So going back to the going back
to the race itself, has anything changed along the course,
everything's business as usual, Business is usual.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
As far as the five k and the eight k,
it will be the same as last year. The ten
k because this will be the first year of the
ten k since we moved starting locations and I was
reminded why I got rid of the ten k. You
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do have to do a little out and back loop
on Louisiana Street, not all the way through Broken Arrow
the school, like the parking lot like we did a
couple of years ago. Just a small little loop in
the parking lot and then back down to the park. Okay,
and we're gonna do that at the end. Oh good,
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which I'm glad you said. Oh good. I think that
we're gonna do it that way because we are should
have over one hundred people for the ten k, and
since that will be at the end, people should be
spread out, and since the sidewalk's not huge, it shouldn't
be too like clustered with people. So yes, unfortunately, you're
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gonna have to run by the park and see the
finish line and then go run and come back. But again,
I think everybody will enjoy that more because it'll be
more spread out because it's the end of the race
versus the beginning of the race.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, I remember when it was at the beginning and
with everyone leaving at the same time. After you do
that loop, then your ten three runners are running into
the back of the five k walkers, and so now
I think putting it at the end was actually a
good call. You get a thumbs up for me.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Well, I remember you saying that on the podcast. So
I really think it'll be better to ten k and
eight k will start together at seven point thirty and
then the five k like five minutes later, just to
get the ten k people out of the park. Oh okay,
road mark not on the road on the sidewalk. Yeah,
we've been doing that for years.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So and the rain hasn't messed with the wetlands. We're
not flooded anywhere on the course that you're aware of.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Knock on wood. We're not flooded right now.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
There's some kind of overgrown trees at the beginning and
end where you go under that bridge, but not flooded.
So it's not a duathlon. So and I haven't looked
at the weather, but I think it would take a
lot of rain for it to be flooded. It would
take a lot of rain Friday night for it to
be flooded Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I think we're just gonna have the heat.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh, I was maybe we have that weather we had
two weeks ago. Well, what race was that that everybody did?
I wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Uh, you're asking two weeks ago. I don't even remember,
yeah at this point, but.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, but yeah, so hopefully hopefully cross your fingers for
a nice, nice cool day.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, well, thankfully on that course there is a decent
amount of shade. I mean there's some and then there's
some areas that aren't.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But yeah, the tin k is not very shaded.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Unfortunately, it's summertime. What do we expect?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah? Yeah, all right, well what else?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
What else do you need to share with everyone? Again,
this is our last push, So if you haven't registered,
you still have to go register. And you said people
have all the way up basically till race day that
they can just signed up.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeap, sign up clear intel Race day. We'll have race
day registration. You can register a packet pick up which
will be all pretty much all day Friday in the
morning at Ryan Spark Farm Bureau and then in the
afternoon at at Astra and Lawrence and then yeah, day
of register or yeah, day of packet pickup and registration
(19:07):
at Broken Arrow Park starting at like six point thirty.
We have some really cool swag. Thank you to Kyle
and Back of the Pack podcast. We're able to get
like canvas bags, so every runner will get one of those.
So if you are picking up your packet on race day,
keep that in mind so you make sure you can
put that in your car. If you haven't done the
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REXI run. The normals, the we ask you to park
and the churches across the street are up at Broken
Arrow and Billy Mills. It's just a little and then
you just walk down the sidewalk tenth of a mile
something like that. It's yeah, just to keep the park
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clear because we run inside the park and we have
pictures of warriors and angels all throughout the park. Yes,
I guess I should say if you're new and you
don't know about the reci run. It's hosted by Baby
Jay's Legacy of Hope, which is a five OHO one
ceed based out of Lawrence, and we help families that
have a kid fighting cancer and it's incredibly underfunded as
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far as childhood cancer research. We do help more directly
with the families so to help with expenses that just
aren't covered by insurance, so groceries, gas, all you know,
think that kind of stuff. So and all proceeds will
go to that of course after expenses, but all proceeds
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will go to help kids fighting cancer.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yes, and the quilt. You said those go raffle tickets.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Our twenty dollars a piece
ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's like twenty dollars for like ten tickets. I think
it is. I don't. I'm pricing right in front of me.
But for that, you know, if you just have your phone,
you can scan the QR code that will have at
the race at packet pickup and you make a donation
so you don't have to have your card on you,
(21:11):
which does remind me the food trucks I think, maybe
not all of them, but at least one of them
have Venmo, so if you don't have your card on you,
you can at least you can VIINMO. But you know,
everybody should have their card at least in their car.
Get it out, come back and get some treats.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, that's your cool down after the race. You walk
to your car and get your wallet. Then you walk
back and you're nice and ready to ice cream and
hot dog. Yes, exactly, ice cream on a hot dog
whatever whatever floats your boat.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, and then wash it down with some lemonade, which
I have had the lemonade and it's much better than
store bought lemonade.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Good.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And I've had the ice cream and it's amazing, it's
better than normal ice cream.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So now is Rexy Runs still gonna have Are you
guys gonna have all your pastries that you normally have
out there?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Oh yeah, well still yes, we will still have all
that ant Nutter's famous cinnamon rolls, so we will have that.
You know, we will have the normal freebie stuff as well, oranges, bananas,
all that. So we even have probably that will be
in your bags. High v donated like some pop chips.
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I think it's kind of the newer thing that they're
coming out with. And Hershey's donated dots pretzels, so like, yeah,
we will have those in the bag. I'll even put
extra in your bagels in my bag. Yeah. So we
will have all of our normal Eyleens cookies for everybody.
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Also especially for the Dino Dash, which is our kids run,
that will be about nine thirty. You don't necessarily you
don't have to sign up to do the kids run.
You can just show up at nine thirty and do
it if you want. That's fine. Kids Run should get
a medal The only reason I say should is because
if we have another one hundred people sign up, I
(23:10):
only have five hundred medals. So sorry, kids, you might
get awards, but you might not get this year's medal
because I want to make sure our runners get this
year's medal.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The kids will be all right, they're resilient.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, exactly, That's the way I look at it. So
I think that's about it. I mean, I do want,
but can just go and thank a couple amazing sponsors
absolutely back of the pack, Hershey, the Quilting Runner, Kansas Rocks, Parks,
pro Print, Ryan Spark, Farm Bureau, and McDonald's and a
(23:45):
lot of them have been plus many others. But a
lot of our sponsors have been sponsors for all ten
years and we couldn't do it without them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I was going say, I know, I've heard that Ryan
Spark's name for a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Now, Yeah. Yeah, and his life does the Dino Dash
And people ask me about the Dino Dash, and I'm like,
I have no idea, but I always hear compliments on it.
And I just pass that on to Maggie because I
don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
All right, You're busy with other things I can definitely
say though, like I see them in the middle of
the in the grass there there are a million kids
out there, like that's a big thing, and they are
all running here, there and yonder. So yeah, they clearly
do that race well and everyone seems to really enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, it's not a long right said by any by
any means a fifty hundred yard dash, but yeah, everybody
has to start somewhere, that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And are the cosplayers going to be back this year?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes, Cosplayers will be there, Our princesses will be there.
Baby Jay the actual Jayhawks should actually should be there
again this year. I did not get Willie the Wildcat,
so hopefully you.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Can't step putting that town that's not safe for him.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Hopefully Emilia is not mad at me, but I did,
and I forgot along with the food trucks there until eleven.
We have three bouncy houses. Key, So like I said,
run fun.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yep, yep. With the bouncy houses and food trucks. You'll
feed the kids all the sugar. Then let me go bounce.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
It works out well, and then you guys can all nap.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
When they crash, and they will, and then everyone takes
a nap.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
We'll have a face painter there. And I think the
ice cream truck has somebody that can make balloon art.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Okay, so, and so let me let me be clear.
The bouncy houses are only for the kids.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I think adults can do it. I hope. So I
kind of want to do one.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I mean it might happen, might happen, Like I kind.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Of want to do it. I don't know what the
weight limit on them is. That'd be the only thing.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
There's a cool bounty house. I might be tinted.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm just saying, yeah, there's I mean, one of the
three has to be very cool, so I.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Would think so, I would think so.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
So, yes, if you're not signed up, come for the run,
come for help us stomp out childhood cancer, and then
stay for fun and food while still helping us get well.
Would be great if we could get rid of childhood cancer.
But yeah, you know, you buy that pretzel and a
portion of that goes back to Amelia. And that's just
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amazing that these food trucks are coming and going, Yeah,
we'll give back to you guys. We're not going to
just keep everything.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
No, that's awesome. Yeah, all right, well everyone, you have
now heard you can definitely be a part of what
we think might be the biggest REXI run ever. I
think you should. So you have all this week to
get signed up. You have a discount code if you
want to do the eight k, bring the kids, bring
the whole family, food, trucks, bouncy house kids race, five K, EIGHTK,
(26:57):
ten K, quilts, food, food. I mean, good grief into
this race, cospiringers. I mean all you need now is
like a stealth bomber flyover and golden Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
If I could get a flyover like at the Spencer
Spencer Duncan, that would be that'd be pretty cool. But
no flyover yet.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Now. Were you at Spencer Duncan this year? Nokay, oh
that's a race we were referring to earlier. Okay, we
had a beautiful morning Spencer Duncan.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, yeah, that was that one. I did see the
flyover on Lawrence though. I was running with my friend
and we were like, that's interesting. And then I saw
the pictures and videos later and I was like, oh,
that's what it is. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
They absolutely crushed it. The timing of those pilots in
the race, and the national anthem could not have been
more perfect. The best flyover I've seen for a national
anthem at a five k, so pretty cool. But anyway, well, Christine,
thank you. Hopefully we can get you on the last
push as we head towards the finish line of Rexy Run,
and then then we'll just have to start working on
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next year, year eleven.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yes, exactly, thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I really appreciate it absolutely, So everyone go get signed
up and we will see you Saturday at REXI Run.
All right, a big thank you to Christina from Rexy
Run for coming on the show and talking about this
weekend's Rexy Run again. Go please get signed up, let
us all be there, let us all have a wonderful morning,
and let it just be the biggest Rexy Run yet.
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Now you might be asking yourself, Kyle, why in the
world was the screen hopping back and forth between whoever
was talking during the interview with you and Christina? And
I can tell you this, I have no freaking idea
because when we recorded that, it was the side by
side screen. It was not the hoppy screen. It's all
because Zoom likes to make changes without telling me or
(28:54):
without letting me know what is going on, and so
I get to normally just find out about it after
the fact. So there was none that I can do.
We recorded it. I could see both of us on
the screen at the same time, no clue. White did
the hoppy back and forth thing. Sorry about that, Sorry, Christina.
I know you were not prepared for extreme close ups,
nor was I, but that's what we were stuck with.
So I'm sorry about that. But it doesn't change. In fact,
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you better be at REXI run this Saturday. Got it
August sixteenth, Make sure you're there. August seventeenth, Parkville Hearts
for Ronald McDonald House Charity. We got a lot coming up.
Then after that we got the Summer Sissler fifteen K.
After that we got the Ottawa Half Marathon. After that
we are in September and it is the Heartland thirty
K series, and after that is the Zoo Run and
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then the Ultra and then we're already done with September.
Like y'all, this year is crazy fast. I don't know
where the time is going, but it's going quickly and
it's getting there fast. I'm not I'm not able to
catch up with it. It's like a sprinter that I
cannot catch in the five k and I know they're
going to cross way before me. Kind of what this
year feels like. It is just sprinting away and it's
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leaving me behind in a trail of dust. Anyone else
feeling that?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Just me?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Okay, whatever, but narey? All right? Everyone that's gonna do it?
For this week's episode of the Back of the Back podcast.
It is my pleasure as oas I'm your host, Kyle Walker.
I'm out of order on how I do the finishing.
That is how frazzled I am by the screen messing
up on me. Can you believe it? Hey, everyone, have
a safe week of training. I'm not gonna say i'll
see you next week because I'm gonna see you this
weekend in Lawrence, Kansas at Rexy Run and then Sunday
(30:22):
in Parkville for Ronald McDonald house. Got it, I'll see
you this weekend.
Hello, everyone, greetings and salutations. Welcome back to another episode
at the Back of the Back Podcast. I'm your host,
Kyle Walker. Thank you so much for tuning in. We
were cruising right along through August, which is awesome. I
hope you were tuning into our Back of the Back
podcast second Wind episodes on Friday, as we are on
our march towards the two hundredth episode, which is going
to air on Friday, August twenty second. Very excited about that.
(00:33):
I really really liked and thankfully we've gotten good feedback
from this past Friday's episode where we talked about all
the different guests that we've had on the podcast over
the last almost two hundred episodes and three plus years.
It was really fun. It was kind of, you know,
a trip down memory lane, shall we say, just to
remember the people that we've talked to that maybe we've
lost contact with, or you know, everyone's just kind of
(00:54):
off doing everything. But it was a lot of fun.
So that was a good episode, so I hope you
enjoyed it as well. This Friday coming up, we're gonna
continue to march on and then next week the week
after it's going to be our very first or our
two hundred not very first our two hundredth episode. So anyway,
as you can tell, very excited about it. So this
past weekend we were in Greenwood, Missouri for the Run
(01:15):
to Bless. Five k was the second year for this race.
We did it last year as well, so we've done
both years that it has existed. Very good race. It
is still my five kPr. I definitely had to go
check my spreadsheet. Last year I ran my fastest five
k ever at this race. To be fair, it measured
(01:35):
a little short last year. To be fair, it measured
a little short this year. Not quite as bad as
last year, but a little short this year. But as
we know, I go by chip timing. I do not
go by what my watch says or when anything else
says the chip timing of the race. Chip timing of
the race last year was my fastest five k ever
at the Run to Bless. This year, that five k record,
(01:56):
that PR was in no danger. No danger this year
as my running lately as gone kept but it's not
been good for various reasons, most of which we've already
discussed on this podcast. But yeah, this year it was
kind of survive in advance now to be fair, last
year we had a great day for running. It was
like good weather for August, good conditions. I was in
(02:18):
better shape and so had a great race. This year,
it was much warmer and there were storms dancing all
around the area. So it was very humid, and I
know I am not the only runner who struggled with
that humidity. It was a little little damp out there.
I won't use the word that everyone hates because I'm
nice like that, but it was very damp air. It
(02:39):
was very thick, and it was getting warm, and so
the breathing was not the greatest thing. They've also altered
the coursis a little bit. Now. Can I tell you
how much elevation it may or may not have taken away? No,
I can't tell you. That certainly felt like there was
an extra hill in there, more than there was last year.
Last year, I remember just one hill, and that's spruce
(02:59):
for all you Greenwood, Missouri people. I remember that hill.
But it felt like there was more than that this year.
So again, a lot of it also could have been me.
I just had more of a struggle due to the
temperatures and due to conditioning and whatnot. It was just
a more difficult race for me this year, but got
it done. It was still a wonderful event. I think.
I know it wasn't quite double, but they almost doubled
their registration from last year, and I think that's great.
(03:21):
So congratulations to you guys. Another good event this year.
I did not partake in the post race pancake buffet.
I'm sure it was wonderful. Chris Cakes is great and
I think the race for offering it. I wasn't feeling
it doublely was not feeling pancakes after that event. I
was hot, I was gross, and I was ready for
the air conditioning of my car and it was just
(03:42):
no I wanted to get home. Food was not high
on my list of things to do after that race.
So it was still it was a great event. So
two years in a row they've knocked it out of
the park. Lovely people, nice little community up in Greenwood, Missouri.
And then a fund race. It raises funds for Fellowship
Church and this is for their mission trips that they
do throughout the year to help people, whether overseas or
(04:05):
you know, whatever their travel schedule is, which I don't
know off the top of my head, but a lovely church,
lovely congregation, and glad that we could do something to
help them out. So the race was good. Here's the medal.
If you take a look at your screen, it is
also Metal Monday today Run to Bless. They did well
on this year's Metal better than last year. Not that
last year's was bad, but they've improved on their medal
(04:25):
and I always think that's a good thing to do.
So here's the Run to Bless Metal. There we go,
five K Metal super great. All right, coming up for
us big, big weekend a head two ten k's, back
to back ten k's for me personally, as I'm trying
to figure out what is wrong with my running world.
So I will just you know, go ahead and double
up on ten k's and really make a fool of myself.
(04:46):
But no, we have Rexy Run coming up this weekend.
You know, Rexy Run is one of the biggest races
that I will ever pimp out over the broadcast airwaves
of this show. I want everyone at Rexy Run, and
I want everyone to be in Lawrence, and I want
you to be ready for that race. Five K, eight
k or ten k. I really don't care what distance
you're doing as long as you're there. They are getting
(05:08):
close to it being the biggest REXI ever, it is
their ten year anniversary. There's just all the reasons to
go out there, and we're gonna go into more of
that here in just a second. Then on Sunday we
have the Heart for Ronald McDonald House Charities ten k
as well five k and ten k up in Parkville, Missouri.
I'll be doing the ten k. This is another great
race with a great cause. Jeffyals puts on a freaking
(05:30):
fantastic race and so I can't wait to do that.
So Saturday ten k and Lawrence Sunday ten k in Parkville, Missouri.
We're gonna be all over the area and we hope
we will see you at either of these events. And
then on next week's episode, of course, we'll have our
race reviews for both REXI Run and Hearts for Ronald
McDonald House Charity, which again is a great race, and
they still have the award for the coldest water at
(05:53):
an eighth station. Ever, I'm so excited to do that
race just because I want to get to the ten
k turnaround and get that cold cold water again. Oh,
it was like the scene and water boy where he
gets the water from the glacier and it like rejuvenates him.
That's what it was like getting a drink out of
that ice cold cooler of last year. It was fantastic.
I loved every second of it. Best turnaround water I've
(06:15):
ever drink in my life. But yeah, we'll have that
coming up and then we'll have the reviews next week.
So we're gonna do this week, Okay. I sat down
for a quick, last minute, almost to the last second
interview with Christina, the race director of REXI Run. So
I'm gonna kick it to that interview so that you
guys can hear everything she says. She's gonna tell you
(06:35):
about this year's honorary REXI. You don't want to miss
this talk about this year's events. Look, if there is
anything you want in a race, this race has it,
not to mention, it just has a heart for kids
in the battle against pediatric cancer that not many people have.
Eric and Christina do and I want to do everything
(06:56):
I can to help them and help this cause because
it's important to us. It's important to all of us,
and it should be more important to the powers that
be that hold the money. But we're gonna do what
we can, so we're gonna kick it to that interview.
I hope you enjoy it, and then I definitely hope
that we see you Saturday at REXI Run. All right, everyone,
welcome in our guest at this time, the race director,
(07:18):
the Queen Bee of Rexy Run, Christina's back with us.
Hello Christina, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'm good. We are ready for Rexy Run coming up
this weekend like it is, It's happened to everyone. It's
gonna air on Monday. So tell us how are we
looking this year for REXI Run? Give us, give us
an update last minute here.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
We are looking really good. Numbers are up. I would say,
I don't know if we've were above twenty nineteen, but
we're at least close to it. I think we're definitely
above last year at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So looking like, if not the biggest REXI Run, probably
the second biggest. So that's super, super exciting. We've seemed
to have got back on track, you know, after COVID
and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So good. Oh that that is fantastic. So are you
finding that adding or having all three distances is helping
get some runners out there?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yes? And no I was actually a little surprised at
how many people signed up for the ten K versus
the eight K. It may have been the special when
I first opened it up, and people are just like, Oh,
just get the most bang for my buck and do
the ten K. So that's actually a great question because
I did just set something up for anybody listening right now,
(08:37):
and you want to set an eight kPr and do
really well in kind of a smaller race. I just
set up a discount code. It's all capital letters, BOP eight,
and it's gonna be eight dollars off for the eight K,
so you want to get signed up and that will
be going until race day. So there's a code for
(09:00):
any listeners out there that maybe want to do the
eight K and aren't signed up yet.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So oh, perfect, I didn't see. I didn't even know
that was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I know, I know. But yeah, that ten K, there's
definitely like the same number as when we had our
very first ten K. So that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Wow. So means I'm definitely not placing in my age degree.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You never know, Kyle, you never know.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm pretty sure, pretty sure that's not going to happen.
So what else can you tell us about this year's Rex?
You run dazzle us with what's going on?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, I want to tell you about Amelia, of course,
our honorary Rexy. She just well, she's eight years old.
She will turn nine actually in September, so she's almost nine.
She has state and I am reading this everybody because
I want to make sure I get it right. Stage
four B cell lymp plastic lymphoma back in April of
(09:56):
twenty twenty four. She's an active treatment. Her diagnosis journey
was difficult. Her tumor was misdiagnosed for four months by
four different doctors and imaging. And we won't go down
the tangent of that's because of underfunding of childhood cancer,
but we'll just throw that out there. It was ultimately
(10:19):
a plastic surgeon who ordered a biopsy after an incorrect
MRI diagnosis that led to the correct diagnosis. Oh wow, So,
and I'm going to read from her caring page. Yeah,
that was actually just posted an update on August six.
So she just had a visit up at Children's Mercy
(10:42):
and she received her seventeenth spinal tap just like two
days ago. On August six and nineteenth blood transfusion. So
just to tell you all a little bit about her journey.
I mean, she's a years old and has had to
go through all that already, and I just can't, you know,
(11:05):
it's just not fair. Her labs weren't looking great on
the sixth and she's in month fifteen out of twenty
nine months of treatment, so hopefully she's feeling good. But
that's the latest that I know about Amelia. Her faite.
(11:26):
She has an older sister and two younger brothers. Her
favorite color is lime green, which is why our shirt
is like a mint green because they didn't have lime green,
so we weren't mit green. She likes sweet and salty
stuff like barbecue chips and popcorn, board games and arts
and crafts, playing Super Mario on the Nintendo Switch. Her
(11:51):
favorite princesses are Rapunzel and Elsa, and she likes Taylor Swift,
Travis Kelcey, the Chiefs. And we won't hold this against
her K State football. Coming from a KU fan, Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
No, oh, my goodness, that pain you to say, right.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yes, So that's a little bit about Amelia and her family,
and then the couple other things I just want to mention.
We of course, we'll have our quilt that is made handmade,
and all the proceeds from that will go directly to
a Milia and her family. So in addition to you know,
(12:29):
our donation from your race fees, that will be directly
to her. Something I really want to say is we
I'm kind of dubbing it as come for the run,
stay for the fun. We're gonna have three food trucks there.
Nice let's hear main Street Scoops, scoops and sweets out
of Udorra. They're gonna have ice cream and like protein balls,
(12:53):
some healthy stuff in case you don't want ice cream
for breakfast. I know I'm going to have ice cream
for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That doesn't seem I want the ice cream exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But they are going to offer so many different other
things as well, silly Squeezers, which is lemonade, and they're
also gonna have coffee and hot dogs and chips. Okay,
so if you want an early lunch or like for me,
it will be an early lunch, but you know, I'll
be up since four o'clock in the morning, so it'll
be a normal lunch for me.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You're slightly busy on racing and then.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Also the Pretzley truck. So if you're listening from Lawrence,
it's a pink food truck. And they she's been doing
really well. Like they sell out. I guess of their
stuff all the time. So if you, you know, bring
your friends, your family, your neighbors, have them come afterwards.
They'll be there starting at seven thirty, but they'll start
(13:47):
opening up at eight o'clock. Come, you know, come, come
for the fun. Have your family come for the fun.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
All right, Well, so for all the slow people do
in the ten k, you're gonna have to leave some
stuff at the food truck for us, all right, you
can't take it all?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yes, Then they will be there till eleven, So I
imagine they're gonna have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh yeah, wow, okay, so three hours of the food
trucks nice.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, you know, we're gonna have families there from that
Baby Jay's legacy of hope has helped, so talk to
the families, get to know about their kid, their warrior
or angel and what's going on in their journey. You know,
it's not always it can be a sombering thing, but
(14:32):
it's also you know, that's your reminder of why you're running.
You're running for these families and for these kids. So
we're I think we're up to like ten families going
to be there. So that's true. And that doesn't even
include some of the runners that we know that have warriors.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So because this is the tenth anniversary run for Exit.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It is thank you, it is the tenth anniversary run,
so hoping to make it the biggest that we've had.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So I would hope so, and see behind me here,
I've got I see that need that ten right here
on the side ten.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And I will say, if you haven't done the Rexy
Run in the past and you're coming for the tenth year,
we do have some metals so we can go ahead
and hook people up, you know, just making maybe make
a little donation or whatever, and we'll give it to you. Surely. Sure, yeah,
no big deal.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I like it. So going back to the going back
to the race itself, has anything changed along the course,
everything's business as usual, Business is usual.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
As far as the five k and the eight k,
it will be the same as last year. The ten
k because this will be the first year of the
ten k since we moved starting locations and I was
reminded why I got rid of the ten k. You
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do have to do a little out and back loop
on Louisiana Street, not all the way through Broken Arrow
the school, like the parking lot like we did a
couple of years ago. Just a small little loop in
the parking lot and then back down to the park. Okay,
and we're gonna do that at the end. Oh good,
(16:15):
which I'm glad you said. Oh good. I think that
we're gonna do it that way because we are should
have over one hundred people for the ten k, and
since that will be at the end, people should be
spread out, and since the sidewalk's not huge, it shouldn't
be too like clustered with people. So yes, unfortunately, you're
(16:37):
gonna have to run by the park and see the
finish line and then go run and come back. But again,
I think everybody will enjoy that more because it'll be
more spread out because it's the end of the race
versus the beginning of the race.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, I remember when it was at the beginning and
with everyone leaving at the same time. After you do
that loop, then your ten three runners are running into
the back of the five k walkers, and so now
I think putting it at the end was actually a
good call. You get a thumbs up for me.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Well, I remember you saying that on the podcast. So
I really think it'll be better to ten k and
eight k will start together at seven point thirty and
then the five k like five minutes later, just to
get the ten k people out of the park. Oh okay,
road mark not on the road on the sidewalk. Yeah,
we've been doing that for years.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So and the rain hasn't messed with the wetlands. We're
not flooded anywhere on the course that you're aware of.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Knock on wood. We're not flooded right now.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
There's some kind of overgrown trees at the beginning and
end where you go under that bridge, but not flooded.
So it's not a duathlon. So and I haven't looked
at the weather, but I think it would take a
lot of rain for it to be flooded. It would
take a lot of rain Friday night for it to
be flooded Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I think we're just gonna have the heat.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh, I was maybe we have that weather we had
two weeks ago. Well, what race was that that everybody did?
I wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Uh, you're asking two weeks ago. I don't even remember,
yeah at this point, but.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, but yeah, so hopefully hopefully cross your fingers for
a nice, nice cool day.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, well, thankfully on that course there is a decent
amount of shade. I mean there's some and then there's
some areas that aren't.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But yeah, the tin k is not very shaded.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Unfortunately, it's summertime. What do we expect?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah? Yeah, all right, well what else?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
What else do you need to share with everyone? Again,
this is our last push, So if you haven't registered,
you still have to go register. And you said people
have all the way up basically till race day that
they can just signed up.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeap, sign up clear intel Race day. We'll have race
day registration. You can register a packet pick up which
will be all pretty much all day Friday in the
morning at Ryan Spark Farm Bureau and then in the
afternoon at at Astra and Lawrence and then yeah, day
of register or yeah, day of packet pickup and registration
(19:07):
at Broken Arrow Park starting at like six point thirty.
We have some really cool swag. Thank you to Kyle
and Back of the Pack podcast. We're able to get
like canvas bags, so every runner will get one of those.
So if you are picking up your packet on race day,
keep that in mind so you make sure you can
put that in your car. If you haven't done the
(19:30):
REXI run. The normals, the we ask you to park
and the churches across the street are up at Broken
Arrow and Billy Mills. It's just a little and then
you just walk down the sidewalk tenth of a mile
something like that. It's yeah, just to keep the park
(19:52):
clear because we run inside the park and we have
pictures of warriors and angels all throughout the park. Yes,
I guess I should say if you're new and you
don't know about the reci run. It's hosted by Baby
Jay's Legacy of Hope, which is a five OHO one
ceed based out of Lawrence, and we help families that
have a kid fighting cancer and it's incredibly underfunded as
(20:17):
far as childhood cancer research. We do help more directly
with the families so to help with expenses that just
aren't covered by insurance, so groceries, gas, all you know,
think that kind of stuff. So and all proceeds will
go to that of course after expenses, but all proceeds
(20:39):
will go to help kids fighting cancer.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yes, and the quilt. You said those go raffle tickets.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Our twenty dollars a piece
ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's like twenty dollars for like ten tickets. I think
it is. I don't. I'm pricing right in front of me.
But for that, you know, if you just have your phone,
you can scan the QR code that will have at
the race at packet pickup and you make a donation
so you don't have to have your card on you,
(21:11):
which does remind me the food trucks I think, maybe
not all of them, but at least one of them
have Venmo, so if you don't have your card on you,
you can at least you can VIINMO. But you know,
everybody should have their card at least in their car.
Get it out, come back and get some treats.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, that's your cool down after the race. You walk
to your car and get your wallet. Then you walk
back and you're nice and ready to ice cream and
hot dog. Yes, exactly, ice cream on a hot dog
whatever whatever floats your boat.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, and then wash it down with some lemonade, which
I have had the lemonade and it's much better than
store bought lemonade.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Good.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And I've had the ice cream and it's amazing, it's
better than normal ice cream.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So now is Rexy Runs still gonna have Are you
guys gonna have all your pastries that you normally have
out there?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Oh yeah, well still yes, we will still have all
that ant Nutter's famous cinnamon rolls, so we will have that.
You know, we will have the normal freebie stuff as well, oranges, bananas,
all that. So we even have probably that will be
in your bags. High v donated like some pop chips.
(22:23):
I think it's kind of the newer thing that they're
coming out with. And Hershey's donated dots pretzels, so like, yeah,
we will have those in the bag. I'll even put
extra in your bagels in my bag. Yeah. So we
will have all of our normal Eyleens cookies for everybody.
(22:47):
Also especially for the Dino Dash, which is our kids run,
that will be about nine thirty. You don't necessarily you
don't have to sign up to do the kids run.
You can just show up at nine thirty and do
it if you want. That's fine. Kids Run should get
a medal The only reason I say should is because
if we have another one hundred people sign up, I
(23:10):
only have five hundred medals. So sorry, kids, you might
get awards, but you might not get this year's medal
because I want to make sure our runners get this
year's medal.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The kids will be all right, they're resilient.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, exactly, That's the way I look at it. So
I think that's about it. I mean, I do want,
but can just go and thank a couple amazing sponsors
absolutely back of the pack, Hershey, the Quilting Runner, Kansas Rocks, Parks,
pro Print, Ryan Spark, Farm Bureau, and McDonald's and a
(23:45):
lot of them have been plus many others. But a
lot of our sponsors have been sponsors for all ten
years and we couldn't do it without them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I was going say, I know, I've heard that Ryan
Spark's name for a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Now, Yeah. Yeah, and his life does the Dino Dash
And people ask me about the Dino Dash, and I'm like,
I have no idea, but I always hear compliments on it.
And I just pass that on to Maggie because I
don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
All right, You're busy with other things I can definitely
say though, like I see them in the middle of
the in the grass there there are a million kids
out there, like that's a big thing, and they are
all running here, there and yonder. So yeah, they clearly
do that race well and everyone seems to really enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, it's not a long right said by any by
any means a fifty hundred yard dash, but yeah, everybody
has to start somewhere, that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And are the cosplayers going to be back this year?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes, Cosplayers will be there, Our princesses will be there.
Baby Jay the actual Jayhawks should actually should be there
again this year. I did not get Willie the Wildcat,
so hopefully you.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Can't step putting that town that's not safe for him.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Hopefully Emilia is not mad at me, but I did,
and I forgot along with the food trucks there until eleven.
We have three bouncy houses. Key, So like I said,
run fun.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yep, yep. With the bouncy houses and food trucks. You'll
feed the kids all the sugar. Then let me go bounce.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
It works out well, and then you guys can all nap.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
When they crash, and they will, and then everyone takes
a nap.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
We'll have a face painter there. And I think the
ice cream truck has somebody that can make balloon art.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Okay, so, and so let me let me be clear.
The bouncy houses are only for the kids.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I think adults can do it. I hope. So I
kind of want to do one.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I mean it might happen, might happen, Like I kind.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Of want to do it. I don't know what the
weight limit on them is. That'd be the only thing.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
There's a cool bounty house. I might be tinted.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm just saying, yeah, there's I mean, one of the
three has to be very cool, so I.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Would think so, I would think so.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
So, yes, if you're not signed up, come for the run,
come for help us stomp out childhood cancer, and then
stay for fun and food while still helping us get well.
Would be great if we could get rid of childhood cancer.
But yeah, you know, you buy that pretzel and a
portion of that goes back to Amelia. And that's just
(26:29):
amazing that these food trucks are coming and going, Yeah,
we'll give back to you guys. We're not going to
just keep everything.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
No, that's awesome. Yeah, all right, well everyone, you have
now heard you can definitely be a part of what
we think might be the biggest REXI run ever. I
think you should. So you have all this week to
get signed up. You have a discount code if you
want to do the eight k, bring the kids, bring
the whole family, food, trucks, bouncy house kids race, five K, EIGHTK,
(26:57):
ten K, quilts, food, food. I mean, good grief into
this race, cospiringers. I mean all you need now is
like a stealth bomber flyover and golden Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
If I could get a flyover like at the Spencer
Spencer Duncan, that would be that'd be pretty cool. But
no flyover yet.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Now. Were you at Spencer Duncan this year? Nokay, oh
that's a race we were referring to earlier. Okay, we
had a beautiful morning Spencer Duncan.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, yeah, that was that one. I did see the
flyover on Lawrence though. I was running with my friend
and we were like, that's interesting. And then I saw
the pictures and videos later and I was like, oh,
that's what it is. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
They absolutely crushed it. The timing of those pilots in
the race, and the national anthem could not have been
more perfect. The best flyover I've seen for a national
anthem at a five k, so pretty cool. But anyway, well, Christine,
thank you. Hopefully we can get you on the last
push as we head towards the finish line of Rexy Run,
and then then we'll just have to start working on
(28:07):
next year, year eleven.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yes, exactly, thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I really appreciate it absolutely, So everyone go get signed
up and we will see you Saturday at REXI Run.
All right, a big thank you to Christina from Rexy
Run for coming on the show and talking about this
weekend's Rexy Run again. Go please get signed up, let
us all be there, let us all have a wonderful morning,
and let it just be the biggest Rexy Run yet.
(28:32):
Now you might be asking yourself, Kyle, why in the
world was the screen hopping back and forth between whoever
was talking during the interview with you and Christina? And
I can tell you this, I have no freaking idea
because when we recorded that, it was the side by
side screen. It was not the hoppy screen. It's all
because Zoom likes to make changes without telling me or
(28:54):
without letting me know what is going on, and so
I get to normally just find out about it after
the fact. So there was none that I can do.
We recorded it. I could see both of us on
the screen at the same time, no clue. White did
the hoppy back and forth thing. Sorry about that, Sorry, Christina.
I know you were not prepared for extreme close ups,
nor was I, but that's what we were stuck with.
So I'm sorry about that. But it doesn't change. In fact,
(29:16):
you better be at REXI run this Saturday. Got it
August sixteenth, Make sure you're there. August seventeenth, Parkville Hearts
for Ronald McDonald House Charity. We got a lot coming up.
Then after that we got the Summer Sissler fifteen K.
After that we got the Ottawa Half Marathon. After that
we are in September and it is the Heartland thirty
K series, and after that is the Zoo Run and
(29:36):
then the Ultra and then we're already done with September.
Like y'all, this year is crazy fast. I don't know
where the time is going, but it's going quickly and
it's getting there fast. I'm not I'm not able to
catch up with it. It's like a sprinter that I
cannot catch in the five k and I know they're
going to cross way before me. Kind of what this
year feels like. It is just sprinting away and it's
(29:57):
leaving me behind in a trail of dust. Anyone else
feeling that?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Just me?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Okay, whatever, but narey? All right? Everyone that's gonna do it?
For this week's episode of the Back of the Back podcast.
It is my pleasure as oas I'm your host, Kyle Walker.
I'm out of order on how I do the finishing.
That is how frazzled I am by the screen messing
up on me. Can you believe it? Hey, everyone, have
a safe week of training. I'm not gonna say i'll
see you next week because I'm gonna see you this
weekend in Lawrence, Kansas at Rexy Run and then Sunday
(30:22):
in Parkville for Ronald McDonald house. Got it, I'll see
you this weekend.
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