Ready to lace up those running shoes and hit the pavement with us? We guarantee you'll be filled with inspiration after hearing about the exhilarating experiences of our friends from the #RunDopey community who recently completed the New York City Marathon. From the starting line excitement to spectator support, they truly brought the energy of the big apple to life. We also shed light on our personal running journeys, discussing the highs, the lows, and everything in between, as we gear up for the Dopey Challenge. We also discuss some training wisdom and motivational counsel, urging you to keep your spirits high and your strides steady.
Next, we transport you to the magical realm of Disney with Craig McFarland, host of the "Beyond the Mouse" podcast. We chat about everything Disney and running, upcoming races, costume planning, and the undeniable camaraderie in the running community.
Rounding off the episode, in our Race Report Spotlight, we sit down with our guest Jody, who regales us with her race report on the Battleship 12K in Mobile, Alabama. Be it a seasoned marathoner or a casual jogger, this episode is your running companion, filled with pep talks, laughter, and a whole lot of love for the sport!
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Ready to lace up those running shoes and hit the pavement with us? We guarantee you'll be filled with inspiration after hearing about the exhilarating experiences of our friends from the #RunDopey community who recently completed the New York City Marathon. From the starting line excitement to spectator support, they truly brought the energy of the big apple to life. We also shed light on our personal running journeys, discussing the highs, the lows, and everything in between, as we gear up for the Dopey Challenge. We also discuss some training wisdom and motivational counsel, urging you to keep your spirits high and your strides steady.
Next, we transport you to the magical realm of Disney with Craig McFarland, host of the "Beyond the Mouse" podcast. We chat about everything Disney and running, upcoming races, costume planning, and the undeniable camaraderie in the running community.
Rounding off the episode, in our Race Report Spotlight, we sit down with our guest Jody, who regales us with her race report on the Battleship 12K in Mobile, Alabama. Be it a seasoned marathoner or a casual jogger, this episode is your running companion, filled with pep talks, laughter, and a whole lot of love for the sport!
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3am again. Why did I ever think this was a good idea? Welcome to the Rise and Run Podcast. Join our group of Run Disney Friends. As we talk about running at Walt Disney World and beyond. We'll discuss recent runs, training, upcoming races and surprise topics suggested by you, our listeners. Well, the alarm's gone off, so let's go.
Speaker 5:Hi everyone. It's Vanessa coming to you live from the Rise and Run Meetup at Wine and Dine Happy running.
Speaker 6:Thank you, Vanessa. Thanks for leaving us that recording that was from our meetup at Wine and Dine. Had a whole bunch of folks there. It was so great to see everyone and it's great to be back with you. My friends, Welcome to episode 113 of the Rise and Run Podcast. I'm Bob. I'm here with Ally Hi friends With Jack.
Speaker 7:Hiya.
Speaker 6:With John, hey, how you doing. With Alicia, hello. And with Greg, aloha, aloha, yeah, aloha, my friend hey how was the trip?
Speaker 2:It was incredible and the one thought I had over the course of the week, bob, was I didn't grant it. I know you were in the Army and you got put all over the globe, but once you got there, why did you leave?
Speaker 6:You know well, I didn't have a choice. But yeah it was beautiful and we were fortunate. We were there four and a half years, I believe. So, yeah, that was spectacular. I really did love it and I saw the photos look like you had a wonderful time. I'm really happy for you. Happy birthday, by the way, thank you.
Speaker 2:Happy birthday.
Speaker 6:Happy anniversary.
Speaker 6:And, yeah, we're glad you had a good time. Alright, friends, episode 113. Hey, you know we missed you. I mean I know it's only been one week since we've recorded it, but I miss it and I'm glad to be back talking with you. I think we all are Our guests this evening. We've got a group of friends that we first visited with in July of 22. It's a crew from the hashtag run dopey group. Great bunch of people. They ran the New York City Marathon. They talk about a bunch of things. They talk about the run dopey group and their account of the New York City Marathon will have you wanting to go sign up for it here.
Speaker 6:Before the episodes even over in the race report spotlight, our friend Jody is going to tell us about the battleship 12 K in Mobile Alabama. My friends, if you enjoy the rise and run podcast, please, please, share us with your friends, let them know about it, introduce them to the rise and run family. We would love to have them join us. Please remember to follow us on Facebook at rise and run podcast, on Instagram at rise and run pod, and check out our new YouTube channel. This is our web page rise and run podcastcom. If you have a question, a comment? You'd like to tell us about one of your recent races? Maybe you want to introduce an upcoming episode? Please give us a call 727-266-2344. Leave us a recorded message. The rise and run podcast is sponsored by our good friends at magic bound travel.
Speaker 6:I was thinking of Brad and Maggie earlier today. The weather folks in Florida at least on the local TV channel I watch they do something I think is kind of mean At this time of year. They'll do a little weather report from some other part of the country and they were showing the weather in Boone, north Carolina today. I know us where Brad and Maggie are. They were saying, yeah, a couple of weeks ago these leaves were all beautiful and now they're all off the trees and it's 45 degrees in Boone, north Carolina, and it's windy and they're waiting for their first snow. And I'm sitting out here outside where it's 75 degrees and I don't know why they do that, maybe just to make us feel better about living down here. But hey, I was thinking about you, brad and Maggie. Hope you're staying warm up there in North Carolina. Friends, magic bound travel is a place to go to help you out with all your run Disney vacation needs. Check them out. Magicboundtravelcom is the website. Jack, you have published another YouTube video for us.
Speaker 7:Well, guys, as you know, we had a ton of fun at Wine and Dines, so we thought it'd be fun to kind of showcase our weekend to you guys. It was an absolute blast. Now we do have now, because it is Thanksgiving. There will not be a video out this week. I almost forgot that it was Thanksgiving week for whatever reason. So we are going to skip this week but moving on forward, it will come out every week after that, on Fridays at 5am. If you guys are getting ready for Marathon weekend or any of the other races for Run Disney, we did take footage of the Expos. More than likely the Expos are all going to be the same, so I would like to go ahead and get you guys ready and let you know what to expect for the Expos for each weekend. So that will be coming out in about a week and a half All right, thanks, jack.
Speaker 6:Sounds like fun. Check it out, please, my friends. Youtube search for Rise and Run podcast.
Speaker 7:You guys, we love you so much. We're so extremely happy to announce some of our new family Patreon members.
Speaker 6:Jack, I would like to welcome the following new Patreon's Our friend Christy, from LaVonia, michigan. I hope I pronounced I know I pronounced Christy right. I'm not sure I pronounced LaVonia, right.
Speaker 8:Watch it be Christy. I know who it is.
Speaker 6:I know who this is. I also know this next fella, our friend Jeff from Disney with the Ducks. Oh hi, jeff. If I thought LaVonia was tough, how about Tuscarawas Ohio, tuscarawas, I'm going with that. Tuscarawas, ohio, catherine, thank you for being from St Leonard, maryland, and Caitlin from Walnutport, pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:Get out of Walnutport Really. My nana lives in the next town over.
Speaker 6:That's so cool, center part of the state somewhere, greg.
Speaker 2:No more, it's the eastern part of the state, but just south of the Poconos though.
Speaker 6:Okay, nice area, pretty area there, but yeah. So that is some of the new Patreon's we've picked up. Greg, part of that is from the contest that we are sponsoring that you've been talking about the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2:Absolutely yeah. For about the last month or so, we've been promoting our little contest to have more of our awesome Rise and Runners join our Patreon community. And again, our current Patreon members were enrolled into this contest, as well as our new members as well, for that Tokyo Disneyland 40th anniversary popcorn bucket. So, without further ado, I have everyone's name in the famous wheel of namescom. We're going to give it a spin here. It's going, it's going, it's going. There's so many names on here.
Speaker 4:This is awesome to see and our winner is Kelly.
Speaker 2:So, kelly, congratulations. And we will get this out to you in short order, hopefully before the holiday, if not sometime early next week.
Speaker 6:So congratulations, Thanks, thanks to all of our patrons. We appreciate so very much your support of the Rise and Run podcast and it's nice to have you along as part of the family In the Apologies and Alibis section. Haven't done this for a while. We'll get to training in just a minute. But first the Apologies and Alibis section. And I am amused by this because we actually recorded segments of episode 112 before we did 111 in 111 in 112. We talked about the chips coming back. I wanted the chips to come back in the blue box of food. Well, what we forgot to talk about in the wine and dine race recap was that in fact the chips are back. So the chips came back. We knew it. Then the next week we're saying we wish the chips come back, would come back, and it turns out. And we're I'm surprised to find this out it turns out. We owe it all to our friend Brian.
Speaker 8:Yeah, we do.
Speaker 6:We're here for dressing up as a chip, as a bag of chips, to hammer home with the Run Disney crew that we needed them back. They're back.
Speaker 2:So, it didn't have been hysterical, though, if more of the things that we talked about in that pre-recorded episode you know like came back to fruition. Like you know, the race shirts were champion.
Speaker 10:Oh my.
Speaker 2:God. And all of a sudden they made like a last minute course change and all of a sudden now we were going through three parks. That would have been wild. Maybe we're fortune tellers, bob, who knows?
Speaker 8:Yeah, this next one, when the shirts are champion, and I'd like to say again, the champion shirts.
Speaker 7:Can we also put out their medals that were prior to COVID as well?
Speaker 8:Yeah.
Speaker 7:Because I was putting up all of my medals.
Speaker 8:Oh, they're all chipped.
Speaker 7:They're all chipped, except the ones prior to 2020.
Speaker 8:Same Once that like they've been hanging up for weeks and then I looked at them and they're like flaking and I'm like I haven't even touched them or like bumped them or anything.
Speaker 6:Right, yeah, I must be lucky. I haven't noticed either that or I'm not looking at them with my glasses on one or the other. Oh gosh, all right, but anyway, the chips are back and I'm glad.
Speaker 8:I'm dressing as a champion shirt for the next race.
Speaker 7:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6:All right, I'm dressing as a new balance shoe.
Speaker 8:We should all dress as the new balance shoes. Oh my God, we can't. I don't think we can.
Speaker 2:Alicia, can you dress as the Osborne Festival of Dancing?
Speaker 6:Lights.
Speaker 7:Oh my God, I will be a Christmas tree. We can make it work.
Speaker 2:I don't know if that would fit within the new costume guidelines.
Speaker 7:Okay, what if we did wrap ourselves around in lights and they're flashing to music that was going on that you have with you?
Speaker 2:Nothing like Christmas Eve's Sarajevo on a loop for 13 months.
Speaker 6:Friends, before we totally lose control, let's take a look at. Let's take a look at what's on the training calendar Marathon weekend. If you're listening on the day of release of this episode, chances are six weeks from today, you will have already completed the 5k on marathon weekend, because we are just six weeks away from the start of that weekend event. We are on training week 22. This is this is one of what I call the mini Sims. We've been doing some of these walk and then run events, but this is the first one where the numbers are really starting to get big and the mileage on this weekend's long run for training is 23 miles Week 22,. The long run is 23 miles. Let's talk more about that in just a moment.
Speaker 6:Disneyland is the week after. It's seven weeks away. The long run for this weekend four miles. Training week 11. It's training week five for Princess. 13 weeks away sounds like a long time, but it's going to be here before we know it. Long run for this weekend is three miles. All right, my friends, anybody have any updates on their training?
Speaker 9:Hey, John, hey how you doing.
Speaker 8:I know you were kind of struggling at the end of wine and dine with me and then. So I'm curious how, how your training is going from that, because I know it was a little painful for you for that, but you were doing okay and you finished.
Speaker 10:I'm doing okay. I got a new job so I'm kind of walking six to seven miles a day, so that's kind of helping me out. Knees feel pretty good.
Speaker 8:Well, it's good.
Speaker 10:So you know, I mean I'm not going to overdo anything because, like I said, I'm here for the big picture, and you know what? I know that I can't do a lot or I don't want to reinjure myself, so I'm just being a conservative in my training.
Speaker 7:Wait, john. What happened during wine and dine?
Speaker 10:My knees were hurting me. Oh, no, yeah, it was the last. It was going up, the last, what do you call it?
Speaker 7:Overpass, overpass.
Speaker 10:Overpass that angle. The angle just got me on my knee and it was just, you know, like, okay, I'm going, I want to get over and get done. But you know what, after the race, you guys saw me at the after party. I was walking around, fine.
Speaker 8:I was dancing, yeah, dancing.
Speaker 10:I was on top of the table you missed it, it was great After the race, after three beers it was good. Yeah, john, hey, I get doing.
Speaker 7:That's what I'm going to yell at you.
Speaker 10:When you went at the table up there, okay, Little ice on it, a little ice compression after the race and I was fine. It's just. I don't want to overdo it. It's a good test that weekend.
Speaker 8:I'm in the same boat as you, john. I'm looking at the big picture right now and I'm having a little bit of a hard time running my long miles. So I've sort of changed what I'm doing and I'm walking a lot and I'm doing some weight lifting, because I can handle that, and just kind of keeping my body strong, and doing some different sort of cross training and just make sure I stay, like cardio, vascularly active, even though I'm not really running as like kind of part of my body right now. But I do plan to do this long run this weekend. So keep your fingers crossed for me for that one.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, it's important.
Speaker 7:Wait, John, do you have a long run as well?
Speaker 10:I'm supposed to have a long run. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm doing a 5K. I'm doing a sorry an 8K on Thursday. I'm going to run a little bit this weekend and see how it goes.
Speaker 8:Nice, nice. So if you walk, you know what? There's no shame in that game. Like you said, we're in here for the long game. Our end goal is that marathon weekend.
Speaker 7:Yep, right, hey, I walked during my simulation. I have no problem with that. There ain't no shame in walking, you guys. Oh, no, it's part of it. Yeah, miles or miles.
Speaker 6:No, that is absolutely part of it. If you talk with Jeff Galloway and if you're doing a goofy or dopey, he will tell you to walk the half marathon. So yeah, I walk the first couple of days of these simulations I have for the first three dopies, and I'm going to do it for this one.
Speaker 7:Very nice, but I can't get this out of my head, john, sorry. I'm so sorry. You said you danced on a table. Were you joking or is that real, because I didn't see no pictures of that.
Speaker 10:You missed it.
Speaker 7:If there's no pictures, that never happened, I'll show I was joking around, but then I thought he could do it.
Speaker 6:I'll show you. I got the camera.
Speaker 8:And then he paid us all to erase the pictures from our phone. So sorry, Jack.
Speaker 10:It was like the end of the hangover. We see this once.
Speaker 8:How's your training going, Jack?
Speaker 7:Oh, it's fine. I mean, like you guys said, I mean I don't. I openly admit I walked some of it. I don't care, the miles are miles. And you know what? I knew right away I needed new shoes. I've been procrastinating because I wanted to save money and I thought I could make it work. And nope, I needed new shoes because I finished the, I did 24 miles running and then the last two walking and I just my feet were dead after the first few miles during that run. So I was just kind of like, yeah, so, but you guys guess what? It is Black Friday, go and get those sales in, because I just got my parachute, I got my shoes. That were originally $130 are now 57.
Speaker 4:So my training is going pretty good. I also really needed new shoes and so after one and dying, I had some heel pain but that's gone away and I did buy new shoes. So I am good to go for my long run tomorrow and hopefully all goes well and my training keeps going well.
Speaker 8:I got new shoes too, and I feel like this is a good reminder for people like this. Simulation time is actually a good time to get new shoes If you think you're, if you think they're starting to wear out now, so you can break them in in time for for the actual marathon. If you're doing them, that's a good valid point.
Speaker 7:The last thing I, now that we're talking about shoes, if you're doing, let's say, goofy dumbo or goofy to dumbo whatever you're kind of doing for January, another thing to kind of remember is is bring multiple shoes. It's a good thing to actually switch every other race with your shoes and planning it out that way, because, like your feet, your shoes need to cover two, and so give it some life by having a day's break from it. So this is also a good time right now to try out which shoes you want to wear for what races. That's just my opinion. I don't know what you guys think, but that's what I do yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7:Yep.
Speaker 8:Yeah, same.
Speaker 4:Yeah, suitcase fellow sneakers when I go down? Yeah, because you never know it's it's flirtat it could rain and you don't want to have it rain on the first day and then have what shoes for the next two, three days.
Speaker 6:So that's true.
Speaker 7:I mean heck. When I did my 100k I made sure that halfway through the race I switched shoes. I tell you what it was like a whole new life, right there New shoes, new feet.
Speaker 6:Let's talk about these long runs. I've seen folks posting on Facebook that a lot of you did that Sim weekend this past week so that you did not have to do it over the Thanksgiving holiday, and I understand that. In fact, I also did my 23 mile run this past week. Again, it has to do with race schedules and it was where coach twigs put it for me in customized training, think back to June, especially if this is your first time for one of these events and we talked about how this was not going to be easy, that there were challenges and everybody's excited at the beginning and the long runs are not that long and things are humming along. Then we talked about over the summer and we started getting into double digit miles and, no matter where you lived, it was pretty warm. I thought that was a tough part of the training calendar. It's hot, you're doing long distances, you don't have the end in sight Now. The distances are really long and to me there's no disguising, there's no beating around the bush. They're hard. It's hard to do this, especially you're by yourself, or maybe, if you're lucky, you got a training partner. But the end now is in sight. You've got this long training weekend and you only have one more, only one more long training weekend before we're down there and doing it for real. And at this point, if you can get through the 23, if three weeks from now you get through the 26, man, it's a great feeling. It's a really wonderful feeling because you know, you know you can do it.
Speaker 6:Now I'm just going to talk about my training, and I asked my friends here to chime in in a little bit. I do find these tough. I do find heading out I've done it before this is dopey number four for me, but they're hard. And where it gets challenging, of course, is at the end, as we have had them describe to us before. These are the miles you came here for. If you could just run mile 20 to 23, that would be wonderful, but you've got to get there first.
Speaker 6:At this point in my training I'm coming along mile 10, 12, 14,. I still feel pretty good by the time I get to, let's say, the last three or four miles. It's hard, it's hard and I'm not feeling good, but what I take positive out of it is that each time I go to a longer distance, the time where I really start to get challenged gets further and further along. I remember a couple of weeks ago well now, a couple of months ago now having a heck of a time getting to 14 miles. By mile 11, I was shot. That's not the case anymore. Things are starting to. I'm starting to increase that endurance and you should be also. So each one I don't want to say it gets easier, it doesn't, it's still hard, but you're starting to push that barrier back where you and I don't again not necessarily hit the wall, but start to really feel like it's tough and it's challenging to continue on.
Speaker 8:Now what do you say to people, bob, who are like well, I didn't make 16 minutes per mile. Towards the end, I started to slow down and I'm a lot slower than what I would hope to finish in.
Speaker 6:Keep going. That's what I would say to them. That's my simple message is keep going, walk if you must. Do not worry about your times in these training runs. There's another part of this. We say don't worry about your times in these training runs and to take them easy and take them slowly. One of that reason is because you're going to do a long run on Saturday or Sunday and you're going to continue your training on Tuesday, so you need to conserve some of that energy. The second thing is you're going to taper down your training runs at the end of all this and you're going to have fresher legs when you get to the start line at Disney World.
Speaker 4:And to that note as well, we can always remember that Jeff Galloie says you can't go too slow on long run days, and that's very true. You're still getting those miles on your feet even if you're walking them. And some things that I always recommend to people to try and help with those long runs is splitting them up into smaller segments. So five mile segments sometimes is easiest because you know you can run five miles. That can be something that will help your brain break it down and it could be easier. And then also visualization. So if you've done the run Disney races before, you know what running on the roads looks like, and even if you don't, you can picture that castle, you can picture Epcot, you can picture different areas at Disney, and so picturing that while you're running can definitely help so that you get out of that monkey brain and get you to a place that actually really helps you to keep going and finish those miles.
Speaker 7:You know, alicia, that is so true. The amount of times I have truly honestly imagined a finish line during a training run is like insane. Did this pass training run? I my, my big dream race is the UTMB ultra out in France. So I it's funny, I'm not even signed up for it. I'm Dreaming about the finish line. But to get to any finish line that you dream about, it's the work you got to put into it. So also, with that being said, find something that distracts yourself. You know what I did on my 26 mile I Finished the fourth Harry Potter book. It was great. It got intense, oh my goodness. But I would also advise don't start a book during a 26. My alert kind of gets to the juicy part, starting out, and then go all the way to the end.
Speaker 6:Plus, be careful when you're reading it that you don't step into a pothole or something.
Speaker 7:Yeah, there's that case. Oh, there is the cool. Yes, 100% that case. But if you know the route, you're good.
Speaker 6:Oh, there you go, good point.
Speaker 7:By the way, I meant to say audio book, you guys, because I'm smart and it is 10 18 at night and everybody, everybody knew that, jack, I was just being a wise guy, that's all.
Speaker 2:I want to go back to two things that Alicia Previously brought up, that I was actually gonna mention myself and that was Actually even to a sense of Bob. What you were mentioning as well is, during these simulations at least I know for myself in the past the physical part, you know, we have been training for that and we train for that on a consistent basis. The thing that we might not be training as much on is the mental side of this. I mean sure you know we're going out, for, you know, three to four runs per week, you know, but some of those runs are only 30 to 45 minutes and that's a bulk of Our training. It's not very often that you're doing 20 plus miles over the course of of this training period. So the, the mental aspect of this whole journey is, you know, not as fresh in our minds, and that is what can take a toll on us. And I was gonna mention the exact same thing that Alicia did about Visualizing the parks.
Speaker 2:And the one person that I want to shout out is our good friend Kristin over at Run Fit Mama, she, I, she might have them saved on her Instagram page, but she usually builds out Little like Instagram posts or something like that, that breaks down each course by mileage, you know. So let's just take, you know, marathon, weekend half marathon, for example. You know She'll be like, okay, miles one to two get to the TTC. Three to four, you're running through the TTC. You know, five to six, you're in Magic Kingdom. Obviously, we don't know what the courses are gonna look like yet, but based on history, we have a pretty good idea, you know, because there's only so many iterations that can go with. So go and find those resources. They're gonna be really, really helpful for you. But the other suggestion I would have in terms of the mental side of this is and I don't know the episode number off the top of my head I remember the one time we had Jeff Galloway on and he talked about a phrase Alicia, you use the monkey brain and.
Speaker 2:He had so many great mental exercises for us to use, whether that's Counting the number of steps that you take during a run segment just to keep your mind focused on something else, or Another piece of advice is you go back to what Bernie Sharpen, oh, told us the last time that we had her on an episode 99 about. Okay, take, you know, mile six, and all I'm gonna do in mile six is I'm gonna look for things that are the color blue. If you can, almost before you start these runs, come up with a mental game plan. Not only you're running game plan, your nutrition game plan, but come up with that mental one as well too. It's gonna make these Training runs as part of the simulation a lot easier. I'm gonna grant it. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, I'm right there with Bob.
Speaker 2:It can downright suck. It really can, because you're out there for multiple hours at a time. Buy yourself, but in the event that you are hitting the struggle bus, you're hitting the wall. We have those great Facebook chats. We're propping up one another and there's the. You know, even if, through this awesome community, if you've made a friend, you know, what's great about Facebook on our phones is you can call somebody you can video chat, someone you know. Find your personal running buddy, find that you're, as Ali likes to say, your emotional support sponge and, you know, find that person that's gonna help you get over that mental and physical finish line as part of your training run, okay.
Speaker 10:So another thing that's doing these simulation weekends is get your fueling down pat, because Now you're gonna feel like like, okay, I'm running 23 miles I ran I Forget what the one is before that at 10 miles, I think on Saturday. I forget what it is on Saturday. Oh, okay, in the simulation, in the simulation week, you know, yeah, get your. We need your hydration, your food, your fuel. It's a good time to dial that in and see what you're gonna need, because you know you're doing your regular.
Speaker 10:You know Tuesday, thursday, saturday runs. You might not Take a lot of fuel with you, but now you're Going Thursday, friday, saturday, sunday yet four days of fueling to try you know what. Also, you're probably eating a big dinner Thursday night this week. You know that's gonna say, okay, how does how's my body feel after I have a big meal? Cuz, let's say you're down in Disney and you eat at a Liberty tree tavern and have that all you can eat, family style buffet and try to run the next morning. What's gonna happen to you? You're gonna figure this out, and it's better to figure it out in these weekends. Then race day.
Speaker 8:Yeah, that's very true, john.
Speaker 6:Good point, good point. We've got an upcoming episode on nutrition, but it is the perfect time To try new things. I have one, one or two last thoughts on these long runs. Start out with the finish in mind. I talked earlier about how the last few miles are tough. Well, you can make them a whole lot tougher if you start out too fast. So start With the idea of I'm going to conserve my energy To the end of this training run. Start with the finish in mind. The last thing I'll leave you with is something I heard Several of my friends talking about here and something we've talked about many times before the Trainings, the hard part, the race is the reward. If you do the training, the race is so much more fun in January.
Speaker 6:All right, friends, I hope you're halfway through, I hope things are going well and I hope maybe that helped a little bit. All right, friends, let's move on and Visit with our guests for this episode. If you have been to a run Disney event before, chances are real good. You know this group of friends. It's the run dopey gang and they are with us. They were with us way back in July, but they're back tonight. We want to talk with them, see what's new, and we want to hear about their experiences at the New York City Marathon.
Speaker 6:But first Let me please introduce to you our run dopey friends. Chris, what's up guys, danny, hi, paula everybody, leslie, hi guys and Liz, hey y'all. Thank you. Thanks for joining us. Friends. It's always gosh, I missed y'all. I Missed y'all. A wine and dine, you know that it was. It was just not the same without you. We're standing out there before the run and I'm looking over, and of course there were other fine run dopey friends there, but I certainly did miss you guys. Hey, let's just in case Some of our friends who are listening don't know, let's just talk a little bit about what run dopey is, how it started and what's going on with it. And, paula, you want to kick us off.
Speaker 11:Sure Run dopey is the most amazing Facebook group for running motivating, encouraging.
Speaker 4:Not just, and you don't have to be running dopey.
Speaker 11:You don't have to necessarily have run dopey or Maybe Planning to or maybe you're not, but it is just a very encouraging special group. We do follow the Galloway training method and we do Once the dopey training officially kicks off for Galloway. We do Follow that. As a group. We do Motivational posts to remind everybody and hold people accountable. So you know, like today's run, we posted that with a nice fun graphic and then we encourage our members to Comment underneath that they've completed their run, how it went, do a selfie, kind of just holding each other accountable and motivated to do that. But we also love running and just being healthy and motivational in general. So you know, and we love Disney, so there's all that stuff kind of rolled into one. We do keep the group very positive and encouraging to athletes and runners of all types and Abilities. So it's kind of our mission statement and that's kind of where we are at. We are Working toward the you know run dopey weekends coming up. So we're looking forward to that, our dopey sends coming up.
Speaker 6:No wonder we get along so well. That's that's what we're all about here. How long have you been at it, liz? Do you know how long the run dopey group's been around?
Speaker 9:Correct me if I'm wrong, ladies, but we are approaching five years, so four and a half years. We were formed in June of the 2000. Now, what I have to do now it's wrong with me. 2018, 19, 19.
Speaker 6:Yep, yeah yeah, so it's a little bit and it's grown. It's grown pretty well, hasn't it? Any idea, danny, how many members in the run dopey Facebook community now?
Speaker 12:I know we're well over four thousand, so say 4500 around there.
Speaker 6:Yeah, you think all of them will listen to this podcast.
Speaker 12:They need to.
Speaker 6:We'll see how it goes. Good stuff, it's a, it is a fun group and it really is a whole lot like what we try to do here. I think again, I said it kind of half jokingly, but that's why we get along so well.
Speaker 5:So when we started the group back in June of 2019, it was kind of an offshoot of some other groups and when we ran the original dopey that we were all sort of training for, which was in 2020 we had about 600 or so members, and now it's grown to about 4,700.
Speaker 6:Good stuff.
Speaker 5:All listened to the podcast.
Speaker 6:We'll see. We'll see, I know. The last time you were wrong we got a big reaction. That's because we told Joe about it, chris, did you tell Joe about this one? I did anything new with the group. Now you got some activities at some times, don't you? With this with the run dopey group?
Speaker 5:So we we try to have some representation at, you know, major events that we know we're going to have members at. So, for example, this upcoming weekend is Space Coast and we're gonna have a pretty good turnout there at the Space Coast Haps and marathon. You know it's. It's great because we do have a good turnout at Disney races, but we also have them at other races. So anytime I think there's members who know that they're gonna be running a race, they'll post in the group oh, who's running this race? And all of a sudden, you know you've got other people who are like oh I am, and then there's always for the moment Meetups too, which is great.
Speaker 5:But you know, we're really looking forward to our big weekend for marathon weekend and dopey, and We've got some big plans coming up next year. Like Liz said, it's gonna be our fifth anniversary, so yeah. Exciting. We're working on getting our website, our founder, christine and her sister, laura they're together quite a bit now and they're working on some big plans to grow the group. So that's gonna be really exciting to see what what 2024 is gonna bring.
Speaker 6:Nice. I'd like to. I would like to get back to that. I really would. I want to talk about what you got coming up. Especially. I want to talk about dopey weekend, but before then I Wanted to talk about what a couple of weeks ago, when several of us were at Disney World, but y'all were in New York City, although some of you were in both places at the same time- Insert evil laugh.
Speaker 6:We're talking about the New York City marathon, of course, and and every one of the run dopey folks who are here with us tonight participated in the New York City marathon. But I pop into the expo at wine and dine, and Leslie, paula and a Dallas and a Dallas is not with us tonight are All there at the expo. Ladies, play, explain yourself, please, oh.
Speaker 11:How do we start with this? It's crazy.
Speaker 11:Yeah of all we are crazy in the most fun way. But you know, we love running Disney. Okay, that's, we love it, we, it's our outlet, we love being there. And we were so excited to run New York City and then we found out it's the same weekend as wine and dine. Why do they do that? Because I think that most of us would do back to back weekends right to do both. So we did give up wine and dine for that and it did hurt some of us that we're, you know, we're missing it. And then they announced the themes and some of us are obsessed with incanto raising my hand, and Leslie and Dallas, and you know we are like a little devastated and Anyways, I think that he, dallas, might have started this thing with like, hey, why don't we?
Speaker 11:I want you something crazy. This is like our routine conversation we have with each other is wonder something crazy? And then, yes, I would love to do something crazy, let's do it. So, yeah, so she I mean she's in Puerto Rico, so it's kind of a stopover for her to stop at Disney. I mean, I'm in New Hampshire, so she's like what do you think about going down to the expo and, you know, spending a night and then flying to New York. I'm like that is crazy.
Speaker 11:And then we kind of were joking around about it. And then we found out that the Halloween party was like the last night was going on. We could get tickets for that our friend Christine who's amazing, let us crash with her at boardwalk and Kind of just all came together. So we ended up doing it and went to the Halloween, came down, went to the Halloween party and had the best, best time. We had so much fun at the Halloween party.
Speaker 11:And then we woke up and went to the expo the next day and had so much fun, kind of bombing and surprising our friends and I'm called. I was like this is like my cake and eat it too, like I get to have a little bit of taste of wine and dine the expo, which we love, seeing our friends Getting that vibe. And then we took off Leslie Dallas and I flew Directly from Orlando to New York City. This like right after the expo. We left the expo and went over and flew there and met up with the whole New York crew and Went and had a new adventure there. And that was. It was kind of awesome.
Speaker 6:What times you get into New York?
Speaker 5:at night. Leslie, was it that? Lee it must have been. All I know is that he, dallas, was white, knuckling the Uber on the way to the.
Speaker 11:Yeah, we had an interesting Uber drive. That was quite weird that we're gonna die, but it's fine.
Speaker 12:So I was already in New York by the time. Everyone had gotten there and it was fun watching everyone kind of come at different times and this is Thursday, so it was arrival day. I saw a show that night that didn't get out until about 10, 10, 30 I think. By the time they got to the hotel was pushing 11 and I brought them like a 30 inch pizza.
Speaker 8:I was like nice.
Speaker 11:Did.
Speaker 6:Pizza nice.
Speaker 2:That was sweet awesome stories you know about. You know jet-setting all across the east coast. You know, to make this surprise happen and, you know, make an awesome start to this weekend. But let's back up a little bit further and I want to talk a little bit about who had the idea to say you know what run dopey, let's, let's do NYC. Talk about that story and then describe how all of you got into a world major and was able to participate all in the same year.
Speaker 12:So I had ran New York City in 21 through a charity called water for people and it's basically a charity that helps provide clean water to like third-world countries and a few other things, and I had still had that contact because I was supposed to run it in 2022 and I ended up deferring to this year and I knew that they had about 10 to 15 spots available and also I knew how much the ladies loved running and I was like, okay, let me open up the opportunity to give a bunch of my friends the chance to run their first world major and it's just a fun race overall.
Speaker 12:So I kind of shot it to the group and the seven of the seven people of rendobe, myself included, we all kind of talked about it. I knew fundraising for all of them was like they all had different opinions on it, but once we kind of sat down and talked about it, it was just it was gonna be a group effort. We were all gonna help each other fund the money and whatnot. And then I kind of took the lead on it because I knew the city, I kind of understood how the weekend worked, so I made sure we had the hotel reservation, I made sure we had a free race dinner. The plans in between them were kind of like whatever people wanted to do, but it was kind of me orchestrating the entire thing of. I'm sorry Mickey's not coming to New York City with us. We're gonna still be running 26 miles.
Speaker 7:I mean, there is a Disney story there. I would be some kind of Mickey.
Speaker 11:We got pictures in there with the Minnie mouse. That's the Statue of Liberty, and Danny has one as well.
Speaker 2:Well, as long as there's no pictures with creepy Mickey and Minnie from square you know we mean creepy.
Speaker 13:Mickey and Minnie, what were you talking about?
Speaker 11:in Times Square. Yes, oh my gosh, they're all jacket, it's your worst nightmare in public.
Speaker 10:They're very sketch-looking.
Speaker 7:Are these performers?
Speaker 10:Oh you, you have to pay them.
Speaker 5:For what, to take a picture with them. But it's like, oh, but they walk around with their heads off.
Speaker 8:That's horrifying.
Speaker 5:And then the second somebody's taking a picture. They all try to jump in so that you have to pay all of them and like there was like you know, middle-aged, overweight, batman, and oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, right next to the cowboy.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they're just really trying to make you know, make a buck, which is.
Speaker 10:That's great.
Speaker 5:It's traumatizing when you see Mickey and Minnie, who you love so much, and very interesting costumes and walking around with no heads.
Speaker 2:So this solidifies the point that we need to get jacked in New York City and just walk behind her the entire time.
Speaker 10:We're there.
Speaker 7:Well, I want to try and do New York City next year. I'm putting my name in the lottery this year.
Speaker 5:So I actually got in through the lottery, so it's yeah, this is your first time.
Speaker 5:Here's the deal. So remember, I actually was. I recently was going back to school for a new career and I was in the last parts of that this throughout this year, and so, when Danny was talking about fundraising, I really, really wanted to go to New York with my friends. But I was thinking, oh my gosh, there's no way that I have I'm gonna have time to raise all of this money that I'm gonna need to raise to go with them. And you know, after I talked to my husband, he said, well, why don't you go ahead and enter the lottery? And if it's meant to be, it's meant to be.
Speaker 5:And you know, if you get it, then great and if you don't, then maybe that's a sign that you know we need to just wait, and I was like I'm like I'm never gonna get the lottery because so many people that I know I've entered it so many times and I've never gotten it and I'm like you know what, I'll just do it and I'll see and I freaking got a lot. I'm sorry, but um, but I was so grateful because it allowed me to be able to be there with them and not have to have that added stress of raising the money Not that I wouldn't want to, because it's a really wonderful charity and I did talk to them on that. I wanted to run for them in the future, but it just wasn't for me, time wise, it wasn't really a feasible option.
Speaker 6:No, it's a stressor. All right, it really is. Hey, before I forget this, I don't want to leave it out. Oh, there were seven of you all together. We've already mentioned a Dallas was there. Who else are we missing? It was five here, a Dallas and and that's a Paul oh. Tessa, Tessa okay.
Speaker 11:She's one of our admins of hashtag run dopey. And Then we had a couple members Monique and Minda and Ashley Ashley, sorry, anybody else?
Speaker 6:Yeah, I wanted to, wanted to give them credit, didn't want to leave them out.
Speaker 9:And then we actually ran into another member on the Fairy oh Brandon.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 9:Brandon. Cool experience. All of a sudden you know we're on the ferry and you hear, don't be. And it's like looking around for you to get.
Speaker 11:Wait, we found us on the course to. He found us on the course running selfies, of course, together.
Speaker 5:Wow.
Speaker 11:And then I think, renee Daddy, you're one of our cast member friends from Disney also. Renee. She was down at the alley on the run show with us and we saw her about the city.
Speaker 6:Good. Well, I'm glad we got those names in. That's excellent, Thank you.
Speaker 8:So you brought up the ferry, which makes me wonder how you got to the starting line of New York.
Speaker 11:It was a marathon in itself.
Speaker 9:Automobiles we've been on, yeah.
Speaker 11:We did. We did. We walked to the subway and we took there's like two routes you can take, danny I maybe you speak well you can do the ferry route or the bus route. We did the ferry route. So you walk to the subway. We took the subway to the ferry. From the ferry we got off there we took a bus and then they bussed us to athletes village and I mean we hadn't done it. So I think if we did it again we'd have a learning curve and some familiarity with it. But for us, kind of navigating that and in just Everything the excitement, because there's cheering for all those points also, there's people everywhere cheering. There's a lot of energy going on in the city. We got on the bus and I kind of sat there and went. Is it just me or I feel like exhausted? Already we're not even at the start line and it's a lot you know, and just for perspective.
Speaker 9:So, except for Danny, who is much faster than us, he got on Quicker and he can speak to his own story. But for the most of us we were together and we left our hotel a half a block from Times Square at 7 am and, as I said, we took planes, trains and automobiles to get there and we did not start or go over that start line until 1135 am and, as Paula said, I mean by the time we got there we were all just like. It was a very big emotional rush and just constant and the energy is just incredible and I think when we finally got on the bus it was familiarity to us. We all were like, okay, we, okay, we feel like we. We've done this before and I think that's just from so many run Disney races and the bus is familiar to us.
Speaker 9:So, I think, from a learning curve, it was amazing to take the ferry because you saw the Statue of Liberty, you got to see the New York sideline, which was incredible to see. It was a beautifully clear morning, which is something that you don't often get in New York City. I mean, the weather was incredible, but you know, if I personally were to go do this a second time, which I hope I do one day. I probably would take the bus route and just just get there, and I'll let Danny to speak to that, because I believe that's how he took his route.
Speaker 12:So I the both times I've ran it, I took the ferry route just because I kind of enjoy the journey to the start line as much as I enjoy the entire race, because you put all this training in and then the morning comes. They all started at like 11 35. Like Liz said, I had started at 9 30, the about now I was 9 10 the first year. I moved back this year and I started at 9 45. So one of my friends, brianne, who just had her first kid and she was my travel buddy for the morning, I think I met her at about 4 30 and then we got on the subway together and then we took the 5 30 ferry over.
Speaker 12:Because I just kind of understand that it is a 50,000 person race and I don't like being late to things, I don't want to rush. So I very much got to the start village same way they did. I didn't have a land for the bus, I didn't have a line for the port of body. It was nice to just kind of be able to get there and put my stuff down. I met my friend Pauline athletes village and once I'm there it's fine and I'm oddly calm about these type of racers. But yeah, it was very much the same way they did it. I went through the same modes of transportation and, yes, it's long and yes, like it's just about being able to conserve your energy and, yes, it's all fun and exciting, but also being able to make sure that you're setting yourself up for the best race possible.
Speaker 11:Yeah, there's something that he said for that Do you? You hear about the energy at New York City, you hear about it here, but but until you're there experiencing it, it is mind-blowing the energy, and I think you're exactly right, I think that it can be Amazing, but exhausting also, and I think you need to be aware of that. To get wrapped up and I've heard that too, but you kind of, until you're there, it's a very much a factor, it's a lot of energy.
Speaker 5:And I think too, with the, with all the cheering and everything, it's amazing, it's so amazing. But for me I like to give that energy back to the crowd too. And you know, by about halfway through I realized, and you know, this crowd is amazing, but I'm exhausted from, like you know, whooing back at them because you know I want them to realize that I'm appreciative of what they're doing. But now I'm like, oh, I should probably tone it down a little bit.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I need to chill. Well, listen, let's. Let's take the start. Chris, tell us about the start of the race.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. So they already described getting there, which was an interesting thing, journey in and of itself. But you know they, you basically walked out and the first thing you do Is go over a bridge that goes from Staten Island to Brooklyn. So, uh, you know, started out with that and then and then, and then you're in Brooklyn for a pretty long time. Um, and I was really Surprised at the number of people. I read somewhere that there were two million people that came out and cheered for this, for this race.
Speaker 6:Yeah, and I understand you high-fived half of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I did. Uh, we all had the costume was uh, taxis and they were Hats and we all shirts that were yellow and had our names on.
Speaker 9:So I heard my name.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry.
Speaker 9:I said absolutely put your name on your shirt. I think that was a game changer and I don't think you know and sorry to interrupt you, chris, but um, you really feel like a celebrity for 26.2 miles and it's also just, it's humbling when You're running and it doesn't matter your pace and you know if we're as fast as as danie or you know, back of the packer. It's like myself just hearing your name was incredible, and so if you ever run new york city, I Highly recommend putting your name where it is clearly visible on your shirt, because that that raises the bar when it comes to To the crowd and and them feeding you.
Speaker 8:I've heard that about all the world majors. I don't know about just New york in general, but I know when I cheer for boston I do the same thing. As soon as I see someone's name on their shirt, I I give them a shout out and I did that once for the for the world, disney world marathon and put my, my name on my shirt and it really gives you energy at the end when you're struggling and someone just says like ali, you can do it, and you like go, oh, yeah, I can do it. So it's not even just for like the cheers and like it's like sometimes you need someone to know what your name is so that they can help you get through that last mile.
Speaker 11:That was the first time I'd run with my name on my shirt like that. And actually laura, one of our founders, she said she did it last year and she said she kind of impulsively put it on her shirt with I don't know she's tape or something. She did something last minute and she said it was game changer and she insisted to us you guys, you have to put your names, you have to put your names in. You're right, it was a game changer. In Calling it into the finish, kind of dragging at some points I had my eyes closed a little bit kind of just, and I, you did, you hear, you heard your name screamed. The whole entire way was. It was quite an experience. So yeah, I agree, if you you a race like this, especially with that level of spectators, your name on your shirt Wow.
Speaker 8:Also anything laura says just do Actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Literally the only place that I remember not having somebody to cheer for you was on the bridges.
Speaker 11:Queensborough bridge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everywhere else there was, there was a crowd of people, there were djs or people dancing. We got a Harlem. There was a big you know DJ thing going on and I was joking with one of the ladies. I was like, are we in Manhattan, finally, you know type of thing. And it was, it was just a fun, a fun time.
Speaker 1:You know, when I, when I I've only I've only run two other marathons Um, actually, my first marathon, disney, will be in january I've run two other, two other marathons and there was no body on the course, you know, and it was totally, it was totally different. I mean, it was almost like a party, um, and, and, and that was that was definitely part of the part of the experience for me was just going through and people, you know, yo, your name, you're high fiving people, your fist bumping people, you know you're just out there like and and I, I usually, um, you know, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I. I ended up, uh, slowing down a good bit for the last part of this. I was just like you know what, I'm just kind of fun out there. I mean, there's all these people you know cheering and and having a good time and partying and all that stuff, and I might as well join them. You know, it's that that I'm moving forward.
Speaker 6:I think about that. That really is remarkable. It really is. These folks come out there and they'll stay out there for five, six, seven hours and cheer the folks in the front and share the folks in the middle and hang in there for the folks at the back. That's really really amazing.
Speaker 11:It was unbelievable, the three tests. Uh, liz and I were running kind of shoulder to shoulder. There was times we couldn't hear each other shoulder to shoulder talking to each other, because the crowds were that loud and some of the burrows that they were crouching in on us we were almost single file. A couple, couple spots where they were on us they had pots and pans and I high fived. You know people, kids, dogs I high fived dogs?
Speaker 11:I'm not kidding, and one of the things I've said is my. I never trained for this. My face is killing me from smiling.
Speaker 10:Most of my pictures I'm just smiling from ear to ear.
Speaker 11:My face was killing me from smiling so much and, like Leslie said, you're you know you're giving it back. Like you know, paula, tesla, liz screaming and we're yelling back and fist pumping. And we actually stopped into dance parties. The music is just unbelievable. They had food and drinks and crock pots and candy and that whole city party, except for that one bridge. The Queensborough bridge was the only area. It was quiet and, my God, we needed it for a minute. We needed to calm down and collect ourselves and I needed my face to rest too, because my face was killing me from smiling so much.
Speaker 6:Wow.
Speaker 5:So I kind of went into this a little bit injured, so knowing that my goal was really just to finish and last dopey, like you know, marathon is definitely a mental game, right, and for me, when I think about being like a strong runner, I think about being in like a positive mentality for the whole thing and really like working through those tough points mentally and so going into this I was really, I just wanted to finish and I wanted to have a good experience and I can honestly say that this was the first Marathon, like Paula said, where I was smiling at mile one and I was smiling at mile 26.2 and I smiled every single mile in the mirror. I did not, you know, sure, were there miles that seemed tougher than others? Yes, but honestly, that's why I'll never left my face and I was kind of shocked by that. I thought I would get to a point like mentally where I was, you know, maybe feeling down or something like that, and I did it. It was.
Speaker 5:I don't know what it was, I don't know if it was the energy, I don't know if it was the gratitude of being able to participate in a world major and being in New York and seeing the other runners that I was next to. That was something that I did on those, you know, quiet bridges, as I would, you know, look around me and see if it looked like they were struggling or or if anybody just looked like they wanted to chat, and I would just, you know, chat with other people, and it was really amazing hearing other runners stories and you know what they did to get there and you know what they were excited about when they finished, and it was, it was a really moving experience.
Speaker 7:So I'm curious is this all of your guys's first world major, or have you guys done other ones as well?
Speaker 6:Well, we know, we know Danny's done you know other world majors Chicago right, danny.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 9:Oh, right on, and Tessa actually just ran Chicago a month prior to New York, so she's doing back to back majors. And several of us did the Boston virtual several years ago and I actually had the privilege of going to Boston and I ran with Paula and a few of the other hashtag Rindopi people. We actually ran the course two days before the actual running of the Boston marathon, which was really a neat experience all in itself because they had the start line already up and have the finish line already up. So while we were a majority of the time on sidewalks and you know, but those streets, it was still a cool, cool experience. But, yeah, it was most of our first actual world major and let me tell you I want them all now.
Speaker 7:I got to ask. I was like, who's all trying to get all six, all of them?
Speaker 5:I mean I'm not, I'm not fast enough, so there's no way. I think I might have to just be happy with my one.
Speaker 6:That's wonderful.
Speaker 10:Okay, so you did New York City marathon. Besides the finish line, what was your favorite part of the marathon?
Speaker 9:So I don't remember exactly what mileage it was and Paula had spoken about just the crowds and some of the boroughs where they came in on us. But this one specific moment we were in Brooklyn and we were a single file. They had come in to the point where Tessa I think Tessa might have been in the front and Paula was behind me and it was so loud. But it was like this euphoric moment of running through this and you couldn't hear yourself think. But the energy in that moment absolutely was just one of those moments I will never forget at all and that's by far one of my favorite moments. I have a second one, but I will I'll save that for another day but it was just. I loved every second of it and I think that's the moment when I realized if you don't slow down, you're going to burn your legs out, because you just the energy in that moment. You just wanted to fly.
Speaker 6:Wow, wow, that's awesome, liz. We'll go around the room and if nobody comes up with your second one, we'll come back to you. Okay, danny, how about you?
Speaker 12:I honestly want to say the start.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 12:Yeah, I mean finish lines are great and everything I love. The start lines ever raise.
Speaker 6:Leslie.
Speaker 5:Oh boy, I think I might be in the minority, but I love the bridges.
Speaker 6:Oh, that's interesting. Why, why so the bridges?
Speaker 5:Um, I think the I mean they're beautiful, like architecturally, um they're, they're very beautiful and I think the views that you get from them and, um, I don't know, there's just something about them if you feel powerful when you get up them, you know, and then downhill is always nice too. So, um no, I just really appreciated the bridges.
Speaker 6:I was going to ask you know, I was sometimes. Bridges can be a challenge. Were these tough or?
Speaker 5:So I had just done rock and roll, clear water and familiar with that, yeah. On that one too.
Speaker 6:And so.
Speaker 5:I was figuring they were going to be like that and honestly I didn't think they were any worse than those bridges. So, um, I mean I don't know yeah. I didn't think they were that bad.
Speaker 8:Quick side question how many bridges are in this race? Five, oh my gosh. Okay, okay, you can go on to the next person. I just wanted to quickly ask that question.
Speaker 6:That's a good question. That's a good question, and people do talk about the bridges. That's an interesting, interesting point of view, leslie, uh, chris, how about you?
Speaker 1:I think, after we crossed the last bridge, um, which was from, uh, the Bronx to Manhattan, and I think it was mile probably 21 or somewhere around there Um, you know, it was like I'm almost there, you know, and I and I hate that you're almost there and people tell you in a marathon or half marathon if you're almost there, but I really felt at that point that was where I think we were in hard Harlem and there was a DJ there and there was just this, this, this huge crowd, and they were, of course, cheering and, you know, jumping around and partying and having a good time. I was like, I asked one of the women. I said this this is Manhattan, right? Um, we're finally here. Um, I think that was my, my favorite part, other other than being able, at mile eight, um, my daughter who, who lives in New York city, came out to cheer and I was able to give her a hug. So those two moments, for me, were were the best, I think.
Speaker 7:You know, you know, chris, you just inspired me by saying almost there, because now you're going to know that if you're going to run the New York city marathon and you get across that bridge at mile 21, you could play almost there from Tiana's movie. I think it might be perfect.
Speaker 11:The last damn bridge. That lady, she had the sign.
Speaker 5:Oh yes.
Speaker 11:The last damn bridge.
Speaker 5:She's this huge sign.
Speaker 11:Last damn bridge. Everybody was getting pictures with her. We got one, oh.
Speaker 6:I'll be darned.
Speaker 1:And you were in. You weren't in Queens for very long Uh, it may be a mile or two and somebody was holding a sign that said welcome to Queens, get out.
Speaker 11:Get out. The signs were awesome. I think. Tiana did a collage of all the signs when she took pictures and she did a collage of all, like the different signs. That were awesome.
Speaker 6:That'd be nice, paula, your moment.
Speaker 11:I would say, you know, no one specific moment. I think that I, just just for me personally, having these snapshots in my head and time, feeling so small and insignificant and so small in this massive people and the noise, and just having these wow moments of I can't believe this, I can't believe this in the city line and just, I think, just experiencing these little snapshots in my head the Verrazano bridge, with all the runners Like Liz said that I think, probably the crowds. I think, if I had to say one thing, the spectators, the crowds, the noise, the energy, the energy. People say it and you hear that, but you don't know. You don't know it until you're there and you really experience it personally about what that means. Wow.
Speaker 13:Yeah.
Speaker 11:It's it's. You can't describe it.
Speaker 6:I've got to tell you guys you just said you can't describe it You've done the five of you have done a really good job Of describing it, of trying of bringing the feel I can. I can hear it in all your voices. I have the advantage of being able to see it in all your faces, but it really. You really did a nice job of talking about just how exciting and how much energy there is in this event and it's moving. Now, liz, you had two. Did somebody take your second one? No, no.
Speaker 6:I'll go for it then.
Speaker 9:Most of us had this moment, except for one individual. That's because he made that moment, and I'm talking about Danny. He is faster than us, so he started early and was able to go back and shower and get back and coming up that last mile you hit, you see, the 800 meters left and all of a sudden I hear and it was a different voice than I had heard all day, and I'm like I know that voice and I look over and see Danny on the side just jumping up and down and screaming, and I don't think he'll ever truly know just how much that moment meant to me. To see his face and hear him screaming, give me a hug and he's like go get that finish line. And I literally ran from that moment on until the very end because at that moment that's when it hit me You're about to finish your first world major.
Speaker 6:Awesome.
Speaker 9:Oh, awesome.
Speaker 6:Thank you.
Speaker 9:Danny.
Speaker 11:I love you. That was great, danny. Thank you, he did. He's some. I don't know how we saw you, but we saw you as well, so that was awesome, that he came out and spectated for us and was a crazy man screaming for us and somehow he rose over those crowds and got us.
Speaker 11:He's waited and he practiced all and he came and found us and Heather Heather was there also at the end and I think also like we all kind of came together at the end. We all finished at different times but Danny was obviously way ahead of us, showered a saw broadly showing Right, took a nap.
Speaker 11:But we all ended up converging at the end and we all were there in our sexy orange tarps. But I mean, we all hugged each other and we all realized that we all made it and we all did it and accomplished it. And I think it was as we hobbled back to our humble abode.
Speaker 11:But yeah, just having that moment of all kind of coming back together after experiencing it and knowing that we all completed that goal. And you know lucky we are to be able to have done and share this all together as a group. But many people just go by themselves, you know, or you know we are very lucky to have that, so thank you.
Speaker 5:Danny, I got comments from people who were I don't remember if it was spectators or other runners and they said like they would see me with somebody else who was dressed like me and they'd be like oh man, you both got.
Speaker 4:You know you're both here. And I'm like, oh, we have a group.
Speaker 5:You know there's, you know, at least seven of us, and they're like oh my gosh, that's amazing. So I think you're right, paul, I think you know, danny, it's amazing that you helped create this and made this happen, that we could all be there together and experience it together. Because, even though it would have been amazing, I think that what made this, you know, over the top more amazing was the fact that I got to experience it with my friends Of course, and nice, nice.
Speaker 11:Yes, there were costumes. We were the taxicab girls.
Speaker 6:Tell us describe your costumes. I've seen the photos on Facebook.
Speaker 11:We wanted to do something, New York. So you know, we were thinking Lady Liberty, Rockettes, how do you, you know? So we were kind of looking around.
Speaker 6:I want to see Chris as a rockette. I think that was a great idea. His legs Let me tell you I believe it.
Speaker 11:Hmm, high slit, yeah. But you know, then we kind of looked at there was some different you know stuff. So we taxicabs, so we started shooting that around. So, yes, we did the classic yellow taxicab with the black and white checkers. So we had the yellow shirts. E Dallas, our shirt maker, she put our names with a logo with the checkers around it on the front. We also did skirts. The girls and Kessa did some capris with checkered print down the side. We got these taxicab hats that were, you know, very iconic in kind of, you know, like a cartoon character, a little bit like a, you know, big, bold, old school yellow taxicab hat with the black and white checkers. And of course I had to add some bling for everybody. All the girls liked the bling. So I bedazzled how many hats? Nine, eight, eight, eight hats. I got some rhinestones and bedazzled all the hats up so that we had a little bit of extra bling for being in New York City.
Speaker 8:And.
Speaker 11:E Dallas worked really hard and making some of the skirts with the black and white stripes in the bows and am I leaving anybody out? There was is a group effort kind of planning and getting it all done, but it looked really cute and it was definitely. Like you know, we got a lot of comments and we made a lot of people happy and what we like to do with our costumes is we'd like to connect the people, make people smile and have that exchange, and it's really about just having fun.
Speaker 6:That's it. It sure is, respecteders love them.
Speaker 5:I mean the number of times that I heard somebody say can I get a taxi? You know it was pretty funny. And then E Dallas and I actually found a place where it said taxi drivers wanted it, and so we took a picture with that.
Speaker 9:We thought that was pretty good, I know that we got a lot of times you'd hear people again hey cabbies, hey cabbies, and even some of the locals, like the police officers that were there helping and everything. You saw them smile and you'd be like you all look amazing and you're doing fantastic.
Speaker 9:So you know, I think that's one of the reasons why we love running in these elaborate costumes. It's not just for us, it's to make others smile. You have said this before too. I think you said it about Tinker Bob. You do it. If it only makes one other person smile, it is totally worth all the effort and time and energy you put into it.
Speaker 6:We have most certainly had that discussion before and I could not agree more. It's not for you, it's for everybody else. Friends, you have done a marvelous job of conveying the excitement, the thrill, the energy, the adventure of the New York City Marathon. I congratulate you all and thanks for sharing that with us. Now I'm going to move on To the hashtag rundopi group. We are six weeks. You know that six weeks from today we will be done the 5k already. Oh my gosh, We'll be getting ready to get up and do the 10k. I want to know. I missed you at Winondine, but I want to know what you've got planned for Marathon Weekend at Disney World.
Speaker 11:It's a group costume.
Speaker 6:Of course it is. I would be disappointed if it was anything else, and you don't have to. No spoilers here if you don't want to.
Speaker 9:I'll give you an A hint.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 9:There may be a dwarf involved.
Speaker 11:Disney theme.
Speaker 6:That's a great hint, that's a great. I can't see. I can't wait to see what you've got planned.
Speaker 1:They come up with some really cool stuff.
Speaker 6:I don't know how they're going to make you a dwarf, though, chris.
Speaker 1:That's probably going to be a challenge buddy, that's a challenge.
Speaker 11:As long as he's not accepted.
Speaker 6:I might be a dwarf. If I can be a fairy, you can be a dwarf, I suppose.
Speaker 1:I was disappointed, bob, when you said that you didn't want to be Tinker Bob again, because I think that He'll be back. For me. I have like a costume. I have to wear every race now and I kind of felt like I was hoping that Tinker Bob would be that for you.
Speaker 6:He'll be back. He'll be back. There's a race he's got to be back for in the Neverland 5K in springtime.
Speaker 11:The majority of us are going over to do Dumbo plus the 5K. So we're doing Dopey a large majority of us and then we're going over to the west coast and we're going to do all the races there. So we have costumes for that. My poor husband's like seeing all this stuff pile up and he's like, what is all this? Do the math, Dopey, Dumbo, that's like seven costumes.
Speaker 5:Seven, that's right. And I will say just a little teaser that there might be some popular costumes that might be making a coast to coast appearance.
Speaker 3:Maybe with some spell achievements.
Speaker 5:So we'll just have to wait and see.
Speaker 6:I can't wait. I can't wait. I'm excited to see you all there. Jack will be out there in California with y'all.
Speaker 7:Yeah, me and Lexi, we're excited. I don't know what to expect, and I think that's the heightened anticipation is still there, you know.
Speaker 9:I've never been either, so I'm in the same boat of going to Disneyland. I'm super excited. Paul has never been, so I know we're both like we're going to Disneyland.
Speaker 7:You're going to love it. Can I just say how much you're going to love it, though? Like behind anticipation of one being there, but two. The races are back. I don't know what a race weekend is like over there.
Speaker 6:It's going to be so exciting, yeah, it will be.
Speaker 9:It's all new to us All new.
Speaker 6:Well, in some ways it's because it's been gone for so long. It's going to be all new for a whole lot of people. It's because I'm sure things are going to change, so it should be exciting. And again, I'm happy for those of you who are going. I'm going to get out there one of these times, but not this one. Friends, I knew having you on would be fun. We've we've gotten to know each other over the last couple years. I really look forward to seeing you. Gosh boy now, you really got me thinking about doing New York. I kind of put that out of my mind, but looking at the faces here and hearing the excitement, I'm thinking maybe that's one I can't miss. We'll have to see. Friends, thank you for for sharing your time with us, for coming on telling us all these great stories. We appreciate it. I know the friends listening enjoyed it also. A bunch of them are now at about probably mile 12 or so on their 23 mile dopey training run. It's been great. Can't wait to see you six weeks away.
Speaker 1:Guys, before we go, any last thoughts, you know, in training, just take one mile at a time, one step at a time, one day at a time, and we'll see you in January.
Speaker 12:I'm so excited to see everyone at marathon weekend in January. It is new world. And then also to remember to celebrate the start lines as much as those finish lines.
Speaker 11:Hey everybody, if you're out there doing your dopey sim, just want to say we believe in you, You're doing great and you know these miles are very important and good luck with your mileage and your dopey sim. Remember, sometimes it doesn't always feel amazing when you're doing those training runs, but it's really important and you're going to be a rock star on race day. We can't wait to see you at marathon weekend and beyond.
Speaker 5:So you're doing such an amazing job with your training up to this point and, yeah, it's going to get a little bit harder, but that's okay, because you got this One run at a time. And just remember that you know this is an amazing thing that you're doing and remember to be grateful for every single time that you're able to get out there and just really take advantage of each run that you get and know that some might not be great, but that's okay because tomorrow is a new day and you can start over then. Yes, we're looking forward to seeing all of you in six short weeks.
Speaker 5:It's going to be here before we know it, and thank you to the Rise and Run podcast for having us today, because it was amazing.
Speaker 9:Yes, absolutely have loved chatting with you all today and sharing our experiences and looking forward to seeing everyone in January. And remember, whether it's a training run, whether it's race day, to trust in your training, believe that you can and absolutely run with your heart.
Speaker 8:So if people are looking to where they can reach out to you and talk to you, where can they find the hashtag run dopey group?
Speaker 5:So if you go on Facebook, if you're on Facebook, if you search for run dopey even though our group is hashtag run dopey, a lot of times it might not come up if you put the hashtag there. So if you just search for run dopey on Facebook, you'll see our group. We're the ones that have the diamond as the O in dopey and you can. You can find us there. We are also on Instagram as run dopey FB group and I believe we're also on TikTok and maybe Twitter. I'm not sure about that. We do have a TikTok.
Speaker 11:I think our most popular form of social media right now is Facebook. Our Facebook group is, you know, 47, I think it is members right now 4700. And it's very active. We have a lot of posts, a lot of sharing. So probably the Facebook group we. I have been posting the training runs on the Instagram account so that there are many people that just do Insta, so I've been kind of sharing those so people can follow along with the training.
Speaker 6:It's a fun group. Friends, look them up. Thanks guys, look forward to seeing you soon. It really is always a pleasure to visit with the run dopey gang, whether it's here on the podcast or at Walt Disney World. A fun group really. Motivations and the just the ethos of the group is a whole lot like what we do here at Rise and Run. They love running Disney. They love being part of that big family. It's great to see them. I'm going to see a bunch of them here just in a couple days at Space Coast. I look forward to that and then we'll see them in January. Friends, let's go back.
Speaker 6:We once in a while we do a feature we called podcast we listen to. Here's one I listened to several times Our friend Craig and his podcast, beyond the Mouse. Friends. On this week's podcast we listen to something maybe just a little bit different. It's like a deep dive into the world of Disney. A lot of times we concentrate on running podcast and things like that, but our friend Craig McFarland has a podcast called Beyond the Mouse where he dives into a lot of really interesting facets of the entire Disney Universe, gets outstanding guests and we're happy to have him with us this evening. Craig, good to see you Welcome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thanks so much for having me on. It's great because I was just telling you as I was logging in here that really it was Rise and Run that got me through some of those long training runs as I trained up for my first ever marathon. So happy to be here tonight.
Speaker 6:You did what. You did, it at the beginning of this year, right 2023. I did.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it seems so long ago. But what January 8 or whatever it was back in back in the cold of the winter, even though it was a nice temperature actually for the run in Florida. I appreciate the weather.
Speaker 6:I know we were just talking with someone, golly, I think it was episode 108 that even though it's 2023 and it's still this year, we are mentally into a new year for Disney running, with the start of wine and dine. I think of it as last year that it gets confusing. But yeah, I'm glad, and it's not that you ignore, run Disney, you don't. But that's not the thrust of your show. Instead of me trying to explain it, why don't you tell us what the Beyond the Mouse podcast is all about? Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Well, real quick, a super brief history. I started podcasting about eight years ago with my friend and we just wanted to get together and talk movies and so we started a podcast called the front row movie reviews and over time that became a much larger entity. We became the front row network and we started to have individual shows based on our interests. So we now have about a dozen active shows on our network and one of those shows is host by me and co host by Vanessa and Brett and it's called Beyond the Mouse. And we say that we are all things Disney because, honestly, you have such a wonderful focus and narrow band on that running community and it's so great to hear that, but we are so scattershot. We're just like let's talk a little bit about run Disney this week, let's talk to a guest who was creating Disney film, let's talk to an animator and imagineer and we do love the park, so we do a lot of that too.
Speaker 6:Boy, you get some awesome guests and not. Yeah, now let me back up just a little bit, because I understood, but you started the front row network, is that that?
Speaker 3:way it worked. Yes, so my buddy Jeremy and I started it, and so now I co host like three different shows for the network. I have, of course, beyond the Mouse, and your runner community might appreciate Ted Lasso. I have a show called Peanut Butter and Biscuits for Ted Lasso.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, and then I didn't know that one, craig, I'm adding that one to my own list, and also actually, you know, of course, with the show being over at this point, we have shifted into shrinking, so it's like an Apple TV plus love fest over there, and especially Brett Goldstein. But then the other show that I just recently started, not too long ago we're doing the chronological order, the cinematic journey of Steven Spielberg. So we just did Raiders of the Lost Ark that was his sixth film, and then we'll be continuing on. He has a right around 32 films that we need to watch, and we're watching them in order to kind of see the breadth of his career, and that's been really fun to Fantastic, I don't keep you busy for a while.
Speaker 6:Absolutely it will. There's a tie into National Public Radio in Illinois. How does that work?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we were approached by NPR Illinois, our local affiliate here in Springfield Illinois, because they wanted to get out to podcasters and really bring in the community, and so they've tied in with us and we post a lot of our content to their feeds. We are also on air every now and then with them and it's just been a really great relationship. Especially, you know, it does allow for us to be able to grab some of those guests that perhaps we might not have been able to on our own, because we have sort of the assurance that we are also bringing some degree of integrity and journalistic integrity when it comes to being tied in with NPR as well. So it's been a really great ride. That happened in 2019.
Speaker 3:And actually, when you talk about the guests that we've gotten, that basically started during the pandemic, but up to that point we were still doing lots of movie reviews, lots of talking about the parks, and then we had a guest on, his name's Kevin Lima. He directed a goofy movie and enchanted for Disney. We had him on and just we're talking to him about kind of filmmaking, everything else, and we said, hey, do you have any advice for people out there? And he said you just have to go and ask for it, and so they. We sort of use that as our mantra to start talking to other people in the Disney space and other guests. And you know I get a lot of no's but I get a few guesses every now and then too, so it's been really fun.
Speaker 6:I understand that. Yeah, it's neat when you hit on somebody like that. Golly, I was, by the way, the director of the goofy movie. Our friend Greg, who would have loved to be here but can't be here in this, is listening to this as he edits it. He's going crazy right now because that's, that's one of his favorites.
Speaker 3:I know, I know I loved. That was like when I was doing the training runs.
Speaker 3:I was kind of like thinking about Greg as I was training because I was so excited to see powerline Max and now he said he's editing this. Now, greg, I'm still mad that they didn't get a powerline Max at the marathon. I was like I'm not going to get a powerline Max. What was that all about? But yeah, so it was a lot of fun to get to have that connection with Kevin and be able to talk to him about things and it really inspired us to keep going.
Speaker 6:I know what this is leading up to, craig. This is leading up to a return visit from you at some point when Greg can be here, because he's dying right now. Hey, I wanted to share with you and I'm going to, I'm going to ask you. This is unfair. I'm not going to ask you for favorite interviews or favorite, but maybe a couple episodes that stand out in your memory, things that you would like to talk about here for a minute or two.
Speaker 3:Well, let's, because Greg is the one that we're talking about at the moment. He loves a goofy movie. On our 100th episode, we invited Kevin Lima back. He's, of course, the director of a goofy movie, and he brought along a couple of friends he brought along. He brought along Jason Marsden, who played Max, the voice of Max.
Speaker 3:Oh boy he also brought along Bill Farmer, of course, the voice of goofy Disney legend, bill Farmer, and that was a lot of fun to be able to get the three of them together and to wreck it, and I think we've all been able to connect.
Speaker 3:Oh my, that was really a good time, also, say, jumping ahead 100 episodes. We have had the pleasure of speaking to a bet, nicole Brown, a couple of times and she was an amazing guest to bring back. And then, like you know, I know that your community of runners really appreciate the tremendous opportunity to talk to some of the Imagineers like we've. The conversation we had with Tony Baxter is still one I think about constantly, just because he's so responsible for so many of the attractions that we love. But, yeah, we've had some amazing opportunities to be able to talk to people. We also had one your very own yourself, bob. You came on episodes way back in January about the marathon.
Speaker 6:It was fun. It was fun. I really appreciated that, enjoyed that. I had a long run this weekend. I listened to a couple that I more or less grabbed at random. I listened to Vanessa's interview of Doris and I'm Thank you. Yeah, another, another Disney legend. So I'm going to look at the carpeting in the land pavilion differently from now on.
Speaker 3:It's pretty incredible when you hear, like her story about the land pavilion and how family was involved in that too, and I thought it was interesting too that she had presented she was one of the chief people to present Westcott, which of course never came to fruition, but just to think about like someone they spent so much time on that project and so much imagineering that went into that and then we never got a chance to see it, which is a bummer. But yeah, doris just became a Disney legend. At this past D23 Expo. I didn't get a chance to talk to her too.
Speaker 6:Fantastic episode. Truly enjoyed it. Then I listened to Craig's favorite, which was the playoff bracket. Yeah, the seated playoff bracket for the rides at Disney World, which, by the way, you got all wrong, hey.
Speaker 3:I was the one moderating it, so I didn't get it wrong. You know, like this is kind of like your segment that I'm on right now. One of the best parts about this space and about Disney in general is it brings people together, and to be able to meet a bunch of different podcasters from around the internet and bring them all together, that was just so much fun. I brought on three different shows in addition to our own and we tried to narrow down what the best attraction is at Disney World. So, bob, what's the best attraction at Disney World?
Speaker 6:No, no, no, no no. Spoiler alert I'm going to steal your idea. Okay, we're going to do it in a couple of months.
Speaker 3:All right fair.
Speaker 6:We'll have to wait Now that's a good tease when March Madness comes around. We'll have to do that. I'll give you my answer after we're done recording here. Okay, Perfect.
Speaker 10:Oh, we could have like a play in games on March Madness too. Craig, do we have?
Speaker 6:play in games. Hey we did.
Speaker 3:We had a couple of play in games.
Speaker 6:They did. They had play in games. I thought it was brilliantly done. I really did. And look, episodes like that are designed for people on the other end to go oh no, who are you kidding? No, that's not right. You need to do. Oh golly, but I did get a kick. I did get a kick out of Vanessa, whose standard answer was Well, I've never ridden either one of them.
Speaker 3:My poor co-host, vanessa, I found out, is horribly motion sick. She does not do a lot of the attractions and actually Matthew Krull from his podcast used to be called Imagineer Podcast he's now changed it to Imagination Skyway but he was also one that has motion sickness, so he was able to kind of guide Vanessa through that episode and say, hey, I can actually handle this one, so you probably can too kind of a thing. So that was nice.
Speaker 6:It was a fun episode and, as many of our friends say, as you know, craig, ours go pretty long, but putting those two together, I got a good two, two and a half hours out of them and I really enjoyed it. It really it does make the time go by and I I appreciated it. It was fun. You know, craig, I think I learned from listening to your podcast kind of the same thing we have here at Rise and Run is our community loves digital, love's Disney, loves Disney World, loves many things Disney, but also loves running at Disney. Now you've got a community. If we have a Venn diagram, it would be, yeah, you got some runners in there, all right, but you've got folks who, who love the Imagineering etc. And you're growing that kind of community.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. You know it's. It's really like I was saying about bringing on the other podcasters. It's great because it allows for such a positive environment and be able to meet people that you never thought that you'd be able to meet. I mean, how many people now, when you go do a run Disney event, love to come up to you, john and Bob, and just say hi because they've listened to you on the show and so to have those experiences. But then also to be able just to hang out with the two of you and be able to talk to you while we're on your show and just know that we all have this common interest.
Speaker 3:Now I also happen to have the running as well, just not run Disney this year, but I'm going to be back there fairly soon.
Speaker 3:But you know I love going out there on a long run and being able to hear your show and being able to kind of take in the experiences that people are having from really around the country, around the world.
Speaker 3:When you're talking about those reports back on all the runs that are happening, going around and everything else, it's just been a lot of fun to be able to see the growth of your show and to see you kind of come on board as well and it's that just like come on, we need more people in this pool because there's always a different perspective on things and you can get something out of, whether that be just pure enjoyment, or you also get to hear these really heartfelt stories about people that are doing some of their first run or their first trainings and everything else, and you're right there with them, in their ear, encouraging them the whole way, which is just so cool.
Speaker 3:So we've had some really cool and amazing experiences with those guests. But I also just love the episodes where we bring on listeners or we just get to go off and be goofy on a topic as well. We've done some draft episodes that have been a lot of fun and those games are just really fun to get like some of that interaction amongst our listeners too. We actually did one. We were invited to St Louis Comic Con and we did a live draft there of Disney Villains, and so it kind of that happened in the hall. It was really fun to see that happen and we actually had a different result from in the hall to the listeners that listened. Mike Coho's butt won in the hall and I won on the listener podcast, so of course our listeners are smarter than those that attended the comic.
Speaker 6:Very good, yeah, very good, yeah, craig. I love the fact that we don't have fans listening to us. We have friends that listen to us.
Speaker 3:Yeah absolutely, and it's just great to continue to grow that community and by you spotlighting different shows or bringing on shows that you've been listening to, that just allows you to have more of those interactions and pick up a listener here or there, but it also just allows you to meet these different people and have these different interactions that you couldn't have been able to have any other way, and so it's been just a huge trip.
Speaker 3:I mean, the interviews that we've done throughout the pandemic and continuing on beyond that have been really a very fun aspect of the show. It's very cool that we're on the press list for Disney and all of that that's been just blows my mind. When we get an email from Disney that's like, hey, and by the time this is released, like the other day I got an email that just said, hey, do you want to talk to the head writer of Loki? And I'm like, yes, I do, doing that interview soon, and like, so that should be on the feed by the time this episode drops likely, and so it just it's fun that, like, we get to do that, but more than that are the people that you meet and the people that you get a chance to interact with that you otherwise wouldn't have been able to could not agree more.
Speaker 6:So, my friends who are listening right now, do yourself a favor. You're going to enjoy it. Stop by and visit Craig, vanessa and Brett at Beyond the Mouse. And Craig, how do they find you? How often is it released? Where can they get you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, of course, we're a weekly show and you can just search for Beyond the Mouse and you'll find us. Anywhere you find podcasts, and I'm trying to think if there's, just like that, one really killer interview or episode that I will send you to. I guess this is one that I answer quite a bit, but it's just one of those where I got the email back saying yes, and I had to like have other people read it to make sure that they weren't joking with me. But we had the opportunity to talk to Alan Mankin. It was such a wonderful conversation with him and he's really orchestrated not just my childhood but my entire life right, and so it was a remarkable interview, and so that's another one that I can send you back to listen to. There you go, there you go.
Speaker 6:But you're not going to go wrong. Grab one at random and you're going to enjoy it. Well produced, great show, interesting episodes. Give it a try. Craig, thank you for dropping by and spending the time with us. We genuinely appreciate it and I look forward to seeing you in the future.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Thanks so much for running along with me while I'm having some difficulties on those training runs. I just know that if I want some pure optimism to shot right in my veins, I just put on rise and run. And there it is, and you all get me through a lot of long runs. So thanks, thanks, craig, thanks.
Speaker 2:Well, craig, thank you so much for joining us. I will say hearing that back when I had the chance to edit, I was so utterly disappointed that I wasn't able to join you guys.
Speaker 2:Since there was so there was so much power line, max talk in that conversation and you know I'm so glad that I have a brother in this community who shares the same rage and disappointment that I did after Marathon weekend and the fact that they built it up and built it up and then was just regular. Max, so yeah, but what are you going to do? But I will second everything that you said, bob, during the interview. Beyond the mouse is an absolutely fabulous podcast. It is so cool that they are tied in with MPR and they're able to be on Disney's media list.
Speaker 2:I mean, they have gone some really, really big heavy hitters. Oh yeah, the general Disney community. They've talked to Idina Menzel, they've talked to several Imagineers and everything like that. It's really really cool. So, folks, if you're looking for a new Disney podcast to pull into your rotation beyond the mouse Craig and his team over there, it's really really top notch stuff.
Speaker 7:I can't wait to listen.
Speaker 6:Yeah, for Disney fans everywhere, it's a good one. Friends are buddy Pamela, fluffy Fizzies. She has a Black Friday sale going on 20% off, no codes needed. Good chance to preorder for Marathon weekend. Check out our site while you're. While I'm thinking about it, it's also a good time. In fact, it's getting late, it's. If you're looking for costumes, you're not sure yet Our friend Alec at Kauai and Pizza apparel. It's time to get your order into her for Marathon weekend Code to use. There is rise and run on the Kauai and Pizza apparel site.
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Speaker 6:Heidi proposed folks who aren't running the half or the full marathon In Marathon weekend. She has this idea of getting together for the cheer squad. I think it's a neat idea. So if you're interested in that, if you're interested in cheering for either the half or the full, there is a chat group now for that. It's a community chat. It's Marathon weekend cheer squad. So if that's something that interests you, please look it up. And, heidi, thanks for doing that. I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 6:Upcoming episodes next week. Episode 114. We're going to talk about running in groups group runs, some possible opportunities for those. Episode 115. We're looking for a special guest, but I don't have confirmation on the guests yet so I don't want to make any announcements beyond that. Okay, time now for the race report. Last week's episode was a rewind. I promised we don't want to leave anybody behind, so I'm going to quickly go over last week's races. So we're back now.
Speaker 6:On November 10th in Tallahassee, florida, the Memorial to Memorial Veterans Day 5K. She was there, got to the race and in the first mile of this 5K realized she could PR. Her goal became to beat her old PR by at least a minute. She broke into a full sprint at the three mile marker ended up PR'ing by 51 seconds. Yeah, averaged 1220 pace a minute, faster than her last magic mile. That's impressive, always proud of when she runs. But comparing this to where she was last year, can't believe how far Lizzie's come within a year. Larry was there. Larry did this race, showed us a photo of the medal, which was a dog tag, kind of a neat medal for this race. Also on that day in Sudbury Mass, the Sudbury Road Race 5K. Scott was there.
Speaker 6:Coming to November 11th, which was Saturday, I believe, fort Oglethorpe, georgia, the Chickamauga Half Marathon at the Chickamauga battlefield. Amy. Amy ran there a couple of years ago, wanted to try to half. Did it in 210, did enjoy the course. Hadn't been through the battlefield park before so really thought it was kind of interesting running through the National Military Park with a lot of interesting museums. Finally, a recommended race from Amy. Amanda wasn't sure she was going to do it. Guess what she killed it. She's got a new half marathon PR, Beat her old one by 14 minutes for a half marathon. Minute a mile better than a minute a mile. Also achieved a goal she'd been chasing for four years she broke two hours and 30 minutes in the half marathon, never really thought it was within her reach. Now she's celebrating it. How about that, jack? That's amazing. It's impressive. Congratulations, amanda Brittany. Brittany was also at this race In Monterey, california, the Monterey Bay Half Marathon and Pacific Grove Lighthouse 5K.
Speaker 6:Our friends Alan and his wife Grace did the half marathon. No PRs, but they made it through. Look forward to seeing Alan at Marathon weekend. Kate was there. Kate took it slow and steady. Her first run back after a tendonitis issue caused her to take a bit of a training break. She says the most beautiful 5K she's ever done. Plus she added two and a half miles of a warm up bonus. Got to high five. The race announcer, our buddy Fitz.
Speaker 6:In Brookfield, connecticut, sue ran the steep Endurance's 4.2 mile trail race. This was part of their ultra event. Eight hours at the farm most difficult race so far this year for Sue, but it's town 144 out of 169. In Avalon, california, the Catalina Island 10K. Camille most elevation Camille's encountered on a race or in training. Also the most stunning views on a course she could imagine Great, friendly people, casual atmosphere. Forgot to stop her watch. How many times have we done that across the finish line. Forget to stop. Your garment Doesn't know what her time was. Her dad ran this one. Her dad did the 10K. It was his first 10K. So, dad, here's a PR bell for you. Two over three kids did the race. Dad did the 1K fun run. Two out of three did it. One out of two liked it. We'll let it go with that.
Speaker 6:In Boone, north Carolina, we mentioned at the top of the episode that Maggie and Brad live in Boone. Well, maggie did the Spooky Duke 10K at Appalachian State University. The Richmond Virginia half marathon Hannah was there. Hannah did this run. Chilly morning, otherwise beautiful day. This is Hannah's third half marathon. Lots of hills, part of the course even went through a paved trail. This was Hannah's first run solo. It was kind of weird not having a running buddy or other people waiting at the finish line. Nevertheless, her fastest time for a half of 2.51 and she just had the best race time to prepare now for the Walt Disney World Marathon. That 2.51 for Hannah is a PR.
Speaker 6:In Winter Garden, florida, john and Margaret did the run for the gift of swimming 5K. They've done this. This is the seventh year in a row that they've done this. Seventh year for Margaret, third for John Margaret, who is one of our Council of Costume members dressed like a swimming pool. Well, kind of Her dress, kind of looked like a swimming pool. Got to run next to her little buddy Alden for a while. Nikki and Margaret are in their third weekend running the same races. They also run into Run Princess Friend Esther. Just great to see so many local people, so many friends. Strange title on this one. I remember from the last time they ran the Run for the Gift of Swimming Race. The Proceeds Benefit Swimming Lessons for Underprivileged Children In Pigeon Forge, tennessee. Jimmy ran the Dollywood Light the Way 5K. They run with amazing friends, no PR, but Jimmy ran both days that weekend. We'll see how he did on Sunday.
Speaker 2:Alicia, I got to ask about this one, since Jimmy is one of your clients. Is this like a Christmas time type race at Dollywood? Because if that's the case, that sounds incredible.
Speaker 4:It is and they had all the lights and stuff and his run on Sunday isn't actually there. But we'll get to that in a few minutes.
Speaker 2:Gotcha Okay, all right.
Speaker 6:Let's go to a different location. It's not in Cheshire, connecticut, but our next race is in Cheshire, connecticut. The Hot Cocoa 5K. Rachel did this Town number 76 out of 169 for Rachel Excellent pace. And Rachel earned an Age Group Award. Congratulations, rachel.
Speaker 6:Crystal Crystal ran the Stone Mill 50-Miler in Montgomery County, Maryland Her first ever 50-Miler. So let's get that PR bill out of the way. Congratulations, crystal. Her goal was to finish and have fun and by golly she did it. Great photos and Crystal, to her credit, had a long list of folks that she thanked for helping her to train and get ready and complete that 50-Miler.
Speaker 6:Wrapping up on Saturday, november 11th the Loop of the Lake 25K in Monroe Falls, ohio. Lori did this one, a mile loop around a lake which included one hill that if you start doing it often enough, you begin to give it dirty names for the last few laps. Lori didn't say dirty names, I just added it. She just said names. 32 degrees at the start it sounds cold, but it was fun. It was so fun stopping every few laps to pet her dog. Friends, that's cool For Lori. This was the last race that she's going to run in her age group and decade. She moves on to the next one because she had a birthday. Let's move to Sunday, november 12th.
Speaker 6:This is a biggie the Athens Marathon in Athens, greece. Paige was there, her sixth marathon, but her first non-run Disney marathon, mostly an uphill course. I understand this is a pretty hilly course. The marathon, the Athens marathon. I kept the pace down, running into the stadium for the last part, for the finish of this race. Absolutely epic Congratulations, paige. That's a big deal. Was the Galloway's there for any of that? Don't think so. Last year. For sure, john. Last year they had a big group over there. I don't think so this year.
Speaker 6:I don't remember hearing about it. Let's go to Castlebury, florida, for the TrustCo Veterans 5K. Julie was there. Julie finished this event with her A-linker, of course, the Arizona Veterans Day run 5K Molly Molly's first run post-surgery. She set up and stuck with her run-walk-run intervals Tired now, but the race went great. Congratulations, molly. Love hearing about folks coming back from injuries and surgeries. Glad you're doing well. In Cyprus, texas, the Cyprus half marathon. Kate was there, as was Katrina. This was her third half marathon and the place where it all started. She got her words. Now A PR baby. Now she PR'd at the 5 and 10K points. That bell was for the finish. Celebrate that major accomplishment. Of course she celebrated with a homemade breakfast, a pedicure and a manicure. Okay, that's one way to do it. Katrina will see you in February at the Princess Runs, the Apple Hill 5K in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California. Becky this is Becky's first race report. These photos got a cool wine stopper medal and a PR.
Speaker 2:You got to love a multi-purpose medal, something that you can hang on your wall and also put into your wine bottle.
Speaker 6:Philly's big on that.
Speaker 2:Philly's big on that for the Broad Street Run. Yeah with the bottle opener Yep, bottle opener.
Speaker 6:Yeah, never used it as a bottle opener, but it's there. Let's see In Boston, the BAA Half Marathon Riley, hilly but beautiful course made for a memorable morning. Riley's second fastest half of the year at 218. And Riley's third unicorn, which, of course, talking about the Unicorn logo on the medals for 2023. That's pretty cool. Christina and Christina's daughter, lindsay, were also there. As to say Pete Runfest, they had a 5K, 10k and a half. All three of our riser-munners did the half Hot and humid, says Laura Course support was good till the finish. When they ran out of water. That's not good. However, they cheered for everyone as they ran by the vacant water stands, thirsting with their tongues hanging out. But they cheered for everyone who finished all the way to the last run and we'll give them credit for that. Dawn and Jen were also at this event In the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, the Cades Cove Loop, lope.
Speaker 6:Amy got a PR for the 10-mile distance. This one must have been hilly, because Amy mentioned it, as did Timothy. Timothy said his knees were killing him, as did, and here he is, jimmy. Jimmy says the first 5 miles were great and then the rest were the worst hills he's ever run. So Amy, timothy and Jimmy all say that the hills were tough at the Cades Cove Loop, lope, smoky Mountains, tennessee. Now for Jimmy, his first 10-miler. So he nailed that PR.
Speaker 4:Yes, he did.
Speaker 6:They count by golly. South King's Town Road Island. The angry unicorn half marathon, Heather in the Push Rim Division and Andrew were there.
Speaker 7:Those medals had to have been fantastic. Could you imagine?
Speaker 10:I think Heather were inflatable.
Speaker 7:No, she didn't.
Speaker 10:Yeah, I think she did, so I have to she had the front door.
Speaker 6:I don't have it for some reason and it's got to do with the fact that I'm trying to do two weeks in a row. I remember seeing that picture, john, but I don't have any notes on how the race went out for Heather. But yeah, I do remember seeing that. St Louis, missouri, the St Louis Track Club 5K Katie was there. Trust the training, says Katie. Six months ago a 5K seemed like the biggest challenge in the world. 3.1 miles felt like forever. It's amazing now after training to continually decrease the mileage in the training runs. 5k kind of much more comfortable now, no PRs, but it still felt like the race flew by. Good stuff, katie, congratulations.
Speaker 6:In Manchester, new Hampshire, the CMC Manchester City 5K. Mary, five months post-C-section, ran this one with Baby Z in a stroller. Baby Z hashtag, dopey baby, funny names. But anyway, as usual, baby Z was no help at all. Fell asleep before the race started, made Mary do all the work. What a slacker. 30 degrees on this one cold race day up in New Hampshire. Tons of strollers, however, big benefit to Mary's self-esteem because they caught and passed a bunch of other stroller runners way to go, managed an almost four-minute stroller PR. One of our friends that we interviewed. I think it might have been Neely actually established and I think it was her established a world record for the stroller mile.
Speaker 7:Wait seriously.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I'm going to go look that up for another episode, but I'm pretty sure that's right, I think it was Bob.
Speaker 6:Yeah, pretty sure that's right. Yep, all right. So there you go, mary, there's something, there's a goal to shoot for. Madison, wisconsin, the Madison Half Marathon. Laura bit chilly and windy, not terrible for November in Wisconsin. Hills were pretty tough, but extremely happy with the results because Laura PR'd this half.
Speaker 6:In Annapolis, maryland, the Bay Bridge Run. Jennifer says it was a bit windy. That happens a lot on bridge runs. Overall the weather was crisp, perfect for a bridge run. Runs it with her sister every year. They always have a great time. If you're in the Annapolis area, it's worth checking out. Our friend, tom from the Will Run For podcast, was also there.
Speaker 6:At the University of Connecticut, sue did the Run and Ruck 5K Sue's second run of this weekend, not a new town, towards Sue's count of 169. It was a vet stay celebration run. Lots of folks running with Rucksacks in the Run and Ruck 5K In Milwaukee. The girls on the run Southwestern Wisconsin, fall 2023 5K. Noelle the charity she's supporting for the fairy tale challenge. Girls on the run. 45 degrees and windy. Use this as part of her training kind of a catered training run. Wasn't trying too hard but PR'd anyway. Well, those stories I'm not trying but I PR. That's always nice.
Speaker 6:Jackie did the Santa Clarita half marathon as part of her dopey training Course, was on her regular training route, so that's familiar. That's kind of nice. Again, not expecting very much, but PR'd by two minutes, jackie did it without looking at her watch, had a great time, despite the fact that, since this was the inaugural event, there were some issues that needed to be ironed out. It'll get better. Okay, that wraps up what we missed last episode. Let's run through this week's race report and starting Greensboro, north Carolina, where Jeremy ran the Greensboro half marathon. It was marathon weekend in Philadelphia. On Saturday they had the 8Ks and the half. Jennifer ran the 8K. Jennifer met Martinez at the expo, saw a nice photo there, that was pretty cool. Ran the Rothman 8K with her friend Tula, which was Jennifer's first 8K. So of course there's a PR. I think she set this PR because she was wearing her rise and run bibboards to hold her bibboard. Absolutely it's science.
Speaker 2:It's guaranteed.
Speaker 6:That's part of it.
Speaker 2:It's in very small fine print on the packaging.
Speaker 10:It takes off seconds off your time.
Speaker 6:The fact that it was her first 8K was probably a bigger part. Little chilly and chilly, I guess. Windy, 50 degrees, sunny, that's not too bad. People run along the water, fall leaves changing colors, celebrated with cheese steaks and margaritas. That sounds good to me.
Speaker 7:Margaritas were on Alicia right. Did you win them all? I should have been, or maybe the cheese and the cheese steaks?
Speaker 6:I don't know.
Speaker 7:Let's see who else is? Are you using that plastic cheese, Bob?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no.
Speaker 2:I asked Jennifer about this cheese steak and she went true, authentic with what it looked like with the Cooper Sharp, not with the canned cheese whizz.
Speaker 6:She went authentic, not tourist cheese, not with whizz. Let's see, brenna was there. Brenna ran Tattler Swift's favorite number plus 0.1. That's the sign that she saw 13.1. This course didn't have mile markers. The Philly Half Marathon didn't have mile markers, had 5, 10, 15 and 20 kilometer markers, start and finish signs. She didn't even realize when she crossed the start line. She ran with her friends Nikhil and Jessica, and all three of them. Pr Kelly was also there finishing her first half in a very long time. She says. I still have work to do to make it through the Disney World Marathon weekend, but I can't wait, kelly, you're not alone. We all have work to do yet to get ready, but we're in the process.
Speaker 10:And I hope they all got their medals that weekend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as I say, that was the big storyline coming out of the Philly Half, and I'll tell you probably not a good look that Martinez-Evans was there too, because I'm sure if he had anything to do with it he probably went to talk to a race director about that one.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I imagine you're right.
Speaker 10:How do you not order enough medals?
Speaker 6:No, that's unforgivable, I agree. Let's move to Texas for the great Houston Pie Run. Brandy, brandy, walk this one. She's recovering from an injury, understand. Good job, brandy. She, brandy was wearing an absurd turkey hat, not worth her run buddies. You got to see the photos. I think she pulled it off. Plus, brandy and her buddies brought tutus to a non-run Disney race. Amanda was also there.
Speaker 6:Jennifer, jennifer, what a difference a year makes for Jennifer. Last year it was raining number one for the race and her friends, because of it, dropped just to the 5K instead of the 10K. This time the weather was perfect and her 5K time is inching closer to her pre-surgery times. She'll take that as a win. I understand completely, jennifer. It's nice to see those times coming back. It takes a while. You got to be patient, remember baby steps, but you're getting there. Congratulations, glenn Rose. Texas. The dinosaur valley endurance run 50K. Jason, a 50K, third overall ultra, second 50K Really wasn't ready for how technical this course was or how much elevation change was involved. Most of the course was covered either in roots or rocks. He hit quite a few with his foot throughout the day. Never did fall, but at one point and you know how this can be you're starting to fall and you go to pull yourself out of it and you end up pulling a muscle for more than a year, oh no, yeah.
Speaker 6:Well, here's the good news he was able to work through it and PR this 50K. Remember, this is his second 50K. Yeah, pr by two hours.
Speaker 7:Oh Kamoli.
Speaker 6:Yeah, jason, nice job. Glad you weren't hurt badly either. Buddy, that's good. In Holly Springs, north Carolina, the Holly Springs Half Marathon, brian. Brian did it as a catered training run but it went pretty well. Brian walked away with a half marathon PR sub 230, beat his previous best by three and a half minutes. Brian says this is the best supported race he's done outside of Disney World's aid stations. Better be mile and a half. They had water, they had sport strings, they had goo Nice. The trail, the race course was nice. Ran through neighborhoods, trails, paved and mulched, ran through downtown Main Street in Holly Springs and at the end there was a great medal and finisher pancakes, sausage and beer. Breakfast of champions pancake, sausage and beer.
Speaker 6:Megan, this weekend did the New York Roadrunners virtual run for Thanks 5K. Melissa was in Savannah for the Honor Mark 5K. Her whole little family, both kids ages nine and four, did this one, first real kids races. They did great. 5k wasn't about the time but the time that they spent with friends. That sounds familiar. No medal because all the proceeds go back to the first responder and military and their families and I'm sure Melissa's proud of this. The kids ask, hey, can we do it again next year. That's cool. Mary was supposed to do the Oak Community Turkey Trot in a popka Florida. She couldn't. She got called into work, so she had to scratch that one In Niagara Falls, new York, the Grass Fruits Gardens, 15k. Amy, beautiful day for a run to the brink of Niagara Falls and back. That's good, as opposed to the brink of Niagara Falls and over. That would be bad.
Speaker 2:Yes, it would be bad, unless you're in a wooden barrel, then things might be a little better for you.
Speaker 6:Yeah, Amy did well, Took it relatively easy. She's got a Turkey Trot coming up on Thanksgiving Day but for a 15K she's still got a three plus minute PR Way to go. Amy, In Baton Rouge, the greater Baton Rouge lit run, Emily ran a 5K. This is Emily's first race report. Thanks for submitting it, Emily. This is the inaugural Baton Rouge 5K. It's a run to raise awareness of children's literacy in their parish. And Emily won Not first female, not age group, flat out first finisher overall.
Speaker 2:Congratulations.
Speaker 6:Mis-setting a PR by a second but finished the 5K in just under 24 minutes, won the whole thing. Way to go. I'm impressed. In Norfolk, virginia, the Norfolk Harbor 5K Taylor. This is day one of the Get Naughty Challenge, nauti, norfolk, if you're not familiar with the area, large naval presence, big naval base in Norfolk, the Get Naughty Challenge, my own words there, taylor ran it a little harder than intended, knowing that she was going to take 13.1 miles the next day as a catered training run, but did well in this 5K still finished in under 30 minutes. I think that's a great goal. Finishing up Saturday in Zionsville, indiana, jeff our buddy Jeff ran his 99th half marathon. I'm pretty sure Jeff plans to run half number 100 at Disney World, but I'm not certain.
Speaker 10:Well, he is perfect, dopey, so he's probably there for that.
Speaker 6:Yeah, he is, that's right. That's right. Thanks, john, I'd forgotten about that. He'll be there for it, I'm almost certain. I remember him riding a while back that he had set up so he could do 100 at Disney. That's pretty cool, so let's see. Moving on to Sunday, still at Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Marathon. We talked about the other distances. On Saturday, emily and Katrina both ran their first marathons so those are PRs and Molly was there.
Speaker 6:Also In Tampa, the sixth annual veterans run. Julie did that one with her A-linker, I presume, in Claremont, florida. Margaret and John, who ran the day before in the run for swimming, did the great turkey trot 5K. Love the venue of this race but the terrain is not the greatest for speed. So Margaret and John just stood around and took a lot of pictures and dressed as scarecrow and scarecrow away and at the end of the race earned their medal plus an apple cider donut, got to pick sunflowers, even got some cute pumpkins. Kayla was there. Kayla forgot her sunglasses. Forgot them for one and nine half also. Hey, we'll talk about what you need to bring for the Disney World Marathon, but sunglasses is on that list. Rain, just like Margaret and John said, was tough. It was sandy and they got some rain over in Central Florida. We have not gotten a lot here on the West Coast, but three days of Florida rain made the course tough. Kayla maintained a better-than-balloon lady pace and then went to Hollywood Studios to celebrate. Jen was also at this race.
Speaker 6:In Milwaukee, wisconsin, noelle was at the Elf Run. She did it in a six-minute PR. Couldn't be happier. Knew she was around this time when she ran her half in October. Then the know she was fifth in her age group. That's pretty cool, big confidence booster. Great run for Noelle Moving down south to Mobile, alabama in Battleship Park, the public's Battleship 12K. We had a couple of friends running that one and we're delighted to have one of those friends here to talk with us about it. Jody, welcome to the Race Report Spotlight.
Speaker 13:Hey guys welcome.
Speaker 6:Great thanks for joining us. We appreciate you doing that.
Speaker 13:Happy to be here, thanks for the invite.
Speaker 6:Now, this is a place I've been to before but have not run. I understand it's a great event, but talk about the area just a little bit. What Battleship Park, I think they call it. What's special about Battleship Park?
Speaker 13:Yes, battleship Park is where the USS Alabama is located. It's a beautiful memorial park where visitors can go. They can visit, check out the USS Alabama which was used during World War II. It sits there on Battleship Park right or sits there right in the Mobile Bay. You can go on that ship, tour it. They have other airplanes and submarines out there. People can tour and see. It's just a beautiful park. You can picnic out there. It's wonderful and it's all in honor of all our veterans who have served on the USS Alabama and in all of our armed forces. It's just a great place.
Speaker 6:They used to let organizations like the Cub Scouts, and I'm sure other, spend the night on the battleship. They still do that.
Speaker 13:Yes, they still do. The last I heard I had some friends who took their sons there and they got to sleep on the battleship overnight. Pretty cool.
Speaker 6:Pretty cool for kids, it really is. And then there's a World War II submarine there too.
Speaker 13:There, sure is. Yeah, that's still there.
Speaker 6:I got to walk through that I would not have been a good Submariner in World War II. My goodness, there's no room on there.
Speaker 10:There's zero room on those and gosh.
Speaker 6:Anyway, it is a nice area, so that's cool. Tell us about the run. The run's not just right there, the run must be around the Mobile Area, right, yeah, so the run starts actually across the bay, over in an area called Spanish Fort, up on Spanish. Fort Hill.
Speaker 13:We start on Spanish Fort Hill. You start at the first mile. It's a nice beautiful downhill run and it brings you onto the causeway and you're just running along the Mobile Bay, all along the causeway until you get over there. There's maybe, I think, two, maybe three small bridges you go over, the first one being smaller. The very last one is the final hurrah to cross into Battleship Park and it is larger but really beautiful run. You get to see fishermen out there. You've got fishermen fishing on the side of the causeway, the boats out there in Mobile Bay. It's just a beautiful run and I would say it started in. I think it was 2015 when this first started. This was the eighth year and it's been gorgeous weather every time I've done this event. I think one time we had the heat where we all wished it would be colder.
Speaker 6:So how many times have you done it?
Speaker 13:Oh, I've done it since the start Done every one huh. Yes.
Speaker 6:Good for you.
Speaker 13:Yeah, I was telling my husband today. I said they need to do something for the perfect Battleship Winners.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, they should. Good, maybe they will when they get to 10 years or so. Right, that would be pretty neat. That is a lovely area. I've been there. I didn't spend a lot of time there, but that whole Daphne, fairhope, mobile, around the Bay, very pretty area and a lot of things to do. Just a nice part of the state of Alabama.
Speaker 13:They do a great job with this too Honoring the veterans, honoring the men and women who are still serving in our country, and they just do a great job from the start of the race to the end of the race. When you go through at Battleship Park, all the hoopla and fanfare that you get when you get into the park, getting your medal, just everything over there. It's a A plus kind of event, you know.
Speaker 6:Outstanding. How did the race go for you, Jody?
Speaker 13:It was great. So you know, I had a friend from Fort Lauderdale come into town and she says I want to do this with you. My friend is not a full on runner and I said well, you need to train for this. It's farther than a 5K and she's done a 5K before, but she didn't do all the training so we decided to keep her on the safe side from injury. It's best if we do more walking than playing. So we did more walking, we did some a little bit of intervals near the end there, but it was a gorgeous run race event and overall I was real happy just to be out there, be moving, helping my friend accomplish something that she's never accomplished, which you know she's never done a 12K.
Speaker 6:That's awesome.
Speaker 13:And in the end she was really sweet and she says all right, the new year 2024. I am going to plan to do some training so that I can run this more next year with you.
Speaker 6:Yeah, and enjoy it a little more yeah.
Speaker 13:Absolutely, you know. But we enjoyed the day. It was just beautiful weather and you know great friendship and seeing everybody on the course and cheering everybody on.
Speaker 6:That's fantastic. Now you've done this for eight years. When did you get started running?
Speaker 13:So I started running when I was 44 and I'm 53 now, and so at 44, I had a challenge from a boot camp instructor saying you know, I want to see if everybody wants to join the challenge. You just run one mile each day on top of what you do, and at the time I was doing her boot camp. So I thought, well, I can run a mile, that's easy. And then I got out there and I tried it and I realized I didn't know how to run.
Speaker 13:I didn't know how to breathe and run and I couldn't run longer than 30 seconds. What did I get myself into? So, but the challenge was on from that point for me to learn how to run and breathe properly and through that process I learned that I actually enjoyed running and the endorphins in that I had afterwards that made me feel so good. And next thing you know I had my friends were like let's go run a 5k, a 10k, and then my one friend said do you want to try a half? And I was like absolutely so. It just kind of spun off.
Speaker 6:Outstanding. Now you do run at Disney, of course.
Speaker 13:Absolutely what's your?
Speaker 6:history there.
Speaker 13:So I started running Disney with the inaugural springtime surprise. That was my first event. I did a 10k with my daughter and then I followed it up with the 10 miler the next day.
Speaker 6:Right, that was two years ago, I think.
Speaker 13:Yes, and I will say that 10k was the hottest, most humid 10k.
Speaker 6:Oh it was. It was indeed, it was very humid.
Speaker 13:I was nervous for the 10 miler, but I'll tell you this that 10 miler, the temperatures were drastically different and I loved that 10 miler, it was great. I said, well, why wasn't yesterday like this?
Speaker 6:Yeah, John, you were down there for that one, weren't you two years ago springtime.
Speaker 10:Yeah, it's at the inaugural springtime.
Speaker 6:Because I did the 10k. I was still not able to complete those runs, but you did the 10 miler also, I think right.
Speaker 10:Yeah, I did both yeah. I think you didn't curate the 10k day. It was a lot warmer than the 10 miler.
Speaker 6:It was really humid, it sure was.
Speaker 13:Yes, that made for a tough 10k for me but persevered, got through it, did the 10 miler the next day, just had a good time. That was my first run Disney experience so I was just super excited to be there and see what it was all about, see what all the hype was about that I was seeing on social media and hearing about. So that was a lot of fun. But since then I've done the Wine and Dine. I did the challenge at the Wine and Dine, the two course challenge, and then January of let's see, of this year yeah, it's 23,.
Speaker 6:Right, yeah, we think of it as last year, but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 13:So last year I actually decided I'm going to run the marathon. That was one of my goals, and my daughter said if you do the marathon, do it in Disney, so it's the most fun marathon ever if you never do another one. And so that really was my train of you know my thought process. But what I wasn't prepared for was the marathon training. And on top of teaching full time and training, I tell my husband I look back all the time and I'm like that training felt like a second job.
Speaker 6:Sure does. We talked about it earlier tonight. Yeah, it sure does.
Speaker 13:But accomplishing that was a huge thing, something I wanted to do at 50, but you know, life didn't have that in the cards for me at 50. So you know, doing it this year at 52 was a huge success and I was like it sure is.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it sure is. What are you?
Speaker 13:back at Disney, so I will. I just did Wine and Dine here in November. It was great.
Speaker 6:Yeah, the weather was perfect.
Speaker 13:Yes, that really was perfect weather. I'm going out to California, to Disneyland, in June Good for you. So I'll do the Dumbo Doubledare out there and then I'll come back to Orlando in February for the princess.
Speaker 6:Outstanding, outstanding. Yeah, good luck in California and I'll see you in February.
Speaker 13:Excellent, excellent. That's going to be a good one. The princess I'm going to do the princess half marathon. It'll be my daughter's first half marathon.
Speaker 6:Oh, that's terrific. I really, really enjoy seeing the stories of families running together. That's fantastic.
Speaker 13:Yeah, this is my daughter who basically told me many years ago she did the battleship with me one time and I said well, look at that, you did it. And she says and I didn't like it at all. And now she has since run a Disney 10K twice. She did springtime this year with me and then she said I think I can do a half marathon. And I said I think you can too.
Speaker 6:So we got this back then, Outstanding outstanding.
Speaker 13:Yeah, and she works for Disney too.
Speaker 6:So she's, down all the time. Good deal, jody. Great stuff. I had always heard good things about this run and thank you for giving us the highlights from your event, so we appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 13:Absolutely. Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 6:Thanks, jody. Also at this event, jessica was there, as was Mike. Mike's first time running the 12K distance. We know what that means. Mike echoes what Jody said great weather, very inspirational, supporting those that served. It's a nice race, great medal. I'm sorry I never did this one, but it sounds like it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 6:All right back at the Norfolk Harbor, this time for the half marathon and day two of the get naughty challenge. Taylor is 17th half since she first started two years ago at this specific race. So 17 and two years, that's quite a bit. Having her little cheer squad throughout race weekend was special. The baby will be three on the day of the Dopey 5K which, by the way, is just six weeks away, she's starting. This is kind of cute. I think Taylor says she's starting to understand these races now that when they travel to an event the baby says we're on a trip to say yay, mama, that's cool, that's cool, taylor thanks. Also.
Speaker 6:At the same event there was a 10K. Hannah ran the 10K. Just decided last week she was going to sign up for it and do it. Ran with zero intent to PR because she just PR'd a half marathon at Richmond a week prior. Still managed to knock almost four minutes off her for previous 10K PR time to make her second PR in eight days. Nicely done, hannah Capal, elizabeth Main, the main track club's Turkey Trot 5K.
Speaker 6:Erin ran and her children. Her daughter Charlie ran her first 5K and her son Finney did this one Last year. This was Finney's first race. So much fun. Loves watching these six-year-olds finish and achieve their goals. I thought it was neat. Nice post, nice photos. Thanks, erin. Congratulations Charlie and Finney. By the way, charlie's first 5K. Hey, charlie, this PR bell's for you. Rachel is also there Did a 5K with her son and husband. Her daughter did the kids' race. Her husband now has the duty of running with the son because Rachel's son is already too fast for her to keep up with. That's cool.
Speaker 6:In New Fairfield, connecticut, the run for the Turkey's 5K, sue Beautiful November day, of course, came in third in her age group. Way to go, sue Race 145 out of 169. It won't be long. Sue is checking those off like clockwork. In Ocala, florida, the Christmas light, spectacular 5K. Rachel and her husband First 5K since 2020. Husbands first 5K since he started his battle with cancer.
Speaker 6:Congratulations, good luck, glad to see you out there, best wishes for everything and wrapping up the race weekend, the Cleveland Fall Classic half marathon in Strongville, ohio, lori, cold start to this race, but the sun came out to warm it up. Nice sunny day in the mid 40s, as I recall. I must admit it's been a while since I've been in those conditions. It's not too hard to take Second inter-age group with an 11 minute PR for this race and a half marathon. Lots and lots of Turkey trot races coming up today. Probably Enjoy them. We'll report on them next week. This would normally be a Zoom Thursday, but as it is Thanksgiving day, we're going to skip it and pick it up again next week and then go back to our two week schedule. So November 30th, then December 14th, then December 28th, and then we'll be at Disney World.
Speaker 10:So, and if you need an extra half an hour on this episode we know it's a long episode go back and listen to episode six for us guys, please.
Speaker 2:Oh, john, you're so funny.
Speaker 6:I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 2:No, it is a great idea, but everybody knows the long inside joke about how.
Speaker 6:Well, not everybody.
Speaker 2:Okay, Not everybody, but you know that our original Thanksgiving episode is our least downloaded episode of all time. But there's some really really beautiful messages in there. So go, definitely go check it out.
Speaker 10:Everyone listens to it, says it's good, but it's not a lot of people listen to it. It was just, you know, six episodes into our career here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 6:All right, friends, look, I hope you're. I hope you're not in this training run out Now. I realize not everybody's listening to this on a training run, but if you are, I hope it's going well for you. Remember what we said up top Get it done, get it finished. You're the visualize. How many folks said that? Visualize? You're nearly done, you can do it. It's an exciting time and you know we're in your corner. All right, my friends. That concludes episode 113 and happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7:everybody Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6:I'll add mine Happy Thanksgiving and until we meet again, happy running.
Speaker 2:The rise and run podcast discusses general information about run Disney and is in no way affiliated with run Disney or the Walt Disney company. Any information or advice discussed on this podcast should not be considered medical advice and should always consult with your healthcare provider or event organizer.