As the first hints of spring mingle with the magic of St. Patrick's Day, we're spinning tales from Disney to the pavement in a whirlwind of laughter and running shoes. Joined by special guests Penny and Allison, we celebrate the ties that bind the runDisney community, sharing heartwarming stories from escapades of various race weekends.
Before we chat with Allison and Penny, buckle up for an episode where favorite Disney attractions go head-to-head in our March Madness Challenge, proving that even the underdogs have their day in the sun. From the nostalgia of the Walt Disney World Railroad to the heart-pumping thrills of Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, we're stirring up friendly debates and reliving the roller coasters of our emotions.
And it's not just about the rides; it's about the strides we've made in our running journeys, overcoming challenges, and rejoicing in the triumphs of our friends at races like the New York City Half Marathon. So, whether you're tuning in for inspiration or just a dose of Disney dreams, we've got your run covered.
Strap on your Mickey ears and lace up those sneakers; this isn't just a podcast, it's a passport to the joys of running and the enchantment of runDisney shared by kindred spirits. We're not just running races; we're chasing dreams, building friendships, and creating memories that sparkle like pixie dust on our running bibs. And as we recount the tales from our latest races across the globe, remember, every mile is magic, and every runner has a story.
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As the first hints of spring mingle with the magic of St. Patrick's Day, we're spinning tales from Disney to the pavement in a whirlwind of laughter and running shoes. Joined by special guests Penny and Allison, we celebrate the ties that bind the runDisney community, sharing heartwarming stories from escapades of various race weekends.
Before we chat with Allison and Penny, buckle up for an episode where favorite Disney attractions go head-to-head in our March Madness Challenge, proving that even the underdogs have their day in the sun. From the nostalgia of the Walt Disney World Railroad to the heart-pumping thrills of Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, we're stirring up friendly debates and reliving the roller coasters of our emotions.
And it's not just about the rides; it's about the strides we've made in our running journeys, overcoming challenges, and rejoicing in the triumphs of our friends at races like the New York City Half Marathon. So, whether you're tuning in for inspiration or just a dose of Disney dreams, we've got your run covered.
Strap on your Mickey ears and lace up those sneakers; this isn't just a podcast, it's a passport to the joys of running and the enchantment of runDisney shared by kindred spirits. We're not just running races; we're chasing dreams, building friendships, and creating memories that sparkle like pixie dust on our running bibs. And as we recount the tales from our latest races across the globe, remember, every mile is magic, and every runner has a story.
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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 3:Hey, Rise and Runners. This is Robbie. I'm coming to you from Fort Lauderdale at the Shamrock Fort Milo.
Speaker 4:You're enjoying your run on this same Patrick's Day. Robbie, thanks for sending that now, not exactly an intro, not exactly a race report, but it seemed appropriate and you'll understand when we do get to the race report. There are a bunch of races this weekend. So, robbie, that worked in really good. Thanks for sending it to us. My friend and hello friends.
Speaker 4:Welcome to episode 130 of the Rise and Run Podcast. I'm Bob. I'm here with Jack Hiya, with John hey, how you doing. With Greg, who are you gonna call Ghostbusters? And with Alicia Hello, it's Dag Nabot. It's so hard for me not to respond to John's how you're doing, and then you had to throw in who you and I'm sitting here. I managed, though. I managed. Ah, friends, glad you're here. Long one, probably again, but we'll see how it goes. This week we start our own March Madness competition, march Madness March Madness is one of those unique events in American culture. Between it and the Super Bowl, I think they're the two events more recognized and known to non-sports fans than any other. So that actually in the real world, in college basketball started this evening. We're gonna start our own. We're going to run a competition and we're going to end up with our the Rise and Run podcast favorite attraction at Disney World.
Speaker 1:Dude.
Speaker 4:Greg Joining us this evening. Penny and Allison, you asked for them. They are here. They're our special guests. We had a great time talking with them and in the as I've already mentioned rather lengthy race report, our spotlight, our friends more of our friends from the New York City Half Marathon, which occurred this past Sunday, are here to tell us about that event.
Speaker 1:And if you enjoy the podcast, please share us with your friends and introduce them to the Rise and Run podcast. We really, really want to share in their training journey. Please remember to follow us on Facebook at Rise and Run podcast, on Instagram at Rise and Run pod, and check out our YouTube channel, and also be sure to visit our webpage, riseandrunpodcastcom. Of course, if you have a question, a comment, a race report, you want to tell us who your sleeper picks are for this March Madness, give us a phone call on our hotline, 727-266-2344, and leave us a recorded message.
Speaker 2:And if you'd like to join our Patreon team, please check out patreoncom riseandrunpodcast. And this week we have two new Patreon members Sarah and Catherine. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4:Thank you, sarah and Catherine Jack. What's new on YouTube?
Speaker 6:Yeah. So you guys, we've all been curious about it and with the Jeff Galloway weekend that just happened this past weekend, there was this part of it where they got to show what a cadence drill was and what acceleration gliders were. So if you are incustomized, or if you're just following the plan that Disney does as well, I would put these drills in there, and this video will give you a great example of how to do these drills, and it really will help improve your running.
Speaker 4:Sounds good Jack.
Speaker 1:Jack, I'm very interested to watch this because I have a feeling like I'm going to watch it and I'm going to go oh.
Speaker 7:Yeah, there is somebody next to me.
Speaker 4:I think you're right, Greg.
Speaker 6:There is somebody that was next to me because I had made the comments like oh my God, I was so glad I did it right this whole time. When the guy was like, yeah, I'm so glad, I found out that I wasn't doing it right the entire time. So now I know what to do.
Speaker 4:I was going to fix it right, right, well, I'm looking forward to seeing it. Jack, thanks for doing that. Friends of the Rise and Run podcast is sponsored by our good friends at Magic Bound Travel. I'm just going to mention quickly because we originally wanted to have Brad and Maggie with us this evening, but we are going to put them off one more week. But they'll be here to tell us about exciting upcoming events. Meanwhile, if you haven't, if you're going to Disneyland, you haven't got your reservations yet. Or wine and dine Golly, you know you can register for any event through the 2025 calendar year, so now's the time to get in touch with them. The best deals come early for hotel rooms. Get in touch with them. Magicboundtravelcom is the website. Check them out. A quick apologies and alibi section. I got a kick out of this one. Apparently, there are crickets behind me when I sit outside. Now my friends here who I'm looking at. They can hear Guys. Do you hear them tonight?
Speaker 6:Wow, they're happy to be there with you.
Speaker 1:I'm shocked there isn't one in your lap.
Speaker 6:Too many crickets.
Speaker 4:Do not adjust your set. I need to adjust my hearing aids. No, I need to get hearing aids is what I need to do. I cannot hear them. However, I know our friends can, so I didn't think they'd be out. It's really cold here in Florida.
Speaker 6:Okay, that's cold to you, Bob, it's down to 61. That is so nice outside.
Speaker 4:Don't even play me, I've got the heater on next to me. You know I do. But anyway, gang friends listening, I'm sorry if I've made you stop your car and look for the cricket. I'm sorry if you've had your spouse or other loved one walking around the house. Isolate that cricket.
Speaker 1:It's me, my bad If anyone has called an exterminator to come out to your home because you think you have crickets in your house? Please let us know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I have no solution except to say I hope you enjoy them, because I love sitting out here too much, so that's going to stay for a while.
Speaker 1:All right, well, crickets aside, I just wanted to make a real quick announcement. I know last week we talked about everyone's success in terms of getting in for Wynondine and I had said that I was like a kind of yes, but I would like to officially announce that I am registered for the challenge for Wynondine. I will be fundraising again on behalf of our wonderful, wonderful friends over at Give Kids the World, and I came up with an idea to raise money for this going around and it's something that I would like to share with the podcast community. I will be posting details about this on our Facebook page when this episode drops on Thursday, but from March 21st until March 31st, anyone who donates $15 towards my fundraising efforts. When I am down in Disney World for springtime surprise I will go on the greatest attraction in the Magic Kingdom, which we'll get to a little bit later in our bracket challenge here.
Speaker 1:Spoiler alert the Tomorrowland Transit Authority People Mover. So if you give a $15 donation, I will go on that ride in honor of you. But I want to up the ante a little bit. If you'd be so kind as to donate $30, I will go on an attraction that I mentioned a couple of episodes ago, that I despise with every being in my body, and that is the magic carpets of Aladdin.
Speaker 6:Everybody give $30.
Speaker 4:Hopefully have photos taken.
Speaker 1:Yes, I will do something to document it, to prove that I did it. I'll figure out a way, but I figured I'll open this up for 10 days because I don't want to leave it open until springtime. Surprise, because if not, I'd be spending my entire off time of not racing at the Magic Kingdom and there's plenty of other things that I need to be doing during that time. So, like I said, details will be on our Facebook page. Again, you do not have to be inclined to do it, it just this is something fun that I want to try. So, again, I'll have all details and links on the Facebook page and, if you do, donate from the bottom of my heart. Thank you so much for helping critically children in need who can have the opportunity to go on a vacation of a lifetime.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it is. It's a great cause. You don't need to prove anything, greg. We trust you. I just want to see a picture of you riding on the magic carpets, that's all.
Speaker 7:I'll throw in an extra 20 if you're dressed as Jimmy the Cricket.
Speaker 4:It's not Jimmy the Cricket. Oh well, you know Jimmy the Cricket. Jimmy the Cricket, Jimmy the Cricket is a mob guy in North Jersey. That's probably how you got confused.
Speaker 7:That's probably what I was thinking about. It's down the corner over there.
Speaker 4:Golly, totally out of control. Well, that's OK, it's a good night for it. Friends, let's look at training. We're just going to do this real quickly. Springtime surprise, now, four weeks away. 28 days Training, week 14 on the training schedule. That training schedule is, if you're looking for it, you're trying to find it on the run to Disney site. We've probably mentioned this before. It's not there. It is posted to Facebook every week. But our good friend Mark, it's one that he sat down with Coach Chris Twiggs and drew up. So the mileage for this week now, four weeks out, if you're a challenge runner, is a four mile walk and a 10 mile run walk on the weekend. Nothing else noteworthy, with the exception of I wanted to point out, if you are registering for the summer virtual runs, that registration is this Tuesday, just five days away.
Speaker 1:Those medals look so cool. By the way, I know I don't want to go on a massive tangent here, but bravo to run Disney with the snack stuff. That's really really cool.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you're right. Speaking of medals and art and stuff like that, those sons of guns that run Disney the Marathon Weekend artwork is out. I normally don't care very much. They got me on this one. What are your thoughts, gang?
Speaker 7:I really like the Marathon artwork. I said to the group I see people dressed as Mickey and with that big foam finger running the whole marathon with a foam finger yeah.
Speaker 6:I think it's gonna be great.
Speaker 4:I was not. I'm not running Dopey and I haven't changed my mind there. In fact, I'm back at the physical therapist this week. I can't stay in one piece, but that's a personal problem. I just I'm not ready to train for another Dopey yet. My plan was the 5K in the marathon. That Goofy stuff looks really good.
Speaker 7:Was it also an anniversary year for Goofy. I believe 20 years. I think it said.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, oh well, there you go. All right, we'll be signing up for Goofy. This may be since 2016,. This may be the first time I've looked at the artwork and said, gee, I really want whatever that shirt or whatever that metal looks like, and so I'm gonna run the race, because of that, Bob's turned over at New Leaf from it's nice. Yeah right right, yeah, they're okay, they're okay, that's right and it's genuine. I tend not to, but yeah, this one got me.
Speaker 6:Wait, who's all gonna try and sign up for what? So if Bob's gonna do Goofy, what about you guys?
Speaker 7:Promise my wife I wouldn't do Dopey. I'm trying to keep to that, but I think right now it's the marathon.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm also gonna do the marathon.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I'm gonna do a three for three. I'm just the marathon this year.
Speaker 6:So I guess this is where I can kind of announce it. I've created my own challenge. I've decided, since I'm running the 100-miler for Daytona, I decided I'm just gonna create it as the Cruella Challenge and on that same day go at 101 miles and then three weeks later do the Dopey Challenge. Ooh very nice, that is my Cruella Challenge.
Speaker 3:I think you'll nail it, Jack.
Speaker 6:Thank you, and Teran said she's gonna run the marathon with me, so I'm very excited.
Speaker 4:Teran's run the marathon.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I think she's gonna do Dopey, but I know for sure that us we're running at least the marathon together.
Speaker 2:Teran's a superstar. She got on the Run Disney page.
Speaker 1:Yes she did, I know.
Speaker 6:I got to be the first one to tell her and she said she flipped. She's like I've been so sore from doing Spartan.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she was in Atlanta this weekend.
Speaker 6:yeah, she's like. I jumped up from the couch even with me being so sore, but I was so excited I screamed.
Speaker 1:She's a multi-talented woman. I just saw on Facebook tonight that she just got cast in a production of Chicago.
Speaker 6:Yeah, oh, wow, cool what can't this woman do? She does everything, man Everything.
Speaker 1:Well, I think the artwork is really fantastic, although I did laugh out loud really hard earlier today when, alicia, you sent the side-by-side photo of how Dopey looks like.
Speaker 1:Elmer Fudd. That was really cool. But the one comment that I have seen a lot on social media today and it will be a crying shame if Disney doesn't follow through with it is for the merch, if there aren't Letterman jackets, it's gonna be a severe, severe miss. But although I'm thinking like jackets, leather and Disney, those things are gonna have to be like $300 or something, 300, come on.
Speaker 6:They have done Letterman jackets before and was with Tiana. They sold it. I think they're about 100. Okay, what do I remember?
Speaker 2:I thought of like the jerseys, like baseball jerseys.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I don't know, maybe there's some ideas for them.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, well, it was impressive. I'm gonna say it's a long way off, but we know how that goes.
Speaker 1:It's not a long way off. Registration's in four weeks.
Speaker 9:Registration's coming up for sure.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but the race itself is now. Marathon weekend is 293 days away.
Speaker 7:Oh, my God.
Speaker 4:So it'll be here.
Speaker 7:And training's just around the corner.
Speaker 4:Training starts in June.
Speaker 6:I've already started. Let's be real, let's start.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, a lot of us never stop. Okay, friends, let's move on. Let's move on to the rise and run podcast of first ever March Madness Challenge, and this year, I think we will probably change it from year to year. This year we're going to look at Walt Disney World Attractions Now. The selection committee met and made their decisions.
Speaker 1:How many big East teams did you leave out, bob? No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 7:I'm a big East guy.
Speaker 4:I only left out three. Anyway, I think I did mention this last week. If you go to the Disney Resort page and find their list of attraction, they list 278 attractions at Walt Disney World. But as I explained and I know I explained this last week photo opportunity with Cinderella is an attraction. Photo opportunity with Snow White is an attraction.
Speaker 4:When you really get down to it and we get down to things that we would consider attractions as rides or shows. It's not that many. So we tried to get 16 from each park. So we have four divisions Magic Kingdom, animal Kingdom, epcot and Hollywood Studios. But that wasn't really practical either. There were a lot more attractions, rides and the like in Magic Kingdom and not as many in some other places, for example Epcot. So what we did was we seeded as they do in the committee. We seeded each attraction from one to 16. Then we took the top eight and left each of those top eight in their home park. So you may, if it's a one through an eight, they're gonna be in the correct location. Otherwise, if they're a lower seed, you may see a Magic Kingdom ride competing in the Animal Kingdom division or something like that.
Speaker 1:Much tougher road to the final four, like it is, it is, it is Now.
Speaker 4:We didn't consider injuries. When the basketball committee makes their picks, they consider injuries and how they affect. I'll just ask the football team at Texas A&M what I mean by injuries is if a ride was in for renovation, we just oh well, tiana's adventure slash splash mountain. That had to be in there, so we put it in. We kind of leaned toward adult activities in terms of seeding, although we didn't omit children's activities just because they were for children, and we included all of the nighttime fireworks and I think we seeded all of those in an 11 spot just to keep things. Even Now, the true March Madness starts the night that we're recording. There are games on now. I can tell because John's watching one.
Speaker 7:I'm pretty sure I can see him reflecting.
Speaker 1:I'm glad Wagner with a big one tonight. Go Seahawks.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so we had four first four games. Also, we asked our Patreons to make the decision in the first four games and here is how they worked. In game number one, happily ever after went up against Peter Pan's flight and, by a vote percentage wise, of 63 to 37, happily ever after, moved on into the round of 64.
Speaker 1:Way to go. Patreons.
Speaker 4:It's tough to be a bug at 78% Ousted. The Triceratops spin Fair enough. Mickey's Philhar magic, with 71% of the vote, beat Luminous with 29%. And Greg's favorite ride, bring it, here we go. The magic carpets of Aladdin Bro. You say yes. Ousted Lightning. Mcqueen's Racing Academy 54. What?
Speaker 6:It's a crime.
Speaker 4:So those four teams, four games, happily ever after. Tough to be a bug. Mickey's Philhar magic magic carpets of Aladdin were then moved in to the round of 64, the first round. And gang, here we go. Now we still have a Patreon vote in all of these. So we've got Jack, john, alicia and Greg voting here. I'm not going to vote, I'm just going to read off what's going on and then I will tell you how the Patreons voted. Are we ready? We're gonna have to go through this one pretty quickly. There are 32 here. Game one the Tron Light Cycle at a number one seed versus the 16 seed, prince Charming's Regal Carousel. Jack, how do you vote?
Speaker 6:Tron.
Speaker 4:Tron John, Tron Greg.
Speaker 1:What if I don't get a virtual cue?
Speaker 4:Well, you can sit on the carousel.
Speaker 1:No, I'll go Tron.
Speaker 4:And Alicia Tron. The Patreons not unanimously. The Patreons went 78% Tron 22%. Prince Charming's Regal Carousel Tron is the first one to advance to the round of 16. Game two Tiana's Bayou Adventure or Splash Mountain an eight seed kind of down there because of the refurbishment versus the Carousel of Progress, a nine seed. Oh John, what do you think I gotta go Carousel, carousel for John Greg.
Speaker 1:Oh God, because I'm so excited for Tiana's but the fact that I haven't seen it. I hope my wife's not listening because she's gonna be really upset with this. I'm gonna go Carousel's Progress as well. Okay, alicia.
Speaker 2:Carousel of Progress.
Speaker 4:Hmm and Jack.
Speaker 6:Does no one like what? Okay, this is for what we want to vote to win right.
Speaker 4:Yes, peer pressure right.
Speaker 1:Tiana, you guys, I know I love Tiana, but I need to see the ride first.
Speaker 6:I saw an automa. Didn't they post something about one of the automatradics or?
Speaker 3:how do you say that? And?
Speaker 6:it looks pretty awesome, like the one from Tokyo from Beauty and the Beast. That's how I know it's gonna be epic.
Speaker 2:It does look nice, I don't like water splashing in my face. That's my whole thing with that one.
Speaker 6:I'll do it. You know I'll be like standing at the very point of the ship Titanic.
Speaker 7:You always gotta like smell your hands after you touch that ride. It's like uh.
Speaker 2:I love it, Jack. I do love the smell of Disney water, though.
Speaker 6:Yeah it has a story to say Not.
Speaker 2:Peter Pan, pirates of the Caribbean, yep.
Speaker 4:Well, with three votes from the Rise and Run gang, the Patreons, by a 73 to 27% margin, picked Tiana's Bayou adventure. But the Carousel of Progress is our first upset winner. Not a major upset, a nine seed D-S-A-Z.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those eight, nine games are always a toss-up.
Speaker 4:They are. Let's move on. There's no rhyme or reason to the way these are numbered. But let's move on to game number three in the Epcot Division, guardians of the Galaxy, cosmic Rewind versus the Seas with Nemo and friends. Greg, I believe you're up, oh God.
Speaker 1:I mean, I love Nemo because my family's obsessed with finding Nemo, but you gotta go. Guardians September, all the way.
Speaker 4:Okay, Greg's got Guardians Alicia.
Speaker 2:I agree with Greg. As long as much as I love Nemo, I have to go with Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 4:Okay, Jack.
Speaker 6:Jack's swimming out to sea, Not in the ocean but I'm just going to go. I'm definitely going to Cosmic Rewind.
Speaker 7:And John Gotta go Cosmic.
Speaker 4:And the patrons make that a unanimous pick. Although the Patreon pick was not unanimous, it was 96% to 4%. Somebody picked the sea with Nemo and friends. That's okay, it's a matter of opinion. Game number four eight seed monsters ink the laugh floor versus the nine seed mission space Alicia. You're up.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't like either of these. What?
Speaker 6:is the face.
Speaker 5:You just gave the laugh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't like either of these.
Speaker 1:She doesn't like the selection committee on this one.
Speaker 4:I'm saying monsters ink, because at least I'm laughing instead of wanting to get sick Instead of trying to keep your lunch down. Okay, Jack.
Speaker 6:I'm going to choose the ride or slash attraction that my boyfriend will never go on. I tried to get him on it and he just refuses, which is the laugh floor I actually like that attraction.
Speaker 4:Okay, john.
Speaker 7:Seaton Hall oh sorry. Oh, mission space Okay.
Speaker 1:Greg, I will go with laugh floor.
Speaker 4:Laugh floor, laugh floor. Three to one. Here the Patreons also went with laugh floor by a 73, 27% Margin. Laugh floor moves to the round of 16. Game number five in the animal kingdom division the third seeded dinosaur versus the 14th seeded Dumbo versus the 14th seeded Dumbo, the flying elephant, jack Europe.
Speaker 6:This is obvious, bob Dinosaur. All the way. I already know what John's vote is.
Speaker 4:John. What's your vote? Jack seems to know.
Speaker 7:Jack's what he calls psychic dinosaur.
Speaker 6:I had. It's like mean girls, it's 90% sure it's raining, sorry.
Speaker 1:Greg, I'm going Dumbo.
Speaker 4:What, and I'm pretty sure I know Alicia's.
Speaker 2:I have to go with dinosaur.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think that's Alicia's favorite.
Speaker 1:So I just didn't do a list of the reaction. I know.
Speaker 4:Oh, you want to get a reaction, greg, by a vote of three to one. Dinosaur moves forward. Had you voted for Dumbo the flying elephant, it would have moved forward because the Patreons, by a 61 to 39%, picked the 14th seeded Dumbo the flying elephant.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm talking about. Dumbo is the Saint Peter's of Disney World Attractions.
Speaker 6:Okay, when I was four years old, when I was four years old, dumbo was my favorite ride. My parents know that, but dinosaur is. Thank you, alicia. I was like incoming. You call it. They're not going to make it. They're not going to make it. Left, right, left.
Speaker 4:I know that was the biggest upset in the Patreon, voting the 14 over the three, but the three moves forward. Let's go to game number six. The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror a three seed against the Walt Disney World Railroad a 14 seed. Let's see who did I start with last? I started with Jack. So, john, you're up. I don't know that's a good one You're going to say, but you are going to say something right Eventually.
Speaker 7:No, I don't know what I'm going to say right now. That's a good one. I'm going to go with the railroad, greg.
Speaker 1:I'm with John. I like a good upset. I'm going railroad. I'm sorry, Jack.
Speaker 2:Alicia 100% railroad. I don't like falling in an elevator. That's my biggest fear.
Speaker 4:And Jack.
Speaker 6:You guys are all going to get bad luck now If you don't say hello to Caesar when you go by Tower of Terror, you have bad luck. I've seen it happen. Hello Caesar, I don't see it personally, but hello, tower of Terror. Thank you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 14 out of three. I thought this was easy because the patrons also went with the three seed Tower of Terror 85 to 15. However, with three Ryzen runners going for the railroad, the railroad moves to the round of 16. Obsessed city.
Speaker 3:Game number seven.
Speaker 4:It's so upset Back in the Animal Kingdom division. That was a bad somebody impression, dick Vitale.
Speaker 1:Dick Vitale. For the next round, I'll switch over to Bill Rafferty.
Speaker 4:Okay, game number seven back in Animal Kingdom division, gorilla Falls Trail of six seed alien swirling saucers. I realized they're not playing at home On 11 seed. We start with Greg.
Speaker 1:Let's see. So the Gorilla Falls Trail opens up. Man, man, I'll take Gorilla Trail Falls.
Speaker 2:Well, I've never done Gorilla Falls, so I have to say aliens whirl saucers.
Speaker 4:Okay, jack.
Speaker 6:You guys know I love Animal Kingdom, but aliens, swirling saucers and John, I'll take Gorilla Falls trails for a thousand Alex.
Speaker 4:With a split vote of two to two amongst the Ryzen runners, the Patriots cast the deciding vote and the Gorilla Falls Trail moved forward 66% to 34%.
Speaker 6:Bob is supposed to say you're supposed to say what is Alex?
Speaker 7:The.
Speaker 6:Gorilla trails Okay.
Speaker 4:I'll remember that for when we do this next year. I won't remember anything. I won't remember it next week. What are you kidding me?
Speaker 6:We should do a Jeopardy game.
Speaker 4:All right. Game number eight. Game number eight. We're about a quarter of the way through here. Game number eight we are in the Hollywood Studios division pitting six seeded rock and roller coaster with Aerosmith against playing on the road. No, I said no. No, this is home. Also Phantasmic, an 11 seed. And we are starting with Alicia, I believe.
Speaker 2:Rock and roller coaster.
Speaker 4:Jack.
Speaker 6:So this one's really hard because you know, I worked at Hollywood Studios. I want to say rock and roller coaster, but I'm choosing Phantasmic because that is technically where David and I met.
Speaker 4:Okay, john, did you meet anybody on rock and roller coaster or anything?
Speaker 7:Yeah, I met a what's Joe Perry there once.
Speaker 4:Steven Tyler.
Speaker 7:Steven Tyler, you know it took me to limo. Yeah, right Did you get backstage passes, backstage passes and everything.
Speaker 6:I would have gone that way, I promise it's just. That's where my boyfriend and I met, you know.
Speaker 7:Rock and roller coaster for me and Greg.
Speaker 1:I'm going Phantasmic because I've been disgruntled with how often rock and roller coaster has been down for refurbishment and I haven't been on the ride in years.
Speaker 7:So I'm going Phantasmic. You didn't meet Merther.
Speaker 1:No, I did not.
Speaker 4:So split two to two, we go to the Patreon. Vote the Patreon by a percentage of 56 to 44. Go with the 11 seed Phantasmic. Phantasmic is moving forward. Game number nine back in the Magic Kingdom division, fourth seated space mountain versus the 13th seated Tomorrowland Speedway. And I'm losing track of where I left off. I think we're back to starting with Jack Jack space mountain versus Tomorrowland Speedway.
Speaker 6:Space Mountain front seat Bob.
Speaker 7:Outstanding John Space Mountain Greg.
Speaker 1:I'm going Space Mountain because my second most despised attraction in all of Walt Disney World is the Tomorrowland Speedway. So uh yo yeah. That thing needs to be bulldozed. Tron should be where the Speedway is now. Yeah, it's valid. So yeah, space Mountain for me, adalicia.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not gonna go with Speedway.
Speaker 4:Okay, fair enough. Adalicia goes with Speedway. That's one vote for Speedway. The Patreons also went with Space Mountain. So Space Mountain, space Mountain 90 to 10 amongst the Patreons. Space Mountain moves forward. Game number 10 back in the Epcot division, starting with John John, the fourth seed soaring around the world, versus the Country Bear Jamboree.
Speaker 7:Uh, that's an interesting one. If I need a good nap, country Bear is really good, but I'm gonna go with Soaring.
Speaker 4:Well, what if you want to thank the Phoenicians Um Soaring for John Greg?
Speaker 1:Soaring for me.
Speaker 4:Soaring for Greg Alisha.
Speaker 2:Well, you said Soaring around the world, and I don't like that one, so I'm going. Country Bearers Ooh.
Speaker 4:Well Soaring around the world is yeah, that's what Disney listed as right now.
Speaker 2:I know, but I like the California version better.
Speaker 4:Okay, that's fair enough. Did you meet someone in California? I'm only kidding, no.
Speaker 7:Did Putty come out and help you work it on the ride?
Speaker 10:No, I wish.
Speaker 6:Jack. So in the good old fashioned of Country Bearers, imagine a guitar going BOOM BLOOD ON THE GROUND. I almost chose Country Bearers because I think it's so funny when you grow up and you actually listen to the words. Oh yeah, I wish it was Soaring over California, but I have to go with Soaring around the world.
Speaker 4:That's fair. Patrons went with Soaring 86 to 14. Soaring moves forward. By the way, a real aside here I don't know if you saw it or not, depends on where you are. You know my friend Woody. His picture on Facebook, he and his mom, kim, picture with Patrick Warburton. I don't know if you saw that or not.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's awesome, that's cool.
Speaker 4:Yeah, pretty cool. All right, let's get back to the Magic Kingdom Division and we, I think, are starting with Greg. Greg, the fifth seed, big thunder mountain, versus the 12th seed hall of presidents.
Speaker 1:No contest, here big thunder.
Speaker 2:Alicia Big Thunder Jack.
Speaker 4:Big Thunder and John Big Thunder 100% amongst the rise and run gang. This was one of two matchups where the Patrons also went 100%. By the way I don't think I've said this before we got about 40 votes in each one of the games from our Patrons. I've been married from 38 to 42, but on average right around 40 votes. So, no, no love at all for the Hall of Presidents.
Speaker 1:They're out of here. Listen, there's no 12, five upsets in this bracket.
Speaker 4:Doesn't look like it, let's move on to another 12, five game here in the Epcot Division, frozen ever after, versus the many adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Alicia, I think you're up. I don't know I've lost track. I'm keeping track of the games. I'm keeping track of who's up.
Speaker 2:Hmm, this one's kind of hard for me, but I think I'm going to go. Many adventures, winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 4:Pooh Jack.
Speaker 6:I love Pooh, so Pooh Bear Pooh Ride.
Speaker 7:Pooh. It is John. I think we've got an upset bro. In here, bob Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 1:And Greg, I'm going to eat crow here. I'm going to eat the pooh with the 12, five upsets, wow.
Speaker 4:Patriots had frozen ever after 67, 33, but Pooh Bear moves on, in fact in the Epcot Division. Well, never mind, I don't want to give that spoiler alert. Let's see, let's find game 13. Game number 13 is in the animal kingdom division and gosh, I don't know. I think I just started with Alicia, jack Jack, the Maharaja jungle trek, a seven seed, versus the Disney and Pixar short film festival, which is in Epcot, a 10 seed.
Speaker 6:That's easy, Bob. I love me a good trail.
Speaker 4:Okay, maharaja trek for Jack John.
Speaker 7:I'm going to Maharaja Greg.
Speaker 1:Take me to the jungle.
Speaker 4:And Alicia.
Speaker 2:I don't know what either of those are.
Speaker 7:Pixar short film festival was where honey, I shrunk the audience was.
Speaker 2:Or or captain EO. Okay, what's the track?
Speaker 7:It's just walk around the jungle.
Speaker 4:Another trail. It's one of two trails in animal kingdom and I think it's the jungle trail and the jungle trek trail. It's in the Asia. The jungle treks in Asia, gorilla trails in Africa. I think that's right. Yeah, you have to see the tigers and stuff. Hey, alicia, alicia, yeah, it's already there's four total. Five total votes. Yeah, don't waste the whole lot of time. It's already four to nothing.
Speaker 2:So I'll just say the track.
Speaker 4:I don't know either.
Speaker 6:You nailed it, girl, the track.
Speaker 4:The seven seed trek is moving on. Let's go to the Hollywood studios division for game 14. The let's see we're at, greg, I think Great Seven seed toy story mania. Ten seed, it's a small world.
Speaker 1:Toy story.
Speaker 4:Alicia. Toy story mania Jack Toy story baby and John to infinity and beyond. We are unanimous to patriots. Also pick toy story. Back to animal kingdom for the game number 15. Game 15, the second seeded expedition, everest, versus the 15th seed astro orbiter expedition Everest. Jack.
Speaker 6:Sanimal kingdom expedition Everest.
Speaker 4:John Everest and Greg.
Speaker 1:Give me the disco, yeti baby.
Speaker 4:We are unanimous to patriots agree. However, once again a little bit of a surprise astro orbiter got 2% love out of the patrons. Means one person voted for it. So Everest was not unanimous. It's a good ride. 16. We're approaching the halfway point here and when we hit the halfway point we're going to pause. All right. Last one for right now in the Hollywood studios division, Jack Europe, the second seed millennium falcon smugglers run versus the 15 seed mad tea party.
Speaker 6:Oh, a ride you could throw up on. Or a ride you could throw up on. It's so cool. I love a wild ride and I went to use my tea party.
Speaker 4:Tea party from Jack.
Speaker 7:John, you have to ask, I know.
Speaker 1:I'm with Jack on this one. I'll go smugglers run.
Speaker 4:Jack was a tea party.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah, but I mean the, the and Alicia tea party by a, then the ends up being the patrons who decide it, because the patrons, by 81 to 19, vote for millennium. Falcon smugglers run. They are moving forward. That puts us halfway through, guys. I think this is a good time to stop and visit with our guests for the week. I believe it was right after we got back from princess weekend. I'm always on the Facebook group and I see a post and I can't recall who made the post, but it included a photo of our guests tonight, allison and Penny, and as soon as it went up, our friends couldn't get to the comments section quickly enough to say hey, ryzen Run gang, you need to interview these two. They're great, they're going to be fun and, as Greg says in the intro, including surprise guests suggested by you, our listeners. At the behest of our listeners, we welcome now Penny and Allison to the Ryzen Run podcast. Hi you guys, great to see you.
Speaker 10:Hello, great to see you too.
Speaker 4:All right, let's get fired up now. It's a little low energy. Come on, I know you're better. I know I know We've been talking before. That's the. That's the quietest I've heard you. Just because I press the record button, nothing changes, we're all still good. Thanks for joining us. I was I really was excited to see the reaction of our friends and I know I think all some of them already contacted you and said hey, we're excited, right.
Speaker 5:They are extremely excited. We are so utterly humbled. It never surprises me just how many people we reach it, just dumb pounds me every time.
Speaker 10:I was, because it will be an all again springtime weekend, because every every time it is humbling and such a unique experience every time we go down.
Speaker 4:It's something in it. I don't have words to describe the family, but I know I surely do love them.
Speaker 10:There aren't. There aren't really great words that describes the run Disney family at all.
Speaker 5:It's family. That is the word.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's my favorite. It certainly is.
Speaker 10:It truly is. Yeah, it's nothing our local, not to dismiss our local run groups, but there's something special about run Disney?
Speaker 4:No, I am with you 100% on that. Speaking of using the word family, let's kick off here. How did you two crazy kids meet?
Speaker 10:I'll let you tell that story.
Speaker 5:Why always me?
Speaker 4:Because it got to be somebody.
Speaker 5:No, she loves how I tell the story is why I do. We met on Facebook. I lived in New Hampshire, she lived in mass, so we were both in a support group. We had come out later in life. We both grew up and did the things we were told to do Married men, had children and then, when we found ourselves like we later in life, we joined a support group on Facebook on coming out later and getting to know ourselves a little bit better and who we are, and through that I had seen her and I was like, oh, she's close by, she's really like two hours away.
Speaker 4:That's close by.
Speaker 5:Well, yeah. So I was like, oh, I'll make a friend get to know her. So I reached out through messenger and said, hey, how's it going? Here's the best part. And she pretty much told me I don't have time for you.
Speaker 9:Go away.
Speaker 5:It wasn't in so many words, but it wasn't pretty much I'm busy. It's not what I said. So then I was like OK, months go by and she reaches out to me.
Speaker 10:A couple months. Don't make it seem like forever. Ok, a couple months.
Speaker 5:So then, a couple months go by, she reaches out to me and I pretty much said what do you want?
Speaker 4:So this was off to a great start. So I was like what?
Speaker 5:do you want? You dismissed me and she's all like, well, we responded to some of the same things and we have common interests and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, yeah, so, and it's not so many words. I couldn't. I was like you didn't have time for me the first time, why now? But somehow we hit it off since then and it's been seven years. Seven years.
Speaker 4:Seven years. Wow, you know interesting. We read and hear so much about what's bad about social media and in the last three minutes that we've been talking, we've talked about two wonderful examples of what social media has done for us. That wouldn't exist this rise and run family or the run Disney family would not be the same without the opportunity to do all this, and you two never find each other If not for this. So, yeah, there's some downsides, but by golly there's some pretty, pretty awesome upsides too.
Speaker 10:When we met pennies, children were in high school and my youngest is two at the time.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 10:Mine too.
Speaker 5:It was two, five and seven Freshman and junior, so she was ready to be free.
Speaker 10:I was free.
Speaker 4:I was coming out of the tunnel, yeah.
Speaker 5:I had been a single parent for 12 years, so I was finally like I can make friends, I can do things again.
Speaker 10:Oh no.
Speaker 4:Not so fast, my friend.
Speaker 10:Yeah, and then it's my fault, right, I had the two year old.
Speaker 5:I looked at her and I said your kids scare me. And she goes. Why? I said because that's starting over again. Have freedom and that's Well. Needless to say, I started over.
Speaker 4:I was worth it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it was every single day it is.
Speaker 10:And he's still the cutest with his dimples. And it's so funny how, like we clearly adore Disney, and one out of five of our children does.
Speaker 5:Really yeah that may change One one, one One.
Speaker 11:It's very sad.
Speaker 5:And it's the one, that's the mini copy of me, the 21 year old, yeah.
Speaker 10:She's been twice. She's been twice. She was. It was really cool. She got to come marathon weekend and you know, as I'm sure everybody knows, the half marathon course was cut and so we finished our miles at where we were staying. Because I hadn't trained for doby and I was, there was no way I wasn't going to do the miles. I wouldn't feel right completing it without doing the actual miles. So you know, we're flooding at where we were staying and it was really cool because our 21-year-old got to meddle us at the half and she got to see me cross the finish line of the marathon. My three had seen me cross other marathons, but this kid hadn't seen me cross yet, so it was really cool to have her there for that.
Speaker 1:Well, alison and Penny, that is the absolutely lovely and just inspiring love story of how the two of you have met and come to just be incredible parents. But you know you told us a great story about finding each other. Why don't you tell us the story about how you found another thing that you love and that's run Disney?
Speaker 10:One of the things that I absolutely admired about Penny when we first met was her dedication to really the gym working out, being consistent, like she'd go six days a week, and I was like what? Of course, you know, bubba was two and I couldn't imagine. You know, I had three kids and couldn't imagine how am I going to fit in time for this? I wasn't really. I stopped being a quote, unquote athlete after my first year in college. Running was never my thing, I had bad knees, so, but go ahead so now you can go.
Speaker 10:I just want to preface the story with. I was pretty amazed by the fact that this person could find time six days a week to go to the gym.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5:So I did powerlifting, I lifted and I still love lifting a lot. It's my thing. Running was never my thing, but I always made it at the end of weightlifting. So I'd spend an hour weightlifting and then go run three miles on the treadmill. I hate the treadmill. I hated it then, hate it now. When I met my wife and she saw that I was doing, I remember our first. We did one. I remember her telling me she wanted to do a 5k and I said oh, I got you, I can train you for that no big deal.
Speaker 10:So I started training her and we did our first 5k together, which I remember very distinctly a quarter of a mile in I was like we're like a mile in right, like I'm dying.
Speaker 4:Whose idea was this?
Speaker 10:This was not a good idea at all.
Speaker 5:So then we kept training because we wanted to get better and she wanted to get further. So I kept training her and along this journey she was getting able to run further distance and run faster than me, which kind of made me angry because I had been doing it for years and I could never run faster and I could never run past three miles and it was making me mad. Now here she's doing six miles and I'm still struggling with three. And then we did some research and found out that, like I have muscle strength and she has muscle endurance, which are totally different muscle groups in the long run. So while running comes very easy to her or natural to her, it was a huge struggle for me and still is. But then, like she did all these half marathons and on her bucket list was I want to run a run Disney event.
Speaker 4:Cool.
Speaker 5:I don't even know how that happened Was it when we were in Disney.
Speaker 10:No, I think remember that time we did the, we were cycling and we were talking to people who would run in Disney before. That's right. And you know, around here there's a challenge at the Cape called the Chowda Challenge in the fall. And you, on Saturday you do a half and Sunday you do a full. Well, I've done the half and I've done the marathon relay, like same weekend, and I can remember thinking years ago and my friends, like you're nuts.
Speaker 10:Yeah, yeah, oh, absolutely Right you run a full marathon after the day, after you run a half, and that was maybe my second half, maybe.
Speaker 5:Mother's Day, and then that one that fall.
Speaker 10:But you know, when we started expanding we started biking a little bit. I like to do things. Last minute I signed up for a triathlon four days before a triathlon. You?
Speaker 3:know, I just got on a road bike.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 5:We, you know, yeah, she likes to do epic things on a whim.
Speaker 10:Yeah, yep, so we decided.
Speaker 5:So she wanted to do run Disney as a bucket list and somehow I don't even know how. But I was like, okay, I don't know if it was a birthday gift or whatever, but I like to make her dreams come true. That is one of the things I like to do, is I like to give her what she would like. I love to lift her up in any way she can. And since she was doing all the things, I figured, hey, why not give her a run Disney event? So we decided on Princess, because that was last year, because that was the only thing that fit into my teaching schedule. As a teacher, I don't choose any time off, I just so. The only one that matched was Princess Weekend, if that was my February break. And she's like okay, I want to do the challenge, which was the 10k and a half. And I said, okay, I sat and pondered on doing the 10k. I knew I was going to do a 10k, but I pondered on the half.
Speaker 10:She had only done a half one time, not a race, just in one of my marathon training runs.
Speaker 5:And I regretted every minute and said I would never do it again. She also ran on the bad road.
Speaker 10:once you hit the 10 mile mark, it was rough.
Speaker 5:It was horrible. I told myself I would never do it again. For half marathons later, yep. So I went to school and I really pondered the half marathon and I'm like she's really doing this challenge and I didn't part of it, wasn't that I wanted to do it for me, I wanted to do it with her, and so and I wanted to experience it with her and I'm like, but it is. I remember the last half that we trained on and I was like I just don't know. So I talked to a co-worker of mine and he goes why don't you do the 5k? I said, oh, 5k is easy, I can do that, which before I thought was difficult. He goes why don't you do a 10k? I said the 10k is a little bit of a challenge, but I can do that, it goes. So what's the problem with the half? I said it's far, it's 13 miles, it was, it's torturous. Like. Why he goes, what are you always telling your students? And I'm like I tell my students a lot of things.
Speaker 7:Why don't you get it.
Speaker 5:He goes. Don't you tell them to keep trying even if they fail, like you just got to keep trying and keep trying to be successful and and not to be afraid of failing. And I was like, yeah, he goes, so why are you afraid to fail?
Speaker 10:Aw.
Speaker 5:Kinda ate my word. No, I am one that practice what I preach. So I had to swallow my pride and I came home and I said I'm doing the challenge, I'm going to do the half.
Speaker 10:Yeah. So you know, and that became that was a really big thing with your students. Yeah it, yes, it was us doing something together when I had made her so angry because I was running fast for a while.
Speaker 5:I started running for two years because I was so mad. But it was, I really was. I was so mad that I decided I stopped running, I'm just gonna walk, I'm just gonna walk because I can't.
Speaker 10:I can't. Well, beginning of COVID, there was that 2020 challenge to do 2020 miles in the year. Yeah so, but this was this became our thing. So we know that I can't. If we're well, we generally always run together. If we're when we're running together, I have to stay behind because, naturally, I'll just take off, I got you. Not on purpose. It's not intentional. It just happens that way.
Speaker 5:And then you'll hear me say meet me.
Speaker 10:Yep, because I'm the road runner, as she constantly calls me, and my mother as well, actually. But it became also a thing in her classroom where you had the kids would come in and ask like what did you run today, how, where are you at? Like, what miles you know?
Speaker 5:So I posted all over. So Judy Hopps became my thing. Yep, try everything.
Speaker 6:Love it Good song, favorite song.
Speaker 5:That whole movie, judy Hopps, you know everybody discounted her, not being a police officer, not being able to do it. How is she gonna get through these challenges? It just became my thing. And then Try Everything song was really the key to it. So I had the main verse quotes I will try everything, even if I fail.
Speaker 5:I have it posted all in my classroom and I said this is my theme this year. So I walked in last year saying this is my theme. This year, I want it to be your theme. If I can run 13.1 miles, you can pass chemistry. Yep, like you got to put in the effort, though I said I can't show up to race day saying I'm gonna, I'm gonna race and do these 13.1 miles, but I've never put in the hard work. And so, as we were doing it, my kids at school would also be like okay, what'd you do this weekend? How many miles would you do this morning? Because I would get up early in the morning to run after I did the farm as well. So like they were all wanting what do you mean? You've been up since four. How many miles did you run before you came here? Like, so it didn't just become us thing, it now involves my classroom as well, so and the Judy hops traveled with us through that whole theme.
Speaker 10:she talked about a lot in her posts and so, as we were running the half, a lot of people were. I mean, we had a shirt made for her that was Judy hops, and somebody had a pin for you, somebody had a coin for you, like people were coming up to us. I mean it was our first experience that we never expected. It was our first. That was our first trip to Disney just the two of us, no kids, and our first run Disney race. Our first run Disney race, and it was the only way I can ever describe that. Weekend is pure magic, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, lacey. If you told me what year this was, I missed it. I'm sorry. What year was that?
Speaker 5:It was last princess, oh, just just February, but the one before 2023.
Speaker 10:Yeah, so you know, new in the grand scheme of you know run Disney world. But what we do is we post everything so I tend to number my run. So you know I, up until Dopey weekend this year, was calling it my run Disney perfect season training run and I numbered them.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 4:Right, right.
Speaker 5:So so last season, before that, what I did was I started posting because I did it as an accountability yes for myself, not aware of how much it would affect people. I started it as kind because I was like I said prior to that. I was mad because I couldn't. I couldn't get all the runs in, blah, blah, blah, and so, and COVID had hit me twice so.
Speaker 5:I did now learn how to run with asthma lungs. So like my whole life changed and so we she introduced me to the Jeff Galloway Yep and so we I had to figure out on my own. So I started a little bit on my own trying to figure out which intervals worked for me and found that 30 30 with the way my lungs are worked best for me.
Speaker 4:That's the way to do it.
Speaker 5:And then once I figured that out, I would, she just kind of went with me I do whatever she does.
Speaker 10:When we're training, she controls the intervals, but at the race it's the one time I get to control it it's so much fun because I stay back and I tell her when to run and walk and then I get to like crack jokes with everybody around me that control and stuff.
Speaker 5:But so yeah, so I posted everyone for accountability. I was going through a lot of medical issues like we were still trying to figure out my ideas. We were still trying to figure out my gurd and my fueling, and fueling with a gluten allergy you know how the heat affected my body, because the heat really plays a huge factor in my body and then like going through menopause and that whole issue with it and like one day we were we weren't even a half a mile from the house.
Speaker 10:I happened to be in front and I turn around and she's crying and I was like oh no, I went, I started out too fast. I was like do you want a hug? She was like no. I was like are you gonna punch me? She was like maybe. And I was like okay, I'll just stand back here and have your moment.
Speaker 5:Well, you know, it's done with my emotional breakdown, I ran one of my fastest runs, okay on my favorite route. I might add so I posted like all these real issues I was having. I wasn't really doing it for anyone, I was doing it because I needed it and I needed to get it, oh yeah yeah, it's a little disastrous, I got so sick of part of the reason why I wasn't just her, of why I stopped running and I got so sick of hearing oh, I'm so great at running.
Speaker 5:Running is such a thing. I'm like dude, running sucks and I hate it. Like why? Why is everybody making it this glorious thing? It is not. It is hard, it is tough. I want to cry, I'm done so. I I just posted the real things like oh, I ran a half a mile and then broke down and cried and then, like, got up and ran the rest of it, felt great, didn't quit, you know, and we were silly, like we would also take pictures.
Speaker 10:We were prepping ourselves for character stops.
Speaker 4:Very good.
Speaker 10:So, and you know here in Massachusetts so we we weren't clearly not training for Florida weather one. However, holidays lead to lots of inflatables on people's lawns.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they do.
Speaker 5:So, we may or may not get close and take pictures with them.
Speaker 10:Oh yeah, there's just one house we still haven't gone up to yet, but that they always have the best inflatables, and one day I'm gonna go up and ask them if I can do it. Otherwise, we just go up and take pictures.
Speaker 4:Sure, I think, I think we've all done that.
Speaker 6:It's. It's good practice if it makes you feeling any better. When it was COVID, me and Lexi decided that because she was doing like a virtual run Disney race, I dressed up as all these different characters along the route. I remember that. So she had meet and greets.
Speaker 4:I didn't know about that. That's good.
Speaker 5:After we posted all of that like and and like we constantly post, and I know what the question is going to be because everybody's waiting, but I'll oh you're gonna hit it. I will answer it in a second.
Speaker 5:But after that then, like we went down to run Disney and when we did I did not did not expect what we got Started in Epcot I was floored. I did not realize that my post had reached so many people. It was really starting as accountability for me and and I'm gonna try not to get emotional, but I did not.
Speaker 5:I did not realize how many people were just taking back and said thank you so much like for keeping it real, for telling us that it's hard, like I thought I was the only one and like like I'm also going through menopause and just the struggle and it was like even to this day it affects me so much because I really didn't even think something so silly to keep myself accountable, did not realize that I had touched so many, yeah, yeah, and the fact that it still continues and there's new people every time we go down.
Speaker 10:But the very first person that we met we're such good friends with her and her husband and a family came to see I, or we bumped into them at the contemporary they screamed my name or said something to me Penny Ann, or something like that.
Speaker 10:That's what you heard that weekend All that weekend. That first princess weekend was oh my god, it's Penny, ann and Allison. Oh my god, and like this one family had like seven sisters came up to us and they were like, oh my god, so, and so my sister, so, and so is going to be so jealous that we saw you, can we take a picture? And it and it just continued.
Speaker 5:So then we, after that, we, I did not want to leave. That weekend was so magical. I literally cried. I did not want to go home, I did not want to go back to real life.
Speaker 10:It was. It was every little bit of what you want in Disney. We walked up to chef Mickey's and got in without a reservation. The conversations because we hair. I say we, it's not me, I don't hair braid, penny hair braids for free.
Speaker 5:It's like our version of pixie dust for people, so we'll post where we're at, and that's where it started, too was that weekend, because some people posted, does anybody know how to braid hair? And I was like honey, I know how to french braid hair. Well, we just like hang out, set up a, a shop in somewhere and so I well, not a shop, so we offered it out there. I'm like hey, I know how to french braid, come see me and I'll make you princesses for the runs, like I had no problem with that.
Speaker 4:Greg, you taking notes, you and I we need to get over there. It's like that's a new kind of challenge.
Speaker 10:penny Greg and I show up it was in the moderator of the Disney princess group came to meet Penny, just to meet her, not to get her hair braided, but just to come talk to this person who posts so much in the group, who people comment. You know all this stuff and it and it continued and so right, that blossomed our love for run. Disney and we said, okay, we're going to do going forward one weekend a year and then we'll pick our weekend. Okay, even though how?
Speaker 4:long did that last?
Speaker 10:Not long it didn't last because it started with wine and dine. Right, wine and dine had incanto, so that was it. We were going all out because I'm Marisa like I told you, I'm strong. Like I lived like that was my girl, so that was it we were doing all of that and Alice in the Wonderland. We had two kids that love Cheshire. So so that was it right then when I learned that the marathon was on my birthday let me tell you I was not happy when she brought this up at first.
Speaker 10:I was like please can I do one more marathon.
Speaker 5:You all know, if you've done a marathon the train, how much time it takes to train train right, that's right for a marathon let alone Dopey, let alone Dopey. And she is like asking and kind of pleading and I'm like it's my one chance.
Speaker 10:I can run it on my birthday, and I was like we said one, we have wine and dine.
Speaker 5:She's like, but it won't come again. It's on my birthday and I'm like I had just didn't think about it because, like, we have a farm that we have to take care of, we have three kids and we have, we have five kids.
Speaker 10:Well, five kids, but the other two are in college and the timing of for a teacher that's just coming back from break to then take more time off, which is? It's so like I'm. I'm a nurse, but I'm an admin. I'm an administrator, so I actually oversee programs, but I also get to play nurse from time to time. But, thanks to COVID, I have like a million hours of vacation time because nobody took vacation. Um, so for me to take time off, it's not a problem, um, but for her so yeah.
Speaker 5:So this is like I was teetering back and forth but, as you all know from previous, was what she wanted. It was on her bucket list, it was a birthday, birthday gift, boom, you have dopey better than better than the chowder challenge at the cape.
Speaker 10:Although fantastic run, it's always crappy weather one of the days, so it's pouring rain and windy. Yeah, um, what I get? To run through all four parks yeah that was two this year said no one too right, so that was two, so she.
Speaker 5:So we're like, okay, we have two next, we'll figure it out the other two later. Yep, then they release then they release princess weekend and that had Elsa, and Elsa is my favorite of all. I'm not a princess, I am tomboy all the way. But Elsa, elsa, I am a winter baby, I love winter, I love the cold. Anybody who has seen me run knows that I love running in the cold well, you're in the right part of the country, then that's good um so Elsa's just like cold never bothered me anyway, but he did which was my shirt but um, so we booked princess yep.
Speaker 5:And then she's like are we going for a Disney perfect? I said no, no, we're not going to do spring time. I'm not there yet. We already have enough on our plate. We're not, we're not gonna do perfect but then two things.
Speaker 10:You can tell the second part, but when you look at the dates it fits perfect with April vacation oh yeah uh-huh yeah the springtime actually fits my. April break and princess always fits for.
Speaker 4:February break there's run Disney calling. You're right there.
Speaker 10:I know right and then so talk about a phone call. So now I get a phone call, I'm at work, she's hysterical six 26.
Speaker 5:on June 26 they release the challenge and it is my all time favorite Disney character stitch. I am obsessed with stitch. Stitch is everywhere in the house, like I am literally so obsessed with stitch. Anytime there's something new down in Disney that has stitch on it, I have bought it. I am obsessed so they dropped it.
Speaker 10:I called her crying. I thought something had happened at school. I mean, she's a teacher, like stop happens. I immediately go back, like that's where my brain goes.
Speaker 5:Nope, I said no. They released the challenge. She goes what is it Stitch? I was like hey, cool, guess we're booking that one.
Speaker 7:So there were like four for four.
Speaker 10:Then we were already like all right, how are we gonna do this? So then we decided we'd be annual pass holders, because that made sense.
Speaker 4:It does. At that point it sure does Right.
Speaker 10:So that makes sense. Oh, let's get an airline credit card to earn points.
Speaker 4:Earn points yep.
Speaker 5:So then we can pay for our. So my version of Disney Perfect and I put it out there because people are like everybody has a different what Disney Perfect is. What does Disney Perfect?
Speaker 10:mean yeah what does that mean?
Speaker 5:And it means different to every person. So for me, my Disney Perfect, which is really a huge challenge and it is playing, it is really playing coming up spring. My version is all of the races that Disney World provides this season or this series, minus three medals. So I won't get goofy, I won't get dopey in the marathon which, by the way, if you do the 5K, 10k, half on marathon, you should get an extra medal.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's the only weekend that you don't yeah it's crazy, like I get it, but some people can't do the half in the marathon. Some people just can't do the marathon. So, like you're the double challenge. Both involve the marathon, which is not fair, but you know who's who's say Alison and Penny?
Speaker 2:speaking of all those medals, you have to have some really great pictures with all of those. And our friends really wanted us to ask about the Superman pose. Can you tell us about that?
Speaker 5:So when I first started training, I was struggling, and so I watched Grey's Anatomy and they did the Superman pose. I don't even remember the reason behind it, but I was like, oh okay, I do it for a different reason. I started doing it to remind myself that I am stronger than what my mind says. I am capable of doing it, I can do this, and I feel like a superhero when I'm done. So I started doing the Superman pose to remind myself you are stronger than your mind, you are more than capable. Look at what your body has gone through and you still succeeded. And regardless if I succeeded or failed, even a failure is success. So even if I didn't, if I set out to do 10 miles and I only got eight, I would still do the pose because I still went out there and I still tried. And that was the point of it was to keep my mindset positive and not falling in the negative, and to remind myself that I'm strong. I am a strong person.
Speaker 2:To any of our friends who don't know what the Superman pose is and correct me if I'm wrong, ladies, but it's standing with your hands on your hips and then kind of just in this power pose and it's scientifically proven that it gives you extra power and that boost of energy.
Speaker 10:Yep, correct, there is truly science behind it. And that leads into. I think one of our other favorite run Disney family was a family that found us at the contemporary that have they have a daughter. Well, it's two sisters, so daughter and niece. This little one, she's six, but she knows us from the Superman pose and when she met us at the contemporary we have to take pictures with her doing the Superman pose.
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 10:And then that weekend she taught us how to pop a hip, although I don't think I'm that good at it, but we are very close with them and I got to crash with them marathon weekend one night because I went down early. Yeah, they're just. It is just one of those other relationships we have so many, but another one that is just so special Like we, aside from our Superman pose, we always have headbands we wear. I swear it's junk band should sponsor us. I don't know how to get them to.
Speaker 5:I'm not wearing it now because I just took it off, but I wear it 24 seven. I wear them to school, I wear them everywhere, like.
Speaker 10:I love my junk bands, so there's always junk bands.
Speaker 5:I'm on day 17 of non-repeating junk bands.
Speaker 10:Oh wow. You don't understand. I'm posting on my own.
Speaker 5:Facebook page of how many junk bands I've had. Cause that's another question I get a lot from the runners is how many junk bands do you have? And I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 3:So I started number 17 already.
Speaker 10:And I saw a truck ton left this family we're so close to. The dad is a retired Placed officer, nypd officer and detective and he sent you were doing your days of junk bands and he goes you should get this one. They have a special NYPD junk band. And he's like how do I order it?
Speaker 5:And he's like I already ordered it for you and we were like yes, but like it's like those little things like there's, just like there's so many of them that are just dear to my heart, like so this last half, this princess, I felt horrible. I didn't.
Speaker 10:I'm smiling, but it it was so it was really hard for me and yeah in relationships, people each partner can, on a day to day, give more or less right, and the other one picks up the slack. Usually this was a chance for me after, so I broke my foot sometime during Dopey. I believe I figured it out that I was jumping in puddles, but that's a different story.
Speaker 4:Like a little kid. Yeah, she does that a lot.
Speaker 10:I do. I love puddles and people were like avoiding them like the plague. I'm like we're already soaked.
Speaker 4:That's right.
Speaker 10:It's fun.
Speaker 4:What time's two is still wet.
Speaker 10:Blisters are gonna happen no matter what. So like really, I mean, and I didn't get any blisters, just a broken foot.
Speaker 4:That's not a fair trade.
Speaker 10:So for the time in between Marathon Weekend and Princess, I wasn't doing much at home because I was in a boot. With wintertime here, you can't send me out to go feed the farmer, collect eggs in a boot. That boot will never get clean. So Penny was picking up the slack picking up my slack, I should say and this day was the perfect day for me to be able to repay, although she wanted to punch me in the beginning. So the half-. Notice. There's a theme.
Speaker 4:Penny, do you punch a lot?
Speaker 10:I'm just never mind, you can lead to a go.
Speaker 5:I punch my kickboxing bag down say okay. I still know cause. I'll give her this look.
Speaker 3:It goes. Do you wanna punch?
Speaker 5:me and I'm like, can you just stop? I knew it this. So the half marathon started out perfect temperature for me, and you could always tell that we're from Mass or Northern, because these temperatures have been playing right into it, but the Floridians are freezing. We were waiting. We took off, did really well, so the first like six-ish miles going to the castle were great.
Speaker 10:Oh, however, she did hate me because you get to that in princess the corral, because we're always in the last corral. We embraced the last corral. We love the last corral Legit. I mean that sincerely. We've embraced it and-.
Speaker 5:We've come to terms with it. We're always gonna be in the last corral and a slow, fluffy princess, that's okay. It's all right we booked it.
Speaker 10:I booked it this time to the front of the corral we do. Well, it's fine. So when you're in the last corral you get to, you're not far in in those corral A and B, like the elite runners are already on their way back. Well, she's already maxed out on me and I am yelling at the top of my lungs go, runner. You know cause? It's only one person that's passing by, not like us, where there's like 50 people around us, and she's looking at me and I just kept doing it.
Speaker 5:I just cranked you that one a. Hence that much during princess. For whatever reason I didn't get much sleep that week and but the fur I was annoyed kept to myself, did my first six miles-.
Speaker 10:I gave her some distance and just yelled from a distance.
Speaker 5:Then the next, from six to seven, was a little bit challenging. I struggle with the ramps, like most people, cause they're slanted when you have sciatica issues. It's a big thing when you have fibromyalgia. The brand new pavement that they decided to do kills Spend a rough season Kills me.
Speaker 5:It does. Like most people love that brand new track and the bounce or whatever it absorbs. So much of my bounce and I like running on concrete, which most people are like that's horrible, that's bad, but I can bounce off of it and it doesn't come you can actually push off, Right it doesn't compact me and so my chronic pain doesn't hurt as bad.
Speaker 5:But that's off pavement. So on top of like, then I'm running off on the grass majority of that long stretch and I was getting hot. So I felt bad because these people wanted to talk and I'm like so trying to focus on finish. It was literally a bad. It wasn't a bad run, but it was a bad run mentally, like I struggled, so bad mentally.
Speaker 5:Yeah you were fighting your brain the whole time I was fighting my brain the whole time and I felt so bad because I'm usually a peppy person while I'm doing these runs and that run. I was like the grumpiest person you could see on that race Like I was just like I don't wanna talk to anybody, I'm just. I was so focused on trying to finish I felt bad. I literally even today, I tell my wife I feel, bad that I didn't get to talk to anyone.
Speaker 5:I didn't get to express to anyone and tell them thank you, but I was really struggling during the half marathon and it was my last marathon.
Speaker 3:Like my last half marathon.
Speaker 5:It was my fourth one. Four, 44 years old. It was my fourth one and it was my final one. And so it was. I had to finish, I had to get it done. I didn't wanna hear about the blue and lead. It was being seven minutes behind me. I was tired of that Like, but it was stressful. But without-.
Speaker 10:Yeah, you were hurting. We walked the last three miles, but this chick was walking so fast and I'm socializing with the people around me and people that are like, hey, aren't you? And I'm like yes, and so I was being a nutball the whole time. I was-.
Speaker 4:Oh, come on.
Speaker 5:Oh she was, and I wanted to be like.
Speaker 10:I was so much Photo bombing people's pictures I was. I've driven a monster before Allison that is just hard to believe. Well you should. When we've trained here, I've come up with songs and in our town you can turn anywhere and there's a hill. Oh my goodness, so hills-.
Speaker 4:And they're all up. Did you ever notice that?
Speaker 10:Yeah, they are All up none of them are down. That's, none of them are down. My second marathon was a rolling downhill net loss of 1600 feet.
Speaker 6:That sounds beautiful.
Speaker 10:It was amazing, although not as amazing as my Disney marathon, but so I have songs like there are no hills in Disney and I'd like be dancing while we're running here and she's giving me a look, or the time. I chugged a C4 before we ran up a hill, yeah, so I like to have a little bit of fun.
Speaker 5:I usually do too, but that race was very challenging.
Speaker 10:It was tough and we had at the end you were great, because not that you weren't great the whole time.
Speaker 5:No, I wasn't great, I'll own it.
Speaker 10:I was not great, I felt bad, but there was we had a couple people hang with us and I don't know if they actually knew. Like you don't have to obviously know who we are to hang with us, but I don't know if they knew us or not. But people will be like, what intervals are you doing? I'm gonna try and stay with you, but then we were right near the gospel singers, right, the, the, the.
Speaker 5:That's when I know the finish line is around the corner.
Speaker 4:Oh, yes, ma'am, oh really Yep.
Speaker 10:And a woman came up behind us. Oh man, that made me cry. She was crying, penny was crying, I was. I didn't know what was happening, I didn't know if.
Speaker 5:I was gonna be able to finish. She made me cry so much I had touched her ways through my posts that I didn't even know God, earth. There's really hard times like and I'm like I like again, I don't even realize how much I have impact people.
Speaker 4:There's a lesson there. Yep, that's it.
Speaker 10:We told the story that the first time we were recognized was in Epcot. Now it literally starts in our local airport. People come up to us you know that they're coming down for the weekend and they're like oh you're. You know, I want to say why not? There were this, these group of women who go to Orange Theory here in town, and they were like do you run past Orange Theory every Saturday? We were like, just as fast, yeah, wasn't that?
Speaker 4:remarkable.
Speaker 10:Why? Oh, we see you.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 10:You know, to make the connections and it's yeah, it's different and it just.
Speaker 5:It just goes to show you like, be real, like who I am, like I don't. There are people that put up one way on Facebook and then are completely different at home. I am not that what you see is what you get. I am true and transparent all the way through and I'll let you know. I have a bad, like that princess I felt. I came home, I felt utterly guilty, like I wanted to complete it so bad. I felt bad because I really like talking to people, I really like hearing their stories.
Speaker 5:When people say, oh, I fan girled so much that I couldn't say hi, I'm like we're normal people.
Speaker 5:Come say hi, I want to hear your story, I want to hear you know what is inspiring you, what, what happened. Cause those help motivate me not to post more, but it helps me to like I'm out there and I'm training and I'm struggling so bad. And then that person that said something, I remember it, it comes into my ear like, and then it just helps me continue. It's like they're right there running with me and talking with me and I think that is so important, like that's what run Disney is for us. It's like that family you. You may be miles across the country, but yet when I'm running and you have talked to me, you're right there in that hard moment while I'm training in my hometown. You're in that hard moment while I'm out on that course and although you may be fast and way ahead of me or may have crossed the finish line, but you said something and I'm holding on to that. So while we are impacting them, they are also very much impacting me in the same way.
Speaker 4:Fun interview. We had talked with Allison and Penny earlier. I knew it was going to be a fun interview. Look forward to seeing them in a couple of weeks. Ladies, thank you so much for spending the time with us. All right, friends, let's get back to the second half of round one in the great March Madness Attractions competition on the Rise and Run podcast. We are up to game 17, which I am looking for, and we'll start with Jack. We're in the Magic Kingdom division. We are pitting the number two seed, haunted mansion, against the number 15 seed, under the sea. The journey of the little mermaid.
Speaker 6:Oh, you guys are gonna hate me.
Speaker 4:We don't know, that's impossible, Jack. We won't disagree with you, but we're not going to hate you.
Speaker 6:Little mermaid.
Speaker 7:John Haunted mansion.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's good. We don't hate Jack, do we? Okay, good Greg.
Speaker 1:I really hope my wife is not listening now. Haunted mansion.
Speaker 9:Okay, Annalisa Is there a shoe flying by your head.
Speaker 2:Dinosaur might be my number one favorite ride, but haunted mansion is my number two. So haunted mansion, All right, haunted mansion.
Speaker 4:Haunted mansion easily goes forward. The Patreons had haunted mansion 88 to 12, haunted mansion is in to the second round. Let's go to game 18 to the Hollywood Studios division. Go to John and ask John. Fifth seated slinky dog dash, our 12th seated Indiana Jones stunt spectacular. It's a tough one.
Speaker 7:I'm a big Indiana Jones fan, so I'm going with Indiana Jones Indy.
Speaker 4:Greg.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna go with my boy, slinky Dog.
Speaker 4:The dogster Alicia.
Speaker 2:Slinky Dog.
Speaker 4:Slinky Dog and Jack.
Speaker 6:As Mirian would say Indy.
Speaker 4:All right, so we're two to two here. Let's go to the Patreons of Patreons. By a vote of 82 to 18%, go with the fifth seat, slinky dog, dash slinky dog moving forward. Game number 19,. Greg Back into Magic Kingdom division. The seven seat, jungle cruise versus the 10th seat, transit authority people.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 4:God.
Speaker 6:That's a wow, that's now.
Speaker 1:Wow, this is the toughest mansion for the field so far. Holy cold cow. Ooh, I mean, I got. I have artwork upstairs and Funko pops in my office. I gotta go jungle cruise.
Speaker 4:Jungle cruise Alicia.
Speaker 6:TTA Jack, I wanna say jungle cruise, but you know people mover, yeah, all the way.
Speaker 4:Oh you okay people mover for Jack.
Speaker 7:And John, I'm going people mover. And even a positive when the lights are on for Space Mountain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes.
Speaker 1:I'm not happy with the selection committee on this one.
Speaker 4:Three to one here. The Patreons side with you, gang, by a 59, 41 margin. The Patreons also went transit authority people mover. The 10th seat moves on to the next round. Let's get to game number 20. Alicia, we're in the Hollywood studios division pitting the fourth seat, mickey and Minnie's runaway railway against the 13th seed, playing on the road. Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger spin.
Speaker 7:Hmm.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna go with Buzz Lightyear, because I remember playing that one as a kid.
Speaker 4:All right, buzz Lightyear Jack.
Speaker 6:Minnie and Mickey's railway.
Speaker 4:Minnie and Mickey John. No brainer. Buzz Lightyear. Buzz Lightyear Greg.
Speaker 1:Nothing can stop us now.
Speaker 11:I wish I knew the Mickey's.
Speaker 4:I wish I knew the.
Speaker 6:Mickey's.
Speaker 4:That's a vote for Minnie and Mickey, yes, okay. Well, by the narrowest of margins here, the Patreons Go to Mickey and Minnie 75-25 that puts them over the top and into the next round.
Speaker 6:Oh no.
Speaker 4:Game number 21 Jack back to you Animal Kingdom Division. Oh, kilimanjaro safaris versus the barnstormer. Not an Animal Kingdom ride, I know, but that's where they are.
Speaker 6:Kilimanjaro.
Speaker 4:John, kilimanjaro, kilimanjaro, greg.
Speaker 1:Jombo.
Speaker 2:Everyone, I'm going with the safari and Alicia, I'm also going with safari as did every one of the patreon's other one that was 100%.
Speaker 4:So the hall, the presidents and the barnstormers got a total between the patreon's and the rise and run gang of zero votes. Let's move to game number 22. Game 22 we are in the Epcot division. We start with John. John, the second seed test track, versus the 15th seed turtle. Talk with crush dude. Ah, test track. Test track Greg.
Speaker 1:Dude Going down the ESC with crush.
Speaker 4:All right, alicia.
Speaker 2:Test track.
Speaker 4:Test track from Alicia and Jack.
Speaker 6:If it was the original test track, I would have said that. But hey, greg Nolgen.
Speaker 4:Dude To, to, to, to. Here we go to the patreon's, and by a 69, 31% margin to patreon's. Go with test track. Test track is through to the next round, game number 23. We are in Animal Kingdom, greg, fifth seed. Navi River Journey, 12th seed. Journey into imagination with figment.
Speaker 1:Oh, solid matchup here by the selection committee. I'm gonna go figgy. I'm gonna go figgy on this one, alicia.
Speaker 2:Figment Jack.
Speaker 6:You guys are gonna hate me. I'm not the hugest figment fan.
Speaker 4:We've determined that we don't hate you, jack.
Speaker 6:Oh, okay, cool, we made disagree with you. It's a good ride it is when you're drunk oh yeah, we re-established that.
Speaker 7:John what you got. I'm going with figment.
Speaker 4:Figment Three to one here. Figment the fact that the patreon's voted for Navi River Journey is not enough to keep the number 12 seeded figment from moving to the next round, number 24. Alicia, we're starting with you in game number 24. We're in the Epcot division where we are pitting the number seven seed Star Tours against a very new attraction, the number 10 seed Journey of Water, inspired by Moana.
Speaker 2:Moana.
Speaker 4:Jack.
Speaker 6:Moana John.
Speaker 4:Star Tours. Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't.
Speaker 7:Did you have to like ask?
Speaker 1:I was thoroughly impressed with Journey of Water, so I'm going with Moana.
Speaker 4:Three to one here. The patreon's went with Star Tours, but it's not enough. Moana moves forward. Sorry.
Speaker 7:John. So, I guess the first lesson with us.
Speaker 4:No, game 25. Jack, let's start with you. Game 25 Magic Kingdom Division. The seven dwarves mine train a three seed against the 14th seeded. Enchanted Tiki Room.
Speaker 6:Oh, bob, I'm gonna, I'm gonna have to go with seven dwarves.
Speaker 7:Okay, john, hi ho, hi ho Greg.
Speaker 1:That's a tough one. You're right, because can you really go against an attraction that's got Walt Disney's name on it? It's a classic, it is.
Speaker 6:It makes you feel anybody. You could ride seven doors and still have that song stuck in your head from Tiki Room.
Speaker 1:That's true. Yeah, I'll go mine train and.
Speaker 4:Alicia.
Speaker 2:We're all a little dopey here. I'm going seven doors.
Speaker 4:Okay, I just did the patreon's by a 76 24 vote. Mine train, the three seed, moves forward. Let's go to the Epcot Division for game 26. John, I don't know who's up, but I'm starting with you. Remi's Ratatouille Adventure versus the 14 seed Grand Fiesta Tour featuring the three Caballeros.
Speaker 7:That's a tough one actually. I'm leading toward Remi.
Speaker 4:Remi, it is Greg.
Speaker 1:Wee-wee. I'll also go with Remi and.
Speaker 4:Trevian Alicia.
Speaker 2:Hola, I'm going to the Fiesta.
Speaker 4:Hola Check.
Speaker 6:The three Caballeros, the three Caballeros, they say we are a bird.
Speaker 4:So a split vote. Here we go to the patreon's. The patreon's, by a 71 to 29% vote, move Remi's Ratatouille Adventure into the next round, game 27. Greg, I'm starting with you. We're back in the Magic Kingdom. The Pirates of the Caribbean at six versus Happily Ever After at 11.
Speaker 7:You're killing Greg over there.
Speaker 1:Ready to begin? I can't go against my boy, jordan Fisher. Okay.
Speaker 4:Alicia.
Speaker 2:Although I do have the music from Happily Ever After, I'm going Pirates of the Caribbean. It's classic for me.
Speaker 4:Jack.
Speaker 6:I can't tie, can I like? No no, you gotta pick one.
Speaker 4:Gotta pick one.
Speaker 6:Pirates.
Speaker 7:And John, and it looks like Pirates will be advancing hopefully, pirates will be advancing.
Speaker 4:Pirates already had it sewed up when Jack said so, because the patreon's picked pirates by the closest margin of any out here. Patrons picked pirates 51% to 49%.
Speaker 6:It's hard. That one was hard.
Speaker 4:Alright, number 28. We start with Greg. We are in Epcot, six seed, living with the land. Eleven seed, mickey's Philhar Magic. Again Mickey playing on the road here.
Speaker 1:This one goes out to our VIP, kayla, living with the land Alicia.
Speaker 2:If our friend Kayla is listening, I'm going with her favorite ride living with land.
Speaker 6:Jack Living with the land.
Speaker 7:And John and I'll step out and get some vegetables on this ride. Living with the land.
Speaker 4:Leave the cucumbers alone. John, we're unanimous to patreon's agree. 5446 living with the land moves forward. That wraps up the Magic Kingdom and Epcot divisions. Just real quickly. We only had two upsets, one of them kind of minor, in each. Two upsets in each division. Number nine seed carousel of progress moves forward in the Magic Kingdom division. And number ten seed people mover in Epcot division Winnie the Pooh and Journey of Water. We're underdogs. That moved forward. Okay, let's wrap this up for games to go. Game number 29. Animal Kingdom division Totally lost. Who's up next? So Inie, meenie, miney, john, let's go. John. Eight seed Callie River Rapids. Ninth seed Space ship Earth.
Speaker 7:I gotta go with spaceship Earth.
Speaker 1:Greg, I would like to thank the Phoenicians.
Speaker 4:Gotta thank the Phoenicians Space ship Earth Alicia.
Speaker 2:Space ship Earth.
Speaker 4:Space ship Earth Jack.
Speaker 6:I never get to ride it, which is why I want to ride it Callie River Rapids, because no one ever wants to join me and get wet.
Speaker 4:I'll join you, jack. However, I wouldn't be joining you in the next round. Space ship, earth moves forward. The Patreons voted for them Also 76% to 24%, coming down to home stretch Game number 30. Greg Hollywood Studios division Muppet Vision 3D versus the ninth seed for the first time in forever frozen singalong.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna walk a walk, a walk a to a pick of Muppet Vision 3D.
Speaker 4:The Muppets Alicia.
Speaker 2:The Muppets.
Speaker 4:Muppets.
Speaker 6:Jack In this three hour finale.
Speaker 4:Mostly America.
Speaker 7:John Gotta, make this anonymous.
Speaker 4:Your unanimous here. Your unanimous here. The Patreons will agree. Kind of close though 56-44. Patreons agree. Muppet Vision 3D moves forward. Two games left, let's see. I am starting with Greg in the Animal Kingdom division a 1 versus 16. What a last two or 1 versus 16 matchups. Greg, avatar, flights of passage versus. It's tough to be a bug.
Speaker 1:I will fly on avatar flight pass.
Speaker 4:You have me nervous here for a second. I thought you know, yeah, alicia.
Speaker 2:I want to go on a Banshee.
Speaker 4:Okay, jack.
Speaker 6:I'm gonna agree with Jackie Ogden here we're gonna go fly a Banshee.
Speaker 7:Okay, and John and we're all going flying.
Speaker 4:You're all in agreement, as are the Patreons, although the bug got some love 81 to 19 amongst the Patreons, last one through Alicia. Let's start with you. Hollywood Studios, division number one seed Star Wars. Rise of the resistance. I should have started with Greg here, because they're going up against the 16th. The 16th seed Magic Carpets of a Land.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna go against what Greg's gonna say and say Magic Carpets.
Speaker 4:Magic Carpets over Star Wars, a 16 over one, you know I need to mention that.
Speaker 1:It's all about that.
Speaker 4:Okay, in a history of the rise and run podcast, march Madness, no 16 has ever beaten the number one seed. Could it happen here, jack?
Speaker 6:I'm sorry, alicia, I like the right, but it's rise of the resistance. The thing's epic.
Speaker 7:John, this 16th seed has no chance.
Speaker 4:And Greg, you want to make it official.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's make it official rise of the resistance. Baby, you're supposed to go for your fundraiser Greg yeah but if I, if I, if I throw as much shade onto the Magic Carpets, I'll only help my fundraiser efforts Okay.
Speaker 4:So Star Wars, number one seed moves forward, just as in the other two divisions. There were two upsets in the Animal Kingdom and the Hollywood Studios Division a 9-B to 8. Spaceship Earth moves forward. Journey into imagination with Figment a 12 seed. The Walt Disney World Railroad a big upset. A 14 seed and the 11th seed, phantasmic, moves forward. So next week, gang, next week we take on the round of 16. That was kind of fun.
Speaker 6:Kind of.
Speaker 7:I'm really excited for next week.
Speaker 6:What are?
Speaker 7:you talking about when dinosaur advances, right guys.
Speaker 6:Yes.
Speaker 11:Yes.
Speaker 1:No comment here.
Speaker 4:All right, friends, I hope you enjoyed it. I suspect you're playing along with us in your mind and you can get on Facebook or Instagram and tell us.
Speaker 1:fill out your brackets, tell us where we do.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's, it's a great. It's a great time of year for real and it's been a great time of year here. But this is fun. More to come Let us see here under announcements. I'm going to keep it brief because we I know we're running really long on this one. I do want to remind everyone that the springtime surprise meetup is Saturday 3 pm in the food truck area. We look forward to seeing you there. It's fun. Hope you can make it. Before we get to the race report, I want to. This is kind of race report related, but I wanted to mention our buddy, steve. Steve Hadlick is in the Triple Cities Run Club. I'm not sure what the Triple Cities are, but each year the Run Club has a Grand Prix where they score the top seven local races based on age time and distance, and for this year Steve finished first in his age group. Congratulations, congratulations.
Speaker 1:Steve.
Speaker 4:Way to go. Coming up next week, the second round of the March Madness Rise and Run style and we'll be visiting with Scott Douglas, the author of the new book Run Disney the Official Guide to Racing Around the Parks. Okay, my friends, it is time for the race report. Friends, it's already been a bit of a long episode, but wait, there's more. In the United States, the two biggest race weekends of the year, meaning the two most number of events that occur throughout the country, occur during the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend and St Patrick's Day, which Thanksgiving I get, but St Patrick's Day, it's just a great time of year. If you look at those two days, that's the one thing they have in common. They are at times of the year where you can probably hold a race event throughout much of the country. So we've got a bunch of them Now. I've been working all day on this. I promise you I did my best, but if I missed you I'm sorry, and if I missed you and you pointed out to me, I'll try and make it up to you next week. But buckle up, guys. Here we go. Could it be any more appropriate on this St Patrick's Day weekend that we begin our race report in Dublin. Actually it could, because we're talking Dublin, georgia, not Dublin Ireland. In Dublin they had the Leprechaun Road Race 10k. Annalyn ran it with her mom, laura Annalyn PR by 10 minutes. Mom Laura, first center age group. Great job. Had the best time running. Even more fun at the festival afterward. Now time to get ready for spring time surprise.
Speaker 4:I love our friends from the Netherlands. They're very active. We have quite a few and they're active in the race report. Plus they let me pronounce words like the Hollins dune trail in Nordveker of Netherlands. I'm going with that, I'm going with this, guys, until you tell me that they're so bad. You have no idea what I'm talking about. Danny was there. Our good friend Danny ran. He ran with a friend who's kind of a last-minute thing for him. A 10k, partly over the beach, partly through the dunes, running through the sand. Running through the sand can be pretty tough, but they did really well. The surroundings were gorgeous.
Speaker 4:Great pictures there In Versailles, kentucky. Yeah, I know it's spelled like Versailles, france, but it's pronounced Versailles. This one I know because Woodford Reserve. Whiskey is distilled there. Jordan was there running the lucky leprechaun half marathon. This was a cold one in Kentucky, lots of hills. That is a hilly area, but she finished in 214, which is and get this a 48 minute PR. Why don't you go, jordan? That's good for a proof of time. Also, congratulations In Atlanta, georgia.
Speaker 4:We'll talk more about Atlanta later in the weekend, but there was a Spartan race event going on there the beast, the 13.1 miler. We had two friends running. Taren was there. I saw some pictures Taren posted. We also saw Taren's pictures on the official run Disney site here announcing the marathon weekend, I believe. And Steven was there. I got a chance to see Steven at Jeff's weekend with his wife, ilyana. Steven was doing the Spartan race, ilyana was running the Jeff Galloway weekend. I saw Steven after the race. He was upright and moving, maybe just a little bit sore, but he did well. Where he goes, steven? In Ovedo, florida and I am told I am actually pronouncing that correctly Emma ran the spring rising 10k, had a goal of about an hour seven came in under an hour five, a PR in both time and distance and the proof of time she was looking for.
Speaker 4:Nicely done and, like I tell by the photos, she was very excited, happy with her time, actually placed third in her age group. Way to go, emma, we're proud of you too. Nice job Baton Rouge, lysiana. The wearin of the green 5k shamrock run. Amber Amber found out about this one by reading the race report, which I think is really cool. She got to meet fellow rising runner, emily, who we'll hear about in just a moment. Had a great time exploring the city, came back to wings and beer at the finish line and a parade that kind of gave a little bit of a Mardi Gras vibe. Emily Amber said she saw Emily. Emily was there, said the course was great, great crowd support. People were setting up along the route before the big St Patrick's Day parade, so they were there cheering on the runners. Somebody had the nerve to give Emily grief for wearing orange shorts until Emily Emily pointed out that, hey, you know there's orange in the Irish flag. Also, emily had great finish time in what proved to be a really tough field. I don't remember she mentioned what the winning time was for women. It was a highly competitive field but Emily ran a good race. Amber, emily, great job.
Speaker 4:In Washington DC we go for the rock and roll half marathon. Kristen was there. Sharon Sharon said it was a perfect, cool, sunny day. That seems to be the theme throughout the US to whether it was pleasant and cool through most of the country, at least on the eastern part. The course in DC lots of hills, lots of support. Entertainment was pretty crowded out there, but still easily maneuverable. Big hail at mile 8. Now Sharon ends it up hitting mile 13.1 on her watch in just under two hours but clocked in officially at 2.02. You know how it is you can't always run the perfect line, so you're gonna run a little further than is posted. But she did great. We're gonna hear from Sharon again later this weekend. Also definitely enjoyed this one. We'll do it again.
Speaker 4:Amy was there with her husband. They ran the 5k. There were a couple of events going on at Rock and Roll DC, the start line for this one, only a mile away from where they live. So they had this nice one-mile walk as a pre-race warm-up. Amy says her goal was to get under 40 minutes and she made it good job.
Speaker 4:Palm Beach, florida, duffy's shamrock 10k. Nicole, nicole PR this run, finishing for the first time in under an hour and 15 minutes. We will see Nicole at springtime. Surprise. Still in Florida, this time in Venice, the Wellin Park half Marathon. Jenna was there. First race report for Jenna, warm and humid on kind of a challenging course in the Venice area. She was delighted to hit her goal of an hour 47, which is a PR. Last race as a 31 year old, before her birthday.
Speaker 4:Actually today, tuesday, as we're recording this happy birthday, jenna and Charlotte, north Carolina, kristen, ran the lucky day 7k in Fort Smith, arkansas. Who could it be but our buddy Joe? The Fort Smith Arkansas 5k and quarter marathon? The three amigos were there, the 70 plus year old runners that Joe hangs out with. In the 5k, joe's, buddy, gary finish first, joe finish second in the age group and in the quarter marathon, johnny finish first. Way to go, guys, way to go. Amigos.
Speaker 4:In Los Angeles, california, the LA big 5k. Kayla says this one was kind of a fast course. Hills and trees started and ended in Dodger Stadium. That's pretty neat about 8,000 runners. This is part of the LA Marathon weekend. Kayla trained together with a group of moms and this was the first race they completed since her kids were born. That's pretty cool, jackie. Jackie was also there, ran with her husband, fred. They both had a great time. Jackie set a course PR by 35 seconds and Fred set a course PR by four and a half minutes in Rotterdam again, not Rotterdam, the Netherlands, this is Rotterdam, new York. The running of the green 5k Mary. Not a PR today, but still a great day to run. Had a good time.
Speaker 4:The St Patrick's Day 10k in Erie, pennsylvania, michelle ran along the beautiful beaches of Prescott Prescott aisle. She was doing marathon training so she didn't set out for any PRs, took it easy, had a great time. That's the way to do it. In West Lake Florida, the city of West Lake 5k. Jennifer and her husband Steven it's a hometown race for Jennifer and Steven in West Lake Florida got a chance to walk to the start line. Well organized, about 200 people. Jen was the only one dressed in costume and glitter and she had to jump. When she saw the camera she says jump. I think she may have actually been flying, I don't know. I'll have to ask when I seared Jen for and Steven. Good job in lovely, fair hope.
Speaker 4:Alabama. The spring fever chase 10k. Jody was there by the well-organized race, great community support. A little bit hilly over there, but they have fun with the hills, especially the devil's hill. They you see the photos. They have these blow-up devil dolls out there on this hill. Jody's aim was to run faster than the last time she did it, which was when she was right out of her for cancer treatment. She's happy to say she did. I'm happy to hear that you did too, jody. Way to go in Johnson City, tennessee. No, I'm not Darius Rucker, so I'm not gonna sing it. The shamrock shuffle Jimmy was there, wasn't expecting the warm temps. They got up in the 70s, may got a little bit sunburned, but he says it was worth it. That kind of a neat gnome metal.
Speaker 4:In Holyoke, massachusetts, the Holyoke St Patrick's Road Race. Jen, perfect weather again. About 4,000 runners, maybe a little more spectators lining every inch of the course, playing music, handing out drinks, cheering. The course was uphill for the first half and pretty much downhill for the back half. Jen felt great and she chalks it up to adding some weight training into her regime knocked this 10k out in less than an hour. Jen, I think, has always a great goal, the 60-minute 10k. Proud of you, nice job.
Speaker 4:Asheville, north Carolina, the Asheville half marathon. Our good buddy Mark, he was shooting for a wine and dine. Pot, no PR, no POT this time. Look, things don't always go as planned. Very pretty course, especially the final miles along the river, but Mark points out that this one's kind of expensive and says at the price he can't really recommend it. Mark, you've done great things in this last year. I have no. I I have no doubt that that PR and POT are on their way for you.
Speaker 4:In Fort Worth, texas. The time to patty 5k Haley with her husband wonderful course. Lots of volunteers, well marked route, lots of signs, plenty of goodies after the race. No PR, but Haley and her husband both placed second in their age groups. I think that's pretty darn good.
Speaker 4:Schomburg, illinois. We've talked about races in Schomburg before, but it's been a little bit of a while. The lucky dog 5k, tiffany, was there. She had a fun race. Love seeing all the dogs. How appropriate, for the lucky dog 5k definitely set a PR in dogs per mile an interesting category. Tiffany sounds like fun, though, and third in her age group in the run. Great job, let's see. We had a time to patty run in Fort Worth. Now we've got a time to patty lucky 13.1 in Omaha, nebraska. Natalie was there, her first non-run Disney half marathon. She won her age group for the first time ever. Cool, got a marathon proof of time and dropped six and a half minutes off of her previous PR which we, which she set just a few weeks ago at princess.
Speaker 4:That wraps up Saturday, a weekend long event which actually wasn't, even though there was running involved. It wasn't really a race. There was no bibs, no timing strips. However, jeff's get. Jeff Galloway's race weekend occurred in Atlanta this weekend and, friends, I'm gonna be totally candid with you. You know what a big fan and friend of mr Galloway and his program I am. I was nervous about this weekend coming into it, the information flow was not good and I was afraid it wasn't going to be. I was just afraid it wasn't going to be successful. I was wrong. I'm pleased to say I was wrong. It was not a big event. There were probably Jack, what would you say? How many people? You think were there? A hundred, maybe 150?
Speaker 6:On the Sunday.
Speaker 4:I don't think there's 150.
Speaker 6:There is a lot of like little name tags, but I mean I couldn't tell you how many people started, because I know we started at different times. We did.
Speaker 4:We kind of started on our own, Maybe even a hundred to stretch. But I'll tell you what the weekend turned out to be great, Just fantastic. The classes were good, the camaraderie was awesome. It was like a Disney event, but even closer. We got to spend more time with one another. Got to spend some great time with Jeff as many times as I see him, that never gets old. I really appreciated that. They did have two runs. We did a 5K on Saturday and the course was laid out for a half marathon on Sunday. It was a two loop course. Actually, it was kind of like a four loop course, wasn't it, Jack? You had to.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you had a mile and a half or so and then you crossed back by the start line. Then you went out for five miles and crossed back by the start line. So you could knock out six and a half, you could knock out eight, you could knock out 13. You could have done a mile and a half or you could do what I did, because I started Hamstring started tightening up, I got in that five mile loop and there were a couple of places where I could just cut back. So I think I ended up doing a total of about five and a half miles, cut about a mile off of that one.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I mean, I'd even do the half marathon which I know a lot of people were doing. I did 10 miles because that's what I was. Yeah, jack did 10 miles.
Speaker 4:That's right.
Speaker 6:Yeah, for springtime.
Speaker 4:It worked out really really well. It was just and finally, finally, the weather cooperated. It was close. Friday looked really bad. It wasn't that awful. Saturday was nice and it was good running weather. It was cool. It was comfortable Sunday, jack, I thought we were gonna get rained on.
Speaker 6:I did too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we were in Fidipides getting ready for the race and it was raining. It wasn't raining hard, but it was raining. We looked at If it has their phones. They're looking at the radar, we're going. Oh gee, whiz, big area rain right here by the time we walked out the door. And if you've been to Jeff's events before, sometimes the start point is Sometimes getting from Fidipides to the start point is the hardest part of this event.
Speaker 4:Not this time. This pretty much right out the back door Couple hundred yards away from the trail. Trail was nice, Trail was the belt line just about flat. There really wasn't anything on there. I'd call it hill.
Speaker 6:They're funny hills.
Speaker 4:They're a little hill, yeah, little slight changes in elevation. But when you think back on the original course, that thing was tough, not so this weekend, so that was fun. Let me recognize as many of the folks who either left their name in Facebook or I could remember. You know I get in trouble when I do this, but in addition to Jack and I, tara was there, ellie, susan, jessica, iliana and Iliana's husband did the Spartan.
Speaker 4:Yeah, which I actually now that I think about. It comes up later in the race report. Nate was there, caroline Jen and Dawn Anita. Mark Mark was there pacing. Mark Lane-Hulbert was pacing on Sunday for the half.
Speaker 6:Oh, Nate paced his first race.
Speaker 4:Did Nate pace this one. That's cool. Our friend Ryan, who introduced the podcast for us, jack Ryan was pacing this weekend yeah. And before I announced the last person, I almost skipped something. Jack, you and I not only did we participate in the Rise and Run podcast along with Lexi, so that's done, greg. Greg, that's available now to our Patreons, is that correct?
Speaker 1:That is correct, yes.
Speaker 4:And we will make it available to the rest of our friends in another week or so. That was great fun. We had a chance to talk with Jeff one-on-one. We chatted about things. You know we have Jeff on here and we're always talking about run, walk, run questions or training questions. We had a chance just to talk with Jeff about Jeff and I really appreciated that.
Speaker 6:It was fascinating.
Speaker 4:Yeah, what a tremendous person he is. And Jack, we were on the 321 Go podcast with John and Carissa and that was fun.
Speaker 6:Yes, we were yeah.
Speaker 4:We'll let you know when that one's available, but that was a good time Before I leave Jeff's weekend. We were just talking about. John got a single amount. Get the bell ready. Greg. John Pelkey set a PR in his self-made 5K.
Speaker 1:Yeah, way to go, pelkey Yay.
Speaker 4:We took off the 5K was Saturday, but John didn't run the 5K on Saturday. John took off on Sunday and if you went I forget which direction north, I think it doesn't really matter you got to a sign staked on the side of the road that said John Pelkey, turn around here 5K.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure I saw something on Instagram the other day that apparently there is someone who has set up the John Pelkey Run Club Instagram account.
Speaker 4:Pelkey Run Club. Yep, yeah, that's incredible. Yeah, john didn't set it up, someone else did. But John's hat is the Pelkey Run Club hat.
Speaker 1:Love it. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 4:It was fun. It was fun seeing everyone there. It was fun. John had a good time. I know he did Good to see Carissa, good to be involved in the podcast. It turned out to be a great weekend gang we need. There's some rough edges that need to be rounded down a little bit, but I'm looking forward to next year. It's gonna be a big deal. So, friends, let's continue the report on Sunday and let us go to New York City where the 2024 United Airlines New York City Half Marathon took place. We had a good size group of friends running and with us tonight to talk about it. We have Doug hey there. Grace, hey. We have Rob, hello everybody. And Katie, hi guys. Four folks in the spotlight. This is gonna be fun. Friends say thanks for taking the time to get with us. This is a pretty good event. All right, let's start here. Who did this one for the first time this year?
Speaker 8:Now, this was my third, bob.
Speaker 9:My third as well.
Speaker 4:This was my fourth Season veterans. All that's great, well there's, and I wasn't planning to go this way, but there's gotta be a reason. You keep coming back, katie? Why do you keep coming back?
Speaker 9:The first time I did the race was in 2015, when it was all in Manhattan. Sorry, my kids are taking a bath.
Speaker 4:It's okay, it just adds a little, you know. I'm lost it's all good, we love it 2015,.
Speaker 9:I did it with my sister. We raised money for girls on the run. The race was all in Manhattan, started in Central Park and went down to, I think, wall Street. Now it starts in Brooklyn and ends in Central Park, which is like a super fun change. I think 2018, I got into the lottery and it was my first race postpartum for my first daughter, and this year I just entered the lottery again and got in somehow.
Speaker 4:so Okay, Doug, is this a tough one to get into?
Speaker 3:It is a tough one to get into, I think via the lottery I did. There's a four out of six program. So if you run four borough races out of six so that's like the Queens 10K, the Brooklyn half, few others then you get automatic entry for the next year, and that's what I did this year.
Speaker 4:Yeah, anybody else have trouble getting in. Or lottery for Robin Grace or.
Speaker 11:I did four out of six too. Okay, I think we might all be local or local-ish.
Speaker 4:I think you are too. Yeah, that does make it easier.
Speaker 8:It does the four out of six for me too. The first year I got in through the lottery and I thought it was great. The second year I didn't, so I used a travel agent option. Kind of silly, I'm only 30 minutes away, but yeah. Well, anyway, and now that I know about this four out of six, that's what I'll be doing, so hopefully, for future years we'll keep it up.
Speaker 4:And while it's not we're talking about tonight, the marathon has something similar, don't they? A nine plus one.
Speaker 9:Yes, that's right. Yeah, I did that one. I ran in 2015.
Speaker 7:So that's nine races four races plus one volunteer, correct? That's how that works.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the plus one is the volunteering.
Speaker 7:Yes.
Speaker 11:Just to be clear, the four out of six races also count as nine plus one races.
Speaker 4:That makes sense.
Speaker 11:They double count yeah.
Speaker 4:That does make sense. I would be a whole lot of races otherwise but that makes sense, the only experience I had with the New York Roadrunners Association. I think that's right. Yes, they did a virtual run during COVID and I was really impressed. I entered it, I was impressed with the organization and it was very well done. That's cool.
Speaker 8:So it's incredibly well run these folks. They really know what they're doing. Having done a couple of Disney races and as impressive as Disney is, these folks really run a tight ship and really support the runners. I think, and I felt that this year especially, I think because I was struggling a little bit and you sort of felt that support a little bit more even.
Speaker 4:That's cool. Anybody know how many times the half's been run, what edition this was?
Speaker 3:I don't know how long they've been doing it. I mean, it's one of their marquee races, so it's been going on for a long time.
Speaker 4:John's busy Googling it right now.
Speaker 7:I can see him yeah.
Speaker 4:Which is great. Let's take a couple of minutes. Anything special prior to the race? Anything special about the Expo, rob, anything get your attention.
Speaker 8:No, you know, having done a couple of the Disney Expo is you sort of get spoiled. They had listen very efficient Getting in, getting your bib. All that really could not have gone smoother. And then you go into sort of the Expo area, air quotes, and it's a bunch of new balance stuff and there it's fine. You know the second. So you go up you get your bib new balance upstairs. Downstairs is some vendors, united Airlines has a presence and then a couple of folks that I don't spend a lot of time with. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:That's all right.
Speaker 8:But they've got the wall, which is fantastic. Every runner's name is on the wall and you know you feel like a kid in the candy store.
Speaker 4:Oh, there's my name. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool, I like it.
Speaker 7:Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3:Where is the, where is the Expo at? It was just in an event space on Fifth Avenue, not far from the Empire State Building, okay, and so there were multiple floors. So you had to kind of like go upstairs, get your stuff, then go down, go through a little area and then go back downstairs.
Speaker 7:So it's not the, it's not the Javits.
Speaker 3:Center, like the no, not nearly as much walking.
Speaker 11:No, yeah, it's so I. I work just a couple of blocks away and so this was my lunch break on Thursday. Thursday was the first day I just popped over at lunch. I was kind of in and out in maybe 20 minutes, you know. Very different from a run the Expo in that I also don't really care about merch for this race, so like I didn't really even look at it.
Speaker 9:Yeah, I looked at it, but I didn't buy anything. I was very proud of myself.
Speaker 3:Same zero dollars spent.
Speaker 4:I'm proud of you too, Katie. I don't know that I could do that. All right guys. Well, there you go. I think that's a benefit of being local. Also, you go, I've been there, done that, I don't. I don't need this particular t-shirt. I like it Very good, Very good guys. Rob popped a note in here just about 28,000 finishers in this race. How'd they start off Corrals different times waves, How'd?
Speaker 3:they do it. Yeah, there are five waves, I think right. And then those waves are divided into corrals.
Speaker 9:Yeah, I mean I felt like I was in the last wave. So starting at 920, which is, I felt like that was crazy. It was so late. I'm like we're usually back in the hotel by now, but yeah. But then within that it was like I think A through F, but then everybody started at the same time. They just kind of opened it and was like here's the starting gun, and that was it. It's like oh okay, let's go. I guess.
Speaker 8:That did you, did you guys walk? I felt because I was in Corral Sea and, yes, everyone starts at the same time, but there is a fair amount of I walked for probably a minute before we actually the things opened up and we were able to run before we got to the start line.
Speaker 11:So I will say I was in Corral F, I was in wave three, Corral F, so I was at the very back of wave three. My start time, my wave started at 820. I didn't cross the start line until 830. So it did take me a little while to get to the front, but a little while it's still not, you know, not not run Disney time.
Speaker 3:I was in line for the Porta Johns when the starting gun went off and then all the people in front of me for the line got out of line to go start, so I quickly went to the front and I was in Corral B, but I think I started with Corral F, so which was fine, it totally worked out, yeah.
Speaker 4:So Is this the race where I saw they had Porta Johns in the Corrals?
Speaker 3:Yes, it was great Run Disney if you're listening, porta Johns in the Corrals.
Speaker 11:They do have Marathon as well. You, because the corrals open and close and you've got a limited window to get in, so the lines for the Porta Johns outside the corrals were very long. I just got into the corrals as soon as they opened and I was fine.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 9:I just stopped at each one, like the ones like by security, and then there was the ones in the parking lot and then once the corrals, like this is nice.
Speaker 4:Good deal, you didn't have to stop on the corrals.
Speaker 9:It was great.
Speaker 8:They've got people at multiple stations with microphones, and so there are. There are now it's not just one announcer at like at security, there are announcers in the Corral areas. There's one down by the start, so there's never a time that you should be going. I don't know what's going on, because there were constantly people telling, helping, advising. There were signboards. This wave is now open, move to your next spot, type of thing. Just a lot of information.
Speaker 4:Excellent, excellent. Now the marathon is world renowned for the crowd support in New York City. I don't imagine the half is quite as good, but how are the crowds? Katie, start us off.
Speaker 9:It was pretty good. I mean, I was pretty close to the back of the pack so I don't feel like it was as energetic as probably probably in the front. People were probably a little bit more into celebrating St Patrick's Day, so I just come out.
Speaker 5:Come out of the bars and just like kind of cheer for you.
Speaker 4:I can imagine go back in, so that was fun.
Speaker 9:I mean, and then you get to the end and I saw someone who I haven't seen in like 10 years and she was just cheering for me and screaming inspirational things at my face and I'm just like okay, thank you, I'm like running.
Speaker 4:That's good, that's great.
Speaker 9:Yeah, it was. I mean it was pretty good. Even in the back it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 4:Doug, I hear that if you wear your name on your shirt at the marathon, the crowd will call you out. Do they do that here at this race, or did you not wear your name?
Speaker 3:People will do that. I'm not a name writer on shirt person, because I feel like when I do hear my name it means somebody knows me and then I'm more likely to look or stop and say hi. So I did like my wife was out on the course at mile three or four. My run club was out there too, so like that's really what makes it a lot of fun. There are a lot of dead spots where there's no crowd, because you're running on FDR drive or over the Manhattan bridge so there's no crowd support. But you know Times Square, I don't know about the rest of the crowd. It was pretty packed when I got there and that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 8:It was. That was great. Yeah, it was great. And I was wondering, much like what Katie was talking about. I was wondering how many people were starting St Patrick's Day and how many people were finishing St Patrick's Day?
Speaker 4:I wasn't sure. That's a great question. Yeah, rollovers from Saturday huh yeah. Went to the parade, went in the bar, came out holy smokes. What are these people running from?
Speaker 11:Yeah, I will also say this this is a big one for like charities and run clubs, so that you will notice like banners and signs from some of the big charities, from like Team for Kids, which is the Roadrunners Charity, fred's Team, which supports cancer research, those teams are out. And then a bunch of the run clubs are out too. Like Doug, I'm in a run club and I got to see my club in Central Park and that was like really, really fun.
Speaker 4:So Now let me go around the room Highlights on the course. Pick a highlight Rob go.
Speaker 8:You know, coming off of the Manhattan Bridge onto Canal Street, the crowd was really amped up and there was somebody I was wearing a Mike Wazowski. I needed something green and the closest I could come to Kelly Green was a Mike Wazowski shirt. That works. Yeah, and randomly I hear Mike Wazowski and really that was a huge thing for me.
Speaker 4:That's a good one. That's a good one, grace, how about you Highlight on the course? Could be a site, could be whatever you want.
Speaker 11:Well, I guess for me the Central Park is always kind of the most special. For me I live very close to the finish line, so I go to. Central Park all the time. There's something really special for me about entering the park and thinking, okay, I'm home, and so that for me is always just a really cool feeling.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's neat, how about?
Speaker 3:you, doug, they do kids races and they do them right on the side of the course just north of Times Square on Seventh Ave, and so the kids are running the opposite direction, as all of the runners are going up towards Central Park, and so a bunch of us were just yelling out at the kids like you got this, you rock. And it was just this amazing thing, seeing I think it was like every age from four to 12. And they aren't going very far, but it's super, super cute to see and it gives you a nice little burst on. You're basically like mile 10 at that point, so it's really, really cute.
Speaker 4:That's awesome, katie. Have they taken up all the good ones, or do you have one you'd like to talk about?
Speaker 9:I don't know, I mean at the very beginning, I'm actually really close to one of the locations of our ice cream shop. Yeah, that's the ice cream that I make the ice cream for. Why would I?
Speaker 3:I think, you're there.
Speaker 9:Well, you haven't been to that one, but you've been to-.
Speaker 3:I've been there. It's very good to one of the locations yet yeah.
Speaker 9:So that was funny. I was like I was a surprise. I didn't really look at the map, so that was fun. I was like, oh, this is where.
Speaker 7:I am.
Speaker 9:And I also ran. I always take pictures of people that I kind of leapfrog with or kind of have the same interval with OK, yeah, I've done that yeah. There was one woman, I'm pretty sure we ran eight miles together. How about that. I probably should have had a conversation with her, but we were both just in the zone.
Speaker 4:Were you both run walk runners, or were you both oh, yeah, oh yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Good stuff, guys. It sounds like fun. It's wonderful. I'm glad you're here. Let's, before we go, let's go around the room and tell us what's coming up next for you and Rob. Why don't you start us off? What's coming up next and when's the next time you're at Disney World?
Speaker 8:The next race for me is another four out of six with New York Roadrunners in Flushing Flushing Metal Park, the Queen's 10K, which is a lot of fun. I did that last year. For the first time I am targeting, I hope, to be involved in Marathon Weekend in 2016.
Speaker 4:Okay, I will see what happens. All right, yeah, gotcha, got you, katie about you.
Speaker 9:I don't have anything on my calendar. Currently I have my name in the lottery for the Marathon, the New York City Marathon because I did not sign up for. Marathon for wine and dine, I really wanted to come up with it. So I just, I just-.
Speaker 4:I understand. I understand, yes, I absolutely understand.
Speaker 9:But I'm really hoping for either Goofy or Dopey this year.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, you saw the artwork today, right?
Speaker 9:It was beautiful. I liked it.
Speaker 4:I liked it. Yeah, how about you, grace? What's coming up?
Speaker 11:So I am doing 50 states, so next up for me is Kentucky I will be the Kentucky Derby Mini Marathon at the end of April.
Speaker 4:I did that one.
Speaker 11:So I'm really looking forward to it. It seems really cool. I've never been there before. And then I've got a whole slew of Roadrunners, races, because I'm again doing 9 plus 1 this year. So in terms of Disney, I think I'm taking a step back from Marathon weekend next year and hoping for just the half.
Speaker 4:Just yes, right, you said it properly, that's good.
Speaker 11:Because I have some other race plans that I think I don't want to be doing back to back to back marathons. So right now we're hoping for just the half. We'll see how registration goes.
Speaker 4:That's a good run in Louisville, You're going to like it. Decent crowd support there, Nothing like what you get in New York, but it's pretty nice, Relatively flat, as I recall. The only thing I was disappointed in it is when you get into Churchill Downs and you get into the infield because it's race week. There's so much equipment piled in there you really can't see much of the track. That's unfortunate. Other than that, it's a wonderful race. You're going to enjoy it. Doug what you got coming up.
Speaker 3:I'll be at springtime surprise for the challenge. I got a last minute charity bib through Kelsey's hope, so I raised some money and, yeah, I can't wait to see everybody down there. I also have a bunch of New York Roadrunners races too. I'm doing the four out of six. So, rob, I'll see you at the Queens 10K. All right.
Speaker 4:Very good, all right. Well, rob, katie, grace, doug, thanks. Thanks for spending your time with us. Tell us something about this outstanding event in New York City.
Speaker 9:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was really fun.
Speaker 9:Thank you, this was fun.
Speaker 4:We had others running in New York City. I don't want to forget them. Jennifer was there. Jonathan, our friend from Israel, Israel was there. Jonathan voted John DeMarco for best pacer. John, what the heck is that all about?
Speaker 7:I was asking, like I was going to try to get out there and cheer for them, like, hey, what time do you think you're going to get to mile 10? He goes, I go, okay, 11 o'clock, okay, boom, let's see what I can do. And boom, he got there exactly at 11 o'clock.
Speaker 4:Oh, how about that? That's pretty cool. Oh, let's see. Christine was there. Lori? Lori's finally got half number 150 and she was kind of snake bit. She was going to do it at Disney World. We know what happened to that one. Lori commented about the race was a well oiled machine. The New York Roadrunners do a great job, great volunteers. Lori had so many friends and runners congratulate her on number 150 that she had to head off the Fifth Avenue to see what she could buy. Molly was there. Molly, this was half number seven for her Runwalk. This might have been her slowest half to date, but New York City is officially off her list. Great job, molly. And Megan. When I round out, megan was also at the New York City Half Marathon.
Speaker 4:Let's stay in New York State at Yorktown Heights, the St Patrick's Day 10K. Jen was there, jen submitting her first race report. We heard from Jen's sister, emily, earlier, so we've got sisters in the race report. I think that's cool. Jen says there aren't a whole lot of 10Ks in the New York City, north Jersey area before a proof of time is required for wine and dine, so she took a chance on this one. She didn't check the course, jen. We called that doing a jack, didn't check the course elevation, ended up picking a very hilly race that did two loops of rolling hills but she finished faster than she anticipated, got in under an hour of. Got in under an hour and five minutes. Jen should be good for a POT for you, congratulations.
Speaker 4:In Alabama, the Selma to Montgomery 51 mile relay Ashley did this. Ashley did this one. This follows the Selma Highway that Dr King and thousands of others took from Selma to Montgomery in March of 65. You're not familiar with the history of this event. It is certainly something that you should look up. I would just say not a great time in America or Alabama history, particularly what happened at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, but being remembered now for the right reasons. Ashley was there with her team. She and eight other active duty women Jag officers stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base. That's the legal arm. Most people know that now from TV. That's the legal arm of the military. The judge advocate general, the Jags. They placed fourth in the female division. Pretty cool.
Speaker 4:Second year as a team to complete the race, great race full of support, encouragement and reflection, and I imagine that it is Good job, ashley, for the United Kingdom in the town of Milton Keynes, the Milton Keynes 20-Miler. Katie was there. This is a town northwest of London between Oxford and Cambridge. I say that like I know where it is. Of course, if you know me, you know I had to look it up. Still that's where it is.
Speaker 4:Katie was using this as a catered training run for the upcoming London Marathon. Had a little bit of trouble with her water, her hydration pack rubbing, but she got that fixed. Great course support had a bunch of young runners at the water stations and they were a most enthusiastic bunch. She needs to talk to the course designer, though. There was a hill about a half mile from the end and a photo taken halfway up that hill towards the end. Katie, I agree with you, hills at the end of long distance runs should just be illegal.
Speaker 4:Back stateside in Winter Garden, florida, the lucky Charms 5K. Kailor ran that one. Back in Europe, rome, italy the run. Rome the marathon Luciana. Luciana, we would love to see photos of some of these races you're doing in Italy. If you get a chance, Send us some please.
Speaker 4:Rachel and Ken did the Eastern State 20-Miler that goes from Maine to New Hampshire at the Valspar Golf Tournament, or at least in conjunction with it. I think it was right afterward. The public's Copperhead 5K. This is in the city of Palm Harbor. Tiffany was there, dressed for a St Patrick's Day run, looked great. She and her friends had their picture taken with Hall of Famer and former Tampa Bay buccaneer Ron Day Barber. It's Marco Island, the Marco Island Half Marathon. Let's see. Alley was there, said it was very humid. Two bridges, lots of hills. We're not really known for hills in Florida but those bridges can be a bear sometime. So I understand that. I'm not familiar with these. I understand they can be tough. Not a PR for Alley, but a solid proof of time for Disney. Rob chimed in and said he was also there. Rob said it was a fun race Out in Seattle, the Seattle St Patty 5K. Christina finished and showed us a photo of the lovely medal she earned for this one.
Speaker 4:In rest in Virginia, the lucky leprechaun 5K. Sharon was there. Now Sharon had run a half the day before. Sharon ran this one with her son, nate. We've talked about Nate before. This race was all about Nate. I believe Nate is 10. Nate, if I've got your age wrong, I apologize, buddy, but I believe that's correct. His goal was to do a sub 35K Nailed it Way to go, nate. That's a PR. Of course, sharon and Nate changed up their strategy. This time, instead of trying to run together, they each ran their own races. Sharon was able to finish just about two minutes ahead, so she got great finish line photos of Nate knocking this one out and a nice photo of Nate collapsing on the ground. Well, not in that matter, he was all in. Let's just say that he was all in and resting afterward. Springtime surprise next After. Sharon and Nate look forward to seeing you guys there Once again, nate. Well done, buddy. I see many. I mean, it's kind of a psychological barrier. You got under 30 minutes. I think you're going to do that routinely from now on and will be interested to see just how low you take that 5K time In Fort Lauderdale the 2024 Fort Lauderdale Shamrock 4-mile run Pretty warm and humid in South Florida, but this was a flat course two miles out and back.
Speaker 4:It looks like I'm making an assumption here. Robbie, I saw a photo with you. Looks like you ran with your wife. I saw consecutive numbers, I'm just guessing, but they're nice finished photos. And, robbie, our buddies, the 2-2 guys, would have been proud of you.
Speaker 4:Robbie, ran this one in a 2-2, looking absolutely brilliant. And Binghamton, new York, the 51st running of the Forks 15, 15 kilometer run. Steve was there. Beautiful, cool day, treated this one like a long run while keeping his pace around 10 minutes per mile. No medals. Finisher's got a nice commemorative coffee mug and then they had the option of buying a hoodie, which is kind of nice. You know, give me that option. If you want to save a couple bucks and really don't need the hoodie, you don't need to buy it. If you want the souvenir, it's there. I don't have a location here this time. I'm telling you with this report I'm surprised this is the first one I've missed.
Speaker 4:The Yingling Shamrock Marathon half an 8K. Annie was there. This was her first half marathon. Kasimmi I know where that is, kasimmi's in Florida. The March on Meals 5K Jennifer not a chip time event. Jennifer was still trying to get under 40 minutes and she would have if it wasn't for the train that held them up. And I gotta tell you it's funny. When I first read through real fast, I thought she said the rain held her up. No, I couldn't figure out why rain would hold you up A train. Yeah, I can figure that one out. I had something similar one time, jennifer, on the half marathon over here. One of the bridges came up and I had to wait for the boat to sail underneath and the bridge to come up and down. So Jen ran the 5K Also as part of this event.
Speaker 4:Hannah and Samantha were there running what's called the Dolphin Challenge, which is an 8K on Saturday and a half marathon on Sunday. Now Hannah had PR just a few weeks ago so she decided to chill out and PR and fun in this race. Really loved the beautiful weather all weekend, ended up tackling the 18.1 miles running with Samantha and having a great time. Congratulations, guys. Okay, let's go to Chattanooga, tennessee, megan. Megan did her first ever four mile run the Shamrock run four-miler. That's gotta be a PR. Hannah surprised herself with her pace because she really didn't think she was ready to get up at 4 am and make the hour and 40 minute drive to run. But she's glad she did Good job. Let's see four miles, got up at 4 am, made the hour and 40 minute drive. There's a theme there.
Speaker 4:In Durham, north Carolina, pi day was Thursday, but in Durham they did the Pi day, pi E day, pi K, pi K. Melinda with her family. Her husband and daughter ran this 3.14 mile run. I'm guessing that's a PR at that distance. I can't imagine a lot of Pi distance runs out there. First part, melinda says. Besides running with the family was a choice of a freshly baked apple or chocolate, sea salt crostata, which is kind of like a personal pie at the finish line. Who wouldn't run for a pie? Melinda asks rhetorically.
Speaker 4:In Cary, north Carolina, the tobacco road half marathon Courtney first time she's run a half in about four years and felt pretty good about it finishing. Strong way to go, great weather. And now Courtney can't wait until springtime. Surprise, laura, I believe, was there too. Laura showed a photo of a medal that had a coin as part of the medal before the race. So I believe Laura also finished that one.
Speaker 4:And wrapping up the race report in Aurora, illinois, with the Aurora half marathon, dan was there only the second running of this event. The race director had problems. There were last minute changes to the course that the race director didn't know about, so that was kind of a challenge. The race started out cold. Then the sun came up and things were bearable. This was kind of hilly out and back along the Fox River. Dan was looking to run right around two hours, finished with a time of 158 and change and that is a half marathon PR for Dan. Great way to wrap up the race report, not quite. Our buddy Joe commented that he knocked out the virtual Dumbo double dare 10K yesterday, half today, 19.3 miles. Good job, congratulations everyone. Thanks for taking the time to submit your reports.
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