RED Episode 291 Ask Us Anything: Running Edition

RED Episode 291 Ask Us Anything: Running Edition

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RED Episode 291 Questions and Bonus Boston Bites and Brews

Run

Ask us anything! We put out a post on social media channels soliciting your questions for us because we realized that we have never done that kind of episode.  So here are the answers to questions from you, Runcation Nation!

EAT and DRINK

We will be back with more of your listener questions in Part 2 of our “Ask Us Anything” episode focused on the eating and drinking questions from the Runcation Nation.

Chapters

• 0:00 Recovering From Shoulder Surgery and Running
• 12:50 Memorable Marathon Finishes
• 20:25 Pre-Race Rituals and Favorite Race Swag
• 33:23 Race Experiences and Medal Meanings
• 47:00 Looking Forward to 2025 Race Season

Transcript

Recovering From Shoulder Surgery and Running

Speaker 1 1:05

Hi, I'm Jeff Galloway and you are listening to the Run Eat Drink podcast.

Speaker 2 1:11

Welcome to the Run Eat Drink podcast. We feature destination races from across the country and after the race, we take you on a tour of the best local food and beverage to celebrate. So, whether you are an elite runner or a back-of-the-packer like us, you'll know the best places to accomplish, explore and indulge on your next runcation. Hey, welcome to episode 291 of the Runny Drink Podcast. I'm your host, amy.

Speaker 1 1:41

And I'm your co-host, Dana.

Speaker 2 1:43

Welcome back to the show.

Speaker 1 1:45

Yeah, feels like it's been a minute.

Speaker 2 1:47

It has it has. Yeah, feels like it's been a minute. Do you have it? Do you have it? We?

Speaker 1 2:06

might even have that audio.

Speaker 2 2:08

Okay, I don't know if you do, but I've hit some speed bumps along the way here in my recovery from shoulder surgery last April. And, yeah, what can I say except for Not last April In April. Last April is a year plus ago. Oh, you don't say that, no, oh. You can say this past April. Oh, you don't say that, no, oh.

Speaker 1 2:31

You can say this past April.

Speaker 2 2:32

Okay, I've hit some speed bumps in my recovery from shoulder surgery this past April, the most recent April.

Speaker 1 2:42

The Aprilist of Aprils. Yeah, I think it's funny. We've had people say what do you mean? Your shoulder surgery affects your running it does. You have no idea, Until you get something done to your upper body, what impact that has on the way that you move to support yourself when you're running. You're engaging your whole body.

Speaker 2 3:07

When you run.

Speaker 1 3:07

It's not just your legs.

Speaker 2 3:08

Yeah, running you're engaging your whole body. When you run, it's not just your legs, yeah, there's this whole thing that, like, your hips support you, but then it's also your glutes, and then that's core, which affects your lower back and your upper back and upper back and shoulders affect balance. And if you don't have the right form or the right posture, then everything else is off.

Speaker 1 3:31

You start compensating and you start doing things that are not conducive to further training.

Speaker 2 3:37

No.

Speaker 1 3:38

And you're on a very aggressive training schedule right now with you're closely monitored by the person who introduced the show.

Speaker 2 3:46

America's coach, our coach Olympian Jeff Galloway introduce the show.

Speaker 1 3:50

America's coach, our coach, olympian jeff galloway. You're being aggressively coached. You are incorporating strength training. You're doing rehab exercises for your shoulder.

Speaker 2 4:00

You're doing like 39 degree cold plunges yeah twice a day um we haven't even talked about how we got a cold plunge, how we fabricated a cold plunge in the time since I've, since the most Aprilist of April, yeah, but you're doing those, the most recent of April, Twice a day, and that we'll just call that medieval torture.

Speaker 1 4:24

And I do them too, but I don't you do you're like you haven't gotten in the 39 degree one yet.

Speaker 2 4:29

Not yet, don't lie.

Speaker 1 4:32

I've done, listen, I've done. Plenty of cold plunge you have, it's true, with 80 pounds of ice dropped in there. I'm not sure how cold that got, but it got pretty darn cold, I think in the 40s. But now we've got the electric chiller and that thing just cycles the water through it and you can set the temperature and all that. But you're doing that twice a day. You're running and working out three days a week, so it's intense. And then when you have a little thing, throw off the whole chain.

Speaker 2 5:03

Yes, there are some yoga teachers from Eckhart Yoga that's recently merged with another yoga service that I can't think of at the moment, but now. We've interviewed Esther on the show before, and that's a service that they're not sponsors.

Speaker 1 5:19

No you really like for yoga.

Speaker 2 5:22

It's amazing because there are all these different teachers. I'll post a link in the show notes. I don't think it's changed. It's still EckhartYogacom, even though they've merged with another yoga platform. But they are the different teachers and the different styles of yoga have different purposes. And there is a teacher on that platform and her name is Julie Martin and I I can't remember where she's from, but she is absolutely phenomenal and if there are any of julie martin's videos on youtube, she caters to people who are, as she likes to say, in intros to her yoga practice Lessons, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 6:13

She likes to say rock climbers, footballers Maybe she's Canadian Runners, cyclists, and she talks about the whole posterior chain, the whole posterior chain that starts from the top of your head and goes all the way down, or down the back of your body all the way to your foot. Yeah, so everything is impacted when something is not working right in the chain right, so that is what I have been dealing with and that's the explanation behind the post you guys saw on social media the other day.

Speaker 1 6:50

Yeah, roundabout way.

Speaker 2 6:52

Yes, because there have been some setbacks in building strength and maintaining range of motion.

Speaker 1 6:59

Yeah, that's the main thing you got to keep working on is making sure your range is good, so while building strength, yeah, because your range of motion you have to reach.

Speaker 2 7:07

How are you going to you?

Speaker 1 7:08

from tying your shoes to washing your backside, to getting that thing off the top shelf. It's vital.

Speaker 2 7:16

Yeah, but when you're running, it's your whole upper body, is you?

Speaker 1 7:24

I mean you have to Be able to reach your hydration, your nutrition Also it's for anyone when you're running too, and something that we were very hypercognizant of when you were initially on the recovery is if you have a fall.

Speaker 2 7:44

And you're most likely when you're what's your instinct.

Speaker 1 7:47

You're going to put your hands out, you've got to be able to break your fall and be strong enough to to do it so that you don't bust your chiclets out of your mouth. And yeah, amy's like amy's wincing at the thought, so so, anyway that, yeah, that's the explanation there. I know some people were like how, what are you doing with your shoulder and running that? Now you know.

Speaker 2 8:09

The whole body's involved.

Speaker 1 8:10

It is, but we have a great episode lined up for you guys. This week you put it out on the interwebs and asked people to ask us questions.

Speaker 2 8:19

They've probably forgotten that I put it out there. But I put it out there.

Speaker 1 8:24

You said, send us in your questions about running, eating and drinking. We'll answer anything you send. We got a couple of different mediums that they were sent in by and then, if we have time, I've got some more food and beverage from my trip to Boston that I took for work a few weeks ago.

Speaker 2 8:40

Fantastic. We could make this an extra long episode for a long run Nice long run, if you want. Or we could break it into two weeks.

Speaker 1 8:46

We'll see how it goes or we could break it into two weeks. We'll see how it goes, or we'll get to the food and drink next episode. But yeah, because we have so many questions, we're not going to do shout outs this week. But if you guys, if you've listened to the show before or if you're new to the show, we like to give shout outs to people, Whether it's that you've achieved something. You're shouting somebody out who've achieved something, you're shouting somebody out who's achieved something. Let us know. You can email us at info at runeatdrinknet. That's info at-6733.

Speaker 2 9:33

And yeah, just we would love it if you left a message, because then we could play your voice and make you Runcation Nation famous.

Speaker 1 9:42

That's right. This is an audio medium and we do love audio.

Speaker 2 9:46

We love hearing from you.

Speaker 1 9:47

Leave us those messages.

Speaker 2 9:48

Yeah, shall we answer some questions about running, eating and drinking you love audio.

Speaker 1 9:50

We love hearing from you. Leave us those messages. Yeah, so we talk, so we answer some questions about running, eating and drinking.

Speaker 2 9:54

Yes, I've tried to categorize them into those sections of our show that we normally have. Ok so running goes first, of course you. We've tried it backwards. It just doesn't work at a race, it doesn't I know you should definitely not be.

Speaker 1 10:09

Drinking before the run, or sometimes during, is OK. It depends on what you're drinking and how long the run is. Yeah, but so we've got some questions here. And the first one is from executive producer of the show, josh Osborne. Yes, and he sent us an audio message. Thank you, josh, for doing that. You understood the assignment. Let's go ahead and play that now.

Speaker 2 10:31

What is your memorable finish separately and most memorable finish together. Also, what is your method for solving the pre-race jitters? Have a wonderful day More.

Speaker 1 10:51

Nope, I almost played it twice.

Speaker 2 10:52

There's the man in charge of hashtags and hot sauces.

Speaker 1 10:55

Most memorable finish separately, and then most memorable finish together.

Speaker 2 11:00

Wow, it's a loaded question. It is this one.

Speaker 1 11:06

Most of our finishes are together.

Speaker 2 11:10

We rarely run separate. Now we do sometimes.

Speaker 1 11:16

I'm going to go with one. That's probably a little bit. You probably aren't expecting and it's not really for a big reason. But most memorable finish separately will probably be the Publix A1 half marathon that we did in 2019 or 2020.

Speaker 2 11:33

Yeah, it's the month before the world shut down in terms of races period.

Memorable Marathon Finishes

Speaker 1 11:38

And the reason that one was so memorable for me was because I it was because of the shoes I was wearing.

Speaker 2 11:46

Now, which shoes were you wearing? Just to remind us.

Speaker 1 11:48

I was wearing a pair of Hoka's during that race and I had never done a distance beyond a 5K in them.

Speaker 2 11:55

Those Bondi or no? I have the Bondi's, I don't know.

Speaker 1 11:59

I had a pair of Hoka's.

Speaker 1 12:00

I threw them away. After this race I had to peel those shoes off of me and they just chewed my feet up beyond belief. That was just a mistake. Now I had run in them. It wasn't like I'd never run in them before, but that was just a. I powered through the race. But I've never damaged myself so much, I think, during a race as I did with those shoes, and I threw them away in the hotel when we got back to the hotel, and I remember that but you ran that for a PR.

Speaker 1 12:32

I ran it for a PR and I just said I'll just charge, charge through the pain and we'll get over it. And I did.

Speaker 2 12:39

I happen to think some of the whiskey Mile nine. I was given Jameson whiskey on the course and that helped.

Speaker 1 12:45

Yeah, that's probably one of my most memorable solo finishes.

Speaker 2 12:50

I am going to throw back to something a little more recent, and everybody knows that you have been battling your Achilles injury and it kept you from running the half marathon at Donna this year.

Speaker 1 13:07

Yes, at.

Speaker 2 13:07

Donna this year. So I'm going to say one of my most memorable finishes was with Fitz and our executive producer, who sent in this question.

Speaker 1 13:21

Yes.

Speaker 2 13:22

It would be the Donna half marathon from this year, from 2024, because A it was the first year back after I was unable to attend due to the cancer treatment that my dad was going through Right and that I needed to be here to here and in Tampa at Moffitt to take care, Tampa at Moffitt to take care. So take care of him, take care of family, which was fantastic because Moffitt has been amazing and he is thriving on the treatments he's been given there all of them.

Speaker 2 14:00

So I'm thankful for that. But I was thankful for this year's comeback first of all because I just missed the energy of that race when you got up in the morning and decided that you weren't going to run, that it just wasn't in the cards for you physically, and Josh just came right to the rescue and said Amy's not going to be in it alone and we went out there and for a majority of the race it was clear it was like an overcast kind of day. And then in the last two miles is what's most memorable is just it started to pour and Josh and I are just like it was not a runner's high. Is it a runner's high? No, it was just like we're soaked through the bone and it was cold and rainy and wet and we were just how.

Speaker 2 15:07

You just have times where you're just crazy with laughter. You're like I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know where, I don't know what's happening, I just know that I'm having a great time. I'm hand in hand with a member of the Runcation Nation and we're met at the finish by one of our favorite announcers, fitz Fitz Kohler, team Noisy and she danced with me in the rain and you were there at the finish. So that is one of the most memorable ones, because it was a great comeback and there was a little bit of adversity there. At the end I was with people that I love and care about at the end and it was just a great comeback to a race weekend that we love. And hey, registration's open, just saying. Just saying.

Speaker 1 16:03

And as far as race finishes together, I go all the way back to a run disney race. I'm gonna call and it's a. It's an event that doesn't happen anymore. It's a it's doesn't even happen at the time of day anymore and it's the, it's the wine, and dine half marathon relay our very first big race that we did yeah and we were apart okay technically, but I consider that together we ran the relay. Okay, no, fine, I won't go that, go to that and no, don't change your answer.

Speaker 1 16:33

No, okay, all right, fine, you get done. You cross, you get your medal. It's my first time getting one of these big race medals and all that. And then we got to go do the after party at Disney. This is back when A they did a relay which lets you split the race up. So you did the first five, I did the last eight, the biggest chunk, just putting that out there, just putting it out there, that you put forth the greatest maximum effort and then it was a nighttime race.

Speaker 1 16:57

It starts at 10 pm. It went to 4 am. Not the race itself, but the after party went to. Was it 4 am?

Speaker 2 17:04

Yeah, yeah, it was 4 am. I think the park was open until 4 am whenever they had that after party.

Speaker 1 17:08

So we got to shut down the Epcot Food and Wine Festival, which they kept going while we were there.

Speaker 2 17:14

That was the way to do it too.

Speaker 1 17:15

It was such a neat event, love that and that gave me such an unrealistic expectation for the way running would be after.

Speaker 2 17:22

All of the future races.

Speaker 1 17:24

They're all this good? No, no, they're not, and after. Yeah, I was just total party vibe. Yeah, so much fun, Really unique. I mean that that was, I think. Yeah, that's like the first Cause, prior to that we'd only done a 5k.

Speaker 2 17:38

Yeah, yeah, I a race finished together. We finished Jeff Galloway's race the year that it was just pouring down rain and bone cold and we were in those blue plastic ponchos and we were layered underneath, it got up to 40 degrees that day, blue plastic ponchos and we were layered underneath.

Speaker 1 18:05

It got up to 40 degrees that day.

Speaker 2 18:08

And I remember us being separated on the course and you actually stopping to get coffee. That's a horrible idea, which I believe you shared with Susan Kolbinski.

Speaker 1 18:19

I did because I realized I could not run stably enough to carry the coffee without spilling it all over myself.

Speaker 2 18:25

Who is a wonderful woman who handles Jeff Galloway's e-coaching and directs us towards the questionnaires and handles the registration for his coaching, Mm-hmm, so that I remember. But I remember you catching up to me and us finishing and I just remember seeing that a PR was possible and you still had the get up with the road mic and the iPhone attached to it with the red adapter that we had, and I remember you saying go get it. And so I took off, but you were still with me and you crossed the finish line maybe like seconds after me.

Speaker 1 19:12

Mm-hmm.

Pre-Race Rituals and Favorite Race Swag

Speaker 2 19:13

And I remember turning around and raising my hands and screaming so loud that the announcer went oh, she got a PR, she got a PR. And I think I pegged our microphone.

Speaker 1 19:27

Oh yeah, you absolutely did.

Speaker 2 19:44

But it was just a fabulous finish that we had together in a moment that we had with Jeff Galloway afterwards, when we went in Piedmont Park and near those steps and the rocks where we got the photo taken with him, and it was just that I just I felt so good having you with me and just celebrating all that hard work that we had done right after, but in the months leading up to that, right after, but in the months leading up to that, how hard we had worked and with your high blood pressure and everything that we had done to get through and get fit and get well, and it was just a great moment together, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 20:16

Okay, that's a heck of a start to this Ask Us Anything. Episode. He also asked us how we handle the pre-race jitters? I don't really get them, not really uh what advice would you have for somebody who does get them?

Speaker 1 20:32

oh, no one's gonna like my advice suck it up yeah, get on with it and get over it. Yeah, that's mine. I don't, like, I don't really get pre-race jitters. Like I, I'm not going to go do a race distance I haven't already done, and unless there are people are going to start pelting me with things as we're running, I don't really have a lot to worry about, other than have I trained enough? Yeah, that's really it. I don't typically get race jitters.

Speaker 2 20:55

There was one time that I got them really bad.

Speaker 1 20:58

And I told you my advice Get over it, you'll be fine oh yeah, we were in california it was.

Speaker 2 21:06

I knew you were going to mention this one, the first time we had gotten, we had finished wine and dine and we were out there doing avengers half for the coast to coast medal for the first time which was a great race series that disney should bring back.

Speaker 2 21:21

But that it and it was a great finish line that we did together. I still have a photo of it. But I woke up and I did like my pre-race ritual yoga. I did my pre-race ritual yoga and I was just so nervous. I went to take painkillers and I couldn't keep them down. I w I was just so nervous that I threw them up and and you're like you got to breathe, you gotta, you just have to. So my answer for the pre-race jitters is do yoga.

Speaker 1 22:02

Yeah, and you've now incorporated that into your get up like at big races. You get up like an like extra time so that you can do like a like at least a 30 minute yoga routine.

Speaker 2 22:13

Yes, but I also think you have to find the thing that makes you the most centered and the most calm and the most ready. However, you get up for your races and get in the right mindset to do it. So meditate. A lot of people do meditation. A lot of people are just there. It's their pre-race warm up specifically at the start. That is the key. So it's just whatever is going to make you feel your best to cross the start.

Speaker 1 22:41

Yeah.

Speaker 2 22:41

Yeah, good advice. I think that's what I would say.

Speaker 1 22:44

I think that's good advice for those that get pre-race jitters. Like I said, I'm just the wrong person to ask for that one. All right, but we got some other questions.

Speaker 2 22:51

We do. We do so, Josh. Thank you for those and thanks for sending them in via audio.

Speaker 1 22:58

So Mike Leslie, who's known as RunDizNerd, sent us a couple. Yes, I'll read this one. Okay, what's worse, no glide available before a race or code brown during a race. I know the answer to this one for me, but I'll let you start.

Speaker 2 23:16

I would say a code brown.

Speaker 1 23:19

Okay.

Speaker 2 23:20

During a race Only because I am a back of the packer. This sounds so bad right now.

Speaker 1 23:29

You're never going to get a fresh porta potty.

Speaker 2 23:32

No, because I can't afford the time. Okay, I can't afford the time. No glide available before a race. He didn't say that theoretically you couldn't be on the race course and stop at a medic tent and get some body glide or Vaseline or something like that. So there.

Speaker 1 23:58

So no glide available before the race leaves you open to developing a bad hotspot from chafing very early on, which is going to impact you throughout the entire race, that's true. So I think that no glide available before the race is worse. You're usually not going to get a medical tent early. It's usually going to be at the halfway point or beyond, going to be at the halfway point or beyond. So I don't think I think that it's worse not to have, or it's it's worse to have no glide before the race.

Speaker 1 24:28

if you in runners, you guys know what we're talking it could be body glide is a brand, but it could be whatever your version of it is nut butter the anti-chafing stuff anti-chafing really and once you get it yeah, you get a really bad hot spot early. It sucks, sucks and you gotta deal with it. You had one happen once, I remember, at a we were doing Expedition Everest, yes, and that it was bad. That made the whole night kind of miserable.

Speaker 2 24:57

Yeah.

Speaker 1 24:59

As far as Code Brown goes, porta-potties are great. If I gotta to go, I got to go Again. The worst part, big races is if the porta potties aren't well maintained, you get in there. There's no toilet paper, oh boy, always bring some dude wipes or something with you at a race because sometimes, if the urge hits you, especially if you shouldn't be trying new nutrition on day of race, or the night before, or the night before Like your meal.

Speaker 1 25:29

Don't get fancy, don't get adventurous, but if you do, at least you'll have something with you to wipe effectively with. So that's a good question.

Speaker 2 25:38

I like those little travel pouches of dude wipes. Not a sponsor of the show.

Speaker 1 25:42

Not a sponsor of the show, but they could be. Come on, dude wipes.

Speaker 2 25:45

Exactly, you could be a runner's best friend, just saying. Anyway, he also added another question, mm-hmm, and this I put in the running portion because it's for me. I feel like he's asking pre-race.

Speaker 1 26:04

Okay.

Speaker 2 26:05

The coffee order that you would have at a Dunkin's in Boston. Let's say, If you were doing the BAA 5K, if you were doing the 10K, if you were.

Speaker 1 26:13

Oh, I thought he was asking about my school, since I mentioned so many Dunkin's in Boston. That's true.

Speaker 2 26:17

He probably is so never mind.

Speaker 1 26:20

But no, Boston Marathon is important and the good news is, if you're in the Boston Marathon, chances are you'll find a Dunkin' Donuts. That city is littered with them. I'm boring when it comes to my coffee order. I typically go coffee straight, brewed, coffee, black. If I'm feeling adventurous, I have them put cream in it If they have heavy cream. That's the route I go. Otherwise, half and half cream in it If they have heavy cream that's the route I go, otherwise, half and half, that's it.

Speaker 2 26:46

Yes, I'm easy, that's it. You Same, it's the same.

Speaker 1 26:50

I don't need a mocha frappa, whatever nonsense, before a race. I'm trying to run down the course, not vibrate down the course.

Speaker 2 27:02

And you don't need the.

Speaker 1 27:03

I don't know the extra dairy or sugar, and I've just gotten to the point where I just don't do sugar in my coffee anymore. I used to years ago, but not anymore Now. We also got questions from Anna Runs on Coffee.

Speaker 2 27:14

Yes, we did.

Speaker 1 27:15

What is your favorite race? Swag, you've gotten from a race.

Speaker 2 27:20

Oh yeah, and I know they still owe us. It's really hard to say because I was going to say the Infinity Gauntlet, but they still owe us. What? Three stones, three races. Yeah yeah, three stones, three races, because I just I liked that theme and I thought that they were very well executed yes, medals, but I also really liked the 2020 edition Even though we couldn't run in Jacksonville of Donna because it was Valentine's Day. It was, I think, the 14th anniversary of the race and it was a heart, and so I really liked that and I really thought it took a lot of heart for everybody in the runcation nation to come together and do all that virtually. And I think, aren't we still finding confetti in here?

Speaker 1 28:13

yes, we are yeah pro tip.

Speaker 2 28:16

Don't deploy a confetti cannon in your house and I think that there may still be like when we replace this carpet oh, 100 there, we're gonna find it under it. We're just going to find it. Yeah, yeah, what about you?

Speaker 1 28:32

Okay, I'm going to have a couple of answers for this.

Speaker 2 28:34

I said medals, she said swag.

Speaker 1 28:36

Medal swag. Yeah, I was a huge fan of the Jogging for Frogmen 5K medal. If we're talking about medals, that is a charity event that benefits the US Navy SEALs Foundation. That foundation helps families of Navy SEALs who are deployed, those that are injured in the line of duty. I loved that race. What a great event. We did the one in Louisville that year. They do them all over the country.

Speaker 1 29:06

I would encourage people to look that organization up and see if there's a Jogged for Frogmen event near them. But the medal has an integrated bottle opener, which is phenomenal. I'm also a huge fan. While we're channeling our inner lush, you mentioned the Donna medal, the Donna Mother's Day 5 oh, 5k, I think, had a wine stopper. It did metal one year, which was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 29:33

Yeah, that it was the one before they resumed live races yeah, so that was pretty cool but all but, since we're channeling. What did you say? Our inner lush yeah okay, back og style the original race that kicked off our podcast period.

Speaker 1 29:53

The swag we got the tampa beer and pint glasses yeah, we still have them and we get more every time we go run it. So, yeah, that one's hard to beat. Plus, they always do a good shirt. They have one of the softest shirts that I think we ever get at a race.

Speaker 2 30:07

I wouldn't run in it.

Speaker 1 30:09

No, but it's not a pure cotton. I don't think.

Speaker 2 30:11

No.

Speaker 1 30:12

It's like a spandex hugging type thing. Bless you.

Speaker 2 30:16

So sorry.

Speaker 1 30:18

So yeah, what race is at the top of our race bucket list? Also from Anna Runs on Coffee.

Speaker 2 30:25

Yes, she gave a fantastic race recap of New York, by the way.

Speaker 1 30:31

Yes, she did Check that episode out.

Speaker 2 30:33

I love not one, but two episodes, because she gave so many tips that were great. I just love them. Okay, what's the top of my bucket list? New York. The New York City Marathon might be near the top. Speaking of that, because Anna just talked about how the crowds are just fantastic. Marco Chisetto even said that when he was on our show and I, gosh, I also would really like to do I the Little Rock race weekend. That gives back of the Packers, I don't know, like a two-hour head start for the marathon, and I think that a few runcation nation members oh, I think jessica had said that it was just a great party. I also think jojo might have said it was a good time too.

Speaker 1 31:36

Yeah, that's yeah okay yeah, I think for me it's not going to be quite as quite as grandiose oh sorry we'd always seen people doing it when we were running the California Disney races back when they used to schedule the Avengers race, and then people would come out and fly Avengers or run Avengers in the morning and then go do the rock and roll Las Vegas. To run the strip at night To run the strip at night.

Speaker 2 32:03

Yeah, that always sounds a good time.

Speaker 1 32:05

That would be really cool, I think that time of year wouldn't be miserably night. Yeah, that always sounds a good time. That would be really cool, I think that time of year, it wouldn't be miserably hot. Oh yeah, the scenery along the course would just be amazing.

Speaker 2 32:14

Indeed, that would be super cool.

Race Experiences and Medal Meanings

Speaker 1 32:16

Yeah. And then my other one is just a really obscure reference. There was a race that used to happen called the Canfield Classic, and the medal was a machete, not a little machete, an actual machete.

Speaker 2 32:34

And you ran through Sugar Cane Field out in Louisiana. But I don't think they do the race anymore. I take it back. I really want to go do that scotch race in Scotland.

Speaker 1 32:38

We don't have the name of that one, though, but we were looking at that race before the world shut down back in 2020.

Speaker 2 32:45

Yeah, where there's scotch at every.

Speaker 1 32:47

There was a scotch tasting at every mile and it ran you along many distilleries yeah, I take it back.

Speaker 2 32:53

Super cool, that's got to be a bucket list race.

Speaker 1 32:56

Yeah, yeah, okay if she finds that race, she'll link to it in the show notes yeah, but I think that you have to be on top.

Speaker 2 33:04

I think it's run disney registration ask oh, and that you have to be on top.

Speaker 1 33:09

I think it's run Disney registration ask, oh, and that you have to be on top of it whenever. I'm sure that the locals probably do a lot of them, and then the running masses from around the globe just suck up. The last of the race entries there.

Speaker 2 33:23

Lindy Myers, who is a patron on our, buy me a coffee actually yes, she is an insider.

Speaker 1 33:32

She says what race gave you the absolute best run, eat, drink, experience and why this is a tough one there are many good choices there are'm going to go with the Anchorage Runfest Really yeah, because number one Anchorage for me was a bucket list race. That was just a great chance to do that one.

Speaker 2 33:59

It's amazing.

Speaker 1 33:59

The race course itself is fast, it's flat, it's paved, it's very scenic. Yeah, you have just great opportunities for taking in wildlife, nature, beautiful mountains in the distance, plus some of downtown Anchorage.

Speaker 2 34:17

Now I want to do it again.

Speaker 1 34:18

So the race itself phenomenal, absolutely unbeatable. They've got a 49K there you can do. They have just. And it's at a time of year where the weather is very mild, unless you are from there, in which case they think it's oppressively hot and they'll put a black flag on the course and tell you don't do a PR, because it's going to get up to 75 degrees that day. We love our friends at Anchorage. We joke because, coming from Florida, that was just amazing. The food scene there is so surprisingly good. Amazing the food scene there is so surprisingly good.

Speaker 2 34:48

Yes.

Speaker 1 34:49

You wouldn't expect it from a place that either has to essentially serve game meat or has to have everything shipped in. But we had just some incredible food there, and that's a double whammy, because Midnight Sun Brewing has great food and beverage yes, anchorage and beverage yes, anchorage Distilling. Yep, and then when you get to the drinking portion. Now it doesn't surprise me so much that they have a great drinking scene, because for six months of the year, what else is there to do?

Speaker 2 35:17

It depends on your home and build your retirement home the way it ought to be and you can't Okay.

Speaker 1 35:24

Yeah, they do have really fantastic drink scene there and it's just a cool, it's an amazing race. I can't, I can't say enough good about that one.

Speaker 2 35:35

Oh it is, it's Matanuska Brewing. Mm hmm, also, oh, so good.

Speaker 1 35:42

Moose's Tooth Pizza. I've never had reindeer on a pizza.

Speaker 2 35:45

One year I would love to go do that race and actually get there to go to. I think it's the Beartooth, that is the theater that has that pizza, that's in that family, so we can actually see a screening.

Speaker 1 35:58

It's like a dinner and a movie type thing.

Speaker 2 36:00

Of whatever running movie or documentary that they show and then have that whole experience. I would love that. Yeah, yeah, we got to spend more time the next time we do that race.

Speaker 1 36:10

It's also incredibly veteran friendly race event. There's a lot of veterans that live in that area, so it's just fantastic. I think that the active duty military.

Speaker 2 36:21

I guess Do you call it like the post-race beer garden.

Speaker 1 36:26

Yeah.

Speaker 2 36:30

The post-race party party, because I I mean, we have a humongous dog there once and the brews that they had were great and just and they had like those reindeer sausages. I just yeah, yeah, I may say that you are absolutely 100 correct in that, not only the first time we did it, but also the second time when we just went up there and did the 5k and we happened to finish with marco chisetto just tapping you on the shoulder yeah, of course I'm doing a 5k.

Speaker 1 37:03

Marco comes blowing past me because he's just done a half marathon and Bart Yasso's announcing us in.

Speaker 2 37:12

Announcing us in it's so great, it's so great, it's so great. I just yeah. So that's, I would agree with you.

Speaker 1 37:20

I mean, a close runner up is actually pretty close to here in Florida and that would be the Key West half.

Speaker 2 37:26

Oh, that's fantastic because.

Speaker 1 37:27

Fast, flat course. Yeah, the only drawback to that would be the. Key West half oh that's fantastic because Fast, flat course.

Speaker 2 37:33

Yeah, the only drawback to that one is the weather, is the heat.

Speaker 1 37:35

Yeah, the weather is or possible rain Is oppressively hot, or it's like raining and just like how it blew over, kind of the arch, and I can't believe that I'm even saying that, like I didn't even consider Gasparilla in Tampa. Again, fast, flat course paved. You never know what the weather's going to be like in the food scene Food and drink scene in. Tampa is really second to none. Eulalie, I absolutely yeah, it doesn't top Anchorage.

Speaker 2 37:59

It's so hard to choose because we've been so lucky in the history of our show, of our show. But cheryl, who gave us a great recap of what should be on our bucket list, which is a marine corps marathon, and then so did tanya. That tanya and cheryl, we just we need to do the marine corps marathon weekend events. We need to do the 1775. We need to do all their stuff because it's super cool.

Speaker 1 38:34

And I want to be the penguin.

Speaker 2 38:37

I want to have the penguin. I want to be like the last finisher in the marathon and do the penguin thing, but Cheryl looks like walking on Instagram. What is your favorite metal of all time?

Speaker 1 38:50

You first.

Speaker 2 38:50

Is her question. It depends on your criteria, because what's your favorite looking metal, what's the one that's your favorite, that has the most meaning to you, what's your so it's like? What is the rubric by which you grade it's?

Speaker 1 39:07

up to you.

Speaker 2 39:08

And I really think that one of my favorites was the dinner plate sized half marathon medal from Jeff Galloway's race that celebrated his five year anniversary of his race weekend in Atlanta. And that food and beverage scene. Yeahlanta is very good as well but I just and that's where we went and we met bob is 70 and dopey and we. We were all in the rain that same weekend.

Speaker 2 39:46

And we made the video of everybody who has so much appreciation for Jeff everybody in his whole organization. I just that medal was huge. But it also means a lot because he's our coach and he's so incredible as a person and has been so instrumental in the running community for just your average person who wants to get into running to better themselves physically or to support charity or just to challenge the limits that they thought they had themselves. So to me that's one of the most meaningful ones and I go back and I look at those video episodes when we were a video podcast. I just the messages that people sent and what we said to Jeff and just that's very meaningful.

Speaker 1 40:41

Okay, I would agree. That's really good. I may have to go back to Anchorage Run Fest for this one.

Speaker 2 40:48

They have great medals and their shirts are dynamite too. Medals and shirts man.

Speaker 1 40:51

They kill it on the medals and shirts, so I think I'm going to go with Anchorage Run Fest. Last time we went, they did this iridescent finish to the medal, which was just super slick and, yeah, I was very pleased.

Speaker 2 41:04

The animals on those medals. They celebrate celebrating the wildlife there.

Speaker 1 41:08

You know we've never had a wildlife encounter on the course, but every year there's been a wildlife encounter on the course I've always wanted one depends. It depends like a safe one. Safety first a safe one yeah, because there are moose and bear that sometimes show up.

Speaker 2 41:24

Okay, so in the you know how we do the one mile race the day before the longer races, yeah, right around that park. Right around that park and they have the military mile and they do. There was a moose, wasn't there in that house?

Speaker 1 41:40

That was a reindeer. That was a reindeer. There's a reindeer. What, sorry, at a petting zoo. It's still a gigantic animal.

Speaker 2 41:47

So that's a wildlife sighting. Yeah, yeah, that's good, I like it. I like it Okay.

Speaker 1 41:53

Coolest costume seen at a race.

Speaker 2 41:56

Oh, I have this. The last time we did the Avengers, we were between the two parks on the course and we saw who's the guy in Avengers. Oh my God, that says Mary Poppins, y'all.

Speaker 1 42:16

What's the character that's Yondu.

Speaker 2 42:18

Yondu. Okay, so somebody had dressed up as a cross between Yondu and Mary Poppins.

Speaker 1 42:23

And the actual Mary Poppins and the actual.

Speaker 2 42:25

Mary Poppins and the actual.

Speaker 1 42:25

Mary Poppins yes.

Speaker 2 42:26

And I think that you actually got video of saying I'm Mary.

Speaker 1 42:29

Poppins, y'all so.

Speaker 2 42:31

I thought that was super cool. I don't know how somebody actually ran the Wine and Dine when it was still at night and they showed up as Groot oh we have seen some of those.

Speaker 1 42:41

Yeah, we did.

Speaker 2 42:42

Hands down Great costume. They did like a foam texture. They looked like Groot and they ran in that.

Speaker 1 42:49

And I'm like I don't know how you do that. I've also seen people do they run as a group and it's the Alligators and Captain Hook and I'm like y'all are crazy in these velour onesie type costumes running in Florida Like somebody did Deadpool once Seen Deadpool Four onesie type costumes running in Florida, like somebody did Deadpool once. Seen Deadpool and there's a guy that shows up to all the Disney races, who is Captain Jack Sparrow.

Speaker 2 43:11

And I just can't. You've done the whole pirate costume.

Speaker 1 43:20

I don't know how he does that one, because he does the long jacket and the leggings and the whole shebang, but he's there, he's at every race yeah. So coolest costume for me, yeah yeah yeah, oh, you know, I'm gonna cheat a little bit and I'm gonna give a shout out to all of the members of the 501st legion that show up to races nice.

Speaker 1 43:38

That is a charity organization that's into star wars cosplay. They do a lot of work at hospitals and brightening up the days of kids. The 501st comes out to not only Disney races but to a lot of other races, including locally that. We've seen them at the Gasparilla race every year in Tampa. Love that. The quality of the costumes that those folks do are just second to none and they even show up to the Disney races and they outclass the actual Disney character. Stops, yeah, they're, they kill it.

Speaker 2 44:08

I loved the year that we ran Avengers, where we were by the riverbed and you happened to get all the pictures with all of all the Peggy's, all the Peggy's.

Speaker 1 44:16

Yeah, they're all the Peggy Carter's.

Speaker 2 44:17

Peggy Carter's. Yeah, that was super cool, super cool. Cheryl also asks what food or drink do you wish all the aid stations carry? Is ibuprofen a food? It could be a food group In our household. It's a food group.

Speaker 1 44:36

I wish they would carry Element L-M-N-T. Not a sponsor of the show, but they do a great job. Their their electrolytes are just delicious and they've got all the salt and everything you need. I wish that more races had. I wish more races had that. It's expensive if you're buying it. Even if you buy it in bulk on amazon, it's expensive so they like their product. Not a sponsor, but they could be and they can make it less expensive with a discount code.

Speaker 2 45:02

So I'm just saying they For sure they could come on the show Come on Element. And you could talk about all the benefits Free thing. Just saying Honeystinger waffles.

Speaker 1 45:11

Stroopwafels yes.

Speaker 2 45:13

Yeah, Although lately as we have asked people what they carry with them, when they do Runcation recaps on our show. It's like I want to try the maple syrup that I think that Cheryl was the first one to talk about it. Maybe Was it. I think it was Cheryl and forgive me, I apologize, runcation Nation if I got that wrong, but we've heard it from multiple people in the runcation nation about that.

Looking Forward to 2025 Race Season

Speaker 1 45:44

That maple syrup that is for runners, I when it's really cold coffee maybe, yeah, okay um, suzy asked what, absolutely what do you absolutely need to have on you on race day? Something that if you didn't have it would totally throw your mojo off? For me it's. I don't run without headphones and my phone, so that messes me up when I forget them, and I have done that before.

Speaker 2 46:14

I hate it so yeah, yes, because there is. I painstakingly create a playlist for every race so that I can get into certain songs that will motivate me, and I think you are right having your phone and your headphones so that you can get into the zone. But if you didn't have nutrition, if you didn't have the nutrition that your body can tolerate, I can also see that being a nightmare. Yeah, I don't know, but I think you're right, that is what I need. Got to have your headphones, yeah, so we will.

Speaker 1 47:00

We have just finished all the running questions and we still have the eating and drinking to do. So I think this is a great place for us to stop for today, and we will pick it up on the next episode with the eating and drinking questions, plus some bonus bites from my time in Boston.

Speaker 2 47:15

Yeah, so that's a wrap.

Speaker 1 47:17

That's going to do it for this week's episode of the Run Eat Drink podcast. We want to thank all of you for listening and continuing to subscribe.

Speaker 2 47:24

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Speaker 1 47:42

And I'm your co-host, Dana.

Speaker 2 47:43

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