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S2EP12: Shamrock'n: We ran together, we struggled together, and we celebrated together!
The Shamrock'n 5k, 10k and Half Marathon isn't just another race—it's where ordinary people discover extraordinary strength within themselves and their community. This episode takes you on an intimate journey through the fears, doubts, triumphs, and celebrations of a diverse group of runners tackling the iconic Sacramento event.
From our pre-event pasta dinner where runners share their anxieties and expectations to the post-race bonfire celebration, we capture the full emotional arc of endurance events. You'll meet David, who had never run more than six miles before attempting the half marathon; Tony, whose torn meniscus forced him to withdraw but couldn't keep him from supporting his friends; and Mark, an experienced ultra-runner taking an unconventional "off the couch" approach due to injury.
What makes this story special isn't just the individual achievements—though there were many personal records shattered—but how these runners chose connection over competition. Despite varying experience levels, four participants ran nearly 80% of the race together, proving that sometimes the best experiences come when we focus on the journey rather than just the finish line.
Whether you're a seasoned runner or someone who's never laced up running shoes, this episode offers powerful insights about identity, perseverance, and community. As one first-time half-marathoner realized, "I hadn't been identifying as a runner... that was the missing piece."
The three key takeaways resonated with everyone: trust your training process (whatever that looks like for you), rediscover the pure joy of participating in events, and celebrate achievements together. After crossing the finish line, these runners gathered like a Little League team, hands in the middle, embracing the childlike excitement of doing something challenging with friends who understand the struggle.
Ready to be inspired to tackle your own seemingly impossible challenges? Join us for a front-row seat to what happens when determination meets community.
Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to the Peach Podcast. Just a couple of dudes and an occasional guest breaking open topics from everyday life on purpose, energy, attitude, commitment and health. So, if you're ready, listen in as we live to learn from our losses, gain from our gratitude and laugh as we level up. To learn from our losses, gain from our gratitude and laugh as we level up. Always remember, if you ever feel stuck, all you got to do. Podcast.
Speaker 1:If you want to know why we are called Peach, first and foremost, I encourage you to go listen to episode one. There is a great story behind our name. Secondly, if you are new, it's probably because of one or two of the guests we have on this particular episode, and I just want to say thank you for being the kind of person who supports your friend or your family or whoever it is you are in relation to this person that's on this episode. You are awesome. So thank you so much from runners who were first-timers, people who have done ultras, people who had running schedules, people who had busy schedules and just tried to get training in when they could.
Speaker 1:We also have an interview on here with someone who became injured during the process of training for this event and unfortunately could not make the event, but we wanted to dive in and kind of peel back some layers of what does that feel like? Are you frustrated? How do you overcome? What do you do next? Do you give up running? So you're going to get to hear from this person as well. It's very interesting. You want to tune in, but at this point I'm going to kick it on over to you. Daryl, you are gifted at setting up a framework of what the listeners can expect moving forward in this podcast episode and so, without further ado, take it away my brother.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we started planning this right after Turkey Trot last November Got a big group of people. We had a two-day event. We had four people that ran in 5K or 10K on Saturday and then we had seven people running the half marathon on Sunday and we had several other people that were training and had to bow due to injuries. But we kept in contact with them and it was great seeing the training really pay off. You're going to hear from a lot of them a lot of personal records, a lot of best performances that people had. So enjoy, listen and Doug and I will be back at the end to recap.
Speaker 1:Daryl, Daryl, Daryl. Here we are, man, we are live at Shamrock right now. When this posts, it won't be live, but it's live right now. How are you feeling, man? You've got a 10K ahead of you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've got a 10K. Eric and Angelina just left on the 5K. There's about 12 minutes in, so the fast people are going to be coming in very, very quickly. Yes, so it's a great weekend. We've got two days of this. I'm real excited, cool, cool.
Speaker 1:So you're running the half marathon tomorrow. Are you nervous about running today and then running again tomorrow?
Speaker 2:I think I should be okay. I'm running with Josephine, so I think it'll be a really nice, good, relaxing run today, excited to never run with her on a run um of this length, so it'll be great.
Speaker 1:and then, uh, tomorrow it's uh, all gas, no break. That's it baby, that's it man. Hey, the energy here is electric. It's awesome. There's so many people here, like hundreds and hundreds of people, and so just excited for being around this energy, and excited to be here to support you and Eric and Angelina and Josephine. It's going to be a great day, brother, great day, but I'm looking forward tomorrow when I run the half marathon with you as well.
Speaker 2:Yep, we got a lot of a lot of things. We're going to be doing some interviews with some of the people before and after. We got a dinner tonight, a little carb loading dinner, so it'd be a good weekend. So more to come, very good, very good.
Speaker 1:All right, brother, we'll sign off for now and then we'll get back to everyone later. Peace, all right. All right, here we are, man, we got father-daughter duo did the 5K, was it Angelina? Was this your first 5K? This was my second 5K.
Speaker 3:Your second 5K.
Speaker 4:Yes, okay, way better than the first one. I beat my goal under 30 minutes. Nice.
Speaker 1:Congratulations. Thank you, I feel good. And Eric, you came out to support her today. Oh yeah, yes, it was some easy work today. Easy work. Come on, man.
Speaker 5:Come on Some light work. You know, supporting my daughter Her first official 5K that she ran nonstop.
Speaker 4:Yes, nice, brother, nice, this is just a warm-up for him. Just a warm-up for him, very good.
Speaker 1:Well, it was exciting watching you guys. I think I got some video of you guys crossing the finish line. I got the little clock in there so you can see your official time. Yay, but congratulations to both of you.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 7:Angelina you're a badass.
Speaker 1:I can't wait until next year, because next year you're doing a 10k right. Yes, yes, 100% 10k next year yes, I'm just getting started well, thanks for taking some time to be with Peach Podcast this morning. God bless you guys. Man Peach out. I'm here with my sister, josephine. We are at the Shamrockin event. She just crushed her 10k and uh. So, josephine, we are at the Shamrockin' event, she just crushed her 10K-er. And so, josephine, you just finished the 10K. How are you feeling right now?
Speaker 4:I'm feeling super proud of myself. I went into it with little expectations because I had a little injury, so I hadn't been training.
Speaker 5:So I didn't have any real goals other than to finish and when I started. I just kept telling myself don't stop, don't stop don't stop, and I didn't, I just kept going.
Speaker 4:And it was helpful to have.
Speaker 1:Daryl there pacing me, my husband he has really long legs.
Speaker 5:So he was just going a little bit ahead of me and I just kept up with him.
Speaker 4:It was really good not to watch. My watch that was so good.
Speaker 1:That's really good.
Speaker 4:Not to pay attention to what mile I was at not to watch my watch.
Speaker 7:Daryl was doing all the pacing and I didn't know how fast I was going. It was just about how.
Speaker 1:I was feeling, which was huge. That was so good. Yeah, and so the end result.
Speaker 7:I was watching the timer as you crossed the finish line.
Speaker 1:And I know you have a bad leg and your back is messing with you as well you weren't watching your pace, but I believe you broke your time.
Speaker 4:You broke your personal record. I don't know, I don't have an official time, so we'll see when that comes out.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, I'm pretty sure you did, and I think you beat it by gosh at least five, if not more minutes but congratulations he says it was so awesome watching you out there doing the first couple laps. Yeah, thanks for supporting.
Speaker 9:And then finishing at the finish line.
Speaker 4:strong, but the best part about this was Alyssa came out. My daughter came out and surprised me and I was on like mile three and she was there on the sidelines waiting and it made me cry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was messing with you. Imagine if you didn't stop for that hug you would have came in 10 minutes earlier. And Alyssa's on staff. I don't know if you know that, but she got the red jacket. She's on staff today.
Speaker 4:And having Ava out there run with me for a couple minutes. That was so awesome having you here and everybody else maria and angelina watching her know that she killed it on her runs.
Speaker 1:That was so fun awesome. Well, congratulations, sis. We love you, the peach community loves you and, uh, you keep inspiring us, man. I know you're gonna rest tomorrow, but I can't wait to see you back out there and getting after it again down the road.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I can't wait for you guys. Tomorrow We'll be there on the sidelines.
Speaker 1:All right, love you and talk to you later. Okay, I hope you're enjoying this. So far this was a two-day event. So you just heard from the people who ran on Saturday who did the 5K and 10K, and now we're moving into Saturday evening where several people were invited over who were doing the half marathon, on Sunday morning for a carb loading dinner and just to get together, and Daryl and I thought it would be really good just to catch a glimpse and get into the mind of people pre-race, pre-event, to see what's on their mind, how do they feel about it, and then with the idea knowing that we were going to interview them afterwards as well. So, listen up and here we go.
Speaker 2:We're just here at the house having dinner. We have our normal kind of carb. The night before, josephine makes pasta. This time we actually have about I don't know, 10, 15 people. It's great. We got all sorts of stuff, of stuff pasta salad, um, got some garlic bread. Got lots of garlic bread for you doug. So, um, yeah, we have uh, seven people running in the half marathon and we have six of them here today, and one of them is david, a new runner.
Speaker 7:So david, welcome oh, thank you, that's right. New runner here. Um, I've never identified as a runner. This is going to be the longest run I've ever done. I like lifting weights and about three months ago, when I knew I was going to do this run, I went out for about three and a half miles and I texted Darrell. I said I didn't enjoy a single minute of that that's a real runner, david.
Speaker 1:I'm just telling you, that's a real runner, right there and Darrell, you know what you told me.
Speaker 7:You texted me back. You said just trust the process, right. And that resonated with me because I've used that philosophy before and so that kind of like caught my nerves a little bit and just started getting some runs out with you. And I remember Super Bowl Sunday we went out and we did a six-mile and that was the longest I'd ever run. I had a little knee pain when I finished but still, at the same time I was like, okay, I got the six miles in and I just kind of started getting in a little groove continue to train. I definitely didn't get a hundred miles last month like you did. You know setting the standard, but you know I definitely been training and you know I'm I'm excited, I'm a little. I got a little pre-race nerves, right, you know, starting to settle in. But I feel like, hey, if I just start slow, do my own pace, I should be fine out there.
Speaker 2:You know, david and I work out together. We live real close to each other. We're friends. David's very athletic, done a whole bunch of different things you know CrossFit, everything else, big golfer and it literally was david. What we were literally um, what do you think? Four months ago, you know, kind of on at a weekend that you invited us to bodega bay talking about running with mark who's also running in, and we said, hey, let's do shamrock and I loved um. You basically didn't say uh, you know, you said sure, and the the next, I think the next week you and Mark signed up. So it was a quick decision.
Speaker 7:And what was cool about that was like I had always in the back of my mind thought, you know, would I run a marathon or half marathon? And it was just something that was way back my mind. And so, you know, spending time with you and you presenting that opportunity, I knew right then and there is, like you know what I'm going to. I'm going to take that opportunity and see what this is all about.
Speaker 1:Man, I love it. You know it all comes back to who you surround yourself with right. You put yourself in the right rooms with the right people and here you are. That was like I mean, that was picture perfect. You guys couldn't have scripted it better of what happens when you just put yourself in the right rooms with the right people and here you are leveling up. One of the things that I just that caught my attention, david, was that you said the longest run you've done so far is six miles and tomorrow you're about to do 13.1. Yeah, I know 13.1. And I love it, man. I love it because it's badass.
Speaker 1:And again, one of the things, one of the things I'll share with you that's personal to me is that what I've learned in my running journey so far and I've just become a runner, I've just identified as a runner about a year and a half, two years ago is that there's purpose in all this, man. There's going to be setbacks, there's going to be pain. You talked about a little bit of pain and, man, if I could share anything with you, you've trained the best you can up to this point. Maybe, maybe not, I don't know. That's something you have to work out in yourself, but showing up to the starting line tomorrow, you've won.
Speaker 1:It's not about getting through the finish line and all that. It's about preparation, where you're at, what you've done and when you do cross because I know you're going to cross that finish line one way or another you're going to have a moment where you're going to kind of just say, okay, where do I want to go with this, where am I at? Did I do enough? Could I have done better? And I'm looking really forward to just hearing about what you process, what your brain is going through at the end, because we want to interview you again tomorrow and see you know what your takeaways were, man. But thank you for letting us jump on here with you right now. We're going to connect with you tomorrow and any last-minute things you want to share for anybody who is thinking about doing something like this. You, because that's big 13.1 miles ain't no joke.
Speaker 7:Yeah, this is new territory for me and that's awesome. There is something you said a couple podcasts ago and you talked about identifying as a runner. Yes, and so I. You know, I listened to that about a week ago and that's where it kind of clicked for me. I'm like, ah, that's the missing piece. I haven't been identifying as a runner, and so this only kind of clicked about a month ago. But I'm going to take that with me all day tomorrow when I wake up. I'm a runner.
Speaker 1:There you go, baby.
Speaker 7:Yes, it's kind of this positive energy that this is who I am. I can easily identify as a golfer. That's what I love to do.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 7:Running was never something I identified with until a week ago. Right, so it just kind of hit the spot. So I appreciate you sharing that too Right on, brother Well we're excited.
Speaker 10:We're carved up.
Speaker 2:We're ready, got some great fellowship, then we're going to grab some sleep and go crush it tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, yes sir, we're going to have a few more people we're going to interview, but thank you, david J, thank you, and that J is for Jimenez Jimenez. All right, all right, stay with us. Going to take a little detour, david Jimenez's son was at the party. His wife and kids were there as well, and when David Jimenez's son Brayden, walked in and introduced himself, he said hey, I listened to a couple of your episodes on your podcast and I mean he was, he's, he's, you know, he's a young blood and I was like, man, that's so cool to know that you were touching other demographics and age ranges and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1:So here's a little interview from his son, braden. All right, man, tonight we have a really cool special guest I've just met tonight for the first time. This is David Jimenez, the son Right, this is Braden. Did I call that, right, braden? Yeah, braden, all right, braden, braden, it's so cool to meet you tonight. You're a cool dude. I've had just a couple seconds to talk with you, a couple minutes maybe ask you a little bit about your history. But real quick, man, how old are you? I am 15 years old 15 years old.
Speaker 1:Right on. And what grade does that put you in? Ninth grade.
Speaker 1:Ninth grade, so you're in high school, and when I was talking to you earlier about being in high school, just talking about, you know, when we start out in high school sometimes a little sketchy, a little scary, a little uncomfortable, but you said it was in the beginning, but you kind of settled into it real quick, man. So, man, I just want to, you know, give you a big fist bump for that and tell you that's awesome, because for me, it took me a while to settle into that whole high school scene. But uh, and then you told me you play a sport. What sport is that? I play lacrosse. Lacrosse, very cool, and now lacrosse. You're a freshman in high school, but what team are you on on lacrosse? Varsity, varsity. We got a freshman playing with the big boys. Playing with the big boys. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, rayden, we have you on tonight too. Thank you for letting us get to know you a little bit. We have you on tonight too. Thank you for letting us get to know you a little bit. We have you on tonight, though, because when I first met you, I heard you say I've listened to a couple of your episodes on Peach Podcast, and man, that just made my heart flutter. Man, because Daryl and I do this because we want to touch people, we want to inspire people. If we can get just one person and fortunately we're in like 22, 23 countries now and several cities and to know that we're hitting all kinds of demographics, so what in those one or two episodes you might have listened to, what are you taking away from us, like what can we work on, or what do you like, or anything, anything you can share, man share with us?
Speaker 6:I think it's cool to see, like what adventures like where you guys share, man share with us. I think it's cool to see what adventures where you guys go and stuff, especially the bike riding. It seems fun when you guys talk about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got to know Brayden with his dad and his dad is always trying to get him out working out or something else like this, and definitely adventures would be cool. I want to do some hiking and stuff like that. That'd be really cool. What, what kind of adventures do you like? What kind of? I know you play lacrosse. What other other type of things do you like to go do? What's your idea of an adventure?
Speaker 6:Being outside, obviously, yeah, I like to go fishing, I like to go hiking, sometimes.
Speaker 2:Cool, cool. Well, we'll definitely look. It's going to be spring and summer and I know your dad wants to go on some hikes, yeah, and definitely I'd love to have you maybe go up to Desolation Wilderness. We've been doing some camping. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And some hiking there and we had a couple people a little younger than you that went. It was really cool. Right, right, I'm Jackson, yeah, jackson, yeah, jackson, jackson, cool man, well, thanks, hey. Are you going to be out there in the morning rooting your dad on? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you think? I think it'll go good probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it'll do good. I think it's hard. I mean, I did my first one last year and it was hard. But your dad really, he's like hell or high water I'm finishing that thing so he's very determined It'll be cool, all right, man. Thanks, brayden, and we'll see you at the finish line. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:Man. That was special. That was real special. You know, meeting Brayden, I could just tell he was a cool cat and I know I caught him off guard when I asked him to say a few things on the podcast. You know he thought he was coming over for a pause to feed and just connecting with other people and that was it. But you know, the fact that he stepped up and sat down and took the mic and leaned into the process shows a lot of courage, a lot of grit and a lot of tenacity and strong character. I'm proud of you, brayden. I know you're listening to this. So, man, just keep being you, brother. I look forward to seeing you and watching you grow, as you become even more adventurous and step into who you were meant to be.
Speaker 1:All right, let's get back to our runners, and the next person will be Mark, I believe. All right, mark, marky. Mark is in the house. What's up, brother? Hey, thanks for joining me tonight. We're here at Daryl and Josephine's house and we're with about six or seven runners who are going to run the half marathon tomorrow morning, and you are one of them, brother, and I guess you hung out with Daryl and David down in Bodega Bay or something like that. Is that when?
Speaker 1:you guys were hanging out and there was an invitation to run. How did that tell me? How'd that happen?
Speaker 10:exactly. Um well, I had just run the urban cow half marathon in Sacramento. That race usually happens in October, um, so I had run that and I was telling them about it and uh, I don't think either of them I'm not 100 sure, but I don't think either of them had ever run a race like a half marathon marathon. So we kind of just decided to sign up together and run the race and yeah, so here we are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I know Daryl has run. He ran this exact half marathon last year. Oh, okay, yeah, so he's got a couple miles under him. But I know, david, we just interviewed him a little while ago. The furthest he's run so far is six miles. So it'll be a big adventure for him. We're excited for him. But tell me a little bit about some of the runs you've run. What's the biggest run you've run?
Speaker 10:And what are you excited about tomorrow? I've run. I guess the longest distance was a 50K, so that's 32 point something miles, that's awesome.
Speaker 7:It's like ultra point something miles, that's awesome.
Speaker 10:It's like ultra. It's the. It's the least mileage you can run for ultra marathons.
Speaker 1:Okay, was it trail or was it?
Speaker 10:pace.
Speaker 7:It was a trail run. Okay, yeah, those are usually trail runs.
Speaker 10:Like anything above 26.2, which is marathon, is usually trail. Not all of them, but a lot of them. But that's considered ultra.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 10:The ultra is 50K, 100K, and then there's people who do like the 200 mile or the 100 miles 200 miles. So yeah, it was called Way Too Cold. It's a race up in Cool California. It happens actually in March every year, oh, in Cool California.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's some hilly terrain, brother. Yeah, yeah, like that ain't no joke up there Wait you did a 50K out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Man. Okay, so you got some good legs under you.
Speaker 10:I mean that was a couple years ago. You know I generally run, I like to run, I like the mental effects, mostly for running. But this race I haven't like I was sharing with you guys. I got injured in the Urban Cow. My foot's been bothering me so I haven't really been training for this race. So I think tomorrow I'm kind of looking forward to having a new experience. I'm not worrying about like my pace per mile or anything like that. If I need to walk I'm going to walk, you know, and just kind of take it easy and have kind of a different, just a different experience with this one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that you are showing up. When's the last?
Speaker 10:time you actually trained um. I ran like four and a half miles last weekend, but it's. I haven't really trained since october, I would say yeah, you know where I was, like counting my miles and looking at my pace yeah for the urban cow. So since then I haven't really trained I love that you know what there's.
Speaker 1:There's something really cool and adventurous about, you know, having very little training to no training and coming up to the starting line and say, let's see what, let's see what's up, man, let's see what I got. And uh, I think that's going to be fun, especially with the. If you've done the ultras and stuff like that, I think you mentally and physically know what you're in for. Yeah and uh. So I think it'll be really cool to kind of just not worry about the pace and you know and let your mind and your spirit kind of take over and see what you and hopefully you listen to your body well enough so that you don't take those injuries any further down, deep down the dark hole. You know what I'm saying. So, uh, we'd love to interview you tomorrow after you finish the race just to kind of see what the experience was from that perspective, because it sounds like other events you've done, you've prepared for yeah yeah for sure.
Speaker 1:So this will be the first event, official event you've done and you're you really didn't you? Off the couch, off the couch, yeah, I love it I love it right on, so is there any uh one thing you want to share? You're just you. You you're looking forward to tomorrow or excited about tomorrow.
Speaker 10:I'm looking forward to running with these guys. I mean, I think that's kind of why I'm still going to do it Right, because I knew Daryl and David were doing it Right Now. You know, we've all had a chance to meet tonight, so hopefully we can kind of catch each other and just run together. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 10:And that's kind of what I'm most looking forward to tomorrow. Right on, brother, hopefully it rains a little bit. You know, just a good memory. Oh yeah, that would be cool. I love, because generally it does. I don't know if it's. I mean, at least I've run this race a few times and it's always actually really nice.
Speaker 9:Yeah, sunny good spring weather.
Speaker 10:So yeah, it should be interesting.
Speaker 1:It'll be fun, man, whatever it is, we're gonna be, we're gonna be there, right, that's right. All right, brother. Well, hey, mark, thanks for taking a few minutes tonight. Again, I'd like to interview you tomorrow after the race to catch some thoughts. But, uh, man, thank you so much for showing up tonight. It was great meeting you tonight and I look forward to running with you tomorrow. Yeah, likewise, right on, brother. Peace. All right, so far, so good. Man, this is great stuff. Now we're gonna mix it up a little bit with our boy, tony t. Tony was the runner who registered, was excited, was committed and looking forward to this process, but unfortunately got injured. So we're going to go inside the mind of a runner who got injured and how he dealt with it. This is Tony. Hey, hey. So Tone, tone Lowe, tone Lowe, talk to me.
Speaker 1:Hey man. So, man, I wanted to get you on here tonight. We're here having a big pasta feed at Daryl and Josephine's house with about six or seven of the runners for tomorrow, and you were supposed to be one of the runners today, man, but you registered, you committed.
Speaker 9:I did.
Speaker 1:We did a podcast with you and Josephine talking about getting ready to do this run. And what happened? Man Like what's going on.
Speaker 9:Well, I went to knees all swolled up, been hurting, been killing me, and so I went and had an x-ray done and it's all swolled up and I had to go see an orthopedic surgeon and I seen him and he told me that I might have torn my meniscus. Damn so, yeah. So I asked him, I said what's that procedure like? And he's like well surgery.
Speaker 1:I said no, no. And this happened like you were like what? A weekend or two weeks into training, because you started the training, you committed, you registered for the, you paid money yeah non-refundable money and non-transferable money. That's right to this event. Right, so you got a a bib somewhere floating around that yeah somebody is just sitting around there.
Speaker 9:I thought about going and picking it up. You should go get the t-shirt. You get a shirt with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you do get a shirt with it. But uh, this happened like what, two weeks in, three weeks in.
Speaker 9:It was pretty I think it was, I think it was like three weeks in, I think it was because that it was like it happened right before we went snowshoeing, right. And then, uh, and then I felt great, I hurt for a few days. And then you said snowshoeing, and I was like, oh, I gotta heal up, and and actually when we went snowshoeing it felt pretty good, you know, I felt fine. It hurted, you know, uh, the day before. But then I woke up that I was ready to go snowshoeing, right, but then I actually went for a run the next day because I felt so good. And then that next day I woke up after my run. That's when it got me and I was all swolled up and in pain. Damn, yeah, in pain, damn, yeah.
Speaker 1:so one of the reasons I wanted to have you on here tonight was because, you know, uh, about a year and a half, two years ago, you know, I really took running and identifying as a runner as just I owned it, I, I embraced it and it was like no, you know, I know it's going to come with injury, I know it's going to come with setbacks, and so I want to know how, how are you processing all this? Um, has there been any frustration? Has there been any regrets? What's going on in Tony's head, tony Valene's head, as far as getting, because you were pumped up for this man, you were ready to get after it.
Speaker 9:I still am. Actually I'm running in my head.
Speaker 1:Hey, that's cool. Are you in first place?
Speaker 9:No, I'm just kidding. No, it's actually frustrating because I really wanted to compete today. I really wanted to get out there and run, you know, hit the pavement, and it was just like it was kind of I felt like I let myself down a little bit, but at the same time, I don't want to feel that pain again. It was excruciating. I didn't like it at all, yeah, and I just didn't want to feel that again. I think I just need to take a step back, and I think it was one of your podcasts before where you had a little time to, you know, listen to your body. Yeah, yeah, you know, yep, you know. So that's what I did I just kind of listened to my body.
Speaker 1:But in my mind I'm thinking like David Goggins. You know, you little wussy.
Speaker 5:Get out there. Put some duct tape on him, man.
Speaker 9:Duct tape have your feelings.
Speaker 7:Stay hard, Stay hard yeah exactly.
Speaker 9:But no, I mean, I feel like this isn't the end for me. I'm still going to get out there and run and stuff like that. I'm just going to be a pro when it's time, when it's time, when it's time, yeah, I love that that's what I wanted to get you on.
Speaker 1:I wanted you to share what's going on in your head because I think a lot of people they try to run. They get going. I know for me, for years I wanted to run, I wanted to be a runner, yeah, and I kept failing. I kept getting injured after the first time because I'd go out too hard or whatever and I'd say, man, I'm just not a runner, I'm not a runner, it's obviously. I'm not built for this. I should just stick to cycling and weightlifting.
Speaker 1:And yeah, you know it was a lie until I really changed my identity and said you know what? I'm a runner and all these setbacks is part like it's gonna. It's just you know like I'm a man that ain't gonna. Just you know like I'm a man that ain't going to change. Yeah, you know like being a man is going to come with setbacks. It's going to come with victories, it's going to come with all the pain, all the joy, all the stuff. Yeah, and you just got to go through it and that's just an identity, right? So, same thing as a runner, I see you.
Speaker 9:I'm glad to you guys's podcast too, you guys are pumping me up. So right on, yeah. So I'm, I'm super inspired.
Speaker 1:I'm still got that mindset of uh, you know, I'm gonna get after it yeah, well, what's really cool is that you didn't get to run today, but you're here at a runner's dinner tonight yeah hanging out with the runners and and you, you know I know it's got to part of you has got to be feeling frustrated like damn. I don't want to run that because I hear these guys talking about this.
Speaker 1:But, you know, thank you for being here, because that's where the real grit is, that's where the real determination and that's the real process is being showing up, when you know it's maybe not as fun or it's a little uncomfortable, and still having a good time, man. So you inspire us and thank you for being here tonight, man. Thank you, appreciate you Absolutely, brother. Hey thanks for spending some time with me on the podcast tonight.
Speaker 9:Oh, hell, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1:Right on, brother, Peace, Peace. Okay, we didn't get to record all the runners, but we got who we got and so the night had ended and everybody went to bed at a reasonable hour to get ready to wake up bright and early Sunday morning and get their run on. So the next interviews you will hear are post marathon or post half marathon event. So tune in, lean in and listen up. Here we go, All right. So, Mark, we're back.
Speaker 1:It's uh, I wanted to catch you immediately after the event man, but I don't know if you kept running up the stairs and into the parking lot, ran to the car and just drove home after the event man. You just disappeared. But I'm glad you took it. It's a few days later and, uh, I think we all needed the rest. Uh, but I want to. I wanted to congratulate you and then give a chance to give you a big hug or fist bump you or anything like that. So congratulations, brother, but based on our Thank you yeah, you're welcome Based on our interview from Saturday night when we were having the pasta feed and all that stuff, you had made some comments. I don't know if you remember what they were, just about your feelings about this, but, all in all, what was your experience? You know, of the, the day of and and afterwards.
Speaker 8:Yeah, yeah, thank you. No, great, great job to you guys too. A big shout out to to all of you for running it. Um, I know, going into the race, I hadn't really trained like I was accustomed to for any, any kind of competition, you know, any kind of distance, so I was really just looking at it as an opportunity to share with you all, just run together and, hopefully, you know, watch, listen to my body and walk if I needed to, and wasn't really putting any pressure on myself to make a certain time. And it was a great race. Man, I think I don't think I could have done it or would have done it without you guys. You know David and Daryl in particular. I think we ran together for 90% of the run and um, it just felt good. Yeah, it was great weather. My body felt good, you know, and um, it was just happy to to to get out there and share that with you guys.
Speaker 8:I know, after the race, that's when I noticed the lack of training. Um, the day after day after, I mean my quads, you know those muscles I had been, you know, doing stuff to stay in shape. You know I generally try to keep active, but I hadn't really been running and you notice those muscles that you only use when you run, or you use a lot when you run, like the calves, the quads, so those are still sore a few days later, kind of aches. You know, going up and down steps, down steps, in particular, is really painful right now. But but yeah, no, it was, it was great, it was a really good experience. I was telling my wife that it was, you know, one of my favorite races that I've done. I had done that one a few times in the past and this was, yeah, just a really good day overall.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, mark, we were standing in the corral waiting for the clock to go down to one and then start, and I thought I overheard you say something about. You woke up Sunday morning like. I know I'm supposed to do something today, but I can't put my finger on it.
Speaker 8:Is that true? Like, did I hear that right or can you? Can you? Can you share this? What you were saying? Again, yeah, well, generally.
Speaker 8:So I set my alarm for six or I don't know six, 15, and, and I just kept hitting snooze and I was like in and out of sleep thinking there's, there's something I'm supposed to be doing, like it's not a work day. And then I hopped out of bed at 6.45 or something and I was like, oh shoot, I'm supposed to run with these guys. And for a minute I thought about it. I told DJ and Daryl for a minute I'm like, I thought about texting the group and saying I'm not going to make it. But then of course I'm like, oh no, I can't do that, especially after we talked about everything the night prior. So, um, yeah, made it.
Speaker 8:I kind of jumped out of the car. Our wave started at 8 am. Um, jumped out of the car around 7 46 and I was parked pretty far away, just ran up and kind of got to the start line before it started. But I was sharing with these guys afterwards that generally before any kind of run like you know, a race, whatever um, I've got the jitters. You know, like the pre-race jitters can't fall asleep or I get up early and this time I think again because I hadn't really been training and focusing on it. Um, I was just, like you know, wasn't, wasn't front and center and and maybe that's a good attitude to go into these- types of things, for you know there's some.
Speaker 1:There's some wisdom in there for sure, brother. Thank you for sharing that, because there's a lot of wisdom in that, uh, that we can all take from. So thanks for sharing with that.
Speaker 2:And uh, and Mark didn't just, he literally ran up or ran in the starting line and the gun went off. I mean, he didn't even stop. He literally says, hey, I'm a little late and we started going.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, so, and then uh, and then there's David, which of course we had another David. We have David Vigil and David Jimenez. So, uh, david got named DJ, um, uh, there, and apparently that's what he goes by sometimes. And uh, we'll definitely turn over to David, though the interesting parts. There was three waves. Eric went in the first wave, we were in the second, and then David had a red bib in the third and he was the only one. So we're all standing by the about ready to go. And David, you were sitting on the thing and we said, david, just come with us. And he's like, look he goes, scoot back. And he literally just leaped over and got between us and we took off. And uh, mark, I don't think any of us, would you say, would have ever thought the four of us would have three or four of us would have ran the whole race together. I would have never thought that it was uh it was super cool.
Speaker 2:So, David, you did amazing. I want to hear, uh, how it uh how it went, how it felt, and you talked to me a lot about you just get through it, but you ran the entire thing and you ran an amazing pace. So talk about your feelings about the day.
Speaker 7:Yeah, sure, thank you so much. First off, shout out to my wife and kids and extended family who all supported me leading up to the race, and the family that was there. Appreciate that support. And thank you to you guys, right, the running crew, the podcast, even to your guests, right, who would share their running stories. Right, the ultra runner, even Josephine you had on sharing her running journey.
Speaker 7:That really opened the door for me to kind of walk through this running door, because I can tell you, and I can assure you, I would have had no plan of ever running a half marathon. I didn't identify as a runner. I could care less about running. The only time I would hop on the treadmill or do the lipical is maybe for a few minutes, just to get the body loose and go hit the weights, right. So you know, I think when I started training and I ran that first three miles several months back, I didn't know how I was going to do this half marathon. I hated every minute of it. But I told myself you know what I said even if I have to walk several times, you know I'm pretty confident that you know I'll be able to finish Right. And so with that mindset, I kind of took off, you know, a lot of pressure off me, right. And, and you know, and I think I hinted that, you know, my longest run before that was six miles, right.
Speaker 7:So you know, that race day, um, you know, I, I didn't, I didn't think I was going to, uh, complete it without, without, without walking, right, um, and, and I woke up that morning at three o'clock in the morning. I didn't feel nervous, but I definitely had some anticipation, jitters, um, I didn't get a good night's rest, sleep. But you know, when we were at the start line, just being around you guys and knowing I didn't have to run by myself, and I'm glad I hopped over that little gate. So, you know, had I run by myself it would have been a different story. And you know, once we got to that six mile mark, you said, darrell, you know, this is, you know, basically new territory for me, right, and I felt good and kept it going. And it wasn't until, you know, mile seven, eight, nine, that my legs really starting to hurt, right, I remember Mark saying man, you're, you're, you're in the runner's cave, right, and I just started envisioning me being in this dark cave and I'm in it.
Speaker 1:And he said don't even think about it, right Thanks?
Speaker 7:Mark, and just having you guys within that same facility like definitely pushed me to the next level and it kind of gave me that extra motivation. And as we were, as we were getting closer, I remember you, daryl, saying you know I'm going to push it this last half mile and I said go for it, lead the way. And then you start taking off and something inside of me, just you know, was like oh, just you know, let's, let's try to keep up. Right inside of me, just you know, was like oh, just you know, let's, let's try to keep up right, um, and and and I I'm gonna distinctly remember when we were probably about 50 yards from the finish line, you know they were taking all these pictures right that are up on site and you're, you're giving a thumbs, you know, thumbs up, and you're all smiles.
Speaker 7:I look at all my pictures and I have the most pain and agony on my face. Now my mouth is open, you know. So I, I, you know, I, I definitely, I definitely, uh, paid for it. Um, after the race, I, I've been completely sore the past couple days. I've never leaned on a on a stair handrail as much as I have the past couple days. Um, but I, I owe it all to you guys to kind of uh, you know, give me that, that motivation and support that race day, to, to, to make it possible. So I, I, I had a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:It was, uh, it was great, you know, um, uh, we took a picture, um, like you said he'd he'd run six miles. So when he got to mile six, he he ran up. I go go right. We got to josephine at seven and a half, uh, with the. She was there and you guys took off and for the next couple miles I was behind you, I don't know 1500 yards or something like this, and you two were just chatting it up, like you I mean like miles seven and a half to like 10.
Speaker 2:I look like you guys were having a conversation on a couch and I'm like man, I was like david is crushing it and it was so cool to see and you got you just talking and I'm like then we got to 10.
Speaker 2:I'm like man, he's gonna do it. I mean, no question, once you got to 10 you had it so big, uh big. Shout out to you that that takes a lot. I mean, mark, you're running right for someone his first time I had only trained up to six to be able to do what he did and a really good time. I mean that is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 8:Yeah, no, for sure, for sure, and it kind of reinforced for me the importance or how much, how much fun, more fun it is to run with people you know and and you don't notice those distances as much like. I've trained a lot, lot by myself and I've also run with groups and different training programs, primarily like with fleet feet, both the road team and then also the trail training team, and um, that, that just having that group to run with and pace with and talk to is yeah, it's, it's helped so much.
Speaker 1:Good stuff, guys. You know I want to just say personally from me, you know, and you got to hang out with a few Peach members this weekend and we all appreciated and loved your guys's energy, who you guys are and just being around you guys, and I certainly hope that you're encouraged to show up to more events and you know, daryl and I are committed to really just trying to build a like-minded community and have fun with some of this life while we're leveling up. So, man, we could see you guys being a part of that for a long time, man, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, because it was fun having you guys.
Speaker 7:It was a blast. And, Daryl, there was another moment that I wanted to share really quick. Uh, one of those pictures right before we crossed the line, right, we, we gave each other a fist bump, and, and that is going to be so memorable for me because it just represented the, the teamwork, the, the, the training we put in right, the, the camaraderie, um, and and you know, not just you, the, every, uh, the rest of the guys and the crew that were there that morning. That's what that picture represented to me.
Speaker 7:And it's going to be one of my favorite favorite photos, along there with the photos I took with my family. So thank you guys again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll mention something that David said yesterday, david Vigil. He said you know he's got all these medals. When he got to the end and got that medal, he looked at that. And he looked at and he says I did something good, he said. He said I'm proud of that metal, right?
Speaker 8:And.
Speaker 10:I think we all were pretty proud of how well we did.
Speaker 2:I mean, I mean big time. I was a very, very uh it was. It was awesome seeing us all do so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very good. All right, guys, thanks for jumping on today. Appreciate you, man. God bless you. Guys, all right.
Speaker 8:Thanks so much. Have a good one.
Speaker 1:All right, daryl, we are together tonight with some of our Peach brothers man, we're not all here, but the ones that participated in the Shamrockin event, the half marathon event on Sunday, march what was it 16th? Yeah, the day before St Patrick's day. And I want to kick it over to you, daryl, and do you want to ask any? We got Eric and Dave with us tonight. Is there anything you want to ask them in regards to the training, the process, the post event, anything like that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it was really great because we talked about this quite a bit in advance and being able to get as many people down as we did. We had seven, eight people that ran with us, so just kind of want to hit both of you guys with a couple of questions. First of all, thanks for the great weekend, and it was a truly a weekend. We got together on both Saturday and Sunday. But I'll start with Eric. Eric, talk a little bit about your training, talk a little bit about the day of the race and you've got a couple of days after Reflect a little on this weekend race and you've got a couple days after um reflect a little on uh, on uh, this weekend, sure, yeah.
Speaker 5:So, um, I think, uh, early on last year we just definitely decided to uh sign up for shamrock, which is in march, so it's prime running season. So, beginning january I think we kind of got together and started, um, you know, formulating a plan as to how much, how often, we were going to run, planning our long runs on the weekends. I think, daryl, you and I got together quite often. The interesting thing is we kind of got hooked on some trail running. So I think our training kind of switched focus from a 13.1 mile road race to actually training for a 13 mile trail race, which we did a couple of weeks before this came up. So we we kind of veered off of uh shamrock training and started training trail runs and but I mean it, it kind of correlated to running 13 miles on the road and uh, I think uh, that helped us um endurance wise. We did a lot of controlled know zone two long runs to to help build our stamina.
Speaker 5:I think that that helped our success come Sunday when we did our half marathon day of the race. I think we all had our own plans. My plan was to run with a pace group for the first time, so I tried to keep up with the two hour pace group. My goal was to finish sub two hours and that worked out really well. I kind of followed the pace group for about 10 miles and then for the last three miles I kind of went ahead and pushed myself a little bit and I barely made it, but I got under two hours.
Speaker 5:I was pretty happy about that. Recovery-wise, I'm still recovering today. Legs feel blown sore, so I'm just kind of resting, stretching, and now Daryl's over and wants to work out.
Speaker 1:So we'll probably do a little weight training. Eric, what was your official marathon? Your 13.1 mile results?
Speaker 5:It's kind of hard to say Just go ahead. 13.1 mile results, um, so, uh. It's kind of hard to say I, I, I just just just go ahead.
Speaker 1:What, what was it? And once the once, you did all the editing and all that, what was it?
Speaker 5:uh, one fifth, one hour 55 minutes and, I believe, 10 seconds, something like that. So one 55, 10. Um so I was definitely way under the two hours. I was super happy about that. Crush that two hours.
Speaker 3:Nice, nice work.
Speaker 2:And, uh, I I got to step in Eric's being a little um, eric was nursing some injuries right, he didn't talk about that did he. Yeah, you know he did. He skipped over, acted like everything's all cool and stuff, uh, and he was killing me. Because last year Eric ran with me on Shamrock and he basically kind of guided me through my first half marathon. We ran together. Now Eric's a much, much faster runner than I am and I knew that this was a little bit of a different thing. He was actually going to race.
Speaker 2:So, Eric, just maybe, maybe a minute or two.
Speaker 5:you know you crushed it. I can't believe you did as well as you did, but you also did it with an injury. Yeah, well, I've been kind of nursing a sore hamstring, some tendonitis back there a little bit, but actually that wasn't the worst part of it. The worst part of it was waking up in the morning with a bum. Shoulder, um, shoulder was all inflamed, and so throughout the whole day that was my biggest focus. But yeah, I kind of got got used to the little soreness in my leg and just kind of just bared through it and just kept pushing ahead. Felt good at mile 10. So, uh, kind of opened up a what I call a sprint. I might not be a sprint for most, but for me I felt like I was sprinting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good stuff, good stuff. Hey, darrell, if you don't mind, I'm just roll right into Dave. Dave, tell us, man, you, you had a man, you had a busy season. Coming up and approaching this event, we weren't even sure if you were going to register. As a matter of fact, you didn't. As a matter of fact, you didn't exactly, but, uh, but you were kind of. We saw you popping up on Strava here and there, like seven o'clock at night, eight o'clock at night, nine o'clock at night, after a men's bible study group and after these other meetings and all this other stuff, and and somehow some way, uh, tell us about. How was your, your pre, your during and your post-event experience this year?
Speaker 3:Definitely way less superhero-ish than Eric's. But, like you said, I mean I had so many things, literally meetings after work and trying to squeeze in training time, so thank goodness I had a 12 miler which hurt so bad, um, like two and a half weeks ago, right, and then, other than that, you know, sixes and sevens milers after work, after meetings, I did start doing like you guys, waking up early, and that I think that really saved my butt for a couple of reasons. One uh, you know you guys, uh, you know you guys all do the, uh, the training, you know the weight training and all that stuff. So I uh, when I only had an hour, I would do those hits.
Speaker 3:And I'm telling you what that saved my booty, because I did not think I was thinking I was going to do a two hour 35, a two hour 40, because I felt like I was going to have to walk and rest. And then that's why I told that, yeah, I'll just, I'll run with you for an hour or a mile. And then I said, and then you know, but we were having a great pace up till I saw Dahlia in mile eight and I was feeling pretty good. My feet, my foot was, I was getting a little aches and pains but I ran with Dahlia so that was a really slow pace and then I felt pretty good. I pushed it to the trying to catch you guys, thinking you guys somebody was going to be walking. I thought I was going to catch somebody.
Speaker 1:Right right.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, so I thought I was gonna catch somebody, right, right. So, uh, yeah. So I end up, you know, like erica saying, didn't didn't look like a sprint at all, but I felt like I was sprinting on the last few miles. You know, I was just hurting and sprinting. I'm like dang. I keep seeing white shirt or somebody's shirt. I'm like dang it. So.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I never, ever, thought I was gonna do a two hour 12 minute, I think, right, um, you know, which is like 30 minutes, 25 minutes faster than that, and I didn't think I was going to run the whole thing. I didn't have to stop and rest at all. It was. It was a super great event. All the good, uh, communication or just good talks with with the guys, yeah, and then all the different scenery changes, all that helps, you know, and it was awesome, beautiful day. It was just. It was just amazing, cool, cool stuff and I'm just super happy, I. So it was funny because I I was like I'm gonna get a medal, whatever, and but I felt like I deserved the medal yes, you did because I pushed it and got a good time.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, so I was really happy. I mean I was, I could not use my legs. Uh, yesterday I was talking about get up and it hurt to get up and down. I tried to run across the street. It was time to go across the street to Starbucks to get a mocha Cause. I was pretty tired too and, uh, try to jog across the street. Man, I almost collapsed right in the middle of the street with all these cars.
Speaker 3:I was like, oh she's, but today it feels pretty good, um, but yeah, so it's. Uh, I'm feeling really good. I did did a little bit of workout yesterday uh evening and I'm going to go work out tonight a little bit. So I'm feeling pretty good. But yeah, those, um, those short runs I got in were good, but uh, I'm telling them that those, those and when our hit sessions, yes, those things, save my booty.
Speaker 1:Got a weight train man. That that's. That's one of the key secrets to uh, you know, effective running. Thanks, dave, appreciate you sharing with us and I appreciate you showing up. I hope, uh, because of the whole experience from beginning to end, especially that little end part, that around the bonfire I hope you're committed to come and making this an annual event with us, because we're definitely committed to this. They put on a great event and we want to show up there again and we're not we're not opposed to trying out some runs down your way in the in the future as well, so let's make sure we keep that on on board.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, no, that's that Sacramento run is is fun stuff down there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'll go ahead. And, daryl, I'm going to go ahead and close this out with what your pre, during and post experience was. But for me, three of us ran it last year. Three of us had experience. I had been training a lot A year before that. I had done my first marathon, suffered a lot of injuries from that that are still with me today, and so it taught me a valuable lesson, and so I was really committed to finding a Garmin coach, cause you, when you have a Garmin watch, you get a free coach and a plan. So I said you know what I'm going to try it, I'm going to trust the process. And so I really thought about, I really dug in and searched for details and things that would accommodate my schedule and and not really push me hard but, uh, during my long training days, but would also challenge me enough to to get a new pace. I think my last year's pace was like 10, 15 or 10, 12. And, uh, this year's pace, uh, I finished at nine 33 or something, and I wanted to finish at nine 30. It's close enough for me because my my calves cramped up at the last almost two miles, maybe mile and a half. So during the race.
Speaker 1:I was a little freaked out the night before. I was communicating with you, daryl, like man, how do we start off? Should I start off at 10 minutes? Should I start off at 10.30? Should I start off at 11-minute pace? And I think by the time the race started I just said you know, I'm going to run and if I feel comfortable I'm not going to work. I'm not even going to look at what pace I'm doing, I'm just going to trust my body in the process. Because I hadn't run for a very long distance at my race pace. I trained in short intervals and sprints at my race pace, but never more than five miles or something like that, and I got to rest on the intervals in those five miles. So I was a little mentally kind of wondering how is this going to work out. But man, my five mile, five, seven I mean mile seven, mile eight, mile 10 felt amazing at that pace. I was averaging 925, 927 and felt great.
Speaker 1:But I realized when then I got to mile 10 and I said, okay, I'm going to open it up, man, let's go. I was going to push it into the high eights and try to finish strong, but I didn't, because I did. You know, I've been training on a, I've been fasted running, running on a fasted mornings and stuff like that and so, and I've been running long distances and not feeling hungry and having plenty of energy. But all my long runs are zone two, maybe low end of zone three. So my body is trained to use fat stores for energy, but when I push past zone four into zone five it's taking the glycogen. And that's when I started pushing past zone four into zone five. On that last-mile sprint man, my calves started really seizing up, I was getting cramps and I was fearful that I was going to have to completely stop and I'm like no way. So there was about five to six times where I walked for anywhere from two to three minutes so that my calves recover, and then I'd get back into a little fast, short-paced run, trying to get my pace back up and kind of I wouldn't say hobbled in but strategically walked and ran in the last mile and a half and got it in at 933 pace and finished with the 13.1 miles to finish that 205 even. And I was really. I was really happy with that and satisfied with that and looking forward to what I've learned and applying that to future runs.
Speaker 1:The post-celebration of this event was by far one of the best we've ever had. We had a little bonfire at Daryl's house. Daryl and Josephine's house Just sat around reminisced, talked At the event before we came to the house. You know, we had our uh, some of us had our celebratory beers and and our sandwiches and all that stuff and uh, it was just great hanging out around that energy. So loved it, loved it. So that was my experience. And uh, darrell, what do you got for us? Brother?
Speaker 2:Yeah, first of all, um, you know, we, right after the turkey trotot, josephine, I think literally that evening or that next day said I'm signing up for Shamrock, right, and from there we kind of had the high of the November turkey trot, which was really really cool seeing all the people so, so proud of the people you know, angelina, josephine, some new people it was really great. So all of a sudden this became an event, doug.
Speaker 2:This wasn't just a run. Last year it was can I do it? And you know we had I don't know we had 12, 14 people. We ended up having, I think I think 11 people complete the two days. A couple of people had some injuries and other things, so it was just really cool. Also felt a little responsibility. It was in my backyard and all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2:And the difference this year I'll just kind of is I think I started earlier and I finally caught my breath right. So last year I felt like I was always running just trying to like get my heart rate, get my breath. This year I think I had that well under control. I can't Dave, eric and I talk about this all the time. We truly believe some of the core work and the weights things have made a massive, massive difference in our overall health and has helped our running. But I think overall and I really think that some strength training this year I ran if I look on Strava I ran well over double of what I trained for last year. My boxing gym had this little, you know, really cool. Dave and Jose always do these really cool challenges. They did the 100 mile running in February and I did that which really helped the base and I wasn't afraid. I mean, last year I walked into this, I was petrified of trying to run 13 miles, um, so I just felt more prepared and the difference is like, like last year, I was just trying to survive.
Speaker 2:Eric was talking about racing. I'm like I don't know how to race man. I just I know how to survive. Um, so myself, mark and DJ the other David ended up running probably 80% of the race together, which is very odd for that long of a race and I never in my wildest dreams thought that we'd all be together. But, like we said, we all kind of, you know, did different things there, and I think it was. We were heading into Land Park and it was mile seven and I looked at my watch and we had done the fastest mile that we had done yet and I was like, oh, I was like, and then I had that like can we, can we keep this up, and everything else, and it was just fun, it was just super fun and, um, you know, I wasn't really worried about my time, by the way, I just, you know, I beat my, my time by, I think, 18 minutes from last year. Super happy about that um more than anything, I was happy to finish feeling good, right, feeling like I had done something like dave.
Speaker 5:When I got that medal I was freaking happy like I earned it also I also I wasn't wrecked like I was going to die, right.
Speaker 2:So it was a combination of that, but I couldn't have asked for a better weekend and it was super cool. It was really great. I got one funny story. We were kind of there was four of us and like two people would, like you know, go a little bit of a head, maybe 15, 20 yards, and then we'd catch up and there was four of us. We can't run like four people side by side on this run Right. One time Dave, uh and Mark got ahead of us. I got a DJ and I about 20 yards and uh, we're just jogging, we're having fun, and Dave and Mark were just chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat. They were nonstop. I think you found your brother from another mother, you and him just talked the whole time.
Speaker 7:And.
Speaker 2:DJ says to me let's go catch him, let's go catch him. I said okay, and we tried, but we'd get within 10 yards and then we'd go back. And I was looking at Dave the fixer and I was like he looks like he's running in slow motion and then I said the worst part is he's running in slow motion and I can't catch him. And I said the worst part is he's running in slow motion and I can't catch him. But he's got this really cool, very relaxed gait where he doesn't look like he's going that fast, but he's going that fast. But I caught up to him and I was yelling at him. I was like slow down.
Speaker 1:One quick lesson is a smokeless fire pit is not all smokeless. Yes, for the post party rituals like that, make sure you sure you got to. You know it may not be what it says. Objects in mirror appear closer than they are yeah, good stuff yeah hey guys, thanks for jumping on tonight.
Speaker 1:appreciate you guys jumping on and sharing your, your experience. You know people who are following us, who want to run and learn from different stories and different uh, we're all in different places in our running journeys right now and it's so important that we share from our own perspectives and just share our knowledge so that those behind us can, you know, maybe glean something and be inspired to get out there and maybe we build this. Wouldn't it be cool if one year, maybe five years down the road, we've got a hundred people running with us in the shamrock?
Speaker 2:That's right, yeah, thanks, thanks for having me on yeah, absolutely guys, thanks guys time to work out, eric.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm ready man, what a great weekend and what a fun episode to put together for the people who were there and for our listeners. But, man, three takeaways, three big takeaways I think we've had, daryl. One of them was trust the process. Give me your feedback on trusting the process.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think everybody had slightly different approaches to training, but everybody had a process. Right Now, maybe DJ David was hey, I'm a new runner and I'm going to see how I do but he trusted that process. But everybody had different ones and you know a lot of good feedback, a lot of good chatter. And you do question it sometimes when you're out by yourself and you're not really enjoying it and you're like why am I running slow or why do I have to do this? But it does work right.
Speaker 1:Yes, the second biggest takeaway, daryl, is it's funny In the training there's a little bit of anxiety and anticipation and all kinds of emotions going on up to the event. But then you get to the event and at the event there's a little bit of nervous energy going on. But once they say start man, I always seem to rediscover the joy of event running. Like running in an event and the joy of it, especially one that people are dressing up for, like shamrocks or leprechauns or three-leaf clovers and tutus, all these things. It was just such a joyful day and a joyful run and we were still able to get down to business as well. So rediscovering the joy of event running was number two for me. What was your feelings on the day of and during the run?
Speaker 2:Oli Morales, jose's wife, who ran who's done, I think, three marathons. I love the post she put out. Another beautiful half marathon. This one was special running around SAC. You know just the around sack, you know just the atmosphere. Running, you know what I loved is how visual it was. Running You're going over the bridge and then you see the Capitol and then you turn to the river and several people talked about it, right, all the people there. You go down the river, then you turn into um land park and.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a cool park. Like, literally, it feels like just about when you're getting a little tired, you get this change of scenery and you're like, oh, this is great, oh, this is great. And then coming back up and all the people there, um, you know, running through the uh, the neighborhoods, it's a fun event, um, visually, and the people and I can't agree with you more. And everybody struggles, everybody suffers a little bit, but the distraction of being with so many good people and the scenery of downtown Sacramento was awesome. How many times you get to run into a Major League Baseball field with them calling you on the mic and running in the?
Speaker 1:outfield and crossing the line at the stadium.
Speaker 2:That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:That's very cool, especially right after coming over the cool, the bridge, you know, downtown Sacramento, and it's just, it's an iconic view and an iconic experience, cause you, like you said, you get to run into the stadium. So, yes, the joy of event, running man, if for nothing else, do it for that. But the third and final thing, the joy of celebration. And that's what I discovered again. It was kind of like I was happy to finish, I was happy to PR some things, and but in that moment, as when everyone reconnected, I just felt this happiness and this joy and this laughter and this love, and it was because I was surrounded by so many other like-minded people yes, the people that were there with us, but also just that large, you know, a couple thousand people feeling good about what they did. And so rediscovering the joy of celebrating with others, I think, is the third biggest takeaway for me. Why don't you share a little bit on that too, Daryl?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was fun. We celebrated a little Saturday night as we had the dinner prep for the half marathon. We celebrated with people that did the race. We did a little bit Saturday. Sunday after the thing, after the event, um, we came back and had a great bonfire. We were, uh, together Sunday afternoon. I guess Sunday midday it was pretty early and, uh, a few people were about ready to leave. Remember, doug, and you brought us all together and we were like baseball players in Little League, we all put our hand in together.
Speaker 3:Remember that yeah.
Speaker 2:We put our hand in together and we're doing this. Somebody came up and videotaped us.
Speaker 1:Yes, and they gave us the video.
Speaker 2:They gave us the video. We were like putting a little speech, a little rah-rah and good job good job and everything else, and so it felt like being fun and having kids, being kids and everything else and I think that really came across to everybody. So big shout out to the event, the organizers, fleet Feet, the whole Shamrock community and everything else About a little over 5,000 people, something like that. It was really cool, but a really good event and glad we're able to participate and get a lot of other people to join us.
Speaker 1:So, with that said, daryl, there's not much. I mean, you've heard all from the different people, the different from beginner levels all the way through intermediate advanced, the setbacks, gosh. We heard from Tony, who also had a big setback as well. He'll be back next year, for sure, though. So I think we just do what we do and sign off like we do, and I'll say God bless and peace out, peace out, bye.