100: If You Run, You Are Our Friend: A Celebration of 100 Episodes

3am again . Why did I ever think this was a good idea ? Welcome to the Rise and Run Podcast . Join our group of Run Disney Friends . As we talk about running at Walt Disney World and beyond . We'll discuss recent runs , training , upcoming races and surprise topics suggested by you are listeners . Well , the alarm's gone off , so let's go .

Hey , rise and Runners , you're listening to the 100th episode of the most wonderful podcast in the world . Congrats , you guys . Can't wait to listen to more episodes . Looking forward to it and a happy race season to all .

That was our friend Devin Devin . Thank you so much . We have more of that coming up , my friends , but welcome to episode 100 of the Rise and Run Podcast . Hey , bob , I'm here this evening with the whole gang . I'm here with John . Hey , how you doing , alicia ? Hello Lexi , hello Greg . Hey , hey , hey .

Jack Hiya .

And Allie .

Hi friends .

We are really excited to have you with us this evening . We're always excited , but we're especially excited tonight for this , what we think of as a very special episode .

I know we're going to do a lot of reminiscing on tonight's episode , but I think we need to start off with a big thank you to our quote unquote listener intro for this week .

We love you , Devin .

Right now , let's go back in time a bit . Let's go back to October of 2021 , when the Rise and Run podcast sounded like this oh man , the 3 AM alarm . I haven't heard the 3 AM alarm in a long time Time . To Rise and Run gang . Yay , hey , calm down over there . The 3 AM alarm means one thing to me means Run Disney is back and I'm excited .

Hey .

And Lexi . Hi we're going to , we're going to and , oh and yeah , I'm Bob , I'm your host for this episode . We're missing one other member of our group , john . He'll be with us next week and there we were just gosh , just a little less than two years ago Running . At that episode we had a race report . We had the race report , horn .

I'm going to , I'm going to guess and say three .

No , it wasn't three , although you're not far off , lexi . Okay . It was seven .

I was going to guess five , episode seven .

We locked into happy running . I don't know why we just did been with us ever since there was no , and if you run you are our friend . That didn't come for a little while .

I remember our conversation about what we wanted to say . I remember going back and forth trying to figure out like we got it . We wanted to end it , but we didn't know how .

Well , we had two episodes where we finished with and if you run , you are my friend , and then we changed it to our friend and it's been that ever since . But you and actually that tagline and I've told this before that came from a golf instructor book .

Great , I know you guys love to harass me about this , but I want to say the Thanksgiving episode , episode six . No , it was later than that , yeah .

Wait , I'm so 12? .

It actually surprised me .

I want to say it was after me because I was around right . It was You're right , you were around it and Ali came along .

That's closer . Ali came along in episode 21 as a guest and then came back as a regular almost right away . I don't know if you were right the next week , but it wasn't much longer than Ali was with .

I'm hard to get rid of .

If you run , you are my friend first appeared in episode 40 . Wow , which surprised me . It was tough to find . I'm starting at three , going to the end , going no it's not here . Four , no , it's not here . Five Then I finally got smart and I jumped three or four at a time . Episode 40 .

Yeah , usually it is .

Followed by an eight mile run . 5k training started this week for Wynondine , which , as we said , now ten weeks away , marathon weekend , now 19 weeks away , working on the challenges , it's a three mile run for the marathon by itself . Notice , I didn't say just the marathon or marathon For the marathon by itself . It's a four mile run .

I'm in for the challenge .

I am in for the challenge as well .

Cool that it Just the three of us .

My heart is in for the challenge , but my wallet is not .

That's right . We discussed this . We discussed this in 99 . Yes .

Unfortunately , I am going to do the virtual 5K .

Okay .

As soon as the virtual opens up .

That's Friday . Thanks , tomorrow actually .

Yeah , tomorrow Episode wise yeah Thanks .

But I can't say no to a Neverland themed medal . I mean I got you .

It's going to be epic man , I mean listen all the Disneyland people are pretty salty that the 5K is themed To Neverland , because they're thinking now , okay , tinkerbell's not coming back to Disneyland , but we shall have to wait and see that and they need to bring back Avengers .

Come on , run Disney . You know you want to Just think Avengers assemble yeah .

We'll have to see you , Jack . I thought registration went smoothly this morning .

It went pretty good . 5k sold out early and then later on , the challenge sold out . Everything else is still open .

Yeah , as of this recording , as of Tuesday evening here , eight o'clock Eastern time , I spent a bunch of time in the springtime surprise community chat with I have no idea how many folks were there . There were a slew of folks there and we all were helping one another out and , as far as I know , everyone there got in .

Yeah , no , it was a great team effort overall , yeah , but , like we mentioned before , as of recording , you know , the only things that did sell out on Tuesday day of recording were the 5k and the challenge . It looks like in John , you throw some stats for us right before we started recording . I guess last year the 5k sold out in 30 minutes .

Yeah , it went down about 1115 . So an hour for 15 minutes .

OK , yeah , so a slight change there , so really interesting to see . But the one thing I will say , the biggest springtime surprise that I encountered today was I did not realize that springtime surprise weekend is also Dapper Day .

Yeah , I saw that , I heard that .

So apparently on Saturday of the weekend or the 10k day , Dapper Day will be occurring in Epcot , I believe , and then the day of the 10-miler on Sunday will be Magic Kingdom . So if you're going to those parks , bring out your Sunday best and get dressed up and join in the fun .

That would be another picture . Well , friends , for tonight's episode we want to look back on the first 99 . So we're going to hop in our Mandalorian and but , yeah , yeah , yeah , you may or may we've referred to that before . You may not know exactly what we're talking about .

Zuma series .

Yeah .

You guys need to get into a Mandalorian and go back to the future .

Not a Mandalorian , no no a Dallorian .

That's John Dallorian .

John Dallorian . Okay , I didn't remember how that was played up , so this funny .

Oh yeah , oh yeah , I mean , and you just , you just went right with it , jumping on Mandalorian , and I'm thinking what did I hear ?

It made sense to me I was about to go in description .

It makes sense to all of us now , but it didn't at the time and it was fun .

But , Jack , that's what is the beautiful thing about you is that even in your mix ups you are so confident in you know , in in what you say and what you think , and you stick by it . 110% , and again , I love that about you and I never , ever wanted to change . Thank you .

And after that episode Christopher Lloyd was cast in the Mandalorian .

I know , that was funny .

I'm going to make a promise to you guys One of these run Disney races I'm going to make myself . I'm going to make a Dallorian at a cardboard boxes .

And I've always said that like I want us like start like a go fund me so that we can raise money , so Jack can go to New York City . Because the Broadway musical Back to the Future just opened up and , um great , it's getting mixed reviews , but from what I hear it is a technical marvel to see though .

Oh cry of happiness , like life made .

So when you hear us talking about jumping in our Mandalorian , you'll know what we're talking about . So great , scott . So let's jump in our Mandalorian . Go all the way back to episode three . Now , episode three provided a couple first . Actually , episode three was the first time we were in the library on Apple podcasts .

Wow , that's quite an honor to be the first guest of the Rise and Run on the baby podcast here .

I know that means a lot to you . That's good . I don't know if it came through or not what that means a lot to you . I was a little sarcastic , I was a little baby podcast we're not . And then I thought about it . I went well , yeah , you know two episodes in the can . We're recording number three . We've got 500 downloads .

And , even though it was only three episodes in , it was in that episode that I realized the potential that this podcast would have in terms of incorporating stories that would have an effect on people .

Yeah , I think it goes without saying that Mandy qualified for Boston and she actually . She hurt herself in that race . She had a calf muscle tear towards the end , finished anyway , finished . She didn't quite make her goal . Because of that she went back the next year and finished in under 330 . So she's a really strong runner .

Yes . So Jack specifically had thought of this first , but both her and I have been saying let's do this . So today is the day that we're going to play .

Like I do it regularly . That's part of my In the middle of the race .

Yeah , People do that and I've never done that .

I've never done that before . I have and it was my first time ever doing it was for the Black Canyon 100K .

Well , that makes sense .

Yeah , we're in Ultra . I get that Ion's long .

They're really soggy . Yeah , you go through water and everything , yeah .

No , I do it every marathon .

I was going to say because the first time I saw it , I was like I'm going to tear the crap out of me because I thought something was wrong and you weren't going to finish the marathon in 2022 .

And I got really really nervous Like who got it in your shoes ? Nobody I like . Sit down , I kick off my shoes , I go in my race pack and I put on my new socks and it is literally like putting on brand new feet . So when your feet get super tired around mile 18 , 20 , it's like I don't know , it's like a wind in your sails .

Yeah , you did it too . I did an abition .

Just sit down on the side of the course .

See , and I would think I would get yelled at , because one time I had a rock in my shoe and I like moved to the side and like trying to get it out and I had three different people come up to me Are you okay , do you need medical attention ? I'm like I have a rock in my shoe . And then I sat down to get it out and they were like are you sure ?

I'm glad they cared about you . Yeah , yeah , I've never done that , I think .

I look like I was dying .

I almost had a shoe come off one time in a race , but I've never taken it off deliberately .

No , I feel like whenever I get to the end of the race , I just want to take my shoes off , and so if I did it beforehand , I feel like I wouldn't want to keep going .

You think it was the end of the race . You're like okay , I'm done All right .

All right , I got one here . Now this is run . Disney specific Never have I ever written an attraction during a race .

Oh , you took mine .

Nope .

Nope , nope , no , I've wanted to .

Same . I need to change that one of these days .

I plan to . I haven't done it yet . I plan to .

At least the only one that has yeah .

I'm losing this game . You're winning , I guess .

Who knows ?

You're experienced . I am . I have told this story many times . My only goal last year on during the marathon was to ride Everest and I finally did it and again , like putting wind in your sails , it was the best thing ever and I probably should have just changed my socks while I was on Everest . So I've got something for you .

Oh , easily , easily , Like when I mean Black Canyon was a dumpster fire . I forgot my some of my fuel I meant to buy at the store , went to the store and everything it was on my list and then I never looked at the list .

That's a long race to not have fuel for , I think .

I have fuel , but I would . I specifically needed my applesauce packets and I meant to go buy more , and those are things that have been proven to be work for me yeah , and I only need everything for those , and I sucked them down , man , right off the bat .

I know John saved me once at a race when I forgot my fuel and all I had was a tangerine .

For , like I , think it was a half marathon . We swapped out a tangerine for a race fuel .

Yeah , I had three tangerines because I was juggling them .

Oh yes .

You were walking to the start line .

Yeah , okay , first run Disney event for me half marathon one and nine 2016, . You guys know what the sock liner is in your shoe right , it's that , that little thin thing that comes out .

Your insoles .

Yeah , yeah , I think I think sock liners . Right now I'm not positive , but you know what it is . Yeah , I had a problem prior with planter fasciitis so I had special inserts that I was putting in and out of different shoes that I was wearing during training .

Yeah , the only thing that I've forgotten , which I've told this story before , and Jack likes telling the story toilet paper . No , that's not the story that I don't intentionally take toilet paper to erase , but I should . No , was at the Grey Smoky Mountains race when I forgot a container to put my oatmeal in before the race started . Oh , I remember the story .

All right , you guys , I got one . Never have I ever finished a Disney race with a drink or a food that I bought in the parks during a race .

Oh , I think .

No .

I haven't done that . I didn't get anybody .

You've never done . I have John's smiling .

What did you do ?

I did not do it . I mean me and Greg were gonna do it , but we said , if we stopped , we were never getting going again .

Half a point in yeah .

Really , you guys Nobody .

Did you get a ?

tipsy ducks in love . Now . I've only done it once .

Say again yeah , you got a tipsy ducks in love or something , didn't you ?

That's right . Yeah , that's the only time I've done it . But yeah , I did that . That's a pretty common thing and I expect I'll do it again . But yeah , I did that . The funny story to that one and I've told this a bunch of times my friend Mary . I bought her one Tipsy ducks in love's China's Joy of Tea Pavilion .

Oh , oh yeah , I always wanted to stop with a Mickey pretzel , but all of the things , all of the carts that sell Mickey pretzels aren't open at that time , or like way out of the way of the course . So , ren Disney , if you're listening , please open the carts for Mickey pretzels , I think a lot of people want to cross the finish line with Mickey pretzel .

Well , either that or Ali , when you get to Animal Kingdom next year for Marathon , you have to ride Everest three times , so that will delay you a little bit and then the carts will be open and you can have your pretzel .

That's fair . So I was kind of surprised by that response gang . Yeah , I thought somebody else would have done that , I've got one .

Okay , never have I ever been late to the start of a race , oh , of any race .

I almost wait when we mean start does it mean like the race has already started or like the race is about to start ?

You missed the time that you were supposed to start .

Yes . Mm-hmm . Amelia . Island . I didn't realize what time the race started . I thought it started at like I don't remember if it was like 7.15 and it started at 7 . And it started at 7 , I remember getting there and the corral that I , or the timing group that I was supposed to go with , that I had planned they were gone .

No , I my bus got lost on the way to the 2020 Marathon , which was my first marathon ever , so I was sitting on that bus just not being okay and they did delay the start .

but my first ever organized run was the Great Aloha Race in Honolulu in February of 1986 . And they ran buses from the well , you could bus either way , start to , and it was a point to point race , but I drove to the end and bus to the beginning and the buses were a mess , absolute mess . So we get to downtown Honolulu .

Mine was at Jeff's race two years ago . Oh , Bob , I don't know if you remember I was meeting up with you and Becky and I had over slept that morning and I remember waking up and thank the Lord that I had laid out my running stuff , which I never do .

Oh yeah , that's a killer hill .

Yeah . And I was like I've got to make it before the start . And literally I got there , I said hi to you and then we started .

Yeah , I remember you making , I remember wondering where is she , where is she ? But you got there for the start . I do recall that , Yep .

Have any of you ever skipped plans with your friends to do a training run ?

Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , I suppose , Especially if it's a big one .

Yeah , big training run .

Yeah , specifically I can't tell you because I don't , but I'm sure we all have yeah .

Follow up question . Never have I ever missed work for a training run . Oh yeah , guilty yeah .

I've done that too , no .

All right , I haven't missed work , but I've taken like PTO or like or I planned like a comp day or something like that around it so I could like I remember it was my dopey or no , sorry , it was my goofy simulation right before Marathon Week in 2022 . And I remember I had a comp day that I needed to use , so I used it .

Oh gosh .

And then I went back and picked her up because it literally took that long . So , no , I haven't specifically played hooky from work , though for a while .

Well , I had a lunch meeting one time after lunch at one o'clock and I was doing my lunch run . So I'll go out my lunch to run . So I blew the meeting off to finish my lunch run .

Yeah , I hope no one that I work with is listening to this . But , I said that I had an appointment in the morning and so I had to you told me that I remember that . Specifically , I said I had to come in late because I had an appointment and I was doing my long run . I mean it's an appointment .

That is an appointment , and you can email HR at hollywoodpayrollscom .

Yeah , I did finish the run though .

That's one I haven't done , to be honest . So no , no for me .

I think I got another one , you guys . Now this one , I don't know . I feel like there's always these scary stories of people going on and run Disney Buzz that has gotten lost to the start line . So never have I ever been on a Disney Buzz that had gotten lost to the start line .

I mean I already told my story . Oh , I got two people . Yeah , it is the worst feeling in the entire world . In your head you're like it's literally 10 minutes from my hotel . How did you get lost for an hour ?

To be fair , they're mirrors drivers that don't usually drive on property like that . So , they are given their route , but they can't use their phone to actually get to the location , like mapping it out wise .

Then , on one of those buses , we as runners knew exactly where to go and pulled out our phones and told the bus driver how to get to where we were going , because they didn't have any clue . And we're like no , you need to turn here and go here . Yeah , actually one of those .

We were lost in Fort Wilderness and then , yeah , you know , I think I heard one time where someone had got the first 3 AM bus ride and they almost missed their start of their corral because the bus driver had a loop around multiple times to figure out how to enter .

I had no idea that they couldn't use a GPS and that they were just figuring it out as they went .

I think they're using them now , Because also they're also not from Florida . They could be from New York , Connecticut , all around . They need 100 bus drivers to come in . That's how they got them .

Wow , I didn't know that .

So I had one too . So we were going to the race . The bus driver kind of got lost and that road outside of the boardwalk was a bonavista drive , I guess it is . He decides to make a U-turn right in the middle of the road to back up and go around . Yeah , it was like we're like we're going to be all dead here .

Yeah , I've been on a bus that did a U-turn in a really awkward place and it was not good .

I have another one .

Do it .

Never have I ever almost gotten hit by a car while out on a run .

Really , I have many , many times I bring the law all the time . Because I will go at lights . Specifically , I'll go when it says don't go Because it's safer and I know there's no cars around than when it says to go .

Oh yeah , this one guy almost . He missed me by about a foot . I was just like , oh , that's great . And he looked at me and was like , oh , and he looked completely shocked and I had the right of way , because it has a little walking person or whatever . I 100% had the right of way . And I was like , oh cool , I got it .

Yeah , mine happened probably two months ago , beginning of the summer I don't know how long ago it was and I was outside where my house is and I guess I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed that morning , but I was going .

look or something .

No , he pulled . I went around him , I went behind him and he pulled around . He's like I'm so sorry , sweetheart , I didn't see you and I just gave him a dirty look and I kept going . I was like you need to learn your lesson . And then I felt bad about giving him a dirty look . I should have said , no , you're good .

Lots of distracted drivers out there Be safe runners .

My favorite is that the maddest Lexi got was when she was just so mad was to go , really yeah . I gave him a dirty look . That she immediately regretted giving him .

I know exactly how Lexi would say it . I feel like I could imitate you pretty good . I would see your facial reactions and everything .

I would have had a few more colorful words .

Y'all bet you would , I'll bet you would , alex We'll see , usually I don't say anything In my head .

I usually go , I'm walking here .

There you go , dustin Hoffman , boom Perfect .

I don't ever say that out loud .

Midnight cowboy . I'll do one that I probably will immediately regret saying after I say it , but I'm going to do it anyway . Never have I ever eaten my race fuel as a snack because I was hungry and there were no snacks in the kitchen . Yes , I've done that .

Oh yeah .

I'm a good company .

Those waffles yeah . I know exactly the honey stinger waffles . Those are so good .

And I like the jellybee gummy . I did try that yeah that's true .

It's like everybody yeah . I love the gummy . Well , I was hungry and I was late for something , and I had a goo in my car and I ate a goo . I actually did that recently .

That's a little farther than I would go . I think it's the goo . That's where I'd cut it off , but not Bob .

No , it's a no for me . But then again , my race fuel is kind of goofy Because you got poptarts . Poptarts Rice , Krispie Creek . I would eat them anyway , so I don't Goos . I tried them several occasions .

No , thank you , you need the goo chews . The goo chews are a lot better than those actual .

I've done a little bit of that too . They are better . You're right , no doubt .

Do you like honey consistency ?

No , it's all .

I'm good , bob is sweet enough . He doesn't need honey .

I'm good it works for me .

I'll never forget the poptarts story , when we were running the race together and you were just picking out pieces of a broken poptart .

Oh , that's , true , yeah , they got down my shorts , yeah , I was still waiting for the toaster to ding to let us know they were done .

But then I remember you telling me after the race you went and took a shower and there was just poptarts . Poptarts stuck to you .

Still coming out of my shorts . Yeah , little pieces of poptart , yep , yep . Thanks for sharing , allie .

I'm sorry .

No , it's good . It's good , my friend it's good , here's one .

See how bad you guys really are . Has anyone ever cut the course on a race ?

No , no way , absolutely not . No , that's illegal .

I'm not going to lie , I've thought about it . Oh yeah , let's see .

Let's see you did . You cheated one time . Yes , you did .

Oh , just called her out right on the pod .

How dare you the Thanksgiving Day race ? We did .

No , that's not no , that's not , he's kind of in the course she signed up for a 10K .

10K was a two-loop course and she decides . Before we get done with the 5K , I'm just going to do a 5K . You know what she does . She's just the top of her age group for a 10K with a power .

Jack , you realize you're talking about your landlord here . She could have evicted you at any moment , right now , actually you know what ?

I'm going to kick you out in two days . I leave for Ohio in two days , so don't do that no , OK . So the story behind that was the 5K and the 10K were the same course . One was two loops , one was one loop , and I was injured .

Oh yeah , ok , I feel bad now , so I take it back . I take it back , yeah .

I was having a really bad plantar fasciitis flare up and the race announcers and on the thing for the race said that you could do whatever distance you wanted .

Now there was some illusion there to the fact that you ended up with an age group award because of this .

No , I did not get the age group OK . No , she got into it . I don't , I don't , I don't , as long as I'm in my brain .

You just decided to . I I'm totally on board with that . That's not cutting the course , I agree . Now , if you did it and then said , hey look , I won the 10k , that's a different . But you didn't do that .

So Right no we're good . I think I might have like skipped a cone or two if I like Was jumping around somebody . That was like doing something dangerous , but I never like cut corners or anything like that .

I even like that last cone , that last cone at the corner . You didn't like cut in the middle . No , I like .

I feel so guilty about it that I always like come back in and then like turn around , find the cone . I like cut out and but like I've come , I've gone off the course and been like this feels wrong .

Well , yeah , like even if the course is shortened for whatever reason , or like my g , yeah , my app doesn't say You've done this amount . I , I will make it sure that I do that amount so what did everybody end up with ?

for your score , I have four .

I have seven that's impressive .

Yeah , I have five .

I got four I .

Have five . I thought I had six . So some discrepancy there . I don't know .

I'm really lame . I only have one . I'm just eating the . Just eating the . The race fuel is a snack . That was the only one I had .

Greg , you know what that means you're a daredevil .

No , I thought you are too , because you said well , you said no , I know I never .

I never skipped work . I took off from that .

Okay , so Clarification . So if it's , if it's that it's .

If it's counting things that we've never gotten caught doing , then you would win Greg , and if it's being shameful and having done things , then I have one , and so I'm declaring both of Greg and I the winner .

Okay , fun funds over . Let's get back in the Mandalorian and Take a trip down memory lane to 1985 . Really , really neat things . That we've experienced at rise and run is the tremendous Number of folks who have appeared with us on various episodes .

the original contact was at the very first Race that Disney did , and this is way before run Disney was established as a brand . It was the Walt Disney World Marathon . That was the race . It was the only race in 1994 . Way back then in the 1990s and my friend John Hughes was the race director .

So I mean it's so wonderful that we've been able to have Jeff on the podcast several times .

Hey friends , this is coach Chris Twigs and if you listen to the rise and run podcast then you know you are my friend . I am here in Lviv , ukraine , and I was just listening to the latest rise and run podcast , episode number 98 .

Thank you so much , coach Twigs . We know we rely on you to give us great advice and we have a clip from episode 30 when you explain how run , walk , run can make most of us faster .

What I recommend to people that are hesitant to try it is Either run a magic mile so you can get a good predictor of what your pace could be at those shorter distances , or take one of your , take one of your recent race times and you know , see what that pace is per mile . Look at our chart . That's on Jeff gallowaycom .

One of our most popular podcast , most listened to was episode 51 , when the balloon ladies visited us and gave us this advice you actually are a Pleasure to meet .

Well , I will tell you one recommendation I would have for folks , if they're . You know you're training , you're training , you're keeping the 16 minute pace . When you get in your corral , when you get there at three in the morning , get as far in front of the corral as possible .

It's that buffer .

They're hanging . Yeah the folks are hanging out in the back . I want to be in the dead last . I To the front of the crowd to give yourself as much of a buffer time as possible , because then folks yell at us and they say Well , what are you going to ? The bathroom , you know , does that include bathroom breaks ? And I was joke .

That's part of balloon lady training no bathrooms .

You have to practice . Another thing to practice go to the bathroom when you're sweaty and you have to figure out putting your pants back on .

That's a good point . So that was some great advice from the balloon ladies , and now we have some messages from some of our past guests .

Hey friends , kg , for living the KG life here . I want to send my friends at the rise and run podcast a huge , gigantic , amazing , magical Pixie dust filled . Congratulations on 100 episodes , an incredible milestone . Congratulations again here to the next hundred . You know it's gonna be great .

Hey , allie , alisha , lexie , John , bob , greg and Jack Congratulations . What an amazing milestone . It truly was my honor to be a guest on your podcast , and here's to the next 100 episodes in beyond . I truly am so happy for you guys . I can't wait to listen as I train for Disney . Someday , who knows , allie , maybe I'll be your training buddy . I hope so .

Larson . Congratulations . Ryzen run on 100 episodes Wow , what an achievement . Hey , this is missy or Bruno , or well , we're not gonna talk about Bruno , but I just want to say congratulations on a hundred episodes rise and run Podcast . That was so great to meet all of you and to be on your show . Here's 200 more .

Hello rise and run family . This is Tom from the will run for podcast . Just wanted to say congratulations to the gang on their 100th episode . That's amazing . I know we have a Little bit of a silly rivalry going on , but we absolutely love everything you do . You have the most amazing guests and content .

Michael and Aaron , happy 100 Ryzen run , especially Greg , because I know the travails of being a producer , I know how hard it is . Hey , I shouldn't say that , aren't you Such an easy job , greg , great job . Congratulations , guys , on your 100 . We love you guys . We love listening to you .

Greg , what did you do Our friends that will run for Think there's some kind of rivalry ? I've never , I have never thought of our friends that will run for anything other Than good friends , and in fact I often give them credit for being the last piece of the puzzle Before this podcast was created .

I I really honestly don't know . It's probably that one Peloton ride that we did together and I smoke the living crap out . No , but it's funny , though . Each time I listen to an episode that we'll run , for I play a little game to see how long it takes them to either mention rise and run or my name .

Oh golly . Thank you , kg . Michelle misty Wendy . Thank you so much , not only for appearing With us on the rise and run podcast , but for those lovely messages . We are Happy and proud to have you as friends .

Hey to my friends at rise and run . This is Taryn Tarell . Congratulations on you guys's 100th episode . I look forward to the next 100 . See you guys on a course , soon .

Thank you so much , taryn , for sending us that clip . That is so amazing . Thank you so much . But you once told us that you were good at dying , and so we actually have that clip here .

This was the worst day of my life . I was like , oh my god , so I go and they tell me that I need to . I'm on a zoom call . He's looking at my face . He goes okay , I need that . You just look like you're in pain . First , you stub your tail . Second , you get punched in the stomach .

Oh really .

You'll show up the week before and they're like oh yeah , you have this line . Oh great , I could have prepared for that , but it's fine .

I will say I know we've talked several times before about like guests . That would you know . That would make us nervous when we go to interview them and for some reason Taryn was one of them for me and I know she's going to hear this and she's probably going to like being stitches , like laughing .

Hi Ryzen Run . This is Kristen or run on Instagram , but I just wanted to send you guys a huge congratulations for hitting a huge milestone 100 episodes . Thank you so much for all you do for everyone in the running community , for being so positive and uplifting and always keeping me company on my weekly run .

Well , thank you so so much to Kristen for that amazing clip . Now , one of our favorite clips that we have from episode 36 was when we had Devon and Kristen on to talk about this question .

A lot of people think if I eat very little and I marathon train , that will help me lose weight , and so you touched upon very quickly about how people are underfed often when they come to you and they're eating very few calories when they come to you .

If you continuously give it 1300 calories , it's going to know its activity level to keep you alive and only burn . You know 1300 calories that you're giving it .

So , yeah , you're really good at adapting , yes absolutely .

Your body is a lot smarter than me . Give it credit for it . You know so a lot of times , I think what happens too is that people experience hunger in many odd , different ways . Like you're not going to the bathroom , you're clenching your jaw , things like that .

That's funny .

I'm always astounded by the idea that if you need to lose weight , you got to keep taking things away and taking calories away , and just the freedom it gives you to start when you eat more calories and you just can become a better athlete . It's very liberating , I think , is the right word .

Hey , what's amazing about Run Disney is the community and the people that not just run , but they put their heart and the soul into strengthening the community . So thank you to the seven friends who created the Rise and Run podcast . Congratulations on 100 episodes and I can't wait to see you . Three , two , one , go even further .

Hello , this is Run Disney Race and John Pelkey , so here's the thing I wanted to call and give you all the love in the world on the occasion of your 100th episode . That's a fellow podcaster . See what I did there three , two , one go podcast . I know how difficult it is to get to 100 episodes and to keep the quality up .

it's Riley Claremont . You're all-purpose buddy and Run Disney Race host and I just want to congratulate the entire team at the Rise and Run podcast on their 100th episode . Thank you guys so much for your entertainment , education and inspiration . You guys are the best . Congratulations .

So thank you for those wonderful 100 episode messages , and here are some of our favorite moments from when we had the race announcers on our podcast .

I'll tell the story quickly . But we just finished the start and our producer , jason Roberts , and who is still there today , said you got to go to the finish , go . And so I just . Okay , I don't bring any of my belongings . I get in a golf cart and they shoot me over to the Magic Kingdom Park lot .

I doesn't know the number yet .

Now , I never go anywhere without my like . No , I need my bag , I need my bag , I need my phone , I need my water , I need my snacks . I need my hot hands with good reasons . So , and John's over at the VIP buffet and I'm in the parking lot .

We had to go out and tell everyone that we're going to ask you to get back on the buses .

Not we . We nominated you .

I think I volunteered because I'm the old permajune in the group and there is something completely powerful about disappointing an enormous group of people all the time and having them hate you for nothing to do with me . I have no power or anything , but I did .

And it was what you have to do , but I just every time I wanted to deliver bad news or something , I just so . Here's the thing you can take that into your , your everyday life .

So you know , we don't want to hear that if we're down at Disney World we don't want to hear that prior to a race I'm not going to .

John comes up alone and there's no DJ or like anyone comes up alone and there's no DJ , it's not . It's not going to be good .

Not good to be . Here's the thing , and it's it's John , it's not .

they're not going to send me .

They're not going to be me .

Riley , possibly Riley .

You know again , not to be all corny but when we say that it's an honor and a privilege to do what we do , we absolutely 100 percent mean it .

Many thanks to the run Disney race announcers . What a great crew . We enjoyed having all three of them with us , though sadly not all at once . I'm not ruling that out for a future episode Moving right along . You know or you love her , she's one of our favorite guests . In fact , she was with us just last week . Brittany left us this message .

Hey , it's Brittany Charvineau and wishing a happy one hundred episodes to the Rise and Run podcast , especially the very special , very unique , wonderfully unique , wonderfully human Allie congratulations .

One of the favorite times we had Brittany on , and she's been on a couple of times , but this was her second time . We brought her on to surprise Jack . Remember , jack ? You'd finished Lake Sonoma . I did , yeah , you and she were together at some point in the race . You saw her . I know that .

Yeah , I saw her , so she had . She was already way beyond halfway point because Lake Sonoma was there and back , and I remember seeing her , maybe it was like around my 19 or 20 . And I was just like , oh my gosh , there she goes . Oh , I'm not even halfway yet .

Oh , a while to go . But what I remember most about this is when I contacted her and gave her the idea . She was just so excited . I said Jack , finish this race . You want to come in and surprise her ? She said and actually she had to work with us to get in at the right time , so that was awesome .

It was later miles where I'm just struggling and I'm just like I'm just moving , I'm saying please , I'm saying thank you so much to everybody that moved away from me and cheered for me and all I could muster was like a really sad , like thumbs up or like a half mile or like a , because I tried to .

I totally agree with everything you were saying , brittany , because everybody on the trails are so extremely nice and they all have stories battle stories of other races that if they weren't hurting now they could tell you a moment when it was really bad for them that you could relate to and tell them how you can get out of it . Oh , she was amazing I .

Well , that's so 28 . Yeah , yeah , it was over a year , yeah .

You guys . We made it into Ox's Fools album . How epic is that we now have a song specially made for us here you guys go .

We're about to be , serenaded no-transcript .

I love that , my smile .

This is permanent , I might have started tearing up Doesn't get any better than that . No , it doesn't . That's awesome .

And he hits on so many like random , obscure things too , yeah .

Like you know , our extended conversations about school bread in Norway or the fact that Bob loves going to Morimoto . Yeah , yeah , I mean really the only thing he missed was a pickle milkshake , but obviously that was so soon ago that he wouldn't have time to been able to incorporate that into the lyrics that was .

Jar , you're the best man . That was awesome , yes you are .

And in the continuation , to celebrate Jar when we had him on , here's a clip of him talking about some of his favorite dopey moments .

Since you've done four dopeys and you're working on your fifth . What is your favorite memory from any of them ?

I think my favorite memory of any dopey is the finish line .

Oh yeah .

So I did 2019 , 2020 , which is the shortened one , but , like your first marathon , that's always . It's always special . Yeah , I trained the hardest for that one . Within like a mile 15 , my feet , ankles were hurting really bad , but then I finally recovered .

And I was like boom did it . That's quite . The closing speed was tremendous , man .

Yeah . So then this past one I was able to finish with my wife , and she finished her first marathon , so that was good too .

That's awesome . Some of my favorite episodes are the playful guests like Jar , Oxen , Spoon , but my other favorite would be people who are having inspiring stories . Our next message comes from one of my favorite guests , Leah .

Hey guys , this is Leah , and I'm here to congratulate the Rise and Run podcast gang for this last 100 amazingly motivational episodes that have gotten so many of us back up and running . Thank you all for paving the road ahead of us with such incredibly powerful stories , unbelievable overcoming feats , a great deal of self-love lessons , outstanding support and laughter .

And speaking of inspiring messages .

What would you say to somebody who is dealing with something and just saying like I can't , I just can't do this , I can't do a marathon . How ?

would you tackle that ? I'll say be kind to yourself . We often go into this mindset of we cannot do this and we will never be able to do this , and it is because we are so absorbed in our pain and in our suffering and at that time I can tell you right now it is true . What you're thinking is true .

Your current situation is not your final destination . Those might be the most powerful words we've heard in these first 100 episodes . I know I remember them . Thank you , lea , thank you everyone who's participated in this podcast through the first 99 episodes , and thanks especially to those of you who left us messages this evening . We're very , very grateful to you .

Hello Bob and Greg . It's so great to be here .

Now , Chris , we I already mentioned you did the 5K . Friday . We're going to talk about the half marathon in Salt Lake City , but I also wanted to talk and we mentioned this last week on the podcast . You had a big event the week before , so I'd kind of like to start with that one . Let's go back a week and talk about what you did a week ago .

Sure , absolutely . And let me even take it a little , a little bit further , because it's all really percolated . About a year ago , almost a year ago , I learned about this race that they did in the Metro East side of St Louis called the Watershed Endurance Run , and they had a three hour or a six hour run .

It sounds like a challenge to me . How ?

did it go ? Well it was . It was exhilarating from the standpoint of the challenge that it that it provided to myself and to my crew , in part because we started at six PM at night and at six PM at night it was a brisk , 88 degrees .

Yeah , and probably muggy too . Yeah , and muggy , that's right . Yeah .

But the course was just beautiful . It's a 1.01 mile loop around a nature preserve called the Watershed and it's a beautiful area . Half of the course is on crushed rock , the other half is on a paved trail , and then one little segment about three , two to three tenths of a mile is running along a four foot wide , no side bar floating bridge .

Yes , yes , I remember this vividly now . I remember the photos .

Yeah , and at first it was , it was bright out , so it was great . You can make your turns and you had people , you were , you were , you were going to pass them . I had the fortunate ability to run every one of those segments because I'm a long runner . Right . So you had , you had to line of sight to pass people .

Were you tossing elbows , Chris ?

Oh , I tried . I tried not to . I'm sure you did .

I'm messing with you . That's cool , yeah , but yeah , I remember those pictures that looked treacherous .

Yeah , but , but it was fun . It was just . I love challenges like that .

Yeah , well , that's pretty darn good , anyway , yeah .

I mean so . I mean I was . I was happy with that , but I finished lap number 26 and the clock said 1149 . So I had 11 minutes to go on 14 minute legs . But the thing was I signed up for a six hour race , not a five hour and 49 minute race .

Getting close yeah .

Yeah , fortunately both of us crossed , with just a minute to spare . It was so cool to know that you can push yourself that much harder , even after five and a half plus hours , so I just love that challenge of putting my body to the test .

Great story . How many miles would you end up doing total in the six ?

hour race . My watch said I did about 28 miles because of my base camp was a was a like half of a of a 10th away from the start line , so about 28 miles . One of the really cool things was I was in third place in my age group all the way through and they only gave awards for the first two places .

Yeah , chris , congratulations , man , that's awesome . Thank you , I think that's so age group you end up . Age group first , number two . Number two Age group second yeah , fantastic , that's great Chris .

And they gave out these really cool awards , these , these bugs with Bobby , yeah , yeah .

Yeah , so unique . I remember seeing the picture on Facebook again Really cool . Oh , it's fantastic and I'm glad you shared that with us . Let's talk about this and , of course , to relax and , kind of you know , follow up and take it easy . You did a challenge in rock and roll 5k and half marathon in Salt Lake City , nice , and flat and easy . Yep , yeah .

5k was fun . It was the very first event for rock and roll in Salt Lake City , so they had some big hoopla with that . My wife and daughter did it . My daughter wasn't too pleased about doing it in the heat and humidity but fortunately the course was flat , well supported and we had great food afterwards .

That's the first thing I can say about the 5k that's good , that's good , but let's I mean let's talk about the half . Yes , on Saturday now you knocked out the half that was . That was pretty hilly , wasn't it ? Just a little bit .

Yeah yeah , they said it was only 700 feet of total incline over the course of the race . My Garmin said it was only 700 feet of incline over the entire race . I still call baloney on that , because it sure felt like 3000 feet .

Yeah , I bet it did , hey look . But to be honest , I've done 6 and 700 races . That's not insignificant , oh no , that's . That's a fair amount of climate . It's not hard rock , but it's a fair amount of climate . It really is , yeah .

I looked at today in the first mile we started downtown Salt Lake , so just a beautiful Shireen picturesque area . But within a quarter mile we're going straight up a hill and in that first mile we went up just over 300 feet right to the base of the state capital . Yeah , neat .

I hate that . When you get to the top and you turn , you go oh nuts , yeah , up some more .

Yeah , what the beauty . I mean just that majesty of the mountains there the .

Wauzatsch mountains , the . Wauzatsch mountains there in Salt Lake City . I'm trying to remember . Yeah , it's still pretty . Yeah , awesome , good race support , I hope .

Yeah , very good race support , rock and roll . I don't know if you've done some of their events over the years , but I mean I've always loved their events and we've done them in several different parts of the country , so they have great support .

That would be interesting .

Yeah , just think of how fast you could go , yeah .

A good metal series . I suppose Rock and roll does well there .

They do . It was a challenge with . I mean , if there's a challenge , I'm going to do it . It just seemed how I've turned into .

Yeah , we've learned that .

Yeah , so they had the 5K metal for Friday . That was a smaller one , the half marathon was a nice one , and then a great little spinner metal that looked like a record player . Yes To complete the series .

I've seen them do that . I surely have .

Do they get those out the day of the race to have remix metal ? Yes , they do .

Yep , yeah . And then , like with the old rock and roll days , if you did two , three or four or five different cities , then you got these little remix metals and I have several of those . I had to go look at my wall to see the different ones that I've had .

Yeah , covid kind of put a chink in their armor , I think , and that ended up . I know they canceled a bunch or postponed them or moved them and yeah , now they're coming back . Maybe , who knows , maybe maybe they'll crawl out the other side and we'll get back to more . I hope so .

Because they put on such great events well , really , really well supported . They always have a charity arm , which is great , and they had that there in Salt Lake City as well .

Yeah , I saw . You had a photo at one point . It looked like you were elevated and you took a photo down to the trail below you . Yes , you could see the runners there .

Yeah , that's part of this canyon , which was great when you were on the back half of that because you could see all the other runners still to come . It was a little daunting when you were on the front half of that and you saw all the runners who have already finished where you were . Yeah . I get it , I get it .

That's pretty cool . Any Disney events coming up ?

Absolutely . We are doing a Disney cruise in October , so I'll knock out castaway key number two . Then signed up for the Disneyland half in January and then , fortunately , this morning was lucky enough to get the springtime surprise 10 miler , so my wife can get her second coast to coast and I'll get my third coast to coast . Oh , outstanding . Great .

Yeah , it is . That's outstanding . We'll see you there , chris . Absolutely . All right , my friend , I'm going to let you go . Thank you so much for giving us your time . A couple great stories about some great race weekends , congratulations . Thank you so much , bob . All right , continuing . On Saturday in London Dairy , New Hampshire , the boot scootin' boogie 5K .

Yeah , cool , I'm going to tell you stories like the next town or Kate . Why didn't you tell me about it ?

Well , well , now you'll know for next year it's Kate's birthday again . Oh , happy birthday . Yeah , I saw some photos . Really neat . She got with a bunch of her local run Disney friends and they all costumed up , looked really cool , made for a memorable night . Of course , anytime you're running a race on your birthday , that's going to be a memorable event .

And our friend Amy also ran this race with her 14 year old daughter . They had a great time and it was her daughter's first time doing the race . So PR BEEP BEEP and Amy said she'll definitely be back to do this race again , but in the meantime she's excited to do her next goal , which is to do five half marathons in the next five months .

But Amy's not gonna wait till the anniversary year to get the medal , or who knows , maybe she will Maybe . That's kind of a fun . That's cool . That's cool , all right , outstanding job there , amy , lauren and Ashley . In Anchorage , alaska , the skinny Raven half marathon . Sandra was there running that one wrapping up this week's report .

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