103: Running the runDisney Way: A Visit With Our Council of Costumes

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And they still do like a little parks panel and everything like that , and they announced some things like the Figment Meeting Greet , that opened this past weekend they talked about apparently we're getting Test Track 3.0 . I saw that . But the real , real big news that came out of that is that they updated the Blue Sky plan for Dinoland .

So , if you remember , from D23 last summer , they said it was going to be Zootopia and Moana . Well , that plan is now changing . It looks like it's going to be in Kanto , with the possibility of Coco , even though they really didn't bring it up .

But the thing that they like really showed really well is that essentially , I think the dinosaur ride is going to go away and get transformed into the Indiana Jones ride , because it is the exact same ride , vehicle and ride layout between dinosaur and Indiana Jones on Disneyland .

So , yeah , so it's one of those things where I think we're going to see a big update at some point . Again , they just said it was updated Blue Sky , but I mean , this was a lot more detailed than what they showed last summer .

So for those of you that , like the Boneyard and Triceratops , spin and Dinosaur , I'd make sure you hit those in your next couple of trips .

Remember that magic mile is included in your four miles , so it's not four plus one , it's four with a magic mile . My recommendation is a very slow first mile , very slow , then your magic mile , then a short break and then finish out those last two at whatever pace is comfortable for you .

Marathon weekend training marathon weekend now , 111 days away , still in triple figures , but again , we're getting there . If you're doing a challenge , it's a two day training this long weekend . Four miles followed by 13 . Again , typically the training plan will tell you to walk the four miles . We talked about this before .

I think walking is a good idea when you have these back to backs , just be cool . Walk the four and then the 13 is your long training run . There was a question floating on Facebook , a good question from folks first time through .

Again , you have to remember I have to remember not everybody's done this before that the training plans definitely say walk for that first event , the shorter event , then sometimes on the next event it says walk , run and sometimes it either says nothing or just says run . There's never a running event on a Jeff Galloway training that is not run , walk run .

It's always going to be there , no matter the distance . It's always going to be on walk intervals . 10k training has also started for marathon weekend . If you're doing the 10K you'll want to look into that . Tell you what else started this week Disneyland training If you're running out at Disneyland you've got a three mile race . It's three mile training run .

It is now 17 weeks away .

It's still hot in parts of the country .

You've got the end in sight too . All right , Suck it up . This is the tough part of the training , but the training is , as we say almost every week , just about everything . Let's see Apologies and alibis . I wanted to just comment that our friend Abel confirmed that . Yes , Petaluma was at one time home to the arm wrestling championships of the world .

It is no longer , because a fellow who found that it apparently passed away and when he did it moved somewhere else . Since there's no wide world of sports on Saturday or Sunday , whatever it was , I don't know where it is anymore .

I'm very proud of myself .

I'll slowly move it back up . I'm not going to push it out too far .

Three mile walk , that's fine . I just went out and did it , had no trouble . Came home Headed out , but I still warm here in Florida it's not as blazing hot as it's been , but it was still quite warm . 12 miles . I leave the house at oh I don't know about 6 am and I take nothing with me . Dumb , dumb , dumb . You all can tell me how dumb I am .

If you want to , it's all right , it won't hurt my feelings . The plan was because it's been a while since I've done these distances . The plan was on this one walk three miles , run walk seven and then walk the last two for total 12 . Walk three miles , no problem . Kept up a pretty nice pace , turned around , started my run walk 30-30 . No problem at first .

Now I had nothing with me , but I knew that the park that I was going to be going through had a water fountain . However , I didn't hit that until about five miles total . I got that . I got the first mile or two of the run walk in pretty well . Mile three was okay .

Mile four started feeling not so good , mile five felt awful and when I finished mile five I had to come to a dead stop . I stopped . There was a fence . I leaned over the fence , afraid that I might I'll use the expression lose my lunch . But I hadn't had lunch yet . In fact I had nothing before I left . Then you had my customary cup of coffee .

My stomach was just cramping that badly . It felt that bad , not smart kids . I got back to the water fountain , got some more water . I'm still walking and I'm thinking I can call my wife and Becky will come get me . But two things went through my mind .

Number one I Could hear Chris Twig's voice saying on the long runs , it doesn't matter how slow you go , you can walk the whole thing . I Thought , okay , I can probably walk , I've only got a little over four miles to get back to the house . And and I also started thinking I See people posting these problems all the time . And what do I always say ?

I always say to you look , you're doing great , keep it up , keep trying , do the best you can to finish . So how could I not do that ? If I'm here telling you to do it , how could I not do it ? So I did I . I actually had to stop a couple times just to stop hands on your knees a couple of breaths , 30 seconds a minute .

Keep walking the last couple miles . I was walking 17 minute miles . You guys who know me know that's really slow , but I did finish it . Not smart , golly , don't , don't do that . I'm not . I'm not doing it again . Don't you do it at all . I hope you can learn something from me .

I came home and I ordered a , a vest that will I can carry water bottles with , so I can carry not necessarily just water , but so that I can carry some kind of an electrolyte drink . Then I do have some that I like and Some kind of nutrition I've . I've got to stop trying to do this . That's just not smart .

All right , that's my story and I'm sticking to it and that's the way it was for me and I hope that it'll help you out . Friends , let's visit with our guests for the week .

Friends , we always have a good time with the guests on the rise and month podcast this week , no exception Friends that have been friends of Hours for oh golly a couple years now , people who I miss because I haven't seen them since last April , and I am so excited To welcome them to the podcast .

They're a joy to see , to be with and and we just want to pick their brains a little bit and see if they can help us with ideas for costumes or just . We'll just talk for the next 30 , 40 minutes . We'll just talk costumes in general for the upcoming run Disney season .

Let me start here , and Kristen , you were talking with us just a little bit before we started . You know we had this Rules . It wasn't really a change , it was a note put out saying here's an update and it kind of got some folks upset . But I think you have some current information on that .

And there were a couple emails that were going around with pictures and they were being told well , that's not acceptable . But obviously had been on a course before . So we were like , well , what are we gonna do ? So my , my thought process was I'm not gonna ask them about particular costumes per se .

I want them to explain themselves in the wording that they chose , because I could tell from reading it it was not coming from a runner , because a runner knows that layers layers to a runner mean different things than layers to the general population . Right , so that was my . That was my question . I was like , can you , can you clarify what you mean by that ?

Because you know , when it's cold , when we , you know Something on me . Remember the actual frozen 5k princess of whatever year that was ? You know I said your term . Layers actually eliminates the ability to like dress for warmth and then , right , we shed those and then they get donated to the you know shelters and whatnot . So is that not okay anymore ?

Are we not doing that ? Because that's considered a layer and she finds she whoever this person is who's running the account ? Finally answered me back and this is what she said . We are pleased to inform you that you are able to wear jackets and throwaway layers . Please know that any adjustments or alterations to the costume must remain within our guidelines .

These are available under the race policy section of your run Disney event . If a costume is questionable or offensive to others , disney reserves the right to either have you change into something more appropriate or we will remove you from the event . So which now , looking back , I Don't know that this originated out of run Disney .

When it came out , I think it was just them kind of streamlining their verbiage , because the guidelines that were released ended up , I found out , were the same guidelines that they released for Mickey's not so scary party Like you go into that event information and see it verbatim , even down to like .

The tutu explanation is Exact same in the party guide that it is on that email that we received . So I think overall it was a maybe a mild overreaction .

this to be entered into the Magic Kingdom . Yeah with a lot more people than are at a run Disney race , then I think we're gonna be okay .

I don't know about that and it wasn't for the safety of other people , it was the safety of the runner wearing it . So I think , overall , we're , we're okay .

So I don't know if we're gonna , how much we're gonna get into Like what's allowed and what's not allowed , but I did email run Disney today and they responded right away , but it was pretty much a Generic response . Thank you for your interest in asking about costumes . This is what it is .

I was asking can you show me a photo of something that's not allowed and and that's not something that they are responding to at this ? Okay .

You know , bring in a small child , but underneath it you know ? Would that be fine ? Would that be okay ? I understand that I'm subject to more . You know screenings , security screening but I'm willing to do that if you'll let me wear the costume . And they didn't respond to that . So I think that's a valid question to to hopefully someone will answer .

Is that , if it's layered , layered like that , and it's removable and you get to look to see that there's nothing hiding in it , why can't we just wear that ?

That was like really cutting edge on things we're really ready to like okay , if I need to just carry the guitar , I will , if so but , it was well received last year . I was hoping that it will be well received this year for similar type costumes . And .

I'm just covering the front and the back with some sort of type of strap over your shoulders , because there's a lot of different variations of those they were fun .

On the blockbuster one , I think that one would probably really not be allowed because that covered three parts of my body , so I only had yeah . I'd expose , because I was really wanting to keep the spine with it .

But again , there is also the variation of you just carry it in the front of you , so you strap it up somehow to the front of you , or you just have Some paddles that you could hold it from swell to . There's also this variation .

Then then , thinking forward on the table side since you know we we have Alice's Tea Party coming up Instead of having a table that goes around you , how about you just have a table that slightly goes in front of you , and then you make sure that the table cover is sheer so that you're not concealing anything Underneath that .

So I've had to play around a little bit with my initial ideas and thankfully that email caught me before I had gotten too deep into my projects .

And like one of the examples that I do not know the gentleman's name , I just know he's part of of Jar Ox and spoons group , but when they did the Mario Kart , I think was for it was either wine and dying or marathon weekend 5k . You know a lot of them had Inflate .

You know the inflatable costumes , kind of like how Ali had her shark and everything right right . I don't know if she'd be able to get away with a shark anymore , but apparently in their gang , one of their groups , costumes was considered Too large or not appropriate for the race and they were asked to take it off .

So and again and that was last race season . So , again , I think you know Even though nothing changed , it's just being brought to light is you know ? There have always been people that are looking out for everyone's safety and security in terms of the races , in relation to costumes . So again , really , I don't think much is going to change .

Just know that they've always been there and they'll probably continue to be there .

They're just going to be Enforcing rules that they were told to enforce . So and I said this in my story too like if I see anybody that I know that is mistreating a cast member who is telling them to either take off the costume or whatnot on a race morning , I will southern mom ear lobe grab . All the way to the parking lot . Because you do not .

You do not get to take out your Frustration what not ? On a cast member who was just simply doing their job .

Okay ended up shorter and you know , and was able to still run the race because they think he looks awesome too . So , yeah , yeah , but Building on what Kristen said , I agree completely . If so , if someone asks you to modify or do something to your costume , give them grace . I mean , yeah , a hundred percent .

But I , my gut feeling is , where would you plan to wear but have another option underneath to change into ? They're gonna be okay to run in and just be like , oh okay , this isn't gonna be okay , cuz I think wine and dine is gonna be our learning weekend for everybody for sure .

So I think they might let a little bit slide this time and they might say okay , next time you can't , you know , do this or that . Yeah , we'll see further . So I think in general , most people are going to be okay .

And if you know that something's kind of treading on the line of the rules , then , like Pamela said , have an idea of how can I adjust this on the spot Take it off , carry it , pin it up , whatever the case might be , or have a different outfit , like Kristen said , just in case . But I think that our ideas we could still flow with them .

Let's talk about Wine and Dine weekend and maybe a little bit about marathon weekend and some ideas that are running around in your heads for costumes . Maybe not necessarily for you you don't keep no spoilers if you don't want to but the themes what kind of costume ideas do we have ? Margaret , you want to kick that off ?

I have this whole idea of Doing Mrs Potts that I've never done before , but as she's the one that's invited to the ball , so , she's all dressed up and decked out to go to the ball . That's where it probably gets a little bit vague with some of the rules , disney , because you know they are saying not too many layers .

So if you want to do ball gown type , you have to maybe be a little careful on that end . But I think regular dresses should be , should be okay , I would certainly hope so . Yeah , and then for the half with the incanto team theme . I Would love to do Isabella with her on the swing . Oh . Flower swing mm-hmm neat , neat .

I am part of a group and we are themed after a Particular ride in Disneyland that matches the theme of the weekend .

it coming up really soon is looking at the different rides in Disneyland , the different opening day rides , and doing costumes based off of the rides , because the theming is the same , essentially the same as it is for for marathon weekend , where it's the fab 5 , it's just the characters . It's really not , you know , movie specific .

So , with this being the first race back to Disneyland in several years , my first race to ever run in Disneyland , we were thinking more broad , with the different , the different rides that we Potentially pending course might get to run by , and I think that would be so cool . Yeah , yeah , yeah to do that so that'll be fun .

I could be the mad hatter , you can be . You can be the flowers , you can be the the little Caterpillar . I mean there's so many fun things . So I'm actually right now . Currently I'm going to be some kind of character from Alice for all three of my races .

I mean there's so many things remain . Canto to with the colors and the sisters and the families and the house . Just be the house . Yeah , there's .

My husband and I dressed up as lunch items and I was hoping to do dinner , but I really loved all the things , so I will reserve that for some other time . But don't forget about all that .

And for Disneyland the theme is the main characters , but the artwork that they gave us was like very 375 , so something kind of vintage , retro with the characters would be fun too .

I'm sticking more , so trying to do something very Disneyland , since I I live by Disney World , so I get to do a lot of these races and it's my first time going there , so I'm trying to pick something specific to that .

But don't forget , there's there's parades , so you might see some characters from like their parades or the rides , like Kristen said as well too . So something along those lines . And also , the big thing that Disney Disneyland has that we don't have is Adventure campus . So Kamal said that would be a great opportunity to do Marvel there .

So , or here , I mean , and you can do it anywhere you don't have to see but that's something that's specific to Disneyland .

everyone wanted to Really embrace that . But the fact that there's no central Theme outside of the fab 5 and the cool like track art artwork , it really leaves the door open to so much interpretation . So it's one of those things where , okay , you know it could make things easier for you because , in theory , you could pick whatever you want .

You know , from , you know , being a classic character to being , you know , figment , who trips out of the rainbow tunnel , you know , twice in one day . I don't like that , or you know .

But then , conversely , though , because there's no central theme tied to it and having so many ideas , I know that it can Maybe seem daunting or overwhelming to to pick a theme , but it's one of those things where , if you have an idea , stick with your gut and go for it , because , especially for those two weekends , really anything goes and it really can be

applied to any weekend , but obviously with the themes , though it does make it a little bit easier for you , it does now I'm gonna back up just a second because I'm guilty .

I have to know , you don't , you don't , I've run , I'm closing in on 50 Disney races I , I wore , I've worn a costume for two and sometimes a t-shirt , if you want for three . So no you , but they're an epic .

I , these three women here who they know , they know how many people just go oh , that's wonderful , that's great . Golly , I do it for him , but it's so . It brings joy to other folks .

And she'd open that box and show that we have and the be kind of rewind sticker and they would just erupt and laughter . I don't know , but we should have flashed you at marathon weekend , bob . We should have done it . No , like that . That . The bruise , margaret , I don't know if yours left a bruise on your shoulder , but our whoo mind did oh boy .

But that was totally worth it for the amount of joy that was sparked Simply by wearing the cool costume and people commenting on it . That's . The other thing is that , as much as I love to wear the really fun costumes , I love Complementing other people on theirs . Yeah because it's such a great way to see just how stinking creative we all can be .

A Very large old man walks out with wings and a blonde wig , dressed like Tinkerbell , feels self-conscious as heck for all of about 20 seconds and Then sees the reaction from everybody and go , yeah , this is gonna be fun and it was so that's when tinker Bob was born . And he , or is it she ?

I'm not sure We'll be back because , golly , we got a race just made for it .

I wear a dagum size eight . It's tough so which which segues me to something else again . Folks who are listening . I've never done this before . Where do you get your stuff ?

I had no basic sewing , so I kind of will just adjust certain things or add tool or lace or trim or ribbons to things just to make it look , give it the look that I'm going for , or just piecing different things together that you could just find at regular stores . So just always keeping an eye out for what could work for your idea .

Once you have your idea , and Just working on it it's it's almost like a challenge too , because there's the challenge of the mileage , of the , the race itself , but then there's also the challenge of constructing these Costumes , these race outfits . So that's , that's just all part of the fun .

We've already ordered all of our pieces because we like well , on Amazon , we get this skirt , we get this top , we get this scarf , we can get these saddle shoes , we can get this , you know , and it's like it's here the next day . So Piecing together pieces like that .

And then also I have a very amazing friend , tracy , who it just her brain is constantly thinking of new things and new ways to make some sort of costume . So she's , she's our little clean , clean maker . She makes all of our little Hats . I mean , look at this seriously . I know nobody else can see this .

I had worn the entire season in that skirt and then it I wore it on the last race to represent all 13 races to make the perfect season . But , honestly , amazon really the other one that I use a lot to , or have started using a lot , I should say is Halloween calm . Okay , afraid of the Halloween costume Type stores .

Granted , you're not gonna get , you're not gonna get the quality to make it through a half or a full . But a 5k or even the 10k , you can get some really good costume options from From a place like that . So my , my Jasmine from the Princess 5k this past year was from Halloween costumes calm .

So it was like a full full on Jasmine , like Disney license the whole nine yards . So that's always an option too . And I think that one was Gosh , it was under $50 for it and it was , you know , had the headband and we won't talk about the wig because I ended up looking Like a dark-headed founding father . The way the curls , and it was .

I was like no , no , we're gonna be a blonde Jasmine .

But if you have an organization that you really like or I know there was like a Girl Scout group last princess , we did the cheerleaders like you don't have to , it doesn't have to be , doesn't have to be directly from the movie .

It can be a , you know , modern group or Club if you will , but then you put your Disney spin on it and I guarantee you You're , you will be around like-minded people who , once they see you , they're gonna be like I get it . I totally get it , because no one , no one , questioned who we were when we were princesses .

I mean the princess cheerleaders and flight attendants and that like they're like yep , I got it , I got it . So it's tying to I'd bringing two ideas together to make a really original costume outstanding .

But you have to say some of my like bulky ones , like I had a bulky Cinderella gown one year but I actually did instead was I wore it on a day that I knew had to do like some Organization around the house and climbing up and down the step ladder , up and down the stairs Just to get a feel for how it was gonna feel on me doing active stuff as opposed

to taking it down the street . But head pieces .

I do try to at least go on one run with them , even if it's a short run , just so you get an idea of how it's gonna either bounce on your head stay secure , not if you need to add up pins to it or whatever the case might be , if it's gonna be too heavy , or sometimes it could be too light and just kind of fly off .

So that way , if you have that under control beforehand , that really helps too .

I did not train in that because I knew I was gonna be walking that 5k because of my injury , so didn't even train , train it for that one at all . Obviously , the VHS box did not take that around the neighborhood . I'm sure I would have gotten , like you know , called for , like a wellness check or something she's . She's finally lost it .

She's wearing a giant four-foot VHS box running around the neighborhood . So but I will , I will train in or test run pieces of them , especially the accessories , especially if I'm gonna be holding a lot of things , because you don't want that race to be the first time that you practice juggling pom poms or a lamp or Tea cups or whatever .

You want to make sure that you have a good grasp , literally on on those accessories .

Because it's gonna be annoying and if I don't like it I'll just throw it away . Well , I have a whole 10 miles with it and it was fine . So I kind of give my the okay , like if I have to get rid of it , I will . But I love how photos look with props , so I'm willing to carry umbrellas and you know , parasols and the .

I Mean I wore that really hot costume or basically it was boo as a monster and it was like wearing a sleeping bag . Did I practice ? No , I got it like when I got here and I ran with ice packs in it and I was fine .

So , for example , when we did I was in the group that did the princess cheerleaders we all had agreed upon bringing with us a white long sleeve Under thing to go , obviously , underneath our cheer tops , because that way if it was cold we would all still match . But it it got .

It got the the costume accomplished because it looks like what a cheerleader would wear In cold weather and also kept us warm . So . So always having those little small things available to tweak or add on is Always a good idea and a lot of times it's just as simple as a long sleeve T-shirt .

So the the wine and dine when it was villains theme , I remember that was the one that it poured down rain , the 5k and the 10k . That was when Teresa and I were the poison apples for the 5k and then I was captain hook . She was tick , tock , crock and Tara was mr Sme for the 10 and I was in my raincoat the whole time .

Like , that Captain hook costume really never got the attention it deserved because it was beautiful , because it was hiding under a rain jacket the whole time , but that the the half , it was really cold .

Do you remember that in the morning it was really cold , so I had on a blue because I was Hades , I had on a blue long sleeve and then , when we got to animal kingdom , we pulled off into one of the bathrooms and shed that bottom layer and Came back out and we were like weather appropriate , but we were still dressed as our character .

So , just having that flexibility of you know , prepare something that still matches your costume . So obviously , hades would not roll out in like a neon pink , unlike long sleeve shirt . That would totally mess with the character . But knowing , knowing that there's flexibility within your , your costume and your character to accommodate for that .

Another thing that that we used when it was really cold were those hand warmers and and throw away gloves , like when it gets to be wintertime , which in Texas I think is supposed to happen sometime in the next year .

It might turn winter , but you can start getting like cheapo gloves at , even like Dollar Tree or anything like that , putting those on and then putting those hand warmers in them . I know some people put them in their shoes . Just be careful that you don't burn your feet when you do that .

So there's , there's small things that you can do to make your your costumes , whether appropriate , but still maintain the integrity of the character that you're trying to be , and Speaking of you know being appropriate in terms of your costume .

You know , you'll see everyone go all out for the 5k and then by the time you're hitting , half marathon to the marathon , you know sure there's slight embellishments here or there , because you're gonna be in that thing for a really long time .

And you know , as we know , during marathon weekend , once you hit Animal Kingdom and beyond , if you got something bulky on you , that Sun is just gonna destroy you and get you hot . And you know You're still several miles away from the ice at Blizzard Beach . So be mindful of the elaborateness of your costume based on the distance that you're running .

Either that you've worn or or that you've seen , and I'm not going to make you stick with one . If you've got a couple you want to talk about , that's great . But , pamela , why don't you go first ?

The the first stole from , you know , just Amazon . The wig , I wore the fake eyelashes , I don't know . I had pig ears , I don't know it . To me it was my favorite costume , for sure .

I just I love that group picture .

I tried at least every race . We can do one version of mini , usually for the longer race , and Probably one of my all-time favorites it was chef mini , and that one was for springtime surprise 10 miler , when it was like the ratatouille theme . So I went with the chef mini , but I also had remi on my shoulder as well too . So that was a lot of fun .

Of course , it was just so much fun because she's a all-time favorite character , so that was really fun . Obviously , my springtime surprise 10 miler with the perfect season skirt was so I loved that . In fact , I have that one hanging in my closet where I see it every day , just because it's .

It's just a great reminder of what an accomplishment and how exhausting all that was . Yeah , but honestly I really I loved for the princess , half the the princess flight attendant , the kind of vintage panam Version of a flight attendant that was themed after the different princesses . So that one was really . That one was really , really fun .

And we all , we all had our little bags that we actually had Bags of peanuts that we were handing out to people in and that , pamela , you mentioned about not running with with the suitcase . I did not run with that and my , my suitcase , my , my peanut bag definitely got left in the Magic Kingdom . I was over it .

Yes , yeah , oh my gosh that one was so fun , and I knew that if it ever started raining , all I had to do was just run a little bit ahead To hang out with one of them .

It was very challenging to do 6.2 miles in it . Yes , and the reason I chose to do it for the 10 cake was because for the 5k , I was like I definitely have to be lightning McQueen because he's another favorite of mine .

Of course , I chose that one for the 10k so that was very challenging but so much fun to do and walk in and had a blast in that one as well too . And , and as far as my favorites that I like to see , I love to see the hashtag Rondo be group ones too . They always nice , I agree .

One thing so it's fun hanging with them by the stage after the race and so it's fun hanging with them by the stage after the race , and Kristen sometimes will be out there too . I think she's out there all the time too . Pamela sometimes out there too , and Pamela and Tracy group group costumes are amazing as well , too Especially the . Miss Piggy one .

Oh yeah , I love that one too .

I'm now a legend in my own mind With tinker bob , but the other guys have done some good ones .

The problem is is I am just such a heavy sweater and I know that if I had any additional layers on me I would just be a hot mess on top of when I'm already a hot mess out on the course . But that's why I love Hawaiian pizza peril , because you know they really do a fantastic job of Celebrating the character through moisture wicking material .

And then , you know , you just throw on a few accessories here , there and butter bing , butter boom , you're done .

If you guys know that song , it's a whole . I know the song . The whole video is uh , what do you call it ? A spoof on allison wonderland .

They also do custom pieces as well , yeah , so they will print on a top , or , uh , they have leggings or I'm doing a skater dress , so I need a more simplified , uh athletic , breathable outfit for the marine kormirathon that I'm doing because it's long distance , so you have to keep that in mind .

But my uh thought going into that race was that I wanted to represent the washington monument , so that's a great way of having something printed on a skater dress . It's breathable that you could go out there and represent something big as well too . But keep it simplified .

That's good plan . So I'm not sure if that's still happening or not , but I could , I'll definitely be looking for .

I wanted to . Friends who are listening , who haven't been to disney before , you may get the impression that everybody wears a costume to every race . That's not true . In fact , if you look at some videos from small races , more people don't wear costumes than do , but it is a lot of fun and so we put some thought into this .

That's , that's what we're talking about . But don't feel any pressure that you must wear a costume , because for for years my first 30 or 40 runs there I didn't wear one , and but I'm having fun with it now . John , you got any , any thoughts , any ideas on a costume , except ?

I have a Sme shirt . So , I got peter pan covered and then for the 10k I have a Russell wilderness explorer shirt . So I'm covered there . So I just need to figure out the 10 miler and then I'll be okay .

But I will say the place where I got my shirts from Uh is from quine pizza peril and the other week we were very fortunate to chat with our friend alec , who is the owner of quine pizza peril alec .

Um , I used to live in california and while the park was like 12 hours away , we would make it happen . I lived at the office at end of california .

I feel like people are really pushing it now with the costumes going bigger and bigger for halloween , but back then it just like wasn't at all . So , um , I came up with , like casual cosplay quote-unquote shirts that are reminiscent , designed to look like disney characters , Um , that you can just casually wear .

And , um , you know , uh , I'm trying to think of how many years maybe three , three years in Um , I started to expand to the sublimation Uh printing process , which is what you see with the all over print clothing um , lasts longer than traditional screen printing .

And that's when I started to expand to dresses and leggings and , all of a sudden , you know , started to get recognized by the run disney community people looking for costumes , and I , um , with sublimation sublimation , you print on a stretchy spandex material , so it's like moisture , wicking , great for running in . Right right . They kind of went from there yeah .

I can tell you firsthand , folks , and this is not a paid endorsement or anything like that . I mean , this stuff is legit quality . You know . Again , if you're looking for that , you know moisture wicking material . Hawaiian pizza apparel is where it is at .

But the one thing , uh , that I've been always curious about , because when it comes to printing and obviously you know the , you know the sewing of the shirts and everything like that you take , for example , like a duny and berk bag , you know that's just like .

You know a massive print out on the leather and then it gets cut up and you know , sewn into the bag and each bag looks different . But with your work and your clothing line , it doesn't matter if you're ordering a small or a 3xl . The shirt looks the same , like you know , with my rustle , like everyone has , you know .

You know the , you know the , the band , you know , with the patches , all in the same spot . Can you talk about the , the process that goes into designing and then being able to Print that and display that correctly for people of all sizes ?

Um , but yeah , we um , I start with just like a basic template for , say , a shirt , and with the printing process it basically just prints out on a huge sheet of paper . It can be scaled up or down .

I work in very high resolution design files and so it so when I , when it's made to order , it's really made to order , you know , for that customer , whatever size that they're ordering , um , it's printed in that size . It's heat pressed On to blank fabric , cut and sewn together . So it's scaled for each size and we try our best to To get all the details .

You know , within the margins of the design . It can be a little tricky because you know it is handmade , so sometimes details do get a little cut off , but we try to as much detail as I can . You know in each design , as accurate as I can very good .

Um , you know , in terms of drawing your inspiration , you know , like I mean , you know , the day that I discovered the power line shirt , like you know , I knew I needed to have that right away or um you had , you had him hooked alec oh absolutely , absolutely , um , but you know , I I've just been , you know , scrolling through in the last couple of days , you

know , and I've noticed , like you know , you have , uh , you know , the bluey characters . And then the one that has now officially Boggled my mind is you have a shirt that is themed off of the birthday cake castle From disney worlds 25th anniversary , I mean . I'm super super deep cuts here . Where do you get your inspiration from ?

You know , my own thing is just like oh my gosh , I have to make you know a chili shirt or but um yeah , with like the , the cake and stuff that was . That was a customer request which you know , messaged me and I'll be happy to work with anybody on any idea . I was like , silly as it may sound , at the time Um .

So , yeah , the , yeah , the cake was a customer request . Um , I , I think it was , um , I think they , the customer was turning 25 and wanted it for one of the races .

Because , like , while I'll say that live action and CGI characters take me the longest design , because I I like to use Like photo , realistic , uh , like textures , like leather textures , and I'll go , I'll go to the fabric store If I need to and take photos of fabric so that it looks , you know that , crisp and realistic , and so , while like live action stuff

like will take me days to do , just like I don't know , like the front of a dress could take me , you know , three days , depending on how many layers I'm actually speaking of that I'm working on a Jane Foster Mighty Thor dress right now and it's oh , oh wow . Probably taking me almost a week .

Wow , wow , because it's so many layers with the armor and the pleading and all of that , so I'd probably say any any of those characters , just because , like , once I'm done , it just feels really good to be like this looks like as realistic as it can for a print and like just Satisfying , to be like yeah , I imagine it is yeah , yeah .

So when I graduated and like needed to find something that was Mobile because my husband wasn't a military at the time Um , I just kind of went back to photoshop and I was just like , well , this is , I can design my own clothing , I can do this all from home , I can do it wherever we're stationed .

So I just , yeah , I always , just always went back to photoshop , all self-taught neat .

Um , our non rush order option word starting to get faster . That used to be about four to six weeks . Um , we're getting it closer to three to five . But to be safe , um , for a non rush order , I would say um october 1st , which is okay , that's not too bad . Yeah , and then for a rush order . Uh , we'll be taking them until october 16th .

Okay um , and then we're also doing 15 off of rush orders which ship in one to two weeks , and then 10 off everything else fantastic .

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We are so excited at the response that we've had from our friends that we're still getting there , so join us . Thanks very much , friends . Taking a look at our schedule next week , we've got a shoe expert . Get your shoe questions ready for Eric , the general manager of Jeff's Fidipides store in Atlanta , georgia . That's always an interesting .

We haven't had a shoe expert on for about a year . That's always an interesting episode . Episode 105 , we're going to invite some folks who either are out on the West Coast or who have run Disneyland races in the past Talk a little bit about what we think might be coming up at the Disneyland race in January .

Of course we don't know , but it might be helpful information for some of you . All right , my friends , it is time now for the . Race Report . This is going to be a long one . I love I can't tell you , I get so excited the fact that all of you want to share this with us and I hope that we do justice to you with this report . I tried my best .

I hope I didn't miss any . But I'm going to have to go kind of quickly on some of these . For instance , big weekend in Bird in Hand , pennsylvania , just a little bit east of the city of Lancaster . You've heard us talking about it . The Bird in Hand weekend started on Friday with the 5K running the 5K Dawn , ellie , karen and Mary . If there were others .

I hope I didn't miss you , but I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you had a chance to get a picture with the camel . In Lansing , michigan , marty ran the Gordy's Pumpkin Run 5K . In Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom , the Great North 5K . This is a celebration of running in the northeastern part of England that attracts 60,000 runners .

Wow , that's a lot of people . Now I don't know that they're all in the one race because there are two races and then there's a kids race also .

But our friend from England , andy Andrew I think he goes by Andy Andrew on Facebook it was pretty warm especially I mean , england's not used this kind of weather 30 degrees centigrade , which is approximately mid-80s , and we're going to hear from Andy again over the weekend . So this 5K started at dusk . He knocked it out in under 30 minutes . Great job .

In Columbia , south Carolina , the Tunnel to Towers 5K . Laurie ran this one . Not a PR , but what a great experience . Hats off to all the firefighters and police that ran this thing in full gear . 25 people showed up and ran or walked this 5K . The Tunnels to Towers .

On 9-11 weekend In the great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee , the Smoky Mountain Black Bear Challenge . Jimmy and Melanie here Now . I got a little confused because Jimmy had one city , melanie had another and then the bib had a third . But it's got to be the same race , it's got to be Again . This was a weekend event because they ran . I've got them here .

On Friday , jimmy and Melanie did a 5K . It was kind of rainy , melanie was with the family . You know Jimmy , right , Alicia . I do . He's one of my runners . And then on Saturday , jimmy ran a 5K again , melanie this time ran a half marathon . Conditions were ideal in Tennessee for a half marathon .

Melanie got to see a mama bear with her three cubs and she knocked out a two and a half minute PR . Good job , jimmy and Melanie . Let's go back to Bird in Hand , pennsylvania . Greg , I'm just going to let you take a couple minutes and tell us about the Bird in Hand half marathon .

They have s'mores that are available on Friday night and then , bob , as you know and John , so do you One of the most incredible post race picnic festivals that I have ever been a part of , from the ribs to the Amish barbecue , chicken and potato salad and shoe fly pie and everything like that .

And then , on top of that , you have local members of the community , both the Amish and the other citizens of the town , that are out on the course providing the water and the Gatorade and the ice and the Rita's Italian ice and everything like that . There you go .

You know they really , you know they really come out in droves to show support for this event and it's very , very special and it's wonderful to be a part of . But that idea of community extends out into the running community as well and actually the community of our inner circles as well too .

I became aware of burden hand thanks to the Galloway customized training program and coach twigs , and then it was from there . You know , we learned about the extra mile podcast and the number of listeners that they have that come out to this event .

And then you know , in the last year or so , the number of rise and run participants and you know I we've even met friends , you know , from the will run for podcast community that come out for this event and it is just a wonderful celebration of togetherness and supporting one another and running .

And it is such a fabulous event that this was my third year in a row doing it and I know I've been running for almost 10 years now and I've been kicking myself that I didn't get involved .

I didn't get involved in this sooner because it is truly such a special event and and before we get into my race recap and the and the wonderful recaps from all of our our friends that were there . I want to give a special shout out to our friend , nate , who is part of all of these communities that I that I just mentioned .

He's the one that spearheads the organization of all of these groups .

You know , in terms of you know introducing people to one another so everyone could have , you know a racing buddy and you know organizing our little get together that we had during the pizza and pasta party before the 5k and then , for those of us that stuck around a little bit after the race , you know we all had a nice meal together about 15 minutes outside

of Lancaster . He put in a lot of work and it creates such wonderful bonds and wonderful friendship . So , nate , if you're listening , thank you so much for all of your hard work this past weekend . You really made it one truly memorable weekend .

So I mean that that person was out there four plus hours , and you know , and again you know , like John said , the fact that they made such a wonderful celebration of that final runner was just absolutely awesome .

So these are some wonderful events if you can get to them . And yeah , I think I said already that I want to be there next year .

Two years ago when I did this , I was aiming for a POT when at the time , pot is were 230 . The aforementioned Nate that I mentioned before you know he helped me pace that . Unfortunately , I didn't hit it , but I have a PR and it's incredible to know that you know to think that this hilly and this difficult of a course is my PR .

I always , you know , I'm surprised to remind myself of that . And then last year I had the opportunity , Bob , to to pay a pace and be running buddies with you and we're coming off an injury and had a game plan and everything like that . So , you know , had a fantastic time there . I think we hit almost three hours , you know , right on the dot .

So I was like , hey , listen , if I can get somewhere in between one of those two times I'll be a happy camper . And I ended up at the 302 , my slowest burden hand ever , because number one , as I mentioned before very difficult course , lots of rolling hills and a couple of do'sies .

Number two this in my three years this was the hottest burden hand I've ever been a part of and talking with some friends after the race . So this was the second hottest burden hand on record . Apparently , when I checked my race stats , restart was at 730 in the morning and we were already at 70 degrees with 98% humidity .

It was supposed to be cloudy and there was not a lot of clouds , so that didn't make things difficult . Where I got my personal worst was because I was running with our friend Tara for the first six miles and she had to split off to use a porta potty and she , you know , we had agreed that I was just going to keep going , she would catch up .

I was really really good because I made sure , you know , for this race to do my hill workouts and I felt very confident with those . And I got to mile nine and I was like you know what ? I think I'm going to push the envelope a little bit and see what I can do . Here again , I knew it wasn't PR pays , but I wanted to see what I can do .

And about two minutes after having that thought , young woman who was in front of me . All of a sudden I saw her leaning and she fell off the side of the road and rolled down the embankment . So another woman . I went and grabbed her , pulled her back up onto the road and then we asked her if she was okay and she said yes .

So she kept running and five steps later she is heading back towards heading going down the embankment . So another woman . I start yelling at her like you need to stop , you need to stop . And she wouldn't . So we chased her for about a tenth of a mile .

Finally the woman was able to grab her hydration belt and stopped her and then she just collapsed into her arms . We got her down on the ground , you know , got her feet up and everything like that . Thankfully , a lot more qualified people than myself showed up and were able to . You know knew the number for the paramedics and you know , had water on them .

You know the spray or stomach down and her forehead and everything like that . But I knew because I had been with this woman since you know she fell the first time that I wasn't going to leave until the paramedics showed up . But you know , I wanted to be able to help in some way .

And then all of a sudden somebody said let's try to create shade for her . Well , for those of you that know me , I'm a wide-bodied guy , so I just positioned myself so that my body created shade for her . We were able to get her you know , her heart rate down and everything like that Thankfully never lost consciousness or anything like that .

But when she got a little bit more coherent , she admitted to us that she ran out of fuel at mile four .

So my little PSA to everybody is obviously , you know , regardless of whatever distance you're running , make sure you know even going back to Bob's story from earlier in the episode , you know , make sure you're taking the appropriate amounts of water and electrolytes and fuel with you and make sure that you have enough to get you through that entire run , so a

situation like this doesn't happen . But once paramedics showed up , I felt good enough to keep moving and thankfully Tara , who I was running with before , ended up popping up , as well as our friend Roxanne from the Customized Training Group . So the three of us just ran the last four miles in together and it was absolutely wonderful .

And then I had I got my horseshoe medal and had that delicious barbecue and all is good in the world .

David gave us a report .

Great , great , great crowd , great community , great food .

You take the horse manure that are called Road Apples and they collect them and shine them up and bronze them and put them onto a plaque . I posted a picture of them on our Instagram stories because it is a very special award , so we just wanted to make sure to recognize her for earning her Road Apple Award there .

She switched so that she could attend live the Battle of the Bands 5K in Castlebury , florida , beautiful morning , the weather was nice . In Orlando this weekend Margaret went as her daughter and her band performed at mile three and Margaret , as she so often does , met a whole bunch of friends at this event .

Cody was there , talked about the three awesome local bands were on the course . Apparently , at the end they voted for their favorite . Michael was there and Tabitha was there . Tabitha again commented the weather was nicer . Her husband and she . Her husband , michael and Tabitha both PR'd this race . Everybody got the medals were nice .

Everybody got these cute little look like I don't know , not armadillas . Look like little animals , those plant holders . They got plants in these cute little holders . That's part of the Battle of the Bands 5K Big event in Baltimore , the Charles Street 12-Miler . Ethan and Kelly were there .

Our friend Jeff was in Danville , indiana , for the Fair on the Square Half Marathon . Here's another great event . I want to stop and talk about for a moment . I've never been to it . It's out in Carnation , washington . It's called Beat the Blurge . It is I remember it from last year . It's various distances .

They've got a 5K , a half and a full marathon , great weather this weekend . There's a blog and you can find it by searching for the oatmeal . That features a Blurge comic . Blurge is a character that the author has made up that he talks about when he wants to go running , the Blurge tries to talk him out of it .

Now Blurge , he describes , is the sound that the ketchup or mustard makes when you squeeze it out of the squeeze jar the Blurge . At the end of this event they offer a cake burrito sundae bar complete with potato chips , candy , chocolate sauce , whipped cream and you put it all on top of a tortilla . That's at the end , okay .

During the event , let's start with our friend Kristen who ran the half . Kristen went to the burrito nut , not doughnut , not burrito . The burrito nut stopped the maple doughnut burrito nut , which she says was just a bit too much . It's essentially a sweeter , crunchier maple doughnut . That in the middle of a half marathon is just unnecessary .

Some of it was doing somersaults the rest of the day . But Kristen finished the half , kimberly and her family whether it's family and friends or family , I'm not positive . B ran the 5K , josh ran the half , kimberly ran the full .

But again , a neat part of this is they stagger the starts at different times so that they actually all finished right about the same time . They all caught up with each other about a mile to go . She posts the question what's a blurge ?

I'm not sure I can tell you , but at every water stop there's the blurge there and they have characters dressed like the blurge . They're offering cake .

Somehow the blurge convinced her that it was a good idea To carry a full-sized sheet cake with her for the last three miles of the marathon , she says the look on her daughter's face when she saw her carry in this thing with a mile to go was priceless , worth all the extra effort .

And the last person I have here from the rise and run family that ran this is Heather . Heather ran the half , says the blurge . Characters along the course . We're trying to talk runners into tapping out and taking naps on one of the couches that they had set up on the course . What does this sound like ? A fun run ? Or what , holy cow .

This sounds like a fun event . So beat the blurge carnation . Kristen Kimberly , josh B Heather , thanks for sharing those stories . That sounds great . We have to look into that just a little more . All right , let's move on . The old forge half marathon . Old forge , new York .

Kelly was there Celebrating one year until her wedding on September 7th next year by running her first half marathon . Well , first half marathon , we know what that means and in her finished photo , her finished photo features her dog Sully . New Orleans , louisiana .

The Saints kickoff 5k Stevie Fun to run to the finish on the 50 yard line even had some character stops . The Saints have a bunch of mascots . They have sirs , saint gumbo , the dog and Saint Vader . They were all out there . The best part of the New Orleans running is the free beer . Jumbalaya at the finish mirror was there .

She said how fun it was to end in the Superdome on the 50 , of course , nice to run into an air-conditioned building at the end of the . At the end of the run , mira PR'd her 5k time by almost a minute and First time her husband ran with her and the kids did their first kids race . So there we are in New Orleans kicking off the NFL season .

Cedar Rapids , iowa . Tracy ran the a trash more 5k dash 10th year for this race . Tracy's been in all of them except for the first . One goes up to the top of Mount Trashmore . Mount Trashmore is a former landfill . Very steep climb she she showed some pictures very steep climb , but the views of the city from the top of Mount Trashmore are amazing .

Wood fired pizza at the end . That's always a good thing . Naperville , illinois , the Naperville trails half marathon . Mark mark was with us on the spotlight last week . Said that he was a bit slow in it . Well , this one . But that's okay . It was the same course , or at least parts of the same course , as mark described to us last week .

He talked about running on the grass , said he only had to run on the grass once . This time Caitlyn was there and Caitlyn was happy that she heard mark spotlight last week because then she was ready for the grass horse track . She had a bit of trouble in the last two miles but did well .

Pr'd by half a second , half a second , half a minute , half an hour . We don't care . Pr's a PR . Great job , caitlyn . The general Montgomery Day 8k run walk in Montgomery , new York . Megan was there . Great crowd support . Saw a lot of old friends , made some new ones . She PR'd two minutes faster than last year the run . Mag mile , chicago , illinois .

Laura said the weather was great , got there really early . Who's kind of worried about traffic and parking ? Had a good time though . Good run , had fun . Just a minute shy for PR , so that's a good job . Laura . University of Houston 10k in Texas . Brandy was there . She was experimenting . We talked about costumes and checking out your costumes .

She was trying out the beginnings of a Dalmatians costume that she plans to eat , wear at these years wine and dye . Now Brandy also ran another event this weekend and I I Just found this before we started recording the run with the Sun . Las Vegas 5k . I don't know much about it .

I know she was kind of tickled because the Porta part parties were provided by a company named Royal flush Vegas . Royal flush Porta parties pretty cool . Our friend Joe did the 5k for this . Virtually . Richmond Hill , georgia . The marching madness 5k . Melissa , fun trail course . Didn't see any snakes or alligators . Well , that's a good thing , melissa .

You don't want to see snakes or alligators on a run . Did get to run with some other run Disney friends . This is our fourth long run in a row that she's suffered . She's having some trouble with her feet but I hope that's getting better . The last chance BQ marathon in Geneva , illinois .

And it is the last chance because Boston registration , I think , has already begun .

Hope you enjoy the Boston Marathon next April , the revel , big cottonwood half and Salt Lake City , utah . Jay was there . The temperatures were 37 degrees at the top of the canyon when they started , 73 degrees at the finish . Coincidence , the numbers just flipped three , seven and seven , three . The elevations Drop from start to finish was about 2,900 feet .

No beer at the end and , quoting Jay , a distinct lack of plastic cheese . But got to try out the . They had the rapid reboot Brand of the compression boots , the pneumatic compression boots . Got to try those out at the end thought they were pretty sweet . Plymouth , massachusetts .

Heidi did the 10k at the run to the rock race weekend Lovely course through downtown Plymouth . A lot of historic spots along the way . Started and finished at Plymouth Rock . That's a pretty historic site . Heating , humidity in New England were rough this weekend , kind of similar to burden hand , but she felt stronger . That then she did during her July 10k .

So how do you think that's a win ? I agree entirely . Hey , back to Andy who's running in Newcastle upon time , united Kingdom , on Saturday . His daughter is six-year-old daughter . Lena Ran the 1.5k Beautiful picture of this Gorgeous little red-headed girl , biggest smile on her face . I know dad's proud of that one .

That was really neat and he says that Lane is her his biggest fan and I think he said something about her being with him when he gets to wine and dine . This year he comes back up on the report here in a little bit . Let's see if my memory is correct . In Detroit , michigan , the women run the D event 5k , 10k , half . Sarah ran this one .

I'm not sure what distance she ran , but it's a beautiful morning , great views of Detroit and Windsor across the river . This event features a caramel mile . That sounds like fun , the caramel as in caramel candy . Guess who the race announcer was ? I will take you back to episode 102 , for the race announcer Fitz was there . Yeah , nice , a nice picture .

Sarah and Fitz helped her across the finish line . I'm not helped her , but was hand-in-hand with her crossing . That's awesome .

Course was pretty it's along a greenway , a couple of road miles , but mostly wooded or lake views . That sounds very pleasant . Her only other half in her 50s was wine and dine in 22 when she PR'd and fun . So this one is a decade PR , holly . We count those . The kids helping kids do more 5k in Stamford , connecticut . Sue was there .

Great views of Long Island again . The heat and humidity in the Northeast was pretty tough . This weekend she's looking forward to the cooler New England weather . Yeah , I'm sure she is , but then it's gonna get really cold . I think it's gonna get tough , but that's all good . Hey , sue's doing the Connecticut 169 . This was number 138 .

North Burra , massachusetts , the North Burra Apple Fest 5k . That sounds very fall-like . Madge was there . This event is the first 5k that she trained for when she started running back in 2015 . She did it this weekend as part of her 10 mile training run . Ran from the house to the start two miles .

Picked up the bib did a warm-up lap which kind of freaked out the water stop . Volunteers who thought maybe the race had started already Ran the race . Ran home after stopping for some apple cider donuts and an apple crisp muffin . Running two miles after apple cider donuts and apple crisp muffins Sounds like a challenge all to itself .

All three races conducted in and around the Daytona International Speedway . Kayla did the triple dare , she did the 10k on Saturday morning , the 5k Saturday evening and the 15k Sunday morning . Had a great 10k when easy in the 5k , then had a little trouble in the 15k . She thought she might get picked up but she kept going and she finished the 15k .

So she knocked out all three way to go . Kayla , jason Alder did also did the triple dare . Same events . Had a great time running around the track , even went up the 31 degree bank . You've seen them on TV but unless you've seen them live , those banks are Amazing and just to get to the top is quite an effort .

Jason did something that I made the mistake of doing one time before refereeing a soccer match he donated blood between races . So I Think , and he agreed , that he kind of felt that on Sunday morning on the 15k , but Proud of you for donating the blood , though , jason . That's a noble thing to do and a great thing to do . Here's our buddy , margaret .

Again , margaret ran the 5k on Saturday evening . She ran it dressed as a race car , of course . Okay , friends , let's move to Sunday and and let's start in King of Prussia , pennsylvania . That's right , that's the name of the town , king of Prussia , a place near and dear to my heart .

We've got a guest here with us who is going hey , come on , man , you're inviting me here for a reason not to talk about the King of Prussia Plaza . Victoria , you ran the Queen of Prussia 10k , amongst other things , this weekend . Welcome to the race report spotlight .

I'm also going to ask you about last weekend , but we invited you this time to talk about the Queen of Prussia 10k , so let's start by talking about that . How was this race this weekend ?

It was raining when we started and when we finished , but it was really cool because it's a women's only race , so it was all these gals dressed up in . I saw some people in crowned crew , some in their sparkle athletics , where Not a lot of costumes , costumes but a few tutus here and there , uh-huh .

And about halfway through there was one gal who started cheering we love Hills . And so then it started going where we had a quarter mile of , as everyone passed each other because it was an out-and-back course , people would say You're looking awesome , ladies , way to go , and it was just so much positivity and cheering .

It was really fun and I talked to the gal who did the we love Hills and it turns out she also listens to this podcast .

I know you're originally from Colorado , I know you're here temporarily for for a work assignment , but , you know , looking at the course map of this race , it looks like your was this part of the new extension of the Chester Valley Trail , because I can actually grab the Chester Valley Trail where I live , but on the complete opposite side , and I've never had a

chance to get on to the new section . So I'm assuming that those include the hills that you're talking about .

I grew up in this part of the country so I got all that out of the way , so I don't bore our friends who are listening , but it's really neat for me to sit here and go yeah , I know where that is and I know where that is . That's a lot of fun . How was the race crowd Approximately was ? It sounds like a pretty good sized run .

the goofy challenge that , and so we're getting all ready for that . So I'm trying to make sure I'm training a little extra so that way for their first marathon I can be a good cheerleader . And Then my mom's doing her first ever half marathon at Disneyland .

Because she was , I was working when she was registering us all and she got caught up in the spirit and she , she signed up for the half marathon because she was in and she was registering and she got , she got amped , and now she . Now she gets to train and she is a little less amped , but still excited . That's , that's that's not a be there .

Best part , it starts right down the street from her house , not unlike Victoria Just told us about the Queen of Prussia run so she could leave 10 minutes before the start , get there on time and Catch this win the event first female to finish . Nice nice , julia , congratulations . Mount Vernon , virginia . The George Washington Patriot run 10 miler .

Heather and Tucker were there . I Expected to hear about this one . We'll have to wait . Maybe next week the River Run half marathon in Brea , ohio , because Jack ran that one . So we get Jack back here . She'll tell us all about it . In East Providence , rhode Island , the black goose half marathon . Avery finished that one .

Finishing up now on this , the world's biggest half marathon is how they build it , bill it . We talked about it a couple times . The Great North run in the United Kingdom Andy ran . This one is a run to the coast . It was hot . He says there are 60,000 runners there . That makes it really tough to get going .

The main thing in an event like this is really just finishing it's . It's really tough when you've got that many bodies around you and it's already hot . I do recall running a peach tree one time in circumstances like that . Not quite 60,000 runners , but a lot . It's enough runners to generate even more heat and humidity down close to the ground .

So and you knock this out in 216 , two hours , 16 minutes . That's pretty darn good . After they finished , in all this heat he has , they had what he describes as Biblical rain which led to a four-hour journey back to the start where they were soaked . And yeah , he confirms here that he will be at wine and dine in Westerly Rhode Island .

Rachel ran the surf town half marathon . For Swifty fans , the race goes right by the gate of her watch Hill House . Unfortunately , no character stops at the gate . Too bad , but a good run . Rachel bothman , montana , jennifer . Beautiful fall day , chilly at the start , then breezy and shady entire route . That sounds good . Almost all downhill that also sounds good .

This is her last half . Oh no , I'm sorry . Her next run is Her last half marathon for her planetary challenge , which is coming up on September 30 . Remember last week Jennifer talked about the half Marathon fanatics and now she was running to Saturn . Well , she's getting closer . And I did look it up , john .

No , they don't count Pluto , so they start at Neptune . It's pretty challenging . I'd forgotten . I was in it four or five years ago and you can't just . You can't just knock out a Half every five or six months . You've got to do quite a few in a short period of time to move in , for instance , to get to the sun .

You've got to do 52 halves in 52 weeks .

Just a little bit off of her 5k PR but did come in fourth in her age group . That's a good job . Beautiful course along the Pacific Ocean , great finish festival , nice pictures taken right there at the famous Santa Monica pier . Friends , beautiful , thank you . Yeah , I'm a little horse . It took a little while . Gosh , I appreciate the enthusiasm and the response .

With all these great running events , keep doing them , keep telling us about it . We'll keep reading your reports . Friends , it's a zoom Thursday . If Tuesdays are my favorite days , zoom Thursdays might be my second favorite , or I don't know . I like to zoom Thursdays , maybe almost as much . Always happy to see you . Please join us .

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