105: Running at the Happiest Place on Earth: A runDisney Disneyland Guide

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

Hi y'all , this is Tori , and welcome to an episode of Rise and Run Podcast .

Tori , thank you so much for that nice introduction , recorded live in Bird in Hand , Pennsylvania . Thanks for doing that . We appreciate it . Hey friends , welcome to episode 105 of the Rise and Run Podcast . We're delighted to have you with us . I'm Bob . Tonight . I'm here with Lexi . Hello With Jack .

Hello , it's good to be back .

Well , you had you . We're glad you're back , jack , we're happy to do that .

No one even missed you , jack .

Who are you ? Maybe I should go talk to the bear , greg , you know .

Were , we stuck in time again .

We had to go back in time .

You know what I did ? Go back in time and guess we're at . I did it in the space ball , adept card . Okay , I went all the way back in time . Hold on hold on hold on .

I know we still have to introduce everybody , but I can't let this slide .

I saw a space in Bird . I saw . I will talk , and fast .

A Disney World fan through and through , and you just called spaceship Earth a space ball thing .

Did you see Darth Helmet on there ? Yeah ?

I was just going to say Dark Helmet Was Rick Moranis , an Epcot .

I'm pretty sure I saw like Steve Jobs though , so you know .

Did you ? Did you thank the Phoenicians ? That's the big thing .

That wasn't , that wasn't jobs . Anyway , that was was neck .

but I'm still wrong since .

Hey Jack , first First little course . Once you're in one , stop digging .

It's a little further than six feet on the wrist . I don't know if we can call that anymore .

Hello friends , welcome to episode 105 of the rise . Wait a minute . Meanwhile , ali sitting over there waiting to get it introduced .

Hey , ali , hi , what is happening ? I'm sorry , ali , where am I ?

I lost control . I lost control .

Have you ever had control of us , bob I ?

thought at one point I did . I've got a mute button here , so I do have that going for me , but anyway , I've never used it . Who else is here ? Oh , ali's here . Greg's here , hey , hey , hey , alicia's here , hello , and John is here with us .

Hey how you doing . Bob , I know you need some help tonight .

Alright , friends , if we get episode 105 started , I think you'll enjoy it . I really hope so .

We are .

Not long ago we asked our Patreons in a poll . We said we have two topics Disneyland races and going to Walt Disney World on a budget which would you rather hear first Came out of dead tie .

Crazy . I still like my shoes , but I'm okay with one hand , that's right .

I like it too . That's good .

We can hold our race fuel in one hand , yeah .

Count down the weeks . In . The other Five weeks from today is expo day , gosh , yeah , it's like the first day back at school . You see all your friends . You haven't seen all summer . Yeah , we're looking forward to seeing you , my friend , I promise it'll be . I'll have my rise and run shirt on . Back to the schedule . Nine and nine .

As the editor of the Rise and Run podcast , I want to apologize to our wonderful community . In a day and age of where , if you're like Ricky Bobby , if you're not first , you're last , kind of situation , I made a grave editorial mistake . The bear that we featured in last week's episode was actually not the bear that was in the last one .

Yes , that's clearly what you told me .

Well , that's the thing . The bear that we talked to had a very , very deep voice . Then , upon news reports coming of the outlets in the greater Orlando area , is that the bear was actually female .

Yeah , have rude , greg Good job Greg I know .

All right , so the next time we have a bear , we'll keep that in mind , greg , thank you . Thank you for setting the record straight . We appreciate it . Hey , we started out . We started talking about the training miles for this week . How they're getting long , they're getting tough as gosh guys .

Sure , my training has been interesting , to say the least , because during the month of August I was going to orange theory four times a week , so I was using that as my endurance and my long runs and I didn't really do any strictly distance , I mostly focused on the speed and the exercises that they had me doing there .

I mean , that's the beauty of Disney runs , I think is that's what we're there for is to have a good time . Don't really care about the finish time , what the chip time says , just care that I finish .

Right , and I think it's been really interesting too , as I've gotten back into exercising consistently and running longer runs . That , as opposed to my end of dopey training . I'm really enjoying it , and I was out there on Friday of this past week and I was like you know what , I'm having fun , I like this , and I haven't felt that in a really long time .

So that's important . That's really is so good . That's good Lexi .

My training has also been a little bit I think disjointed is probably the best word to Lexi Like it's been . I've been doing some fitness training . I've been doing some I'm sorry endurance training . I've been doing some weightlifting . I've been doing a lot of skating , but my running has sort of been a little off .

Yeah , I agree , ali . Friends , I'm looking here . I had 14 miles this weekend longest on my training schedule in quite some time . I want to stress something we've talked about in the past . Let's emphasize it a little more right now . I think this is where the training gets really tough . We've got 15 miles this weekend . You'll probably have in two weeks 17, .

Yeah , it's been a few weeks since I've been back on , so I ran my first race of the season .

Yeah , it's a couple , two , three weeks ago , right .

Two weeks ago I ran the River Run Half Marathon in Burria , ohio . Yeah yeah , and I was . I was trying to do it for a PR , an Attyne race for Disney , unfortunately , like okay . So the race halfway through was I was pretty on target for at least getting a like a 156 or something like that .

Oh , I saw the photos .

Yeah , and she surprised me . I'd even know she was going to come and cheer and she had a sign and everything and I'm like you know what ? That's why I did that race , because it was so much fun being able to see my sister out on the course cheering for me . I'm forever grateful .

No marathon , marathon , that's right yeah .

So if you didn't submit a proof of time , it would just go off of whatever you put regardless . But if you are trying to submit a proof of time for the Disney land races I believe correct me if I'm wrong , you guys , but I believe it's like October 3rd or something like that . It was like only like a week after the marathon week in proof of time .

Yeah , yeah , that's a good point . A couple of things you said . See , times are all relative . Sub 2 for Jack wasn't quite what she wanted . Sub 2 for me haven't done one of those in 25 years . And Jack was racing , not training .

It was like . Let me also say like it was a wonderful race . I recommend if anybody ever has a chance to run it . It was beautiful , it was great . I just got into my head a little bit and yeah .

Yeah , hey , this is not easy , this is not easy .

Well , going from running ultras and training on the trails and then trying to go back for a speed on the road when you ultra you run slower than you would , technically speaking , on the road for like half marathons and marathons . So trying to get back my speed that I once had is hard .

No , yeah , you're doing great , though , thank you All right , I appreciate it . So , friends , it's over and over again the training , the training , the training . It's the important part . The race is the reward . That marathon is not 26 miles , is probably about 500 . It just ends with a 26 mile reward at the end after all that training .

So we are so excited to have two returning guests to the interview . This time , as we talk about Disneyland , we have Kristen B from the run princess family who oh gosh when , what episode . You were on one of the beginning episodes Early beginning because it was like we were talking about COVID .

I want to say I've done four Disneyland , half three Tinkerbell and one Avengers . I think that's funny .

I'm so jealous . Oh my God , that had to be epic Of the Avengers one Heck .

yeah , well , that particular race weekend was extremely windy , and that's when the porta potty fell over . So , oh my God , that's Lexi's worst video .

I would say that is Lexi's nightmare .

So I don't know about that one .

but and Alicia , you've also run . Some run Disney in California , right .

I have . I did one of the Star Wars , and then I did Tinkerbell as well .

Awesome . So we are just going to go off past knowledge and , again , as a disclaimer , this is subject to change based on what we hear over the next couple months . But let's start off with the race weekend that happened in January .

So January used to be well long ago , used to be Tinkerbell , but when it , when Ren Disney , disneyland was no longer , it was Star Wars , the light side race , and that was always the weekend after Marathon weekend and I think I don't have the Star Wars like map or information . I've never done the Star Wars race , but I believe it just went .

I don't remember the exact timing . I do remember watching a Res Runs video and him making comments about like when are they gonna tell us about , you know , disneyland races and stuff like that ? So yeah , I have a slight memory of that .

I think it was when they weren't asking for proof of time , people were getting a little suspicious . And then Twitter , I think . Finally they've tweeted something and everyone's like yeah , we've already canceled our flights . We already kind of assumed .

So , with you and Alicia having run the Disney races out in California , how long are you in theory in the actual parks ? Cause I mean I tried to watch videos on YouTube but there wasn't too much to kind of see , there weren't that many videos to see about those races . So how long are you actually in the parks ? For ?

So okay , so I'm a dork and I still have my maps . But the 5K , at least for Tinkerbell . You started at the castle , which is something I feel that we need to bring back . That needs to happen at some point . So Tinkerbell like flew and they did fireworks , so that was like , yeah , it was pretty awesome .

So you would say it's what about four , five miles in the parks ?

Yeah , like I remember very distinctly seeing like mile six when you're sorted in the Disneyland Hotel parking lot , kind of running away from Disneyland .

Kristen , quick follow up to that . So obviously we know , running at Disney World and as we've you know , as you've recollected and you know as a given that you know when you're running on Disneyland property there are characters , you know that you get in the lines of one , you have that Disney entertainment Can you talk about ?

So it is very different in that way , but I will say you will not be disappointed , because there's a lot of car clubs , high school bands , cosplay , like especially for Avengers . They had a lot of people dressed up like Avengers out on the street , but the best thing they always had , and I really hope this comes back .

And the year that I did it we actually didn't go through the stadium .

What would you say would be like the biggest differences between the races at Disney World and the races at Disneyland , the entire ?

production of getting ready for a race is way different at Land vs World because you're up three hours before you got to get on a bus or you got to drive . So I won't say that you don't necessarily have to wake up super early , but the walking time you know that mile walk from the staging to the start . That's not really there .

And I think also too with like the hotels and stuff like you hear of , kind of like hotel road type , everything is within like a mile within it . So like you will have shuttles in the morning but you are very . It is so easy to walk .

I've actually done it both ways .

So so it can be just to expand upon this part of the conversation a little bit . One of the phrases that's synonymous with Disneyland in terms of hotel accommodations , everything like that , is good neighbor hotels . I know we have them here in Disney world but it's much more of a bigger thing in Disneyland .

Yeah , like they're very , very good hotels that are literally within anywhere between like 0.10 and like maybe a mile , I mean , and they're all within anywhere between $150 to $500 , depending . And then if you have a roommate , I , my girlfriend and I or I bring like a few friends , we'll go up and we'll stay at hotels , just so we can like .

And just for the people who may have not ever been out to Disneyland , is the Disneyland area kind of how Disney World is like ? Once you're on property , then you're . You're on property . It's like a whole different world . And is there any like safety concerns , like certain roads that you shouldn't go past or , you know , getting a sketchy part of town ?

I think it's like a super safe area . I mean I think maybe Kristen can expand on that a little bit I stay within like the kind of like the mile hub or whatever . Oregon I just like drive home .

Just like Kristen said , you know , when the park closes at midnight , everyone is still walking to their hotels . It's almost like it's almost like being outside in Vegas , Like everyone's awake , it's very busy but you don't feel unsafe and we normally stay on Harbor , which is it's a walk across the crosswalk from Disneyland , so it's very close .

Especially since you guys have stayed at good neighbor hotels or stayed nearby . You say the walking distance is pretty close . I've been to Disney a few times . I guess I just never looked to ask the hotels Is there actual transportation that hotels offer to bring you to the front , or how does that work ?

Okay , so in December I stayed . I have to keep looking at my map for the life of me . If you kidnapped me and said what are the streets and where , like that surround Disneyland , I would confuse them all .

I have my map up to give you an actual like name , cause I'm like I just know how to get there , like you don't know names .

When you said Kattella , I was like , oh , that's right , that's right , okay so like , if you see , I know that the audience can't see , but there's Kattella right and it's behind DCA . I can see the roller coasters , I can see like Tower of Terror , but it is a pretty like . It does take a while to walk there . By a while I mean like 15 minutes .

Even on race weekends .

That I don't know that . I've just walked across a straight half a week . Alicia , I don't know if you drove to any of the races that land , but I did that a few times and actually it wasn't too terrible either . So parking wasn't bad . But again , I don't know how it would be this time .

Yeah , I did not drive . But as for the bus services and I don't know the answer to question Jack if they would have it during race weekends , the hotel that I stayed at they have .

Yeah , and then that's gonna be on .

So , since you guys have obviously been to Disneyland a lot , is there one particular good neighbor hotel that you like the best , or like what's the favorite ? One is like oh , if you can stay at this one , that's probably you're gonna be your best bet .

So I see that the candy cane in , and that is I mean pretty much like in right next to Tower of Terror . That was pretty good . I've stayed at the best Western , that's on Harbor across . There's like three best Westerns , but this one is by the McDonald's , if that means anything to anyone .

That one .

This best Western Fun fact that Denny's is open 24 hours , so if you need anything after the park , that's a good place to go . This time , though , we're staying at Howard Johnson , which I know has really great reviews too . I don't know , kristin , if you've stayed there , but I'm excited to try that one out .

I normally stay at either the Hilton at the convention center , which I really , really , really love , but there's only six elevators , so if you're like that's the problem for you standing there , I've stayed at like a few .

So it's down down Harpermore it's right here .

Okay , thank you . Thank you for everybody to sell that too . That's where it is , guys , don't forget okay .

There's also Panera that's across the street . That's open very late , so that's always a good option too .

And the Denny's which does taste fabulous at midnight .

It does . Yes , Salad with some ranch dressing , yeah .

Girl , you wanna go to Denny's right now ? You should so .

It sounds like the good neighbor hotels are cost effective , costume effective and also close to the Denny's , which is all very important . And I believe , if I'm not mistaken , one of our sponsors , magic Bound Travel if you like a travel agent , I believe they have access to those hotels as well .

Yeah , I will say all of Catella and Harbor . Pretty much they are just lines of hotels , again like Vegas , but with like churros .

So it's pretty much like in I love some churros man . You got me so old .

Wait , can we have a shirt that says like Vegas with churros Like ?

I'm actually .

I need a shirt that says like that would be super swell , thanks .

I mean honestly , I would go if there was some sort of Vegas that just offered you churros . I mean yes , please . But yeah , it's like so if it's a square , there's one L that's more residential , but the other L it's just full of hotels . So you have a lot of options .

And also , too , it's like the hotels that , like you're used to seeing . Well , I don't . I think so . Now I'm like thinking about it . I'm like wait a second , we're still in California , that's not Florida .

Okay , so switching gears just a little bit . Let's talk about the expo . So what ? Where has it been in the past , or is it ? How is it compared to the Disney World Expos ?

Like everything with Disneyland , it's a little smaller and a little cuter in my opinion , but I still felt like looking back . it was definitely still insane to get there at a certain time but there was no club run Disney , so that was like every man for himself .

Like you know , we all know what the Disney World Expos look like . They have a . You can get almost anything you need that you forgot at home . Were those necessities kind of there like you're fueling sneakers , anything .

Okay , so I love that you said sneakers . I'll come back to that in two seconds , but yes , so I remember very specifically getting fuel , getting my Rothreds tank tops . I wanted to stock up on Pretty much anything I needed was there , but also New Balance used to be there and they used to do race weekend specific shoes and you would have Tinkerbell like they .

They had Mickey Mouse , Goofy , they were so great , they had a Haunted Mansion one . Yes , yeah , they have a Mickey Mouse one . I don't get it .

I just wanted to tell you that and again , this could change , but the expo did open on the Thursday of that race weekend at 10 am and was open till 8 pm .

Was there like the run Disney merch , like we see now .

No , I would say , okay , you know the room where we all have to wait in the queue to get in and the whole thing . It's probably like a quarter of that size . But I also feel like the room they use now is a gigantic stadium type room , so it was smaller , but I don't think I ever remember thinking like that's it .

So you mentioned the day that it opened and the times it was , and I know that this is gonna change because we haven't seen the event guide for this year . But it's very difficult for people to think about booking their travel when they don't know when they need to arrive by .

ours is open till seven , I believe the first two days , but yeah , 12 to eight on Friday and then 10 to five on Saturday , which are kind of . These are all very confusing hours . They should all be the same .

Yeah , yeah , yeah but it does make sense because then when you're on that last day , that's usually just the half , that just the half , as we always say . That's picking up their bids and stuff like that . But I imagine it might be a little bit different , so don't plan on based on this is a couple years ago or a few years ago now .

So I found something that might be really helpful . A back to the hotel and transportation question . I don't know if you guys can see this long list . These are all the hotels that provide race as an event transportation , so I'm assuming that I mean this is a list of probably what like 30 hotels , maybe .

Yeah , more than that .

So I'm assuming that they would try to still do the same , so that's hopeful .

Can I just say that I'm like super excited with you holding that thing up like every single time .

I'm like show us more , show us what .

I look so excited , tell me more .

I just want to say it's so sad , get it together . I'm trying to see if there's any like they have a whole thing about spectator viewing .

I hope they have that pamphlet again because it looks honestly super , extremely helpful , especially with the races not having been going on for the past how many years now ? I don't know five or something , but it would be so nice to have be like welcome back . Here's everything you need to know , all at one spot .

OK , this is very helpful . Again , I'll post this so I know this isn't helpful for people listening , but they have a whole page . It's totally helpful for us though they have a whole page on what mile to be and what time if you want to spectate .

Do you see that that's so friendly ?

It's so amazing .

They didn't like this again .

Crazy . I cheered for the first time for Marathon Week in this past year and it was like I'm not going to say it was . It was wilds running to and from everywhere with alcohol in your hands because you want to like pass out beer to everyone and you're drinking the beer , so it's like you're just a mess , so that's really nice .

Look how cute this is . They have a whole page of Jeff Galloway tips and they have a little poem at the bottom for training and Greg , where were we when Kristen was handing out the beer ?

Yeah , I don't know , I was mile 25 to where I was .

I remember , specifically because we had a Buffalo Bills . My friend Colleen and I had Buffalo Bills flag and people were buying us beer to pass out beer and it was literally the best experience ever . If you ever get to cheer for a marathon , do it , but only do it at Disney , because Disney is fun .

Well , john , what we need to do is we need to hop in our Mandalorians , go back in time and then find Kristen on mile 25 , and then we can cheer , we do it , I'll do it , we go .

It looks like half-drinking , but I will give you a beer .

But speaking of traveling , though , one of the logistical things is we need to get to the race weekend so that we can experience all of this . A major difference between running at Disney World and Disneyland is that when we come to world , we all fly into one airport .

For me . I normally travel just through LAX , just because it's easy . It's a straight shop for me to get to Walt Disney World , but the smaller ones are nicer . But I think coming east to west is a little bit more expensive from what I've been told from people , and so I think more for your bang for your buck , direct flight LAX is a little bit easier .

I was going to say my hotel that I just stay . That was only 11 miles from the airport . It took me 55 minutes to get to LAX this morning . It was insane .

Wow , yeah , it's time consuming , but the other ones are just as great and they're definitely easier to get to and from . But it will be more expensive . But you can with less traffic and stuff , because sometimes I'll fly out of Ontario if I can get a cheaper flight in .

Well , that leads to a question , and we get this all the time what's the weather going to be like on race day ?

We don't know California's better what it's like Florida , so it's cooler .

Wait , we're not going to have the humidity .

You're supposed to know this .

So people , I feel like Kristin , I feel like people keep asking that on Facebook and like here's the answer . It could be really cold , but it's not going to be humid and it's most likely not going to rain . If I can like knock on wood somewhere , but so it's going to be .

Yeah , it's going to be . Never rains in Southern California , right See , I'm old enough to remember that song .

I have a very cute picture of us before Tinkerbell , like in garbage bags , but it's not going to be like Florida , where you just really can't tell . So I would definitely pack layers but I wouldn't be concerned . It's going to be like 90 degrees .

Yeah , and if you're used to snow , it's not going to be crazy for you , but we're used to between 70 and 100 degrees on any given day . So for me , january , I'm always in pants and socks and a long sleeve shirt and a sweatshirt , and sometimes a beanie , because it's dependent upon where you're at , and then it's like 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning .

So in theory , if you're planning on wearing a layered costume , a number of layered costumes , you think you'd be good then yeah , because I don't want to wear that .

OK , cool . Honestly , I would plan on it being like sweatshirt weather . Oh , ok , you know , like sweater weather , Like it's beautiful .

Oh my gosh Sweater weather . You said that's so cute . Say it one more time that was adorable .

Oh , I'm now nervous . Sweater weather , no do it Do it Sweater weather .

I believe . One last question in regards to the actual Run Disney weekend Do they have Pacers for the races ? Do we know if ? Did they have them in the past ?

Yes , so they definitely have them in the past . I remember seeing them . I'm trying to see in the book here if they had that shirt , but I love when they do that , but no , they don't have anything about that . But I would assume everything is going to be the same in that regard , especially because of Jeff Galloway .

a similar size to what we are used to at Run Disney weekends in Orlando , or what was a corral situation like ?

OK . So from my memory it felt very small . It felt like a local race , even though I know it's not . The corral situation was the same as in the sense of we had A , b , c , d , whatever , but it's very much just like hey , go find your section .

And I have a question for both of you , you and Alicia Kristen . What do you prefer ? Which was your favorite ? If you could do just one for the rest of your life , which would you do ?

Pressure's on man .

Oh yeah , that's really hard , I mean for me it's Disney World , because Wine and Dine is my favorite . But that being said , there's absolutely things I love about Disneyland .

I agree I love , I think I would pick Disneyland . I just feel like and , Alicia , maybe you remember this too like running down Main Street felt so small not small but empty and like in the best way , Very small and sweet and easy , and so that's why I like the Disney races .

I'm going to have to try one . Sounds like we're all going to have to take a little rise and run vacation .

Maybe next year .

And I'll do one together , because I would if all of you guys weren't there . It would be a little different and sad for me . So we all have to go together .

Obviously , we're going to run the races , but most of us are going in the parks and doing some park days , either before or after or during or all of that . So what is like your I don't know five-sin-nits , first timer to Disneyland , tips and tricks or must rides ? I know in Disney World you have this is a loaded question .

All right , let's get ready for soon .

I'm ready , but specifically , we have park hoppers or do you do one park per day ? Those specific questions that someone might need to know For sure .

You only need technically like three days . I think you need one Disneyland day , one DCA day and then you can do a park hopper Because I feel like they're so small to where you can do that and then you kind of play around with that park hopper . You play around with whichever one you like more .

DCA . Oh my god , you guys Can .

I just tell you that there is like an amazing Captain America that is like top notch , like it is . If you need to see Captain America , you just hit that park , just hit that one , just do that one , don't even worry about Disneyland what ?

do you think ? What do you think the interviews for Captain America was ? Do you think it was just like Turn around ? Okay , you're good .

You got to check , you know . Make sure he has America .

That's America buttocks .

It has to be believable Do it .

Oh , he's beautiful , Kristen . What about you ? Okay ?

so if I was , I like the whole three day thing . I would do Thursday , friday . I would rest Saturday , if you're concerned about your half , and then do a half or do a park day after the half , and I agree I like that . Like one day Disneyland , one day DCA and then the park hopper . But just remember that the fireworks are amazing , but so is Phantasmic .

I love that , your team Disneyland , because , like you can tell that you've got young kids . I'm like like during Halloween , like the , the ? Oh my gosh . What are they called ? The gardens of the galaxy ? The drop ride oh my gosh .

Like scream zone at so fun , it's so fun .

It is so amazing , it's so good , and so is the Incredicoster and the , the wheel of death , like the Ferris wheel . Just do it , just go on the swinging one and just no .

You're insane All tight . No , I love it , I love it .

You have a drink and then you go on it and you lift your hands . It's so fun . It's fantastic . It's so good . It's so good .

Oh .

I don't forget every time and I text and I and I tag Australia in it , because I made her go with me one time and she was like I hate you for forever . And I was like but you love me though , cause we went on it .

I know there are some opportunities to ride rides during run Disney races . I mean , as we know , you know they had the tea cups open in the carousel for marathon weekend . Obviously , Everest is always a given . Does Disneyland do anything like that in the parks that they have in the past ?

And they like to tease you by having Dumbo flying or having other rides going around . In my experience they never have , but I will say they have way more character stops in the parks than we do at world . They're like I mean , there was , I think , my first Tinkerbell .

Oh my gosh . You know we've talked about Disneyland , but California itself has a ton of theme parks within reasonable distance of Anaheim itself , and especially if you're coming from the East coast , I know you want to try and hit as much as you can whenever you're over there .

First of all , you're going to be tired . So there's that , like tired Disney running on Disney magic . I think that you can do any of them . Like Not , sparey Farm is like super close . We've got like a lot of fun roller coasters . We go every . We go once a year . With that , my son and I just got annual passes to Universal .

I was just going to say be prepared , because we went from Disneyland to Universal and it's Kristen . Tell me if I'm wrong , but I feel like it took us like 45 minutes to go there so far , okay , so far . We're just going to be camping food in , so that's just something that's a little bit different than Disneyland .

And the food isn't super great either .

And it's really it's very expensive . The food is very small in portion , but if you're a big Harry Potter or like a Mario Brothers person , it might be fun . Might be fun for like a day , but I think if you've never been to Disneyland , I mean , if it were me I would do five days at Disneyland .

Yeah , I totally , I totally , 100% agree with that . You could easily do like five , five to seven days Like that . I think that it's you'll find rides that you really love or sections that are completely different than Walt Disney World that you just really love and appreciate .

Or if you're an adult who's in their forties that just wants to go , that's also a pretty good idea . I mean , every time we go .

We spend the entire day there . It's fantastic , but , mind you , for the food there you have to be at opening in order to get the cafe food , you have to get on the list and you have to . It's like insane , but we've yet to try it , so I don't know .

Well , I know I am excited about the Disneyland races and I hope this answered some questions for all of our friends out there , and I know I mean I learned a lot .

I learned a lot . Oh , my God .

Okay , and thank you so much to Kristin and Kristen for sharing all of your knowledge . Thank you .

I don't know about you all , but that was a tremendous amount of really , really useful information . I know for myself I have not been to Disneyland since my senior year in high school and I know that that resort has changed so much , so getting that information was really , really helpful .

Thanks , greg . I chuckled a little bit when you talked about not being at Disneyland since your senior year in high school , because the last time I was at Disneyland you got a book with tickets in it an A ticket , a B ticket , an E ticket . It was the year of the Bicentennial , 1976 .

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Yeah , I would too . Now , when she was with us , she gave us a little more time , but I wouldn't put the pressure on that . If you need something from KPA , Kauai and Pizza Apparel for Wine and Dine , it is time to order .

I got a rush order from them last time and it came super fast , so don't be afraid , you'll get it in time and it'll be super comfy . I love drawing in it and I'm actually going to wear it again for Wine and Dine .

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Yeah , and I like to usually try and find some way to make it sound pretty epic . So I know I did Star Wars last time and I had to think quick about this one , I don't know . I feel like back into the 2000s , movie trailers had these really cool movie trailer voices , so I'm going to try and do it .

Okay , this is all right , All right , all right , I can't wait in a world full of runners .

We have these new Patreon members . Starting off , I have Sharon . She's from Leesburg , virginia . Next up , we have Mark . He's from Brown Summit , north Carolina . Then we have Lena and if I got it wrong , I'm sorry , but guess what ? You're from primarily Grove , arkansas . I feel like I'm going through the genres right now . You guys , I feel like I'm missing one .

Amazing , amazing Thanks , jack . Thank you to all of our Patreons Sharon , mark , lena , tracy , thank you . We're still not through the list , gang . If you haven't heard your name , it's coming up , I promise . Speaking of coming up next week , the plan right now is for next week's show .

Yeah , Bob , I think the reason why we haven't heard anything from our two friends here is because , unfortunately , weather was really really bad this weekend up here in the Northeast and I believe the whole race weekend got canceled .

Well , that would explain why I didn't hear anything from Tara and Victoria . The Northeast got hit by the tropical storm and I know a lot of bad weather and in fact further on down here I know there's another event that got canceled .

Oh , that works .

Pretty cool . Let's see we were in Paris , texas . Let's move to Jacksboro , texas , where our buddy Jason , along with his friend Mia and Jason's wife Missy , participated in the North Texas Ultra 52-Miler . Jason and Mia took on the 52-Miler , Missy ran the 10K . It was brutally hot in Texas last weekend . Summer's gone from some of the country , but not all of it .

Wow , jason knows , jason knows , he still had it even with that .

Yeah , it gets dangerous .

No , they have one that's one of the hottest races in the US is called one of the Badwater races . It's like 100-Miler that you do in 100 some degrees . It's so bad that actually , if you don't run on the road with the part with the white line , your shoes melt .

Okay , enjoy that one . Enjoy that one when you do it , Jack Let us know . Jason knows how to pick them . The other ultra that I know he did this year was the keys , and the keys was the keys is usually warm . The keys was brutally hot this year , but let's see how they did here . All right , Missy finished her 10K and then crewed for Mia and Jason .

I heard somebody call snakes , nope ropes once . I thought that was the funniest thing , because I feel the same way .

Now Jason continued and Jason finished . And Jason pulled off a DFL finish . That's right , he was the last person across the finish line . But 17 people registered for this 52 mile event , 15 showed up to the start , only four finished . So , DFL number four is impressive , Jason . Well done , Jason's first 52 milers . So Yay .

Ha , ha , ha , ha ha ha .

Laura ran the 10K and did her strong Galloway intervals most of the time . After she's done , you get unlimited peanut butter and jelly sandwiches .

Jack , I will pay the entry fee for this race for you . I will give you the money out of my own pocket , just so I can see you . I mean , eat one sandwich .

I like jelly sandwiches oh we know .

It doesn't make any sense with peanut butter .

I'm sorry . Oh yeah , do you ? Yeah , number one , let's continue real quick . She says you could also have them make you a fluffer-nutter sandwich . You guys know what that is , fluffer-nutter .

No clue . What is that ?

Isn't it a ?

New England . Thing .

Well , it's like a marshmallow-y substance , yeah .

Yeah , I mean , it was invented here , I think take marshmallows and put them in the microwave to get all mushy .

Yeah .

And you put it on your sandwich . Yeah , then put peanut butter on it .

Put peanut butter with it , yeah .

Heck , yeah , you do .

I remember it from when I was a kid . I haven't seen it in years , not down here , but I remember it . They also had cups so you could get pickles to go as a side with your peanut butter and jelly . It just doesn't sound .

right , it sounds perfect yeah . This is like . I'm sure the race was fun , but the food choices are questionable .

This is like exactly what I want during every race . So this is my race , I feel .

All right , make a plan to be down here next year , ali , we'll get Jackie into it . I told Laura I'd try to make it . I even thought about registering late this year but I had the long , I had the 14-miler to do it . I really couldn't work this one in . Even if I did , there is a way to do the 5K and the 10K . You do the 10K first .

How convenient .

Yeah , she ran . Melissa ran the Half Marathon . She does it between 19 and 20 kilometers and , if you're not familiar , the Half Marathon is 21.1 kilometers long . There's a giant hill . That's a bad place to have a hill in a Half .

Marathon . I've been to Banff and it's like very mountainous it's a mountainous area . Yeah , it's gorgeous . But , that makes sense that there'd be a hill .

It would . This one came right at the end . Melissa got it done . Melissa beat two hours . In fact , she beat 155 . 154.44 . Watch out , dopey , she's coming for you . Amanda and Brad were also there running the 10K In Southampton , new York , the Hamptons Half Marathon . Dina ran this one . This was Dina's first Half Marathon , so let's get this out of the way .

Happy birthday .

Yeah , pretty cool Way to go , Tommy . That's awesome , Incredible experience Voting Tommy here . She says I can barely walk today , but it was so worth it . And my son-in-law won the 12K . That's pretty cool .

Absolutely .

All right . Middleburg , florida , the Suffer Fest 12K . Melissa was there . We had a meter time from last year and last year was her only other 12K . So yeah , it's a PR .

So many PRs .

Yeah , well , how many times do we say it ?

Yep .

Summer training , fall PRs and it works . It really does . It's so tough , but then when the weather cools although I don't think it cooled much in Middleburg this is up near Jacksonville so it may have been a little cooler there than it was here in this part of the state Tough technical trail , a shocking amount of hills for Florida .

A golf-themed race is really fun . I really like the medal on this one that they posted . If I were to run this race , I think the only way appropriate would be to start on a tee box and then maybe run 50 yards into the trees and then stop there for about 10 minutes and try and find myself , and then keep running .

That's good , Craig . I knew where you were going once you started , but that was funny . That's really good . I hope you wouldn't see any bears in the woods while you're there .

No no .

Friends , let's move to Sunday and to the world major , the Berlin Marathon . So in honor of this big event , we've got a special race report spotlight for this episode . Three of our friends who finished Berlin were able to join us Friends with us this evening well , actually it's this afternoon where I am , but this evening where most of them are .

Hi everyone .

Good to see you , laura , from the United Kingdom , from , actually , I think , london . You'll correct me if I'm wrong . Amy's here . Hi and from Munich , not her hometown , but Grace is still in Munich .

Hi everyone .

Thank you so much for joining us . I appreciate it . Wow , four countries represented here at the US , the Netherlands , the UK and Germany Outstanding . Is it modern technology grand ? All right , friends , hey , let's start out Now . You all travel to get here . Let's start with the person who traveled furthest to Berlin .

So it went pretty well . I left from New York on Wednesday night , I took an overnight flight , I had to lay over in Amsterdam and then flew from Amsterdam to Berlin . It was pretty easy . I don't usually sleep that well on red eyes , but you know , such as life . It set me up well on the other end because I was exhausted when I landed .

Yeah , yeah , jet lag can get to you . Did it take you long to get over the jet lag ?

No , not usually , and it didn't this time . So I was pretty lucky on that regard . But I've done the red eye to Europe with some frequency , so I'm kind of used to how the body reacts .

How about that ? Good for you , all right . I think the second furthest trip then would be Amy . You were at least one time zone away . We don't count that as jet lag , amy one time zone , but did you fly , I presume ?

Yeah , we flew . So we flew early on Thursday morning , so we left the UK at like eight o'clock and we got in about 10.30 and then got the train straight to the hotel and then sort of did all of our check-in bits and pieces and , famous grace , we ended up going to the Expo on the third day as well .

Awesome , Awesome . And Laura you're well , I don't know how far away you are . I think you took a train , Is that correct ?

Yes , we took the train . I am in the same time zone as Germany . I live on the east side of the Netherlands , so my weekly training runs are a little bit through in Germany .

How about ?

that Our train ride was less than five hours and it was very comfortable . I think I had more leg space than any plane . I ever had so it was a nice way to transport . We arrived on Friday and checked in in our hotel and then went straight to the Expo .

I'm going to come back and ask about the Expo in just a second , but that's kind of neat and sometimes here in the US we forget . You talk about doing a training run and going into Germany . That's pretty cool . I think that's kind of neat across an international border on a training run . I don't know , it's probably nothing special , but it just sounds neat .

There's just a white rock that says , oh , this is the border of Germany . So it's not very special .

Well , it's okay , it's okay . Well , we're going to call it special anyway . That's neat . Yeah Well , let's talk the Expo a little bit . I'll start , amy . I'll start with you . How was the Expo Anything special ?

Yeah , it was . So we went to the Temple Hof and I do apologize for any pronunciation if I don't get them quite right , there are no native Germans here .

Amy , I think you're going to be okay .

So we got to the Temple Hof . So actually my mom and dad were coming to spectate with me . So once you go through the because it's the old airport they take you outside onto the airfield . They actually split up your runners and spectators . So the runners go and pick up a wristband that you have to wear in the event . So they give you a bag , check your .

Okay , grace , grace , did you , did you grab anything at the Expo ? Did you get into the merchandise area ?

I did a little bit . We got to the Expo . I was traveling with another friend of mine . We entered the race together and we got to the Expo I think a little later than Amy . We got there like about five o'clock and it was busy , but not not , I don't get the .

So , that's actually that's actually kind of old school . I haven't seen that for a long time the timing things that tie to your shoes , but it works .

Yeah , yeah , it did . I was nervous about it just because I'd never done it before , but it worked out fine . So I had pre-ordered a couple of things , but then we we both shopped around , we picked up maybe one or two other things that we hadn't not too much Cause .

Yeah , I did pre-order some things as well because I was afraid that , especially for the jackets that would we , that it would be sold out , because we were there on a second day and I ordered your jackets , the finisher T-shirts . When I got there I also got the like the Berlin marathon T-shirts and a beanie .

All right , yeah , all right , that's great .

All right , ladies . So we've talked about the Expo and how you got to the race . Now let's talk about the start and how went from there .

Let's start with Laura , so the start area is really for runners only . My husband , john , was there to support . He didn't run the marathon and I sat to him that morning for well , meet me somewhere along the course , because the starting area is not really fun for supports to to visit because you lose your runner right away .

the start . Go for you .

Grace , so I can . I can verify the line , for the Porta Potties did get quite long . I was in it until basically 1028 .

Oh wow .

I think we all did in Wave K . I was in it until , basically right up until the start . We were hoping to . You know , we got there , I think , right about 930 . They recommend getting there an hour before your start time . So we got there right at 930 .

There you go yeah .

And I just kind of hopped in the line and got moving . So I think it worked out okay .

I think we had a couple of friends in Coral K Is that correct ? A couple of rise and run friends . Who else was in K ? Who else here ? Amy , amy , you were in K , yeah .

So my start was a little bit different , only because so I actually booked my trip through a sports company , a tour company so , and they were leaving our hotel at 7.30 in the morning to take anyone that wanted to be guided to the race .

Nice Outstanding . All right Race time . Tell us some highlights . Go ahead , Amy , you were up . Keep going . Tell us some highlights of this world major marathon .

Okay . So I mean at the very start , as they sort of moved us all down the wave , start in sort of one long line all the way down this , the tear garden . I think the girls might go to correct me if I'm wrong on that one , but they start you off with a bit of a warm up and I don't know if anyone's seen like the Viking clap .

Yeah .

Yeah , and like that just really like got me very excited for things . I was a little bit anxious . So , starting off with the race , you run past the victory column and there's photographers there , so I sort of saw someone else posing and I was like I must be a cameraman coming up because they weren't that old .

Yeah , I imagine that would be spectacular .

Yeah .

Yeah , Grace , highlights from you please .

Sure , so I definitely kind of echo everything that Amy said . It's cool to start out and you're kind of going right by the victory column I had done on Friday . We were trying to stay off our feet so we did one of those hop on , hop off bus tours Except we didn't hop off .

That's fantastic . Now , Laura , this was not your first Maryland marathon . Am I correct in that ?

No , it was my first .

Oh , it was your first .

Yeah , I've been to Berlin before . So , we didn't need to see all the highlights in one weekend , because we have seen them multiple times already .

Okay , so highlights of the race for you please .

I'm going back to the start because I've got a little . I'm full of tips for a future of a Maryland marathon runners . You have to choose if you start on the left or the right side , because it goes by the . What's the name of the stash ? You again , I've got it here , but it's in German Große Stern , the Victory Callum . It's in English .

Yeah , yeah , yeah .

Yeah , so you can go to pass it to the from the left or from the right . When you choose the left side , you stay in the shade much longer .

Oh , good tip .

When it's a warmer addition , it could be helpful . Also , what happened days before the marathon ? Some environment protesters painted the Brandenburg Gate red and yellow and they also threw orange paint on the course . The police were able to stop them because they wanted to be on the course to stop the runners .

No , it's important though .

Yeah , they handled it very well , so not a lot of shoes were ruined because of that fortune .

That's good yeah .

But I got to say the first half of the marathon went by so fast for me . I was such in a focus , I was feeling so good . Sounds a little bit cheesy , but seeing my husband on different spots he chose eight spots to support me .

so I'll be done .

Good for you , john , nicely done yeah so yeah , it was nice to see the famous buildings and such and I got to say some streets were full of crowd support and some streets were kind of boring . I don't know if the other two experienced that as well .

Yeah , it was . After doing London last year . I still had that very vivid memory of the crowds being five , six people back throughout the whole race , whereas I found I think it was maybe just a street lined of people and then there were gaps and then it's a batch is where it was definitely more crowded and more volunteer sorry of spectators .

Yeah , I would agree . It was definitely the same for me .

Grace , you told us this is your first time in Germany , so obviously this is your first Berlin , amy , first Berlin marathon for you .

Yes , first Berlin as well .

Okay , okay , golly . I thought one of you had done it before , but that's awesome . Three new Berlin marathoners .

It did the same as Grace . We did the hop-on , hop-off bus on the Friday so that we could get familiar with the city and the site that we know we're looking for on the run .

Hmm , outstanding Now . No , marathon is easy period . Let's leave that aside , okay . However , I understand that this marathon is relatively flat and relatively runner-friendly and not exceedingly difficult . What would you guys say about that ?

Sure , I would definitely say it's relatively flat . There are some slight inclines , but they're very gentle , you barely notice them . I would say it's definitely on the more flat side . There are no major highway entrance exit ramps like we have at Disney or the bridges that I'm used to in New York . So , yeah , definitely nothing major like that .

It's also the course where the world records are being helped .

That's true ? Yes , it sure is it really is a fast course . That's right , You've got both now , the men's and the women's . They're in Berlin , aren't they ? Yeah ?

So all of you mentioned that the course was pretty flat . When I was watching on my phone and watching , I didn't know everybody who was running , so I was specifically watching , laura . It looked like you guys had a lot of turns towards the end of the race .

I definitely felt that , because I knew that the one thing I had been told was , when you see the gate , you're not at the finish . Don't see the gate and sprint , and then you've still got a few hundred meters to go . Every time you went round a corner , I was like it's going to be the gate corner . No , okay , keep going , the gate's not there yet .

Yeah , at the end of 44 kilometers , that stinks . Yeah , come on , show me the finish .

Did you ever have a similar ?

experience , laura . No , I actually enjoyed the corners . For me , the parts that were straight ahead were pretty boring . I'm looking at the map right now and we had some sections that were two or three kilometers just straight through and I thought it was never ending .

That's awesome , Grace . Any comments on that ?

Yeah , I think I probably leaned a little bit more towards Amy At the end . You're just sort of waiting to see the gate and every time I turned I thought maybe this would be the one . Okay all right maybe the next one and then it wasn't , but it wasn't really until the end that the turns were kind of making me wish it was the last one .

Then you can see the beautiful gate , and so I think that makes it all worth it . I've never done the race , but I would think seeing that is just an amazing feeling . Yeah , it really was .

I don't know if the other girls noticed . I think it was around 30 kilometers . They were giving massages .

Oh really . Interesting .

And opposite there was like volunteers with like kind of little camp beds . I was like if I lie down on that right now , I would not be . I've never seen that on a race before that they give half way of a race .

Yeah , I've never heard of it .

There were people there , yeah .

I'll be darned . That's pretty interesting , thanks .

I have never been offered Coca-Cola , on course , before they had it as well .

Yeah , that I've had . That's kind of old school . Yeah , particularly if it's flat Coca-Cola that's the original sports drink . You go back to the 1970s and 80s , prior to Gatorade . Well , gatorade came around in the 60s , but yeah , d-fizz Coca-Cola . Jeff Galley will tell you stories about opening the cans of Coca-Cola the night before to get ready for the race .

I don't know if that would be useful , but so I know a lot of the majors have like a 5K on Saturday . They don't do that in Berlin , but they have what's called . I think it's the Generale , it's the company that sponsors it . I don't know what they are or what they do , but it's the breakfast run and it starts at the Charlottenburg Palace and it runs .

Very good .

It was just kind of a cool experience . It's something to definitely consider if you're ever running the race , just as if you're looking for a shakeout run on Saturday . That was really fun .

Awesome , that's neat .

Amy , I just thought of something as well , just from the days before . Obviously , we mentioned shopping at the expo , but we went to the Brandenburg Gate on the Friday . They had the Wall of Fame so you could find your name . They had a merchandise cabing underneath there . You could pick up some bits there .

Very good , laura , anything you wanted to add ?

Yeah , I wanted to talk a little bit about the hydration that is being offered . On course , just keep in mind that the first water stop is at 5K .

Oh , wow .

If it's a warmer start , it might be a little bit too late for some people . They are sponsored by Morton , so they have Morton Mix as well . They should offer just one gel at kilometer 27 , but by the time I got there they were all out . I was counting on it . I never had a race where they ran out of fuel , so I was out of fuel after 30 kilometers .

Carbohydrate yeah thank you .

I was fine in those last 12 kilometers , but keep it in mind that they ran out of fuel , on course . I saw a lot of people running with the hydration fast . That's not a problem in Berlin . If you're comfortable with that , you can do that as well .

I ran with my hydration vest , which I don't usually do , because they didn't have as many water stops . I wanted to have it .

Yeah , I was wise .

I also ran with my hydration vest . The water stops got really , really crowded .

Very good , yeah , very good .

All right , ladies , this has been great . We just want to ask you one more question of what is next and when will we see you at Disney next ? Let's start with Grace .

I have a pretty busy fall . I'm running I mentioned I'm running New York in early November . I'm running the Cape Cod Half in two weeks as kind of a training , using it as a training run , and I'm running Rehoboth the Half in December . I'm doing the 58th half marathons .

Awesome .

Perfect Disney in the winter .

Sounds great . See you there .

What about you , Laura ?

I don't have many racers plans , but I do have another goal in mind . I want to run a proof of time racer Tam Myler , and I know I have to work very , very hard for it , because right now I couldn't keep up that pace . But yeah , we hope to be back at Walt Disney World for 2025 , the dopey challenge .

Oh wonderful .

It's been five years since the last time we went there .

But you've been busy .

Yeah , I had a kid in the meantime . Yeah , yeah , a little while yeah .

COVID mess , and then you started a family .

Yeah , you and .

John , that's awesome .

And then Amy , what do you have planned and when will we see you at Disney ?

So I haven't got anything else planned this side of the year , but I will be back at Disney for dopey in 2024 . And then also I have the London marathon again in April . So I've got my slight set on those two things at the moment .

Fantastic , Fantastic . See you in January sounds awesome . Well , it's . It's been delightful speaking with all three of you . I'm glad you found the time . I'm glad we could schedule this when we could speak to you all several time zones away . Congratulations on a world major and we're proud of you and we're glad you were here .

Thank you Bye . Yeah , thank you for having us . It was really nice yeah .

Thanks so much . Bye everyone . Thank you so much , ladies , for taking the time to do that , and Amy and Laura both wanted to let everybody know that they got PRs during the Berlin marathon . So way to go , ladies .

Yeah , they did PR bells , please , also in Berlin , and you have to understand trying to get folks onto the spotlight . It's 2pm here where I am , it was 7pm where Amy was , 8pm where Laura and Grace were , so I'm glad they got a chance to join us , but other folks were traveling back or just had other obligations . I don't want to leave them out , though .

Yeah , great job , jimmy , and he was really excited because the metal was made out of wood . I mean , I never experienced that before . So great job and I highly recommend everybody look into that race . I know that when you sent me pictures I was like whoa , that's so cool , how many people get to say they ran through a cave .

Yeah , I think it's something near Huntsville . I think it's up in the northern part of the state near Huntsville and it really really looked pretty . Yeah , running through a cave , that is pretty cool . Alright , we said Joe had a big weekend . Our friend Joe from Arkansas . He did the Fort Smith half marathon on Sunday after doing a 10k on Saturday .

Joe did his on Monday , I did mine on Tuesday .

Okay , nick did this , one didn't specify a distance and Jody did a 10k . I did that last year , I did not do it this year .

I did it this year . I actually did 10k and the 5k because my mom was supposed to do the 5k . She has some Iliotibial band troubles . I'll take one for the team and do both .

It's a pretty neat event . It's free . As I recall it's free .

They give you some nice swag , but you could donate to them to give money to help feed people . It's a win-win .

Yeah , it's a great event the Janet Bronstein 5miler and National Capital 20miler , washington DC . I see Brenna , nikhil and Molly all signed up for the 20miler , but I don't see any report and I'm wondering again if the weather scrubbed that one out , don't know . Here's another one that might have fallen to the weather the tunnels to towers 5k in New York City .

That went on . I did see them on the news , okay .

All right . Well , megan was there running through the rain . Yeah , big event , molly in Illinois the Quad City's half marathon . Kayla ran the Quad City's half marathon . Kayla ran on something other than the treadmill . She actually ran outside . Don't be scared people .

How was it , kayla Not as bouncy ?

You did a good job . I hope she ran it as part of her training and her taper for Chicago , testing out self-pacing across two states . I tried to figure out what the Quad City's were around Moline . I'm pretty sure Moline's one of them , but I couldn't figure out what the other three were . Two weeks until Kayla runs Chicago , her very first world major .

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