107: Running Disney on a Budget - Part 2

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Let's wrap up some of the thoughts they had about doing Disneyland or Disney World on a budget . We'll be talking tonight with Jamie from Nox Gear , talking about a product that a lot of us use and we'd like you to know a little more about . And our friend , pam from Fluffy Fizzies drops by for this episode . In the Race Report Spotlight .

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Wine and Dine Expo Day is now just three weeks away .

We're 12 weeks away from the start of the 5K Week 16 training . This is a long training weekend and the numbers really are starting to get long . Your scheduled Friday is a walk , depending on how you're doing a Friday or Saturday , but you've got a seven-mile walk and then you've got a 17-mile long run . Disneyland Training's in week five .

Disneyland is now 13 weeks away , one week behind Marathon Weekend . It's a three-mile run for the long one for Disneyland . My friends , how's training going ? Any tips or tricks for training this week ?

So obviously I haven't run , but I was supposed to do my long run on Saturday and that did not happen . So I feel like we're at the point of training where the miles are getting longer and sometimes life happens unexpectedly as it does , and I think the important thing to remember is to you know there's the next weekend to keep on going .

If you have a coach , talk to them and they can modify your training schedule . You can flip-flop a weekend or two and just keep on truckin' . So that's what I'm going to do .

But I look at my friends on Facebook and they're all posting these great paces and gosh , it must be easier for them . What are they doing that I'm not doing ? And I'm here to tell you . That's not true . It's not easier for them , it's not easier for us , it's a challenge . I'll tell you what .

What goes through my mind the night before are , a couple of days before it's time to go out . I get really excited . Oh boy , I get to run tomorrow . This is exciting . I can't wait to go . Well , I actually opened the front door and walk out and I go . Oh geez , I actually have to do this running .

It's not easy , but we're starting to see some of the improvements . We're starting to see some incremental progress as you run along . Again , my number this weekend was 17 . The last two miles were pretty tough . In fact , I walked them in . That's okay on a long training run , but two weeks ago it was 14 . And the last two miles there were pretty tough .

But this week I didn't have much trouble getting to 14 . In fact I got to eight and a half and I felt great . I made my turnaround on that 17 . I'm going oh man , this feels great . The fatigue does set in , but the fatigue gets pushed further out every time . That's the kind of progress that you're looking for . Think back , not so much forward .

Think back the long run I had before . That was 12 . That went terribly . But after 12 came 14 , the first 12 weren't that bad . So now my next long one's not for a little while . It's not this weekend , it's the weekend after it's 20 . It will not be easy .

The last couple will be challenging , but I've got a feeling that the first 15 or 17 , I'm going to be okay . We talk about the last miles . These are the miles we came here for . You want to work yourself up the long distances . It'd be great if you could just go out and run miles 17 to 20 and get the benefit of them and have the same fatigue .

But it doesn't work that way . You've got to work yourself into it . Then you've got to push yourself just a little further , but you do it slowly . I keep saying baby steps . That's what we're looking for here Small , incremental progress . And as you look back you go hmm , that used to be tough .

Yeah , it's still not easy , but it's not as tough as it used to be .

Is that and this applies to almost anything when it comes to social media , regardless if it's running or not is that a majority of us have a mindset that we are comparing ourselves to everyone around us in our social media spheres and that creates a lot of pressure . I would say a majority of us in the rise and run community , in the run Disney community .

We're not Olympic athletes , we're not the ones that are towing the A elite corrals and looking to get those top five finishes or anything like that .

Yes , we are training for a race , but our victory is an amazing personal victory and everyone's journey is going to be different and you will be accomplished no matter what you do , as long , as we've always said , you put in the work .

So I would advise everyone for I know as difficult as it can be try not to compare yourselves and to others in the community and especially because I know it's really easy with now , Garmin and Coros and Runkeeper and everything like that to you . Post that photo and it's got your distance and your average pace and everything like that .

The way that your journey goes is not dictated by those numbers that get posted . It's all about just getting the work done and having that personal victory lap that you are going to enjoy so much , whether it's wine and dine or marathon weekend or princess or springtime or any other race that you're doing . Be proud of the work that you're putting in .

Be proud to share the work that you're putting in , but again , try not to compare yourselves because , regardless of what our paces are , we are all champions and you have to remember that in the back of your mind .

And that , mentally , was a lot easier , and that's a trick that I tell my runners to do too , and a lot of them like to break it down that way . I know 17 is a little bit trickier . It's not as easy of a number to break down , but you can still break it down into smaller mountains , which helps mentally .

I always think about the distance in between each water station and that has always worked for me , because if I allow myself to think about the full distance it screws up my mind , my mental game so much . If I could take just a teeny bit of that chunk , I can definitely compartmentalize it all a lot better .

Yeah , you know , I still have a ways to go , but I can do this . I'm going to get this done and you can do this . You can Just keep left , left foot , right foot . Repeat you can do this , gang . All right , let's move on . Let I tell you what .

Let's get back with our friends Brad and Maggie and the rest of the rise and run gang and continue our conversation about doing Disney on a budget .

Brad and Maggie , as travel experts that work with the Walt Disney Travel Company , and then the other surrounding areas in the greater Orlando area , talk to us pros and cons , as it relates to a run Disney race weekend , of staying on property versus just off property , or even at one of the good neighbor hotels that are down in the Disney Springs area .

things and that proximity and that comfort and just relieving that stress , and then I'm going to eat very sparingly and save money there .

Vice versa , we have some folks that they really want to maximize their time in the parks and so they want to stay close , but they want to maybe stay more economical at a value resort and then put their money into splitting a VIP tour with nine of their friends new friends or current friends .

If you're also going into the parks , it's got you know , no overnight parking fees , the free parking at the parks , which saves you a ton of time rather than hopping on the modes of transportation , and so and again , just that proximity .

So I'm going to say that that would be the best , and we of course have all the different ways that you can save money for that . Certainly the booking as early as possible .

It is only $200 to secure your , your lodging , and we can book it as what they call a basic package , which is basically a package without tickets , and then we can modify it and add tickets if you want those later , but it's a $200 fully refundable up to 30 days before you travel .

You secure it early and that's going to be the greatest savings for you , because so many of our run Disney clients wait until they get their registration and then they book their , their hotel and lodging and they are paying a higher rate automatically , and so that's why we always tell people book with us , even if you don't get those race registrations .

Wait a little bit , because we know they come back online often and there's no risk because that $200 is refundable . We'll be monitoring and you've already secured at a lower rate no matter what . So I know we're you're talking about on property , but I definitely want to input that .

So I've I in my head it's like a placeholder registration for the , a placeholder reservation for the hotel , and then you know , registration comes around . I'm like , oh , something else came up . I can't actually make it to that race weekend , cancel it .

I dropped my room and now all of them are coming back up and I'm kicking myself One is looking at pricing for lodging On the weekend , it'll be even kind of triple Wow .

For I mean , we were going to stay at the Disneyland hotel but still triple after the fact that it starts fill up and they yield their rates on their hotels , and so the more the hotels fill up , the higher the rates will be , normally .

People will go online , They'll look at the economy sites like the bookingcom and Expedia and things like that and think that they found this much cheaper deal . But then they haven't really stopped to take into consideration how much further away it is . Because again , time is money . They have a resort fee that is going to be taken at the resort .

They have a parking fee , they have to pay to park at the parks , all these extra added costs . So again , there may be some savings . But what is more important to you , no , Maggie , you're absolutely right .

out , that's cheaper . The money I would save there is like less than the cost of a hotel room or something like that . So I love doing that . But that ended up happening to me for wine and dine .

The problem is I was staying as a DVC member and could not get room for that particular night , so I ended up staying in I think it was the Homewood Suites near Fulmingo Crossing , which is just west of Disney proper . I think a lot of the college program apartments are in that area . It's very , very nice . I mean , the hotel stay was lovely .

But again , that's the one thing is you're going to need a rental car and then you know , because you're technically not on Disney property , you know you'd have to pay for parking to go into the parks . So , again , so it was a very nice accommodations . I was even impressed the breakfast buffet featured Mickey Waffles .

So you know so Mickey Waffles do exist outside of Walt Disney World proper . I was very surprised by that . But the other situation I experienced was I came down early before my family for Marathon Weekend and , because of jobs I've had in the past and my current job , I had a boatload of Hilton Honors points .

So I stayed at one of the Hilton properties down in the Disney Springs area . That's part of the good neighbor hotels .

But , maggie , like you talked about before , sure , I was getting a really decent rate , but it was , you know , paying a $35 per day resort fee and then parking at that area was , you know , 30 bucks and I realized , oh well , if I want to go to Hollywood Studios I'm going to have to pay , you know , $20 to park .

And made more sense for me to get an Uber to get dropped off at the park , you know . So you do have to take those things into consideration .

You know again , that initial number might look really , really good , but when you look at the finite details it might be just as much or maybe even a little bit more expensive than an all-star , a pop century , actually on property .

And then plus on top of that you're getting the race transportation as well , with the charter buses that pick us up each morning .

And so there's an advantage of staying closer , having that immediate resort transportation to the start line and to the races , Because a lot of these , whether they're good neighbor or partner hotels in and around Disney property , you know their shuttles aren't running , but maybe every hour .

I mean their shuttle schedule varies per hotel and so you don't know until you do a little researching and get there . So that's an important factor as well .

And unfortunately , you have to be really nice in your response to people to say that that is wow . I mean , maybe something got dropped when people were doing their final payments . But no , I checked that day too , when everyone was needing to make their final and nothing opened up . So those are if you're wanting to stay value , again , book it .

I mean , before you even get your race registration . But they're wonderful . We personally stay at those most often , pop is our absolute favorite because of the Skyliner and just the theming and all of that .

So knowing that even on a non if you're thinking about a run Disney race weekend , know that there are other guests that are not doing that weekend that are targeting Pop Century first and foremost as a value resort , above and beyond the All-Star Resorts .

So that's good to jump in early and obviously having the Skyliner that for value , for saving time for going to Epcot , for going to Hollywood Studios , for getting in and even exploring the Boardwalk area and having that extra capacity and adventure for your trips , that if that's a value spend in a couple $10 , $20 more a night for Pop or so that might be worth

it , but you're not going to All-Star . It kind of frustrates me a little bit for All-Stars getting a bad rap , because if you're paying an extraordinary amount of money for your race bib and your transportation , and and you want to go to the parks and enjoy your .

Right and I have a blast in those areas , especially at All-Star Sports where you feel like you're immersed in a foosball game . I just have memories with my kids when they were very young . It's just playing . And even when our kids aren't with us , I still play around and do goofy things . So there are so many things that has that Disney touch to it .

You can't turn any direction at All-Star Sports and not feel like you're immersed in magic . And , of course , they've undergone an immense refurb recently .

Versus exploring wherever it is that we are .

So if you've got some folks that are cheering you on and are partnering with you , that might be a consideration to look at another resort because they are spending more time there . But if you're in a group that everyone's running , your time at that resort is gonna be a lot minimal and you might not have the ability to take advantage of all the amenities .

So the All-Stars are a real plus .

They are the biggest resorts on property and if you say , book like a standard room , there's a chance that by the time you get dropped off at the bus , you could have an eight to 10 minute walk from the front of the resort back to your room and obviously being on tired legs during the Run Disney Race Week , and obviously that might not be the most ideal .

But the one tool that I would love to suggest to people and Grant this is not a sponsored ad by any means whatsoever is ChoringPlanscom , the team over there . They have this wonderful app that is really really good about helping you save time in lines , the parks and everything like that .

But one of the other features that is included in that paid membership is a resort room finder and they have people that submit photos of . Well , this was the exact room that I was in .

This is what the view looks like , and then they've actually , because they're such statistical , people are like okay , this room is a quiet room that faces Southwest , so it's good for noise and it's only a four minute walk to you know , like the front lobby or something like that .

I've used this website over and over again that even if I book well , I'll give you a great example . When Maggie booked my room for springtime surprise last year , I got a just standard room in All-Star Music .

I used the ChoringPlans reservation finder and I requested a room in the jazz building , which is like the second building , it's like right next to the preferred section .

But just because I asked for a room on the backside , which was considered a standard view , I was able to get very close to what I wanted and I was maybe a less than 30 second walk from the preferred section of the resort . That costs $30 more . So there are other tools out there to help you get the quote unquote perfect room at your resort .

But what we've always told people , and what we're always told by cast members as well , is that it's a request . You know it's not guaranteed . You may or may not , and so you know if it's worth asking and taking the chance or like , like they just get there and brides the pro at being like hmm .

Those are first dibs automatically and then they follow through with the best request that they know how to do . Well , if you get there early , sometimes that room allocation has shifted depending on guest's arrival so you can always ask . It's harder to do later arrivals , obviously because people have already checked in .

So if you get there earlier there's always a higher likelihood of doing that .

Maybe like three quarters of a mile walk to the parks and for an entire week we're maybe paying what ? 350 per person .

So really you already with the registration , yeah , but it's really . It adds up to being a very budget conscious trip the more you dig it deep into it .

And the one other option that I think that people could look into , especially if you are a larger family and I will fully admit in full disclosure I had done this before I met my good friends Brad and Maggie here , and before I was a DVC member myself is I actually rented DVC points Now , granted not as cheap as staying at a All Star resort or something

like that . But there are these brokerage sites and before it used to be just like one or two players . Now there are just so many out there in the game .

But if there is a DVC member out there who is not gonna be able to use their points , they'll work with a broker and then that broker will work with a potential renter and you can usually stay at the deluxe resorts on property for a discount rate . I remember one of the first times I did it .

I stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge for what I would assume would be the same price as staying at like a moderate resort , for example . So it's one of those things where , again , if you have a large family , maybe you need multiple bedrooms , maybe you want a full-size kitchen or something like that definitely look into renting DVC points .

So if you're going to like Marathon weekend and you wanna celebrate 1-9 , you're able to do the after hours , great , it's there for you .

Now I will say the advantage of using magic bound travel versus using DVC points is that magic bound travel , if you want to cancel , you can cancel and , like they said , up to a few months you can get your money back 30 days 30 days Now with the rental points .

be aware if you know you're gonna go , regardless of whether you get into that race or not , great , then you can . There's the option of booking with the rentals is great , but the problem with it is you have to pay , like within 24 hours of booking it and you won't get your money back .

So my wife and I , at the 11 month booking window , you know , we rented points in like Valentine's Day of , you know , 2020 , and then we all know what happened and Marathon weekend got canceled , but I wasn't able to get my money back .

So it , you know , I still went and Bob and I and John , we did the one and only inaugural Skyliner 15K and it was glorious , but again . I was already out that money . So even though the parks were still in that process of reopening , we still had to go .

So yes , there is a risk in renting DVC points , so make sure that people are definitely aware of that . But if you have questions at all about this , you know , feel free to message us Again . I've done several times . So is Jack , so you know we definitely have some experience in this area .

So like , even if you don't get in and you do that , still go anyways , because you still get to be a part of it and it's so exciting , you get to see the races in a whole new way , but yeah , so that was .

I've got the well-oiled map machine of like where to be and then which spot to get to and where's the best view and when to hop on the monorail and when to get , and I was trying to make sure I got to multiple points , regardless of where we stayed , but grandma might not be able to do that .

So some families really want their family members to be able to be there , and so that means that might be their priority . And where their budget is spent . Is that gonna be more at a deluxe resort over in the boardwalk area so that they really can just come right out , get a great spot , be right there on the boardwalk .

So , again , just knowing who all's gonna be with you and doing those early . And then we know that when you book things extremely in advance , all those rates , all the pricing , is gonna be at the rack rates , and so Disney does not roll out any of their discounts or promotions until usually six months in advance , for lucky . It's just kind of seasonal .

So you know , like we just in this past week had a bunch , they notoriously dump several all at one time and so it's like if you're an AP holder , if you're a Visa card holder , if you're a Florida resident , if you have Disney Plus , there's probably a promotion for you , and so , of course , if you've booked it through a travel agent , you're the first priority

. So you're gonna you know they're gonna go back through and see if any of those apply .

Make sure your travel agent knows all the discounts that you qualify for so that they have that immediately in their registration in your reservation record and if any promo does come up that can be applied , they know immediately . If you're DVC , if you're Disney Plus , you know all the above AP .

So that's an important way to save some money if something does come around .

And now not to devalue services , cause I believe our services are immense with with our team of agents and advisors . But we that's a philosophy that we have we don't want to add that extra cost to our folks . We want because we know that's a big , big cost already for folks .

And again , you know , like Lexi talked about and I talked about , you know again , you know your Sam's Club target . You know Costco's , you know again , you can say , again , it's not the men's savings , but three to 5% you added up over time that could get you a couple of quick service . You know dinners and stuff like that .

So always , always , keep that in mind as a form of payment for your run Disney trip . Now we're in our hotel room . Obviously , I know we got to run the races and everything like that , but obviously we like to spend time in the parks as well .

Obviously , you know there's not a ton of avenues when it comes to saving , you know , money on theme park tickets . I do have one option for people , but I want to , lexi , you know , do you have any tips in terms of saving money on theme park tickets ?

It was absolutely wonderful . So , yes , you could have a wonderful trip without going into the parks .

Anytime you're adding on the park hopper option instead of advanced , you're gonna pay more . So planning and knowing what you do , wanna do ahead , and there is . I'm gonna advocate for the people like myself that sleep is not an option , and I know that .

And so , for again , my road warriors , as well as my park warriors , I am there with you . Good for you .

If you're running the half marathon , it's included in your park ticket , which , again , if you end up not buying any park tickets , guess what ? You got a free one .

Too many , way too many to ever per year that we can count and there is always something new that we are discovering , and that's one of the great things that we love about planning trips is telling people to ins and outs if they are going to go beyond the parks , which there's so much beyond the parks , so much beyond the parks that there are some there's

wonderful things that we can do to really make it just as magical as if you were in the parks , though it pains me to say that Don't .

So let's assume it it's somebody who's not a Florida resident and not a DVC member doing that . Quote , unquote Disney math that I brought up a couple of minutes ago In terms of park days how many park days does it take for an annual pass to make sense ?

Because of the date based tickets and because the pricing really ranges , you need to look at the times that you're going and I promise with Run Disney Race Weekends those tickets are going to be higher because they're over a Friday , saturday and Sunday . Sunday is typically a little over , but a Friday and Saturday .

So the rule , my new rule of thumb , is you're probably looking at about eight days in the park where you're getting really close , if not super seeding , that $13.99 for an credit pass , and remember you're getting discounts and you might be able to apply the discount on your rooms .

So when you factor in the discounts , even if you're getting close to that $13.99 , if you're going for two different weekends race weekends minimally and you know you're going to be in the parks , it is really worth it to research annual pass . Now I will say you don't have to pull the trigger on that early .

If you've already got your tickets in place , then you can always apply that ticket On your last day of your ticket use during that trip and then you can apply it towards the cost of an annual pass . But of course you won't be able to apply the discounts if anything comes out but likely for an AP discount , I mean it's not likely for Run Disney Weekend .

So again , my rule of thumb is probably eight days in the parks over two trips . More than likely an accredited pass is good and you only need one person to get it . Your whole family doesn't need all , your travel party doesn't need . You really only need one person . Same thing for the memory maker . Remember , not everybody needs to get the memory maker .

In fact , if you have all the folks that are on your friends and family on my Disney Experience account , only one person really needs it . Now they're going to have to go a little bit of an extra mile to type in and relay all the pictures . I think how many for Run Disney can you do .

So you can do up to six and type in the code that's on the back of your bib . So if you average one memory maker per six people that you know , that's a great way to save some money and that's just kind of communicating with each other there . So those are again annual pass , date-based .

You just need to do some math there but more likely it's eight days and share that memory maker to save some money .

So what I used to do was when we had my kids were younger , do a last week of August trip in , say , 2023 , then do a June-July trip of 2024 , then not renew it and then go back the next year and wait till my next trip coming up in 2025 and pay it again , and that saved money because I wasn't going from a whole basically a year again .

So it does save money that way . So look at it , I mean , we prepared the renewal price to what you're going to get , but if you're not going to go for a year after your last date , that's another hack with the annual pass .

Now , it's a slight discount , it's not much , but again , the theme of doing this on a budget and everything like that usually you can save maybe $30 on a ticket or something like that . So , again , it's not much , but it is an option for you there as well .

And one thing I'll note as well , too , is that if you do buy tickets through undercovertourist and you have to make changes or something goes wrong or whatever , it's a situation where you would have to work directly with undercovertourist , not your travel agent or something like that .

So that's just one thing to keep in mind when you do purchase tickets through a reputable third party like undercovertouristcom . All right , I know we have spent a lot of time talking about a lot of great things . We're going to wrap this up really , really quick here . The last thing that I think we'll chat about is saving money on food .

Lexie , do you have any really good tips in terms of how to save money on food while you're on property .

And packets of oatmeal and boom breakfast , lunch , completely done . Was it fancy ? Absolutely not . Did it feed me ? Absolutely , yes , yeah . So , and you know that's . I love Disney hotels and food . I love food . But if we are trying to make it as budget friendly as possible , you can check those things in your checked bags and they will not take them away .

I've had bananas in my suitcase before Now . Bananas do tend to get a little bruised in your suitcase .

Usually I would try to do one meal in the parks and then one meal that I bring myself , so I still get a little bit of the Disney food , but not spending , you know , $150 a day .

Or sometimes what we do is we'll get a couple appetizers , which ends up being cheaper than a meal , but it's plenty of food to split and have an entire meal for a cheaper amount of money . So those are two options as well , and another option is kids meals aren't for kids .

We're stuffed , stuffed , for under $7 per person and that is Is this with the new refurbishment too .

Oh that cornbread's , so good , cornbread is really good and they give you good pieces of chicken .

It's the same chicken that's coming out of the Hooptie Doo kitchen and really all the food's coming out of the Hooptie Doo kitchen , so it's the same quality of food and you find a fun place to eat , whether it's inside or whether it's at a picnic table around Fort Wilderness .

And I used to call it my chicken bucket , because , again , I'm a little older and I remember when KFC used to put chicken in a bucket . It's more of a chicken bag , so they give you and again , when PJs was there , it used to be a part of PJ's takeout , but now it's a part of Trail's End and it's there .

And if that price goes above $26.99 , it will be because of Rise and Run and watch out y'all . That's my chicken bucket , slash chicken bag meal that I feed my family a lot when we're there .

But here's the incredible part about this podcast and our podcast community Is I'm sure we'll start threads on our Facebook page and our Instagram page about other cost saving tips that I have to imagine these threads are going to blow up with people's ideas .

They're probably listening right now and probably screaming at the radio or their headphones Like how can you have not mentioned this , or not mentioned that ? Or , greg , that was a horrible take on that , or something like that . So I cannot wait for this conversation to continue online .

So , brad and Maggie , on behalf of everyone here at Rise and Run , thank you so much for joining us and we cannot wait to see you at the next race weekend .

You know , the thing I took out of that most I am making my hotel reservation as soon as Disney publishes the dates for next year's races . Makes a lot of sense . Yeah , that was one thing Brad was big on was make it early on . You can always change it if you have to .

So we'll make sure to start threads on Facebook and Instagram so that way people can share what they know , so we can continue to help one another out , so we can go to as many of these awesome weekends as possible .

If you go to our Facebook group site Rise and Run podcast on Facebook we have community chats for every one of these races and for many of the larger races that are going on around the country . I know we have them for all the majors . I know we have for Space Coast Marine Corps . You are welcome to join those .

There's a great deal of information that is shared in those chats . Those are very helpful , not just for budgeting but just general knowledge about those specific races . The group community chats they're on the left-hand side . Go ahead and take a look at those if you haven't already . I'd like to remind our friends that one and done weekend .

Now , three weeks away which I keep saying because I have to pinch myself because I can't believe it we'll have a group meetup . It will be Saturday 3 pm at the Food Truck Area in Disney Springs . Nothing particularly special about the Food Truck Area except it's a nice open area with plenty of room for all of us .

There are places to go to get drinks , something to eat . We just want to see you there . One more thing if you're new to us this race season we are getting close to our first Run Disney Roll Call . What's that , you ask ? Well , the race report document .

If your name is on there for wine and dine weekend , we're a couple of weeks now from going through and reading all the names , which has become a tradition here at Rise and Run , which I just get the biggest kick out of . I really love it because it grows . I think the first time we did it , we had 18 names .

I think now we're almost at a point where we need a new episode . Just to read all the names that are on there . It's awesome . But yeah , if you're not in there , get your name in for the Roll Call please . My friends , we have new medals to talk about .

Yes , that's the challenge . I mean those are really well done . Now the 5K it's nice but not my favorite . I think that was my least favorite out of all of them .

I don't know when medals became a thing . We got T-shirts but no medals , so I don't know when that started . Sometime between I stopped around 88 or 89 and picked it back up in 2016 . Somewhere in that era you started getting medals .

But one of the things that I thought was kind of neat is that , as I rehung my medals in chronological order over the years , over the last seven years , disney has really upped their medal game . They're much prettier . I look back at the 2016, . 2017 Wine and Dine medals . Compare them to well . Even this year's Princess and next year's look very .

Every bit is nice that . I think they really look great and I'm happy to be earning them .

Said like , let's just wait till , like , the medals come out , and then everyone , has settled down about this . I think once again , bob , I think you were right , because I think they did a nice job with it again . I'm not like a super like huge fan of like . I understand what they were going for , but I think they made it a little too simplistic .

But now , seeing the medals , it definitely has changed my tune on it , even though I'm not gonna be there , but I'm excited for everyone who is running princess , we're gonna be getting these medals as well too , not to mention the challenge medal with the little Olaf on there . That's just I feel like super super cute .

Hey , we've talked a bunch that wine and dine's coming up and one of the things at the expo we get to visit with our friend Pam at Fluffy Fizzies and , as a matter of fact , she's here to visit with us right now . Pam , it is always good to see you how you doing .

Wait , before I do that , before I tell you what the themes are , can I kind of tell you my process and then what I discovered about these themes ?

And then this so I'm saying a lot of people probably don't feel this right Well a lot of people probably don't think what would this theme smell like ? Well , this year , because of that , I might be the only one that realized run Disney did a theme of smells for these four races .

Who remembers the original version of Journey Into Imagination , where they talked about the smells and you actually did smell roses . Now , when you go on it , it rolls the wheels and it goes skunk or rose , and you know what we all get .

There was a time back in the beginning , where you went through a section and it smelled like roses and I went oh my gosh , rose would work for every single one of these , but I didn't do rose on any of them .

So anyway , I love it , but I did think okay , I guarantee you , nobody else thought there could be a theme of a smell through all four of these races , but roses are there , but let's talk about instead what we really did .

So for the 5K , we did a crescent bath bomb that looks just like the Chesier Cat Smile and the scent of this one is as if you're in the forest during the night . You smell some flowers , some greenery , sort of the night air . So none of them I'm giving a real scent to , because they're mixes of scents .

That's how we created all of these , the 10K , oh the 10K . So we decided to choose Lumiere out of all the characters and create a bath bomb that is a candle with a little flame soap on top . But just this past week we went a step above . If you happen to follow us on TikTok , you might have seen a video .

Every single bath bomb is coming on top of a little candle stick . It's really cute . It is adorable . It is adorable . So that's our 10K For Encanto . We have to go with the flowers and so we're doing different color flowers . Oh , and I'm sorry , oh , I didn't say what it smells like the candle kind of smells , like the gray stuff . It's delicious .

So it's sort of like roses with sweet pea and just a different blend of flowers . Okay , then the challenge . We all know what the character is for the challenge .

Guess what . None of that was allowed .

And then I did listen to some of the listeners who said , hey , can we have more shower steamers that match the themes ? Yes , this time we'll have all four shower steamers .

So I say it's the last day for guaranteed pre-orders , but we're going to do our inventory on Monday after we fill all those pre-orders and if we still have you know , 35 of a bath bomb , that's what goes in the inventory . You could still pre-order all the way up to the race begins , really , but once we run out , we run out .

So if it's before the expo , we run out , If it's during the expo , we run out . So that's why I say this Sunday is the deadline for guaranteeing to get what you want . That doesn't mean you're not going to get what you want and that doesn't mean you cannot do a pre-order the way we get it .

So the staff almost killed me when I tried this a couple of times ago . But you know what I'm feeling brave , we're going to keep pre-orders open unless we have to close it . Actually , they're going to be orders . They're not even going to be pre-orders because we're going to let you order even while there , and we're going to try to pull things .

Now if it gets out of control we'll stop it . But so it's a little different . When you're ordering , when you get to the shipping page , you don't choose shipping expo pickup . Instead , you're going to pick local pickup and that means you're picking up at the expo .

So you'll see if either ship or pickup and you're going to choose pick up , and that means for the expo , just come on up , do not wait in line . Just walk up to anybody that's working the booth and give us your last name and we'll grab your bag from the back .

So we came back with the glitter lips and they have been picking up some steam . You may have seen the announcers wearing them . You might have seen many , many fellow runners wearing them .

So we introduced teal iridescent . Iridescent has been flying off the shelves I think it has to do with the 100-year theme and that's kind of a purplish iridescent . So iridescent's a big one right now . But , like I said , all of them are revamped .

The great thing is you're going to see the colors more clearly when you come to purchase , because the new packaging has a cutout where you will see the glitter through the packaging . So it'll make it much easier for shopping . You don't have to ask us for a certain number and we have to look at the bottom and find the number .

And probably the most important thing , the biggest complaint we ever get is that the glue there wasn't enough glue . The new glue containers are about four times the volume Four times the volume , so you'll get a lot of uses out of them . It's no longer , you know , used to be maybe 10 uses .

You're going to be getting a good number of uses out of this larger container , so very , very excited about that . Another of the products that , believe it or not , we launched in February 2020 . It didn't really get time to kick off before everything shut down is the battle paint , so we decided to bring it back this year .

So battle paint is hair and body paint . It is an oil-based product . About this each tube is about actually very much resembles like a lipstick or a lip balm , and it has mica you can draw on your head . You know , greg , we can just draw right on your head if you'd like .

And then I'll let you know a secret the glitter from the Glitter Lips works wonderfully with hairspray to glitter your hair as well . So then you can complement . So , look , lexi , you can have blue lips , the blue streaks , blue glitter in the hair .

I notice it , it's there but it's not anything where it's annoyingly there or anything like that . But if you are sensitive , it's not . This is not a natural product . Gluing glitter to your lips is not a natural product . So , unlike when we make our bath bombs and our body butters and things that are natural , that is not so .

If you have sensitivities , you might want to avoid it .

It doesn't have to be the lips .

However , it was kind of a pain in the butt sometimes for people to go to thezengrove and then come back to fluffyfizziescom to get their bounce back products Instead . Now you can go to thezengrovecom and you can order your CBD products , your bounce back products , your glitter lips all in one transaction . So you're not having to pay two different checkout carts .

For fluffy fizzies , though , because of the Disney connection , if you're looking to buy things like the 5K and the 10K theme things , you're just going to find a link back to fluffyfizziescom . But for everything else you can order in one cart , pay for it at one time .

Look forward , friends , even if you're not buying anything , when you get to the expo and I'll say this again in coming weeks when you get to the expo , drop by , say hello to Pam , tell her you heard her on the Rise and Run podcast . You'll enjoy it , you'll get a kick out of it , and so will she .

All right , friends , I know you have a long run this weekend , so we've got one more guest we are talking with in episode 107 . And I think it's going to be appropriate , because some of you may be starting that run really early in the morning .

Some of you may be even going late into the evening when it's getting dark outside , and we want you to be safe Friends .

Every once in a while we get an opportunity to meet with someone , talk with someone who's involved with a product that we at least some of us use and like and don't mind recommending to you and we're talking safety gear in this case principally not entirely , but principally that's the Knox Gear company and with us tonight the logistics manager of Knox Gear and the

captain of Knox Gear Nation , jamie Miles . Jamie , thank you for taking the time to join us .

Jamie , how did you get started with Knox Gear ?

From the company standpoint , has Noxgear ever received some success stories or anything in terms of has this product helped save someone's life or helped avoid injury ? Do you have any stories that the company has received or positive feedback from other product ?

They could not get up and if they hadn't had the lights no one would have seen them in the dark . But because they were wearing the tracer and they were lit up and they were blinking and flashing , a car or driver driving by saw them on the ground and pulled over to help them . So he may have frozen to death if he wasn't wearing his tracer .

The tracer two has more LEDs , so it's a little brighter , and it's USB C rechargeable , so it doesn't , you know , any batteries .

I don't have it , but I noticed there's a lamp that seems like a good product . How does that work ?

You do not have to upgrade your tracer to use the lamp . I recommend it because the tracer two has different color options that are very cool . But the lamp is 500 lumen on its high setting or you can turn it on low and it's 250 . And it is super bright even at 250 .

I always use it at 250 because the battery will last a little longer and it's still plenty bright enough to run on the road .

race . So it's always good to know that if you know you're going to be running a race at night , whether it's an Ultra or not , or in the morning just for training , it's always best to know how long it lasts , because you never know .

You can pull right out of the clip and hold the lamp , and we joke , because I told the guys when they were developing the lamp that I like my head lamp , because when I turn my head to see the skunk in the yard next to me , my light goes with it and I know that that's a skunk and that doesn't apply when the lamp is attached to my chest .

My whole body needs to move , so they made sure that you could take it out and aim it wherever you want , so you could have multiple lamps that you just swap out on your vest .

If it's a big cat , okay . So definitely not just for dogs , and so that is really great for your companion that you're walking or running with in the dark . We also have the 39G . It's a wearable Bluetooth speaker . It's tiny it weighs about 39 grams and it has a microphone so you can talk on the phone with it .

It does have a headphone jack that you can listen to earbuds . I use that option when I'm on a hotel treadmill . That way nobody needs to listen to the movie that I'm watching . Or when I had a root canal , that actually really came in handy .

I remember the first time I wore mine , I was actually going to do an evening run and I was gearing up and , you know the sun was already down and my daughter discovered that there's , like you know , 12 different lighting patterns on the trace too .

So she kept pressing the button on my back until she found you know a color combination and flashing pattern that she liked and it literally looked like I was going to go running for at a disco rave or something like that . So she was all thrilled about that . So , but you know it's a product that definitely works and again for you know , a safety concern .

I think it's really a useful piece of gear for you to have . This is extremely lightweight , so you know you pair it with , you know , your hydration vest or something like that . You know you barely feel like it's on your body . So you know , if it's something that you're interested in , you definitely go check out Noxgear .

Next week , we're going to talk with the young lady , karissa Liebowitz Instagram , she is quadruple . We'll talk with Karissa about a bunch of things , but one of the things I'm most interested in she has just recently finished UTMB . Jack , tell us about UTMB real quickly .

So 100 mile ultra race that is , you literally have to bring your passport with you because you run through a total of three different countries and it starts out in Chamonix , France , and you climb . I'd have to double check .

I'm going to make sure for next week but I think it's 32 miles 33,000 feet , though , and you know , what's crazy is , during the UTMB series , that whole week that they have there , not like taking aside that 100 mile race , they have distances beyond 100 . I think there's oh , was it ?

200 miles , and they even have a kids like trail race going on too , which I think is really amazing . You can find out more . You can like live track this race . It's literally so inspiring you want to cry for the people that they finished the race . There is like a .

There is a father , a son duo , and I found I think there was like somebody who is in the early 70s who finished the 100 miler . I was like , oh wow , that's so insane , cause that is one of the hardest also .

Oh , okay , my friends , the time has come . It's time for the race report . Okay , again , the report big weekend . This weekend we had a couple of significant events we're going to talk about . I've at a point . I love what I see you putting on Facebook and I love being able to report on your successes at these races .

I used to do my very , very best to make a response to everybody who I can't do it anymore . Sometimes I'd have to click the like button and move on because there's too many there . For example , let's start on Saturday at the TPC Sawgrass golf course in the Jacksonville area for the Donna 5k at TPC Sawgrass , kim was there .

This was Kim's initial running event when she did it back in 2010 . It was the first run she ever did started her love of running . As you can imagine , the course is very beautiful , hilly , rolling kind of terrain but very beautiful , great for a training run . And Fitz was the race announcer over there , so that adds to the excitement .

I'm sure In the Indianapolis , indiana area the Indy half marathon . At Fort Bend there was a half and a 10k . Callie ran the 10k . A little backstory here . Fort Benjamin Harrison used to be an army post . Back in the 1990s when they had the base realignment and closure act , fort Bend closed . I was assigned there in early 1976 .

I was there for about four months so I remember Fort Bend . Callie says that she was worried because she saw the course map for the 10k and she remembers that when she moved to the Indy area 20 years ago there's a hill on this course that the car she owned at the time could barely get up . She was a little worried about that but she did fine .

She's chipping away at her goal of getting a good proof of time and wants to practice a little on some flatter courses toward the end of the year . I don't remember it being that hilly but I had to admit that .

I don't remember getting out of my car much back in those days either , so I certainly wasn't out running much in the Fort Bend area Still at the same place . Jen did the half marathon . Half number 65 for Jen . She again mentioned the hills . They've got one around a mile 11 that they have a challenge just to see .

They have timing maps to see who can go up the hill . The facets is called the kill the hill challenge , so it must be pretty significant . Jen says one of the best post race parties they had , with beer and seltzer , pizza , subs , fruit for all the runners and she definitely recommend this one . Very close to me , the rock and roll clearwater weekend .

That was a big event . 5k Saturday night . Jared and Tiffany were there . They both finished the half . So let's hear more from them when we get to Saturday . Another big weekend Chicago , the world major Chicago marathon . But on Saturday the Abbott Chicago 5K . Lauren did this one , also did the marathon , so we'll hear more from Lauren .

On Sunday , holden Beach , north Carolina , the run Holden Beach half marathon . Mark was there , warm day . The first half of the course was beautiful with really great views , but the last four miles were pretty tough .

Mark's the first one to mention it , but I'm pretty sure later on in the report we hear this traffic control was not good for part of this , so people had to worry about traffic out there , the runners had to worry about crossing and they didn't get the typical type of traffic control support that we're used to .

This was Mark's first half marathon in under three hours . So first in under three hours , it's got to be a PR .

Grace is working on all 50 states . She checked off Massachusetts here , used it as a catered training run , gave her some confidence heading into New York City in a couple weeks . So Grace will be at New York the weekend that many of us are running wine and dine . Here's another one . They didn't close the course to cars .

I don't quite get it , but fortunately no one got hurt . Overall , a fun one , great excuse to spend some time at one of her favorite places in Massachusetts Staying in Massachusetts , the Boston 10K for women . Heidi was there . Heidi just missed the PR , still had a great run . Amy was there too . Heidi and Amy met up .

I like hearing when rise and runners get together at races . That's really cool . That's one of the reasons we work that race report . We have that document , so I think that's terrific . Amy had a great time at this one . After that she got to go to Foxborough for the Patriots game .

Probably didn't have as great a time , as she's a Patriots fan , but you can still have fun , right ? Of course Amy knocked out some squats for squattober and she put the video up . Good job , amy and Heidi . In Tallahassee , the Florida State University family and friends weekend . 5k Lizzie was there , ran that one . Lake Worth , florida , the hustle to end hunger .

5k Jennifer and her husband Stephen was fun . Got kind of hot in the second mile of the 5K Stephen placed third in his age group . Way to go . Stephen Got a coffee mug as a surprise . Nice job , both of you . Chattanooga , tennessee , amanda the Moccasin Ben 10K Her first race of the fall season and a PR by 16 minutes .

Love the fall . Temperatures up there in North Georgia Didn't much like the 3200 feet of elevation gain in the 15K , so there's a lot of elevation for about nine plus miles of running . Yeah , amy placed third in . She says she placed third in her age group .

She placed third in the Masters Division , which I think is even more impressive because it's a larger group . So third place finish there . Congratulations Amy .

Wrapping up Saturday in Naples , florida , the Naples Rocktoberfest 5K . Our good friend David ran that one . Now , this one is a killer time . David finished that 5K in 23 minutes and netted himself an age group first place . David , don't come up north and run the races here .

You're not in my age group , but if you're out there running 23 , never mind , I don't even want to deal with that . That's awesome . That's awesome 23 minutes for a 5K . Friends , let's move now to Sunday in one of the biggies , a world major marathon , chicago .

This time we had a good turnout of rise and runners in Chicago and we've got a couple of them with us for the race report spotlight . Let's see . Let's say hello to Heather , hi To Allison , hello To Kayla . Hi and to Laurie . Hi everyone , thank you Ladies . Thanks for joining us .

I think it's great that you all got to come here and congratulations on finishing Chicago . That's a big deal . We're proud of you , you know . Listen , let's hit the highlights here and let's go around the room a little bit . Let's start . I usually start by asking questions about the race Expo at big events like this Allison . How was the Expo in Chicago ?

So you weren't even you , and they and the other running companies had their own take on the Chicago marathon merch . So if you didn't like Nike , you could , you could have gone to the ASICs , had a booth and all I forget I think it was gosh , I don't remember the other company , but it was massive .

There was a big booth for milk and they were trying to have sponsor quote unquote women runners . And I saw them at the New York City Marathon Expo and they gave out T-shirts , jackets and all you had to do was just burn up .

Plus , our hotel was fairly far from the Expo and it can be hard to get that many accessible ubers or taxis , so that was a nice perk .

They had our own special bib pickup at the Expo .

There was an ambulatory AWD like room , our institute , and we got to wait in there till about 715 . So we got to wait a good chunk inside , which is great .

I had like a sweater and I had a heat sheet and I felt fine At the in the corrals and then once I the race started , I put on , I took off the sweater and the heat sheet , obviously , and I wrapped with a running skirt and a tank .

And then as soon as ease corral came up to the start line , they started like filtering in guides and athletes , like one at a time , in like maybe three second intervals . So we just waited in that shoot until they told us to go and we were able to go right near the end of E .

Laurie , what were some of the course highlights for you over the course of these 26.2 miles ?

Going through the different neighborhoods and the vibrancy and how excited people were Like it really pumped you up and kept you going and it was pretty much flat , so that was good too .

At each water station I feel like there was a DJ , so there was music pumping you up , so you don't feel like you were by yourself . Very nice , kayla .

Every corner , every straightaway , every water station , somebody was yelling my name and that was just mind blowing . I can't see you , I can't take all of that in , but I can hear you shouting my name from a complete stranger and that just kept me going so far . But yeah , the course was great . I am originally from Illinois .

I haven't been to Chicago at all , but just to appreciate the city was amazing , awesome , heather wrap it up for us on the course .

me . Oh nice , and the only thing that's neat is we did an architectural boat tour the day before the race . Oh , I've always wanted to do that . It was really neat , just to run by the buildings or some of the buildings that we had seen on that architectural boat tour and I will admit I'm not great with like city , like geography and stuff .

So that was really helpful to sort of appreciate the course and see what I was seeing or understand what I was seeing .

Or I had a woman like tap me , she's like I'm here just so you know , and like pass me , oh , okay . So the runner courtesy was amazing . Outstanding . I didn't hit a single person , so that tells you that people were .

She's a very , very elite athlete and I was like carpet or no carpet and she said use the carpet , so they would have half of each bridge . The only complaint I have with that is it wasn't consistent which side of the bridge was carpeted , and I always try to avoid cutting across the field of runners to switch sides .

But there were a few times where I had to and I was like I'm so sorry , I'm so sorry I have to be on the carpet and people just kind of laughed and want understanding . But that's nice , helpful , no flat tires .

So I'm hauling going as fast as I can , I am about to finish this race and next thing , you know , it's mile 25 , one mile to go . And the last mean part of the course is that mountain At the very end .

And now I think they pushed the corrals to the waves to start at 12 for the later runners , and so you know , at five hours plus you're finishing late in the day or early evening , and yeah so . I think , I think Chicago spoiled me , that's awesome , Heather .

Palace and Big Ben , that's true , yeah , but Chicago was great , yes .

And , kayla , I want to start with you because obviously it was your first world major . Based on Instagram . You had a massive run Disney community crew there supporting you all the way around . You're getting emotional right now and you have even started talking about it .

Talk to us about what it was like to cross that finish line , Going uphill to that finish line I should .

Nice yeah . And so we turned and we went up the bridge and then we made that last like left hand turn . I look at my watch and I'm like I'm going to . I gave all I could to the finish line and I stopped my watch and it was a 10 minute PR .

I definitely put a lot of like hard work into this , into this race and with the weather and just how I felt on race day , like all just worked out , so that finish line was definitely worth it Awesome .

And to have Brenda there waiting for me and cheering me on and telling me you know what a great job I did and everything it was just it made it so special . And then just having my Achilles teammates again , as somebody who normally travels to races alone , it just the experience is always better with friends .

That's what I love about Disney , and this gave me that at a world major , so it made it even better .

I didn't trade it for speed and it was my first marathon after a bunch of Disney's , where you take it a little less rigid and I but I still went into the to the race saying I'm going to have fun , I'm going to take it in , I'm going to take all the sites and take the crowds in and I beat all my my Disney times and I beat my my last your city

time where I was about to . I had such a horrible race experience that I was almost going to quit running marathons and I kind of broke down a mile 24 . And I was like , oh my gosh , I am about to finish this and I am feeling great because there is no wall that I'm hitting .

Heather , why don't you start , please ?

Yeah , and of course I had mentioned before I secured a spot for Berlin next year .

She shook off the tire feeling by mile 10 . And just took in the crowds in the streets of Chicago . Remember how great it feels to finish a marathon . The next morning she's working the 6 am flight back from O'Hare to Seattle and of course she put on her medal with her in-flight uniform .

She says don't tell my supervisors , but I'm thinking it's absolutely appropriate to do that . Absolutely . You finished Heck . Yeah , like right .

Like right , I know you're supposed to be working , but I need any advice to learn how to sleep on a Red Eye , because I've had two this year and I have two more coming up this year and I can't sleep a wink . So I need all the advice that you can get . But congratulations on the amazing world major here .

Brianna was there . Our friend Chris Twigs was there . Chris didn't put himself in the race report but I know he was there . He , he killed this one . But the one comment that I copied here that Chris made and our race report spotlight friends said this too . The conditions at Chicago this year were ideal . Chris called it a 10 out of 10 .

Denise was there , Aaron was there . Jason , Jason PR this one by 47 minutes .

Karen ran this one 42 minutes faster than she ran the marathon at Dopey . That's fantastic .

Her only goal was to finish within the official time allotted and she did that with plenty of time to spare . The official allotted time 630 . Karen ran or , I'm sorry , lauren ran in 540 . Great job . Our official Walt Disney World weather man , ryan , ran this one . The first 20 went really well for Ryan and things got a little tough .

Decided to just ease off , have some fun , even took a jello shot at mile 25 , raced to the finish to get a sub 445 and finished in 444 . It would have been neat to finish in 444-44 , but it wasn't quite like that . But he did finish in 4 hours 44 minutes , so he beat that 445 . This was his first Chicago and second world medal .

He was the second world major . Simone was there . Simone had high expectations , since New York City was her first marathon in 21 . Chicago did not disappoint . She really enjoyed it . Now it's time to train for Dopey . Shari was there , as was Tara . This was Tara's another friend from Canada .

Tara's first world major , loved the crowd , did the name on the shirt thing that our spotlight friends were talking about , where everybody shouts out your name , and she PR'd by 25 minutes . Congratulations , great to see so many names at the Chicago Marathon . Congratulations to all of you .

In Boulder , colorado , the Boulder Thon Half Marathon , our friend from Israel , jonathan , was there . Jonathan did run . Hopefully he decided what pair of shoes to wear . That's kind of an inside joke . If you looked at his Facebook post he was trying to figure out what shoes to wear .

I know some of us have been in contact with Jonathan in light of what's going on in Israel . He assured me that his family was okay . He was on his way back . He got stuck in Paris and , as Jonathan would do when handed lemons , he made lemonade . So since he had two extra days in Paris , he had to make a Disneyland Paris trip .

So I'm glad things are going all right for Jonathan and his family . Another big event you know the services have they all sponsor some big race . We know the Marine Corps Marathon . That's probably the biggest of them . The Air Force Marathon in Dayton is very well received . I think the Navy kind of piggybacks . They have other events .

They kind of piggyback with the Marine Corps For the Army it's the Army 10-Miler in Washington DC . That's a great event . I've never done it but I understand it's fantastic . Brenna was there . Her favorite part of this one was miles 5 and 6 on Independence Avenue because it was an out and back and she got to high five .

The other runners as they were going the other way . Kate did it . Kate , 10 miles not enough for Kate . Kate did this as part of her 18-mile training run . She did a catered 10-mile run in DC . Running eight prior to starting the race is a good way to stay under your training pace speed limit . Good race , had fun . Saved the banana again .

You got to see the Facebook pictures . Saved the banana at the end to take home to her dog the banana eating dog . Gotta love it . Melissa and Nikhil were also there at the Army 10 Miler In Newport , massachusetts . The it's either Amica or Amica . I'm gonna go with Amica Newport half marathon . Madge was there Seven years ago .

This was Madge's very first half marathon which she ran at that time in a tropical storm . This year it was beautiful . She saw horses on the course . She saw a shark on the course . It was gorgeous , that's right , she saw a shark on the course .

Second half marathon , beat their old time by four minutes , so that's a PR two times . More importantly , says Rachel , and I agree . More importantly , she felt much stronger this time . That's great , beautiful course , perfect weather . Her husband had Yoda ears . Along with a big hit . They met some fellow Disney runners who were going to be at Marathon weekend .

How did the other Disney runners know that Rachel and Ken were Disney runners ? Well , sparkle skirts , yoda ears that's a dead giveaway . The wine and dine half coming up will be their first Disney race , the normal marathon weekend , in their first marathon . So Rachel and Ken look forward to seeing you at wine and dine weekend .

Back to clear water , the inaugural rock and roll clear water half marathon . I'll make a couple of comments in general about the race . First of all , the weather could not have been better for Florida at this time of year , and what's crazy about it is it changed overnight ? I was out Saturday the temp was in the 80s low 80s . The dew point was 75 .

By Sunday morning the temp was down to , I think the race time temp was like 65 or 66 and the dew point was 45 . Guys , that's winter for us , 45 degree dew point . So they had that going . The other thing I wanted to talk about and I heard several of the people who did the race the finish to this race was kind of strange .

I got there and I headed over to . I could hear the race announcers . I headed over to that area . There were a bunch of people hanging around and I got there in time to see the second male runner across the finish line .

I know it was because the race announcer told us and the way it works is there's a bridge right above us that the runners are on and then they come down this pedestrian path that corkscrews down to below , to the road below . So the first couple of guys came running down .

Then we got word that the first woman finisher was coming along and we could see her and she's walking down this corkscrew thing . I thought that's pretty odd . She runs across what again ? What we think is a finish line , then more and more people and finally everybody's walking .

Well , it turns out that what we all thought was the finish line , including the race announcers , was not the finish line . The race actually finished above us , so that people were actually just walking and they were confused too . So maybe this was first year jitters for this one . But let's take a look at who was there .

Christina around the challenge , the 5k in the half . She PR'd in the half Sub 230 . For Christina . I did get a chance to see Christina . That was great .

I did not plan well and unfortunately , and I apologize you know my friends here , you know how much I love seeing our rise and run friends across the finish line , and Christina is the only one that I saw . Kristen was there , jared was there . Jason around this one Great event . Jason actually changed his run walk run intervals because the weather was so good .

He finished with his fastest half time in the last five years just barely over three hours . That gave him what we give credit for a decades PR . This was the fastest he's run in his 40 . That's worthy of a bell . Kaylee was there . Laura was there . Sonia Sonia's comment was this one was flat until it wasn't . Yeah , I get that .

Obviously , most of the train around here is flat , but there were three bridges in here , or cause ways as they call them , and one of them is right at the beginning and the end and it is no nonsense . Tough . I think two of these are pretty tough . The third one's a little bit better , but all three of them were challenging .

Sonia felt good for most of us till the last 5k . Then she had to dig deep a little bit . She suffered through some transportation problems getting in and around on this race Still did a great job . Tiffany did both the 5k and the half . Monica did this . One Said it wasn't her favorite , wasn't her best , but that's okay .

She was cold at the start and I get it . If you're just standing around , especially if you were in the shade , you get the breeze blowing right off the water . It was a little chilly , especially if you're used to the temperatures down here as they normally are . The bands , on course , were great .

She made a comment on the number of law enforcement people who were out on this course and I saw that too as I was driving up , my wife Becky was with me . I said golly , I think every police car from the cities of Largo and Clearwater have to be on this course somewhere . It was impressive .

Monica also commented on the unusual finish and Monica finished this one with a sub two hour half marathon . Good job everyone . I look forward to doing that one next year . It really it looked like it was a lot of fun . Let's move to Hampton , virginia , for the Crawling Crab Half Marathon . Sandra and her daughter did that one .

They did run , walk , run together for the first nine and a half miles . Sandra continued her intervals while her daughter had to break and walk . One of the neat things about the Galloway method is that it will preserve your energy towards the end . Sandra tracked it out and she actually passed 52 people in the last 3.6 miles and finished first in her age group .

Well done , hannah . With Samantha I think Samantha is a friend , I'm not sure . Beautiful day , chilly . Hannah had a concussion a few weeks ago .

I wasn't sure about this race Still managed to get a sub three hour finish , which for Hannah is a PR , in Nantucket , massachusetts , the Nantucket Half Marathon , amy , this one was two , six and a half mile loops , great temps , pretty hilly trail course with lots of sand Some of the kind of loose that's tough to run in Still finished close to her PR time ,

she'd run this one again , her sixth half overall . Next , all for Disney halves in the upcoming season for Amy .

Moving up to New York , albany , specifically the Mohawk Hudson River half marathon , mary did her first half in a new age group . But not only did she get an age group PR here , she set her lifetime PR , beat it by three minutes . You just keep getting better , mary . Way to go . Congratulations . Long Beach , california .

The night of the living runners half marathon Sharon was visiting Disneyland for her 15th anniversary , needed a long run . So what the heck ? She ended up for a half marathon . She won the female masters , was third woman overall , sub two hours and a PR .

It was hard to see the water , but it was perfect , because when Sharon got married they were at a scenic overview in the mountains but it was totally foggy so they couldn't see the view at all . It was like being in the clouds . So what a great way to celebrate your anniversary , right ? Good job , sharon .

Over in the UK , the and I hope this is right Kilder half marathon in Northumberland build as Britain's most beautiful event . Another foggy race day , probably not the same fog that they were having in Long Beach , california , but I don't know . Anything's possible . The fog here was so thick that the race got delayed . Our friend Andy was running this one .

He didn't realize it was a trail course .

They do in the UK refer to Northumberland as God's country , because how beautiful the views are . Andy's got a video of this on his YouTube channel . In a couple of more weeks he's going to be on his way to Disney World and he's running at Wine and Dine and East Rutherford , new Jersey , not far from John , the New York Giants Foundation 5K and Kids Race .

Michelle did her last 5K before Wine and Dine Great weather , awesome finish line . Can't wait to see everybody at Wine and Dine . Ariana , michelle's daughter , did the Kids Race on the turf at MetLife Stadium there . How cool is that ? How cool would that be for anybody , let alone a kid , to run around there ?

I believe One of the most beautiful courses she's run in a long time says nine of the best miles she's run in a long time then struggled for the final four . So nine , four , 30 . Yeah , that'd be a half . Okay , good , she tweaked her knee . I don't want to joke about that .

It was marathon training , so she focused on finishing without messing up her knee anymore and completing what's called the Appalachian Trilogy . I am not sure what other races are involved in that , but she finished this one this weekend . She had her comment RunDisney isn't the only organization that tempts you with challenge miles , and she's right .

A lot of that going around and I fall for it myself quite often .

It was beautiful weather here , was nasty weather there in the 40s , with gale force winds . No , thank you , finished in the pouring down rain . Oh , that makes it even better . Water was flashing over the breaker walls when they ran the last five miles along Lake Erie . Still finished with a really solid time considering the considering the conditions .

So congratulations , laurie . Way to gut one out . Manchester , new Hampshire , the Oktoberfest 5k . Kate ran that one . Kate's coached by somebody we know . Brittany Charbonneau is Kate's coach . Last weekend now Brittany had Kate do a mock up run for Wynondine , so she ran five miles on Saturday last week . A decent effort .

Then had to run the Rockfest half on Sunday . Got great results , broke an hour 45 in that half . Then she turns around and runs the 5k this weekend . First , two miles , super hilly . They kept the conservative smart move . Yet even wearing a dirndl , carrying a fake pretzel and fake pier , she pulled off an age group win Neat .

Lots of fun at the post race with many local run Disney friends I think it was largely folks from the hashtag run dopey group Got super excited to be back with her people at Wynondine in a few short weeks . Kate , we know the feeling . Let's finish up the race report in London , the Royal Park's half . Katie was there .

Weather was a bit warm , she wasn't really trained but still came in under two hours 30 minutes Really fun course . Hope to do it again next year . Ok , friends , it's a Zoom Thursday , gosh . I look forward to that . Instructions are already up on our Facebook group page . We had a Zoom on Saturday . Attendance was not all that great .

Let's see what we're going to do on those in the future . Meanwhile , the Thursdays are going strong . Now is a great time If you have questions . If you haven't been to a run Disney event before Maybe you haven't been to Wynondine you want to ask questions . This Thursday would be a great time to do it . Hope to see you there .

We always have fun on those Thursday night . Zoom calls Alright , my friends , and of course you know that if you run you are our friend and if you're still with us at this length of the episode you're really our friend , which it probably also means you're somewhere around mile 15 or 16 right now . Hang in there .

Keep it up , you can do this I hope Chad's ok with this one . This would be perfect for Chad Friends . That's going to wrap it up , until we see you soon . Happy running .