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Ep 12 - All the runDisney words and phrases
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If you’re new to runDisney, the race itself isn’t the only challenge—you also have to figure out all the terms, phrases, and traditions that come with it. In this episode, we break down the essential vocabulary of runDisney, from corrals and proof of time to gear check, photopass and the balloon ladies. We share what everything really means and why it matters! Whether you’re gearing up for your first 5K or tackling a challenge weekend with multiple races, this guide will help you show up confident, prepared, and ready to enjoy the magic of runDisney.
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Introduction to Run Disney and Key Terms
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If you're new to run Disney, you're going to find out real quick that there are a lot of terms or phrases that you need to know.
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Today, we're defining them all so you don't have to be the one to ask in the Facebook groups.
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So AJ, I don't know if you know this, but there are several Facebook run Disney groups.
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You can go there to find information.
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People will sometimes ask questions or share their opinions on things.
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Right.
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Like all Facebook groups are, and it's not run by run Disney.
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Right.
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Like it's like a community of just people, you know, someone started the group and then you ask a bunch of questions.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And sometimes you get helpful.
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Yeah.
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great answers and sometimes questionable.
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But if you don't know, you don't know which one's the good and the bad and you're trying to filter through stuff.
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And sometimes it ends up being more confusing than it was helpful.
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Yeah, totally.
Navigating Run Disney: Facebook Groups & Community
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So today in this episode, we're going to cover a lot of the race terms or phrases or words you're going to hear at a run Disney race or things that you get your information about the race and you're like, what exactly is that?
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And so instead of going to the Facebook group first, listen to this episode first.
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And we're going to try and do it as clear as we can.
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Yep.
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And short and concise.
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I mean, I'm not as good at that as you are, but we're going to try and be as short and concise as possible.
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The goal of the podcast, of course, is to alleviate some of those stresses that come with doing a run Disney race or really any race.
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There's just lots to know, lots to do.
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The training is hard enough.
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We're trying to remove some of the stress related to like the other stuff.
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like registration or knowing what gear check or proof of time or whatever those just phrases that come with running in this episode and in the podcast in general.
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That way it's easier on you.
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We learned some of the stuff the hard way or wandered our way through it.
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So just trying to be helpful.
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Yeah.
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Erica, we got upcoming episodes, obviously.
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This is episode 12.
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13 is your big one.
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My big one.
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That's what I've been thinking about anyway.
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Yes.
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We're going to talk about everything related to costumes.
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Not we.
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Oh, yes.
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No, we.
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It's going to be a we.
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You're going to chime in.
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I am.
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You'll have an opinion.
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where to get the costumes, little things you may not think about, you know, just all the things.
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Yep, things that worked for us, things that we've ditched that we decided not to do anymore.
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Exactly where you buy them, like you said, because, you know, sometimes you get lost, right?
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Yeah, totally.
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And then after that is an episode that's going to be kind of like this one, very practical in terms of like, we're going to talk about everything that's included in your race registration.
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Oh, fun.
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And so everything that's quote unquote free.
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Right.
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Right.
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with your $270 donation to run Disney.
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So, um, and then we're going to talk about maybe some of the things you need to supplement because you thought that might be included and it's not, you know what I mean?
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So everything that's included, that's in a couple of weeks.
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Um, we love to read reviews on the podcast.
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So do we have a new review this week?
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I believe we do.
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We do.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Um, so the next one comes from TJ grant and it says one more run is an excellent resource for those new to running.
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I'm training for my first run Disney race, and it's been extremely helpful for me as I have started my fitness journey.
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They're down to earth, common sense advice and entertaining rapport makes this an easy listen while on a walk or run, or even when driving to work.
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Highly recommend this podcast to anyone new to the sport.
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And it's especially helpful for run Disney participants.
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Thank you and keep up the good work.
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Ooh, awesome.
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That was a long review.
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That was long and it's so sweet.
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Yeah.
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It's really nice to get these reviews because, you know, we keep saying we just want to be helpful.
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So if you, you know, want to leave a review that helps sort of get the podcast out there for people, or if you know someone that's running a run Disney race, if you want to share with them, um, we would love to be able to share what we've learned with folks.
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I genuinely don't know how people are finding the podcast.
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Like, like I'm, I'm being serious about that.
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Like so many people are, um, not so many, but of the reviews we've gotten so far,
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Almost all of them are, I'm new to run Disney or I'm running my first whatever it is.
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And I don't know how they found the podcast.
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I'm just thrilled that it's already a helpful resource.
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It's hard sometimes to get in front of the camera and to come up with this stuff and whatever.
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And that's not a complaint, but to know that it's helpful, even just to one, two, three people that are doing this, trying to get into it is great.
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Yeah.
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You want to get into today's topic?
Race Distances Explained: 5K to Marathon
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Sure.
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I think it's going to be a good one because we're going to cover all the phrases and terms that you're going to hear in the Run Disney process.
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So it might be, you know, as you're researching a race, as you're registering for a race, you get there and you're standing in the corral, which is a thing we're going to talk about.
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You know, like you're standing there and you're like, what did they just say?
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I don't know what that is.
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And then you're kind of, you know, do I ask?
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Do I, I don't want to seem dumb.
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So we're just going to cover all that stuff.
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Some of it's going to be super obvious.
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I'm going to be, I'm on, you know, like that it's just going to be obvious.
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And, and some of it is not going to be, and that's, that's fine.
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No matter where you're at, we're going to try and keep each one short.
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Perfect.
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You do, you, you're better short than I am.
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So let's knock out a couple of the really easy ones.
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These aren't run Disney specific ones, by the way, you want to just kind of alternate.
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Sure.
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I'll do one or two.
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You do one or two.
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And we've got a list.
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Okay.
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Chime in when I miss something.
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I'll chime in if you miss something.
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Okay.
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Sounds good.
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So let's just knock out some of like the kind of, these aren't run Disney specific.
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I just feel like it's probably helpful if you're new to the sport in general.
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So if you're coming to run a 5k, you might not know that there's also a 10k half marathon, marathon, whatever going on within the event.
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So I want to define quickly and not going to take long what each of those distances are.
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So a 5K, if you hear someone's running a 5K or your brother-in-law said he's going to run a 5K, that's 3.1 miles.
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And so of all the Disney races for adults, that is the shortest distance race option that they have.
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This is one that most people would dress up a lot for because it is a shorter distance.
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You can walk it if you'd like.
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There is not a time limit requirement on that.
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I mean, you can...
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You know, if you run real fast, you could do it in 25 minutes.
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If you want to walk it, you can do it in an hour.
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Perfect.
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Right.
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So that is the 5K.
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You want to take the 10K?
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How long is that?
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Sure.
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10K is double that.
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So it's 6.2 miles.
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right they do time it and there is a limit you know uh to how long you can be on the course but um this is not one that we're going to say proof of time here in a little bit there's no proof of time requirement for a 10k um but it is double it is double so it is some hard work a half marathon if you've never run or you've signed up for one or you're thinking about it this is where the challenge really can this is where it really kicks your butt yep
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is it's a half marathon is 13.1 miles.
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The half marathon is, I would say, tell me if I'm wrong, Erica, the most popular marathon
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Not popular.
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It's the race I feel like at Run Disney that people seem to have their eye on the most.
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People seem to be really happy and excited to register for and try to accomplish a half marathon, but it is also not easy.
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Right.
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Would you say that's common?
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Yeah, I think so.
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At a half marathon?
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You want to talk about what the big one is?
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So the marathon is 26.2 miles.
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That's right.
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It's a long way.
Run Disney Challenges: Dopey, Goofy, and More
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Yes, it is.
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This is, if you're super fast, it might take you three, three and a half hours, something like that.
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If you are new to running, it's your first full marathon.
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I mean, it could take you, the time limit on the course, I believe is seven hours.
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So if you start in the back and you utilize every minute they give you, it could take up literally half your day.
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Yep.
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And it is the most, obviously, the most physically challenging.
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Mm-hmm.
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Of all of them.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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So those are the race distances.
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Disney does things called challenges.
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Yes.
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Erica, what is a challenge?
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Yes.
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So a challenge is when you are running multiple races in the same race weekend.
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Perfect.
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On different days.
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That is correct.
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Can you define, let's just go through all the challenges.
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What one do you want to start with?
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Um, I'll start with dopey.
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That's the big one.
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So dopey is for marathon weekend.
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That is when you're going to run a 5k on Thursday, a 10 K on Friday, a half marathon on Saturday and a full marathon on Sunday.
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This is the race weekend where you will hear people say, I'm only doing the marathon ridiculous things like that, because a lot of people are doing the dopey challenge.
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That's right.
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So if you say, hear someone say they're going to go do dopey, that's what it is.
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What is the goofy challenge?
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Can you describe this?
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So the goofy challenge is what we did this last year.
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That's where you run the half marathon on Saturday and the full marathon on Sunday.
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Which weekend does that apply to?
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That's also marathon weekend.
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Okay.
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So they only do the dopey challenge and the goofy challenge on marathon weekend.
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They don't do those specific challenges any other time.
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No, it's just for marathon weekend.
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Yep.
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Perfect.
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The other weekends do have challenges.
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They do, yes.
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And so if you're doing wine and dine weekend, which generally happens in the fall, that is called a two-course challenge.
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And that is when you do a 10K and a half.
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So that is the Saturday, Sunday races.
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This is what you and I have done the most of.
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And the same applies to princess weekend.
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They call that the fairy tale challenge.
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So fairy tale challenge is a 10K and a half.
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This is what you and I have done the most of, I would say, in terms of challenges, correct?
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Yes.
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This is why we have so many medals because not only are you getting a medal for each race that you're participating in, but you're also getting an extra medal for doing the challenge.
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That's right.
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The third medal, or if you're doing dopey, the fifth medal represents the fact that you did a challenge.
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It's not a medal for another race you've run.
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The fact that you did them all.
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That's right.
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So on a fairytale challenge, for example, on Princess Weekend,
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You did a 10K, so you get that medal.
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The next day you run, you do the half marathon, you get that medal.
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And because you accomplished both and you crossed both finish lines, you get the challenge medal.
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So you have to cross the finish line to get the challenge medal.
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There is a little bit of confusion on the World Wide Web about if I'm able to finish the 10K, but I'm not able to finish the half, you still actually, as long as you cross the start line,
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I said that correctly.
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If you cross the start line, they will give you the finisher medal at the end, even if you don't cross the finish line.
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But they will not give you the challenge medal unless you cross the finish line.
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There is not a way around that.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Is that it on challenges or are there more?
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Springtime surprise.
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Okay.
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So that one's the 5K, the 10K, and then a 10 miler.
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That's right.
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That's different for a springtime surprise.
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That's right.
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And we didn't talk about 10 miler in the distance, but that one seems very obvious to me in the name.
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It's 10 miles.
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That is correct.
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It's actually a really great distance.
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It is.
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It is nice.
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You know, because when you're doing a half, it's about the 10 mile mark where you're like...
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know if I want to do this anymore.
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And so the 10 miler is actually a great one at springtime.
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You and I've talked about before springtime is not our favorite weekend only because of the weather.
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Right.
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It is a hot one at Disney World, but the three races and you get a challenge medal for that.
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Yeah.
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I'm a thumbs up on that.
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Totally.
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Great.
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Did we cover challenges?
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Okay.
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Yes.
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There's one more.
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It's a little bit different, but it's the coast to coast challenge.
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Oh, that's right.
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Yes.
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We've done this before and we're doing it this year as well.
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Um, but this is where you run at least a 10 miler or longer.
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For us, we're gonna run Disney World and then fly to California and run a Disneyland.
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So we have done half marathons in both places.
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We've done full marathon at Disney World and then half at Disneyland.
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That's right.
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So as long as it's 10 miles or longer on each coast of these United States of America.
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What you can't do is do a 10K and a full, which seems like, well, I did a full.
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I should get this.
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You know what I mean?
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But it doesn't work that way.
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And I'm very sorry, but Disneyland races are going away if you're not registered for this upcoming January.
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Unfortunately, the Coast to Coast Challenge is going to be not optioned for a few years while California figures out their races.
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Bummer.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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That is it on challenges.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Let's move on in our quest to knock out all the definitions.
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Okay.
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This one might take some back and forth to talk through.
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I think I know it probably better than you do.
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You do for sure.
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Okay.
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Club Run Disney.
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You're going to go on the website and it's going to be this membership thing that you see and you're going to think, oh, well, I get guaranteed race entries if I have this membership, which is true.
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But getting the membership is almost harder than getting a race registration.
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And so bottom line, Club Run Disney is a tiered membership.
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They have silver, gold, and platinum.
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They cost a ton of money.
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So it might be like $200 and something
Club Run Disney: Membership Perks and Challenges
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for silver, which does not guarantee you any race entries.
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It just basically gives you like a jacket and like a virtual medal.
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And so it's not really the greatest perks.
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The gold level gets you like one guaranteed race entry per weekend, I believe is what it is.
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But it's like $600 or more per person.
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Right.
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So the reason you and I haven't done it is because for the two of us to get a guaranteed race entry and you get one guaranteed race entry on a weekend, it was going to cost us $1,200.
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Platinum is like $1,000 a person or close to it.
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Okay.
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It guarantees you, you can get in any race you want.
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Right.
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Because you get two guaranteed race entries in a weekend, which means you could sign up for the goofy challenge and a 5K or, you know, a fairytale challenge and a 5K, whatever you want to sign up for, you can do too.
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But this all only applies to you.
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Right.
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I can't use any of my benefits as a club run Disney person for you.
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Right.
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Right.
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I'm about to say, unless you want to do it, how hard it is to get Club Run Disney.
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Do you want to do that?
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Or did you have another comment that was related to it or something I already said?
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No, I have another comment.
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And it seems to be like the most confusing thing for everybody new is that if you get Club Run Disney, it does not actually take effect until the following calendar year.
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Wow, yeah.
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Right?
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Like you explain this.
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The race season, I think.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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And that's what I mean when I say calendar year.
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I mean race season.
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So let's say this as simple as possible.
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It's currently September.
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Club Run Disney registration will open for a very short window of time, like a regular race registration, for like an hour.
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It will open in May, but that will not apply to any of the races from next October, January, February, or April.
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It will take effect the following year.
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Next October.
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Yeah.
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So once you buy the registration or the, buy the membership to Club Run Disney, you're waiting a year and a half or so before you can actually run a race as a Club Run Disney person.
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Correct.
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Do I think the Club Run Disney thing would be awesome?
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Yes.
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Mm-hmm.
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But I wish I'd have known about this when they set it up right at the end of COVID.
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And I could have been part of the first wave because then my benefits would have applied every year.
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Now I have to wait.
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Yeah, yeah.
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If that makes any sense.
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Plus, getting is hard.
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So the killer is with Club Run Disney is that when they open registration, they open it for current members first.
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So anyone who's already platinum, gold, or silver can either renew or upgrade.
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So then they're fighting for those gold and platinum spots before even general population opens up.
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I've seen it where it's open for like 10 minutes and all that was open was silver and nobody got really any benefits out of it.
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There are other benefits, by the way, you get like early entry to the expo merchandise store or whatever.
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So it's like a private shopping experience for just Club Run Disney people.
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You get in 30 minutes early.
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I think it's only for platinum maybe or something like that.
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There's a runner's lounge at the expo.
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So if you're looking at your first Run Disney race and you're like, oh, I don't really want to have to deal with the registration process.
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I'll just sign up for this membership thing.
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Fine.
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If you're not thinking about running that race that you're trying to register for, for a couple of seasons from now.
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Right.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Did I beat it to death?
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No.
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I feel like that's like, there's a ton of just confusion about it.
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There is.
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By the way, there are, but you get it, you get a jacket, you know what I mean?
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You know, if you're going to spend $200 something on the silver level, you get something.
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Yeah.
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You know what I mean?
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It's not like you just- The March looks cool.
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It's just-
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For sure.
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And you, uh, I, I'm not sure how this works.
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I really don't know, but you get better corral placement.
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So you might get, even if you're a slower, newer runner and you don't have a proof of time, which we're about to talk about, you can get better corral placement.
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So some people, that's the only reason they even want club run Disney because they're not worried about anything other than, you know, I just don't want to be in the back.
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Right.
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So it comes with benefits.
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It's just kind of, I don't know.
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It's like having platinum status on the airlines now.
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It's hard to get, you know what I mean?
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And so anyway, all right.
00:16:47
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I feel like we beat that one to death, but it's important because there's a lot of confusion around it.
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There is, yeah.
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All right.
00:16:52
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Let's talk about some other stuff.
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Okay.
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Sounds good.
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My Disney Experience app, that is the Walt Disney World app.
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The app itself, if you've ever been to Disney World, has your wait times.
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You can order quick service food.
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You can get a virtual queue, all that stuff,
Race Logistics: Apps, Bibs, and Expo Tips
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all for your Disney World vacation.
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But as it relates to, and tell me if I'm missing anything on this, as it relates to Run Disney, it's where you're going to find your photos.
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Yep.
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from your race or from the expo when they take your picture you're gonna um it's gonna scan your bib and your bib number you link essentially to your my disney experience app there is a way to go through the website you know the disney website you just go to the what you know walt disney website and do the same thing but if you want your photos almost instantly while you're on your trip yeah the my disney experience app is the easiest and best way to get that
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So if you hear anyone say, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, do that in the My Disney Experience app, that's really what it's going to be for Run Disney stuff.
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Is there anything?
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Oh, no, the virtual queue comes out of the app as well.
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So virtual queue we're about to cover in just a second.
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But if you're going to book the opportunity to go into the merchandise, you do that through the app.
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So you really want to show up.
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If you're going on a Disney World vacation, you want the app anyway.
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But you want to make sure that you've got that app.
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Yes, yes.
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All right.
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Let's just keep defining the really important things, especially if you're new to Disney.
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Yeah, this next one, you've got to be branded at Disney if you don't know this phrase.
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That's right.
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But if you hear the phrase cast member, that just means that's a Disney employee.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think that was probably the simplest definition we're going to give all day.
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Okay, great.
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Let's talk about gear check.
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This is where you give, not give, you put your stuff when you're going to run.
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So let's say you've got car keys and a water bottle and whatever.
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Recovery slides.
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Yeah, you've got your recovery shoes you plan to wear or you got a towel, like just whatever it is that you happen to be having with you because you have it and you don't want to carry it on your run.
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You put it in this clear bag that they give you.
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You give it to them and they give you a number.
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You take that number, you put it on the back of your bib.
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And literally, when you want your stuff back at the end of the race, you just go show them the number they gave you.
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Right.
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It's that simple.
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Just so you know, they're in U-Haul trucks, which looks like you're basically selling your stuff off and donating it to charity or something.
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There's like, what would you say, 12 U-Haul trucks?
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And there's a big sign.
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It says gear check.
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And all the trucks are numbered.
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By the way, just don't go to trucks one, two, three, and four.
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Just everyone is right there.
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Right, right, right.
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Crowded and whatever.
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Go past them.
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Someone just stands in the back.
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They give you a number and you hand them your stuff.
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Right.
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Anything else you want to talk about?
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Where you get the bag?
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Yeah, so if you want to save some time the morning of the race, when you go to the expo to pick up your bib and your participant shirt, it will come in a little plastic bag.
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Those are the same bags that they use for gear check.
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So if you want to, you can use that bag.
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Just bring it with you from the expo.
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Put your stuff already in there.
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They're going to have you write your name and your bib number on there.
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So if you have a Sharpie in your room, which we try to travel with.
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We do.
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We will already have that totally ready to go.
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So we can just hand that off to them.
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But if you don't remember the bag, um, they do have extras on the table outside of the trucks.
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Yep.
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So next thing we're going to talk about is your race bib.
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That is the bib that you're going to wear on your costume or your shirt.
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It's going to have your number.
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If you're a running Disney, it will also have your name on it, which is cool because cast members, um, or people in the cheer squad will call you out by name as you run by sometimes, which is fun.
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Um, also on the back, you will find a timing chip.
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And so when you cross the start line and when you cross the finish line, that will log your time for you.
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That's right.
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These are to be cherished, like protected at all times.
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Everyone that we've ever run.
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But before you run the minute, you pick it up.
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Yes.
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This is not a piece of paper that they will just like, I mean, it is a piece of paper, but it's not a piece of paper where you're like, Oh, I forgot my bib.
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No, no, you want to guard it with your wife.
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I left it.
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Oh, the housekeeping team threw it away.
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This is not that.
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This should be treated more valuable than your shoes.
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Correct.
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Because they're not replacing it.
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Right.
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I mean, unless there's probably some crazy extreme emergency.
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Yes.
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Like this is your Willy Wonka golden ticket.
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That's correct.
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You're not getting anywhere without it.
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Yeah.
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You're not allowed on the course.
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You cannot duplicate them.
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Like this is, I mean, really treat this as probably your most important document that you've got.
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And you wear it.
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And then if you are running multiple races, you wear the same one, right?
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Yes.
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Well, there's some races they give you too.
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Some of the challenges I think you were required to have two different ones.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It does say in the corner what corral you're in and you will pick this up from the expo the first day that you get there.
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I think Corral is going to be on the list, but just in case Corral, it is on the list.
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You remember seeing it?
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It is, yeah.
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Okay, good.
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I was going to have you explain it just in case.
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Okay, so you're going to hear a phrase called a, so we just said what a race bib is.
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Right.
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You're going to hear a phrase called a charity bib, and that does not mean that someone, like, the bib itself isn't different.
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It's a race entry.
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Right.
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is under a charity.
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So there's only designated charities like Autism Speaks might have, you know, or American Cancer Society.
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You know, during the registration process, they're going to have a certain number of bibs available.
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So the way I understand it is that they have been provided to them by Run Disney at
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The regular cost.
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So it might cost, you know, Autism Speaks or whatever organization, $250 or $270 for that bib.
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They're going to let you raise the funds on their behalf and they'll have a requirement.
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Right.
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$1,000, $1,500, something like that.
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And it's a fundraiser for them.
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Yeah.
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So you didn't get a race registration, but you also want to support something like, you know, the American Cancer Society because that's important to you.
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You can run on behalf of a charity.
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Right.
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You will have a limit.
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They're all different based off of the charity and the race length and all that stuff.
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You raise that money.
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They give you the bib.
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Yeah.
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And you literally run on behalf of that charity and you help them raise a ton of money.
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Yeah.
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So if you hear charity bib, that's what it is.
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It's really cool to see people running all like a huge group with the same organization.
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They like might all get together and they're doing something beyond themselves.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Which is super cool.
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Yep.
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It is very cool.
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Anything else on charity bibs, by the way, those do run out as well.
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It's not like, um, race registration, right?
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But it's all, yeah, exactly right.
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But it's also not like race registration where they're gone in 30 minutes.
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Yeah.
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You might, it might, they might sell out or they're run out within a few weeks.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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So if there's a race that you did not get into that you really wanted to, this is a great way to try to get into that race and also help a good cause.
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Yep.
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And I know several people that, uh, not know them personally.
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I've seen several people.
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They will not register for something on purpose in order to do a fundraising thing because they believe in it that much.
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Yeah.
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That's awesome.
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Which is totally cool.
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What's next?
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Start groups and corrals.
00:24:04
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Oh, good.
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This is the one I thought we were about to miss, but we didn't.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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What is that?
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What is a corral?
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Oh, me.
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Oh, do you want me to do it?
00:24:10
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Well, it's in your color.
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Yeah.
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Oh, it is in my color on the notes.
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Whoops.
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Not bad.
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I mean, I'm happy to talk about it, but.
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Nah.
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Well, I'll start and then you can correct me.
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Okay.
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So I use the words interchangeably, start group or corral.
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Essentially, imagine you're a livestock.
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You know, like that's essentially what it is.
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Yep.
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Is a corral for like cows.
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Right.
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You know what I mean?
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It's what it feels like.
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Yeah.
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So if you know what bike rack is, you know, like at a concert or an event or whatever, essentially they have A, B, C, D. They're all big, huge pins of where you're allowed to stand.
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So you and I walk up or we look on our bib and it says, oh, it looks like we're corral C for this race, right?
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Which would be a great thing.
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We go to corral C and they hold us in that holding area until we start.
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If you're in D, you cannot go to C. If you're in D, you cannot go to A. If you're in A, you can go anywhere backwards.
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Correct.
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Correct.
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And what they do is they release them in order, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, whatever, however many they have, they release them in order in a few, it takes a few minutes between each one.
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And then even within C, there might be like C, a certain number of people, and they kind of cut it off to just let the course spread out a little bit.
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So just know that there might be multiple waves in there.
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Okay.
00:25:30
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What did I miss?
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Nothing.
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Although I thought it was funny that you were like, we're going to walk up and we'll notice on our bib what corral we're in.
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Okay.
00:25:37
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Okay.
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Like, you know, immediately what corral you're in.
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All right, go ahead.
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Take, take a few minutes.
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I'm ready to go.
00:25:44
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No, no, no.
00:25:45
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This is a, this is a legit thing you should know about.
00:25:47
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Go ahead.
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Yeah.
00:25:48
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Well, just that it's like your corral placement is a big deal for lots of different reasons.
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But usually when we go to the expo, that's like the first thing we're checking out.
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Well, let's be honest.
00:25:57
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Before we even get to the expo, people are posting online about like estimated numbers gets you into what?
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Which, yes, technically the answer is, you know, it's like a random population to some extent.
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But yeah, no, that just cracked me up when you said that.
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Everybody gets caught up online, just a heads up, about a week before the race.
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You get your race number a week before.
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Your number is not your corral.
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Correct.
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Which is kind of weird.
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I'm not sure why that, whatever.
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But there are ways that you can kind of guess, like the higher the number, the, you know, then the, the,
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the worst quote unquote corral placement it is, you know, so the lower the number, the better, but they, they change them all the time.
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So like for the goofy challenge, like the, all those numbers for everyone in goofy one year might start with 20,000 and then 20,811, 812, you know, whatever.
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And then, you know, goofy might, or dopey might have a different, whatever.
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But then they change them too.
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And so like, it's sort of a guessing game.
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I guess I get caught up in it.
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I'll be real honest.
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I want to know my letter.
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I'm not sure why.
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It's not going to change anything.
00:27:03
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No.
00:27:04
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It's not going to make my life any better if I know.
00:27:06
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Right.
00:27:07
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You know, but for some reason, I just want to know.
00:27:09
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I'm like a kid on Christmas shaking presents, you know, under the parents' bed.
00:27:13
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Like, what is this?
00:27:15
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Yeah.
00:27:15
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You find out that your number is not official to your corral.
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You find out when you get to the race expo.
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Right.
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And then there's just like a wide range of emotions.
00:27:25
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I have been known to cry at the expo in bad years.
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Um, but do not let your corral placement affect your, uh, attitude toward the race.
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We have started in really great corrals in the front.
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We have started behind the balloon ladies.
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There are pros and cons to both to everything in between either way, you're still going to have a good race.
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You're going to have a good race if you choose to have a good race.
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That, yeah.
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You need to have a good mindset.
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Your corral placement will impact your race, but don't give it the power to.
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Correct.
00:28:00
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Right?
00:28:00
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Like you are in charge of how you feel.
00:28:03
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You and I have both.
00:28:04
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You with an injury started in the very, very back.
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Right.
00:28:08
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And we looked at each other and said, but we're still going to have the best race ever.
00:28:13
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And we're still going to finish.
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And you know what?
00:28:15
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I'll be genuine with you.
00:28:18
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Those races have been some of my favorites where we were...
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clawing to stay ahead of the balloon ladies and whatever.
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And we were with all the people who were struggling to make sure they weren't.
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And it felt like a community thing.
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Yeah.
00:28:32
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More fun than the times that I've gone out of a front corral.
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And yes, it is a magical thing when you get to not have to worry about the balloon ladies.
00:28:40
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Right.
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But I'll be serious with you.
00:28:42
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It's not as fun, you know, like because you're, you know, you're
00:28:48
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It takes some of the just like the pressure of the race off.
00:28:51
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Right.
00:28:52
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We're way off topic.
00:28:52
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We are.
00:28:53
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Anything else on Corral, Start Group, anything like that?
00:28:57
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Just so you know, when you get there, they're going to check your bib at security and whatever to make sure that you're allowed to be there.
00:29:02
Speaker
But you're also allowed to have guests in like the area you arrived.
00:29:07
Speaker
So like if let's say I was running, but you weren't.
00:29:09
Speaker
You're allowed to come with me all the way up through to a certain point and there's a runners only beyond this point.
00:29:15
Speaker
Right.
00:29:15
Speaker
And that's where you have to go like to the stands or the food truck area or something like that or your family does.
00:29:21
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:21
Speaker
And only runners are allowed past there.
00:29:23
Speaker
And this is where you had to have protected your bib because they aren't letting you through.
00:29:28
Speaker
I mean, there's how many people are standing there like guarding that thing?
00:29:32
Speaker
Oh, oh, oh, guarding the bibs.
00:29:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:34
Speaker
I mean, there's like two for every passageway.
00:29:36
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:36
Speaker
And they're like, freeze.
00:29:38
Speaker
Like I need to see your bib and your corral number.
00:29:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:41
Speaker
It's not like other races we've done where you can like sneak your way up.
00:29:44
Speaker
This is not happening at Disney.
00:29:45
Speaker
No, no, no, no,
00:29:53
Speaker
Proof of time stands for proof of time.
00:29:56
Speaker
You're going to hear it as POT as well.
00:29:58
Speaker
But proof of time means that you can prove to Disney that you can run a half marathon or a marathon in less than their proof of time requirement.
00:30:08
Speaker
So their requirement is two and a half hours or less on a half marathon.
00:30:12
Speaker
That doesn't mean you have to run it in two and a half hours or less.
00:30:15
Speaker
You're proving that you can.
00:30:17
Speaker
So let's say we ran the Atlanta half marathon.
00:30:22
Speaker
Right.
00:30:22
Speaker
It's a certified course.
00:30:24
Speaker
Like it's not just like your willy nilly, you know, run through your neighborhood race.
00:30:28
Speaker
Like it's certified official course with official race organizations and all that stuff.
00:30:33
Speaker
You know, basically you get your results from that.
00:30:36
Speaker
You're like, oh, look, I hear Disney.
00:30:38
Speaker
I can run a half marathon in two hours and 22 minutes.
00:30:41
Speaker
Mm hmm.
00:30:42
Speaker
please give me a good corral placement.
00:30:43
Speaker
That's essentially what you're doing.
00:30:45
Speaker
So two and a half hours is kind of their minimum.
00:30:47
Speaker
That doesn't mean you have to finish the race in that amount of time.
00:30:49
Speaker
The cutoff on the course is three and a half hours, right?
00:30:52
Speaker
But in order to get a better corral placement, two and a half hours or less, you do not have to submit a proof of time.
00:30:59
Speaker
It helps you if you do.
00:31:00
Speaker
If you've never run a race, no big deal.
00:31:02
Speaker
All that same information applies for the full marathon and the requirement there is
00:31:07
Speaker
Five hours.
00:31:08
Speaker
Okay.
00:31:08
Speaker
And basically what you're saying is I'm a runner with some experience.
00:31:13
Speaker
I should be more upfront so that I'm not caught up in the back trying to run past walkers, things like that.
00:31:20
Speaker
When is proof of time due?
00:31:22
Speaker
So early, usually about five to six months before the race.
00:31:25
Speaker
That's right.
00:31:26
Speaker
So this is not something where you can go two or three weeks before your race at Disney and be like, oh, well, I did all this training for the Disney race.
00:31:34
Speaker
And so I went and ran the Knoxville half.
00:31:38
Speaker
And you're like, hey, see, like a week before the race.
00:31:41
Speaker
You have to prove it a long time in advance.
00:31:44
Speaker
Right, right.
00:31:45
Speaker
Okay.
00:31:46
Speaker
Anything else on proof of time?
00:31:48
Speaker
Nope.
00:31:49
Speaker
Let's talk about the digital
Race Preparation: Digital Guides and Expo Navigation
00:31:50
Speaker
event guide.
00:31:50
Speaker
It's in my color.
00:31:51
Speaker
So do you want me to talk about that?
00:31:52
Speaker
Sure.
00:31:53
Speaker
The digital event guide is basically a link you're going to get.
00:31:56
Speaker
I think it's usually two or three weeks before the race, somewhere in that range.
00:32:00
Speaker
It's basically going to, if you're registered for the race, you're going to get an email, you're going to click on it.
00:32:04
Speaker
And it's basically got all the information.
00:32:07
Speaker
It's got the course map.
00:32:08
Speaker
for all the races.
00:32:09
Speaker
It's not like if you registered for the 10K, you can see all the information.
00:32:13
Speaker
It's a public link.
00:32:14
Speaker
Everybody can see it.
00:32:15
Speaker
It's going to have your start times.
00:32:17
Speaker
It's going to say what time the buses run.
00:32:19
Speaker
It's going to say where the start line is.
00:32:22
Speaker
It's going to say who the sponsors of the event are.
00:32:25
Speaker
It's going to say all the race rules, the guidelines for costumes.
00:32:29
Speaker
You're not allowed to have costumes that are this or that, or whatever.
00:32:32
Speaker
It's going to say
00:32:33
Speaker
all the event information where the expo is what are the expo hours this link is actually super important it's it's basically your they used to do like a printed guide i'm looking at it right there yeah oh yeah there's one on the wall yeah so um they used to you know print it out and whatever i don't know if they you can you still get one of them i don't think so no so it's all digital now yeah so imagine your program at a baseball game or something like that you know what i mean your playbill that that's what it is yeah that was good
00:32:59
Speaker
It was good, wasn't it?
00:33:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:01
Speaker
Very concise on my part.
00:33:02
Speaker
Nice job, AJ.
00:33:03
Speaker
Thank you.
00:33:03
Speaker
All right.
00:33:04
Speaker
Tell us about the health and fitness expo.
00:33:06
Speaker
Yes.
00:33:06
Speaker
So, uh, the first day that you get there, you're going to go here.
00:33:10
Speaker
Um, there's going to be lots of different vendors set up.
00:33:12
Speaker
Um, this is where you can buy things that you may have forgotten to bring for the race, like fuel or socks or things like that.
00:33:19
Speaker
So Disney world does this in three different buildings.
00:33:22
Speaker
Can you define the three buildings for folks?
00:33:24
Speaker
Oh,
00:33:26
Speaker
Ooh, tough question.
00:33:26
Speaker
I mean, maybe not like the official names.
00:33:28
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:33:29
Speaker
I mean, like there's three areas you have to go to.
00:33:31
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:31
Speaker
Or can go to.
00:33:32
Speaker
Right.
00:33:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:33
Speaker
So the first one that we normally go to, because we're dying to know what corral we're in, is we go to pick up our bib.
00:33:40
Speaker
And then you'll also, that's where you'll turn in your expo waiver if you haven't signed that yet.
00:33:46
Speaker
That's right.
00:33:47
Speaker
Then there's one that's got like just all of the like health and fitness and
00:33:51
Speaker
um, just general running merchandise vendors.
00:33:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:54
Speaker
Vendors.
00:33:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:55
Speaker
And then there's the, the one that's my favorite and that's where all of the run Disney merch is at.
00:34:01
Speaker
That's right.
00:34:02
Speaker
That's all the race specific things too.
00:34:04
Speaker
That's right.
00:34:04
Speaker
Do you need anything?
00:34:05
Speaker
You said event waiver.
00:34:07
Speaker
Do you need anything?
00:34:08
Speaker
What is that?
00:34:08
Speaker
And then do you need anything else as part of the, like, do you have to bring anything?
00:34:12
Speaker
I guess.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:13
Speaker
So the waiver is just like, you know, you're signing away your life.
00:34:16
Speaker
No, I'm just, you're releasing Disney from any injury that may occur.
00:34:19
Speaker
If you get hurt or something, you're just,
00:34:21
Speaker
They're not holding them responsible.
00:34:22
Speaker
You can do that online, but if you don't do it online, you can fill it out in, um, the same building as your, you pick up your, your race bib.
00:34:29
Speaker
Yes.
00:34:29
Speaker
So you'll need to bring your driver's license to pick up your bib.
00:34:32
Speaker
And also usually I already have it on my phone.
00:34:35
Speaker
It'll have like your, your race number or whatever.
00:34:37
Speaker
You just show them that with your ID.
00:34:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:39
Speaker
You get a check-in pass.
00:34:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:41
Speaker
I think the week.
00:34:42
Speaker
That's what it's called.
00:34:43
Speaker
The week of the race, I think.
00:34:45
Speaker
I think so.
00:34:46
Speaker
And there's nothing exciting about it really other than it has your race number on it.
00:34:50
Speaker
Yeah, that.
00:34:51
Speaker
Oh, is this when you start doing the corral freak out?
00:34:53
Speaker
Yeah, that's when people start trying to guess what corral they're in.
00:34:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:55
Speaker
So it's the week before.
00:34:56
Speaker
So the digital event guide comes out a few weeks beforehand.
00:34:58
Speaker
Right, right.
00:34:59
Speaker
But then this is the week of and that's when people freak out because they got their check-in pass.
00:35:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:03
Speaker
I got it.
00:35:04
Speaker
So this check-in pass, it's kind of like a QR code or like a, you know, you can put it in your Apple wallet.
00:35:08
Speaker
Right.
00:35:08
Speaker
And, um, and so, or you can print it if you really want to, but then that, that you have to show that with your ID.
00:35:14
Speaker
Right.
00:35:15
Speaker
And nobody can pick it up your bib or anything on your behalf.
00:35:17
Speaker
Right.
00:35:18
Speaker
That is correct.
00:35:18
Speaker
Yep.
00:35:19
Speaker
So people ask that question all the time.
00:35:21
Speaker
I'm flying in late right before the race.
00:35:23
Speaker
Can my friend or whoever pick it up?
00:35:25
Speaker
The answer is no.
00:35:26
Speaker
It's actually a hundred percent no.
00:35:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:28
Speaker
Like they, you have to physically, they have to match your face with your ID, with your check-in pass.
00:35:33
Speaker
Yep.
00:35:34
Speaker
Sometimes that's a little more intense than like going through airport security.
00:35:37
Speaker
I feel like they're like really studying.
00:35:40
Speaker
I'm like, what, what background information are you currently looking at at your computer?
00:35:44
Speaker
Yes.
00:35:44
Speaker
That is verifying that I'm not carrying illegal drugs.
00:35:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:35:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:35:50
Speaker
What's the nature of your visit?
00:35:52
Speaker
5k.
00:35:55
Speaker
What's your mother's maiden name?
00:35:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:59
Speaker
It is a little intense.
00:36:01
Speaker
Suggestion on the race expo.
00:36:03
Speaker
If you go the day, the first day of the race expo within the first, what, half day that it's open, it's going to be a little bit crazy.
00:36:10
Speaker
Correct.
00:36:11
Speaker
Because everyone wants to get their BIM number and they want to know all the stuff.
00:36:14
Speaker
They want to get to the merchandise.
00:36:16
Speaker
Right.
00:36:16
Speaker
Right.
00:36:17
Speaker
And so it's going to be a little crazy and there's going to be huge long lines and you're going to get into some rooms that have like the switchbacks.
00:36:24
Speaker
Right.
00:36:24
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:36:24
Speaker
It's going to be a little crazy.
00:36:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:26
Speaker
If you don't want to deal with that, you know, which is totally fine, you can go later.
00:36:31
Speaker
So let's say your first race is on the expo starts the day before the first race.
00:36:35
Speaker
So let's say the first race on Friday, you can go on Thursday early in the morning.
00:36:39
Speaker
Crazy.
00:36:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:40
Speaker
Three, four in the afternoon.
00:36:41
Speaker
Just walk right up.
00:36:42
Speaker
Right.
00:36:43
Speaker
No line, no whatever.
00:36:45
Speaker
You can go on Friday if you're not running till Saturday.
00:36:47
Speaker
You can go on Saturday if you're not running till Sunday.
00:36:50
Speaker
And the race expo is like wide open.
00:36:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:54
Speaker
I just thought of something that someone new to run Disney might not know.
00:36:57
Speaker
What's that?
00:36:57
Speaker
Um,
00:36:58
Speaker
is that when you pick up your bibs, there are character photo ops in there.
00:37:03
Speaker
So if you like to take your photo with the character, who's like the theme of the race that weekend, they'll be in there.
00:37:10
Speaker
They also have numbers like for the mileage and those you can take in there.
00:37:15
Speaker
They don't turn out super great because of the lighting, but they are also available after the race outside.
00:37:21
Speaker
That's where we normally take ours.
00:37:22
Speaker
All right.
00:37:23
Speaker
So we're a little off topic, but I'm glad you brought it up.
00:37:25
Speaker
The numbers are life-size numbers.
00:37:28
Speaker
Like they're taller than you and they're themed to the race and it will say 3.1, 13.1, whatever it is.
00:37:36
Speaker
And you can get your picture by it.
00:37:37
Speaker
Super cool.
00:37:38
Speaker
And what you were saying is there's no photographer, there's no lighting.
00:37:41
Speaker
And it's just in like this arena.
00:37:43
Speaker
So they don't really turn out great.
00:37:45
Speaker
The numbers are usually, I've seen them,
00:37:48
Speaker
all outside after the last race.
00:37:51
Speaker
So if you run the 5K, the numbers aren't going to be at the end of the 5K.
00:37:55
Speaker
They're not there until the end of the last race because anybody that's checking in or whatever, they still have the numbers over in the expo.
00:38:01
Speaker
Does that make any sense?
00:38:03
Speaker
Okay.
00:38:04
Speaker
Um, okay.
00:38:05
Speaker
Uh, so we covered all things with that.
00:38:08
Speaker
Um, I, I, I know it's on the list, but we might as well just cover it now since we're already talking race expo.
00:38:14
Speaker
Do you want to talk about the virtual queue process to get into the run Disney merchandise area?
00:38:19
Speaker
Because that's kind of like part of the expo.
00:38:21
Speaker
Do you want to do that?
00:38:21
Speaker
Or do you want me to do that?
00:38:22
Speaker
You should probably do that.
00:38:23
Speaker
So on the first day of the expo, you have to, in order to get into the run Disney merchandise building, you need a virtual queue.
00:38:32
Speaker
If you've never done Disney, this is essentially, it's free to get, but at, at 8am or whatever, I think it's 8am.
00:38:39
Speaker
whatever the time is, you go into the My Disney Experience app and you try to immediately hit, I need a virtual queue, right?
00:38:46
Speaker
Like you just go to the virtual queue tab and you select how many people you have in your group and you basically get a pass.
00:38:52
Speaker
And this is how they keep from having 30,000 people show up at the same time is that, you know, they're basically trying to stagger people throughout the day.
00:39:01
Speaker
So you might get boarding group.
00:39:03
Speaker
That's what they're called, boarding group 11.
00:39:05
Speaker
And you're going to be up there at 10, 15 in the morning.
00:39:07
Speaker
It'll tell you what time, you know, or you might be boarding group 212.
00:39:10
Speaker
Right.
00:39:11
Speaker
And it's all first come, first serve.
00:39:14
Speaker
Yep.
00:39:14
Speaker
And so you and I've had both.
00:39:16
Speaker
We've literally been some of the first people in the building.
00:39:18
Speaker
And I thought I just wanted to strangle somebody because it was chaos.
00:39:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:23
Speaker
But we had a virtual queue and we were able to get in.
00:39:26
Speaker
If you've ridden Rise of the Resistance or Guardians of the Galaxy or whatever, any of those rides had a virtual queue.
00:39:32
Speaker
It's the exact same system.
00:39:34
Speaker
I think we said this before in a different episode, but the reason you want to get there the first day, if you can, and merchandise really matters to you is they're going to run out of sizes.
00:39:42
Speaker
They're going to run out of popular items.
00:39:44
Speaker
It's just going to happen.
00:39:45
Speaker
They're going to run out.
00:39:46
Speaker
So that's why you would want it.
00:39:48
Speaker
Every day after the first day, no virtual queue needed.
00:39:51
Speaker
Walk right in.
00:39:51
Speaker
Right.
00:39:52
Speaker
You just run the risk of, oh, well, bummer.
00:39:54
Speaker
That would have been a cute shirt if they had it in my size.
00:39:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:57
Speaker
Let's move on.
00:39:58
Speaker
This is something that you pick up at the race expo.
00:40:00
Speaker
You want to talk about it?
00:40:01
Speaker
Sure.
00:40:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:02
Speaker
So you're going to get your participant shirt.
00:40:04
Speaker
That's in building number two.
00:40:05
Speaker
You're wearing one right now.
00:40:06
Speaker
I am.
00:40:06
Speaker
I got my marathon participant shirt.
00:40:08
Speaker
Yep.
00:40:09
Speaker
Yes.
00:40:09
Speaker
They also call it a tech shirt.
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:11
Speaker
So, um, you don't have to buy the shirt separately.
00:40:14
Speaker
You will get a shirt that has your race on it.
00:40:16
Speaker
So if you are trying to save money, don't feel like you have to buy a shirt at the expo because you'll get one.
00:40:21
Speaker
Yep.
00:40:22
Speaker
So yeah, so you will get this shirt.
00:40:23
Speaker
It is included with your race registration.
00:40:26
Speaker
The men's are always a scoop neck like AJ is wearing.
00:40:28
Speaker
The women's are a V-neck.
00:40:29
Speaker
Just know that if you as a woman would prefer a scoop neck, you can register to get a men's shirt.
00:40:35
Speaker
I've done that in the past.
00:40:36
Speaker
Although now it's a little bit tricky because when I do our laundry, I don't know whose shirt is whose.
00:40:40
Speaker
But just so you know, if you get the shirt the day of and you're like, oh, this doesn't fit like I thought it would, you can totally exchange your shirt.
00:40:47
Speaker
I do this on the regular now.
00:40:48
Speaker
Yeah, you do.
00:40:49
Speaker
You just go into...
00:40:51
Speaker
Which one of the... It's in the second building.
00:40:53
Speaker
Well, I say second building.
00:40:55
Speaker
It's in the vendor hall.
00:40:57
Speaker
So where they have all the third-party vendors in the back of that building is a shirt pickup and shirt exchange.
00:41:03
Speaker
Yep.
00:41:03
Speaker
So you can totally exchange that for another shirt if you want, another shirt size.
00:41:07
Speaker
That's right.
00:41:07
Speaker
Yep.
00:41:07
Speaker
in that same vendor hall, you're going to hear this.
00:41:09
Speaker
This is, uh, people talk about the beer cup.
00:41:12
Speaker
Uh, there's, there's ciders there.
00:41:14
Speaker
We like the pineapple cider.
00:41:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:16
Speaker
Um, there's, they have these stations at multiple places around the expo.
00:41:19
Speaker
They even have it at the, um, finish line where you can get champagne or a beer or a cider, whatever.
00:41:26
Speaker
Anyway, they sell a cup.
00:41:28
Speaker
that is refillable.
00:41:30
Speaker
And so it has the theme of that weekend's race on it.
00:41:33
Speaker
It used to just say run Disney and now it's themed every time, wherever it's a clear cup, got the logo, whatever.
00:41:39
Speaker
And it's like $17 the first time, but you can refill it for $8 or something like that.
00:41:44
Speaker
You know?
00:41:45
Speaker
So it's like a refillable popcorn bucket essentially.
00:41:47
Speaker
But we have one from every single race weekend, I believe.
00:41:51
Speaker
Even before they did the themed ones, but the themed ones are better.
00:41:54
Speaker
Yeah, they are cool.
00:41:55
Speaker
In my opinion, it's worth it.
00:41:56
Speaker
And you bring it home and we, I mean, I drink out of it all the time.
00:42:00
Speaker
This is one I think is going to be
On-Course Experience: Photos and Spectator Spots
00:42:02
Speaker
very helpful.
00:42:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:03
Speaker
Photo pass.
00:42:04
Speaker
Yes.
00:42:04
Speaker
Define that.
00:42:05
Speaker
Tell us how it works.
00:42:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:06
Speaker
So photo pass are the cast members that are going to take your picture on the race, on the race course.
00:42:12
Speaker
Did not know about this my first time running.
00:42:14
Speaker
I don't think you knew about it the first time running.
00:42:17
Speaker
So for everyone who is new to run Disney, I
00:42:19
Speaker
The things that you need to remember are when you're on the race course, right before you get to the PhotoPass person, you're going to see like, whoops, I hit my mic.
00:42:29
Speaker
You're going to see.
00:42:30
Speaker
You're so excited.
00:42:31
Speaker
I'm so excited.
00:42:32
Speaker
You're going to see a big light stand, like a big square light.
00:42:36
Speaker
Look for that because you can't always see the PhotoPass person until you're right up on them.
00:42:39
Speaker
So you'll see this little light stand above people's heads as you're running.
00:42:43
Speaker
But the PhotoPass people are going to be in these little green tents, sort of like, you know, the kind you see soccer moms in.
00:42:49
Speaker
That's right.
00:42:50
Speaker
For games.
00:42:52
Speaker
And they will be taking your picture.
00:42:53
Speaker
They're always going to be on both sides of the road.
00:42:55
Speaker
So if you're running right in the middle, when you see that light, you're going to want to get over to either side.
00:43:00
Speaker
My biggest thing to tell people is do not stop in the middle of the course when you see them.
00:43:05
Speaker
Keep running, please.
00:43:06
Speaker
Otherwise you will cause an accident.
00:43:08
Speaker
That's right.
00:43:09
Speaker
But yeah, you have the opportunity to have your photo taken several times along the race course.
00:43:14
Speaker
And we always enjoy ours.
00:43:15
Speaker
How do you, like, do I need to scan my app when I go past these people?
00:43:19
Speaker
No.
00:43:19
Speaker
Do I scan my magic band?
00:43:20
Speaker
Like, how do I get my photo?
00:43:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:23
Speaker
So it's all connected to your race bib.
00:43:25
Speaker
So it needs to be visible?
00:43:26
Speaker
Yes.
00:43:26
Speaker
Your race bib needs to be visible for sure if you want your photos.
00:43:29
Speaker
On the course.
00:43:30
Speaker
But then also you mentioned like at the race expo, you can also just have your bib number.
00:43:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:35
Speaker
You know, they can do it that way.
00:43:36
Speaker
They can also do that post race.
00:43:38
Speaker
So if you're getting your picture with the like I did it half marathon sign or Mickey Mouse is over there and you get your picture, you don't have to do the magic band thing.
00:43:45
Speaker
Actually, they don't even scan it.
00:43:47
Speaker
They won't.
00:43:48
Speaker
It's all based off your race bib.
00:43:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:50
Speaker
You said that they're always on the right and the left.
00:43:52
Speaker
I do want to clarify that they are 95% of the time on the left and the right.
00:43:57
Speaker
There are a few times where like the last turn at Epcot is a great example where they're only on one side.
00:44:04
Speaker
Erica is right that they're almost always on both sides.
00:44:07
Speaker
They're never in the middle.
00:44:08
Speaker
Let's put it that way.
00:44:09
Speaker
That is true.
00:44:10
Speaker
It also works with your character stops.
00:44:12
Speaker
So when you stop for a character, they will take one picture.
00:44:16
Speaker
You better be ready.
00:44:17
Speaker
Yep.
00:44:18
Speaker
They're taking one picture.
00:44:19
Speaker
And it's not like they surprise you.
00:44:21
Speaker
Right.
00:44:21
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:21
Speaker
They say, all right, looking right here.
00:44:22
Speaker
All right, ready.
00:44:23
Speaker
And they boom.
00:44:24
Speaker
And then you get out of the way.
00:44:25
Speaker
And your race bib just needs to be visible.
00:44:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:28
Speaker
But what it's not is, okay, great.
00:44:30
Speaker
Can I do it in this pose?
00:44:31
Speaker
And now in this pose?
00:44:32
Speaker
And now with this person?
00:44:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:34
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:44:35
Speaker
People are trying to run a race.
00:44:36
Speaker
Right.
00:44:36
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:44:37
Speaker
It's one and done.
00:44:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:38
Speaker
Great.
00:44:38
Speaker
Did we beat that one to death?
00:44:40
Speaker
No, I don't think so.
00:44:41
Speaker
Let's talk about linking that really fast.
00:44:43
Speaker
In your My Disney Experience app, you go to like photos or my photos, something like that.
00:44:49
Speaker
And there is across the top, like a few ways you can access your photos.
00:44:53
Speaker
Basically, you go into like link with ID or something like that.
00:44:57
Speaker
And on the back of your race bib, and now it's actually on your check-in pass too, is there's a long string.
00:45:04
Speaker
It's like a, you know, it's a unique code.
00:45:06
Speaker
of you know it might have like you know the race name and whatever and it's got a code that is specific to you enter that in the app and then it is tied to your race bib number yeah and so every photo that you have taken of you good or bad weird faces or not that is correct because that happens trust me you're gonna walk away with some photos where you're like oh my gosh we're not posting that not not even downloading that photo
00:45:29
Speaker
Yep.
00:45:49
Speaker
behind you or whatever, and you just ruined their photo.
00:45:53
Speaker
Right.
00:45:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:53
Speaker
Right.
00:45:54
Speaker
Like have a plan.
00:45:55
Speaker
And I would even say, if you see a photo pass thing coming up and you need to gather yourself, pull off the course.
00:46:02
Speaker
That's okay.
00:46:03
Speaker
To the right, by the way, pull off the course, gather yourself, think about what you're trying to do, look for an opening and then get back on the course and do whatever stupid thing you wanted to do, you know, jump in the air and click your heels.
00:46:14
Speaker
That's fine.
00:46:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:15
Speaker
But I would say, please do that when you're not going to impact someone else's race experience.
00:46:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:20
Speaker
How far back do you think they're actually taking the photo?
00:46:22
Speaker
Like if you're right up on them, it's too late.
00:46:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:25
Speaker
So Erica mentioned the lights.
00:46:27
Speaker
They're taking the photo where the lights hit the ground.
00:46:30
Speaker
Right.
00:46:31
Speaker
That is the spot.
00:46:32
Speaker
And just know that they're going to go click, click, click, click.
00:46:34
Speaker
And then they're immediately going to try and find the person to your left or right or whatever.
00:46:38
Speaker
And they probably take 6 million photos.
00:46:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:41
Speaker
That day.
00:46:42
Speaker
Right.
00:46:42
Speaker
Which brings me to my next point is that AJ and I always like to try to thank the photographers.
00:46:46
Speaker
They've been up since like...
00:46:48
Speaker
We've talked, I've talked to someone in the morning.
00:46:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:50
Speaker
Well, they got there.
00:46:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:51
Speaker
They got there at like two 30 before we even got on the bus and we're running and hot, but they're sitting there freezing.
00:46:57
Speaker
So just thank your photo pass people.
00:46:59
Speaker
Yep.
00:47:00
Speaker
I'm, I'm done with that.
00:47:00
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:02
Speaker
Uh, the spectator viewing area, there are designated spots on the course.
00:47:06
Speaker
This is in your digital event guide.
00:47:07
Speaker
So it's going to vary greatly between the races.
00:47:10
Speaker
The marathon has several more viewing areas than the 10 K because it's so much longer.
00:47:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:15
Speaker
You cannot or not supposed to stand on the side of the road, you know, on Disney property, wherever you want.
00:47:22
Speaker
You're not really supposed to do that.
00:47:24
Speaker
Or you're standing at the Grand Floridian.
00:47:26
Speaker
You're not really supposed to go out and just stand on the road.
00:47:29
Speaker
You're supposed to go to designated areas.
00:47:31
Speaker
Some of those really popular ones are like the ticketing and transportation center.
00:47:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:35
Speaker
It's a safe place where they can keep you off the course and there's cast members around.
00:47:41
Speaker
The obviously Main Street USA.
00:47:43
Speaker
I mean, it's a huge one.
00:47:44
Speaker
That's highly desired.
00:47:45
Speaker
The start and finish line, right?
00:47:47
Speaker
For the 5K, that's the only option.
00:47:49
Speaker
Right.
00:47:49
Speaker
You know, so your digital event guide, just know that it's going to be a little bit of work on the spectator side, but that information is in your digital event guide.
00:47:59
Speaker
And just know like the boardwalks are a great place.
00:48:01
Speaker
You can spectate.
00:48:02
Speaker
Right.
00:48:02
Speaker
But that doesn't mean you can just spectate outside of Coronado Springs or whatever on the side of the road.
00:48:08
Speaker
People do.
00:48:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:09
Speaker
Just know that it's really, you're supposed to be in a designated area.
00:48:12
Speaker
I'm going to let you have the next three.
00:48:14
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:15
Speaker
These are on course things.
00:48:16
Speaker
Go for it.
00:48:16
Speaker
All right.
00:48:16
Speaker
Perfect.
00:48:16
Speaker
So the first one is the hydration stop about every mile and a half or so there is going to be a station with water and or Gatorade just depends on the length of the race.
00:48:26
Speaker
The next station that you will find is the aid station.
00:48:29
Speaker
This is where you can get things like Tylenol, Biofreeze, Vaseline.
00:48:34
Speaker
Usually they'll have like giant containers of Biofreeze.
00:48:38
Speaker
They'll hand out little gloves.
00:48:40
Speaker
What is Biofreeze?
00:48:41
Speaker
Biofreeze, you know, that's like the icy hot.
00:48:43
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:48:44
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:48:45
Speaker
So if you're hurting, that's something you can rub on.
00:48:48
Speaker
They'll just give you a glove and you just like rub, slather it on your legs, wherever it hurts.
00:48:53
Speaker
So yeah, these are things you need at the aid station.
00:48:54
Speaker
The only thing I was going to say about the aid station is that the Vaseline is what's on like the tongue depressor sticks that you imagine from like the 80s from the doctor's office.
00:49:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:04
Speaker
Sometimes people have accidentally put that in their mouth thinking it was a goo.
00:49:08
Speaker
That is not a goo.
00:49:09
Speaker
Don't eat that.
00:49:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:10
Speaker
What's the Vaseline for?
00:49:11
Speaker
Vaseline's to help with blisters.
00:49:14
Speaker
So, you know, you can use that like on your feet to help with blisters.
00:49:18
Speaker
Or if you are the type of runner that has like chafing from like, you know, skin rubbing, that's what they use that for as well.
00:49:24
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:25
Speaker
So anyway, that is the aid station.
00:49:27
Speaker
I don't know how many, how often those are, but I don't either.
00:49:30
Speaker
They're spread out throughout the race.
00:49:31
Speaker
Yeah, they're way less of those than the hydration stations.
00:49:35
Speaker
That's right.
00:49:36
Speaker
And then my favorite, not really my favorite, but the port-a-potty areas.
00:49:41
Speaker
Those are every couple of miles.
00:49:42
Speaker
When you get that digital race station,
00:49:45
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:45
Speaker
Whatever you called it.
00:49:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:47
Speaker
Digital event guide.
00:49:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:48
Speaker
That, um, you want to look at where the race course goes.
00:49:52
Speaker
I will usually try to be pretty, uh, um, proactive.
00:49:56
Speaker
That is the word I'm looking for.
00:49:58
Speaker
Yes.
00:49:58
Speaker
It was like coming to me at the same time you said it.
00:49:59
Speaker
I'm always trying to be proactive about using a restroom inside of the park.
00:50:03
Speaker
If we're running through the parks, that way you don't have to go to the restroom in the porta potty.
00:50:07
Speaker
Porta potty is dark.
00:50:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:09
Speaker
I was going to say dark.
00:50:10
Speaker
Sticky.
00:50:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:11
Speaker
And has a line.
00:50:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:12
Speaker
Long line, tight space, hard to like move to pull your costume back up.
00:50:17
Speaker
This again, like we'll talk about this in the costume episode, but, um, but dark for sure.
00:50:22
Speaker
I didn't know that it was going to be dark.
00:50:23
Speaker
There's no lights in them.
00:50:24
Speaker
Right.
00:50:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:25
Speaker
It's something you don't think about, but you use a port-a-potty when you see them, when you need one, right.
00:50:30
Speaker
When you're about to pee your pants, you go to the port-a-potty.
00:50:33
Speaker
Right.
00:50:33
Speaker
Yep.
00:50:33
Speaker
Yep.
00:50:34
Speaker
Perfect.
00:50:34
Speaker
Tell us about
Race Day Essentials: Nutrition, Pace, and Character Stops
00:50:35
Speaker
Mylar.
00:50:35
Speaker
Mylar is a word you're going to hear.
00:50:37
Speaker
It's basically the emergency blanket, you know, it's a tinfoil.
00:50:41
Speaker
You wrap up, you're going to see a lot of people wrapped up in that in the corrals as they wait for the race because it might be 40 degrees or 45 degrees.
00:50:48
Speaker
Or colder.
00:50:49
Speaker
Yeah, waiting in the corral.
00:50:50
Speaker
And so this is a seal your body heat in.
00:50:52
Speaker
It costs like a dollar.
00:50:54
Speaker
So what you do is you just throw it off when you're done with it.
00:50:56
Speaker
That's right.
00:50:57
Speaker
A big thing with the mylar, they're going to say this from the stage all the time is because of the whatever metal plastic, whatever it is, nature of it, it will mess with your timing chip or block the timing chip when you go across the start line.
00:51:10
Speaker
So do not cross the start line with mylar wrapped around you.
00:51:13
Speaker
You want to throw that off before you cross the start.
00:51:15
Speaker
It is funny when you get up to the front and they're like,
00:51:18
Speaker
All right.
00:51:19
Speaker
Well, here, here comes corral B and corral B is going to start here in about 30 seconds.
00:51:23
Speaker
And there's like a sea of mylar.
00:51:25
Speaker
Mylar starts flying everywhere.
00:51:27
Speaker
Right.
00:51:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:28
Speaker
You know, and mylar, like it might land on you and you just grab and you just throw it over the edge.
00:51:32
Speaker
Right.
00:51:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:33
Speaker
That's funny.
00:51:34
Speaker
So that if you hear mylar, that's what it is.
00:51:36
Speaker
Anything else?
00:51:36
Speaker
Anything else on that?
00:51:38
Speaker
Not about my lawyer, but another thing that people will do is that they will get clothes, usually like from the thrift store, that they will wear over.
00:51:46
Speaker
So like sweatshirts, sweatpants, my favorite, which you absolutely loathe.
00:51:52
Speaker
I'm going to use the word loathe.
00:51:53
Speaker
You're so embarrassed when I do it.
00:51:54
Speaker
Well.
00:51:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:56
Speaker
Is it because I don't walk near you when you're wearing one?
00:51:58
Speaker
Is that why you think that?
00:51:59
Speaker
You're like, I don't know her.
00:52:00
Speaker
But look, all I can say is I'm so warm.
00:52:02
Speaker
So I will go to the thrift store now and get like a full length robe, like a fleecy one.
00:52:08
Speaker
Yes.
00:52:09
Speaker
And you can wear it over your costume.
00:52:11
Speaker
And then like when you go there, AJ's shaking his head for those that are listening.
00:52:15
Speaker
It's so embarrassing.
00:52:16
Speaker
But look, I'm so warm.
00:52:18
Speaker
And then I just throw it off when I cross the start line.
00:52:21
Speaker
You do have to sacrifice a little bit of your day.
00:52:24
Speaker
So it's clothing you don't really care about, right?
00:52:26
Speaker
Like, you know, it's getting donated to charity.
00:52:28
Speaker
Yes.
00:52:28
Speaker
Collect it all.
00:52:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:29
Speaker
They collect it all off the race course as people start to throw stuff off.
00:52:33
Speaker
Also, if you don't want to bring your own as people start to throw them off.
00:52:37
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:52:37
Speaker
I've seen people pick them up off the ground and put them on and put it on and nobody's judging you for it.
00:52:42
Speaker
No, it all gets donated.
00:52:43
Speaker
Right.
00:52:44
Speaker
And if you decide to wear it across the start line and wear it for the first few miles of the race, because it's that cold.
00:52:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:49
Speaker
You can write anything they find on the course is going to get donated.
00:52:53
Speaker
If it's not trash.
00:52:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:54
Speaker
And we did a whole episode on nutrition and fuel and hydration, but if someone either didn't listen to that or, you know, let's just give the simple definition.
00:53:02
Speaker
Fuel and nutrition is essentially the food or snack type items or, you know, very specifically like race gels, you know, or stoop waffles, things like that, that you're going to take in to provide fuel, gas, nutrition, whatever to yourself.
00:53:17
Speaker
Electrolytes.
00:53:18
Speaker
Yep.
00:53:19
Speaker
On a race course.
00:53:19
Speaker
Right.
00:53:20
Speaker
And hydration is essentially, we talked about a hydration stop.
00:53:23
Speaker
It's the fluid you're going to take in.
00:53:24
Speaker
So you are going to sweat and you're going to lose, you know, fluids and whatever.
00:53:29
Speaker
And so you need to replenish that.
00:53:31
Speaker
So if you hear someone say something about a hydration station, or it's kind of a weird way to say it, but like someone will say, are you good on hydration?
00:53:39
Speaker
Right.
00:53:40
Speaker
Then that's what they're talking about is what are you going to salt tabs?
00:53:43
Speaker
It might be, it might be you're carrying a water bottle.
00:53:46
Speaker
It might be that you plan to stop at every hydration stop.
00:53:48
Speaker
So if you hear fuel, hydration, nutrition, that's what all those things are.
00:53:53
Speaker
Great.
00:53:54
Speaker
We did a whole episode on the balloon ladies.
00:53:56
Speaker
Yes.
00:53:56
Speaker
We talked about that is, but for someone who hasn't gone through our whole catalog of episodes yet, what are the balloon ladies and what do they do?
00:54:04
Speaker
So the balloon ladies are a group of three or four ladies, I believe, that start at the very back of the last corral.
00:54:11
Speaker
They have a Mickey balloon tied to their waist usually.
00:54:15
Speaker
And these ladies are just your visual representation of the back of the race.
00:54:19
Speaker
They will maintain a 16 minute per mile pace from the time that they cross the start line.
00:54:25
Speaker
That's right.
00:54:26
Speaker
Um, you have to stay with them or slightly ahead of them in order to not get swept off the race.
00:54:32
Speaker
The reason why you might get swept off the race is because they have to open the roads.
00:54:35
Speaker
They have to open the parks.
00:54:37
Speaker
And so these are the ladies that are just your visual representation of the speed that you, the bare minimum that you absolutely have to go.
00:54:45
Speaker
That's right.
00:54:46
Speaker
Yep.
00:54:46
Speaker
To finish your race.
00:54:47
Speaker
That was the clearest, most perfect definition I've ever heard you give on anything.
00:54:50
Speaker
You are so welcome.
00:54:52
Speaker
That was awesome.
00:54:52
Speaker
I have no notes.
00:54:54
Speaker
No notes?
00:54:55
Speaker
No notes.
00:54:55
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:54:56
Speaker
No notes.
00:54:57
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:57
Speaker
All right.
00:54:58
Speaker
Pace group or a pacer.
00:55:00
Speaker
Yes.
00:55:00
Speaker
You're going to hear that term.
00:55:01
Speaker
If you're not running with it, if you're running with a pace group, you know exactly what this is.
00:55:05
Speaker
If you are like, why is everyone, what's a pacer?
00:55:08
Speaker
Essentially, there are people, they're part of the Jeff Galloway, you know, whatever, running group.
00:55:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:14
Speaker
Whatever.
00:55:15
Speaker
And there are going to be several of them on a half marathon or longer.
00:55:18
Speaker
And they're basically going to have a flag.
00:55:19
Speaker
And it says how much time it's going to take them to finish this race.
00:55:24
Speaker
So I've run with the 145 group before.
00:55:27
Speaker
Literally that dude, from the minute he crosses the start line to the minute he crosses the finish line, it will be an hour and 45 minutes.
00:55:34
Speaker
Guaranteed.
00:55:35
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:55:35
Speaker
If you want to go at a specific pace, stick with one of them.
00:55:39
Speaker
You can run with them.
00:55:40
Speaker
You don't have to sign up to run with them if you don't want to.
00:55:42
Speaker
You can just join that group.
00:55:44
Speaker
But there is a lot of benefit to going, introducing yourself, saying in advance or going to the expo.
00:55:48
Speaker
They have a booth for these guys.
00:55:50
Speaker
You can go introduce yourself and say, hi, I'd like to run with you all.
00:55:53
Speaker
Can I do that?
00:55:53
Speaker
Good.
00:55:54
Speaker
What is, oh no, this is on mine.
00:55:57
Speaker
It's on my notes.
00:55:57
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:59
Speaker
If you see AWD, that is called, or that stands for athlete with disability.
00:56:04
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:05
Speaker
So it's going to be a yellow sign, typically with black letters.
00:56:07
Speaker
You're going to see athletes either wearing them or you're going to see a tent that says AWD on it.
00:56:14
Speaker
And essentially, these are athletes that obviously they have a disability.
00:56:17
Speaker
It might be a visual impairment or hearing impairment or whatever.
00:56:20
Speaker
They've registered.
00:56:21
Speaker
They've got a guide dog, whatever.
00:56:22
Speaker
Or they have a guide person.
00:56:24
Speaker
A runner, yeah.
00:56:26
Speaker
And they are fully allowed and good and can experience the same race that you are, but they're identified with this so that you know that they have a challenge that they're going to be overcoming in addition to the run.
00:56:40
Speaker
Right, in addition, yeah.
00:56:46
Speaker
So if you're coming up hot behind one of them and they're going slower than you think, this is not an opportunity and shouldn't be with any human for you to be like, on your left, you know, like, you know, give them a ton of space because you don't know what disability they're working through.
00:57:00
Speaker
Typically, they go out of the back or somewhere in Corral B. Just a heads up, they have done that differently in the past and I'm not sure what the current ruling on.
00:57:09
Speaker
That's where I've seen they go out of.
00:57:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:12
Speaker
Any thoughts on that?
00:57:13
Speaker
Nope.
00:57:14
Speaker
What's next?
00:57:14
Speaker
I think we're getting to the end of the list here soon.
00:57:16
Speaker
Perfect.
00:57:17
Speaker
Character stops.
00:57:18
Speaker
So this is where you will see characters on the side of the road.
00:57:21
Speaker
You are going to have one shot to get in and out.
00:57:25
Speaker
They're going to do this very quickly.
00:57:26
Speaker
Um, when you are running, especially if this is your first time on a run Disney race, you will hear music, um, as you're running down the course.
00:57:34
Speaker
Uh, usually they will have the theme song for whatever character is coming up and you will see a cast member, um,
00:57:40
Speaker
holding up a sign, a little green sign, and it says like either the name of the character or it'll say like friends of Winnie the Pooh or something.
00:57:48
Speaker
That's right.
00:57:48
Speaker
Yes.
00:57:48
Speaker
And it'll be like, you know, a couple of the characters.
00:57:52
Speaker
You want to run in, make sure your bib is showing, smile because you get one shot and then you're going to run right out.
00:58:00
Speaker
Don't touch the characters.
00:58:01
Speaker
Usually everyone's pretty sweaty.
00:58:03
Speaker
But yeah.
00:58:04
Speaker
Do you have to wait?
00:58:04
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:58:05
Speaker
You have to wait.
00:58:06
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:58:06
Speaker
You said run in and out.
00:58:08
Speaker
No, I'm sorry.
00:58:09
Speaker
Well, yeah.
00:58:09
Speaker
You need to get in the back of the line where the cast member is holding the sign.
00:58:12
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:58:13
Speaker
Got it.
00:58:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:14
Speaker
So some lines will be longer than others.
00:58:15
Speaker
Or if you start in an earlier corral, there may not even be a line.
00:58:19
Speaker
But if you're in corral D or E, then there will be a line for sure.
00:58:22
Speaker
So you have to decide, is it worth waiting in line for this character?
00:58:26
Speaker
How much time is going to elapse while I'm waiting for this character?
00:58:29
Speaker
Um, my general rule is if I get in the back of a line and I can see the character from the back of the line, it's good.
00:58:35
Speaker
You know, it's really long, but I can see the character.
00:58:37
Speaker
It's going to take 10 or 15 minutes to wait in that line.
00:58:40
Speaker
And you have to make the decision.
00:58:41
Speaker
Right.
00:58:42
Speaker
Is Winnie the Pooh important enough to me right now?
00:58:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:44
Speaker
You know?
00:58:45
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:45
Speaker
Or is this someone I could just go see in the park?
00:58:47
Speaker
Right.
00:58:47
Speaker
Right.
00:58:48
Speaker
However, when, um, power line max is on the course, I don't care how long the line is.
00:58:52
Speaker
Right.
00:58:53
Speaker
Like that's where you're like, I've never seen him in the park.
00:58:56
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:58:56
Speaker
You have to make the call.
00:58:57
Speaker
I got my picture with the four haunted mansion ghosts or whatever.
00:59:02
Speaker
I'm like, oh, I'm stopping for these guys.
00:59:04
Speaker
Right.
00:59:04
Speaker
Because it's not a common character.
00:59:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:06
Speaker
Right.
00:59:06
Speaker
Which is really cool that they do on the race course.
00:59:09
Speaker
But if I get to the back of the line.
00:59:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:13
Speaker
Or I'm coming up on the back of the line and I can't.
00:59:15
Speaker
see the character from here right it's probably 20 30 plus minute wait yeah and i personally no judgment am not gonna wait that long because because that means all these runners are running past me the balloon ladies are on their way yeah or if you're concerned about your time because like i said earlier
00:59:32
Speaker
when you're factoring in your overall time, Disney is not stopping for your character stops.
00:59:37
Speaker
You might stop your watch, but they're not stopping it.
00:59:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:41
Speaker
For sure.
00:59:42
Speaker
They don't, you can't, you can't say when the balloon ladies go past you, you can't say, Oh no, but I haven't gotten my picture yet.
00:59:47
Speaker
Right.
00:59:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:48
Speaker
So unfortunately Disney does not like release a list of characters that you're going to see on the race that day.
00:59:53
Speaker
Sometimes people in a corral a will send out a little thing on Instagram or something like here's who's coming up and
01:00:00
Speaker
I remember one time I was in the, I was in D I think, or C and one of the girls around us was like, Hey, here's the list.
01:00:07
Speaker
Like, cause the people had already gotten ahead.
01:00:09
Speaker
And so she told us what characters were coming, but I know usually you and I will talk about like, well, if we see these characters, then we'll stop.
01:00:16
Speaker
Otherwise we make a VIP list before the race.
01:00:19
Speaker
Yeah.
01:00:19
Speaker
Um, have you been haunted by not stopping for anybody?
01:00:22
Speaker
I have, I have, I have one.
01:00:23
Speaker
I don't know if it was actually me or if it was your story that we've talked about so many times.
01:00:28
Speaker
Mine is Mr. Fredrickson and Doug from Up.
01:00:31
Speaker
Yeah.
01:00:32
Speaker
It's going to haunt me until the day I die.
01:00:34
Speaker
He's so cute with his little walker with the tennis balls and...
01:00:37
Speaker
The story is mile 11 or so on my PR half marathon where I saw them over there on the left with no line.
01:00:49
Speaker
No one.
01:00:50
Speaker
It would have taken you like 11 seconds.
01:00:52
Speaker
It would have taken me longer to drink a cup of water.
01:00:55
Speaker
Right.
01:00:55
Speaker
From a hydration station than to go in, get my picture with them and move on.
01:00:59
Speaker
And I didn't stop because I was getting my fastest time I'd ever gotten before.
01:01:04
Speaker
Right.
01:01:04
Speaker
It was at the end of the race.
01:01:06
Speaker
It haunts me to this day.
01:01:08
Speaker
We've done like 12 races since then.
01:01:11
Speaker
And I've never seen them again.
01:01:12
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:13
Speaker
I've seen Doug.
01:01:15
Speaker
I've never seen Mr. Fredrickson again.
01:01:17
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:17
Speaker
If a character is important to you.
01:01:19
Speaker
stop just know that they're not stopping the race clock for you right um this photo pass is where this applies your bib has to be showing yeah it'll show up immediately or later all right moving on from character stop we only have four items left erica what is the oh it's on my color shoot sorry the snack box is that what it's called
Post-Race Experience: Finish Line and Celebrations
01:01:39
Speaker
That's what we call it.
01:01:39
Speaker
That's what we call it.
01:01:40
Speaker
When you cross the finish line, you're going to get a couple things.
01:01:43
Speaker
Obviously, we're going to get your medal, which we're going to talk about in a minute.
01:01:45
Speaker
But you're going to get a banana.
01:01:47
Speaker
You're going to get a water and a Powerade of your color choice.
01:01:51
Speaker
Yes.
01:01:52
Speaker
Blue, purple, blue.
01:01:54
Speaker
Yellow, orange.
01:01:55
Speaker
Yellow, orange, something like that you choose.
01:01:57
Speaker
And then right when your hands are so full and you have no more room for anything, they hand you a box.
01:02:03
Speaker
It's like a lunchbox size, whatever.
01:02:05
Speaker
And in there is some snacks.
01:02:08
Speaker
Usually a honey stinger waffle, some M&Ms or Skittles.
01:02:12
Speaker
What else is in there?
01:02:13
Speaker
Chips with fake cheese.
01:02:15
Speaker
Chips with the plastic cheese, right?
01:02:17
Speaker
There's been times where there's been like a granola bar type.
01:02:19
Speaker
That's right.
01:02:20
Speaker
Yep.
01:02:20
Speaker
So yeah, so that's the snack box.
01:02:22
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
01:02:22
Speaker
More important than the snack box is the finisher medal.
01:02:25
Speaker
That's right.
01:02:26
Speaker
Yes.
01:02:27
Speaker
So there will be people telling you, keep moving, but also make sure that you get your medal.
01:02:32
Speaker
If you did a coast to coast challenge, you'll have a special little wristband on.
01:02:37
Speaker
And usually those medals will be to the left.
01:02:39
Speaker
They hand it to you in a little plastic bag.
01:02:41
Speaker
I think that's to keep them from scratching each other and stuff like that.
01:02:45
Speaker
And they'll hand it to you.
01:02:46
Speaker
They do not wrap it around your neck like you won the Boston Marathon or anything like that.
01:02:50
Speaker
No, you can do that if you want.
01:02:51
Speaker
Um, what about if you ran the challenge, like you did dopey, right?
01:02:55
Speaker
And you just did four races the last few days.
01:02:57
Speaker
Where do you get your challenge medal?
01:02:58
Speaker
So that's going to be further down the chute and there will be a sign that says challenge medals, challenge medals.
01:03:03
Speaker
Okay.
01:03:04
Speaker
So you get it after the last race.
01:03:05
Speaker
Yep.
01:03:05
Speaker
Cool.
01:03:06
Speaker
Okay.
01:03:06
Speaker
The finish area or finish line area is I think what it's called in the digital event guide is essentially that, that, I mean, you come out and you go through this long chute and they, I think it's a long chute because they want you to keep walking.
01:03:19
Speaker
Right.
01:03:19
Speaker
I think that's what it is.
01:03:20
Speaker
You're going to be like,
01:03:21
Speaker
can I just sit down?
01:03:22
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:22
Speaker
Don't do that.
01:03:23
Speaker
Don't sit down.
01:03:23
Speaker
They don't want you to, you know, whatever.
01:03:25
Speaker
Anyway, they shoot you out after you get your snack box.
01:03:28
Speaker
There's like an area where the gear check trucks are and all that.
01:03:31
Speaker
And you're going to see people stretching and all that.
01:03:33
Speaker
And only runners and, oh, there's a huge wall of porta potties.
01:03:36
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:37
Speaker
Anyway, that's like a finish line area, right?
01:03:39
Speaker
You're welcome to hang out in there for a little while.
01:03:41
Speaker
They do try and encourage you out of that area as it fills up towards the end of the race.
01:03:45
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:45
Speaker
Um,
01:03:46
Speaker
But just know that you can stretch there.
01:03:47
Speaker
You can get your gear check bag back out.
01:03:49
Speaker
You can eat your banana.
01:03:51
Speaker
You can use the restroom.
01:03:52
Speaker
It's just kind of like the finish line area, which is different than the very last thing on our list, which is the family reunion area.
01:04:00
Speaker
This is where the party's at.
01:04:01
Speaker
Yes.
01:04:02
Speaker
Go for it.
01:04:03
Speaker
So there's like a DJ out there.
01:04:05
Speaker
Any of your friends and family that came to watch you run, you will meet up with them there.
01:04:09
Speaker
This is where you can get, there's food trucks.
01:04:12
Speaker
There's the drink station that you were talking about, where if you want to get a champagne to celebrate or cider or things like that.
01:04:19
Speaker
Um, after the very last race of the weekend, sometimes they have extra merchandise out there that's available.
01:04:25
Speaker
And this is right next to that finish line area I was just describing.
01:04:28
Speaker
Yeah.
01:04:28
Speaker
You literally, it's like there's a secure entry where people can't come into the finish line area, but you can walk out of it and you're immediately in the family reunion.
01:04:36
Speaker
area yep totally yep they also have some run disney photo uh spots so there's like a wall with little like you know props or whatever you can hold a little step and repeat you know you feel kind of famous because it's got the run disney logo and right whatever yep the numbers like adrian was saying the last day those are out there so you can take your picture next to your 13.1 or 26.2 or whatever whatever the race distance was that you did
01:05:01
Speaker
Um, we don't, it's funny.
01:05:02
Speaker
We don't have any marathon pictures with the numbers after the race because we didn't want to walk over there.
01:05:07
Speaker
We were so dead.
01:05:09
Speaker
We just want, and this is where the buses are.
01:05:10
Speaker
Yeah.
01:05:11
Speaker
Yes.
01:05:11
Speaker
So yes, we talked about this.
01:05:13
Speaker
Yeah.
01:05:13
Speaker
Yeah.
01:05:14
Speaker
So right here, I mean, this is like the gold because there's
01:05:17
Speaker
There's stands to sit in.
01:05:18
Speaker
There's food.
01:05:19
Speaker
There's merchandise.
01:05:20
Speaker
There's the numbers.
01:05:21
Speaker
There's the photo spots.
01:05:22
Speaker
Your family's there and the buses.
01:05:25
Speaker
And so you just walk 50 yards in any direction and you are exactly where you wanted to be.
01:05:30
Speaker
And so all the buses for all the Disney resorts are right there.
01:05:33
Speaker
If you park somewhere else, then you got to kind of do the long trek back or if you caught an Uber, then you got to, I don't know how you get, we've never done it.
01:05:41
Speaker
You got to get back to however you get there.
01:05:42
Speaker
I don't know.
01:05:43
Speaker
We just take the bus.
01:05:44
Speaker
Stay on property, folks.
01:05:45
Speaker
That's right.
01:05:46
Speaker
Anything else on the finish line, reunion area, anything like that?
01:05:49
Speaker
No, I just, if you have the opportunity ever to cheer someone on or watch them or whatever, I just highly encourage you to do that.
01:05:57
Speaker
Being able to experience someone cross the finish line for the first time is magical.
01:06:02
Speaker
Also having people cheer you on is amazing.
01:06:05
Speaker
Oh yeah, for sure.
01:06:07
Speaker
Great.
01:06:07
Speaker
That's our full list of all the things we could think of to define.
01:06:10
Speaker
And I know it's long and very practical and not as fun as our bingo game from last week.
01:06:15
Speaker
But if we missed anything, just ask.
01:06:18
Speaker
You can email us or DM on Instagram or whatever or comment.
01:06:24
Speaker
Just ask.
01:06:25
Speaker
We're happy to answer.
01:06:27
Speaker
And if we missed something entirely, we should maybe put it in a future episode or something.
01:06:31
Speaker
I don't know.
01:06:32
Speaker
Okay.
01:06:32
Speaker
Let's wrap this up because I'm pretty sure I can't see the clock, but I'm pretty sure this has been a long episode.
01:06:36
Speaker
Let's talk about news and training updates real fast.
Personal Training Insights and Audience Engagement
01:06:40
Speaker
I usually just throw it to you to ask if you want to go first, but do you want me to go first?
01:06:44
Speaker
It's up to you.
01:06:44
Speaker
You go first.
01:06:45
Speaker
The Galloway suggested yada yada, you know, mileage plan.
01:06:51
Speaker
It was a three mile weekend.
01:06:52
Speaker
My running coach has me preparing for a race before our marathon week.
01:06:57
Speaker
Right.
01:06:57
Speaker
So I've got, he had me run further than that, unfortunately.
01:07:01
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:02
Speaker
I say unfortunately because I like Clay a lot, but sometimes I'm like, Clay, you're killing me.
01:07:06
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:07
Speaker
But at my own, like it was my, at my own request.
01:07:10
Speaker
Right.
01:07:10
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:10
Speaker
You know what I mean?
01:07:11
Speaker
I would like to run this.
01:07:12
Speaker
Self-exlected.
01:07:12
Speaker
I would like to run this half marathon in this amount of time.
01:07:14
Speaker
Right.
01:07:15
Speaker
Right.
01:07:15
Speaker
Great.
01:07:15
Speaker
Here's your plan.
01:07:16
Speaker
And I'm like, what?
01:07:17
Speaker
Why would you do that to me?
01:07:18
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:19
Speaker
And he's like, well, didn't you just say you wanted to run?
01:07:22
Speaker
Right.
01:07:22
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:22
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:23
Speaker
well, I didn't shoot.
01:07:25
Speaker
Okay.
01:07:25
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:25
Speaker
Right.
01:07:25
Speaker
So I had 13 miles to do this weekend.
01:07:28
Speaker
Um, so I, my first half marathon distance since our most recent half marathon.
01:07:32
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:33
Speaker
So, um, 13 miles, he did a cool, he does this every once in a while.
01:07:36
Speaker
Clay does my running coach.
01:07:38
Speaker
This like a, like a,
01:07:39
Speaker
Fun run, group run thing.
01:07:41
Speaker
So I said, you know, hey, your 5K is on Saturday.
01:07:45
Speaker
How do you want me to handle that with my 13 mile or whatever?
01:07:47
Speaker
So he said, come run the 5K and then just keep going.
01:07:50
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:50
Speaker
And so I did that.
01:07:51
Speaker
And so that was fun to kind of, you know, group run involvement, whatever.
01:07:54
Speaker
But then it was funny because like mentally I only had to run 10 miles.
01:07:58
Speaker
Yes.
01:07:59
Speaker
Does that make any sense?
01:08:00
Speaker
And so like, yeah, I did the first thing and then I stopped and had some water with every, you know, talk to some of the guys who were, and then it felt like, even though I was already kind of tired, it felt like I had to run 10 miles, not 13.
01:08:10
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:11
Speaker
So anyway, that was my training from, from this past week.
01:08:13
Speaker
What about you?
01:08:14
Speaker
Good.
01:08:15
Speaker
So I, um, I started doing a new app this week.
01:08:19
Speaker
Um, I've done it in the past, but I'm, I'm picking up on it again.
01:08:21
Speaker
It's, um, called the dynamic runner app.
01:08:24
Speaker
I highly recommend it.
01:08:25
Speaker
There's a lot of good, um, stretches, but it also has a good, uh, training program for like run specific strength training, which we've talked about in the past is really important.
01:08:35
Speaker
And then also has like, you know, increasing your miles and things.
01:08:38
Speaker
So I also did not do three miles yesterday.
01:08:41
Speaker
I did six, a little over six miles yesterday.
01:08:43
Speaker
Okay.
01:08:43
Speaker
But this running app has me running four days a week instead of three.
01:08:46
Speaker
But I feel like it's helping also to prepare me this year when we run the marathon in years past, we've kind of just been like the goals to finish, which we've always known we were going to finish.
01:08:54
Speaker
But this year I really want to like,
01:08:57
Speaker
maybe try to do it faster.
01:08:58
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:59
Speaker
A lot faster maybe than we've done in the past.
01:09:01
Speaker
So, um, so anyway, this, this, sub three hours, right?
01:09:05
Speaker
No, no, the marathon.
01:09:09
Speaker
Yeah.
01:09:10
Speaker
So, um, so anyway, uh, but no, it went well.
01:09:13
Speaker
It went really well.
01:09:14
Speaker
It was, it was, yeah.
01:09:15
Speaker
Biggest takeaway from this new app.
01:09:17
Speaker
What's your number one thing?
01:09:19
Speaker
I feel a little bit like more sore in general, but I also feel like a little bit stronger in general.
01:09:25
Speaker
Like I feel like it's, it's, uh, it's definitely going to make me strong.
01:09:29
Speaker
Yeah.
01:09:29
Speaker
Good.
01:09:30
Speaker
Yeah.
01:09:30
Speaker
In a good way.
01:09:31
Speaker
Keep us updated.
01:09:32
Speaker
I will.
01:09:32
Speaker
I will.
01:09:33
Speaker
All right.
01:09:34
Speaker
This is fun.
01:09:34
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Yeah.
01:09:35
Speaker
Thanks for joining us for this episode of One More Run.
01:09:37
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01:09:40
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We'd love to know what's working and what's not.
01:09:42
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And also, if you want some stickers, I'm happy to send you some stickers.
01:09:47
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I just need to know where to send it.
01:09:49
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So send me an email at hello at AJNerica.com.
01:09:51
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Or if you're more of an Instagrammer, that's fine too.
01:09:54
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Send us a direct message.
01:09:55
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Oh, by the way, we have a Facebook page now.
01:09:58
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totally forgot about that um in in the starting of the podcast yeah it just never occurred to me like that people might want to use facebook anyway so it's brand new it has like i'm following it and that's it but we have a facebook page send us a message on any of those and let us know where you want your sticker mailed to no obligation no cost to you i will happily send you some stickers if you want to rep the podcast thank you for joining us for this episode of one more run we will catch you next week
01:10:30
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Thanks for joining us for this episode of One More Run, the podcast.
01:10:34
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You can find links to all of that at ajanderica.com.