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Ep 1 - Top 10 reasons we choose to runDisney
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Hey everyone, we are AJ and Erika and in our first episode of the 'One More Run' podcast we are diving into the top 10 reasons we choose to participate in runDisney races and why you should too! Although we're big fans of runDisney, we also share a few reasons why it might not be for everyone.
Participating in a runDisney race should be fun and memorable! If you’re new to runDisney, feeling unprepared or maybe even a bit overwhelmed, listening to the show is the perfect way to confidently prepare for your race so you can fully enjoy the magic of runDisney.
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Introduction & Purpose
00:00:00
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Hey everybody, welcome to episode one of the podcast and today we are covering the top 10 reasons we do run Disney races and why you should too.
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Hey everyone, I'm Erica and this is AJ.
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And the goal of our podcast is just to share some tips and tricks that we've learned over the last few years doing run Disney races with you so that hopefully you can have a good run Disney race experience.
00:00:32
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Yeah, we're super excited to start this thing.
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This is episode one.
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And as we kind of get this thing off the ground, if you wouldn't mind doing us a favor, letting us know how this is going, leave a review.
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Any ideas you have would be awesome.
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And if you've got questions, like I'd love for people to feel free to ask them.
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You can post that on YouTube or send us an email or however you want to.
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Want to do that?
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I'd love to know how we can make this podcast as helpful as possible.
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But let's start with today's topic.
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Now, we have a show format that's going to apply from here on out.
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But this first one, I thought, Erica, it'd be worth talking about why we do run Disney races.
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So let's say someone is...
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considering registering, this might be helpful, right?
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Or they've already registered and they've got the like, oh my gosh, what did I just sign myself up for?
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So let's casually talk through our top 10 reasons that we do these run Disney races and why someone else might want to as well.
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So I've got five, you've got five.
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I have not seen your list.
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And so you haven't
Motivations for Disney Races
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seen my list.
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I have not, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of our answers are the same.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:01:37
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We do think a lot alike.
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We've been married for 22 years now.
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So, uh, some of the things that we say, just it, sometimes I just sound like you.
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Yep.
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So let's go through, I've got our notes.
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Let's go through our top 10 reasons why you should do a run Disney race.
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Um, on the notes, mine are listed first.
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Unfortunately, that was an accident on my part.
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Do you want to go first or you want me to go first?
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Okay.
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So I'll share my number one reason.
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Well, these are not in order, by the way.
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Yeah.
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Mine are not in any particular order.
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Okay.
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Yours aren't either.
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Good.
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No.
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So the number one reason that I do these run Disney races, and I said number one, it's not even... Okay, how about the first, not the first reason, how do I say that?
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One of my five races.
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One of my top five.
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Thank you, Erica.
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Is the medals and the themes.
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Oh, they get you every time.
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They get me every time.
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They do.
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The only time they don't get me is when it's something really obscure.
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Like I didn't register for wine and dine this year because I'm not a huge lady in the tramp.
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fan like you know i'll watch the movie but like i don't need a medal with that on it so they didn't get me this time but nine times out of ten yeah they have in the past they get me do they get you as much not so much yeah i love my medals yeah i love the themes i love the shirts that you get with the theme on it like they get me with the theme yeah
00:02:55
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That is one of the reasons I do it.
00:02:57
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So if you're a Disney fan, I would say if you just love collecting, you know, Disney things and whatever, then the themes might be one of your things as well.
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Yes.
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You know, it might be a reason to do it.
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So that's one of mine.
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Erica, what's one of your reasons?
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One of mine is running in costume.
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I just love like seeing everyone dressed up in their costumes.
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Some people go like full on with a theme.
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I mean, if it's like Moana, you'll see like 2000 people wearing a Moana costume, but other people do other, you know, spinoffs.
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And, um, it's just fun when you're running.
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Like I'm easily distracted while I'm running by like checking out other people's costumes and
Magical Race Experiences
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things.
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It's not.
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I mean, you see other people dressed up at other races, like non-Disney races.
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You can see the occasional, like, I don't know, hot dog or something like that.
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But it's not, like, this is a cohesive theme where people all, beyond theme are off, but there's a lot of people dressed up.
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Or, like, you'll see, like, groups of people in theme.
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So, like, the people that dressed up as the Hook movie, there was, like, the whole baseball team.
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And, yeah, like...
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Yeah, it was a Tinkerbell race.
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So they had a little spinoff Peter Pan thing going on.
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Remember the VHS tapes?
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Yes.
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Those, that group was awesome.
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I mean, people get so creative.
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The monorail of multiple people.
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They were all the different section of the train.
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Slinky dogs.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I do enjoy seeing costumes.
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I don't enjoy running in costume costume.
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Right.
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I like a shirt that looks like the theme or a hat or something, but I've never dressed full out.
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Yeah.
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Have you, um, I, some years or some races have been a little bit more complex than others.
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It gets a little tricky in the port-a-potty if you're wearing like a full blown tutu with multiple layers and, you know, um, but, but yeah, I mean, we usually do like some sort of screen printed, like athletic wear in that costume or whatever, but yeah.
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We've found that the longer the race, the less costume complexity there is.
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So a 5K at Run Disney, you see everybody dressed up.
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You get up to the half marathon and it's a little more just, you know, cotton, what do you call it?
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Like, what are the race shirts made out of?
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Like, not spandex.
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But anyway...
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You see athletic wear that's kind of like on color.
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Right.
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So the marathon is some people are just wearing their Lululemon.
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Like they're not on theme at all because they need to be comfortable for 26 miles.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Did we beat costumes to death?
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Sorry about that.
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Is that like its own episode, costumes?
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It could be.
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It will actually be in the future.
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Okay, good.
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There's a lot more we could say about that.
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We're doing 29 weeks to marathon.
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Yes.
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Right.
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So every week as we get closer to marathon weekend, no matter what your distance is, we're counting down to that weekend.
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And so we'll talk costumes in there.
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We'll have a whole thing on that.
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So maybe we should save some of the good stuff.
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We will, yeah.
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Number two on my list of reasons I do run Disney races is it's just so much fun.
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Right.
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Like the vibe, the energy, everything about it to me is an enjoyable experience.
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I mean, there's not, I mean, yes, you know, when you really have to go to the bathroom, you know, and there's a long line, that's not very fun.
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But like 99% of the entire race experience, including going to the expo.
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Right.
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I mean, even just being on the bus with other runners, it is just fun.
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So that, that's my number two.
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What's your number two?
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Very similar.
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I have said this phrase a lot, but I say that running at Disney is the only place that feels magical.
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Um, people that know me know that I don't love running as much as you do.
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I do like it.
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Yeah.
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I really like the feeling of accomplishment when it's done.
00:06:34
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Um, so we've run other races that are not run Disney other places and they are not magical.
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I don't enjoy them streets.
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Do you?
00:06:43
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No, I didn't really love running through the streets of Atlanta.
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Um, so no, I mean, that's why I love around Disney because everything about it,
Disney vs. Local Races
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um, just feels magical.
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The costumes, the people, the entertainment, um,
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They just do a really good job of putting on a good race.
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There's not many races where there's a curated moment that makes you cry in a good way.
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Like you might cry at another race for not good ways, you know?
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But they've curated this moment when you come through Cinderella's Castle.
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Oh yeah, running down Main Street.
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I don't care who you are.
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I mean, we have talked to so many people and everybody cries running on Main Street.
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I don't know why I even get teared up.
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I mean, I've been down Main Street.
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A hundred times in my life.
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It's like a combination of like the location and the people that are there cheering you on.
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And it's just, it's very magical.
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And then of course we worked at Disneyland out in California when we were in college.
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And so we've seen backstage, but being able to run backstage is cool.
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So yeah, it's just the whole thing's very Disney, you know, magic.
00:07:42
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Side tangent, isn't it interesting when you book a VIP tour thing and they take you backstage, you're not allowed to have a camera of any kind.
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But when you're running a run Disney race, you're backstage.
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You could film the whole thing.
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Yeah.
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People are stopping, taking pictures of anything they want.
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Right.
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So if you want to see backstage.
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Just run Disney.
00:08:02
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Yeah.
00:08:03
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It's a lot of effort, but yeah, absolutely.
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Okay.
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Was that good on your number two?
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I've got my number three locked and loaded if you're ready.
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I like how organized it is.
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And part of that is that it's predictable.
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Right.
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Like that could also be a bad thing, I guess, is that it's the same usually every weekend, but like the structure of how the thing works.
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Yeah.
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I understand.
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And I know it's probably going to be the same next time.
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Or if you're doing multiple races in a weekend, once you've done the first one, you know what to expect on the next one.
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How many times have you gone and we've gone to a local race or another race and you just don't know where anything is?
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No.
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Yeah.
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not as organized.
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I'm like, is there a water station?
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Is there a bathroom break?
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Right.
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Like that's, you need to know that information.
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Sometimes it's not all super clear.
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You know what I mean?
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So at Disney, as big as it is and as, you know, whatever corporate as it feels, at least it's, it's organized.
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Right.
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Right.
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And if you don't know how that's a different thing than organized, like it is organized.
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Yes.
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You just need to learn it.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Whereas sometimes some of the other things I've gone to, not so much.
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So I like how organized and predictable it feels.
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Yeah.
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What's your number three?
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Um, I love that it's a vacation and there's this accomplishment.
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Um, it's like a two in one sort of a deal.
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And also that we do it together because I love that running is our thing that we do together.
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Uh, we don't train together, but we do run together for the race weekend.
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So I love that.
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Yeah.
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So you promise you didn't see my answers.
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I did not see your answer.
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My number four is it's a race and a vacation.
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Yeah.
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You can see on the notes, it's literally the same thing.
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And we put it on the same number.
00:09:47
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That's really funny.
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Yeah.
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That's really funny.
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So yeah, I, I, I, whatever, certify everything that you just said.
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Yeah.
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Um, okay.
Race & Vacation Combo
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What's your next one?
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Um, I just love the people and like the camaraderie that they, that you find at run Disney.
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Um, everyone for the most part is like super encouraging of each other.
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That is not the case with every other race.
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Um,
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Yeah.
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Sometimes you can show up at a race and like people are really intense or like you feel like you maybe don't belong there.
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I don't know.
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Everybody belongs at run Disney.
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Yeah.
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Um, you know, everyone's sharing their encouraging stories with each other in the corrals when you're sitting around waiting.
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Um, everyone's just for each other.
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I love that.
00:10:29
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I like the mix of you can have run Boston.
00:10:33
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Yeah.
00:10:34
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And you can also be doing your first 5K and you're hoping to cross the finish line.
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And that's cool.
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Yeah.
00:10:40
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Right.
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Like I love and I feel like the support between people is genuine.
00:10:45
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Right.
00:10:46
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So if you've run Boston, but someone's running their first 5K, it feels authentic.
00:10:50
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Yes.
00:10:50
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That people, that somebody, one of them would say to the other, great job today.
00:10:54
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Mm-hmm.
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You're encroaching into my number five, but yes.
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Oh, sorry.
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It's okay.
00:11:01
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Okay.
00:11:01
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Are you done with the people and camaraderie comments?
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Yes, yes.
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Okay, let me give you my number five.
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And it gives me something to look forward to all year.
00:11:08
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Yes.
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And it gives me something to train for.
00:11:10
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So they have them kind of...
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spread out throughout the year.
00:11:13
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So there's, um, you know, October, November race, there's a January, then there's a February, then there's an April, right.
00:11:19
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And none during the summer really.
00:11:21
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Um, so I just liked it depending on what I've registered for.
00:11:24
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Like I've kind of got something to train for, stay fit for, look forward to, um, save all my money for, um,
00:11:32
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Right.
00:11:32
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Like I have something to look forward to.
00:11:34
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It keeps me active.
00:11:36
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And sometimes it keeps me accountable when I want to eat something that I probably shouldn't be eating, things like that.
00:11:42
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I love, well, sometimes I just eat it.
00:11:44
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That doesn't work for me.
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I like it.
00:11:47
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It keeps me somewhat accountable throughout the year.
00:11:50
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Yeah.
00:11:51
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What's your last one?
00:11:52
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My last one is that run Disney is super inclusive.
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I just run Disney is for everyone.
00:11:58
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Like AJ was saying, whether you've run Boston or you've never run a 5k before, it doesn't matter.
00:12:05
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Um, you can do run Disney.
00:12:07
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Uh, Jeff Galloway is the run Disney coach and he is a big proponent of the run, walk, run thing, which is what I do a lot of the times, especially for marathon.
00:12:15
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Um, and so, you know, anyone can do run Disney and nobody will look down on you for how slow or how fast or how little or how much you're walking or running it's everyone can do it.
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It's a really great race to start if you've never done a race before.
00:12:32
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Yes.
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And I would add that it's a gateway.
00:12:34
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Like it's, you do, let's say you go do, uh, we live in Atlanta, you go do the Atlanta Thanksgiving day half marathon or whatever.
00:12:43
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It's going to be a good experience, but it's not going to probably have that same vibe that we've been describing.
00:12:49
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So you might just do that and say, I ran a half marathon and then you're probably good.
00:12:55
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Right.
00:12:56
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You know, you probably don't need to do that again.
00:12:58
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And I'd pick on Atlanta, like choose a city.
00:13:00
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Like generally, unless it's one of these really awesome races, you might just want and done it.
00:13:06
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Yeah.
00:13:07
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At Disney, it's a gateway.
00:13:08
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I mean, you do it and you might not do it again.
00:13:11
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And I do actually want to cover a couple of reasons you wouldn't do run Disney, but like you might, but you probably will.
Community & Inclusivity
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Yeah.
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People just keep signing up for it.
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I did my first princess half in 2016 and that's what started this whole thing for us.
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So totally.
00:13:26
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I mean, you, you're going to get hooked.
00:13:27
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Yeah.
00:13:29
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You want to talk about some reasons not why you might not.
00:13:32
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That was our top 10.
00:13:32
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Yeah.
00:13:33
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Right.
00:13:33
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Yeah.
00:13:34
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Do you want to talk about some reasons why people might not want to do run Disney?
00:13:39
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It's not.
00:13:39
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I mean, it is nitpicky in my opinion, but I don't know your answers.
00:13:42
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Mine are nitpicky, I guess.
00:13:44
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So do you want to go first this round or you want me to go first?
00:13:46
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You can go first.
00:13:47
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Okay.
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Here's my thing.
00:13:52
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Registration, which you have not dealt with since you and I've run these together, it is hard.
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It's harder than actually training for and running the race.
00:14:02
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Right.
00:14:02
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Because the spots are limited and you have to register so far in advance.
00:14:07
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So we just registered for Princess, which is in February of next year.
00:14:13
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It's June.
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Right.
00:14:14
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Yeah.
00:14:15
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And we just did that registration.
00:14:17
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I don't know what our life is going to look like next February, to be quite honest with you.
00:14:20
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Yeah.
00:14:20
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I don't you know, I don't know what's going to be going on in our kids.
00:14:23
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schedule, my work schedule, but I have to commit to it now.
00:14:27
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And once I commit to it, I'm committed.
00:14:29
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Yeah.
00:14:30
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I get no refunds.
00:14:31
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No.
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No transfers.
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No deferrals.
00:14:34
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None of that.
00:14:34
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None of that.
00:14:35
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If I decide I can't go, there goes my money.
00:14:38
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Yeah.
00:14:38
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You know, and I actually agree with that because I don't want there to become some black market thing where people are like taking advantage of run Disney, you know, registrations.
00:14:47
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So I agree with that, but it's so far in advance that it makes it hard for like life planning.
00:14:53
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Totally.
00:14:54
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I'm not a woman, so I wouldn't get pregnant.
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But like, imagine if you get pregnant.
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You know what I mean?
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Now you just can't run it.
00:14:59
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Well, that's not true.
00:15:00
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I've seen a lot of really pregnant women running these races.
00:15:04
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It's impressive.
00:15:05
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So the registration so far out is a reason you might not want to do it.
00:15:09
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Is that you just might not know what's going on in your life.
00:15:11
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If you're like considering medical school and you might be in next year, I wouldn't sign up for a race for next year.
00:15:17
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You know what I mean?
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I don't know.
00:15:20
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Maybe it works for you.
00:15:20
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So that's one reason I would not do it.
00:15:23
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What's one for you?
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Mine is just that the courses don't really change very much.
00:15:27
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This is like our 17th.
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We've done 17 or so of these.
00:15:32
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Yeah, I think 16, yep.
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And so it starts to become a little bit redundant.
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Not to the point that we would stop doing Run Disney.
00:15:40
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We might just do a few less Run Disney this year and a few more of other cities or something.
00:15:45
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But yeah, it kind of loses its...
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Main Street doesn't lose its moments.
00:15:53
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No, never, never.
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That's really good.
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Or Epcot going through World Showcase doesn't lose its thing.
00:16:00
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But the highway...
00:16:03
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Yeah.
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By the sanitation plant.
00:16:05
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Oh, yeah.
00:16:05
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You know, or the international squeeze way.
00:16:08
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Right.
00:16:08
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Like these, these are parts of the course that we're even just running on the boardwalk to be quite honest with you.
00:16:12
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Yeah.
00:16:13
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It's because it's not overly Disney,
Challenges of Registration
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you know, moment.
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And there's, it's not a curated thing.
00:16:19
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Like it can wear down on you when you've done it.
00:16:22
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How about finishing in the same place every time in Epcot in the parking lot?
00:16:27
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That's a good point.
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And AJ's like, we're so close.
00:16:30
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We're almost there.
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Give it all you've got.
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And now I know after having done it 16 times, we are not almost there.
00:16:35
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There's like three more turns.
00:16:37
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Right.
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It's like a false finish.
00:16:39
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Right.
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And I say, hey, we're almost there.
00:16:41
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That's right.
00:16:41
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Yeah.
00:16:42
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Yeah.
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So that's starting to become a little bit of a negative.
00:16:46
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But again, that's a nitpicky thing.
00:16:49
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It is.
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And it's actually exactly my number two.
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I think it was worded exactly the same way.
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The course hasn't changed much.
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That was my number two reason why you might not want to do it.
00:16:59
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So we're, and I already said my piece about it.
00:17:01
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We're totally aligned on that.
00:17:02
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I think what we found in our upcoming season is that...
00:17:06
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We've registered for specific races versus trying to grab everything for that weekend because we've done the 5Ks or the 10Ks enough.
00:17:15
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And those really don't change that we've decided we're doing the half.
00:17:22
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Right.
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We're only doing a half on the weekend.
00:17:24
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Instead of a challenge.
00:17:24
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Instead of, yeah, a challenge is when you do multiple on a weekend and we've decided not to do some of those.
00:17:30
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I think that's evidence of we're getting a little tired of the courses.
00:17:33
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Now, once we're there, it's all fun.
00:17:37
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Oh, yeah.
00:17:37
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It's kind of when you're sitting at home and you're like, oh, they're not changing the course again.
00:17:41
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That's kind of a bummer.
00:17:41
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It would be fun if they changed it up, but we understand why they don't.
00:17:45
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Oh, logistics.
00:17:46
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We totally understand.
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And, and, and yeah, yeah, I get that for sure.
00:17:50
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All right.
00:17:50
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My number what three or is that where we're on?
00:17:53
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Yeah.
00:17:54
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My number three is you skipped my number two.
00:17:58
Speaker
Oh, what's your number two?
00:17:59
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That most of our training is done in either extreme heat or extreme cold.
00:18:03
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Oh, that's true.
00:18:04
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Yeah.
00:18:05
Speaker
So like, do you think that's just because where we live?
00:18:08
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I don't, maybe, I don't know.
00:18:10
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It is so freaking hot and humid right now.
00:18:13
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Yes.
00:18:13
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And like, we, yeah, it's so hard to find a time to run.
00:18:17
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I, AJ loves to run in the morning.
00:18:19
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I hate running in the morning.
00:18:20
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I just don't like getting out of bed period, but, but I enjoy running in the evening, even if it's like a little bit warmer, but I mean, this week, especially we're dealing with like
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you know, 98 degrees with like 72.
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And then it'll thunderstorm in the afternoon.
00:18:34
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Yeah, yeah.
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And it's steamy.
00:18:36
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Yeah, so, so humid.
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And so it's, I feel like we're either running in that or, you know, when we're getting ready for marathon in January and we're spending the weekends running, you know, like four hours or something.
00:18:49
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And it's like a feels like temp of 20 degrees.
00:18:54
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Like those are the things that you're not thinking about when you're registering so far in advance is like when we're training,
00:19:00
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You know, I understand why they don't do races in the summer because race day would be hot.
00:19:05
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Yes.
00:19:06
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But there's so many weekends and months and months of training where you're running and it's like either freezing or burning hot.
00:19:13
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So that's one of my.
00:19:15
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At least we don't live in New York or Canada where it's like negative.
Course Layouts & Training Struggles
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20.
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Right.
00:19:21
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Yes.
00:19:22
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And for everyone listening to this, who's like, why don't they run on the treadmill?
00:19:25
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Uh, that's why I heard what you said.
00:19:27
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It's the treadmill, the treadmill, not, I do not want to run on the treadmill.
00:19:32
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Although this summer I may end up on it, but if it works for you run on the treadmill, yeah, totally.
00:19:37
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Absolutely.
00:19:37
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There, you know, you get, in my opinion, you get more benefit running outside because of elevation changes and having to deal with uneven ground and, and,
00:19:47
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adjusting to the humidity or the weather.
00:19:49
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You get more benefit in my opinion, but, um, and it's realistic for race day.
00:19:53
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I mean, it's not like you can throw a movie on your, on your iPad and watch it run.
00:19:57
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So I would not exclusively train on the treadmill, but if you, if, if it works for you.
00:20:01
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And you can get your mileage in and build your cardio, all that, whatever.
00:20:04
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That's how I trained for First Princess.
00:20:06
Speaker
You did?
00:20:06
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Was on a treadmill exclusively.
00:20:08
Speaker
Wow.
00:20:09
Speaker
Oh, you're not doing that again?
00:20:10
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No.
00:20:11
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I see your face.
00:20:12
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No.
00:20:13
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Okay.
00:20:14
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Yeah.
00:20:14
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I agree with you.
00:20:15
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Yeah.
00:20:15
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The training months are hard.
00:20:17
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Yeah.
00:20:18
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Okay.
00:20:19
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My last one is it's expensive.
00:20:22
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Yes.
00:20:23
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Uh, the more I realized like other races are expensive too.
00:20:27
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So you want to do New York city, you get, you're able to get in.
00:20:29
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It's going to be expensive.
00:20:30
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Your hotel's expensive.
00:20:31
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The flights are expensive.
00:20:32
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You know, the, you know, it just is, you've got to buy a new pair of shoes because you wore them out training, you know, like, so I get that it's not exclusive to Disney, but this is not cheap because you walk into the expo and you see the merchandise and you need it.
00:20:48
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Yeah.
00:20:49
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You need it.
00:20:49
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Yeah.
00:20:50
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Yeah.
00:20:50
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Well, quote quotes on the need, I guess.
00:20:52
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Right.
00:20:53
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But it can be expensive.
00:20:54
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And we know that staying at Disney is not, not cheap.
00:20:57
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Right.
00:20:57
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So you want to add two or three park days.
00:21:00
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Oh, I should bring my family.
00:21:02
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Next thing you know, you're just adding, adding a lot.
00:21:04
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So, um,
00:21:05
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I still think it's worth it.
00:21:07
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Yes.
00:21:07
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For all the top 10 reasons we said, but it, uh, it can be expensive.
00:21:12
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Yes.
00:21:12
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Okay.
00:21:13
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What's your last?
00:21:13
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My last one was one that we already said that you just have to register way in advance and you have no idea what injury you might be dealing with.
00:21:20
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What family situation you might be dealing with.
00:21:24
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Yeah.
00:21:24
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You get hurt.
00:21:25
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Like, you know what I mean?
00:21:27
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Like anything like that, that, that'll impact it for sure.
00:21:29
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Yeah.
00:21:29
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Yeah, for sure.
00:21:30
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This, this last year's princess was hard because we had done the goofy challenge, which is like 40 miles and in a 24 hour period and for marathon weekend.
00:21:40
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And I was like super injured after that.
00:21:44
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And so princess, I did not get to go, um,
00:21:48
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I was about to say I didn't get to go as fast as I would like to.
00:21:50
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I mean, I was like mostly walking, I think.
00:21:53
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But, um, so, but those are not, those are the things that you don't know when you register for the race so many months in advance.
00:21:58
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So that, that makes it kind of difficult, but it does overall, you feel like the top 10 that we, that we listed outweigh the bottom six or whatever.
00:22:09
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Yeah, totally.
00:22:10
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It's still, the races are still worth doing.
00:22:12
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Absolutely.
00:22:13
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It's still my favorite place to run.
00:22:16
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Yeah.
00:22:16
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You, I don't notice that with you when we're at Disney.
00:22:20
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I notice it with you when we run somewhere else.
00:22:23
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Yes.
00:22:24
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How opinionated you are.
00:22:25
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Oh yes.
00:22:26
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About all the things, how organized it is, how fun it is, you know, all the things like, I don't even want to bring other races to you anymore because I could just feel the eye roll.
00:22:36
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They're just like, okay, fine.
00:22:39
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Yeah.
00:22:40
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Yeah.
00:22:40
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They're like I said, not, not as magical.
00:22:42
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Yeah.
00:22:43
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Yes.
00:22:45
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Okay.
00:22:45
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I feel like that covered it well.
00:22:48
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Just a heads up for folks.
00:22:49
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We name dropped a lot of things.
00:22:51
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We just keep seeing things like at Princess, at Marathon Weekend, all these things.
00:22:54
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Our next episode, we're going to cover all the...
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race weekends that are available.
00:23:00
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So a lot of that, sorry for name dropping.
00:23:02
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A lot of that's going to make a lot more sense here in our next episode next week, where we're just going to break it down.
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This is when this race is.
00:23:09
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This is why you should or shouldn't do this specific race weekend.
00:23:12
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There's four in Florida, two in California, which are going away.
00:23:17
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Sorry, but they got a virtual series.
00:23:18
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We're going to explain the whole thing.
00:23:20
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So if some of that was kind of, if you felt like we were talking insider language, we're going to clarify that.
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Yes.
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next week.
00:23:26
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Okay.
00:23:27
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Erica, really fast.
00:23:28
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I mean, 60 seconds or less, if you want any training, personal, anything you want to share about just kind of where you are.
00:23:35
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So marathon training starts now this week for us starts marathon training, 29 weeks, anything as you head in to training that you just kind of want to share or document.
00:23:47
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Yeah.
00:23:47
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So like I was saying, when we finished up the run Disney race race season last, Oh my gosh.
00:23:55
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That's okay.
00:23:56
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We're not cutting out the bloopers in the podcast.
00:23:57
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Oh, we're not cutting this out.
00:23:58
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Okay, great.
00:23:59
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Okay.
00:24:00
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So not in the podcast.
00:24:02
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Hopefully I get better at this.
00:24:04
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Um, as I was saying, um, after we came back from princess this last year, which was like three weekends or something after marathon weekend, um,
00:24:12
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I was super injured.
00:24:14
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I have basically run injured for like the last two years at least.
00:24:16
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And so my physical therapist was like,
00:24:20
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like that's it, no running for two months.
00:24:22
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Like we're gonna work on like cross training and get you super strong, like in areas that you need for running, but no running for two months.
00:24:30
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And running is like this terrible sport where if you stop, even for like a week, it's like starting over basically.
00:24:37
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It is terrible.
00:24:39
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And so I basically started over this last month.
00:24:44
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This was my first month back to running since February.
00:24:47
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And so-
00:24:49
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I will say that I am right there with everybody listening to this podcast.
00:24:52
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Um, you're doing it in the heat of the summer, in the heat of the summer.
00:24:56
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Um, like having not run for several months and just feeling like, did I really run 40 miles in January?
00:25:01
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I don't think I did.
00:25:02
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Like I can barely run four miles right now.
00:25:04
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Um, but to that, I would say, remember that you can do hard
Podcast Engagement & Conclusion
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things.
00:25:08
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Like you are so much stronger than you think you are.
00:25:10
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And when you want to quit, um,
00:25:12
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Give it 10 more seconds.
00:25:14
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Like that's what I always tell myself.
00:25:15
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Like just run for 10 more seconds before you take a quick walk break and then get back into it.
00:25:19
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Cause you can do it.
00:25:20
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I'm very inspired to go for a run right now.
00:25:23
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Well, that's good.
00:25:23
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I'm about to go run five miles.
00:25:25
Speaker
You want to go with me?
00:25:26
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Um, I ran this morning because I love to run in the morning.
00:25:29
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I slept this morning.
00:25:31
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I'm good.
00:25:32
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Erica, this was a ton of fun.
00:25:33
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I'm excited about our journey with this podcast.
00:25:35
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Um,
00:25:36
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Whatever it means, right?
00:25:37
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So if we do the 29 weeks and that was it, and we share the information we know and people got what they needed, but we don't need to do it anymore, fine.
00:25:44
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And if people love it, then awesome.
00:25:46
Speaker
And if it's four listeners or 400, it doesn't matter.
00:25:49
Speaker
We're going to share what we know to hopefully encourage people to feel prepared, right?
00:25:54
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To maybe even inspired, you know, all that stuff.
00:25:57
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So next week we're talking about all the races.
00:26:00
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Yes.
00:26:01
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Uh, do me a favor.
00:26:02
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If you don't mind, uh, leave us a comment, shoot us a message.
00:26:06
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If you, if there's something you, you want us to talk about, we'll happily do it.
00:26:09
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00:26:11
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We have no reviews yet because this is the first podcast and it would, it would kind of be encouraging to get a review.
00:26:17
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Uh, hopefully it's a positive one.
00:26:18
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Right.
00:26:19
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Uh, thank you guys so much for listening to the podcast.
00:26:22
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We will catch you next week.
00:26:30
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Thanks for joining us for this episode of One More Run, the podcast.
00:26:33
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00:26:38
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