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Ep 14 - Is the runDisney price tag worth it? What's included with your registration
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Thinking about signing up for a runDisney race but not sure if the registration fee is worth it? In this episode of One More Run, the Podcast, we break down everything that’s included with your runDisney race registration — and what isn’t. From participant shirts and finisher medals to on-course hydration, snacks, race photos, transportation, and even those iconic marathon Mickey ears, we cover all the perks that come with your entry. We also clear up common misconceptions, like whether your race fee includes theme park tickets or free photo downloads.
We also sit down and chat with the president of the Peachtree City Running Club about the value of being a part of your local running community. If you're not sure what a run club is or you don't think you're a strong enough runner to keep up, THIS is the interview you want to listen to! We also talk about the upcoming Peachtree City Classic 5K and 15K that will be held October 18 just south of Atlanta... it's one of the best and most beautiful courses you can run in the southeast!
Whether you’re training for your first 5K or training for the Dopey Challenge, this episode will help you understand the true value of a runDisney race and the value of being a part of a run club. Packed with tips and tricks, personal stories, and a behind-the-scenes look at the race experience, it’s your go-to guide for making the most of your running journey.
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Introduction to the Podcast
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Today we're talking about everything that's included with your Run Disney registration.
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Plus, we chat with a special guest about leveraging the power of being a part of your local running community.
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Hey everyone, welcome to episode number 14 of the podcast.
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We are loving creating this show.
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Erica, I'm having a super good time.
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You know, we started this because we wanted to help runners, especially those that are signed up for or thinking about signing up for a run Disney race, feel confident, prepared, inspired, all the things for their run Disney race, right?
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And even if it's not a run Disney race, we just hope people feel all those things as we just share tips and tricks and all
Future Podcast Topics
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that stuff.
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And
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I'm excited about today's topic, but before we get into that, what's coming up in the next couple of weeks?
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Yeah.
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So next week we're going to talk about how to survive the corral.
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Ooh, I like that.
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Yeah.
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We have lots of things to say about that, I feel like.
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I think what's going to be interesting about that one is that we've started, between the two of us, we've started in all of them.
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All of them, yeah.
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So I can tell you what A is like.
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Yeah.
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And we can tell you what G or whatever that back one was like.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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So we'll cover that.
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And then after that.
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Yeah.
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The week after that, we're going to talk about why you should practice everything at home, your nutrition, your shoes, your clothing, your costume.
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You don't want to leave anything brand new for race day.
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I even I practice sleeping at home, too.
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Going to bed early?
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Getting up early?
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Yeah.
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I'm not getting up early.
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That is not when you practice, do you?
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I don't know.
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No.
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I'll figure that out.
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We'll create the list of things we suggest.
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Practice this at home before you show up to the race because you don't want to try that the first day.
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Totally.
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Or your first race.
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Yeah.
Listener Reviews and Feedback
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Awesome.
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So we like to read reviews on the podcast.
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We do that because it's helpful and affirming and all that stuff, but we got a new one.
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We sure do.
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And I loved this one.
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I already read it.
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Would you be willing to read it on the podcast?
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Yeah.
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So this one is from Caitlin Mixon.
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Um, she says, I just signed up for my first local 5k.
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I'm one year postpartum finding a new hobby with hopes of one day running at Disney.
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I appreciate how they break down the lingo for even the newest runners.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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Yeah.
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We, that was a couple episodes ago.
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I think when we broke down all the Disney words.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Um, good.
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Well, I hope this is, I hope this is helpful.
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Yeah.
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I love that you're doing this Caitlin after you've had your babies.
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Okay.
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So we also got an email.
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We did.
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Well, actually a couple messages.
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I thought Lori from Boston.
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Yep.
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That was how she signed it at the bottom.
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And I thought immediately, you know that commercial where, I don't know, the cousin from Boston.
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You remember that?
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I don't know.
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Anyway.
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No.
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Anyway, when it said from Boston.
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Okay.
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Anyway.
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So Lori from Boston asked a question and I loved it.
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She did.
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And I thought I even texted her right back and said, Hey, can we answer that on the podcast?
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She said, that'd be great.
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So here's the gist of her email was she wanted to know what we do post marathon for recovery, not just the day of, but you know, you, you, it takes so much out of you.
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It does.
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That it takes a long time to recover from that.
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Your body and your mind and everything takes a beating.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So she was asking about our post marathon routine.
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Yeah.
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Would you be willing to share some
Post-Marathon Recovery Tips
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of your thoughts?
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I can share some of mine.
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Totally.
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Yeah.
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Go for it.
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So what do you do?
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How do you want to start?
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Like the day of the marathon?
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Yeah, I think that's good.
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But what do you do kind of the rest of the day after you finish the marathon?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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So, um, you definitely want to have a lot of protein the day of the marathon after you finish racing.
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Um, that's going to help with your muscle recovery, rebuilding all of the things, um, definitely want to keep taking in those electrolytes.
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You have probably sweat a lot.
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And so you want to re replenish all of that.
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Also things like, you know, continue to walk, continue to stretch.
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I, I try to
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painfully foam roll my way through, you know, that's going to be really helpful as well.
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If you are at a place where you have the ability to take an Epsom salt bath, that's also really helpful.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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I like to move the most of the day.
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I really want to take a nap.
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Yeah.
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And sometimes I do, but what I don't do is go to bed for the day.
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Yeah.
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You're going to want to lay still, but don't do it.
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Or turn a movie on or whatever.
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And I'm sure that there's some science behind that, whether that's a good idea or not.
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I don't know.
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But for me and my experiences, I keep moving.
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So we, um, sometimes we have gone to a park, but we don't like overdo it.
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Right.
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You know, we, we, uh, theme park.
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Yeah.
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So we'll just, you know, casually walk around and things like that and just keep things moving, but we don't go straight back to the hotel and crash for the day.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Uh, what about like kind of getting back into normal life?
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All that stuff.
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We've, we've jumped on a plane the next day, which is hard on the body, you know, but how, you know, you get home, how do you get back into your normal life?
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Yeah.
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So I think like for the first week I try to do just a good bit of walking, no running, just walking.
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Um, but try to get out every day for at least, you know, I don't know, 45 minutes for an hour.
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Yeah.
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And then I will try to do my first really slow, easy jog about a week after the marathon.
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The other thing that can happen to your body, there's like a science behind this, is that it's really common for runners to get sick right after they finish a marathon.
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So like maybe doing some like airborne or, you know, some sort of-
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two of the factors there and there might be more, but two of them are that you, uh, your immune system's way down.
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Right.
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Right.
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Because you just put your body through all that stress and distress, but then you're also around 30,000 people who just did the same thing.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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So like you catch something and then when you're standing in the corral, there is no way around the fact that you're going to be real close with a few hundred people, whatever.
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So yeah, you do come home.
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Yeah.
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So a little cruddy.
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Try to do some immunity boosting.
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We do that.
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Yeah.
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We've never talked about that on the podcast.
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We, I start doing some airborne or whatever that stuff is called emergency about a week before.
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Yeah.
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And I will continue doing it once we get home.
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You do.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Um, the other thing that can happen to you after a race, not can it will, is that you'll get like the post run blues.
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Oh my gosh.
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This, this, this is an emotional thing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You just feel really depressed.
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Um, and so I think like getting out and walking also is going to help with that.
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Yeah.
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Um, I've had to go two ways.
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One, I've thought I'm never running again.
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And then I had the other thought where I'm like, uh, I don't have any races.
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I'm not signed up for anything.
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I, you know, like, what am I doing with my life?
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Right.
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You know, like, there's just like, kind of, it's like kind of sad.
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Yeah.
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Like, yeah, it's a real thing.
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You can't really describe it.
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Yeah.
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But I would say that it's normal.
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Yeah, totally.
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That you're not broken.
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You know, it's not like you did something wrong.
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That a lot of us runners on those long distances will go through like an emotional roller coaster the next week, maybe even two.
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Totally.
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So what if you do have another race after the marathon?
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You mean like this year when we have three races back to back?
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Yeah.
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yeah so we have done the marathon walt disney world marathon on sunday in 2024 and then ran the disneyland half the next sunday that was a bit much yeah but this time it is on you know whatever january 7th or 10th or whatever it is and then three weeks later is the disneyland so we have three weeks to get ready for our next race any tips or thoughts of what you're gonna do
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I mean, probably similar to what I just said.
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Yeah.
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Although I'm going to get back into it a little bit.
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Are you going to put any long runs in there?
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I think that's my question.
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Yeah.
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I'll probably try to do, you said three weeks later.
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It is.
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I'll probably try to do at least one.
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Okay.
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How long?
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At least one long run.
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If you had to guess.
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Um, yeah.
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Nine or 10 miles.
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Maybe.
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Uh, you know what I'm going to do?
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I'm going to text clay and say, what do you need me to do?
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Oh, you bring up clay.
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I'm going to come home and be like, Hey, Sarah, I'm on your schedule, right?
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Like I need to come in for a massage.
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I did.
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Yeah.
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We did that last time between the two.
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I had her booked like two months in advance for the week between the two races, you know?
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Yeah, for sure.
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You have the ability to do that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Sports massage therapist is a, is a,
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You know, whether you're doing another race or not, we go see Sarah, our sports massage person, not person, like VIP.
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She's amazing.
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Yeah.
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MIP, most important person.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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I will go see her the week before the race and after.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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She gets me ready and
Run Disney Registration Perks
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helps me get back to her.
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Right.
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And this is not like a relaxing, like Zen massage.
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Like she finds all the spicy places.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay, Lori, I hope that helps.
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I don't have anything else to add, do you?
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No.
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Okay, so later in this episode, Erica, we're going to talk about what's included in your Run Disney registration.
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But first, we have a special guest.
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Yes.
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And we're going to talk to Evan, who is the president of the Peachtree City Running Club, one of the largest running clubs in the Southeast.
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I think it's the second largest in the state of Georgia.
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Awesome.
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The only one bigger, I think, is the Atlanta one.
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So anyway, we're going to talk to him about being a part of a run club.
Peachtree City Running Club Insights
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You're going to love it.
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This is super exciting.
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We've got a friend on the podcast.
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Evan is the president of the Peachtree City Running Club.
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And if you don't know what the Peachtree City Running Club is, it's a big deal in the Atlanta area.
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So we're from Atlanta, Georgia.
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This running club, not only is it big, like their involvement in the community, just the impact they have on the, not just the running community, like the community in general.
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Right.
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It's pretty amazing.
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So Evan, welcome to the podcast.
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We're super excited to have you.
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Can you give us a little background on who you are and what you do and what it means to be the president of the Run Club?
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Absolutely.
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Thank you so much for having me, AJ and Erica.
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Really, really excited to be here.
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So, you know, I started running when I was young.
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I ran very...
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last man on the team kind of thing in middle school and high school with the one mile and then the one and two mile, last man on the team in cross country.
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But it was such a rewarding experience because it taught me how to run.
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And I just had, and I still have this learner's attitude, this always growing, always looking for like, just honestly, how to, how to do a little bit better, but
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always doing the basics, which is what every runner needs to start doing and always do.
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And so my career has been in like operations management and also doing consulting and organizational development.
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So I love building community and building organizations and also running great events like running events, summer track series and things like that, but especially love helping new people find community
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in running and develop themselves as runners.
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Awesome.
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That's awesome.
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Can you give us like this, like what's your running, like are you a half marathoner?
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What's your favorite distance?
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Do you love a good 5k?
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Like what do you like?
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I, for years, did a lot of 5Ks.
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It's just such an accessible event, but I've kind of grown into 10Ks and half marathons.
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I would love to run a marathon.
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That's a goal for next year.
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Again, always learning, always growing.
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And really caught the trail running bug recently.
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So getting to do some really cool stuff.
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It wasn't a team event, but we informally threw together a team and just recently did a 50K, which is like 32 or 31.2 miles.
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Did a lot of walking.
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Let me just say that.
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Did a lot, a lot of walking.
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But we got it done and it was so much fun.
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That sounds awesome.
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That's so cool.
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Evan, for those new to running, can you describe what a running club is?
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What do you guys do and kind of who it's for?
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Great question, Erica.
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Like, you know, it's a very solitary event.
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It's a very solitary like endeavor.
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And a lot of us spend a lot of time doing that by ourselves.
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Or we might throw together a running, little running crew, or we might have a running or walking buddy.
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But inevitably, life circumstances kind of can throw that off and those things can dissolve.
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What a running club is, and the Petri City Running Club is a place for like-minded people who want to discover a fitness journey and walking and running or reach new goals, can connect with other people.
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And it makes it easier in the context of those relationships to develop.
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So you're not just relying on one or two running buddies, but you have a whole network of people that you can get to know and find your people in that group and then develop according to how
Peachtree City Classic Race Details
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you want to grow.
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Yeah.
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And something that I get to do and we get to do as a running club that I can't do by myself is we give back in really big ways to our community.
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We give a lot of scholarships to graduating high school runners.
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We help, you know, invest in the infrastructure of our running spaces in the community.
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We sponsor a summer track series that's free.
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We had over 600 registrants this past summer for a five-week series that's mostly centered toward children and teens, but also the whole family can participate.
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So we're all about developing youth runners and the future of running.
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That's awesome.
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For somebody who's maybe new to running or just has that like, um, imposter syndrome kind of mentality of like, I don't know if I belong in this group of 10, 20, 30 runners on a Saturday morning, you know, what's your advice for that person as they kind of walk up and it can be intimidating.
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I mean, I'm, I'm intimidated every time I walk to a race start.
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And so like when you walk up to this, you know, run club, what do you want the new person new to running to know about joining that group?
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Yeah.
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Number one, I want you to know that we've all been beginning runners, everybody.
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And so we are a very gracious group of people who want to bring you in to where you need to be.
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And we have club coaches.
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So we have Road Running Club of America certified.
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We have certified coaches who will provide coaching to members of our club and help you get a good start.
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We do Couch to 5K.
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type of training.
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And so we're here to help you.
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We also just have a lot of people with experience who are also, they're not in any hurry.
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They don't want to outpace you.
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They want to bring you along.
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So we have running groups that meet every week.
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There are some that are formally sponsored club running groups at different paces.
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They include walking and running groups.
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And so we'd love for you to be a part of those.
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And as you meet people in the club and sure, you got to put forth a little effort to do that.
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But as you meet people in the club, you're going to find your people.
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You're going to figure out who walks like I want to walk, who runs or run walks like I want to run walk.
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There's somebody for everybody.
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So don't be shy.
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Come on in and enjoy what we have to offer in the relationships.
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Awesome.
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I love that.
00:15:03
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Can we talk about some of the events you host, uh, in the year?
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I know, um, the peach tree city classics coming up and I brought props.
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Um, so I have my finisher metal from, well, this is last year.
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I've also got my finisher metal.
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Uh, so I've done the classic twice and I say the classic, I've done the 15 K, but I know that you've got multiple distances.
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Can you tell us it's coming up in a couple of weeks here in October.
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We're signed up.
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Can you tell us about the, uh, the peach tree city classic?
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The Peachtree City Classic is amazing.
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It is two distances.
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It is the 5K, again, a very accessible event to train for and to race in.
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And there's the 15K, like you said, AJ, which is about 9.3 miles.
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If you are new to running, you've never done a race before, you can easily walk or run or walk run the 5k.
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It is on multi-use paths, almost starts out on the road, but very quickly turns into multi-use paths.
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You'll be
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meandering through green spaces behind neighborhoods, around ponds.
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You might even see a deer in the distance.
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We have a lot of very docile deer in the community.
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They're beautiful to look at.
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I mean, we draw like 1,500 runners across both distances.
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So it's just kind of a rolling party and you're going to have a great time.
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If you're training for a half marathon or a marathon that occurs later in the fall, the winter, or even in the spring, this nine mile 15K is a great step up distance to help you in your training.
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So if you're progressing and you want to you want to test out your fitness at a slightly farther distance, but not your race goal distance.
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Jump into the 15K.
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It also is mostly on multi-use paths and it's a whole lot of fun and it's a beautiful course.
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That's what Erica and I are doing.
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We're training for the Walt Disney World Marathon.
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I think, what do we have left?
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We've got 14 weeks or something left in our training.
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And this lands pretty good in our distance needs in our training.
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So we're doing that exact same thing.
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And you said the beauty of the course.
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I think if you've never been to Peachtree City, south of Atlanta, it's amazing.
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It's amazing.
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It's the past.
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Like they're just so quiet.
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Yeah.
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Even on a race day.
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Also, you know what I always love and I think everybody loves is the tunnels.
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Like on this course, it goes under several roads.
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And then, like you said, like ponds and lakes and Lake Peachtree is awesome.
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Anything new on this year's course?
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Is it the same course that I should expect from last year?
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It's the same course.
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It is a beautiful course.
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And as you said, AJ, Peachtree City has about 100 miles of multi-use paths.
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And fear not if you're like, oh my gosh, tunnel, that's scary.
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No, no, no.
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They're very short.
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It's just a little tunnel.
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It's a feature.
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To me, it makes the course interesting.
00:17:56
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Here's what's different about running the 5K or 15K at the Peachtree City Classic than running a traditional road race.
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A lot of times, at least in our area, you're on a stretch of road and you can see way down that road.
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And you can feel like, especially as a new runner, wow, I've got a long way to go.
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I can see way down there.
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I think that's the next mile or the next aid station.
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And it feels like a long way.
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But on the multi-use paths, you're turning, you're twisting.
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It's got a lot of different features, a lot of things to look at.
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You're changing scenery often.
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So it just doesn't get boring and it's a lot of fun.
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And before you know it, you're at the next aid station.
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Before you know it, you're crossing the finish and you're going to get this year's finisher medal, both the 15K and the 5K feature.
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You get a finisher medal.
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Oh, that sounds awesome.
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We're celebrating our 45th running of the Peachtree City Classic.
Race Organization and Volunteer Reliance
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And our race director is so amazing.
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Shelly Collins did a great job designing this year's shirt.
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So come get this totally rad 80s shirt.
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We started the race in the early 80s.
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So celebrating 45 years.
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You don't want to miss it.
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I would say for anybody that's in the Peachtree or the Atlanta area or even beyond that, like state of Georgia, whatever, like running in Peachtree City is a very special thing.
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So like either of these races, even if it's just the 5K because you're not up to a long distance, whatever, like it is worth coming to the town, not just to run it, but to see it.
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Like it's an amazing, it's an amazing place to be a part of.
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Thanks for giving us some time.
00:19:34
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That was all of our questions.
00:19:35
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Do you have, not that we're like famous or anything, but do you have anything that you're like, we can answer or chat about before we let you go?
00:19:42
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Well, what have you experienced in races, whether it be at the Peachtree City Classic or other races that you think race directors should keep in mind?
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What do we need to know to make sure our events cater especially to the new runner?
00:20:01
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That's a really good question.
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Do you have any answers before I go?
00:20:04
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I mean, I always have the same topic.
00:20:06
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So my biggest question and concern anytime I'm coming up to a new race course is where are the porta potties going to be located?
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Because I like to, you know, I like to plan that out.
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So, uh, so that, that's really my, that's always my biggest question.
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Yeah.
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Erica does like to know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Another reason to be early.
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Well, the Peachtree City Classic on October 18th is centered at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater.
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There will be porta potties in that packet pickup area.
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There'll be porta potties adjacent to the start line.
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Another reason to get there.
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A little early.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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I think my only comment would be, and this is an affirmation of what you guys do at the classic is that some races I've been to, I go to, it feels like I'm an outsider at, at some communities events.
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You know what I mean?
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Like it's like you,
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Everybody knows everybody, which is a good thing.
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But like as an outsider, you don't feel like really like you belong there kind of a thing.
00:21:02
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But the classic I feel like is different in that way.
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And that I feel like everybody feels in that like shoot, you know, like the just kind of the where the road starts or whatever.
00:21:10
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The vibe is good.
00:21:12
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The photographer makes you feel welcome both years.
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Like we, you know, we get our pick, like they come up and ask us, would you like a picture?
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That feels really good all the way throughout the course.
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So I would say that's just an affirmation.
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And one of the reasons I think we signed up for this race for the third time and the course was the same the first two times.
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And I don't even care if the course isn't changing this year because we love the atmosphere of this event.
00:21:32
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So that I think would be the only thing I would say to you is that we love it when, and you already do this, but we love it when a race director or organization, and it's why we do run Disney, to be honest with you, is because you feel included, whatever
Race Day Preparation Advice
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your level is.
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And I think that you guys do that with these races as well.
00:21:50
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Well, thanks for saying that.
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You know, honestly, that is attributed to the fact that this race is a 45-year-old race, and this has become a community staple, literally a classic in our region.
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It really is a running race.
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Mecca of sorts and a great accessible place for people to start and develop in their running.
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And you can see it.
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You show up to the classic and you're going to see literally every age.
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You're going to see very young youth development teams and youth running with their families.
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You're going to see people of every age, every pace walking and running.
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So, yeah, thanks for saying that.
00:22:35
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As a race director, what's something, and this is my last question, unless you have anything, Erica, is what do you wish the average or normal everyday runner that signs up for a race and they show up right at 5 a.m.
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or whatever time the race starts, they show up and everything just seems to be done and ready.
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What do you wish the average runner knew that if you could look them in the eye, what would you tell them?
00:22:52
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Two primary things.
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Number one, our races, the Peachtree City Running Club, the Rotary Peachtree City Half Marathon and 5K, these are completely volunteer facilitated.
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And most races at any variety of distance,
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is volunteer facilitated.
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Now you, you may have very, very big races who have a paid race director, but the only people we pay are our vendors who are like doing our timing and stuff.
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So just want everybody to know if you are new to racing, um, or just to remember, if you are not new to racing, um,
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Be kind.
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And these folks are out here.
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We work really, really hard to invite people to be a part of the race as volunteers.
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We rely on those volunteers.
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And again, anything we raise above our minimal expenses, we're giving back into the community.
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So these are charitable events that are fueled by volunteers.
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So love those volunteers.
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Be kind and gracious.
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They're doing their very best and they're there to serve you.
00:24:01
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The other thing I would say is really pay attention to what the details that are on the race website and or the communication that you get as a runner.
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So in your in your running confirmation, once you've registered or any subsequent emails that come to you from the race or the race director.
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and the information on the race website is there to help you.
00:24:23
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And what's especially helpful is paying attention to parking and to road closures.
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So if you're new to racing or attending a race, you want to get there early.
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Why?
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Well,
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you may have to transition from the parking area by walking or taking a shuttle.
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You may need to pick up your race bib or your race packet if you didn't do it the night before.
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And I highly encourage you to do that.
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Doing the race expo or doing the packet pickup on the night before the race is the best way to do it.
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So you're fully prepared.
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You've got all your bib put on your shirt.
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You're ready to go.
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So all you got to do is show up and warm up.
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But
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Pay close attention to road closures because you can find yourself getting behind really fast.
00:25:07
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There's nothing more stressful than the only thing more stressful than showing up to a race start line late is trying to show up to your airplane flight late.
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Both
Run Disney Race Experiences
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are not fun.
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So come early and pay close attention to those informational details.
00:25:24
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Oh yeah.
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We're super excited about this year's event.
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Have you ever done a run Disney, by the way?
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I have not.
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So that's a goal.
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Maybe the first marathon I do, it needs to be a run Disney.
00:25:34
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Look, we're big fans.
00:25:35
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So the one you guys are doing is, what are you guys running?
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Is that January 11th?
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Yep.
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Yep.
00:25:41
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Yep.
00:25:41
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That's exactly right.
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Awesome.
00:25:43
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Yep.
00:25:43
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What else does Disney offer in the way of, of half or
00:25:48
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So there's, Walt Disney World has four weekends a year.
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So there's like the first weekend in November, the January one we're doing.
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The last weekend in February is the princess weekend.
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So we get all dressed up in pink and purple and do that weekend.
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And then they do a spring event as well.
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So there's four weekends a year and they all have a 5K, 10K half.
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And obviously the marathon weekend has that.
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So yeah, we're big fans of that for sure.
00:26:14
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Yeah.
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We've had members of our club and this is one of the cool things when you're connected to the club and you, you start to build those relationships then informally, you know, not club sponsored, but informally we'll, we'll have people just put together groups and go to races out of state.
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And I know that there have been groups that have gone down and done like, like literally we'll have people that'll do every distance on that weekend.
00:26:37
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And I guess there's special medals for that.
00:26:40
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Yeah, we do.
00:26:41
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That is some serious challenges.
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Cool running.
00:26:44
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That is great.
00:26:44
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Awesome.
00:26:45
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Well, thanks again for being on the podcast.
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I want to honor your time.
00:26:48
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For anyone that's interested in either the Classic or just the Petru City Running Club, if they're from this area, how do we find you guys?
Connecting with the Running Community
00:26:57
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Well, our website is ptcrc.com, peachtreescityrunningclub.com.
00:27:03
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You can register for the Classic through a link there.
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You can become a member through a link there as well.
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We're on Facebook as Peachtree City Running Club and on Instagram as ptcrunningclub.
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So come check us out.
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We try to post about group runs and other things we do.
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You'll find a group run calendar and a calendar with our meeting dates as well on our website at ptcrc.com.
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Awesome.
00:27:32
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Okay.
00:27:32
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That was a super fun conversation.
00:27:34
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I enjoyed getting to learn a little bit more about being a part of a run club.
00:27:37
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And obviously I'm excited for the classic.
00:27:39
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It's going to be good.
00:27:40
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So let's move on to today's Disney related topic, run Disney related topic.
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And that is everything that's included in your race registration, which is a premium thing.
00:27:51
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It is not cheap.
00:27:52
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Yeah.
00:27:52
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So real quick, if you are going to do a run Disney race, I pulled the prices for this year's marathon weekend, the multiple races, just so you kind of have an idea.
00:28:01
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Yeah.
00:28:01
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Right.
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Of what, what this premium price is.
00:28:03
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You get, you get,
00:28:05
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Here's what I would say to preface this.
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You get the experience of running at Run Disney.
00:28:09
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That's worth the cost right there.
00:28:11
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Right, yeah.
00:28:12
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Okay, let me just say that.
00:28:13
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But we're gonna talk about the tangible things you get.
00:28:16
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So just so you know, this year, the 5K at Marathon Weekend's $120.
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The 10K was 166.
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By the way, these are all sold out.
00:28:24
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So I'm not telling you this to go sign up.
00:28:26
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I'm just giving you context.
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The half was 240.
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The full, a whopping $2 more than the half.
00:28:32
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How about that?
00:28:32
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Interesting.
00:28:33
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So really that's the best value on the whole list is for an extra $2, you can run 13.1 more miles if you want.
00:28:40
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The goofy challenge, which is the half and the full together.
00:28:42
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That challenge was $473.
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And the big one, the dopey challenge.
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You want to do all four races and walk away with six medals, six participant shirts and wake up at 2 a.m.
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for four days straight.
00:28:57
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Yes.
00:28:58
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That is $735.
00:28:59
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Doesn't that sound appealing?
00:29:02
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That ladies and gentlemen is why the Dopey Challenge is not on our list of things that we care to do in this lifetime.
00:29:09
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Who knows?
00:29:10
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Maybe we will.
00:29:10
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I don't think so.
00:29:12
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You don't think so.
00:29:12
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All right.
Run Disney Registration Inclusions
00:29:13
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So let's knock it out.
00:29:13
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What do we actually get?
00:29:14
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So obviously we get the opportunity to run.
00:29:16
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Yes.
00:29:16
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That's obvious.
00:29:18
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What else do we get in our race registration?
00:29:19
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What's included?
00:29:20
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Okay.
00:29:21
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So clearly you're going to get your run Disney bib, which is going to have your name, your number, your timing chip, all the things on there.
00:29:28
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Yep.
00:29:28
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So you, it's themed to the race or the challenge.
00:29:30
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You pin it on your shirt and that's how they know who you are.
00:29:33
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They know that you're supposed to be a part of the race.
00:29:36
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The participant t-shirts,
00:29:39
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Uh, it might not be a t-shirt.
00:29:40
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It might be a long sleeve.
00:29:40
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So I guess it depends on, uh, if it's a warm season or cold, whatever season race.
00:29:46
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And so your participant shirts got the theme of your race on it.
00:29:48
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If you're doing a challenge, whatever challenge you get, you get that shirt as well.
00:29:52
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So you could walk away.
00:29:53
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If you're doing a 5k with one shirt, you could do the dopey challenge.
00:29:55
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You're walking away with six t-shirts.
00:29:57
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Awesome.
00:29:58
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What else?
00:29:58
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Yep.
00:29:59
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Um, you're going to get your finisher medal, which is super exciting.
00:30:02
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It's the one of the primary reasons I do this at all.
00:30:06
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I knew you were going to say that, yeah.
00:30:07
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Is sometimes I see the medal release or whatever.
00:30:10
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I'm like, whoop, looks like we're signing up for that one.
00:30:12
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Right.
00:30:12
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I love my medals.
00:30:14
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Yes, I know you do.
00:30:15
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Also, if you do a challenge, you're going to get your challenge finisher medal, which that's exciting.
00:30:19
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It's got, you know, like your total accumulated miles.
00:30:23
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For that weekend.
00:30:23
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For that weekend.
00:30:24
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It's awesome to have that on one shiny piece of medal that you can wear around your neck.
00:30:29
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I usually hang them like, you know,
00:30:32
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10k half challenge and i put them all three and i hang them together yeah and it looks like i don't know it looks shiny shiny i like it um so with a little bit of an asterisks asterisk asterisk how do you say that asterisk asterisk
00:30:50
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Let's move on, shall we?
00:30:52
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With a little bit of a caveat, race photos.
00:30:56
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So what I mean, your race photos are included, but sort of, and we're going to cover that in a little bit more detail, but just so you know, they will take your photo.
00:31:03
Speaker
Yes.
00:31:04
Speaker
That is included.
00:31:06
Speaker
You also get certified timing results.
00:31:08
Speaker
So this is a USATF, all of the Disney races are, USATF certified results, which basically means if you want to take your results from a run Disney race, take them to a
00:31:18
Speaker
Boston or New York or Chicago or any other one that requires a proof of time, you get those certified results from a Disney race.
00:31:25
Speaker
So it's not just fun and magical.
00:31:27
Speaker
Right.
00:31:28
Speaker
It's actually a legit course.
00:31:29
Speaker
Perfect.
00:31:29
Speaker
Measured and all that stuff.
00:31:31
Speaker
There's some less obvious stuff, I think.
00:31:34
Speaker
Those were the obvious ones that's included.
00:31:35
Speaker
What are some of the less obvious stuff?
00:31:37
Speaker
I can start us off.
00:31:38
Speaker
Transportation is included.
00:31:41
Speaker
Sometimes you see on the Facebook groups, people trying to freak out and figure out how do I get to the race?
00:31:46
Speaker
If you're staying on property, they got buses.
00:31:48
Speaker
That gets you from every resort to the expo and every resort to the race.
00:31:55
Speaker
And back.
00:31:55
Speaker
Right.
00:31:56
Speaker
Right.
00:31:56
Speaker
Yep.
00:31:57
Speaker
The only thing I would say, sorry, you can't take that run Disney transportation to a theme park and you can't take that run Disney transportation to Disney Springs.
00:32:05
Speaker
So if you're going to stay at a Disney Springs hotel and you're going to walk to Disney Springs to catch a run Disney bus, that doesn't happen.
00:32:14
Speaker
They only go to Disney resorts.
00:32:16
Speaker
So you can't cheat the system that way.
00:32:18
Speaker
Okay, perfect.
00:32:20
Speaker
Also, you're going to get some on-course hydration and a minimal amount of fuel.
00:32:24
Speaker
So there's going to be water, Gatorade.
00:32:27
Speaker
On the course, in the past, they've done sports beans.
00:32:31
Speaker
Not my jam.
00:32:32
Speaker
Not my favorite either.
00:32:34
Speaker
If you run the marathon, you get a chocolate.
00:32:37
Speaker
You know, the sports beans, though, if you're in a later corral, you get to also get a try to dodge through them.
00:32:42
Speaker
Yeah, they're like scattered all over the floor.
00:32:45
Speaker
Yes.
00:32:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:46
Speaker
You come through and I've gone through where like no one had really come through there yet because I was kind of and it's clear.
00:32:52
Speaker
Right.
00:32:52
Speaker
And then I've also come through where we're like corral E or F or something like that.
00:32:56
Speaker
And it's literally like a Lego minefield of sports means because people opened it and it went and exploded and they didn't know that.
00:33:05
Speaker
And then what are you going to do?
00:33:05
Speaker
Stop with thousands of people around you and pick them up?
00:33:07
Speaker
You better not stop.
00:33:08
Speaker
So it's literally, I don't know how they would clean it up.
00:33:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:12
Speaker
Like, because there's too many people on the course.
00:33:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:14
Speaker
But yes, you do get those.
00:33:15
Speaker
Yes.
00:33:15
Speaker
Sometimes.
00:33:16
Speaker
When you finish, you get your snack box, which has, we've talked about this in the past.
00:33:20
Speaker
You just got a banana, chips, fake cheese, usually a stoop waffle of some sort.
00:33:27
Speaker
Some kind of candy, usually.
00:33:28
Speaker
Candy, yeah.
00:33:30
Speaker
Sometimes there's like a granola bar.
00:33:31
Speaker
That's included.
00:33:32
Speaker
That's included, yep.
00:33:33
Speaker
Great, if it's hot enough, you get a cooling towel at the very end.
00:33:38
Speaker
It's gotta be hot.
00:33:39
Speaker
And if it's cold enough, you get mylar.
00:33:41
Speaker
Now, this is not your everyday mylar.
00:33:43
Speaker
No, it's Disney mylar.
00:33:46
Speaker
Erica, this might seem dumb,
00:33:49
Speaker
But that Mylar is a big deal.
00:33:50
Speaker
It is.
00:33:51
Speaker
It's got a huge run Disney Mickey on the back.
00:33:53
Speaker
And what happens is if you get it, let's say you run the 5K and you get it on the first day and then you come back and you have the 10K the next day, people that will have had it after the race on the 5K will wear it to the 10K.
00:34:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:06
Speaker
Right?
00:34:06
Speaker
Or to the half or whatever because it's cold.
00:34:08
Speaker
Anyway, you're like, oh,
00:34:09
Speaker
Well, how did they get that?
00:34:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:34:12
Speaker
You know, because we've got like our cheap one from Amazon.
00:34:14
Speaker
Right.
00:34:15
Speaker
So now I have one sitting in my closet.
00:34:18
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:34:18
Speaker
You bring them home.
00:34:19
Speaker
I bring them home.
00:34:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:20
Speaker
So I'll take it to the marathon this week or this week, this year.
00:34:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:24
Speaker
I'll take it.
00:34:24
Speaker
So I have a run Disney Mylar.
00:34:26
Speaker
Right.
00:34:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:27
Speaker
Yep.
00:34:28
Speaker
But also that's weather dependent.
00:34:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:32
Speaker
What else do we get?
00:34:33
Speaker
Yes.
00:34:33
Speaker
If you run the marathon, you get ears.
00:34:35
Speaker
So if you are watching this video right there behind me, it's hard to point in the opposite direction.
00:34:40
Speaker
There's marathon ears.
00:34:41
Speaker
And then also I can't point that way.
00:34:45
Speaker
There, there's marathon ears.
00:34:47
Speaker
They're the Mickey ears, the little cap that you would get in the park that you would buy.
00:34:51
Speaker
That's like a five-year-old.
00:34:54
Speaker
basically.
00:34:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:55
Speaker
But they get it and it says marathon.
00:34:57
Speaker
It's got the theme on it.
00:34:58
Speaker
Right.
00:34:58
Speaker
What do some people do?
00:34:59
Speaker
We've never done it but some people take them you know what I'm saying?
00:35:02
Speaker
No.
00:35:02
Speaker
To the park?
00:35:04
Speaker
oh well like get them embroidered oh yes yeah with like the year right or something i don't know what they get or their time maybe whatever they want to put on yeah we have done ears you you had ears done for me when we did the our perfect season or whatever yeah but some people take these commemorative ones they get for free yeah or part of their their registration they get them embroidered as well that's pretty cool
00:35:26
Speaker
If it's an anniversary year, and when I say anniversary year, you know, like 10 years of princess or 15 years of the goofy challenge or whatever, then you get a little, it's not significant, a little gift.
00:35:39
Speaker
And are you pointing at another thing?
00:35:41
Speaker
Yep.
00:35:41
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:42
Speaker
Up there.
00:35:43
Speaker
That's a goofy.
00:35:44
Speaker
No, that's, what is that?
00:35:45
Speaker
That's ratatouille.
00:35:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:46
Speaker
So that's a wine and dine.
00:35:47
Speaker
I think that was 15 years of wine and dine.
Post-Race Celebrations
00:35:50
Speaker
That was a luggage tag.
00:35:51
Speaker
We have a goofy luggage tag because we did an anniversary year for that.
00:35:54
Speaker
There's a princess print that we got one year.
00:35:57
Speaker
It's behind you.
00:35:58
Speaker
It's behind me.
00:35:59
Speaker
Yep.
00:35:59
Speaker
Right there.
00:35:59
Speaker
It was like a, what is that?
00:36:01
Speaker
Like a 12 by 14 or whatever.
00:36:04
Speaker
I don't know whatever size that is.
00:36:05
Speaker
It was a cool print because it was an anniversary year.
00:36:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:09
Speaker
And so we've surprisingly done three anniversary years.
00:36:12
Speaker
That's awesome.
00:36:12
Speaker
If you're staying on property, depending on your resort, when you get back, you're going to get buttons, snacks, maybe like a welcome back party where people are cheering for you after running.
00:36:23
Speaker
Best resort for that?
00:36:25
Speaker
Pop Century.
00:36:26
Speaker
They're going to celebrate you with like bubble machines and noisemakers and all kinds of things.
00:36:34
Speaker
So you're not paying the deluxe premium pricing or whatever to stay there.
00:36:38
Speaker
So your bedding is not as nice and you don't have all these fancy restaurants and all that stuff, but you have the post-race party.
00:36:44
Speaker
That's right.
00:36:45
Speaker
It is.
00:36:45
Speaker
It is definitely good.
00:36:46
Speaker
We have some buttons and whatever they, you know, they wrote like the challenge name on or whatever, and you did it and whatever.
00:36:51
Speaker
We got those when we were there.
00:36:53
Speaker
You do get the opportunity to give Disney more money.
00:36:56
Speaker
That's so nice of them.
00:36:59
Speaker
And you cannot pre-order merchandise.
00:37:02
Speaker
Pre-order meaning like, you know,
00:37:05
Speaker
t-shirt shirts or uh the water bottles we like to get or whatever you can pre-order them but only if you're registered and you're signed into your account right and so everyone else has to buy it at the uh the expo which you don't have to be registered for yeah to go to the expo right interesting but if you want to pre-order something you have to be registered
00:37:25
Speaker
So isn't that nice of them that they let us spend more money?
00:37:27
Speaker
That is.
00:37:28
Speaker
And then my favorite thing.
00:37:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:30
Speaker
Depending on the race, the opportunity to run down Main Street and backstage.
00:37:36
Speaker
That's valuable.
00:37:37
Speaker
There's something really magical about running down Main Street.
00:37:40
Speaker
Everyone's cheering you on, running through the castle.
00:37:43
Speaker
Why is it better than just walking down Main Street on a Friday night?
00:37:47
Speaker
Well, for me, I'm like doing something really hard, like accomplishing a big goal at one of my favorite places.
00:37:54
Speaker
Yes.
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:56
Speaker
And the vibe is just crazy.
00:37:58
Speaker
Like you come down through there and there's hundreds or thousands, I don't know.
00:38:01
Speaker
Thousands.
00:38:01
Speaker
You think so?
00:38:02
Speaker
Yeah, thousands of people.
00:38:03
Speaker
Of people cheering for you and they don't know you.
00:38:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:05
Speaker
And you're like, thank you, thank you, thank you.
00:38:07
Speaker
And you're all like, you know.
00:38:09
Speaker
Very emotional.
00:38:10
Speaker
Oh yeah, it's so good.
00:38:11
Speaker
Would you rather run down Main Street
00:38:15
Speaker
or get a finisher medal if you could only have one.
00:38:17
Speaker
At this point, I would run down Main Street.
00:38:20
Speaker
You would.
00:38:20
Speaker
You'd take those 12 seconds or however long it takes you.
00:38:25
Speaker
You'd rather have that than a finisher medal hanging on your wall.
00:38:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:28
Speaker
Wow.
00:38:28
Speaker
Give me that medal.
00:38:30
Speaker
Give me that medal.
00:38:31
Speaker
The backstage is awesome though.
00:38:33
Speaker
It is.
00:38:34
Speaker
I love running backstage.
00:38:35
Speaker
There are some spots where it's clearly where they might handle some of the waste.
00:38:41
Speaker
Yeah, not quite as magical.
00:38:42
Speaker
Or there's some service trucks and you're like, hmm.
00:38:46
Speaker
This just looks like, you know, under an arena or something.
00:38:49
Speaker
Right, yeah.
00:38:50
Speaker
But it's still really cool.
00:38:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:51
Speaker
Especially when you see like the parade floats.
00:38:53
Speaker
Yeah, the floats all parked and- Or the animals like holding areas over behind backstage of Animal Kingdom.
00:38:59
Speaker
Yeah, that's fun too.
00:39:00
Speaker
That's for a marathon.
00:39:02
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:04
Speaker
So there are some things that are not included.
00:39:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:06
Speaker
That I only put two on the list unless you have more, but I put two things on the list.
00:39:10
Speaker
These are things that I think I've seen people think are included.
00:39:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:15
Speaker
And they're not.
00:39:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:16
Speaker
And common enough that I've seen enough people on the Facebook groups and whatever ask that I thought it'd be worth just clarifying.
00:39:22
Speaker
These two things are not part of the money you pay.
00:39:25
Speaker
Right.
00:39:26
Speaker
Or the registration fee.
00:39:27
Speaker
Right.
00:39:27
Speaker
What's the first one?
00:39:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:28
Speaker
So the first one, you are not getting a park entry.
00:39:31
Speaker
You are not getting a free ticket to the park for after you run.
00:39:35
Speaker
The only caveat to this is the wine and dine after party.
00:39:38
Speaker
That's right.
00:39:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:39
Speaker
So you're not, just because you ran through the Magic Kingdom earlier that day does not mean that, oh, well now I can go to the Magic Kingdom later.
00:39:45
Speaker
No.
00:39:46
Speaker
Your race bib doesn't get you in.
00:39:47
Speaker
I mean, you can, but you have to pay for it.
00:39:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:48
Speaker
You're paying normal.
00:39:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:50
Speaker
You don't take your race bib and they're like, oh, well you ran a rare wear your medal.
00:39:53
Speaker
Like, oh, well please write this way.
00:39:54
Speaker
That's not happening.
00:39:56
Speaker
The Wine and Dine After Party, you're right.
00:39:57
Speaker
It's a three-hour, I think, event, 10 p.m.
00:40:01
Speaker
to 1 a.m.
00:40:01
Speaker
or something like that, after the park's already closed.
00:40:04
Speaker
And they do send you a ticket for that.
00:40:06
Speaker
It's for the Wine and Dine Half Marathon or Challenge participants only.
00:40:11
Speaker
And you can buy additional family member tickets for that if you want them to come with you.
00:40:15
Speaker
But included with your registration, you get three hours in the park for that event.
00:40:19
Speaker
There's another thing, and I said asterisk,
00:40:22
Speaker
Did I say it right that time?
00:40:23
Speaker
Earlier I said that.
00:40:25
Speaker
The photos.
00:40:26
Speaker
They will take your photo for free.
00:40:27
Speaker
If you want to download that photo or print that photo or whatever, you can make that decision to do so by the memory maker or by individual photos or whatever.
00:40:37
Speaker
So that's not included.
00:40:39
Speaker
You can see the photos in the app or on the website.
00:40:41
Speaker
It just has a big watermark on it.
00:40:44
Speaker
And you can decide, wow, I did not look good in any of those photos.
00:40:47
Speaker
I'm not wasting the money, which I guess is a good thing.
00:40:51
Speaker
Or you're like, oh my gosh, look at that.
00:40:53
Speaker
Me and the castle and whatever.
00:40:54
Speaker
Like, that's perfect.
00:40:55
Speaker
I want to buy that photo or I want to buy all of them.
00:40:58
Speaker
So downloading or printing your photos is not included.
00:41:02
Speaker
That was the list.
00:41:04
Speaker
Anything to add?
00:41:05
Speaker
Any thoughts on things I missed or anything like that?
00:41:08
Speaker
No, I think what you said in the beginning, just that the experience of running around Disney, I mean, that's really, that's really what you're paying for.
00:41:16
Speaker
If you told me that I didn't get a participant shirt, right.
00:41:20
Speaker
Or you told, I don't know about the medal.
00:41:22
Speaker
That would be a hard one.
00:41:23
Speaker
But if you told me I didn't get a participant shirt and, or I didn't get free buttons at my hotel, or I didn't get snacks on the course and I had to bring my own.
00:41:31
Speaker
If you told me any of that, I'd still do the, because it's so much fun.
00:41:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:36
Speaker
Right.
00:41:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:37
Speaker
The finisher metal is a tough one though, for me.
00:41:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:41
Speaker
And your main street's your favorite, but you do races that don't run down main street.
00:41:45
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:45
Speaker
It's not quite as special though.
00:41:47
Speaker
It's not.
Marathon Training Updates
00:41:48
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:48
Speaker
I'm good on that, on that topic.
00:41:50
Speaker
That's everything that's included and a few things that aren't.
00:41:52
Speaker
Yep.
00:41:52
Speaker
This was fun.
00:41:53
Speaker
Want to do a quick news update.
00:41:55
Speaker
Not news.
00:41:56
Speaker
I don't know why I write news on the notes.
00:41:59
Speaker
Training update.
00:42:00
Speaker
Any training update for you?
00:42:02
Speaker
I did 16 miles yesterday.
00:42:03
Speaker
Yes, you did.
00:42:04
Speaker
I'm very tired.
00:42:05
Speaker
Hopefully you can't hear it on my voice, but I am very tired from that.
00:42:08
Speaker
My run coach, I often throw him under the bus.
00:42:11
Speaker
He had me run four miles today after 16 yesterday.
00:42:16
Speaker
He did tell me I could take it super easy.
00:42:17
Speaker
I think it was like a recovery.
00:42:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:20
Speaker
So, you know, told me to take it easy and all that stuff.
00:42:22
Speaker
It was hard.
00:42:23
Speaker
So yesterday I felt strong and great.
00:42:26
Speaker
I did the 16 miles at a great pace that I felt comfortable with.
00:42:29
Speaker
I actually ran with friends for the first 10, which made that really easy.
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:33
Speaker
Not easy.
00:42:33
Speaker
That made that go by really fast.
00:42:35
Speaker
Right, right.
00:42:36
Speaker
Then at 10 miles, they were done and they went to Starbucks, lucky.
00:42:39
Speaker
And I turned left and did six more miles.
00:42:42
Speaker
And felt strong, felt good.
00:42:45
Speaker
Ate a ton of food yesterday.
00:42:46
Speaker
You know, when I got home, took a nap, just all that.
00:42:49
Speaker
Then this morning I got up to do this four miler and Erica, I was like, oh.
00:42:53
Speaker
oh my gosh, I can't, you know, it was so slow.
00:42:57
Speaker
Um, but I got that 16 miles in.
00:42:59
Speaker
I mean, if you, if you plan to run 26 at some point, you got to run 16.
00:43:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:04
Speaker
So that's where I'm at in my training.
00:43:06
Speaker
Um, I don't think things went the way you planned yesterday, but you adjusted and you did the right thing.
00:43:12
Speaker
So you want to talk about it at all or you want to like move on and not?
00:43:15
Speaker
Yeah, no, totally.
00:43:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:16
Speaker
So last weekend I hurt myself at the lake.
00:43:19
Speaker
Um,
00:43:20
Speaker
I've just got like a rib issue going on.
00:43:22
Speaker
It's in a terrible place because, you know, when I'm running, like every step is impacting.
00:43:26
Speaker
So last week on Tuesday, I just, I was like, you know, my normal stubborn self, I'm going to run through, I'm going to push through.
00:43:34
Speaker
I did all 10 sets of my speed hill repeats and like running felt great.
00:43:40
Speaker
Like my legs felt great, but I could tell that by doing that, I like really flared up this rib thing.
00:43:48
Speaker
And so I saw Sarah like during the middle of the week and I did some biking instead of some running.
00:43:55
Speaker
And so I went out yesterday.
00:43:57
Speaker
I was supposed to run for two hours rather.
00:43:59
Speaker
And like the first two miles were like excruciating.
00:44:04
Speaker
And in the past, I would have just continued to run through and ultimately would have sacrificed an entire race season because I would just keep re-injuring the issue.
00:44:16
Speaker
But now I'm at the point now where I'm like,
00:44:18
Speaker
I cannot just be stubborn.
00:44:19
Speaker
Like I have to, you know, it's not worth a whole race season, like potentially just to get a couple of days worth of training in.
00:44:27
Speaker
So I ended up just speed walking instead of running.
00:44:31
Speaker
And so that's, that's a little frustrating, but worth it in the long run.
00:44:35
Speaker
Um, and so, um,
00:44:36
Speaker
So yeah, so I just speed walked yesterday.
00:44:38
Speaker
But in general with training, I would say that the app that I'm using now, the Dynamic Runner app, that is really helping.
00:44:44
Speaker
When I went to see Sarah on Thursday, she was like, normally you would be really like, you know,
00:44:50
Speaker
well, crying, like when she was working on something, working on my legs.
00:44:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:55
Speaker
She's, you know, she's like, you'd be just recoiling like in pain or whatever, but she's like, you just in the last few weeks, like your legs have gotten so much stronger.
00:45:02
Speaker
Like you, she was like, you're, you're doing great.
00:45:05
Speaker
So she was like, keep doing that program.
00:45:06
Speaker
So that's when we're really well.
00:45:08
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And then the other thing I wanted to update people on was I had said a couple of weeks back that I started using the, you can, um,
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um, gels, those are working so great.
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I love them.
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There's no like, um, super high and then super crash.
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Like it's just consistent energy for like 60 to 75 minutes.
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They don't might upset my stomach at all.
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So if you are looking to try a new, where do we find that?
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Is it a, on the feed or Amazon or all of the above?
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Yeah.
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You can get them on Amazon or from there.
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You let me try one yesterday for my long run.
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Yeah.
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And I enjoyed it.
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Interesting.
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Like, I think anytime you try a new gel or nutrition, you haven't tried the texture yet.
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Right.
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So the minute you try a new one, it's always like, whoa, what was that?
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Yeah.
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Not exactly what happened to me yesterday.
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Yeah.
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It wasn't the flavor.
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It wasn't that my stomach couldn't handle it or anything.
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Just the texture was different than all the other gels I've ever had.
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Yeah.
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It's a little more liquidy than the- Like the Morton's or a goo or something like that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Anything else on training?
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Nope.
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That's it.
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Okay.
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We, uh, as we talked about with, um, Evan, we're doing the Peachtree city classic, which is 15 K here in a couple of weeks.
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Super excited.
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That'd be our first race in a long time.
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Yeah.
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Uh, a long distance race.
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So we did a couple of five K's I think, but this will be our first long distance official race in a long
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time.
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So I'm excited about that.
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Well, if you don't have anything else, I don't think you do.
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That's it for this episode.
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