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Ep 5 - Staying motivated while you're training
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We’re keeping it real and practical this week on One More Run, the Podcast. Training isn't always the most exciting thing in the world and sometimes it doesn't go exactly as planned, so if you find yourself in a slump... if you find yourself there, you’re not alone.
We're sharing the little things that help us get through some of those long, boring and repetitive training runs:
- Our favorite podcasts
- Some of our topic music tracks that work for us
- Running together
This episode is a reminder that showing up doesn’t have to look perfect—just keep moving forward.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Theme
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Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast.
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If it sounds like we are not in the studio, it sounds like we're outside, it's because Erica and I are outside.
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We are.
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We are in Seattle, Washington this week.
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We're about to go on a long run and this is perfect, Erica, because... We are talking today about how to stay motivated while you're out on a long run.
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This one's going to be a good one.
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Can you tell I'm ready to run?
Marathon Training Plan Overview
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We're a few episodes in, Erica, and I think there's something that, my bad, I just kind of like didn't, I don't think, clarified or cleared up kind of in the beginning.
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And maybe it didn't need clearing up, but I probably should have explained something or we should have explained something a little more in depth, which is our training...
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what our training looks like from here to marathon weekend.
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We're counting down all these episodes.
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We're counting down to marathon weekend in January.
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And so that's over 20 weeks, but we didn't really describe like what each one of those weeks looks like.
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And we don't have to dive into like, well, on week 12, we're doing this.
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Right.
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Like, but just kind of a sampling.
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Yeah.
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So people understand like what we're doing within a week.
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So we're running during a week.
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We are walking during a week.
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We are strength training during a week.
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Like,
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Each week is pretty similar.
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The mileage might vary.
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Would you mind giving an overview on each week and then we can talk about what the 20 plus
Weekly Training Routines
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weeks look like?
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Yes.
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So typically you're going to run three days a week.
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If you fall away, if you fall away,
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I'm not sure what you're trying to say there.
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If you follow the Galloway method.
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The Jeff Galloway run, walk, run, play.
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If you follow the Galloway method, you're going to run 30 minutes on Tuesday and Thursday.
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And then Saturday or Sunday, your choice really, is going to be your long run day.
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You're going to alternate back and forth between a shorter distance, like two and a half miles.
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The next weekend, you're going to run five.
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The next weekend, you're going to run three and like that.
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Um, one of those days definitely needs to be a rest day.
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So either like some slow walking or yoga, something like that.
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Um, and then probably two, uh, two other days, I would say two or three other days, you're going to do some sort of cross training, um, legs, arms, mostly legs.
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So cross training being not running.
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Correct.
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Yeah.
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Like in the gym, strength, body weight slash like weight, weight.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So can you give me the, for you?
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Yes.
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And everybody can change.
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Like if you can't work out on, or you can't run on Tuesday, do it on Monday.
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Like you can change it.
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If you run 45 minutes instead of 30, that's not that big a deal.
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But can you give me your week?
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Just Monday, I do this.
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Tuesday, I do this.
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Wednesday, I do this.
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Like, can you generally?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So Monday is, well, I can tell you this week because I just wrote it on my calendar.
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Let's do it.
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Okay.
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So Monday, I'm going to be doing some strength training.
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I'm going to be doing some leg work and some core work.
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Okay.
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30 minutes or so.
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It's a little bit longer than that, but yeah, less than an hour.
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Tuesday, I'm gonna run 30 minutes.
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Wednesday, I'm gonna do some more strength training.
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So again, it's gonna be leg work, but also going to have some, I can't think of the word that I wanna use.
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Core work, upper body?
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No, no, no, no, it's like- Mobility, stability, balance.
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No, no, I feel like I need to pull out my phone.
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We're totally keeping this in the podcast.
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No, we are not.
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Please stand by technical difficulties.
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That is correct.
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Yes.
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Oh, conditioning is a great word.
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There you go.
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So some conditioning rounds.
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Thursday, I'm going to do another 30 minute run.
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Okay.
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Friday, I probably have some more strength training.
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So leg and arm for sure.
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Okay.
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No rest day.
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You were going five days straight.
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Sunday is going to be my rest day.
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Sunday is your rest day.
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Sunday is my rest day typically.
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Saturday is going to be my longer run.
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This Saturday, I'm doing five and a half miles.
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And then Sunday is my rest day.
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Perfect.
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So you only have one rest day.
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That is correct.
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Interesting.
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Yeah.
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It obviously is going to vary person to person.
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Right.
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If you've got a running coach, which I have one, and you've got a strength and kind of conditioning person, you know, if you've got someone guiding you through that, it might change because they were going to know what you need.
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versus like this generic plan on the internet.
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But we always start with the Jeff Galloway plan and kind of talk with our coaches and stuff about what needs to be included or not, or can we vary something or
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I'm traveling this week.
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It's going to be very hard for me to get all my runs in this week because I'm traveling.
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Right.
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Right.
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And I'm sure people have stuff like that.
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Okay.
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So then looking at like the whole thing.
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So let's say half marathon training is 19 weeks.
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We're doing a marathon training right now.
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So it's got extra weeks.
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But in those 19 weeks, you're going to go Tuesday, Thursday.
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You know, they always kind of look the same.
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I call them maintenance runs.
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Right.
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I don't know if that's what they're actually called.
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That's what I call
Motivational Media for Runs
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them.
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They, you know, some of them are speed work.
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Okay.
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But with the mileage changes on the weekends, so your Saturdays or your Sundays, we start off at like two miles and then three and then back to two to kind of take it easy and then four and then back to three and then five and three and six and three and seven and three and a half and eight and three.
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You know what I mean?
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And it slowly progresses until you get to like December right around Christmas.
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And it's like on marathon training, it's like,
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24 miles, you know, but you've worked up to it.
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Right.
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You have.
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Yeah.
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And so anyway, I don't know if that's helpful.
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If it is great, if it's not, then hopefully we didn't lose you on the podcast.
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And you've, I just thought that'd be helpful.
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And in all of that, it can get monotonous and boring.
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And especially when you're at home and you're doing it by yourself.
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And it's hot.
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And it's hot.
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Or I'm traveling, so it's going to be hard for me to do it on the road.
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But I'm also traveling, which means it's going to be hard for you at home because you've got kids to take care of.
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You know what I mean?
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Like everyone has life.
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Right.
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And so we thought we'd just share some of the things that keep us motivated, but also what keeps us distracted.
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Right.
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Because not everything we do or listen to, you know, in our headphones or whatever, is motivating.
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Sometimes it's just distracting.
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Right.
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You know, or entertaining.
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So anyway, I thought we just, there is no what or how or,
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or good and bad to the today's list.
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Today's list is just kind of suggestions, I guess.
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So I thought we'd start with what we listened to.
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I've got my list on the notes.
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I always seem to put mine first, maybe because alphabetical order or I think I'm more important, but that's not true.
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And so I have my first list on here first.
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Do you mind if I share mine?
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Of course, go ahead.
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Okay.
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So I'm going to talk podcasts.
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Yes.
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We're on a podcast right now.
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Right.
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And so I listen to a lot of podcasts, though.
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I've listed five here.
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And I'm going to...
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This is not like the in order, please don't get your feelings hurt, you know, whatever.
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One is not better than the other.
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These are like my five that I absolutely go to on a run.
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Yeah.
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And then others as well.
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So like when I've heard the most current episode on these five, then I go to the, I start going down the list to other stuff.
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And these are all Disney ones.
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Yeah.
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There are three things I love.
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I love run Disney.
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I love Disney Cruise Line.
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And I love Disney World.
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So these three, five podcasts cover those three things.
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The Rise and Run podcast is a absolute must, in my opinion, for anyone doing Run Disney.
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They have built an incredibly cool, inclusive, huge community of runners of all types.
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And they have guests on.
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They do race reports with people.
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If you run a race at home or whatever, you go on their Facebook page and you send a picture and say how the race went and they read it on air every time.
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They don't miss one.
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And they have amazing guests.
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I mean, I would say it's more or less podcast and more of like a community of run Disney runners.
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And we see them at the race.
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I don't know them personally, you know, but we see them and they're clearly here for the community element of it.
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So I love Rise and Run.
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Do you listen to Rise and Run?
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I do.
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I listen to only two and Rise and Run is one of them.
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Okay, perfect.
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Three, two, one, go.
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The podcast is another one I listened to.
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It is the race announcers.
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If you've never done a run Disney race, Carissa Galloway and John Pelkey are two of the announcers, the main ones they've been doing at the longest and they're on the main stage.
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Anyway, they started the podcast and the name comes from when they start every wave and they yell, you know, go, they count it down.
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Right.
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And they yell three, two, one, go.
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And anyway, that's the name of their podcast.
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And it's good.
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They do more than just run Disney.
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So heads up, if you care to listen to people who've run, you know, like serious athletes who've run Boston and all that, because Carissa, she's an announcer for all these other things too, right?
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So it does go beyond run Disney, but I listened to it for the run Disney, if I'm just being honest about that.
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Okay.
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So that's my run Disney podcasts.
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Okay.
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The DCL Duo is my cruise line go-to.
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That's my other podcast.
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Okay.
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So you listen to the duo as well.
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Brian and Sam, I feel like they, from a cruise line standpoint, they've done it all.
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They provide very helpful information and it's entertaining.
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Right.
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And so if I just want to listen to something about cruise line and just dream of being on one of the ships, I put in their podcast and just listen to
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What I do like theirs is they're like an hour or so, which gets me through one of my significant runs.
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And I don't even have to change podcasts.
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They had us on their podcast.
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Yes, that was fun.
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Hello, everyone.
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And welcome back to another live bonus episode of the DCL Duo podcast.
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I'm joined by the lovely Erica and AJ.
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So nice to see you guys.
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And welcome to the show, you two.
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This is the best day of my life because I finally got on the show.
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Oh my God.
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And I got to be honest, that was the best.
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Rope Drop on Deck is my other cruise line one.
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And I don't know them personally, but they're just funny.
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Like I love their banter and all that stuff.
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And so that's a good one for...
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Less on tips and whatever and more on like opinions.
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They share their opinions about things on the cruise line.
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And I enjoy that one.
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And then my, this one, I'm giving a disclaimer.
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These guys on this last one, they use some language.
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It's fun, but you might not want to listen with your kids in the car.
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Yes.
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So for your amusement is the name of it.
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FYA.
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And what they do is they, I can't think of their catchphrase, but they're out to like exhaustively rate all theme park rides or something like that.
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So they'll choose a ride, anything, Pirates of the Caribbean or whatever.
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And they'll put it through this rubric test of theirs.
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And they're silly guys.
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And they just put it through this silly test of, you know, is it, you know...
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Is it re-ridable?
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Do you walk off the ride feeling energized?
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They have this whole rubric and they put every ride through that.
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Anyway, I'm sitting there yelling at them from a distance, you know what I mean?
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And also agreeing with them at the same time.
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Anyway, those are my five.
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That was a long description.
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But if you're looking for a Disney-related podcast, those are my five.
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All right.
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That was mine.
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So I took a long time on that.
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Erica, what do you listen to while you're on a run?
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I, by the way, I'm coming to music next.
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I don't know what your list looks like, but I, that was my podcast.
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My music is next, but I want to give you a chance to share some stuff.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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So I typically, I'm going to say like 90% of the time listen to music.
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Okay.
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I listened to a wide assortment of music.
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Okay.
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There's some pop, there's some rap, there's some.
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Some rap, huh?
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Yeah.
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Is it, is it the motivating, like, is it the right tempo?
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Is that what it is?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Most of it is tempo related for me.
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Um, I, I've tried to put in songs that I love, like from the seventies, but like, they're just not fast enough, you know, or they're not the right tempo.
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So typically I try to find things that are like in my, my tempo range.
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Yeah.
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Any examples that you'd be willing to share or are they too embarrassing?
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They're not so embarrassing.
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So I love to start with Never Get Used to This by Forrest Frank.
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That's just like a fun one.
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I don't even know that song.
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Is it because I'm, am I too old to know this song?
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No.
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No, no.
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You could know this song.
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Okay, okay.
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I love What a Man Gotta Do by Jonas Brothers.
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I do know that one.
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It's very like fun and poppy.
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I don't know.
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When I'm tired, I listen to Eminem, Lose Yourself, for sure.
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That gets me up a hill.
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Like the eight mile truck?
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Yeah, totally.
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Mom's spaghetti?
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Like that one?
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Yeah, for sure.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay.
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A lot of Meghan Trainor, a lot of Kelly Clarkson.
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It's just like the right beats per minute for the pace that I want to go at.
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I see.
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I also love to listen to audio books.
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I love to read, but I don't really have time to do that anymore.
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So I like to listen to audio books, but it's got to be like really riveting to keep me fully engaged. 100%.
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And then I do like to listen to a couple of podcasts.
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So for sure, my go-to is DCL Duo.
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I love 321 Go.
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Yeah, just all the ones that you listed.
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I feel like I listen to those whenever we're in the car together.
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But yeah, I like to listen to those when I run as well.
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But for the most part, it's music.
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Yeah.
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When I have to do a long run and I've been instructed to keep it at an easy pace, if I put on the music that I'm about to explain, then I overdo it.
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Right.
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Right.
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I can't control myself.
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Yes.
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You know what I mean?
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I don't even have Eminem on my list because I would probably like pull my hoodie over my head, you know, and get in the zone.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Anything else you want to share about what you listen to?
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I've got a list of just kind of what's funny about my list.
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Do you have anything else to share?
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No, not really.
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I'm going to say this.
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I have built a playlist on my phone for race day called AJ's Perfect Race Day Playlist.
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I have a couple of those, yes.
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And I have curated this list over time.
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And it has a lot of my music that I need.
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But it actually has a very specific beginning.
00:14:17
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Yes, I know.
00:14:19
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So this is the dorkiest thing of all time, but it actually works for me.
00:14:23
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This does not apply to races that I'm doing with you because this is my motivation, my push up to my pace.
00:14:32
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Right.
00:14:33
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Right.
00:14:33
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So here's my ritual.
00:14:34
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Okay.
00:14:35
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Are you ready?
00:14:35
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Yes.
00:14:36
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You kind of know it.
00:14:37
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I do.
00:14:37
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Yeah.
00:14:37
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So in the chorale, when they do the national anthem and that's done, that means they've been cleared to go.
00:14:44
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Right.
00:14:45
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That's like the official sign that we're going.
00:14:47
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Right.
00:14:48
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I already have my earbuds in.
00:14:49
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I pull my phone out.
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I hit start on the playlist.
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And the first track for those five minutes until I go out of my chorale.
00:14:57
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Yes.
00:14:57
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Corral A is the Soarin' Over California theme song.
00:15:02
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how that motivates you.
00:15:04
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Oh, it does.
00:15:05
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It says like, let's do this, you know, whatever, but it's so Disney.
00:15:10
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Yeah.
00:15:11
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You know what I mean?
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And like, if you know Disney stuff, like if you know Soren, like when you can just picture, you can smell the oranges, you know, you can picture the aircraft carrier and the horses.
00:15:22
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And I'm just so motivated by this thing, but it's also not like
00:15:26
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pumping me up like eight mile wood right it's kind of it's my prep song yeah does that make sense like yeah i'm not moving yet yeah now this is where it gets intense okay and this is so very specific there's a track on the han zimmer live album from the movie inception okay
00:15:46
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And I think it's pronounced Mombasa.
00:15:49
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Okay.
00:15:50
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And this is the most dry.
00:15:51
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And I know I can't share it on this video or whatever.
00:15:53
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Like I can't, I don't even know how to describe it.
00:15:55
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It is like the eight mile thing, but instrumental.
00:15:57
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Right.
00:15:58
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I'm talking about, if I put it on, on a run at home, I am out there running unintentionally.
00:16:04
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Like a six minute pace.
00:16:06
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Kind of.
00:16:06
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Yeah.
00:16:07
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It gets me flying out of the gate.
00:16:09
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I am so pumped up.
00:16:11
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So go look up that track.
00:16:12
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And add it to your playlist.
00:16:14
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And if you don't like it, that's okay.
00:16:16
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I mean, you got to understand it's cinematic.
00:16:18
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It's not.
00:16:19
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It's not.
00:16:19
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Now, here's the deal.
00:16:22
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I just looked at your number three.
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This actually happens.
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I'm out the gate.
00:16:26
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Uh-huh.
00:16:27
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Flying out the gate.
00:16:28
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Okay.
00:16:30
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Leave everyone in the dust.
00:16:31
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Uh-huh.
00:16:31
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This is legit on my playlist.
00:16:33
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Yeah.
00:16:33
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Okay.
00:16:33
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Okay.
00:16:35
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Nothing can stop us now from Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway.
00:16:39
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Oh, my word.
00:16:41
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It's on my playlist.
00:16:43
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And it's very specific.
00:16:44
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How does that motivate you?
00:16:46
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It doesn't.
00:16:47
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It slows me back down.
00:16:49
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I see.
00:16:50
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And sets me in the Disney run mode.
00:16:52
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Right, right, right.
00:16:53
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Because I get a little intense.
00:16:55
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And I know that about myself.
00:16:56
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And I also have a tendency to go out too fast.
00:16:59
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Right, right, right.
00:16:59
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So I need to go.
00:17:01
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Right.
00:17:02
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I need to get out of there and I need to clear and make space.
00:17:06
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But the Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Real, that's good lyrics.
00:17:09
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Nothing can stop me, right?
00:17:10
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Nothing can stop us now.
00:17:12
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But it puts me right back and reminds me.
00:17:15
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And it's only a minute long.
00:17:16
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It's only 60 seconds because it's just a ride and whatever.
00:17:19
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It literally reminds me where I am.
00:17:23
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Oh my gosh.
00:17:24
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And then I hit repeat or not repeat, um, shuffle on my rap music.
00:17:31
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And I have a whole bunch of rap music.
00:17:33
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Now here's, um, no matter what your belief system is or whatever.
00:17:36
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Oh yeah.
00:17:36
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These are good.
00:17:37
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These are on my list as well.
00:17:38
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Yeah.
00:17:39
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So no matter what your belief system is, here's my, this is my thing.
00:17:44
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I had a bunch of rap music on my playlist, but I didn't like the lyrics.
00:17:50
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Correct.
00:17:51
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Yeah.
00:17:52
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For me personally, no judgment.
00:17:54
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Okay.
00:17:55
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But I didn't need, when I'm trying to be motivated and trying to run and trying to be kind to other runners on the course, I'm trying to do my personal best, all that, whatever.
00:18:05
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I don't need to hear about
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drugs and violence and shooting people.
00:18:08
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I don't need it.
00:18:10
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I don't need it at that time.
00:18:11
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Right.
00:18:11
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You know?
00:18:12
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So I found a bunch of Christian faith-based rap.
00:18:15
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Right.
00:18:15
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I should have probably specified that other than the Eminem, that is what I'm talking about is I listen to Christian rap music.
00:18:21
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Yeah.
00:18:22
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Okay.
00:18:22
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So like, but these are all very motivating songs.
00:18:25
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Like one of them is called, you can't stop me.
00:18:28
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And that's literally the chorus.
00:18:29
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You can't stop me.
00:18:30
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And I'm like, but, but there's nothing about like
00:18:33
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guns or gangs or anything.
00:18:34
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Does that make sense?
00:18:35
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Yes.
00:18:36
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Uh, and there's one called coming in hot.
00:18:38
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Yes.
00:18:38
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I love that one.
00:18:39
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Cause I, I mean, when I, when I need it, I'm coming in hot.
00:18:43
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Right.
00:18:43
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And, uh, I've got a new one called victory lap.
00:18:46
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I love that one.
00:18:47
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Anyway, maybe we'll put together an Instagram post with like our top 10.
00:18:51
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Sounds good.
00:18:52
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Nerdy Christian rap songs that motivate us on a run.
00:18:55
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Yeah.
00:18:56
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Yeah.
00:18:56
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Something like that.
00:18:57
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Okay, anything else on what you listen to?
00:18:59
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Because it's motivating for sure.
00:19:02
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Right?
00:19:02
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I mean, sometimes you need it.
Running Together: Motivation and Strategy
00:19:04
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I will say Taylor and I, our middle child, we ran the 10K at Princess together this last winter.
00:19:10
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And we got to the end and she was done and she didn't want to do it anymore.
00:19:14
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I mean, she wanted to do it, but she just physically exhausted.
00:19:16
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And I gave her one of my earbuds and I put it on and I put it in coming in hot.
00:19:21
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Oh, yeah.
00:19:21
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And it was in the last mile.
00:19:23
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And I watched it.
00:19:24
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I saw her.
00:19:25
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Music makes a big difference.
00:19:26
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She was moving.
00:19:26
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Okay.
00:19:27
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All right.
00:19:28
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Done with the music stuff.
00:19:29
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You want to talk about running together?
00:19:31
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Sure.
00:19:31
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Because that's motivating.
00:19:32
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Yeah.
00:19:33
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We don't do it a lot.
00:19:34
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No.
00:19:34
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We definitely do it on race days.
00:19:37
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We do it on the 10K.
00:19:38
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I think we've run every single 10K together.
00:19:40
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Yeah.
00:19:40
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We've done a few halves together.
00:19:42
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We've done all of our marathons together.
00:19:45
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And so why is that motivating for you?
00:19:47
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is i mean i know it can be intense and and whatever but is it how is that motivating for you to run with with somebody well for me specifically when i'm exhausted and i want to take a walk break you're like we can go longer come on let's go i don't really love it in the moment but um you shot me some daggers that is correct yes
00:20:07
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But no, I love it.
00:20:09
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I think like, especially on the marathon, I mean, that at 26 miles, that's a long way to go.
00:20:15
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I honestly don't know.
00:20:17
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I mean, I could do it by myself.
00:20:19
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There would be a lot more walking involved, but like the pace that I want to go, I have to do it with you.
00:20:25
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Like we've got to do it together and it's fun to do it together because then it's like something that we accomplished together.
00:20:30
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Yeah, so you get to that two-hour mark of like a half marathon.
00:20:34
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Yeah.
00:20:34
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And you've kind of, you know, you don't mind doing it by yourself.
00:20:37
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Right.
00:20:37
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If you're running it by yourself.
00:20:38
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Yeah.
00:20:39
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And you can tolerate it and all that stuff.
00:20:41
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But when you start pushing four hours.
00:20:43
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Yeah.
00:20:43
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Four and a half, then you're, you know what I mean?
00:20:45
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Like all of a sudden, it's a lonely experience.
00:20:48
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Like mile 19 to 22 is like terrible.
00:20:52
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Yeah.
00:20:52
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And you need a buddy.
00:20:53
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Yeah.
00:20:54
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And you don't know this, but like you pick me up when we do those marathons because there are times when I'm like,
00:21:01
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why are we even doing this?
00:21:03
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And you, you bring me along in those moments because for some reason you're not tired at those times when I am.
00:21:09
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Yeah.
00:21:10
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But then when you're tired, I'm like, Hey, look at Hill.
00:21:13
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Yay.
00:21:13
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We get to run a hill.
00:21:14
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And you're like, I'm going to kill you.
00:21:15
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Because you're a three on the Enneagram.
00:21:17
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I am an achiever.
00:21:19
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That's right.
00:21:20
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I got it.
00:21:21
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So while we talk about, like, obviously we run together a lot.
00:21:23
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And also one of the things we also do, if you have a spouse or a partner, you know, friend, sibling, whatever at home, that's not a runner, we walk together a lot.
00:21:34
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Yeah.
00:21:34
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And that, I call that time on your feet.
00:21:36
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And that's super important.
00:21:38
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I mean, evening, sometimes in the morning, take the dog, like don't discount that that's actually helpful for your training.
00:21:47
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Right.
00:21:47
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Yep.
00:21:48
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Uh, it doesn't replace a run fully, you know, but, uh, especially if you just couldn't get a run in, then, then a walk is better than nothing.
00:21:56
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Um, but we do, we do our run and a walk generally.
00:21:59
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And we usually do those walks together.
00:22:01
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Yeah, totally.
00:22:02
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Um, I've started running with a, and this is new for me, a running group, a friend invited me cause he's like, Oh wow, you run a lot.
00:22:09
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Uh, you want to come join us for a running group.
00:22:11
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And you know, that awkward thing where you show up to a new group that you're not part of yet and you have to like,
00:22:17
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you know, be the awkward, you know, like, Hey, everybody, you overdo it.
00:22:20
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Right.
00:22:20
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You're like, Hey everybody, I made you, you know, and you're trying to land there like chill out there, pal.
00:22:25
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You know what I mean?
00:22:26
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Um, and, or you do the opposite, right?
00:22:28
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You're like the quiet one in the corner.
00:22:30
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That's me.
00:22:31
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Yeah.
00:22:31
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So, um, anyway, I've joined these, uh, this group, they all live near us and they go out every Saturday or Sunday and they go do eight, nine, 10 miles, something like that.
00:22:41
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And, um,
00:22:42
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interestingly, because I don't know them really well yet, I've been kind of talking to them.
00:22:46
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Anyway, I get to the end of eight miles and like, I'm like, oh, the run is already over.
00:22:50
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Yeah.
00:22:50
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Um, and they don't, they don't run really, really hard so you can talk and whatever.
00:22:57
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I think that's a matter of perspective.
00:22:58
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Yeah.
00:22:59
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They told me what the pace was when they asked me, you know, invited me to the group.
00:23:03
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I would not be talking at that pace.
00:23:05
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It's fine.
00:23:05
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Let's not talk pace.
00:23:07
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So anyway, if you have an opportunity to run in a running group, it's awkward in the beginning.
00:23:12
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And if it's a good running group,
00:23:15
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like this one, there are really fast runners.
00:23:18
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There's medium runners and there's some slower runners that they might run three or four miles and then they slowly fall off and whatever.
00:23:24
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And there's no judgment.
00:23:26
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Right.
00:23:26
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And I think that's the biggest thing why people don't want to do a running group or whatever is you just don't want the judgment or the, you know, you feel like you can't keep up or whatever.
00:23:34
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It's a good, if it's a good group, then I, then I would say do it.
00:23:38
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They have this thing, they call it a flash to back, I think is what they call it.
00:23:42
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Something like that.
00:23:43
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And it's literally the people in the front,
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go to the back and the people in the back are now in the front and it keeps the pace varying or whatever and yeah and everybody together so anyway that's just it's a motivator yeah if you're looking if you're a social person do that for sure yeah
00:24:02
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Um, Erica, you want to talk about local races?
00:24:04
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We've kind of built these sometimes into our training in terms of like, um, having something to look forward to along those 19 or 26 or however many weeks we have to marathon or half marathon, whatever it is, we find races at the appropriate distance at the appropriate time.
00:24:21
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You want to just talk about that experience?
00:24:22
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Yeah.
00:24:23
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And why that works for us or has worked for us.
00:24:25
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Yeah, sure.
00:24:26
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So in the beginning, we did the nights of lights or whatever, where you like basically run through the Christmas light display.
00:24:33
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Most people are like on a little tram, but there's a group of people that run through it.
00:24:37
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Yeah.
00:24:38
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And that was super exciting for us when we first started.
00:24:40
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We were like, we did a 5K.
00:24:42
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Is it a 5K?
00:24:43
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I think that one's a 10k.
00:24:44
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Is it a 10?
00:24:45
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Which is why we might have been so impressed with ourselves.
00:24:47
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I don't know.
00:24:47
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We were so excited.
00:24:49
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It was our first 10k.
00:24:50
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Yeah.
00:24:51
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But we had built up to that time.
00:24:53
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We'd never run that distance before, which is six miles.
00:24:56
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Yeah.
00:24:56
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We'd never run that distance.
00:24:57
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So our first time to run 6.2 miles was in an official race.
00:25:01
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And it made that achievement feel bigger.
00:25:04
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Yeah.
00:25:05
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Right.
00:25:05
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Yeah.
00:25:05
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So you get to run with other runners.
00:25:07
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Yep.
00:25:08
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There's a little bit of the hype of a race weekend, which is, you know, can get you motivated.
00:25:11
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I have a medal from that race.
00:25:12
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Yeah.
00:25:13
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Yeah, totally.
00:25:14
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And then as you get closer to marathon weekend or whatever, whatever the weekend is, the longer distances, you know, when you're, you look at your calendar and you're like, okay, this weekend I'm running 19 miles.
00:25:24
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Like where do I even go to run 19 miles in our town?
00:25:28
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I mean, there's lots of options, but if you can find a local race to sort of build that training in too, then it makes it go by quicker.
00:25:35
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I think I did a half marathon one time where it was a 19 or something mile day.
00:25:41
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And the half marathon was only 13 miles, obviously.
00:25:44
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And I think I either drove to the race, ran the race and kept running.
00:25:50
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You did.
00:25:50
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You like grabbed your medal and kept running.
00:25:52
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That's right.
00:25:53
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Yeah, yeah.
00:25:53
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I think I thought about running to the race and then running it, but I thought...
00:25:57
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Normally run there, wait in the corral, and that's not going to work.
00:25:59
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No, that wouldn't be good.
00:26:00
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By the way, we say corral a lot.
00:26:02
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A corral is where you basically, they hold you and you wait for the race to start.
00:26:08
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If the race is big enough, there'll be multiple corral, considered like a pin or a...
00:26:14
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holding area or whatever.
00:26:15
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And you'll get assigned at large races to a corral based off your time or based off of whatever their criteria is.
00:26:22
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So we say corral a lot.
00:26:23
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That's all it is.
00:26:24
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A, B, C, D, E, you're going to get assigned one based off of whatever their criteria is.
00:26:30
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So I didn't want to wait in the corral having just run a few, you know, whatever miles.
00:26:34
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You don't want to stop.
00:26:35
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Yeah.
00:26:35
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So yeah, that's right.
00:26:36
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You're right.
00:26:37
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I did the half marathon or is it 15K, something like that.
00:26:40
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Yes.
00:26:41
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Literally came through the finish chute.
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grabbed my medal and kept running shoved it in my backpack and kept going.
00:26:48
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Yeah.
00:26:48
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Yeah.
00:26:49
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Yeah.
00:26:49
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But I mean, it made that day a lot easier.
00:26:51
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Oh yeah.
00:26:52
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Totally.
00:26:52
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Cause you know, I got a medal for it.
00:26:54
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I think I did grab a banana too when I came through.
00:26:56
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So yeah, find a race to make the, the 19 weeks of training or whatever.
00:27:01
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Not quite so long.
00:27:03
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Totally.
00:27:03
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Um, I didn't, you know, try and time it.
00:27:06
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Anything else on running a race in your training program?
00:27:09
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I would also say in that, like, don't go run a race full out.
00:27:13
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No.
00:27:13
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Like use the race as an opportunity to practice, be around other people or just get a medal.
00:27:19
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Don't use it as like a, now I need to get a personal record during my training.
00:27:24
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That's not what I'm saying.
00:27:25
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Yeah.
00:27:25
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Okay.
00:27:26
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Anything else on that?
00:27:27
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No, I don't think so.
00:27:28
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Tracking your progress is another great way to stay motivated.
00:27:31
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What do you do to stay, you know, to kind of track things?
00:27:33
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Yeah.
00:27:34
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So I typically, before we start training for a race weekend, I will make like a giant poster board or something of the sort.
00:27:43
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Um, and I will put on there all of our runs.
00:27:45
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Um, now I'll put all of my strength training and then each day I'll just check it off.
00:27:49
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And then I'd like to write my like average mile pace so I can see sort of
00:27:55
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Is it like a calendar grid kind of vibe?
00:27:57
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:58
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And so you put your results from that run or whatever on there?
Tracking Progress and Community Support
00:28:01
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Yes, what I'm supposed to do and then what my average mile pace was.
00:28:04
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So that you can look at it and see progress.
00:28:07
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Correct, yes.
00:28:08
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I also use an app called Train Heroic, which is something that I do with my physical therapist.
00:28:13
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And so on that app, he tells me what I'm supposed to do that day, what exercises.
00:28:19
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I can log all of my weights for strength training.
00:28:21
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Okay.
00:28:22
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And then I log everything, like my heart rate, the temperature outside, especially in the summer, because that will make a big difference in your overall time.
00:28:30
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Yeah.
00:28:31
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So you can look at it and say, man, I was slow.
00:28:34
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Oh, look, it was 96% humidity and 110 degrees.
00:28:37
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So then you're not beating yourself up.
00:28:39
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You know there was a factor.
00:28:40
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Yes, yes.
00:28:42
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How much time I spent in each heart rate zone, because that's a new thing for me.
00:28:46
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So it's a great place for me to keep track of everything that I can go back and look and see.
00:28:51
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Awesome.
00:28:51
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Yeah.
00:28:52
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I do like your big poster board you got going on.
00:28:54
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Yes.
00:28:55
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It's pretty good.
00:28:56
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I kind of just, you know, I wear my Garmin and my Garmin has a great app.
00:29:02
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I like it where it saves all the data.
00:29:04
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Right.
00:29:04
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But I can go back and see all those.
00:29:06
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It's not like a great big spreadsheet like you've got going on on the wall.
00:29:09
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But I can go back and look.
00:29:10
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And what I've done is I've gone back to compare Disney races, interestingly, to like compare the courses because it tracks my course.
00:29:17
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So I can go and see that, hey, the princess course or the half marathon course at half marathon weekend is easier on my body than the wine and dine one because I see that my heart rate zones, wherever there's more hills.
00:29:29
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You know what I mean?
00:29:30
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Like I can see.
00:29:31
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So I don't, I'm not a data nerd in general, but I actually like.
00:29:34
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Yeah.
00:29:35
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I do that.
00:29:35
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And I kind of like you're talking about, I look at my heart rate.
00:29:38
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I look at the weather.
00:29:39
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I look at all these things to kind of just see like, what is it that's working and not working in my training?
00:29:45
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And then anytime I get faster, like just knowing that there's data to back it up and it's not me thinking I'm going faster or thinking I'm going slower because sometimes you just feel like you're not moving at all.
00:29:58
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It turns out the reason you feel like that is because it's easier to
00:30:02
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You know what I mean?
00:30:03
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And now you're like, you know, you're flying.
00:30:05
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You just don't know it.
00:30:06
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Right.
00:30:06
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So I like to use that.
00:30:08
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Strava is another one that a lot of runners use.
00:30:11
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It's got a little bit of an intimidating factor.
00:30:13
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Let me be honest.
00:30:14
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Cause you can give like, they call them kudos to other runners.
00:30:16
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Right.
00:30:17
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And then you see people posting on there like serious things.
00:30:20
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you know serious whatever so you get a little bit of that like oh do i um what's the word i'm thinking of imposter syndrome right i feel like with strava um but my running coach he likes to see all my stuff on strava yes and so i'm like oh shoot okay but it is i mean it's a cool app like i remember that once we went on a run together and you're like i'm not gonna log that i need to leave this right now before clay sees it
00:30:42
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because I was so much slower than you normally go.
00:30:45
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Oh, I went at your pace and didn't want him to know?
00:30:47
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Yes, yes.
00:30:47
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That's pretty funny.
00:30:49
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Yeah, I did not know about the train heroic one that you use.
00:30:53
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Yeah, it's basically like personal training slash physical therapy.
00:30:57
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Let's wrap this up.
00:30:57
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this episode up, Erica.
00:30:59
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Last thing I think, well, there's two more things, but last thing I use is, I actually kind of, not consistently enough, I wish I did, is a journal.
00:31:07
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Races, I always do.
00:31:09
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I write down, this is how the race went.
00:31:11
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This is the parts I like.
00:31:12
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This is the part I don't like.
00:31:13
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I just do it on my phone, right?
00:31:15
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And I just write in a note and this is how it went.
00:31:18
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I really wish I was more consistent with on a, on my normal runs.
00:31:23
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This is how I'm feeling.
00:31:24
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This is what I wish I could do better.
00:31:26
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This is where I fell apart, things like that.
00:31:29
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But I do like that.
00:31:30
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I have some background data on, on a lot of my runs, uh,
00:31:35
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Because again, I can go back and look and be like the progress, like you don't sometimes realize the progress.
00:31:40
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Right, right.
00:31:41
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Until you go back and you read it and you're like so excited to reach a certain milestone.
00:31:46
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Like you mentioned the 10K we ran.
00:31:48
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Yeah.
00:31:48
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That was a huge deal to us.
00:31:49
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Do you remember?
00:31:50
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Because it was such a big deal to us.
00:31:52
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We went and carb load, like celebrated at a Mexican restaurant.
00:31:56
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I remember.
00:31:57
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And ate everything in sight.
00:31:59
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Yeah.
00:32:00
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Because it was our first long race.
00:32:02
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Yeah.
00:32:03
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And I'm not discounting it.
00:32:04
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But at the time we'd never run that.
00:32:07
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So we burned at that time, like 700 calories.
00:32:09
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Yeah.
00:32:10
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And we thought we can go eat anything we want.
00:32:13
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So we went and ate 2000 calories of Mexican.
00:32:16
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Right.
00:32:17
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You could do that after a marathon.
00:32:19
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But I love that we have that.
00:32:20
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Right.
00:32:21
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Like kind of in our memory bank and stored.
00:32:24
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Totally.
00:32:25
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You know what I mean?
00:32:25
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It was such a big deal to us that we went out and celebrated.
00:32:28
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Yeah.
00:32:28
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Yeah.
00:32:29
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And I think that's worth remembering.
00:32:31
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It's worth documenting.
00:32:32
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Do you journal in any way or is it your board?
00:32:34
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Like, how do you?
00:32:35
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Yeah, I would say that it's probably my whiteboard or my, you know, yeah, my board or my app.
00:32:41
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Another thing I like to keep track of in there is like my run, walk, run combinations.
00:32:46
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So I was saying on a previous podcast that like I kind of mess around with like how long do I run versus how long, you know, how many walk breaks am I taking?
00:32:53
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Today's run, I ran like 10 minutes without ever taking a 30 second walk break.
00:32:58
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I just like to play around with it.
00:32:59
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And so I like to have that logged as well.
00:33:01
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I see.
00:33:01
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Because sometimes when you're having a bad day and you're like, oh, I had to take so many walk breaks.
00:33:06
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Like, and you're just convinced in your mind that your time is going to be total trash, but then it's really not.
00:33:10
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So I like to keep track of that as well.
00:33:12
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I don't like it, but I also do like, like with my Garmin or whatever, having those really bad runs in there because it reminds me that not every run is a great run.
00:33:22
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Absolutely not.
00:33:23
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And it's actually not really supposed to be.
00:33:25
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Right.
00:33:25
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You know what I mean?
00:33:26
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Like you have to work through some stuff.
00:33:28
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You have to struggle.
00:33:29
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You have to grow.
00:33:30
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You have to get stronger.
00:33:31
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Yeah.
00:33:31
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And if every run is easy breezy, where's the, you're not growing in that.
00:33:35
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Right.
00:33:36
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Yeah.
00:33:36
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And so I like having the data.
00:33:38
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Yeah, totally.
00:33:39
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Yeah.
00:33:40
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Okay, let's wrap this thing up.
00:33:41
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There's another thing that people use to get motivated a lot, I see.
00:33:45
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And it's not for, I'm not against it.
00:33:48
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And I just don't find myself using it.
00:33:50
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And that is that there's a huge community of like Facebook groups.
00:33:54
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And like I mentioned, the Rise and Run podcast, their community group is incredible.
00:33:59
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People encouraging other people.
00:34:01
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Maybe it's because you and I are both runners, so we have a support system within the same house.
00:34:06
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You know what I mean?
00:34:07
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Maybe that's why we don't log on there all that much.
00:34:10
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But people, absolutely, especially if you don't have runners in your life, like join one of these Facebook groups because they're very encouraging and motivating.
00:34:20
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Totally.
00:34:20
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Or someone will say, this is what I did today and it was really hard, and you encourage them.
00:34:25
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Mm-hmm.
00:34:26
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In turn, you don't even know it, but, you know, now you feel a certain way.
00:34:30
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So that's it.
00:34:31
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That's just another resource.
00:34:32
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Yeah.
00:34:33
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All right.
00:34:33
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We talked about several ways we stay motivated, distracted, entertained.
00:34:38
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Anything else you want to share before we wrap this thing up?
00:34:40
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I kind of just want to get a training update from you if you've got a training update.
00:34:44
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So do you have anything else to share, first of all?
00:34:45
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No.
00:34:46
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Okay.
Erica's Progress and Episode Conclusion
00:34:48
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Why don't you give us a training update?
00:34:49
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How's your training going?
00:34:51
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Training's going good.
00:34:52
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My time is getting better every week, which is good.
00:34:57
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Especially after having come off of a two-month no-run period.
00:35:01
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It's kind of a starting over.
00:35:03
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So that's been encouraging.
00:35:05
Speaker
It is so hot and humid.
00:35:07
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I feel like we say this every episode, but it is just hot.
00:35:11
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And I know the rest of the country is hot too.
00:35:13
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I get it.
00:35:13
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I get it.
00:35:14
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It's not just us.
00:35:14
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It's the humidity.
00:35:15
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Yeah, I get it.
00:35:16
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For sure.
00:35:17
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And then, I mean, it would not be a run Disney season without some sort of injury, right?
00:35:24
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So this season I'm running super strong.
00:35:27
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My legs feel good.
00:35:28
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I haven't had any injuries.
00:35:30
Speaker
And then the other day I was wearing shoes.
00:35:33
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Okay.
00:35:34
Speaker
I have learned my lesson because I have broken several toes over the last few years.
00:35:37
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And so now I don't walk around our house with those shoes on.
00:35:40
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I was wearing shoes.
00:35:41
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I also did kick a two by four.
00:35:43
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So I was like, are you kidding me?
00:35:48
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Uh, so I don't think my toe is broken.
00:35:51
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The toenail is completely black.
00:35:53
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So gross.
00:35:54
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But we'll save it for another episode because this is getting long and we've got to get out of here.
00:35:58
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But we'll need to share the stories of how many toes you've broken.
00:36:03
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It's ridiculous.
00:36:04
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Yep.
00:36:04
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Save it.
00:36:05
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Save it.
00:36:05
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Save it.
00:36:05
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Leave us with something inspiring, Erica.
00:36:07
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Get us out of here.
00:36:08
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What, you know, we've talked about being motivated and inspired.
00:36:11
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You got anything encouraging for us?
00:36:13
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Say something cheesy.
00:36:14
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Something cheesy.
00:36:15
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I would say the only bad run is the one that didn't happen.
00:36:19
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Totally.
00:36:19
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So get out there, do your training.
00:36:21
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If you find yourself on the weekend doing a long run and you feel like you physically cannot run another step, just walk, just speed walk for, you know, a little bit, um, the miles being on your feet for the miles.
00:36:34
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That's what matters.
00:36:35
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So just don't skip the run.
00:36:36
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Just get out there and do it.
00:36:38
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That's right.
00:36:39
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Love it.
00:36:39
Speaker
Thank you guys for listening to this episode of the podcast.
00:36:42
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Again, we're AJ and Erica.
00:36:43
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We're so thrilled to be a part of your journey.
00:36:45
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If you've got questions or anything like that, absolutely email us, send us a message, anything like that.
00:36:50
Speaker
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00:36:51
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00:36:56
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00:37:04
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So anyway, thanks again for listening and we will catch you next week.
00:37:13
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00:37:17
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00:37:22
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