WEBVTT - How the 2026 United Airlines NYC Half Champions Conquered the Course 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.600 Hey everybody. I'm Olympian Carrie Tollefson alongside Kyle Merber, and 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.840 we are so excited to have the post- race interviews 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.320 on Set the Pace Podcast. And also today we're just 0:00:16.380 --> 0:00:19.560 celebrating this awesome event that we had. The United Airlines 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.919 NYC have 30, 000 people through the streets of New York. 0:00:23.100 --> 0:00:25.079 Kyle, you live right here. You know how big of 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:25.739 a deal it is. 0:00:25.739 --> 0:00:29.730 I mean, if you're going to come up and get early 0:00:29.730 --> 0:00:31.560 in the morning, you might as well have a shutdown Time 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:32.310 Square to run through. 0:00:32.370 --> 0:00:32.370 Exactly. 0:00:32.370 --> 0:00:32.880 That's the best way to do it. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.281 Go over Brooklyn Bridge, do all the cool things. 0:00:35.281 --> 0:00:38.760 I mean, the thing I just love about this course and 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.979 this version of it is you really just see the 0:00:40.979 --> 0:00:44.640 whole city. And everyone's out watching. We had, I would 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.000 say solid weather today. We could deal with it. Some 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.490 fans out there. There was no rain, which I think 0:00:50.490 --> 0:00:51.930 in March in New York we're going to take as 0:00:51.930 --> 0:00:52.290 a big win. 0:00:52.290 --> 0:00:53.880 Yeah, it was chilly. There was some wind. A lot 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.300 of people said the FDR, there was wind, but they 0:00:57.300 --> 0:00:59.190 were pretty pleased with it. I think a lot of 0:00:59.190 --> 0:01:01.620 people were wondering if Harry Styles was out there like 0:01:01.620 --> 0:01:03.030 incognito, but we didn't see him. 0:01:04.020 --> 0:01:06.179 Yeah. I mean, he might've been in that front pack. It sounds 0:01:06.180 --> 0:01:07.950 like things are going quite well with his training these 0:01:07.950 --> 0:01:10.830 days. But no, I mean, it was really great races. 0:01:10.830 --> 0:01:13.500 And the thing that I love about the New York 0:01:13.500 --> 0:01:15.900 Half and the New York Full is it's racing. It 0:01:15.900 --> 0:01:18.480 is not about the clock here. It is about beating 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.330 the other people on the course. And I think particularly 0:01:21.330 --> 0:01:23.819 in that men's race, we saw that it was a 0:01:23.819 --> 0:01:24.660 true race. 0:01:24.690 --> 0:01:28.410 Yeah, huge pack all the way until we saw Adriaan Wildschutt. We're going 0:01:28.410 --> 0:01:30.690 to figure out exactly how to say his name. I 0:01:30.690 --> 0:01:32.940 say Wildschutt, but you don't. 0:01:32.940 --> 0:01:33.179 I say Wildschutt, but he's going to correct us. 0:01:35.370 --> 0:01:38.130 Yeah, exactly. We can't wait, but what an awesome race 0:01:38.130 --> 0:01:40.350 there. Then an event record by Hellen Obiri. She's in 0:01:40.350 --> 0:01:42.420 the house. But we're going to kick off the podcast 0:01:42.420 --> 0:01:45.840 with our two wheelchair champions. So let's bring on in 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:46.770 Daniel Romanchuk. 0:01:46.890 --> 0:01:49.650 A huge welcome back to the scene. We believe that 0:01:49.740 --> 0:01:53.400 this is your third title now, Daniel. So congratulations. We're 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.170 only a few hours after the race. How's it feel? 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.740 Oh, thank you. It's great to be here. Really great 0:01:58.740 --> 0:02:02.100 to be back in New York. Actually, both my sister 0:02:02.100 --> 0:02:08.700 and brother- in- law also ran today. So it's just amazing 0:02:08.700 --> 0:02:12.239 to be back on the start line because about six 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.870 months ago I had an injury that I didn't know 0:02:15.870 --> 0:02:18.720 whether I would be back on the start line at all. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.630 Yeah. I guess for those who maybe aren't familiar with 0:02:21.630 --> 0:02:24.900 the story, can you give a brief oversight of what 0:02:24.900 --> 0:02:28.829 exactly happened? And I guess, does that change your perspective 0:02:28.830 --> 0:02:30.419 now when you're racing again? 0:02:31.169 --> 0:02:36.060 Certainly. Again, just thankful to be back on the start 0:02:36.060 --> 0:02:39.780 line again. And so yeah, I was in the Sydney 0:02:39.780 --> 0:02:44.340 Marathon and a pedestrian crossed the course right in front 0:02:44.340 --> 0:02:51.060 of me. I ended up crashing, dislocating and fracturing my 0:02:51.060 --> 0:02:56.609 shoulder. But again, really just thankful to be back. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.760 Daniel, before we get into your post- race interview, which 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.550 was quite emotional, and you could see being away from 0:03:02.550 --> 0:03:04.470 the sport has been hard, and it is for all 0:03:04.470 --> 0:03:06.780 of us athletes. But walk us through your race a 0:03:06.780 --> 0:03:11.280 little bit, because you weren't off the line first. There 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.290 were quite a few of you in the very beginning 0:03:13.290 --> 0:03:16.650 stages, but man, you won by a large margin and 0:03:16.650 --> 0:03:18.091 looked so good. So tell us about your race. 0:03:18.091 --> 0:03:23.579 Yeah. So beautiful weather conditions this morning, nice and dry. 0:03:26.010 --> 0:03:26.011 Yeah. 0:03:26.011 --> 0:03:29.130 And so getting off the start's a pretty big pack of 0:03:29.130 --> 0:03:35.760 us. It's a pretty big downhill at first. And really 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.220 that we stayed as a pretty big pack all the 0:03:38.220 --> 0:03:44.220 way up Flatbush, back down Flatbush, into Prospect Park. And 0:03:44.220 --> 0:03:47.760 then during one of the climbs in Prospect Park, I 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.390 decided to try and break away a little bit and 0:03:51.870 --> 0:03:57.630 wasn't sure whether that would be my final breakaway or 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.410 if I'd get back into the pack or not. But 0:04:01.710 --> 0:04:06.180 I created a little bit of distance and said, " I'll 0:04:06.180 --> 0:04:11.940 see... How long can I hold this?" And just was 0:04:11.940 --> 0:04:14.250 able to hold it the whole way, thankfully. 0:04:14.370 --> 0:04:17.790 Given the break, did that play into your mindset today 0:04:17.790 --> 0:04:21.539 from a strategy standpoint? Let's start out a little bit 0:04:21.540 --> 0:04:24.779 more conservative, see what we're like? How's the fitness, I 0:04:24.779 --> 0:04:27.540 guess, in training been? And how has that played into 0:04:27.570 --> 0:04:29.040 the way that you actually attack the race? 0:04:29.190 --> 0:04:33.839 Yeah. Here at the United Airlines NYC Half is really one of our 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.690 first races of the season. And so it's a really great 0:04:36.750 --> 0:04:41.310 way to kind of see how winter training went. And 0:04:41.310 --> 0:04:44.520 so I've been on rollers all winter except for the 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.570 last month. I've been down in Florida getting some road 0:04:48.570 --> 0:04:52.230 time in before the season, but I was all alone. 0:04:52.230 --> 0:04:55.049 And so I really wasn't sure what to expect. 0:04:55.109 --> 0:04:57.240 What do you think is different though? I mean, coming 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.120 back from an injury, we're always a little bit different. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.640 So what did you do while you were rehabbing that 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.920 maybe has now made you an even better athlete? 0:05:05.370 --> 0:05:13.080 Oh, hard to say. It's really hard to say. I 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.250 think just a general mindset of while I've been through 0:05:17.430 --> 0:05:20.460 things is just to try to focus on things one 0:05:20.460 --> 0:05:26.100 day at a time, not get worked up with trying 0:05:26.100 --> 0:05:28.920 to look at the big picture and just focus on 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.529 one thing at a time, one day, what can I 0:05:31.529 --> 0:05:35.730 do today to build towards the future? 0:05:35.940 --> 0:05:38.640 Now, coming a few hours after the race, how does 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.010 the body feel after that sort of effort? Are you 0:05:41.010 --> 0:05:44.100 recovering well? And what do you do between now and 0:05:44.100 --> 0:05:47.040 the next one to really get ready? What do you 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:47.790 take away with it? 0:05:48.450 --> 0:05:54.180 Yes, certainly I'm heading back home to Champaign, Illinois and 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.260 going to start training with the team again. And so 0:05:58.260 --> 0:06:05.370 really just rest and fuel to recover. Yeah, get ready 0:06:05.370 --> 0:06:06.180 for the next race. 0:06:06.270 --> 0:06:08.520 We know you said you had family here, your wife's 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.890 here, your mom and dad are here, your sister, brother- in- 0:06:10.890 --> 0:06:13.260 law, but there was emotion. And I want to talk 0:06:13.260 --> 0:06:15.900 a little bit about that because Sam Ryan was with 0:06:15.900 --> 0:06:20.010 you on ABC and I mean, it was really, really 0:06:20.010 --> 0:06:22.260 cool to see how much you missed it. And I 0:06:22.260 --> 0:06:24.839 think Kyle and I miss it a lot. We're old and 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.960 slow now. So tell us a little bit about that 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.700 and then getting ready for Boston next. 0:06:30.029 --> 0:06:36.180 Yeah. And so certainly just with the injury and the uncertainty of 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:43.080 how racing would go in the future, there's been a 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:48.810 lot of uncertainty and really, again, just thankful to God 0:06:48.810 --> 0:06:51.270 for the opportunity to line back up on the start 0:06:51.270 --> 0:06:55.080 line with all the other racers that I've gotten to 0:06:55.080 --> 0:07:00.810 know over the years of racing and you're really thankful 0:07:00.810 --> 0:07:04.770 to have a large amount of family here as well 0:07:04.770 --> 0:07:05.339 to watch. 0:07:05.339 --> 0:07:06.930 Do you go party? Do you go do anything fun 0:07:06.930 --> 0:07:07.860 tonight, Daniel? 0:07:08.730 --> 0:07:10.320 We'll see. I don't know yet. 0:07:11.250 --> 0:07:14.910 Well, we really appreciate it and we're so excited. I was 0:07:14.910 --> 0:07:18.330 equally as emotional. I said off the front, of the 0:07:18.330 --> 0:07:20.790 top of the show this morning, we can't root for 0:07:20.790 --> 0:07:23.700 anybody in the media. But I said, I am so 0:07:23.700 --> 0:07:26.010 thankful to see the guy in red back and we 0:07:26.010 --> 0:07:28.920 are really excited for you and good luck in Boston 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:29.490 and beyond. 0:07:29.790 --> 0:07:30.300 Thank you. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:30.810 Thanks so much. 0:07:31.650 --> 0:07:33.690 All right. So now we are going to bring in 0:07:33.690 --> 0:07:37.740 our women's wheelchair athlete, but I mean, isn't Daniel just 0:07:37.740 --> 0:07:39.271 awesome? He's still right by us but you know? 0:07:39.271 --> 0:07:41.551 I have so many questions that I wanted to ask about- 0:07:41.551 --> 0:07:41.552 I know. 0:07:41.552 --> 0:07:47.850 - I guess the unknown, the technical side of the 0:07:47.850 --> 0:07:51.090 sport. And I guess, fortunately we have another athlete that we can pick her brain- 0:07:51.090 --> 0:07:54.510 Yeah. But also I think what is interesting about with 0:07:54.510 --> 0:07:58.170 Daniel is when they were racing in Sydney, for him 0:07:58.170 --> 0:08:01.320 to have that collision with someone from the sidelines, that's 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.920 a huge thing that he went through to... It wasn't 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.260 him that caused the injury. It was someone else and 0:08:08.100 --> 0:08:11.040 just a kind of a happenstance situation. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.230 It always makes you appreciate every start line that you 0:08:13.230 --> 0:08:15.510 make it to, but then after something like that, a 0:08:15.510 --> 0:08:16.290 little bit extra. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.200 Yeah, for sure. Okay. Well, we have our women's champion 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:24.180 today from the United Airlines NYC Half, Eden Rainbow- Cooper. Welcome. 0:08:24.690 --> 0:08:25.501 Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. 0:08:25.501 --> 0:08:28.680 I mean, congratulations. This is a big win. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.990 Yeah, I'm over the moon with it. I'm so excited to have won here. 0:08:32.610 --> 0:08:36.179 Yeah. You've had such a phenomenal 2025. I mean, I went 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.460 on air today, I went through all of your stats 0:08:38.460 --> 0:08:40.770 and it was like second year, fourth year, fifth year, 0:08:40.770 --> 0:08:44.370 whatever. I mean, just boom, boom, boom, right there. And 0:08:44.370 --> 0:08:48.540 you said you went home and after 2025, which wasn't 0:08:48.540 --> 0:08:51.540 too far ago, too far too long ago, you said, " I 0:08:51.540 --> 0:08:53.520 need to do something different. I need to put myself 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.950 in a different situation." And today you did. So tell 0:08:55.950 --> 0:08:56.790 us about your race. 0:08:57.270 --> 0:09:00.660 Yeah. I mean, I was up against Tatiana and she 0:09:00.660 --> 0:09:03.120 is an absolute beast. So I knew from the gun 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.030 that my way to get aways is go fast downhill. 0:09:06.030 --> 0:09:09.000 That's my strength and hope that I can get a 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.179 lead and maintain a lead. And yeah, I was able 0:09:12.179 --> 0:09:17.490 to do that and I really, really surprised myself today. This is 0:09:17.490 --> 0:09:19.230 a hard course and it's not always about the time, 0:09:19.230 --> 0:09:22.800 but 54 minutes here in a women's race, that's a pretty 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.890 fast time. So yeah, I'm over the moon with it. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.080 You ended up winning by six minutes, at which point... 0:09:28.170 --> 0:09:29.460 Six minutes. 0:09:29.550 --> 0:09:33.059 At which point in there, did you find a shortcut? 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.689 No. At what point in that race did you go, " 0:09:36.780 --> 0:09:38.578 Oh, I'm going to win this?" When did you know? 0:09:38.578 --> 0:09:39.300 When I saw the finish line. 0:09:40.140 --> 0:09:41.400 That late into the race? 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.450 Yeah. It's really difficult in wheelchair racing to see who's behind you. And 0:09:45.450 --> 0:09:47.850 I was mixed up with some of the men. So 0:09:47.850 --> 0:09:52.020 every time I looked around, there was someone lurking and 0:09:52.260 --> 0:09:53.970 I never know if that's a man or a woman 0:09:53.970 --> 0:09:57.360 or a hand bike or anything. So every race I 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.550 go to, it's only when I get across the finish that 0:09:59.700 --> 0:10:02.309 I can really go, wow, okay, now I can take 0:10:02.309 --> 0:10:04.230 in where I am and I can accept it. I 0:10:04.230 --> 0:10:08.250 had a moment around halfway. I thought, maybe I can 0:10:08.250 --> 0:10:10.290 do this, but for me, it's really important to shut 0:10:10.290 --> 0:10:12.420 that down and not get complacent with where I am. 0:10:12.929 --> 0:10:15.569 Tell us a little bit about your training and maybe 0:10:15.570 --> 0:10:18.030 it hasn't changed. Maybe it's just the mindset that has 0:10:18.030 --> 0:10:22.530 changed, but what makes you now believe that you deserve 0:10:22.530 --> 0:10:24.510 to be the one breaking the tape, not just being 0:10:24.510 --> 0:10:26.069 close to it, but breaking it? 0:10:26.670 --> 0:10:30.809 I think it's a strange feeling for me because I 0:10:30.870 --> 0:10:33.660 have spent the last three years racing against these incredible 0:10:33.660 --> 0:10:35.850 women that have been my idols since I first started 0:10:35.850 --> 0:10:39.839 wheelchair racing. And I still have those little fan girl 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.689 moments and sort of go, " Oh my gosh, I'm on 0:10:42.689 --> 0:10:46.440 the stand. It's Tatiana..." And it's only this year that 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.179 I kind of feel like I can really compete with 0:10:48.179 --> 0:10:54.329 them. And most of that is just experience, maybe sort 0:10:54.330 --> 0:10:58.590 of getting a little bit older, just taking it as 0:10:58.590 --> 0:11:01.110 it comes. But in terms of training, not much has 0:11:01.110 --> 0:11:04.949 changed. I've just got this newfound sort of confidence in 0:11:04.950 --> 0:11:08.550 myself and yeah, I'm ready to go and push the 0:11:08.550 --> 0:11:10.200 limits and find out what I can do. 0:11:10.470 --> 0:11:14.250 Was it 2024 Boston that you won? And I remember 0:11:14.250 --> 0:11:17.370 afterwards you didn't have a sponsor at the time. Tell 0:11:17.370 --> 0:11:21.120 us the status of that now and has life changed 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.080 since Boston? 0:11:23.309 --> 0:11:24.030 No, not really. 0:11:24.270 --> 0:11:25.589 Oh, come on. 0:11:26.370 --> 0:11:29.790 I'm still unsponsored. I'm lucky that I have a wonderful 0:11:29.790 --> 0:11:33.000 charity that's been supporting me, Get Kids Going! So I've 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.300 had some help from them, but I'm still working, I'm 0:11:36.300 --> 0:11:42.449 still training and doing it all myself. Yeah. So yeah. 0:11:42.660 --> 0:11:44.339 When you say working, what are you doing? 0:11:44.339 --> 0:11:47.970 I'm a digital marketer for a big construction company in the 0:11:47.970 --> 0:11:51.390 UK. So I wake up, I train, go to work, 0:11:51.690 --> 0:11:53.880 train again, then repeat every day. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.800 Does that give you a little bit of balance that 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.550 you're not only competing and training and having something else 0:11:59.550 --> 0:11:59.730 in life? 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.170 For sure. I think I'm only 24, so it's really important 0:12:04.170 --> 0:12:07.230 for me to not put everything into sport. I think 0:12:07.230 --> 0:12:09.929 just from a mental health perspective, to have something that 0:12:09.929 --> 0:12:12.929 I can come away from for a few hours and go, " 0:12:13.230 --> 0:12:16.770 Okay, this is a completely different world," is really, really 0:12:16.770 --> 0:12:17.400 helpful to me. 0:12:17.610 --> 0:12:19.650 Eden, do you feel like you're just getting started? I 0:12:19.650 --> 0:12:22.080 mean, we've seen you now for the last few years, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.829 but you look at your shipper who was, again, in 0:12:25.830 --> 0:12:28.230 this race and did great and he's won this race 0:12:28.230 --> 0:12:32.760 twice. He's my age. He's like 49 years old. Just 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.339 told the whole world how old I'm getting, but he's 0:12:35.340 --> 0:12:38.309 still in it and you're just starting. So do you 0:12:38.309 --> 0:12:41.459 feel like you have a long time still to get going 0:12:41.460 --> 0:12:43.920 here and to hopefully crack some more tapes? 0:12:44.370 --> 0:12:47.880 Absolutely. I think what we're learning about wheelchair racing, especially 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.360 in the road races, with age comes a lot more experience and a lot 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.830 more speed. We've got so many people breaking records everywhere 0:12:56.190 --> 0:13:00.570 that are sort of in their late 30s, 40s. So yeah, 0:13:00.570 --> 0:13:03.030 for me, I really hope that my career can span 0:13:03.179 --> 0:13:05.340 another 20 years, but just will take it as it comes. 0:13:06.179 --> 0:13:08.640 We know that you obviously have the speed. Talk about 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.829 that half distance. What do you take away from the 0:13:10.830 --> 0:13:14.820 half? Is it your favorite distance right now? What do you 0:13:14.820 --> 0:13:16.470 take away from the experience and what are you learning 0:13:16.470 --> 0:13:16.980 from today? 0:13:16.980 --> 0:13:22.500 Yeah, I really like a half. For me in my head, I go, " Ooh, a half's 0:13:22.740 --> 0:13:25.050 not too long. It's only an hour." So I can 0:13:25.050 --> 0:13:27.660 really just push my body to the absolute limit, like 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.130 max heart rate the whole way. Yeah. And today out there, 0:13:32.490 --> 0:13:34.709 I felt really, really good. And I thought, " Do you 0:13:34.710 --> 0:13:37.110 know what? I'm happy to push as hard as I 0:13:37.110 --> 0:13:40.050 can. And if I die at 20K and everyone overtakes 0:13:40.050 --> 0:13:42.510 me, so be it. I just want to find out what's 0:13:42.510 --> 0:13:44.340 possible." And the half is a really good place to do that. 0:13:44.340 --> 0:13:47.969 So we talk so much about times with us, runners 0:13:47.970 --> 0:13:51.090 that are in the half- marathon, but I don't see 0:13:51.090 --> 0:13:53.610 that you guys talk a lot about times in the 0:13:53.610 --> 0:13:56.880 wheelchair event. So do you have metrics that you wear? 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.770 Are you comparing that or is it just straight up 0:13:58.770 --> 0:14:00.780 like, which I love, all about the win? 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.189 It depends on your goal, but I will say that for us, our 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.690 times depends so much on the weather. There could be 0:14:09.690 --> 0:14:15.030 the difference in a half of 10 minutes from year to year. So I think for a lot of 0:14:15.030 --> 0:14:17.520 us, time isn't the only indicator of how well a 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.600 race is going. It can be so many different things. For 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.970 me today, my only goal was to have some good 0:14:23.970 --> 0:14:28.050 uphills. So that for me was like my main thing. And other 0:14:28.050 --> 0:14:30.720 people, it might be to improve their cornering, but yeah, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.570 I think times for us don't mean as much maybe 0:14:33.570 --> 0:14:34.231 as they do to months. 0:14:34.231 --> 0:14:34.531 Do you fuel in a half? 0:14:36.300 --> 0:14:41.760 Yeah, it depends, but so I tend to do a lot of pre-fueling, so I take like a pickle 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:42.090 shot before- 0:14:42.750 --> 0:14:43.950 Oh, okay. 0:14:43.950 --> 0:14:44.700 Not a pickle backshot. 0:14:47.730 --> 0:14:48.600 Maybe after. 0:14:50.460 --> 0:14:52.650 Because for me, that really helps with hydration and cramping. 0:14:53.550 --> 0:14:57.480 And then during the race, just carbs, carb drink. It's 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.810 difficult though because we have to carry everything ourselves. And 0:15:00.810 --> 0:15:03.150 if we drop something like that, that's gone, we can't 0:15:03.150 --> 0:15:07.080 get it back. So it's really important that we make sure 0:15:07.380 --> 0:15:09.480 we have enough fluid, but we're not taking too much 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.600 because of extra weight. So yeah, it's a little bit 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.040 more complicated for us than it seems. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.720 I feel very fortunate to have this opportunity to ask 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.280 some questions. Can I nerd out a little bit? 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:17.850 Yes. 0:15:18.990 --> 0:15:21.720 What is your warmup like for you? How do you get to the 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.360 start line? What's going on beforehand besides just drinking pickle juice? 0:15:25.710 --> 0:15:26.670 I'm going to be known for that now. 0:15:26.730 --> 0:15:26.820 Yeah. 0:15:26.820 --> 0:15:27.390 I know. 0:15:27.780 --> 0:15:34.770 So for me, I do a lot of stretching beforehand, just because we are condensed in those chairs. I 0:15:34.770 --> 0:15:36.990 don't know if you've ever tried kneeling and putting your 0:15:36.990 --> 0:15:39.090 back down for an hour or two hours, but it's 0:15:39.090 --> 0:15:41.670 not comfortable. So that's a big part for me. And 0:15:41.670 --> 0:15:43.710 then I like to have a long warmup. So I 0:15:43.710 --> 0:15:47.970 like to do like five, six, seven kilometers. Really get myself 0:15:47.970 --> 0:15:50.250 moving, get comfortable in the chair and stuff like that. 0:15:50.490 --> 0:15:52.229 So you go out to the start line and then 0:15:52.230 --> 0:15:54.360 you're doing your 5, 6, 7K? 0:15:54.630 --> 0:15:58.050 So a lot of it is beforehand, but it's just 0:15:58.050 --> 0:16:00.031 trying to get the body ready to go faster. Yeah. 0:16:00.031 --> 0:16:04.170 Do you do strides in the same way that runners 0:16:04.170 --> 0:16:06.330 would, like hit it really fast beforehand to prep the 0:16:06.330 --> 0:16:09.720 body or is it such a momentum, especially the way, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.739 I mean you close out, how warm are you on 0:16:13.740 --> 0:16:14.460 the start line? 0:16:14.670 --> 0:16:18.210 I mean, today we were pretty cold, I'll be honest. Today was pretty cold. So 0:16:19.410 --> 0:16:20.910 we sort of try and warm up as much as 0:16:20.910 --> 0:16:23.370 possible, but whereas some of the runners can sort of 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.860 run on the sport, jump up and down, once we're 0:16:25.860 --> 0:16:26.731 on the start line, we're on the start line. 0:16:26.731 --> 0:16:28.440 You don't want to get held. 0:16:28.530 --> 0:16:32.070 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But we can't move, we can't do anything. So 0:16:32.070 --> 0:16:35.010 it's important that you know sort of what your limit 0:16:35.010 --> 0:16:39.240 is beforehand. For me, I don't tend to do sort of 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.750 much stride stuff. It's just consistent pushing, my warm- up 0:16:42.750 --> 0:16:47.310 heart rate, just getting the body moving, getting it loose. 0:16:47.310 --> 0:16:51.300 But I know that so many people will do. Yeah, there's 0:16:51.300 --> 0:16:52.080 so many different things. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.590 But lots of gear. I mean, you guys have 3D 0:16:55.590 --> 0:16:58.050 printed gloves, some of you, some of you wear, I don't 0:16:58.050 --> 0:17:01.860 know the actual term, but like the plastic medical, like 0:17:01.860 --> 0:17:04.379 what the nurses wear and stuff. Yeah, you wear those 0:17:04.380 --> 0:17:07.020 kind of gloves. You have sandpaper sometimes. There is a 0:17:07.020 --> 0:17:08.340 whole thing that goes into it. 0:17:09.090 --> 0:17:13.409 Yeah. I think there's so much more that goes in than what people may realize. 0:17:13.410 --> 0:17:15.840 So a lot of people don't realize that we actually 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.230 kind of punch the push rim rather than grab it. 0:17:19.230 --> 0:17:22.980 So it's protecting our hands and you say the plastic gloves, 0:17:22.980 --> 0:17:28.170 yeah, we have 3D printed gloves. Some people don't. So there's so 0:17:28.170 --> 0:17:37.651 many different things, the chairs and wheels and tires. It's like you have a car that you're trying to prep for a race as well. 0:17:37.651 --> 0:17:37.652 Yeah. 0:17:37.652 --> 0:17:39.990 Coming out of the race now a few hours later, I'm thinking about tomorrow, what 0:17:40.260 --> 0:17:42.990 hurts the most? I guess is it your back? Is 0:17:42.990 --> 0:17:46.650 it your arms? Is it the hands? Are you just exhausted? What does 0:17:46.650 --> 0:17:47.370 tomorrow feel like? 0:17:47.970 --> 0:17:50.040 For me, it's actually my legs. So I have full 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.001 feeling in my legs, which a lot of people don't, but I (inaudible) 0:17:53.001 --> 0:18:00.090 when I could feel that and that's pretty painful for me. So if I didn't have 0:18:00.090 --> 0:18:02.250 full feeling in my legs, I'd probably do the ultras and stuff like that. 0:18:04.500 --> 0:18:07.980 But yeah, normally tomorrow I'll be a little bit battered, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.560 but for me a half is like not a training run, 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.200 but it's not so hard, so it's not too bad. But 0:18:16.619 --> 0:18:17.580 yeah, everything hurts after a marathon. 0:18:18.690 --> 0:18:19.950 So we're going to see you in Boston? 0:18:20.250 --> 0:18:20.609 Absolutely. 0:18:20.910 --> 0:18:21.960 And then what's after that? 0:18:22.050 --> 0:18:22.921 London, six days later. 0:18:22.921 --> 0:18:22.922 Oh my gosh. 0:18:22.922 --> 0:18:22.923 Oh, it's a tough- 0:18:22.923 --> 0:18:29.580 Here we go. Here we go. Oh, well, good luck to you. Congratulations. It was so 0:18:29.820 --> 0:18:31.080 fun to watch you race today. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:31.379 Thank you so much. 0:18:31.379 --> 0:18:39.119 All right. Well, now we move on to the men's winner of the United Airlines NYC Half. 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.380 And I'm excited to see if we are saying this right or if we're not. I said 0:18:43.380 --> 0:18:44.910 it the whole broadcast today. 0:18:44.910 --> 0:18:48.000 Based off the way that I think I heard some noise 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:49.379 from when I said my version. 0:18:49.410 --> 0:18:49.920 They laughed? 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:50.670 That it was not. 0:18:50.670 --> 0:18:56.130 Well, I don't care how we said it. This guy 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.720 performed awesome today. He sat for quite a ways. Then 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.420 he pushed, when I asked him beforehand what he wanted 0:19:03.420 --> 0:19:05.760 to do, he said podium. And then afterwards he said, " 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.280 I just wanted to win." So he didn't quite tell me 0:19:08.490 --> 0:19:10.170 that he wanted the win. He just said podium. 0:19:10.500 --> 0:19:11.699 Of course he wants to win. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.050 I know. I figured. 0:19:13.050 --> 0:19:14.429 Now he knows what he's doing in a half. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.859 Okay. All right. This is a winner. We want to 0:19:16.859 --> 0:19:18.810 hear exactly how to say your name, Adriaan. 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:19.619 Adriaan Wildschutt. 0:19:19.619 --> 0:19:23.158 Okay. So the W is... 0:19:24.750 --> 0:19:26.280 Like how we would say wilderness. 0:19:26.398 --> 0:19:27.119 I thought it was like... 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.780 Okay. There's no V. 0:19:30.810 --> 0:19:33.869 Sorry, Adriaan. I said Wildschutt and I thought I was sounding so good. 0:19:33.870 --> 0:19:39.750 So Adriaan, you like the half now, huh? I mean, 0:19:40.109 --> 0:19:42.420 you're two for two on having some really good ones. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.669 Did you feel now like with some experience on your 0:19:44.670 --> 0:19:48.030 belt coming into today, did you have a different mindset 0:19:48.030 --> 0:19:49.170 because you knew what you're getting into? 0:19:50.190 --> 0:19:54.419