WEBVTT - T.J. and Amy Tell All Tuesday 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.039 Welcome everyone to Amy and TJ. And yes, I'm starting 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.239 the podcast today. I'm probably not going to do a 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:11.800 great job of it because now I've built it up 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.200 where I'm not a good starter, but I'm going to 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.200 go for it anyway. All I have to say is 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.360 I'm very excited it's the last week of February. Maybe 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:22.040 that's not a good way to look at it, but 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.119 it's the shortest month of the year. But does it 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.160 always feel like the longest month of the year? 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:26.400 To you? 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.800 Great job starting, by the way, I felt we should 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:31.520 say that should thanks? 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:32.959 I need affirmation and validation. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.560 I'm Amy, I hate February over to you, TJ. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.720 I mean I'm trying to sell hope and you know, positivity. 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.600 Yeah yeah, with that picked me up. What was the 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.720 question again, you say I hate February? 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.240 Two was well kind of, But what I was basically 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.960 saying was, does the shortest day of the month feel 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.400 like the longest the shortest month of the year, sorry, 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.760 feel like the longest month of the year. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.520 Uh No, because Black History Month never feels like a 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.520 long month to me. It always just flies bah, which 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.360 I guess was by design, wasn't it? 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.000 Twenty eight days. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.720 Hey, we get twenty nine this year. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:15.760 Yeah, sleepier. Yeah, there's an extra person to celebrate in 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.319 Black History Month? And is that what they do? 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.679 We get an extra day, leapier black people are leaving 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.360 with joy? Oh no, please, just another This has been 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.520 a weird month for a whole bunch of reasons. Right, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.720 but in New York especially, it gets cold and everything 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.120 gets kind of miserable, and you just it's not just cold, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.160 it's that cold it makes you not want to step 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:35.080 a foot outside. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.720 Right, sucks and the sun doesn't shine that much. But anyway, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.320 onto something positive. This is something that we just were 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.800 talking about with Emma and Andrew here with us because 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.760 we all got excited about this. I feel like a 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:51.200 schoolgirl when I know that we get to have more 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:59.560 daylight this weekend we switch over. There's cloppying and smiles. Yay, 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.480 you don't get as excited about it, TJ. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:05.040 When does it happen again this weekend? Saturday weekend? 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.760 Yeah? Yeah, you go to sleep on Saturday and you 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.959 spring forward, so you lose an hour of sleep, which 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.400 I'm fully willing to give back to get that extra 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:15.000 hour sun. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.679 Okay, so this week you're telling me I get an 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.960 extra day for Black History and more sunlight. Yes, this 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.520 is a money week, is it not? 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:32.320 I just made February better, right, No, I'm kidding. So 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.040 a couple of updates. We I was. Yeah, last last 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.639 week we were proudly saying that we were on our 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.640 run streak. Hell us, the dbay inspired us to run 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.840 every day at least two miles. Wellout, a'll want. Last 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:51.440 week just got busy and then once we missed one day, 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.520 I was like, let's just stick to the hall Higden 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.760 regular scheduled run. We have like a running a training 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.639 program and you actually we print it out, we put 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.760 it up on the kitchen and we have run days 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.840 and he suggests or at least the plan suggests four 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.320 running days a week. So we did do the four 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.440 running day and that is what I had done before. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.480 Do you feel any different not running every day? 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.040 No, we were just so busy celebrating Black History that 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.519 we we missed a day of running. Oh yeah, I'm 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.079 a andy. This is a theme now. This is all 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.200 I'm about is a Black history. The extra day now 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.560 is all you're getting from me? So yes, I'm excited 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.240 about it all. What were we talking about? 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.960 We were talking about missing we are. We we ended 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.000 our running Strike Street. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.560 That was a that was that was legit. There was 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.240 some you know, life got in the way. I'm sure 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.880 we could have run it eleven night or something like that. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.800 So that was a way too. But it was a 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.880 weird day and you know, life was coming at us 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.880 for a whole host of reasons, and we used today 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.240 but we didn't. And as well, I would suggest nobody should. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.520 Don't beat yourself up about it. If your dry January, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.640 if you're a vegetarian and you had piece of meat, 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.720 what we got to give yourself a break, and it's okay, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.680 And we gave ourselves a break, It's okay. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.400 Yeah. And so yeah, this week we've got I think 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.520 we So the New York City Half Marathon, which we're 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.520 also excited about, is March seventeenth, I believe. So what 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.680 about three weeks from now. So this week we have 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.040 a five miler, a three mile er, a five mile, 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.239 and then we have our nine mile run this weekend. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:26.960 You ready for it? 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.520 Well, I hope I can recover in time from all 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.719 the celebrating I'm doing for the extra day of Black 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:33.400 History months. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:39.760 Oh my goodness. Also celebrating that my youngest Annaly's made 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.640 it back safe and sound in one piece from Berlin. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.560 So that was nice to welcome her back. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.719 She was not celebrating Black History Month well in Germany. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.599 In Germany, no, she was not. She was not, But 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.440 I think she was doing a lot of celebrating because 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.960 she came back very tired, but in one piece, and 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.960 that's all I ask at this point, and her passport 0:04:58.240 --> 0:04:58.919 was in to. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.880 And she came back. I mean, thank goodness she's back 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.480 in time. Since we have an extra day to celebrate Black. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.240 History mark, what will she do with all of that 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.040 celebration ahead of her for the next few days nowhere? 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.320 I'll get her out somewhere, all right. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.320 That's that's amazing. Also, you know I mentioned March March seventeenth. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:25.320 Isn't that the day that March Madness starts? Uh no, oh, oh, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.080 March nineteenth. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.560 There we go. So it's the same it's the same week, okay, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.240 playing games essentially, yes, but yes, that week is a 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:31.560 big one. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.599 So I last year was my first March with you, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:40.240 and we were in hiding seclusion at least, so I 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.200 got to really fully experience March Madness with you last year, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.599 but this year, am I wrong? Like basketball is already 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.239 taking over our lives? 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.440 Well, it happens when as soon as the college football 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.040 and the NFL season are over, the focus absolutely does 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.599 shift and now everybody's every game matters. Everybody's still trying 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.600 to get into the tournament. So yes, right now it 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.760 is intense, and they have all the airwork, so I 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.080 don't have to see time on Sunday or Saturday to 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.960 college football or NFL football. So it's a lot of 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:11.800 college basketball. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.400 So that's what was happening yesterday. I was on the 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.520 couch watching TJ watching basketball all day. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.360 Why are you gonna watch me? Watch it? Why don't 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:21.720 you watch it? Watch your TV? 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.000 I mean I glanced, but I did get a little board, 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.520 and so I thought it'd be fun to put a 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.359 little experiment out. Actually, I got the idea from my 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.440 from my cousin Nick, to see, hey, what what what 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.640 do our listeners want to hear from us or what 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.600 questions might they have for us? So I kind of 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.080 put it out on Instagram just to see what I 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.400 would get, and it was it was. It was fun 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.600 and there was a lot of themes to it because 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.520 everyone wanted to know about running. It seemed like that 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.599 was like the number one thing people wanted to ask about. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.960 But I was going to give credit to the first 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.560 person who responded on a DM to me and I 0:06:55.600 --> 0:07:01.280 loved I love her handle her Instagram handle lima bean casserole, 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.760 because castle roles have been a theme with us too, 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.960 So I just think it was funny that the first person. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.320 Has been a theme for you. This is not a 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:07.920 thing for us. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.920 Okay, fine, it's my midwestern white eyes. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:11.200 I get it. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.880 But lima bean castle. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:18.720 Role, so it made me laugh. Lima bean cast role 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.800 wants to know our health, wellness and diet information. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:23.440 Well, a lot of lima beans. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:25.840 Have you ever had a lima bean? 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.560 Yeah, that's why I know. I hate lima bean. It's 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:29.920 the only way I can know. And I've also had 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:34.680 a casserole. So she combined well she lima beans, squash, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.080 liver casserole. Let's throw all with guacamole. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.120 Sour cream and guacamole on top. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:40.800 Throw all the things I hate into one. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.600 So in terms of TJ's diet, he's a texture person. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.520 Yeah, I don't. I don't have a thing with like 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.720 pudding and whipped cream. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.960 And yogurt and any of it. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.400 Guacamole and alvocotte. Hate avocado. I hate it. So yes, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:56.080 I'm a texture. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.880 So he doesn't like anything creamy or whipped like whipped cream. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.320 He freaks out. The funny thing is he yucks my 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:06.480 m He's like, ew, that's what you say when I 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.160 put those things on my meal? 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.320 Makes me squirrel it, It makes me squirre. What's the 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.640 show Wipeout? We've been watching people watch wipe but we've 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.680 get caught up on all the old episodes. But they 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.200 started using foam and throwing like slime at people as 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.000 they go through the courses. And I have a more 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.080 difficult time watching the show because it sicks me out. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:24.800 He will see that. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.760 You will fast forward or say I can't watch it 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.840 anymore if there's slime. You just have a real issue 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.000 with textures. 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:33.360 I don't know what do you want for me? 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.120 So wait, what do you eat? Because Lima, being castrole, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:36.559 wants to. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.040 Know what sorts of training and whatnot, well. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.000 Just health, wellness and diet. Like a lot of people 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.439 asked us what we eat? How you know how how 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.800 we use food to incorporate just our running and all 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:46.439 of our fitness. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.680 I have always been a very good eater since college. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:54.520 So I am pretty much just fish and veggies. That's it. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.839 Pretty much. Don't have meat in my diet. I will 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.760 eat meat, like I said, I don't beat myself up 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.800 about it, but as far as my diet goes, my 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.160 meal is a Caesar salad with grilled chicken on a 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.600 grilled salmon on top, or maybe shrimp on top, or 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:16.240 it's a a Niewas salad with the tuna on it. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.320 And that's it. That's I mean, you're around me all 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.360 the time, that's all I eat. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.720 You're annoyingly healthy with your with your food because I 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.760 don't make the same good choices that you do. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:28.560 You know a baddie. I mean you throw some fried 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.720 chicken on top of a salad type of I mean 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.720 that sounds crazy, but you have it. I don't think 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.880 you're a terrible eating with us. We just don't incorporate 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.840 a lot of sugar, a lot of bread. And there's 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.520 no pasta like, no pasta, no. And I don't like 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.880 a potato of any kind on eat French fries. I 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.640 just it's not my work. Yeah. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.400 I know everyone's looking at you like wow, who is 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:49.000 this person. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:50.680 But the thing is it is not a matter of 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.080 being disciplined, is a matter of having habits. And I 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.240 was in college and I played ball for a couple 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.559 of years in the program at the University of Arkansas, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.320 and they had us on a particular diet. We're the 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.200 only carbs I got in life. They handed to me 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.640 from a refrigerator full of this liquid and say, here, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.320 that was my car So I got into a habit 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.000 of eating a certain way. So I don't even cross 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.560 my mind to want a French fry or a baked 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.440 potato or let's go get pasta tonight. It just it's 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.440 it's a routine into habit now. So more so for me, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.320 it's just of just how I am. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.240 Wow, Yeah, it's amazing to witness. I mean, he really doesn't. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.920 I mean I am the opposite. I mean I don't 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.920 do the sugar thing. I was keto for about I 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.440 mean really strictly keto for about five years, even longer. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.800 And I've let some carbs back in my life just 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.160 because of all of the training with running. It's hard 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.040 not to have some carbs. But we don't do bread, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:45.960 we don't French fries are my Achilles heel. And yes, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.440 chicken nuggets that I like to put into the air fryer, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.520 so I feel like they're slightly healthier if I cook 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.280 them that way, and then I put them on spinach 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.959 and you know, healthy things, and so that's how I justify. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.840 But yes, and I don't think we eat a lot. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.360 I think that's another thing, like we don't eat a 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:04.719 lot and we don't have. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.800 A lot of meals. I don't know how. I think 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.520 it was more the work routine I got into with 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.760 are you getting up that earth? I just missed. I 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.000 mean we were so busy at times. Sometimes it could 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.680 be two in the afternoon and you go, wait a minute, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.560 did I eat it? You honestly don't even feel hungry. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.760 And I think intermittent fasting. I can't explain a lot 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.360 of the health benefits, but I kind of fell into 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.520 doing it, and I think it may be beneficial. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.440 Yeah, I haven't eaten anything today yet, have you? 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:28.920 I have not? 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.319 Yeah, So I mean that's that's usually how I roll 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.040 as well. All right, So thank you Lima being cast role. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.560 That was fun. Christa wants to know if we are 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.319 still drinking beer after our morning runs now that it's 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:40.200 not dry January. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.600 I don't think you have a single time. And I 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.400 did once and I hated it. Yep, and here we 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.560 are where a month is almost out and it's just again. 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.560 You get into a routine, you get into different habits. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.480 And I even forced myself. I didn't really want one, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.240 I just let me try it out. I indeed I 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.000 haven't had another one. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.000 I just didn't taste did you, I saw you do. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.520 It just didn't taste good. Yeah, there you go with. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.800 The habits, right, we created a really good habit. So no, Krista, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.240 we are not drinking beer after our morning runs anymore. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.560 Pat wants to know how many times a week we 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:14.880 were running. I think we covered that. It's gotten less. Yes, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.520 it was fun though I did enjoy doing it for 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.280 one month. I think I'm going to do that next 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:19.440 January as well. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:20.959 I think we're going to pick it right back up. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.000 I think. Ye last week, which is a weird week 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.800 for a bunch of reasons, the kids are out of school, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.960 one is traveling, and yeah, being was all over the place, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.640 and yeah, I think, well I will get right back 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.400 on the streak. I would bet. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.040 I loved how I felt just doing the two much. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.400 It felt like at least if everything else went to 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.520 hell that day, at least you accomplished something that was good. 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.240 That's how I looked at it, all right. Kristin wants 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.959 to know what's on our vision board for the year. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.400 I don't know. Do you know, Emma? Do you know? Andrew? 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:54.400 It's essentially visuals that you can plan ahead of a year, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.520 ahead of a month, and they just kind of help 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.280 you focus on what you're trying to achieve. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.560 So do you actually cut out pictures and put them 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:02.520 up on a board or you. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.920 Can make it digital, or you can use words of inspiration, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.240 but it kind of like zones your mind and on 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.000 what you're focusing. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:10.559 Have you done this? Do you have one? 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.400 I use Pinterest as like a vision board like fashion. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.920 I don't know what's an example, what would you put 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.480 on a bit like I wouldn't even know for me. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.000 What would you could. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.000 Put like running goals like a marathon destination? 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.160 Okay, oh that's cool, all right. It's just another way 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:27.640 of saying, what are your goals for the year? Basically, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.240 but you visualize it and maybe manifest it that way. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.080 All right? So yeah, I mean, definitely a marathon is 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.959 online for sure, probably New York. We were talking. We're 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.880 throwing around Chicago yesterday as a possibility, and one of 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.400 these days I do want to do London, but I've 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.360 missed the book for this year because it's in April. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:53.040 That's on my vision board, and I just think just better, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.480 I just I want to. I just always trying to 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.400 be a better eater, a better person, a better mom, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.000 like all those things. But I think the only one 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.240 I could put up there would be a marathon, for sure. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:02.800 How about you? 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.880 I yes, after just yesterday spending time with your cousins, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.160 I think Chicago might go up on the board today 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:18.160 for me to pull off running those two marathons at 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.760 about a month apart, Chicago and New York. So that 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.840 might be on my board now. I think I didn't 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.040 realize it would have been. But I feel great when 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.920 we talked about George January. Just I've gotten into a 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.760 longer routine of cutting back on drinking that I probably 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.200 ever have in years previous, So that is actually great. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.920 Sabine stays on my vision board. I'm actually trying to 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.280 get her into running. I'm leaving here today and picking 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.520 her up some new running shoes, some new balance, yeah, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.800 and I got some relationship goals. I guess I would 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.760 put up on that board as well. Maybe both the 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.920 visual will be I don't know, a little chapel or something. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.000 Come on your co everybody got like really. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.200 Quiet call in my call you too. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.240 You know it's funny. Is Carmen Carmen not a question 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.000 for us? She just said she just wants us to 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:11.520 get married. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.280 Isn't the time of our commercer. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:25.920 B Yeah, and welcome back to the podcast. Uh So, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.320 last week I got a text from my mom on Thursday, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.160 I think, and she sent me a link to a 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.280 story that made my jaw drop And there was some 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.320 connections and that's why she sent it to me. To 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.680 the University of Georgia and running two things that I love. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.880 I love my alma mater and I obviously we both 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:50.200 love to run. And this awful story about Laken Hope Riley, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.280 who was murdered while she was running last week on 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.600 a a in an area that I know all too well. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.240 At the University of Georgia. She attended UGA through the 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.640 spring of twenty twenty three, and then she was going 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.960 to nursing school at Augusta University College, which the campus 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.200 is there in Athens, but she still was participating in 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.080 Uga activities, so she was there on campus. And you know, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.200 it's so hard for me to read the story because 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.840 she did everything right. You know, we talk about these 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.120 stories when you're a runner, and you're a woman, especially, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.440 you get this pit in your stomach when you hear 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.040 about someone suffering any kind of harm when they're just 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.920 doing something to improve their life and improve their body, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.080 feel the freedom of your own fitness, and it's just 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.920 so just heartrending to hear these types of stories. But 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.760 she did everything right. It was in the morning. She 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.680 was on a trail that was next to the intramural 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.120 fields there at Uga where lots of games and activities 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.960 are going on now. She was on a wooded path, 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.480 and you know those are always a little scary. I 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.360 think sometimes when I've done it, I think maybe this 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.280 is done. But you never think it's going to happen 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.520 to you. She told her friends where she was going. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.520 She always wore her Apple Watch, where I had her 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.800 location on her phone. She had her friends who could 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.720 see her location. And then when she didn't come back 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.280 when she normally would have her friend immediately called police. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.119 So you just look at everything that happened and you 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.800 just feel sick because she did everything right and still 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.240 the unthinkable happened. And you know, it's just a story 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:28.760 that shook me because it's always a reminder as a runner, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.240 and as a female runner, what's out there potentially. But 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.520 then this story, as I was following along, just took 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.080 a turn. And these are the stories that are tough 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.240 because you've got a victim, you've got the victim's family, 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.680 you've got real pain and real tragedy. And then some 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.480 stories get politicized, and this is one of them. I 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.320 know you've been reading up on it as well, TJ. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.760 I mean, the look the politics of it are not 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.120 going to touch that, but it's there. There have been 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.119 a lot of names, is that some people even remember, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.040 because maybe Molly Tippets might be the first one that 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.240 comes to mind out of Iowa. She was twenty eighteen, maybe, 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.840 But they are not that frequent, but when they happen, 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.919 they get a lot of attention, and they are always reminders, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.119 and people argue that we're having the wrong conversation and 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.480 we're directing it to the wrong group of folks. Like 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.639 we're directing it to women what they're doing right and 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.360 what they're doing wrong. If you want to go outside 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.359 whenever you want to run, at any time a day 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.399 or night, you should be able to be safe in 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.240 doing it. And there's not enough talk and the direction 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.800 of the penalties for what a lot of times stalking 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.960 these women, preying on these women, but oftentimes there are 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.560 just crimes of opportunity. So ha, you do everything right 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:54.040 and everything still goes wrong. It is a tall It's 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.280 always should be a reminder. But that's a tough one. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:00.240 In the debate over this conversation, we've continued. 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:03.600 To yeh yeah, and the one of the conversations has 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.600 been yes, to put the onus on the woman is unfair. 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:07.919