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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to a special episode of Amy

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Speaker 1: and TJ. Coming to you from the Habit Held Expo

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Speaker 1: at the McCormick Center in downtown Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, I'm TJ.

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Speaker 3: Holmes and I'm Amy Robach and we're very excited to

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Speaker 3: be here with thousands of runners in this weekend's Chicago Marathon.

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Speaker 3: So it's very exciting. I love expo centers. I love

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Speaker 3: the energy of everyone. All the training is done, Months

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Speaker 3: and months of preparation has been underway, and now we

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Speaker 3: are finally here marathon weekend.

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Speaker 2: And for our.

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Speaker 1: Listeners, you can hear a lot of background noise. We

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Speaker 1: are in the expo center where some fifty thousand runners

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Speaker 1: have to come through to pick up their packets, and

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Speaker 1: so the main stage we're sitting at to give you

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Speaker 1: some perspective, is at the exit, so we're the last

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Speaker 1: thing people see on their way out of the Expo center.

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Speaker 1: But we should remind folks, yes, we're a long time journalist.

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Speaker 1: But how many half marathons do you have under your belt?

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Speaker 2: Bro?

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Speaker 3: I tried to do the count official half marathons.

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Speaker 4: I believe I have six, Okay, marathon.

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Speaker 3: How many marathons I have five full marathons.

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Speaker 2: And where were they?

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Speaker 3: I ran Chicago in twenty twenty two. I ran New

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Speaker 3: York in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty two and twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: one and twenty twenty four, and then Berlin twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now I will tell folks this is something I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. But you said it's possible that Chicago twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four will be your last marathon. You said that

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Speaker 1: to me last night, and I was surprised to hear

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Speaker 1: it myself.

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot.

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Speaker 3: All the folks here in this incredible expo center know

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Speaker 3: how much work it is a second full time job

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Speaker 3: to train for a marathon. It takes almost half a year,

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Speaker 3: and it takes a lot out of you, And so

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Speaker 3: I don't want to push myself more than my body

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Speaker 3: is willing to go, but I do. I have always

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Speaker 3: had this dream to run London, so I'm gonna leave

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Speaker 3: that open to do a seventh. But I don't know

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Speaker 3: how many more marathons I have in me. I have

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Speaker 3: more half marathons in me, but you're just getting started.

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Speaker 4: How many do you have under your belt?

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Speaker 1: This will be my third. My fourth is supposed to

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Speaker 1: be in three weeks. I'm supposed to do New York.

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Speaker 1: I've only done two New York marathons. I've done five

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Speaker 1: half marathons and they were all New York and Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: So this will be my first time running outside of

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Speaker 1: New York. This is a stretch for me.

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Speaker 3: In Chicago is a beautiful, flat, amazing place to run

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Speaker 3: a marathon.

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Speaker 2: And let me ask everybody here.

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Speaker 1: We know everybody that's running the marathon that can hear

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Speaker 1: my voice.

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Speaker 2: We all expect to be in pain at the end

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Speaker 2: of the race. But can you give me a show

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Speaker 2: of hands if you can hear me?

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Speaker 1: How many folks are I want to be starting the

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Speaker 1: race in some kind of pain? You have some injury,

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Speaker 1: you have some nagging something, you got some problem.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be hurting when you start. What's your problem?

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Speaker 2: Oh splints? Oh you right there in the purple shirt?

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Speaker 2: What's your problem? Oh? Was that he did Berlin?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Everybody?

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Speaker 4: Oh, we just did Berlin.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that is a problem.

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Speaker 4: It's your legs are tired. I get it.

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Speaker 3: I've done a double before, DJ's about to do a double.

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Speaker 3: It's real. Your body has already broken and you're starting.

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Speaker 2: So let me say this.

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Speaker 1: It sounds I if even ever watched us or me,

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Speaker 1: I have known I have a decent amount of style.

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Speaker 2: I think I need to explain this.

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Speaker 1: I have on a black double breasted jacket, slacks, and

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Speaker 1: some flip.

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Speaker 4: Flops, with some compression socks.

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Speaker 2: And compression socks.

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Speaker 1: I have an achilles issue that has been well documented

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Speaker 1: over the past couple of months.

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Speaker 2: Have you been listening to us? And I still ain't right?

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Speaker 1: And as I sit here, I still don't know if

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna run the Chicago Marathon on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: We're going to start it.

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Speaker 1: I will start it, but I don't know if anybody

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Speaker 2: I don't care if you.

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Speaker 1: Have a traditional medical remedy, non traditional, I don't even

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Speaker 1: care if it's legal. If anything you can recommend that

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Speaker 1: can help me with this achilles before Sunday, I will

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Speaker 1: take it.

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Speaker 2: At this point, And I.

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Speaker 3: Have to say, I have never seen anyone so devoted

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Speaker 3: to icing and heating and icing and heating and making

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Speaker 3: sure that you're doing everything you can with laser therapy.

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Speaker 4: And here we are, and we still don't know. It's

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Speaker 4: a big question mark all.

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Speaker 1: Right, and everybody who's a first time marathoner, any first

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Speaker 1: time or a first time or a first timer, well

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Speaker 1: that's cool, and we know this is special and good

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Speaker 1: luck and I'm sure what's going through your head, but

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Speaker 1: we want to welcome out somebody now to the stage

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Speaker 1: and our guest here who is also a first time marathoner,

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Speaker 1: not just first time Chicago, but this is her first

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Speaker 1: time running a marathon. She also is a distinct inguished

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Speaker 1: west Point grad graduating the top five percent at west Point.

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Speaker 1: She is right now a second lieutenant active duty serving

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Speaker 1: in the military. She is also the win of a

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Speaker 1: prestigious scholarship to Stanford, where she is right now studying

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Speaker 1: to get her Masters in Statistics and Data. And also

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Speaker 1: she just happens to be the current Miss USA. Well

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Speaker 1: you all please help us all. Welcome to the Amy

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Speaker 1: TJ Podcast. Miss Usa, I'm a Cooper.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my goodness, welcome, Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 4: Alma.

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Speaker 3: First of all, thank you, of course, what an unbelievable

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Speaker 3: resume at the riple age of twenty two, twenty two.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine what's left in your resume to fill

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Speaker 3: out because you've already accomplished more than most, but I'm

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Speaker 3: curious with all of that under your belt, I know

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Speaker 3: you've been a runner for a lot of your life.

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Speaker 3: You credit that to your mother. We'll get into that,

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Speaker 3: but how are you feeling? This is your first marathon?

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Speaker 3: How are you feeling about the race?

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Speaker 5: I'm so excited. I have been talking to my mom NonStop.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, Mom, what should I do about this? Like

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Speaker 5: how long should I go for my shakeout run? Like

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Speaker 5: should do I need.

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Speaker 4: A roll before or after or both.

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Speaker 5: She's been coaching me through it this whole time, and

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Speaker 5: I just feel really grateful to still be able to

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Speaker 5: pursue this opportunity. I remember when I won, I was like, man,

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Speaker 5: I don't know, should I still do it?

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Speaker 6: And I was like I should totally still.

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Speaker 4: One in August? So yes recently, Yes, very recently.

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Speaker 5: And so I'm just so thrilled. I'm just so excited.

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Speaker 5: And I keep telling myself, don't go out too fast

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Speaker 5: like ten ten ten k, Like I've got my strategy

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Speaker 6: I've got my Apple Watch, like.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready, so and we know the strategy is going

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Speaker 1: to go out for the window.

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Speaker 2: I'm always curious.

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Speaker 1: We use a hal Higdon training regimen that only takes

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Speaker 1: you up to twenty miles at the longest one you do.

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Speaker 1: What was your training process? How many months and how

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Speaker 5: I got up to twenty miles and I started So

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Speaker 5: I signed up for the Chicago Marathon like mid October

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Speaker 5: of last year. So I started like kind of just

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Speaker 6: Like around January.

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Speaker 5: And that was around the same time that I thought

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Speaker 5: about getting ready for Miss USA.

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Speaker 6: So I had been like running to get ready for.

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Speaker 5: Miss USA, and I had also been doing like some

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Speaker 5: core and strength training at Core Power. I go to

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Speaker 5: Core Power Yoga a lot, So I kind of just

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Speaker 5: was incorporating that and trying to be consistent that way.

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Speaker 5: When if I was traveling a lot and I couldn't

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Speaker 5: be like at Core Power, I couldn't get in the

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Speaker 5: long run on the roads, I was on the treadmill,

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Speaker 5: like I could still balance a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: So we talk about balancing training for a marathon and

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Speaker 3: working a job.

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Speaker 4: But you're working the job of Miss USA.

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Speaker 3: Where you mentioned a little bit of travel, it's a

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Speaker 3: lot of travel.

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Speaker 4: Correct.

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Speaker 3: What is your average week like and how did you

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Speaker 3: What was the craziest way you fit.

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Speaker 4: In a long run?

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Speaker 5: Well, I would say so during Miss USA week when

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Speaker 5: I was competing, You're going through rehearsals, You're going to fittings.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you're all all over the place. We were

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Speaker 6: Really I didn't get a chance to get a run in.

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Speaker 4: And Saugust is a big training month for this marathon.

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Speaker 5: So about a week after I won, I was like, okay,

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Speaker 6: I was in Washington, DC, and I was like, let's

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Speaker 5: And I ran a half marathon at like eight minute

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Speaker 6: Well I didn't think I had that in me.

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Speaker 5: So I was like, Okay, I really feel like, you know,

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Speaker 5: not only should I stick with it, but I should

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Speaker 5: like really trust my training because something is working and I.

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Speaker 6: Don't know what it is.

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Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna stay with it and stay confident

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Speaker 5: till October.

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Speaker 4: I have to ask.

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Speaker 3: The longest I ever done is a twelve miler on

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Speaker 3: a treadmill because I was in quarantine in Tokyo covering

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Speaker 3: the Olympics, and so it's the only reason why I

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Speaker 3: did it. How do you stay on the treadmill for

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Speaker 3: thirteen point one miles?

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Speaker 4: What's your secret music?

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Speaker 5: I listened to a lot of Fred again John Summit.

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Speaker 5: Does any like upbeat music that I can like visualize to,

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Speaker 5: because that was a lot of my preparation for Miss

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Speaker 5: USA was like visualization and manifestation and any like upbeat

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Speaker 5: music that just like gets my mind going.

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Speaker 6: I see a couple of head nods up there.

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Speaker 5: I think some people agree with me, but just the

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Speaker 5: idea that, like, whatever it is I'm listening to, like,

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Speaker 5: I'm focused on that and not like the mirror that's

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Speaker 5: steering in front of me.

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Speaker 2: So the hell? Who likes? Who does treadmill training? I hate?

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Speaker 4: Oh we got one backmill training?

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Speaker 1: How much treadmill you talked about that run? But how

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Speaker 1: much treadmill training did you have to do?

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Speaker 6: I mean recently after I won.

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Speaker 4: Majority of it.

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Speaker 6: When I'm not home has to be on the treadmill.

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Speaker 4: The twenty miler? Please tell me you.

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Speaker 6: Did No, I was outside okay side.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, twelve was my longest and I watched

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Speaker 3: two full episodes of Stranger Things. I have to watch

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Speaker 3: something on Netflix. You can't just listen to music when

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Speaker 3: I'm on the treadmill and you've got about four miles in.

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Speaker 3: It's not a sprint, it's a marathon talking about life.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I would say that one the idea to give

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Speaker 6: I know I'm going to run more marathons, So this

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Speaker 4: And I'm really excited.

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Speaker 5: Sure, I chose Chicago because I grew up in Michigan

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Speaker 5: And I just always remember, like the energy that surrounded

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Speaker 4: We've said this before.

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Speaker 3: People asked you, are you insane? Why are you running

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Speaker 5: I just say, the only limits you face are the

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Speaker 5: Like you're going to Miss Universe in like two weeks

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Speaker 6: And the fact that they align, That's just the way

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Speaker 1: When do you taking up your schedule? When do you

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Speaker 6: Pretty much starting October fourteenth?

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Speaker 5: That will be the final Those will be like my

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's remarkable, and we are wishing you the

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Speaker 5: I'm Miss Usa twenty twenty four for sure, So within.

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Speaker 3: This year you have finally been crowned and you are

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Speaker 6: Well, I think it means a lot.

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Speaker 5: I'm super grateful for my family and for my family lineage.

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Speaker 5: My full name is almod Alia Minerva Cooper. Alma means

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Speaker 5: And I've been really fortunate to have a village around

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Speaker 1: You said, Robox said here, first Afro Latina, first Miss

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Speaker 1: And I think you represent an opportunity. But how big

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Speaker 6: And for me, I've always found.

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Speaker 5: and I think the most important one is service.

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Speaker 3: Alma, it's so cool in hearing you talk full disclosure,

449
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Speaker 3: full transparency. I was in the Miss America program. I

450
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Speaker 3: was a runner up to Miss Georgia. I never won

451
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Speaker 3: my state. I never went to Miss America, but I

452
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Speaker 3: did participate in the pageant system.

453
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Speaker 2: She she's my beauty queen. Though that was so you guys,

454
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Speaker 2: that was just for you to.

455
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Speaker 3: But the Miss America pageant system is about service, It

456
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Speaker 3: is about scholarship, It is about a lot of the

457
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Speaker 3: things you're talking about. I read that your mother was

458
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Speaker 3: involved in the Miss America pageant system, and I've always

459
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Speaker 3: been a big advocate for it.

460
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Speaker 4: I know it comes under fire often.

461
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Speaker 3: For the notion that it objectifies women. But if you

462
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Speaker 3: use it for the right way and it's and it's

463
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Speaker 3: evolved in the right.

464
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Speaker 4: Way, that it is about empowering women.

465
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Speaker 3: I will say that the Miss USA pageants system has

466
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Speaker 3: not been known for that as much. It's more about

467
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Speaker 3: the models, these supermodels, the gorgeous women, and you are.

468
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Speaker 3: It feels like marrying sort of the mantra of the

469
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Speaker 3: Miss America system and bringing it to the Miss USA

470
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Speaker 3: pageant was that in your head at all?

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Speaker 5: I mean, my whole focus was to hopefully just make

472
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Speaker 5: an impact and be a part of an organization that

473
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Speaker 5: was bigger than myself. And I hope that in being

474
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Speaker 5: of service to others that I can inspire other people

475
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Speaker 5: to serve, whether it's to your neighbor, your community, in

476
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Speaker 5: a uniform, or in the in corporate America, whatever it

477
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Speaker 5: is that someone is aspiring to do. I remember dreaming

478
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Speaker 5: to walk across to Miss USA stage as a young

479
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Speaker 5: girl and not even knowing.

480
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Speaker 6: If that would be possible.

481
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Speaker 5: I just was like, hey, you know, one day, I

482
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Speaker 5: hope I get the opportunity to do this.

483
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Speaker 3: What do you say to people, because I've dealt with

484
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Speaker 3: this in my little small world, who say pageants are antiquated,

485
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Speaker 3: they're outdated, they're actually offensive, and they objectify women. How

486
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Speaker 3: do you respond to those people who feel that about

487
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Speaker 3: beauty pageants?

488
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Speaker 6: I would say that I always say if you.

489
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Speaker 5: Can see me, you can be me, and that the

490
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Speaker 5: only limits you face are the ones you accept. And

491
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Speaker 5: I hope that in the sixty days I've spent as

492
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Speaker 5: Miss USA so far here about to run the Chicago

493
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Speaker 5: Marathon for charity, that people know that there are so

494
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Speaker 5: many ways to use a platform and uplift other people.

495
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Speaker 6: And for me, one of the things that.

496
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Speaker 5: I'm so grateful to have learned in my time at

497
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Speaker 5: West Point.

498
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Speaker 4: Is how I develop my character.

499
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Speaker 5: And again it's that I don't look at oh, this opportunity,

500
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Speaker 5: this adversity, or this challenge is going to define me. No,

501
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Speaker 5: it's how I go through that that my response is

502
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Speaker 5: how it will define me. And there's so many things

503
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Speaker 5: that I've overcome that have led to this moment and

504
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Speaker 5: will continue to lead to even bigger moments in ways

505
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Speaker 5: that I can serve people. So to me, it's just

506
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Speaker 5: about pushing that message and exemplifying what that means.

507
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Speaker 6: When the rubber meets the road, to serve and not be.

508
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Speaker 1: Served you've called yourself a perfectionist. How does that help you?

509
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Speaker 1: And almost how does it hurt you? In running a Marriata, Well.

510
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Speaker 5: I would say, you know, I'm always that person when

511
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Speaker 5: it's like okay, like I went two and a half out,

512
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Speaker 5: but somehow I went.

513
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Speaker 6: Two point four nine back.

514
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Speaker 5: I need to make that, you know, point oh one.

515
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Speaker 5: So I always do those little loops in front of

516
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Speaker 5: my apartment. My boyfriend's like, what are you doing, and

517
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Speaker 5: I'm like, we have not done yet. I would say

518
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Speaker 5: that it's helpful because I think it's that mentality that

519
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 5: I always want to give my best effort. And if

520
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Speaker 5: I feel like I'm not doing that or i feel

521
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Speaker 5: like I'm not seeing the outcome that I want, then

522
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Speaker 5: that's something that I think is a double edged sword

523
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Speaker 5: because one way it can push me to forge that

524
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Speaker 5: path to hopefully become that best version of myself or

525
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Speaker 5: meet that gold time. But in other ways, it's like

526
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Speaker 5: I got to give myself grace. I can't always expect

527
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Speaker 5: that I'm gonna be perfect.

528
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Speaker 2: You know.

529
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Speaker 5: The first time I go on that long run or

530
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Speaker 5: the first time that I asked this of myself, I

531
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Speaker 5: remember doing when I was home a lot doing double workouts.

532
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Speaker 5: I would go to core power and then I would

533
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Speaker 5: go and do a run, And for me, I.

534
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Speaker 6: Was like, okay, like that, it's great and all, but when.

535
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Speaker 5: You start traveling, you can't really keep up that schedule

536
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Speaker 5: as much.

537
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Speaker 6: And just giving myself.

538
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Speaker 5: That grace and understanding that, you know, again, when I

539
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Speaker 5: decided to run Chicago, my life looked completely different than

540
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Speaker 5: it does now, and understanding that what do you want

541
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Speaker 5: to take away from this?

542
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Speaker 6: And what I want to take away is.

543
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Speaker 5: Hopefully the idea that one I want to run more marathons,

544
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Speaker 5: but I think I'm pretty sold on that idea already,

545
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 5: but also just ways that I can can you continue.

546
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Speaker 6: To serve and use my platform?

547
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Speaker 5: And I think that it's been really neat to see

548
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Speaker 5: people watch how I've kind of merged both realms of

549
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Speaker 5: my life, which is the physical and athletic piece, but

550
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Speaker 5: then also this platform of being miss Usa.

551
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Speaker 1: I'm curious, she always says. Now, I don't not saying this.

552
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Speaker 2: Is going to be you.

553
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Speaker 1: But when you run your first marathon, she used to

554
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Speaker 1: always say, when you get done, you're either going to

555
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Speaker 1: say I can wait to sign up, when's the next one?

556
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Speaker 1: Or you say I ain't ever doing this shit again

557
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Speaker 1: in my life. You're only one of two people at

558
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Speaker 1: the end of it. We can't wait to talk to

559
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Speaker 1: you all.

560
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Speaker 2: Sunder Oh great, great, great great.

561
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Speaker 3: Have you had a run that ruled you, a run

562
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Speaker 3: that made you think I might not make this, I

563
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Speaker 3: might not be able to do this.

564
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Speaker 4: Have you had one of those.

565
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Speaker 3: Moments, those low moments when you doubt yourself and your

566
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Speaker 3: ability to make this happen.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I had a run probably about two months

568
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Speaker 5: ago where I didn't like really stretch as well before

569
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Speaker 5: I started, and I.

570
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Speaker 6: Was like two miles in, I was like, dang, why

571
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Speaker 6: is my knee hurt?

572
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Speaker 5: So I was like, I got off the treadmill and

573
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Speaker 5: I called my mom and she's like, well, did you

574
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Speaker 5: run cold? And I was like yeah. She's like, Okay,

575
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Speaker 5: don't do that again. Things like that, I guess like

576
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Speaker 5: whenever I have like like oh.

577
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Speaker 6: That I made my ankle hurts and maybe my knee hurts,

578
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Speaker 6: and I'm like and then like I could tastrophize. I'm like,

579
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Speaker 6: oh my gosh, I'm not gonna be able to do it.

580
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Speaker 5: But I'm like, okay, calm down, like go back to

581
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Speaker 5: the things that worked.

582
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Speaker 6: So I guess in those moments.

583
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Speaker 5: I really try to be like, Okay, I'm spiraling. This

584
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 5: is not the truth, and I'm glad that I have

585
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Speaker 5: people around me who bring me back to earth.

586
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Speaker 3: People who don't run long distance might not they it

587
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 3: is physical, of course, but how much of a long

588
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 3: distance run would you attribute to it being mental strength

589
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Speaker 3: versus physical?

590
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Speaker 4: So I would.

591
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Speaker 5: Say like at this point, I mean the past month, like, yes,

592
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Speaker 5: I've been running, but I've been reading more David Goggins,

593
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Speaker 5: similar to I mean I read David Goggins before I

594
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 5: got ready from This USA, but again reading it again

595
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 5: not only from this universe but for the marathon and

596
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 5: just strengthening my mind. And I'm currently reading Never Finished,

597
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 5: but just his second book. I read Can't Hurt Me

598
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Speaker 5: before Miss USA. And for me, it's just about reminding

599
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 5: myself that I have put in the work that this

600
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 5: will show when I when I get in those moments,

601
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Speaker 5: and mentally I have to trust that.

602
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Speaker 6: But I would say, like the long.

603
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Speaker 5: Distance piece, when you're getting into those miles, it's like, hey,

604
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 5: you got to trust your mentality, and your mentality has

605
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 5: to be fueled by positive affirmations and things that are

606
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Speaker 5: affirming the work that you've already put in.

607
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Speaker 1: We're at cart totally and Michael Singer folks ourselves, so

608
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: we read a whole lot as well. And what is

609
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: in your AirPod?

610
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Speaker 2: What are you listening to when you're up?

611
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm eating.

612
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Speaker 5: I'm listening to a lot of Fred again, John Summit,

613
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Speaker 5: a lot of stuff I listened to on the treadmill.

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Speaker 6: Not like us.

615
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 4: You just spoke his language, Kendrick Lamar.

616
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Speaker 5: And then I would also say maybe a phone call from.

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Speaker 4: My mom too, so you'll talk on the phone. Yes,

618
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Speaker 4: a running time mom.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

620
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Speaker 5: Sometimes if I like, if I'm in a really long run,

621
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Speaker 5: I'm like, hey, I'm at this mile.

622
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Speaker 2: What do you think?

623
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Speaker 3: So it's so funny. It was the New York City

624
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 3: Marathon last year. My dad was texting me, but you know,

625
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 3: you have Siri in your here telling you what everyone's

626
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 3: texting you. And my dad was tracking TJ and me,

627
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 3: and we were doing really well because I too wanted

628
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 3: to get a sub for We were right.

629
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Speaker 2: There, okay, we were.

630
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Speaker 1: We were about to crush under four you want to

631
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: say it. And we got up to mount We're past

632
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: twenty miles, kay, And I'm telling you we were going

633
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Speaker 1: to annihilate four hours.

634
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Speaker 4: He was like, games, I'm so proud of you.

635
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,239
Speaker 3: You're killing it. And I was feeling the love. And

636
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, it was really hot. Last year,

637
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 3: I had a lot of water. That water started jiggling

638
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 3: in my stomach, and about mile twenty two I started vomiting,

639
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 3: like goodness while I was running, and then I had

640
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Speaker 3: to stop.

641
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 4: And anyway, bottom line, we ended up at four fourteen.

642
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Speaker 6: Oh that's okay.

643
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 2: It was about a ten minute stop. You don't understand album.

644
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 4: It was bad. And my parents started then texting me.

645
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 3: They thought, like I was in a medical clinic, like

646
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 3: in a tent with IV fluids.

647
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Speaker 4: I was like, it's not that traumatic, but I went.

648
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 3: I pushed it a little bit too fast for the

649
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 3: weather conditions. Weather is everything when you're running, but when

650
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: you're a runner, you have to prepare for everything mentally

651
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 3: and physically. And that's just one of those things. And

652
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 3: every marathon's different. That's been my experience. So I can't

653
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 3: wait to hear how your first is. But my god,

654
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 3: like you don't even seem slightly nervous.

655
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Speaker 4: You seem like, hell, yeah, let's get this done. Been

656
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 4: there almost done that.

657
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,719
Speaker 5: Yes, I do have a little bit of nerves, but

658
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 5: I just feel like I feel very similar to when

659
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 5: I was competing from this USA, Like you got a

660
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 5: little bit of nerves, but you're just really really excited

661
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 5: and you're like, you know, whatever happens, Like I just

662
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 5: want to go out there and have fun.

663
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Speaker 6: So I think if I just keep them mentality, hopefully.

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Speaker 4: All as well.

665
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Speaker 1: We weren't able to get into fully your whole biography here,

666
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Speaker 1: but for folks who are maybe getting exposed to you now,

667
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: clearly your resume speaks for itself, and just we got

668
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Speaker 1: to meet you for the first time back here, and

669
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Speaker 1: you just you just have an aura. You just exude this.

670
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Speaker 1: You come from good folks. Yeah, it's clear. So for

671
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: folks here and folks who are listening, where does that

672
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Speaker 1: come from? Where did it get instilled to you? This

673
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: perfectionist attitude. You were very little when you realize you

674
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Speaker 1: wanted to do this. You want to be in the military,

675
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: you want to do pagets. You're a little girl. Yes,

676
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Speaker 1: what I know your parents have a lot to do

677
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Speaker 1: with it, but get pokes an idea of where this

678
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Speaker 1: comes from, that what they're seeing right.

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Speaker 6: Now for sure.

680
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Speaker 5: I would say my grandmother, whose ashes are on my necklace,

681
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,239
Speaker 5: she just exuded this energy from the from you know,

682
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Speaker 5: the drive through at McDonald's to the people she would

683
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Speaker 5: meet at church. I mean every single person she met,

684
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Speaker 5: she just made them feel like they were the only

685
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Speaker 5: person on earth and just lit them up and fed

686
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Speaker 5: them energy and filled their cup.

687
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Speaker 6: And I just love that. I mean, my grandma was

688
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Speaker 6: my best friend. Her name was also Alma.

689
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Speaker 5: And for me, when she had passed away, I just

690
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Speaker 5: told myself, you know, I promised to make you proud,

691
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Speaker 5: and for me, I think from that promise on, I

692
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Speaker 5: decided to go to West Point. I just I feel

693
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Speaker 5: like it really stemmed from all the time I spent

694
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Speaker 5: with her growing up. Because when my dad would be deployed,

695
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Speaker 5: we would go and spend the night at my grandparents'

696
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Speaker 5: house and so I would, you know, help set up

697
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Speaker 5: for church and we would do the offerings ben and

698
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Speaker 5: it was just me and my sister, my grandma, and

699
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Speaker 5: then my mom also, I would say, my mom and

700
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Speaker 5: my dad have been huge support systems throughout my whole life.

701
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Speaker 5: They've always taught me one your tough, Alma, whatever you face,

702
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Speaker 5: you can overcome. And two, whatever it is you want

703
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Speaker 5: to be or become, you can be or become. And

704
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Speaker 5: for me, I mean that's manifested in so many ways,

705
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Speaker 5: but definitely those three people for sure.

706
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Speaker 2: Can I ask how old were you when you lost

707
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Speaker 2: your grandma?

708
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Speaker 6: I was sixteen.

709
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Speaker 4: Wow. I love the she's with you. Yes, she is

710
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 4: bringing her with you on the run round your neck.

711
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 4: That is so beautiful.

712
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Speaker 3: And for those folks who don't know who are listening,

713
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 3: talk about your mom. Your not just as just your

714
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 3: support SYSM, but as a runner. She was a battie

715
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Speaker 3: in her own house.

716
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Speaker 6: So my mom grew up as a migrant worker.

717
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 5: In the beafields of Idaho and literally ran her way

718
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Speaker 5: to a Division one track scholarship at Idaho State University.

719
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Speaker 6: She ran the eight hundred.

720
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Speaker 5: And for me, I mean I remember growing up, I'd

721
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Speaker 5: always know my mom went on run, but I didn't

722
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Speaker 5: know like how fast she actually was until we had

723
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Speaker 5: gone to Idaho when I was younger, and when I,

724
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Speaker 5: you know, went to our high school, she still had

725
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Speaker 5: her track records up with her twin sister, and.

726
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Speaker 6: I was like, Mom, what in the I didn't know this.

727
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Speaker 5: So when I got older, I you know, started running track,

728
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Speaker 5: and she was like, okay, like I'm going to coach

729
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 5: you and I would be getting my butt whooped up

730
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Speaker 5: the track by my mom. But for me, it was

731
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Speaker 5: just like this idea that I remember when I ran

732
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Speaker 5: my first mile my freshman year of high school, and

733
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Speaker 5: it was the freshman mile. It was like a huge,

734
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Speaker 5: huge race, and I she snuck her way onto the

735
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Speaker 5: into the track and called my splits from the two

736
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Speaker 5: hundred to the four hundred, to the two hundred to

737
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Speaker 5: the four hundred, and you know, every race, every endeavor,

738
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Speaker 5: from when I first started doing pageants to winning Miss USA.

739
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Speaker 6: She has been through all of it.

740
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Speaker 5: And so her goal has been to run a marathon,

741
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Speaker 5: and you know, I'm running one before her.

742
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 6: So now she's like, Okay, I've got to do it.

743
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Speaker 5: So I I just think, you know, this is a

744
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 5: big feat for both of us, and I'm even more

745
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 5: excited to come back and.

746
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Speaker 6: Cheer for her when she decides to run, or you

747
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 6: could run with her. I was gonna say, that's the

748
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Speaker 6: next best thing.

749
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Speaker 4: That would be amazing. Who's going to be along the

750
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Speaker 4: sidelines cheering you on.

751
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Speaker 5: Yes, I've got a couple friends through the military. I

752
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 5: also have Rebecca Ufford who is from the West Point

753
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 5: Parents Club of Michigan. She's coming to cheer me on, yes,

754
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 5: so she will be there. I have a friend from

755
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Speaker 5: Stanford who's also running, so I hope to see her

756
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Speaker 5: at the finish line.

757
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Speaker 6: And yeah, I'm just really really excited.

758
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Speaker 5: Like I know that by posting on like social media

759
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 5: to share like my journey and my story and hopefully

760
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 5: like uplift the platform the charity I'm running for, apnegar

761
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 5: that just I hope that all this is to uplift

762
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Speaker 5: other people, to serve, uplift other people, to understand all

763
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Speaker 5: that comes with being a part of like the mayor

764
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Speaker 5: on and running community, and also just merging the idea

765
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Speaker 5: that the only limits you face are the ones you accept.

766
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Speaker 1: I love that you talk about Miss USA. It's service.

767
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 1: The military is service. Everything you're doing is service. Can

768
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Speaker 1: I ask does the sash do you wear that during

769
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Speaker 1: the marathon?

770
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Speaker 2: No?

771
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Speaker 5: I will not be wearing this, unfortunately, everybody was hoping

772
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Speaker 5: that I will be.

773
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Speaker 6: I will be flashing my smile at the end though, and.

774
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Speaker 3: Talk about the charity that you're running for, because this

775
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 3: is so important. This isn't a lot of us runners

776
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 3: aren't running just for our own personal records or own prs,

777
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 3: although that would be nice, but so much of a

778
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Speaker 3: runner's journey on a race is about being of service

779
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 3: and raising money for charities that we love, so tell

780
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Speaker 3: us about yours.

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Speaker 5: So Appnagar is not just a shelter, It's a lifeline

782
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Speaker 5: for a lot of people. They're fighting for gender and

783
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 5: just fighting against gender injustices and domesticolence around the world.

784
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 5: And October is Gender Violence Awareness Month, and so for me,

785
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Speaker 5: I just think it's an awesome opportunity to give this

786
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Speaker 5: charity and this organization the opportunity to know that I

787
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 5: support them, and I want to see more people get

788
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 5: involved and impact their communities in ways they can, whether

789
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Speaker 5: it's donating to a shelter in their hometown or coming

790
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 5: and running a marathon with Team Apnagar. I just think

791
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Speaker 5: that for me, I'm really about empowering people and giving

792
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Speaker 5: people a voice, and I feel like, you know, Miss

793
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 5: USA is all about women's empowerment. So it's a really

794
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 5: neat opportunity to get to run with them and to

795
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Speaker 5: hopefully represent for an organization that's bigger than myself.

796
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Speaker 2: All this you're doing remind me, tell what you're doing

797
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: at Stanford.

798
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Speaker 5: So I'm in a two year master's program at Stanford

799
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Speaker 5: University through the night Hennessy Scholarship. There's nearly ten thousand

800
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Speaker 5: applicants around the world and eighty four recipients in the

801
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty three cohort, and I'm currently earning my masters

802
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 5: in data science at Stanford.

803
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Speaker 2: Out this eighty four yes? So you blew by that.

804
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 2: I know you don't want to what do you call it?

805
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: A humble brag? Sometimes?

806
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 4: Yes, the humble She slid that.

807
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: In there, that she was in competition with ten thousand

808
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: people all over the world, only eighty four yes were selected.

809
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: So I know you don't want toot you all, horror brag.

810
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: That's a big deal, and it's a scholarship. Maybe you

811
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Speaker 1: all haven't necessarily heard of, but it is a prestigious

812
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: and a big deal that she has received that scholarship

813
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: and she's doing what she's doing.

814
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Speaker 2: When do you finish your studies there?

815
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Speaker 5: So I'll finish next next year, next year here?

816
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 4: And what do you want to do with those prestigious degrees?

817
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 6: Yeah?

818
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 5: Well, I am so honored to serve as a second

819
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Speaker 5: lieutenant in the United States Army. I graduated from West

820
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 5: Point in May of twenty twenty three, and I commissioned

821
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Speaker 5: as a military intelligence officer. So I'm really thrilled to

822
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Speaker 5: go to a basic officer leadership course for.

823
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Speaker 6: My branch and to continue on with my career as

824
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Speaker 6: an Army officer.

825
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Speaker 3: It is it is so incredible to see how many

826
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Speaker 3: young women. I know you're inspiring, and not just young women,

827
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Speaker 3: but for anyone who thinks how many people out there,

828
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Speaker 3: even those who are listening right now and have said

829
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Speaker 3: to me, There's no way I could run a marathon.

830
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Speaker 3: There's no way I could run a half marathon, There's

831
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Speaker 3: no way I could run more than a mile.

832
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Speaker 4: What do you say to people who think they can't

833
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Speaker 4: do something?

834
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Speaker 5: I would say, if you can see me, you can

835
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 5: be me, and the idea that I you know, I've

836
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 5: heard a ton of nos.

837
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Speaker 6: I've heard there's no way.

838
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Speaker 5: I've heard oh, you know, you could try, but I

839
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 5: don't know. And I've also heard you got this, Alma,

840
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Speaker 5: you can do this.

841
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 6: I believe in you. If everyone says no, I'm the

842
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 6: person who's gonna say yes.

843
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 5: And I feel like when you listen to those voices

844
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Speaker 5: and you give those voices, the spotlight. That's what uplifts you,

845
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 5: and I hope I can be that for people all

846
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Speaker 5: around the world.

847
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 6: Just let them know that you know dare greatly. Go

848
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 6: forth with passion, go back, go forth with.

849
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Speaker 5: Purpose, and know that your story is not only deserving

850
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 5: of being in those places, but belongs there.

851
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Speaker 1: So to close here, to wrap up with you, and

852
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people are dealing with this and still

853
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what they're going to do. I don't

854
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: know either. What is today as we're talking to you here.

855
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Speaker 1: It is Friday until eleventh yea Friday evening, So Friday,

856
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: Saturday and to Sunday. What is your rest routine? What

857
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: is your diet.

858
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 2: For the next couple of days leading up to the race.

859
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say bagels, impasta.

860
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:28,720
Speaker 6: I drink a lot.

861
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 5: I love coffee, like iced coffee, so I'm gonna have

862
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 5: one more on Saturday, and then I'm not going to

863
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 5: have any on Sunday because I don't want to have

864
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 5: to use the bathroom that much. And then probably just

865
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Speaker 5: getting a good night's rest tonight and tomorrow evening, probably

866
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Speaker 5: reading some David Goggins and making some phone calls home

867
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Speaker 5: for some good wishes before Sunday.

868
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Speaker 4: It's funny.

869
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Speaker 3: Anyone out there who's listening who hasn't run a marathon. Yes,

870
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 3: the training is key, but what to eat and maybe

871
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 3: even more importantly, what.

872
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 4: Not to eat is so important. And it's funny.

873
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 3: This is my number six and I don't think I've

874
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 3: figured it out yet because it's like, ooh, that didn't work.

875
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Speaker 4: Oh, let me try this. I mean, it's just do

876
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 4: you fuel along the way? Do you how much?

877
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 3: Do you stop at the water stations? Do you take

878
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 3: the goo? Like I'm curious what your plan is?

879
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 5: Yes, my goal, based off what I've talked with my

880
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 5: my friend who's done a lot of marathons, is I'm

881
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 5: gonna take the bananas when i can water at the

882
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Speaker 5: A stations.

883
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Speaker 6: I've got some noon tablets for my little water bottle.

884
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Speaker 5: I've got honey Stinger choes. Yeah, I've got I've got

885
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 5: a little I've got I've got a pretty thick flip

886
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 5: belt on my head my way, so.

887
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Speaker 4: The flip bell is great. Just I hope it doesn't chafe,

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Speaker 4: like there's always.

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Speaker 6: A I've got chafe butter.

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Speaker 3: It's so funny because I've made different choices each time.

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Speaker 3: And they've all been good, and then they've some of

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Speaker 3: them have been bad.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's wild where life takes you.

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Speaker 1: I'm a girl, oh man, sitting those stags with my

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Speaker 1: girlfriend and Miss USA talking about chafing and bathroom breaks.

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Speaker 2: It's awesome. You just never know what life's gonna take you, right,

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Speaker 2: you never know.

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Speaker 4: Which mile do you prefer? The porta Potti?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: I mean that's literally you have these conversations that you

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Speaker 3: probably should never have with your significant other, and yet

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Speaker 3: they're vital. When you're about to run a race together,

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Speaker 3: you start talking about things you never thought you would

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Speaker 3: talk about.

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Speaker 4: With complete strangers.

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Speaker 3: But that's what happens. It's a community us runners. What

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Speaker 3: are you most looking forward to?

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Speaker 5: I guess just the energy of running through the streets.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I've run half marathons on Post at West

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Speaker 5: Point and there's a there's cheers all over the post.

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Speaker 6: But to run it in Chicago, I know that it's

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Speaker 6: going to be electric, and I have my headphones.

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Speaker 5: But I'm probably gonna keep them off for the first

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Speaker 5: little bit, just to hear the audience and to hear everyone,

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Speaker 5: because that I think is so uplifting and so positive

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Speaker 5: and can be definitely help find another gear.

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Speaker 6: I get tired out there.

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Speaker 1: It is so funny to hear I have made long

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Speaker 1: playlists before, but in New York, I turn the music off.

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Speaker 2: Just the energy you want to take in.

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Speaker 1: Dear lady, we can't say it enough, and I hope

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Speaker 1: everybody here well please help us. And thanking miss USA

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Speaker 1: Alma Cooper for being here. Throw a good luck as well.

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Speaker 1: She's a first timer on Sunday. A lot of you,

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Speaker 1: but we got to read about you, and we were

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Speaker 1: so excited for you to be here, but you came

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Speaker 1: as advertised. You are just a wonder to behold and

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Speaker 1: someone I would absolutely love for my daughter, who's eleven

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Speaker 1: years old to look up to.

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Speaker 2: So it was just so much TJ.

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Speaker 6: I really appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, TJ's got an eleven year old. I have a

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Speaker 3: twenty one year old and an eighteen year old. In fact,

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Speaker 3: my twenty one year old thought it was really cool

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Speaker 3: to send me a text today saying she ran three

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Speaker 3: miles in honor of us running the marathon this weekend.

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Speaker 4: But every mile matters and every mile accounts, and.

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Speaker 3: You are an inspiration to so many people, but especially

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Speaker 3: we appreciate it. As parents of daughters for what you're

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Speaker 3: showing the world women can do. So thank you Alma

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Speaker 3: for Miss USA. Good luck in Miss World. Thank you

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Speaker 3: appreciate at the marathon, and we can't wait to see

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Speaker 3: your time which is clearly gonna smoke ours.

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Speaker 1: But guys, thank you folks as always for listening to

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Speaker 1: us on the Amy and TJ podcast. Before you, folks

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Speaker 1: here in the center, thank you for spending some time

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Speaker 1: here with us.

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Speaker 2: We'll see y'all soon.