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Speaker 1: All right, folks, this Sunday, March fifteenth, and well we finished.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say we're bad.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 1: This is the finisher edition of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 3: Roholds.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, my dear lovely, we just finished the New York

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Speaker 1: City half marathon.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Congratulations to you too.

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Speaker 4: And I know you actually were struggling before we even began.

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Speaker 4: There is always a long walk from the gate basically

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Speaker 4: your your corral to the starting line. And you looked

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Speaker 4: at me and you said, something is way worse than

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Speaker 4: I expected. Something's different. I don't know what's wrong, but

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Speaker 4: I can barely walk. And we had not started running yet,

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Speaker 4: we had not even crossed the start line yet, and

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Speaker 4: you said that to me.

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Speaker 1: Well, these things happen. It's always something weird on race day.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about and it's well documented my struggles with

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Speaker 1: my foot, and today it was a weird day. But

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Speaker 1: before we get into all that, we've finished a half

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Speaker 1: marathon and we need to roades and some we were

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Speaker 1: talking about this on the ride back, like sometimes we

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Speaker 1: dismiss and we don't appreciate well enough just how healthy

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Speaker 1: we are.

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Speaker 3: First of all to.

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Speaker 1: Be able to keep doing this, and how blessed we

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Speaker 1: are to have this hobby and to still be able

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Speaker 1: to do it. Baby, And I don't know, it's no

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Speaker 1: small things to get up at four in the morning

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday and be back home by ten and

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Speaker 1: most people haven't woken up, and you got a half

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Speaker 3: That's that's no small thing.

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Speaker 4: You got thirteen point one miles and a metal which

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Speaker 4: I will be wearing all day to day. I think

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Speaker 4: that's one of my favorite parts. It is fun because

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Speaker 4: you do work for it. And so yes, I'm like

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Speaker 4: the kid who gets the new shoes. When mom buys

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Speaker 4: That's kind of how I feel about the metal for

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Speaker 4: one day. I will wear that metal everywhere I go today.

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Speaker 2: So it's fun.

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Speaker 3: That's a cool part.

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Speaker 1: And a place like New York and everywhere we go,

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Speaker 1: everybody knows there's a race going on. Everybody around town,

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Speaker 1: so everybody sees you, and the everybody that greet you

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Speaker 1: says congratulations.

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Speaker 3: So and.

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Speaker 2: It is sincere. And you know, when you see other

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Speaker 2: people with metals on.

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Speaker 4: We all always congratulate them too, because we know what

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Speaker 4: it takes, what you put into it. But yeah, there's

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Speaker 4: just this very kind exchange that you don't often get

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Speaker 2: Everywhere you go. When you wear the metal. It's it's

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Speaker 2: it's my favorite part.

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Speaker 3: When it's all done, the hey everybody look at me? Part?

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Speaker 4: Well, yes, I mean I get it, I get it,

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Speaker 4: but no, it's just it's fun.

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Speaker 2: It's I savor it. I enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: So that is, yes, what we're going to do today.

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Speaker 1: We should tell everybody first. I didn't haven't seen it officially,

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Speaker 1: but our time was me.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, mom, Nikki was following us. I think

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Speaker 4: we were at two thirteen. So I think this might

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Speaker 4: be the slowest half marathon that we've ever run. But

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Speaker 4: the truth is we didn't train that hard for it,

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Speaker 4: and you were really suffering and that was a huge

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Speaker 4: I actually really really enjoyed the heck out of it

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Speaker 2: I just the whole time felt a little bad for you.

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Speaker 2: I was making sure you were. I mean, you pushed

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you were cursing, sometimes you were grunting sometimes.

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Speaker 3: But how are things for you today?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, that's awesome. First of all, how was the weather?

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Speaker 2: It was perfect running weather.

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Speaker 4: The only time it's a bummer is when you're waiting

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we get going. How is everybody? How was

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Speaker 2: It felt busy.

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Speaker 4: this was a record setting number of racers, thirty thousand racers.

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Speaker 4: They do them in waves so it's more manageable. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I didn't feel too crowded.

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Speaker 3: So we started this morning.

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Speaker 1: We didn't see a lot of our familiars, like some

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we see him at most races. He's a big

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Speaker 3: New York road Runners.

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Speaker 1: We have to say thank you to them as always

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Speaker 1: live Rob and Cruel Crystal, everybody over there who's taking

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Speaker 1: how we get prepared. Did you have any issues based

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Speaker 3: Did all of it work?

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Speaker 4: It all worked perfectly. I fueled myself perfectly last night.

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Speaker 4: I had my anti nausea dissolvable pills that zofran has

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Speaker 2: It's always inspirational running a race.

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Speaker 1: And this one is more Obviously, twenty six point two

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Speaker 4: I've had on half marathons. I've had a twenty minute swing.

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Speaker 2: It's about the experience and about who I did it with.

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Speaker 4: Like we both at times waited on each other to

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, you were feeling some pain because of some

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Speaker 1: I sustained an injury in October twenty twenty four in

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Speaker 1: I'vene to the doctor, I got a steroid shot, I've

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Speaker 1: MRI is going to happen this week because whatever reason, Robes,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't worried, feeling fairly strong.

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Speaker 3: I do not know what happened yesterday.

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Speaker 3: For I do not know what happened.

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