Speaker 1: All right, folks, this Sunday, March fifteenth, and well we finished.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say we're bad.
Speaker 3: Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 1: This is the finisher edition of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 3: Roholds.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, my dear lovely, we just finished the New York
Speaker 1: City half marathon.
Speaker 2: That's right. Congratulations to you too.
Speaker 4: And I know you actually were struggling before we even began.
Speaker 4: There is always a long walk from the gate basically
Speaker 4: your your corral to the starting line. And you looked
Speaker 4: at me and you said, something is way worse than
Speaker 4: I expected. Something's different. I don't know what's wrong, but
Speaker 4: I can barely walk. And we had not started running yet,
Speaker 4: we had not even crossed the start line yet, and
Speaker 4: you said that to me.
Speaker 1: Well, these things happen. It's always something weird on race day.
Speaker 1: We've talked about and it's well documented my struggles with
Speaker 1: my foot, and today it was a weird day. But
Speaker 1: before we get into all that, we've finished a half
Speaker 1: marathon and we need to roades and some we were
Speaker 1: talking about this on the ride back, like sometimes we
Speaker 1: dismiss and we don't appreciate well enough just how healthy
Speaker 1: we are.
Speaker 3: First of all to.
Speaker 1: Be able to keep doing this, and how blessed we
Speaker 1: are to have this hobby and to still be able
Speaker 1: to do it. Baby, And I don't know, it's no
Speaker 1: small things to get up at four in the morning
Speaker 1: on a Sunday and be back home by ten and
Speaker 1: most people haven't woken up, and you got a half
Speaker 1: marathon under your belt.
Speaker 3: That's that's no small thing.
Speaker 4: You got thirteen point one miles and a metal which
Speaker 4: I will be wearing all day to day. I think
Speaker 4: that's one of my favorite parts. It is fun because
Speaker 4: you do work for it. And so yes, I'm like
Speaker 4: the kid who gets the new shoes. When mom buys
Speaker 4: you the new shoes, you wear them out of the
Speaker 4: store and then you keep them on the whole day.
Speaker 4: That's kind of how I feel about the metal for
Speaker 4: one day. I will wear that metal everywhere I go today.
Speaker 2: So it's fun.
Speaker 3: That's a cool part.
Speaker 1: And a place like New York and everywhere we go,
Speaker 1: everybody knows there's a race going on. Everybody around town,
Speaker 1: so everybody sees you, and the everybody that greet you
Speaker 1: says congratulations.
Speaker 3: So and.
Speaker 2: It is sincere. And you know, when you see other
Speaker 2: people with metals on.
Speaker 4: We all always congratulate them too, because we know what
Speaker 4: it takes, what you put into it. But yeah, there's
Speaker 4: just this very kind exchange that you don't often get
Speaker 4: with strangers.
Speaker 2: Everywhere you go. When you wear the metal. It's it's
Speaker 2: it's my favorite part.
Speaker 3: When it's all done, the hey everybody look at me? Part?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, I mean I get it, I get it,
Speaker 4: but no, it's just it's fun.
Speaker 2: It's I savor it. I enjoy it.
Speaker 1: So that is, yes, what we're going to do today.
Speaker 1: We should tell everybody first. I didn't haven't seen it officially,
Speaker 1: but our time was me.
Speaker 4: I don't know, mom, Nikki was following us. I think
Speaker 4: we were at two thirteen. So I think this might
Speaker 4: be the slowest half marathon that we've ever run. But
Speaker 4: the truth is we didn't train that hard for it,
Speaker 4: and you were really suffering and that was a huge
Speaker 4: part of it, and so we slowed down. And you
Speaker 4: know what, by slowing down, I wasn't in pain, So
Speaker 4: I actually really really enjoyed the heck out of it
Speaker 4: because I didn't I wasn't pushing myself and it actually
Speaker 4: was really fun for me.
Speaker 2: I just the whole time felt a little bad for you.
Speaker 2: I was making sure you were. I mean, you pushed
Speaker 2: through each mile and you were grimacing.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you were cursing, sometimes you were grunting sometimes.
Speaker 3: But how are things for you today?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Really good?
Speaker 3: Sorry, that's awesome. First of all, how was the weather?
Speaker 3: It was? It was colder than I like, but it
Speaker 3: was good running weather.
Speaker 2: It was perfect running weather.
Speaker 4: The only time it's a bummer is when you're waiting
Speaker 4: to start, like those fifteen twenty minutes where you're waiting
Speaker 4: for all the runners to go through that are ahead
Speaker 4: of you, and it's breezy and it's chilly.
Speaker 2: But that's the worst part. I never thought of the
Speaker 2: weather after that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we get going. How is everybody? How was
Speaker 1: the move today? It felt pretty good.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: It felt busy.
Speaker 4: I felt like there were more people, and I think
Speaker 4: this was a record setting number of racers, thirty thousand racers.
Speaker 4: They do them in waves so it's more manageable. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I felt it felt comfortable.
Speaker 2: I didn't feel too crowded.
Speaker 4: The New York City Marathon can get very crowded in moments.
Speaker 2: I never felt like that.
Speaker 3: So we started this morning.
Speaker 1: We didn't see a lot of our familiars, like some
Speaker 1: people you only see once a year or twice a
Speaker 1: year at a race. We saw Tiki afterwards. Tiki Barber,
Speaker 1: who was a big runner Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we see him at most races. He's a big
Speaker 4: runner of big New York Roadrunners fan. So we see
Speaker 4: him that we really do. Just see him once or
Speaker 4: twice a year.
Speaker 1: We do, and we're always great to see him.
Speaker 3: New York road Runners.
Speaker 1: We have to say thank you to them as always
Speaker 1: live Rob and Cruel Crystal, everybody over there who's taking
Speaker 1: very good care of us. The race is run beautifully
Speaker 1: start to finish by these folks. Is so well organized.
Speaker 1: All right, So our morning started and we did. We
Speaker 1: did an episode explaining how we went about it and
Speaker 1: how we get prepared. Did you have any issues based
Speaker 1: on your diet, your sleep, all the planning that we
Speaker 1: do pre race to make sure we feel good on
Speaker 1: race day?
Speaker 3: Did all of it work?
Speaker 4: It all worked perfectly. I fueled myself perfectly last night.
Speaker 4: I had some pasta. We had some steak in the
Speaker 4: for lunch, and had some pasta for the evening.
Speaker 2: Had myself well hydrated.
Speaker 4: I had my anti nausea dissolvable pills that zofran has
Speaker 4: been my new friend, and they worked. I took one
Speaker 4: before I ran, and I took one at mile ten
Speaker 4: when I started to feel a little, just a little
Speaker 4: hint of queasiness, and honestly, if that's all I have
Speaker 4: to do to have a pleasurable run, which I would
Speaker 4: say my only discomfort was being worried about you, I
Speaker 4: had zero discomfort, and I was grateful the whole time
Speaker 4: I was running, just thinking about how wonderful it felt
Speaker 4: to not have pain or feel sick, and just looking
Speaker 4: around and seeing all the awesome people, different shapes, different sizes,
Speaker 4: different colors, different languages, tall, thin, Some folks were in wheelchairs,
Speaker 4: some folks were blind, some folks like we're dealing with
Speaker 4: unbelievable adversities and still pushing through.
Speaker 2: It's always inspirational running a race.
Speaker 1: And this one is more Obviously, twenty six point two
Speaker 1: is grueling. This is one where you just you spoke
Speaker 1: of robe. This one is more manageable as a challenge
Speaker 1: if you're starting as a runner, or if you have
Speaker 1: any other type of challenges. So you do see more
Speaker 1: of that diversity that you don't see in the marathon.
Speaker 1: That's a very good point. It is cool to see
Speaker 1: folks out there pushing themselves, challenging, and you do you,
Speaker 1: I guess you get in your mind what a runner
Speaker 1: is supposed to look like. And to your point, w hrobes.
Speaker 1: They runners come in all shapes and forms and ages.
Speaker 4: I love when I see older folks and they're running slower,
Speaker 4: but they're running, and I think, man, that's what I'm
Speaker 4: hoping I can do, and so slowing down as I
Speaker 4: get older. Look I said before, I didn't run my
Speaker 4: first marathon until I was forty six. I think I
Speaker 4: ran my first half marathon when I was forty three
Speaker 4: forty two, So I didn't even start running long distance
Speaker 4: until my forties. And I just I always want to
Speaker 4: encourage folks. It's never too late. You don't have to have,
Speaker 4: you know, a noteworthy time.
Speaker 2: It's okay.
Speaker 4: I've had on half marathons. I've had a twenty minute swing.
Speaker 4: On marathons. We've had a thirty minute swing. Some marathons
Speaker 4: are easier than others. Sometimes I feel better than I
Speaker 4: did in another way. And the point is you finish it.
Speaker 4: You push yourself through pain and you get to the
Speaker 4: other side, and so at a certain point, at a
Speaker 4: certain age, it's not about the pr it's not about
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 2: It's about the experience and about who I did it with.
Speaker 4: Like we both at times waited on each other to
Speaker 4: make sure we crossed the finish line together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a must on every single one of our races,
Speaker 1: no matter what's going on. So let's I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened ropes. We talked about this this morning. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it for a while. If anybody has followed
Speaker 1: us from the Chicago Marathon in twenty twenty four, is
Speaker 1: that what we're talking about?
Speaker 2: That's what first?
Speaker 4: Yes, well, you were feeling some pain because of some
Speaker 4: shoes you wore leading up to it, but then you
Speaker 4: had someone cut you off and it just went from
Speaker 4: bad to basically you couldn't you couldn't finish.
Speaker 1: So we are really talking about We're going back to
Speaker 1: an injury that I sustained in August.
Speaker 4: Is that when that rate or October, Well the race
Speaker 4: was in October twenty so a race.
Speaker 1: I sustained an injury in October twenty twenty four in
Speaker 1: a race, and I'm still dealing with it now. I
Speaker 1: took off three months from running to try to get
Speaker 1: it healed, and I started running again and in three runs, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm right back to where I was.
Speaker 1: I'vene to the doctor, I got a steroid shot, I've
Speaker 1: done an X rays.
Speaker 3: MRI is next.
Speaker 1: MRI is going to happen this week because whatever reason, Robes,
Speaker 1: we got up this morning. I mean I might have
Speaker 1: said it on the podcast even earlier, that yeah, feel okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried, feeling fairly strong.
Speaker 3: I do not know what happened yesterday.
Speaker 4: You had your foot up. The whole day we did,
Speaker 4: like I said, we didn't leave the apartment. You were
Speaker 4: icing it, you were heating it, you were taking advil,
Speaker 4: you were hydrating, you were doing everything you were supposed to.
Speaker 3: But this morning it felt fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I know I was still injured, but
Speaker 1: I oh, I'm I'm like, oh, I'm gonna be okay today.
Speaker 3: For I do not know what happened.
Speaker 1: By the time we left, there's just a sharp pain
Speaker 1: and Robes, I told you I should I don't even
Speaker 1: know if we should start the race. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: a matter of can I make it?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 3: Just can I This is dumb to even start. It
Speaker 3: was that bad.
Speaker 4: And then the first two miles, Babe, you were so slow,
Speaker 4: and I was so worried that you were not going
Speaker 4: to be able to do it because you're a fast runner.
Speaker 4: And I was like, wow, even this is slow for you.
Speaker 4: And I just thought, if we're already starting out like this,
Speaker 4: how is he going to finish it?
Speaker 2: So I was so impressed you finished.
Speaker 1: So it was stupid. I it loosened up. I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to two three, four mile and it
Speaker 1: didn't really, and so by mile five I had to
Speaker 1: just I need to suck this up.
Speaker 3: It was just pain management.
Speaker 1: And every step, I mean, even a flat surface that
Speaker 1: just has a crack in that surface, if my foot
Speaker 1: hits that crack just a little bit, any little tweak
Speaker 1: of that foot hurt like all get outs.
Speaker 2: And so you were focused. You were looking down.
Speaker 3: I was looking down there.
Speaker 4: Afterwards, you said to me, do you remember that little
Speaker 4: bridge in Central Park where there was a brick?
Speaker 2: No, I wasn't.
Speaker 4: I wasn't looking at the ground, And you said, I
Speaker 4: didn't even see the fans. I didn't even see the
Speaker 4: crowds because I just had to look at the terrain.
Speaker 4: I was about to traverse and make sure that it
Speaker 4: was steady enough. So yeah, and there were awesome folks
Speaker 4: out cheering. And I know what it's like though, because
Speaker 4: I've had miserable runs where you're just having tunnel vision.
Speaker 4: You just have to focus on getting continuing the motion forward.
Speaker 4: You can't even pay attention to your surroundings. And that's
Speaker 4: where you were today.
Speaker 1: I gotta do something by the New York City half.
Speaker 1: I've had miserable runs that make me want to quit
Speaker 1: running at this particular race. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: So I'm signing up for the one next year, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna break the curse the cycle in some way.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep going at it, but I will be
Speaker 1: getting an MRI.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes, folks, when we record our episodes, we have an
Speaker 1: accompanying video, a social media video that we put up
Speaker 1: that you all can see as well, sometimes just to
Speaker 1: tease the episode or just to have a little fun.
Speaker 1: Stay here, we'll explain why you will not be getting
Speaker 1: a video to go along with this episode. All right,
Speaker 1: we continue here injured, but we move on. We start
Speaker 1: out with migraines and spraining foots and the migraine held
Speaker 1: up fine for you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, I woke up this morning and it
Speaker 2: was gone.
Speaker 4: It was a full day of hell yesterday because I
Speaker 4: don't get them often now, like almost once a year.
Speaker 4: I used to get them once a month, sometimes twice
Speaker 4: a month, so I had immatrecs.
Speaker 2: I used to have injections with me. I've been grateful,
Speaker 2: I said.
Speaker 4: The one gift that cancer gave me was basically, once
Speaker 4: it pushed me into medically induced menopause, I kind of
Speaker 4: stopped getting migraines.
Speaker 2: So that was the benefit.
Speaker 4: And so when I do get one, though, it's horrific,
Speaker 4: and I had forgotten it had been so long since
Speaker 4: I had one. So they can last if you don't
Speaker 4: have imitrex or something a basic constrictor to stop it,
Speaker 4: they can last for days. So I woke up this
Speaker 4: morning and thought, oh my god, it's gone.
Speaker 2: So it was like a miracle.
Speaker 4: And then I felt bad because your pain actually did
Speaker 4: the opposite so mine. Suddenly I was free of pain,
Speaker 4: and you were, yeah, kind of overwhelmed by it.
Speaker 1: It was rose, It's just pain management. Took Adville, put
Speaker 1: that CBD cream on it, lathered up. I said to you,
Speaker 1: I said, I swear it felt worse after I put
Speaker 1: the cream.
Speaker 2: I get inflamed it something sweart, I swear to you.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened today. I've used that cream before.
Speaker 1: This wasn't the first try. I don't know what happened today.
Speaker 1: But folks, if you could see us, now, we were
Speaker 1: a mess. I only just put a shirt on before
Speaker 1: we started. So I'm walking around. I am now instill
Speaker 1: in the sweaty tights that I wore to run thirteen
Speaker 1: point two miles. Ye robes, Okay, yeah, yeah, you're you're
Speaker 1: just a pretty little rose over there. She stripped out
Speaker 1: of all of her nasty sweaty stuff. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not even going to tell them what you did
Speaker 1: after you stripped down when the mirror was nearby. But
Speaker 1: she steps down, and now she's are those clean clothes
Speaker 1: you wear? You know what?
Speaker 2: They were on the way. I wore them yesterday, so
Speaker 2: they were on the way to being dirty clothes. They're
Speaker 2: just a pair.
Speaker 4: Actually, they're my marathon sweats, so I'll be putting these
Speaker 4: in the dirty clothes. Obviously, I have not showered, so
Speaker 4: anything that touches me will have to go immediately into
Speaker 4: the dirty clothes.
Speaker 1: Hamper, and to complete the scene, my foot, my left
Speaker 1: foot is in a blue bucket of ice water that
Speaker 1: I bought.
Speaker 2: From targets to a PARTI tub like yeah.
Speaker 3: But we've used a lot for this.
Speaker 2: That's your foot tub now.
Speaker 1: And our table here where we are podcasting has these
Speaker 1: items on it. Two laptops, one iPad, two phones, a
Speaker 1: legal pad, two flu of champagne, one can of Michel Ultra,
Speaker 1: and one extra large bottle of ad Bill liquid gels.
Speaker 2: I also have a bottle of water too.
Speaker 3: You want to throw it like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but even know I am hydrating alongside my champagne.
Speaker 4: The champagne is a gift from my mom and dad
Speaker 4: from Christmas. So thank you mom and dad for the
Speaker 4: very expensive bubbles. We boom save them for a day
Speaker 4: like today where we can celebrate what we were able
Speaker 4: to overcome and accomplish. And look, I always want to
Speaker 4: encourage everybody when you think you can't do something, just
Speaker 4: take it one step at a time, one day at
Speaker 4: a time.
Speaker 2: You are stronger than you think, and look.
Speaker 4: You can do things that you I think sometimes we
Speaker 4: think we age out of opportunities, or we age out
Speaker 4: of being able or capable, And I'm just saying you
Speaker 4: haven't give it a try.
Speaker 2: And look when.
Speaker 4: You pass past the five k, the ten k, the
Speaker 4: fifteen k, the twenty k, when you're doing a half marathon,
Speaker 4: you do remember those are fun races too, Those are
Speaker 4: fun races to do. I would love to do a
Speaker 4: five k with you. We signed up for a ten
Speaker 4: k last year. It just got rained out. But if
Speaker 4: I just want to encourage anybody who's even thinking about
Speaker 4: running or thinking about getting up and walking, just sign up.
Speaker 2: Sign up for a five k.
Speaker 4: It will change your life.
Speaker 1: And you might end up with advil, champagne and your
Speaker 1: foot in a bucket, but hey, it's all worthy. We
Speaker 1: do crazy, crazy stuff as runners and it's a fun
Speaker 1: community to be a part of. You were saying, what
Speaker 1: are all those lines things you only hear a runner say?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, but there was.
Speaker 4: Hilarious thing on my Instagram saying, oh my god, things
Speaker 4: only runners will appreciate or understand phrases like yeah, I'm tapering,
Speaker 4: so I only ran ten miles today.
Speaker 2: Other people are like, are you insane?
Speaker 4: Like that kind of thing where we're like, because of
Speaker 4: like apologizing for only running a ten miler today.
Speaker 2: It wasn't really that long.
Speaker 1: So we are sitting here encouraging everybody to run, explaining
Speaker 1: all the pain we have gone through in order to run.
Speaker 1: But yes, that's a part of it. So folks, we
Speaker 1: just wanted to share what our day has been. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you as always literally and figuratively running with us,
Speaker 1: but I'm TJ. Holmes On behalf of my dear Amy Robot.
Speaker 3: We will be running with you soon