WEBVTT - Redemption Run 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:04.360 Hey there, folks. In this episode of Amy and PJ, 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.039 we three weeks ago ended our Chicago Marathon before crossing 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.040 the finish line and in the back of an ambulance. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.880 Yesterday we finished the New York City Marathon, crossing the 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:22.599 finish line, but on our backs. And with that, welcome 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:28.640 to this episode of Aby and TJ Robes. It is done, folks. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.839 Despite all the talk and the ambulance rides and the 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.720 injuries and the frustration, we completed the New York City 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.120 Marathon yesterday and we sit here with new hardware around 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.120 our necks. Feels Good's that metal feels good. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.879 It was hard earned, I will say that much. It's 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:54.600 funny because it's every marathon is different and you can't predict. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.280 I can't predict at least what's going to happen, what's 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.880 not going to happen, And enough, yesterday was no different 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.480 than the five that preceded it. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.880 For me, they're all different. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:08.840 So yeah, if you're listening to us, yes we are. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.679 We are recording this the day after the New York 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.160 City Marathon we ran yesterday. We have the normal aches 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.920 and pains today, but yesterday was a bit of a struggle, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.679 Like I said, how many New York City marathons were you? 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.920 This was my fourth New York City mariage, ah, and. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.680 This was my third, so third straight. So we kind 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.640 of know what's coming and we know what to expect, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.600 and it's a very and thank you again New York City. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.680 You'll know how to do this, and you do it 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.520 so well. And this is one day that the city 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.480 we talked about before gives a just an embrace, You 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.680 get a collective embrace from the city like no other 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:43.839 time you ever see in the city. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.720 It is my favorite day in New York City, whether 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.800 I'm running or whether you're just spectating and watching, because 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:54.080 it's the one day where there is a real sense 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.560 of unity. And if you ever do get the opportunity, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.600 or ever do choose to put yourself through the training 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.240 and then the ultimate marathon day, if you are lucky 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.000 enough to run the New York City Marathon, I don't 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:07.880 think there are fans greater in the world. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.160 And if you've ever. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.760 Wondered what it feels like to walk into a roaring stadium, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.240 to feel like an Olympian, to feel like a world 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.960 class athlete, then run the New York City Marathon because 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.480 You'll never see collectively so many people cheering for you 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.240 when you're physically putting yourself through the ringer, and. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.960 They do help you through the race, and a lot 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.040 of sections when you are struggling it is, they do 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.840 give you a boost. So thank you New York City 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.440 for all you did for us yesterday. This was for 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.640 us Robes, a redemption run, as we were calling it, 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.800 after what happened in Chicago. A lot of folks know 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.280 I was dealing with an achilles issue for months all 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.000 summer during the training. Almost did not even attempt to 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.120 run Chicago, but we did. It had some issues. It's 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.520 a whole collection a mess, but we ended up not finished, 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.880 stopped on mile twenty one, twenty one and ended up 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.200 in the back of an ambulance. I did and was 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.880 in pretty bad shape. I'm okay, I'm fine. Didn't rupture 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:04.080 any thing. But I set out to train and to 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.480 heal and to recover in time to do the New 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.480 York City Marathon three weeks later. You did not plan 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:10.920 on running the New York City Marathon. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.639 No, I planned on running Chicago. That would have been 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.040 my sixth marathon. And I actually said, you know what, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.360 I had done the Chicago Marathon a couple years before, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.160 and I just felt like, I've been training NonStop for 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.760 marathons for the past five years, and I think it does. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:27.440 It takes a toll. At least it takes a toll 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.680 on my body. Maybe it's my age, maybe it's my genetics, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.400 but it's just I felt like maybe I just really 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.920 embraced the half marathon, which I love. So when we 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.760 didn't finish the Chicago Marathon, I thought, my goodness, I've 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.160 trained for the last five months. I could just treat 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.600 the next three weeks as a continuation of my training 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.520 and run New York City and have that be. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:49.680 A period. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.600 Maybe it's a common maybe it's a semicolon to my 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:53.440 marathon days. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.960 Okay, we and say we didn't finish Chicago, but we 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.280 didn't finish because of me and my jury. This wasn't 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.440 a you thing at all. There. You just stayed with 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.200 me while I was going through what I was going through, 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.200 and we talked about that and everybody understood. But you 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.120 were not that you needed another marathon because you didn't 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:11.360 finish that one because of me. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:13.680 Right well, And I. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:15.560 Think, honestly, if I hadn't finished that one because of me. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.640 I might have considered it as well, you know, because 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.480 you put your body through so much training. So, yes, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.799 it was the big day and we were feeling good. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.840 We look, we've also traveled every weekend for the past 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.920 six weeks. We were in Spain earlier in the week 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.240 coming back to New York, so we weren't maybe set 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.840 up for the very best performance, but we did our 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:39.039 best that week to you know, stop drinking, stop you know, like, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.960 really focus on sleeping, really focus on what we were eating. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.200 So we did everything we could in a few days 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.720 leading up to the New York City Marathon. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.960 So we got up on the morning of and so 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:50.320 this is how it goes, folks. You get up on 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.640 the morning of and you focus the last three days. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.000 It's true you focused the last few days before the 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.599 marathon on your diet and on your sleep. But the 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.960 diet is very important because look, no kind way to 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.680 necessarily put this, but you want to make sure your 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.680 stomach isn't jacked up and you end up needing to 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.800 take a number two during the run. You're running that much, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.400 that long, if you got the wrong thing in your 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.440 stomach and that stuff's moving around you gonna have a problem. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.720 Yes, and that is one of the many reasons why 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.640 you'll see porta potties lining the marathon route because it's 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.560 hard to predict sometimes how that actually is going to 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:23.000 move through you. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.159 And again it's also why you see plenty of people 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.400 out there with signs the spectators that say don't trust 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:28.960 that fart. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:35.000 That's sorry, and they're yes, yes, we won't get into 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.440 graphic details, but you see some things sometimes for folks 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.680 who really didn't want to ruin their time. They might 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.800 be pring that might be their personal records, so they 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.800 didn't want to go to the bathroom and so or 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.360 to the porta potty, so they just yeah, took matters 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:47.920 into their own. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:52.440 Yes, they're not wearing dark colored clothing maybe like they should. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.320 This is all true, so I know it is gross, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.200 but this is a part of running, and this is 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.480 why a lot of people go you people are crazy, right, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.400 because this is what folks put them themselves through to 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.120 run a marathon. So our morning, yes, we get up, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.520 so we're focused, we're actually feeling pretty good that morning, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.000 but it's it's the alarm goes off. I think I 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:12.440 got up at what like two something. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.320 You want to know you actually got up out of 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:15.760 bed at one in the morning. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.000 Okay, don't you're saying, Okay, I didn't mean to. I 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.839 didn't set the alarm, but I don't know. Maybe it 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.240 was like it felt like Christmas to me and for 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.560 me this was a big deal, a redemption room. I could. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.080 I told you a couple of days, I head, I 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:27.200 can't freaking wait. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.040 You were so excited to go run this marathons Christmas morning? 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.000 It was so I was excited. I actually got out 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.840 of bed went to the couch because I didn't want 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.320 the TV on and disturbing you and wanted to make 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.479 sure you got your rest. So this is what people 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.480 do in the morning the marathon. Imagine this, folks. I 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:47.280 am in the bedroom sitting rubbing cannabis cream on my ankle. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.040 Robes is in the bathroom rubbing what underneath your What. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.599 I'm rubbing anti chafe. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.760 It's called like runners glide all around where my sports 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.200 spra hits my body, where my my pants hit my stomach, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.560 because I have learned the hard way about chafing, and 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.479 it actually ends up looking like secondary burns all over 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:09.120 your body. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.400 If you, for me, at least if I don't. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.200 If I sweat a little and it's cold and you're 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.240 doing this for four hours, it's called just chafing, and 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.040 it's it's actually a very painful burn. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.440 So yeah, if you put that runner's. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.480 Glide all around those parts of you, but you look 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.400 like a weirdo doing it. You walked in on me 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:26.960 and you're like, what are you doing? 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.600 I've seen you do it, but to give people a 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.640 better visual, I'm sorry to put you through it, but 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.560 imagine robes I mean kind of. I mean essentially topless 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.760 with a little thing that looks like a stick of 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.920 the odorant and she's rubbing it under her breast. Is 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.240 what's happening. So that's not that's an odd site are 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:43.800 you doing? 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.280 And guess what I didn't chafe? That was bumping that 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.520 went in my direct in the right way. I guess 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.320 yesterday is I had zero chaff egs. You ended up 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:52.840 with chafing. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:54.800 Well, we want to get into that, but it had 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.560 nothing to do. There's no way I could have predicted 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:57.480 this particular chase. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:00.800 It was weird. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.920 It was a first for me to Okay, I should 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.600 probably go and tell it because we're setting it up 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.640 on the chafing thing. One of the rules, the absolute 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.880 rules for the morning of a marathon. For a runner, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.040 it's probably number one. You do not try anything new 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.520 on the morning of the marathon. Don't try a new food, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.920 don't try a new drink, don't try new socks, don't 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.080 try new shoes. Don't make sure everything does not the 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.400 day because you're asking for trouble. I wore pants, new pants, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.920 new pants, brand new pants that and I always run 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.520 in tights, running tights that always have a pocket on 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.480 the side that I can slide the cell phone in. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.800 They make those mainly and mostly for a lot of 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.400 when we have them now, so I have done that. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.360 I've been a serious runner for four years, been keeping 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.640 the phone in that pocket on every single run. Bought 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.000 new pants at the expo. 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.720 Must have been a little thinner than the other ones. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:52.800 They say New York City. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.480 They're cool, They're very cool. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.440 Fit great, look good, Oh my goodness, great pants, How 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:02.560 great pants. I in the race, get home and I 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.000 feel like I've been shot on the side of the leg, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.360 and sure enough I take a look and there is 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:13.640 a perfect, perfectly iPhone shaped burn on my right thigh. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:15.960 So your phone was moving just a little bit as 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.280 you were running, and it was chafing your thigh. So 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.800 he has an iPhone chafe on his thigh. I have 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.120 never seen that. And I put my cell phone in 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.040 my pocket and I got my pants at the expo 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.640 and I did not put the runners Glide there. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.600 So so don's no way I could have predicted that. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.199 Actually had quite funny. It has everything except the Apple logo. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.600 On Enjoy that for the next. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.080 The funny thing is you know where you've been shaped 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.160 as soon as you get in the shower after a marathon, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.839 because you have salt all over your body. Imagine running 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.320 for that long. You are literally crusted in salt. So 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.640 then when you get in the shower, the salt's washing 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.880 off of you. But if you have any burns, any chafing, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.240 it's like rubbing salt in a wound. You're like screaming 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.679 and then you realize, oh wow, I have a mass chafe. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.920 So later you actually I don't know you, and you 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.400 were making noises in the shower. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:08.360 I was like, what is happening? 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.040 And they thought it was the chafing, but it was 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.120 everything else you were. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.160 You were groaning in the shower. I was like what 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.040 is happening in there? I looked at Sabi and we 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.160 were like, what's that thing? 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.720 So to get to that point, so let's back up, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.040 let's go back to the race. So we're leaving the 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.320 house and we get on a bus. So we but 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.520 to pack. Tell tell me what was in your goody 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.360 bag on the way to the bus to go to. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.280 Okay, the clear plastic bag in my goodie back? 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.400 Okay, well I had my Oh yeah, the good the 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:44.920 one you ran. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:45.520 Oh yeah. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.320 So we cut up because we read I was trying 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.240 to find things that don't make me sick and those 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.880 runner gummies and Runner goose always do. So we decided 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.200 it would be a good idea after looking online on 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.000 the internet. Again, probably shouldn't do anything different on race day, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.360 but we cut up liquorice. We cut up Twizzlers to 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.720 be specific. I threw in a couple of Skittles too, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.040 just for some power ups throughout the race. And so 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.800 we each had a little baggie of Twizzlers in our 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.080 pocket to eat along the way. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.600 But that works for me because I know twizzlers sit 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.559 well on my stomach. I've been eating them pretty seriously for. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:24.960 Yes, I witnessed this. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:30.880 Yeah, so we have this. I have ibuprofen and five 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.520 hour energy. I think that's it in my bag. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.720 And I did take a Runner's scummy before I started, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.000 so I had two of those that had caffeine and 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.440 electrolytes in them, and I tablet well, I did have 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.679 a noon tablet electrolytes. I drank one before and then 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.360 I had my water bottle because I was going to 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.520 try not to stop at the water stations to just 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.360 kind of squirt a little water in my mouth and 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.400 try not to make me sick by having all that 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:55.920 water jostling in my stomach. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.720 Yeah, you all the stomach. We want to get into 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:58.719 the stomach a little more here. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:11:59.760 That plan failed. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.360 Second, so we leave at five am, going to fifty 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.480 first between six and seventh where they in New York. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:10.480 Roadrunners that organizes the marathon has they have a kind 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:15.040 of a celebrity vip runner situation they set out, which 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.760 is wonderful for us. Thank you again, Roadrunners. So we 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.240 get on the bus and we've been doing this so 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.800 many years. This is really really cool. It's a little family. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.240 You see the same people year in year out. A 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.440 couple of new runners and one of them was Jennifer Connley, 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.000 the Oscar winner, who was running her first marathon ever. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.040 She hopped on our bus with us and some of 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.280 our bachelor guys. But I'm just saying we see the 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.760 same fall and this is the coolest thing in the morning. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.040 That ride, it's just like as a family reunion. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.720 It is, and you see them probably just once a year. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.120 Another familiar face Chelsea Clinton. We ran with her two 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:49.720 years ago, so it was fun to see. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:50.480 Her again in the tent. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.000 So yes, everyone's like, hey, how's it been going. You 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.640 catch up in the runners tent as you're getting ready, 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.120 And yes, we saw pilot Pete, who we just had 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.120 on the podcast. He was all excited about his second marathon, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.520 this time he actually trained for it. So it was 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:04.120 just fun. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.559 We had a blast. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.120 But that ride, that bus ride is special. Once you 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.520 get you're essentially going across the arizontal bridge to the 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.760 starting line at sunrise. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.120 And you get excited, You get excited about what the 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.680 day is going to bring and the energy you're bringing 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:20.960 with it. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.000 It's all very positive. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.880 Everyone's a little nervous and very excited. So it's so fun. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.080 So let's take you inside this tent now, so it's 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.520 a nice thing. They have heat in their food, drinks, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.160 everything you need, and they have mats and then the 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.560 rollers for everybody getting stretched and all these things. But 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.960 we're in there hanging out, and again we haven't seen 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.600 We haven't seen Chelsea Clinton in two years because she 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.040 didn't run last year, which we didn't realize. I hope 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.120 it's out there, because I'm about to tell it. She 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.600 broke her foot. She broke her foot running but running 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.400 after one of her children, and that's why she couldn't 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:54.559 run the marathon last year. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.160 I hope she doesn't mind me saying this all. Oh 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.240 my god, because this is really funny. No, because when 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.800 you stepped away, we were catching up and she did 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.360 not know that we no longer. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.120 Worked for Good Morning America. And I had to quickly 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.040 catch her up because the last time we were together. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.200 Can story. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.319 I mean, it's kind of like, we'll see, here's what happened. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.560 But we were already a couple. We just weren't out 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.600 the last yes. But she I think she's like, oh, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.440 I totally thought you were together. I said, well, we 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.280 were together, we just weren't officially because we were dressed alike. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.000 Remember she made fun of us and said, y'all are 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.000 so cute it's nauseating. But anyway, she said, oh my gosh, 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.200 I can't believe that all happened and I missed it. 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.920 I guess I'm only reading. I'm only doing Google searches 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.520 on myself. I'm only worried about the bad press I'm receiving. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.960 And I said, you know what, that's fair. That is 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:39.440 so fair. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.200 She like, I don't have time to read everyone else's 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.720 bad press. And I laughed so hard. It was just 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.840 a really awesome dose of perspective. It was just perfect. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.640 And I I was bummed you missed it, So. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.120 Now I'm catching you up. I hope she doesn't either, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.760 but she it was fun. It was all said in Jess. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.640 It is great to catch up with her. And on 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.400 the Jennifer Connley front, she was she's a a kind 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.640 of like she's we're in the same tribe, right, She's 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.560 just a cool These are one of the people you 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.880 meet and you're a fan of, and you and you're 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.080 just hoping that good folks. She was beyond all expectations 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.560 of how sweet and sincere and just real she was. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.240 And because she was genuinely nervous. She was her first 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.840 and she was asking everybody little questions should I do 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.760 this or should I do that? And she's perfectly trained 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.800 and she did a good job and had a great race. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.320 But we were standing talking to Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Connelly, right, 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.680 the four of us, just in our own world, doing 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.520 our things. And then we're the back of the tent 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.720 and we turn around. All of a sudden there's this 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.240 huge crowd of people with cameras and they look like 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.480 assistance and all this stuff. That is what it is. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:45.720 And we turn around and who's right on my shouldern 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.840 Hocle comes into the tent and we end up shooting 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.520 the ship with her in front of camera. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.840 We're like having a mini press conference the day. That's 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:55.640 what it felt like. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.080 I was like, Wow, it's Chelsea, it's Jennifer, me, you 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.400 and Governor kal All having a conversation about New. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.080 York City's finest day. It was. It was like, this 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.160 is bizarre but kind of cool at the same time. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.400 She was very good. Now I haven't had a chance 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.040 to spend any time with her, but she was look 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:12.880 she was doing her thing, and she was warm and 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.640 personable and funny and friendly. But it was just an 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.880 odd little collection of folks that are having a conversation. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.480 We had no idea, but it absolutely we were standing. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.400 If you ever see the video a put out or 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.920 the so funny the pictures, we look like we are 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:27.960 officially holding a press. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:29.720 But I don't know if she wants to be seen 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.840 with us or all of us. Like it was just funny. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.040 I was like, hm, I wonder if this is going 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:33.880 to see the light of day. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.880 So just like Chelsea, she she didn't know her ages 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.800 are gonna say, you were standing next to tj Als, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:41.640 let's explain. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.760 Maybe we shouldn't include that in the press. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.120 It was a fun moment. It was a nice moment. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:49.760 So we finally do get out. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.000 You missed me stepping on your toe. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.160 You know, I didn't want to include that because I 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:55.640 know I'm going to give you a hard time about 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.320 that for a long time. Okay, but privately, many of 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.400 the issues as I have had it. I was in 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.440 there trying to stretch out the hamstring and the it 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.720 band and the achilles and all these things, and I'm 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.960 barefoot the whole time. I didn't put my shoes on 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.840 until right the last minute. So I'm standing at barefoot 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.000 she were you trying to get a selfie? 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:14.680 I was getting a selfie yep. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:15.879 And what happened? 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.119 And I stepped on your toe step it kicked stumped 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.240 on your toe. Sum ye with my shoes. That's a 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.360 good one, and that I was. Yeah, I felt really 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:27.080 bad about that. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.080 So at some point during the race, I said to you, babe, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.280 my toe is killing me. It's the only thing bothering 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:33.800 me right now. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.840 And I felt horrible. I was so just all the 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.800 name of a selfie. And I actually the selfie I 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.080 got is quite funny because you look, it's in motion 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:43.240 and you're like in pain. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.040 That's the selfie shows. I should put that on my story. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.840 Okay, I forgot, I forgot about but that toe, it 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:51.280 is hurting. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:52.119 I'm so sorry. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.000 It's sorry. I was gonna lose that tone anyway. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.080 You're losing a several tones from the looks of your foot. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.080 So we get out to the start, okay, and this 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.920 is all things again exciting. Now the cannons are going off. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:04.480 They the elite runners go. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:05.680 And play in New York. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:12.560 It's just stay mood, great vibe. The only thing that 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.200 then once you start, there are two things that bring 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.960 down your mood. It makes you hate the start of 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:18.600 the New York City. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:23.160 There are ahead the smells of the folks who did 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.320 not shower, that's one, or used deodorant slash anti persprint 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.520 before they took off. So this is at the beginning 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.679 of the race. Two folks really don't think you have 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.960 an excuse to smell. And yet number two people are 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.879 obsessed with getting their prs, their their personal records, and 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.919 so they will push show up. Now, some people are 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.520 kind to say, excuse me, excuse me, but there are others, 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.399 and there was one man who did it to me 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.600 and to you, who literally will take their hands on 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.560 your shoulder and push you, which is so I think 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.840 in not in the spirit of things. If you're a runner, especially, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.040 you should understand putting. When you are running and you 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.560 are your gate, your cadence, everything matters your stride. If 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.240 someone throws you off like that so that they can 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.040 get ahead, that is so cruel because you could trip, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.600 you could fall, you could tweak something like you did 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.760 in the last marathon, and it actually could take you 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.320 out of the race. And I just am always a 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.400 gas that there is always that person, always that other 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.239 fellow runner who I yelled at the guy who did 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.200 it to me, and you said you pushed back. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.720 Well, it's that simple. If you push me, I push 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.639 you back. What's the problem. Yeah, what you want to do? 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:29.919 You just pushed me. I just push you back. You 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.760 got a problem with me? Is it's so offensive and 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.560 the only thing more offensive are the damn smells. It 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:39.239 is unbelievable. You all. I cannot I'm sorry. No, I'm 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:40.639 not sorry. I didn't do anything. I put it on 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.159 theodrant that morning. I don't know why you cannot, Like 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.679 you couldn't stand in a room for five minutes with 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.640 these odors without having to run out puking. It's awful. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.080 It is. I don't know what is going on and why, 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.240 but it is hideous. 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.440 At the beginning, it's always the Verizon, Arizon Arizona. 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.000 I don't understand why it smells so bad, but every 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.280 time it does, so we can talk about what Harlem 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:05.880 smelled like. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.560 Oh yeah, okay, it's not. 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.920 Going to be it's not offensive, but it was to us, 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:13.000 but not in the way you're thinking. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.840 So we get we finally get across the Arizona and 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.399 here is where the fun start. It takes us almost 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.720 two miles two miles, yeah, to get across the Arizona, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.359 So soon as you get into or out of Staten Island, 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.200 you're essentially two miles into the race. So we make 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:32.119 that first left once we get into Brooklyn, and we 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.920 see the same guy every single year, and we absolutely 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:36.200 adore him. Be read. 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.040 Yes, he is one of the floor directors at that 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.640 program he used to work for and we love him. 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.560 And I mean it's so he's one of the I 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.560 love it. He dms me I think at least once 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.080 a week, and he got cute. 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:49.760 Pictures of us. 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.560 But he's always there with his big Viking hat and 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.800 he's always looking for us. He's in the same place 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.400 every year, so it's always fun we get to see him. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.840 We got to see another one of our former colleagues, Ali, 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.800 who was there screaming our name, and. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:04.080 She took some pictures too. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.119 But it's you actually have reunions with people who you 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.960 haven't seen in a year along the marathon route, along 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:11.560 the parade route. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.040 It's it's kind of fun. That's always special. 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.119 Yeah, it's always great to see him. And we had 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.840 Sabine and for and Nikki along the route to as well, 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.760 so they met us at mile eight and miles sixteen. 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.640 They're able to text us while we're running and say 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.040 this is where we are, so they were able to see. 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:38.480 It's two different spots. I saw Sabine both times this time, 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:40.639 and not like last year I've missed her on one 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:40.960 of them. 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:44.080 You slowed way down to make sure I saw something. 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.160 Oh yes, and you and it was it was well executed. 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.120 We saw them both times, and you know it's I. 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.359 When I started out, I usually can tell how the 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:53.119 race is going to go. 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:53.480 You know. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:55.439 You can you feel how strong your legs are, you 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:59.040 feel your energy level, and I felt like I was flying, 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.399 and I said to myself, oh yay, this is gonna 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:03.440 be a good race. 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:04.280 I was the weather for you. 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:05.080 It was good. 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.359 It was a little windy. It was definitely the cold. 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.520 I like it was a little windy. But if I 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.680 have to say, it was pretty damn close to perfect. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.000 It was just slightly chillier than I would prefer, which 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.160 is unusual for me to say. But I normally would 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.359 be in a tank top and the wind I couldn't 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:22.560 take off my coudter layer. 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.000 Well, it wasn't fifty when we started. 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:26.879 It was thirty nine, yeah when we first got to 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:28.000 the tent, and I think it ended up being like 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:30.640 forty four, but with the wind chill, it was, yeah, 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:34.080 it was. It was chilly, but sunny and gorgeous nice. 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:37.640 And I remember being around miles six seven looking over 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:41.240 at you, feeling great and seeing some of the great 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.200 Nike signs. They had some awesome signs out there motivating 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:46.920 us runners along the way with big billboards they took out, 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:49.320 and I remember looking over at you and thinking where 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:52.280 we were three weeks ago, and just all the struggles 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:56.600 that we've been through, not just in this training and 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.119 this racing thing that we do together, but just in 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:01.560 life and all the struggles of the last two years 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:03.920 kind of came over me and I looked at you, 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:06.399 and I'm sure you remember, I just said I love you, 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.240 because I just I felt so honored that the person 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:12.040 who I've been through all of this with was right 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:16.119 by my side doing something that's really hard, and that 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:18.320 we were doing it together. And I just I could 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:20.720 get emotional now thinking about it. Like when you go 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:23.240 and run a race like this, I think, no matter 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:25.040 how many times you do it. You know how hard 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:27.480 it is and how hard you've worked for it, and 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.159 to have someone who's there with you. We had our 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:32.720 friend who we love seeing. We saw are in Chicago too, 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:36.280 Claire Hoyt. She even said to us, you guys are 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:38.719 so lucky you get to run together. You have a 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:40.840 partner to do it with, because it is hard sometimes 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:43.480 to get motivated. It is hard to say I can 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:45.480 do this. But when you've got that person next to 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.840 you through life and on the running route, it makes 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:51.680 a difference. It does for me, and I just was 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:54.919 so grateful for you and just kind of reflecting on 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:57.880 how far we've come. Anyway, I felt this amazing wave 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:00.160 of emotion come over me and I started to cry 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:03.760 tears of joy, and I felt so good. I was like, man, 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.160 I'm doing this again next year. Hell yeah, I forget 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:09.120 that period I put on things or the stop. I'm 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:10.200 doing this again next year. 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:10.920 I was just. 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:16.439 I really felt overwhelmed. Yeah, six or seven, we were 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.280 in Brooklyn and it was just it was awesome. 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:20.399 Yeah, you had a big smile and you looked over 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:21.879 and said I love you. It was a sweet moment 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:26.800 and we were rocking and rolling and crushing this marathon. Yeah, 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:30.720 we got through the first half marathon and we were 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:33.480 on great pace. We were on pace to finish around 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:37.760 four hours. I mean, I don't and we were enjoying 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:39.639 it to the point that you know, you're having a 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:41.240 good time where you don't have music on, right, you're 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:43.040 not trying to be distracted. You're trying to take in 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:45.640 what's around you. And this is one of the things 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:49.120 about the marathon. They give us name tags New York 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:52.120 Rown Writers, so it says TJ your said Amy. And 0:24:52.560 --> 0:24:54.720 sometimes being people just a lot of people recognize you 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:56.080 in the crowd, but folks that don't know you just 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:57.840 see your name and they'll just start yelling out and 0:24:57.840 --> 0:24:59.439 they'll yell it out to them, not just say go 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:02.000 Amy that like a group I will just start doing 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:05.920 a chant Amy. It's just it's cool. It's very cool, 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:09.760 absolutely fun. But the signs are great along the way, 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.240 and I just I want to applaud Nike, the ones 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:15.159 they did in Chicago and the ones here. They just 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:17.199 every single one of them makes you smile and you 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:18.800 have to be a runner almost understand them. 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:22.080 Yep, you know, it's it's great. The couple the one 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:25.880 that really caught my eye. That made me laugh out loud. Finally, 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:27.720 tourists willing to pick up their pace. 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:31.320 Good's so good got. 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:33.200 Any of New York to get that anyone who walks 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:36.520 the city streets of New York. I laughed so hard 0:25:36.520 --> 0:25:38.639 when I saw that one. It was fantastic. And this 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:40.800 one I couldn't find it again. To make sure I 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:43.040 get the wording exactly right, I did look for it, 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:45.680 but it was something to this effect. It said, today 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:47.640 is going to be the best day of your life. 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:48.720 Next week. 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:51.240 It's brilliant. 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:53.359 And then and then this is like if you and 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:57.080 this is, oh my gosh, I get this one. If 0:25:57.119 --> 0:26:00.119 you are struggling and you want to quit, And believe me, 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:02.359 there are plenty of times where your mind is telling 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:05.199 you why the hell you're doing this? Just stop running. 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:08.280 This sign you didn't run this far to run this far? 0:26:09.080 --> 0:26:10.800 And I thought that was really cool. And there was 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:15.000 another one something you have to hate running a little 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:19.919 to love running, like basically, you have to struggle and 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:21.480 then you understand why you love it. 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:23.720 If that makes any sense, anyone, perfect sense. 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:25.440 So here we go all the issues we think we're 0:26:25.480 --> 0:26:28.280 going to have. I'm worried about the Achilles the IT band. 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:31.560 We've both had little respiratory issues lately. We were worried 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:33.200 about how our bodies were going to hold up. After 0:26:33.280 --> 0:26:35.240 running the marathon in Chicago, we still. 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:36.720 Did twenty one mile back from Spain. 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:38.520 We just came back, so a little jet lag. We're 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:41.080 adjusting to a whole bunch of stuff. So all these 0:26:41.080 --> 0:26:43.880 things we think are going to be our problem. And 0:26:43.920 --> 0:26:46.239 several miles in, you know what our biggest problem was 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:51.320 are bladders. We run all the time, we don't have 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:54.399 to stop and use the bathroom. Ever. I've been running 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:57.280 with you NonStop for four years. I remember the one 0:26:57.320 --> 0:26:58.879 time on the West Side Highway you had to go 0:26:58.920 --> 0:27:02.320 to use the bathroom. Four years yep. For whatever reason, 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:04.000 I looked over at you said, baby. 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:08.960 My bladder is killing me this problem and I said, 0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:10.560 oh my gosh, so it's fine. 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:13.280 So we waited, I think it was like mile nine 0:27:13.400 --> 0:27:16.040 or so, and we found like the most convenient porta potties. 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:18.680 We were in and back out on the on the 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:21.000 road I think in less than thirty seconds less. 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:23.240 But we used porta potties that weren't for the runners. 0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:26.440 They were for uh spectators's spectators. So we dipped under 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:29.000 kind of a little caution tape and we used it 0:27:29.040 --> 0:27:31.200 and nobody was there. It worked out. But after that, 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:32.119 after we used. 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:33.840 The restaurant concepts all amazing, this. 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:35.639 Is we're about to crush the hell out of this. 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:39.119 And we were in fact, you know, I we saw 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:44.200 Sabine and Nikki mile sixteen, mile seventeen, mile eighteen, that's 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:47.639 right around mile eighteen. I started to go h because 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:50.200 my stomach that is always my issue where I get 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:52.800 this nausea. And I started to feel it and I said, 0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:54.200 you know what, power through. It's going to be okay. 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:57.040 It's going to be okay. By the time we got 0:27:57.080 --> 0:28:02.600 into the Bronx, I started I started to throw up. 0:28:02.800 --> 0:28:05.720 And the thing is last last go around. 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:07.720 This happened to me once and it was awful and gutting, 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:09.760 and I had to sit out this time. 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:12.120 Oh my, I was crying. 0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:15.120 I was in tears of pain and frustration. I ended 0:28:15.200 --> 0:28:20.040 up having to vomit basically every mile from mile twenty 0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:20.920 to mile twenty five. 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:23.560 And that is the truth and is the truth. 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:25.359 It was, and I felt, you know what, I felt 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:28.000 so bad. I said, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Babe, 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:30.640 and he was the sweetest. He was rubbing my back, 0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:32.920 he was keeping people away from me because everyone wants 0:28:32.960 --> 0:28:35.359 to help. But he knew I just needed to keep 0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:37.760 throwing up, and then I would throw up, you know 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:38.200 how it is. 0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:39.240 When you do, you feel better. 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:40.800 So then I could walk a little, then I could 0:28:40.800 --> 0:28:42.880 start running, and then sure enough it would come up again. 0:28:42.960 --> 0:28:45.840 And so I by the time at mile twenty five, 0:28:45.880 --> 0:28:47.800 I was so depleted. When you throw up that many 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:51.440 times and then you got to keep running it that 0:28:51.440 --> 0:28:54.280 that was the toughest five mile stretch of my life. 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:56.840 And you were so kind and so patient, and. 0:28:58.200 --> 0:28:59.520 So I did what I was supposed to do. But 0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:02.040 also you you just ended a marathon because of my 0:29:03.200 --> 0:29:05.080 three weeks ago. What am I gonna do? Babe? Good 0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:08.560 luck with that going up. I'll see you back at home. 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:14.080 So I do. I do feel proud of this. After 0:29:14.160 --> 0:29:16.520 the last puke, why it wasn't the last one, but 0:29:16.560 --> 0:29:19.240 the last one on the race, the last one on 0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:19.960 the race. 0:29:20.560 --> 0:29:24.480 Because we both ended up puking. But more on that later. 0:29:25.480 --> 0:29:27.840 Mile twenty five to mile twenty six point two, we 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:29.760 did not stop, and we actually picked up the pace 0:29:29.880 --> 0:29:32.480 and we finished strong. We really did, and I that 0:29:32.600 --> 0:29:36.560 was important I think with the struggle. So that last mile, 0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:39.120 I was like, hell if I'm going to like stop, 0:29:39.440 --> 0:29:41.280 we are getting through this. And we picked up the 0:29:41.280 --> 0:29:44.200 pace and we crossed that finish line and then I 0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:46.920 went straight in for the tent and said, can I 0:29:47.000 --> 0:29:47.720 have a peek bag? 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:52.200 Look, it was a weird I don't know what goes 0:29:52.240 --> 0:29:54.880 on with your either. I think if you find a 0:29:54.920 --> 0:29:57.440 way to master that and figure that out. I always 0:29:57.480 --> 0:30:00.880 say I did not take a drink of before mile 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:03.040 twenty four. I think it was I don't. I keep 0:30:03.120 --> 0:30:05.520 passing the water stations because I don't want that on 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:06.120 my stomach. 0:30:06.120 --> 0:30:07.600 Are you not thirsty? Do you not get drunk? 0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:10.160 That's the thing. I'm so thirsty that once you take 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:12.560 that first sip, you just want to go, go, go, go, 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:14.280 keep going. I just don't want so. 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:16.560 You feel dehydrated and you just keep going. 0:30:16.720 --> 0:30:19.400 Well, I feel thirsty, but I don't feel like my 0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:21.000 body is shutting down because of it. 0:30:21.000 --> 0:30:24.120 Well yeah, and I think my I'm frustrated because and 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:27.440 if anyone out there has any kind of remedy, I 0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:29.960 have tried different things, I've gone online, But if someone 0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:31.680 has a tried and true because it's called I think 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:34.800 it's called runner's stomach, and it isn't that uncommon. But 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:37.080 I went from bad to worst from last year to 0:30:37.160 --> 0:30:39.040 this year, and I was trying new things and trying 0:30:39.040 --> 0:30:41.640 different things on these long training runs and I cannot 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:44.640 figure out. And I'm fine up until mile twenty and 0:30:44.720 --> 0:30:46.240 then I you know, that's when you hit the wall. 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:48.600 My dad was explaining to me, he's a food scientist. 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:50.960 He was just saying, ames, that's when your body is 0:30:51.040 --> 0:30:53.680 robbed of glycogen. That's where all your reserves are gone. 0:30:54.120 --> 0:30:57.080 And the truth is everyone handles it differently, and based 0:30:57.120 --> 0:30:59.120 on what you've been doing and how you've been treating 0:30:59.120 --> 0:31:01.719 your body, any little difference can make a huge difference 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:04.200 come race day. And that's why they call it the wall. 0:31:04.240 --> 0:31:07.200 Everyone who's a marathon or nos. Mile twenty is when 0:31:07.200 --> 0:31:10.360 you hit the wall. But my first marathon never happened, 0:31:10.560 --> 0:31:12.960 my second marathon never happened. It's just happened in the 0:31:13.000 --> 0:31:15.800 last two. And I wonder if it's just all the training. 0:31:16.240 --> 0:31:18.000 I wonder if I do need to take a beat. 0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:20.600 I know people who do marathons every other year, and 0:31:20.680 --> 0:31:22.960 I know some people who can do four marathons in 0:31:22.960 --> 0:31:23.440 a row. 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:23.880 And be fine. 0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:26.360 You know, it's just it's an individual thing. But it 0:31:26.440 --> 0:31:29.320 was so excruciating. I went from saying, I'm going to 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:31.160 do this again. I can't wait. This is the most 0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:33.560 amazing day of my life. Too, I'm never doing this again. 0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:36.200 Hell no, why am I putting my body through this? 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:39.280 And you and I? I don't know what happened, but 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:40.720 once we got into that ten both of us kind 0:31:40.720 --> 0:31:41.640 of fell apart. 0:31:41.840 --> 0:31:44.640 Well, you know what my problem was was that when 0:31:44.680 --> 0:31:49.160 we started walking, you wanted to walk through a water station. Yeah, 0:31:49.200 --> 0:31:51.480 and so I said, okay, we're slowing down, only got 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:54.640 two miles left. I'll take a hit of gatorade. I 0:31:54.680 --> 0:31:57.120 took a hit, took a second cup. So we get 0:31:57.160 --> 0:32:00.480 to the next water station. Now I'm thirsty it. Now 0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:02.640 I'm I take more gatory takes. So now I got 0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:04.560 something sitting on my stomach I had not had. So 0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:08.640 we finish our race. So we crossed that finish line 0:32:08.920 --> 0:32:10.400 and they have a tint set up for us, and 0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:12.200 we going. I don't think you threw up in there, 0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:13.280 but we sat down. 0:32:14.640 --> 0:32:18.520 You did, okay, I did once, and then we grabbed 0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:19.480 another bag to go. 0:32:19.800 --> 0:32:20.280 Thank God. 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:23.720 But in that tent, you're sitting there by yourself, and 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:26.640 think again, it's a a VIP runner tent that they 0:32:26.640 --> 0:32:28.240 have for the folks. And we were the only ones 0:32:28.280 --> 0:32:30.160 in there because most of the folks we started with 0:32:30.240 --> 0:32:31.000 were gone by now. 0:32:31.080 --> 0:32:34.160 They had already crossed the ventor's line well before us. 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:37.160 They didn't have our problems. But we sat down in there, 0:32:37.720 --> 0:32:40.040 and I mean I put that big blanket thing over 0:32:40.120 --> 0:32:43.840 that they give us the cover ups. I slumped down 0:32:43.840 --> 0:32:45.960 in that chair, and you would have thought I was dead. 0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:50.240 You said I could go to sleep right now, and 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:51.760 I think you kind of did dose. 0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:52.440 I think I did. 0:32:52.920 --> 0:32:58.120 And then and then you have the longest walk ever park. 0:32:58.120 --> 0:32:59.480 We went the wrong way ended up. I was like, 0:32:59.520 --> 0:33:01.320 that was anything but a walk in the park. 0:33:01.640 --> 0:33:05.120 I threw up so along the way. So it has 0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:06.760 a long walk out of the park, and you got 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:09.400 this sea of runners trying to move out, all in 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:11.280 these orange things. It looks like the walking day. 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:14.200 So people are like walking as if yeah they can 0:33:14.200 --> 0:33:17.080 barely walk. You look like you your legs don't function, 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:20.000 your body doesn't function. It's actually hilarious. 0:33:20.040 --> 0:33:21.720 So all was a making a way out, but we 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:23.920 keep having to stop to the side on the left 0:33:24.000 --> 0:33:26.520 or the right so you can do your vomit thing. 0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:31.080 So we finally get out of the park and we 0:33:31.120 --> 0:33:33.280 had this brilliant idea that we would take the subway. 0:33:33.760 --> 0:33:38.000 So seventy second Street at Central Park West. I don't 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:40.040 know how many stops that is, but it's the sea training. 0:33:40.080 --> 0:33:42.280 We have to go all the way downtown where we live. 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:44.400 I'm not sure how many stops that is. It was 0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:47.040 a while, but it p's a lot of stops. So 0:33:47.080 --> 0:33:50.600 she has already had the problem she's having. I now 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:53.000 have all this stuff sitting on my stomach, and we're 0:33:53.000 --> 0:33:56.840 gonna get on a train that does stops and start stop, start, 0:33:56.920 --> 0:34:01.400 stop start. Okay, So we get on this train and 0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:04.000 we actually sit down and I put my head on 0:34:04.200 --> 0:34:07.840 her right. I am going to sleep on rope in 0:34:07.880 --> 0:34:12.160 the train, and she has this vomit bag and she said, 0:34:12.200 --> 0:34:13.919 I got I gotta I can't hold it. I gotta 0:34:13.920 --> 0:34:16.439 get up. So she gets up on the train, goes 0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:18.200 over to the corner with the vomit bag, and I 0:34:18.280 --> 0:34:20.480 just see her go down with her back to everybody, 0:34:20.880 --> 0:34:22.960 with this big orange thing over her. It looks like 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:25.200 she's Elvis on stage and they just put the thing 0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:28.279 over and she I don't know what she's doing, but 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:31.440 her bag. I see her body gyrating and it's just 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:34.360 a mess. But she comes back over and the bag 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:35.080 is empty. 0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:37.840 Because because I had nothing left inside of me, I 0:34:37.840 --> 0:34:40.200 had thrown up I don't know ten times at that point. 0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:42.480 So then you said, actually, babe. 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:45.200 No oh if that didn't happen yet, Okay, we just 0:34:45.280 --> 0:34:48.800 chilled again. So we're just riding maybe a couple stops, 0:34:49.200 --> 0:34:51.040 and I calmly say, what to you? 0:34:52.000 --> 0:34:53.359 Can I have that vomit bag? 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:05.920 I was so chill, I didn't want to call it 0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:06.360 the panic. 0:35:06.440 --> 0:35:09.080 He went over to the corner exactly where the corner 0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:13.200 and he then. 0:35:11.960 --> 0:35:16.520 I did not dry heave. I damn near build up 0:35:16.920 --> 0:35:23.960 this bag can It was absolutely grow and the bags 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:26.799 are clear. These are bags that you get on the airplane. 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:30.759 You know, these are clear bag digusting. So we get 0:35:30.800 --> 0:35:35.560 out of the train and carrying a warm pile of 0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:40.799 fresh vomit all the train with. 0:35:40.800 --> 0:35:43.120 Me, and I wasn't done yet, so. 0:35:42.920 --> 0:35:44.840 I immediately say, hevee, I got to get to a 0:35:44.840 --> 0:35:47.880 trash can and get this nasty ass thing out of 0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:51.040 my hand. So we go over into a trash can 0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:53.399 and then we're gonna go up the escalator to leave, 0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:58.640 and she said, WHOA, not so fast DJ. She goes 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:03.040 over and tries to are vomiting in the same trash 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:07.879 band that I was. I just dumped my vomiting. But no, no, no, no, 0:36:07.920 --> 0:36:09.600 that's not good enough for her. She said, you know what, 0:36:09.760 --> 0:36:13.360 this isn't gonna work. So she kneels down behind the 0:36:13.440 --> 0:36:17.399 trash can at the Fulton Subway station in New York 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:19.799 City and just lets it rip again. 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:24.920 It's just a small amount. I felt so bad. There's 0:36:24.960 --> 0:36:26.120 nothing I could do. 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:30.320 And I looked We're like, wow, this has been a 0:36:30.520 --> 0:36:31.200 hell of a day. 0:36:31.239 --> 0:36:36.040 Hey, I've never had a post race situation like that. 0:36:36.160 --> 0:36:39.040 I was like, wow, we are poster children for why 0:36:39.080 --> 0:36:40.640 people should never run a marathon. 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:43.600 If someone had followed us with video, I mean it, 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:46.080 you would be It was like a comedy. It was. 0:36:46.239 --> 0:36:48.120 It was what is happening? 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:51.319 You're like a dog, like marking your vomit territory all over. 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:54.239 Man lapped a part of me all every round, I mean, 0:36:54.320 --> 0:36:58.279 along the racetrack in trash cans like I mean, I 0:36:58.400 --> 0:37:01.040 have my DNA all three route Manhattan, so. 0:37:01.080 --> 0:37:02.799 But that was the end of it, right, that was 0:37:02.840 --> 0:37:06.640 our last ups situation. So we we get home and 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:09.680 Sabine and Nikki were waiting for us. We walk in 0:37:09.760 --> 0:37:12.319 and they're like, what is wrong with you? Too? Look 0:37:12.480 --> 0:37:14.680 like the Walking Dead? You know? 0:37:14.719 --> 0:37:17.400 It's so funny, too like and the only thing I wanted. 0:37:17.440 --> 0:37:19.879 It's funny when you're dying of thirst. And I knew 0:37:19.880 --> 0:37:21.400 I couldn't drink it too fast. We had to like 0:37:21.440 --> 0:37:24.040 slowly drink it so our bodies could take in the fluids. 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:26.839 All I wanted was a diet coke. That was the 0:37:26.880 --> 0:37:29.919 best diet coke on ice I've ever had in my life. 0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:33.680 It's funny what you crave when you're so thirsty, and 0:37:33.760 --> 0:37:34.920 for whatever reason. 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:36.560 That's all I want. And all I wanted was a 0:37:37.080 --> 0:37:39.520 cranberry cranberry. 0:37:40.440 --> 0:37:40.920 Spritzer. 0:37:41.040 --> 0:37:45.320 Yeah wow, so bougie, whatever, do you want a sprig 0:37:45.360 --> 0:37:46.560 of rosemary with that too? 0:37:46.680 --> 0:37:48.480 It would be nice. I just ran twenty six point two. 0:37:48.520 --> 0:37:49.920 You want to give me a break. I can't have 0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:52.319 some rosemary. I didn't earn some rosemary. If I didn't, 0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:56.640 or what the hell I was drinking that the diet 0:37:56.640 --> 0:37:58.960 coke and Gator eight and I was worried my stomach 0:37:59.040 --> 0:38:01.160 was going to act up again. But everything stayed down 0:38:01.440 --> 0:38:03.480 after that. And the folks want we talked that we 0:38:03.560 --> 0:38:06.240 laugh and we could joke, and but this, it actually 0:38:06.320 --> 0:38:09.080 is serious and it's dangerous. It is and it is 0:38:09.800 --> 0:38:12.000 tough to do, to run a marathon like that. And 0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:14.200 I I asked you if you got on the scale, 0:38:14.239 --> 0:38:15.799 But I'm all and when we do long runs, I'm 0:38:15.800 --> 0:38:17.839 always curious to get on the scale to see how 0:38:17.880 --> 0:38:21.160 much weight you lose, water weight you lose. I left 0:38:21.920 --> 0:38:24.600 going to that marathon weighing one hundred sixty seven hundred 0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:26.280 and sixty eight pounds. I was one hundred and fifty 0:38:26.280 --> 0:38:27.279 five pounds. We get back. 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:30.360 Yeah, that's UNBLI And you know what, that's not shocking. 0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:33.319 That's hundred how much it was shot back and you're 0:38:33.360 --> 0:38:36.000 sweating it out and you have nothing left. And it's 0:38:36.040 --> 0:38:38.080 so funny. You asked me this morning if I did that. 0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:40.960 I was like, I meant too, and I because I 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:43.799 was like, ooh, I wonder how much it was like 0:38:43.880 --> 0:38:46.560 having a week of stomach flew in one day, you know, 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:48.960 And so I thought, let's see, but I forgot but 0:38:49.040 --> 0:38:50.720 I can tell you my jeans are a lot looser 0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:51.480 this morning. 0:38:51.239 --> 0:38:51.920 That is the truth. 0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:54.160 I was like, oh, I got like an extra engine here. 0:38:54.400 --> 0:38:57.160 It'll soon fill right back up, don't you worry. 0:38:57.520 --> 0:38:58.399 But it was. 0:38:58.760 --> 0:39:01.400 That's how serious it was, for sure. And oh, you 0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:04.200 forgot to mention this was hilarious along the route. This 0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:06.680 was your favorite part. I think someone offered you a 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:08.719 cold beer and you took it. 0:39:09.040 --> 0:39:10.319 I didn't. You asked me if I want. 0:39:10.360 --> 0:39:10.640 I forgot. 0:39:10.640 --> 0:39:11.840 I didn't drink crazy. 0:39:12.239 --> 0:39:14.120 I forgot, I said, I didn't drink any At a 0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:16.719 water station there. I can't remember the first one, the 0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:18.520 early one. I was in a good mood and having 0:39:18.560 --> 0:39:22.080 fun and grabbed a beer just for giggles. And it's 0:39:22.080 --> 0:39:24.040 not a full beer, it's a little cup, but still 0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:27.359 it's a nice dose. That last couple of miles there 0:39:27.400 --> 0:39:29.440 was somebody out there and they were offering a beer. 0:39:29.480 --> 0:39:33.959 I actually responded, is it cold, because it's trim. 0:39:34.120 --> 0:39:36.360 When you're running and you're hot, all you want is 0:39:36.360 --> 0:39:38.560 a cold drink and everything they give you is warm, 0:39:39.280 --> 0:39:41.440 and your water bottle at that point is all room temperature. 0:39:41.560 --> 0:39:44.440 So he asked, is it cold? I did, and they 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:45.120 said yes, it is. 0:39:45.440 --> 0:39:47.279 And what they had a keg whoever you all are, 0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:50.120 I appreciate it. It was a keg on the last 0:39:50.160 --> 0:39:52.680 four or something miles a keg of beer. It was 0:39:52.960 --> 0:39:55.120 ice cold. It was I wanted to go back. 0:39:55.560 --> 0:39:57.560 You were like, that was the best beer I've ever 0:39:57.600 --> 0:40:01.360 had on the race. Yeah, it was very that was fantastic. 0:40:01.400 --> 0:40:04.000 And then we had a we had a little It 0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:05.880 was a small after party we had planned and it 0:40:05.920 --> 0:40:08.120 was the last thing we wanted to do because we 0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:10.920 were so exhausted. But we got up and we were 0:40:10.960 --> 0:40:13.520 able to celebrate with friends and family and it was 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:15.880 nice and I'm glad we did it because what we 0:40:15.920 --> 0:40:17.840 wanted to do was crill up and fetal position, and. 0:40:18.800 --> 0:40:19.759 We did for a little while. 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:20.000 I did. 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:21.080 For a little while I did. 0:40:21.160 --> 0:40:24.560 I was like, babe, we kind of have to go. Okay, 0:40:24.600 --> 0:40:25.080 we have to go. 0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:28.360 Being was texting, Hey, are you coming to your party? 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:31.120 We were yeah, an hour and a half lay to 0:40:31.160 --> 0:40:31.600 our party. 0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:36.640 So look, I appreciate this experience even more because of 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:39.680 what happened in Chicago, and next week we'll appreciate the 0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:42.880 New York City experiment or experience even more once we 0:40:42.920 --> 0:40:45.000 are a little distance from it. But it was that's 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:46.800 no small thing and we got to do this together. 0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:50.520 And just the past month we've had together doing just 0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:53.120 the running and everything that came with it and the injury. 0:40:53.120 --> 0:40:54.840 And you've been watching me trying to get this together 0:40:54.880 --> 0:40:57.520 for months now, and what you did in Chicago was 0:40:57.520 --> 0:40:59.680 a sacrifice, and what. 0:40:59.800 --> 0:41:01.879 You did yesterday was a sacrifice for your time. 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:02.359 Finished. Three? 0:41:02.440 --> 0:41:06.640 Can I also say, you know what, Sometimes partners don't 0:41:06.680 --> 0:41:08.319 say the right thing to one another, but you said 0:41:08.320 --> 0:41:11.319 the perfect thing to me when I was feeling frustrated 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:14.720 and sad and sick and mad at myself and feeling 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:17.800 bad about ruining our time because we were once again. 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:20.920 Set to have a pr I. You looked at me 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:21.799 and you said. 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:25.319 Babe, it's okay, It's just that time doesn't matter, and 0:41:25.360 --> 0:41:28.560 you said you have nothing to prove. And when you 0:41:28.600 --> 0:41:31.160 said that to me, I remember feeling my shoulders drop 0:41:31.480 --> 0:41:34.480 and the weight of the expectation and the guilt and 0:41:34.520 --> 0:41:37.080 the pressure I was putting on myself just go away. 0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:39.000 And that helped me more than you could ever know. 0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:41.279 So thank you for you said the exact right thing 0:41:41.320 --> 0:41:42.800 to me at the right moment. 0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:45.480 Yeah, that's usually not the case. 0:41:47.480 --> 0:41:49.000 Well, I applaud what you said. 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:53.200 It was it gave me comfort and it it motivated 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:55.480 me actually to get up and do it and not 0:41:55.520 --> 0:41:57.080 to say it has to be perfect or it has 0:41:57.120 --> 0:41:59.759 to be at this time, and that I can stop 0:41:59.800 --> 0:42:01.680 again and if I have to, And that just took 0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:03.960 off the pressure away and it let me finish the race. 0:42:05.320 --> 0:42:07.600 Before we leave here, we're gonna wrap. We would like 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:12.040 to make a plea to non runners, and we want 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:14.040 to make this plea if you see people out there running, 0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:16.520 whether it's they're doing training runs or an official race, 0:42:17.080 --> 0:42:21.680 we implore you to listen to this because we had 0:42:21.680 --> 0:42:24.480 a couple of incidents yesterday. One of them really infuriated 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:28.160 me and it didn't even affect me. But you're running 0:42:28.200 --> 0:42:31.560 the marathon and there are spectators on both sides, and 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:34.759 sometimes people try to cross the street where the race 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:38.160 is happening, and usually it looks like a game of Frogger, right, 0:42:38.160 --> 0:42:39.840 because they know they're trying to get out of the 0:42:39.880 --> 0:42:41.880 way and trying to dodge the runners and stay out 0:42:41.880 --> 0:42:44.240 of the way and trying to run across. And that's fine, 0:42:44.360 --> 0:42:46.360 but then you get some other folks. I can't remember 0:42:46.400 --> 0:42:48.040 what mile it was, but you know, I got pissed. 0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:50.280 There was a guy walking across the street as if 0:42:50.760 --> 0:42:54.160 he was holier than thou and nothing that fifty thousand 0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:57.480 people were doing running marathon trumped him just walking across. 0:42:57.160 --> 0:42:59.040 The street because he strolled with his hands in his 0:42:59.120 --> 0:43:02.000 pocket as if he had not a care in the world, 0:43:02.040 --> 0:43:05.560 and people had to navigate around him, and that was frustrating. 0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:08.400 He ended up not causing any problems. I mean, you 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:10.640 can pick moments, and I understand sometimes you have to 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:11.280 cross the street. 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:11.759 I get that. 0:43:12.280 --> 0:43:14.759 But we had something that happened at mile twenty one, 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:18.520 and you know, we were I know, people can't understand 0:43:18.600 --> 0:43:20.839 where you are physically and mentally at that point. But 0:43:20.920 --> 0:43:23.279 no one's doing well. I mean, very few people are there. 0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:25.400 It's a struggle. You've been doing this for six months. 0:43:25.520 --> 0:43:27.440 You're on the last leg. And there was a woman 0:43:27.880 --> 0:43:31.560 who crossed the street in the same fashion slowly. We 0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:33.600 were all bunched up in Central Park. This was not 0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:35.560 a wide area where there were a lot of spaces, 0:43:35.880 --> 0:43:37.960 and she just and she looked me right in the 0:43:38.000 --> 0:43:41.840 eye and slammed right into me, and she she knocked 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:44.160 me off my feet. I had to fall and I 0:43:44.200 --> 0:43:47.560 fell into TJ. Then he fell and she just slowly 0:43:47.640 --> 0:43:50.719 kept on going, and you know it, the anger I 0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:54.399 felt I'm not proud of. But it's just that could 0:43:54.400 --> 0:43:56.960 have taken us out of the race. We we tripped, 0:43:57.040 --> 0:43:58.799 you could have tweaked something, I could have tweaked something, 0:43:58.800 --> 0:44:01.319 and she didn't care, And I just thought, why are 0:44:01.360 --> 0:44:03.560 you even out here? Like this was definitely Central Park, 0:44:03.600 --> 0:44:04.920 But I don't think she had anything to do with 0:44:04.920 --> 0:44:05.440 the race. 0:44:05.680 --> 0:44:09.160 And she had no care about what she was doing 0:44:10.120 --> 0:44:12.640 and what we anybody else was going through. So again, 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:14.719 people have to cross the street. We see family sometimes. 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:16.360 With kids, and they're sculling across just. 0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:17.680 Trying to get out of the way. That's fine. It 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:20.399 was just bizarre that this woman took that, and given 0:44:20.400 --> 0:44:23.400 our recent experience in Chicago, I did not finish Chicago 0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:26.799 because of this exact thing that somebody was inconsiderate, didn't 0:44:26.840 --> 0:44:28.960 get out of the way, ran into somebody, tweaked by 0:44:29.000 --> 0:44:31.840 it band. But this is that It's that serious. So 0:44:31.840 --> 0:44:35.000 when that happened in that moment, we both immediately just 0:44:35.040 --> 0:44:37.400 freaked out, like, holy crap, am I okay, let me 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:40.359 feel we take a body inventory because we're a mile 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:42.400 twenty one twenty two again and you're really telling me 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:45.319 this woman is gonna cost us this race again. So 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:46.920 we encourage folks and we do it. We do a 0:44:46.960 --> 0:44:49.520 lot of training runs, and oftentimes people don't think it's 0:44:49.560 --> 0:44:53.120 a big deal, or people put so much and for 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:55.680 some people they're won and done. This is a lifelong 0:44:55.840 --> 0:45:00.799 dream to do this and to just break stride can't 0:45:00.880 --> 0:45:03.560 impact you in a way that can cause you to 0:45:03.960 --> 0:45:07.120 end your day, to injure yourself. Also, it just messes 0:45:07.160 --> 0:45:09.359 with you mentally. Yeah, and I know everybody else looks 0:45:09.400 --> 0:45:11.759 it's just running. What's the big deal. Just if you 0:45:11.800 --> 0:45:14.200 can't give folks a break who go through and putting 0:45:14.200 --> 0:45:17.000 themselves through that much, just try to be a little 0:45:17.040 --> 0:45:19.600 considerate when you see it. I know we're crazy runners, 0:45:19.960 --> 0:45:22.600 know we all got the same rights to the same sidewalk. 0:45:23.080 --> 0:45:28.799 But please, just it's hard, don't make it harder. That's 0:45:28.840 --> 0:45:29.359 all we ask. 0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:33.920 All we ask. So are you retiring because you have 0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:36.920 you have suggested you are going to retire from marathon. 0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:40.560 Well, I am absolutely going to do half marathons from 0:45:40.600 --> 0:45:43.200 here on out, and I would like to take a 0:45:43.280 --> 0:45:45.920 year break from marathons and maybe revisit it in twenty 0:45:45.920 --> 0:45:46.439 twenty five. 0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:50.759 All Right, Okay, I am now declaring for the New 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:52.279 York City Marathon twenty twenty five. 0:45:52.280 --> 0:45:53.160 I can't wait to cheer you one. 0:45:53.200 --> 0:45:55.960 I'm gonna run it. I'm gonna run, I won't and 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:58.120 as long as my body holds up, I will run 0:45:58.160 --> 0:45:59.919 it in New York every year they will allow. 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:01.120 I love that, man. 0:46:01.120 --> 0:46:03.799 I'm gonna keep going. So thank you, baby, has been 0:46:03.800 --> 0:46:06.200 a hell of a journey on this Uh, this year 0:46:06.239 --> 0:46:08.840 of running has just been incredible. So thank you for 0:46:08.880 --> 0:46:11.000 what you did in Chicago. Thank you for yesterday. And 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:13.440 I wouldn't have had it go any other way. 0:46:13.680 --> 0:46:14.960 I feel the same way. I love you. 0:46:15.160 --> 0:46:17.080 I love you too, doll. So say something you think 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:19.719 that we encourage runners today. Everybody's running out to get 0:46:19.719 --> 0:46:20.680 their new shoes, aren't they. 0:46:20.719 --> 0:46:23.560 Oh yeah, go out and uh just sign up for 0:46:23.600 --> 0:46:24.960 any race. I love a ten k. 0:46:26.360 --> 0:46:29.680 All right, folks. You can catch us on our official Instagram, 0:46:29.680 --> 0:46:32.520 babies at Amy and TJ Podcast, where we appreciate you listening. 0:46:32.560 --> 0:46:35.319 As always, we'll see out there on the road too.