Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. In this episode of Amy and PJ,
Speaker 1: we three weeks ago ended our Chicago Marathon before crossing
Speaker 1: the finish line and in the back of an ambulance.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we finished the New York City Marathon, crossing the
Speaker 1: finish line, but on our backs. And with that, welcome
Speaker 1: to this episode of Aby and TJ Robes. It is done, folks.
Speaker 1: Despite all the talk and the ambulance rides and the
Speaker 1: injuries and the frustration, we completed the New York City
Speaker 1: Marathon yesterday and we sit here with new hardware around
Speaker 1: our necks. Feels Good's that metal feels good.
Speaker 2: It was hard earned, I will say that much. It's
Speaker 2: funny because it's every marathon is different and you can't predict.
Speaker 2: I can't predict at least what's going to happen, what's
Speaker 2: not going to happen, And enough, yesterday was no different
Speaker 2: than the five that preceded it.
Speaker 3: For me, they're all different.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you're listening to us, yes we are.
Speaker 1: We are recording this the day after the New York
Speaker 1: City Marathon we ran yesterday. We have the normal aches
Speaker 1: and pains today, but yesterday was a bit of a struggle,
Speaker 1: Like I said, how many New York City marathons were you?
Speaker 3: This was my fourth New York City mariage, ah, and.
Speaker 1: This was my third, so third straight. So we kind
Speaker 1: of know what's coming and we know what to expect,
Speaker 1: and it's a very and thank you again New York City.
Speaker 1: You'll know how to do this, and you do it
Speaker 1: so well. And this is one day that the city
Speaker 1: we talked about before gives a just an embrace, You
Speaker 1: get a collective embrace from the city like no other
Speaker 1: time you ever see in the city.
Speaker 2: It is my favorite day in New York City, whether
Speaker 2: I'm running or whether you're just spectating and watching, because
Speaker 2: it's the one day where there is a real sense
Speaker 2: of unity. And if you ever do get the opportunity,
Speaker 2: or ever do choose to put yourself through the training
Speaker 2: and then the ultimate marathon day, if you are lucky
Speaker 2: enough to run the New York City Marathon, I don't
Speaker 2: think there are fans greater in the world.
Speaker 3: And if you've ever.
Speaker 2: Wondered what it feels like to walk into a roaring stadium,
Speaker 2: to feel like an Olympian, to feel like a world
Speaker 2: class athlete, then run the New York City Marathon because
Speaker 2: You'll never see collectively so many people cheering for you
Speaker 2: when you're physically putting yourself through the ringer, and.
Speaker 1: They do help you through the race, and a lot
Speaker 1: of sections when you are struggling it is, they do
Speaker 1: give you a boost. So thank you New York City
Speaker 1: for all you did for us yesterday. This was for
Speaker 1: us Robes, a redemption run, as we were calling it,
Speaker 1: after what happened in Chicago. A lot of folks know
Speaker 1: I was dealing with an achilles issue for months all
Speaker 1: summer during the training. Almost did not even attempt to
Speaker 1: run Chicago, but we did. It had some issues. It's
Speaker 1: a whole collection a mess, but we ended up not finished,
Speaker 1: stopped on mile twenty one, twenty one and ended up
Speaker 1: in the back of an ambulance. I did and was
Speaker 1: in pretty bad shape. I'm okay, I'm fine. Didn't rupture
Speaker 1: any thing. But I set out to train and to
Speaker 1: heal and to recover in time to do the New
Speaker 1: York City Marathon three weeks later. You did not plan
Speaker 1: on running the New York City Marathon.
Speaker 2: No, I planned on running Chicago. That would have been
Speaker 2: my sixth marathon. And I actually said, you know what,
Speaker 2: I had done the Chicago Marathon a couple years before,
Speaker 2: and I just felt like, I've been training NonStop for
Speaker 2: marathons for the past five years, and I think it does.
Speaker 2: It takes a toll. At least it takes a toll
Speaker 2: on my body. Maybe it's my age, maybe it's my genetics,
Speaker 2: but it's just I felt like maybe I just really
Speaker 2: embraced the half marathon, which I love. So when we
Speaker 2: didn't finish the Chicago Marathon, I thought, my goodness, I've
Speaker 2: trained for the last five months. I could just treat
Speaker 2: the next three weeks as a continuation of my training
Speaker 2: and run New York City and have that be.
Speaker 3: A period.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a common maybe it's a semicolon to my
Speaker 2: marathon days.
Speaker 1: Okay, we and say we didn't finish Chicago, but we
Speaker 1: didn't finish because of me and my jury. This wasn't
Speaker 1: a you thing at all. There. You just stayed with
Speaker 1: me while I was going through what I was going through,
Speaker 1: and we talked about that and everybody understood. But you
Speaker 1: were not that you needed another marathon because you didn't
Speaker 1: finish that one because of me.
Speaker 3: Right well, And I.
Speaker 2: Think, honestly, if I hadn't finished that one because of me.
Speaker 2: I might have considered it as well, you know, because
Speaker 2: you put your body through so much training. So, yes,
Speaker 2: it was the big day and we were feeling good.
Speaker 2: We look, we've also traveled every weekend for the past
Speaker 2: six weeks. We were in Spain earlier in the week
Speaker 2: coming back to New York, so we weren't maybe set
Speaker 2: up for the very best performance, but we did our
Speaker 2: best that week to you know, stop drinking, stop you know, like,
Speaker 2: really focus on sleeping, really focus on what we were eating.
Speaker 2: So we did everything we could in a few days
Speaker 2: leading up to the New York City Marathon.
Speaker 1: So we got up on the morning of and so
Speaker 1: this is how it goes, folks. You get up on
Speaker 1: the morning of and you focus the last three days.
Speaker 1: It's true you focused the last few days before the
Speaker 1: marathon on your diet and on your sleep. But the
Speaker 1: diet is very important because look, no kind way to
Speaker 1: necessarily put this, but you want to make sure your
Speaker 1: stomach isn't jacked up and you end up needing to
Speaker 1: take a number two during the run. You're running that much,
Speaker 1: that long, if you got the wrong thing in your
Speaker 1: stomach and that stuff's moving around you gonna have a problem.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that is one of the many reasons why
Speaker 2: you'll see porta potties lining the marathon route because it's
Speaker 2: hard to predict sometimes how that actually is going to
Speaker 2: move through you.
Speaker 1: And again it's also why you see plenty of people
Speaker 1: out there with signs the spectators that say don't trust
Speaker 1: that fart.
Speaker 2: That's sorry, and they're yes, yes, we won't get into
Speaker 2: graphic details, but you see some things sometimes for folks
Speaker 2: who really didn't want to ruin their time. They might
Speaker 2: be pring that might be their personal records, so they
Speaker 2: didn't want to go to the bathroom and so or
Speaker 2: to the porta potty, so they just yeah, took matters
Speaker 2: into their own.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're not wearing dark colored clothing maybe like they should.
Speaker 1: This is all true, so I know it is gross,
Speaker 1: but this is a part of running, and this is
Speaker 1: why a lot of people go you people are crazy, right,
Speaker 1: because this is what folks put them themselves through to
Speaker 1: run a marathon. So our morning, yes, we get up,
Speaker 1: so we're focused, we're actually feeling pretty good that morning,
Speaker 1: but it's it's the alarm goes off. I think I
Speaker 1: got up at what like two something.
Speaker 3: You want to know you actually got up out of
Speaker 3: bed at one in the morning.
Speaker 1: Okay, don't you're saying, Okay, I didn't mean to. I
Speaker 1: didn't set the alarm, but I don't know. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was like it felt like Christmas to me and for
Speaker 1: me this was a big deal, a redemption room. I could.
Speaker 1: I told you a couple of days, I head, I
Speaker 1: can't freaking wait.
Speaker 3: You were so excited to go run this marathons Christmas morning?
Speaker 1: It was so I was excited. I actually got out
Speaker 1: of bed went to the couch because I didn't want
Speaker 1: the TV on and disturbing you and wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure you got your rest. So this is what people
Speaker 1: do in the morning the marathon. Imagine this, folks. I
Speaker 1: am in the bedroom sitting rubbing cannabis cream on my ankle.
Speaker 1: Robes is in the bathroom rubbing what underneath your What.
Speaker 3: I'm rubbing anti chafe.
Speaker 2: It's called like runners glide all around where my sports
Speaker 2: spra hits my body, where my my pants hit my stomach,
Speaker 2: because I have learned the hard way about chafing, and
Speaker 2: it actually ends up looking like secondary burns all over
Speaker 2: your body.
Speaker 3: If you, for me, at least if I don't.
Speaker 2: If I sweat a little and it's cold and you're
Speaker 2: doing this for four hours, it's called just chafing, and
Speaker 2: it's it's actually a very painful burn.
Speaker 3: So yeah, if you put that runner's.
Speaker 2: Glide all around those parts of you, but you look
Speaker 2: like a weirdo doing it. You walked in on me
Speaker 2: and you're like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I've seen you do it, but to give people a
Speaker 1: better visual, I'm sorry to put you through it, but
Speaker 1: imagine robes I mean kind of. I mean essentially topless
Speaker 1: with a little thing that looks like a stick of
Speaker 1: the odorant and she's rubbing it under her breast. Is
Speaker 1: what's happening. So that's not that's an odd site are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 2: And guess what I didn't chafe? That was bumping that
Speaker 2: went in my direct in the right way. I guess
Speaker 2: yesterday is I had zero chaff egs. You ended up
Speaker 2: with chafing.
Speaker 1: Well, we want to get into that, but it had
Speaker 1: nothing to do. There's no way I could have predicted
Speaker 1: this particular chase.
Speaker 3: It was weird.
Speaker 1: It was a first for me to Okay, I should
Speaker 1: probably go and tell it because we're setting it up
Speaker 1: on the chafing thing. One of the rules, the absolute
Speaker 1: rules for the morning of a marathon. For a runner,
Speaker 1: it's probably number one. You do not try anything new
Speaker 1: on the morning of the marathon. Don't try a new food,
Speaker 1: don't try a new drink, don't try new socks, don't
Speaker 1: try new shoes. Don't make sure everything does not the
Speaker 1: day because you're asking for trouble. I wore pants, new pants,
Speaker 1: new pants, brand new pants that and I always run
Speaker 1: in tights, running tights that always have a pocket on
Speaker 1: the side that I can slide the cell phone in.
Speaker 1: They make those mainly and mostly for a lot of
Speaker 1: when we have them now, so I have done that.
Speaker 1: I've been a serious runner for four years, been keeping
Speaker 1: the phone in that pocket on every single run. Bought
Speaker 1: new pants at the expo.
Speaker 3: Must have been a little thinner than the other ones.
Speaker 1: They say New York City.
Speaker 3: They're cool, They're very cool.
Speaker 1: Fit great, look good, Oh my goodness, great pants, How
Speaker 1: great pants. I in the race, get home and I
Speaker 1: feel like I've been shot on the side of the leg,
Speaker 1: and sure enough I take a look and there is
Speaker 1: a perfect, perfectly iPhone shaped burn on my right thigh.
Speaker 2: So your phone was moving just a little bit as
Speaker 2: you were running, and it was chafing your thigh. So
Speaker 2: he has an iPhone chafe on his thigh. I have
Speaker 2: never seen that. And I put my cell phone in
Speaker 2: my pocket and I got my pants at the expo
Speaker 2: and I did not put the runners Glide there.
Speaker 1: So so don's no way I could have predicted that.
Speaker 1: Actually had quite funny. It has everything except the Apple logo.
Speaker 3: On Enjoy that for the next.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is you know where you've been shaped
Speaker 2: as soon as you get in the shower after a marathon,
Speaker 2: because you have salt all over your body. Imagine running
Speaker 2: for that long. You are literally crusted in salt. So
Speaker 2: then when you get in the shower, the salt's washing
Speaker 2: off of you. But if you have any burns, any chafing,
Speaker 2: it's like rubbing salt in a wound. You're like screaming
Speaker 2: and then you realize, oh wow, I have a mass chafe.
Speaker 1: So later you actually I don't know you, and you
Speaker 1: were making noises in the shower.
Speaker 3: I was like, what is happening?
Speaker 1: And they thought it was the chafing, but it was
Speaker 1: everything else you were.
Speaker 3: You were groaning in the shower. I was like what
Speaker 3: is happening in there? I looked at Sabi and we
Speaker 3: were like, what's that thing?
Speaker 1: So to get to that point, so let's back up,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the race. So we're leaving the
Speaker 1: house and we get on a bus. So we but
Speaker 1: to pack. Tell tell me what was in your goody
Speaker 1: bag on the way to the bus to go to.
Speaker 3: Okay, the clear plastic bag in my goodie back?
Speaker 1: Okay, well I had my Oh yeah, the good the
Speaker 1: one you ran.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: So we cut up because we read I was trying
Speaker 2: to find things that don't make me sick and those
Speaker 2: runner gummies and Runner goose always do. So we decided
Speaker 2: it would be a good idea after looking online on
Speaker 2: the internet. Again, probably shouldn't do anything different on race day,
Speaker 2: but we cut up liquorice. We cut up Twizzlers to
Speaker 2: be specific. I threw in a couple of Skittles too,
Speaker 2: just for some power ups throughout the race. And so
Speaker 2: we each had a little baggie of Twizzlers in our
Speaker 2: pocket to eat along the way.
Speaker 1: But that works for me because I know twizzlers sit
Speaker 1: well on my stomach. I've been eating them pretty seriously for.
Speaker 3: Yes, I witnessed this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we have this. I have ibuprofen and five
Speaker 1: hour energy. I think that's it in my bag.
Speaker 2: And I did take a Runner's scummy before I started,
Speaker 2: so I had two of those that had caffeine and
Speaker 2: electrolytes in them, and I tablet well, I did have
Speaker 2: a noon tablet electrolytes. I drank one before and then
Speaker 2: I had my water bottle because I was going to
Speaker 2: try not to stop at the water stations to just
Speaker 2: kind of squirt a little water in my mouth and
Speaker 2: try not to make me sick by having all that
Speaker 2: water jostling in my stomach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you all the stomach. We want to get into
Speaker 1: the stomach a little more here.
Speaker 3: That plan failed.
Speaker 1: Second, so we leave at five am, going to fifty
Speaker 1: first between six and seventh where they in New York.
Speaker 1: Roadrunners that organizes the marathon has they have a kind
Speaker 1: of a celebrity vip runner situation they set out, which
Speaker 1: is wonderful for us. Thank you again, Roadrunners. So we
Speaker 1: get on the bus and we've been doing this so
Speaker 1: many years. This is really really cool. It's a little family.
Speaker 1: You see the same people year in year out. A
Speaker 1: couple of new runners and one of them was Jennifer Connley,
Speaker 1: the Oscar winner, who was running her first marathon ever.
Speaker 1: She hopped on our bus with us and some of
Speaker 1: our bachelor guys. But I'm just saying we see the
Speaker 1: same fall and this is the coolest thing in the morning.
Speaker 1: That ride, it's just like as a family reunion.
Speaker 2: It is, and you see them probably just once a year.
Speaker 2: Another familiar face Chelsea Clinton. We ran with her two
Speaker 2: years ago, so it was fun to see.
Speaker 3: Her again in the tent.
Speaker 2: So yes, everyone's like, hey, how's it been going. You
Speaker 2: catch up in the runners tent as you're getting ready,
Speaker 2: And yes, we saw pilot Pete, who we just had
Speaker 2: on the podcast. He was all excited about his second marathon,
Speaker 2: this time he actually trained for it. So it was
Speaker 2: just fun.
Speaker 3: We had a blast.
Speaker 1: But that ride, that bus ride is special. Once you
Speaker 1: get you're essentially going across the arizontal bridge to the
Speaker 1: starting line at sunrise.
Speaker 2: And you get excited, You get excited about what the
Speaker 2: day is going to bring and the energy you're bringing
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 3: It's all very positive.
Speaker 2: Everyone's a little nervous and very excited. So it's so fun.
Speaker 1: So let's take you inside this tent now, so it's
Speaker 1: a nice thing. They have heat in their food, drinks,
Speaker 1: everything you need, and they have mats and then the
Speaker 1: rollers for everybody getting stretched and all these things. But
Speaker 1: we're in there hanging out, and again we haven't seen
Speaker 1: We haven't seen Chelsea Clinton in two years because she
Speaker 1: didn't run last year, which we didn't realize. I hope
Speaker 1: it's out there, because I'm about to tell it. She
Speaker 1: broke her foot. She broke her foot running but running
Speaker 1: after one of her children, and that's why she couldn't
Speaker 1: run the marathon last year.
Speaker 2: I hope she doesn't mind me saying this all. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, because this is really funny. No, because when
Speaker 2: you stepped away, we were catching up and she did
Speaker 2: not know that we no longer.
Speaker 3: Worked for Good Morning America. And I had to quickly
Speaker 3: catch her up because the last time we were together.
Speaker 1: Can story.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of like, we'll see, here's what happened.
Speaker 2: But we were already a couple. We just weren't out
Speaker 2: the last yes. But she I think she's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I totally thought you were together. I said, well, we
Speaker 2: were together, we just weren't officially because we were dressed alike.
Speaker 2: Remember she made fun of us and said, y'all are
Speaker 2: so cute it's nauseating. But anyway, she said, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I can't believe that all happened and I missed it.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm only reading. I'm only doing Google searches
Speaker 2: on myself. I'm only worried about the bad press I'm receiving.
Speaker 3: And I said, you know what, that's fair. That is
Speaker 3: so fair.
Speaker 2: She like, I don't have time to read everyone else's
Speaker 2: bad press. And I laughed so hard. It was just
Speaker 2: a really awesome dose of perspective. It was just perfect.
Speaker 2: And I I was bummed you missed it, So.
Speaker 3: Now I'm catching you up. I hope she doesn't either,
Speaker 3: but she it was fun. It was all said in Jess.
Speaker 1: It is great to catch up with her. And on
Speaker 1: the Jennifer Connley front, she was she's a a kind
Speaker 1: of like she's we're in the same tribe, right, She's
Speaker 1: just a cool These are one of the people you
Speaker 1: meet and you're a fan of, and you and you're
Speaker 1: just hoping that good folks. She was beyond all expectations
Speaker 1: of how sweet and sincere and just real she was.
Speaker 1: And because she was genuinely nervous. She was her first
Speaker 1: and she was asking everybody little questions should I do
Speaker 1: this or should I do that? And she's perfectly trained
Speaker 1: and she did a good job and had a great race.
Speaker 1: But we were standing talking to Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Connelly, right,
Speaker 1: the four of us, just in our own world, doing
Speaker 1: our things. And then we're the back of the tent
Speaker 1: and we turn around. All of a sudden there's this
Speaker 1: huge crowd of people with cameras and they look like
Speaker 1: assistance and all this stuff. That is what it is.
Speaker 1: And we turn around and who's right on my shouldern
Speaker 1: Hocle comes into the tent and we end up shooting
Speaker 1: the ship with her in front of camera.
Speaker 3: We're like having a mini press conference the day. That's
Speaker 3: what it felt like.
Speaker 2: I was like, Wow, it's Chelsea, it's Jennifer, me, you
Speaker 2: and Governor kal All having a conversation about New.
Speaker 3: York City's finest day. It was. It was like, this
Speaker 3: is bizarre but kind of cool at the same time.
Speaker 1: She was very good. Now I haven't had a chance
Speaker 1: to spend any time with her, but she was look
Speaker 1: she was doing her thing, and she was warm and
Speaker 1: personable and funny and friendly. But it was just an
Speaker 1: odd little collection of folks that are having a conversation.
Speaker 1: We had no idea, but it absolutely we were standing.
Speaker 1: If you ever see the video a put out or
Speaker 1: the so funny the pictures, we look like we are
Speaker 1: officially holding a press.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if she wants to be seen
Speaker 2: with us or all of us. Like it was just funny.
Speaker 2: I was like, hm, I wonder if this is going
Speaker 2: to see the light of day.
Speaker 1: So just like Chelsea, she she didn't know her ages
Speaker 1: are gonna say, you were standing next to tj Als,
Speaker 1: let's explain.
Speaker 3: Maybe we shouldn't include that in the press.
Speaker 1: It was a fun moment. It was a nice moment.
Speaker 1: So we finally do get out.
Speaker 3: You missed me stepping on your toe.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't want to include that because I
Speaker 1: know I'm going to give you a hard time about
Speaker 1: that for a long time. Okay, but privately, many of
Speaker 1: the issues as I have had it. I was in
Speaker 1: there trying to stretch out the hamstring and the it
Speaker 1: band and the achilles and all these things, and I'm
Speaker 1: barefoot the whole time. I didn't put my shoes on
Speaker 1: until right the last minute. So I'm standing at barefoot
Speaker 1: she were you trying to get a selfie?
Speaker 3: I was getting a selfie yep.
Speaker 1: And what happened?
Speaker 3: And I stepped on your toe step it kicked stumped
Speaker 3: on your toe. Sum ye with my shoes. That's a
Speaker 3: good one, and that I was. Yeah, I felt really
Speaker 3: bad about that.
Speaker 1: So at some point during the race, I said to you, babe,
Speaker 1: my toe is killing me. It's the only thing bothering
Speaker 1: me right now.
Speaker 2: And I felt horrible. I was so just all the
Speaker 2: name of a selfie. And I actually the selfie I
Speaker 2: got is quite funny because you look, it's in motion
Speaker 2: and you're like in pain.
Speaker 3: That's the selfie shows. I should put that on my story.
Speaker 1: Okay, I forgot, I forgot about but that toe, it
Speaker 1: is hurting.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: It's sorry. I was gonna lose that tone anyway.
Speaker 3: You're losing a several tones from the looks of your foot.
Speaker 1: So we get out to the start, okay, and this
Speaker 1: is all things again exciting. Now the cannons are going off.
Speaker 1: They the elite runners go.
Speaker 3: And play in New York.
Speaker 1: It's just stay mood, great vibe. The only thing that
Speaker 1: then once you start, there are two things that bring
Speaker 1: down your mood. It makes you hate the start of
Speaker 1: the New York City.
Speaker 2: There are ahead the smells of the folks who did
Speaker 2: not shower, that's one, or used deodorant slash anti persprint
Speaker 2: before they took off. So this is at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the race. Two folks really don't think you have
Speaker 2: an excuse to smell. And yet number two people are
Speaker 2: obsessed with getting their prs, their their personal records, and
Speaker 2: so they will push show up. Now, some people are
Speaker 2: kind to say, excuse me, excuse me, but there are others,
Speaker 2: and there was one man who did it to me
Speaker 2: and to you, who literally will take their hands on
Speaker 2: your shoulder and push you, which is so I think
Speaker 2: in not in the spirit of things. If you're a runner, especially,
Speaker 2: you should understand putting. When you are running and you
Speaker 2: are your gate, your cadence, everything matters your stride. If
Speaker 2: someone throws you off like that so that they can
Speaker 2: get ahead, that is so cruel because you could trip,
Speaker 2: you could fall, you could tweak something like you did
Speaker 2: in the last marathon, and it actually could take you
Speaker 2: out of the race. And I just am always a
Speaker 2: gas that there is always that person, always that other
Speaker 2: fellow runner who I yelled at the guy who did
Speaker 2: it to me, and you said you pushed back.
Speaker 1: Well, it's that simple. If you push me, I push
Speaker 1: you back. What's the problem. Yeah, what you want to do?
Speaker 1: You just pushed me. I just push you back. You
Speaker 1: got a problem with me? Is it's so offensive and
Speaker 1: the only thing more offensive are the damn smells. It
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. You all. I cannot I'm sorry. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not sorry. I didn't do anything. I put it on
Speaker 1: theodrant that morning. I don't know why you cannot, Like
Speaker 1: you couldn't stand in a room for five minutes with
Speaker 1: these odors without having to run out puking. It's awful.
Speaker 1: It is. I don't know what is going on and why,
Speaker 1: but it is hideous.
Speaker 3: At the beginning, it's always the Verizon, Arizon Arizona.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why it smells so bad, but every
Speaker 2: time it does, so we can talk about what Harlem
Speaker 2: smelled like.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, it's not.
Speaker 2: Going to be it's not offensive, but it was to us,
Speaker 2: but not in the way you're thinking.
Speaker 1: So we get we finally get across the Arizona and
Speaker 1: here is where the fun start. It takes us almost
Speaker 1: two miles two miles, yeah, to get across the Arizona,
Speaker 1: So soon as you get into or out of Staten Island,
Speaker 1: you're essentially two miles into the race. So we make
Speaker 1: that first left once we get into Brooklyn, and we
Speaker 1: see the same guy every single year, and we absolutely
Speaker 1: adore him. Be read.
Speaker 2: Yes, he is one of the floor directors at that
Speaker 2: program he used to work for and we love him.
Speaker 2: And I mean it's so he's one of the I
Speaker 2: love it. He dms me I think at least once
Speaker 2: a week, and he got cute.
Speaker 3: Pictures of us.
Speaker 2: But he's always there with his big Viking hat and
Speaker 2: he's always looking for us. He's in the same place
Speaker 2: every year, so it's always fun we get to see him.
Speaker 2: We got to see another one of our former colleagues, Ali,
Speaker 2: who was there screaming our name, and.
Speaker 3: She took some pictures too.
Speaker 2: But it's you actually have reunions with people who you
Speaker 2: haven't seen in a year along the marathon route, along
Speaker 2: the parade route.
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of fun. That's always special.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always great to see him. And we had
Speaker 1: Sabine and for and Nikki along the route to as well,
Speaker 1: so they met us at mile eight and miles sixteen.
Speaker 1: They're able to text us while we're running and say
Speaker 1: this is where we are, so they were able to see.
Speaker 1: It's two different spots. I saw Sabine both times this time,
Speaker 1: and not like last year I've missed her on one
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: You slowed way down to make sure I saw something.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, and you and it was it was well executed.
Speaker 2: We saw them both times, and you know it's I.
Speaker 2: When I started out, I usually can tell how the
Speaker 2: race is going to go.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: You can you feel how strong your legs are, you
Speaker 2: feel your energy level, and I felt like I was flying,
Speaker 2: and I said to myself, oh yay, this is gonna
Speaker 2: be a good race.
Speaker 1: I was the weather for you.
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 2: It was a little windy. It was definitely the cold.
Speaker 2: I like it was a little windy. But if I
Speaker 2: have to say, it was pretty damn close to perfect.
Speaker 2: It was just slightly chillier than I would prefer, which
Speaker 2: is unusual for me to say. But I normally would
Speaker 2: be in a tank top and the wind I couldn't
Speaker 2: take off my coudter layer.
Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't fifty when we started.
Speaker 2: It was thirty nine, yeah when we first got to
Speaker 2: the tent, and I think it ended up being like
Speaker 2: forty four, but with the wind chill, it was, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was. It was chilly, but sunny and gorgeous nice.
Speaker 2: And I remember being around miles six seven looking over
Speaker 2: at you, feeling great and seeing some of the great
Speaker 2: Nike signs. They had some awesome signs out there motivating
Speaker 2: us runners along the way with big billboards they took out,
Speaker 2: and I remember looking over at you and thinking where
Speaker 2: we were three weeks ago, and just all the struggles
Speaker 2: that we've been through, not just in this training and
Speaker 2: this racing thing that we do together, but just in
Speaker 2: life and all the struggles of the last two years
Speaker 2: kind of came over me and I looked at you,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you remember, I just said I love you,
Speaker 2: because I just I felt so honored that the person
Speaker 2: who I've been through all of this with was right
Speaker 2: by my side doing something that's really hard, and that
Speaker 2: we were doing it together. And I just I could
Speaker 2: get emotional now thinking about it. Like when you go
Speaker 2: and run a race like this, I think, no matter
Speaker 2: how many times you do it. You know how hard
Speaker 2: it is and how hard you've worked for it, and
Speaker 2: to have someone who's there with you. We had our
Speaker 2: friend who we love seeing. We saw are in Chicago too,
Speaker 2: Claire Hoyt. She even said to us, you guys are
Speaker 2: so lucky you get to run together. You have a
Speaker 2: partner to do it with, because it is hard sometimes
Speaker 2: to get motivated. It is hard to say I can
Speaker 2: do this. But when you've got that person next to
Speaker 2: you through life and on the running route, it makes
Speaker 2: a difference. It does for me, and I just was
Speaker 2: so grateful for you and just kind of reflecting on
Speaker 2: how far we've come. Anyway, I felt this amazing wave
Speaker 2: of emotion come over me and I started to cry
Speaker 2: tears of joy, and I felt so good. I was like, man,
Speaker 2: I'm doing this again next year. Hell yeah, I forget
Speaker 2: that period I put on things or the stop. I'm
Speaker 2: doing this again next year.
Speaker 3: I was just.
Speaker 2: I really felt overwhelmed. Yeah, six or seven, we were
Speaker 2: in Brooklyn and it was just it was awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had a big smile and you looked over
Speaker 1: and said I love you. It was a sweet moment
Speaker 1: and we were rocking and rolling and crushing this marathon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got through the first half marathon and we were
Speaker 1: on great pace. We were on pace to finish around
Speaker 1: four hours. I mean, I don't and we were enjoying
Speaker 1: it to the point that you know, you're having a
Speaker 1: good time where you don't have music on, right, you're
Speaker 1: not trying to be distracted. You're trying to take in
Speaker 1: what's around you. And this is one of the things
Speaker 1: about the marathon. They give us name tags New York
Speaker 1: Rown Writers, so it says TJ your said Amy. And
Speaker 1: sometimes being people just a lot of people recognize you
Speaker 1: in the crowd, but folks that don't know you just
Speaker 1: see your name and they'll just start yelling out and
Speaker 1: they'll yell it out to them, not just say go
Speaker 1: Amy that like a group I will just start doing
Speaker 1: a chant Amy. It's just it's cool. It's very cool,
Speaker 1: absolutely fun. But the signs are great along the way,
Speaker 1: and I just I want to applaud Nike, the ones
Speaker 1: they did in Chicago and the ones here. They just
Speaker 1: every single one of them makes you smile and you
Speaker 1: have to be a runner almost understand them.
Speaker 2: Yep, you know, it's it's great. The couple the one
Speaker 2: that really caught my eye. That made me laugh out loud. Finally,
Speaker 2: tourists willing to pick up their pace.
Speaker 1: Good's so good got.
Speaker 2: Any of New York to get that anyone who walks
Speaker 2: the city streets of New York. I laughed so hard
Speaker 2: when I saw that one. It was fantastic. And this
Speaker 2: one I couldn't find it again. To make sure I
Speaker 2: get the wording exactly right, I did look for it,
Speaker 2: but it was something to this effect. It said, today
Speaker 2: is going to be the best day of your life.
Speaker 2: Next week.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant.
Speaker 2: And then and then this is like if you and
Speaker 2: this is, oh my gosh, I get this one. If
Speaker 2: you are struggling and you want to quit, And believe me,
Speaker 2: there are plenty of times where your mind is telling
Speaker 2: you why the hell you're doing this? Just stop running.
Speaker 2: This sign you didn't run this far to run this far?
Speaker 2: And I thought that was really cool. And there was
Speaker 2: another one something you have to hate running a little
Speaker 2: to love running, like basically, you have to struggle and
Speaker 2: then you understand why you love it.
Speaker 3: If that makes any sense, anyone, perfect sense.
Speaker 1: So here we go all the issues we think we're
Speaker 1: going to have. I'm worried about the Achilles the IT band.
Speaker 1: We've both had little respiratory issues lately. We were worried
Speaker 1: about how our bodies were going to hold up. After
Speaker 1: running the marathon in Chicago, we still.
Speaker 3: Did twenty one mile back from Spain.
Speaker 1: We just came back, so a little jet lag. We're
Speaker 1: adjusting to a whole bunch of stuff. So all these
Speaker 1: things we think are going to be our problem. And
Speaker 1: several miles in, you know what our biggest problem was
Speaker 1: are bladders. We run all the time, we don't have
Speaker 1: to stop and use the bathroom. Ever. I've been running
Speaker 1: with you NonStop for four years. I remember the one
Speaker 1: time on the West Side Highway you had to go
Speaker 1: to use the bathroom. Four years yep. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I looked over at you said, baby.
Speaker 3: My bladder is killing me this problem and I said,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, so it's fine.
Speaker 2: So we waited, I think it was like mile nine
Speaker 2: or so, and we found like the most convenient porta potties.
Speaker 2: We were in and back out on the on the
Speaker 2: road I think in less than thirty seconds less.
Speaker 1: But we used porta potties that weren't for the runners.
Speaker 1: They were for uh spectators's spectators. So we dipped under
Speaker 1: kind of a little caution tape and we used it
Speaker 1: and nobody was there. It worked out. But after that,
Speaker 1: after we used.
Speaker 3: The restaurant concepts all amazing, this.
Speaker 1: Is we're about to crush the hell out of this.
Speaker 2: And we were in fact, you know, I we saw
Speaker 2: Sabine and Nikki mile sixteen, mile seventeen, mile eighteen, that's
Speaker 2: right around mile eighteen. I started to go h because
Speaker 2: my stomach that is always my issue where I get
Speaker 2: this nausea. And I started to feel it and I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, power through. It's going to be okay.
Speaker 2: It's going to be okay. By the time we got
Speaker 2: into the Bronx, I started I started to throw up.
Speaker 3: And the thing is last last go around.
Speaker 2: This happened to me once and it was awful and gutting,
Speaker 2: and I had to sit out this time.
Speaker 3: Oh my, I was crying.
Speaker 2: I was in tears of pain and frustration. I ended
Speaker 2: up having to vomit basically every mile from mile twenty
Speaker 2: to mile twenty five.
Speaker 3: And that is the truth and is the truth.
Speaker 2: It was, and I felt, you know what, I felt
Speaker 2: so bad. I said, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Babe,
Speaker 2: and he was the sweetest. He was rubbing my back,
Speaker 2: he was keeping people away from me because everyone wants
Speaker 2: to help. But he knew I just needed to keep
Speaker 2: throwing up, and then I would throw up, you know
Speaker 2: how it is.
Speaker 3: When you do, you feel better.
Speaker 2: So then I could walk a little, then I could
Speaker 2: start running, and then sure enough it would come up again.
Speaker 2: And so I by the time at mile twenty five,
Speaker 2: I was so depleted. When you throw up that many
Speaker 2: times and then you got to keep running it that
Speaker 2: that was the toughest five mile stretch of my life.
Speaker 2: And you were so kind and so patient, and.
Speaker 1: So I did what I was supposed to do. But
Speaker 1: also you you just ended a marathon because of my
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. What am I gonna do? Babe? Good
Speaker 1: luck with that going up. I'll see you back at home.
Speaker 2: So I do. I do feel proud of this. After
Speaker 2: the last puke, why it wasn't the last one, but
Speaker 2: the last one on the race, the last one on
Speaker 2: the race.
Speaker 3: Because we both ended up puking. But more on that later.
Speaker 2: Mile twenty five to mile twenty six point two, we
Speaker 2: did not stop, and we actually picked up the pace
Speaker 2: and we finished strong. We really did, and I that
Speaker 2: was important I think with the struggle. So that last mile,
Speaker 2: I was like, hell if I'm going to like stop,
Speaker 2: we are getting through this. And we picked up the
Speaker 2: pace and we crossed that finish line and then I
Speaker 2: went straight in for the tent and said, can I
Speaker 2: have a peek bag?
Speaker 1: Look, it was a weird I don't know what goes
Speaker 1: on with your either. I think if you find a
Speaker 1: way to master that and figure that out. I always
Speaker 1: say I did not take a drink of before mile
Speaker 1: twenty four. I think it was I don't. I keep
Speaker 1: passing the water stations because I don't want that on
Speaker 1: my stomach.
Speaker 3: Are you not thirsty? Do you not get drunk?
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I'm so thirsty that once you take
Speaker 1: that first sip, you just want to go, go, go, go,
Speaker 1: keep going. I just don't want so.
Speaker 3: You feel dehydrated and you just keep going.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel thirsty, but I don't feel like my
Speaker 1: body is shutting down because of it.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and I think my I'm frustrated because and
Speaker 2: if anyone out there has any kind of remedy, I
Speaker 2: have tried different things, I've gone online, But if someone
Speaker 2: has a tried and true because it's called I think
Speaker 2: it's called runner's stomach, and it isn't that uncommon. But
Speaker 2: I went from bad to worst from last year to
Speaker 2: this year, and I was trying new things and trying
Speaker 2: different things on these long training runs and I cannot
Speaker 2: figure out. And I'm fine up until mile twenty and
Speaker 2: then I you know, that's when you hit the wall.
Speaker 2: My dad was explaining to me, he's a food scientist.
Speaker 2: He was just saying, ames, that's when your body is
Speaker 2: robbed of glycogen. That's where all your reserves are gone.
Speaker 2: And the truth is everyone handles it differently, and based
Speaker 2: on what you've been doing and how you've been treating
Speaker 2: your body, any little difference can make a huge difference
Speaker 2: come race day. And that's why they call it the wall.
Speaker 2: Everyone who's a marathon or nos. Mile twenty is when
Speaker 2: you hit the wall. But my first marathon never happened,
Speaker 2: my second marathon never happened. It's just happened in the
Speaker 2: last two. And I wonder if it's just all the training.
Speaker 2: I wonder if I do need to take a beat.
Speaker 2: I know people who do marathons every other year, and
Speaker 2: I know some people who can do four marathons in
Speaker 2: a row.
Speaker 3: And be fine.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just it's an individual thing. But it
Speaker 2: was so excruciating. I went from saying, I'm going to
Speaker 2: do this again. I can't wait. This is the most
Speaker 2: amazing day of my life. Too, I'm never doing this again.
Speaker 2: Hell no, why am I putting my body through this?
Speaker 2: And you and I? I don't know what happened, but
Speaker 2: once we got into that ten both of us kind
Speaker 2: of fell apart.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what my problem was was that when
Speaker 1: we started walking, you wanted to walk through a water station. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I said, okay, we're slowing down, only got
Speaker 1: two miles left. I'll take a hit of gatorade. I
Speaker 1: took a hit, took a second cup. So we get
Speaker 1: to the next water station. Now I'm thirsty it. Now
Speaker 1: I'm I take more gatory takes. So now I got
Speaker 1: something sitting on my stomach I had not had. So
Speaker 1: we finish our race. So we crossed that finish line
Speaker 1: and they have a tint set up for us, and
Speaker 1: we going. I don't think you threw up in there,
Speaker 1: but we sat down.
Speaker 2: You did, okay, I did once, and then we grabbed
Speaker 2: another bag to go.
Speaker 3: Thank God.
Speaker 1: But in that tent, you're sitting there by yourself, and
Speaker 1: think again, it's a a VIP runner tent that they
Speaker 1: have for the folks. And we were the only ones
Speaker 1: in there because most of the folks we started with
Speaker 1: were gone by now.
Speaker 3: They had already crossed the ventor's line well before us.
Speaker 1: They didn't have our problems. But we sat down in there,
Speaker 1: and I mean I put that big blanket thing over
Speaker 1: that they give us the cover ups. I slumped down
Speaker 1: in that chair, and you would have thought I was dead.
Speaker 2: You said I could go to sleep right now, and
Speaker 2: I think you kind of did dose.
Speaker 1: I think I did.
Speaker 2: And then and then you have the longest walk ever park.
Speaker 2: We went the wrong way ended up. I was like,
Speaker 2: that was anything but a walk in the park.
Speaker 1: I threw up so along the way. So it has
Speaker 1: a long walk out of the park, and you got
Speaker 1: this sea of runners trying to move out, all in
Speaker 1: these orange things. It looks like the walking day.
Speaker 2: So people are like walking as if yeah they can
Speaker 2: barely walk. You look like you your legs don't function,
Speaker 2: your body doesn't function. It's actually hilarious.
Speaker 1: So all was a making a way out, but we
Speaker 1: keep having to stop to the side on the left
Speaker 1: or the right so you can do your vomit thing.
Speaker 1: So we finally get out of the park and we
Speaker 1: had this brilliant idea that we would take the subway.
Speaker 1: So seventy second Street at Central Park West. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many stops that is, but it's the sea training.
Speaker 1: We have to go all the way downtown where we live.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many stops that is. It was
Speaker 1: a while, but it p's a lot of stops. So
Speaker 1: she has already had the problem she's having. I now
Speaker 1: have all this stuff sitting on my stomach, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get on a train that does stops and start stop, start,
Speaker 1: stop start. Okay, So we get on this train and
Speaker 1: we actually sit down and I put my head on
Speaker 1: her right. I am going to sleep on rope in
Speaker 1: the train, and she has this vomit bag and she said,
Speaker 1: I got I gotta I can't hold it. I gotta
Speaker 1: get up. So she gets up on the train, goes
Speaker 1: over to the corner with the vomit bag, and I
Speaker 1: just see her go down with her back to everybody,
Speaker 1: with this big orange thing over her. It looks like
Speaker 1: she's Elvis on stage and they just put the thing
Speaker 1: over and she I don't know what she's doing, but
Speaker 1: her bag. I see her body gyrating and it's just
Speaker 1: a mess. But she comes back over and the bag
Speaker 1: is empty.
Speaker 2: Because because I had nothing left inside of me, I
Speaker 2: had thrown up I don't know ten times at that point.
Speaker 3: So then you said, actually, babe.
Speaker 1: No oh if that didn't happen yet, Okay, we just
Speaker 1: chilled again. So we're just riding maybe a couple stops,
Speaker 1: and I calmly say, what to you?
Speaker 3: Can I have that vomit bag?
Speaker 1: I was so chill, I didn't want to call it
Speaker 1: the panic.
Speaker 2: He went over to the corner exactly where the corner
Speaker 2: and he then.
Speaker 1: I did not dry heave. I damn near build up
Speaker 1: this bag can It was absolutely grow and the bags
Speaker 1: are clear. These are bags that you get on the airplane.
Speaker 1: You know, these are clear bag digusting. So we get
Speaker 1: out of the train and carrying a warm pile of
Speaker 1: fresh vomit all the train with.
Speaker 3: Me, and I wasn't done yet, so.
Speaker 1: I immediately say, hevee, I got to get to a
Speaker 1: trash can and get this nasty ass thing out of
Speaker 1: my hand. So we go over into a trash can
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna go up the escalator to leave,
Speaker 1: and she said, WHOA, not so fast DJ. She goes
Speaker 1: over and tries to are vomiting in the same trash
Speaker 1: band that I was. I just dumped my vomiting. But no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not good enough for her. She said, you know what,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna work. So she kneels down behind the
Speaker 1: trash can at the Fulton Subway station in New York
Speaker 1: City and just lets it rip again.
Speaker 3: It's just a small amount. I felt so bad. There's
Speaker 3: nothing I could do.
Speaker 2: And I looked We're like, wow, this has been a
Speaker 2: hell of a day.
Speaker 3: Hey, I've never had a post race situation like that.
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, we are poster children for why
Speaker 2: people should never run a marathon.
Speaker 3: If someone had followed us with video, I mean it,
Speaker 3: you would be It was like a comedy. It was.
Speaker 3: It was what is happening?
Speaker 1: You're like a dog, like marking your vomit territory all over.
Speaker 2: Man lapped a part of me all every round, I mean,
Speaker 2: along the racetrack in trash cans like I mean, I
Speaker 2: have my DNA all three route Manhattan, so.
Speaker 1: But that was the end of it, right, that was
Speaker 1: our last ups situation. So we we get home and
Speaker 1: Sabine and Nikki were waiting for us. We walk in
Speaker 1: and they're like, what is wrong with you? Too? Look
Speaker 1: like the Walking Dead? You know?
Speaker 2: It's so funny, too like and the only thing I wanted.
Speaker 2: It's funny when you're dying of thirst. And I knew
Speaker 2: I couldn't drink it too fast. We had to like
Speaker 2: slowly drink it so our bodies could take in the fluids.
Speaker 2: All I wanted was a diet coke. That was the
Speaker 2: best diet coke on ice I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 2: It's funny what you crave when you're so thirsty, and
Speaker 2: for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: That's all I want. And all I wanted was a
Speaker 3: cranberry cranberry.
Speaker 1: Spritzer.
Speaker 2: Yeah wow, so bougie, whatever, do you want a sprig
Speaker 2: of rosemary with that too?
Speaker 1: It would be nice. I just ran twenty six point two.
Speaker 1: You want to give me a break. I can't have
Speaker 1: some rosemary. I didn't earn some rosemary. If I didn't,
Speaker 1: or what the hell I was drinking that the diet
Speaker 1: coke and Gator eight and I was worried my stomach
Speaker 1: was going to act up again. But everything stayed down
Speaker 1: after that. And the folks want we talked that we
Speaker 1: laugh and we could joke, and but this, it actually
Speaker 1: is serious and it's dangerous. It is and it is
Speaker 1: tough to do, to run a marathon like that. And
Speaker 1: I I asked you if you got on the scale,
Speaker 1: But I'm all and when we do long runs, I'm
Speaker 1: always curious to get on the scale to see how
Speaker 1: much weight you lose, water weight you lose. I left
Speaker 1: going to that marathon weighing one hundred sixty seven hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty eight pounds. I was one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: five pounds. We get back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's UNBLI And you know what, that's not shocking.
Speaker 2: That's hundred how much it was shot back and you're
Speaker 2: sweating it out and you have nothing left. And it's
Speaker 2: so funny. You asked me this morning if I did that.
Speaker 2: I was like, I meant too, and I because I
Speaker 2: was like, ooh, I wonder how much it was like
Speaker 2: having a week of stomach flew in one day, you know,
Speaker 2: And so I thought, let's see, but I forgot but
Speaker 2: I can tell you my jeans are a lot looser
Speaker 2: this morning.
Speaker 3: That is the truth.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I got like an extra engine here.
Speaker 2: It'll soon fill right back up, don't you worry.
Speaker 3: But it was.
Speaker 2: That's how serious it was, for sure. And oh, you
Speaker 2: forgot to mention this was hilarious along the route. This
Speaker 2: was your favorite part. I think someone offered you a
Speaker 2: cold beer and you took it.
Speaker 3: I didn't. You asked me if I want.
Speaker 1: I forgot.
Speaker 3: I didn't drink crazy.
Speaker 1: I forgot, I said, I didn't drink any At a
Speaker 1: water station there. I can't remember the first one, the
Speaker 1: early one. I was in a good mood and having
Speaker 1: fun and grabbed a beer just for giggles. And it's
Speaker 1: not a full beer, it's a little cup, but still
Speaker 1: it's a nice dose. That last couple of miles there
Speaker 1: was somebody out there and they were offering a beer.
Speaker 1: I actually responded, is it cold, because it's trim.
Speaker 2: When you're running and you're hot, all you want is
Speaker 2: a cold drink and everything they give you is warm,
Speaker 2: and your water bottle at that point is all room temperature.
Speaker 3: So he asked, is it cold? I did, and they
Speaker 3: said yes, it is.
Speaker 1: And what they had a keg whoever you all are,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. It was a keg on the last
Speaker 1: four or something miles a keg of beer. It was
Speaker 1: ice cold. It was I wanted to go back.
Speaker 2: You were like, that was the best beer I've ever
Speaker 2: had on the race. Yeah, it was very that was fantastic.
Speaker 2: And then we had a we had a little It
Speaker 2: was a small after party we had planned and it
Speaker 2: was the last thing we wanted to do because we
Speaker 2: were so exhausted. But we got up and we were
Speaker 2: able to celebrate with friends and family and it was
Speaker 2: nice and I'm glad we did it because what we
Speaker 2: wanted to do was crill up and fetal position, and.
Speaker 1: We did for a little while.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: For a little while I did.
Speaker 3: I was like, babe, we kind of have to go. Okay,
Speaker 3: we have to go.
Speaker 1: Being was texting, Hey, are you coming to your party?
Speaker 3: We were yeah, an hour and a half lay to
Speaker 3: our party.
Speaker 1: So look, I appreciate this experience even more because of
Speaker 1: what happened in Chicago, and next week we'll appreciate the
Speaker 1: New York City experiment or experience even more once we
Speaker 1: are a little distance from it. But it was that's
Speaker 1: no small thing and we got to do this together.
Speaker 1: And just the past month we've had together doing just
Speaker 1: the running and everything that came with it and the injury.
Speaker 1: And you've been watching me trying to get this together
Speaker 1: for months now, and what you did in Chicago was
Speaker 1: a sacrifice, and what.
Speaker 3: You did yesterday was a sacrifice for your time.
Speaker 1: Finished. Three?
Speaker 2: Can I also say, you know what, Sometimes partners don't
Speaker 2: say the right thing to one another, but you said
Speaker 2: the perfect thing to me when I was feeling frustrated
Speaker 2: and sad and sick and mad at myself and feeling
Speaker 2: bad about ruining our time because we were once again.
Speaker 3: Set to have a pr I. You looked at me
Speaker 3: and you said.
Speaker 2: Babe, it's okay, It's just that time doesn't matter, and
Speaker 2: you said you have nothing to prove. And when you
Speaker 2: said that to me, I remember feeling my shoulders drop
Speaker 2: and the weight of the expectation and the guilt and
Speaker 2: the pressure I was putting on myself just go away.
Speaker 2: And that helped me more than you could ever know.
Speaker 2: So thank you for you said the exact right thing
Speaker 2: to me at the right moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's usually not the case.
Speaker 3: Well, I applaud what you said.
Speaker 2: It was it gave me comfort and it it motivated
Speaker 2: me actually to get up and do it and not
Speaker 2: to say it has to be perfect or it has
Speaker 2: to be at this time, and that I can stop
Speaker 2: again and if I have to, And that just took
Speaker 2: off the pressure away and it let me finish the race.
Speaker 1: Before we leave here, we're gonna wrap. We would like
Speaker 1: to make a plea to non runners, and we want
Speaker 1: to make this plea if you see people out there running,
Speaker 1: whether it's they're doing training runs or an official race,
Speaker 1: we implore you to listen to this because we had
Speaker 1: a couple of incidents yesterday. One of them really infuriated
Speaker 1: me and it didn't even affect me. But you're running
Speaker 1: the marathon and there are spectators on both sides, and
Speaker 1: sometimes people try to cross the street where the race
Speaker 1: is happening, and usually it looks like a game of Frogger, right,
Speaker 1: because they know they're trying to get out of the
Speaker 1: way and trying to dodge the runners and stay out
Speaker 1: of the way and trying to run across. And that's fine,
Speaker 1: but then you get some other folks. I can't remember
Speaker 1: what mile it was, but you know, I got pissed.
Speaker 1: There was a guy walking across the street as if
Speaker 1: he was holier than thou and nothing that fifty thousand
Speaker 1: people were doing running marathon trumped him just walking across.
Speaker 2: The street because he strolled with his hands in his
Speaker 2: pocket as if he had not a care in the world,
Speaker 2: and people had to navigate around him, and that was frustrating.
Speaker 2: He ended up not causing any problems. I mean, you
Speaker 2: can pick moments, and I understand sometimes you have to
Speaker 2: cross the street.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 2: But we had something that happened at mile twenty one,
Speaker 2: and you know, we were I know, people can't understand
Speaker 2: where you are physically and mentally at that point. But
Speaker 2: no one's doing well. I mean, very few people are there.
Speaker 2: It's a struggle. You've been doing this for six months.
Speaker 2: You're on the last leg. And there was a woman
Speaker 2: who crossed the street in the same fashion slowly. We
Speaker 2: were all bunched up in Central Park. This was not
Speaker 2: a wide area where there were a lot of spaces,
Speaker 2: and she just and she looked me right in the
Speaker 2: eye and slammed right into me, and she she knocked
Speaker 2: me off my feet. I had to fall and I
Speaker 2: fell into TJ. Then he fell and she just slowly
Speaker 2: kept on going, and you know it, the anger I
Speaker 2: felt I'm not proud of. But it's just that could
Speaker 2: have taken us out of the race. We we tripped,
Speaker 2: you could have tweaked something, I could have tweaked something,
Speaker 2: and she didn't care, And I just thought, why are
Speaker 2: you even out here? Like this was definitely Central Park,
Speaker 2: But I don't think she had anything to do with
Speaker 2: the race.
Speaker 1: And she had no care about what she was doing
Speaker 1: and what we anybody else was going through. So again,
Speaker 1: people have to cross the street. We see family sometimes.
Speaker 3: With kids, and they're sculling across just.
Speaker 1: Trying to get out of the way. That's fine. It
Speaker 1: was just bizarre that this woman took that, and given
Speaker 1: our recent experience in Chicago, I did not finish Chicago
Speaker 1: because of this exact thing that somebody was inconsiderate, didn't
Speaker 1: get out of the way, ran into somebody, tweaked by
Speaker 1: it band. But this is that It's that serious. So
Speaker 1: when that happened in that moment, we both immediately just
Speaker 1: freaked out, like, holy crap, am I okay, let me
Speaker 1: feel we take a body inventory because we're a mile
Speaker 1: twenty one twenty two again and you're really telling me
Speaker 1: this woman is gonna cost us this race again. So
Speaker 1: we encourage folks and we do it. We do a
Speaker 1: lot of training runs, and oftentimes people don't think it's
Speaker 1: a big deal, or people put so much and for
Speaker 1: some people they're won and done. This is a lifelong
Speaker 1: dream to do this and to just break stride can't
Speaker 1: impact you in a way that can cause you to
Speaker 1: end your day, to injure yourself. Also, it just messes
Speaker 1: with you mentally. Yeah, and I know everybody else looks
Speaker 1: it's just running. What's the big deal. Just if you
Speaker 1: can't give folks a break who go through and putting
Speaker 1: themselves through that much, just try to be a little
Speaker 1: considerate when you see it. I know we're crazy runners,
Speaker 1: know we all got the same rights to the same sidewalk.
Speaker 3: But please, just it's hard, don't make it harder. That's
Speaker 3: all we ask.
Speaker 1: All we ask. So are you retiring because you have
Speaker 1: you have suggested you are going to retire from marathon.
Speaker 2: Well, I am absolutely going to do half marathons from
Speaker 2: here on out, and I would like to take a
Speaker 2: year break from marathons and maybe revisit it in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 1: All Right, Okay, I am now declaring for the New
Speaker 1: York City Marathon twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to cheer you one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run it. I'm gonna run, I won't and
Speaker 1: as long as my body holds up, I will run
Speaker 1: it in New York every year they will allow.
Speaker 3: I love that, man.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep going. So thank you, baby, has been
Speaker 1: a hell of a journey on this Uh, this year
Speaker 1: of running has just been incredible. So thank you for
Speaker 1: what you did in Chicago. Thank you for yesterday. And
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had it go any other way.
Speaker 3: I feel the same way. I love you.
Speaker 1: I love you too, doll. So say something you think
Speaker 1: that we encourage runners today. Everybody's running out to get
Speaker 1: their new shoes, aren't they.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, go out and uh just sign up for
Speaker 3: any race. I love a ten k.
Speaker 1: All right, folks. You can catch us on our official Instagram,
Speaker 1: babies at Amy and TJ Podcast, where we appreciate you listening.
Speaker 1: As always, we'll see out there on the road too.