Episode 97 - The Highs and Hurdles of Long-Distance Runs Paired with Tales of Furry Companions

Have you ever found yourself questioning how to push through the pain and keep running, or how to handle life's unexpected twists with grace under pressure? Strap on your most comfortable headphones and join us for an episode that explores not just the physical demands of endurance running, but the emotional challenges of pet ownership and the delicate balancing act of work-life harmony.

In a revealing discussion, we peel back the curtain on post-run recovery secrets, including the wonders of Normatech therapy for those who've felt the burn of ten events back-to-back. But it's not all about the legs; our hearts get a workout too, as we share the poignant journey of nursing a badly injured dog through a storm of infections, tough decisions, and the mysterious appearance of a feline interloper. Balancing this intimate recount with the rigor of marathon preparation, we offer a rare glimpse into the perseverance required both on and off the race course.

Our conversation takes a turn around the track of marathon loyalty, where the unsung heroes are the ones working against the clock—not just in races but in their daily grind. Dive into the race day strategy from parking kerfuffles to the arduous hills that test every runner's mettle. And for those who've ever been ambushed by cramps mid-stride, discover why preparation trumps dehydration myths and how a trusty pain spray might just be your new best friend. Join us for stories of hardship, triumph, and the relentless pursuit of personal bests.

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Transcript

Lano: 0:12

Welcome back to Drifting on Arroyo. This is Lano.

Rick: 0:18

RK67. My voice sounds pretty loud.

Lano: 0:25

You know, I think those headphones are loud.

Rick: 0:27

Let me see, I'm gonna try to lower it. How is it?

Lano: 0:31

How do you sound right now?

Rick: 0:34

I'm good. Yeah, sounds good.

Lano: 0:38

So you made it, huh.

Rick: 0:41

Made it, made it 10 straight man, 10 up, 10 down.

Lano: 0:47

We'll go over, I guess, picking up your stuff the day of and then right now you just finished 45 minutes of Normatech therapy. How did that feel.

Rick: 1:00

That thing feels amazing, I gotta admit. It feels pretty damn good and I think if you do it more on a regular basis it'll be magical.

Lano: 1:10

That's right, like my wife's brother got it and then every time we would visit one of us would jump on it for like 15 minutes. But when you have it for yourself, I can tell you.

Rick: 1:18

My wife does it for an hour. I've always gotten frustrated because the soreness in my legs never go away. There's always pain.

Lano: 1:28

And as we get older, recovery takes longer, but you know what I do, I do stretch a lot.

Rick: 1:34

So I'm constantly stretching, like at work. I get out of bed, you know, you stretch and my flexibility is always on point because I'm always constantly stretching, even at work. Oh really, yeah, because I just feel the tightness in my legs and I gotta, you know, stretch those muscles out get the fluids going.

Lano: 1:56

I blew on my knee but my big pier is like blowing out my Achilles.

Rick: 1:59

How does the Normartic feel on your knees?

Lano: 2:01

It feels good I mean the leg if I don't like it. It kind of like when it squeezes it. It feels like it's like straightening it, like aligning it, like popping my knee cap where it's supposed to be or whatever.

Rick: 2:11

And when you put the hip one on you can't do a seven Because that was pretty tight. But the tightness because the hip gets more the top of your hamstring and your quad, so that felt really good, because that's the majority of my pain is the soreness on my quads and my hamstring.

Lano: 2:32

I do a three because I start getting all like kind of like antsy, like get it off, like it's too tight or something.

Rick: 2:37

Oh yeah, what's the recommended time for that? I mean, you said what you could do, it for like an hour.

Lano: 2:45

Yeah, I mean it goes 15 minutes increments like 15, 30, 45.

Rick: 2:49

Should you do it more than 15? Yeah, yeah.

Lano: 2:53

They said it's fine. Yeah, I mean the pros, I mean they do it a long time.

Rick: 2:57

I did see a lot of people when I at the expo on Saturday when I picked up my bib. A lot of people were on retainers with that stuff on Getting them. They probably had a coupon.

Lano: 3:10

Check your bag, it's probably like a discount, 10% off or something like that. Yeah, I mean, I got the legs. Well, the starter package comes with the legs and then the hip is an accessory and I was like like I don't know about the hip, how's it gonna work? But then, like it squeezes those high thighs and glutes and at first I thought like it connected, like you put them all at the same time. But no, it's like separately.

Rick: 3:32

The legs get like the the right above the knee or kind of like in the middle of your.

Lano: 3:39

Yeah, I mean, it's probably pull them up, or but then once you get the hip went on like a short man.

Rick: 3:45

That thing feels good on top.

Lano: 3:47

Well, me like the calves, and then even my feet, like it crunches your like your feet. Like to me that feels good. Well, let me tell you, but he did this after every run like training.

Rick: 4:00

Yeah, I think you're able to do more days or back out there. So I wanted to do crowd therapy. I was going to set it up for me and you like, because I want you to try it out, but all last week was all jacked up at work.

Lano: 4:14

He told me one day like I think Friday night got out like a nine or something.

Rick: 4:18

Yeah, we worked till nine o'clock at night on Friday night and I worked. We worked all late till like from from six to six all week. Monday was like an eight hour day, but then Tuesday, wednesday, thursday is another week, but then we worked six to six the other days, and then Friday night we worked till mid to nine, eight PM and I wanted to pick up my stuff. I wanted to pick up my stuff on Friday and I couldn't because work got so much jacked up and I didn't want to deal with that on Saturday.

Lano: 4:49

Yeah, cause that's what me, when I did it I was like Friday and then like Saturday, I just wanted to take my big like dinner or lunch and then like knock out, rest, like not do nothing, just prepare.

Rick: 5:00

Wow, check this out. So aside, I don't think I mentioned it, but the dogs had gotten into it, chiquita and Gemma. There was a cat in the yard and then they go at it, sometimes like Chiquita's cranky she's older, you know and Gemma's there. It's that whole dominance thing with the females. Gemma really messed her up. Got her a couple punctured, good punctures on her head, but then like a really big gash above for eye, right in front of her ear, this thing was almost like three years.

Lano: 5:41

The wiener dog got injured.

Rick: 5:43

No, chiquita, my little pet bull, the older one. She's probably like about 13 years old already. She can't really see no more. She doesn't hear. I got a like whistle so she can hear that high pitch.

Speaker 3: 5:54

Second caller.

Rick: 5:56

So she had that mean gash and then I'm like, I'm like great, and I was getting ready for work, I got ready for work.

Lano: 6:04

Oh, so you know, like in the night you woke up and saw it.

Rick: 6:07

Yeah, so no, no, no, I was. I got up, got ready, I was going to get ready for work and I let the dogs out to go to the restrooms. Well, in the restroom I heard them going and start going at it and I'm like hey, hey, and they're still going out. And I had to run out there. And yeah, they were on Wednesday. Wednesday, gemma heard me coming out. She, she knew I was going to kick her ass, so she went running to her kennel and then I saw Chiquita. And then at first I saw her, because, because normally the other times, like I think Gemma is the big dog, Like yeah, gemma is the big, massive.

Lano: 6:39

David is a David's former dog or no?

Rick: 6:41

Yeah, like the one that she looks like Lola.

Lano: 6:43

But Lola passed away, hurt yeah.

Rick: 6:44

Yeah.

Lano: 6:46

Oh no.

Rick: 6:46

Gemma, gemma gunner, the brother and sister, okay, okay, the two massives.

Lano: 6:51

Quick, quick. Shout out a prophet, it's his birthday today, yeah, yeah.

Rick: 6:54

The day we record today so today is Tuesday, the 19th of March, and it's Vombedo's birthday.

Lano: 6:59

Vombedo. Yeah, he's not calling you anything.

Rick: 7:02

No, I. I text him in the morning he's. He's having his dinner right now. Probably had it already, maybe.

Lano: 7:07

I'll text him. He's always switching phone numbers.

Rick: 7:09

Yeah, never keep up. Yeah, happy birthday Vombedo.

Lano: 7:12

Happy birthday. He should be listening to the show.

Rick: 7:15

Yeah, and then tomorrow is my birthday, so that happened, right.

Lano: 7:23

Well, that's what you're coming for the league.

Rick: 7:25

So that happens with the dogs they fight. And then, like I look at Chiquita and like, okay, I don't see no like gushing blood or nothing, cause usually that's what I would see with Lucy when Lucy was getting into it with them, right, zoe or Rocky, you know. And then until walking away, and then I saw that big gas. I'm like, oh man, I go that gashes, like I'm going to have to take her to the vet and put cream on it, and so.

Rick: 7:51

I ended up taking her to the vet, and then the bottom part, like the animal shelter TLC, tlc. So I take her to the vet and then you know the whole thing. They do, they check her out or whatever. They tell me that the punctures is like couple of punctures are down to her muscle. It's going to require surgery to put her, you know. So they're giving me like over a $2,000 bill estimate. I'm like no dude, I can't do that.

Lano: 8:15

They're like drainage holes, all this stuff.

Rick: 8:17

I can't do that. So they're like okay, well, we'll give you the Xanobiotics and that's in the head. Yeah, it's all like right here.

Lano: 8:25

And then you puncture the muscle in the head.

Rick: 8:27

So just like I guess bites like but this one probably like scraped and ripped her top of her eye. And the worst thing because you can see the inside. Like it it was like a big gas dude.

Lano: 8:42

You can see everything inside, but that's because the teeth are dirty right Like the infection, like a dirty arrow or something like that.

Rick: 8:48

So well, that happened, right. So now I was taking care, I had to care for her and I had to now do a lot of cleaning because I didn't want to do the surgery to stitch her, stitch up the muscle or whatever, right? So just let it naturally here.

Lano: 9:01

So now, so that they didn't do stitches. I mean, they can't do the stitches with the surgery.

Rick: 9:08

No they could just, but they want to do that. They want to do that. Well, right there. Tlc is good because they do a whole thorough thing X-rays, blood and everything you know. They're real thorough there, but I wasn't going to do all that. Wow, that happens, right. So throw that on top of my pay where I'm trying to damn get a run in.

Lano: 9:30

What day is that?

Rick: 9:31

That was not. That was in last week, the week leading up to marathon. That was the week before that. But but check it out. So now I'm dealing with cleaning, throwing that in the schedule on top of the hectic schedule, making sure she's getting her antibiotics and cleaning the shit out of her wounds, and I didn't even notice. I didn't even notice the puncture behind her ear. Wow, there's a puncture behind her ear. So she was like kind of out of it at first and then like, oh man, well, I don't know, sunday, monday, her whole, her whole side of her face swolled up and I'm like, oh man, she's just like all jacked up.

Rick: 10:13

So then like I'm pressing the side of her face and it's just all liquid, liquid like oh just swolling I'm like oh man. So then, like I, like I was grabbing her head, like with my two hands, and then, like I saw, it. Well, trying to see where it was at, and I didn't even notice, and I wasn't cleaning that because I didn't know, I didn't see it.

Speaker 3: 10:34

So then I saw there was like blood and pus already there.

Rick: 10:37

You know I'm like damn it. So now I had to be getting. I get warm towels with like under hot water to do warm compressions. And then, luckily, the the where the hole was. It started like oozing out and man, I drained out so much pus from her side of her face.

Lano: 10:57

Like you, just put in a cover and see if it was on the floor.

Rick: 10:59

No, on the towel. Oh I can't Every towel that I was getting. It was just pushing out so and wiping it with the towel like water or thick like dude. It was yeah, a little bit like it was little little thick. But dude, I'm just squeezing like. I'm just pushing all that, it's all coming out and I'm just like from the bottom of her mouth, like pushing it towards the hole and pushing all that shit out, pushing it all out.

Rick: 11:23

You know you're doing, but you think it's no, because because of the how the dogs have gotten in fights before. That's what I would do all the time. You got to do. They do drain tubes. And then you got to do warm compressions, to be pushing all that pus out. So that's, that's that and then so I'm doing that leading up to damn. So I'm not, I'm trying to get good rest for the week for the marathon. And then you know, I'm working late. I'm working late at work, I'm getting home late.

Speaker 3: 11:54

You were cleaning when you were here. Yeah, close to Mason.

Rick: 11:57

So then I got to be cleaning her up before I go to bed and I'm like dude, it was just the whole leading up to an end. Well, I don't know if it was Thursday or whatever. Like I get home, I get home it was Thursday. It was because we left probably like around three at that time and I got home probably like five. I get home and let the dogs out, or whatever. I walk out and I look over in the kennel and I see a dead little cat in the middle of the kennel.

Lano: 12:28

And you already have a no kill policy. Yeah, cats or whatever they pissed me off.

Rick: 12:32

dude Gunner and Gemma like this poor little cat.

Lano: 12:37

Like they just like his neck there a little bit.

Rick: 12:39

Yeah, I was just like you could just tell they just fucking crushed the shit out of it. They just bit it and crushed it. But I didn't. I don't know how that damn cat got in the kennel. Like why the hell would he go in? Like I'm sure the cats are always bark. The dogs are always barking at cats, yeah.

Lano: 12:56

So I don't know how. Or did they drag it in, or did they carry it in. No, there's no way.

Rick: 12:59

No, they can't get out of the kennel. It's the 10 by 10 kennel. There's no way they can get out. The cat had to jump in there, unless the cat was like doing something in the tree and it got off the tree into the kennel and then they caught it.

Lano: 13:16

That's when the whole scuffle happened or you don't know. No, Like that wasn't the reason why they started fighting. No, no, no, no.

Rick: 13:22

No, that was the last week. So I was like I was pissed, but I was pissed that they damn killed the cat. I mean, I'm not a cat guy, but still I don't want to have you seen that cat before or no? There's cats all over man. It's Manny's fault. Those damn things breed. They bred crazy.

Lano: 13:40

So you had to jump the cat, and everything.

Rick: 13:42

Yeah, all that trying to damn.

Lano: 13:45

And you just want to clear your mind, your head, for the baseball game.

Rick: 13:48

Yeah, and I have not been able to do that. I've not been able to do that.

Lano: 13:51

You just worried about all this other shit.

Rick: 13:53

Yeah, especially work, dude, Work always. It always falls at the perfect time of.

Lano: 14:01

I know your head. You just want to fucking like days leading up to the marathon.

Rick: 14:03

Yeah, I just want to just chill.

Lano: 14:06

leading up to the, I'm feeling like fucking James, everybody like Don't they know I'm running a marathon.

Rick: 14:11

No, it's different now, because these jobs is like the way it landed, is like now I'm pressured to damn get inspection and that's why we're working late and Now, are you the only laborer or the worker, you and some other guys?

Lano: 14:22

No, all of us.

Rick: 14:24

Me, Marcos, the boys and then the guy Alex.

Lano: 14:28

Oh, so you guys are all out there.

Rick: 14:29

Yeah.

Lano: 14:32

I'm trying to help out more.

Rick: 14:33

I'm trying to find time to help out more so I can help out Marcos with the office work because he's going.

Lano: 14:42

And he's doing that whole shit at home and whatever the rest of the time.

Rick: 14:45

And then James he's doing his business over there in Texas, but he's also going in and doing his time with bidding and all that stuff. He's sending out bids and doing that stuff, but Marcos is from fucking.

Lano: 15:00

Well, he said his wife was talking about.

Rick: 15:01

His wife is 5'6 in the morning, 5'6 in the morning, so damn 9, 10 o'clock at night doing.

Lano: 15:07

At home working or finishing stuff.

Rick: 15:08

Because whatever we got on the day, and then his sister goes in the evening and they're doing all the book stuff, and then sometimes we're calling each other, figuring stuff out, talking about whatever the issue is but that's why you're going to open up an office and stuff, or no?

Rick: 15:28

Just because this job was kind of we needed to make inspections, so now I can kind of free myself up and help him, even the little things that he's doing around the city. I could be like, okay, let me do that and then get back in the office that we just focused on that. That way he can get more work. And then once we get to the system where we can all three of us be bidding jobs and everything but it's a slow process- it's a meager surviving yeah.

Lano: 16:01

Yeah, but I mean, it's been like three quarters of a year, like it'll be August right, or a year in August or when.

Rick: 16:07

In August. Yeah, so I was planning okay, tuesday, no Monday, maybe no Wednesday. I was thinking oh, set up crowd therapy. Oh right, right. Or even set up crowd therapy on Thursday, and I was going to tie it, but then I couldn't even set that up because of the damn hectic week. And then I wanted to get a massage On Saturday. I wanted to get a massage that didn't happen, and then so this being my 10th marathon, I finally got my hoodie Right.

Lano: 16:47

Alley loyalty.

Rick: 16:49

I got my hoodie.

Lano: 16:50

What does it say? Oh, it's marathon, huh.

Rick: 16:54

Simple.

Lano: 16:54

I like it, uh-huh so when I Not Green Columbus or Chris or St Patrick's or whatever.

Rick: 17:02

So I go pick up my stuff. You know, you get your bib, then you.

Lano: 17:08

You had a special bib, right yeah, because you're loyal to now or whatever, like a different one.

Rick: 17:12

So you go and pick up your shirt and then I went over to get my hoodie, got my hoodie and they're also supposed to give me a medal, a replica medal, the first one.

Lano: 17:23

Oh really.

Rick: 17:25

Yeah, I got one already.

Lano: 17:26

Yeah, from the original.

Rick: 17:28

From when I made them, I think, when I hit five years.

Lano: 17:32

When I hit five years, they gave me a replica of the first one.

Rick: 17:34

They gave me a replica of the first medal of Alley marathon. They have it ready or you have to like yeah, they just mill it in or something no well, they were supposed they had some there, but they ran out Because I picked my shit up on Saturday and I wanted to be there Friday to get it, you know.

Lano: 17:52

And you said replica. It's not the same thing, it's the original design, the same, like plastic or metal. No, no, it's metal.

Rick: 17:58

It's metal with the ribbon, like the way it was, but it's just like a duplicate.

Lano: 18:02

It's a duplicate, a replica that was like cheaper or whatever. No, yeah, it's a duplicate.

Rick: 18:06

But the same design, and so I was supposed to get that on my Well this year too. So I was supposed to get another one for my 10-year consecutive. But that Well they ran out, so they had to put my name down. They were like oh, we're going to mail you your metal.

Lano: 18:20

I'm like man, but was some guy on a post-it note or he wrote it on some form or something or what?

Rick: 18:25

Yeah, they had like a little list there and they put down names that were owed that metal.

Lano: 18:32

Well, I guess everybody Like they're giving away like 10 years ago, right A man who just joined Loyalty, they would have been giving like.

Rick: 18:41

But I don't know when the loyalty thing even started. I want to say it wasn't around when I started in 2015. It just started.

Lano: 18:51

But like I'm saying they all had that 10-year ago marathon. They didn't have like 12 years, 13.

Rick: 18:56

Like they would have had the same one, no, and then 15, 15, they have something for 15. I don't know what it is.

Lano: 19:03

It's kind of like I mean you set the picture of all your metals like I like this year's and some of the older ones, with the building. The guy looks kind of like.

Rick: 19:11

That one.

Lano: 19:12

Yeah, just the star, like whatever, like playing.

Rick: 19:14

You saw them.

Lano: 19:15

I sure took a picture of all of them, oh yeah, the additional ones, so that I was gonna say how are you gonna play? You have them in the garage or something.

Rick: 19:21

I have them just on a A pegboard, I mean.

Lano: 19:24

So you had nails.

Rick: 19:25

No, no, it's a no. I set them on the bed.

Lano: 19:29

Oh, it was on the bed. I thought they were hanging.

Rick: 19:31

No, no on the bed, but I just have them like on a piece of copper, my closet, like way in the back. But I wanted to spray them like kind of. I think I'll put them in the garage somehow.

Lano: 19:41

I thought it was on some wood that was on your bed?

Rick: 19:44

No, it was on my bed. It was the black, the black blanket. So yeah, it was a black blanket.

Lano: 19:56

Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. So I thought these were like nailed in, but yeah.

Rick: 20:00

But you see how kind of like the middle ones, they kind of kind of repeated like they got lazy.

Lano: 20:04

Yeah.

Rick: 20:04

I think that's when it's sketchers. That's sketchers, dude, when it's sketchers was running.

Lano: 20:08

Yeah, one of them. Yeah, it's the sketchers right here, because I mean, when they're the sponsor, they pay for all this stuff, right?

Rick: 20:13

Yeah, but I liked the very first one. I did, man, that was the first one.

Lano: 20:19

So that was number 30, right. Yeah, next year's 40, dude, Because they interviewed the guy, the CEO or whatever, and they're like 40,. They're having like some big stuff. I don't know what, but they're like. I don't know if they're changing the course, but they're like we're having a big surprise for 40 and like some special guests and some other stuff. Blah, blah, blah.

Rick: 20:38

I already registered.

Lano: 20:40

At 165 or 167?

Rick: 20:42

168.

Lano: 20:45

I told my wife you signed up Monday Because the day after I don't know if she did or not, but because she says I think she says she's gonna run it yeah.

Rick: 20:53

You know what that leave the? That's a pretty cool.

Lano: 20:57

The clover. Yeah, I mean obviously the last 10 years they haven't had it on that day.

Speaker 3: 21:03

Yeah.

Lano: 21:04

And you know what I was counting like. So they didn't skip a year for COVID huh.

Rick: 21:08

No, we had just done it.

Lano: 21:10

Because this is 2019.

Rick: 21:12

Yeah. Did they 2020,. We had just done. People were kind of iffy on doing it.

Lano: 21:18

Was that the year like they changed it because the Olympics? Like they moved the date like to the end of the year? No, that was in.

Rick: 21:24

March, Because right after people were still skeptical about doing it.

Lano: 21:30

So it was March.

Rick: 21:31

So we did it and then that was the last marathon that they had.

Lano: 21:36

It was early in COVID, before the shutdowns or the lockouts.

Rick: 21:38

Yeah, after that they shut everything down, and you know what I want to say. I don't know if they pushed next 21. I don't think they pushed 21.

Lano: 21:48

I mean it's here, but I mean I don't see the date. It's A6.

Rick: 21:53

I want to see me. Did they push? Did they push it in me? I?

Lano: 21:57

don't think they pushed it. There was one year where they changed it because of the Olympics or something they wanted to make it like it was like late in the year yeah, because that was, I think, the year my sister-in-law did it and then, like the next one was like within six months, like in March, oh, maybe. Oh yeah, those a year were like, see that was March 20th this was in March, so most of it in this year was in March.

Rick: 22:20

Yeah, that was. Yeah, I remember that because they were really close together. I remember that.

Lano: 22:26

There's no date here, but but I was like almost like not back to back with like pretty close, yeah, cuz they had they had changed the schedule, cuz the.

Rick: 22:37

People were qualifying for the. Olympics and this and that so 40 year, 40 year anniversary next year, dude.

Lano: 22:43

I mean, that's gonna be a good one.

Rick: 22:44

That's gonna be a good one for you if you guys gonna run it together.

Lano: 22:49

How was your time?

Rick: 22:51

Ah man, five, five hours 45 minutes.

Lano: 22:54

Was that your best time? No, your worst time.

Rick: 22:58

That's one of my worst times.

Lano: 23:00

Was it your hardest marathon, my hardest.

Speaker 3: 23:04

No, doesn't tell you at 44.

Lano: 23:07

I mean. That was my first, but for you, for you to say it was only like your worst times. It was tough. At 44, told you.

Rick: 23:15

So the last three, including this one, they're all four hours, 30 minutes. Four hours I mean sorry. Five hours 30 minutes. Five hours 40 minutes around that range right right and that's so. Like this, this last marathon, I told you all I did was one 10 mile run and like seven little three mile runs throughout these last two months right. The previous two I I didn't do any training. I just went out and did it just so I wouldn't keep my keep my streak alive.

Lano: 23:48

We got sentence to make it put on the Instagram the medals.

Rick: 23:51

So I'm gonna Next year. I've got it. I'm taking a serious because I need. I need to break four hours.

Lano: 24:04

Well, I'm telling you, you gotta try those new balance shoes, though with the car, the carbon plate.

Rick: 24:11

Yeah, I, I need, I need my those shoes.

Lano: 24:13

Those are the shoes you work. Yeah, just retire them.

Rick: 24:16

These are, these are barely like. These are good just for workouts. Right now, my little three miles, or whatever I'm gonna be doing? Oh, because the cramping is Pissing me off, dude. So how the cramping? How long were?

Lano: 24:32

you going we're good, and then like when did you start watching?

Rick: 24:33

first I started off the first three miles I was, I was at a nine minute pace and then after that, just when it started going down, 11, between 11 and 12, and then you left it out to the fourth mile. I stream my calf, I String my cab up to the fourth mile.

Rick: 24:50

That's like a temple right up the hill, the drum that's almost, almost just before going up the first street with a drunker right, uh-huh and, and so I was able to push all through that I was still doing time, still doing do the time, and then that we started. We were the last ones At the end because I was waiting for Kelly. Kelly ran it with it. Oh, that's right, I bring Kelly and.

Speaker 3: 25:16

You guys.

Rick: 25:19

In the beginning. But then he, he could, he had, he had to keep going.

Lano: 25:22

Oh cuz.

Rick: 25:23

It was the same way like when I ran with my cousin Luis, like I can't, I can't run at that pace, I'll hurt myself.

Lano: 25:28

Louise, that's rough. So the brother yeah, and he was supposed to do it.

Rick: 25:31

He was the one supposed to do it, yeah, but Kelly took his place so Kelly was just like fucking around and you know that fucker, he does it like in three hours 30 minutes he's fucking around, he's he did. He did this Ali marathon in preparation for his marathon next month, where he's gonna try to qualify for Boston marathon. So he has to do, I think, like three hours 20 minutes.

Lano: 25:53

It's like you have to be the limit, or, yes, he has to make. What marathons that um qualification one?

Rick: 25:58

I Don't know if he says St George.

Lano: 26:02

Oh, you tell that's a nice one.

Speaker 3: 26:05

They might really like it.

Rick: 26:06

He did something in St George like I don't feel the iron man or marathon so we get there, and then he had to take a shit, and so then he's like for a part of potting there for forever. Man and all the corrals start going. And now a legacy?

Lano: 26:24

is a special corral or no?

Rick: 26:29

Polly, they probably get left. Put in the front. Oh, legacy runner. You're like 70, 80 years old. Oh, those are the legacy. Oh no, loyalty, loyalty, you're, you're oh no, it doesn't matter, you your time.

Lano: 26:40

We're gonna be a legacy. I don't know. The legacy is a one who's done every single one. Yeah since the beginning, whatever 80, whatever. Because they had something. They're interviewing them and I didn't know it was every single race. Yeah, because they had a special 1000 mile marker over there by the music hall, like on I guess I know it's hope or whatever. When you start crossing back, mm-hmm, they had mile 1000. So that was like from all up from marathon one all led up to that thousand miles thousand there interviewing a guy right there.

Lano: 27:09

That's crazy had competed it like 26 times. Whatever, I'm tiny man.

Rick: 27:14

There's 39 married 70s, 80 year olds that are still out there trying to wait. Dude, I Forgot to tell Mark and Vanessa because Vanessa went with Mark and Sandra and.

Lano: 27:29

And and Trevor went. Well, they were, they all rolled with me here separate car.

Rick: 27:34

No, no, he didn't go, he was Me. You know, I'm a got the rona.

Lano: 27:39

Well, that's why he's out today. We didn't say he's out sick today.

Rick: 27:42

Yeah, so Vanessa, vanessa Trevor, mark Sandra and Shannon Shelby they were there with who dropped you off. So me and Kelly took, we drove and we parked at the finish line and then we took the shuttle back to drove way early in the morning. Yeah we left F for in the morning Parked at the ball. Park near the mall. Oh, there's a few parking spots where you can park. Okay, so you park at the mall and then you walk to the shuttles and they take the shuttle back to their same and that's pretty cool.

Rick: 28:13

That's pretty nice because you know you don't have to your cars, then you gotta come to the shuttle traffic cars already. Your cars are. Not that they have shuttles going back to the other stadium, they don't have that you got to get a ride or an Uber, but For parking at the finish.

Lano: 28:33

Well, we had a rush back to drop someone off to pick up their car, because I think that closes the car. Yeah, so that's see.

Rick: 28:39

So that's nice, because now, aside from fighting to get out of there, you're not fighting to get back into darth same to get your car, your cars, already there, you just a long way, or whatever.

Lano: 28:50

I'm out opposite direction, so that was.

Rick: 28:52

That was pretty cool and you know it's pretty good because you're the last shuttles at 530, so you kind of time is. You're not there sitting like standing around if it's cold, you know right. So it worked out really good that way. But he we, so we get there and then he has to take a dump and he's taking forever, and then everybody leaves dude by the time he gets out, like we're the last ones to start to start the race, like everyone's already gone. There's no congestion, no congestion, everything Everybody's gone, like we're going like I mean me, I'll be pissed.

Lano: 29:28

There's stragglers, you know, there's stragglers, you know some people do that they wait till all it's gone.

Rick: 29:32

I mean this like they want, which is clear which is nice because I mean you're not in the meat in the crowd. But once you reach the crowd, like man, so you catch on.

Lano: 29:40

Yeah, you catch them right away, uh-huh, and then so when did you start seeing the crowd like going down, like dodgy stay um? Nah, I wasn't like further further in down the Going towards Chinatown because I told Laura, like you crossed the starting line and then you drive, then you hit some turn. They're like starts going downhill, like, and then you just like, oh shit, it started like this is on, like you're gonna like run. Yeah, you go down like a big hill, like it's outside the parking lot, and then you start like coming down.

Rick: 30:09

Yeah, yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty um Intense going around them down time away. There's some nice little hills there.

Lano: 30:18

And then like the streets the streets messed up and stuff like downtown.

Rick: 30:22

There was another there was another stretch. That I hate that. I remember I told you that the few spots that it's suck Are the going up the hill on first street where the do the drums are, and then Um the strip.

Lano: 30:38

Because then you go downhill under the like underpass.

Rick: 30:41

Yeah, but then going on Sepulveda when you're already on the west?

Lano: 30:44

side of. Brentwood that long stretch where you were all fucking pissed off, yeah.

Rick: 30:49

And and the coming back, the up and down. While the other stretch that I hate is going through Hollywood on sunset, where the Saturday Ranch is that.

Lano: 30:58

Oh.

Rick: 31:00

I once I was approaching like yeah, I remember, I hate this thing because it's a slow incline right. Slow, slow, yeah, slow.

Lano: 31:08

It was like a curve, like kind of when you're passing where the house of blue used to be.

Rick: 31:13

you know like I, yeah, I hated that shit. That's another stretch I hate, but we started. He left right away Because he had a goal. He just, you know, he couldn't, he couldn't go at my pace. He's just too fast. And he would have just hurt himself. So he ended up taking off, and there I went and then you already hurt, because you say after my, after four and a half, I make my calf, so you're limping or just being ginger.

Lano: 31:38

So I'm limping.

Rick: 31:40

I'm trying to get a stride. That way I can work through it, and then like I'm running through the pain right. I'm able to get to 13 mile half of Maradona Because then you have like some spray or you. Yeah, I had that spray, I had that and then. But it's just the miles. I need the miles on my legs. So once I hit 13, cramping cramping all the way, just like locking up. Yeah, just just cast from my cast to my quads.

Lano: 32:12

Does that like my hydration? You weren't drinking water.

Rick: 32:15

You weren't taking no yeah, I was hydrated Like I was dude. I was drinking coconut water and water all week. I was just eating, eating good and no yeah.

Rick: 32:25

I was. I was on point there. It's just the training, man, I need the miles on my legs. I'm going out there without doing that distance. I'm shocking the shit out of my legs. Yeah, it's like dude, like what the hell? Uh-huh, like how do you think you could just go out here and run this distance? So I'm just fighting through the through, the, through, the cramps All throughout, like I had to be stopping stretching and then start jogging, trying to run, cramp up, walk a little bit past, then have to stretch.

Lano: 33:00

So this seems like worse than last year.

Rick: 33:01

Cool Cause last year I remember it being the same like all these last three years. It was the same like all the rest of the rest of the year.

Lano: 33:07

I don't remember you cramping up last year.

Rick: 33:09

Yeah, no, I cramped up last year, I think. Last year I think I got to like mile 15 before I started cramping 15 has then started cramping and then, maybe the year before that, maybe I wasn't, maybe I didn't cramp up, I was able to do it. I was able to do it with no cramping, but really slow.

Lano: 33:29

Yeah, but cramping is tough. You just feel like you're going to rip something.

Rick: 33:31

Oh, dude, it's just your calves, you're growing your quads, your hamstrings. It's like you can't do nothing, like it's just that damn tightness.

Lano: 33:39

It's like oh man, now you were. You like I'm going to bow out, or no you just want me to keep going?

Rick: 33:46

No, that's never an option. No, no, because I made it to like 19, 19 and a half miles.

Lano: 33:54

That's the worst.

Rick: 33:54

In a little bit less than four hours, uh huh.

Lano: 33:57

So now you're like oh, yeah, I'm good it's just yeah, past halfway I mean I should be.

Rick: 34:03

I should be at five hours. If I'm not cramping, I'm at five hours with this. No training business.

Lano: 34:08

Yeah.

Rick: 34:09

But that's not possible because you need. You need the miles, so you're not cramping.

Lano: 34:13

Right.

Rick: 34:14

So that's why I'm like and I'm serious man, like I'm I'm going to be running throughout the year because I want to. I need. So I already made 10 years and I need to break that damn four hours.

Lano: 34:27

See, last year like Laura was laughing at me and I'm like I just got to prep my body to work like five hours, six hours, like straight. So the days I was like working from home like I'm just fucking jogging, like for three or four hours, like just jogging up and like on the computer checking emails, just like fucking jogging Cause I was like I need to change my body to like if I could just be moving my legs for like five hours, six hours, cause I don't want to like cramp up, yeah.

Lano: 34:52

You just like just constantly just going cause I like my body needs to be.

Rick: 34:57

You need those miles on your legs out there because the impact of the pounding is. That's what your legs got to get used to, even on a treadmill. Like it's different. Yeah, by like, if I didn't mess up, the trip I probably would have been better. If I didn't mess up, break my treadmill, I would have gotten more runs in. But still running on the treadmill is like dude. I can't. I can't go past more than damn three, four miles, because if I do more than that it's going to feel damn like an eternity.

Rick: 35:23

Well, I need to be out in front of the TV or like in front of the music I've tried to put in, like the phone there and watching something and Cause I can just watch something and then like kind of like those I'm in phase out, I need to be out, I think, because now I don't run with music or anything, I'm just like out and I'm hearing the noise of the city and everything. Or even if I'm out, like in the bike lane up there inside of a damn yeah, yeah, like I used to do.

Rick: 35:49

Like when I did that 10 mile run, I was so, so peaceful, like in the morning, like and, and I had the feeling like man I go, if I was like in shape, where this run is feeling good, where me and just some. At that time I'm just like feel like I'm trying to push it through and you know, I'm out of breath, out of shape, I'm just pushing this 10 mile lane just to damn.

Lano: 36:15

And how, how is it like I mean, cause I'm like, cause me, I've only done it once. Like your second time, like you know, like oh, the sunset strip, like this is on BBS, or like seen it for the second time. Or this downhill in this neighborhood, like like are you like, here we go? Or it looks just like get through it. Like I mean you know it's coming. You're like, you're like reliving it, like this is it.

Rick: 36:35

Or you I mean you if you do it again, you're going to be like you're gonna remember like, oh man, this part sucked.

Lano: 36:40

Like I remember, like like me, that I already know I can map it out how everything's that's what I think it will help me at the end, where, like, I keep thinking like every corner was like the turnaround and at least I know like, oh no, it's still like way to go. Like, just keep your head down, kelly.

Rick: 36:54

Kelly was like at the end of the Sepulveda run. He was like what the fuck? You know this is. I'm already at two miles, at 22 miles, and the thing's still going. Like when are we going to damn turn around and come back? You know, it's like when the house is going to happen.

Lano: 37:08

So that was its first time. I mean, I thought he didn't know.

Rick: 37:10

No, no, no, his first time doing it with the new course that the, the. How do we switch that?

Lano: 37:15

up Santa Monica.

Rick: 37:16

And and they didn't. There's a lot of construction on Avenue the Stars, cause you know, when you come back and then you turn it on Avenue the Stars, well, they just kept it going back Like, oh, they just kept it on Santa Monica. Uh, huh so but it was, it was um, it was cool, it was, it was a perfect day, perfect day.

Lano: 37:43

You saw Dolores, 18 or 19?

Rick: 37:45

She was at right a little bit past 19 more.

Lano: 37:47

And Dolores. She hasn't been on the show yet, but she's a frequent listener or loyal listener.

Rick: 37:52

Yeah, shout out to Ping.

Lano: 37:56

She has some stories. She just has to jump on the show. Yeah, could be in shy.

Rick: 38:01

Yeah, she was there with Chalino.

Lano: 38:04

And the next mile. You see your family I see my girl her son Mark, sandra, shane and Shelby.

Rick: 38:12

They had a beer and a donut for me.

Lano: 38:14

So Mark texted me. He told you I took it down. Huh, he called me, but like, we're like, because we were watching it, he's probably giving you a play by play.

Rick: 38:23

I wonder if he called. He didn't call.

Lano: 38:25

Yeah, he called me. He called me but like no, but he didn't leave a voice message.

Rick: 38:28

There's no voice calls.

Lano: 38:29

There's one voice call. It's an old one from like last week or previous week, but I was getting because we had saw the finish and then like we're getting the kids ready, this and that, like kind of track you, and then the track he stopped.

Rick: 38:43

You know what I just said? The same thing, that it wasn't working.

Lano: 38:45

So then it stopped like at 15 kilometers. So then, like like Laura's, like are we still going to go? And I'm like, like I have no idea, like once the tracking stopped but you don't know, like are you going?

Lano: 38:55

to be at Like we're going to make it or waste our time. And I was just like forget it. So then Mark had called me but I didn't answer because we're getting the kids ready. And then then he texted me what was my time, and then I told them it was like seven hours or something like that. And then he's like, okay, cool. And I'm like did the tracking stop for you guys? And he's like, oh, I don't even know how this works. Like I downloaded the app, but I don't know how it works. So was he like were they just looking for you or they weren't like Well, they're at the spot where they always go, right.

Lano: 39:23

So you look at them.

Rick: 39:25

I told them I told them I'm going to be at this pace. So, mapping it out, I should be at that spot around 11, 1130. And then that I we started at 730. We didn't start we didn't start across the start line to 730. So I made it there. I was about to make it there at 11. But the damn cramping and everything like it, um, it came from behind.

Rick: 39:54

Yeah, so they were there. I think they might have been there a little bit before 11. So they were already at there waiting for me and I was. I know they're right there, so I stayed on that side and then so Mark's looking, so he know. I guess he knew okay, it's 11 o'clock, he should be coming pretty soon and then, you know, almost, almost like 1105 probably.

Lano: 40:14

Oh, so you got the kind of early you know.

Rick: 40:15

1110 where I was already there.

Lano: 40:18

Like he knew, like when she saw the Lord's, like they're coming up soon or whatever.

Rick: 40:22

No, well, cause I know that they were up. They're more like they're more like at 19 and a half Okay, where Miggie poses up.

Lano: 40:31

There's some area where like I'm at it, no, but like they call it, the tunnel where the crowd gets really tight and everybody runs. They're seeing on the TV Like it's after that right.

Rick: 40:41

Or before that. No, because it's all wide open there. When you're on Santa Monica, it's all wide open. Now, that's a little. Oh, you know, it might be a little bit further ahead.

Lano: 40:50

So then you see them, and then they gave you what beer? Was it Pacifico, pacifico. And then we, we chose a beer.

Rick: 40:57

I downed the cheers and then I downed the beer and then I have a. She got Vanessa got me like a crumb cinnamon roll. I mean a regular cinnamon roll. But then like I saw the crumb donut there and like, oh man, I knew I wanted the crumb, so I was eating that, and how's your leg Legs still tighter?

Lano: 41:14

No.

Rick: 41:15

Yeah, my legs suck, they suck, but I was able to pick up the pace a little bit when I went to the turnaround and then, because I think, after I saw them, they spray you. Yeah, I had the little sprays because I couldn't get. I didn't see Vanessa on Saturday.

Rick: 41:33

Oh so you're carrying them all. Yeah, I had just the little smaller, smaller bottles of it and then I put them on. I'll get through that with like a springing down. Well, after I saw them, it only took me like an hour to get back to them, to going over and back, because one night that's that's already from where they're at to the finish line. They were like about three quarters of a mile from the finish line, maybe not a thing more than a mile.

Lano: 42:01

In front of it, yeah.

Rick: 42:03

So they were at 19 and a half.

Lano: 42:05

Not in front of the fifth 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.

Rick: 42:09

That's like yeah, they're like I did, like the five miles Well the five miles in an hour. Five miles in an hour and then yeah. Yeah. So I picked up the pace going over there and that was still. I was cramping over there, stopping and stretching and just keep going and going and going.

Lano: 42:30

Every little curve.

Rick: 42:31

That's, that's like a whole other thing to to push through like an American, like all right, yeah, you're running.

Lano: 42:36

And you're trying to perfect scenario and then when she starts popping up or whatever, how?

Rick: 42:40

are you going to deal with it Like?

Lano: 42:43

me the rain I was pissed off and where you see just people deflated. Yeah.

Rick: 42:47

They cramp and they like walking real slow. It's like nah, man, you got to stretch and keep moving. Keep those legs moving. You know, jog a little bit, you know, try to pick up your pace and guys just get deflated.

Speaker 3: 43:02

Try it like they look like they just with their shoulders down.

Lano: 43:06

I like pull right there and stretch out just to make a little goal.

Rick: 43:09

Their shoulders are down and they're just like like kicking rocks and they don't want to. They're just like like flutter. You know, they're just the one I keep going. So, but that's all. You just got to have that mindset. Just keep going, man, like don't stop, keep the legs moving.

Lano: 43:30

Even if you're like power walking, even if you're power walking, to see like stretch those legs.

Rick: 43:34

I just try to take a long straight and you feel that cramp there, like just you got to do it, you got to do it. There was this lady, this older black lady that the first time probably 11 miles dude, like she was just she looked like she was power walking Like she she. It was weird Her, the way she was running. It was like in the middle of power walking and running. Her stride was weird dude and I kept passing her up and she kept catching, catching both feet.

Lano: 44:12

Have to be touching the same ground, the ground at the same time. That's like a power walk.

Rick: 44:17

I don't know it was.

Lano: 44:18

it was weird or a foot has to be on the ground and touching like you're not off the ground.

Rick: 44:24

No, it was weird. Like she she was, she had to been man, maybe in her late sixties, maybe early seventies. Like early in the race oh early. And she kept catching out to me and jogging with me and I was like I get up ahead of her and she catch up to me. She passed me a little bit and it was like that to the whole damn first part of the race. I'm like damn.

Speaker 3: 44:51

I go.

Rick: 44:51

she doesn't. She looks like she's barely moving and I'm like, I'm struggling to just to keep up with her and I was like, and eventually like once I started cramping at 13 miles, she just she started cramping. So that was it, like I was done.

Lano: 45:07

Cause I was gonna say, like after mile, like 20, like the people around you, that's like the people you're going to finish with, I said kind of just like go together.

Rick: 45:15

I said, if I see this lady, if I see this lady at the finish line, I'm going to take a picture with her.

Lano: 45:20

Oh, I'll take a picture.

Rick: 45:21

I'm going to tell her I go. I could not keep up with you. Like yeah, it was a trip.

Speaker 3: 45:27

He said she was older, right.

Rick: 45:29

Yeah, no, yeah, she was in her sixties, dude, early seventies.

Lano: 45:33

So after you did the turn, you see them on the way back.

Rick: 45:35

And she she looked like she had a limp, like she had an injury, so she was kicking my ass.

Lano: 45:42

So you do the turn, you come back, and then you see them again. They have another beer. I see them again.

Rick: 45:48

No, they finished all the beers, but so I come back. I see them the second time. And then like all right, you know, I told them we'll meet up.

Rick: 45:59

And no, no, they're already going to leave. Well, Mark starts walking. He's like, yeah, he goes, come on, big dog, I'll walk with you a little bit. I like to start walking, you know. And then, like he goes, come on, I goes around with you for a little bit. And we started running right and he's in his jeans, his vans and a black black sweater. Yeah, Like the sweater shirts.

Lano: 46:18

Yeah, like a long sleeve. Yeah, a long sleeve sweater.

Rick: 46:21

Yeah, so he started just jogging and we're like bullshitting like this and that, and then he's all like he goes, he goes, let me know, he goes. Let me know when you just want to finish this. You know when you want to finish this on your own, like let's go, let's go.

Rick: 46:33

He's like, so we're running, we're running, we're running. And then we're getting closer to the. He goes like, is that the finish line, right there? I'm like, yeah, that's the finish line. He's like where the hell over there? And I'm like yeah, and then he's seeing like the hill, the last little hill, and shit is like this is bullshitting. I was like, yeah, this is fucking. This sucks. Dude, we're starting to approach where the people stop and the guardrails are off.

Lano: 46:54

Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's just the runners. He's stuck inside.

Rick: 46:57

He goes, man, he goes, he goes, hey, I'm going to get out of here. He was like, nah, you're already here, let's go. He goes cross the finish line with me. He's like, nah, man, he's like I go, let's go, come on, so we start running. He's running with me side by side and we're just talking and then, oh, before we entered, there, there was like these two, these two guys that passed by, these FBI guys.

Speaker 3: 47:16

And I do. They're going to attack.

Rick: 47:17

Yeah, they were security, and I do. They're going to attack you, they're going to get you out of here. It's like really, I'm like, nah, I'm just fucking around, let's just keep going, and we're going and we're going.

Lano: 47:30

Was he keeping up? He was keeping up right here.

Rick: 47:31

Yeah, no, because we're just jogging, we're just going in cool and he's like he goes, dude, he goes. I got to get out of here and he he's. We're already in the middle of the guardrail. I was like I got to do, you're too far in already, just go. He can't like climb it or whatever he's like, and plus, the picture's going to be fucking funny when we cross the line together. You're you're all just in your damn street clothes. And yeah, he made it all the way to the finish line and he crossed the finish line with me.

Lano: 47:55

He does, though, yeah.

Rick: 47:57

So when, the when the pictures come in, I'm going to, I'm going to screenshot them.

Lano: 48:01

I'm going to screenshot them and then you know, I was looking um like they didn't have like well, ktla didn't have like a finish line camera. It was like on Facebook, it wasn't on. Youtube Cause I wanted to see you. Like you know, last time we were able to look at your bills on on like Facebook, so I have to like look to see if we could find it. That's funny.

Rick: 48:21

Yeah, we made it across.

Lano: 48:24

Cause I was trying to, I was trying to save it, so it was another successful, but dude, I started feeling nauseous after doing. I started feeling nauseous after the or maybe we could see you remember what Go to five hours. Hold on. Let me check the lower list.

Rick: 48:48

Can you expand that?

Lano: 48:50

No no.

Rick: 48:55

So five hours, so five. Well, let me play what Go around like 547, probably. It'd probably be about five hours 47 minutes, because I started the clock early.

Lano: 49:09

Well it was. Let me see if I can lower this. It was 577, right, your official time. That doesn't give you your clock time either, right?

Rick: 49:21

No.

Lano: 49:21

Let me see.

Rick: 49:23

Man, I don't even remember what time the clock showed when I crossed there.

Lano: 49:29

Yeah, maybe because I'm sharing the screen. We'll have to see if I can get it without sending it. We'll look for it later, but the pictures you haven't got the email yet.

Rick: 49:41

I probably did today. I just haven't checked it.

Lano: 49:45

No, that's kind of cool.

Rick: 49:46

Yeah, I want to see it. It was funny. No, we're happy and complete.

Lano: 49:51

That's why I wanted to, Laura, we got you the Canadian.

Rick: 49:55

Yeah, the clearly Canadian.

Lano: 49:57

Clearly Canadian.

Rick: 49:58

Orchard Peach Looks like I remembered it. Man, this thing is so delicious I'm going to have to be getting some more of these, she funded it.

Lano: 50:06

Would I tell you the no? No?

Rick: 50:07

Wine in, wine in. Not total wine, total wine, that's what you said.

Lano: 50:15

Something antique or something, the wine, something antique.

Speaker 3: 50:20

As a kid, as a kid, I just wanted my guilty pleasures right here, clearly Canadian.

Lano: 50:24

Now I know you're always like I ain't my shoes. I wanted to give you something. So this box right here, that cardboard box, that's yours, that's your plastic box to put your shoes. I don't know if all your medals are how you put them, I don't know if they'll all fit in there, but that's so you could put your shoes in. Because you were saying the other day you were hoping or you wish you had something to put your shoes in, or something like that.

Rick: 50:51

No, I should have saved my first marathon shoes.

Lano: 50:53

You should have saved them. Now you got a box.

Rick: 50:56

I mean, that's your tent race, my tent year. Do I put those in there?

Lano: 51:02

I order your box, put them in there. I put my bib and then metal and then the sticker and stuff. It's the same one, so your shoes should fit in there.

Rick: 51:12

I don't know when I just put all my medals in there. I had to see.

Lano: 51:16

Yeah, I don't know if you could lay them all on the shoes, but you ever see a pirate being born.

Rick: 51:22

A pirate, yeah being born.

Lano: 51:26

So we were watching the race on Channel 5, right? So then some guy gets a Pirate being born, some guy let me get out of here Some guy gets a mean cramp at the finish line. So let's take a blue this up, so look behind this guy. And then he crosses the finish line and gets a mean cramp, a pirate is born, and now he has a pig leg.

Rick: 52:02

Oh, and he was right at the finish line At the finish line. What's that? 3 hours and 17 minutes 3 hours and 17 minutes.

Lano: 52:09

We're watching it on the news. Maybe we'll tell Mickey to put this on the Instagram.

Speaker 3: 52:13

But as soon as he crosses the finish line his leg just locks up and he stops.

Lano: 52:22

Cross that line. I don't know if he pulled up or he stopped, but his leg just locks right at the line.

Rick: 52:32

He probably felt it coming down. That's why he slowed down.

Lano: 52:34

And then he was trying to get out of the way, but he finished it. Yeah, all these guys 3 hours At 3 and 17,. That's how you had to push your body to limit this guy.

Rick: 52:42

So 3 hours and 17,. Maybe he might have started his clock early. That's probably going to be right.

Lano: 52:48

I mean that's when the gun goes off. I don't know if there's some controversy, because you know they do the battle of the sexes Like they give the girls a head start and then like the guys run 15 minutes later.

Lano: 52:57

Well, the guys started sooner, like they started 5 minutes sooner, so it was all this controversy and at the end of the race they passed the girls at the end, so the guys thought they were going to get the medal. But then they were like oh no, the time was off, you guys started early, so they got the medal to the girl, with the bonus $10,000.

Rick: 53:20

So maybe next year there's going to be a big year, 40th anniversary for the Allie Marathon. You and Laura run it. Mark might run it.

Lano: 53:30

That's what I was saying. Did Mark get the bug? Because I think he was asking me about time Mark was sizing up everybody there. Because he asked what was your time? Because I was thinking he was getting the bug, Like I'm going to do this next year.

Rick: 53:41

He said I just want to beat Lonnie on 7 hours.

Lano: 53:44

Yeah, I could beat 7 hours, unless my wife decides not to do.

Rick: 53:50

7 hours, you better be 7 hours if your hips are unlocked now. Yeah, I'm a longer stride.

Lano: 53:54

I could beat 7 hours, just like if my wife wants to beat 7 hours Because I'm going to run with her.

Rick: 54:00

And then we get in some crowd therapy With this.

Lano: 54:03

we do this to keep the training and recovery. That's all what it's about.

Rick: 54:07

I'll tell you what my legs feel good right now.

Lano: 54:09

You stood up a little bit, you walked around.

Rick: 54:12

No, I don't feel the soreness so much, so it feels pretty damn good, not bad, not bad.

Lano: 54:21

Should we want to hear the last phone call this? Was before it gets too old. All right, we said get this started Phone call last week. Well, this was after. We recorded it.

Speaker 3: 54:41

Okay, Rick's a Bun Street hood rat. He took me there. Then the second time I went he took me and my son there and then I think he chose me and my son and my nephew. So you know, Rick's a little hood rat for that Bun Street place. He takes everyone there, man. So don't feel special. He's like a two-pocket shock. Jean, he gets around.

Lano: 55:04

So that was last episode or two episodes we were talking about.

Rick: 55:06

Bun.

Lano: 55:06

Street, bun Street burgers, and then we realized Rick had took me there. And then he's saying he took them there. Right, everybody's been there, it's a good spot. You're reminding me.

Rick: 55:17

You're reminding me how good it was. Amen, you guys got to go. You got to take the in-laws.

Lano: 55:23

I think we win. When one of Lori's brothers went with us one time and Lori said that she went with us, you took her too Like with us.

Rick: 55:32

Because that's when you tried the Mac burger yeah, you tried that.

Lano: 55:36

Yeah, so that was a good spot.

Rick: 55:39

Yeah, I remember that yeah.

Lano: 55:42

But 10 marathons, and that's 10 LA marathons.

Rick: 55:47

Total 18. Total, 18. That was my 18th 18 marathons. Yeah, and then I set them all out. I set them all out and it was from 2018 to 2019. In the calendar year, I did six marathons. One every month, so it started off with Long Beach in October.

Lano: 56:08

Wait, was that your first one?

Rick: 56:10

No, no, long Beach was your first one 2018. October 2018 was Long Beach Marathon.

Lano: 56:18

Now, what was the reason for that?

Rick: 56:20

I wanted to do five in a year.

Lano: 56:23

But who won the week? I'm going to start doing marathons? No, I just decided I just decided to do it.

Rick: 56:27

So it was Long Beach in October 2018. It was Big Bear, november 2018. Then it was Huntington Beach, february 2019. Then it was LA, march 2019. Then it was Orange County or the Newport one in May 2019. That was my fifth one, and then I was able to sneak in Big Sur, the trail marathon, which was my most horrible marathon before. And that was September 2019, just before October.

Lano: 57:09

Remember the one that Casey did, the one where he broke the three hours. It looked like it was all downhill. He started up high.

Rick: 57:18

I told Laura, maybe we do that one, just for a time One of the big ones, the Reville series.

Lano: 57:25

I don't know what it was, but after our LA maybe we just do that downhill one and just to see if that'll start best marathon time and tell people we do marathons under four hours or whatever.

Speaker 3: 57:34

Big Bear is all downhill, is it?

Rick: 57:36

Yeah, that's cool because you're coming all the way down the thing You're 44 now you started.

Lano: 57:44

well, not 10 years ago, because you started 2015 or 18. 15. My medal's right there in 2015.

Rick: 57:55

2015 was my first. I thought this was 39.

Lano: 57:59

It was like 2018. Oh yeah, 15.

Rick: 58:02

15.

Lano: 58:03

See 2024,. Yeah, You're 34, 33?.

Speaker 3: 58:10

Yeah.

Lano: 58:11

I mean, you think about that. You're 33 like a kid. Basically my age still 33, is young.

Rick: 58:17

I tell you, when I look at the pictures and I see how in shape I was for those damn marathons I mean, dude, back then I was still working the crazy hours and then I'm getting home at 10 and G-tiles story too I get home at whatever 9, 10, I put on my running clothes and I'll lay down a little bit like exhausted from working all day, and then I'm like all right, let me get the run. Then I'm out there getting my run in at 11 o'clock at night.

Lano: 58:44

I can't do that now. I can't do that. You're right, you was doing it. Then you ran.

Rick: 58:48

Man. You ran his first one in 2014. And I saw him when we went to go see him.

Lano: 58:53

Yeah 2014.

Rick: 58:56

And then that made me want to go do the following year with him.

Lano: 58:59

But like you're young at 33. We're thinking like, oh, we're adults. I mean we are adults, but like we're not, like the way we are now, like old. Now we're old. We got gray hair, we're old.

Rick: 59:11

Where are we Like slow down?

Lano: 59:13

Well, yeah, 10, 11 years ago.

Rick: 59:15

Like the way, like the way I was training, like that where I can just run down 11 o'clock at night and then do my run and then get up in the morning to go to work at 5, 6 in the morning. Like. I have that energy back then, but there's no way I'm doing that this is even after we were running.

Lano: 59:34

Right. This is like five years later after we were running. When we're when we're running at bus, yeah, yeah, we were, we were, we were pretty good at running, or like we were running every other day. Yeah, three days, four days a week, and once we got really serious on it 2015.

Rick: 59:49

Well, because we were doing the. You know what it was. We're doing the Derby's the. I mean the five keys, the five keys, and I laid those out. I got from 2013 to 2019.

Lano: 1:00:00

I think my fastest 5k was by like 36 minutes or 38 minutes. I mean people do in the 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,.

Rick: 1:00:08

Seven medals for San Anita. So, it was from from 2013.

Lano: 1:00:13

You're not saving the shirts. You got the first shirt.

Rick: 1:00:15

I got it.

Lano: 1:00:16

Yeah, Because it doesn't fit you.

Rick: 1:00:19

No, yeah it fits oh yeah, it fits and I get them all large, all my shirts. I got them all large Because if I want to use them, because they're like running shirts, yeah, yeah, they're lightweight and you want to, you want to have, they're like tight.

Lano: 1:00:32

So is Mark the mark sign up.

Rick: 1:00:36

No, you think he's still got to think about it. I don't think he could have the early bird, only the people that I ran it.

Lano: 1:00:42

Oh, like you get the early bird. Yeah, you don't see. You think he's going to do it. Maybe I don't know. I mean, you know Mark more than I do, is he or?

Rick: 1:00:51

he would be down to do some of that. He would get disciplined and do some of that.

Lano: 1:00:56

I mean I lost. I lost really last year I got to lose weight again.

Rick: 1:00:59

But just think I mean, if you guys jump on, the training right now like, yeah, you're going to like and then, right now, it doesn't have to be like a full marathon program, they're like right now, you do your three mile just your three miles is getting that routine of running three miles morning or whatever you're going to do it?

Rick: 1:01:16

The earlier we start, the easier it's going to be, the easier it'll be for us in the long run or you do three miles every every other day and then just do that throughout the year and then, once you're within like four months of the marathon, then that's when you get on your training program and you shouldn't be that bad.

Speaker 3: 1:01:32

We should be pretty, pretty good.

Lano: 1:01:34

Because you'll be able to run, like you know, three miles, like you know 30 minutes. I want to be like damn counting. Can it be like hey?

Rick: 1:01:42

he's like 50.

Lano: 1:01:43

Oh he's old. He's old in you, yeah.

Rick: 1:01:45

He's 50 something. But, he's like a little twig man and he'll be like oh, yeah, I just ran 15 miles the other day Like this is workout, yeah, not even tired, yeah 24 marathon Congratulations.

Lano: 1:01:59

We're happy. We'll put the the medals on the Instagram and then I'll also send the video with that guy. Crap stuff, let's do it. Keep on drinking. Hey, its Sankeen şöyle幫because, but of course, a택 customs. I think that a key point means dead buried.