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Now, here are your hosts for the running

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As you can imagine, we get a lot

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of emails about the Nevada Health Charlotte Marathon.

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Folks have all kind of questions and

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Many of them are the same. Hence the

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term frequently asked questions. Right? I get it.

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Well. Yeah. A few months ago, we got

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a question. We've never gotten before, Mike Lo

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has emailed and asked whether or not the

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map for this year's marathon was finalized

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and not for the reasons you might think.

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You see Mike has a very cool and

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probable the unusual marathon hobby, but we'll let

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him tell you all about it. He's our

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guest today on the running around Charlotte podcast

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presented by Nova, health, orthopedic and sports medicine.

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Mike, welcome to the show. How are you

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doing?

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I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. It's

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exciting to be talking with you folks.

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absolutely. You... It's been interviewed. You something like

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this. You you started it. Yeah. So first

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up, we are excited that you're coming in

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from Oregon to run the twentieth

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anniversary event with us. Second for our folks

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who don't know you give us the introduction

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whose Mike Lopez

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Yeah. I'm a

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middle aged structural engineer here in Portland Oregon,

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the father of 3. I have

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my my son is my oldest child, and

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he just finished his sophomore year in college,

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and I have a preschool age daughter at

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the other extreme end of that. So I

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about a 16 year spread in my my

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kids.

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I'm 49 years old, and I I took

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up running about 5 years ago, when I

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joined a relay team,

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and I just kinda got bitten by that

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bug, you know, and I I

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it was terrible at first. It was summertime.

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It was hot. And I wasn't in shape,

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and it just gradually got a little bit

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easier, and I kinda became addicted to it.

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And I I ran a couple of half

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marathons in the winter of 20 19 slash

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then the pandemic came and shut everything down

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And then I decided I was gonna run

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the marathon.

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As soon as I could when everything opened

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So I did that. I ran my first

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marathon 2 years ago, and I've I've run

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5 of them since.

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at least 3 more that I can think

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of right now that I'm already registered for

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over the course of the next 7 or

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8 months. And So I'm... Oh wow. Good

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for you. No. Full throttle lot.

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Just for a matter of perspective,

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since we're in Charlotte, we know what, you

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know, quote unquote hot The summertime feels like,

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you were talking about this hot summer?

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for right now it's it's

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pleasant. It'll probably get to about 80 degrees

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but they're talking about a another incoming heat

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wave that we'll hit the triple digits this

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weekends. Oh my gosh. Okay. Well then, I

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guess we we can we can appreciate that.

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Yeah. I can appreciate that. But we didn't...

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We we didn't... Wanna get you on the

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horn here to talk about the weather. What

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we really wanna talk about is the first.

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Exactly. The question is,

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What's the question? Exactly The question is you

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called us to ask about. Is the marathon

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map solid

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You're gonna get this that tattooed on. Right?

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Horse that man. The course tattoo lay that

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honest man. How did that start?

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So I was started... I was training for

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that. My first marathon, which was in Eugene,

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it kinda felt like, maybe this is my

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mid midlife crisis. Yeah this is my response

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to it I just was running more and

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more and more. And I thought, you know

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what I wanna do. I want to qualify

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for the Boston Marathon. But And if I

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can qualify for the merit for the Boston

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Marathon on my first attempt,

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I am going to get the Eugene Marathon

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course tattooed,

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onto 1 of my calves.

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I never had any before,

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and I thought, you know what?

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I'm out the man

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sort of reinventing myself in middle age here.

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So what the heck? I'm gonna

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do my best to qualify for Boston. And

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if I can do it on my first

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attempt, I'm gonna get this tattoo.

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there were several times during training when it

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got tough, and I would just to internally

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ask myself. Do you want that ink or

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not?

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I go and keep keep going. You know,

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you you... That tattoo is gonna look really

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nice. Isn't it.

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comfortably.

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my

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left calf

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with... You know, there's outline of the course

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and I had the date and time

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included on that.

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there for the... That's the airport code. There

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you go. And then I had a big

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b q. Dropped on there as well. Nice.

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tattoo guy to use the Boston Red Sox

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font for the b queue. So that's on

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there, then I've got the course, the air

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the airport code, my date and time that

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I didn't run a fall marathon that year

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for various reasons, but I I ran Boston

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the following year. And you know, Boston point

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to point.

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it it's

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admittedly kind of a boring tattoo,

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but I have I have the course along

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my right forearm.

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put the profile of the course underneath

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the alignment on my arm,

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along with the B

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airport code,

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last October,

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and I have that 1 of my right

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calf. Pdf

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the date and time. Got it. And that

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1 for arms.

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the very southern extreme of that course

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goes across a bridge,

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its replacement several years ago. No way. That

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is so mad. I can't stand it.

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That's cool, man.

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So I asked the tattoo guy to put

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a heart right over the top of the

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bridge on my tattoo. So there's the course,

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and there's a bridge at the bottom with

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a heart over the top of it, and

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year old, and then, nearly 4 year old.

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in the time of construction of that bridge,

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I took a sharpie down into 1 of

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the concrete forms, and, for the piers in

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the river,

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and I wrote their names and the date

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on a piece of rebar. And so that

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rebar is buried in the concrete in that

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bridge. It'll never be seen again, but for

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my tattoo,

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there's just this little line on there that's

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got a lot of significance for me. That

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wanna run a a run a marathon in

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every city that I've lived in. So

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see this, but III know the listeners won't

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be able to see it, but I've got

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the Seattle course

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Oh, on my arm there. Yeah. That's great.

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Good. With the Sc sea air airport code,

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of course. And for folks who are listening,

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Michael send us the pictures of this, we'll

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the show notes and you can see what

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this looks like. These are gonna these are

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I ran Boston again this year, and I

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Date and time to be added to it.

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I'm running the fourth of July marathon here

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left by step, and then I have 1

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in September that will go on my left

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shoulder and it... The the September and the

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July ones, the course is vaguely resemble each

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plus miles apart from each other, but they

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went money sort of resemble each other.

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Charlotte. I will have, I should have 6

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tattoos.

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And that Charlotte of course is amazing. I'm

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I'm looking forward to getting that 1.

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bit bigger than these other ones simply because

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of the amount of stuff on there. That's

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map be adorned?

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I'm kinda thinking 1 of my shoulder blades.

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I have the the spot right over my

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heart is reserved for 1. I wanna... On

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I'm I'm gonna turn 50 in December.

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And my plan is to run 50 miles

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that day. Right on. And I

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I already have the location picked up. I

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wanna do this down in San Diego.

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I have in laws down there that

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I I can go stay with them, and

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there's a very flat. It's called Fiesta Island.

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Very flat,

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like, 4 Mh. A little slightly over 4

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mile loop, and I figure I'll do 12

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laps of that,

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get to 50 and put that 1 over

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my heart,

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And,

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I I have a very our artistic,

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sister law, graphic designer, and I I wanna

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work with her on that 1. Nice. She

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she doesn't know that yet. But I I

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wanna work with her on bad tattoo.

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And I I figured... So then in,

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in March of next year, I'm registered for

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the La marathon because I did my undergraduate

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work there.

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That 1 is another linear 1 of points

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to point So I think that'll probably go

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on my left forearm.

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Doesn't that go from Dodge Stadium to Santa

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Monica pier.

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So I it does... It starts at Doctor

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Stadium. I I don't think it finishes at

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Santa Monica pure, but it's out to the

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West For sure. Okay. You might be right

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that But I know I know it starts

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at Dodgers stadium. Alright.

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But, I gotta ask you though.

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You said you ran marathons and... Matt in

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each city that you lived? And have you

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lived in Charlotte or or why did you

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pick Charlotte?

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Great question.

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There we go.

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That's I wanna am here.

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Well, I was I was looking for a

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fall marathon

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that I...

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Had not run before. And I've... The local

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ones, you know, Portland, I've done that, Seattle,

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I've done that. And I found Charlotte on

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a list of, like, the 10 best fall

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marathons to run. Title.

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Yeah. Runner world perhaps,

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it's it's... No, well, maybe it's shown up

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on several lists, but I found Charlotte,

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and I looked into it. And I was

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like, wow, this course is

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pretty amazing. I mean, there's a lot going

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on there. Yeah. And then I looked at

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the profile. And I was like, okay. This

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is a great challenge too.

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That's a pretty hill course. They're fast paced.

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Though. Mike, They're very fast hills. Are they

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to tell? We we will argue that we

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have the fastest hills in the country.

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Totally.

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Alright.

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You can... You can you can judge for

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yourself when you coming of november. Yeah. So

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I

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I looked at Charlotte, and I thought, you

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know?

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Why not? I mean, Right. And it's another

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marathon, and

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that would be a great course to get...

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Onto my onto my skin, and I I

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sent that email about whether the course will

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change. And I I don't think it's gonna

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change much from what I've heard

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we actually have it up on the website

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now. So we have... Oh, okay. We we

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have gotten preliminary approval. So the first mile

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changed. And then

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right around 15, there's a very slight change.

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So the... Just for our listeners and for

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you,

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The reason we changed the first... We had

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to change the the start line because where

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we were starting

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really had limited access. So you were... Kinda

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loading everybody from the front of the

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from the front of the structure versus from

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the back. And so there there just wasn't

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another way to do it. So we said,

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the race is big enough now to where

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we need to have a larger place for

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people to load in to get ready to

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run, so they can kinda seed themselves and

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and place themselves according to what their paces

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is. So anyway, we're gonna start on Tri

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on Street, which is kinda the main street

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of Charlotte, if you will.

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And we'll do kind of a out left

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hand turn, left hand turn and and then

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a right hand to pick up where we

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were on 4 street headed out. So we're

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excited about that And then the other thing

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we changed was around 15 miles, we had

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a little out and back section on the

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green way. On

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just too many people anymore to be able

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to do that. And and

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you know, when we when we had smaller

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and we're expecting probably over 2000 for the

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marathon this year,

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just no way to put 2 a traffic

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on our green way.

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System. It just doesn't work. So we'll have

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to... The out portion will be on the

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road and the back portion will be on

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the green way. So

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Anyway, the the cool thing I like about

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the marathon and half marathon is the first

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12 and a half miles you get to

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run together, and then there's a split in

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the half... Marathon goes left, The marathon goes

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right.

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And

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you know, about

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2 thirds of the runners, will turn left

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and go to the finish line. So

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Anyway, those are the changes they are up

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on the website for anybody listening and for

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you, Mike, so you can get that design

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done. And take it to your

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sister or whomever does your

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design work for your tattoo.

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Yeah. That's... So as soon as we hang

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up here, I'm gonna go... Look at that.

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I mean, I'm looking forward to it, you

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know, and

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that reminds me when you said, you know,

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half the run... Or 2 thirds of the

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runners go 1 way and 1 third ago

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go the other... Oh, when I ran my

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first marathon in Eugene, it was very similar.

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There was a split, and I tell you

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what it was really tempting to go away

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with fat.

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Thoughtful man

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It's 1 of the dangers of putting that

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kind of a checkpoint on the course. Is

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it... You know, do I really wanna take

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that right or do it? Goes the left.

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Yeah.

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Well, you know, the funny thing is, and

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we we we do have a cutoff, and

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you get to that cutoff, and you say,

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you know, course is closed. You gotta go

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left and you get some people like I

437
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I'm not turning left. I'm going right. Yeah.

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And you're not gonna stop me. Now They

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get they can go into to... You invite

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them to take the hat marathon. I I'm

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like. No. I'm good here.

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See a couple hours. Sag. Right hang. Still.

443
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Well, I I... I'm still fascinated by the

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tattoo piece. You never had any knee ink.

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And it's not oh, it's just gonna get

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some initials. You committed to something as

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that says as big as a as a

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course map. And you're like, okay. I guess

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I'm gonna keep on trucking with this. Did...

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I mean,

451
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and the other part of that is

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I don't think I've ever run across anybody

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no pun intended

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who's gone with course maps,

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logos, you know, and things like that. I'm

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like, okay. I certainly have seen that plenty

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of times. Never seen anybody.

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Saying, you know, what course map. I'm gonna

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do that. Where'd do you get that idea?

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I I've always

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really enjoyed looking at maps.

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I I love a good printed map.

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I I just

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something about it has always kinda drawn my

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eye.

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And my my curiosity as opposed.

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I'm also really into photography, and there's a

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photographer He... He's passed away now, But,

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I became kinda friendly with him and his

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wife, and he he made a series of

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photographs.

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You know, several decades ago, Mh of maps.

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They there were close up views of maps,

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and

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just the intricate line work and

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how it makes your... It'll kind of draw

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your eye all over the picture. And

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I I hear that there's been, like, psychological

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research that

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indicates that that's

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pleasurable to the brain,

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that

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a lure that that makes your Eye kind

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of, Mh.

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Search out the entire image.

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And I thought, you know,

487
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these course maps look really cool and

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III don't know. I I guess that's that's

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my best answer. It it's far more exciting

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or interesting than just the initials or the

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logo.

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Yeah. You know, when you when you go

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to Boston, you see people with the temporary

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unicorn tattoos, Maybe maybe they're not... Some of

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them, maybe they're not temporary, but you see

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those

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all over the place sure.

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And I thought, you know, this is something

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that I could just make uniquely mine,

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And I have

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I have hard copy printout outs of

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about 2 dozen marathons

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around the country

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that I would like to check off as

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I go. And I've already sort of contemplated

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where some of them would fit

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and perhaps complement each other, like, maybe

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like, my left arm for instance, I'm gonna

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get 2 courses on there that are vaguely

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similar to each other,

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and they'll just have different initials.

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That 1, though,

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so the 1 that I'm running on the

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fourth of July, it's called the foot traffic

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flat,

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and I already have a portland. Pd

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on my on my body. So the foot

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traffic flat, I'm gonna use the F t

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designation for that course,

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And then in September, that 1 is called

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the Pacific Northwest Marathon.

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So that 1 will be a P There

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y.

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And I know Charlotte is Cl. So I

525
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don't know if it's a cult or something

526
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I'll have that on there. Yeah.

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He'll fewer. C jay is Chattanooga New guy

528
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I think. It's so we we...

529
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Natalie? Chattanooga.

530
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That would... I would be 1 to say.

531
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Yeah. Sure that makes sense now.

532
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Yeah. I would have I would have guessed

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Cha for Charlotte, but I was wrong. I

534
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I looked into it. And I mean, I

535
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don't have to tell you that. But

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Cl.

537
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Not natural. Not who got us.

538
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You know. But anyway, we're excited to have

539
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you. I think,

540
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last year, we had 47 states and, 13

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countries or something like that. So definitely,

542
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that would,

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probably,

544
00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:49,556
you know, we'd we'd get a lot of

545
00:19:49,556 --> 00:19:51,883
the 50 state come in or people are...

546
00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:52,679
Right.

547
00:19:53,953 --> 00:19:55,624
You know, I mean the West Coast, it's,

548
00:19:55,704 --> 00:19:58,569
you know, from states like Oregon and Idaho

549
00:19:58,569 --> 00:20:00,096
and Utah. So if forth and so on.

550
00:20:00,334 --> 00:20:02,321
It's twos and threes and fours. But,

551
00:20:03,274 --> 00:20:05,102
the closer you get to Charlotte, the more

552
00:20:05,102 --> 00:20:07,247
we get from Ohio, Pennsylvania,

553
00:20:07,723 --> 00:20:10,768
Virginia, Forth Florida places like that, but, you

554
00:20:10,768 --> 00:20:11,565
know, last year,

555
00:20:12,922 --> 00:20:15,529
and you just never know what motivates somebody

556
00:20:15,569 --> 00:20:17,323
to come to Charlotte, whether it's a good

557
00:20:17,323 --> 00:20:19,316
review that they read or, you know, the

558
00:20:19,316 --> 00:20:22,266
course is pleasing. I... A question about that,

559
00:20:22,505 --> 00:20:24,752
I guess I would ask is to do

560
00:20:24,752 --> 00:20:28,203
you think that because of your engineering background

561
00:20:28,262 --> 00:20:30,038
that you get some of the

562
00:20:30,734 --> 00:20:32,112
some of the thought processes

563
00:20:32,489 --> 00:20:33,707
that you have

564
00:20:34,179 --> 00:20:36,886
in terms of, like, hey, these... I like

565
00:20:36,886 --> 00:20:37,205
maps,

566
00:20:38,399 --> 00:20:40,708
or I... You know, it's you say it's

567
00:20:40,708 --> 00:20:42,794
kinda pleasing to the eye. Is that Is

568
00:20:42,794 --> 00:20:45,671
that maybe because your engineering background and you

569
00:20:45,671 --> 00:20:47,450
get into that sort of stuff? Because

570
00:20:48,148 --> 00:20:50,146
engineering a lot of lines and dimensions and

571
00:20:50,146 --> 00:20:51,025
things like that. Right?

572
00:20:51,759 --> 00:20:53,597
It yes. Yes. It is.

573
00:20:54,796 --> 00:20:56,954
That very might very well might be part

574
00:20:56,954 --> 00:20:57,853
of it. I

575
00:20:58,232 --> 00:21:01,840
I don't know. IIIII

576
00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,544
could tell you... When I was 11 years

577
00:21:04,544 --> 00:21:04,862
old,

578
00:21:05,737 --> 00:21:07,907
I got interested in compass.

579
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:09,100
And

580
00:21:09,888 --> 00:21:11,724
a directional compass is not a pencil. Alright.

581
00:21:11,963 --> 00:21:14,676
You're right. Right. Yeah. And so I remember

582
00:21:14,676 --> 00:21:16,511
my parents buying me a compass,

583
00:21:17,482 --> 00:21:17,982
and

584
00:21:18,439 --> 00:21:21,229
I was 11 years old. And it has

585
00:21:21,229 --> 00:21:23,301
on the case, it says engineer, you know,

586
00:21:23,460 --> 00:21:24,757
and it's it's meant for

587
00:21:25,229 --> 00:21:27,387
old time civil engineers survey,

588
00:21:28,665 --> 00:21:31,643
but that's 1 thing that, long, long before

589
00:21:31,702 --> 00:21:33,640
engineering as a career had

590
00:21:33,954 --> 00:21:35,872
hit me or had... You know, I wasn't

591
00:21:35,872 --> 00:21:37,790
thinking about call or a major or anything,

592
00:21:37,950 --> 00:21:39,569
But I knew that I like compass.

593
00:21:40,348 --> 00:21:41,647
And I guess knowing

594
00:21:42,026 --> 00:21:43,245
which way is which

595
00:21:43,718 --> 00:21:45,942
and vanadium man. And so that was in

596
00:21:45,942 --> 00:21:48,247
sixth grade. Asking my parents for a compass,

597
00:21:50,154 --> 00:21:52,234
and it... Just kind of kept going and,

598
00:21:52,552 --> 00:21:53,767
you know, the the top,

599
00:21:54,141 --> 00:21:57,000
the the course profile is also fascinating to

600
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,065
me because that that does really come into

601
00:21:59,065 --> 00:22:00,470
what I do as a

602
00:22:00,828 --> 00:22:03,218
bridge engineer in particular. We're always looking at

603
00:22:03,218 --> 00:22:03,718
roadway

604
00:22:04,253 --> 00:22:04,753
layouts

605
00:22:05,209 --> 00:22:06,984
and profiles. And so

606
00:22:07,599 --> 00:22:09,692
I really get interested in

607
00:22:10,321 --> 00:22:12,308
profiles, of course, courses. And that's 1 of

608
00:22:12,308 --> 00:22:14,930
the the lures about Charlotte is that... That

609
00:22:14,930 --> 00:22:17,234
is a challenging profile. I'm excited to see

610
00:22:17,234 --> 00:22:18,640
these super fast hills you have

611
00:22:19,798 --> 00:22:21,795
that's my exciting. That that is an idea.

612
00:22:22,035 --> 00:22:23,873
That is a challenging profile. Yeah.

613
00:22:25,391 --> 00:22:25,891
And

614
00:22:26,363 --> 00:22:28,585
you know, Boston is challenging and for its

615
00:22:28,585 --> 00:22:31,703
own reasons. And the... I I ran Seattle

616
00:22:31,759 --> 00:22:34,233
last November and that 1 was, was tough

617
00:22:34,233 --> 00:22:37,113
as well, but I I really like these

618
00:22:37,486 --> 00:22:39,889
rolling hill type courses

619
00:22:41,390 --> 00:22:42,129
And I know

620
00:22:42,664 --> 00:22:43,858
somewhere in... Yeah.

621
00:22:44,733 --> 00:22:46,882
I mean, some somewhere in my psychology, it

622
00:22:46,882 --> 00:22:48,872
all just kinda came together to to be

623
00:22:48,872 --> 00:22:49,350
what it is.

624
00:22:51,273 --> 00:22:52,806
And I... Like I, I have

625
00:22:53,498 --> 00:22:55,087
at least 3 that I can think of

626
00:22:55,087 --> 00:22:56,756
that I'm already registered for,

627
00:22:57,788 --> 00:22:58,742
and I've already...

628
00:22:59,394 --> 00:23:01,315
Thought about where those tattoos will go over

629
00:23:01,315 --> 00:23:03,474
the... The next awesome 8 months or so.

630
00:23:04,275 --> 00:23:05,795
And then I do have... I have a

631
00:23:05,795 --> 00:23:08,450
notes thing my phone where I've outlined a

632
00:23:08,450 --> 00:23:10,690
tentative schedule for, like, the next 5 years.

633
00:23:11,089 --> 00:23:11,829
Oh, wow

634
00:23:12,210 --> 00:23:13,650
what I could do when.

635
00:23:14,369 --> 00:23:14,609
So,

636
00:23:16,545 --> 00:23:18,785
I hope you have a understanding wife and

637
00:23:18,785 --> 00:23:19,285
family

638
00:23:20,144 --> 00:23:22,384
because it sounds like very supportive. Yeah. Very

639
00:23:22,384 --> 00:23:25,664
good. Very good. They're they're very, very supportive

640
00:23:25,664 --> 00:23:26,738
and I I

641
00:23:27,113 --> 00:23:29,179
appreciate it. And I love them. Yeah. Love

642
00:23:29,179 --> 00:23:31,007
it. That's awesome. So good to talk to

643
00:23:31,007 --> 00:23:33,312
you. We appreciate you taking time to...

644
00:23:33,964 --> 00:23:35,741
Share your story. I think it's

645
00:23:36,199 --> 00:23:37,556
unique and interesting, and that's,

646
00:23:38,434 --> 00:23:39,632
part of it. Yeah. That's part of it.

647
00:23:39,791 --> 00:23:42,425
That's part of it. Yeah. Mike Lopez, brother

648
00:23:42,425 --> 00:23:44,351
we look for to seeing you in November.

649
00:23:45,783 --> 00:23:47,374
It's it's gonna be great and we look

650
00:23:47,374 --> 00:23:49,204
forward to seeing you take on these Hills

651
00:23:49,204 --> 00:23:52,002
brother. We're Thank you so much. I'm excited

652
00:23:52,002 --> 00:23:52,400
to come out.

653
00:23:53,274 --> 00:23:55,579
It'll be my first East Coast Marathon and

654
00:23:55,579 --> 00:23:55,897
right

655
00:23:56,533 --> 00:23:59,157
just really really looking forward to it, and

656
00:23:59,808 --> 00:24:01,003
You know, that time of year, I think

657
00:24:01,003 --> 00:24:02,994
it'll probably be perfect for racing.

658
00:24:03,790 --> 00:24:04,290
Absolutely.

659
00:24:04,746 --> 00:24:06,600
Not british To.

660
00:24:07,773 --> 00:24:08,250
Exactly.

661
00:24:08,822 --> 00:24:11,205
Hi mike. Thank you so much. Thank you,

662
00:24:11,443 --> 00:24:12,158
gentlemen. Take care.

663
00:24:14,462 --> 00:24:16,606
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