From Setback To The Start Line - Episode 10

Scotty (0:00)

All right, this is gonna be one of those Setback To The Start Line episodes with me and my coach, Liza Howard. We're gonna talk about what happened at the Race For The Ages, and what to do next, and what's upcoming in my training world. These are just, for people that are trying to get back into it, I thought it would be useful to record my training calls raw, and just, you know. So people didn't feel alone, like they weren't the only people struggling, and maybe it's helpful to you, maybe it's not. If it's not, just delete this and listen to the next episode. But I'm just giving you some free stuff in the form of my training calls in case it's helpful to you. And although there's no sponsors or anything, I just always have made it a tradition for these shows to point out the products and people that are keeping me in the game. They came in really handy this weekend at the race. Well, first we have Rush Orthopedics, Midwest Orthopedics by Rush, the PT, where I get all my, got all my, putting me back together from.

Michael, Midwest Orthopedics was a great PT for me. Path Products, Project Products, which I used pretty exclusively at this race, the shorts, the liners, all weekend long. UCAN, I hydrated and I drank a lot of it, although I did drink a lot of different stuff, which is kind of weird. Fitsok, I wore Fitsok the entire time. Mount to Coast shoes, I only wore them, the C135s. Life Savers, Best Shoe Ever, and then Trail Toes, which I slathered all over my feet. Although I did get some blisters, I think that might have been user error. It's the best that we can get. So with that, we're gonna just have a raw coaching call with Liza.

Whenever she calls me, which I'm hoping will be exactly when this intro music ends, but if not, I'll pause it and it'll feel like it was.

You can still sign up for the races.

Liza Howard (1:52)

They're available.

Scotty (2:13)

Hello.

Liza Howard (2:15)

Hey there, Scotty. How you doing?

Scotty (2:17)

Excellent. How are you?

Liza Howard (2:19)

I am hot. I'll get out. You know, Texas.

But enough about that. Tell me, tell me everything from the race, from you got there.

Scotty (2:31)

It was hot. I'll tell you that.

Liza Howard (2:34)

Uh-huh.

Scotty (2:36)

Let's see. So I drove. I got there to this park, which is, I mean, this whole race is like, it's one mile loop, like making space in a parking lot, basically.

It's kind of horrible. It's just, it's like really crappy. It's like, like a, there's like a little sidewalk section that's next to a creek, and then the rest of it is just like running around in a freaking parking lot, in a, in a park with no shade whatsoever. And a lot of it's blacktop, which is really nice when it gets hot out.

And I thought it was going to be really hot, and it probably was. I hooked up, I made my little tent and, you know, watched Anne start, and then I went to bed, got a good night's sleep. I was very surprised to learn when I checked in to start the race that I was one hour early because I wasn't 55, I was only 54, much to my surprise.

Liza Howard (3:32)

You were surprised that you were 54?

Scotty (3:33)

I was, I thought I was 55 And all year I had been 55, I called my wife and let her know. So, I mean, I guess I got another year in my life, which is not, you know, it's good news, but so.

Liza Howard (3:46)

But you felt 55 for this whole year.

Scotty (3:48)

Yeah, well, and I've been telling people lies basically, but all right, so, but I'm turning 55 this month. And so after an hour.

Liza Howard (3:55)

The math does get hard.

Scotty (3:56)

Yeah. How old are you getting? I started, I did a little, I think for the first like loop or two, I did a few quarter mile intervals and then I ended up doing a couple of loops with Anne and then, you know, it's one of those things where there's 150 people and there's a one mile loop. So you just keep hooking up with people and talking to them. And no one was, I mean, there was like four people that ran, you know, everybody else was walking.

Some of them hunched over, you know, like the lean, all the different leans. It was like, like watching homeless people on the Vegas strip looking for cigarettes. They're just all leaned over, you know, and holding umbrellas. And that was in our swag bag. We got a hoodie, some sort of weird trophy that I didn't keep, and then an umbrella. So I got a black, not a hoodie. It was a sweatshirt. It was a sweatshirt without a hood. Black.