Episode 16: Teddi Hayes - From the Jersey Shore to the Jersey City Marathon

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Jul 21

Listener note: This episode includes discussion of an eating disorder.

Teddi Hayes thought asthma meant she couldn't run. A Peloton app trial, a 5K two days after a breakup, and 1,200 runs later, she finished her first marathon in Jersey City.

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About this episode

Teddi Hayes and I became friends on Instagram over our shared love of Peloton, and this was our first real conversation. She grew up near the Jersey Shore (she's even in the background of a Jersey Shore episode filmed at her gym), works in IT sales, and spent years believing her asthma meant she could never be a runner.

We talk about how Peloton instructors taught her to speak kindly to herself, her first 5K in 2021, her Brooklyn half marathon in April 2022, and her first marathon at Jersey City in April 2023, trained with the Hal Higdon app and stacked Peloton runs. We also geek out about her 1,200-run milestone celebrated in studio in London with Susie Chan and how the London and New York studios compare.

In this episode, we discuss

Growing up 10 minutes from the beach in Jersey Shore and appearing in the background of the TV show
Working in IT sales and selling Adobe to public agencies on West Coast hours
Body image pressure from early 2000s pop culture
Believing asthma meant she couldn't run, then discovering an inhaler
Starting with no-pressure two-mile runs after college and running more during COVID
Finding the Peloton app through a 60-day trial during a rough stretch
How Peloton instructors' mantras changed the way she talks to herself
Becs Gentry's class that planted the idea of racing
Running her first 5K two days after a hard breakup
Meeting Jess Sims, who taught her a Turkish get-up on the studio floor
Planning her 1,200th run to land on an in-studio class with Susie Chan in London
Comparing the Peloton studios in London and New York
Training for the Brooklyn half and Jersey City Marathon with the Hal Higdon app and stacked Peloton classes
Why easy miles and less focus on numbers help
The One Republic song that played as she finished and her next race goals

Chapters

Intro
Peloton superfans and studio trips
Teddi's background in New Jersey and IT sales
Growing up on the Jersey Shore
From asthma to her first runs
Finding the Peloton app
First 5K after a breakup
Favorite instructors and the Peloton bike
Celebrating 1,200 runs in the London studio
Getting into New York studio classes
London vs. New York studios
Training for the half and full marathon
Easy miles and letting go of numbers
Jersey City Marathon and what's next

Where to find Teddi

Instagram: @teddihayess

Mentioned in this episode

Races: Jersey City Marathon, NYCRUNS Brooklyn Half Marathon, London Marathon, New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon
Organizations and charities: Peloton, LA Fitness
Other: Jersey Shore (TV show), Hal Higdon training app, Becs Gentry, Jess Sims, Jess King, Susie Chan, Ally Love, Hannah Corbin, Sam Yo, "I Lose Myself" by OneRepublic

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Frequently asked

Who is Teddi Hayes on Peloton?

Teddi Hayes is a New Jersey runner who goes by TheodorableHayes on Peloton and celebrated her 1,200th Peloton run in studio in London with instructor Susie Chan.

How did Teddi Hayes train for her first marathon?

Teddi Hayes trained for the April 2023 Jersey City Marathon using the Hal Higdon app for her plan and stacking Peloton running classes to match each workout, doing midweek runs on a treadmill and long runs outside when weather allowed.

How did Teddi Hayes start running?

Teddi Hayes believed for years that asthma kept her from running, but after college she started with short, no-pressure runs, then found the Peloton app and ran her first 5K in 2021.

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Welcome to Finish Lines and Milestones with Ally Brettnacher. Incredible stories and tales of triumphs with everyday people achieving their goals in fitness. This podcast brought to you by Athlete Bouquets Celebrate finish lines and milestones of the people that you love by visiting Athlete Bouquets Calm. Hello and welcome to episode 16 of Finish Lines and Milestones. This is Ally Bretnaker and on this week's episode I have my Instagram friend Teddy Hayes. You can find her there at TEDDI, Teddy Hayes, HAYESS. So Hayes with two S's on Instagram. Teddy and I have been Instagram friends for a while. We often chat back and forth about our love of Peloton, which is what we talk a lot a lot in this episode.

Although that is not the only thing we discussed. So even if you're not a Peloton person, you should keep listening. You can find her on Peloton Theodorable, which is an adorable name. Her full name is Theodora So Theodorable Hayes HAYZ over on On the Peloton app. You will find that she is a badass and has over 1200 runs, which is a milestone we discussed in this episode along with a lot of other things including her first marathon that was earlier this year and how she trained for that, a lot of which she did using using Peloton. So I really enjoyed having an opportunity to get to know one of my virtual friends a little bit better and I do think that everyone will enjoy this conversation with Teddy.

Hey Teddy, how's it going? Good. How are you doing? Good. It's so funny getting on a Zoom with somebody that you've only talked to on Instagram. Yeah, yeah. It's weird like and you're so personable online. So I feel like I kind of like, I I feel like I know your energy or at least you know what whatever is on Instagram and stuff like that. So I'm just like I I think we can hold a conversation even though we've never like actually met in real life and you're you're in out in Indiana and I'm on the East Coast in Jersey. Just like, oh, I think we could do this, yeah.

Yeah, anyone can come together over their shared love of Peloton. Oh my gosh, Yes. As well. Now the truth. So many people. I'm, I could tell you more about that. But yeah, I like met some people out in the UK. If you're a part of a like little little cult action, I guess I love, I love the undying loyalty everybody at Peloton has. So yeah. I feel like there's some of the listeners, certainly. There are some pelotoners on here, but I don't know if there's anybody quite as, I don't know, serious, intense as people like us. I'll lock myself in even though you're on the East Coast and so you get to go to the studio.

I feel like all the time I've been, I've been. So I feel like I have this like next level of love for Peloton because I'm like, yeah, I'm, I've been to the studio. Yeah, no 100% there. People who drive or travel more than an hour or two because it's like an hour for me on a train. But hats off, I'm like, yeah, you get it. And you know this is worth it. And I, I don't know, judgement for me. I met a woman who flew in from Florida. She's like, yeah, I mean a weekend out of it. I'm like, get, I'm like, get it, girl like you do you I love.

Yeah, yeah. My secret actually was traveling for work. So it might be. Super honest, I wanted New York territory because I do like traveling to New York City, especially being from the Midwest. It's just such a different vibe than here and I just find it really fun to navigate the city on my own. And it was either that or San Francisco would have been my territory and I didn't want to work Pacific hours so. So then when I had work trips into the city, I was like okay, how do I get on a peloton ride? Yeah, right. Oh, and that was at the older studio, but.

You. Yeah. The what street was that on? I forget 26. Oh gosh, yeah. Yeah, something like that. Like that. Anyway, I never, I'd never gone to that one. But I I love when you know, you get the throwback photos of the studio and that's when you know the OG. So you're an OG because I OG is 1 to the old studio, Yeah. So I got my. Equipment before the pandemic, which was good, but before we talk too much, we could. We're going to talk a lot about peloton on this episode, just everybody. But before we do that, I want to get to know you a little bit better.

And you know, I've certainly seen what I've seen on Instagram, but that's about it. I'd love to hear a little bit of your back story, kind of who you are and you know, then figure out how you got into running and to where you are now, so. Yeah, for sure. Well, first and foremost, thank you so much for asking me to come on here. I think you're doing really good on this podcast. Like, I feel like every so often you'll be like, I don't know if I'm doing this right. I'm like, no, you're doing it right because I like it clicks Spotify and tune into your podcast.

I'm like, this is the real deal. It's legit. You're doing good. Like, I enjoy all the conversations you've had some. Really impressive people with crazy stories on, so I'm just honored to to be part of that because I'm just like, oh lowly old me. But yeah, so yeah, my name is Teddy, full name is Theodora, which really, nobody calls me that except for my mom. I'm from New Jersey, born and raised. I have been. I've lived in all like corners of Jersey, so I feel like I'm pretty well-rounded in that way. You know, there is a Central Jersey for those of you wondering if you've ever heard that rumor.

I work in IT. So that was something that you had said you had experience with. And I'm like, oh fellow IT person, I started an inside sales at a VAR and then I worked my way to being like a partner, specialist they call it. So I basically just helped sell Adobe to public agencies. It's to your point of, you know, West Coast hours. That was my life for a couple years. I was working like 11 to 8. Yeah, so I was, I was in the, you know, the trenches of the IT sales world and now, you know, it's it's not as hectic, but, you know, still still pretty busy and ads and flows as, as you know, life and careers do.

I'm from the shore of New Jersey originally and right now I live in Central Jersey. And what else? I'm I was an English major in college, which, you know, the I was pretty much like OKI guess I got to get a big girl job now, and that's kind of how I like it. Afterwards, I was like, OK, these student loans are not paying themselves, so let's let's go ahead and do it. And yeah, I've I've been working out with Peloton for a few years, but I've been working out in general pretty regularly since I was younger. Like 14, I started exercising a bit. I think that it was something that my mom's always been really active and so I kind of grew up like going to the little Kitty area of the gym with her.

And as I got older, I was feeling I think more pressure to be in shape and stuff like that or just felt like the right thing to do. So I was like okay, let's start working out. So I started pretty young and. Yeah, I could dive into that too. Like the sort of like transition of it was just like a once a week working out type of a thing and feel like I'm rambling, so I might. Pop. No, you're good. I want to go back to the the Jersey Shore from the Shore. Yeah. Well, and you said you love pop culture, so. I do. So what is what was it like growing up on the shore?

Like, I feel like the what I picture like true, like gym, tan, laundry, like somebody from the Midwest. That's all I know. So you can be like, shut the fuck up, I that's not real. Or you can say, yeah, that was, you know, pretty much why everyone was trying to work out and be in shape because you had to go to the shore and look good or, I don't know, tell me about it. Yeah, So, I mean, I wasn't like, right on the beach, but 10 minutes away, honestly. So, I mean, compared to some, some people have to travel hours to get to the beach.

So I'm. Trying to look at that, so basically on the beach. Yeah, yeah. So. And it's actually funny that you bring up the gym tan laundry thing because. Where that show was filmed, it was the beach right next to where I lived and they actually, the third season of the Jersey Shore filmed in the gym that I would go to. So I was in like the background of an episode at one point because I was just in the gym working out while they were there. And it was, it's really, it's a funny thing because people from my hometown the when. Jersey Shore aired. Everyone was very offended.

They were like this is not what it's like at all and it's just like low key. It kind of was what it was like and I think we were just kind of blindsided by it. Like the twenty 10s, early 20 tens were very like fake pan hair, poop, broady makeup, all of it and. Yeah. And and looking back now, I kind of see that. But now everybody has a lot of pride towards that show, which is really, really funny because it, it just did a complete 180 over the past, you know, 10 to 10 or 12 years. But it was, I didn't really notice culturally how I was like kind of somewhat into like certain Beachy things until I moved out.

And then I went back and I was like, Oh yeah, there are definitely certain things about my hometown that are. Different than other parts of New Jersey that are beachier. Like, I've even been told, like, I got highlights in my hair and people are like, you have like such Beachy hair and I'm like, oh, I just thought it was curly with highlights. And yeah, so it was. It was really cool growing up right by the beach. I love being by the beach in the water and just like baking in the sun like a rotisserie chicken is fabulous. But the working out and stuff, I felt like that was because I consumed so much television growing up.

You know, like, you know how, like the early thousands were all about the heroin chic book and the really low pants and stuff like that. So here I am like 12 years old, eating my, like Strawberry Shortcake, like popsicles being like, should I should I, like be aspiring to this and like kind of just like as I, you know, went through puberty and I had crushes on boys that thought I was gross and have cooties and just like. It just kind of like gave me this complex of like I guess I should start like working out now that definitely played a part into it. But yeah, I I guess to your point though, being by the beach probably was an element that I was subconsciously affected by as well.

Yeah. Or just I guess being in a bathing suit more than normal. Although I guess growing up in the Midwest, we would go to the, we went to the neighborhood pool kind of stuff all the time. So I guess it was. Kind of similar. But, you know, I'd also picture it giving you a wide variety of people, like people watching, I can only imagine On the Shore in those years, Oh my gosh, would have been so like people who are just like, yeah, I'm going to wear whatever I want and it doesn't matter. But yeah, with the pop culture thing, you grow up kind of looking at these people being like, OK, that's what I that's what I need to do or like, look like so.

Yeah, that's that's really what it felt like, you know? And that's why with pop culture now and just like body acceptance and everything, I I love it so much and I know that there are still, you know, pressures and comparisons and comments that you'll hear, but it's much less like the other day I saw a video of an old commercial for like yo play. And it was somebody just thinking about all the things that they wanted to eat or looking at a slice of cheesecake and instead the the person just like, oh, I'm just gonna eat this cheesecake flavored yogurt because I'm so good. And it's like those were the commercials that were so normal and now it's it's much more inclusive and I'm just so thankful for.

If I was, you know, 12 again, now I'm just like that would have been so revolutionary for me to not feel like. Like, you know, watching movies with Jlo looking perfect. But. That's just Jlo. So. And now I know that. But yeah, for her, yeah. Do you have? Any. Do you have any siblings or are you an only child? Oh, I do have an older sister. She's six years older than me. So when she went off to college, that was like around the time when she could tolerate me a little bit more. So like by the time she was like, chill with me and I wasn't just annoying her, she was pretty much out of the house.

But we do. We hang out together now as adults. But it was funny, like all those formative years. I felt like an only child because it was just me and my parents. Yeah. Yeah. That would be tricky a little bit, yeah. Yeah, it's weird. It's gone when you kind of need her of sorts, yeah. Yeah, and she's like, so. She's very, like, unconventional. She never really wanted to fit the mold of big sister. Like, I feel like we're more like peers at this point. And again, that might just because we developed a closer relationship as we were older. But yeah, she never, like, felt like this onus of being my big sister.

She's like really just kept to herself and then, you know, hung out with her friends and went to work. At the the movie theater. And the extent of our relationship was like, I think she would take me to the boardwalk to get fudge and then sneak me into a movie or something. And then that was like what I remember. And then when I was older, I would visit her. She actually went to NYU, so she was in the city. So I would get to go a lot and and hang out with her for a weekend and she would just, you know, she'd take me to all these fun like restaurants and stuff and like like make me a Margarita.

Don't tell my mom. It was, like, really cool. Yeah, cool. Yeah, I I am always. And I, you may have heard me say this before because one of my guests, Mary, was out on the on the East Coast and would go into Manhattan when she was in high school. And I was just like the whole culture of that is so foreign to me. I mean even now being able to you know get jump on a train and an hour be in the city is so. Cool. Do you go? All the time. Yeah, it's. Yeah, it it's funny. I feel like I took it for granted a lot because where I went to college too was 20 minutes away from the the city.

It was like a 25 minute train ride from the city. And I I I didn't go as much as I thought I did. But I definitely go more than I think. I I appreciate it. So between my sister going. To New York when I was younger. And then, you know, even just living up near North Jersey, just going out for a day or an afternoon or spontaneously, like I have done that before. But I feel like a lot of people I know really only go in when they have a reason to like if it's for a special event or really. Now I go in when I want to go to Peloton.

Yeah. And I go in by myself and I have a great time. It's to your point, it's so fun, like navigating the city is. So it's it's hectic. And it's draining, but usually in really good ways. Like we were, I went there with a couple of friends a couple weeks ago and you you just all the smells and like, it's just like hustle and bustle of people. It's it's a lot, but it's like nowhere else in the world. You know, I when I was in London, I was like chatting with a girl on the bus and I was like, you have to go to the New York City and it's just so yeah, yeah, you just have to go.

It was just funny kind of comparing. The Peloton Studios, New York to the one in London. We'll have to get into that. But wait, don't give too much away. Yeah. Yeah. OK. So when did you get into running? So you were you were exercising kind of through high school. Was that did you run at all before or did that come later? Yeah, so, like, to be honest with you, I was never a runner when I was younger. I kind of brainwashed myself into thinking that I couldn't run because I have asthma. So I remember distinctly running the mile in 6th grade. And it was kind of chilly out.

And I don't know if you get like kind of coffee when you kind of like where your your chest gets a little tight when you run in the cold. It definitely happens to me having asthma. And I was like, oh, I guess I'll just never be able to run. And I would try and run here and there when I was in high school, but I was strictly like a, you know, Stairmaster elliptical bike girl. And then later on, I I realized that I could get this thing called an inhaler. And I was like, oh, I could just get an inhaler. And I sort of, I was kind of, you know, going through ebbs and flows of how I was exercising.

And I got to this point after college and starting my new career and after a breakup. And I was like. Really hoping to just like change. It felt like a pivotal time for change. So I was like, you know what, let me just try and run and I'll put no pressure on myself because numbers sometimes aren't really my friend, right? So you know, to backpedal the like starting my exercise journey. I did suffer an eating disorder in high school the the whole time, pretty much. And you know. I was really related to some of what Renee had spoke about a couple of weeks back with her experience.

And mine again was a little bit different because it was really just driven by the why of me just being like I feel like I'm not good enough and this this seems like the right thing to do, like culturally and you get so much approval, losing weight and things. And I I didn't really understand that it was about confidence. I was just sort of executing the control piece of it, which is your symptoms of. You're restricting or you're binging and purging. So when I was younger I was restricting and then I thought I could just kind of turn it off once somebody told me, no, this is a problem.

And then it goes to binging and purging because your body's so confused. And then you know you have the exercise piece too, where it's just like you want to look a certain way. But then you have this weird relationship with food, which is this thing that you can't not eat, obviously, just you need fuel. And then you kind of go to this. You're at this really weird crossroads of things and how to handle it, and finding that balance had taken me a really long time and still is like finding balance is difficult, but after you know, a while I got better footing in college with things, my symptoms had decided significantly.

You know, post high school and getting a lot of help. But. Still wasn't running too much. Even though I had tried here and there for like 10 minutes or something, I would just go for a little run. So I think that I was leery of running because of the whole like, well, how fast am I going to go and how long is it going to be? And I, once I was at this pivotal point post college, new job, fresh slate, I was like, let's just try, no pressure. And I was running about, you know, like 2 miles maybe for a few weeks. And then I would run like 3 miles and it was like pretty slow pace, you know?

But I was doing it and I felt really good about that. And so I kind of continued doing that. And once COVID rolled around, I couldn't go to the gym, right? No one of us could go to the gym. I had last minute brought dumbbells from Walmart and I was working out a little bit in my living room and then just going on runs. And that was really when I was running a lot. And I was like, wow, this is kind of interesting, but I would never consider racing at that point because again. I was so scared of putting pressure on myself and just holding myself to a number because I didn't want to go down that hole of like, you know, anything.

Like I don't even I don't weigh myself anymore. I try not to count calories like numbers terrify me, but they are, you know, obviously when you're racing and things like that, there's something to look at because you want to track yourself to a degree. So at that point I had never considered. Racing. I was just running to run, and then I kind of got into a bit of a rut and I was in a relationship that was like it was what I had wanted, but it didn't feel right and I don't think I wanted to acknowledge that. And I was like living at home with my parents because I just had to financially at the time.

So I felt like a bit of a loser, even though there's nothing wrong with that. I just think I was being hard on myself and the inside sales job was just rough, but I still had my running. What? I felt like I was in a rut and then I was doom scrolling on my phone one day and I saw the 60 day trial of the Peloton app and I was like, you know, why don't I just try this? I've heard about it. It's been advertised on another podcast that I really like. I've heard people at my, you know, in my job praise it. And I was so curious because I don't know if you remember their old commercials were so elusive like.

The Christmas commercials for the Paloton, we're always just like, is the Paloton sitting there with a bow on it? And then like a husband or wife just like sneaking down the stairs in the middle of the night. And just like, riding it really quick before Christmas actually happens. And I'm like, what is this thing that's so addicting? So I downloaded the app and I didn't realize it was like, more than just the bike. And that's when I found that out. And I was like, this is amazing. Like, I'm able to not only physically challenge myself, but. Because what really got me was the instructors mentality and the mantras and all of that stuff that I would like be in tears working out because I was just so in this place of speaking horribly to myself that speaking kindly to myself, you know what I mean?

Was just so jarring and like I was just like I can think this way about myself and and I can yeah, I could be like nice to myself, like. This, like this is okay. Like someone I admire says that it's Okay if I can only work out 10 minutes today. Because, you know, in my mind it was like, if you're not working out for an hour, what's the point? Oh, been there? Yep. Yeah, right. So it's like, so that started and I took a Beck's Gentry class and I think it was a progressive run in like March of 2021 and she was talking about her first race or a run that she went on.

And then she had knit a like a hat for her cat or something afterwards and took a selfie and she was just describing this like gorgeous course of this race. And that was the 2nd seeded planting of my mind of like maybe I could like run races. And then I had signed up for a 5K for like the next month and. I had went through a really hard breakup in the relationship that wasn't even meant to be anyway, which is whatever. But the thing about it was it was like 2 days before that that 5K and that decision to still run and not just wallow I think was so important because it was one of the first times where I'm like I believe in myself even though things feel crap and hard and.

I like, did you know it's just the 5K, right. But it it just meant so much more to me. And that's when I started being like, I can do this for real. Like I can go to 10K and then I did and then I can go to 1/2 marathon and I did and then I could go to the full marathon and I was just like, yeah, I just kind of ran with it and it was. So it's it's just been so empowering like. Peloton and running have just been so revolutionary and how I speak to myself and the ways I believe in myself and I just can't, yeah, I can't express like how wonderful it is and how not judgmental the community is.

You know what I mean? Like where you know it's a competitive community, obviously to a degree, but the amount of, you know, support and love at, to your point, nobody also cares. Nobody cares. What you run, you know what I mean? Like, they're like, good for you, but it's like at the end of the day, like if you're comparing yourself, it's just you letting yourself be in your head type of effect. And yeah, all of that has just been amazing. Yeah, I man, there's there's a lot I relate to in there, Teddy, for sure. Yeah. When when you did your first run, did you? Do it at a gym, on a treadmill.

Did you do it? Like where? How did you, How did you do the first run on the app? I was at the gym, I was a part of LA Fitness at the time and I I think I just plugged in. I think it was like a 20 minute just king run or something like that. And yeah, I I was like oh this is this is kind of cool and it it took me a while like to. I accept, especially Jess King. She could be really intense. And I actually, when I met her, I told her that too. I was like, I was like, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but it took me a while to, like, be able to accept the things that you were saying because she's like because you weren't ready to hear them.

And I was like, yes, I really wasn't like that. I wasn't ready to hear them. Yeah, I know it's funny. We during the pandemic, I. Along with a couple other people, had this group called Ride and Raise where every month we would get together and we would get on a Zoom and we'd pick a live ride and we get on and do it. Well, for whatever reason, whenever we decided it was always a Jess King ride and I was kind of like at first I was like, you know, not that sounds bad, but I just, she wasn't for me. I. Understand what you mean, yeah.

Yeah. And and same with some of the other people are kind of like, OK, well, it works in the time that it works and so we want to do a live ride. So that's what we're going to do. And for anybody not familiar with Peloton, you don't have to join at a certain time. They do have on demand where you can just go in the library and pick one. But they also have a live schedule, which is fun because you can actually like engage with other members, see things real time and you know, get a shout out sometimes. But anyway, she really grew on me too.

Like I now really like her, really like her. It is some of that. And actually my sister, I'm the oldest of three girls, so I have two younger sisters. And my sister Casey, the middle one. She makes fun of peloton, but she has a bike, so and she. Probably okay. That's a pretty hey, it's like, I feel like that gives her rights to make fun of it, but also gives us rights to make fun of her for making fun of it. Because it's. It's not a cheap piece of equipment like you. For sure. It's like, what are you doing? Like, I visited her recently and I had to like plug it in and set it.

Actually, I couldn't even use the bike because my husband owns my account, which is a whole another thing, but I had to use my phone and the bike anyway. It was the first that had gotten some use in a while, but that's also because she just had a baby. But anyway, she makes fun of like the mantras and stuff, like all the, you know, the what they say and it can be. It is really intense and if you're not in the mood for it, perhaps, yeah, you can be like, Oh my gosh, this again. But I think it is really powerful and you kind of take from it what you want to because it is really the thing I like about it as well is it's your workout.

You do whatever you want, right? You don't have to do what the instructor says. You can go harder or take it easy, which is hard for me. Yeah. But when you're ready to hear it, they just, there's a lot there. So I agree with that. So do you have do you have a bike and or tread now? I do. I have the bike now I that's. My I was gonna say that looks like the screen I can see on the zoom. Yes. Yes, it's right there. Yeah. So I I do have the bike. I would love the tread, but I first of all, I live in an apartment.

So I just don't think that that's realistic. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like Dom, Dom, Dom on the. Yeah, second floor. Yeah. But. And it's, it's also like it's an expensive piece of equipment. Yeah. Not that I wouldn't. Flurge on it because I money's worth, would totally be there for me. But yeah, I don't have the tread. So I was just going to my previous apartment, had like a little fitness center, so that I would just use my phone there and use their treads and I'll do the same thing. I'll just join a gym or just do the outdoor runs. I even do the indoor runs outdoor too, because to me it's like I just have somebody in my ear and some music to listen to and motivation.

Yeah, but I do. I I have the bike now. I got the bike about a year and a half ago and I use it. I feel like more for strength stretching yoga than I do riding it, at least when I'm in season running. You know, I have been using a lot more since my marathon, just because a myriad of things happened that kind of set me back from how many miles I was doing. My ankle is messed up. I was, I went on vacation, then I was, I got COVID and then I would move. So I feel like I've been using it a lot more just because it's right here.

And if I do want to just get that 1020 minutes and I can do that, which is fabulous. And yeah, I I love having the bike though. And what is your? What is your leaderboard name? I should know this, but I don't. Is it your just Teddy Hayes or is it something else? It's the adorable haze, which I feel really bad. I like. It's kind of complicated. But yeah, my one of my art teachers in, like, middle school called me the adorable. So it's yeah, the adorable haze. We might not even be friends on Peloton then. I don't know. I feel like I might have followed you.

I don't remember. Now I'm I if I see somebody post their yes, I was going to say if I see someone post their leaderboard, I usually try and get them to follow, yeah. And Okay. And so there's a lot I want to cover because I want to make sure I'm trying to figure out what we do first. If we talk about your marathoners, talk about Peloton, let's just keep going down the Peloton rabbit hole for a bit. And then I'd love to hear about your first marathon, but you just celebrated 1200 runs, which is amazing. Congratulations. Thank you. I was so excited, especially, you know, getting to celebrate.

In studio. That was my first true in studio run. I say that because I tried to get into a Beck's run. I was waitlisted and everybody online was like, yeah, you'll definitely get in and I definitely didn't get in. But what was great was the the time I was there. Previously, a woman in the showroom told me that if you don't get in, they'll just let you use the showroom. Equipment. And then you could go meet the instructor. So that's what I did that day. I just ran the the run up in the showroom and then I just went and met Dex afterwards. That's nice.

Which was fine. Yeah, it was, it was, you know, it wasn't the full studio experience, but it was like pretty much the studio experience. And I got to meet her, which is amazing. And she was incredible as she just generally is. But that was like I want to say two weeks before she gave birth. I was going to say I saw the picture of you guys and she was very pregnant. She. Was very pregnant and she was still just killing it. I'm like, Oh my goodness. I and I have to say this is like kind of an aside, but not because it's peloton related. The peloton platform has made me appreciate motherhood so much more than I could have ever comprehended before the fact that people can run like that, pregnant or just fit in a run.

Post pregnancy, like like I give you a lot of props because you have two kids and you kill the run game like you're you know, doing all your races and and you know volunteering and everything and even biking and stuff like that. Like it just gave me such an appreciation for just making the time while still mothering. And just being that ass. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it goes to show you can. If it's important enough, you can always. Figure out a way to squeeze it in there. But yeah, the whole like working out while pregnant thing too is like yeah, the the instructors I feel like take it to a whole another level anyway we could yeah, but it is nice too that they now offer.

Actually when I was was when I was pregnant with my second must have been my second was when I was pregnant while Robin was pregnant. So that was kind of fun because then they started doing the prenatal stuff although. Like I don't need prenatal. I can still do the regular stuff. But I yeah, anyway that's the competitive part of me but it's nice for for people who are trying to stay active. But so tell me I want to learn more about logistics. Like I want to talk a little bit about logistics of these studio visits because I feel like it's a whole thing. It is a whole thing because if you're and so you also have to make sure that.

You know, OK, you're going to celebrate your milestone in studio. You've got to get enough runs in and then, like, not run at all or you've got to, like, delete some. So how did you do that for London? Like, how did you orchestrate getting up to that 12 hundredth run to celebrate there? So I feel like that was partially luck because there have been other instances when I was very meticulous with where I was in my, you know, number of runs and then trying to get into the studio that I think was. Because I actually wanted to go to the studio the weekend after I ended up going, which would have given me more time, but I couldn't because the class was booked and then it was the German takeover weekend, so they didn't have any.

It was like Susie wasn't running for Saturday, Sunday. So I ended up going the weekend prior and making a day trip to London by myself from my boyfriend's home city. So I what I what I had done was I. And I hope that people don't think it's cheating because I honestly don't think it is. I was doing a lot more cool down and warm up runs to, you know, or just making instead of doing 130 minute run, I was doing 215 minute runs or something like that. I was just beefing up like that way and just making sure that I could make that work. And then if I got too close and I wanted to run again, like I would just get close enough like two runs off or one run off.

And then if I was like, OK, I want to go for a run, I would like delete it. Yeah. And it'll like get me. Yeah. So I do, I do strategize that so that it, it lines up with what I want and I figure it'll it'll like rounds out eventually, right. Like I don't and. Nobody cares. Yeah, yeah. It's like whatever. There are people in the SO the you said. Before, when describing the peloton community, that's so great, like nonjudgmental until you post something on the Facebook group. Then there's just some weird people in there that are nuts and will like, be mean for no reason.

But yeah, I feel that's how that's why I asked about the strategizing and logistics, because it is kind of tough and tricky to get it to be the timing right because you don't want to. Yeah, I don't like deleting runs. And I don't like to eat short runs, but it's like you got to do, you know, in order to have it line up, it's you got to got to make it work. It's definitely not cheating because it is. I mean that's how 5000 runs, for goodness sakes. Like, I mean, I don't know. I don't. Think, Yeah. 45 minutes, you know so. Right. There's, yeah, there's certain milestones like that you hear that I'm like how did you even do that like yeah.

Do you live on your has not even been like yeah I'm like it has not even been out that long but. Yeah that that's like a whole another level that I'm just I would never you know aspire to do. I just don't have the time but you definitely do like there is definitely those runs where I'm like I don't want to run for 15 minutes. I'd rather just do 30 and not have to take my phone out again or start out of the class because then you have to listen to the warm up again and I'm like I'm already warm like you know what I mean?

But it's just like a little just a little adjustment to make so that it lined up in studio was. Well worth it. Susie was really nice about it. Like before the class started, she was kind of going around and saying hi to everybody. And she was like doing her little walk and she kind of stuff. She's like, hey, adorable haze, I'd like to work with you. And then she kind of said, like, Todd, 100 lines. And I was just like, thank you, Susie. Like, that means so much. This is super exciting. I still haven't taken the class, but anyway, I will. I will. I just haven't.

I looked. I made sure I look because I. Wait, did I miss it? But I need to go back and take it on demand because I couldn't take it live. I was so bummed. How did you sign up? Like, how far in advance do you have to sign up for a class to do it in the studio? Yeah, So. So here's the tape. And New York is, Oh my gosh, impossible. Like, I can't even really get into a New York class anymore. The first few times I went were like, just luck. So the first class I went to. It was their soft opening and they had sent out a survey for people in the tri-state area.

I think they must have ran some sort of metrics to see how often you use peloton or something. So I was sent the survey because I guess I met whatever parameters and then they kind of asked you like what instructors do you like and what kind of class would you want to do and those sort of things. And then I was invited to adjust them strength class and that was the first class back with. Members So that was so exciting because I absolutely adore that human being. She was just so dazzling and amazing and so kind. And she had asked us like, what if if there was something that you, you know, struggle with, like Forum lies?

And I was like, yeah, the Turkish get up because that is just such a complex movement. Yes, it is. Yeah. And she was like, oh, I'll help you after class. And after the class she had, like, went back into the locker rooms. But she had remembered what I had asked, and she actually called me back down from the locker rooms and, like, laid on the floor in the middle of the studio to show me how to do a Turkish get up. It was the sweetest thing ever. It was, you don't have to do this. And she's just like, no, no form's important to me. And I was like, okay, So that was cool.

Yeah. And then the second time, it was something similar. It was like, still part of the soft opening. And then one of the other times I had just so every Monday or no, excuse me, it used to be Monday. Every Thursday at 12 Eastern, the website opens for you to book a class with the credit. If you go on the website at like 11, fifteen, 11:30, there's already a queue of 2000 people waiting on the website for the New York because it's that fast. It's ridiculous. So I had just randomly gotten lucky when they had switched it from the Monday to the Thursday. I just like was like OK let me just hop in and see if I could happen to get a class and I went straight to the website like I4 went the the queue because I I don't think that they set it up or something.

So I got in a class that way and that was very lucky and does not happen to me anymore. And then otherwise like you can go on and try and do the wait list and really more often than not you probably can get in. I remember last time I was in the studio there was. A gentleman there who was a Manhattan resident and he kind of was like, Oh yeah, like this is like my third class with Hannah this month or whatever, just like go on the wait list and stuff like that. Like I just kind of overheard him saying that he just hovers the wait list.

But it's a big commitment for people who travel in so and it's again a risk that you might not get in like, but I I was comfortable with the in studio thing. Like just riding in the showroom. So the one time I went in and on a wait list and that happened, I was like, this isn't the end of the world. I still met Becks, but what? I prefer to have a guaranteed spot, probably, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I so back in the times that I was in studio, so I haven't been to New York City since the pandemic, which has been a while. So I know and I need to get back, but but I went.

Gosh, I'm trying to think of the year. It must have been twenty. Well, I had my daughter in 2017, it's been 20/18/2018. I went a few times to the studio, but it was like the studio wasn't like it is now. It was like this tiny little it. It was like a spin studio, like any other place you would go, like a cycle bar or soul cycle. It's just the tiniest thing. You would never know. That when you go in the class, like it's like a studio production. It was just like the same kind of thing. You check in, you get your shoes, there's like a bar for smoothies and snacks, and then you just kind of wait around until it starts, which was really cool to be able to experience kind of the, like you said, OG experience.

So I've gotten to ride it was this was before the treadmill because they had a different studio for the tread then. So I never did a run in studio, just the bike. But I got to see Ally a couple times. Because, of course, my name's Allie and then she spells it the same. So I'm like, we're the same. I gotta go. And then Alex is the other one that I've been in. And I was in the front row. And I swear he's like sweating on me. And I was just like, loving every moment of it because I'm like, yes, you can sweat on me, I don't care.

And then Allie the first, the first ride I did in studio, I actually, like, kicked myself still. And it's weird that I think about it still. But I had, for some reason, I think I had a call for work. And so I had my husband. I'm like Zach. You got to get on the website because like unless I am on right away, like I won't be able to get my spot. And so he helped me sign up and he's like, which seat do you want? And I wanted to be in the center, which isn't. You want to be in the front row. You don't. It doesn't matter if you're in the center.

So I end up being in the 2nd row in the center when I could have been in the front row. I'm an idiot, but I still think about that, which is that weird. But I at least got to go back and be in the front anyway. It's such a cool thing because it's like meeting a celebrity, right? I mean, it really is. You've met so many of them and I feel like meeting Susie would have been amazing. What's the difference, would you say, between New York, London? So I feel like the the main difference that I think a member would experience is that there are no gendered like bathrooms and locker rooms, so it was like the shower area.

The showers were gorgeous in the London studios. I preferred them to the New York ones because they were an actual stall where it was like you, you go in, there's like a dry area and then then you step into a shower behind another wall so you can have all your stuff in there. And it's very private floor to ceiling door and stuff like that. And it's cool because when you lock it, like the outside of the door will glow red or like if it's open it's green. And I think it's not private because it's, you know, all gender. That was the biggest difference that a member would probably see that and the I suppose the space itself was kind of staggered and that the locker rooms are downstairs and like the studios was upstairs.

But Hilltown Studios New York is similar in that there's like 2 studios downstairs. Or excuse me, yeah, I know all the studios are pretty much one level minus like a few steps and then the locker rooms are male, female, but I did. Really enjoy the the showers at the at the London studios. They have the most amazing soap too. Just Europe in general. So you mentioned your boyfriend, so does he does he live there or just from there? He's from England, he's from Bristol, so it's like it's like an hour West. So that is where I took a coach from his home city to London, which was about a three hour bus ride each way.

But it was so worth it did. You schedule your run around the trip with him or vice versa. The around the trip with him, so yeah, he had a we had like a family trip that we were doing and I was like, OK, you have to understand, I'm going to. Like I'm going. Yeah, yeah, no, I he was just like yeah, I'm not going with you. I'm like you don't have to cuz he's not really a huge fan of London. But I'm like, I will go and live my dream. He knows how much I love Peloton. I like, I like forced him to start taking classes.

So every day he'll take like 210 minute classes at least. Yeah, he he likes, yeah, the strike of classes. He'll like take and just stream on the TV and I'm like, yes, yeah, converting. Yep. Yeah. My husband only did classes during the pandemic. So once the pandemic was over, he's really more of like an in studio person, which I understand. So that's okay. But he needs to put the account in my name, Damn it. Anyway, yeah, it's so funny. I couldn't anyway, so okay. So how? Let's see how much time we got. Not a ton of time. I'm so jealous that you met Susie, too.

She's my favorite. So who are your favorite instructors, though? Tell me that. Oh yes. So I mean, yeah, right now I think Susie is also my my favorite. But I do have a special bond to Jessims and Becks Gentry because they were my pretty much my go to's when I first started and they were my biggest just like support and like kind of getting out of like what felt like a really like. Big right. Of life, you know, So Jess Sims her all of her mantras, like speaking on making fun of mantras. Yeah, I love them so much. Like, yeah, they're absolutely incredible. And then Dex is just, I I still adore her so much.

She's just such an impressive person and she's she's so unique to me because I think that at first I didn't want to like her. I think I was very intimidated by her. So I was like, I don't know if I like you, but then I kept taking her classes and like, I guess I do. And she was like she was like so challenging. And then, you know, she kind of, like reveals her personality here and there, like throughout the classes. And I just think she's such an interesting person and very tactical and a great coach, great, you know, technical coach. So those are probably my three favorites.

But I mean. It's weird. Like, I feel like I really love them all. It's just there's people that I take more than I don't take. You know what I mean? Like, I don't take. I actually don't take a lot of Ally Love's classes, but when I do take her, I enjoy them. Yeah, just stuff like that. Yeah, it's funny. I don't take her as much anymore. I don't know. It is weird. Like, there's just certain people that are. My goto's for certain things and now I work with a running coach and she programs peloton for me. So she'll be like, OK today, like yesterday do a hit and hills, ride 45 minutes.

I'm like, OK, so I go in filter, find the hit and hills that are 45 minutes and then I kind of look and see OK, what do I want to do? And I actually did oh Samyo, I love Samyo is like low key, so good for me because at first I didn't think he would be able to like, motivate me because he's just so chill, like very soft spoken, quiet. But there's just something about him that like, yeah, I just really like him. So anyway, that's what I did yesterday. But I do. I'm kind of all over the board. And so it depends. Like, I won't go scrolling forever to find the class.

So kind of whatever pops up, like, I'll just choose between a few and then go from there. And I feel like some of the, like, Allie and Cody, like the OG instructors, like, aren't on the schedule as much. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like they don't have as many classes anymore. I don't know. I don't really pay attention. Yeah, I feel I I know what you mean because it's like sometimes I don't want to be, you know, paralyzed by indecision because that happens to me very easily. So it's kind of just like, OK, this fits what I need. It's 20 minutes. It's pop songs.

And I I like this person generally, like, so quick start or I'll be here for 20 minutes just just choosing a class. Yeah. But going back to you, that's so cool that you're running coach. Well, programmed peloton runs. For your training, because I was going to say I'm embarrassed that I don't really understand the like training breakouts. Like, you know, like 200 meters X this time at pace. I'm like, what does that mean? So like I did all my training, I would get like the training packet. I got the training packet that came with my registration for my half marathon. And then for my full marathon I downloaded run with Hal.

So it's like the how. That's what I did for my first, yeah. And then I just like supplemented with peloton classes and I don't know if that was good or bad. Like I mean some of it you can kind of figure out like okay. I was like I think that this is more Sprint work. So I'll do like a hit class, but then I don't know if it's really the appropriate. Dosage if I was, I felt like I kind of over trained in running and didn't cross train at half, right? Yes. Marathon cycle, yeah. Yeah, I I'm glad you brought that up because it's a good segue to talk about your actual races.

So you've done 1/2 marathon. Well, see, you said you've done 5K10K half and full. Where did you do your half and your full? My half was the NYC runs, not New York Rd. Runners, Brooklyn. Okay. So it was in April of 2022 and then the Jersey City Marathon I did in April of 2023 as my fall. This year, yeah, I remember seeing It's your first marathon, so you trained. Did you train primarily with peloton classes or wait, you said you used Hal. So would you? I used Hal. Would you do peloton classes for the distance or would you just kind of go out and go the distance or how did you how did you do that?

So yeah, I mean whatever the run was how app would say. And again, I probably did this terribly wrong, so anybody who's an actual technical runner might judge me. But if it was like whatever Hal said, you know, like 6 miles of what seemed to me to be like Sprint work, but you know, the first two were a warm up and whatever, I would just kind of like stack peloton classes. That kind of, to me, fit that mold. And then, yeah, on the longer long run days I would stack Peloton classes. So those 75 minute classes that dropped were just amazing. Yeah, so nice, so nice.

And yeah, I did the same thing pretty much for my half marathon too. I used Peloton the whole time. And did you do it like a mixture of inside and outside then? I did. So I would usually run the midweek, run speed work and stuff like that inside early in the morning before I worked. And then you know, because it's winter and it's like pitch dark outside and also I hate running in the cold, it hurts my lungs. But I would try usually to run my long runs outside if the weather was decent, just because running on a treadmill for more than I would say like more than 10 miles is torture.

Yeah, 10 miles is like 11:50. I'm like, OK, I can deal with this, but once once you hit 10, it's like, Get Me Out of here. Yeah, it's tough. Yeah, because it's like over a movie. I was like, if I can watch a movie because I actually, when I do have done long runs on the treadmill, I don't do classes. And mainly because I don't want to ignore the classes. And so if I'm just doing like, it's like 10 miles easy or whatever, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe when I train for my next marathon, I'll tell my coach like, hey. Like stack some random, like if you want me to do a certain type of workout, maybe like just give me some ideas on how I could do that with classes versus just doing the workout.

But it's funny you say like the Hal app and like the fact that there was different types of workouts because when I used the Hal Higdon training, it was like it just said. Monday, 3 miles. Tuesday, 4 miles or like whatever. There was like, no. So all I ever did when I first started running was just like the the mileage. And that was it. And I would run as fast as I could for that distance. And then that was that. So now I feel like, you know, I've training so much better and smarter with a coach because I actually now train the right way with a variety of workouts and a hell of a lot of easy miles, which it seems like you're kind of like me in the the competitiveness side or at least like competitive with yourself.

For me, it's like going easy has been really hard at times, but I've grown to love having easy miles because it's just like, I don't have to worry about it. I can just enjoy the miles and not have to beat up on myself if I'm not feeling good. And I can't hit a certain pace or whatever. Like you said, numbers, because numbers can really get in your head. Yeah. Yeah I no, I wholeheartedly agree like the even. Yeah. So the Hal Higden the the free training charts like what you said that just yeah the blanket like do this do this do this those are there.

But I guess I don't know the app must have been I think it's newer like as of the last two. Years or something, Yeah. It's like a $5 a month thing because I'm like, I would love the coach, but. I just, I'm just would want to find one. I think I found one online actually through Instagram that I might I might invest in in him for like 6 weeks just to see how it is. But I'm just like I don't have like $200.00 extra expenses like a few weeks to yeah to spare but I would love one because I feel like it would make me stronger.

But the what I liked about the Howell Higden app was that it did built it, built in the recovery runs. And something else giving me permission to run slower, which I think is the same way as what you're saying is like so important. And I think that that feedback I've been seeing a lot online lately too of people just, you know all these runners on Instagram being like, yes, most running is like in the 11 minute mile range from my marathon is like a my Boston qualified or whatever. And I'm like ohh, that's how it works. Like, I don't know, I thought. Yeah, like I was like, oh wow, it does feel so good.

And it's it reminds. And even now like I I've been feeling guilty about running much less than I was, you know, when I'm training and stuff. But even now, like just getting kind of back into stuff, it reminds me of how I felt when I started running, which was don't put pressure on yourself, just put music that you like on and move with the music in a way that feels good. And that's why I fell in love with running in the 1st place. It was meditative. It was a release. I could Daydream. I could. You know what I mean? I could just run out all this like gunk in my body, in my mind.

And when I when I focused too much on like, well, you know, two years ago I would run faster than this and this same kind of course and the same type of year. Like, what does that mean about me? Like, it doesn't mean anything. Shut up. Just do it. Like. Just run like all the you know. Inspirational memes that are like you're lapping the person on the couch or like a 10 minute mile is just as far as a 6 minute mile and it's like, well, it's all through and it is like you're moving your body. But yeah, I have to say that to myself all the time.

Because you know, even being so far removed from the times that we've talked about where it's been like really hard with food, whether you know the relationship with food and exercise as women as you know it's evolve, it's ever evolving and. You know, I always have to remind myself that, like, hello, you are 37. You have two children. Like, you are doing it. Just shut up. Like, you know. Yeah. So anybody listening who's like, oh, I don't, I barely do anything. I've never run a marathon. It's like, who cares? You're still a runner and if you move your body and you run, you are a runner.

Doesn't matter. Yeah. My little sister has run half marathons and she's like, well, I'm not really a runner. It's like, well, yeah, you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I I felt the same way when my first 10K, I was just like, I I don't belong here. Like I don't. I don't belong like I'm not a runner. What am I doing here? I was just like, yes you are. And then after when I was done with the race and I'll tell you when you like, I know you you asked about like songs and stuff like that. The song that played when I finished the the race.

Was so, like, perfectly emotional that I was just like, I want to cry. I believe in myself and that's like the stuff of, you know, that keeps like me going, yeah. Yeah, how many? How big is the Jersey City Marathon? You know this, it was like the first one that they that they had of this. I don't know if it's like the first of that particular organizer, but it was the 1st. One that they've had in a while from my understanding. So it but it was pretty big. I want to say there were shoot, I have to look it up. There was a few, a few 1000 people there though.

I want to say two to three, maybe even more. It was 1/2 marathon and a marathon though, so that might have been not why there was definitely a lot of half marathon runners. And so did you. I don't know the geography of where you live versus where Jersey City is. Was it a like hometown race for you? Did you just get to drive to the start or like take a train or bus to the start? How did that work? So I probably could have just driven, it would probably have been about an hour and a half's drive, 2 hour drive. But it was just like, I want to just be there early.

So I just opted to get an Airbnb. Yeah, yeah, I. Would have done the same thing, that there's too many things that can go wrong. In a drive like the morning of if it's anything over almost like I would say like over 30 minutes like even here I stayed downtown Indianapolis just because I was able to and it was so nice, just not to have to stress about where am I going to park and what's it going to be like and all that. It's just nice to be be close And so that was your first. Are you going to do, do you aspire to do more marathons or half marathons?

Like I guess this is a good segue into kind of what. What's next for you? What's your next finish line and peloton milestones? Yeah, Oh yeah, Peloton milestones. I love those. I want to keep those going as long as I can. But yeah, the the races, I don't have anything that I'm registered for yet. But I was looking, I'm thinking my next race would be 1/2 marathon just because I had. I have like a. Kind of a bad ankle and the marathon traumatized it and it was like very scary for me. So I'm, I'm terrified to like run again and injure myself. But I definitely want to do another marathon.

Like, no questions. I actually entered the lottery for the London Marathon, which nobody, I don't think anybody got in that that that I saw. Right. Who's running it? Because I don't think anyone got it. Everyone, everyone got the like sorry, not this time e-mail. I would love to run New York. I would love to. I would love to run Boston. But you know. How that is right. Yep, that's the builder for that. Yeah, I'm like that's that's it really is a Unicorn race. Like that's just chasing the Unicorn hardcore. But yeah, like I'm I'm really not against running anywhere. The only races that I I'm like on the fence about getting into is like trail running.

Just because I think it sounds so fun. But I I would again worry I'm a very clumsy person so and I have floppy ankles so I'm like I don't want to like break my ankle. But those seems so fun because they're just distracting and you're just constantly zeroed in and even like ultra marathons I would consider if again like I continue to run in my ankle seems like it's OK and I get like that right balance because I know those you. Actually can take it a lot easier pace wise or it's less pace focus than our Rd. races and I feel like that would be really fun and I'm definitely curious like on the logistics of that.

Like I just feel like it's more of a team event you're, you know, you're just around more people sometimes you camp and stuff like depending on how long it is, some of those races. So those I'm definitely curious about, but I think that next will be just another half marathon maybe in Atlantic City. Nice. Yeah. I find half search is such a nice distance because they're challenging for sure, but not like to the point of, yeah, injury necessarily. And then yeah, the marathon just takes a lot of time too, as you you are well aware. Yeah, I was just looking at your profile because on Peloton, because you just celebrated 1200 runs, you've done over 1000 strength classes, which is amazing.

And stretching over 400 stretches, stretching. Stretches. Oh my gosh. That's a lot. The stretches are phenomenal and I've taken a lot. The stretching and foam rolling. I take a lot of Hannah Corbin stretches but yeah cuz my hips gets super tight. So I need. To do that, it's it's, they're, they're they were really just a heaven set. When I was marathon training. I was just like rolling around on the floor every day. Yeah, yeah. Well, and I'm almost I, so I will be celebrating 300 runs soon. I'll have to. You'll see on Instagram as I get closer and figure out hopefully, I don't forget the last two milestones I had on the Tread.

I forgot like, how do you do that? But I do a lot of just running because of the workouts that my coach gives me. So I'll just jump on the tread and then I get off and I'm like, God damn it. And I don't want to delete it anyway, That's that. But yeah, that'll be soon. So hopefully we can get on a live ride, run, run, not ride together would be fun. Okay. So what song was it that played at the end of your marathon or the end of your race? It was If I Lose Myself by One Republic, it was the original version and not like there's like a more popular version that's like a remix by Alesso.

But this was the original version and I love that song because the bridge of it is like very inspiring. The lyrics are take us down and we keep trying 40,000 feet, keep flying. And it's just like, it was so nice that, like, that's the lift that happened when I finished the race. And I was just like, Oh my God, they did it. It was like, oh, nice, yeah, yeah, I love it. Well, congratulations on that huge accomplishment. Finishing a full marathon is for, yeah, not the faint of art. And 1200 runs, that's so cool. I still am just in awe of that. As I said, I'm almost at 300, which feels like so many.

But it's. Yeah, there's always it's it's all relative, I suppose, but I'm excited for that. Well, thank you for spending this time with me. I just as you've heard me say, I love talking about running and I especially love talking about Peloton. There's a special place in my heart for all things Peloton. So I'm so glad that I've gotten a chance to get to know you better. Outside of Instagram and hopefully, who knows, one day I got to get back in New York City and I got to get in that studio somehow. But I don't know. That feels so impossible. But we shall see. So.

No, I think you can make it happen. I hope you. I hope you get to for sure. Figure it out. Figure it out for sure. All right. Well, everybody, thank you for listening to this episode with Teddy, and I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and happy running. Yep, that's running. Thank you. Yep, Yep, Yep, we did it.

Ally Brettnacher