 Not running shoes They're ready for this Remember ladies and gentlemen, I am striving to be lazy a hundred percent. I promise yesterday Yes, yesterday was a very good day of laziness today is also gonna be good But I got to get this rope up the boys have been egging me on for days now to get this rope up So all right, let's go. Anyway, this is the last project. I I promise. I really do promise Emily's home. That's right getting groceries for the adventure coming up. Love you So we're just getting getting ready Getting ready. All right. Yeah, let me go get time. Let me get Michael But I'm but I'm but I Put it get out. You've got them. Oh boy You are show them Look what Joseph has. Wow. That is so cool. It's not listening We're not I'm telling you guys you don't need much in this world. All you need parents out there Just buy a rope. It's endless endless hours of entertainment Yeah, burn and energy working on muscles And we're back ladies and gentlemen. All right talking about running and family life balance and all that good stuff Now we're sharing a hot mic here hot mic hot mic And we dinner was amazing. That's why my shirt is filled with sriracha sauce. That's real life right there. That's kids So before we dive in I do want to read a quick comment from Northern Ireland just came in today from Alexander listen to this and it connects to today's topic about family life Running so she said just wanted to say hi from Northern Ireland I will receive a bargain pair of new balance bongos for 60 pounds tomorrow. She's an overpronator Which those are stabilized new balance shoes. Just so you know, she has four kids So she finds it hard to justify spending a lot on herself for shoes But my running shoes are utterly battered Elda's daughter is 18 in college and has really got into her running despite having a medial Amputation of her right foot. She is loving the Pegasus 35s With orthotics and I bought her a pair of wild horse wild horse fives Good job for cross-country after seeing my review and she says they are fantastic. Thank you so much for your work Oh, and please thank true love for all her work, too It can't be easy getting the oh, sorry, there's something covered it getting the right balance. I think she says Blessings. Thank you Alexander. So you're right. Yeah, what's your maiden name? Put a camera on someone Sweeney my maiden name is Sweeney and her mom's side of the family is maher maher. So you're our people very Irish here Very Irish here based on what do you think about being married to an avid runner? Yes, and what is like some Maybe a little advice you would give to spouses out there Or maybe their spouse is getting into running okay, and like as far as like supporting them or helping them Do well in their training do well in their racing any thoughts you want to give about family life balance with running, okay? Great question. Oh, should I hold it? Basically? I love you. I love my runner husband, and I think first of all as far as a passion as something that you a hobby if you can call it a hobby like that something that draws you in and gives you life and Renews you. I mean what an amazing choice. It's healthy. It's Simple it requires so few things like we live in Colorado and there's so many skiers and there's like dirt bikers Oh my gosh, it's like eight hundred dollars just for like one weekend to do something and oh my favorite my favorite Yeah, is how fun it is. It's a family like when he has a race We the whole family comes not just us and our children but his siblings and Nieces and nephews and extended family and other friends, and it's such an awesome. It's like Communio it draws its community. It helps us all be together. It's not like oh husband's off doing his thing We're here doing our thing we it's like brings us all together, and I love that and the boys for them to see sorry for them to see Just the competitiveness the perseverance and like that time he fell. Oh, and if you ask me Well, okay, but he did such a great job that so many times he got right back up and was a great sportsman and So many times he said to the boys like oh and when demors fall we get back up And they actually saw that they saw him fall and get back up and finish the race and that there's not like it's not this intense Pressure and oh my gosh. It's just like its perspective and cut to the last race The true love was cheering at for not even myself for Joseph Barton. Let's listen to true love cheering Joseph Barton into the finish So that was true love cheering Joseph on through the finish line You can I was standing probably a good hundred meters away at least and true loves cheer or not It just is so fun so much passion Now what is one challenge that might arise with family life balance with running that you have noticed like just a little bit of a challenge Well, I I think it's hard like you I want to have healthy stuff available. Oh bless you. That's a challenge Okay, two thoughts came to mind the first is very simple of just like making sure to have good healthy food and not Buying like Oreos. Yeah, because which is smart and it's we love Oreos And we love less than Oreos, but that's so it's healthy for everybody But I just that can be I like I'm tempted or sometimes you'll see the covered stock with processed food So yeah, that's one thing and then The second thing a challenge is of course I think it's I get sad or disappointed when like you're disappointed So like if when your injury came or when you know, like something didn't go the way you wanted in a run or the Nutrition didn't hit your body in the right way or something like that. That's always sad bummer Because you've I've seen how hard you've worked, but I think you of course You're the first one to be like well, you know, that's life and here's something positive or at least we have our health Or at least we're all together or you know, so and in order to strike that balance Yeah with training with work with taking care of the house With being with a family like what? How does that go okay? I thought was thinking of this earlier when I was nursing Michael I think you do such a great job of trying you do babe. You crush it. Oh, he crushes it You do babe, but the idea of like pockets of time so carb it so like on a weekend Especially when Michael was first born or when I was pregnant Like I would put the big boys down for nap and I would go down for nap So husband was like primed and ready to have that moment be when his run was maybe it was raining out Maybe the Sun was beating down it didn't matter because that was what was the time best for the family for him to zip off So that was the time he zipped off for his run and I think other little pockets of time where nap time is critical Yeah, yeah where where there's like a pause or it's like natural downtime in the family You're ready to go with a workout or a stretching or a cool down or you're always kind of like ready and you fit It into the blocks that work best for us versus like here's what's best for me as a runner and making us fit around that You know what I'm saying? So that's amazing I think you do a great job with that and then I think a gift of running of just that mental processing So like if I had like what we have date night every week crushing it. Love you So if I bring up something I'm worried about one of our kids in this way or this came up And what do you think how should we handle this like then when you're out for a run You can come back the next day and be like oh, here's three solutions or here's how I see it Or it's like mental process which you'd have to do anyway But now you're getting a run in and your processing Yeah, and you're coming up with solutions for my problems. Yeah. Thank you And then the other thing I thought of was oh the net balance So like for instance if you know, you're you're gonna be try pause up pause motorcycle coming by pause a little too loud And we're back basically the idea of the net balance that When I guess this was more about like work because running sort of like work But that even though you like work so hard I feel like every minute of every second of every day you're working really hard Yeah, but you already we've already knew at the beginning of the summer We had our bail week into a we're camping. We're going home to Chicago Like you've carved out these big chunks where it's just like obviously you'll run still but where there's so much Total presence available for all of us And I think if you look at that like okay the net of the summer that balance and how you do that I think it's a really good job Thanks, we're trying and I think as an endurance athlete you are very driven for anyone out there Like that's part of being in a long distance runner and ultra runner a marathoner and so Sometimes it's a little challenging to unplug that drive on the weekends or on a vacation Even where you're just chilling out and relaxing So I have to work on that quite often where and you can probably relate to it all the like runner like this And it's a good thing. It's better. I'd rather be like driven than not driven. Yeah in this world Better to be driven, you know, it's either who wants to wake up on Sunday and run 20 miles and negative 20 degree Weather not many people. Yeah, so it's a but it's bad it's that balance of knowing when to pull off the gas making sure you don't get injured sometimes so It's always a little bit of a challenge, but I don't anyway. That's part of being an endurance and Competitive I think it's so amazing that the virtue Lived by you people the perseverance you're driven your like toughness in pain You push your pain and also perspective and I think too of like I remember back in college I you have all this stuff too And I would just kind of like procrastinate and then do all do it all at once and I feel like you this type of soul right here you like do the hard stuff you do it first you get it done and Then you can enjoy the rest of the time, which I admire that and I think it's inspiring Yes, you can draw other people do that. Yeah. Yeah So those are just a few reflections we could talk as we say all night about family life balance running Key word true love key word is going to be Pockets. Oh pockets of time. Yes. I like it. I like it And I Take it away now Question of the day What is your number one challenge for balancing family life and running and what is your like action item? Number one action item for overcoming that challenge This is where the parents out there and maybe who soon to be parents. Maybe you're recently married Maybe you're engaged who know maybe you know whatever you can learn as well down in the comments And we appreciate you being here. All right. See beauty work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow All right. See you guys And we're back. You don't have to put them in but just as far as like what the spouse can do for a runner Superside I feel like when I ask you like what what do you need or what would be best for you? Like for instance learning that even like three days to four days before a race Don't bring up giant concerns you have with the kids that can wait until the following week or minor concerns Because this guy he's trying to get in the zone and if it's something that can just wait versus like I'm Irish Oh shout out and it's like stream of consciousness JD Salinger. I'm like, but hey, what about this? What about this? Oh, yeah, this he came up this kid. What about this? What about this boundary? What about the da-da-da-da-da and he's like Sure, you know, it's like too much for he's trying to process Zone zone zone simple races are okay. Yeah, it's like Pete like cookie chase 5k That's okay. No thing peak race like I do like to get in the zone and like some people have asked Hey, let's hang out like let's have a meet-up before a race, but I'm not in the zone Just want to focus after the race where we can absorb all that right and honestly It's he's still totally present and available and if there was something I was concerned about But I just don't bring up something that you can just talk about the next week. Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate that Now we're down