Run Eat Drink Podcast
Welcome to the Run Eat Drink Podcast! This is the podcast where we embark on exciting adventures, combining our love for running, delicious food, and tasty beverages. Whether you’re an elite runner aiming for victory or just starting your “Couch to 5K” journey, we’ve got something for you. Let’s dive into the three pillars of our show:
Accomplish (Run): Accomplishment is deeply personal. Are you eyeing a race series win, planning your next “run-cation,” or hoping to set a personal record in your next half-marathon? Each week, we feature fantastic destination races from around the country. Discover scenic courses, learn about the charities they support, and get inspired to lace up those running shoes. And when we’re not on the road, we share interviews, training tips, and insights from our own running journey.
Explore (Eat): Running and traveling go hand in hand. As we explore new places, we also explore local cuisine. We seek out hidden gems—the eateries that locals rave about. Bold flavors, interesting dishes, and passion for food—that’s what we’re after. After each race, join us as we wander the city streets, discovering post-race refueling spots. Whether it’s a gastropub, a food truck, or a cozy café, we’ve got dining options to satisfy your cravings.
Indulge (Drink): When the running is done, it’s time to unwind. We raise our glasses to celebrate our accomplishments. Local breweries, coffee shops, speakeasies, and watering holes—these are our destinations. From craft beers to artisanal cocktails, we explore the beverage scene. Cheers to a well-deserved drink after crossing the finish line!
Join us on this journey of accomplishment, exploration, and indulgence. Whether you’re a seasoned runner or a curious foodie, there’s a place for you at the Run Eat Drink Podcast.
Run Eat Drink Podcast
Running Through Grief: Finding Comfort in Community
This episode reflects on personal loss and the power of community. As we reconnect with our listeners, we emphasize the important role of running in navigating grief and honoring loved ones.
• Desire to return to the podcast after bereavement
• Reflection on memories of loved ones and running friends
• Importance of community support in times of loss
• Upcoming topics for episodes
• Inviting you to share your runcation recap stories
• Focus on managing grief through running and training
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Hi, I'm Jeff Galloway and you are listening to the Run Eat Drink podcast. Welcome to the Run Eat Drink podcast. We feature destination races from across the country and after the race, we take you on a tour of the best local food and beverage to celebrate. So, whether you are an elite runner or a back of the packer like us, you'll know the best places to accomplish, explore and indulge on your next runcation. Hey, welcome to Not Yet episode 300. And I'm your longtime absent host Amy. Yes, we celebrated 300 episodes in 2024 and we can't thank everybody enough for all the support, all the encouragement and all your patience here at the beginning of 2025.
Speaker 1:Most of you know, if you're longtime listeners to the show, that my father went into the hospital on Christmas Day and passed away on January 4th and his memorial was February 7th. We put the show on hold for the first couple of months in 2025, for the first couple of months in 2025. And my dad was always an avid lover of technology, very passionate about In fact, he was the one, the first one to show me about podcasting and embrace it. And somewhere out there in the ether is a podcast called Teach your Tech Bytes. That was a brainchild between us, between my dad and me, and in this really difficult time when I miss him more than I can say, when I miss him more than I can say, coming back to podcasting feels like reconnecting with him, and I want to reconnect with everyone in the Runcation Nation. We have missed accomplishing, exploring and indulging with you. We missed a big opportunity, no pun intended the Big Beach Marathon weekend and a shout out to first time half marathoner Eric and congratulations to everybody in the Runcation Nation who came along for that meetup that we could not come to because we were taking care of family and going through that tremendous loss, and dana is currently out of town. So I am recording this not an episode to tell you what's been going on, but solo. But he will be back very soon, this weekend, and we will be back to recording episodes. In fact, we have an interview coming up in the feed from Jessica Harley running gal on Instagram and Eric. They're going to recap the big beach marathon weekend with us. That's going to be our first episode back. We have to get that recorded with them. We are trying to catch up with them and we just want to shout out Jessica and everybody in the Runcation Nation who contributed to the gift baskets that Jessica brought to the house for me and for Dana. So shout out to everybody who got together and contributed to these. We haven't opened them yet and we want to open them on a live and we are in transition and getting hooked up with a new live streaming platform, so hopefully we will be back to live streaming as well in the coming couple of weeks heading into March.
Speaker 1:March is really our month to gear back up and I know that many of you are headed to the Little Rock Marathon weekend and we love that. That's on our bucket list. We want to wish everybody luck there. I think Susie is getting her next state in her 50 state journey and hopes to finish her 50 state journey with Hawaii, and I think that would be a great way to honor Darlene, a member of the Runcation Nation that we lost also in January.
Speaker 1:So 2025 has been a difficult year to start off with, but we are so lucky and we are so blessed to be a part of this Runcation Nation community and, as I look at these gift baskets that we will unbox on a live stream with you all, I can't tell you how much all of your text messages and phone calls and letters and cards and just direct messages and text messages and I've probably said things twice, but any way that anybody reached out to us to let us know about Darlene who passed away, who we miss, and she'll always be. She will always be much like Rob Nadeau, a member of the Runcation Nation, and I think that they are somewhere taking beautiful photographs and baking and loving life and hopefully they get to be my dad, but yeah, so it's been a hopefully they get to be my dad, but yeah, so it's been a little bit challenging to get back to running training and it's the loss of anybody close to you. I think it changes your world, it changes your life. But I think that in thinking about this podcast and connecting with my dad on technology like we always used to do, he was so great to me when we were at Moffitt together for the month he was up there for that treatment that gave us additional time to be with him and fought off the cancer a little bit longer. He watched me record an episode with Dana while I was up there with him and I was in the hotel room and if you go back and look at that video, I don't have to dig to see what episode number it was, but you can see my dad waving from the bed in the background and I think we were recapping Gasparilla and our unique meetup where Dana ran in a pirate costume and with Darlene and Jojo and Susie and Dawn, our skipping runner, and it just and Jessica or Jesse I always call her Jessica, but I know a lot of you call her Jesse and so just everybody that was at that weekend.
Speaker 1:I think of all these things because guessilla weekend just went off this last weekend. Congratulations to anybody who went and partook there and best of luck to all of you who are going to races this weekend, including Little Rock, and I know that I said that at least to Susie, and I know that I said that at least to Susie and I'm updating you and weaving in some shout outs, if you will, and some really heartfelt thanks and I think, in addition to starting up our episodes again and capturing some Runcation recaps that we really wanted to, and capturing some Runcation recaps that we really wanted to, like Big Beach that's coming, and some others that we wanted to get on the books from around the world They'll be coming up in March as soon as we get people back in the country and recording with them after they have experienced amazing race weekends. So that's coming up and we're going to get our race calendar going again. I just reached out to Jeff Galloway, america's coach and our coach and friend, who said I can think of no better way to celebrate your father than to continue to do your podcast and feel that connection with technology and to run in 2025, or run, walk, run, he says, in different races throughout the year. And a caller reached out to me on the phone as she was heading to Gasparilla the year.
Speaker 1:And a caller reached out to me on the phone as she was heading to Gasparilla and she said I just want to give you a call and see how you're doing and check in with you, just like Susie, just Jojo, just like Dawn, who sent a wonderful card, and Meg, who reached out, and just Pam and Ariel from Pure Creative Apparel. And I can't I know I'm going to leave people out and I don't mean to do that, but to everybody, you know who you are, who has contributed to these, who, all of you who contributed to the baskets and who reached out and connected, and just I in all the different ways that you have not just the basket but and not just letters or cards or phone calls just seeing some of you show up at my dad's memorial service or watch it on the Facebook live stream that and send messages to me about the service and about the memories we shared, and the fellow coaches and players and students and teachers and just my fellow former co-workers and current co-workers who reached out and sent flowers and sent plants and just keep checking in on me. I just cannot thank you enough. And I reached out to Jeff and I'm still e-coaching with him and he said let's get you back out there. And I know that I'm combating some injury still and so is Dana. So I know he's taking a step back from the running, but he says he'll still do the eating and drinking portions of the show. He will make the sacrifice and come on the show and talk about some of these delicious things that we have gotten and some places that he has been to explore and indulge.
Speaker 1:And we can't wait to get back to talking with all of you about running, about where to go to have that big celebratory meal or that little celebratory bagel or maybe just that buffet at the post hotel after a race or the post-race party, and where to have the ideal cup of coffee after the long or short races where you have accomplished. A cup of coffee, a Bloody Mary to honor Darlene. We've seen that, we've seen JoJo celebrate 10 years at St Jude and running as a St Jude hero, and there are just so many people in our lives that we would not be connected to if you hadn't found our podcast and stayed committed to listening and downloading and showing up at races to meet and run and support each other, or support each other virtually on a live, when you couldn't travel to a race or run, virtually like we did in 2020. There are so many memories that are in our feed at runeatdrinknet and on any podcatcher. As Dana would say, we have missed it so much and we appreciate your patience as we take care of what we need to take care of. So many of you have said, hey, take care of yourself, take care of family, and we cannot thank you enough for that. And you have definitely put together a basket to honor our little tagline, which is accomplish, explore and indulge, and I can tell you my father accomplished so much in his life and his Darlene did a marathon in every state. My dad had many challenges in the marathon of his life, including the big one there at the end with cancer, which stage four non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and I, just when I look at all the gifts and all the communication, I can just see that you have honored his memory, his accomplishments and his life and you're supporting us and we can't tell you how much we love you and how much we appreciate you and how much we cannot wait to get back to accomplishing, exploring and indulging with you.
Speaker 1:We are just starting back slowly and we are going to do Runcation recaps with everybody who has been out there running. So run, walking or just walking, not just walking, because walking is completing too. It doesn't matter how slow it is. A mile is a mile, as we say. We are back of the Packers through and through.
Speaker 1:So if you would like to contribute a Runcation recap, we would love to have it. Please reach out to us. Info at runeatdrinknet that's info at runeatdrinknet. At runeatdrinknet. That's info at runeatdrinknet. Or you can give us a call at 941-677-2733. Leave us a message, send us a text, let us know you're interested, or you can reach out on any social channel that we have and let us know that you're interested.
Speaker 1:Drop a comment in a post or send us a DM. Or you don't say tweet at us anymore. Do you say X at us? I'm not really sure what the lingo with the cool kids are saying these days, but let us know if you would like to contribute. We would love to have it.
Speaker 1:It inspires us, it gets us back into the groove as we restart the training, or as I restart the training plan, very slowly and starting with small, short distances and building up in a healthy and safe way, as Jeff Galloway always recommends way, always recommends.
Speaker 1:So share your journeys with us and we will share our training with you as we prepare to get back out there and take a runcation with you in the near future really soon.
Speaker 1:So be on the lookout again for shows in our feed and we cannot thank you enough for all the love and support, all the food and beverage and it's.
Speaker 1:I think getting back to running is going to be a really healthy way to get something accomplished for the emotional, mental and physical health of grief, recovery and for training and having a goal and looking forward to ways that I can feel connected to my father and all that he overcame in his life and all he accomplished in his life get connected to you all in our community again.
Speaker 1:And yeah it just. There has been an absence and a hole where our coffee chats and our live chats and our shows have been, and we can't wait to get back to it and to share in the struggles and agonies of training around injuries and very safely, and also celebrating accomplishments in training runs and in initial races that we come back to. We are so thankful to all of you for everything and we can't wait to record these upcoming episodes and release them, and we want to say that we appreciate your patience and support, all of our patrons that we owe content to for the last couple of months, all of you in the Runcation Nation on our Facebook group and on our social media channels. We just really appreciate the support and the connection and we can't wait to accomplish, explore and indulge with you really soon.
