Full Transcript for Perfect Weather, Idyllic Town,  Ends In A Medical Emergency

pizza shop. But to think that it all came from a real place in a real town that is true to form. 00:05:26 Speaker 4: I think that's so cool. So yeah, it was exciting to me to go back. 00:05:29 Speaker 3: I admit I felt a little school girlish. I did my selfie with the Mystic Pizza behind me, and it was fun to actually see it. 00:05:36 Speaker 2: Okay, well you were feeling that. I felt nothing because this. I mean, it's cute and it's cool. But it was that thing that we were sitting in the restaurant at one point and saying, hey, babe, this is not my thing, but I love that you're into it. I use the comparison if this was a diehard restaurant, I would be going crazy right now and you would be looking at me like. 00:05:54 Speaker 1: I was nuts. That's what it was. 00:05:56 Speaker 2: So I understand and I respect the town. Take the Mystic Pizza, which is a movie I had no idea about before a week ago. Take that out of the equation, and the town is cool. It's legit, it's fun. I would recommend it to anybody. 00:06:09 Speaker 1: It was about. 00:06:10 Speaker 2: It's about a two two and a half hour drive if you don't hit bad traffic, but it can certainly take you three hours and a little over if you do hit some bad traffic. That's that, but it does have rogues. We didn't know. When we told folks we were going to miss the Connecticut. The first thing out of most of our friends' miuths was the aquarium. 00:06:27 Speaker 1: Like, wait, what as an aquarium? 00:06:29 Speaker 3: Yes, and it was awesome. We were told it was a must see. 00:06:33 Speaker 1: It's not a rinky ink. This is the real deal. It's a cool and what's. 00:06:36 Speaker 3: Cool about it is that I would say, well half of it, or at least maybe a little less and half of it is outside. 00:06:42 Speaker 4: And so we happened to go on a beautiful day. 00:06:44 Speaker 3: We got just blessed with perfect weather this weekend, and we got to see beluga whales. And I mean I would not think you could go to Mistic, Connecticut and see beluga whales, but they were there, and just it was fun to walk around, to see the excitement and exuberance from little kids. It was sharks. I mean, we had a we had a we love an aquarium, So an aum that was maybe more of a draw for you. The Mystic Aquarium, Oh yeah, versus a mystic pizza for me. 00:07:10 Speaker 2: And I didn't know, but it is one of the coolest things they do in town. That drawbridge It sounds silly, but where else can you go in the country really that we have access to like that, that you go to a place where there is a functioning drawbridge that you can sit there and watch function all day long. 00:07:26 Speaker 3: Yes, and they set up restaurants strategically around the Mystic River, and so we actually were eating lunch watching the drawbridge go up and down. And this main street, it actually is main street has all of these cute shops, like you pointed out, mom and pop shops, but as you're just walking down the street going from store to store, you'll just look up and see the drawbridge and it's just I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. 00:07:50 Speaker 1: No, it is. It's kind of amazing. 00:07:52 Speaker 2: It's because it's not this huge bridge kind of a thing, but you hear it, you see and you it's just. 00:07:58 Speaker 4: You're cranking up. 00:07:59 Speaker 3: It is. 00:08:00 Speaker 2: It stops traffic on the main drag at forty after the hour on the hour from May to October is how they do it. So boat traffic has to get in and out of that little marina there. So this bridge has been there since nineteen twenty two. They refurbished the thing and it functions. It works and to sit there and watch. It's just cool to sit there and watch. So this little town is as charming and cute as anything. So we were having the weekend of our lives. 00:08:27 Speaker 3: Yes, And I remember one of the other draws I thought to this race and that I mentioned to you, was well, it's along the coast. It's right there in coastal Connecticut. It can't be hilly, so this should certainly be a flat race. I didn't and you know, you can look up the race route, but it's not like I saw elevation. And I didn't do enough of research to actually realize what we were getting into. 00:08:53 Speaker 4: And it's probably best. 00:08:54 Speaker 3: It was probably for the best that we didn't know that this was one of the hilliests. No, you know what, this was the hilly lliest race and certainly the hilliest half marathon that I personally have ever run. 00:09:06 Speaker 1: You know, the head's up. 00:09:09 Speaker 2: If we'd have known ahead of time, it would have given us anxiety about it, yes, going into it, But this race, our anxiety probably didn't hit probably a few miles in, and it hit every time we saw a new hill, because when you see I mean, we do races and you. 00:09:24 Speaker 1: Go over a bridge. 00:09:25 Speaker 2: Sometimes that's gonna be a little elevated, so you'll hit them every once in a while. Time we hit the first couple and fine, it's it's gonna be what it is. I almost say the second half of that race, you felt like you were constantly going up and down and up and down, and these inclines were significant. 00:09:41 Speaker 1: It made for a difficult run. 00:09:42 Speaker 3: It was like a roller coaster run, is what it felt like to me, and I think we both talked about it. There was a particular hill from mile nine to ten. It's not what you want at the end of a race. And you know, if this is the reason why I am so shied away from even trying to get into the Boston Marathon, because they always talk about the hills. 00:10:00 Speaker 4: They talk about the. 00:10:00 Speaker 3: Hill at the very end, and that is so intimidating to me because we like to run on the West Side Highway, which is so flat. So yeah, I think that might have prevented me from signing up had I known just how hilly this race was. 00:10:13 Speaker 2: Now we know we made it through, but it was We've said this before. We Hyde

Park actually in London, huge park. Yes, you ever go to London, you got to stop, buy and see it. But that's almost impossible to see all of it. We ran fourteen miles and a training run in London years ago getting ready for. 00:10:31 Speaker 4: America before Good Morning America. 00:10:32 Speaker 2: Yes, but yeah, before we had to go to work. We did this, and we always said, Wow, what a blessing. We got to see more Highe Park than most people get to see. We saw all of mister Connecticut. We did, and that's the part that I do really appreciate for what we did. We got to tour that place maybe like few people get a chance to. 00:10:49 Speaker 4: Do, yes, And that's always something I love people. 00:10:52 Speaker 3: I know some people roll their eyes and make fun of people who vacation and race or run or you know, basically tie the two together. But I always do think as a tourist, as a visitor, when you can run, even if it's just a couple of miles around a city, you can see it in a way you just can't from a taxi or even on foot, because you go further and you go places maybe you wouldn't. 00:11:13 Speaker 4: Have gone otherwise. 00:11:14 Speaker 3: And so we got to see these beautiful homes with these sweeping views and these gorgeous marshlands, and you know, maybe on a bike, sure you could see it all, but if there's something about being on foot and breathing in the air and just working to see all of these gorgeous sites and sounds. I really tried to take in the weather and the beauty of the place. 00:11:35 Speaker 2: The weather was great, that cooperated perfectly for us. Would you say we had great weather. We want to give them credit there for how they organize this event. They don't shut down the town almost at all for this thing. You know, if you're in New York, you do have marathon full marathon. 00:11:49 Speaker 1: Hey, there are. 00:11:49 Speaker 2: Street closures you want to avoid the city during those times. Roads we were running sometimes down the road and traffic going right by. 00:11:58 Speaker 3: There is only one stretch that felt slightly like wooh is this safe. But the rest of it they did such a good job and wooded paths and kind of just winding us all around the area. 00:12:08 Speaker 4: It was absolutely sunning. 00:12:09 Speaker 3: And yeah, when we were done around nine am, by the time we got back into our vehicle and we're driving back, the race was done like they had been in and out. It was very efficient. 00:12:19 Speaker 1: And so we mentioned the aquarium. Where was the start in the finish. 00:12:22 Speaker 3: Line, The aquarium, and we were like, how are they going to do this with all the people who you knew were signed up for tickets? The aquarium opens at ten am. Guess what went off without a hitch And they did it right. 00:12:35 Speaker 1: That was so I would give them credit. It was awesome. 00:12:37 Speaker 2: So everything we describe here, it sounds like a wonderful, wonderful weekend to go spend in Mystic. We ran a half marathon, something we love to do. We finished that half marathon in decent time given the hills. Everything went great. But stand by. After the break, we'll explain why one of us was up chucking behind the truck and one of us had a medical emergency in a restaurant, and we'll also get Robot's opinion of Mystic pizza. The restaurant is that pizza? Any good? 00:13:10 Speaker 1: Stay there? 00:13:20 Speaker 3: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We're talking about our Mystic Connecticut weekend where yes, we did start and finish our half marathon there, and we had a lot of fun in between. But it was what happened after the marathon that many of you might say, explain to me why you do this again? 00:13:39 Speaker 1: Okay? Can we start with it. 00:13:41 Speaker 2: It's probably the trickiest thing, or one of the trickiest things for runners robes is not the day of the race, but two days before, and certainly the day before. You're always debating about what is the right way to fuel, what should I put in my body? How much should I put in my body? And then the next morning how much should I Because you're running thirteen miles, you don't want to hold lot on your stomach, but you want enough to fuel you as well. So that's how at least the night before you were insistent upon getting you some pizza. 00:14:09 Speaker 3: Yes, because I had pizza the last two half marathons and had no issues, and so I knew this, And I just do a margarita pizza. No heavy toppings, no meat, no none of that. Just try to keep it nice and light. But a little carbie. And I'm not somebody who eats carbs, typically not that much at least, so I thought I had a full proof method in front of me in a town and at a restaurant known specifically for its pizza. 00:14:37 Speaker 1: So we did. 00:14:38 Speaker 2: We had mystic pizza. The night before. You were fueled. I felt fueled. I ate plenty the day before, I didn't have pizza, but I ate as much as I wanted and put everything and didn't pay attention to it too much. Now the next morning you are much better than I am when it comes to or more particular about what you put in your body before race. 00:14:56 Speaker 3: Well, it's just that I know that I cannot function. I can't do thirteen ports one miles without fueling something. So I really I just had a banana and then I had some water. But look, it is interesting when you are a runner. Yes you have kind of your go tos, but it always has to be slightly amended based on the terrain and the weather, the heat, the humidity, all of that matters for me. 00:15:18 Speaker 4: I don't know how much Does it matter as much for you? Which part the heat, the heat, the humidity. 00:15:22 Speaker 3: Does it change how you fuel? Does it change whether or not you think you need water. 00:15:25 Speaker 2: You've been running side by side with me for five years almost now, I've done ninety percent of my runs. I really do think in the last five years with you, you know it

doesn't make a difference. 00:15:35 Speaker 1: You know I fuel the same way heat. Sometimes I think about this. 00:15:39 Speaker 4: You don't fuel like in the morning, you do not drink. You do not eat. You really don't do anything before half. 00:15:44 Speaker 2: This is the first one. I potentially had nothing, and it went well for me. The race actually went well. So where let's go through where we end up. I've had a foot injury. We've talked about for a long time, so my foot was bothered me. That's normal. But still for the first eight miles of it, I wasn't in much pain, So that was a wind for me. Yeah, weather's great. We're in a new town. I'm feeling great. 00:16:07 Speaker 1: I was singing. 00:16:08 Speaker 4: You were singing ten. 00:16:10 Speaker 2: Eleven miles into this thing. I am singing with the music in my headphone. That's how well things were going. Now, during the race, you had a couple of issues pop up, and I saw you pop a couple of things. 00:16:20 Speaker 1: You can explain. 00:16:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, So I just battle nausea. That's what my body. 00:16:24 Speaker 3: That how, that's how it responds to getting pushed a little further than it would like to be. I guess at certain points, so I have I have these anti nauseas. They dissolve in my mouth, and I took two of them during the race and I was fine. I made it through. I didn't The hills were tough for me. I struggle with the hills. I think everything else was fine. So we finished the race and we're both kind of in okay shape. 00:16:48 Speaker 1: Can I ask your water. I could didn't see you drink water. 00:16:50 Speaker 3: I didn't really drink much. I didn't stop at one water station, but I did. I had a little bottle of water that just made me feel good. But I was afraid of drinking too much water and getting nauseated. Okay, so I didn't. I only like wet my mouth. I did not actually drink and I probably was. 00:17:03 Speaker 1: A mistake and that worked for you. 00:17:05 Speaker 2: Well. 00:17:05 Speaker 4: I didn't get I didn't get sick during yet during the race. 00:17:08 Speaker 2: That's a big deal because we have had races to where you've had issues, but we didn't on this. So you didn't stop at a station. I didn't stop on a station. So I'm trying to get everybody up to where we are. So we finished the race. You had very little water, but your stomach was cooperating across the race. I didn't have a sip of anything. We walk, we get done, We get our little walk over to our truck. All right, So this is where I have. Now, this is not I'm not saying this the shame. You've talked about this, but I can always tell. We get done with the race, we've got our metals on. We're walking over to the back to the car and we're walking in road starts doing this thing. 00:17:43 Speaker 4: It's called dry heaving, right, So you're waiting. 00:17:45 Speaker 2: For something to come out and it never does, which is a good thing. So on the walk she's doing that and think she's got it under control. So as the truck becomes gets closer and closer in our view roads, you start having more difficulty. 00:17:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to go out behind the truck because I just don't want anyone to see me. 00:18:02 Speaker 4: And I just I had to. It wasn't much. 00:18:04 Speaker 3: I just I didn't have anything in my stomach, but I just had to get out. I mean, I get a build up of acid. I've looked it up. It happens to a lot of runners. It's it's just a physical reaction to overexertion, basically, and and it's the thing that I disliked the most, but my body when I was pregnant, when no matter what carsick, I am somebody who gets nauseated. 00:18:25 Speaker 4: I'm somebody who pukes. 00:18:26 Speaker 3: I am a puker and it's not fun and I can't stand it, and I've tried really hard to find ways to combat it. 00:18:32 Speaker 4: But I lost this battle. 00:18:33 Speaker 3: And the last two I've had I did not at all. So I was bummed that this time it hit me. But at least it hit me after the race. So I had a delayed reaction, but you had a really delayed reaction. 00:18:44 Speaker 2: And I don't have reactions. And this is the part that was scary. So yes, we get roped, You're okay, You got in the truck, we drive off, we go back, we get changed. 00:18:55 Speaker 1: Is this when we start, when we get the power? 00:18:57 Speaker 3: We got the power after on the way back from driving back to where we were staying, I got you some because you're very keto right now, So I got you some vitamin water that had no sugar, and I got some water and. 00:19:10 Speaker 4: We were both hydrating. 00:19:11 Speaker 3: Now. Maybe not enough electrolytes, maybe not enough carbs. They definitely suggest that when you finish a long race. I think what happens is we've minimized what a half marathon is. After you run so many marathons, you think it's just thirteen point one, it's not a big deal. We don't recognize just how much of a strain that actually does put on your body, especially to people who work like we do. We work seven days a week. We don't really have a lot of downtime. And now you add thirteen point one miles to that, and add to the fact that you did not fuel at all that morning, you didn't have any water, and now you're drinking sugar free water. 00:19:42 Speaker 4: I don't even know how many electro likes it had. 00:19:44 Speaker 3: But by the time we got to lunch, to sit down to kind of reward ourselves and refuel, so to speak, you took one bite and things got scared you. 00:19:54 Speaker 1: No, so this is. 00:19:57 Speaker 3: So. 00:19:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're fine. I mean there's after we we pack up and we get in the car. We were gonna stop and have lunch before we go back to New York. We are fine. Yeah, we're fine. My toe hurts, my spring foothurts. You have recovered. We're not dragging. We got medals around our next smiling, big around town, packed up, happy to go. You find a great restaurant that has a great view. They give us a great seat, and I

mean things are going great. I can't describe folks. There is a euphoric feeling after a race. We were sitting in that great yeah right there, because everybody, oh, congratulations, said, oh that's reward ourselves eat some great New England child or whatever else. 00:20:43 Speaker 1: So we ordered two appetizers. What were they, robes. 00:20:48 Speaker 2: And the meat balls meat balls. Okay, so we have two appetizers. I have a Michelola vultra. You have an April sprits. Everything's fine, we're not loading up. I don't think it was halfway through the tunatar uh. And I'm pretty sure I had two meatballs and a couple of bites of tuna tar tar and out of nowhere. And this has never happened to me in my life before. I felt myself blacking out and not having any control over my body, being able to fight what was happening to me. And I didn't know what was happening to me. And I said to you calmly and simply, but seriously, sweetheart, I'm in trouble and I need jail. 00:21:33 Speaker 4: Yes, so I didn't. 00:21:35 Speaker 3: I jumped up, obviously, out of my chair, got to the other side of you, and you started to kind of lean on me, and I could see you never you never lost consciousness, You never closed your eyes but you felt and seemed listless, and I immediately could feel the heat coming off your body, and I thought, oh my goodness. I said, do you need me to call nine one one? 00:21:53 Speaker 4: And I don't. 00:21:54 Speaker 3: You were like no, And other people jumped up in the restaurant. They could see you were in trouble, tried to get you some water immediately the. 00:22:04 Speaker 4: Restaurant. 00:22:04 Speaker 3: The head of the restaurant came over and got you a cold towel. But you then started to just profusely sweat. I mean it was dripping off of you, and you got really nauseated. You said I need to get to the bathroom, but you couldn't even stand up. If you stood up, I'm almost certain you would have fainted. 00:22:20 Speaker 2: And we should add to this, we were sitting outside at high top tables at the restaurant. Manager even offered should we get him a lower chair? 00:22:28 Speaker 4: A lower chair with your feet on the ground. 00:22:30 Speaker 2: Now, I couldn't answer any of this to I did not know what was happening to me because I've never experienced anything like that before. Yeah, I had no idea what was happening. Ropes, in zero to thirty seconds, you just you go from feeling one hundred percent fine to you saying you need to go to nine you need to go to the hospital. This all happened within thirty seconds. 00:22:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was scary. And I told you this, I said, had you not just run a half marathon? Had I if I didn't know that you hadn't eaten anything that day, you had barely had any fluids. It was pretty obvious what was happening that your blood sugar just dropped, your blood pressure just dropped, excuse me, And it looked like you were about to faint. And I was really going back and forth weather and maybe I should have called nine one one. 00:23:18 Speaker 4: I wasn't sure what to do. 00:23:19 Speaker 3: I didn't want to cause this huge I know you and I know you wouldn't have wanted that, But I also thought, in the back of my head, like is he having a heart issue? 00:23:28 Speaker 4: Is is something going on that I don't know about? 00:23:31 Speaker 3: And if you hadn't just run a half marathon, and if you hadn't really not fueled, I think absolutely, And maybe, like I said, people listening to this might say, Amy, you're an idiot. You absolutely should have called nine one one, But we just got you drinking water, got you cool with the towels, and it probably took what fifteen minutes for you to settle. 00:23:49 Speaker 2: Oh no, sweetheart, we were back functioning. It was certainly within ten, but I would go as far as five. I was feeling yet. Yeah, I was actually feeling better. I had no idea would have just taken place. And it was scary for me because it does highlight the limits of your body sometimes, and I learned something about my body I did not know. 00:24:09 Speaker 1: Now. 00:24:09 Speaker 2: We did the research later, you explained to me at the time, but I wasn't familiar with it. 00:24:14 Speaker 3: Well, I have unfortunately been in a situation where I have nearly passed out, and I know the signs where you immediately feel this wave of nausea, this unbelievable heat just enveloped your body and you start sweating profusely, and then you start to lose consciousness. It is a terrible, scary feeling, and you had never felt it before. And I remember you said, this is what it feels like to almost faint. 00:24:34 Speaker 4: I had no idea. 00:24:37 Speaker 2: I walked into sauna's. I can't sweat that fact. There's nowhere I can zero to thirty seconds. I was fully wet out the shower. 00:24:48 Speaker 4: Yes, wet you were. 00:24:50 Speaker 1: I could in thirty seconds. 00:24:51 Speaker 4: It was actually even scary to me. 00:24:53 Speaker 2: Could not believe that was happening. So you explained to me at the time. Today, I think it was something you ate, because I say it was. There's a type of food I eat, d da da. We ended up doing some research about it later and it makes perfect since everybody. 00:25:04 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I did not know. 00:25:06 Speaker 2: But because I did not eat, I did not fuel, and I put that exertion on my body. My like they say, your blood vessels dilate. Your blood vessels have now dilated to the point and you haven't replenished them. You haven't done anything to get back to slowly even build up the electro likes put water, anything back in your system. I sat down to eat and I put something in my stomach, and what does my body do. We got to send blood to the stomach to digest. For the digestive system. I don't have it to give up. I did not have enough oxygen in my blood to handle what needed to happen. It all went to the stomach, It went away from the head, and that's what happened. 00:25:45 Speaker 4:

Who knew I know. I kept saying, drink water, drink water. Drink water. You do not drink enough water, and. 00:25:52 Speaker 3: Hopefully, hopefully a very important lesson was learned. 00:25:56 Speaker 2: It was, and we laughed about this, robes as much as we just describe one of us vomiting, one of us almost faded, I fainted, I have a bruised toe, I have a sprained foot. You were screaming, I'm never running the marathon again. All this, and then we got home and like, wow, what can we do next? 00:26:13 Speaker 4: What's the next half marathon? 00:26:15 Speaker 1: What's the next one? We could do it? 00:26:16 Speaker 2: So that's folks, Yes, we're crazy. There's nowhere not we mean, robes runners, Why did we do this to ourselves? Literally, medical emergencies, vomiting injuries, when's the next one? 00:26:32 Speaker 3: I think the idea is that, yes, we are stronger than we think, and we like pushing that notion because it does help us feel like we're prepared for what comes our way mentally and physically. But I do think there are times in which, when you do these types of things a lot, you take for granted the stress that actually puts on your body, You take for granted how big of a deal it actually is, and you have to take better care of yourself leading up to, during, and after a significant and athletic event like a half marathon. 00:27:04 Speaker 1: We're going to do better lesson learned. Yes, we will do better. I'll pay attention to it. 00:27:07 Speaker 2: But again, we have had I've had two more often it seems Rod support you while you're doing this, so doing that and why you're throwing up? 00:27:13 Speaker 1: But you got this. 00:27:14 Speaker 2: We've had Chicago where I had my foot and I was in the back of an ambulance. 00:27:18 Speaker 4: We swap out on yeah we need running. 00:27:20 Speaker 3: Well, Thank god we have running buddies in each other, because I don't know how well we would do on our own. 00:27:26 Speaker 2: But I wouldn't have known about that image if I'd gotten in the car and started, ohodcar, wwizzlers are having you know something. 00:27:32 Speaker 1: I'm snacking on and. 00:27:35 Speaker 4: I was scared. But I could tell you were scared. 00:27:37 Speaker 1: Thank you. 00:27:38 Speaker 2: But I knew when I was in trouble and I was. I've actually rehearsed that moment because you and I go through so much, You're not used to me having that kind of issue. I said something ever happens, it might be tough to convince her that I'm having a problem. I have rehearsed what would you say to her? That's it. I'm in trouble. 00:27:57 Speaker 1: Oh he's not joking. 00:27:58 Speaker 4: I knew you weren't joking. I could tell immediately. 00:28:00 Speaker 2: All right, Well, folks, if you're not a runner, please go ahead, get it going. 00:28:04 Speaker 1: It's a good time. 00:28:06 Speaker 4: Maybe a five K, a ten K. 00:28:08 Speaker 3: Good God, maybe one day we can actually do something like that. 00:28:11 Speaker 2: Well check out Mistic, Connecticut. We appreciate you all being such great hosts. We had a great time. We can't wait to go back to Mistic, Connecticut. But folks, who just wanted to give you update on our weekend at ventures, so we always appreciate you spending some time with us on tj on behalf of my dear medical professional and save you. 00:28:28 Speaker 4: No, that's my brother. Oh yeah, he's the doctor. 00:28:31 Speaker 1: He's the doctor. 00:28:31 Speaker 4: I only like, maybe I think I know too much, that's the problem. 00:28:34 Speaker 2: Well they worked just fine. Is a weekend, folks, appreciate you spending some time with us. 00:28:38 Speaker 1: Talk soon.