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To the crowd noise Lynn.

Welcome to the season six dopeies award show.

I'm Julie Fowdy and I'm here with little Zowie Highland.

Hey there, Jules.

It's time once again for the award show that has no point other than to make you smile of course and hopefully give you a few laughs.

After permitted after all we called them the dopeies of course as a nod to you all our dope village.

So let's do this party people.

The first dopey goes to New York City Marathon Champion and Olympic medalist Shalane Flanagan.

Who in retirement mind you decided to run six marathons in six weeks last year because of that we are giving Shalane the holy shit.

That's a lot of marathons award.

Where did this idea of hey I'm going to tackle six of the world's major marathons in six weeks come from.

Yes I recently retired in 2019 and upon that retirement I had two reconstructive knee surgeries that took me out of running for a year and I always knew I loved running but I was definitely using it as a vehicle to try to win races and it was my job.

But when I retired which we all know is a hard change in life and even though it was excited for it I definitely struggled upon retirement and not running and I realized that running more than for the physical health was for my mental health and when I kind of had that epiphany and I could start running again I thought man I really crave just having a goal.

And the pandemic was like a goal is a bus that took so many things away from us.

Definitely be the greatest description of the pandemic.

So I was like man I need a goal and I just wanted to get back and shape and have a reason to be in shape I'm not really good at just you know going out there and slogging the miles I like to have a purpose behind it and I saw that the

majors had unveiled their schedule because of the pandemic they squished them all together in a short span of time in 42 days six of them and I thought man that looks like fun like you should grab someone to grab the girlfriends or guy friends and they should travel the world and and run all these

marathons like a bucket list challenge and then I thought wait why not me I'm very capable of doing this if my health and my body would allow me so I mold over it with my PT who helped me through my two surgeries and said you know is this is this crazy and she's like yes but we should totally do it.

She supported your craziness that's a good friend.

She has she in fact joined me in Berlin and ran Berlin marathon so yeah I I brought it to Nike as well and they said how can we help you and we've just gone from there so yeah it's been it's been an incredible

journey and I'm going to be sad when it's over to be honest I've had a really fun time yeah you know it's it's all about the people you surround yourself with and I team that I've done this with

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