The Path to Black Belt!
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Memorial Day Reflections and Family Moments
In this episode of the Older and Wilder podcast, Joy and Claire reminisce about Joy's past Memorial Day challenges, including participating in the Boulder Boulder 10K and the intense Murph workout ON THE SAME DAY. Claire shares a touching experience celebrating her dad's 80th birthday, full of family speeches and memories. They both discuss the significance of caretaking, as Joy recounts her experience supporting her mom through surgery and recovery. Claire updates listeners on her recent black belt test in karate, highlighting her son's growth and achievement. The episode wraps up with hints about a potential future travel adventure to Peru!!
00:00 Introduction and Memorial Day Memories
00:37 Explaining the Boulder Bolder and Murph
01:02 Family and Birthday Celebrations
05:20 Reflecting on Dad's Life and Achievements
13:29 Karate Black Belt Test Experience
29:06 Mountain Biking and Mom's Surgery Update
34:38 Post-Surgery Struggles and Nausea
35:54 The Car Ride Home
39:03 Settling Back at Home
41:23 The Role of Caretaking
46:38 Reflections on Parenthood and Caretaking
51:10 Surgery and Recovery Insights
01:00:55 Travel Plans and Wrap-Up
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| 0:00.0 | I can't do that. |
| 0:01.3 | I was like, I will not, I cannot participate in the whiplash ceremony, or ceremony, |
| 0:04.8 | not ceremony, seminar. |
| 0:06.0 | Like, I can't, can't be a part of that. But so I just kind of like, stood off to the side. You're like, my chiropractor told me that balls cannot be flying at my nose. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to older and wilder with Joy and Claire. It's Memorial Day. and I just had to reminisce, I don't know what year it was, |
| 0:23.3 | but maybe seven or eight years ago when I did The Boulder Boulder and Murph on the same morning, |
| 0:31.4 | like within five hours of each other. Let's just take a moment to appreciate how far I've come |
| 0:36.8 | in letting go of mad behavior. Insane choice. The Boulder Boulder is a 10K, for those of you unaware. It's like, and it is, I wouldn't say it's the most serious race in the world. In fact, the couple of times I've done it, it's more like a parade. It's a parade. Yeah. It's so fun it. But still like even run walking a 10K and then |
| 0:56.5 | doing Murph is an insane choice. Yeah. I have a lot of family. So my dad's 80th birthday was this |
| 1:04.8 | weekend. His birthday party was this weekend. And so we have a lot of family in town. And they're all |
| 1:09.5 | doing the Boulder Boulder today. Why not? Well, and it's kind of a bummer because the weather is a little bit. The weather is horrible. It's horrible. But I mean, maybe you want to not run in a lot of heat. But at the same time, it's like that's kind of the joy of it. It's like outside. It's like eight in the morning or whatever. You know? Yeah, I mean, it's like, yes, it's hard when it's really hot, but it's like eight in the morning or whatever. You know. No. |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.8 | I mean, it's like, |
| 1:29.1 | yes, it's hard when it's really hot, |
| 1:30.6 | but it's rare for it to be really hot at like 8 a.m. |
| 1:34.1 | in May in Colorado or really at all. |
| 1:36.4 | Like that's a nice thing about Colorado is that it tends to really cool down in like |
| 1:39.8 | the early mornings. |
| 1:40.9 | Right. |
| 1:41.6 | And at night. |
| 1:42.2 | I do have sort of, I'm not doing it, but I do have a little bit of |
| 1:45.2 | like a masochistic desire to do Murph. I just like my pushups right now are so good. |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah, from karate. From karate. We've just been doing so many pushups. My pushups are so good |
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