Finish Lines & Milestones: Episode 122: Katie Polivick - Praying to Run

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Guest: Katie Polivick @katherinemarie317

Show Notes:
Katie Polivick⁠ and I have know each other for years through our families.

During this episode, sponsored by ⁠Relay Active⁠ and ⁠Athlete Bouquets⁠, we talk about:

• How she’s been listening to this podcast since the beginning 

• Our first time gardens 🍅

• The fact that we’re not related but we do share a cousin 

• Sports growing up in Catholic school - basketball, tennis, kickball 

• When she found long distance running

• Her first marathon at CNO Indianapolis Monumental Marathon in 2014

• The time she thought she lost her credit card on a run and had the whole run club searching for it 

• The 5K she founded that still happens today, ⁠The Baby on the Way 5K for the O’Connor House⁠

• The year she decided to run a half marathon every month - and won one of them!

• Mental health 

  Sponsor Details:

  - ⁠Relay Active⁠ - Use code ALLYB for 15% off your order

  - ⁠Athlete Bouquets ⁠- Use code PODCAST for 10% off your order

  Links:

  -9/14 - ⁠The Baby on the Way 5K for the O’Connor House⁠

⁠Megan Moore’s Chicago Marathon Fundraiser⁠

⁠Prairie on Fire Backyard Ultra

Episode Transcript

 

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Ally Brettnacher (2): Welcome to Finish Lines and Milestones, a podcast to celebrate the everyday runner. I'm your host, Ally Brettnacher, and if you run, you're a runner and every runner has a story. Join me each week as we celebrate these stories and we cross finish lines and celebrate milestones together.

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And also I should tell you that 1% of sales goes to animal rescue so you can support animals and women. What more could you ask for? Again, thank you to Relay Active for supporting this podcast this week. We have a long time listener, first time caller, Katie Polivick. She is a friend of mine. I've known her for years and years and we're like kind of related, but not related. We'll tell you that story, but she's listened to this podcast since it started [00:02:00] and I just love that so much.

And she's so funny. Her energy is infectious. She's got great stories and I'm so sad to share that. She was going to be running a local Backyard Ultra Marathon called Prairie on Fire in September. But unfortunately her back is causing her problems. So her brother, Jojo, who we talk about, is running in hopes of tackling a hundred miles.

So that's nuts. So I'm hoping that she'll be there still to spectate. So you can have a chance to meet Katie. I'm gonna try to be there with my kids, do some chalk art. Support everybody that I can who's running. And then we talk about a couple of things in this episode that I need to at least update you on again.

So sorry that I had to update you on the bad news, that she's not gonna be running Prairie on fire this year, but, uh, her garden, she has harvested a tomato and a pepper, which is a big deal. No, we joke about how we both have gardens for the first time, which is comical if you know me. And it seems the same.

Katie and I are very [00:03:00] similar. And then she also is the founder of a 5K that takes place next month if you're listening to this when it comes out. September 14th is a Sunday, and it's the baby on the way, 5K in support of the O'Connor House, which helps women who are experiencing homelessness, who are also pregnant and gives them a place to live and get back on their feet.

And

Ally Brettnacher: so it's a great cause, and it's at Garron Catholic High School, be sure to support that amazing event too, if you're looking to add more miles with some company. So I've linked that in the show notes. And then during this episode we talk about how she grew up playing sports in Catholic school. Talk a little bit about kickball and how that's a very Catholic thing and how she found long distance running her first marathon, which was at the monumental marathon in Indianapolis. The time she lost her credit card on a group run and then found it and then pretended to find it.

So. It was so good. Such a funny story. And then we talk about the founding of the baby on the way, 5K. A little bit behind that [00:04:00] story. The year she ran a half marathon every single month. And we talk about mental health, which is a great part of this episode. I learned. Some stuff about Katie that I didn't even know, like she lived in California for a hot second and moved home because it was really hard.

So I think that that's a really powerful story. But this conversation is so much fun and I really hope you enjoy meeting my friend Katie Polivick. Enjoy.

Hi Katie. Hello. Hi. Welcome. This is so much fun to finally have you here.

It's really nice to be here. I love how your mom, Susan was like, oh, did you know that Katie listens to your podcast?

Katie Polivick: It's kind, you know, like when you're embarrassed by, like, it'd be like if your mom said that to Lindsay Hin. Yes. That'd be like the equivalent. Yeah. Like, oh, if she listens to, I forget what Lindsay it's called.

I'll have another Yeah. Yes. Or whatever, which I've listened to that one too. But yeah. It's a little embarrassing, but it's, it's, it's fine. Well,

Ally Brettnacher: do you, I don't know if you realize like how much that means to me. Oh, I was so happy. I was like, wow. she does,

Katie Polivick: yes, of course she likes it. [00:05:00] Yes, I do.

Ally Brettnacher: Which is, you know, it's just one of those things where when you start doing something Yeah.

You're like, I don't know. Yeah. What's gonna happen? I don't know if people are gonna listen. I like to talk about running, so maybe people will like it. I love it. So thank you. Yeah. 'cause you've been listening for, since the OG days, right? Like the, there's OG days in the podcast.

Katie Polivick: Yes. I think it was like, I, I can't remember if I got COVID or what, but I was like, maybe it was winter break, but there was a time period where I was like cleaning out my closet and it was like, I was just like going through all the episodes.

It was like binging episode 1, 2, 3. And then, then I got like a little, then I, my house sick of hearing me talk. Yeah. For a while. So I, it's usually when I'm cleaning that I listen to or gardening. Ooh. Yeah. I listen to you. Okay. But

Ally Brettnacher: yeah, gardening. What are you grow in your garden?

Katie Polivick: This is the first time I've ever had a garden.

I have one right now

Ally Brettnacher: too. Same. I'm

Katie Polivick: just growing tomatoes and peppers. Cherry

Ally Brettnacher: tomatoes or heirloom tomatoes or whatever other kind. Uh,

Katie Polivick: I think, I don't even know 'cause I don't have any, well we just have flowers right now. Okay. We got them [00:06:00] very late in the season. Okay. So I think they're. Heirloom tomatoes.

I got 'em at Sullivan's. Okay. Ooh, that's probably good. So yeah, I feel like they'll be fried.

Ally Brettnacher: I don't have any

Katie Polivick: of

Ally Brettnacher: them, so. Well, we've had, I've never had a garden my whole life. Yeah. And we have these little planters that have had flowers in them and they died and flowers and, and so I'm like, you know what?

I'm just gonna plant some herbs and like some garden stuff in there and then maybe, maybe I'll take care of it. Yes. So I killed some of it. But the, uh, I have cherry tomatoes and we are, we are harvesting. Oh no. A couple every here and there. See? And my daughter, so, and I, Sydney will cut 'em in half for us.

She doesn't like tomatoes. Oh. But then SLO and my other daughter and I will split them and we'll eat them. And it's just funny. I'm is just hilarious. But they're good.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. Those are good

Ally Brettnacher: to us. Yeah. Yeah. So I didn't know you gardens, that's you're brand new though. Well,

Katie Polivick: it's, it's, I'm brand new. I love plants.

I'm a science teacher, right. So I have to love plants. But, yeah, I, the maybe on taking care of it, like Chris probably does. My husband, Chris does as much in the garden as I do. Okay. Because I'll be like, it'll be like [00:07:00] 7:00 PM and I, I am getting tired and I'm like, Chris, I haven't watered the garden today.

Right. I forget a lot. That's the problem. Can you just go out there while you're mowing the lawn and just do it? But yeah, so we'll see how it goes. But we have like four different plants that are pollinators, right? So we have the pollinators, then we have like four tomato plants. And for people

Ally Brettnacher: who don't know what a, like pollinators are, I feel like I, I

Katie Polivick: think it attracts bugs.

Like are like the bees. The bees, yeah. That, that pollinate all the plants. I and butterflies I think. And butteries pollinator

Ally Brettnacher: gardens. See this is where we get into dangerous territory. Somebody listen. I like, do we need to show people that we dunno. Somebody listening's gonna be like. That is all wrong. I

Katie Polivick: don't know.

Yeah, I don't, it doesn't matter. We don't know. But they were important. The person at Sullivan's was like, you need some pollinators. And I was like, gimme some. So I have some of those. And then we have peppers and tomatoes. Okay. That's it. Yeah. But we like, we have this little corner in our backyard and we we got two like plywood [00:08:00] boards or whatever at like Lowe's.

Mm-hmm. And we painted them oh, one yellow and one pink. Okay. And then we put yellow polka dots on the pink one and pink polka dots on the yellow one. That's pretty, because there was already a wall on the other two sides. Okay. So we have like a cute little garden. That's nice. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. Well that's really cool.

Yeah. And you said your last name before we started officially recording. Yeah. And 'cause I know you as Katie Barrett. Yes. 'cause we know each other through my cousin. Yes. And so my cousin is my mom's sister's daughter. Mm-hmm. And then your mom is my uncle's sister.

Katie Polivick: Wow. Did I get that right? My uncle? Yeah.

Yeah, I think so. My uncle

Ally Brettnacher: is Jim.

Katie Polivick: Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: And then that's his daughter. Yeah. Your, your cousin. We're, we share cousin, but we're not related.

Katie Polivick: It gets really confusing too, because your last name was Hill.

Ally Brettnacher: Oh, it's so confusing. And my

Katie Polivick: mom's maiden name was Hill, but they weren't related. It's very confusing for people.

It's, that blows people's minds. My, yeah. My friend Amber Ferrari, do you know her? Yes. She was an OR fellow. [00:09:00] Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was. So that's my best friend from college. Yes. Okay. She's been trying to figure out how we're related. For years. It's hard. Yeah. Or not related, I guess.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. 'cause we're not, but she

Katie Polivick: finally, you explained it really well just then.

So I'll have to have, did I, I don't

Ally Brettnacher: think I did. Basically my mom and her sister, my aunt Yeah. They both married guys with the same last name. Yeah. That were not related. Not

Katie Polivick: related. And

Ally Brettnacher: so that confused the hell out people I get. Really? And it still does, they like assume they're brothers because we're

Katie Polivick: in the same like small Catholic world.

Ally Brettnacher: Exactly. Yeah. And everyone's like the same. So we're basically related, basically. And that's how we know each other. Mm-hmm. And your new last name, 'cause you're somewhat recently, right? Yeah. Last October. How do you say it?

Katie Polivick: Vic.

Ally Brettnacher: Vic. Which is basically exactly how it's spelled if you look at it. Yeah. People like

Katie Polivick: to say Vic.

Okay. But it's Paw Paul, like a dog's

Ally Brettnacher: paw. Paul

Katie Polivick: Vic.

Ally Brettnacher: Paul. Or like Paul from Yeah, from the Bible. From

Katie Polivick: the Bible. Sure.

Ally Brettnacher: Well, you just said Catholics, then I got in the religious space. Yeah. You got inspired. And we'll talk about some of your [00:10:00] faith too during this episode. Episode. Oh yeah. Because I, I really find that amazing.

Oh. Okay. So we know each other through our families. Yes. And you also have a brother that people in the running community may know. Yes. And you call him Jojo.

Katie Polivick: I call him Jojo. His name's he goes by Joe now though. But Joe, he's always Jojo to me. Yeah. And your dad's name's Joe? My dad's name is Joe. So it makes it easier in the family if you say Jojo for little Joe.

But yeah. Um, yeah. he is a very fast runner. Joe Barrett. Yeah. Yeah. Is what he goes by. But, he went to Marian and ran there. And then because of COVID, I think he had two years of eligibility still or something. Or maybe he was injured. I, I don't know. But he got to run at Butler too. Yeah. So he ran. at Butler when he was getting his MBA and he is so fast.

He's so fast, he's so fast. He also casually ran 50 miles like a couple weeks ago. Of

Ally Brettnacher: course he did

Katie Polivick: just like, just wanted to and he hadn't even been running. That's annoying. It. [00:11:00] It is, yeah. But I love it. At the same time I'm like, my brother did that and I'll tell everyone.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. I That is really amazing.

Congratulations Joe. Yes. So tell us about your siblings and where you are in the birth order.

Katie Polivick: Okay, so I am the oldest of five. Um, so there's five of you. There's five of us. I like

Ally Brettnacher: lose track and get confusedly.

Katie Polivick: I know, I know it. It is me, Katie, then Annie, um, and then Ellie. And then Jojo or Joe. And then Rosie.

Then Rosie. Yeah. So I am 32 and Rosie's 20. Okay. So she's at Purdue. So there's 12 years. There's a big span. Wow. I loved it though. Like I loved having a big family. I still love it. and, and three of us are married. And everyone has, like Jojo and Rosie have, like significant others they've had for forever.

So like just the core of us. What is that? Seven plus five? 12. 12. Right. That's is like the immediate family. Yeah. When I think of my immediate family, I think of 12 people. Mm-hmm. [00:12:00] Or like 10, if you're not included, everybody, but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a big, big, big Catholic family. It's a big Catholic family.

Yeah. I feel like it's my big fat Greek wedding, but it was like my big fat Catholic wedding. Yeah. When I was getting married. That's so fun. It was really fun. I love that. Yeah. The Barretts and wedding season are like, we're at our prime. Yeah. It's fun. That's so fun.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. So you are originally from this area.

Yeah. Because you went to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Did you go to St. Maria? You went to St. I get so confused. So for it's, it's

Katie Polivick: like it was the branch off parish from It was, yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: And not to brag, but I was the first graduating class of the Congrats. Wow. That's a big, there's a picture in the school that I've showed my kids.

I'm like, that was me. I came here a long Do you guys go to To St. Ready? We do, yeah. Oh, nice. Nice. So, and they go to Sunday school there. So it's like really weird. It's kind of a time warp like going in there.

Katie Polivick: That is fun. Yeah, it's kind of weird. Oh cool. Yeah, I went to St. Maria and then I went to Garrin 'cause I played tennis with Morgan.

Okay. My sister. [00:13:00] Yes. So, hi Morgan. She, hi Morgan. She, would drive me from Garrin to Bridgewater 'cause it was before Garrin had courts, so we would play at Bridgewater. Wow. Which like is kind of crazy. It's kind of fancy. It's a country club for those who dunno, just casually got to play at. Um, but yeah.

And then like tennis parties. I feel like I've been to several tennis dinners. Okay. At your parents' house. Oh. So yeah. So I went to Garrin and then I went to Marian. You didn't ask me what schools I went to, but I'm telling you, you should tell me. I would ask that. Yeah. Um, that's something I would ask.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah.

You already, you know what I'm gonna ask. Oh yeah. Right. Even I'm gonna ask.

Katie Polivick: There you go. and then I did Notre Dame chunks, so you did, we'll get to that if you want to get to that.

Ally Brettnacher: Okay. We'll get Well now I'm interested in that. Well, and I didn't realize that you played tennis Yeah. In college. Yeah. For a year.

That's pretty amazing.

Katie Polivick: So I am just a human backboard. It pisses people off. Human use my language backboard. Yeah. I like that when I was like super athletic, like [00:14:00] fast and like small in college, like just less than I am now. I could just run around and just what, how you could hit it to me so hard and I would just get it back and it makes people so mad.

That's like, you don't wanna play a backboard because you just know the points are gonna last forever. Yeah. And you're gonna be the one to make the mistake and maybe lose the match. And that was me. Wow.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. Yeah. It makes me wanna play you in tennis. I know. Although I, I mean I haven't played in years. I love, love it.

I haven't

Katie Polivick: either. I haven't either. In my, my brother's girlfriend Sarah played at Marian all four years and she's like, freakishly good and I wanna play her. Yeah. You're like, I'm sure she look like that, but see how you'll do the human backboard. Sarah. I was like 10 years ago, but now I'm better at long distance running and it doesn't really translate to back and forth.

It doesn't.

Ally Brettnacher: Well, and I also get really nervous about getting hurt now. Yeah. Especially, I wanna start playing more pickleball 'cause it's so fun. I love tennis and I love ping pong and I feel like it's a great mesh of like,

Katie Polivick: it is that I love pickleball, but I also

Ally Brettnacher: don't wanna spr my ankle. [00:15:00] Yeah, and I'm pretty competitive, so we'll see how it goes.

You

Katie Polivick: could be like really cool to wear ankle braces or something. I could,

Ally Brettnacher: I would do that to avoid getting my ankle

Katie Polivick: brace. My husband does that for, um, volleyball. He's rai his ankle so many times that he had to have ankle surgery. So now he wears like knee pads and elbow pads and ankles and I'm like, you're so cool over there.

He so hot.

Ally Brettnacher: Chris. That is, you're like, that's my man right there. Like, that's

Katie Polivick: him.

Ally Brettnacher: That's so well good for him for being safe.

Katie Polivick: Yes. Yes. He'll never spray ankle again.

Ally Brettnacher: Like And then you said when you were growing up, like at St. Maria Goretti, you played all of the sports before you kind of found tennis as is something you were about.

Katie Polivick: Can I tell you a story about St. Basketball?

Ally Brettnacher: I hope you'll Okay.

Katie Polivick: I was so bad, Allie. I was so bad. Like, like when I say that, like I had big glasses. I like, I wish I had a picture, but I just was like the most uncoordinated sports person. That you could possibly choose to be on a team. When I was in second grade, we were playing at our Lady Mount Carmel [00:16:00] and we had wristbands and it was like I had an orange wristband on, you have an orange wristband on, on.

I'm supposed to be guarding you in basketball or playing basketball in second grade. Oh, that's how it tells you what to do. That's like how it tells you what to do is you have the wristband on now give me a rule and I will follow it to the T. That the biggest rule you and I are like first thorns we're like, yep.

And. No one was guarding me. And so my coach was yelling, pass it to Katie, pass it to Katie. I ran over to the person with Orange or Span. I said, excuse me, you're supposed to be guarding me. And I didn't even know that. Like I was open for a shot. I just was concerned that you're like, why aren't we together?

I was like, why aren't we together? You're not following the rules you need to. And my dad was just like, oh my gosh. But that's so funny. So I was really bad at basketball and then I tried kickball and my team lost like every single game. And then that's '

Ally Brettnacher: cause you know, St. Reti, well we Did you play sports with our lady or you were finally separated?

We were finally

Katie Polivick: separated. That's where it's

Ally Brettnacher: hard. 'cause St was so small. We were so small

Katie Polivick: and [00:17:00] we just like didn't, my kickball team didn't care. Like we just wanted to have fun. Like, we just were like, we were like the biggest nerd. It was luck. Few of us probably cared, but um, I didn't, I just wanted the snacks and the fun.

Yeah. Atmosphere. and then I played. Like, I loved it kickball, but then I went to our lady because Satan Marie regret, we kept losing. So then I think people like didn't wanna play anymore, so we didn't have enough people for a team.

Ally Brettnacher: Oh, so then you're like, if you wanted to play, had to play. So if I wanted to play, I had to go to our lady.

Now

So

Katie Polivick: our lady kickball is like the powerhouse of kickball.

Ally Brettnacher: When I think about sports, like especially with Catholic schools, and I bet this translates outside of Indiana for sure, but like the kickball is the sport of Catholic schools.

Yes. Mm-hmm. Do they even play it in other schools? I

Katie Polivick: don't even know. I don't think they do. I've only ever been in Catholic school. I've been in a public school for like one year or two years teaching. Yeah. So I went to our lady and they were like city champs and I just sat the bench the whole time and they told me to [00:18:00] bunt and then run to first base.

Like they wouldn't even let me really kick it. So I was like, this is, my dad was so mad. We won city though, and I'm on, like, there's a picture somewhere in our ladies halls of me on this team that I didn't really play on because I just practice and then bunted one time during the game. So I was so bad.

So I tried to, I

Ally Brettnacher: love it so much.

Katie Polivick: Basketball. And, wait, are

Ally Brettnacher: you, you're playing kickball now again, aren't you? Or what sport are you playing now? Oh, as an adult,

Katie Polivick: as a CCA adult, I'm playing sand volleyball. No. Okay.

Ally Brettnacher: Ooh,

Katie Polivick: there we go. It's very stressful because

Ally Brettnacher: CCA here is like our rec league that has. Any sport almost.

Yeah. Like I played dodge ball with CCA, like I hated that. I've

Katie Polivick: never played CCA sports before. Oh, okay. Until was like very, people were like surprised by that. Yeah. but I'm playing sand volleyball and we played our first game this past Sunday and I was so stressed the whole time because people were just like talking and like somebody was cussing at my teammate and I was like, excuse me, like I don't even know [00:19:00] you and you're cussing at my team.

But he was trying to be funny. Oh. But I was like, oh my gosh, no, I don't want, I had never been in the team atmosphere in so long. 'cause I played singles tennis and then like my friend Sam Ganzer would cheer whenever they would hit the net. And I'm like, that's not nice. They just missed, you don't wanna cheer.

They missed. She's like, but we got the point. And I'm like, but that's 'cause they made a mistake. That's rude. Let's be good sports everybody. So it's so stressful. But we lost, I think probably because. We were like, we were really good at the beginning. We were up like 7.0 and then we started feeling bad. So we started playing like words.

Oh God. And then I got in my head and, but I was really good at setting. Oh yeah. That was, that was, I was, I loved being the setter. I don't like hitting it, but, um, but it like took me a second to like calm down afterwards. I was like, oh my gosh. Like, it's okay that people were just yelling and screaming and try to, they were like, I think that's like what people do on teams.

Yeah. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. I play sand, I play sand volleyball. Only when my [00:20:00] friends, we go on a trip to like Mexico every couple years, and we have a big group that goes. And so we play a decent amount of sand volleyball. And I just feel like I should practice in our off season because Yeah. Like some of my friends are pretty good.

Yeah. And I, I don't like, well that's, I don't like

Katie Polivick: making mistakes. Yeah. And then I feel so bad. I'm like, when I make a mistake, it affects the whole team. Yeah. You're like, everybody hates that I'm on their team. It doesn't matter. Right, right. It's just me. Yes. But that's how I met Chris. Oh, was through sand volleyball at Pinheads.

Oh my gosh. , , so I went, because Megan, my cousin. Mm-hmm. So another cousin. Hi Megan. Hi Megan. She was going to sand volleyball and she went to school with Chris. okay. She went to school at Purdue with Chris, and she was, she was always talking about him, like my friend Chris, my friend Chris.

And I was like, this guy sounds great, like let's meet him. But, um, and so she was like, Hey, I'm gonna go play. Volleyball at Pinheads. She didn't even invite me, but I was like, how come? What is Pinhead? What is that? Pinheads is like a bowl. Bowl bowling alley. The bowl. That's what I thought. So where do they have volleyball?

But it has a [00:21:00] restaurant and then sand volleyball cords with a tiki hut. You gotta go. Oh, it's really fun. That sounds really fun. It's like, it's like you're on vacation. Do they have babysitting there? That would be ideal. Oh, I don't know. Just child watch. Yeah. Would be ideal. And then we could go, yeah, I think you might be able to bring your kids at certain times, but um, maybe you'd have to look that up.

So I went to the sand volleyball thing. I don't play volleyball. It like intimidates me, but I was like, oh, I'll meet people. Like it'll be fun. And then I saw Chris there and Chris went up to Megan and gave her a big hug and they were like having so much fun. And I was like, oh my gosh, he looks so sweet and so nice.

And Megan walks up after he's like, still on the court. I said, Megan, you need to date him. He is so cute and so nice. Date him. And she's like, no, I've just known him for too long. Like, he's just a friend. I was like, okay, well. I'm going to. Then I was like, and uh, will you introduced me, please? And I was like, please, hello.

So then he comes over and then, um, we just talk and stuff. And then I started going to volleyball more. Oh yeah. I've never gone to [00:22:00] Pinheads volleyball. But then I was like, well, Chris is gonna be there. And so then I would go, and then it's a long story, but, and then I saw him, I got his number, and then I saw him out, like when I was on a different date at zoa.

Oh no. Yeah. And I was on another date at zoa, and then he was with Megan, like at trivia. And then, but I wanted to be with him, so I just kept going. Whenever he would get a drink, I would go up and get a drink and I'd be like, Hey, what's up? How's your trivia team doing? He's like, are you on a date? And I'm like, yeah.

And I just like was trying to blow it off. Yeah. Um, and then my, then I walked out with my date. My date was like, do you wanna come play yure at my friend's house? I was like, no. And I got in the car and I called Chris. I was like, well, Chris some ice cream. And he was like, sure. Perfect. So then we've been together over since, ever since.

I love that story. Yeah. So you're like, no, no, I, I know what I want. I was like, I know what I want. So we're at the other table. Yeah. It's wedding

Ally Brettnacher: trivia right now, right? Yeah. Did you have, did you date a ton before that?

Katie Polivick: Yeah. I, how did you meet

Ally Brettnacher: people? [00:23:00]

Katie Polivick: I just, so I like talk to everyone, like, you know, those people that like, don't wanna sit by the stranger that talks to 'em on the plane.

Yeah. I'm like dying to talk to someone on a plane. Like if I, I like, I like am very, I will feel it out. I will not talk to them unless they wanna talk. But I would talk to a stranger for like two hours on a flight to Florida. Sure. So that's how I meet people. I just, go pe places and I'm in running clubs.

I went to Pinheads volleyball. I would go to a lot of Catholic stuff. Mm-hmm. Like theology on tap, I would go to, if you ever heard of that. Mm-hmm. It's like, It used to happen at How the moon for a little bit downtown. Really? And they would have like a priest or like a Catholic person. Oh. Give a talk.

And then you'd all be drinking beer, listening to this Catholic priest talk. And then there'd be like an intermission you'd like just walk around and talk to people. And then now I think it's at McGowan Hall, which is downtown. Okay. I don't know what that is, but, um, it was at half Leader for a little bit.

Okay. So I was in like a lot of Catholic [00:24:00] groups. That can be a scary place 'cause people just wanna get married really fast. Oh

Ally Brettnacher: yeah. Sometimes. Okay. So it was like, it was kind of and have like a million children. Yeah. I just wasn't

Katie Polivick: ready for

Ally Brettnacher: that. Yeah.

Katie Polivick: I dated this person like, and after like a few days he was like, do you want be my girlfriend?

I was like, I, I don't, I don't even know you. And of course I said yes. And then we broke up with him a week later. So yes, I dated a lot of people, but um. It was fun. I wouldn't change it. I mean, yeah. 'cause now it's good. Now it's good. Now it's good. You and

Ally Brettnacher: Chris had been married, what? A year you said, or when?

A year. Octoberfest in October. Okay. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. So the weekend, the weekend of the indie half Yeah. Is what I think of. Yes. Is like my fall,

Katie Polivick: fall

Ally Brettnacher: break.

Katie Polivick: And it was funny because when I was training for the monumental this past time, I, and everybody was gonna run Fort Ben. Mm-hmm. And that was on my wedding day.

And so then I said, guys, I'm sorry to tell, or what did I say? I said, I'm sorry to say. Like, if we have really good weather on my wedding day, then that means that it might [00:25:00] rain on monumental because I told God that I'd rather there be rain on monuments. Been on your wedding day? It's on my wedding day.

They're like, so then there was really good weather on October 5th this past year and they were looking at me about Katie, it better not rain. I was like, I don't really, I have no idea if that's really what's going on. Right. And

Ally Brettnacher: it was beautiful on Yeah. I was like, wait, monumental was good. It was beautiful.

It was like the perfect day. Yeah. God is

Katie Polivick: good. So yeah. Yeah, all the time. All the time.

Ally Brettnacher: That was Catholic girl. Yes. But so

Katie Polivick: it was just funny 'cause I was tell, we were just running and I was like, guys, just watch out if we have good weather. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: So when did you find long distance running? At what point in your life?

Katie Polivick: Um, well I guess it depends on what you call long distance. So my mom is who brought running to our family. Yeah. Same. She like started running, I think after she had kids and, she used to run five miles. She had a five mile loop that she would run with Tia Lio, our neighbor, and um, how do you say that?

Lio. Okay. I don't know. I don't know that, but she's an our lady, Mount Carmel family. Okay. But they, [00:26:00] they would run five miles and then she would take us to St. Maria ready, and Mrs. Polio would take her five or six kids. I think she had five kids that time now having six. Jesus Christ. To um, to our lady. And I thought that was so cool.

I was like, I have a badass mom. Like, she's just waking up so early and running and then taking us all to school. So then she got me running, she was for like, I think it was like fifth or sixth grade. I think I had to run the mile in like Right. A gym. Yeah. And um, but I wanted to go on a run with her and I was like, can I do your five mile loop with you?

And she was like, yeah, but like, we'll just like, whenever you wanna stop, we'll stop. Like, my first like run was five miles. And I didn't, I was like, if my mom who's like in her forties can do it, like I can do this five miles. Yeah. If I'm in the fifth or sixth grade. And so I remember it being like kind of cold.

I don't remember what time of year it was, but it was kind of cold. And it was like when the kind of cold, like your, your breath like it's like kind of hurts when you are breathing. And I was not used to that, but I did the whole five [00:27:00] miles and I was like, yes, I did it. I was so excited about it. That's a long way.

It was a long and I was like a little kid, right. I mean, kind of middle school.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. That's not like running a five, 5K even for somebody who doesn't run Right. It's a lot of distance. I mean, I think

Katie Polivick: I was like in sports. Sure. And I probably had been doing a mile and gym but like had never run like five miles.

I don't re and maybe I ran around the block a few times, but I remember like, I remember this like specific run. It was like, we're gonna run mom's loop and I'm not gonna stop. And she was like really impressed and that like meant a lot to me. I was like, oh my gosh, my mom is impressed that I could do this five mile loop.

And then, um, and then I just kept doing that. Then I played tennis all through high school. I started tennis like kind of late, like sixth or seventh grade. Yeah. but then there was one summer when I wanted to run cross country as well. So I was like, the summer going into my junior year again, I was like, I'm gonna run cross country and do tennis.

So I [00:28:00] would do tennis in the morning and cross country later in the afternoon. But then I realized that if I signed up for cross country, I wouldn't be able to do fall tennis at five seasons. I was like, I played and so I quit right before school started. So I did the whole summer, which is like the hardest part of cross country.

Yeah. and then I quit and my family loves to tell me that I'm a quitter, but, um, and 'cause I'm like the only person that quit cross country, I think all everybody else in my family kept going. Um, but I always ran on the side of tennis. Like I would played tennis, but I would always, always running too.

Yeah. And I think I ran my first full. This my senior year of college. I ran my first fall. You did? In Mon It was monumental in 2014. 2014. Yeah. I was so fast.

Ally Brettnacher: That's a long time ago. And I'm,

Katie Polivick: it, it was a long time ago and I'm not that fast anymore, but that's okay. I can get back there if I want to. If want.

Ally Brettnacher: It's exactly. But

Katie Polivick: I don't even know if I want. Right. Not 'cause I enjoy being slow.

Ally Brettnacher: That's half. I mean, you just have to, I feel like if you want it, [00:29:00] you can get it right. If you don't really want it, that's cool too. Yeah, that's great. That's, that's where we're at right now. Yeah. Okay. So 2014, that was the year I got married.

Um, oh, nice. And I did all the races 'cause I was trying to be like, yeah. In tip top shape. Mm-hmm. but yeah. Okay. 2014. I'm trying to, I don't even know what the weather would've been like for that year.

Katie Polivick: Um, it was really good. It was pretty cold. Okay. So I had like my first iPhone and I wore it in like the armband.

Oh yeah. Yeah. And it was not used to the cold yet. Oh

Ally Brettnacher: no. Yes, you told. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So I was

Katie Polivick: running. And I was running with, my friend from tennis, her little sister, Morgan Paris, was like a big runner and she, we were running it together. I could only keep up with her for the first half, but I remember her like leaving and then I was looking at my phone and I was like, it's dead.

Like there's no music. So I was like, with her for like, I think it died like mile seven or eight because I think we stopped talking. That's when,

Ally Brettnacher: that's when you switched or that's when you Oh, wait, that's, is that when, oh, did

Katie Polivick: she run the full two though? She ran the full two. Okay, nevermind. So we were together, [00:30:00] nevermind.

But like, I think we were together for maybe the first half, but I, at mile seven or eight I realized that my music was not working and I was like, okay, I'm just gonna pray a lot of rosaries. So I had a rosary on my shoe. And for those that aren't Catholic or don't know, the rosary is just like beads that you pray a lot of Hail Marys in our fathers on.

It's like a superpower in my opinion, but. I prayed it. I had a little, like a little pocket rosary on my shoes. So I took it and I would just think of a different person for each decade. Geez. And I was just like, okay, who needs prayers? And I would just be like, okay, we'll pray for this to my dad, then we'll pray for that decade, then we'll pray the next one for whoever.

And then I just kept going until mile 26.

Ally Brettnacher: How many, how many decades are in a rosary? Five. Okay. 'cause it's not 10. I know that. No,

Katie Polivick: there's not five. And I always liked that there were five. 'cause there's five kids in my family. There you go. And my for, Christmas one year we got my parents a rosary that, and like, I think it said our names or something.

Oh, that's cool. So it was cool. That is really [00:31:00] cool. It was cute. Yeah. Wow.

Ally Brettnacher: So leading up to the first full though, did you run half marathons and stuff? Like locally? Yeah,

Katie Polivick: before that I think I had run the mini maybe. Okay. Probably. I don't remember when. Well, the Mini's always by my birthday. So my birthday is May 4th.

Oh, may the fourth thing about the Yes. National Star Wars Day, which I didn't know that until college because I like, yeah. I don't

Ally Brettnacher: know if it was a thing until then,

Katie Polivick: either. Yeah. But, um, so I, to me it's like the mini marathon weekend is my birthday. Okay. So it's like the best birthday present. Like remember when you had the 3 1 7 race?

Oh yeah. Isn't it the best? It's the best. It's the best feeling having a race on your birthday. Yeah, yeah. Everybody should do it. Go find a race. I started,

Ally Brettnacher: I started Googling 'cause next year's my 40th. Oh. And I'm like, where in the world is there a marathon? Yes. Or half marathon on July 10th. Which July 10th.

Yeah. I mean, it's kind of hot. It's, it's hot. Yeah. so anyway, I digress, but I, I found some Did you find one? Well, I found some on the 11th. There's one in Utah, which I've already run in Utah though, so I was kinda like, well, I kind of wanna go [00:32:00] somewhere abroad. But there was, there's some sort of ultra marathon somewhere in the world.

That we, that timeframe. And I'm like, oh wait, do it. Let's see. I

Katie Polivick: dunno. That would be so cool or not. I mean, if you don't wanna

Ally Brettnacher: do it. Yeah. Oh, I do. I do.

Katie Polivick: Yes. Yes. Yeah. So, um, I think I had done, I, I don't even know if I had done the mini yet though. 'cause I feel like maybe my first one was that year, my senior year.

And that would've been after monumental, right? I don't remember. Were were you

Ally Brettnacher: in, like, during this timeframe in running clubs? You mentioned being in running clubs. So when did you find Um, I was in

Katie Polivick: my first running club, when I lived in Michigan. So I lived in Michigan for a summer. Oh, okay. I lived Michigan.

My cousins on my dad's side are professors at U of M. Oh. And so they have three children. They only had two when I was their nanny, but I lived with them 'cause they had like this, they had added on. This brand new guest room, and they still call it Katie Barrett's room at their house. They're like, it's Katie Barrett's room.

'cause I was the first person to live in that little [00:33:00] guest room. So I lived there during the week and I would sometimes go home one weekend, sometimes stay, but I needed to find friends because I was like, I can't babysit all day. Like I was their nanny. So I, I would babysit till five, but then I was like, wait, it's five, but I live here, so how are these kids gonna know that I'm like, done being their nanny off duty.

I'm off duty. So I would go on a run ride at five if I didn't have run club. So then that was, that was like their cue that was like, okay, Katie's done for the day. but I found a run club and it was through a different store. It wasn't athletic annex. All I remember was there was like a hippie van in front of the store and I loved that.

But wait, in, in Michigan. In Michigan. Okay. Yeah. So that was my first running club. Okay. So then I started running. with them. And we, it was on Wednesdays and we would run, do a long run or a run, couldn't tell you. And then we'd have beers and wings afterwards. Yep. And it was so fun. And now I always want beer after a long run, which can be problematic, but, it was really, it was really fun.

And then I met all these [00:34:00] people and then one time on my long run with them, I thought I lost, I would keep like my credit card and my ID and my bra. Yeah. This was like before we had, I've that there's no pockets there. There's no koala clip or whatever. There was no pockets to be and I thought I lost it.

Oh no. I thought I lost either my credit card or my driver's license. One of them. And I had the other one in my hand. So I had the whole running group looking through like these woods that we were running in for my visa card. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And then I realized that it had just stuck together.

Because it was sweaty in my bra, which is kind of TMI. But then you're so funny. So then I threw it on the ground and I pretended to find it.

I was like, guys, they found it because I was so embarrassed. I didn't wanna tell them that I had it the whole time. I, that is so amazing. So yeah. So that was my running first running show. Um,

Ally Brettnacher: I

Katie Polivick: hope

Ally Brettnacher: that like somehow the universe has somebody who was there listening to this somehow. Like Yeah,

Katie Polivick: Luke and Jake were [00:35:00] my friends there.

Okay. And they both worked at the running store and, um, so funny. Oh look. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: I'm like, oh wait,

Katie Polivick: it's right here.

Ally Brettnacher: And they're like, how the f Did it get all the way off over there? Yeah. Or did you throw it somewhere where it was like, I don't, I don't remember.

Katie Polivick: But um, yeah, but it was like, that's so funny.

That was the first time I just kind of started talking to strangers about running. Mm-hmm. And it was really fun. And there was this girl. That had cancer and was running, like with her pour in, I was like, you're such a badass. Okay. Like, what is going on? Like, she had like something on her, I don't know how it works, but, um, and she was like, yeah, I just, this is what keeps me going.

And I was like, oh my, I just, that's why I was like, okay, running is really cool. Yeah. Like it can bring people together that are all kind of bad asses in their own way. Yeah. So I

Ally Brettnacher: couldn't agree more with that.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. Well, do you listen to Ally on the Run? Sometimes. Okay. But I follow her on Instagram. Okay.

So you don't, and I talked to Chris about Ally on the Run, like she's my friend. I'm like, oh my gosh, she just went to chemo today. He's like, okay, do you need to unfollow this person? 'cause [00:36:00] she's like, affecting your day. And I'm like, no, but like, I need to pray for her. Like, I need a second. Like, it's, so I just shout out to Ally.

Yeah. Because she's, she's a badass. Right. And she's gonna beat it. It's gonna be great. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. I listened to her episode yesterday on my long run, the most recent Soul episode anyway. And it's, and it's funny 'cause she's like, I don't want this to be a bummer. This sucks like that. My podcast is becoming a bummer.

But I think it's really interesting hearing. From somebody's perspective that's really in the trenches of cancer and what that's like. I mean, 'cause fortunately, yeah, I don't know.

Katie Polivick: And like, I don't think it's, that's not why I don't listen to it. 'cause it's a bummer. It's mostly because I can't keep up with all the podcasts.

Oh, believe

Ally Brettnacher: me, that's like, I try to listen to all of 'em and it's so hard. I'm like always. Yeah. Well on the house and my headphones just like trying to absorb all the content and I'm actually not the kind of person that can listen on two x or like 1.5.

Katie Polivick: Wait, I have a funny story about, okay, so I've been listening to yours at 0.9.

So not faster. No, no, but it's not bad. [00:37:00] Okay. It sounds, it's really good like a struggle. So, because the reason, the reason is because I have a Rosary podcast that I listen to while I pray the rosary. Okay. And they pray so fast on this podcast. I'm like, this isn't even praying. So I slowed it down, but then it slowed down all my podcasts.

So then I tried to put it, I was like, Chris, I've been listening to this podcast on 0.9. We were in the car and then I was like, wait, I need to put it in it. I can't listen to it at one anymore.

Ally Brettnacher: It is, that's funny.

Katie Polivick: That's really funny. You talk too fast. But I don't think, I think it's because I'm used to 0.9.

Yeah. I, it's, it's, I don't think you

Ally Brettnacher: actually talk to, I don't know. I probably talk fast. I, but people

Katie Polivick: speed it up to two XI

Ally Brettnacher: speed it up to edit. When I edit I do 1.5. Yeah. And it's actually really hard 'cause I like listening to it the way it's intended to be listened to so that I can really, you know.

Katie Polivick: Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: But I also have limited time, so I'm trying to speed through it. And it is weird, but a lot of people do that with audio books, with podcasts, with all of it. But I have a hard time.

Katie Polivick: Oh yeah. I have a hard time. And I think I like, might [00:38:00] have like a processing thing. 'cause I process things very slowly.

Like it takes like, people will say something and they'll be looking at me like, did you hear me? And I'm like, I'm just processing what you're saying. Like, gimme a second. And then I'll tell like, so 0.9 really helps me. So

Ally Brettnacher: I feel like we are the same person, Katie. Oh, that's funny. Like I relate to that a lot too.

Because a lot of times I'll talk to my husband or even like, if we're having some kind of an argument. Yeah. I'm the kind of person that can't just like fire back. Oh no. I need to like process and think about what I'm gonna say because if, if I don't, if I'm not given that time, yeah. It's not good.

Katie Polivick: Yeah.

Yeah. And I, I'm also a verbal processor though, so like, so it's like I, I need to say it out loud to understand. And sometimes I'll be having like an argument or a conversation with Chris and he's like, I don't take anything what you say seriously until the end. 'cause you're just figuring out what you really think about it.

And I'm like, wait, that's, that's good though, because I like, I don't actually know what I, how I feel about something until it's like the end of the conversation, but always. Yeah. Yeah. That's so funny.

Ally Brettnacher: [00:39:00] Yeah. Oh, so, okay, running clubs, you found your first one in Michigan? Yes. And then when you trained for your first full marathon in 2014, were you part of like indie runners or any clubs here?

Well, that was

Katie Polivick: when, wait.

Ally Brettnacher: Or were you training with your running club for I think

Katie Polivick: I might have been. So maybe, yeah. I was training with my running club, so it was the summer going into my senior year that I was living in Michigan. So I trained with that running club.

Ally Brettnacher: Okay. For, for monumental. Okay. And then when

Katie Polivick: I came back, I would just run around, uh, the canal.

Okay. I love running Canal. Downtown Indianapolis. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: By yourself though. That's

Katie Polivick: kind of great. It was, yeah. It was not good. Yeah. Um, 'cause I, I went to Marion right. Which is kind of in the middle of like, not the best area. So it wasn't great. I made it through and I'm okay. So that's good. I run with people now though.

Yeah. That's good. So I, especially after listening to all the things that have happened to people on this podcast, I'm like, I need to be smart about it. Even this podcast, if you hear

Ally Brettnacher: about it in the media, all this stuff, you're like.

Katie Polivick: So I don't take that for granted. Yeah. But um, yeah, so then I was in [00:40:00] indie runners for monumental this past year.

I trained for with indie runners. And then I go to, I've been in November project one time. Oh. Woo. One time. And, um, it's just 'cause it's hard with teaching. 'cause I have to tell people what November project is. November project is a free, fitness group. It's not running, it's like a workout. Mm-hmm. And it meets on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Downtown Indy Wednesdays are always at the war memorial. Yeah. And you like, they have like a workout for you to do. There's some running involved. The day I went there, like there's a lot of running today and I was like, yes, this is good, good. I'm gonna be able to do it. Um, but, and then Fridays is like a different place in Indianapolis.

Every day or every Friday there's a, a different spot and they post on Instagram. But the good, the cool thing is that. When I was training with indie runners, we did our 20 miler. Do have you like, oh, I've done that one. The full what? They like bust you to Sheridan. Yes. [00:41:00] What do they call that? I don't know.

The 20 miler day. What is it called? Um, it has a

Ally Brettnacher: name because I've done it before.

Katie Polivick: They like, but they bust you to Sheridan. They drop you off and then you have like a cookout at the end. Okay. In Broadville. Well, it's changed

Ally Brettnacher: since I, I did it in 2018 when I was training for New York. I did, and it started at the Whole Foods at hundred 46th Street in Carmel.

Yeah. And then you went all the way downtown.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. Yeah. So it, there's like a celebratory name. Yeah. But I did that and the person that I was running with was doing her doctorate on group fitness. Whoa. So I got to hear her name's Ashley. She's like in November project, but she was studying November project for her doctorate.

That's cool. And she was talking about how group fitness solves loneliness. Yeah. I was like, wait, and I just got to listen to her. I was like, I wanna read this, this. What's it called? When you have your doctorate, you write something? God, I'm not

Ally Brettnacher: that smart. Can I don't

Katie Polivick: remember. Um, thesis?

Ally Brettnacher: Thesis? No.

Katie Polivick: Thesis is Masters.

Oh, okay. God, I'm an idiot. I No, you're not, you're not an idiot. I know, I know what it's, it's okay. My, my

Ally Brettnacher: father-in-law [00:42:00] has one doctor

Katie Polivick: dissertation. Is that it? You write your dissertation on it, so we'll figure it out. But she was writing her something Yeah. For, to get her doctorate on that. And so she was telling me all about how November project started and it was just like two guys at some East Coast school, I think.

I think were just like, we need to make a fitness group that's free and that's all over the United States. That's

Ally Brettnacher: so cool. Yeah. So they came last year to the Indy half. On your anniversary or on your

Katie Polivick: My wedding wedding day. Wedding day.

Ally Brettnacher: They were here. They were like National convention or whatever was in Indianapolis.

And so we got to have them at the Indy half and the energy, I know that they brought.

Katie Polivick: Especially

Ally Brettnacher: since their, like, their mantra is f Yeah.

Katie Polivick: Oh, I didn't know that. That's kind of fun. Which

Ally Brettnacher: was my favorite sign I saw at Monumental a few years back. I just still remember it. But that's like their slogan. Yeah.

And so they had all these signs, they're all screaming it, and they're like,

Katie Polivick: yeah, that's

Ally Brettnacher: so

Katie Polivick: great. Yeah. So anyway,

Ally Brettnacher: they won't be there this year. And I'm like, we need to figure out a way to get them [00:43:00] there every year.

Katie Polivick: Well, November project had a tent at, when I ran Monumental, they had a tent and they were like cheering and not the mini, so like just the That's good.

The local Indiana chapter. Local, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. so yeah, so I've been there and then I go and Indy Runners has like, a, a schedule of you can go to a different run for indie runners every day. It's not just Saturdays, which I didn't know. Oh, that's cool. So I just recently learned that. But there's one on Mondays at 5 45 that meets at in the morning.

Okay. I'll say which one? Yeah, yeah. that meets at the athenaeum by mm-hmm. The ref skill. And so I've been going to that and I was two minutes late this past Monday. They leave ride at 5 45 5. I appreciate that. Which is so great. But if you're late like me to everything, I had to, I learned that I can still run at a seven 30 pace.

I'm in the 10 30 group in that, in that, run club. But I was like, I can run at seven 30. Pace and catch up. Look at this. I was so proud of myself. Go me. Little speed work. Yeah. Little vulnerables to start, but yeah. So yeah. So I just like, I like running with people. Everyone with Megan, my cousin. Right.

[00:44:00] Shout out to Megan. Shout out to Megan. She's a badass runner. Did she?

Ally Brettnacher: Well, going on, you ran your first marathon with somebody else, you said?

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Ally Brettnacher: Well, going on, you ran your first marathon with somebody else, you said? With

Katie Polivick: Morgan Paris, yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yes. Okay. And then. So do you and Morgan run together a lot then and do races together or? Megan and I

Katie Polivick: do. Yeah. Morgan and I don't, 'cause she was just like a friend of a friend.

Yeah. That happened to be doing the race. but Megan and I do a lot together and then me, Megan and Chris do a lot together. Megan and Chris were like friends first. That's how I Mets so cool. That's so cool. Actually. Yeah, we're like a little trio. It's fun little running trio. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: did you have to be like, were you sure you didn't wanna date him?

Like you're sure I should have. I never

Katie Polivick: did. Sorry, Megan. I'm really sorry. Yeah. Hopefully you don't know. I know.

Ally Brettnacher: I,

Katie Polivick: I was

Ally Brettnacher: like, this could be awkward, but No, I know. That's great. Yeah. I love

Katie Polivick: it. So,

Ally Brettnacher: yeah. And he and Chris, your husband did his first half marathon. What was that this year? This past this ninth

Katie Polivick: year?

Yes. That's so great. It was so awesome. I'm so proud of him. Um, he was not like, he ran like five Ks and stuff. I think he had done the 5K for the mini Okay. With his mom a couple [00:46:00] times. and we had done it a couple times. Which surprisingly, it's before the half. Right. Which I was like, that's weird. But I, there's probably some race reason, but Well, 'cause now

Ally Brettnacher: they can do, you can do both races.

That's, yeah. And I

Katie Polivick: did this past year. Oh, nice. I did both. But um, so we did a five cake a couple times and then I was like, it was for my birthday, he was like, he told me in January, he was like, I think I wanna run the, the half for your birthday. 'cause it was on May 3rd or something. So it was like his birthday present.

And it was so fun like training with him. And we did the, miler series before. So that was really fun. And that's like a series of training races. Yeah. They're just basically like races. Yeah, you do, you can sign up for one individually or you can do the three, the six and the 10. There's like, there's just races leading up to it.

And then I did the 5K, Megan and I did the 5K before, so we did the miler series, then we did the 5K before and the half. Yeah. And then I was out for like weeks 'cause my back hurt, but, well, yeah. So, cause I don't [00:47:00] stretch and I need to stretch,

Ally Brettnacher: you know, I don't stretch either. Uh, I need to, it's just like the cliche of being runners.

I know. But I am going to physical therapy.

Katie Polivick: Wait, I'm starting tomorrow. Where who are you going to? I'm going to Forte. Okay. And I think their name is Jen. Okay. but my brother, we were just on vacation together and he said he had a physical therapist that he recommended. So I might go to that.

There's a

Ally Brettnacher: co there's oh shoot, what's his last name? Jacob from. Tempo Sports Rehab. He needs to be on this podcast.

Katie Polivick: Yeah,

Ally Brettnacher: he will be. Yes. He, he came to Rachel's running retreat and Oh, if you remember, yes, I do. He sees, I think I

Katie Polivick: walked in during that 'cause I was late because

Ally Brettnacher: of one of the milers series.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It all comes together. All comes. But he, he sees a ton of people, like in the running community. Yeah. It's so much so that you can't get into him right now. I see a guy that my coach recommended. Yeah. Mike Stevens at Apollo Sports Performance and he's great. Yeah. I wonder if that's the

Katie Polivick: same person that jojo was talking about, but I don't know.

I

Ally Brettnacher: don't, I don't know. There's like a couple that I feel like everybody goes to. Yeah. so anyway, so of course as a physical therapist, they give you [00:48:00] exercises to do that. Yeah,

Katie Polivick: that's what I do.

Ally Brettnacher: And, and I would be, I, I go and I'm like, well, I did it a couple, I did it some of the time, so, yeah. But I'm not gonna do 'em, I'm not gonna do 'em as prescribed.

I'm just not. I know.

Katie Polivick: It's so bad, so, so bad. I like. I love running and I do it for my mental health, but when I get injured, it's like, you can tell I'm like a different person. Totally. And so Chris is like, please stretch, please for everyone involved, stretch. Yes. You need to be able to do this. So he made me like a little like Google doc with all these stretches and like, he, like, he was the physical therapist.

He was like, okay, what hurts? And he was doing all these research and he is like, okay, these stretches should help. He did not. That's so sweet. He is the sweetest. He, oh my. And I did it like twice and it really helped. Didn't do it again. Yeah. Yeah. But I need, I need, like

Ally Brettnacher: now, once I start her, if I'm hurting, I will do it.

Yeah.

Katie Polivick: And I need to, but I haven't been hurting as much. I don't do swimming anymore. I don't do

Ally Brettnacher: the preventative

Katie Polivick: stuff.

Ally Brettnacher: I know. Yeah,

Katie Polivick: I

Ally Brettnacher: know.

Katie Polivick: I mean, but I'm, I'm hoping that going to physical therapy, it'll [00:49:00] be like, okay, here's the stretches and we're meeting next week and I'm gonna be able to tell if you can't do your stretches.

You know what I mean? Right. Like you can't fake, like, it's not like you can cheat on the test. Yeah. Like, you either can stretch or you can't. Yeah. And so I need to do it. Yeah. That's like my goal is to do that. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see. You can, I can, we can do hard things, but we can stretch, we can do, we can stretch.

We, it's really hard. I need a sticker that says that we can stretch. We can stretch. You need to stretch, Katie. We need to stretch. Stretch. So anyway,

Ally Brettnacher: whatever. I feel like, I don't know, I'm like on the fence of that stretching really helps or hurts. Oh, really? Anyway. Yeah. I mean, I think there's, well, some of the exercises that I've given are like for strengthening certain muscles that just need to catch up or, yes, yes.

Katie Polivick: Those are, so that's, that's legit. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah.

Katie Polivick: Oh, wow. So I'm gonna have a

Ally Brettnacher: really nice butt, basically my, like glue. That's good. Needs to be stronger. Mm-hmm. To like help, help your back everything else. Yeah. Exactly. And my back is, and your abs

Katie Polivick: are supposed to help your back. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. Getting old is fun. It is though.

Super fun. It [00:50:00] is. I'm so happy. Yeah. That I'm getting old. okay. The next thing I wanna talk to you about is the fact that you are a race director and founder Yeah. Of a race. Yeah. Which is so cool. And frankly like, because I'm a runner and kind of in your orbit and family, like, I should have done this race before, but I have not. That's okay.

So tell everybody about, what's it called, baby on the way? 5K. The baby on the

Katie Polivick: way. 5K.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. So tell everybody what that is.

Katie Polivick: So the baby on the way 5K was my sophomore service project at Marion. So I was in this, scholarship program called the San Damiano Scholars, and it's just like a fan fancy cross. Um, that's what the San Damiano cross is, but long story, but.

You got to pick any service project you wanted to do. It had to be kind of a bigger one. And, I was like, well, I love running. And my mom works at this place called the O'Connor House. Mm-hmm. Which is a home for women who are pregnant and homeless, experiencing homelessness and may or may not have other [00:51:00] children so they can live there all throughout their pregnancy and then afterwards as well, until they get on their feet, get a job.

Mm-hmm. That kind of stuff. And my mom is the house director for that. She is amazing. Yeah. Your mom is amazing. And, um, and so I was like, this is so special. And my dad was like on the board for a long time and he was always the mc for like the, the gala they have or the gala they have. Yes. Yeah. So

Ally Brettnacher: you know that I went to St.

Maria Gretty graduating class with Mary Jolly, her name is now Mary Browning. Okay. Who was on the board of the O'Connor house for a long time. Wow. And so she has invited me to this 5K. This is why I feel bad too. 'cause like she invited me to it. Well, let's go then this year.

Katie Polivick: And, yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: And then she invited me to the, to the gala.

Gala. I, you know what? I hate that word. Yeah. I dunno how to say

Katie Polivick: it. I, but I

Ally Brettnacher: remember Yeah, your dad crushing it and his stuff. Yeah.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. So we're like very involved in this house 'cause it's a beautiful home. And so I was like, well these are two things that I'm super passionate about and if you put 'em together, you get a race.

Yeah. So I was like, this will be fun. And then I was [00:52:00] just like, we were on our deck, outside at like one summer a day. And I was like, what are we gonna call it guys? Like, what are we gonna call it? Like it has to have some cool name. And then Ellie, my little sister was about, I was like, they're all pregnant that were the people we're running for, right?

Like, they're all pregnant having babies. How about baby on the way? 5K. And I was like. Is the best. So, but it makes it seem like you have to be pregnant to Ron. You don't. Okay. That is true. You don't Only for pregnant people. No, no, no. So I'll wear the shirt and people are like, what? I'm like, no, but, um, I'm not pregnant, but I almost wore it today, but I forgot quite honestly.

Yeah. Yeah. But it's in September and let's put that in like the notes to the Oh, you, you know, I've been, 'cause I forget what it is. Yeah. I'll link to it for, but we need to like, and help support it. Yeah. Or you know, so it's been going since I was a junior in college. So like 2014, November the first race was at Marian and then around Marian's campus.

And then, couple times after that, somehow it moved to Garrin, I think is where it is now. [00:53:00] Okay. Okay. It's on a Sunday, so it's like Sunday at nine. So it's kind of hard for people sometimes if they're going to church, but, so, but we were trying to like not compete with the Saturday fall 5K. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Very, a very big thing.

Totally.

Katie Polivick: So I'm not the race director anymore, but, I passed it down to like someone else in my scholarship program did it and then I think someone gets paid to do it at the O'Connor house now, which is good. Cool. Yeah, it was kind of a big deal to just be like doing all of it. That's a lot. Of course.

It was a lot, it was very stressful, but like, it was a really good learning experience. 'cause I mean, I was just calling people like, do you wanna sponsor this race? Can I put my, my race? Like cards in your races bag? Like I was doing all the things. Yeah. But it was fun. Like I'm glad I did it. Yeah. And it was for a very good pause and it's

Ally Brettnacher: almost been 10 years running.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. It didn't miss a year in COVID. Well, of course. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah.

Katie Polivick: but yeah. So it's really, it's really cool. That's really cool. It's, it's that I'm very proud that, I love that. I

Ally Brettnacher: love that you did that. You should be really proud.

Katie Polivick: [00:54:00] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. How perfect.

Ally Brettnacher: It's cool. Yeah, it's cool.

Katie Polivick: And your whole family

Ally Brettnacher: can run every, you, your family, do it as a, we all

Katie Polivick: do it.

And, my dad's usually the mc of course of that. and then it's like, it's a, it's a very good group of, of people that does it, but I feel like we don't publicize it very well. Like you're, you're in the running know. I've never

Ally Brettnacher: seen it.

Katie Polivick: Like that's a problem. I've, I've never seen it. Yeah, let's get on that.

Ask people. I've been

Ally Brettnacher: invited by my friend who was on board and that's, I think

Katie Polivick: it's mostly word of mouth right now. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, yeah, we gotta work on that. So, but

Ally Brettnacher: I mean, because you know, in the fall, especially September, like there's a lot of people trying to get in a lot of miles for their fall marathon.

Katie Polivick: Mm-hmm.

Ally Brettnacher: So, yeah,

Katie Polivick: there's a kid race too, so like Sydney and Sloan could do it. Oh, right, okay. So there's like a little, I think it's like. Like a straightaway race. Perfect. It's not very long. Yeah. Maybe a lap around the track for older kids, but Oh yeah. Sydnee would. Yeah. Love that. Yeah. So you can do that.

Yeah. And Ellie, my sister, who's a kindergarten teacher [00:55:00] does, is the mc for the little kid race. Oh, that's cute. She's like, all

Ally Brettnacher: right guys, if you're That's kindergarten. Get on the line. Yeah. It's really cute.

Katie Polivick: It's

Ally Brettnacher: cute. That's so fun. Yeah. So that's really cool that you did that.

Katie Polivick: Yeah, it was cool and continued to

Ally Brettnacher: participate in it.

Katie Polivick: Oh yeah. Yeah. I should know when it is. I'm terrible, but it's just, it's on my calendar.

Ally Brettnacher: I'll, I'll put it in there. Yes. And I also, I'll probably talk about it at the beginning too, in the Oh,

Katie Polivick: perfect. Perfect.

Ally Brettnacher: Go to this.

Katie Polivick: Yes.

Ally Brettnacher: you've also. won a race before. I love this for you,

Katie Polivick: Mrs. Swa. Half

Ally Brettnacher: Mrs. Swa. Yeah.

Where in the world or where in Indiana is Mrs. Swa?

Katie Polivick: Uh, I think it's north. I don't even know. I drove. You know, you just plug it into your phone and you're like, I'm gonna follow this till the ends of the earth. And you just do. But um, yeah, it was, I don't know. Like, you know when you have no concept of where you are in Indiana?

Yeah, I do know that. Like, it could be by Anderson. It could be by Goshen. I have no idea. That's funny. Like, like, I don't

Ally Brettnacher: know. Yeah. But

Katie Polivick: um, it's really pretty. 'cause it's by a lake. Okay. So do you [00:56:00] remember the

Ally Brettnacher: name of the lake? Probably not.

Katie Polivick: They might be miss, like,

Ally Brettnacher: I don't know. Okay. You know

Katie Polivick: what? I feel like it might be, I feel

Ally Brettnacher: like.

On the way to Lake ee. Mm-hmm. I have seen signs for Missa.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. So it's, it's north, it it's north. Is it Wallace North? Yeah, it's, it's, yeah. So it's North. I here, it's up there. Um, but so I did, I won it and it was really funny because I drove myself there. 'cause it was in the year, it was in 2019 where I decided to run a half every month.

I was like, every month of this year, I'm gonna run a half marathon. And for, I think it was in June or July, I was like, I need a half. And Mrs. Swa was the one. And so I drove over up around there and I, um, and I noticed that we started, it was like maybe 50 or 60 of us. I don't, I, I can't even tell you, it was not more than a hundred people.

And, um, I noticed that there was one woman in front of me and I was like, [00:57:00] okay. I think I started like in the front, like, I don't think there's anyone in front of her. Yeah. And it was like. So for, it was an out and back too. Okay. So I was like, okay, I think I can get it. I think I can get in front of her.

And I went in front of her and then on the, like we turned around on the way back, I like tried to figure out how far away, right. She wasn't super close, but I just was like, this is fun. Like, I think I'm verse right now for women and then I, and then you going so much faster than you need to go 'cause you don't wanna turn around.

It would've taken me two seconds to turn around and look, but I did. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: But, um, sees it as motivation instead. Oh

Katie Polivick: yeah. It was fun. And then I got this plaque that said first overall female. And I come home and I'm like, guys I won. And they just like, look at me. They're like, what? I'm like, no, look, I won the race.

And they're like, oh cool. And they're like, how many people were in that race?

Ally Brettnacher: You're like, you

Katie Polivick: know what, why, why do you

Ally Brettnacher: need

Katie Polivick: to know the details? I was like, 30 May. I don't know. But, but like, it was, it was funny 'cause it was very anticlimactic 'cause it was like, there was no one there. At the finish line that I knew, 'cause I had driven to, and, and I'm [00:58:00] assuming there was no tape.

There was

Ally Brettnacher: no tape because that, you know, they should do that at every single race. They should. I mean, how hard is it to have? Just like, I don't care what it is. They

Katie Polivick: had a plaque. Why is it gonna have plaque have tape? Yeah. Um, but, and then I think I heard the person that was behind me saying that she was sick or something, she's like, oh, I just don't feel good today or something.

And I was like, okay. I think she was supposed to win or so, I don't know. Okay. But in my head, she was like the person that was gonna win. Yeah. And I beat her. Well, I have no idea if that's true, but you did.

Ally Brettnacher: She probably had COVID

Katie Polivick: probably, but um, so that was really fun. I still like keep it in my room, on my desk, uh, in my

Ally Brettnacher: little, little

Katie Polivick: first

Ally Brettnacher: female.

I have limited experience with winning any kinds of awards and so when you do Yeah, it is so cool. I won my age group for Sam Costa.

Katie Polivick: Oh my gosh.

Ally Brettnacher: And put, that's big. They put your name on the shirt. Yes. Yes. When did you do that? Uh, two or three years

Katie Polivick: ago.

Ally Brettnacher: I forget. That's amazing. It was on the shirt this year, so it was last year.

Katie Polivick: And [00:59:00] Carmel was like a fast.

Ally Brettnacher: So you're in a fast

Katie Polivick: age group.

Ally Brettnacher: Here's the funny thing. Yeah. Is that, a woman who actually interviewed this week as well. My friend Kate, bro. Sheers? Yeah. She is in my age group. But she was coming back and like from an injury or, or from having kids? Maybe It was, she just had a kid and she was running with a friend and so like, she wasn't racing.

Oh. And then my friend, another friend I know who's in the age group, like didn't run that year. So it was kind of like,

Katie Polivick: you're like, this is my year. I don't know how,

Ally Brettnacher: I didn't even know actually that I could, could do it. I just did and I was surprised

Katie Polivick: That's, that's kind of the best though. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: It was like, oh, that's the best.

Like when you,

Katie Polivick: you were just trying your hardest and then you got and you won. Yeah. It's like how it should be.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. And then my lake race every year that I talk about your fun prizes, you know, my fun prizes. But man, like this year it was a little bit more competitive.

Katie Polivick: Was it?

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. I got third, they announced me as third, but I really got second in the, when you see online, I was like, what the hell?

Wow. I could have gotten the stuffed swan instead of whatever. What was it I got? I forget.

Katie Polivick: Wait, what did you do? I don't even remember what I got this year. It was, wasn't it another floaty? [01:00:00] Because I remember you being like, was it like girls are

Ally Brettnacher: gonna fight over it? It was a baby float. Yeah. Like literally for an infant, so, oh, it was kind of, don't they know adults are running well and I got a Starbucks cup.

That was okay. That was good. That was cool. I still have that. My, my daughter really loved that. Yeah. So anyway. That's so cool that you won a race.

Katie Polivick: It was really, I'm proud of it. A race. I don't know if my family even remembers that I did that.

Ally Brettnacher: Come on, family. Will you please like Celebr. It's 'cause you live with jojo.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. Who just wins all the time. You're like,

Ally Brettnacher: oh, he just wins all the time. So when I win it's not a big deal. It should be a bigger deal.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. Yeah. That

Ally Brettnacher: I win something That's so funny. And they just don't get it. You know? I

Katie Polivick: mean, it's okay. It's fine. I, that's not why I was running, so. Right, right, right. It was just a little, little cherry on top.

Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: And so that was in 2019, what made you wanna do a half marathon every month?

Katie Polivick: Um, so I did the, like Christmas one, downtown Indie in December of 2018. Okay. Do you remember that one? Okay. It's like the Santa Hustle. Santa Hustle. Yeah. I've always,

Ally Brettnacher: that's always been kind of on my radar, but [01:01:00] I've never done it.

It

Katie Polivick: was fun. And the sweatshirt was like, it looks like a Santa suit. That's great. So that's fun. I like fun and, um. I realized that I really liked halves. I was like, wow. And I've been like training for this and I, I've had something to look forward to and I'm kind of the worst at training for things like I, I don't like consistently Like at your running, at the, Rachel's running Yeah.

Thing. I was looking around the room and I was like, isn't it kind of hard sometimes to get yourself to run? And no one was like, everyone was like, I just run every day. I was like, okay, okay. I run with the wrong. I was like, so sometimes I do not have motivation to run. Okay. So I was looking for Well, you're not motivation to run.

Yeah. And I was like, well, if I just did one every month, and it was in December that I decided to do this, so January was coming up. So I was like, okay, well I have, this could be like my New Year's resolution. Yeah. It was so fun. It was so fun. And like I got to, I got to go to Cincinnati. I was gonna say, and

Ally Brettnacher: Michigan.

Could you, do you think you could go like in order of the ones you did, would you get to remember? Oh, I had no

Katie Polivick: idea. That's why I was asking you about [01:02:00] that website.

Ally Brettnacher: So the website I should tell you about now. We could like, well, my phone's up there. We could, we could look it up. But it's called ATH Links.

Ath links. It's like athlete, but at links. Okay, okay.

Katie Polivick: But you

Ally Brettnacher: can go on there and search and I actually searched it for you. Did I have very many? No. Yeah, it's weird because I think it depends on which tracking providers they use or something. Because I shoulda had at least 12, which is how I found this other girl who went to the University of Indiana in Pennsylvania.

Whose name's Katie Barrett. Did you know that?

Katie Polivick: Yeah. There's a lot. There's a lot of Katie Barretts, I think, which is interesting. Why? I don't know, is it, I've Googled myself before and there's lot, it's not me that pops up.

Ally Brettnacher: Right? Yeah. It's confusing. But is it because Barrett is Barrett Iris, right?

Katie Polivick: I I mean we're We're Irish.

Yeah, but I don't think they are. We're also German, so. Oh yeah. I don't know, but I don't know. Anyway, that's the website you can use. Yeah. But I did like, well, why was I talking about the 12 races? Oh yeah. So because I asked you,

Ally Brettnacher: I don't know. Oh yeah.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. But um. So in, in [01:03:00] January, I did one in Ohio. It was January 1st.

Okay. And that was my fastest half at that point in my life. And it was like an out, up a hill and back and out and back. It was two, two laps. Oh, no. With a hill in the middle. But that was my fastest one. That's amazing. I don't why, kind of how that works. Um, I don't remember what my time was either. I think it was like one 50 something.

Okay. But, um, then, let's see, February, I must have done like a Valentine's one or something. I don't remember. March, I remember. Oh, no, February was the, um, winter trail, frosty. Oh. Do you know, I, I've heard of

Ally Brettnacher: it. I don't know anything about it. Is that Eagle Creek?

Katie Polivick: Okay. And it's a two lap course if you do the half, at least it was in 2019.

But I, I cheated myself a little bit on this 'cause it had just snowed and then gotten really warm. Okay. So it was muddy. It was so muddy. And I was very nervous that I was like gonna step in mud and like my shoe was not gonna come with me or something. Right. Totally. So I did one lap. And then I stopped, but I was like, that [01:04:00] was a really hard lap, so that should count as two laps.

Oh my gosh, Katie. So I didn't finish as a rule follower. I know, I know. That is hard to understand. It was. But I had this really cool picture of me, like with mud all over my back going like this, and it says WTF on my shirt. I'm like, I have like a badass. Yeah. And the medals is W2 Frosty. Okay. I've seen totally.

Okay. Yes. Yeah, I love that. So that was February, March. Must have been like a leprechaun one. I don't know. Sam Costa's in March. Have you done that? That's probably what it was. Okay. Sam Costa. Yeah. Right. And then April Carmel was the one in Cincinnati. Oh, okay. So I did one called the Broke Man's half. Oh.

Which is like in this random place in Ohio that I stayed in Cincinnati. But then like drove out to this place in Ohio and the medals were like, someone had like cut up plywood and like carved in 'em or put a sticker on like, it was like supposed to be really cheap. It was $40. Okay. So you just, you didn't get a T-shirt, you had to bring your own water bottle.

And like they had like water stops, which is also very [01:05:00] environmentally friendly. So that was nice. True. But then the, the metals were like, like wood. I think that's cheaper. I don't know. I mean, but it was called the broke man's house. That's funny. That was, that was April and then May was the Indie Mini.

Okay. And then I thought it wasn't gonna be able to do this, but I am getting close. And then June, may, am I in June now? Yeah. And then June, what was mrsa? Oh, the, yep. July was Christmas in July. Okay. August was this run through winery in like Michigan. Oh, cool. I went up to Michigan 'cause my cousins live there and I ran through a winery.

That was fun. 'cause you got a decanter at the end. Oh,

Ally Brettnacher: that is cool. Yeah, I

Katie Polivick: like that. Which I didn't know what it was like. It's supposed to make wine breathe or something. I was like, why are they handing me this? But then what was the space? Yeah, it was, that's what I thought it was. Um, and then, wait, it was August, September, I don't remember.

I don't remember. And then November. Oh, I ended the year with a marathon. With No, because I, 'cause I was like, well, I already did my December half. Right. [01:06:00] So I, so I, I ended that year with monumental. Okay. Yeah. That's cool. Which is such a blessing. 'cause then it was COVID after that.

Ally Brettnacher: True. You got all of 'em. I got all of 'em.

And then you're like, I need a break. And then

Katie Polivick: God's like here. That's like, here it is. Yeah. Um, so that was really fun.

Ally Brettnacher: That is really fun.

Katie Polivick: It was, it was a blast. Yeah. Love that. It was really expensive, but really fun.

Ally Brettnacher: Right? Yeah. Have you ever gotten on a plane to go to a race?

Katie Polivick: I don't think so. No. Yeah. I always wonder how that goes.

'cause like you're sitting and you're like, depending on how long the plane ride is, like, not usually

Ally Brettnacher: got a day or two before so that it's, yeah, that's true.

Katie Polivick: I wanna do Boston one day and I can't decide if I wanna qualify or do it like the charity way. I can't decide. It's probably gonna decide for me,

Ally Brettnacher: like, well, I think I, there's a gotta be a debate on which one's harder.

I think that the charity route would be harder, frankly. You

Katie Polivick: think? I don't know because

Ally Brettnacher: I know I can work my ass off. I mean, for you it might be

Katie Polivick: up to the person. Well, not true.

Ally Brettnacher: It's also up to the person. But I'm like, you're

Katie Polivick: fast. I don't know. That's if I can That's fair. That is fair. But what I

Ally Brettnacher: [01:07:00] mean is like, I don't like when people shame charity rights in Austin is what I'm getting at.

No, don't do that. That because they have to raise 10,000 thousands of dollars and that is really freaking hard.

Katie Polivick: Yes. And and speaking of, everyone should donate to Megan Moores. Oh, Chicago. She's doing a charity, right? She's a charity runner for Chicago. Yeah. And she's doing it for Alzheimer's. 'cause our granny,

Ally Brettnacher: yeah, I had two grandmas with Alzheimer's, so yeah, I probably haven't donated to hers yet, so remind you.

Yeah, I think she put it up. I will remind you. Okay.

Katie Polivick: I think she put the link up like on her birthday in February and I don't know, I'll have to ask her like where even the link is, but yeah, I'll share that. Yeah. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: okay, so then how many, so how many times have you done monumental full? I think

Katie Polivick: three.

Okay. I think 20. 14, 14, 20 19. Then I signed up for it another time. Oh. But then I, I got a concussion. Oh, how? And not a car accident. It wasn't fun. So, and then, I just got rear-ended and [01:08:00] then, so I was gonna run it. So then that was in like, a couple years ago. So then I just ran it last year. So three, I put three.

Ally Brettnacher: Okay. So were, did you get rear-ended, like towards the end of your training? 'cause that'd be really annoying

Katie Polivick: that you're assuming I did the training. Okay.

Ally Brettnacher: Right.

Katie Polivick: Whatever. Almost like I half-assed the training and I was like, when I have a good question, I can't run. So it wasn't, it wasn't a big deal. Okay.

Well that's good because I would, so like, if it had been like the year of my wedding when I went to indie runners every Saturday, that would've been really sad. Right. But it was more like, I'm gonna run this marathon and I've kind of drained and then I got in a crack. And

Ally Brettnacher: then you're like,

Katie Polivick: okay, well it's not

Ally Brettnacher: meant to be.

Yeah,

Katie Polivick: exactly. It's fine. So it

Ally Brettnacher: was all good. Yeah. And then last year, yeah. Amazing. Last year. Did you, who'd you run with last year? Megan? You wrote with Megan. That's what I thought.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. And, She is so funny. We, we run together all the time and indie runners and everything, and we're like, not the slowest, not the fastest.

But my parents went to, new fields, like that's a common place to watch people at Monument, like the art museum. And, they were filming us running and I [01:09:00] showed Chris, I was like, oh my gosh, look, it's, it's us running. And during Newville he is like, you aren't running very fast. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I wanna see your butt run that fast for 26

Ally Brettnacher: miles.

And like, I'm trying to think of what Miles is through new, it's like when you're getting close to 20 miles. Yeah, because like right after you're out of new fields, it's like another mile maybe, and it's 20 miles. Little bit. So it's like, that's a hard part race.

Katie Polivick: It was a hard part. And they were like, how do you feel?

And I was like, our legs are a little tired, but we're feeling good. And then Megan's mantra is from, what about Bob? If you've seen this movie, I ha

Ally Brettnacher: I used to have this shirt that said, don't hassle me, I'm local. Wait. Love. What about Bob? It's '

Katie Polivick: cause you're a hill. It, it translates. But so what about Bob is a great, I feel good.

Yes. Feel, that's her mantra. I feel wonder, I feel wonderful. She's, I feel good. I feel great. I feel wonderful. And she says that when she's running

Ally Brettnacher: it. That is an excellent mantra again. It is

Katie Polivick: so

Ally Brettnacher: good. That is excellent. And so I

Katie Polivick: kind of was like, I need to take that on. So that's what we were saying at that point.

The race. That's so

Ally Brettnacher: funny. Oh my gosh. I need, so it's funny 'cause I've thought about how I wanted to make a video, a reel [01:10:00] on Instagram of Bill Murray. Yes. Being like, I feel good. Like, and putting like a background of a race. 'cause I've, I've thought that before. Yes. It is a great, that's a great mantra. It is.

It's gonna lie to yourself.

Katie Polivick: Yes. Yes.

Ally Brettnacher: It's better than saying, I feel horrible. I suck and I'm terrible or whatever.

Katie Polivick: So Chris and I will say that like, when we're running sometimes, like, just be like, Megan, I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful. Like, channel your inner Megan and Bill Murray and you can get it.

But,

Ally Brettnacher: and do yourself a favor if you've not seen What about Bob? Oh my God. Or I don't know where you can watch it. I hope it's some streaming. I don't know. And it's worth it. If you have to buy your rabbit, you to buy

Katie Polivick: it for $4. Oh my God. Do Its best

Ally Brettnacher: money you've ever spent. It's such a great movie. So funny.

Katie Polivick: I loved that movie, but I love movies because my family loves that same,

Ally Brettnacher: I love watching. What about Bob With my dad? Yes. 'cause he like cries laughing every time we watch it. And my

Katie Polivick: grandpa, my papa loves. What about Bob? And he like, oh my gosh. He would quote it at the dinner table and there's this one part where, what about Bob?

Or Bob is saying, oh, Faye and Faye is someone's name. He's like, oh [01:11:00] Faye, this is so good. Like talking about the dinner. Yeah. But my papa, whenever we have dinner, he would say, oh, Faye, I literally thought it was like French for this is good until I was like 12. I was like, what? I was like, oh, it's from a movie.

Because he would always say, oh Faye, we'd all be saying it. And I'm like, oh my gosh, this must be like another language for it's good. And I didn't know it was from What about Bob?

Ally Brettnacher: That is, oh my gosh, you're hilarious. I love that so much. Yeah, it was funny. Well, I just, yeah, remember he like sits there and he's just like.

Mm. Yeah. And everybody's

Katie Polivick: annoyed that he is doing whatever the dad is.

Ally Brettnacher: Oh, it's so funny. It's a good movie. It's so good. Um, okay, another topic I wanna cover before we start to wrap up Yes. Is mental health. Yeah. And I love that. By the way, you pushed our interview back because you had therapy. Yeah. How was your therapy session this

Katie Polivick: morning?

It was so great. Oh, I just bounced this. so therapy was great today and every time I go How often do you go? I go once a month. Okay. That's what I do. More if needed. Same. so this where to start with mental health. So I like lived in California for five [01:12:00] seconds. Okay. And it was rough, so, oh, I was, this is, can we, I'll try to give like, the short version of the story.

Yeah. But that was my Notre Dame stint. Oh right. We forgot to come

Ally Brettnacher: back to that. That's

Katie Polivick: okay. And we naturally did, 'cause it has to do with mental health. So, I was in this program at Notre Dame called ace, the Alliance for Catholic Education. And it was, you get placed in any Catholic school in the entire United States that is underserved or underprivileged Wow.

Or serves underprivileged children, however you wanna phrase that. That's cool. And then you don't get paid while you're teaching. You get a stipend to live off of, but you get a free master's from Notre Dame. Okay. So that's pretty good, and that's way more than you're ever gonna get paid teaching. So that's, I was like, what?

You don't get paid And then, but then hear that and you're like, okay, that's okay. So, um, so I did that for one year and then it was the hardest thing I've ever done. It was like being a first year teacher living away from home in California with people that are also in the program that I don't know.

I've been to all their [01:13:00] weddings. They're great people. I love them so much. Emma, Dan, and John. but like, we didn't know each other then. Yeah. And I come from, like, I went from this awesome family where I went for like a half hour at Marion, then I'm across the country 35 hours to. California. Where in California?

Uh, I lived in Santa Clara. Okay. But I worked in Palo Alto, so that's like where Steve Jobs. Right. So you could think like, what, what are you talking about? Like, it's not underprivileged, but my, my school was in like the freakish, like, it was such a nice neighborhood. It was like the Bridgewater of, sorry, I just said that on tape.

But, um, it was a really nice, why are you sorry? I just feel bad. But, um, so

Ally Brettnacher: because, because people are rich and they have live Bridgewater, it's,

Katie Polivick: it's so, it's so fancy. It's so fancy. We're

Ally Brettnacher: in Carmel right now. We're in the fanciest library. So it was

Katie Polivick: like the Bridgewater of California. That's fine. I taught there, but all of my kids were from outside of there, so it made me sad 'cause they would get, like, they dropped off in its really nice neighborhood and they have to go home.

[01:14:00] And one time I was driving and I was driving to school, which I never did. And they, and I said, because I usually rode the train. I was gonna say, yeah. Okay. And, I said, guys, I gotta get a diet Coke after school today. 'cause that's what I always loved doing. And they're like, don't go to our neighborhood, Ms.

Barrett. Do not go to. And I was like, what? And like, well if you do wave to my mom, 'cause she lives right behind the gas station. And it was just like, it was just sad. It was just like, yeah. A whole vibe. And it was just like really hard mentally to deal with. But, um, what grade, what grade was that? Fifth through eighth.

I taught fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade science all at the same time while being far away. So all this to say, I came home, I pressed pause on Notre Dame and I, 'cause I had to, I had to take care of my mental health. So, and I like was in, there was a time period where I just came home and I was like, I just ruined my life.

I just quit Notre Dame. This was this big deal that I've been working towards. Yeah. And I would just like lay in bed and be sad [01:15:00] for most of the day. And except that my dad would make me run. He would go on runs with me. He'd be like, we're gonna go on a run and it's gonna be okay. And I was like, no, I don't wanna go on a run.

I'd be so mad that he was making me run. Yeah. And then he would take me running on this loop, and then there was this one straightaway in foster estate, and he was like, you need to sprint as fast as you possibly can down the straightaway. Like, just, just go as fast as possibly can. And he would do it first, and then I would come, or we'd race or something.

But, and then like, it just got better. Like, it was just, we just were, we would run more. And I was going to therapy and I got medicine and slowly but surely I just got better. And then I went back to teaching and I finished my master's like seven years later. But, um, was it free? It was, it's good. It was still free.

That's good. Good free. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: And I was like, oh man, you gave, you know, I mean, you had to take care of yourself. Who cared? Yeah, I did. But did I did That would've been hard to give up the opportunity. Yeah. To,

Katie Polivick: yeah. [01:16:00] So, so yeah, I went back to Notre Dame and then Notre Dame. Let me finish it at St. Mark. Where I teach now.

Wow. Okay. So, um, because you're like,

Ally Brettnacher: hey, it like almost destroyed my entire life. So Yeah. I was like, I was so

Katie Polivick: close and I, I had done, I only needed like two more classes. I was so close to finishing, so they were really sweet and let me finish. That's good. So I run because it makes me feel good. Like that's why I run because it puts me in like a clear head space.

It's so good for your mental health. And I also pray while I run, so I do that too. I just like think of people or run or swim. I've been swimming more lately too, and I think of like a person or an event or something that needs my prayers and it makes me run harder and faster. Yeah. And longer. And it's just like, it's such a beautiful thing.

Mm-hmm. Like, and, it's makes me feel connected to people that I feel like I don't get to see as much or talk to as much, but I'm like, okay, I sit, I pray for them. I'm gonna run this for, you know, [01:17:00] so and so that needs prayers right now and. And, it's just really nice. I, I don't, I can't even explain it really, but

Ally Brettnacher: Do you have a method?

Where do you do my, like a specific, okay. This mile I'm gonna pray for this person. And then you switch? Or do you just do it as it comes? It

Katie Polivick: depends. Like when I was running that marathon, it was like each person got a rosary and then sometimes it might be like a mile. It just depends on the day. Yeah. The other day when I was swimming, I swim at the Y sometimes and I was like, okay, A down back is gonna be a person.

Okay. And I was, okay, this down back is gonna be for. So and so, and then, then the next one, and then I would like rest and I'd like think about the person and it makes you go faster. Yeah. Right. It's just like, it's kind of like the do it. 'cause what what's that mantra? You say, I get to do this.

Ally Brettnacher: I get to Yeah.

Yeah. It's like they

Katie Polivick: might be dealing with their own thing and you get to run and you're gonna offer up your run for them and, and so

Ally Brettnacher: like this is not nearly as hard as what Right. Whatever they're dealing with going. Yeah. That's why I was, I listened to Ally on the Run episode during a run. Yeah. For that reason.

'cause it's like, if [01:18:00] she can go through this, I can No, I can run. I can run. That's, yeah. I mean, yeah.

Katie Polivick: Yeah. So, and I just remember that like running, got me through all of the craziness with Notre Dame and everything and I'm just like, you gotta do it. Yeah. Or move in some way. Yeah. Movement in some way.

Mm-hmm. Really. Did

Ally Brettnacher: you run when

Katie Polivick: you were

Ally Brettnacher: in Palo

Katie Polivick: Alto around there? I did. I did. And you'd think that it was like the best running in my life. 'cause it was Beautifuls so pretty. Yeah, it's pretty hilly out there. So pretty. It's, it's hilly, but like, I was just like, not. I didn't have any feelings. I was like, I, I was just like this, like, usually I'm like a very like happy and then sad and I'm experiencing all the emotions.

I was just like, like flat lining. So I was just like, I'll go for a run, but it's not gonna do anything. Like, I just like, yeah. Yeah. So much better now,

Ally Brettnacher: but, well, it's good for you for like listening to yourself and being like, I need to, I need to quit this. Yeah. Like, this is not going to work.

It was

Katie Polivick: hard. It was hard. That had to be really

Ally Brettnacher: hard.

Katie Polivick: It was because especially [01:19:00] 'cause people say like, teaching is a calling, you know? And so, and I guess it iss also a career though. Yeah. So it's like, okay, if it's my job, I can like push pause for a second. Yeah. But when you say it's a calling, it's like, oh my gosh, this God gonna be mad at me.

Like, you know what I mean? You don't wanna make him mad, like, gosh. Right. but yeah, so, and I, I try to like help people who are in their first couple years of teaching. 'cause those are hard. It was like just hard times. But it's really good. Like once you get it down. Yeah. I feel like, but

Ally Brettnacher: well, God, God bless teachers.

Katie Polivick: Hey,

Ally Brettnacher: thanks. Because man, it is not a job that, that I am suited for. That's for sure.

Katie Polivick: I mean, I, but I'm not suited to do this. 'cause you figured out all these, did I figure it out? You did. You figured it out. Is it gonna turn out? It will. Only God knows. Um, but I think we all just have our things that we're good at and I just, I love middle schoolers.

I, I don't love middle school itself, but I like to make middle school better 'cause it's [01:20:00] such a rough time of life. Yeah, it really is. You're just like a walking hormone and everything is the end of the world. Yeah. And I just love to be the reminder that like, good, it's really gonna be okay.

Ally Brettnacher: Like, I promise you.

And what, do you teach all subjects now or are you still Science? Science? Just science. Seventh. That's right. Seventh grade. And

Katie Polivick: I, I have, taught special ed as well. That's

Ally Brettnacher: what you're saying.

Katie Polivick: Oh,

Ally Brettnacher: that's, yeah. I did that

Katie Polivick: at Westfield. That was like how I proved myself that I could go back to Notre Dame.

'cause there was like a smaller program at Notre Dame that to get your special ed advice. Yeah. So I was like, I'm gonna try that first, get my SPED license and then see if I can finish my whole master's. Yeah. So yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Good for you. Thanks. Thanks. Okay. And now first I'm gonna make sure I didn't forget anything.

Katie Polivick: Yeah, all good. If you did

Ally Brettnacher: no, then I'll like whatever was supposed to

Katie Polivick: be said, what's this ahead?

Ally Brettnacher: You're so right. Hopefully. But I do have, I have one more topic.

Katie Polivick: Okay. Let's do it.

Ally Brettnacher: And that is, well no, 'cause that's your next finish line, Madison. So we can talk about it at the end of the podcast questions.

Katie Polivick: You're gonna love the story that goes with it. Okay. I am. I know you are.

Ally Brettnacher: I know. I'll Because it has involves you. Oh, that's [01:21:00] crazy. Yeah. I love that. okay, so. I'm gonna ask you. Okay. Can you believe this? No. Like we did this. I

Katie Polivick: know. It's good. It's good. It's so good. It's good.

Ally Brettnacher: And then we gotta, I gotta rope Megan into it next.

Katie Polivick: We should do it. Yes, I think so. Okay, good. I mean, I don't know, but you can ask her. I will. She's a great runner. So, yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Okay. So end of the podcast questions, since you know Yes. But what is your favorite running song and or mantra?

Katie Polivick: Okay. So I've been thinking about this for a long time because I, I want it to be on this podcast.

No. Um, but I think it's a Christopher Cross song who's a 1970s like singer. So, okay. Alright. It's, it's, it's called the song. I think it's called All Right. Or something, but it's like, it just keeps saying again and again, the song, because I'm all, it's all right. I think you're gonna make it, or I think we're gonna make it, it's a really good song.

Maybe I'm thinking of a different, different one, but it's really good. You should listen. I thinking it. Okay. Anyway, but it is, it, it's the whole song the whole time. It just keeps saying, it's all right. I think we're gonna make it, or I think I'm [01:22:00] gonna make it one of the two. Yeah. And I just say that to myself.

I'm just like, it's all right. I think I'm gonna make it. And even if you don't make it, it's gonna be okay. Like, it's always all right. Yeah. Everything is all right. Yeah. And it just like, it's such a good song and it means a lot to my husband and I, and we love that song. So I put it on my Prairie on Fire list.

There we go. Because I have like a whole spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. That is my next finish line. but the story with that is, I got to be at Prairie on Fire because I went to your. Thing at the Bottleworks. Okay. Because tj, is that his name? Yep. TJ Daley. Yep. Was there, yeah. So I somehow had this gut feeling.

I was like, if I talk to Rachel, she's gonna know someone. 'cause I was on the waiting list for Prairie On Fire. Oh. I was not signed up because I like saw the documentary and I was like, this is gonna be so awesome. And I went to sign up and it was like, there's a waiting list. So then I was like, Hey [01:23:00] Rachel.

And I knew like one of Rachel's people had done it, or somehow she was connected. So I said, Rachel, do you know anything about the prayer on fire? And like if the waiting list, like if they get through it or not? Yeah. Yeah. And she was like, oh, you should just go talk to tj. Like I'll introduce you. He's the guy that's like in charge of it.

And I was like, what? And I was like, yeah. And this is like after your Yeah. Podcast, podcast thing. That's so cool. And so then I went over there and I was like, hi, my name's Katie. And I think I dropped my brother's name too. And I, or, or maybe Rachel did. 'cause Rachel worked with Jojo. Okay. She's like, this is Joe's brother or Joe's sister.

And I was like, yeah, Jojo's my brother. And he's like, oh. He's like, what's your last name? And I was like, Vic, he like gets out his phone, he's like, what's your goal for the race? And I'm like, I wanna run my first ultra like 31 miles. I think that's an ultra. And and then he's like, yeah. He goes, check your email when you get home.

And then I got email, then I got in and I was so excited. I was like, yes. And I called Chris and I'm like, you are not gonna believe I can't have to tell you in person. Like, come to Yas. We went to Yas afterwards. [01:24:00] Me and Megan. 'cause it was the night before the indie Minis. Right? So we always have yas before a big run.

Why? What? Oh, it's so good. Is wild to be okay For

Ally Brettnacher: people who don't know what ya is really, it's Cajun

Katie Polivick: food. Right? It does not

Ally Brettnacher: seem like a good thing to eat, but

Katie Polivick: it's rice and meat. And beans. And beans. Guess that that could go wrong here. I don't have the bean one. Okay. But, um, well that's fair because that's probably all I just get the drunk in chicken.

Okay. That's the one. Get it's rice and chicken and like sauce. It's just a lot of food. I had it before the monumental and before you can do it. People if you wanna try it. so I told him, and he like, knew that, that he was like so excited for me and I, because he was like waking up from a nap or something when I called him and I was like, you can't even, you will not bring me down and I'm so happy about this.

I don't care if you're tired, come to yet right now, and I have something to tell you. And then I was like, you have to be my crew for this thing. Like, and he is so excited. He's like, my gonna be there. My, and I don't even know 'cause of my back if I'm gonna be able to do the full 31, but I'm like, I just to be in that [01:25:00] environment.

Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: I, I wanna spec I've never been, I wanna go, I not about to run, but I would love to spectate.

Katie Polivick: You can spectate at my 10th.

Ally Brettnacher: I would, I would just love them. What, what's

Katie Polivick: the date on that again? September 6th. Sixth? Yeah. I think my parents have a wedding or something, but I was like telling everybody I knew.

It's a week after Labor Day, isn't it? Yeah, I think so because

Ally Brettnacher: Labor Day Indie Women's half Yeah. And 10 or whatever the races they have. Is the weekend before Labor Day weekend. Yeah. And then, okay. Prayer and fire. So I should be in town is the bottom line. You

Katie Polivick: can come,

Ally Brettnacher: but I bring my kids and We'll, yeah.

Katie Polivick: Yes. Just bring, bring everyone. I don't know how many, if you're like, there's only a certain amount of spectators you're allowed to have at your tent. I have no idea. It doesn't seem like they'd be, I don't think that's a rule. I don't think so. But I've told a lot of people about it. Like,

Ally Brettnacher: like everybody, my entire family, not just my immediate, but my extended family is, yes, my husband will

Katie Polivick: be there.

I don't, I might run eight miles and that's it, but Oh yeah. Yeah. So cool. Um, so I'm really excited for that. That's, but I only

Ally Brettnacher: get to do it because I went to your. Thanks. See, good things happen to people who [01:26:00] come to events that I have. Yes, we're gonna do it at Monumental, I believe. I don't know the details yet, but Oh, I'm excited.

We're gonna excited. Do something excited. Lindsay's coming in town. Oh good. We're gonna do something again. Which is exciting. Yeah. The

Katie Polivick: Dynamic duo

Ally Brettnacher: Love it. Dynamic duo. I, I, that's like an honor for

Katie Polivick: me, you know? I do know. Oh,

Ally Brettnacher: it's so fun. Gosh. Yeah. So next finish line, and then when does school start? That's a milestone.

You're next year teaching? It is

Katie Polivick: August 5th.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. That's good. And I'm so

Katie Polivick: excited. My, um, so I'm a seventh grade homeroom teacher and when they were in sixth grade, they filled out like the get to know you like little card. So I have a few facts about them and it has their picture and I've been trying to memorize their name and their picture.

Yeah. So I'm very excited. So it's a new group. Are you a classroom

Ally Brettnacher: decorator? Like, are you like into decorating your class? Um, because I feel like as if I was a teacher, that's what I would love to do is like bulletin boards and

Katie Polivick: you wanna come and help. Um, I'm, I'm a science teacher, so I feel like I like of the subject.

It's probably the less creative people go to science. Are you [01:27:00] kidding me? I don't know. Like outta here. All this fun cool stuff about science. It's really cool. Yeah, it's, we have cool things. Are they gonna be on the bulletin board? Probably not. Okay. But it's, it's hard at the beginning of the year because like, I usually decorate with student work, so like, yeah, that's, it looks a little better at the beginning, but you just have then I'll just save it

Ally Brettnacher: from last year and keep it up and then

Katie Polivick: That's a good idea.

That's a good idea. You should

Ally Brettnacher: be like, I'm gonna pick my favorites and those are gonna introduce be class, the

Katie Polivick: beginning. Oh, that's, so see, okay. Next year

Ally Brettnacher: for it. Also clipboard. I have clipboards in my office and in our playroom where I use it. To display art. Yeah. Because it's just an easy way to like

Katie Polivick: Yes.

Change it

Ally Brettnacher: out. And I'm, yeah,

Katie Polivick: that's a good idea. So that's fun. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. So anyway. Oh my gosh, August. August 5th. This, I don't know if this will even come out before that. This might come out when you're already back to school.

Katie Polivick: That that'll be okay. Yeah. Yeah. That'll be good. But it'll

Ally Brettnacher: definitely be be before prayer on fire.

Katie Polivick: Yes. That would be good. So, but now people

Ally Brettnacher: will listen and they'll know who you are.

Katie Polivick: That'll be

Ally Brettnacher: So now you have a ton of new friends

Katie Polivick: there. Yes. Yeah. And I think Jake is [01:28:00] gonna be there. Yep. And Jojo will be there. Oh, he is? Okay. He's gonna be, he's gonna, I think he was gonna try to do a hundred, which is why he ran 50, a hundred miles.

A hundred miles. Okay. But I so not just like

Ally Brettnacher: a

Katie Polivick: hundred K

Ally Brettnacher: first.

Katie Polivick: And I don't,

Ally Brettnacher: people

Katie Polivick: are crazy. Either one people are crazy. I don't, I don't know if he's gonna be able, I think he can do it. I don't know if he wants to do it. Yeah. That's like all mental, once to get up to that car are making me want to do it.

You should just do it.

Ally Brettnacher: Oh yeah. You

Katie Polivick: just run a four mile loop

Ally Brettnacher: just for as many times as you possibly can. And I just, it's

Katie Polivick: people, there're like, that sounds terrible. I'm like, it sounds, sounds, sounds a great time to me.

Ally Brettnacher: Well, yeah, I'm in marathon training so it's like I need miles. Anyway, we'll see. There you go.

To be determined. Yes. Alright. well thank you so much for finally doing this. Yes. This has been the best. Thank you for having me so much. Absolutely. This is so much fun. I'm so excited to cheer you on.

Katie Polivick: Thank you. Okay.

Ally Brettnacher: Well, and thank you to everybody who has listened.

Katie Polivick: Yes. Yes. Thank you.

Ally Brettnacher: To listeners. To the listeners.

Will I be able to listen to

Katie Polivick: this? I don't know.

Ally Brettnacher: Well, Megan will listen to tell

Katie Polivick: you. I get a listen to tell me and Chris. I'll make [01:29:00] Chris listen to it. Yeah.

Ally Brettnacher: Yeah. He'll, Chris. All right. Happy running. Everybody happy running. There you go. Happy running. Happy running. We're done. We did it.

Katie Polivick: We did it. Do we clap again?

We could. There you go. Clap again. 'cause we're done. Your little sound thing.

If you enjoyed this episode of Finish Lines and Milestones from Sandy Boy Productions, please go share rate review. If you haven't done it yet, it's a great way to help others find the show, and it's certainly very meaningful to me. Since it's a lot of work to run a weekly podcast. Let me tell you also, next week's guest is going to be a very special story.

Logan Turner. He's getting ready to tackle our local ultra marathon that was mentioned in this week's episode. Prairie On Fire. On Saturday, September 6th, Logan has a daughter named Nora, who he runs with, and four. And so you've gotta tune back in so you can learn more about Logan and help support him in his journey miles for Nora. If we aren't already internet friends, I'm Ally, A-L-L-Y-T, Brett, B-R-E-T-T. That's Ally t. Brett [01:30:00] runs on Instagram and I hope to see you here again next week.