is also having an anniversary your th year excellent how did you guys celebrate well this year we had our gala actually it was just last friday and we had it at the queens theater it was a beautiful venue inside and outside and we had food dancing we had an award show and we were surprised by bouquets of flowers and packs of our own from our  oh so you guys go way back yeah yeah well let's go over the little bit history queens distance ok it's been five years actually guy i've done remarkably well in five years i mean you came from i think was just he being born and bred in queens he had noticed that there weren't a lot of queens related running clubs there were a lot of manhattan and also more springing up in brooklyn and he wondered why there wasn't one in queens and he's like you know what we should start one and so he started it and i told him you know this is a great idea and whatever you need i'm here so we drove around we like our st race was actually on the joe michael's mile and bayside i believe only seven or about about a dozen people showed it was cold i think it might have been cloudy and rainy or whatever but he was in phase i mean yeah we were kind of like you know people showed up even though it was just twelve people yeah but we kept trusting our gut and moving forward and now we baby martha baby and i think there are a few days of the year that you need to recruit for because you don't have any yeah i know that's true but you know the st race it's only eight to twelve people yes right so we decided hey why don't we make a fine open to everyone and we raised enough money and gave it all to her so that she could directly give it to them right no right ten miles we kevin thought that like the club we needed a marathon and he you know went around and got support contacted the right people got the permits the st year we were super nervous it was like racing your st marathon you know like directing it and managing it and making sure that the people who signed up were getting the right things that i showcased queens that was important to us i mean brooklyn has  won new york's i mean the entire new york city has one right now has maybe two or three right i mean like why can't why can't we have one right exactly i mean right now is contained in the park but obviously our ultimate goal is to have it on the streets kevin has actually routed it you can see it on his straw i think that my run as well and we actually did part of it in the past the past couple of years here and he's the energizer because other people try to open up races and it just takes years and that the permits and you also got to be a people person because you've got to get the politicians  month it's a thirty k so eighteen point six miles for us and it's a great training run if you're doing a spring marathon on like boston or our marathon  and we try to bring it every year we also have a fall one so that it prepares you for a fall marathon yeah so try to support that the one where maybe it's a different ways where you go to charity and you meet up w know that's our destination runs which was also a brainchild of kevin's and it was a hit right from the get go so we have a few spread out throughout the year we have you know the seven bridges so you got to run through  the different bridges in this city definitely wary good for if you're running new york city marathon and then we also have a run to connecticut and then we have that run that you just mentioned to hoboken which you go over the and we actually started out just running to little nick and then it expanded to great neck and we just kept going talking to her about all these these races you just came back from the special marathons the tokyo marathon and it's dad to personal best so tell us how you did decide to do tokyo and what was your training like for that last spring kevin brought it to my attention hey maybe you should think about doing tokyo because i had it the last marathon i had done was new york and twenty something money seventeen right right and i didn't want to do a spring marathon that in two thousand and eighteen so i didn't do it but i went to cheer for boston and came back and i was reinvigorated and i knew i had chicago at the end of the year so i had to chicago in october of two thousand and eighteen anyway before that and kevin was like whoa tokyo is another world major and would be fun just to see if you could get in and we looked up everything we realized that there was a program that they called the semi  program or run as one program so basically they only accept three hundred dollars international runners male and female the pending on time that you had completed in a previous marathon it had to i submitted it and i was like ok i'll just find out if i get in is actually in august when i submitted it the whole month of august they gave to us to submit and i found out what a new york city you know i was before new york that i found out and then i was like oh my god why we're going to talk you know and then i had just finished my training with coach medina for chicago it was hard a challenging but definitely pushed me to a level that i didn't think i could get to and chicago wasn't so positive that they the whole team everybody would be you know the guy and then when the marathon came actually i was only one to break the thirty dollars a month last year and and he's officially the the i guess you ar it's it's definitely painful different from a track race but you know sometimes it's like just taking the st step you don't know you know what i mean like that's the scary part you  breakthrough and then it becomes easier and easier but that's your body has adjusted to the demands yeah you gotta try smart and you got to keep smart yeah so how did you manage when you got coach with deena with the training how did you manage you nutrition interesting that you mention that because this past summer ice i cut out all meat except for fish i so ate eggs and occasionally dairy and i felt better especially when i eliminated a lot of the dairy and the meat i felt like lighter to concentrate on vegetables that's what they recommend vegetables about the greens and try not to eat too much processed foods but nothing's kind of worked out and for i literally took two weeks off and then it was just straight and yeah it wasn't us if you were starting from scratch you know i mean some people would do i when i joined team and training we went from zero to twenty six going to sixteen weeks oh my gosh well i mean it's july july th that's actually our anniversary of when we st started dating and really you know why now let's just make it one date we don't need like multiple date you know what i mean to like well you got growing up here so i was born in the lower east side i don't know which hospital exactly but it was near the water that's all i remember and we lived on lago street right off of on the land sea near the williamsburg i lived there for ten years and then my parents the sided to move to alabama to open a restaurant so then i was there for middle school and high school so eight years and the time on there was a lot of trees smelled different thrown clean and the people were different their accents were different food was different our living situation was different you look at a house i guess yes well in the beginning it was like a couple of apartments and then we finally purchased a house wow so being my parent kind of restaurant to do open in alabama i was a chinese takeout so anyways we had to do that in school this was a high school in the south the only required to take one year of p s physical education and i remember vividly in one to grade we were doing it my friend and i we ran a loop of the track a four hundred meter i ran a loop we walked a loop we ran another loop and i walked the last loop and i remember i finished in like a little over twelve minutes were like the last think well on there and i was just like this is it i'm never running again i hate it and yeah i don't know what happened and actually my sister she was the one who ran she would run in our neighborhood like with different places to do most of them says well yes yes oh right because they're very creative you know unique to that particular race yes i mean we also now we since we've grown so much we have we have a lot of teammates that are also designers so we have like nina a jarana also helping out once in a while yes and i know you did one that was a beautiful race one of your teammates in support of her daughter mary a yeah yeah from katherine's daughter yes right that's not quakerly personal one daughter's going through you know these extra support these extra money and you know they have to make sure he gets it why i mean running to other people and might seem like you're just out there by yourself but really it's a community of people who want to not only make like ourselves better but our community better because when our communities good like we can run without having to worry about anything you know what i mean yeah hudson mohawk up there that that did it was for loose of us any camp no white one well actually kevin convinced me and i think that that point i didn't quite understand what an undertaking i took on and i wore the wrong shoes i was so nervous half an hour before it that my hands went stop shaking i'm not even can never been that nervous before my life wow regard to sponsor you know besides our fall get ready for a destination runs because they're going to start soon and i think that's it i mean anything anything we have any news we always post then what would you have done differently to make them come to la to stay and clean if anything well we have to backtrack because like i said before you have to have a community support they didn't they didn't even go with the community and i think that cuomo and the blogs you also should have been like now that you've talked to us we think you should talk to the community so i think it was both of our faults ok all right so so lesson learned is community counts and communication yes community counts and communications should be transparent button queens distance runners they're on the right track one of our thang