The Heart of DFW Running: Quin Jenson on Building Community Through Movement
Quin & Chris Discussion
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Chris Detzel: All right. Welcome to another DFW Running Talk. I'm Chris Detzel. And today our special guest is Quinn Jensen. Quinn, how are you?
Quin: And I'm doing well, man. Thanks for having me. Thanks for
Chris Detzel: coming on, man. You and I have known each other in a way for a really long time. We've never met, but for a few years, you've been part of the DFW Running Group on Facebook.
You're even a moderator or have been in the past and post different things on there. And I only think it was time for us to
Quin: meet. Yeah. It's been some time, I think, like around 2019, learned about the group. That's when I learned about the group and then started posting in there. And then that's when I started connecting with other people like yourself and everyone else in there.
I
Chris Detzel: think it's pretty awesome. Tell us a little about you, like your running journey and how you get started and what you're doing now. I'm very curious.
Quin: Yeah. So back in 2015, I had came back from Kansas from school. [00:01:00] And I came back, I was working a warehouse job and I put on a bunch of weight and I was like, something got to change.
Chris Detzel: Yeah.
Quin: I just started to run neighborhood with SML, walking and running. And I was like, you know what? I want to come back tomorrow and do it. So started doing that for a little bit, started running the whole SML and then worked my way up to a mile and eventually kept going. And then in 2019, the Christmas 2018 went into 2019.
I had got a Austin half marathon entry from my girlfriend at that time she bought me an entry to, to run the half and I was like, Oh, it got real. So it's I gotta actually start training now. So December, 2018, I started really trying to figure out how to train. I didn't know what shoes to wear and clothing, nothing.
I just did what I had. And then I think the half marathon was in February, and I ran the whole half marathon in a long sleeve hoodie, [00:02:00] some sweatpants, and that Yeah, all these mistakes
Chris Detzel: in the beginning, that's okay.
Quin: Yeah, but it was fun, and ever since then, I just kept with it, just kept with it.
Chris Detzel: Did you lose the way you wanted to lose, or what happened with that?
Quin: Yeah, so I assume,
Chris Detzel: If you start running a lot.
Quin: Yeah, so I started so back in 2015, when I started moving up to No, five K and stuff like that. I'm the way it started to come off. So I lost maybe around 15, 20 pounds, but I was consistent and people that knew me, that was like, man, you really been doing this running thing.
And, they started just noticing the weight coming off and stuff like that. Yeah. And then I started learning about the different groups, the running community, and so that's what really got me hooked. Started losing the weight, started feeling good, and I started getting around like minded people.
Of course, they was talking about K's and 10K's and running sub, whatever. I don't know what y'all talking about. Yeah. I was just here
Chris Detzel: to run. Yeah. You learn the lingo. And then I think that's the beauty of, Being part of a community [00:03:00] is just a, the lingo, the, Hey, I got to wear these kinds of shirts or socks or shoes or whatever.
Like it's just, you just don't know anything until you start getting in. What group did you start running with or do you still run with them or? So
Quin: the first group was called Mind Over Ballot. It was a smaller group who kinda birthed into run Diviv. Is it? Yeah. Run. DW it was ZFT.
Yeah. ZFT. Yeah. Theo. He was with ZFT and then he started to run DFW or I'm sorry. Run it up. It's what it's called. Run it up. Yeah.
Chris Detzel: Yeah. Run. I know running up or at
Quin: least
Chris Detzel: I've heard of them.
Quin: Yeah. Run it up. So then but that was the first group. It was Mind Over Malice. And they were partnered with Theo and ZFT.
Okay. So
Chris Detzel: those two are still really running up and ZFT are really big running groups. So are you still part of those or?
Quin: Not so much. I been doing my own thing. Injuries played a big part in that. Had two knee surgeries in the [00:04:00] past two years on both knees. I've just been doing what I can do.
What happened? Playing sports, I had knee injuries. But I never got it taken care of properly. And then, in 20 So back up, what sports did you play? I played, so I played football all through high school. I did, I ran track, and I played a little bit of basketball. But mainly, my main sport was football.
Okay. Did you play in college or no? I went to college to play, but I ended up getting hurt dead. Got it. So then I came back to Texas and then that's when I got the warehouse job and put on a bunch of weight.
Chris Detzel: Got it. And then, you joined some running groups and then you lost some weight, but then now you've had a couple of knee surgeries, but let's back up a little bit.
So I've seen you and maybe it's not backing up, but I've seen you like unwrapping shoes and other kind of running type gear type stuff. Is that Just for fun or are you being sponsored or what's going on there? Like I was I've always been curious when I said what's going on,
Quin: now, yeah, it's a little bit of [00:05:00] both So I was previously an ambassador for Brooks but that current, that contract has came to an end.
And I do work with other brands and it's it's more like a review. Like a shoe might come out in 2025 and they say, Hey, we got these new products. Just wear it and tell us what you like and what changes to make and stuff like that. They also would send me to different races, run a races and give a review on that while we're wearing shoes and the clothes and all that stuff.
Awesome. Yeah.
Chris Detzel: Yeah, that, that sounds fun. What do you do? You just, they just ask you to be an ambassador or, you do you say, Hey, do you apply for that kind of stuff? What's the,
Quin: it's a little bit of both as well. It's if you know someone, yeah. Like sometimes if you go see a local, like Fleet Seed or like a Luke's Locker, they have what's called, Brooks have, they're called I ~ ~can't think of what the, what that, what the actual title is, but they have people reps that'll come and bring like shoes out there.
They have shoe reps. Yeah. Yeah. So if you can get close to one of them, they can get you in and they, different brands have [00:06:00] different ambassador programs like that. And then also some brands will just reach out to me in the Instagram VMs or email, say, Hey. We like what you do, what's your content would you like to work together, a partner, however they want to do it.
Chris Detzel: You have a good following, right? Like of people anyways on Instagram. You have almost like over 9, 000 followers. Yeah. That's, I think that's helpful.
Quin: Yeah. So yeah the following helps. And I, and again, man, it's about the community, like who, just like being a good person, a solid person.
You never know, like who knows who, so I've gotten brand deals just by working with another brand another person from a brand and say, Hey, he's a good person, does good work, and then just recommendations like that too.
Chris Detzel: It's all connecting to people. It's all about the community. I agree. That's really the important part.
You had these two knee surgeries, let's go back to that, and then, are you now getting back into running, or what's the, what's the latest?
Quin: Yeah backing up a little bit, so [00:07:00] 2020, I run Houston Marathon, no 2021, I run Houston Marathon, and the whole marathon, I'm like, something is wrong.
I just kept going. I didn't want to stop. So I crossed the finish line, sat down. It's like a normal runner. ~ ~In pain and everything. Huh. I crossed the finish line. There's nothing wrong here. Yeah, nothing. Just don't even think about it. It's not there. But I finished and I sat down and I couldn't stand up.
Like my legs wouldn't bend. I'm like, something is wrong, so kept running, I didn't go see a doctor, nothing like that. A little rest might help. Yeah, I just need this, I need to eat and, relax. Yeah. So that June, I was playing basketball and the very, and it was with a bunch of high school kids.
Basketball. Yeah, way younger than me, but I kid you not, we checked the ball in, I caught it, I took one step, And my knee just tore, like the whole meniscus tore. That's when I knew I was getting old. For sure. It's just one step. Yeah, man, that [00:08:00] was my first knee surgery. And then this past, fast forward to this past September was my knee surgery on my left knee.
So the first one was my right.
Chris Detzel: That was because of a basketball thing. Obviously it was hurting before, but you really messed it up. Basketball, Same problem with the other knee or?
Quin: The left knee, so you know how you baby one side, or favor one side. Around the same time, like June, July, I was out on the easy run and a guy was coming down the sidewalk.
So I stepped off the sidewalk to, let him, to pass him. And when I stepped off the little, the sidewalk to the grass, I guess I landed, that didn't feel too good, but I just kept going. And then I got home. And I couldn't walk up the steps, like it was uncomfortable. And then my mom and my girlfriend now was like, you need to go get it looked at.
And then that's when I found out I tore the left knee. It was just like, man, I was just getting back to it.
Chris Detzel: Where you at now? I like, down your knee is it healed, both
Quin: of them, or? I'm [00:09:00] probably like 70, 80 percent. I'm able to, I'm able to run three to four miles, comfortably. Before anything, uncomfortableness.
I don't even know if that's what uncomfortableness is. Before I'm uncomfortable. But yeah, man I'm getting back to it. We just came from Virginia about two weeks ago. Me and my lady we did the marathon up there.
Chris Detzel: Oh, you did? Yeah. If you're 70 or 80 percent, man, maybe you should think, hopefully you went a little slower than usual.
Oh, yeah. A lot of
Quin: walking. Okay. A lot
Chris Detzel: of walking. Yeah. I feel like there's a pattern here, Glenn. Yeah. Now that I'm saying it, yeah. I'm going to go do a marathon and my knees hurt, or I'm a little injured, but let's get, 70 percent better, 80 maybe, and you're able to run again.
Do you think you'll get to the fitness that you are? Is that kind of the goal, or? Yeah, so
Quin: actually my, so my girlfriend is working on doing, I believe it's called a HiRUX. ~ ~I never know how to say it. It's a crossfit competition. Yeah, it's a CrossFit competition in Boston, and so she's really been [00:10:00] diving deep into that.
So that's really helping her train and learning about it has really helped me, get back going on the sprint side, like trying to get in the weight room and stuff like that, build up my leg and stuff. Definitely, dude.
Chris Detzel: I think that my, my wife is a big time runner. Yeah. Probably more so than I am.
I love to run and stuff, but, she's done, Boston Marathon 11 times. She's going back for 12. She's going to be doing London finally. And then anyways, the point is it helps to have somebody that driven to help drive you, and I think it's not a relationship podcast, but I do think that.
That, it pushes me a little bit to, to just be better. It's I can't stop exercising, and it's inspiring to, to watch your significant other accomplish a lot of things, but it also helps me to want to do better as well. It sounds like it's doing some of that for you as well.
So that's good.
Quin: Yeah, for sure.
Chris Detzel: So any kind of, as you think of, the next five, six, seven months, year. Are you thinking, getting back [00:11:00] into running the marathon or anything like that? Or is it just, Hey, I just want to get in shape.
Quin: Yeah, right now it's really just get back in shape.
I am looking at Houston 2025 with next month pretty much, but not nothing serious. Probably just do the half, walk a lot of it and then just have fun. That's really where I'm at in the running journey right now. Just having fun, getting back into running, because if you went through a serious injury where you can't do the thing that you want to do.
You realize you take a lot of stuff for granted. That's just getting up and walking from the bed to the bathroom. It's just man. Or just trying to put on a new shoe. It's just, especially with knee injuries and stuff. It's I'm appreciating just doing the little things, right?
So that's where I'm at right now. ~ ~Didn't you run a 50k once at Blake's Trails? I did. I ran a 50k. I believe that was like Was that your first? It was my first one. ~ ~Tell me about that. What was that like? ~ ~I did not train for it correctly. Yeah, I didn't know how to train. That was my first trail race.
I [00:12:00] had never ran on the trail that I can think of prior to that, but it was fun, man, the, I know in the running space, there's you got your two different, like big categories. You got your trail runners and then you got your road runners.
Chris Detzel: Yeah. So
Quin: it's the community is a little bit different.
It's a little bit, to me, trail runners are a little bit more friendlier. Yeah. They talk, it's a lot of, especially like a longer race, it's a lot of walking and talking and snacks and getting to know people. ~ ~Yeah, it was fun. The whole experience was fun. The distance wasn't so much because like I said, I didn't train for it, but I approached it like I would approach a marathon.
So the first 20. Ishmael's I was trying to run at a good pace, not knowing that I should have paced myself out to, with all the the elevation and all that stuff.
Chris Detzel: That particular trail, it was the North shore. I forgot exactly what it's called, but it was out at North shore place trails does it November and it's a great, I usually do the gang.
I've done the. I think it's 20 K or [00:13:00] whatever it was, 30 K Watts, but that particular, anytime you go into trail running, and especially if you've never done it and you just sign up for a 50 K and it's your first trail, you're in for a nice surprise, and I think that the difference obviously is elevation.
And you got to think about like the, there's little rocks and things and curves, it's not the same. So if you run. Let's say in general, a nine or 10 minute mile on the road, you could probably think about 14 or 15 minutes on the trail or longer, because it all depends on the trail, it's a runnable trail, but it's not, it's still 50k, and.
People just don't know, they think they should go really fast or as fast as they, that's probably what you did. I'm sure you started out the first several miles going as fast and you're like, Oh my God. Like this is ridiculous,
Quin: so no, it's definitely fun. I definitely want to do more trail running because like I said, it was fun.
I had a good time besides getting lost. I got lost by myself. The one thing I was going into it thinking was like, I just want to stay with a pack of [00:14:00] people because I don't want to be out here by myself and I got lost. But that's normal too. Yeah. Something to
Chris Detzel: think about, Charles. Yeah. That's great.
Have you done a trail since or was that just, you're like, okay, for now I'm done. I haven't
Quin: done it, but I'm not opposed to it. I haven't had the opportunity to do another one. Actually, I was going to do the Lake Murray in Oklahoma.
Chris Detzel: Yeah. Yeah.
Quin: Blaze Trails
Chris Detzel: again.
Quin: Yeah. I was going to do that one in October, but I have surgery in September, so that was out.
But I was going to do the 100, it's like, why not? Yeah.
Chris Detzel: You might, look, you might think of, Okay, they have a 30K. Why don't you just do a little bit of that and then get yourself up to the 100 mile. 100 miles is no joke, man.
Quin: Yeah. My thing is like, when I was going to do it, it was just, why not do it?
If I don't finish, I don't finish that. Just have fun. Yeah. Of course you want to push yourself and see how far you can go. But it's I'm not trying to go out here and beat a certain time or. Whatever. I just want to have fun in the experience the whole day.
Chris Detzel: I think that, that, that philosophy is obviously the right philosophy because, you're going to go do a hundred miles [00:15:00] is a lot.
And most people don't it's hard to race that, I'm not saying there are people that race it, but that's, the goal, I think for most people is, can I get that amount of distance done? It doesn't matter the time, before the cutoff, right? Like cutoff is.
30 hours. Can you imagine being out for 30 hours? It's ridiculous. ~ ~Yeah. It's a long time. In the dark
Quin: too. In the woods.
Chris Detzel: Oh, you're going to go through a dark. You're going to go through day, then night, and then day again. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to go through all. And you're right. If you've never run in the woods at night, it is way different.
Oh, sure. You start all right, here's one instance, like you'll start tearing up a little bit, you're slightly dehydrated. Then you get, maybe you get a stop and go to the bathroom or something in the woods. And then now you're like, oh my God, where am I? You're like, do I go left or right?
You have a light, but you don't know, you get disoriented a lot easier, and it's fun, but I've never done a hundred miles. I've done several 50 Ks. But, I'm not really interested, I'm not really [00:16:00] interested in running marathons either anymore, like half marathons is my thing.
Quin: Okay.
Chris Detzel: Is it,
Quin: is
Chris Detzel: that like what made you come to that decision? I just don't like to train that much. Like I ran a 128 half marathon last year, right? Okay. You train pretty hard for that, but if you want to run a marathon, like for me, I, the last marathon was eight years ago for me, like racing, trying to race a marathon, there's so many things that like, cause I'm very type A and so I'm not I just want to go jog and see if I can finish.
That, I don't really want to run a marathon and just jog it and finish in five hours. I just don't, like I want to finish it in 3. 20 or 3. 10 or something. You know what I mean? Yeah. And so when I go for that, what I realized was. One, the training at that time was too much. It just, I have kids and everything else, now they're, I've got a 14 year old now and like a 24 year old, so they're a lot older now.
So now I can do more of that if I want, but the training was just brutal. 60 miles a week [00:17:00] plus, and I'm like, all right, let's talk to these guys the other day. And they're elite, like guys, and they're running 100 to 110 miles a week. And I'm like, geez, man, these guys are really dedicated, to that craft.
And they know they only have a certain amount. Once you start hitting older, you get a little bit older, 40 plus, your body starts to change, they break down, you get older. It's just part of life, just the way it is. But, for me, it was that. Plus. I just never feeling good after, a 20 miler, just a one day, like I, on Saturday, I had to go run a 20 milers cause I'm prepping and I'm like, man, this sucks.
And so for me to really enjoy running, I love to race and I love to try to get PRs. I will run, half marathons. I'll even run 30 Ks or 20 Ks, and half marathon, et cetera. It's not that I won't run marathon like stuff. Like I'll go do, my wife and I will do like the, uh, four or five day trips that are all about running in the mountains and everything else.
And one day it could be 25 miles and things like that, but you're not running. But [00:18:00] you are some, but when you're going up, I'll do long stuff, but I won't, training for a marathon for me is just really time consuming and just don't want to spend the time doing it, it's hard.
Anyways. Yeah no. Yeah. Back to you.
Quin: Nah, this is good stuff.
Chris Detzel: Nothing big planned, obviously, you're going to do Houston. I'm doing the Austin half, so it's like right in the same time timeframe. Yes, February, right? ~ ~Or March. I think it's the same. No, this one there's a couple of them. This is the one that used to be 3M, I forget what it's called now but it's the same time as Houston.
And I love Houston. I always do the half. We do it every other year now, but the awesome one's a nice little downhill as well. And so it's just, this one's all like 90 percent of it downhill, which is pretty awesome. So we'll do that coming up. So we're pretty excited.
Quin: Yeah, we just did, me and my lady did, you can tell now, me and my lady, now she comes with me and runs.
We did Austin, 10K, I don't know, I want to say in August. Yeah, we [00:19:00] did the 10K in Austin. Yeah.
Chris Detzel: Now you're in Dallas, right?
Quin: Yeah. I'm in Dallas.
Chris Detzel: Okay.
Quin: Yeah. I thought so.
Chris Detzel: So any so you've got the Houston and then anything else you're thinking about coming up?
Quin: Not right now.
All the races that I'm doing now, like Austin and all the work that I have done was already planned. Yep. So I don't have anything like new schedule. Got it.
Chris Detzel: I think that, when you think about training for this, you're doing the half, right? In Houston. Is that what you said?
Quin: Oh, yeah.
The Houston half, yeah. Yeah.
Chris Detzel: What is your training like
Quin: from now till then? This might be bad advice if anybody's trying to get into running, but me man, I'm just, like I say, I'm just about having fun. Really? Yeah. Houston is a Brooks race. So with me being a Brooks ambassador. They do a big party and stuff.
So that's the main reason I'm going
To party and have fun. And I'm just finished. So yeah, for us training structure wise it may be 25 miles a week, 30 miles a week, somewhere around there. But again, it's slow miles, a lot [00:20:00] of walking and just having fun, man. It's, doing all of
Chris Detzel: that. Really you just run for fun.
That's really what it sounds like.
Quin: Yeah. For now anyways, yeah. I never was, my whole running journey, I never was one to just, I gotta beat this time and that time. How much do you
Chris Detzel: think, being a football player, man, you're pretty competitive, no?
Quin: Yeah, but see, the, I think my competitive is a little bit different.
Competing with myself is If I ran six miles today, can I get six and a quarter, six and a half? And it's okay, I did that. Okay what's my, how far can I go? That's how I compete, not really with time. In that time, in that six miles, if I walked, if I ran, however I got to that, I did it.
So it's just that's how I compete.
Chris Detzel: I think a lot of people do that, right? I think it's important to, especially running for me, it's competitive, but also it's all something that keeps me keeps a mind focused, but it also keeps me skinnier, at the end of the day, the reason I started running was because I was 25 pounds overweight.
This was 11 and 12 years ago. [00:21:00] Yeah. I'm like, man, I don't like, and I was like that for about seven or eight years and it just felt, I didn't exercise at all, nothing, from basically 22 on to. Like in my late thirties, I didn't do anything, and you're going to gain weight, right?
I didn't eat well. The one thing that running does, or the many things that running does for me is one is it keeps me focused to, it keeps me skinny. And three, because of all of that, I eat better, I healthier and I like the competition, and that, I think something and I like What you said is that, Hey, I'm not going out there to compete per se, right?
It's just more of having fun, but it keeps you fit. It keeps you your mind focused and, it gives you something to do. That's active,
Quin: I think
Chris Detzel: that's what you're saying.
Quin: Yeah, no, it's what I'm saying. It's really just when it comes to competing is you versus you. But I think the big scope of it for me is the community and the love that [00:22:00] you cause say you meet somebody in the DFW running group, you've been talking, you've been friends, and then both of y'all run BMW this month. Now y'all get to meet a person that actually run. I think for me, running is about the community and just having fun and getting fit together and doing all that.
And then you get to. Go out to a breakfast brunch place afterwards, which in metal and stuff like that. Like it's just about the fun part of it, not really the competing besides competing with yourself, but I'm not competing with the next person or trying to, do all that other stuff.
Chris Detzel: I love that.
It is, I think, if I look at my running journey over the last 10, 12, whatever years, it really is about the community. I think that, I've built a lot of really good relationships with different people over the years and some people become good friends, you go to dinners, you go to, you have a crowd of people, we have this thing, and I say this to almost every podcast it seems, but we have this Thing on Thursday night that we meet and it's a running group.
It's called [00:23:00] Dallas dirt runners. And we meet at, over at Normark Norbuck park every Thursday night is six, five 36, whatever. And we don't even run, usually some people do, but we just hang out, drink a couple of beers or just shoot the shit, you know what I mean? Like just, it becomes fun. And then, when it comes like it gets later or it gets dark at five now.
So now we just go to the local bar, eat a little bit and hang out, and I mean we, we run, but not necessarily together, but that's what the running community has brought. These people are running marathons are not, most of them aren't that serious, as in when I say they're serious about running, they're not necessarily serious about, trying to win anything, and that's what it's about.
It's just, it's. Over the years, I've had a lot of fun, in France that I've met and like this podcast, it gets me to branch out and meet people like yourself, right? You and I never run together. I don't even know where you live, but we met on the DFW running community and, now here we are talking for the first time, so that's running, bringing us together, yeah.
Quin: [00:24:00] And I think like you're saying the friendships and I think, what was it? 2022, whenever we had that ice storm. And it was like, man, I think ~ ~because everybody like that group brought all the runners together, but there's the runners are actual people that have lives outside of running. I was, it was so cool to me to see I was able to create a what'd you call it?
A thread or a post or something just to check on people. Hey, everybody good. Or what's going on? Anybody need help? And having people in the comments just saying, We got extra this or can we help with that? It's just I like that part of it. That's the fun for me. And then when the brand send me stuff They send stuff that don't fit.
I might not like, or whatever. Like I got some beats headphones right here that I'm going to give away to somebody in this, it's I like to do that, ~ ~give back and just have fun and love on people.
Chris Detzel: I, that's awesome, man. And I think that's what it's about is those beats, headphones, somebody's going to love it.
Quin: Yeah.
Chris Detzel: So as you look at, the future of, [00:25:00] running or whatever, what are you going to see it? Evolving into, does it help you, like, whenever you think about like, all right, I'm doing a lot of running, you just mentioned you're lifting weights now, you're doing that kind of stuff, are you seeing yourself more engaged in that, or is it more of, hey, I got to strengthen my knees I got to do weights?
It's a little
Quin: bit of both. It's a lot of hate, because my lady, she gets on me, she's what did, what leg exercise did you do? Did you get on the bike? Did you do the pass? Did you do something with the legs? The ladies are good.
Chris Detzel: They, my wife does the same, yeah. Why don't you sit here and do some leg swings?
I'll do what I want.
Quin: Yeah, exactly.
Chris Detzel: But she's right though, yeah. Hopefully she doesn't listen to this.
Quin: Yeah, mine too. But no, it's a little bit of both man just trying to get the legs back stronger, but also, up in the mileage slowly. Like I said, I'm a, I'm around 5k right now comfortable.
So just trying to add on to that. ~ ~That's awesome. And also anything
Chris Detzel: that, ~ ~yeah. How many, how old are your kids?
Quin: So I have one daughter. She [00:26:00] is, she'll be seven on the 23rd of this month. And my lady has a daughter as well. So we got two girls. Yeah. And so just trying to find time with, being a parent, working and all that stuff to, get.
Some kind of movement.
Chris Detzel: Welcome to adulthood, but that's one too is, it is difficult, you've got to share the load. And I think, with the parent, you always see I remember in a lot of my running groups, so for years and years, I ran in the Dallas running group.
I'm going to do it again this next year. And you'll see people come and go a lot of times as people, they just get married or they're, or they've been married, but don't have a family. But then when they start having families, you start to see less of them because, you can't run as much as you used to undo as much as you used to.
You still try to do some of it. And I think that's the important part, life changes and kids change everything. It's good. It's just a matter of. Your priorities now are kids, trying to help out making sure, you both as parents, you can get those workouts in, although important kids are more [00:27:00] important.
Quin: Yeah, I think that's the part. I think that is another reason why I like running or love running this. It's like an escape for a couple of weeks, especially if you go without headphones. You just zone out and just go get a couple of miles and come back and then you can get back into it.
Daddy mode or, be at a spouse or whatever you need to do, you can just escape for a second.
Chris Detzel: 1000 percent man. I mean running does Wonders, if you can't do, the 10 miles that you used to do three miles do four, you know What you can do? Consistently stay consistent no matter what the miles are right?
Kind of my thought about it. Quinn, did I miss anything? Is there something that you wish I would have asked him that I didn't ask?
Quin: No oh, you were asking, you asking about where I see the running groups going, I like to see that people are, more people coming to the sport, but I just would like to see the people come for the right reasons, I can hear it. But no, can you hear me still talking? Okay. Like people, like a lot of people come into the sport of running. [00:28:00] I just want them to come for the right reason. Like not just to come to talk, but like actually run too, because sometimes I feel like people will come just to meet people and then it can disc, the, how do you say it, discourage, distract. Discourage others. Yeah. The other, like runners who've been coming to a group for a long time. So it's like now we got all these, influencers or these younger people come in which is good for the group, but it's like now you're pushing away all the other runners, the faithful runners who've been coming and stuff.
Chris Detzel: Yeah, Quinn, I, it's a good point. I think that one is sometimes, who those serious runners are in general, right? Because they didn't have, they're regimented. And then there's runners that come in and you're starting to see this more and more is to the groups, cause they're wanting to date and things like that, find people that are, active and doing things.
I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, but I do find that, Oh, if that's your only goal is to find a [00:29:00] date now, or. Whatever, that's probably not the best, but we can't control it. You just, what I always say is that I met my wife through running, which in, in, in the running group, but I wasn't looking for her, I was actually looking just to run and get faster and a year later, we start dating, and it is a good place to find people that are active and interested in some of the same things because Like for me and my wife, running and being active is an extremely important piece of our life.
And so I think that finding people that way, rather than, looking online and stuff, is probably, at least it's face to face and it's active and doing some things. So I think that's positive. But I hear, I understand what you're saying is, you just want people to come in and get in shape and stay healthy and things like that.
And there is a community aspect. It's also the dating aspect, I think I've seen it a
Quin: lot, but yeah. And don't get me wrong. I do like it because it's a good place to meet. Especially if let's just say you do meet somebody in the W running group or [00:30:00] ZFT or whatever. And you're like, okay, let's meet here.
This is a safe space. We can meet. Work out a little bit, maybe get something to eat after, and it's not that where you trying to figure out where to date somebody and go on a date by yourself. It breaks that ice a little bit. I do the aspect of the dating, all that stuff.
And the influencers is putting light on smaller running groups. So I'm with it, but it's just it's gotta be a balance.
Chris Detzel: It's gotta be a balance. I mean, I always see it as I can control what I can control. We could talk about it and just say, look, things that running does do for me is one, it helps me with weight, two, it keeps me active, three, it keeps me sharp, it does a lot of things, helps me to compete when I think those things are important.
And that's what running does for me. Yes. I met my spouse that way. We've been together 11, 10 years and married six or seven years. And but it's not really why I did it, but still there's a lot of reasons you could do it, but I'm with you. Consistency is key to [00:31:00] be active, especially as you get older, man.
It's just gonna, it's doesn't have to be running, but it could be cycling. It could be a bunch of other activities that keeps you in shape and focused and bulky, yeah. Yeah, for sure. So, Quentin, this was good, man. It was good to meet you. Likewise. Likewise. Great to hear your story as well. All those influencer things that you're doing, I was curious.
That's why I had to ask.
Quin: Yeah. ~ ~Yeah. I'm always trying to give something away, figure out some kind of way to give back to the community.
Chris Detzel: Good. Keep it up, man. And thanks everyone for tuning in to another DFW Running Talk. I'm Chris Dutzel. And Quinn, thank you so much for joining. Appreciate it.
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Quin: having me.
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