Welcome back. It's a big weekend.
Saint Patrick's Day is tomorrow,
but the celebrating is already going on.
And you continue that luck of
the Irish Saturday with a run
throughout downtown Toledo.
So we have Clint McCormick.
He is ready for the Shamrock shuffle.
So good morning, Clint.
Morning. Love the outfit.
Yeah. This is one of our
favorite events of the year.
Yeah. Do you run in that? We can. OK.
Well, I just thought it would be,
you know, maybe not your own
dynamic might be a little bit warm,
but I guess Saturday will be a
little bit cooler for the race.
Yeah. So the fun thing about this,
and we realized this after
the first year we put it on,
is that anybody can do this funny stories.
The first year we set this up,
we had to call everybody out.
It was a four o'clock start time.
So everybody was inside the four corners in
the bars and nobody's at the start line.
So we go out there and say,
hey, come on out,
people are walking out in Jean
shorts and a beer in their hand.
OK let's go and shuffling.
Ohh you know so so that's the crowd right.
We we just it's it's a fun time
it's very casual.
It's not your typical race really
because the start time is a little
bit different explain kind of some
of the different parts of this race
right. So it typical race is A5 K 3.1 mile.
So we kind of I don't say I'm anti 5K
but this is the anti 5K of the year.
It's only three miles.
We encourage shortcuts.
We actually have a shortcut on the
course if you don't want to run
all three miles you can take a
shortcut and go straight to the beer
tent. Sounds like there's some
shenanigans. Little bits, right? Right.
So no age group awards. However,
we do have handmade shellies that
we're handing out to the top five
men and women who are best dressed.
Best dressed is not the fastest. Oh,
and are these, you know, made from Ireland?
These are handmade.
I have a guy in Shillelagh,
Ireland that makes this.
His name is Liam and he hand makes
him for me every year. Oh my God.
So we give those out as our our
kind of our best dressed costume.
OK, so do we have to dress like that?
But amplified? Amplified.
This is tame. This is tame.
OK. So if you're thinking about
running, do this times 10.
OK and then we'll begin.
We want to see the orange beards and,
you know, the pipe and everything.
What about the shoes?
You could we get some covers,
but we want them comfortable.
We don't want to get
hurt doing this, right.
Absolutely. We don't wanna,
we don't wanna encourage injury,
but we wanna have fun. So yeah.
So we do sell at the store Saint
Patrick's Day themed running shoes.
Typically Brooks makes those every year.
Ohh yeah there we go.
We got some shamrocks on the shoes.
Little gold
right. And ohh I love this.
I gotta get me a pair
so we you know we sold out.
I'll probably doesn't pair yesterday.
We also have you know the,
the gooder sunglasses that
everybody loves to have so we
sell those at the store, you know,
so those are the the theme of the day.
But yeah this is just a fun run.
The big news for this year though is
that the heated party tent is back.
So the blarney is our host.
They've got the heated party
tent so you can go shuffling,
take the shortcut and go
straight into the party.
Then afterwards
right because this race,
you know there's gonna be a little
bit of an age limit on this one.
So explain why and maybe how some
folks though may wanna take advantage
of so this debate,
so this is a 21 and over event.
It is designed for Saint
Patrick's Day and those who like
to partake in the shenanigans.
But we also do this for a good cause.
So we are raising money for local 92,
our firefighters there,
so we make a contribution to the blarney.
Their whole weekend also
raises money for them.
So we do want to make sure that.
As many people come down as
possible helps us in our cause.
Again always trying to raise
money for local charities.
Yeah and OK so also remind us how do
we register because once you have
the shoes you have to show them if
you have to race and can we walk.
I guess I better ask that
question. So it's called a shuffle
because you know we encourage you to just
shuffle along. Shuffle along. Ohh good.
So yeah so you can you can run.
You know sometimes people do it as a
workout and they finish in 15 minutes.
Most of the time people they walk it,
they stop halfway.
Which is over the Oliver house.
They'll stop and you know get a
refreshment and then keep on shuffling.
Take the take the shortcut so
it's only a two mile route
and shuffle back. Shuffle back. OK so this is
glow sticks you know.
So it's it's I want to say
it's probably one of the few,
if not the only night
time glow run in the area
and it's perfectly timed.
It's on a Saturday. We're festive.
We're celebrating. Remind us time
States and then how to register
it. Register on run Toledo. Com right.
This was right on our homepage.
Alright. The cost is $42.00,
but we have a discount for all
of our viewers out there today.
If you enter the coupon code WTOL at
checkout, you'll save another $5.
Oh, that's great.
And then of course, also we are
raising funds there for local 90,
local 92, so that'll be great.
Of course, thank you for coming in.
And I know we also always like to,
you know, the green.
I can't quite wear that
outfit for tomorrow, but
I think it would be kind of nice
to see your glasses floating. Oh
yeah, I could probably make that happen.
So, yeah. Have to get a suit like
that and maybe disappear a little
bit of shiny, right? There we go.
But yeah, thank you for coming in clean.
I'm sure a lot of people will be
shuffling on Saturday. Wonderful.