 Shout out shout out to true love. She got me a box cutter That's right with a rather large volume of boxes arriving right now. This is just gonna help expedite everything I just got to be careful because this is a lot sharper than the other knife. All right We are gonna go work on the lights in the studio Test 123 test 123 test 123 now we're in business. Can you notice a difference again? What am I always saying we talked about innovation about 10 days ago on the blog? It's all about the lighting and video production So I'm gonna turn these off just so you can see the difference on and off these little teeny tiny lights So here we go ready for this. So we're gonna dim them. Oh There they go and then Back on oh, yeah, can you see it? I know it's it's subtle This video production is all about little subtle changes that make a huge difference to the human eye What I like to call eye candy. Okay, just move that shoe real quick So there they are all coming along nice. We're not done yet I still have some more lights, but I think I will save them for later And now I'm on to fixing the gimbal that I use to hold the GoPro It's it's it's becoming loose and yeah I don't know if you can notice but when I've been using it over the past week The camera is just shaking just a little bit. So I gotta tighten some very small screws. Let's do that Oh gosh, I love it. I love it. Oh man. All right. Here we go. I Better go run. I gotta go run, but it's not a long run. Have a sparkling water. Thank you So delicious Okay before before we fix the gimbal, hold on I think the camera's a little low. All right, here we go Here's the gimbal gonna fix that here in one minute But first a shout out to the letter that arrived from Australia. You know who you are he this gentleman basically started Running about 15 months ago and has been following the blog for the last 15 months Thank you by the way, and he's made some huge strides in his running and anyway, just shout out Thank you so much. There's nothing like getting a little snail mail every now and then we get inundated with so many emails It's just nice to have some real physical paper. Okay. Here we go Let's see if I can't dissect this gimbal and fix it up before we go out for the run. Here we go Quick gear check for today's easy run my raid light vest there it is from France It's old school, but it still works it gets the job done my compress sports shorts was I have never worn yet I haven't worn yet. There's their logo right there, and I believe they're yeah, they're based in Switzerland I do believe very very lightweight probably more of an ultra running short But it's about 60 degrees in Denver today, so we're gonna give it a shot the flip belt Of course the pole for filming for all of you the fixed new gimbal ill I cannot wait to try that out and then J bird J bird headphones for my audio book pleasure of listening the GoPro 7 Yep, I have not upgraded to GoPro 8 maybe someday I don't know the GoPro 7 though still works just fine, and then last but not least the polar Vintage V. Oh sunglasses sunglasses. Oh, yeah, there we go sunglasses and yes the asics gel nimbus light All right Cutting the run short I picked up Seth at the park Seth how you doing doing good? Yeah, you playing baseball yeah with your cousins And you played with the dogs About you know around six miles 10k I bet it's about 845 a mile There it is on your screen nice and easy. I'm a little tired after yesterday's 13. What's that Seth? And it was like there was like a dog back But not real back that had a thing and we would put the ball in it And we would throw it and mine was the highest throws Good job Here we go, it's time to register for the 2020 New York City Barathon I'll explain in the studio my game plan and thought process as to why I'm gonna go back to New York once again And so I got to claim my entry. All right, here we go. We're diving in right now. This is exciting times exciting times All right. Oh man, there it is number 50 number 50. Okay. I got a little sign in here one second They don't give it away. I'll say that much they don't it's a pretty penny to race this race But that's okay projected pace hmm It's official there we go. He's head on out. Come on. There we go. All right. It is up on the wall my first ever Metal hanger. I've never owned life of an official metal hanger and listen. I'm not crazy into metals You know finisher metals except for the ones where it's like a really really special memory like the New York City Marathon which I'll come back to in a minute. So anyway, I'm gonna reserve the Really special metals that mean a lot to me for the metal hanger I realized there's no way all of the metals can fit on there So the rest of them are back up in the rafters here in the studio for example Amsterdam is gonna hang up here the Pikes Peak ascent last year where I took second place like that was a special one the world mountain running championships and yes the New York City Marathon 2019 but now it's official going back 2020 to New York City to race through the five boroughs on November 1st, okay November 1st 2020 Because of my time that I ran in New York last year. I get an auto entry so that I feel you know Even though I realized like running Amsterdam and then running New York City I knew that if I do like that what you know, you don't do that You don't do back-to-back marathons like that But because I did that and I ran a decent time in New York to 24 something it gets me an auto entry for This year and who knows okay? Why go back though? I will say one of my new I'd say life goals is to run the six major Marathons around the world Tokyo Berlin London New York Boston and Chicago so there's six of them at least at this point. I've heard rumors They might add a seventh who knows we'll see if that happens, but anyway, so New York is you know off the list I've already done it, but the reason I'm going back is a couple different reasons first of all I want to race the course Fresh and really fit. I was fit last year of course, but I wasn't I wasn't that fresh having just raced Amsterdam Two weeks before so I was not fresh I want to go back to New York and go Faster and my goal is to run fast at the Homburg Marathon this spring submit that time to New York and then basically Negotiate my way into the sub elite cat a sub elite corral Remember at the New York City Marathon. I had to dodge and juke and jive I ended up in 36th place overall But I started like 500 people back in the corral and so that first mile was just complete insanity So my goal is to run fast in Homburg Really, you know as fast as I can and then submit that time so I can get a better placement in the corrals So that's one reason I want to go back second reason is New York, you know the story of my mom But she's a native New Yorker. Okay She's she comes from a very large family in New York upstate New York And most of them live in the greater New York City area and upstate New York near Albany And so I grew up in New York in the summer times like I grew up in Colorado But my second home is really New York I mean I would do water skiing and and tubing on the Hudson River and I go skiing up in Vermont in the winter time and Go to Yankee games down on the Bronx with my uncles because they're all Yankee fans And so anyway, New York has a really special place in my life And I just love the culture of the city So true love and I and the boys were all coming out. All right, so we're gonna do a group run again in Central Park and Yeah, anyway, and the goal so anyway, I was 30s one more point I just remembered is 36th place, but I was the 13th I can't believe this but I was the 13th American and I was in no man's land for life from my mile 15 Basically to mile to the end like for the last 10 11 miles. I was really running solo So my goal again is I don't know somehow figure out a way to find remember what I was talking about Packing up in marathon races like that's a great race strategy. I want to find that pack of runners But I guess anyway, I just don't want to be in no man's land Again, so there we go last Metal to go up on the metal hanger is gonna be the 2019 metal there we go again Shout out to the gentleman in Canada for the metal hanger. It's up on the wall. Okay vlog's not done going inside I'll get you the question of the day in there I'm gonna go do all the little things all the physical therapy so that I make sure I end up on the starting line in Hamburg healthy so I can get a faster Entry for New York City. Ah, I love it. I love it. And I must say I love the studio It's looking pretty pretty fly. If you know what I mean, looking pretty fly in here. All right, here we go I'm gonna put that in the trash Boom boom Boom boom. Oh, yeah This is Papa slant board Good job I've got a spotter. Good job Thank you, Michael He's a spotter spin I know my way around the kitchen sink. I'm not afraid little elbow grease in high school I washed dishes at the buffalo bar and grill for I think it was Two and a half maybe three years. It was a lot. I did a lot of dishes in high school so but it it paid pretty good it paid pretty good and So you got to start somewhere. You got to start somewhere. Okay. We are closing the vlog out here in the kitchen Families going to bed right now. I got to go to bed soon question of the day How was your race this weekend or how was your long run? And if you did a long run, how long was it? Where was it? Well, how was the vertical if you if you raced? What was the distance? Actually, I think I'm gonna do better everyone posting Metal Mondays on the facebook group and page and also on twitter some mondays I forget to do it, but I'll try and do better so you can share Your medals that you're receiving around the world at all these amazing races sound good sound good All right. Thanks for being here new york city marathon. Oh, there it is registered ready to rock and roll Tossing it back on the right. Yes, of course to the new york city marathon vlog Which many of you have already seen but if you haven't seen it that'll be on the right hand side And on the left we'll toss it back You know what to yesterday's vlog talking about the carbon fiber plate running shoes lots of people watching that one I love it. I love it. All right. See beauty work hard and love each other See you tomorrow