 gonna be famous this guy's gonna be famous what shoes are you in ultra Olympus the Olympus I gotta get your opinion on ultra once we're back in the car yeah yeah I got my first pair yes it is the net yeah two different ones yeah the they don't call it fly mesh what do they call it I think just mesh yeah something like yeah yeah but it's more a little bit more rigid yeah and it looked comfortable it was comfy I got a lot of thoughts on it yeah intriguing it's not a it's not necessarily a ring endorsement yet right no yes definitely not yeah but you know the funny thing is though I've had shoes that I've you know hated out of the box yeah come back to them yeah and then it's like oh this is nice different times you never know honestly I I think they're gonna be well I got a lot of thoughts but my place is somewhere in the quiver my P my PF felt amazing yesterday after wearing the the Torrens the day before okay so there's a lot of a lot of debate out there about the zero drop and your Achilles and yeah like how it's all linking together yeah and the plantar fasciitis so but I will say I did feel amazing yesterday are they all there they are Russell I got what is the name of this running group Castle Rock Run Club they're Castle Rock Run Club you guys are crushing it these guys wake up at like the blue way before the crack of dawn freeze your butts off and thanks for the invite hey man appreciate it so this guy rallying the troops all the time that's right oh man it's cold though it's cold one joy yeah and we'll do it again sounds good man yeah every week I try to do them every Wednesday Friday but Wednesday Friday don't sometimes okay them all yeah but anyway good trails and Castle Rock everybody good trails but don't tilt too many ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen I'm at a 2 out of 10 on the pain scale for the PF I don't know what's going on I don't know what's going on I ran in the peg 35 this morning and 6.4 miles basically since I ran in the tour in two days ago things seem to be trending in the right direction I'm not trying to get too excited I know there's ups and downs with plantar fasciitis but right now it's feeling better and I'm a little I'm a little confused as to why because I did mile repeats last night pretty hard go check that vlog out so I've just tried to figure it out I'm trying to figure out why why do I feel better why am I walking around basically pain-free not quite but basically alright quick shout out to Jen one of the runners this morning if you are local in Colorado there's a winter series of running and just go to PPR run.org PPR run.org this is put on by the Pikes Peak Roadrunners Google it and they have a winter series and Jen is involved with organizing this winter series all right we're packing we're getting ready to go out a little a little vacay a little vacay up in the mountains so I'm excited yeah but first I'm gonna reply to your comments oh my goodness keep them coming keep them coming here she comes this is the way I like it at least three drinks at once hey y'all Vail here we come Vail here we come celebrating true love's birthday this weekend okay okay here we go made it to Vail made it to Vail for true love's birthday and in the next 20 seconds two cards are gonna pop out in the upper right hand corner and those are gonna be links to videos from this past summer where I ran two races here in Vail did pretty well but anyway upper right hand corner if you want to watch old running race videos click on those and I think you'll enjoy the the beauty of Vail and some good racing all right here we go family is asleep family is asleep taking a nap and so yes I'm gonna double up today I'm doubling up two runs in one day haven't really done this in a long long time and I'm doing it in the ultra torrents for the second run gonna go three to four miles easy bopping along nine minute pace but the key word of the day is fun and the question of the day based on the title of today's video is running fun is running fun and before you answer that though you have to define the term fun how do you define fun so I will be frank in high school running was very very fun I was good at it and so that helps but in college I had a lot of injuries I had stress fractures lots of stress fractures I'll talk about that in another video but in addition I was trying to keep up on the CU Buffalo's cross-country team with future Olympians and so it was kind of stressful like I was in distress a good amount of the time with the injuries and then also just like the pace of the workouts was a little intense for me I did pretty good sticking in the top you know let's say six to nine position on the cross-country team but it was not always fun because I was always kind of worried about keeping up with everybody so as you're thinking about answering this question there's no right answer alright and listen I know plenty of runners I know plenty of runners that don't do running for fun in fact they kind of don't like running they despise not despise running but they don't enjoy it and they do it simply and strictly for the benefit of their health so that's a big question it's open-ended I'd love to hear your thoughts down in the comments I is running fun to you and if not like what is perhaps running to you I know again you know you got a hit pause on this video and stop and think for a second how do I look at running and maybe guess what you may not have an opinion and that's fine too on this alright let's go bop around Vale Colorado even though I'm gonna go nine minute pace we are at 8,000 feet above sea level so you know it'll be a little bit of a workout but bottom line I'm doing today's second run because it's fun and I enjoy it and it's I love it I love it so I'm just gonna go bop around Vale for three miles because it's fun fun fun oh get me going guys get me going again alright buddy 8,200 feet yes that was fun oh man just bopping around at 8,000 feet finding a snow-making machine and just exploring just exploring it's a good thing man to disconnect from the phone disconnect from social media go explore and go have fun while running and it was fun good right you do go I am tired this runner needs to go to bed it was an early morning let's just put it that way I think I was up at 415 yeah 415 so the family's asleep I'm gonna edit this real quick and I didn't call it a day thanks for being here thank you for commenting on the question of the day the keyword and that yes I did run in the ultra again today in Vale Colorado three miles not too shabby it wasn't really long enough or intense enough to give you my thoughts on how it performed today it was just it was just did fine it did fine it did fine love you guys thanks for being here all right all right we'll be here tomorrow we'll be here mom see beauty work hard