 Everyone, meet Steve! What up, what up? What up? You remember Steve from the Speed Goat 50K? Oh, yeah. A year ago. Oh, man. Good morning, everyone. How are we doing? How are you? I'm getting a little refill on the coffee. And today is an easy day. That is what I'm talking about. The legs are feeling pretty good. There are no sharp pains, so that's a good sign. Just general tiredness, which is to be expected after the race on Saturday, all the vertical I'm doing. But the massage is, so I get a massage once a week. Someday down the road, I wouldn't mind bumping that up to twice a week when we got a few more pennies to spend. But right now, once a week is helping a lot just to keep everything happy down there. All the major muscles, but also the small muscles as well. So anyway, I got a massage yesterday, but today I'm going easy because tomorrow is the biggest workout of this condensed training block. So this block is about seven to eight weeks because I started July 1st and the race is August 24th. So anyway, I'm just trying to be nimble and patient in understanding what I'm putting my legs through in this condensed training block. So anyway, I'm going to go sip a little more coffee and roll out. If you know what I mean, get that stretching going and then go jog it out nice and easy on a grass soccer field. So, okay, here we go. Trigger point. Oh man, although you know what, I need to buy a regular foam roller sooner rather than later. Because this trigger point really gets the triggers and sometimes you just need to warm up on a foam roller that's a little more gentle. If you know what I mean, this does feel good. Before taking out today's shoes, got to put these guys away. Staying organized. The Solomon Supercrosses. We are ready to go. Get this easy run on. And the Sun 2.5 Watch is treat me well. I must say though, I've heard some not so good reviews about wrist heart rate monitors, getting it right from your wrist. And sure enough, it is bouncing all over the place. So I'm not surprised that people are a little, and I guess you can try and fine tune it by placing it in a different spot, placing the watch anyway. I'm not, as you know, I don't train by heart rate, but I'll probably turn that feature off. It's been kind of fun to look at it over the past couple of days up in the mountains, but sometimes it'll be at 183 on the downhill and then it'll be at 160 on the uphill. So I'm like, anyway, that's part of the reason why I just keep it simple. Keep it simple in this world. Alright, let's rock and roll out the door. Don't forget the GoPro and away we go. You know what this means? Oh yeah, recovery recovery. So critical. Nine minute pace. It's my recovery pace. Ah, feels good, feels good. That grass was amazing. Ah, gotta keep at it, keep on those soft surfaces. Back from the pool, feeling good. Even compared to eight hours ago, my legs, after foam rolling, stretching, jogging on the grass, getting in the pool, doing all those little things, they just feel so much better. So that's a good sign for tomorrow's workout on Pike's Peak. Okay, here's the deal. I think we just accomplished, in fact I know we did, accomplished the first successful running shoes scholarship where someone from Nepal, that's right near the Himalayas, someone from Nepal approached me maybe about a month or a month and a half ago and said I need help. And so I sent him an application, asked him to send me photos of his running shoes and yes, here they are on your screen right now. And basically, we talked back and forth on Facebook and at the end of the day, another gentleman on Instagram reached out and said hey, I would love to help someone else get a new pair of running shoes. So basically, we connected them and shout out to Dustin for buying some new shoes and here they are on your screen, sending them, buying them in the States and then getting them shipped all the way to Nepal. It was quite the process and a lot of coordination. Probably a couple hours of back and forth email but we got it done so it's so exciting. This is what YouTube is all about in my humble opinion, getting people out the door, inspired to get out the door and at the end of the day, we need shoes. I know you can run in sandals or barefoot even on grass but if you really want to train, you've got to get some shoes on your feet so it's an exciting day. Again, shout out to Dustin and then the gentleman in Nepal. It's just, I don't know what else to say other than it's happening and in time we'll continue to do this as frankly I get a little more help in the coordination. I just, yeah, time is of the essence if you know what I mean. Okay, I am packing up, getting ready to go to Colorado Springs. I'm going to sleep in Manitou Springs which is at the base of Pike's Peak so I'm just getting coordinated here and yes, I will talk to you about my racing singlet here in a minute. All right, here it is. I can't forget my running shoes for tomorrow. Those are the race day shoes. These are the training shoes. You come on out of there. You come on out of there, yeah. Taking a risk, a little bit of a risk here. So I love this singlet from Rabbit. It's a brand new singlet. However, I do think, I'm not using the right terminology here, I do think that they could reduce a little bit of the fabric on the basically the edges of the singlet. And so I'm going to do a little bit of surgery here on my new Rabbit singlet. Just, there's just a little excess and it's not like for weight reduction, it's for comfort and a restriction of arm swing basically. Like when I'm swinging my arms in this singlet I can feel the seams. Again, I'm not using the right terminology but so here we go. Again, taking a little bit of a risk here because I don't know what's going to happen to the fabric but I think it will withstand it. Sorry Rabbit, I'm just trying to perfect the product a little bit. All right, let's do this. That is amazing. It feels so much lighter but more importantly just less restrictive down here without this extra material, like just all that seam and I realize like this is going to drop the durability of the singlet. I guess the life expectancy of the singlet but I'm telling you it just feels so much more free and I love it. That is what I'm talking about. Sorry Rabbit, just trying to lighten the load and be comfortable. Oh my goodness, I love that, I love it. All right, here we go. Hitting the road. Got a banana for the road. Got my water. Gonna stop and get some food on the way and said bye to the family. They're doing pretty good, you know. Sometimes it's ups and downs when you got three little monkeys in the house but the three little monkeys are burning energy as much as we can possibly create entertainment in the backyard. So anyway, we're moving. We're moving. We've made it to Colorado Springs. There is Pike's Peak off in the distance and yes, I'm splurging a little bit. Going to Whole Foods, getting my daily salad and pick up some other fun treats for the big mountain adventure tomorrow. Make sure I'm well fueled for that. So amazing, so delicious. And one of my goals is to always eat, little tip of the day, is to always eat 12 hours before a big workout. So the goal tomorrow is to start running up Pike's Peak by 7 a.m. which is the same time that I will be the start time for the race. And so my goal is always to have dinner in my stomach by 7 p.m. the night before. So it's about 6 p.m. right now and that way I can get all the goodness, the nutrients, everything else down into the body as quick as I can. So anyway, that's mission accomplished. Alright, so we're almost to the destination and real quick before you get to meet Steve, let's see, so today's vlog didn't really have a focus other than I guess maybe doing a little surgery on my singlet and yes, we'll go with singlet for the keyword but question of the day, how is your body feeling? And I'm not asking do you have injuries. I'm asking how does your body feel because guess what? It's prime time for summer running at least in the northern hemisphere so I'm just curious to hear how you're holding up through this summer training. I haven't asked this question in maybe a month or two and it's go time you know and maybe you're in the midst of some pretty big volume getting ready for cross country if you're in high school kind of laying that aerobic base, that foundation so that is the question of the day and I guess I'll just answer it real quick. I feel pretty darn good. I told the lady who gives me a massage once a week that I don't have any sharp pains anywhere. That's a good thing, YouTube family. You don't want sharp pains but I did tell her my legs feel tired and listen, this is part of being a runner, right? So that's how I feel. My legs just feel a little tired so I'm excited once again to continue to taper over the next two and a half weeks. Alright, let's go get Steve. Where is he? Where is he? Come on Steve. Meet Steve. What up, what up? You remember Steve from the Speed Goat 50K? Oh yeah. Year ago. Welcome to the Sea Springs. That's right. Steve and I ran at CU together so we had good old time. Good old time. It's our Airbnb for the night. This is cool, man. Alright, after you. Prep, there it is. Come on. Yeah. Oh man. Keep an eye for 634 on the number one spot. There we go. podium. This is a running YouTube channel, Steve. Running. This is not cycling. Actually, Joseph Barton is running the Cirque series at a basin on Saturday. We're going to call it there here in Colorado Springs because we got to wake up early to train and if you want to dive into, since today's vlog was a little bit of a smorgasbord kind of all over the place, I'm going to pick two. Well actually, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pick one old random vlog on the right that is not running related and then a more recent random vlog that is running related on the left. So click on either one of those. I'm going to hand it over to Steve to close it out. Sick beauty. Sick beauty. Work hard. Love each other. See you tomorrow.