 Man, sometimes packaging and tape, oh my, here we go everyone. Alright, kicking the vlog off with a little mail time. Every maybe two or three months I do an update blog where we talk about a lot of different aspects of what's happening on this YouTube channel and there's a lot of exciting things happening and I'm just trying to wrap my brain around it a little bit and listen to you. So the question of the day today is going to be absolutely critical so we will get to that in one second. Alright, so I actually, I don't know what's in these three boxes but I do know what's in here. Hold on, you know what that is, hold on, hold on, it's that time of the day you better believe it. Okay, so I actually, I do know what is in here, oh and so just so you know I will give this to my mom and I will film it but I can't resist, look at this, oh yeah and there it is, oh my goodness, that looks so good, oh so the gentleman he combined the logo with the New York City skyline, hopefully you can see that New York City marathon 2019 but then look at the back, oh yeah, go Seth, butter my bread, that is amazing, thank you so much. Okay, moving on let's see what is in these boxes, packaging and tape, oh my, I almost broke it, it's okay, holy smokes, I don't even know who this is from, this is from Contrast Coffee Mug, so this is a World Major Marathon Mug and then it has the New York City Marathon Root on the other side, you all know how much I love coffee and tea, World Major Marathon New York, one down, five to go out of the five major marathons but that is amazing, again thank you for sending this, oh alright, alright, this up here, okay, alright we got it, this is from Jason in Iowa, he says, hey Seth I bought these last February, they're in Denver at Boulder Running Company, they just haven't worked for me, only 12 and a half miles on these bad boys, hopefully you can find them a good home, Jason I will, running shoe giveaways are not, haven't happened in a long time and it's been a busy fall, they will continue, I'm not gonna say dates at this point and just stay tuned, stay tuned, so original zoom flies in size eight and a half, so somebody who needs eight and a half zoom flies will get these at the next running shoe giveaway, thank you Jason for sending those, oh here we go, here we go, thank you, Karen feels like running shoes, he says, hi Seth, big congrats on two awesome races in Amsterdam and New York City, happy to see you are on the roads, keep it up, it's a longer note and she just says thank you Karen and Shane, thank you so much, see you in Boston 2021, I think that might be the Boston year, I think it might be a little too late for 2020 unless somebody has a connection out there, but 2021 sounds real good, so let's see what she sent, boom, oh nice, okay Adidas, the Adizero Boston, oh that is epic, so this is a lady shoe, we do have some lady shoes to give away size eight and a half for ladies, the Boston solid, I've never actually worn the Boston, but I have heard good reviews about the Boston, thank you Karen and Shane for sending these, you all rock, all right, let's, actually I'm going to roll out New York, but this is from a fan, oh my goodness, isn't that cool, right, he crushed it, there it is, isn't that great, so it's for my mom and she's gonna love it, she's gonna love it, it looks so good, it looks so good, oh my my oh my my and I found out the name of the gentleman Russell, thank you Russell from Runhinged is his company, thank you Russell for sending that hoodie for my mom, I will get it to her once I'm back from Argentina, okay and speaking of Argentina, thank you for your patience, I posted this on the gram and Facebook today, I'm way behind on email and answering your messages all over the social media sites, but tomorrow when you're watching this actually I'll be on an airplane for a long time down to Argentina, so I'll have a lot of time to reply to many of your messages, so again thank you for your patience there, I'm just striving to keep up and speaking of that, I don't know what's happening, I don't know, but I'm grateful, someone out there is sharing or a group of people is sharing these vlogs because we are heading toward 50,000 subscribers very very quickly and thank you, I don't know what is, I don't know what's going on, but as a runner I have goals, I think many of us runners have goals in life and our careers, you know chasing down PRs, well I must say you know I do have some goals here on YouTube and I shared one with true love before going to the New York City Marathon, I said hey hon maybe it'd be maybe we could maybe we could get to 50,000 subscribers before January 1st 2020, well we might get to 50,000 by the end of this week, it's insane, I don't know what's happening and it connects to the topic of updates for this vlog in the future of where we're headed, first of all a shout out to and if you could let me know down in the comments to the first have you been subscribed, this is not the question of the day, but have you been, if you've been subscribed since a thousand subscribers or less let us know down in the comments you know who you are, I'm thinking of Carol, I'm thinking of Damian, I'm thinking of Fred, oh my goodness there's a couple people out there who have been watching for a long long time and thank you for sticking with me for this long but then the channel started to grow, started to talk about running shoes and so if you've been subscribed for under 10,000 subscribers let us know and because remember the sign it's right there and it's, that was on March 7th 2019 when we reached 10,000, well now we're almost to 50 and I don't know what to do, meaning I want to make sure as a global running family that we strive to maintain the personal side of this YouTube channel, now as the numbers continue to grow I realize that's gonna become more difficult, there's no way to get around that but that familial feeling I'll just say an emotion that I have with all of you is inspiring me to become a better person and to become a better runner and to become a better YouTuber frankly when I arrived in Central Park last week for that group run I really was taking a back and I told true love and a couple other people like that was the first time in my life where I felt like I was really taken aback and I didn't know I was shocked but it's an affirmation that you all are committed to this channel and I hope, I hope through the daily filming the late night editing and hopefully publishing every single morning at 5 a.m. Mountain Time which I will come back to in a second, I hope that I'm showing that I'm committed to all of you as we ascend very very rapidly to 50,000 and it's not about the numbers but you know what it is about it's about the human beings the people on the other side of this camera who are behind every single number every single subscriber there's real people out there and that's what blows me away that's what I love about YouTube and so I just want to put that out there that we are growing quickly and I thank you for watching regularly and just so you know you probably this is no shocker probably to most of you I do make some money off of the vlog and the money allows me to buy running gear to review for all of you it allows me to buy to fix broken camera equipment it allows me to travel to some of these races to meet many of you to do group runs together and yes I'll just be very open it allows me to buy diapers for my children that's right it's like so I appreciate you believing in the cause and you're probably like well what is the cause the cause for from my perspective is to help you I know in a very simple way to say it to help you get out the door meaning to go run to go breathe fresh air to go strive for your goals which I know we talk a lot about it to go become a better person and not just health-wise but I think by running and by becoming a runner you are creating natural virtue in your life like you're and I know I'm going to get a little off track here but like you are building up resolve to face challenges in this world so I could go on and on on this topic but that's why I publish every single day for all of you all right we're gonna leave that part of talking in the studio right there oh my goodness you get me going YouTube family you get me going okay on to Facebook real quick oh so speaking of that familial that familial pursuit as the channel grows as we go toward 50,000 beyond I know it's going to be harder to communicate but we're going to keep fighting for it because that's important to me so the D'Amour global running Facebook group we have like a little under 2,000 people who have joined here's some tips and tricks for that group and I realize not everyone is on Facebook I get it like I think it's healthy to get off of social media if you need that but at the same time we're having some really great discussions there at the D'Amour global running Facebook group so but I realize it's not for everyone I'm not pushing it on everyone just letting you know it's there some people have asked me why is my post not being so I am the only moderator just want you to be clear and I have to approve every single post okay so I read all of them and we are getting 20 to 30 submissions every single day meaning people who want to post in the group 20 to 30 that's a lot and I don't want to inundate all of you with too many posts that is why I have to do quality control and I cannot I'm basically picking the topics that connect and I have some points to get your post approved I have some pointers to give you basically number one ask yourself is this topic applicable to a large group of people some of the posts are applicable it's applicable to a small group I usually don't approve those because think about the kind of the globalness of this family and so anyway just putting that out there think when you're thinking of a topic make it big so that's point number one point number two I usually always approve inspiring stories from people so if you like I get quite a few about you know somebody that's lost a hundred pounds in the last year because they became a runner or someone who quit smoking and you know when they've been smoking for 20 years and now they're doing their first marathon or whatever the case may be inspiring stories and photos those are great I love that part keep those types of posts coming number three polls poll polls great great way in fact there was a poll recently on the group somebody created for how do people watch the vlog is it on their phone is it on their TV is it on their computer or laptop that was a cool poll for me to read just to hear how all of you are watching the vlog so that's number three poll polls and number four that I need to learn from brevity meaning keep your party keep your posts shorter concise if it's a you know huge you know paragraph or two most people won't read it on Facebook it's just people are moving too quick okay so brevity number five add a topic to your discussion point so so you can sort all of the discussions by topic so marathon New York City marathon injuries planer fasciitis running socks running shoe questions Solomon running shoes so if you can select a topic that that will increase your chances of getting the post approved okay so that's number five and then I guess maybe not a direct point but I can't I'm not gonna I don't want to approve all of the injury pose there's a lot of injury questions keep in mind it's the internet and you got to talk to your doctor but there are a lot of questions about injuries I don't mind those questions I think they're good like I'm I love talking about plantar fasciitis because I've dealt with it so many times but again I think it helps to sort by topic so that we're not repeating ourselves too many times okay all right there you go question of the day I have two questions what ideas do you have for maintaining the familial and the personal side of this YouTube channel as we continue to grow together it's happening so what ideas do you have for example I have one idea I'll just pitch it I'm thinking like down the road I'm not ready now I could basically work with someone in New York in Chicago in Paris in and this is down the road but a representative for the more global running to host a monthly group run in that respective city down the road all right this is not but that's like one way to I think we could work together to meet each other in the real world not just here on YouTube so that's my one idea what ideas do you have so that's number one number two question of the day how are we doing and this is more practical how are we doing on the publishing time for the vlog is 5 a.m. mountain time still good and the reason I ask it is because people continue to let me know that they're watching the vlog as they're drinking their coffee stretching before they go out for the run before they have to go to work I'm wondering should the publishing time be bumped up an hour or maybe two hours so it'd be 3 a.m. mountain time so that would be 5 a.m. east coast time and I realize there's so many time zones around the world but then everyone on the east coast might still have a chance to watch the vlog before their morning run and as they're drinking coffee and and everyone in Denver and in the west coast and I guess like Hawaii and oh my goodness would wake up and it would already be published that is my question of the day number 2 how are we doing on the publishing time I know that's a lot to digest let me know down below thank you so much for being here I love you we're striving we're going upward and I don't know who's sharing these vlogs but oh my goodness onward and upward as we say onward and upward all right that is it for today all right tossing it back now to vlog number when we when we passed the 10,000 subscriber mark about six or seven months ago so that'll be on the left and then on the right we'll toss it back to the New York City group run because there's it was just so inspiring so alright there you go everyone love ya see beauty work hard and love each other see you