 That's right keyword is sore keyword is sore for the first time in 2019 I am sore so it took just so you know like insight into my training and my philosophy It took me 31 days of running every day. I haven't done a double yet No, I don't think I've done a double yet. And so it took 31 days to make my legs sore I went up the mountain twice yesterday Wasn't sure how the body would react and sure enough. I'm a little sore good news That's the key word. All right, just bopping along nine minute pace trying to recover cuz yes Tomorrow's a new day to fight again and to go back up the mountain All right, four and a half miles today four and a half miles in the ultra torrent three point fives I haven't worn these shoes since December basically because I took some time off and I like to use these Ultra torrents for recovery days where I really want to stretch out my calf my soleus my Achilles and Basically, I haven't been sore enough in this first month of training in this training block to warrant pulling these guys out and using them and Basically, I I don't think I'll ever race in ultra. I could be wrong. Don't quote me on that But as far as recovery stretching, I just really really love them So anyway, good day in the ultra torrents today. Good day in the ultra torrents today four and a half miles. So 6k ish 6k ish a little over 6k and Alright, did you see yesterday's comparison between the Solomon speed cross five and the Solomon speed cross four These two shoes. I love them both. I love them both But if you didn't see that vlog go check it out operate hand corner And then what I'm doing now is prepping for a big mountain run tomorrow a big mountain run tomorrow Come back for that. I think you're gonna enjoy the footage a lot a lot I'm going higher than I've gone since as far as in elevation since August September August probably September early September. I'm going up high. I'm excited. So and yes Somebody asked today. I think it was on YouTube might have been on Strava I'm not sure basically for me to compare the speed cross five to the Solomon s-lab sense six SG and listen the sense seven is already released. I don't have it yet, but I'm just gonna say now There's a really good chance. I will get the sense seven this spring and it could potentially be my racing shoe For the pikes peak ascent. So come back tomorrow I'm gonna compare these two shoes the speed cross five and the Solomon s-lab sense six SG and there's major differences between these shoes, but also Similarities so thank you for asking that and listen asking you shall receive YouTube Asking you shall receive if there are shoes that you want me to compare Continue to comment down below and I'll do my best To accommodate your needs. All right. I'm here for you. I'm here for you All right, let's go to the studio Strava Strava Strava. Oh Strava Strava was not around when I was in high school Nor when I was in college. It's a new app. And if you don't know what Strava is, that's okay It's basically an app that is used to track Running and cycling and swimming actually, but I would say it's very very popular in the running community I don't know about the cycling community, but I'm sure it's popular there as well Why do I enjoy Strava? I enjoy Strava because I know that behind all of the numbers are real people With real lives real running goals real running challenges in their life Like there there's people let's not forget that behind like total volume for a week or total vertical gain for a week Which we're gonna talk about here in a minute. There's real people lacing up their shoes and getting out the door and Struggling in the cold in the heat in the in the deserts in the swamps wherever like there's literally people I think it's like a hundred and ninety five countries are Represented on Strava and I just love that and that actually connects to why I chill I chose the particular name for the running group for this YouTube channel All right, let's run through a couple stats about Strava from 2018. Here we go. You ready for this? 240 million runs were tracked on Strava in 2018 totaling 945 million miles there were this is kind of a unique stat There were 10,000 plus turkey trots here in the United States. That's kind of neat actually Thanksgiving Day is the most Popular day for running in America. That's fascinating. That's bad. I I kind of like that because it's I it's kind of labeled as a Eat a lot of food type day, but I think in the last 20 years It's kind of evolved into like first we run then we eat and be grateful. Anyway, I think that's interesting Okay, there was a 71 percent increase in run commuting in 2018 so if you commute to work and you run to get there there was a 71 percent increase in 2018 now I think that's just like people actually figuring out how to label their runs on Strava But that is a pretty amazing number like if you're gonna be in a car if you're gonna be on a train Might as well lace up the shoes and like multi-task by running to work. I think that's amazing. All right, and globally The average pace for men was 907 per mile 1021 for women. I think that's kind of neat. It's just like globally how fast on average is Everybody running. Anyway, those are a few stats from Strava. Okay Why a Strava running club for everybody here on this YouTube channel? I Was thinking about how could I summarize this and I think the best way is to say one word or maybe it's two words put together anyway crossover crossover so a lot of you are sharing your thoughts down in the comments about training ideas about workout ideas about Questions about long runs opinions on how to recover. Well Well, it's amazing to read your comments down below But now there's a little bit more Accountability and crossover from the YouTube comments down below to Strava. So what has happened? Okay, we can talk the talk down below in the comments But what about walk-in-the-walk or run-in-the-run? So if we are sharing and for me like I want full accountability and transparency when I'm telling you like I'm going out And I'm running 22 miles today and set at seven minute pace, you know getting ready for a marathon Like you will see it appear on Strava So I think crossover from Strava Seeing everybody doing their runs to the comments down below. I think it's a beautiful thing and you're probably wondering Okay, what is the name of the group so I can look it up on Strava? And by the way the link to the group is down below right at the top of the description of this video So click on that link. It'll take you there and then I think you just click join and you'll be in the club You'll be in the club. So I went back and forth. It was not easy. It was not easy I definitely wanted global to be in the disc in the name of the group because There's literally people in on every continent. I wonder how many countries are now represented here on YouTube and on Strava It's just inspiring. Thank you for being here from Malaysia to South Africa to Korea to Russia to Canada to Ecuador like there's literally people all around the world Brazil Oh my god, I could go on and on there's literally people around the world So I decided to include global in the name and then I realized like it is connected to me You know in this YouTube channel So I included a part of my name in the group and then I Wanted to keep it as short as possible So I did not include club or group at the end and then also one last point is that one of the good ideas that was pitched maybe two weeks ago was Run demore miles and I liked that However in America we track our running through through miles, but most of the world uses kilometers So I decided like I don't want to exclude the rest of the world by saying run demore miles Therefore after talking to true love pitching it to a couple different people. I decided on you're ready for this Demore global running demore global running and listen I could have put demore global running club demore global running group But I decided that running at the end encapsulates what we're doing here like so that is the name demore global running and I like it because First of all if you think about at least in English more M. O. R. Which is the end of my last name it basically It's kind of a incentive or a challenge like let's all Continue to run more so demore global running anyway I won't talk too much about the the name more than that, but I just I like it a lot I like it a lot so last night after the live stream I took maybe 20 minutes to create the group on Strava and I I've never created a group on Strava And so I didn't realize that as soon as I hit create that it would kind of go live to everybody So literally in the last you know 20 hours. We are now at let me just hit refresh We are now at 240 members 204 that's crazy Thank you for joining and it's only gonna go up from here and so a couple shout outs I so basically what's gonna happen is it's going to compile all of our running into one group And it will create these leaderboards which I'm gonna talk about that in a minute But I'm just gonna give a couple shout outs last week the top runner was as far as distance was Jeremy Doyle 73 miles the top climbing so who climbed the most was Andreas K. He went 10,000 feet of climbing So anyway, it's just so cool to see all of these statistics come in onto the group But remember it's not stats It's real people lacing it up and going for it in their daily run and now I want to give a warning I want to give a warning do not compare yourself to other runners in the demora global running group because guess what? We are all at different phases of our training blocks The only time you should compare yourself to someone else in this group is if we all are lining up on the same Starting line on the same day at the New York City Marathon at the Chicago Marathon at the Boulder Boulder at the You know Western States UTMB Like don't compare yourself to the other runners in the group because we're all at different stages of our training and one of the biggest goals of demora global running is to do Real world running with all of you. I live in Denver It's gonna be the easiest to create group runs for local runners here in Denver But what about when I travel to listen? I know in the next two years I'm just gonna say no more than two years from now I I'm hoping to travel to the UK and let's do a group run in in Wales somewhere or the Scottish Highlands or I want to travel like New York City Like I go to New York quite a bit because I have a lot of family in New York So also part of this group on Strava is that I will be able to create group runs that you will be notified about and then Let's meet up and let's go running. All right So that's one of the biggest goals of this Strava group is to actually meet you in person and on that note Yes, locally here in Denver. It's coming. It's coming I've got a few more things to work out in the schedule and we will make it happen Oh, so excited for that just a few more quick shout-outs these I'm just refreshing on the Strava app right now people that have joined the group and so what happens is it Aggregates or collects? Everybody's runs from today that have joined the group. So I'm just gonna do some shout-outs Trent easy and hilly 10 Congratulations Trent. That's a great run 10 miles Mike work out on the treadmill six miles Just scrolling down a little bit Alexander speed work. There you go Alexander. I like it Zazik Four mile afternoon run and then there was a fun. Here's one Tyler easy peasy lemon squeezy four miles So it goes on and on and on Ben Ireland a treadmill session. There you go So all I'm saying is I'm so excited to again see that crossover because I can see your comments down below on YouTube but now we can inspire each other we can help hold each other accountable through the Strava app and Yeah, hopefully learn from each other and yes the question of the day What do you hope to get out of the Strava group or the Strava club the demore? Global running the demore global running like what do you hope to get out of it and listen? Like think about it for a second whether it's inspiration learning motivation accountability Idea anyway, just think think like what do you hope to get out of it because I have some ideas? I'm not gonna share them now But I'm just excited. Thank you for joining and again. It's down below. That is today's vlog I am actually going to bed early tonight because I'm going up to the mountains early tomorrow morning come back for that Oh, you guys rock you guys rock. All right. Thanks for being here. See beauty work hard I love each other. See you tomorrow on YouTube