 You'll be amazed at how refreshing it is mentally, like I'm doing right now. Yeah, you see something? I needed, uh, my nose got cold yesterday, so I needed a, I needed a breathing hole, that's what that is. Feeling good now, cutting open the buffs, doing a slightly different route today in some on-shoes. Yeah, that's right. Shout out to the Swiss out there who watched the channel. I appreciate it. You know what? I really just forgot my sunglasses. You're right back. All right. That's better. There we go. There we go. Staying close to home, if you know what I mean. Staying close to home. All right. Here we go. And yes, it did snow again last night, only about an inch, but the roads are covered. A quick tip of the day, if your normal running loop is just getting a little stale, especially in the wintertime when the availability to run in new locations is, is down because of snow and ice, is just run your loop backward, your normal loop backward. You'll be amazed at how refreshing it is mentally, like I'm doing right now. Oh man, okay. Nice and easy. Nice and easy. That's hilarious. I've never actually seen Michael fall asleep on the floor. He's a little sick. So am I. We're all a little tired. We're all waiting for this baby. And so Michael just passed out in front of the bathroom, waiting for his nap. So now he is down and now it's time for Papa's lunch. Okay. Getting steak. Steak, a little banana action. Oh yeah, some tea, hot tea, you better believe it. Almost forgot. Almost forgot. Love me some peanut butter. Love me some peanut butter on my bananas. Refueling. Refueling. It's been a big week. As I sit here enjoying some lunch, I'm reading your comments from yesterday's blog all about the U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Trials predictions. Who's going to be the top three on the men's side and the women's side? There's already 104 comments. Thank you so much for chiming in. Amazing. Oh, it's going to be, it's going to be epic. And yeah, wow. If you haven't seen the blog, I think you'll enjoy it. I break down splits, negative splitting from 2016 and it also give my predictions for the top three on both sides. Every now and then you need a little afternoon pickup. Just a little afternoon pickup. That's what this is. Oh man. We're just trying to keep it all together here at the D'Amour household. All right. And yes, I don't know, like a little, just a little bit, I was probably four ounces of steak that I just ate for lunch. I don't know. For me. And everybody's different. But for me, like when I get over 85, 90, especially over 95 miles in a week, the body just starts yearning for a little more heartiness, like staying away from the grains or from cereal or from, even from frankly, like Bobo bars, which I love. And like I just need that, that meat. So anyway, that's what I decided to eat and sure enough I feel good. Like today's run, I'll just jump into it was 10 miles, 915 a mile. I'm so glad I kept it easy. I wanted to go faster. Yes. In the on cloud flow. We'll talk about this in a minute. But I decided to just really rein it in and just really let the legs go easy and just bop along for 10 miles. So it was solid. And there's the on cloud flow over there. Here's the deal. You know me. I love innovation when it comes to running and when it comes to filming and making the vlog and yes, to running shoes. I like competition in the running shoe marketplace. So if you don't know the story behind on spelled on, it's a company out of Switzerland and they have a pretty interesting background as to how they developed their midsole and outsole, which is very unique. You can, you can see literally tunnels through the midsole there. And I gave them a shot in 2019, actually late 2018, 2019. And yes, I'm trying to give them another shot in 2020. This is the on cloud flow model, which is their lighter version. In fact, I'm just going to toss it on the scale here to see what it weighs in my size. We're looking at basically eight ounces in my size. So pretty lightweight, not, yeah, not bad, not bad. But I think after today's run, I'm not, I'm not a fan of this model. So I'm going to have to try. If anybody out there has a connection to on, let them know. I'd love to try the on cloud swift. If anybody has tried the, which I believe is their higher stack height for their midsole. So a little more cushion, when my legs again are getting up there in volume, I need a little more cushion to help protect them. My legs from the pounding and especially right now in the winter time, it's driving me a little crazy this snow because it's hard to go seek out dirt and because everything is frozen and solid underneath the snow. And I can't go drive too far away from home right now. You know why. So there is the deal. There's the update on the on cloud flow. I don't even know if I'll do a first impression video. We shall see, but I'm intrigued by the on cloud swift. Any on fans, let us know down in the comments, make your case as to why you love on. That's not the question of the day, but and then, yeah, okay, recovery day. So I'm not afraid to run nine minutes a mile, even though that's a very slow, slow pace for me. So for these easy days, I really have to make sure that I'm reminding myself to rain it in and go slow. So that's where the title of the vlog comes from. Okay. One last comment on the on cloud flow. I loved the upper love the upper really comfortable, but I'm just I need a little more cushion through that middle. Okay. Vlogs not over going inside and probably going to do some more stretching, foam rolling just to make sure I'm ready for the long run tomorrow. All right. Here we go. Okay. I was not going to comment on today's run on Strava, but I just have to because there's already 17 comments on the run, the 10 mile run, 915 a mile. I just appreciate you all being so detail oriented in checking out my training and looking at the paces that I'm running, the shoes that I'm running in, and which are the on cloud flows today. And then so here's just a couple of comments and I just want to clarify. So injury back. Why so slow? Trainers longer recovery day. What's wrong? Then there's another one. Let's see. Not a fan of the clickbait style run title set. Love your vlog and it's been awesome cheering you on, but this is a little obnoxious. I realized the point is to keep the people engaged, but you've already built an audience that cares. So to that person and some other folks as well that so the title of the vlog was, but I spelled it a H H H H H H H H and then maybe some people were interpreting that as I like I have an injury back like no just want to clarify what I say I'm just going 915 pace bopping along nice and easy that is the that is the intention of that title so don't worry I'm not injured I feel great and I appreciate all of you being so tuned into the training you guys rock but I will give a shout out to Brent he says easy day folks watch the vlog from yesterday Brent you are correct if you watch the vlog every day you have a good clue as to what I'm doing in my training so today was just a bop it a long day anyway you guys are the best you're the best all right well one last quick comment again I'm back to the easy day is that shout out to Drew he commented on Strava and said longer recovery day drew you are very observant and yes it was longer I like to keep my easy days my recovery days and that's 6 to 8 mile range today was 10 why drew and everybody else is because with Henry's arrival any moment I'm loading up the volume just a little bit more earlier in this week because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow Saturday and Sunday so anyway that's why I went 10 instead of the usual 6 to 8 for the easy days very observant you guys are amazing you're amazing all right time to start editing okay on thanks for making my salad boom shaka laka is right oh man yeah that salad time yeah he's saying we're really in countdown mode Saturday is the due date and for sure at this point I'll tell you about that in a second all of our kids have been here Michael was two weeks early Sethi was six days early and Joseph was like a week early so we are we're more ready than we have ever been for any baby everything's washed and put away and anyway we're excited you lost caution the laundry as always I taught Joseph how to do the laundry and he's done four loads proud of you bud I'm creating a lot of laundry these days double runs with your clothing and you know the kids school clothes they take them off in a good room serious kicks you guys going on here the more house the camera stuff all right everyone we're gonna call the vlog there time to go to bed gotta take my medicine finish my salad and question of the day what is your go-to food that you eat in your training when your training is the most intense this food just helps you recover get that energy back what is it it could be breakfast lunch dinner snack anything so that's the we haven't talked about food for a while on the channel that'll be the question of the day you know how much I love spinach the steak hot sauce no I love you at days of beta days are watching all right everyone we're gonna toss it back on the right to why not the last time we talked about food on the channel in what I eat in a day that'll be on the right and on the left we'll toss it back to yesterday's marathon team trials predictions all right you guys are the best the beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow