 a little turkey-chot action. All right, I'll go to pick up my buddy Steve. Steve and I ran together at the University of Colorado, so he's fast as well. I'm not sure if he's racing today, we'll see. I haven't heard a determination on that, but wow, the open roads, no traffic, heading up to Greeley, Colorado, about an hour north of Denver, and we're gonna hit a 5K. I predict that today's race will be more competitive than last weeks, even though last week was the USATF 5K road championship in Colorado. I predict today will be more competition because there's a little more prize money, so just go, you know, never walk in the park, never ever, I've learned that over the years. All right, come on now. Nice hat. Steve-o, you racing? Are you filming? All right, he's filming. He'll race next year. Hop on in. Got room for one more You still wanna go to Aspen? Yeah, bud. You've been watching the vlog a long time, you know this man, you know this man. Got the green hat. Come say hello. Hello. This guy's filming right now, so like. Hi, YouTube. 50Ks take three to four hours. 5K, Steve's heading out on the course. Steve, we'll see you out there. Turkey trot, 5K, earning some pumpkin pie today. Oh yeah. Let's do this, let's do this. Cutting there, buddy, let's go. Run rabbit this year. Oh no. And Jim won it last year, run rabbit, so. Pain guys, fourth place, we'll take it, you know. Was hoping for top three at least, but man, there's always fast guys at local road races. Like, there's always fast guys, which makes it fun, right? Makes competition, but. And I ran basically the exact same time as last week, although today was a little hillier, but Steve, I need to get faster. Here we go. Mr. Chalk, can you get in for dinner? Good times. Oh yeah, candy cane, candy cane. Look at all, ah, there's a new subscriber. How'd you watch? All the time. Oh, that's awesome. What's your name? Kale. Kale, awesome set, yeah. What's your name? Tristan. Tristan? How'd you guys do today? Nice, 74 to good. I like 1920. Okay, okay. Nice? Good? It's cold out. Yeah. Are you guys in high school? Yeah. High school. High school, all right. Let's get a picture for YouTube, you guys are gonna be on YouTube. Pretty hilly out there, wasn't it? Woo, these guys watching the vlog. Nice. Love it. Whitney, how'd you guys find the channel? Yeah, something about these shoes, maybe? Yeah, I like all these shoes. Yeah, I try to not buy too many shoes, but it's kind of hard. Well, good to meet you guys. Good to meet you. Good work, check out this video I'll be up in the morning, so. Oh, man. I am. Tell your friends. Tell your friends. Eduardo, good to meet you. Seth. Seth. No, no, Seth. No, no, no. S-E-T-H, good to meet you. Inviting more people, you know, we've got a great race in Greenland. So I've got a YouTube channel. Okay. Seth DeMor. Okay. S-E-T-H DeMor. Shoot. Shoot it. Do you have your phone? No, that's all right. But anyway, if you look it up, we'll have race footage from today. That'd be nice. Yeah. All right, Steve, putting you on the spot. Key word of the day, what's it gonna be? I'm letting you choose. Know how we do the key word. You choose. Think of the theme of the day. Let's go with turkey. Yeah. I was hoping for those vegans out there. We'll do stuffing, all right? Stuffing or turkey. I like it. I like it. All right, brother. All right. Boom. Thank you, Steve, for filming. Yeah. We'll get that W someday. Yeah. I'll rabbit you next time. There we go. I'm good. All right, man. Sweet. All right, we're almost home. Thank you again to everyone that came up after the race and said hello. And thank you for letting me know that you're watching the vlog. Like, it's absolutely amazing to meet you guys and hear about how you're doing and how the race is going. And so don't hesitate to everyone that, you know, spots me at races. Like, come say hello. That's what it's all about in the running community. All right, here we go for a little, we're gonna go to my sister's house for a little turkey tradition, a little Thanksgiving tradition. And then we will follow up with the question of the day here in a minute. So stay tuned for that. But first we gotta go, yes, we gotta go eat some turkey. You better believe it. Oh, pumpkin pie. Put it in my belly. Hi, YouTube. And these kids sugar out here. What, what the, what the what? When the kids said. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen, a little glimpse into Thanksgiving in my family. And I hope you had an incredible day with your loved ones, wherever you were at. And hopefully you were able to enjoy good food and just good company. Oh, I love Thanksgiving. I love it, I love it. Although I am in a food coma now and the pumpkin pie pushed me over the edge. Shouldn't have had that second piece. Oh my gosh, I'm about to pass out. But before I pass out, we gotta talk about the turkey trot and the vapor fly, 4% flying it. This shoe did, did well today, but it did not do excellent. I was a little tired today from the 17 mile run two days ago and even just the race five days ago. I did another 5K, ran 1548 today, ran 1556. And so eight seconds slower, although the course was a little hillier. So I feel like the effort was, was there, but I didn't feel as basically as, as fluid. Like my stride was a little choppy today. I think it's, it was cold 32 degrees again and I was just tired. And I have determined, I believe that this shoe is no good for anything below the 10K distance and maybe even below the 10 mile distance. I was striking on my toes for the first mile and a half of today's race. And then at the halfway point, I actually switched my stride because I did not feel good. Like I didn't feel like I was moving well. And so I moved from the, to the, from the toe strike to the heel to toe motion, that rocking motion. And it felt much better. I even think I sped up a little bit, that second half of the 5K. And by the way, if you see the race on Strava, the watch malfunctioned. So it only recorded like two and a half miles instead of 3.1. Anyway, leave that as it may. But so it performed well, but guys I would not buy this shoe. Like I need, I need a road racing flat. If you have any, any recommendations, let me know down in the comments. Okay. It was a great day, fun day. Great to meet everybody. Thank you again for saying hello and I love you. And yes, the question of the day, what are you most grateful for in 2018? Which is connected to your running. Cause obviously that's a very broad question, but try and connect it to your running. And I'm going to do my best right now to answer that for you. I am grateful and I know this is crazy. There's so much I'm grateful for, but there's a, okay, I have to pick one. Okay. I'm just going to say it. I was going to say one thing, but I'm going to go this way. I'm grateful. I know this is going to sound a little strange, but bear with me. I'm grateful that the YouTube algorithm is finally picking up these videos and giving them to you and to new subscribers because it's been so incredible to meet, so meet, but to get to know you, so many of you down in the comments. So again, that's why the comments are so critical so we can get to know each other. And like, I feel like I know some of you guys through your injuries now or through your shoes that you like or through the distance that you're going for in 2019. It's just been amazing. So I know that it's a little strange, but I am so grateful in 2018 connected to running that the YouTube algorithm is finally finding these videos and giving them to you guys so that we can connect down in the comments and on Strava, it is just amazing. So I love you guys. Thank you for being here. And I really mean that. I could not do this every single day if I would not have the mental capacity to do this if you were not here watching and commenting and just like sharing your wisdom with me because I'm learning as well. Like this is a two-way street on YouTube. That's it, that's it. I gotta stop, I gotta stop. Two-way street is rocking my world. All right, woo! Seek beauty, work hard, and love each other. Oh, and by the way, Hoka Clifton five tomorrow. Hoka Clifton five tomorrow. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Right here, right here. Where is it? Boom.