 All right, 10 miles today in the New Balance Beacons and you saw me slip in that green insert inside the shoe. Basically, I'm trying to do everything in my power to help my legs recover as much as possible before the next hard effort, which for me, today is Saturday. So that'll be on Monday. So basically 48 hours from now, I'm gonna do my next threshold run. You're welcome to come out. If you live in Denver or outside of Denver, anybody can come. I'm gonna do a two-mile warm-up at 7 a.m. in Washington Park and then do a 13-mile threshold, basically my third to last hard effort before the marathon. So anyway, I'm trying with the compress, usually I don't wear the compression sleeves on my calves. When I run, I like to wear them afterward, but today I'm gonna wear them during the run again just to attempt to do everything in my power to help my legs freshen up for the next hard effort. So anyway, that's what we're doing today and I got the Spenco, the green insert inside the New Balance Beacons right now. It's called Spenco and it's no arch support, no nothing like that. It's just a little, little extra cushion to help take the edge off, if you will, from the pounding on the pavement. All right, let's do it, 10 miles, not just bopping along, basically bopping along, all right. Run in the baby blues, the New Balance Beacons treated me well today. Feeling great, except for allergies. Everything is starting to pop here in Colorado. The flowers, everything's starting to come out. So I think I, actually the whole family's kind of suffering from some allergies right now. So anyway, recovering right now, and then yes, we're gonna talk to you in a little bit about the running shoes that are working so, so well in 2019, I gotta go get some water. So some errands, picking up some more shoe organization accessories, if you will. And then also some bio-freeze. I feel like I'm really put in a lot of different, oh, I don't even know what to call it. I guess, basically pain relieving creams to the test during this training block, just to help me get through it and survive a little bit. But I don't know, I'll be curious to see how this one does. It's called bio-freeze. I've tried Blue Emu, I've tried the Dolterra. Oh gosh, I can never remember the name of it. Blue Ice, something like that. And then of course, just the classic icy hot, and then even just the off-brand from King Super. So I'm going into Target, and then maybe Target has it actually, but I was actually gonna have to zip over to Walmart. I know they carry bio-freeze, which supposedly you had to get it over the counter at one point. But anyway, I know it's just more of a little bit more of just a masking agent to some of the soreness and pain. Maybe there's a little bit of benefit to rubbing it on your calves and your, I don't know, I'm a little on the fence as far as actually helping you overcome, for example, delayed onset muscle soreness. Anyway, let's give it a shot, here we go. Bio-freeze is on the legs, we shall see how it works. And yeah, it feels good right now, but we'll just see in a couple of days after using it for a couple of days how the legs are reacting to the bio-freeze. Okay, three running shoes that are working for me really well in 2019. Gonna break them down for you here in one second. And yes, working is the keyword because these shoes, they are working. And how do I know that? Basically, I was like, gosh, well, you go by feel, you go by comfort, you go by fit, you go by lockdown, you go by grip, especially on the trails. But the other way to determine, go to Strava and look and see what shoes have the most mileage in the last four months. 2019 started. So I did that and basically picked out the top three. There was one other that is, actually, there's one, you know what it is. It's the Nike Vemaro 14. It's actually in second or third place for volume of miles right now for me, but it's not working. As you know, based on yesterday's vlog, I talked about three running shoes, go check it out that are not working for me in 2019. Well, I'll just let you go watch it. One of them is the Nike Vemaro 14. So that cannot be in today's vlog, that is for sure. And we're gonna kick it off with a trail shoe. That's right, this trail shoe, you're probably not gonna be shocked by any of these answers, but this trail shoe has, let me just double check. Yes, 221 miles in it in the, this shoe was really the bread and butter of my training early in the training block. So January, February and March, to a certain extent, basically just putting in high volume, but also vertical, vertical, vertical. The Big Bad Wolf, the Solomon Speed Cross Five. Oh, somehow I got my hands on this shoe early. Like it wasn't really available anywhere else except for REI.com. And I got my hands on a pair and put 221 miles into the shoe since basically mid-January when I picked it up. It's a 10 millimeter drop. So pretty aggressive drop for a trail shoe. Let me just think 10.6 ounces. Oh boy, 303 grams. So a heavier shoe as well, but if you look at the outsole pattern and for all these shoes I'm gonna walk you through, I wanna talk about durability. So after 221 miles and the Speed Cross Five, I'm feeling good. In fact, I'm feeling great. The upper is intact completely. No issues with the upper at all. No signs of holes. No, it's even clean to a certain extent. I think it's running in all the snow this past winter. So the upper is good. Now the midsole is unique on the Speed Cross Five. It's a pretty, a fairly stiff shoe. It's got a little bit of flexibility through the toe box. But really on the outsole, I'm just now at 221, starting to see a little bit of wear and tear through the lugs. And I believe these lugs, oh, I'll have to double check. I think they're either six millimeter lug depth. I don't think they're eight. I think they're six millimeter lug depth. So they're tall. They're big and they're great for the mud, great for the snow. They prove to be really effective this past winter in the snow. So overall, I am incredibly pleased. And I believe the Gore-Tex, the GTX version of the Speed Cross Five is coming out in October of 2019. Getting ready, I guess for the, I don't know, the rainy season. I don't quite understand why they're waiting until then. But anyway, so that's the Gore-Tex version of this guy will be coming out. I'm so pleased. Be on pleased. And it's a little, it's a little aggressive. Okay. This is not a buffed out trail type of running shoe, trail shoe. This is an aggressive rocks, roots, mud type of trail shoe. And I like the 10 millimeter drop because it basically, it helps a little bit on those steep uphill sections when, so your heel basically is lifted off just a little bit, so you're not dropping all the way down to the ground on every single foot strike through your gait cycle. So boom, Speed Cross Five is number one that is working for me in 2019. And number two, hold on, let me take it off my foot. That's right. It's the new balance beacon. It continues to thrive and strive. It's getting dirty. It's starting to, it's starting to show some wear and tear. I will say that. And let me get you the mileage. So believe it or not, I'm actually not even at 100 miles yet, just under 96 miles in the shoe. But, because why? Because usually I use this shoe for easy recovery days. But today I was like, you know what? My legs are tired. I want a little more cushion. Let's try it for 10 miles. And sure enough, it did well. I was a little surprised. Like it's a neutral shoe, road shoe, loosey-goosey, very flexible. But man, as far as recovery goes, like I'm tempted to try it once after the Cleveland Marathon in a long run. I've heard some people have raced a marathon in the new balance beacon. I wouldn't race a marathon, but for a long run, I would, I don't know, I might do it after Cleveland. We will see. So, so far, so good. And I should mention, so it's a six millimeter drop. Let me get you the weight. So it is 7.4 ounces, 210 grams. Pretty lightweight for a, I don't know if I'd put it in the daily trainer category, but I would put, for me, again, I'm sticking it more in the easy day shoe, an easy day shoe. But man, it did feel good at 10 miles today. Okay, for durability, I am starting to see some wear and tear after just 96 miles through this outsole. Now it's this exposed, fresh foam, so it's not protected by any rubber. So I'm seeing it mostly. So I'm a four foot striker, basically right below my toes, especially on the outside of the outsole. And on this upper, it's a true knit upper. Like it's really, really a knit upper if I've ever seen one. And these eyelids are starting to break down a little bit where I could foresee kind of tearing out an eyelid. And once that happens, you're kind of, that's not good. Like it's hard to use a shoe if you're, if an eyelid breaks down. And so basically one last point as I continue to run high volume in this training block, I am just, my legs are barking at me and telling me I gotta take care of them. I need a little more cushion. So that's why I wore the beacons today. And I actually tossed in this green Spenco as I already talked about. Oh, so the combination of the Beacon and the Spenco today, like I got done with a run and I was rejoicing. I was like, my legs didn't hurt at all. I wasn't like feeling like I overdid it today. I just felt like I was getting ready for tomorrow and then the next day, the big workout on Monday really, really well. So all right, new balanced Beacon 2019 running shoe is really working for me. One last point, the Beacon II I heard is coming out in July, maybe even July 1st. I'm tempted to buy another Beacon before then because I love it so much, but I might wait. I don't know what I'm gonna do yet. I might wait for the Beacon II to come out. All right, moving on to the last one. Here we go. This one is in second place as far as mileage goes. And again, you're probably not gonna be surprised. 196 miles in the Nike Pegasus 35 Turbo. It's hard to argue against the ride in the Turbo, the Zoom X foam through the midsole. No, really no issues through the upper as far as durability is concerned and we're almost at 200 miles. The outsole, just a little bit again, through the forefoot, just starting to see a little bit of wear and tear through that outsole. Nothing, like I still has life in it. I would suspect it could go another 200 miles based on looking at this outsole. And so what do I use this shoe for? The Pegasus 35 Turbo, more upbeat, up tempo runs. I did use it for a long run last week, 22 miles because I'm kind of, well, the Vemero 14 is not working for me for a long run in 2019. So the Pegasus 35 Turbo has kind of, it has had to pick up the slack for the Vemero 14. But I did try a, basically a threshold run. So I was striving for five, 20 pace and I did not like the Turbo at a fast, fast pace. I just didn't feel, it felt too mushy, a little too loosey-goosey through the upper. And I didn't have, but for a long run, middle distance run, and even to a certain extent, a tempo run, I think the Turbo is really, really treating, it's just treating me nice. And again, after a middle distance or long run, my legs don't feel completely shot. It's starkly different than let's say the Audios 4 or even to a certain extent, the Hoka Carbon Rocket, the Hoka Carbon Rocket as far as how my legs feel after a long run or a middle distance run. So all right, some specs real quick, 10 millimeter drop. I believe it's a 22 millimeter stack height in the heel, 12 in the four foot. Let me get you the weight, 7.3 ounces, 207 grams. And I apologize, I actually forgot that I had the Spenco in the New Balance Beacon when I just weighed it. So it's probably, it's just a little teeny, tiny bit lighter than what I told you. But for the Turbo, again, it's treating me really nice. And the question becomes for me, will the Turbo be the long run shoe? And like for me, long runs, like I don't go, I like to keep them an honest pace, not a hard pace, but an honest pace. So it'll be interesting to see if the Turbo is the summer 2019 long run shoe, middle distance shoe. I'm kind of open actually at this point. After Cleveland, after May 19th, I'm gonna be kind of open to exploring new shoes again, leading into a peak race. I guess a little tip of the day, I don't like to change up shoes too much. If something's working, stick with it until you get through that peak race. So we're actually, when you're watching this on Sunday, we're exactly four weeks out from the marathon. So anyway, there you go. We got the Solomon Speed Cross Five, the New Balance Beacon, and the Nike Pegasus 35 Turbo. All three of these shoes are really, really working for me in 2019. I love them all, they all serve different purposes, but they're just treating me real, real well. All right, question of the day. What is your favorite running shoe in 2019 thus far? All right, what are you grabbing for the most? That's another way to think about it. If you struggle answering that question, are you like, okay, I'm lean, I grab for this one out of the closet more than any other. That probably means it's your favorite. All right, seek beauty, work hard, and love each other. Thanks for being.