 It's good to be home, you too, family. Oh, I love you, Amsterdam, New York, Argentina, but there's no place like home. That was an unusual four to five weeks for me, just so you know. I've never done that in my entire life where I travel back to back to back like that. So it's good to be home, which means I can now put a little bit of time into strategizing as I talked to you yesterday about the Houston case you haven't heard, my next race, January 19th, 2020 in Houston, Texas, the good old lone star state. I'm gonna be making my last attempt at a Olympic trials qualifier 219 and below in the Houston marathon. Oh, it's just, it's unbelievable. But this week, I guess to give you a little layout of what's happening this week on the channel, obviously I'm not running until later in the week. I'm not racing, of course. And so the filming is gonna be a little different, maybe not quite as exciting as chasing down Hayden Hawks and Jim Walmsley in the mountains of Argentina, but we'll still spice it up as much as I possibly can despite taking a down week in the running department. But today, because I'm back in the Rocky Mountains, you better believe it, I'm gonna zip up real quick to scout out some new training grounds. That's right. And that's gonna connect to the question of the day here in a minute, but I'm basically honing in and I might as well tell you right now as I'm sitting at a stoplight, when Mark Wetmore, my former coach at the University of Colorado, he's originally from New Jersey. In the early 90s, he moved from New Jersey out here to Colorado and ended up in Boulder. And basically how Mark found places to run back in the day. You pull out a physical map for all you millennials. I guess I'm a millennial. All you Gen Xers out there, that's right. A paper map, something not on your phone. You pull it out and what Mark would do is he would look for the, basically the windiest road on the map and he would go drive to that road and see if it was dirt. And if it was dirt and it was windy and it was, you know, at least 15 to 20 miles long, he would scout out and see, okay, can this dirt road be a training ground for my teams? And so I've kind of adopted that a little bit in my training and figuring out where I should train. So basically like I have, from my house to Boulder, it's about an hour 20, sorry, an hour 15 to Boulder in traffic and then it's another 30 minutes up to the mountains. Therefore, I'm gonna go somewhere closer to my house that I can use dirt roads for training for the Houston Marathon. Anyway, that's what I'm up to today, driving out there and let's rock and roll. Oh, good to be home. Love you all, but it's good to be home. Pulling off the highway at Pine Junction for all the locals. You might know where this is at on Highway 285. And now I'm gonna pull over here in a second, make sure I still have cell service. This is, you know, these are the mountains up here. It's just a slower pace of life, people enjoying living out in solitude and just a little country store on the side of the road. So now I'm gonna pull out my map on my phone, not a paper map, and see if I can't track down these dirt roads. Let me just see, here we go, I'll just pull over right here. I was hoping to run on that dirt road way down there and I just wasn't sure. This is why you come research and figure it out ahead of time. That was gonna be my location to start right there. Oh well, we'll keep looking, darn. Well, maybe I could make friends with the local ranchers and see if I couldn't use, cause I'm not doing hunting or fishing, I'm just running, just running, right everybody? All right, so we made it to Foxton, Colorado. Basically a ghost town up here. There's buildings, but they look, many of them look abandoned. There might be a few people still living up here. And it's just great, no dirt roads yet. This road I'm on now would have been perfect, but that's water under the bridge, it is paved, and question of the day. In your training, do you seek out specific locations depending on what type of race you're getting ready for? And have you ever done this? Is this something that is of interest to you? Sorry, I'm just looking here at another abandoned, it looks like. So anyway, that's the question of the day, like do you seek out places to train that are specific for your given event? For example, there might be a track across town that is a Mondo track versus a dirt track. Like I had a dirt track growing up where I grew up in Dunavista, or maybe you're looking for a mountain that has a specific amount of vertical. So anyway, I hope that makes sense. Wow, there's an old fireplace that is just sitting there. Okay, all right, everyone, onward and upward, back to Denver, it doesn't look like this is gonna work out for training, but that is okay. This is why we look, this is why we research onward. All right, you know how much I love running everybody, but I must say, having an extra hour or two or three every single day this week to get organized, caught up on life, and yes, organizing the studio, it is nice. Oh, I'm just obviously a little behind here with respect to boxes and organization and the studio. I might ask a question of the day, part two, seeking your input. So let's hop in here and figure out what we can do to just spice it up a little bit. You're gonna have to look at this as much as I am. So let's do a question of the day, part two. Do you have any ideas for decorating in the studio and lighting in the studio? I've got some pretty good lights. There's one right here, one right there, one over there. But I've got some more ideas. And again, it probably is gonna take time, but because I'm not running this week, I think we can spice it up, make it look better, maybe not quite as kind of cluttered. I'll just put it that way. I'm looking at the boxes right now, which I'm actually gonna take off the wall and just start fresh so that we're not feeling too overwhelmed in here. Oh my goodness, this is amazing, it's amazing. Okay, everyone, we got the boxes off the walls, looking much better, crisp. I'm probably gonna throw some fresh paint up here and keep in mind we're looking at, we're looking at like five feet by eight feet. So there's not much room in here, but again, I'm gonna read all your ideas down in the comments. Just all the interior designers out there, all the creative people, it's time to shine down below. Okay, and even over here on this wall, I'll move the camera so you can see it. It's like, these are the shoes, I really like having these shoes there because I can just grab them sometimes when I'm talking here and I'm like, oh, there's an Adidas, oh, there's a Mizuno and I just can talk, oh, there's the Nike Pegasus 36, boom. So anyway, rocking and rolling. So we actually have a surprise for ya. No pressure, no pressure. Let me go grab it, actually boys, come here. This arrived just a few hours late after we left for New York City. And so, bring it out. So a vlog fan brought this out or made this for you. Oh, oh, Tanana. Yeah, so a vlog fan made that. Yeah, Michael, what did Michael say? Michael, yay! Yay! Yay! Yeah. Did they hear me shouting or something? Here, you're right. So they wanted you to wear this. Oh, I am. They wanted you to wear this out there at the marathon. Hugh Russell, thank you, Russell. Russell, Russell, Russell, Russell, Russell. Russell made it. Breakfast burrito, Russell? No, different Russell. Oh, I didn't know, I didn't know about me. Cause he watches the vlog. He watches the vlog, so everyone knows about you. You're the hero. One more thing, Mom, could you turn around so we can see the back? Okay. Oh, what does it say there? Butter my bread, go, Seth. So you all know the story now behind Butter My Bread. So there you go. Good job, Russell. Good job. So, Russell, you must have told Russell that. Yes. There it is, all right. Ford versus Ferrari, Matt Damon, Christian Bale. Christian Bale, in my humble opinion, he nails it almost every time with his acting, he just really enters into that character so, so well. And if you like historical dramas, I would highly recommend going to see Ford versus Ferrari, or if you just like some good automobile racing. All right, everyone, wrapping up the vlog, calling it a day, shout out again to Slovenia. I appreciate it. I hope you can find your roads out there. It's preferably dirt roads, wherever you are around the world, and that's that. I've tried to, there's probably, oh yeah. Thank you for helping with the shooty-o. I will be reading all the comments on today's vlog, writing them down, and then just thinking, how can I make this happen sooner rather than later, just to spice it up a little bit outside. All right, there you go, everyone. We're gonna toss it back to, we're gonna toss it back to actually, about six months ago, when I really started to update the shooty-o on the right, and then on the left, we'll throw it back to an old livestream in the shooty-o, all right, so yes, livestreaming will be returning sooner rather than later. See, beauty, work hard, and love each other. See you tomorrow.