 Oh, away we go. Oh, away we go. Everybody, here we go. Back in the studio, and thank you for your patience with my injury, because I realize the blogs are not as exciting right now, but we're making it through. I'll get you an update on the knee in one second. And thank you for your patience with the studio. It's obviously a little boring in here right now, but things are moving. In fact, another item arrived today. I'm just going to say, I'll just tell you, these are going to be shelves that go in this corner here. So anyway, we are pressing ahead in a lot of different ways, despite like this injury, this runner's knee, you know, and I'm not done with it, but I'll just give you the update now, five days in a row now of no pain. And back when I was in college at the University of Colorado, if I'm remembering correctly, the doctors and trainers, if I remember correctly, they said that if we had three or four days of absolutely no pain, we could begin to introduce jogging back into the training schedule. So I'm excited. If I remember, I think that was the number three or four days. So now this is day five of no pain. So I went to the gym, did my workout, did my pistol squats, did everything, the hip exercises, lunges, high knees, quick feet, all that stuff, and it's feeling amazing. So and I'm going to, I think next week sometime, I'm going to run you through every single step that I took over the past because I haven't filmed everything. I haven't communicated everything in the last two and a half weeks, but I want to get it all into one video so that down the road, if anybody else is suffering from runner's knee, I can send them that vlog. All right. So here we go. Talking about course records. And again, I realize, did I already mention this, the vlogs right now, we're just getting through. Back into the running sooner rather than later. So this topic of course records is a little holdover until I can start running again. But I think it's an amazing topic. I love course records. I just, there's, I don't know, am I crazy? Do you love course records? That's not the question of the day, but like, what do you think about course records? I just think they're fascinating, especially course records that are, so what is a course record? You can probably guess what it is, but it's, in my opinion, the best course records are the courses. In fact, that's actually an interesting little point. But I think a legitimate course record has to be on a course that is unchanged. Quick side story, my 5K cross-country course in high school, it was fat, you know, there was course records on it. But I went back to Budivista last summer and they put a baseball field right through the old cross-country course. And I did not know that. And when I was jogging around and I stumbled across that reality, I was devastated. I was completely, I didn't have the course record, but I don't even know. I think it was Michael Whitler, if I remember correctly, but I, it blew my mind that they put a baseball field right where the old cross-country course was and it broke my heart. So course records, I think they're amazing. I think they inspire us to dig deep, to fight hard. And it could be, I think another way to look at this is age group course records. I think that's also amazing, okay? So if you're in, if you're in the 55 to 60 range, and of course men and women, course records for men and women, but that 55 to 60 or 65 to 70, or like, that's a really cool, if a race director is really on his or her A game, they can track all these course records over time. So for example, for me, I really love old school course records. So course records, they go back decades and decades and decades, all the way back to like the, you know, 80s at least, 70s preferably. And if it's back to the 60s, that's even better. Like I'm trying to think, well, obviously like the Boston Marathon, but even being able to compare the K.L.A. slash Kipchogi to Gebra Salasi slash Turgat on the same marathon courses around the world, just to see how their time stack up. And to see how frankly, how much faster times have become just in the last, really the last eight to 10 years, like really much, like a lot faster. And then, and then that gets into the question of different training techniques, different talent levels, but even different technologies, yes, in the racing shoes. So I think it, I think it all, all of those little factors add up to course records getting faster and faster. And sorry, I don't have all the ladies course records memorized. I should do better. I will do better moving forward. All right, so here we go. Question of the day. Put on your thinking caps. I love this, I love this kind of stuff. And go down to the comments and just educate yourself because I guarantee there's going to be some amazing course records that are shared down below that we have never even heard of or yeah, that we have never heard of. So course records, whether it's cross country, marathons, mountain running, whatever the case may be, okay. So what is a course record that impresses you the most? That's part one, part two. Men are women. That's part one. Part two is what is a course record that you think is going to stand and not be broken for decades and decades to come, okay? I cannot wait. Just blow our minds down below. And if you can, don't link because a lot of, don't link to the results down in the comments because YouTube will flag that as spam and they don't allow those comments to be posted. So don't link, just put the source, just type out the source where you're finding these course records but don't link to them. And then, okay, so here we go. The course record that impresses me the most, no doubt, is the Pyke Speak Marathon slash Ascent because it's in my backyard. I grew up watching this runner set the course record. I didn't see him actually set the course record but I saw him race this course many times. Why? Because I was in elementary school and middle school cheering on my dad, race the Pyke Speak Marathon, race the Pyke Speak Ascent. And so I was able to witness with my own two eyes this gentleman, Matt Carpenter, run a three, I have it written down, 316.39 for the Pyke Speak Marathon and a Ascent record of 20106. Why does that course record impress me the most is because I know how hard that is. In fact, this past year when I was racing Pyke Speak 2019, I was about a mile in a quarter approximately from the top and at 201, I looked up to see how far away I would have been from Matt running. So I finished this year in 212 and 212, like 50 around there and so Matt ran 20106. So about 11 minutes faster to the top but here's the kicker and many of you already know this. He set the Ascent course record so to the top of the mountain in a marathon race. How crazy is that? So the year he ran 316.39 for the marathon, so 13 miles up, 7,600 feet of vertical and then back down 7,600 feet of vertical, he did that and at this in the same race ran two, so he must have been obviously feeling very, very good that day. So it was really interesting to look up the mountain and be like, OK, that's how far ahead Matt would be from me. It's just insane. It's an amazing course record and frankly, I think Killian gave it a good shot this year but I don't think he was in like, he had a race too. I don't think it was at the top of his priority list. I think if Killian would have been like training just for the Pyke Speak marathon and was fresh because he raced two weeks before in 2019, I think he would have come maybe like within five to seven minutes of it. I think he was like, I don't know, I think it was 15 to 20 minutes, but I'll have to put it on the screen right now. So he was a ways back, but I think that course record is going to stand for decades. Honestly, I just don't see anyone really coming even close to it. And you know, like Joe Gray, he's a great runner. He's run 208, I think, to the top. I'll try and find Joe's best time but that's still like six or seven minutes slower. Oh, it's just such a crazy course record. So that's my go-to, that's my answer. Love you all, blog's not done. We're going inside. Get a little cross training going on, if you know what I mean. All right, come on everybody. Look who I found up on the counter. Very interesting. There, buddy. Okay, that was a new buy at Costco. He's funny, found the crepes. Oh my goodness. He found the crepes. We love you all, signing off. I'm signing off and I found this guy as I turned the corner. So we're off to the Nuggets game and I can't wait to read your comments all about the course records down in the comments. Sound good? Tossing it back on the right to the PR blog from previously this week. And then on the left, we'll toss it back to the Pikes Peak marathon blog with Killian on the left. All right, seek beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.