 and good morning everyone from Amsterdam oh good news the vlog the vlog uploaded last night it uploaded no issues as I was resting I slept so well this is good news ah just you know not having to worry at all about that getting it up for you and okay just making my bed here and yes the more global running uniting in Amsterdam today you better believe it but real quick just want to give you a quick update on the weather some people are asking about that what's going to be happening here on Sunday so we just pull up the app let's see so Friday showers and wind that's today when you're watching this Saturday showers light rain early then remaining cloudy with showers in the afternoon high of 58 degrees Fahrenheit and then let me just make sure here Sunday it's lucky it says chance of afternoon showers highs in the upper 50s and lows in the upper 40s perfect so it looks like Sunday there might be rain in the evening but the race will be over by then so actually everyone I'll just pull it out here yes we're gonna we're gonna start honing in on the shoes today but you know my thesis on the four percent and the next percent and whether to wear which which one to wear given the weather so anyway okay let me just get this and then we're gonna start rolling here I always do I always destroy my bed when I'm sleeping in it just totally annihilated the comforter I don't know about you but I always sleep better if I make my bed life it's all made I always sleep better it's just I don't know it's always been that way let's go ladies and ladies and gentlemen let's go meet everyone did I already say this in the room I can't remember my legs are starting to feel real good I woke up this morning and they just feel great so they're starting to come around really react to that taper okay we're almost there I see him I see him this is amazing oh my goodness look at you guys how you doing good to see everyone Paul Paul good to meet you this is awesome thanks for coming how's it going Camille good to meet you Zotan good where are you both from oh that side is amazing pretty cool just to get something special I love it this is great okay oh my goodness so you are you are you're fit you're in shape good yeah it's a rarely am I am I not on time right usually it publishes on time almost done thank goodness absolutely brilliant everyone just brilliant thank you shout out to everyone who came out for another demore global running run in Amsterdam today oh my goodness so first of all Paul coming through with some ribbon for my bottles appreciate that that's gonna help and then yes you better believe where this is gonna hang up once I get back home in the studio so cool so amazing I think we're starting a little bit of a new tradition here and I'm gonna have to start thinking about maybe a group run in Argentina for the world mountain running championships in November whatever I don't know let's do it like whatever city I'm able to travel to for these races let's keep meeting up like we did one last week in Vienna thanks for taking the time out of your day to come say hello get four easy miles in it was perfect through Vondelpark just cruising along and now I am I'm on a mission for lunch and then I have a little more thinking to do for the bottles so I'll keep you posted on what my plan is for that because it's Friday now I know you're watching this on Saturday but I need to deliver these bottles to the to the tent the place where I pick up my bib numbers by no later than 3 p.m. on Saturday and then what happens is they have the bottles overnight and then they take the bottles and distribute them's whatever their system is they distribute them around the course to all the tables along the way so my task today because I don't want to have to think about this tomorrow my task is to get all of these ready for the distribution on Saturday all right everyone ah so cool true love true love is gonna love this by the way ah nailed it just nailed it all right maybe I should hang it on the wall while we're here in the hotel hey all right I'm off to the grocery store a little known fact I don't know if I've ever shared this before but I actually really love and it connects to seeking beauty sorry if it's a little windy is that I really love classical art and just like looking at beautiful pieces of artwork and so it pains me that in that museum right down there the ricks I'm not saying it right but the ricks museum houses quite a few pieces of Rembrandt's art so I'm not I'm resisting going into the museum I should not be walking around for hours looking at artwork so guess what that means I'm just gonna have to come back to look at Rembrandt right down there it's gonna be epic someday but not on this trip I just gotta rest and go get food right now at a grocery store and this is gonna be the food that I'm gonna eat on the morning of the race which is tomorrow when you're watching this so I don't want to have to think about it on Saturday a real supermarket it's huge I've been looking for a big supermarket this entire trip like a big one this is awesome we don't have mist in the United States that is cool there's a lot going on in this store and I can't read the labels but we're making do we're making do feel good about that shopping situation oh man what a great grocery store all right on to the expo we're gonna run for it USA there we go thank you oh okay yeah yeah yeah yeah filming perfect four one gonna be good thank you putting putting you to work awesome looks good look okay where do I pick that up down there okay perfect yes I know looks good I'm a Rembrandt fan yeah yeah well uh he was he was excited for me that is awesome that's what I'm talking about thank you for volunteering shout out to all the volunteers fun just met Chico exactly where are you where are you from from Brazil from Brazil yeah he watches the vlog in Brazil and you just just landed yeah he was unable to come to the morning run uh in Bondo Park this morning but which I regretted so much but we meet here exactly amazing it's a great coincidence buying some clothes right and you're uh you're racing yeah yeah okay looking to to maybe cross the finish line in 255 wow yeah so break the break this re-hour mark good for you good for you well shout out to Chico thanks for watching the vlog appreciate it yeah yeah this is actually really smart I would not have thought of this you can check your bib so that it uh is so that the number you're assigned is connected to the correct uh your name so here we go let's scan it here okay there it is perfect that's good good good good by the way I just talked to the people at the information desk I can drop off the bottles tomorrow it's uh I thought it was 10 but it's eight bottles so it's which is it's fine so it's 5k 10k 15 20 25 30 all the way up to 40k and I drop them off tomorrow it was easy they were very helpful there at the front at the information desk so that is good news we will I will bring them back uh tomorrow on Saturday so all right let's keep rolling it's uh tempting to pull out the debit card and just start buying everything but I'm gonna resist I'm gonna resist all right I need to head back to the hotel I could stay in that expo all day and uh good to meet you Adrian right there at the end as well so that was fun I was actually my first uh big major marathon expo uh that I've ever been to so oh man it's like Disneyland in there but we will see you back at the hotel oh yeah there we go back at the hotel we are loaded up now loading up this mini fridge all right right Dio right Dio time for some afternoon tea don't mind if I do and yes it is time for the all important gear check you better believe it it's time to make sure everything made it over on the airplane I've already seen it here and there but I just now that I have the the bib number no messing around so there is that let me just pull out the singlet here the headband the shorts the socks and uh I'll double check the weather but again as I said this morning the weather is looking up for Sunday morning okay there it is and I know a lot of people want to buy this singlet not quite ready yet but uh yes we will be placing the seek beauty work card and love each other on a singlet uh what do you what do you say maybe by Christmas so it could be a little Christmas uh Christmas gift and then yes of course my racing sunglasses the Smith sunglasses that I love they made it over as well we'll put those there and that there and then oh my goodness oh my goodness so the rain appears not to be in the forecast but I'm still not counting out the next percent we shall see so here are the four percent right there I'm going to set that down there and then grab the socks over here uh-huh the racing socks right there and bada bing a bada boom now this is the fair weather kit okay genre shorts spelled j a n j i my Solomon socks Nike vapor fly four percent flyknits my rabbit singlet my halo headband uh I sweat and so I do not like sweat running into my eyes and therefore that is why I wear this and then my Smith sunglasses I already mentioned and of course I will be pinning my bid number on after I fill it out so I'm going to put my name date of birth on my emergency contact hopefully we don't need that and then I already double checked that this is going to work for the this is how you will track me through the app is by using that and let's just make sure I forgot to double check but sure enough they are on top of it four pins just like that so and with that okay got the four percent's on just feeling them out a little bit and it's getting very real here there it is there's the bib uh basically oh yeah and I'm going to start working on the bottles right now but uh because I got the bottles got the tape got the ribbon got the blue marker for marking 5k 10k 15k etc but I'm going to call it there uh no question of the day uh okay quick quick uh note tomorrow's vlog is actually going to publish early because I'm going to talk about my race day strategy for the Amsterdam marathon but I wanted to publish before the marathon actually happened so it's going to publish um let's say like I'm going to leave for the starting line a little before 8 a.m so it'll publish between like 6 30 a.m and 8 a.m local time here in and uh Amsterdam uh so that'll be for tomorrow's vlog and I'm going to talk about the strategy uh so anyway take note of that and then what else was I going to say um I think that's it okay question of the day no question of the day rather a thank you to all of you for coming on this journey really since the beginning of 2019 when I had this dream I've actually had this dream for a long time but to try and qualify for the Olympic trials and was cut cut short in the Cleveland marathon training block because of that uh stress reaction in my left foot so I was unable to race Cleveland was kind of dancing around trying to figure out okay what will be my next chance to race a marathon sure enough ended up in Amsterdam and uh we made it we made it together thanks for holding me accountable to the training thanks for inspiring me to train hard during these last really these last two months especially uh since pikes peak and uh so just want to say thank you onward and upward it's inspiring to continue to read your comments and to meet many of you here at meetups around the world and uh demore global running is going strong so I love you thank you and um yeah you'll see tomorrow's vlog publish early with a race day strategy and then once the race is over of course I will update you you're you're frankly going to know before I even know what my time is that's just how modern uh modern racing works at this point in the game all right tossing it back to a couple Amsterdam actually you know what we'll toss it back to an old Cleveland marathon vlog on the right uh training for the Cleveland marathon just to show you how long we've been on this journey and then on the left talking about Amsterdam training there on the left all right I love you guys see beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow