 motivation to keep training through adversity. Failure will happen to you as a runner. I have experienced so much failure, perceived failure in my mind, but in retrospect, looking back over years and years of challenges, both on and off the track, the cross-country course, in the rehab room, in the doctor's office, wherever, heck, in the classroom. You know, I was not a straight A student in college or in high school even, but we rise up. Just like today, you might be watching this at 5 a.m. mountain time when this daily vlog publishes every single day, and the day rises again. The day starts again. We're able to pick ourselves back up no matter how many perceived failures we may have encountered within our previous training block or within the previous two to three years of training. If you have a long history of injuries like, frankly, I kind of do. And so through this motivation, vlog, to keep training, keep running, keep lifting, keep stretching, keep getting in the pool for that cross-training, through this vlog, I simply want to communicate especially to the young folks out there, because I know the veterans that are watching this channel, forgot that was on, I know the veterans watching this channel have failed. I know you have, because guess what? That's part of being a human being on this earth, right? We are bound, we are destined to fail, frankly, in many different ways, whether little or big. But through this adversity in life and yes, in training, it's an opportunity not to fall backward, to fall forward. If you trip, if you increase your intensity too quickly and you get injured, it's an opportunity to learn from that failure, that perceived failure in your mind in the moment, to fall forward, to learn from the mistake and to pick yourself up and to get going again. And because we are endurance athletes, every perceived failed training block where you end up not hitting a PR or injured or maybe you don't make the varsity team so you can't run at the state meet, every failed perceived failure in endurance sports is simply a bank deposit into your long-term aerobic development. It's amazing and it's compound interest. The more consistent, and we talked about this yesterday, the more consistent we are in our aerobic development, the more benefit we're going to get over the long haul because we are runners. It's amazing. So like in my training block right now, this injury is, it was in the moment definitely for that, you know, 12 hour morning period right after I had to put myself on crutches. I remembered, wait a minute, I just knocked out an incredible training block and this is simply a bank deposit into long-term aerobic development. Oh, gosh, we cannot forget this. And everyone watching this daily vlog, I know you have the guts to chase down your dreams, but do you have the guts to fail because I'm telling you more often, and again, you don't know, you don't always want to fail. That's not good. That means your goals or your dreams maybe are not rooted in reality. So it's a balance. It's walking that line as I'm always talking about, but I'm telling you use failure as fuel to chase down that next little failure because little failures lead to big successes long term. And that's the beauty of this sport that we do. It's insane. And through these failures, don't be disheartened by other people's opinions. People will judge you. They will judge you for wearing short shorts. I know I get it all the time. They will judge you for waking up at 4.30 in the morning to go out and run in freezing temperatures and everyone else is in their warm beds asleep. Don't be afraid of other people's opinions. I learned that a long time ago. We runners, we are weird. We are strange. We do things that other people don't like to do. We embrace the pain. And I'm just keep embracing it. Keep embracing those strange looks on those long runs. Push yourself to points of physical pain that others might look down upon. Now, I'm not saying don't listen to wisdom from your parents or wisdom from an elder or coach or what have you, but embrace those weird looks in those short shorts. I know you get those weird looks too. I get them all the time. Don't be afraid to challenge yourself so much that other people are going to say, wait a minute, whoa, what are you doing running at 4.30 a.m. in negative 10 degree weather? If you want to reach goals, you're going to have to go outside of your comfort zone and frankly, the perceived comfort zone of many other people. My brother in high school, man, he trained so hard and ended up running I think 905 at Arcadia, was 10th at Foot Locker. I mean, people looked at him training in high school like he was a crazy man. He would train in the morning, I don't know, I'm guessing like 5.30, 6 a.m. freezing temperatures at 8,000 feet above sea level. He trained all winter and then after school, what did he do? He went to basketball practice. That's right. He was training twice a day and sure enough, it paid off for him. So I'm telling you, just embrace the strange looks, the weird thoughts, like people, they're just, they don't understand what us runners are fueled by and thankfully, we have found something as runners that hopefully we can share with others and invite them into this crazy sport that is painful, is awkward at times, meaning we're doing weird things. Like it's just, it's weird, people look at you weird but is the most rewarding sport out there on the planet. I'm just gonna call it, I'm just gonna call it right now. So keyword, failure. Don't be afraid to fail and question of the day, how have you failed and how have you overcome that failure in your training, in your racing and frankly, heck, if you wanted to open it up to life in general, that's okay too. Thank you for watching. I know this is a little bit of a harder topic but I think it's good to again, embrace the failure, don't always fail but use that failure as fuel for the future. All right, that's it folks. Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh a little bit of failure, a little bit, a little bit, I didn't race Cleveland, okay, I didn't race it. That's a little bit of a failure, that was a peak race but I'm learning and I'm on the way back. I'm on the way back. See beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.