 Oh, good morning YouTube family. How you doing? Good morning. All right. Here's the deal It's a busy day crazy day. It's Friday and if you've been watching the vlog a long time You know that my oldest son is in kindergarten, so he's graduating today from kindergarten So we're zipping out the door here in a few minutes to go to that and so but before that I'm putting away shoes from yesterday's running warehouse. All if you are intrigued by Trail racing shoes you should go watch it because I talk about these new Oh my goodness Solomon s lab since seven sgs in addition I'm packing today to go film the dirty 3050 K tomorrow This is the race where I crashed and burned at the finish line last a year ago. It's crazy And so anyway, I can't obviously race this year But I'm gonna go cheer and film and have a good old time at the dirty 3050 K So anyway, hope you're doing well. Oh, and we're gonna talk about the elite runners later today So oh man, all right, let's see see if we can find a spot for these. Oh good. Okay By the way, just thanks for being you and just being here and watching every day or at least You know, I know you can't watch every day sometimes But once a week twice a month, whatever it is like I just appreciate you taking the time to click on that thumbnail and Have a little listen as to what I have to say. It's crazy So appreciate you taking your take because I know your time is valuable. They're very valuable. All right. Let's do this It's so cool. I'm starting to get different Iterations back-to-back select the speed cross for the speed cross five someday the speed cross six So I'm not gonna throw away or give away a lot of running shoes in the future Unless I just really don't need them or don't like them and I I don't plan to analyze them in the future But imagine having the the Solomon s-lab since six seven some day the eight nine ten And maybe even I can find on eBay like the five and the four anyway I'd say it's really gonna be important for Analyzing these shoes down the road. Anyway, now I'm just geeking out. All right We're back from graduation. Oh, it's so fun to see the kindergartners just beaming with pride and joy And like they're just they're just trying to figure out the world all so anyway proud of you Joseph I love you great job crushing your kindergarten year of school. It's just the beginning dream big, right? That's my message to all the kindergartners out there and especially Joseph dream big never stop dreaming. All right, folks I got to keep this vlog a little shorter because I'm waking up at 4 a.m Tomorrow yes to go film another race and you can probably hear my voice. I'm a little I don't know if it's allergies or head cold Just took some ibuprofen and that seems to be helping but anyways, we're gonna keep this a little shorter and Here we go. Are you ready for this? Look at this? Oh my goodness So I'm not saying this was the most legal purchase I ever made but hold on where is it? Let me just find them here. I think it's in the back Basically, this is a case with a bunch of of my DVDs You can see the Hobbit Casino Royale catch me if you can and okay But let's go to the back where the good stuff is here. We go. Oh, actually someday. I will show you this This is a a DVD obviously that I filmed a little movie that I filmed for the CU cross-country team in 2006 when we won the NCAA championship I have never shown you footage from this so I will show this to you someday today is not that day instead We're going way further back into the archive. That is right. Oh my gosh There's so many can you tell I've been I've been making videos and films for a long since I was in middle school It's just it's destiny, right? You just got to find that passion in this world and run Toward it with all your vigor no matter the obstacles or challenges like an injury that might get in your way All right, so here we go in the back one second. I'm almost there. Ah, there we go Here are some of them. So basically I purchased this is before oh hold on So I purchased in 2004 when I was a senior in high school going into call it my freshman year of college eBay was around but guess what was not around YouTube. That's right YouTube launched in 05 okay, 2005 in 2004 I bought like a dozen DVDs off of eBay not shit. I'm not saying it was legal, but I bought them and basically these are it's old Archive footage. I think it was I'm just gonna say it. I think it was somebody in the UK and they shipped the DVDs over to me I don't remember exactly how much I paid, but I think it was well over $150 so look at this Steve pre-fontaine Jim Jim Ryan. So this is footage Steve Cram. Oh my goodness. It gets better hold on So this is old race footage and this is like I'm still a geek when it comes to racing and running But this is how I kind of taught myself about the old-school elite runners out there and heck Why not? I'm just gonna throw it out there right now the question of the day said co Jim Ryan Said I woulda o vet. Oh my goodness, and then the super milers anyway question of the day um Who is your? Favorite old-school Long-distance runner so anything any any racer above 1500 meters and let's put the cap at 19 Let's say 1985 if you want to go up to 1990. That's okay, too But let's try and keep it like before 1985. I was born in 1985. That's why that number popped in my head Anyone before then who's your favorite elite distance runner of this the 50s the 60s You can go even further back if you want, but the 50s 60s 70s 80s That would be cool to hear and okay. Let's jump in I'm gonna throw some DVDs into this computer see if we can't watch it's just some of this old-school footage Give you a little commentary if you will. Oh, man Kicking it off with pre kicking it off with pre here. We go Yes, I think it's gonna work. Look how old-school this is. I love it. I love it. We got the NCAA mile We got the NCAA cross-country championships the Olympic the 1972 5000 meters in the Olympics This is amazing. I don't think there's any audio There he is pre finish in the cross-country championships Again, I have no clue how I got a hold of this footage, but I've got it and man All right, so these DVDs are so old and I don't know exactly what the file format is The computer's having a tough time at reading the files. So I have a DVD player So we will fire these up again very soon watch some of these old-school races The 1980 Olympics with Sebco Gosh all of these great just great historical running races with great runners And I don't know if I had to choose one I would I would put Jim Ryan. I got to do a little more research and thinking but Jim Ryan Just breaking four minutes the first American that was pretty special back in the 60s. So he and I grew up Watching a documentary on Jim Ryan. So he's kind of got a close connection to my running heart So but I'll be curious to hear your Answers to the question of the day and if you were born after 1995 who knows maybe you cannot answer this question of the day and that's okay, too This is we're talking old-school runners can't wait to hear your answers and key word. I almost forgot. Um, eBay. That's right. eBay. Thank you eBay anyway Can't believe I got these and now YouTube. Oh my goodness. It's just crazy. It's crazy. All right seek beauty work hard Come back now come back now