 so as you know i said yes i am going to attempt one more time not two one more time i love you hi you look so good i think she's got little michael with her papa's home papa's home no more travel no more travel too much you're crazy look at that everyone do you know what this is the boys made uh stars w fly the w i put it up so i put it upside down and we're back everyone oh my goodness believe it or not true love and i we're actually home bodies we love being in our home 99.9 percent of the time we just love being at home with the kids uh this past five weeks has been incredible but tiring i didn't sleep last night hence the nespresso i'm drinking right now uh just trying to stay awake the rest of the day so i can sleep tonight oh my good what a journey we have been on and we've got a few items to call a little admin since we're back in the studio by the way a lot of new subscribe after a trip like argentina or uh amsterdam or new york there's always a uh a rush of subscribers welcome uh but if you're new you might be a little confused about what i'm doing standing out here this is actually technically my shed but it's filled with running shoes so this is where i film a lot of uh the daily vlog where we talk about training and races and uh all sorts of stuff and running shoe reviews so the nickname for the shed is now the shudio so this is where i record running shoe reviews in the studio here in the shudio shoe shoe shudio shoe shudio speaking of running shoes look what arrived when i was gone from running warehouse there it is let's open these up and yes i haven't forgotten about running shoe reviews it's just been it's just been insane oh also this is the last day of so i'm sorry about the audio it just doesn't sound it drives me crazy but i've ordered some new battery packs and uh for the lavalier so the audio will be back to normal tomorrow but uh it just you know this is part of part of the adventure is breaking uh video equipment along the journey so here we go what shoes do we have here oh my goodness oh my goodness are you ready for this this is uh this is a little bit of a surprise everyone again um for everyone that's new like i i run in all sorts of shoes i run in mizuno and hoka and soccany and solemn and innovate and on there it is in the house on is next oh yeah the next what is it what is it all the next on cloud flow there it is oh my my so listen on is a unique company out of switzerland i'll just say unique a very very different midsole and i will get you my first impressions next week after i am back from my running break so just so you know i am currently i am currently not running it's amazing um it's just uh and we'll talk about the transition back to training later this week but i'm on a break so my first impressions of this shoe will be happening next week oh interesting color it's kind of neat it's like an earth tone brown red very cool okay i'll put that there and yes a couple more points is that i have not forgotten about nikey either so it just i was planning to talk about nikey last week um basically on my way to argentina or in argentina it got too insane because i didn't have wi-fi in argentina like it was really really hard to upload the vlog every single day in argentina i actually ended up uploading at the local chamber of commerce they had the fastest internet in town it was crazy so anyway i have not forgotten about the topic of nikey and what's happening there um this week yeah now that i'm home oh this week i promise this week i'm not gonna say which day but uh this week we will talk about nikey okay diving into the olympic trials qualifier topic and pursuit and dream um again i'm trying to track down a two hour and 19 minute marathon before the end of january 2020 so that i can race in the olympic trials qualifying race in atlanta in late february um i guess it's like mid yeah january 19th is the last day so i have been mulling and thinking and uh reflecting on 2019 which has been an amazing year on youtube here uh in the running world but um it hasn't gone necessarily as planned but when does life go exactly as planned right when does a training block go as exactly as planned when does you know i gotta do better at this but when does a race plan unfold as exactly like you hope sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't and you just keep trying and being persistent so as you know i said yes i am going to attempt one more time not to one more time at an olympic trials qualifier but i'm an ultra runner who is transitioning back from 50 k's 50 milers even an attempted hundred mile transitioning back in distance to the marathon so i'm i still am putting myself in the rookie camp with respect to marathon training and racing um a lot a lot of people email me and say hey would you consider coaching me or writing me a marathon training plan and listen i have a lot of thoughts and ideas and i've listened to a lot of great great coaches uh who have coached olympians i was coached by uh an incredible coach in college mark wetmore so i've i've absorbed a lot of wisdom over the years 20 plus years are running but i would not want to be i would not feel comfortable being a coach right now or writing even frankly even writing like marathon training plans for someone until uh now i feel much better compared to a month ago before amsterdam like i gained so much wisdom from amsterdam in new york but um i'm still not quite there where i'm like oh yeah okay these are the workouts these are the this is the amount of volume uh you should be running in your marathon training like i've got a lot of thoughts but i'm just not nailed it i haven't nailed it down yet therefore i asked this question of the day last week seeking all of your wisdom i'll just say c i n houston and what distance is okay half full now i get it 104 for a half marathon is 452 a mile what so the answers to that question of the day down in the comments rocked my world i in the reason i asked it because i seriously was trying to seek out wisdom from all of you from especially the veterans out there who are you know really really experienced marathon runners um and wrote specifically road marathon runners and i read them i i think i got through all of them there's a lot of comments uh but from all of that in processing and i knew it would take me at least five days maybe a week and sure enough it took over a week to really nail down okay what is going to be my best chance to arrive at the starting line in atlanta for the olympic trials in the marathon and after reading after processing talking to true love right remember we've talked about how the family in my opinion if you know and it not everyone i realize not everyone's married or has a family but your your close friends your um your teammates your uh your local running club like they they might be able to shed some really good insights into big decisions with respect to what races you in fact for example my brother and i we're talking right now about our 2020 racing season and just bouncing ideas off each other so anyway true love and i we've been chit chatting and talking and at the end of the day i have decided along with true love that my last attempt at olympic and remember it's the half marathon or the marathon c i m so the california international marathon or houston that's basically the only options left there's other options but those are the two fast races with great competition and um the 106 53 in amsterdam really got me thinking about my speed and maybe i could track down a 104 half so you're probably ready like set spit it out all right here it comes i've decided that the houston marathon will be my light yes yes yes oh and i get it three marathons in four to five months is you don't do that don't do that this is a unique situation um i decided that my last you guys i think you guys probably think i'm crazy my last half marathon on the roads was eight or nine years ago i don't have the experience right now to go out and race 452 a mile even if i like i don't even know if i can get to that speed i think i'm i'm gonna just so you know in 2020 i am gonna race one half marathon maybe two but at least one on the roads at sea level so that's coming i'm coming for you 452s but in the next eight weeks nine weeks i just know that um developing that type of speed it's not enough time it's not enough time so therefore houston it is get out your iphones get out your go pros uh not only am i doing it but i'm actually in like i i got it i got the thumbs up from the race and so i'm in here we come uh i should know the date problem i think it's january 19th 2020 so i'm excited we'll definitely do a group run down in houston and with that said i'm actually excited and by the way i did not run today in these just just so you know and with and with that said um and i know the 2019 racing season is not uh over i'm done racing in 2019 i know it's not done for everybody uh but i just have to ask question of the day has your 2019 rate and think like if you're in high school or maybe yeah but think back to track indoor like it's january and february it feels like a long time ago for me but like think all the way back to january all the way up to the present we're almost in december has your 2019 racing season um unfolded as you expected or is it thrown you some curveballs i know it's throwing me some more curveballs and fastballs so uh that's the question of the day thanks for hitting it up thanks for listening to that and that is my final decision on uh one more attempt at an olympic trials qualifier again shout out to all the new subscribers from argentina and so good to meet all of you down there um this is a daily running vlog where we have a good time and uh i gotta go to bed i gotta go to bed so that said i'm gonna toss it back to uh amsterdam and new york race blogs on the right and the left if you haven't seen those from the last five weeks uh pretty exciting marathon races there all right everyone seek beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow