 This is my first time at a Cirque series race. It is a party at the bottom Thanks for that and everyone sleep. All right, buddy. We'll see you later. Okay. Bye again All right guys, I am off to the mountains To cheer on my brother in the Cirque series. That's right. I don't know if you've heard of that race series It's a series of mountain races Shorter distances usually today's race is a little I think just under seven miles Keyword Cirque, see if you can spell that one. Holy smokes. All right, we are out the door So we are almost there about to park at Arabahoe Basin Aka the legend is the tagline for this mountain because it is legendary. It's it's high It's like I said, it's just an epic ski resort here in Colorado and look tip of the day Be careful of downhill Races and this race was on my radar for 2019 But I decided not to do it because of my injury because of the phantom pain and because the pikes peak ascent is in two weeks Basically, I just You know downhill race, so it's three mile three and a half miles up three and a half miles down for this race And there that is why I opted for the Jackson Hole race because it was just six miles up Rather than let me just see here where I should be parking. But anyway bottom line All right, I'm pulling into the parking lot got a sign off But that is why I did Jackson Hole six miles up just to help save the legs a little bit So all right, I got to find my brother. Here we go We I found the racer timing nice shirt We're both we're both wearing black So he looks good. He's ready to rock and roll Shout out to a cave for watching the channel. Where are you from? Well, I go to school in Texas, but I love altitude training for the summer. Nice nice There you go racing the Cirque series. All right, man. Appreciate you watching. Cool. Have a good race I'm cruising up the chairlift. I'm gonna catch them. I think about halfway up I'm not exactly sure how high this chairlift goes. So there they go. I can see him way off in the distance Crushing it. Oh man, enter the pain cave ladies and gentlemen enter the pain cave Looking strong man. You just keep him right there. Keep him right there I said for those that don't know the guy in first his name is Joe Gray. He was in the blue hoca singlet I'll be racing him in two weeks at the Pikes Peak Ascent. He is you know He's known to be the best uphill mountain runner really. I mean frankly in the United States He's one of the best and my brother. What's up? How you doing? Good good good race Yes, oh, yeah, yeah Keep it up, buddy Basically, so my brother is it is his name is Joseph as well So Joe and Joseph are battling it out here. He was maybe 20 seconds back and we're about halfway up the climb So this is exciting. This is I this is amazing. So Joseph looks strong. We'll see how we'll see how they do on the downhill But this is as high as I can get So I'm just gonna wait here for them to be coming down. This is very exciting 45 seconds to a minute Use the gravity you probably can't really see me right now because I got the big lens on the camera Joseph was about 45 seconds to a minute behind Joe and now I'm cruising back down to see if I can catch him at the finish Hi So it's gonna it's gonna be a doozy like they were moving there. It's all about using that gravity Almost looks like a looks like Van Halen stride Yeah, I got quick and I Man good work. Thank you. How was your how's your carnage here? Did you fall? Yeah, I'm a little excited. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I went down, but uh got back up. Yeah, it wasn't too bad It was suck we the soft dirt wasn't any rocks Yeah, good times think about 45 seconds back man approximately Yeah, man He just He's just cranks cranks. He's smooth on the uphill. Yeah, you cranks cranks, too Thanks. Yeah, that's fun, dude rain a little bit of rain Second place yeah about 50 seconds back buddy. I think that was pretty good Hi, man, we'll catch you later And we're back in the studio welcome if this is your first time This is where I record a lot of the endings to the daily vlog just so you know there's a lot of new folks This is a daily running vlog So I film every single day publish a new vlog every day We end the vlogs here in the studio which is literally literally my shed with a bunch of running shoes in here So we call it the studio and yes, my mother-in-law gets it. Look what she sent me today a nice bright green dry fit shirt That's amazing and let's dive into the race today. Okay 6.8 miles round trip 11 K 1,800 feet of vertical gain so about 580 Meters of vertical gain and loss so isn't you know, it's a steep it's a pretty steep mountain a basin But here's the deal if you're interested and we're gonna go with it here question of the day who has not Ever raced a trail race. You're always you've always done roads or the track So who's never raced a trail race? So that's option one option two if you have done a trail race ever in your life What was your most recent that you can remember which one was it? How far was it and I just want to make a plug to the Cirque series? This is my first time attending a Cirque series and just so you know, it's Cirque series comm and its spell I'll help you guys out CIR Q you ease so Cirque as far as I know it's basically like I don't want to call it a ravine But it's like a feature on a mountain. That's really intense. It's like steep cliffs basically I do believe so it seeks Cirque series comm and it's a very very well put on event So sometimes you show up at races and you're just like, ah, this is not very exciting Like where's the enthusiasm here to go run a race? There's no lack of enthusiasm at you heard the music at the award ceremony Like it is hopping good energy great food great drink afterward great camaraderie with all the Spectators and the racers so I would strongly consider looking at this as an option for a shorter Racing series so you know sometimes you get in not invited But you get maybe persuaded to go test the limits of like trail marathons or ultra marathons I 50 k's and 50 milers It takes a lot of time commitment to train for an ultra marathon or or even a half marathon on the trails All of these races in the Cirque series are about six to eight miles approximately So it's very manageable for a busy lifestyle. Okay, so you can train for this I will say though they are into like they're steep. They're they're big I wouldn't recommend it as your first trail race. That's for sure But maybe something to build into down the road And I haven't seen the official results yet for the top three women in the top three men You saw them on camera there I don't remember all their names and their exact times, but I do just have to mention do a little bragging on my brother Two months ago. He raced joe in veil, colorado at the gopro games and was as far as I remember He was at least three minutes back from joe It might even have even been like three to four minutes back from joe gray today My brother was 41 41 seconds back from joe and listen joe is one of the best out there Like he's a world. He's not only one of the best in the united states He's a world-class mountain runner like he's won many world titles So he's the real deal and so I was very proud of my brother joseph 41 seconds back. I just I couldn't believe it. So anyway kudos to joe and joseph It was a little confusing out there today cheering for both of them I was yelling at my brother joseph And I don't know if joe gray if his full name is probably joseph There's a lot of josephs going around today in the blonde, but it was a great day Thanks for being here again. If this is your first time. This is a daily running vlog I don't know if I already mentioned that and feel free to hit the subscribe button because There's a new vlog every day at 5 a.m. And we have a good time here as you can see Uh, oh except for when the lights go out. All right. I'm back So we have a good time here on youtube running training Inspiring others to get out there and seek adventure have a good time like at the end of the day We get to run up mountains like this is amazing not not all people get to do this So, uh, it's it's it's humbling to be able to share it With all of you and if you want to dive more into the running race vlogs that I have published Click on the box on the left and if you want to watch the gopro mountain games race from two months ago Where my brother duped it out with joe and andy click on the box on the right. All right Thanks for being here seek beauty work hard and love each other. See you guys tomorrow 5 a.m