 We have awoken YouTube and made it to Vale, Colorado. The last race I did in Vale, three weeks ago, the GoPro Mountain Games, the race started at eight. Today is a 7 a.m. start and I was wondering this morning and last night like why, well I guess this morning mostly like why is it a lot harder to get to the starting line on time? Well, it's because it's an hour earlier. I couldn't realize, couldn't remember why and anyway. We made it. The sun is rising. I prefer an 8 a.m. start versus 7 because it's cooler. It's, well, it's currently 48 degrees. Little chilly, little chilly but that'll be perfect. You always want to be a little chilled when you're at the starting line. So I got to be pretty expeditious because I am right on time. I'm not late but I'm right on time so I got to get dressed and zip to the starting line. I got to get my bib number. Anyway, welcome to the Vale Hill Climb 2018. It's gonna be exciting and yes, I've got a GoPro with me. Yes I do. Yes I do. Yes I do. All right, here we go. I'm trying to catch first. I gotta go. Film with the GoPro in the gondola heading down the mountain. Listen, it was fun to bring the GoPro up the mountain with me. It was, it was a hard race. Like it was hard. I was trying to catch first place. He ended up beating me by just over a minute. I forget his name but I wasn't chilled gray. He was a different runner. So I've taken second place at Vale twice in the last month at the GoPro Games and now this Vale Hill Climb. I feel good about it. You know, it was fast. I was once again in tenth place at the mile mark and basically was like, hey, you know, I'm confident I'm gonna catch these guys and sure enough by mile two and a half I was in second. But then the first place guy, he was a strong runner. He was very strong runner. A guy from Colorado Springs. So anyway, I'll give you a better update once I'm back in the car but I just wanted to let you know that Oswell and won a pair of Las Fortiva running shoes. Las Fortiva. I've never tried Las Fortiva. It's an Italian company and I'm intrigued. I'm more of a Solomon guy as you guys, as you know, in Hoka. But Las Fortiva I think has really made a nice progression in their shoe design. So all right, enough talking. Going back to the car, back to Denver, second place overall out of about 600 runners. We'll take it. We'll take it. Vale trail running series. The GoPro is fun too. Look at you. Hey, you debut GoPro. You're so cute. We know, right? It's just like a little ice cube. You look amazing. We did it. So because I was first in my age group in the race this morning, I got a little card from Las Fortiva. So I won a free pair of running shoes. And yes, I'm going to order them right down because I'm not messing around. You give me free running shoes. You know, I'm going to jump on that real quick. So I want to show them to you. Hopefully you can see it with a GoPro. All right. This is how we're going to close out the blog here. Here we go. The tempesta GTX. They don't give them away 165 bucks. Oh boy. Basically, I plan to wear these for probably a decent amount of training for the 100 mile race in September. And I bet I even wear them during the race when I'm changing shoes throughout the race. Anyway, love you guys. Thank you, Las Fortiva. Thank you, Sarah and Troy. Thank you, America. Thank you. To you, YouTube, you in there. See beauty, work hard, love each other.