 Talking about how I'm a kind of a walking contradiction. A walking contradiction. Because I'm from battle. Let's go. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Nerf gun war. Nerf gun. Reload, reload. Get up, get up, get up, get up, go! Parents for his kids. Oh, yeah. Boom. Mama with the baby bump. Crushing it in Nerf gun wars. There we go. Don't mess around with it. Don't mess around. I only hit him twice. That's all right. Two for 12. Get you. Here we go. Good job. Good job. Good job, Michael. OK. Good little run through the streets of Denver. 655 per mile was the pace. There it is in kilometers on your screen. And at this point, it's all going by feel. I think I posted on Strava. I said tapering again. Because the Argentine race is five days away, four days away from when you're watching this. So it's just a unique situation. Again, this will not be my regular racing schedule. I assure you, racing every two weeks, I don't like to train and race like this. But it's how the cards were dealt in 2019. And I'm OK with that. All right, here we go. Diving into the World Mountain Running Championship. So, oh man, let me try and break this down. And I don't have all the answers to the race down. This is my first time attending the World Mountain Running Championships. I really don't even know. Sadly, I don't really know the history behind this event. I'll try and do more research this week. But it's in Argentina, in Via la Angostura. And I'm not saying that right, but that's all right. Basically, the race starts a little over 2,000 feet above sea level. That's great. I'm actually pretty excited about not being at high, high altitudes because I do believe because of Amsterdam, because of New York, maybe I can use that leg turnover to my advantage at lower elevations. At least that's what I'm thinking, my logic going into the race. And there's three races, all right? There's the Junior Race, which I believe happens on Thursday. And that is like a six, let's just see here, six. I think it's six kilometers. Let me just make sure. My race, OK, hold on, sorry. 6.6 kilometers for the Juniors. I think that means you have to be under 18 or maybe under 20. And I should mention this is an IAAF sanctioned event. So it's sanctioned by the huge governing body that helps sanction all the other races around the other, I should say, disciplines within running around the world. So then the other two races, my race is on Friday. And then there's another race on Saturday. I am in what's called the Classic Seniors race, which is a little over eight miles. Very excited about that. I'm really happy that it's not over 10 or a half marathon, like eight miles, I can do that. My legs can handle eight miles. So and then on Saturday, it's the Long Distance Race. And for the United States of America to qualify for the Classic Senior Race, that's why I went out to New Hampshire. My brother and I, and I ended up in third place in top four runners qualified for the World Championship. But for the Long Distance event on Saturday, it's a little interesting. I don't quite understand it. Again, I'm new to this whole mountain running scene. Like I'm more familiar, let's say, with ultra running than let's say like mountain running, which I know they sound similar, but they are different. So for the Long Distance team, it's more by application. You apply to get on the team. And then I guess there's a selection committee. I don't quite understand it, but it looks like it's, okay, and I'm going to actually need your help. I think it's Joe Gray, Andy Wacker, and Hayden Hawks out of Utah. Is it Jim Walmsley? Is he the fourth runner? I honestly don't even know. I've been trying to find more information. It's hard to find. I can't figure it out. I'm going to lean on you. Who is running the Long Distance Race? In my race, the eight mile race, is Joe Gray, Andy Wacker, myself, and David Sinclair out of Vermont. So that's the four guys. And what else was I going to mention? So that's amazing. But what's also cool, Andy and I, we ran at the CU together, the University of Colorado. We were on the same team up there. And Joe Gray, just he was a little older than me, not by much. We raced, he raced for Oklahoma State. So it's three guys on the World Mountain Running Championship team for the United States, who all competed against each other in the old Big 12 Conference, which is now, I think, the Big 10. CU has moved on to the Pac-12. Anyway, I just find it fascinating that we're back, like even 10 years later, we're back battling it out again. So, all right, that's a little discussion. Get you going, get you primed. We'll keep talking about the World Mountain Running Championship as the day moves along. I'm going to go get my beer stein. There it is. You know what time it is. So I should also ask everyone, does anybody have any information about the teams that are going to be represented in Argentina? I'm just like, listen, life is busy. I'm trying to do research, but like, for example, is Japan going to send a team? Is Norway, is, I've heard, is it Uganda? I think Uganda usually has a strong team. I don't know. I'm all new to this. But if you have any more intel on the teams that are going to be represented in racing, like I don't even know how many guys I'm going to be racing against. It'd be fascinating. I'm sure Switzerland, Italy, they've got to be sending teams there. So anyway, if you have any other intel on that, I'd appreciate it. I'd appreciate it. Real quick here is anybody attending the World Mountain Running Championships. It's a long, it's going to take me 25 hours of travel time to get down there and back. So 50 hours of travel, it's a lot. But if you are somewhere in that region, maybe email me and let me know if you're going to be there that'd be amazing to meet you. But I'm plotting, yes, for a group run in Argentina, but I got to fine tune the details before I put it on the Strava Group, the DeMor Global Running Strava Running Group. So stay tuned. I just need to iron out how it's going to happen probably after the race, okay? So stay tuned, I will get you more details on that. Oh man. Oh yeah, okay. Local folks from Argentina, what is like the one plate of food and dessert that I must try while I'm down there in Argentina? I'm putting it on the list. I should probably start a poll about that, but I got to try, I've never been to Argentina. This is, I don't know when I'll ever be back. So this is my moment. Let me know the best dinner plate and the best dessert that I like 100% must eat while there. Cause that's what you do. What's what you do when you travel? You experience the culture. Oh, that's good. Butter it. All right, I know I'm talking a lot, but I just have to tell you right now that I bought this stability disc a month ago and I've been using one in the gym for years and years, but I decided, what am I doing? I need this at my house at all times. And I bought it to really work on my ankle strength, okay? But as I fine tune and dive deeper into the stability disc with respect to what it can accomplish in my lower legs, it's stretching out my calf and soleus. It's just way better than pressing against the wall. I don't know what's going on. I think it's the angle of the foot and the heel kind of going down into the disc. I don't know what's happening, but I am stretching better than I've ever stretched when it comes to my calves and my soleus, which is obviously important for plantar fasciitis. And I've had issues with that in the past, as you know, unbelievable. I just relaying to you what I'm feeling as I stretch on the stability disc. It's interesting. And you don't have to go out and buy one, but maybe seek out a gym or maybe your gym does not own one and just ask them. They're like 25 bucks. I bet your gym would buy one so you could stretch when you go to the gym. Just an idea. Oh man, recovery, recovery. The legs aren't perfect yet, but they're getting there. And so we're just gonna give them a little TLC the next couple of days before hopping on that airplane. And you better, you better believe, you better believe we're bringing this. You better believe we're bringing this. Oh yeah, can't go, can't go anywhere now. After Central Park, I can't travel anywhere and shout out again to Paul in Amsterdam for making this banner for me. So, oh my God, this is going to globetrotten, globetrotten these days. You know what? Let's try on the singlet for you guys. Let's put it on. Let's do this. All right, here we go. So, and by the way, this orange singlet, you may have never seen it before because I've never worn it before on the vlog. I picked this up in Amsterdam since Amsterdam was my first marathon. All right, ready for this? One, two, and three. There it is, all moderate. Oh man, the red, white, and blue. And it's like, again, getting to Argentina, I just can't wait to meet all the other athletes competing and representing their nations and like their cultures and like, I don't know, it's just so unique. I think that's what makes the Olympics so great is that there's, I mean, not to get too philosophical here, but there's wars around the world and there's division and strife and fighting and kind of craziness out there. But at the end of the day, we're all human. We're all like on a journey and like the Olympics brings us together. The world mountain running championships brings us together no matter what nation we're representing and I couldn't be more proud. I'm a proud American, like I love my country and but at the same time, it's like, who knows, maybe China will be there. There's some angst between the United States and China right now, whatever other nation, but like at the end of the day, we're runners and we're competitive and we're pushing each other to be better, to be better. So, all right, I could go on and on. You know I could go on and on, but I got a pack. So yes, the USA teams are sponsored by, or yeah, I guess sponsored by Nike, but I did double check. I can race in any shoe that I want. You know me and Solomon, so it's gonna be interesting. All this Nike gear, but showing up to the starting line, that's right, in the Solomon S-Lab, since seven SG's right there. And yes, I'm just a walking, what's the right word? I'm a walking contradiction because I'm gonna race in Solomon, but I'll do my shakeout runs and my just jogging around runs down in Argentina in the Hoka Evo, Evo Speed Goats. So, there you go, Nike, Solomon and Hoka, bada-bing bada-boom. Talking about how I'm kind of a walking contradiction, a walking contradiction, because I'm all Nike gear, racing in Solomon, warming up in Hoka. Beholding to no one, beholding to no, look at the American story. This looks amazing though. It feels amazing, it feels amazing. Yeah, the cut is perfect, really nice. What do you think? What do you think? All the way, there's my shoes, I know. We love it, we love it. All right, wrapping up the vlog with dessert, you better believe it, chips and double-roasted salsa. That is my go-to dessert. I cannot resist, I absolutely love it. And I was gonna talk to you a little bit more about the World Mountain Running Championships. Somebody sent me an article, might've been Dennis, a couple of days ago, I can't find it now, and it had a little synopsis, so maybe tomorrow if I find the article, I'll give you some more details on the race in Argentina. Question of the day, and I think I've asked this before, but I think it's been a couple of months, and there's a lot more people here now, so here it is. What is your favorite discipline or genre within racing? Is it mountain running? Is it ultra running? Is it trail running, which believe it or not, those three are different. Is it track? Is it cross-country, like on a cross-country course, like a real cross-country course, is it the roads? And there's a lot of other options out there, so, and maybe if you have time, explain why you love that particular genre. I'll just say right now, why I love marathon racing right now is the communication happening as I said at the beginning about guys kind of working together to track down, and ladies, to track down goals, like pacing. In ultra running, pacing is, it's different. It's just a little, whereas marathon racing, you really gotta hit those splits, and you gotta stick to them as I learned at Amsterdam. So anyway, that would be my answer at the moment. Thanks for hitting it up down below. We're gonna wrap it up there. I'm gonna throw it back to the qualifying race on the right in New Hampshire, and then on the left, I think we'll throw it back to the niche, finding your niche within running since we dabbled in that topic as well tonight. All right, love you all. Thanks for being here, as always. See beauty, work hard, and love each other. See you tomorrow.