 There we go, there we go, first lap in the Salomon Speedcross 4s, out on the trails today listening to Daniel, I think Matthew, and one other gentleman commented in the last couple of days about how they love the urban running here in Denver, but I'm going to actually go back out, switching over, just for a couple more miles, going to test out the La Sportiva Tempesta GTX. A little bit of a bittersweet connection with this shoe, this is the shoe that I attempted to run the 100 mile race in a couple months ago. If you haven't seen that vlog, it got pretty raw, pretty real, pretty serious. Go check it out, upper right hand corner, I attempted to run 100 miles in this guy and it was a serious situation. So anyway, I have not put these shoes on since that race, the 100 mile race, we're going to put them back on. I just, I needed to give it a break. You know how it goes, like when you have a race in a bad, in a shoe, not in a bad shoe, in a shoe and the race doesn't go so well, you know, it's like, let's just give it a little rest, give it a little rest. All right, let's switch over and get back out on those tracks. Come on. What goes up must come down. Let's roll. That was fun. I am very interested to hear your thoughts on the question of the day coming right up. Okay, the Las Portivas. I just ran in them the second round and I think it was a good refresher and reminder as to why I probably will never buy another pair of Las Portivas unless they just change a little bit. Why will I not buy them? Basically, they feel like mountaineering running shoes too much, a little too mountaineering-esque and that's okay. Like that's their niche, their genre of running shoe for Las Portiva and one of the most successful ultra runners, frankly, in the last 10 to 15 years, Anton Kropitschka from Boulder, Colorado, he recently transitioned more from the running scene due to injuries to mountaineering and he's made a very successful transition as far as, you know, just staying fit and getting the word out about the brand that he represents, Las Portiva now. He used to be a sponsored athlete through new balance of all companies like an East Coast. I would put him more so in the space of road running. Anyway, all I'm saying is I just feel like Las Portiva has a little too much of a mountaineering boot feel to their shoes compared to Solomon and listen, Solomon is aggressive, stiff and anyway, it's just a little bit of a different feel. All right, that's my two cents. If you are a Las Portiva fan, let me know. I would be interested to hear like just why and what works for you, what shoes work for you and listen, I don't have enough experience with them, but anyway, I digress a little bit of hot tea after the run. You know how I like to pack a hot drink on a cold day after a run. It just is so refreshing to have a hot tea and I'm trying to get away from coffee a little bit, just a little bit. So I'm not drinking it all day. I love it so much coffee, but tea is a nice alternative, especially a little bit of decaf just to simmer down now, simmer down now on the caffeine. All right, fun day up in the mountains. Let's head back to the house. Come on. Maintenance, maintenance ladies and gentlemen. I still have that goal before 2019 to basically be able to, I know, touch my toes. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. I'm trying to be persistent and consistent, but it's not easy to, I would much rather go run up a mountain as opposed to stretching. I just, keep me accountable, YouTube. Keep me accountable, boy. I don't know about you, but one of my favorite post-race snacks is definitely chips and salsa. I think it's just replenishing that salt loss when you're out sweating and running, and I just, oh man, and I love spicy food. Love spicy. Here we go. Here we go. All right, Michael's home, family's home. They're actually already asleep, so I'm out here in the shed recording for you about the Solomon Speedcross 4. Real briefly, just going to talk about this shoe. I would buy this shoe if you live really close to steep mountains. As you can tell by the lug action on the bottom, it's a very aggressive uphill running shoe. You can use this for trails that are rolly, but frankly, like today, I was on a very steep trail and they paid great dividends. I've actually, actually the first run I ever did was probably, gosh, was it 12 months ago or nine months ago in this shoe? I've put about probably 150 to 200 miles into this shoe and it was on that exact same trail you saw me on. Nice and steep uphill, so that's why I would buy this shoe. I would also buy this shoe if you live in a muddy area. Denver is not, we only get mud in the springtime because the snow is melting and we have like this clay mud that forms. It's a reddish clay mud and it can be really nasty, but it's only for about a month and a half of the year before the summer heat dries it all out and then we kind of turn into a high altitude desert here. So I would also buy this shoe if you live in an area that has a lot of mud, you know, on the trails and it's going to do you real, real good. It's basically, it's got a pretty nice ride. It's a little stiff. I will say that, but it allows you to attack the hills. If you know what I mean, if you know what I mean. Oh, good shoe, good shoe. All right guys, trying to keep today's vlog just a little shorter. I must say I'm just honored that you would give so much time to watching these videos every day, many of you, because I realize, I realize your time is incredibly precious. And as runners, we love the concept of time and keeping track of time. I know I do. In fact, it's kind of a little bit of an anxiety in my life is like I'm a little obsessed with time. Like I love to use my time wisely. Anyway, so thank you for being patient with me in some of these longer vlogs. But guess what? A lot of you are watching them like Custard was the keyword at the end of yesterday's vlog after 18 minutes and many of you got all the way to that point and commented with Custard. So thank you. What is question of the day? What is your favorite type of running? Whoa, whoa. You're telling me there's different types of running? Listen, in high school, for me, I knew that there was cross country and I knew there was track. And that's it. I didn't realize that there are different forms of running, different spaces, different types of races, different distances. I had no clue. Okay, let's just run it down. You've got road running. You've got track. You've got cross country. You've got mountain running. You've got trail running. You've got ultra running. You've got, okay, a little more niche, fell running. And yes, that is the keyword of the day, fell. F-E-L-L. I am beyond excited to get over to the UK and do some fell running. You know, if you're in the UK, I'm coming over. I don't know when, but I'm coming and we're going to go do some fell running. And for me, my favorite type of running, and I know that's a very loose term, but I can't think of a better one, my favorite kind of running type of running is uphill altitude running. I love, if I had to choose one type of running to do for the rest of my life, it would be uphill at altitude. And if you're newer to the channel, which many of you are every summer, I run 14,000 foot mountains here in Colorado, what we call 14ers. And these 14ers, usually it's about six miles of uphill running, about 3,000 to 5,000 feet of vertical depending on the mountain. And it's just like, boom, you just get your workout in and like an hour and a half just hammering up these mountains. I love it. I love uphill running at altitude. And so that is the question of the day. What is your favorite type of running? And actually somebody commented a couple of weeks ago saying, hey, I'd love to see you do more track workouts. Well, I haven't done that much because guess what? It's just not my favorite type of running, but I see the benefit of track running. And I love the Olympics and watching the 10K and the 5K and the steeple chase and even the 1500. Like I love, I love watching track, but it's not necessarily at the top of my list for training for running, but some people love the oval. So anyway, think about it. What is your favorite type of running? And as you're answering the question of the day, think about surface, distance, hilly or flat, altitude or not altitude. Some people, some people in Canada, like they will, they will literally go running, not with skis, just running with a sled, with a sled attached to them. And they'll do like 200 mile races in Canada. I'm not even kidding. Like look it up. Oh, what is the name of the race? There's a race where you have to carry all of your gear for like 200 miles in the freezing winter and you're running across like Canada. It's like, what, what? So that would be a type of running and bonus points to anyone who can think of a unique type of running that none of us know about. I actually know one and I'm going to, I'm not going to say it because I'm going to see if somebody guesses it. Somebody actually mentioned it in the comments about 10 days ago. Um, okay, I'll just say it starts with a P. That's your only, only hint. And that's it folks. I'm wrapping it up, calling it for the day. I love you. Thank you for being here. Oh, tomorrow we are going to be receiving a box in the mail because of you, because of you, YouTube. You know what's arriving. So stay tuned for that. Oh my goodness. I can't believe it. I cannot believe it. See beauty work card.