 Good morning my friends. Are you ready for some running? Because there's gonna be a whole lot of running. Hey, excuse me, I'm making a video. There's gonna be a whole lot of running for the next six days. We're talking 120 miles. That's about 20 miles a day running through the beautiful Rocky Mountains. There's gonna be a lot of elevation change and ups and downs and all that stuff. I think we're even gonna run through a river. I've never done this before as my first time at the Trans Rockies. I've actually never done a stage race before. I've never run race after race after race after race. Usually I do one big one and then I kind of get lazy for a long time. So this is going to be a new challenge for me. You might be thinking, well, Ryan, you've run 100 miles in one day. What's 120 over six days? That's going to be easy, right? Well, I don't think so. I don't think it's going to be easy. It's going to be fun though, because you know me, I love having fun and they call this summer camp for big kids, which is perfect because, you know, I kind of am a big kid. And I like running fast for sure, but I like having fun a lot more. I don't know anybody here. It's my first time. I'm going to make a lot of new friends. We're going to have a great, great week. Let's do this. These are the aerodynamic skirts I've heard so much about. They actually just go completely behind you. I love the energy at the start of races. It's so much fun. Everybody's psyched and a little bit nervous, but mostly excited. One of my favorite people in the running world is standing right here. I've never met her in real life. What's up, Mirna? How are you doing? I'm doing great. Your smile is just as big in real life as it is on your Instagram. It's fake. It's a fake smile. Yeah. So you've done this before. Any tips? Hydrate. Hydrate. Take pictures. Take pictures and enjoy yourself. I mean, it is like one of the greatest events you'll ever do in your life. Stage one today is 22 miles. And I have not run 22 miles, I think since last year's Havalina 100. So this is going to be interesting. It's going to be a challenge, but I'm excited for it. 350 people all lined up. It's going to be an awesome week of running. That's all I know. I'm really happy to be here. This is awesome. Those mountains right there are the collegiate peaks. 14ers. 14,000 foot of mountains. I think we've gone about a mile. That means we only have 119 left. Yes. The Enos Mountains. There's my paced vehicle right here. It's my good friend Mike. You all know Mike from the Baja series. How you doing, bud? I'm doing great. Yeah. And what are you doing out here? Taking some photos for transrockies and view. So the pacing for this race is kind of new to me because usually when I do a race, I go all out. When I'm done, I'm dead and I take time off. In this race, I don't want to go out too fast because I have five more days of this. So I'm trying to dial it back and just chill to save enough energy for days two, three, four, five, six. Just got to follow those arrows. This is an awesome trail and it would also be an awesome trail for mountain biking. How's it going, Mike? Take a picture for you. Thank you. Welcome to October Fest. I'm just a beer wench. It's been eight station before but it makes sense. A little bit of sour. Wakes your mouth up. Maybe some salt. All right. I guess I have to run. Oh, I think I hear Mike. There goes Mike. Here's the thing about downhills. You just got to let gravity do its thing and let it rip. Let your legs just kind of go. Probably about 10 miles in. It's starting to hurt. That's what happens in races. You know, the buzz at the beginning of the race wears off. Yeah. And you start to realize that, oh yeah, this is kind of hard. I actually kind of like the uphill. Downhill really jars my legs. Checkpoint two. This is just what I needed. An eight station full of junk food. These are good. Oh, and I fill you up. Look at that service. You guys have too much good stuff. It's hard to start running after being here. I always get passed by a ton of people at the eight stations because I hang out so long. I don't care. I'll catch them. I'm having a lot of pain right now in my hip flexors more than I've ever felt. Oh boy. Ouch. My body isn't used to running, used to biking right now. This hurts. I'm in pain. These tunnels look awesome. My body hurts. It hurts bad. I've never felt pain like this before in my hips. Oh, it's nuts. What is going on with my body? Right now I'm thinking, how am I going to finish five more days of this? Yikes. I am so psyched to see this finish line. All right. Only 98 miles to go. All right. Awesome job. So glad to be done. Thank you. You know what's good for sore legs, sore muscles? Freezing cold water. Oh, that feels so good. Hello everybody. Hey. Hi. Sorry. I think I'm stinky. We did it. Day one. Day one. Only five more. This is amazing. Look at this tent city. Wow. They even carry your bag for you. I am not used to any type of support on my adventures. Usually I'm by myself and I'm dirtbagging it pretty hard. This is deluxe. Oh yeah. This is cozy. Check out my view from the front door. Looks like a bomb went off in here, but that's kind of the way I like it. So I'm at the medical tent now with Greg and he says he can fix me up. It's so ticklish. I hope this helps. So this race is pretty fancy. They even bring a shower truck, but I already jumped in the river. I don't need to take a shower right? Right behind me is Chilville and it's where people chill and they have food. They have all the chargers you could ever want for all your devices and it's a place for people just to sit down and chill after a hard day, man. All right. So Goo is one of the main sponsors and not only do they provide like awesome what do you call it? Nutrition, energy, all that stuff. You guys recycle your upcycle everything, right? Absolutely. So we partner with this cool program called TerraCycle. They work with companies such as Goo with non-traditionally recyclable items. So any of our single-serve packaging, gels, chews, drink mix, recovery drink, not just Goo but any brand, we want to make sure that we keep them out of the landfill. So what we're doing here at Trans Rockies is we have made TerraCycle boxes that will have each of the aid stations to remind people not to throw any of their wrappers straight in the trash. So like I said, we can accept any other nutrition companies as well and we're really excited to keep them out of the landfill. I am very excited about this plate of food. It's taco night which you know always makes me happy because I like beans and it's very vegetarian and vegan friendly here which is great. Butterscotch pudding. Eat it, eat it. I would like to point out that Pat is drinking beer, coffee and water. 1879 that we have the Colorado Silver Boom. We're going to wake up early tomorrow morning. Tomorrow is Hope Pass, the legendary Hope Pass. This is part of the Leadville 100 course. I'm excited to be trumping the same trails as all the legends who have run before and I'm also very curious to see how my hips do because I don't want another excruciatingly painful day. So beautiful!