 It's time, time to open up the throttle just a little bit in training, alright? So we're gonna go out for a 3 mile warm up, a 3 mile threshold run, and then a 14 mile long run all combined together, and I bumped up the long run distance a little bit today. Remember flexibility and training based on a bunch of different factors, how your body's feeling, also the weather. So there's a blizzard they're saying, a blizzard is arriving in Denver when you're watching this today, so we'll see how much snow we actually get, but therefore I want to get a little more mileage in today versus Wednesday when you're watching this, because supposedly there's a big blizzard coming and so yeah, that is the game plan and basically I'm bumping my threshold runs a week later in the training block because the race was canceled on Saturday, I'm just refining things a little bit, changing things up because I'm hoping now to do that 5k, 10k, 10 miler progression of sharpening races that we talked about yesterday leading up to Cleveland and speaking of Cleveland, I am beholden to know running shoe, who knows, maybe the Audios 4 is gonna be in the mix for a possible shoe to race in at the Cleveland Marathon. I am, I'm open to it because guess what? The Audios lineup, as I mentioned two weeks ago, has more Marathon World Records than any other running shoe lineup that I know of. If I'm wrong, let me know, but that I know of in the last 15 to 20 years. Now of course, as we know, it comes down to the athletes, the athletes move the shoe, it's not just the shoe, things might be changing now in 2019 and 2020 with the implementation of the carbon fiber plate into many running shoes moving forward, but at this point, the Audios 4 has been just a world record killer when it comes to the marathon distance. So I'm excited today to put this guy through the first impression, come back at 3pm to get my first 3pm mountain time, my time for my first impression of the Audios 4. I'll break it down for you, let you know what the ride felt like because I'm gonna put 20 miles into it today and also let you know some of the specs with the drop, the upper, all that good stuff. So I, man, all right, let's lace up, get going, 3 mile warm-up, 3 mile threshold, 14 mile long run, bada bing, bada bing. Key word, throttle, that's right, opening up the throttle a little bit today, gonna talk about the effort, what it felt like, and then adding on the 13 miles, 14 miles after the 3 mile hard effort. So okay, oh man, throttle. All right everybody, we're off to date night and three cheers for true love for doing the, all the names in the basket. Good job for the giveaway last night. That was such a great and bigger, right? You just felt like you were part of something. All right, we're going to get food, I don't know where yet, but then Tesla, we're gonna check out some Tesla, just to peruse the merchandise, peruse the merchandise. All right, here we go. From date night and oh, Tesla, very interesting. We're not going to talk about Tesla tonight, but it was intriguing to go see those cars. Okay, here's the Adidas, Adidas, Adizero, Adios 4, what a name, what a name Adidas, and this is not the vlog about my first impressions of the shoe, come back at 3 p.m. for that. Okay, let's break down the run. Here we go, 20 miles today, 32 kilometers, 630 per mile for the overall pace, or four minutes per kilometer. So I did three mile warm-up, probably about 715 pace is my guess. I didn't actually look at those splits, maybe 730. And then the threshold effort was mile four, five, and six, and that was 514, 518, 519. So an average of about 517 per mile approximately, or 315 per kilometer. Okay, and I wasn't sure if I could get down into the 510 range, that was not today. We'll save that for hopefully soon, and maybe in two weeks from now, or four weeks from now, alright? So that's, we're just going to continue to progress forward as the, and keeping in mind, like I haven't done any speed work yet. So the breathing was, I guess we'll just jump into this now. Well, the breathing was pretty awesome today, like the breathing was awesome. Definitely whenever you're trying to go approaching race pace, and that was a little faster than my threshold pace today, just because I didn't race on Saturday. So I wanted to get a little bit more of a stimulus in the legs and the breathing, but I must say I wasn't, I wasn't hurting when it came to the breathing today. It was really just the turnover probably that I was, I was, I was itching for, like just trying to get the, wake those legs up a little bit. And mile 13 to 19, I was locked in, like I just was cruising. Now the pace was about 620, 625 per mile, from mile 13 to mile 19, uh, yeah, 13, that six mile segment. I just felt so controlled, in control, like I wasn't, I wasn't thinking about anything. I was just cruising along, just cruising along, going down the road through Denver. So that was a good sign. And so right now, standing in the studio, I got my ultratorians on. I love walking around on these ultratorians. Like, I don't know, they just feel so good for recovery and just walking. Anyway, just putting that out there. I'm in them right now, and they're amazing. Okay, but my legs, they're, they, my legs are barking at me, like they're telling me, okay, we worked today, that was a good effort, and I can feel that, um, I can feel like tonight I'm gonna have to go back inside and get a good stretch on before, uh, starting the editing for this vlog. Um, and so the next threshold effort will be March 26th. So two weeks from now, and basically this week was three miles, in two weeks from now, it'll be six miles. So I'll double the distance from three to six for the threshold effort. And that's gonna be exciting, interesting to watch, to see the progression and how I can, uh, respond to faster paces. And then after that, then I will really, because then it'll be seven weeks to go until the marathon. Boom. It's time to start the speed work and start the, uh, the sharpening for the Cleveland Marathon. Okay, again, keyword is throttle. And the question of the day is not gonna, it does, it has nothing to do with the, uh, audio's for, that'll be for the second video publishing today. The question of the day, this is, I just, I was just thinking today on my run, do you stay in contact or keep in touch with old running coaches? If you do, what's that like? If you don't, maybe if you feel comfortable sharing why, I'll be honest, I don't, I don't, I feel a little bad about that. I, I feel like I could really reach out to my high school cross-country coach at some point. He moved away when I was a junior, so he didn't coach me my senior year, which just broke my heart because I loved like his style and his grit and he like, wasn't afraid to push us. Um, but then at CU, like Mark Wetmore, he's coaching Olympians. He's like, he's all in on the University of Colorado cross-country team and like, I'll see him at cross-country and track meets and say hello. But as far as like calling him up, and I know I could email him anytime and he, he would email me back, but, um, I don't stay in contact with him and that makes me a little sad. I must say, uh, because I, I love my coaches like coaches and athletes. There really can be a special bond there that's a little different than maybe you and your parents or you and your teacher. I just think that you go through so much and especially if the athlete is all in and completely committed to the training, to the program, to the goals set forth for the team, like there's a really special bond there that I think can last the rest of your life. So frankly, I know like at some point, I'll get in better. Uh, I'll get back in contact with some of these coaches, especially now that I'm, you know, gearing up for, oh man, this, this push to the Cleveland marathon and hopefully to bigger goals beyond that. That's it folks. All right, video number two on the Adidas Adi Zero audios for publishing at 3 p.m. Seek beauty, work hard and love each other. See you at 3 p.m.