 I may be a runner, but I can play a little football. These are keeping me young. They're keeping me young. Alright guys, I'm in recovery mode. You saw a little bit of maintenance there on the planter fasciitis this morning. It's feeling better and thank you again for all the comments and ideas for how to get rid of planter and I'm trying to up my game. If I'm going to up my game in the running department, I need to up my game in the maintenance department with respect to aches and pains that are popping up in the planter is definitely a serious ache and pain. So I'm recovering from the half marathon time trial from yesterday in this shoe. The vapor fly 4% treated me pretty well. Go watch that vlog up right hand corner. But what's even more important you know in your training regimen, your training game plan is recovery. You can run hard but if you're not planning out your recovery well, things can go south pretty quick with respect to injuries over training syndrome. It's also called OTS. That's a real thing. Therefore, I'm going to do a recovery run today after the half marathon yesterday and I'm going to wear two different shoes. So usually I do like a seven mile loop but today I'm going to do two three mile loops. Basically I'm going to start in the Pegasus 35s and then switch to the beacons. So I'm going to do three miles in this guy and switch and then go in this guy. Just kind of give you a sense of two you know shoe companies competing for your recovery day miles if that makes sense. So stay tuned. I'll give you my thoughts later in the video about how it goes and let's go recover. You know such a critical part of a training plan. If you know what I mean. If you know what I mean. All right come on. I almost forgot to mention that the last half marathon that I raced was 2010. What? That's crazy. That's eight years ago. If I'm doing the math right, right? Holy smokes. Time to get moving again. Time to get moving again. All right. Here we go. Got my pegs on. Let's go. I had to stop and pull over and loosen my left shoe with the Pegasus 35. I tied it a little too tight with the that arch support sock that's on my left foot that you saw me put on. And I tell you what it does help. It's not perfect but it does help. And then I stopped and stretched and that's one of my favorite calf and soleus stretches. It's actually not pushing on against a wall. Just getting down on the ground like that and I learned that one in college. I'm not sure what it's called but it helps. So all right two more miles in the Pegasus 35 and then we'll switch over to the New Balance Beacons. Just trying to innovate for you. There's the shoes on the same rump so I can give you my full thoughts and analysis on how they felt in a recovery mode setting. I've never done that before ever in my entire life and I've been running for 20 years so that's kind of fun. Hope you enjoyed my thoughts here in a minute but first I need some banana bread up in here. The true love is baking away inside. Oh come on put it in my belly. I'm not a great baker but let me tell you you will not go wrong with Joanne Gaines. It's good. I'm telling you I made this like my sixth time and every time I crushed it I crushed it. Oh it's good. It's hot. I'm gonna melt it. Oh wow. As we always say butter my bread butter my bread. Butter my bread. Buckle up. It's time to talk about the new Balance Beacon and the Nike Pegasus 35. Fascinating guys today was a recovery run after the half marathon yesterday and I love recovery runs and if you follow me on Strava for long enough you're gonna figure out real quick that my easy days are easy. Usually I only go 3 to 4 miles on my recovery day but I wanted to put both shoes through an equal distance test and that's why I went 6 miles today and usually I run 9 minute pace on my easy days. And today I was at 835 pace so I was going a little fast probably just to test him out a little bit more anyway. Guys I love recovery days and I love hard days like yesterday but the question becomes which shoe performed better on a recovery day? The Pegasus 35 or the fresh foam from New Balance in the Beacon. Before we get into that though here are a few tech specs about each shoe. So the New Balance Beacon is a light lightweight 7.7 ounces incredibly light weight, a very soft heel landing and it has a 9mm drop from heel to toe. So keep that in mind if you like more of a flat shoe then this is probably not the shoe for you and of course it has a knit upper that is incredibly comfortable. And on the Nike Pegasus 35, 9.3 ounces so almost 2 ounces heavier than the Beacon. So keep that in mind and on the Nike Pegasus 35, 9.3 ounces for the weight so a fair amount heavier than the Beacon and the upper it boasts a booty like liner on the inside which I can definitely feel and I'm going to talk more about that in a second. And then of course the Pegasus is boasting the Nike Zoom foam through the midsole. A lot of people love it, some people not so much. And the drop on the Pegasus 35 is 10mm so from heel to toe it's going to drop 10mm. And essentially it has a little bit of a forward lean I can tell so it wants to kind of put you up on your toes a little bit. The question of the day becomes what is your go-to recovery shoe? So your easy days. Don't think tempo runs, definitely don't think workouts or even long runs. Just your easy day recovery runs. That's why I've invested in both of these shoes in the last 10 days. And so I want to talk first about the New Balance Beacon. Essentially I'm talking specifically to Daniel if you're listening. Let me know down in the comments. And a couple other people have asked the exact same question. Could you wear this shoe on a long run? I would say yes. If you are a neutral runner and you don't need as much basically structure to your shoe meaning your ankles are strong, your overall foot is in good health. And essentially for me I would not wear this on a 20 mile long run or even a 15 mile long run. And I would say this. Because of the fresh foam your legs are going to be more tired at the end of a long run. Why? Because you're going to sink and sink into this fresh foam a little bit and you're going to have to make up that energy loss in the step forward, the propulsion forward. And so I would suspect, now I haven't done this, but I would suspect that your legs would feel a little more tired at the end of a long run. However, you might be able to save your knees a little bit. If you're having knee issues or your joints or if you have a little bit of pain somewhere, I would highly, highly recommend this shoe. Now for recovery days, getting to the topic of today, would I choose the Beacon over the Pegasus 35? So let me talk about the Pegasus 35 real quick. And I'm going to come back to that real quick. OK, the best feature that I have felt so far from the Pegasus 35 is the transition from the midsole to the upper. So on the inside of the shoe, it feels so good. Like it's like I described a couple of days ago. It feels like a bear hug around your foot, a really, really comfortable bear hug. And my heel, a couple of people have been mentioning that they feel like their heel is slipping around. My heel is not slipping around. Let me know if your heel is slipping around. Therefore, if I had to choose between one of these shoes, and if I had a sliding scale score of 10, and I had to split the points up between both shoes, I would give the Beacon a 6 and 1 half, and the Pegasus 35 a 4 and 1 half. I would choose the Beacon for a recovery day shoe over the Pegasus 35. Essentially, I really like to feel like I'm walking on clouds on my easy days. Just like chilling out at nine minute pace, not thinking about a thing in the world, and just bopping along, as I like to say, bopping along. And this shoe feels like I can bop along. Now, I've heard some people can do track workouts in this shoe, and I've heard some people can do long 20 mile runs in this shoe. And I don't doubt it. Now, keep in mind, the outsole, I can already see some. I've only worn it twice, and I can already see some breaking down on the outsole. So if you're taking it out for 20 mile runs, there's a good chance the outsole is not going to last that long. Now, don't get me wrong. I love the Pegasus 35. It feels good. It's more, though, I think I will use the Beacon for five to eight mile recovery runs, and I will use the Pegasus 35 for eight to 12 mile medium tempo runs. Nothing crazy. That'll be for the turbos. But just you're chilling out at like 730 pace, just going. Nothing crazy fast. So the keyword for today is recovery. Which shoe, again, for the question of the day, do you turn to for your recovery days, your easy days? Bear in mind, I'm suffering from the PF, the plantar fasciitis. But once that is gone, this shoe is going to be my best friend. Lay, it just, it already feels so good, even though I have pain basically in every step. In conclusion, I want to be real, real straightforward with you. I'm going to buy this shoe a lot. Love the Pegasus 35, but I probably won't buy another pair till the Pegasus 36. And one last point on price point, one last point on price point, both of these shoes are 120 bucks. So you're comparing apples to apples here with respect to price. However, I will say the Pegasus 35 will win the battle with respect to durability long term. I think the outsoles on both of these shoes, this guy, eh, 250 miles. This guy, 350 miles. Like the outsole on the Pegasus 35 is way more structured and durable. This guy is just mostly just the fresh foam on the outsole. So I bet this is going to break down a lot, not yet, a lot quicker. I just, I'm calling it now. We'll see, we'll see. Again, I'll keep you posted. All right, time to go take care of that foot inside. A little more heat for the day before tomorrow's big mountain run. Come back for that, oh boy, oh boy. Seek beauty, work hard, and love each other. Enjoy the time lapse. See you tomorrow.