 The day of reckoning the knee is feeling amazing I'm not racing the Houston Marathon today when you're watching this sadly, but it means that I have found Good health through this rehab process. So to the point where yeah, I could play a little b-ball outside the school All right, come on Oh score, okay. All right. Good game guys. Okay, Joseph. Take your take your coat off Okay, everyone b-ball game outside the school is over again. There's no way I could have done this two weeks ago I would have been way too painful right Joseph my knee, but it's feeling better. Why? Optimism taking kid doing the little things in fact I'm off to the gym here in a minute and It's just it's a bittersweet cheering on cofusie and everyone else down there in Houston But it's bigger bittersweet not being there, but at the same time it's like now I don't have to deal with who knows weeks and weeks months and months of serious ridiculous Pain in my knee so overall Unexcited. All right. Let's go. Come on. So I forgot to unload the car last night. We're starting to buy Rebuy so what we do when we have a new child is we buy stuff secondhand Pinching pennies right off of a Facebook marketplace or Craigslist like this and then we just resell it and Sometimes we actually make a profit Here's the little there's a baby day the baby day a little update on the baby the baby is by Right around the corner. We're talking three to four weeks. So we are in Preparation mode. All right. Here we go My goodness I was telling the YouTube family about the bassinet and about how we are getting ready What else and how sometimes we make a profit? We make a profit You're losing you need to be making at least $50, right? We buy everything we need sell it when you're done and you turn profit And what is this thing? Boom look out Seth. Sorry, buddy. Excuse me. Oh, boom. It it rocks the baby Winning winning. No, okay. Let's put it out the window here and this kid doesn't have to sit on top of it If you think that way No tea time Michael tea time Do you see us are we jumping Michael boom What'd you guys build? Oh a dinosaur jail. Get it Ready it comes Crash this guy Uncle play. Yeah, let's go Yeah, oh Okay, oh This and that okay got me. I I think the knee is good ladies and gentlemen I think the knee is good. This is getting exciting if I can rough and tumble with Michael I can hang with the best of them, right buddy Yeah, Michael watch ready someone's following me what it what early Now cuz then they can unload it and then reload Huh, it's all about staying a step ahead leftover night Huh and leftover nights sometimes the best night divine true love Leftover nights can't forget about leftover nights, right? Build it in always is It's coming good job guys holding down that side of the table But my bread onward and upward out to the studio staying positive staying positive. Where am I right now? I'm in the studio in Denver, Colorado. Where am I not? I'm not in Houston, Texas It's a little bittersweet, you know, I'm just being very transparent with all of you I got wish I was in Houston, right? I Lacing it up in the more actually when you're watching this I would be lacing it up doing my warm-up getting ready to go Hopefully crushed 26.2 miles, but it wasn't meant to be this time around, okay? And a little little tip. Oh, this is crazy The little tip of the day is as far as remaining positive Through running injuries through the niggles through the times when you're like wait a minute I was so close to my goal even though I wasn't with Houston like there's no way I could have ran through that pain For another three and a half weeks is when I think yeah over three and a I think it was almost Yeah, three and a half weeks approximately when I decided to call it for the Houston marathon because of the runner's knee Therefore tip of the day just and this is like really really practical. It's not like philosophical pie in the sky You have and this is the the pain scale Journal, okay, so if you have a piece of paper or maybe notes on your phone Take down notes every single day whatever injury you're dealing with it could be anything You know we runners we come up with a lot of crazy injuries So take a journal and write The pain that you're experiencing today tomorrow the next day and then What I'm doing right now and how I'm staying positive despite not being able to race Houston right now I'm staying positive because today in the gym playing basketball with the boys doing some doing some crazy You know playing with the boys in the house Zero on the pain scale. Where was I two and a half basically actually three weeks ago now? 21 days ago. I was at a seven or an eight and unfortunately I have to I have to Heed my own advice. I have not been writing out my pain scale I need to I feel like by the vlog is part of my pain scale journal, but um, I should be writing down Three weeks ago 21 days. I was I was a seven or an eight and that's when I called it I woke up and I was walking around my house 21 days ago and I said, uh-uh. I cannot do this for another three weeks until Houston and yeah, I'm so Grateful that I called it and I'm so grateful that I have the memory To remember the pain from three weeks ago and the pain now meaning zero. All right, so that's my little take-home message It's bittersweet It would have been fun to meet all of you in Houston But now it's insane like I wish I had a little bit of a crystal ball Because if I would have pushed through the pain I don't think I would have been able to but if I did and if I raised Houston How I almost wish I would have done it just to experience like to see okay What kind of recovery time would I have needed? I think I would have been so beat up It would have been ridiculous. So I'm not I'm glad I called it Anyway, it's just it's just I'm so grateful now that 2020 is kind of saved because who knows how long I would have been out if I would have If I would have pushed through The pain. All right, so I love you all. Thanks for watching today's vlog Just a good old family day here in Denver here in the studio and onward and upward to the next goal and Just so you know, I'm honing in on the next marathon. In fact, true love and I we almost bought plane tickets today We're still will see which means I basically have decided what marathon I'm gonna do I'm not it's not quite there yet, but we're we're honing in we're oh It's definitely not London after yesterday's vlog where we announced the Kipchogi versus the K-Lade battle So it's not gonna be London. So that kind of narrows it down for all of you But onward and upward. All right, I think that's it question of the day Have you ever and yeah, I'm gonna open this up. Have you ever done a pain journal? It sounds so it's such a runner thing to say have you ever had a pain journal or an injury journal that's another way and Honestly, actually I have had one in the past. I don't have one now or what is your other strategy for? Tracking your progress through a running injury. Okay, like what is your how do you do it? How do you try? Maybe it's just word of mouth. Maybe it's calling a best friend every day I don't know. Let us know down. Like what it how do you track your injuries? Okay? I love you all no Houston marathon, but we're gonna make it and Shout out again to everyone who raced through the streets of Houston today. All right, everyone We're gonna toss it back to a vlog from about nine months ago Where I talk about how I strive through running injuries how I try to remain positive And then I'll thought toss it back to my 20 20 goals now that I feel like the the goals are now attainable Because my health is returning. Okay. All right, everyone. See beauty work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow