 Pumpkin, Joseph, you're really good at cracking eggs, but this is on a hot, isn't that deep? Oh boy, that was a bad one, sorry. No, it was perfect. Oh man, delicious breakfast, but this morning, before breakfast, I actually did three miles in the Torrens. They felt amazing, as usual, like just an easy day shoe. That's why I'm wearing these ultra shoes. I don't know if I'll ever use these shoes for like marathons or long trail race, not these, but ultra in general, long trail races or fast workouts. However, on easy days, they just like, they feel really, really nice. They let your toes just kind of relax a little bit because the toe box is so wide. And then of course, I am feeling a nice, gentle stretch through the Achilles tendon when I'm just bopping along it. Like today, and by the way, shout out to Matthew. I believe it was Matthew who gave me this idea based off of a vlog two days ago. I'm going to try and do better, maybe not every single run that I do, but a lot of my runs. I'm going to tell you the stats for the run. So if I, you know, as far as the distance, the pace, the elevation gain, maybe even a little bit about the weather, just to give you a little more insight as to what I'm actually doing on some of these runs. So this morning was three miles, eight minutes and 30 seconds per mile, which actually is a little fast for my easy run. But now I am, yes, going to take the Zontes out for a test run. What's up, Joseph? I'll be right there, buddy. So I'm going to take the Zontes out, yes, for a quick little speed test just to see. Come on, let's go. Oh, by the way, doing my warm up for the speed test in the Nike Vemaro 14s, I'm going to get you probably tomorrow a comparison between the Vemaro 14s and another pair of Nikes. Stay tuned for that. All right, let's go. Quick little warm up, quick little warm up in the Vemaro 14s. They are heavy. I will say that much. I like them so far, so far, but they're heavy. My full thoughts coming soon on this shoe. All right, doing a quick speed test in the Zontes 4s. I have not taken them out for a speed test yet. So that's what we're doing right now on a paved surface. And let's just see what we can do. And listen, the season is rapidly, rapidly winding down. I'm just holding on to this last little piece of fitness that I have, which is quickly dwindling. I can kind of feel it slipping away, and that's okay. The season's almost done, but man. All right, one mile in the Zontes. Let's go get some pain. Let's go to the pain locker. Come on. Man, like this, I felt pretty good about my form. I was focused on it, and my quick feet felt pretty good, trying to be snappy, trying to keep that cadence up. But oh my goodness, I'm hanging on. Like I said, my fitness is just, you know, if you don't do long runs, like 20 mile long runs for me, and I haven't done one in maybe two weeks, I think, I can already feel it just slipping away just a little bit. But I don't even know what my time was yet. I'll get that to you back at the house. Oh, it was fun though. In the Zontes, I would say like the Zontes 4s, they, the lock, the lockdown feel is really good through the mid-foot on the upper. But the toe box, not as much. Like my toes definitely feel pretty loose, which is fine. Like it's kind of a, it's not a racing shoe per se. Per se. I think you could use it though for a racing shoe. Anyway, it's like extra lockdown through the mid-foot, not as much over the toe box in my humble opinion. That's how I felt at least. And like right now, like I feel really solid through that mid-foot. Anyway, the Zontes 4s, maybe I'll tell you more back at the house. Oh, guys, hang it on, hang it on. YouTube stay cool, we're just surviving here. Baby, oh baby. Literally, literally. A lot of fans out there, a lot of fans out there of this shoe, this shoe right here. Remember, I picked this up on Cyber Monday 4. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, $34. $34 Cyber Monday deal, pretty ridiculous. Now I just checked on the New Balance website. You can pick this up for $79. Not too shabby, not too shabby. Okay, let's jump right into this shoe. It's a six millimeter drop according to the New Balance website. I hope you are accurate New Balance because I gave some bad info last week. I apologize again for that, but this is a six millimeter drop according to the New Balance website. So kind of middle of the road and it weighs 8.9 ounces for a size nine in men's. I've realized weight is like, it's very, it's so variable depending on the size of the shoe, depending on who you're researching. But again, according to New Balance, it's 8.9 ounces and that can vary depending on the women's version, men's version, sizing, all of that good stuff. I think I'm just gonna have to buy a scale. How does that sound? I'm just gonna buy a scale and weigh the shoes myself, but that is pretty lightweight. However, I would say, and this is gonna be my first impression of this shoe, this shoe could be much lighter in my opinion. I think the upper on this Zante version four is a little over-engineered. So they are calling this upper material right here through the midfoot a, let me look it up. That's right. They're calling this upper material a hyposkin and it's just a little thick in my opinion. And then it wraps all the way around the heel here. And again, like it's, as far as build quality for this shoe, awesome. I think you could get at least 300 miles out of this shoe. It just feels really well built and the upper, I'm telling you, it just feels a little over-engineered in my opinion, which is why I think the weight is closer to nine ounces as opposed to closer to seven ounces. New balance, if you could, maybe just try and shave off like one to one and a half ounces from this shoe and I would be, yeah, I'd be in love with the shoe. It just feels a little heavy for the volume of the shoe. Okay, overall first impressions, as I already mentioned, very well built, good build quality. The upper is comfortable. However, I will say, again, back to this hyposkin through the midsole, it felt like I had a few, just a tiny little bit of pressure points on the top of my foot, on both sides actually. Just like, I think I just probably need to get used to the shoe and so just keep that in mind if you're looking at this shoe as a good road option and this is another amazing point. This shoe, for the price point of this shoe, now it's $79. Again, new, it was a little closer to $100, but we're talking great value because, because you can use this shoe for road training, training on the roads, training on concrete bike paths. It's a great road shoe option for training and for racing. If you want to just save money by only having one shoe for training and for racing and you're okay with a shoe that maybe doesn't have quite as much support, I don't know if I'd wear, I wouldn't wear this every day, that's for sure, but you can definitely use this shoe for training and for racing. So, value, very good. But again, just a few pressure points because of this hyposkin. The toe box, as I mentioned earlier, back on the streets, my toes felt a little too loose for fast speeds today. Actually, I don't even know what I ran yet. I'll try and post it down in the comments. I think I was about five minutes for that one mile. I didn't feel, I didn't feel great today, but my toes in the toe box felt a little loose compared to the midfoot. I felt like I could lock down my midfoot really, really well, but maybe too well. I don't know. It's just an interesting design concept with this hyposkin. I digress from the hyposkin. I could talk about this all day. Good tongue on the shoe, no issues with the tongue, no issues with the collar of the shoe, around your ankle. This is what wraps around your ankle. I mean, again, maybe just a little stiff for my liking around the collar. I think they could just maybe ease it up a little bit, make it a little softer around the collar, but no major issues, no weird rubbing or anything like that. As far as the fresh foam through the midsole and the responsiveness of the fresh foam, not bad. Maybe not a 10. I would, maybe like a 7 out of 10 for the responsiveness. Like, and again, I've only worn it. This is just my first impression. I haven't done a tempo run yet. That's coming in this shoe, but I've done basically like an easy day. I did the time trial today and then one other just like middle distance. I think I did like six miles earlier or late last week. So fairly responsive, but not, you know, not jumping out of your shoes responsive, which might impact your decision as to whether you would use this for a race or not and good outsole, just a good outsole, no issues, you know, it looks like it's going to be pretty durable on the outsole and just your basic pattern there on the outsole. So no, no issues at all. No issues at all with the outsole. So when the Zante hit the market in 2014, it kind of not revolutionized the road running shoe game, but it did give people the option back to that buying this shoe for a trainer and also using it for races. And it's beating most other companies for the price point, for the value you have to fork over for a shoe that does both, where you can train in it and race in it. And speaking of training, when will I use this shoe moving forward? I believe I'm going to use this shoe for six to 10 mile tempo days, maybe eight to 10 mile tempo days where I want to go, you know, like 630 pace-ish right around there, maybe a little faster like 620s for six to 10 miles on the roads, of course, not on the trails. That's when I'll use this shoe moving forward, most likely. I'm still testing it out, but that's my first impression. And lastly, as far as firm or soft, definitely in the firm category for this shoe, it's a firm landing on the pavement. You know, it's not going to absorb a lot of the shock when you're running on the pavement. And again, so you know, keep that in mind if you prefer more cushion, probably not your best shoe, the best shoe for you. But because it's a little firmer, I felt like good ground feel. Like I felt like I could really feel the ground under my feet as I was trying to run fast today. But overall, good ground feel and felt like a nice ride, pretty, pretty nice ride overall underneath, but definitely in the firm category for the Zante 4. Some other shoes that you might be able to look at that fall into this category, the Soccani Convara 9, the Brooks Launch 5, the Mizuno Wave Rider, I believe it's called. And then there's also, oh yeah, and then the Adidas Boston would definitely fall into kind of a similar category of other shoes. However, I believe based on the research I've done, this guy is going to win as far as price. And that's why it's kind of flying off the market all over the place is that people like the price for what you get. And I tell you what, I tell you what, it's a good shoe. Like, mm, like for $79, I paid 34, but for $79, you, I think I could get 300 miles out of this shoe for a long, like it's a good, nice, tempo day shoe and possibly a 10K to half marathon shoe if you're looking to race. Capiche, sound good? All right, question of the day. Oh, keyword first, keyword first. Dance. Did you see those shoes dancing in there? What the heck was that all about? They just came alive, came alive. It must have been the Zante 4s bringing a little spice to the running shoe line up in the D'Amour household. So dance is the keyword and the question of the day has nothing to do with the Zante 4s or maybe it does. I don't know. Maybe you work for New Balance. What is, and this is again, I love talking about running shoes and training. By the way, epicness happening in the comments over the last slide four days about training. Thank you for commenting. But I also want to get to know you as runners, but really as human beings, as people, we all have a story and everyone's story is different. And so that's why I ask this question of the day. What is your tradition for Sundays? What is your tradition for Sundays? What do you do on Sunday? Like, what do you love to do on a Sunday with your family? Maybe you're in college. Maybe you're in high school. Maybe you're dating. I don't know what stage of life you are in, but you can connect it to running, your answer. Of course, a lot of people do their long runs on Sundays. I get it. But like for us, we love, love, love to cook a good breakfast on a Sunday, right? That egg breakfast. Oh, but I'm a bird, but I'm a bird. So that is one tradition that we have in the D'Amour household. What is your tradition that you'd like? It's like you do it almost every Sunday because it's life and life is beautiful. So thank you for answering. Thank you for being here. Thanks for learning about the Zante Fours. And guys, you rock. Thank you, by the way. For, yes, pushing us over 6,000 subscribers. Woo, you rock. We did it. We did it. It's amazing. See beauty, work hard. Love each other. See you tomorrow.