 beat the virus ... beat the virus ... good morning everyone hashtag davorglobalrouting it's happening I just woke up but that doesn't mean people were not racing while I was sleeping unbelievable I I think so I just checked my phone and on Twitter on Strom I've seen four PRs so far personal records thus far from the DGR virtual races unbelievable congratulations I'm uh I'm well in Saturday today I'm racing in the morning when you're watching this I'll be getting ready to go out the door so good morning the first gotta get some good old coffee in me and we're rolling so the game plan for today is to get off is to get all my gear ready for the race tomorrow including planting my water bottles and my gels along the way I'll explain that in more detail also also oh my goodness at the beginning of this training block for the Homburg Marathon I had I had six very specific goals that I wanted to reach for the Homburg Marathon well I'm gonna go revisit those goals share them again with you just to check back in on like okay how did I do through this training blog ah good morning congrats again 10 KPRs 5 KPRs half marathon PRs unbelievable here we go hashtag the more global running hey buddy and everybody I'm just checking checking Twitter real quick okay the PR train is rolling it's starting to hit Europe starting to hit Europe everyone's awake over in Europe amazing get it done unbelievable okay so here are my five goals that I set out to accomplish at the beginning of the Homburg Marathon training block all right goal number one heed lessons from Amsterdam and New York City okay heed lessons meaning study the course ahead of time check did that prepare for the crowds mentally well I don't I'm not gonna have crowds tomorrow so that's that's taking care of and then find your pacing group again social distancing don't have to worry about that but that was definitely one of my goals that I learned from Amsterdam in New York City okay goal number two fit fresh and healthy arrive at the starting line fit fresh and healthy I think I did pretty well actually I'll talk more about that after the race but I do believe we are well we are healthy so that is a good thing didn't get injured like the Cleveland Cleveland Marathon training block goal number three um oh yeah okay this is okay repeating fine pacing group all right already talked about that goal number four even splits and pacing so went out too fast in Amsterdam so tomorrow one of the goals is to even split um and now but here's what's crazy I'm at elevation so things are different like um I have to take that into account the fact that I'm a mile above sea level okay but that is goal number four even splits and pacing and then goal number five uh yes I threw it out there was to go yes sub two hours and 19 minutes in Homburg huh we're at elevation no no no um nobody around me to push uh it's going to be interesting I let's see we're going to work hard I'll put it that way we're going to work hard for goal number five all right so those are the five goals that I set out to accomplish for Homburg now it's applied to the dgr virtual marathon a mile above sea level let's go get it done okay I'm off to go get water bottles and super psych not at the store I thought I was going to have to go to the store to get bottles water bottles so I'm going solo nobody else is going to be out there helping me pacing me uh no aid stations at least I won't have to battle for my water bottles like I had to do in Amsterdam so I'm going to plant these along the way um and by the way I just got back from my shakeout run two miles uh with three strides mixed in okay and I dropped the strides down to like you know four thirty a mile pace just to just to remind the legs tomorrow is go time okay so here are the bottles and I'm going to mix them in with the Morton mix right now so here's my here's my Morton box with all the mixes and uh I'm going to plant the bottles about a hundred meters before so I've run this course so many times now I know where every single uh trash can and recycling bin is along the course so I'm going to plant these along the way and basically just deposit them in as I'm running past but I'm going to hide them you know uh yeah like I said probably like let me think 100 meters maybe 200 meters before each bin okay so here we go let's mix them up and measure measure here we are mile three first bottle drop right here and you all have probably already thought of this I am taking you know a calculated risk here I just uh if I did this tomorrow morning on race day you know that it could it's going to take two hours to place all the bottles on the 26 mile course therefore I'm doing it today and I realized listen someone could pick up the bottle and I'm fully prepared for that mental challenge if somebody says hey this looks like a piece of trash I'm going to take it so I have thought that through also um they might freeze tonight yeah it's supposed to be just above freezing tonight and hopefully they're not rock solid if they do freeze a little bit but anyway I have thought through these scenarios and what are you going to do at the end of the day you just got to keep trucking you just got to keep trucking okay I'm going to go I'm going to go place the first one with the gel and yes fuel early fuel often in a marathon okay so gel at the first stop here we go all right okay found a spot we shall see all right onto mile six okay this is about about mile it's hard to say about mile 25 ish so really just a mile to go but there's no car access before this so I'd prefer the bottle to be closer to live mile 23 or 24 but what are you going to do you just gotta just gotta roll with it okay off to the bib numbers and we're back to love all right you ready here I'll let you pull them out ready okay show oh there's the poster oh there is the poster and there's the bib now so we get to cut them out we get to cut them out right so then we can write our name in our in our bib number that's so clever for the pins isn't that clever so good work they look so good I know isn't that poster amazing yeah it's amazing so here let me get close up boom there it is and what's crazy is that hunt people are posting this bib number all over the world all over the world and they're setting prs today wow during this race so congrats everyone for racing hard out there so anyway I gotta get this bib number ready because race day tomorrow and then it's on to spaghetti all right we'll see you see what's spaghetti okay boys you come here huh guess what's happening tomorrow we're racing spider-man's racing and this guy's racing all right are you all right you guys sit here we've got something for you your first ever bib numbers look at this you guys get to write your names on there okay so for the race tomorrow you get I got markers okay so you write your name and then there's one for you want red okay and then we'll just don't get it on the table there and we got a poster and papa's got to fill his race number I'm I'm bib number one because I registered first okay yeah you leave that there uh-huh good job good job okay quick gear check for the race tomorrow here we go we've got our smith attack max chroma pop sunglasses halo headband for the sweat love this thing to keep the sweat out of the eyes love that halo my rabbit singlet oh got the bib number printed and ready to rock and roll there we go uh yes it could be a little chilly in the morning and again I don't know exactly what time I'm going to start so I have these arm sleeves for just in case it is chilly some very lightweight uh Nike gloves there my polar vintage v-watch and yes for all the heart rate fans out there this will track my heart rate as best as possible through your wrist for you tomorrow and it'll end up on Strava then we've got Nike socks and Solomon socks depending again how chilly it is in the morning I usually wear my Solomon socks for trail races but if it is on the colder side I'll probably go with Solomon just because they're a little thicker than these Nike socks and then Nike shorts which I got down in Argentina and I just love them very very lightweight and last but not least the alpha flies there they are taking them out for the last run before the final review so next week stay tuned I'll get you my final thoughts after putting them through a race in a race environment even though there's gonna be nobody around me but I'm gonna uh take it take them out at speeds that are at race pace okay there you go onward and upward there's the gear hey everybody duty calls duty calls gonna call the blonde there the sun just came out I was a little worried about the weather tomorrow when the sun came out it looks like it's gonna be a nice day in the morning this is exciting congrats on your race today I mean I have to step back a little bit frankly because at what is happening through the photos the videos the stories that you're sharing all over the place with me about chasing down dreams chasing down goals and uh hitting prs it's unbelievable so congrats everyone on what you're doing what you did yesterday and what you're about to do today if you're racing on sunday dgr strong all right dgr strong okay question of the day how was your race yesterday if you race yesterday tell us a good story what happened what was the challenge that you overcame what distance did you race let us know let us know all right I can't wait to read once I get back after my race all right oh yeah 2 p.m today mountain time live in the studio 2 p.m race today and congrats to everyone that raced yesterday hey let's just sign off maybe all right here here we go all right here we go on three one two three sick beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow