 and yes the story continues um i'm very intrigued there she is whisking her away we're whisking her away we're picking up copies first that's okay thank you thanks you too ciao ciao i'm back yeah yes from new york and i just gotta say uh shout out to the 40 000 subscribers we just we just passed but if true love had her own youtube channel you know we would have she would have two million subscribers everyone in central park in new york said seph we love you but true love we really love so i love you too i love you too send her the love down in the comments it's true love's birthday so we're off to a little getaway to celebrate whisking her off best day of the year best day of the year and then yes we'll talk about the Olympic trials qualifying later today seph had to fit all of his races around my birthday yeah he's amazing you know thanks for doing that that's how we roll but uh anyway huh next year new york city marathon yeah okay we'll come run run in central park true love's gonna come and say hi to everyone yes and uh so we'll bring the boys yes that'll be perfect thanks for coming out we'll see you next year first sunday in november first sunday in november perfect put it on the calendar put it on the calendar we'll be there boom all right see you in the mountains when we see you or when we see you when we see you and in the mountains and we made it we made it everyone okay diving into the question about the olympic trials qualifying time 2 19 or or is there another option we're gonna talk about that in a minute but first a lot of people are being uh very astute in their observation of this daily vlog so in the new york city marathon you probably noticed how a lot of you noticed and you're commenting how did seph get those shots out there on the course and in the past when i've done ultra races i wear a vest and so in order to bring you along the journey of of running a 50k 50 miler i wear a vest and i carry a gopro but this gopro is actually a little heavy and it's kind of bulky it probably weighs about um about the a little heavier than like your your cell phone your your smartphone just a little bit i would say it's just a guess therefore uh a lot of people are asking how did i film the starting area and at the new york city marathon i got a couple shots out on the course and then crossing the finish line so here you go say hello to my little friend oh my goodness the insta 360 go a brand new camera that frankly everyone is going to make waves in the uh i would say in the running uh community moving forward uh look so it weighs 20 grams and if you like what is 20 grams way way i would say it weighs about um it almost feels like two quarters you know if you have two quarter like two coins two quarters in your hand it almost feels about that weight very lightweight so i just slipped this into my shorts and couldn't resist bringing you along and i didn't i only pulled it out i pulled it out i think twice on the course i got those starting line footage it was just epic so but of course what actually really really made the vlog was everyone out there cheering and filming from the from the sideline with their iphones with their go pros that's what really made the new york city marathon vlog in my humble opinion i would i put it in a top 10 vlog maybe ever on this channel so thank you again you all made it happen okay let's move on here to the olympic trials qualifier questions i have some thoughts to share i have notes here that i'm gonna glance at oh my goodness so let's just reflect real quick and by the way i'm in the hotel room true love is down at the spot for her birthday um so i'm getting this done while she's down there and here we go first of all on twitter today kyle shout out to kyle he sent me a message uh and i actually ended up i think i retweeted it because it's so relevant to today's uh conversation about how do i track down an olympic trials qualifying time so i tweeted this one year ago all right i sent this out i said if you have a dream make sure you are relentless in pursuing it you know relentless what does that mean relentless in pursuing it all right it's like persistence patience consistency uh sacrifice that's kind of what i think of when i hear relentless so if you have a dream make sure you are relentless in pursuing it because it's going to be hard that's what i tweeted about a year ago according to kyle thank you kyle for bringing that to my attention and oh how relevant it is to this this uh this dream and this pursuit of a two hour and 19 minute marathon or a one hour and four minute half marathon that's right we're going to talk about that one second so i tried to qualify for the olympic trials in the cleveland marathon in may of this year 2019 didn't even make it to the starting line healthy that was the first attempt to go under the the two hour 19 mark ended up with a stress reaction in my left foot um here i am rehabbing in the pool uh just trying to be patient and stay positive and we made it through together and back then you know there was i don't know maybe 10 to 15 000 people subscribed to the channel so a lot of people don't know that part of the story so that was back in april and may when i was rehabbing from that injury because of that i had to find another marathon and i was thinking to myself okay what's the fastest flattest sea level marathon i could find boom amsterdam all right go to amsterdam my first marathon ever on the roads ever go out chasing some pacemakers you know the story there and ended up with a 106 53 first half went into oxygen debt built up too much lactic acid in my legs paid for it later at about mile 18 and kind of hobbled to the finish into the old olympic stadium in amsterdam trying to once again chase down that 219 ended up with a 223 37 you know the story there um so then um someone who will remain anonymous in the greater new york area uh heard the story about my mom and not being able to race the new york city marathon because of that accident and she was able to get me in and this was a once in a lifetime i considered it a once in a lifetime opportunity because it's so difficult to get into really any big big city marathon but especially new york um so i jumped on it i just and i have no regrets going to new york meeting all of you in central park and of course running the new york city marathon what oh my gosh it's been a whirlwind two days ago in the five boroughs of new york city uh run 220401 and as i said yesterday i think if my pacing plan of new york would have been applied to amsterdam i think i'd be i'd get really really close to that 219 mark i really do i think it would have been not the exact but if i would again go out in 110 maybe 10950 in amsterdam so three minutes slower than what we did go out in i bet things turn out much much better in amsterdam but water under the bridge and now we move on to the question will i chase down this olympic trials qualifying time with uh december well okay no let's say november december january jan you know february so the olympic trials race is late february in atlanta georgia time is of the essence and there's really only two more options left at least in the united states to get this done and uh yeah let's just say it right now i'm not giving up you better believe it you can probably hear it in my voice there's no way and that's what the tweet said you've got to be relentless in pursuing it meaning like i said consistent persistent um patient oh there you go patience um i was a it stung a little bit in amsterdam i'll be hot like i was i thought i would i was gonna do it there a lot of lessons learned today patience patience patience therefore the two other options is cim which i'll say what the what what is that race i'll explain in a minute and houston okay so cim i don't feel like you don't know the running world because i didn't even know what cim meant like three years ago so cim is the california international marathon which is held this year oh man on december 8th in less than a month cim in calif in sacramento and then really the last option is the houston marathon or half marathon on january 19th of 2020 so we're looking at um two months and some change okay so let's call it let's call it 10 weeks uh roughly 10 weeks until houston so here we go i i don't want to race cim i need a break okay all right so we're gonna talk about that more later this week but i'm gonna race the world mountain running championships next week and i need a break i need a break i just can sense it i can feel it two marathons in two weeks i need a break so cim you're gonna have to really convince me down in the comments that cim is the one to do um and that is going to be the question of the day here in one second and then houston i'm in true i'm that's well that's the last opportunity so that's january 19th both races are sold out cim and houston so here you go 106 53 through the halfway point in amsterdam could i now let's just round up to 107 could i cut three minutes off of my amsterdam half marathon time in a marathon race in houston meaning if i race the houston marathon in january that would be three marathons in basically three and a half months that's a lot that's a lot i'm not i'm no dummy i know that's a lot you don't do that it's it's risky i'm healthy right now i'm grateful for that you know but october november december january okay so you know three and a half to four months three marathons so therefore and this is what i'm gonna lean into you and this is um i'm not afraid like i'll listen to your thoughts i'll listen to your opinions at the end of the day it's my gut decision but we're a family you're on this journey with me somebody commented the other day or they basically the gentleman said like wow the plot thickens the draw like the story continues and so i appreciate your insight and i will read your comments i'm not saying i'll be able to respond to them all um but at the end of the day i'll make the decision therefore um what are your thoughts and i know i don't usually ask this question this type of question of the day and thanks for your patience as i just kind of hash this out but i'm out you're you're on the journey question of the day should i race would you race however you want to think about this mold us over um i'll just say cim houston and what distances okay half full now i get it 104 for half marathon is 452 a mile what and then the marathon as you know is 517 518 a mile in order to qualify for the olympic trials that's a pretty big difference um so that's a question of the day thank you for answering i know i just kind of spilled a lot on to you but i'm processing and mulling as i'm just sitting here with all of you uh and i'm excited and yes the story continues um i'm very intrigued about 104 i'm very intrigued it's fast i'm no i i know my training would have to change i know i would have to do a lot more speed work um i know that but i'm intrigued i'm very intrigued to cut three minutes or or run another marathon pace it really well i i guarantee there would be a pack of because that's like the last chance i i would there be a pack of guys chasing 518 a mile both are sold out thankfully there's some connections out there to houston that we're working on that and i might in order to sneak in but there's no guarantee of that either if you have a connection let me know um so i love you that's that uh thanks for giving true love her love down in the comments on her birthday i'm going to call it there and um yeah you guys rock so bada bing bada boom bottom line relentless we're not giving up all right everyone i guess i'll stop there we will uh you know what we'll throw it back on the right to another blog where i actually start talking about i think six months ago the olympic trials process and then um give you some thoughts on the left uh leading into the cleveland marathon just to show you how long this journey has really been you guys are the best see beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow