 email time it's email time oh man if you sent me an email in the last 10 days 14 days apologize that I have not written back yet it's becoming a little more difficult to reply to all of them in a well-thought-out detailed way and so I need to come up with a better strategy for answering your emails so thank you for your patience but yes I'm gonna sit down now and answer a lot of your emails okay did you see yesterday's vlog about the hoka carbon rockets oh my goodness lots of thoughts lots of different opinions coming in about this shoe but all in the comments about the shoe but also about hoka in general so it's exciting it's exciting thank you for watching that if you haven't seen it upper right hand corner and then don't you worry I have not forgotten about the Reebok float ride run fast pros oh my gosh that is a mouthful but basically as soon as I bought these shoes they it snowed in Denver these are the three ounce shoes remember that very lightweight shoe and I bought them and then it just snowed and it's been kind of slushy and grimy here in Denver and I just didn't want to take these shoes out in the slush and the wet and the snow so anyway the snow is melting quickly in Denver and hope although it might snow again Thursday we will see so I hope to take these guys out by the end of the week we shall see I'm just a little old-school YouTube I'm a little old school I so this is my marathon training calendar and listen of course I love Strava love Strava love connecting with all of you onto more global running by the way oh my goodness it's blowing me away I cannot I can't even fathom how impressed I am with your training how much vertical some of you are getting it's just it's amazing it's inspiring it is inspiring but I first like to I like to start with a physical calendar you saw me inside my house writing out the training log for the next two to three weeks just plotting it out plotting it out thinking and I live I have a pencil I have an actual pencil and so I'll write something in and then kind of back up and be like meh I'm gonna move this workout over here and the reason I actually sometimes I erase things with the pencil because of the weather and so snow is probably gonna roll into Denver on Thursday of this week which means I want to try and get as much vertical early in the week for this upcoming week so it's just interesting and that is why I like to write things out on this physical calendar and I will give you a little brief update on the marathon training how it's going and how the body is reacting to the different workouts even though it's not like track workouts yet but just the vertical gain and everything else the key word today is Elton that's right Elton for Elton John why is it Elton well basically what do we do here on YouTube every Wednesday night we livestream that's right we do a Q&A and eventually we will do live interviews but again today Monday I tried I did another test with my brother it did not work who knows and I'm not gonna stress about it not gonna worry about it someday it's gonna work but in the meantime it's just gonna be you and I we're gonna be talking on this Wednesday not at night not at night because I will be at an Elton John concert with my mom that's right we bought tickets six months ago and I kind of forgot about the concert up until like two days ago and so we will not be doing a live stream this Wednesday night instead shout out to Europe we're gonna do the live stream at noon my time which is basically 7 p.m. if not base it is 7 p.m. in London I think that's about 7 p.m. in Paris maybe Madrid and then the further east you go in Europe it'll be you know 8 p.m. then 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. I don't know all the time zones in my head but so 7 p.m. or sorry noon Wednesday we're gonna do a live stream right here in the studio come back for that okay moving on and this is by the way I am in ketchup mode after the last two days of filming editing publishing about the Hoka carbon rocket today is a little bit of a down day on YouTube a little bit of a administrative day could we call it that because basically this shoe is keeping me busy a lot of comments a lot of thoughts are coming in about the Hoka carbon rocket from all of you thank you for tuning in to the vlogs over the last two days like there's a lot of opinions being shared about the narrowness of the Hoka lineup the narrow fit of the Hoka lineup the 1 millimeter drop in this shoe just a lot of opinions and so I'm trying to respond to as many of the comments as possible which means my time is a little limited as far as filming today and I didn't get to film my run in the beacon and on Strava definitely I'd say at least two or three times a week people are people are asking me about the durability and listen I don't have 200 miles in the shoe yet but I have about a hundred miles but so far so good I think one person did say after they're approaching 250 miles in the beacon and it's starting to show a little bit of wear and tear through the outsole but at a hundred miles we're still good and I mean we're talking real good and I'm gonna get you some close-up shots right now no complaints about durability through the upper or the outsole in the beacon okay and I'll keep taking this shoe further I'll get it to 200 miles eventually and we'll just keep well I'll just continue to keep you updated but so far I'm excited alright put that guy up there moving on to a couple more points t-shirts are in there there things are moving in the t-shirt world I think I said mid-February it's we're I don't know if it's gonna be quite ready by February but shout out to a vlog fan from North Carolina he reached out to this gentleman reached out to me and said hey I do graphic design work I'd love to help you with your overall branding and I'm just telling you like that was music to my ears I love video production but graphic design is not my strong point and so again shout out to this vlog fan from North Carolina he we've already spoken on the phone and we've exchanged emails and ideas are flowing as far as overall logo design t-shirt design all that good stuff so that is an update for you on the t-shirts okay and a quick update on marathon training and what I'm about to share I really don't want it to like influence what you're doing because guess what you got to stick to your game plan right you know your body you know like how your body reacts to training and I know how mine reacts to training and so as you've seen on Strava I like to build that aerobic base ridiculously big that's why I do the mountain runs like just that not going in aerobic at all just that big aerobic base at slow paces and I'm okay with that early in the training block if you're you're probably you're probably worried like Seth when are you gonna start going a little faster because guess what marathons are right you know racing a marathon those guys are fast and I realize that but I also know that I can sharpen really quickly like I can sharpen I mean I my brother and I often talk about this like I can sharpen in oh gosh like three weeks like and I'm exaggerating just a little bit but when I took third place at the pike speak ascent I literally trained for seven weeks before that race and I think that's part of the reason why I did pretty darn well is because my legs were not shot to you know what they were still pretty fresh so early in this training block for the marathon I have started so it started January 1st so we did 30 miles the first week uh sorry 20 miles the first week 32 miles the second 45 the third 51 the fourth as far as miles sorry I'm not gonna convert it into kilometers right now uh 65 miles in the fifth week and this week I hope to hit 70 miles and uh last week I was able to get 10,000 feet a vertical gain and I did notice a couple other people on the demore global running you hit you hit 10,000 as well congrats that's awesome um and I'm a big fan of using when you're training for any race really um but especially the marathon using the geographical features around you to your advantage so if you live by a beach like you can do some beach training in order to work on the suppleness of your legs and the strength of your legs I happen to have mountains by you know close by so I like using the mountains to my advantage but if you live at sea level you can work on uh turnover because you can run faster at sea level you know there's more oxygen to breathe so you can go faster so anyway that's what I like to do I love to use the mountains to my advantage and so far uh last week I think it was Wednesday was the first day that I felt sore in this training block so it took me basically 30 days exactly to feel the first onset of sore legs which means again that being as patient as possible in that ascent of volume um and what I'm doing so I started off at 20 miles the first week what I'm doing is I'm going to ascend up to 90 miles per week by early March 90 miles per week and then I'm gonna race that that mountain run in in Aspen Colorado and then I'm gonna drop back down because I know again based on experience that my body cannot hold high volume for months and months and months and the race the Cleveland Marathon is May 19th and so what I'm gonna do after early March I'm gonna drop back down to 40 miles and then climb and rest rest just reset and then climb back up again um and I will start to add speed work mid-march so basically eight weeks before the marathon uh I'll start to add speed work and when I say speed work oh my god well okay we're not gonna get into that now but eight weeks out from the marathon I'll start to work on that turnover um in workouts and then uh by early May I'll be at pretty high volume pretty high volume um will it be 90 miles a week it will be and it might even be a little higher than that so anyway that's the game plan so far I'm feeling good that's my update on the marathon and if you're racing a marathon let me know down in the comments in 2019 that'd be amazing I let me know which one and that question of the day well listen we could talk about running and running shoes every single day but I also just like to get to know all of you better and so here it is and I thought of this last night as I was putting uh the juice back into the fridge what is something unique or strange that you do in your daily routine all right or in your life or in your maybe it could be connected to running like something unique or strange or different uh for example last night I realized wait a minute every single night I go to the fridge and I take a swig of pineapple juice I don't know that's kind of strange maybe it's just like that one last injection of sugar into the blood stream for the day anyway that's something kind of unique that I do every single day and so what is something that you do I'd appreciate it down in the comments just you know whatever you want to share whatever you want to share lots lots of good stuff coming lots of good stuff coming up this week lots of good stuff see beauty work hard