 straight to threshold and interval days in the training that would be more of an issue. There it is. There it is. Okay. Oh week eight. Marathon training has begun. I'll talk to you about my run here in a minute. Getting my tea in me. Still getting over this sickness but I can feel it dissipating. So this is a good sign but on my run today I just could not stop like the entire run. I was thinking about the strides and the foot strike and the overall competition that I was able to witness in the streets of Atlanta, Georgia on what was it? Saturday? Yeah Saturday. I just I don't know. I just I couldn't stop thinking about it and in the resolve that we all put ourselves through to train for a marathon and then to put some of these runners like some of them have second jobs and third jobs like not all the runners are most of the runners were not sponsored athletes that train full-time just in running and so to see that sacrifice on the faces of these runners and the commitment and some incredible stories that I didn't even mention in yesterday's recap vlog is Molly Seidel. I forgot to mention this. She took second place. She's going to the Olympics. She that was her first marathon ever ever in her entire life. She qualified in the half marathon was it in January or was it December? I read it. I can't remember. It was like she just qualified a month or two ago for these Olympic trials and now she punched her ticket to Tokyo and she was a very very successful NCAA athlete and then had some challenges after college and she's back and she's back with a vengeance and she's going to be representing the United States of America. I mean that is one of the best stories I think out of the entire weekend. Another kind of more funny story is I heard this from Bernard Legatte is that he was running running running in the big group of guys crushing it doing well kind of packed up in the pack and because of that huge pack that Jared Ward had talked about those 50 runners at the front of the guys race at 211 pace it's still like mile 14 mile 15 it was difficult to negotiate the water bottle stations and so there was a moment in the race when Legatte was like hey you hey hey you you took my water bottle you took my water bottle and sure enough somebody grabbed the wrong bottle and it was Legatte's bottle but here's the spirit of competition somebody next to Legatte said hey guess what where he said hey Legatte what are you drinking in your bottles and Legatte said I'm drinking the Morton mix M-A-U-R-T-E-N that's what I use in my bottles and the guy said that's what I'm using and so they shared a bottle because if you miss a bottle as I experienced in Amsterdam it's kind of a big deal it can really mess up your race if you're not getting enough drink mix inside you throughout the 26.2 miles so I thought that was an amazing story as well like competitors helping each other just you know even though they're competing against each other they're willing to help each other like that example so alright everyone week 8 marathon training has begun 13 miles today 730 a mile and we're out in the studio do forgive me if you can hear a noise in the background they're working on the pipes in our street it's just outside the front of our house so if you hear a noise that's what it is it's to my ear it's really loud but hopefully the microphone is not picking it up all right Hoka Elevon 2 I forgot to mention was the shoe of choice today which puts us I think we're at like 58 miles so over 50 miles so full review for the Hoka Elevon 2 will be coming sooner rather than later all right everyone training block 14 week training block 98 days we are halfway through it's hard to believe that it's seven weeks have already gone by so today Monday when you're watching this on Tuesday yesterday was the half what was the beginning of the second half of this Homburg all right please help me please help me down to the comments is it I always was taught it's Homburg Germany but it is it Hamburg I always say Homburg I don't know I know hamburger is the is how an American would usually say let me know down the comments now last week here we go hold on so here's the here's the pyramid alright so we did six weeks of aerobic engine building the base of the pyramid the foundation building last week week 7 was supposed to be the beginning of tempo days for two to three weeks two to three okay so it didn't happen why did it not happen I got pretty darn sick last week it was just the body said no the body was I uh-huh we are not going faster than I think my fastest run was probably 650 a mile and tempo runs for me or closer to that six-minute pace and so that means I'm going to lose or I already lost one week of tempo workouts for this training block and I'm okay with that that is why I put ranges two to three weeks three to four weeks now if I were to lose all three weeks of tempo for some reason it goes straight from aerobic engine straight to threshold and interval days in the training that would be more of an issue okay so I feel like my health is returning I'm actually last night I slept really well finally I think I was out for eight hours straight that hasn't happened for over a week basically since Henry was born and so tonight I'm hoping once again to get another like solid eight hours of sleep and if I can do that I bet this cold is gonna is gonna dissipate for good which means I can begin the tempo work this week and in addition I know I keep harping on this weather it's supposed to be in the 50s and 60s this week in Denver Colorado oh I am so ready and again I think it'll help me feel better I think it'll help my legs warm up a little better instead of having to put on layers and layers of clothing you know the drill in the winter time now I also want to address one other thing okay and this is this connects to why I coach myself and why I don't hire a coach and why I like yeah well yeah let me just pull it out here so I have decided whoa so this this poster board got wet out here in the studio sorry about that but this was from a long time ago and this is the overall volume for the marathon training block okay I have decided for now not to do a down week all right remember the down week I was gonna drop in volume here's what's crazy everyone I feel amazing like my legs are at I did a 22 mile long run last week and then I hit 110 miles last week and that was the second week in a row at 110 miles and I feel amazing I don't even know like oh I know exactly what's going on I'll tell you what's going on and this connects to Jim Walmsley okay so Jim he ran in the Olympic trials qualifying race on Saturday he is an ultra runner so he does 100 mile races 50 mile races and just crushes them and he came back in distance to the marathon and getting ready for the Olympic trials qualifier he decided to test out some Japanese style training meaning he was running a 175 miles a week and maybe even 180 a week I think it was 175 that he capped off at and a lot of Japanese training programs emphasize high high volume and so for me and my training in this marathon training block I feel great and you know why I'm not running vertical everyone it's insane last summer when I was getting ready for Pike's Peak like I was doing 100 miles a week 110 miles a week but I was also doing 8 to 10 to 12,000 feet of vertical gain in one week up in the mountains so right now as an ultra runner because you know I trained for 50 mile races in 2018 one year or two years ago I was doing 30, 35 even 40 mile long runs getting ready for 50 mile and 100 mile races so now just when you see my runs on Strava like it's it's all about context and putting in a perspective your training and your experience and your history of volume intensity surfaces that you're running on and so for me I feel amazing and I've decided not to do a down week in volume for now maybe it'll happen next week or the next week or the next week I don't know but I'm just listening to the body and so far like my legs are ready to rock and roll is probably because they're starting to get pretty strong with a high volume like a hundred plus miles a week and no fast stuff yet okay so I think we're ready and geared up and ready to rock and roll soon in this week 8 training block maybe Wednesday I'm just being flexible with this with this cold and sinus that I'm struggling with and just to connect it back to Wamsley real quick is that he I think his training getting ready for the trials race and the high volume like yeah that was hard for him but like he's experienced so much difficult racing over the past four to five years and difficult training with high vertical gain like I think that 175 it wasn't easy by any means but I think it's again it's just putting it all into perspective yeah to understand what he was going for and so at this point halfway through how do I feel about the first seven weeks of training I'm gonna go in like a 7.8 or 7.9 out of 10 overall I actually feel pretty good about it I would I would like to be a little more consistent with the plyometrics with his sickness and then Henry and just like life in like going to Atlanta all these little things that just kind of take you out of your normal routine so that's one thing I want to continue to commit to and then of course the tempo runs bring those in threshold runs are gonna be getting sooner rather than later but I'm very pleased obviously I'm healthy I don't have any injuries and I'm running over 100 miles a week pretty consistent this is gonna be the third week or fourth week I think third week of 100 miles plus a week so oh overall very grateful and yeah so we shall see again what day of this week that I hopefully can bring tempos in alright everyone there's that recap of week eight vlog's not over let's go inside check in with the family hope you had a great weekend oh oh my goodness what a weekend it was this little guy oh precious there's a piece of paper this is a book there you go you guys pick all that up sandals yeah okay everyone we are cleaning up the house getting ready for dinner and we're gonna call it there first of all though thank you for spreading the word about the blog from Atlanta and the Olympic trials definitely the best as far as the video is just going crazy it's spreading all over and people are sending me messages to send me emails so thank you so much for helping spread it and this is a daily running vlog with life sprinkled in as well alright we're gonna toss it back to yesterday's a recap blog from the Olympic trials right there click right there and we love you all keep coming around right Joseph right alright see beauty her 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