 Good evening. Good evening. Are we here? Hello everybody. Let's see. Firing it up. Okay. Welcome to the studio. All right. Let me just make sure we got some audio going here. All right. I'm gonna set this down and of course let me know if you cannot hear me or if there's an echo. Let's see here. All right. How's everybody doing? Oh my goodness. It looks like people are rolling in. 55 watching already. That's amazing. Welcome everyone. Okay. The studio looks a little different, doesn't it? It's synced. Everything is good. Okay. Looking like we're sounding good. Thank you for taking a little time out of your evening or maybe your morning. If you're watching around the world and of course let us all know where you're watching from. That would be amazing. Oh my goodness. Okay. I'm gonna explain how we're gonna do this tonight here in a minute, but first let's see where everyone's from. I always like to check in and see on that. Gosh. I hope you're having a great week. I'm so excited. Look at this behind me. Look at this behind me. Okay. So we got Connecticut in the house, Justin. Let's see. El Paso, Manny. Welcome Manny. Okay. Ramon from the Philippines. Oklahoma, Dustin, Mike from Louisiana, Adam from Virginia. Oh my goodness. Hong Kong, Texas, Sweden, New Orleans, Washington. I cannot keep up. Connecticut, Minnesota, Aurora, Colorado. Yeah. Shout out to Colorado. Let's see. Wyoming, Cali, St. Louis, Louisville. Oh my goodness. Welcome, everybody. This is amazing. So it's an exciting night. It's a little, we've never done this before. The Shudio, the first shoe giveaway at the Shudio. And gosh, first of all, I'm grateful that it's working because you never know with technology. As you well know, it's always an adventure, but I think I have figured out how to do the live streaming when it's just me. Oh my goodness. Rhode Island, Nebraska, Canada, Kentucky, Australia. Oh my goodness. This is incredible. This is incredible. So welcome everyone. So exciting. And I always like to ask, how was your run today? I did five miles. Pretty easy. Yeah. Real easy. Just bopping along, getting ready for the race on Saturday. So let us know how your run was today. I hope you're healthy. Hope you're doing well on the health side of running. And yeah. All right. Oh my goodness. All right. Let me pull up a few notes real quick. And let's see. And I'm gonna, so I think I'm gonna explain, we're gonna jump around a little bit tonight. I think at the top, here's what we're gonna do. At the top, I'm gonna explain right now as clearly and as concisely as possible how we're gonna give away as many running shoes as possible tonight. And they're all sitting behind me. And then we'll jump into some topics for this evening. And so, and yes, let us know how your run went. I'll just glance over the chat for a second. Seven and a half snow trail in Cincinnati. There we go. That was from Daniel. Yeah, I believe Daniel. Let's see. Runner being eight miles easy Chad. My run was good. And I was just invited by a friend to run the Colorado Ragnar September. Well, come to Colorado. That'd be amazing. 14 miles in Cleveland. That was from Spencer. Rest today for Ben. Oh, nice. Three miles today just starting spring season. That's awesome. Kurt 95 years 101. Oh my goodness. And okay. All right. I do just have to mention before I jump into the topic of the shoes, I have not checked. Could somebody check go check how many subscribers are we at? I haven't checked since like noon today. I think we were at about 40. No, no, 60 to go until we hit 10,000. We might hit 10,000 during the live stream. That would be amazing. So somebody could you check? Let us know in the chat. That would be amazing. Oh my goodness. Welcome everybody. Okay, so here we are. If you're new, let me just take a quick quick drink here. So if you're new, just so you know, I couldn't afford to buy new running shoes about 18 months ago, two years ago. And many of you know the story. And listen, we were just on a tight budget. And so I went and bought used running shoes off of. Okay, 9955 is what Logan is saying. 9955. Okay, so about 45 to go. That's amazing. That's amazing. Maybe we can get it by the end of the night. We will see. Thank you for checking everybody. You guys are the best. Okay, so I couldn't afford new running shoes. Therefore, I bought used running shoes off of craigslist. And it was a humbling experience, you know, but listen, you got to do what you got to do. I think I picked up some Hoka Clayton's for 20 bucks. And they were slightly gently, I think they had 15 miles on them very gently used. And I probably put 500 miles into those shoes. I just put them into the into the ground, like wore them into the ground. So with the growth of this YouTube channel, which it's because of you is why this channel is growing. And I'm able to buy all these running shoes, all these boxes you see around me. I'm feeling like wow, I feel so blessed to have all these shoes now when listen, two years ago legitimately, I didn't have the I didn't have I had like two pairs, one pair had holes in them. And the other pair I bought off craigslist. And I'm just thinking to myself, why don't we help others out? Okay, and get shoes that are not being used. Okay, so these shoes right here were sent in from viewers like you that simply did not need them anymore. Or they bought a shoe and they just didn't like the fit. And so I'm just was like, this was probably three weeks ago, right? You correct me if I'm wrong. But I think three weeks ago, we pitched the idea for people to start sending me mailing me running shoes, so that we could give them away to people that will need them. All right. So that is the situation as to why we're doing this, why the shoes are behind me here. And it's amazing. I don't know. So I want to say at the top, I don't know if we're going to if we're going to give all of them away. There's quite a few shoes behind me. And listen, what we're going to do is if and here's the other thing, we have to match the foot to the shoe size. So we don't have every shoe size in the book behind me. And then we also have to match if there's a lady or a guy, like if you're a lady, those are narrower fit shoes, right? And guys shoes are usually usually a little wider. Actually, they're always a little wider. So I if if we are pulling, so what we're here's how it's going to work. We're going to put your name and your shoe size into the hat. And then we're going to draw names out. Or sorry, first, I'm going to open up a box. I'm going to tell you the shoe size. And then we're going to start drawing out names for that shoe until we hit the right size. And then if your name is drawn, and it does not match the shoe size, I will put your name back in the box. Okay, so you'll have a chance to get it to win again. Um, does that make sense? And listen, I'm we're trying to figure this out as we go. We've never done this before. So the deal is if you could basically in the chat right now and true love is listening true love is inside. She's working right now for you guys. True love. If you're listening, it is seven true love. Let's just call it it's 708 right now. Let's just call it 710 just to make it easy from 710 to 725. So you have 15 minutes to give us your name and your shoe size to get entered into the giveaway. All right. Go. So but be patient. And so what true love is going to do is she is going to she is going to write down your name, write down your shoe size, put it in the box, and then she's going to bring the names out. And then we will begin to do the giveaway in about 15 to 20 minutes approximately. So but true love 725 is the cut off. And she is listening right now. And I know she's crushing it in there. So this is so it will just do our best. And if you have a name, I'll just put this out there. If you have a name like Chris, sometimes Chris can be a lady's name and a guy's name. Okay, so maybe put w if you have a name that sometimes has crossover just so we know guy or lady. You guys are the best. I love you guys. And this is so exciting. Oh my goodness in the chat is rolling in. It's beautiful. And don't forget the super chat in case you want to ask a specific question about anything about training, about shoes, about whatever. Okay, moving on. Let's see. Okay, so we're almost to 10,000 subscribers. I wanted to check in on that. And I want to and oh my goodness there. And so just so you know, true love will put your name in if you put it in. But just maybe don't put it in like she'll go back and scroll up just so you know, just to make sure she gets everybody in. Amazing. Okay, moving on. Last week, I forgot to do a little trivia. So we're going to dive in here. All right, right? Let's do a little trivia. Okay. So and this actually was connected to last week's topic about marathon racing. And so we're I'm just going to throw out a few trivia questions. See if anybody out in the crowd has some good marathon knowledge out there. And also a little running shoe trivia as well. So who said this? And I will just say he was an American, but who can tell me said that he said this, the marathon can humbly humble you, the marathon can humble you. Who said that? Let me know in the chat. I'll be fascinated to hear if we Oh, that's awesome. Oh my God, I'm just reading the chat here. Kaylee in the house, Kevin, Jason, April, Ellison, Whitney, Brent. Oh, yeah, Brent, that's awesome. Good luck, everyone. That's amazing. Okay, so let me know in the chat. I'm not Kipchoge, not Ryan Hall. Keep going. Keep going. Oh my goodness, you guys are just the best. You're the best. Bill Rogers, there it is, Brian, Bill Rogers, that's right. He's an old school runner from the 70s, mostly. And just a stud of an American distance runner. And I forget how many times he won the New York City Marathon. Anyway, Bill Rogers, that's right. Good job. A lot of you guys are getting it. You guys are amazing. Okay. Moving on. Let's see here. Women. Next question. Women were excluded from the Boston Marathon until 1972, but that did not stop them. In 1966, this person, this lady, hid behind a bush and then jumped out to complete the run and finished unofficially in 321. Who was it? So what lady jumped out of a bush to finish the Boston Marathon in 1966? Because women were excluded back then. So let's see here. All right, let's see. I'm watching here. I'm watching here. Okay. And Michael, I might be able to get to your question in one minute. Oh, Kurt says that Bill Rogers won New York City four times in Boston four times. Okay, that's amazing. Wow, I didn't realize he did both that many. Kurt, if good, good, good job, man. All right, let's see here. Kevin said, okay, Kevin got it. But Roberta Gibbs, Bobby get, yes, man, you guys are good. Okay, I thought I was going to stump you a little bit, but nope. Okay, Roberta Gibbs, she was the lady who jumped out and that's awesome. You guys, geez, okay, we might as well just move on to the next one. Good work, everybody. Man, you guys are you guys are on the ball. Okay. This is connected to running shoes. If anybody gets this, I'm going to be very impressed. In 1972, two runner focused running shoe stores opened. Does anybody know the names of these two running shoe stores that opened in 1972 to basically ride the wave of jogging and running but just like the craze of jogging in the 70s. And I will just say both stores start with an A. I'll just give you that hint because I feel like this is a pretty tough one. Let's see here. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Okay, I'm just reading through here. Let's see. Making sure I'm not missing any questions. Alright, let's see here. Keep them coming. Keep them coming. Okay. Sorry, running shoe stores. I think I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough running shoe stores that opened. This is a very tough question. I apologize. So it was I don't know if anybody's going to get this. I will Michael athletes foot athletes foot is one of them. Good job, Michael. And this was connected to last week's topic when we focused on running shoes, especially so good work. And then the other one athlete attic. I think it was athlete action and then I thought it was athletic attic. There you go. The second one I believe it was athletic attic, but I could be wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong. But anyway, there's a little trivia for you. And okay, moving on to the second topic for this evening. And again, welcome everybody. It is race week. So for me, which is a if you watch today's vlog, you know that and it's just man, I don't think I've raced since November. And I'm glad like for me, I love racing. And I almost love it too much to the point that I realized sometimes that like for me, you need to put my thesis is that I would I lean toward putting in more training over racing, like racing too often. Now some people go the opposite direction they race, you know, every weekend. And that's, listen, it's fun to race, right? So if that's what you like to do, do it. But for me, I do like to take a good break. And this probably comes from mark wetmore and my time at CU, like we would just hunker in for like six weeks between pre nationals. And let's see the big at that time, the big 12 championships before they switch to the pack 12. And so we would just hunker in and just train and train and train and get as fit as possible and fit as possible. So I must say, it is very Oh my goodness, Robin, thank you for the update 9958. We're creeping up. We're creeping up. This is exciting. So I am excited to race this week, although it's a very relaxed race, in the sense that it's going to be a red line race. So if I don't know if you know what a red line race is like in a marathon, you can't really you can red line like the last four miles where you're like, you are just going anaerobic, and you're like, well, you're close to anaerobic, but you are in serious pain, your breathing is you're burning like that real that burning sensation in your lungs. I would say like the 800 meters is probably a red line race. But this race on Saturday is a two and a half mile race up Aspen Mountain, as most of you know. And so it's just going to be a red line race where I'm going to be burning the whole way up the mountain. And I'm hoping the competition is stiff. My brother's going to be racing. So I know it's going to be stiff. And basically, it's it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt. So today's vlog talked about tapering. And if you have any questions about tapering, now is the time to ask in the chat. And yeah, let me know if you have any thoughts on tapering or questions on tapering. I would love to answer them for you. And basically, race is like you guys know and I want to put this out there as well is anybody else racing this Saturday? Let us know in the chat and let us know the distance. Yeah, let us know the distance and maybe the terrain that you're going to be racing on. And thank you, Nate for the good luck. I appreciate that. I don't think I'll be live streaming the race, but that would be pretty cool, Robert. Let's see. Oh boy, it looks like we're creeping up here. Adrian asked what am I drinking by the way it is I know it's like this red it's a it's basically a fruit tea. I forget the official name of it for it's from Trader Joe's. It's just a nice refreshing tea that I drink basically every night because it's delicious. Let's see. Let's see here. Christian is running a 1500 meter track race this Saturday. Micah is running a two mile indoor race. That's awesome. Hoping to go sub 10. Nice, Micah. That's solid. Oh my goodness. Suzanne throwing down. Oh my goodness. Thank you, Suzanne. So, for the super chat, helping out with shipping the the shoes out to all of you. I appreciated Suzanne. That's amazing and you know, I've done the research like, yeah, it's going to cost some money but we're willing of course to do it for all of you and so Suzanne, that's a that's a huge huge blessing. So, thank you. Jude is running a 10k road race. Let's see here and Baylor's running a 3200 blue collar runner a 15k trail race next weekend. Nice. Let's see and Spencer says he his coach does not like tapering before big races. Yeah. So, as I mentioned in the vlog yesterday, basically or no this morning, one of my teammates at the University of Colorado, he he did not like to taper. In fact, he did not he usually did not taper because it felt like it's it got him off of his rhythm of of racing or of yeah, his rhythm of training and you're you get in that mode where you just like your body needs that physical exertion. So, I totally get it and yeah. Oh my goodness. I think another super chat may have come in from Andrew. Oh my goodness. Andrew, you're the best. You guys are amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for the super chat. That's amazing and okay, Andrew throwing down okay and bouncy is is running a trail half on Saturday. Nice. Okay, Suzanne national masters 8k championship in Clifton, New Jersey. Let's see and then also oh my goodness. Okay, blue collar runner $5 super chat. Thank you so much and blue collar runner has his own running to YouTube channel. You should go check it out. Thank you for that super chat. I appreciate it. Yes, it's just rolling in just rolling in. Okay, so it is let's see here. So, let's see. Scouts on or asked when are you going to New Hampshire? How did you did I tell you I was going to New Hampshire? Scouts on or I think I may have mentioned that gosh. So, the USA 25k trail championships are in New Hampshire this September or October. So, yes, I am hoping to get out to New Hampshire for that race for the USA 25k trail championships with my brother potentially. That is the goal is to do that with my brother and see if we can qualify for to go to Worlds. I mean, it's going to be really difficult because I think they only take the top six but it's got a lot of vertical gain and you know I like that. So, good question and let's see here. So, Stefan is running a trail marathon in Ohio. Awesome Stefan. Okay, let's see here. Gustavo says hello for Mexico. Fantastic content. Seth, congrats. Thank you from Gustavo. I appreciate it and as far as race week as well, I mean, oh man, like before the Cleveland marathon, I will be just so you know, like I will be not a different person but I will be like, you know, it's amazing. Like, I definitely go into that really solid focused mode and I'm not like I'm a little bit focused this week getting ready for this race but I'm not as you know, I don't know. I don't want to say worried about it but like Cleveland, it's like that race is a is a peak race, a type A race for me in 2019 and if let me know like what your mental game is going into a peak race in the chat, that would be amazing. Okay, that's a good question. So, Justin, I Justin asked, can I give an update on meeting up with fans after the Cleveland marathon? That's a perfect question because guess what? I don't think so. The race is Sunday and so there therefore Friday we fly in. I tell you what, I'm going to be focused Saturday. So, I don't think we will meet up Saturday before the race. I apologize but like I just it's just like back to that mental game. I just and not to mention just like conserving energy and not you know, anyway. So, I won't be I don't think we'll meet up beforehand but the day after the race Sunday, I'm ready to hang out in Cleveland. I don't know exactly what we will do and by the way, if you're just joining and you want to put your name in the hat, you have two minutes to go. Two minutes to go. If you already did, if you already put your name in, don't do it again because true level is cross checking everything but you have about a minute to go now. So, put your name in if you are interested in putting your and put your name in. So, therefore, after the race on Sunday, I am thinking, gosh, we could do a cool down. Yeah, if I can even walk, we'll see if I can walk. I think I'll be able to walk but it's just going to be you know, 10 minute pace cool down. If you know what it may be 11 minute pace. We'll see and therefore, oh my goodness and a quick shout out to Daniel, another super chat. Oh my goodness and JP, another super chat. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness and then from Run Travel Adventure for fun. You're amazing. Everyone, you're amazing. Thank you so, so much for supporting and like, gosh, this is this is exciting. Thank you so much. I mean, listen, I you know, we're just trying to help others is the bottom line and yeah, we're trying to help others. All right. That's it. 725, True Love, cut it off. Oh, you're amazing. James, because I love the content you produce from James. Thank you for the super chat. I appreciate it. That's amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you True Love for cutting it off. It is 725. So, now True Love is going to take her time and just go back and double check that she didn't miss anyone. So, we'll keep chatting here for a few more minutes and then she'll bring them out when she's ready. And again, thank you everyone for being here. Gosh, these super chats. Okay. So, Daniel asked through his super chat. Thank you Daniel. Can you wear your GoPro on your head during the race? Thanks again to you and Bridget for everything. Daniel, you're amazing for asking that because you're not going to believe it. In fact, I'm just going to give it away because you are here now in the live stream. I actually am going to answer this question in tomorrow's vlog but instead, I'm going to answer now usually for a 50k race, Daniel. So, if you didn't know everybody, there is a playlist on the homepage of the YouTube channel that is dedicated just to, oh my goodness, and Angie, thank you. And she says, might be seeing you all in Cleveland. Hey, let's hang out in Cleveland. Oh my god. I don't think we're going to go to sleep Sunday night. Well, we got to catch a plane Monday but this is going to be amazing. We have a party in Cleveland. So, back to Daniel. Basically, Daniel, usually I carry the GoPro in the vest when I'm doing a 50k race. Just so you know, I will not be carrying a GoPro in the marathon. Like, peak races? No. No, no, no. Definitely not. And again, and Ben, thank you for the super chat. Shout out to Ben. So, usually I carry the GoPro in the vest for 50k races, 50 mile races, but I'm not going to carry the vest on Saturday. And so, what I'm going to do instead, and I'm just going to give it away now, I went to Best Buy today and I bought a chest carrier for the GoPro. So, I love you guys. I want you to experience the race as much as possible with me. So, I am going to carry the GoPro and a lot of times what I'll do is I'll just pull out the GoPro from the vest maybe like four or five times over the course of of a 50k and I'll just film, you know, just random stuff, just film and but on Saturday, I'm going to be using those lucky uh trekking poles. So, and so, and I'm going to be digging like there's no tomorrow and so I won't be able to pull the GoPro um out of the or I won't be able to hold the GoPro because I'll have poles in my hands. Does that make sense? So, good question. Daniel, thank you for the super chat. Chesty, that's right. That's what it's called. I had I had I've never heard that term before today. So, uh let's see. Will True Love be recording the Cleveland Marathon? I think I think we'll get her the we'll get her the camera somehow. Uh let's see here. All right. Making sure I didn't miss any questions. Oh my goodness. What a uh what? Oh man, this is amazing. Will the gimbal mount on the Chesty? It will not um but uh blue collar runner. It will not but the um what was I going to say? The GoPro has the hyper smooth mode so it won't be perfect that for sure but it'll be okay but yeah it won't no it won't it won't mount. Good question. Uh butter my bread butter my bread. Emiliano, that is right. Uh let's see here. Okay, Robert says let's go butter my bread. Amen. Okay, let's see. Oh Abe, Abe. Hey Seth, just did a test run of the Cleveland Half Marathon course on Sunday. Notice there's lots of potholes. Oh boy. Something to consider when deciding on shoes. Ooh, good good. Thank you. Abe is from the Cleveland area. Abe, this is amazing. Thank you for that intel. Hmm. Hopefully they fill in those potholes before the race but I appreciate that a lot. Okay and uh will oh my goodness will thank you. Thanks for all you do. I appreciate it will for that super chat. Oh my goodness. $9.99. I love it. I appreciate oh everything helps. Everything absolutely helps. Okay let's see. Nate asks have you ever wanted to go full time and be a sponsored athlete? Nate, that's a great question and let me just take a quick drink here. By the way, I think there's over 150 people here so this is pretty exciting. Oh man, I wish we could all go for a run right now. Okay, so back to Nate's question. Nate, I really was interested in it after right after college but I must say like you got to be really really fast to be a sponsored athlete at the marathon 10k 5k distance and I just don't quite have that but I will say that for ultra running so 50k and above I um I probably could approach someone at this point and ask them to sponsor me but at the same time um as you know I enjoy running in everything so it would depend on the deal. It would depend on what was offered and so anyway I um yeah I have thought about it Nate. It's a good question but we will see on that um who knows but I'm not closing any doors at this point but at this point I'm very happy with what's happening around us right now because of all of you. Okay oh my goodness the chat is it is on fire tonight and thank you again for being here let's see so Mike asked I want to I want to hit this since we got the t-shirt on when will the new t-shirts be ready for sale Mike great question so last week we did not I hadn't even seen them yet in person so this is the next step is I wanted to make sure I like the print and the feel of the shirt and I do now this is I just want to say this is not a dry fit shirt um we will do dry fit shirts at some point meaning shirts that are you know uh basically wick away your sweat so you can really run in them I actually don't mind running especially in the winter in the fall and this is a blend shirt so it's a cotton blend it's very comfortable and um basically I'm talking with the printer tomorrow Thursday to make the final decision and oh so potentially in the next two or three days but I have a phone call with the with the printer tomorrow just so you know but anyway I'm very excited so thanks for asking Mike I appreciate it okay just making sure I'm not missing any other super chats okay true love is listen there was a lot of chats a lot of comments with shoe sizes and everything so it might take a few minutes just just you know I was I was looking out of the corner of my eye and it was they were coming in quick so okay keep the questions coming and again tonight's topics just so you know were the shoes and then race week so that's why it said race week on the thumbnail because it's race week for me so if you do have any questions about race week about tapering about anything like that let me know all right if not I'm going to jump back in here let's see so Jose asked hey Seth is it possible for a neutral runner to become a stability runner I've been running in neutral shoes for two years but now but recently I feel my left foot pronating a little bit thanks um Jose you know I would if you if you like the neutral ride I would lean in sticking in like stay in that direction of staying neutral and work on strengthening that foot and that ankle uh your left side um and see if you can bring that pronation back a little bit and it just depends on how bad it is you'll probably have to go to a shoe store and have them film your run you've maybe you've already done that um but I would I love neutral shoes I've tried stability shoes in the past um but anyway that would be my recommendation is to try and strengthen that foot and that ankle especially and maybe you can bring that pronation back a little bit um so anyway good question from Jose okay let's see here oh my goodness oh my goodness what a world you guys are the best okay let's see here have you broken in the audio audios for yet that is from MCM I have not I haven't even taken the reason why MCM again is the snow like I bought it last I got it last week and yeah we've had snow we had two storms I think in the last week and yeah so I'm just but it is melting and it's supposed to be warmer but then again I'm going up to the mountains Friday so anyway thank you for checking in I have not forgotten about the audios for very excited about that shoe okay um let's see Logan asked how do you avoid going out too fast in a race Logan I love this question because now it depends on the distance Logan I must say Logan like it helps to know a little bit of the competition around you so if you race the same people in your district or in your league um you get to know the other runners around you a lot of times you kind of know the pace that they will go out at um I usually hang back the first and you know if you're running let's say a 5k I'll usually hang back the first quarter mile and then just kind of start picking it up from there um that's what I like to do and just start because I I kind of like chasing people down and then and then let and then if I get to the to the front I'll settle at the front listen to the breathing around me listen to everybody's breathing look at everybody's strides and study you know and you just got to be observance while you're up there and be like hmm okay he's hurting okay he doesn't he's not even breathing at all I got to watch out for him and then if you get to the mile and a half mark you're like okay I might need to make a move pretty soon if I want to start to distance myself from some of these guys so anyway that's a little a little bit of my mentality and it really depends on the distance okay let's see here um let's see all right just jumping in I know I missed some questions I apologize here if I missed any okay all right we got this uh Daniel oh my goodness everyone's here okay do I like running in the air pods that's from James they're not the best best I mean they're they they're I am very interested in J birds J birds is out of Logan Utah or Salt Lake City Utah this company that makes headphones so yeah I like the air pods but um I think in really hot humid conditions they won't do so well because you'll be sweating so much um so good question okay let's see here um okay I'm gonna keep going so Nate Nate asked do I think running socks make a difference as far as comfort and feel absolutely I'm actually really um should I just tell you guys hmm yeah I'll tell you guys a company reached out to me a pretty big company that I love and I'll just say it Solomon Solomon reached out to me they're gonna send me socks in the next week to test out some new socks that that they are developing so um anyway I think that's pretty so I do love socks um I love stance I love um smart wool those are probably two favorite socks stance and smart wool and now we're about to find out if Solomon is up there as well so anyway uh good question um oh my goodness Ben ten dollars super chat thank you thank you for answering my email and giving me advice oh of course Ben and Ben we'll keep the conversation going and that's a good that's a good point you can always email me just know it might take me two days to get back to you it might take me two weeks to get back to you uh sometimes an email will fall through the cracks and listen life gets busy you know that so anyway don't hesitate to email me but you know life gets busy okay let's see here yes I love darn tough as well okay uh let's see here okay I know I missed a question a little bit above sorry if I missed one here okay from uh let's see let's see I guess from Martin here I think I missed another one from Carl I apologize Carl I'm trying there it is I'll go to Carl first except I've I have a half marathon four weeks out from my marathon uh how would you race this all out or I'm thinking six marathon pays six at half and push on the last mile so I think you're asking like how to race a half marathon call and um yeah the 50 50 rule is pretty good it's always nice to negative split that usually means you meaning you run your first half slower than your second half so um I think that's a good rule of thumb especially if you're just getting into racing and um yeah I mean I think also though if you want to be a little more aggressive if there's somebody out there that's listening that's like gosh I want to really try and hit a PR and just like podium or you know you might have to take some risks earlier on in the half marathon so push it that first you know maybe maybe go out that first two miles in pretty much in control but then from mile two to mile you know six or mile eight you're like really you're you're you're testing your limits earlier in the race then you might like to anyway that's what I did in my um that's what I did in my time trial when I went solo it's it's that video on the home page of the youtube channel I just went for it I just I knew the pace oh boy look who just walked in this is amazing honey you are amazing that is a lot of work listen I did great job for me that's okay speed yeah true love crushed it here we are putting them in boom and money in the bank bank what's that how you doing huh I love you we'll see we'll see you later oh my goodness and another one from Kaylee just came in oh my my Kaylee you're you can yeah you can close it pretty good so we're here in the studio oh my goodness true love throwing down Kaylee thank you so much for the super chat and for always commenting and Kaylee's Kaylee's crushing it in her running world and training world it's just awesome so okay let's see here let me jump back into the chat before we dive in oh my goodness okay so again um if I missed a question apologize but feel free to ask again later on after we do the shoes and the deal is this there's shoes behind me and we'll just get through as many as possible again I don't think we'll go through all of them um but we're gonna do our best and what I'm gonna do is open a shoe and then start pulling out names and then as soon as a size matches the shoe you win the shoe but then it is your responsibility to email me your address and so what I will do so my address is PO box actually I will type it here or sorry yeah not my not my PO box my email is um I'm gonna list it's listed on the home page of the desktop version of youtube on um under the about section I will also just type it in the chat right now because I love you guys but don't don't inundate me too much I love you guys you guys are the best email all right there it goes I'm putting it in um oh man and Nate gave me an update on the subscriber count 9961 thank you Nate that's exciting okay so there it is and Justin just so you know we took names the first 15-20 minutes of the live stream we will do this again Justin okay so just keep stay tuned turn on notifications for the channel so that we uh so that you don't miss another one uh oh sorry Joe Joe same with you uh it'll be next uh I don't probably not next week we'll probably wait uh we'll let more shoes come in because I'm confident more are gonna come in and I will also mention that at some point I guarantee because of the generosity of this youtube family that at some point we will have a running shoe size for basically everybody that is my prediction so like if you're a if you're a size 13 and a half like a huge foot I bet we'll have a shoe for you all right so if we don't have your shoe size you will just be patient oh my goodness oh my goodness here we go the doctor monster had five dollars super chat thank you uh you are the man just getting into running and your videos are awesome keep going super helpful info coming out of your channel man I thank you for that I'm trying to be as helpful as possible but sometimes you know you I I talk to myself all day meaning I'm talking into a camera all day and sometimes I wonder like uh is the message getting across clearly okay enough talking shall we open the first box the question is which box to open first oh my goodness okay here we go got the knife all right here we go I'm going going to the top going to the top oh my goodness oh it's okay this is really heavy this is really heavy okay I don't want to knock anything over so I just got to be oh my goodness I just gotta be a little careful here hold on um hold on everybody okay okay hold on hold on oh my goodness this is from Illinois from Earl shout out to Earl in Illinois oh my goodness let's see here thank you for your patience oh my goodness okay first pair hold on hold on let me move this hold on like I said we need a we need a warehouse everybody okay let me put this up here hold on okay thank you okay we're just figuring out how to do this here okay hold on I gotta move something okay oh man it feels like there's more than one shoe da da da da da a six gel flux three let's see what is this guy is it the I guess it's the gel flow a six gel flux three is the first shoe it is a big shoe big shoe right here okay let me open this up let me open this up what size is it 13 size 13 oh man it's your lucky day size 13 folks oh my goodness okay so now we're gonna go in here and again we're just figuring out how to do this I'm not looking I'm not looking nope I'm not looking okay hold on hold on nope I'm not looking I'm not looking oh nope size 13 is a big foot oh I'm realizing that maybe I don't want to go through all of the names hold on oh close nope that was a size 12 that was Logan Kieran nope nope oh man I'm real you know what I'm realizing that there's a lot of uh there's a lot of sizes in here okay hold on hold on everybody because I don't want to again we're just figuring this out as we go here um let's see nope okay are there any size 13s in the box that is the question and I'm actually not even seeing any here I love wow okay well we might have to come back to size 13 um because a lot of nines and tens I'm not seeing okay let me know in the chat if you are a size 13 yes in the US size US uh US size sorry I should have clarified that because UK does it a little differently US size I apologize Jordan are you a size 13 um if you are Jordan you might be the winner because I am not seeing a size 13 anywhere so okay that's a big foot and Jordan I'm you might be the winner sir because I am really not seeing any in here but if I missed one I really apologize okay there was a 13 in there there was I should have taken a picture of that thing because then I could have helped you yeah yeah yeah it was like a 12 13 towards the end okay Liam sounding right no that was a nine um yeah anyway we'll figure it out we will figure this out guys you want me to start looking that's an obscure yeah true love is gonna look um actually we're just gonna keep going here because oh my good oh my god this is a giant foot whoever is a size 13 oh my goodness these are new balance uh the new balance something I don't even know these are big new balance shoes I apologize again okay we're gonna figure this out this entire box is filled with size 13 I love you by the way hon right it's did you find one I did size 13 you're it's your lucky day will okay will get to size 13 okay will you win that first pair okay I got a 12.5 couple 12 and then okay and here's the other deal okay but then there's another pair yes you whoever sent three pairs of shoes you are amazing thank you so much um so what we're gonna do we will get these shoes out to the basically the first I'll go back and check the chat so Jordan was one and basically the people that that commented yeah okay because I think there must have only been one I only saw I'm glad we found one okay amazing thank you everybody okay hun so fun I'm gonna put the name in the shoe well that's smart and then okay so will will you gotta email me Jordan you gotta you gotta email me and tell them what to put in the email of like what shoe number 213 number 313 yeah which shoe I pulled out for you exactly so the second the second green new balance will be Jordan and then the third gray new balance let me find it real quick here all right we're gonna move on too because we want okay so MCM MCM you are the second person okay MCM second person you get the the next pair of new balance shoes okay moving on that that was amazing good job true love finding that 13 all right take that and then I'll take that back all right um yeah you just throw no you can you can you can yeah yeah all right let's move on card okay perfect all right so don't hesitate of course email me again and send me your address and which shoes you won okay that's good all right here we go next that was a lot of shoes and a lot of big shoes all right uh-oh uh-oh these look like brand new shoes by the way these are straight from running warehouse okay what color box is that you know what color box that is oh my goodness oh my I have no clue I have no clue brand new Nike shoes what size will they be you guys are the best oh yes pegas I don't even have to look pegasus 35s because I have this color Nike pegasus 35s okay who's it gonna be what shoe size oh my goodness here we go the moment oh my goodness us 8 uk 7 euro 41 26 centimeters so us size 8 all right I'm going down just to see how everybody's doing in the chat this is amazing all right who's going to win the Nike pegasus 35s Nike pegasus 35s size 8 I know I definitely saw size 8 so here we go all right nope nope nope sorry one sec nope hold on nope close nope hold on all right thank you for your patience everybody hold on hold on okay true love I might need your help again I apologize hold on we're looking here size 8 where are you oh there we go winner winner chicken dinner okay we got it mario mario is the winner okay mario email me your address we'll put this in the shoe Nike brand new Nike pegasus 35s going to you mario congrats it's amazing oh my goodness okay okay okay I found it but you come in come in you might just stay true love's going to help all right you hold that okay got it is that okay all right moving on here oh yes yes the studio needs okay next shoe next shoe oh boy it's another big one it's from washington from jonathan thank you jonathan oh my gosh this shoe is huge it's an asix and you guys actually saw this the other day it's an asix gt 2000 size 13 oh my god we got one oh my goodness okay here we go size 13 asix gt 2000 send me your address Trent Giles Trent Giles you win the asix gt 2000 congrats oh my goodness okay we're gonna we're gonna just keep going because we've got okay kind of a big deal the one and only cofusie sending shoes that's right cofusie sending shoes for the giveaway shout out to cofusie oh my goodness uh let's see here okay moving on let me just open this let's see let's see here hold on so these are from chicago illinois oh man i see the box and i might have to have you send these out here in a second that box oh hoka from cofusie uh oh here we go i actually don't even know what shoe size he is all right oh there the clifton's yes clifton fives remember they re-release the clifton fives that's so interesting cofusie thank you for sending the shoes and what size shoe is cofusie i don't even know let's see here oh yeah they put it on the side in the hoka shoe size nine size nine okay who's it gonna be true love grab the first one is that a boy or girl does it matter um hum hum uh hum don uh see oh my goodness so sorry you could just show it hamdan say i'm so sorry hum don siakiri on size nine so sorry i i cannot i didn't pronounce your name correctly email me your address hum don siakiri um size nine you win the hoka clifton fives that is amazing isn't this exciting okay that was fun all right shall we move on okay i think we'll do i think we're gonna do two more okay yeah so we're gonna save a few for next week well we'll see we'll see we might be two more boxes but it looks like one of the boxes has a bunch okay too love thanks for helping oh yeah should we clarify like if you you don't email set by x amount of time we'll just draw out of this box yeah the next size yeah email me like tonight like right now or i would say by tomorrow yeah um pick a time yeah by yeah noon tomorrow noon tomorrow if not you're gone if not we're gonna we're gonna throw it back in the ring uh for next time and then also um i probably won't be able to ship them out because i'm going to the mountains probably till when i get back so just so you know okay next pair oh yeah here we go straight from running warehouse brand new shoes this is beyond exciting beyond oh by the way 182 people here and jason thank you for the update 9963 i'm just gonna say it can we get to 10 000 by the time we sign off oh my goodness that would be amazing all right here we go boom sokeny oh i love this shoe all right are you ready here we go oh aren't those nice oh my goodness whoa it's the kenvara nine sokeny kenvara nine honestly it um okay it is a men's shoe i just wanted to check it almost looks like a lady's shoe but i just checked it is a men's shoe size eight size eight sokeny kenvara nine okay first one pulled out robert's you get it robert congrats robert okay robert flores email me your address that'll be amazing so exciting congrats robert the sokeny kenvara nine is yours brand new shoe i actually i want i want to buy this shoe in 2019 okay that was good all right here we go hold on hold on all right let me just check in with the chat okay here i think we're good okay isn't this fun okay you all are amazing that's right oh my goodness everyone's great great great great okay yes hosay says true love you're the real mvp that is right okay so i'm gonna i'm gonna actually set this box aside okay i want to open this box because i think um and i'm just gonna say in the chat right now how many ladies are here watching because i think this box is lady's shoes we will see i don't know but i i just have this feeling here hold on okay one second so fun okay let's see oh my goodness what's it gonna be you two family what's it gonna be okay okay oh my goodness okay here we go new balance new balance is the next one oh my goodness here yes you're gonna recognize it baby blues in the house this this is the lady's version so if you could find a lady's a lady's size eight and a half lady's size eight and a half by chance they didn't say what i assume it's men's um yeah assume it's men's oh my goodness you know that this is one of my favorite shoes of 2018 and for recovery runs just kind of that easy day run but a very you could use this for a lot of different a lot of different types of runs but i love this shoe oh my goodness and i believe this is from an avid viewer of the vlog you know who you are thank you so much uh so the baby blues eight and a half ladies let's try and find a lady's fit not an eight and a half down to eight eight and a half but i'm it didn't specify here's some eight eight and a half but they don't specify yeah that must mean it's men's yeah because if their name oh oh i got one maybe britney britney britney wagner britney uh britney you got look right yes absolutely britney you get it uh there you go okay baby blues for britney congrats britney that is awesome email me your address and we will get these off to you okay oh my goodness i know so if i know we are running out of room here in the studio hunt i know it's a this is a workout thank you for helping okay here we go all right another bop another oh my goodness soccany oh my this is so exciting this uh this is so exciting britney so you can wear eight and a half okay if you can they are yours email me your address oh man next shoe soccany let's see here oh yeah the fast twitch oh the soccany fast twitch this is a racer you can use you could use this for fast workout look at that color by the way you could use it for workouts and for racing absolutely okay let me set this down get you a size here okay holy smokes these are eight and a half as well women's women's women's so but you know what they are wide i believe they are wide right correct me if i'm wrong you know who you are out there watching so if they are wide that means a guy could probably wear them they look like i it looks like i i could fit in this guy pretty good um nice amazing it's a four millimeter offset in this um this is amazing soccany fast twitch i think it must be the gosh because i think they're on the eighth iteration right now of this soccany fast twitch i'm not sure if it's which which iteration but anyway um this is amazing okay let me know that would be amazing um okay if you don't hunt if you don't actually we've got yeah let me i've got some like men but i okay okay so let's is running weeb a boy or girl tell us um i think yeah i i don't think so yeah okay so we're gonna go with we're good uh you can't if we can't find one in there that's okay we're gonna go with abry okay yes we're gonna go to abry abry was in here somewhere abry was in there abry you yes she was abry pickered yep yes i wrote her down okay sorry abry i couldn't find you abry pickered you get the soccany fast twitch oh it looks like it's the seven maybe great shoe great uh tempo shoe race shoe uh 5k 10k abry you are the winner oh my goodness okay we're gonna do one more okay one more i know sorry oh so you are okay here we go one more oh my goodness and by the way there's 186 watching oh my goodness we should have a party sometime in the studio okay what's it gonna be what's it gonna be there we go oh yeah oh nelly another pair of nikes in the house i actually know which ones these are pegasus 35s again but these are big big big big so if you have a big foot it is your lucky night okay so big shoe size let me get you true love the size okay not as big as the 13 thankfully size 11 size 11 true love is digging through the box to find the size 11 oh my goodness butter my bread butter my bread i love the color oh my goodness size 11 nike pegasus 35s uh gently used these are not brand new but i know they are gently used this is amazing okay size 11 who's it gonna be jesse carter jesse carter you win yes i believe so oh yeah jesse can be a lady's name as well as you know so um let us know but i think jesse i bet yeah i bet it's a guy yeah yeah because size 11 oh yeah anyway so exciting that was amazing and listen um we're gonna do more okay so jesse carter email me your address we will ship these off to you same with abry and hun thank you for helping i'll take the box and you'll let you get back inside and uh so fun that was amazing three cheers for true love okay so that was amazing um okay so yeah jesse make sure you get me your address i mean i'm just like to the moon right now thank you so much and we did not get through we're not going to go through all the shoes i want to basically save some for the next time we do this but we did pretty good right there i would say right we just did pretty good the studio is a mess now uh so let me just jump into the chat here i hope everyone you're so welcome jesse you are so welcome oh amazing amazing amazing uh we're gonna do this again and ladies and gentlemen uh i'm on a little i'm on a little bit of a high right now i um let me know uh that was awesome so fun let me know if you have any questions for me open q and a now we've been going for an hour i always like to check in at the one hour mark this was our first shoe giveaway from this point forward any other questions um that come in i will answer bottom line that was a lot of fun and at some point we will have a bigger space we will have more room to lay out all the shoes and we'll be a little more organized we'll come up with maybe a little better system for drawing out the names uh but that was absolutely amazing so so fun yeah let me know if you have any any other questions here um and i will dive in and answer them uh let's see could be a potluck party says chris that is right chris um let's see uh let's see here so johnny what's up is that we just gave it we just did a shoe giveaway and again thank you everyone for being here tonight um so just seppy just to answer he asked how do i get my name in the hat next time oh man mike you're amazing uh thanks i will shift mike just did a super chat i appreciate it so much and uh oh 9 9 6 5 on the subscriber count thank you swap neil for the update there basically um oh my goodness check the super chat let's see did i miss one here i know the super chats are are streaming in quite a bit here um goodness i uh if i missed one i apologize but definitely there might have been one that came in uh let's just see here real quick it's a little bit difficult to find sometimes i must say um so if i missed a super chat maybe just let me know somehow anyway bottom line you all are the best okay let's see here um uh let's see what is your favorite uh shoe for racing on trails i am a solemn guy joey but i that's like aggressive trail shoes just so you know aggressive trail shoes the solemn s lab sense six or seven s g is like my fat my favorite trail racing shoe um okay diving back in here larry says heading to colorado in may what will the trails look like larry they will be good they might be a little muddy um but they should be drawing starting to dry out usually march and april the trails are really muddy in colorado may may should be heading toward dry so good question larry oh my goodness okay maybe i missed susanne's super chat okay let me just see if i can find this here oh my goodness okay ncm please put this toward shipping set you're the best oh you know you're the best okay i'm going to go back here real quick and see if i can't find that super chat it's just really sometimes a challenge to figure out uh there we go here we go it's coming it's coming okay susanne okay the beacons are wide the fast twitch seven are normal thank you so much susanne for that clarification so i will make sure i let the person know thank you thank you thank you uh uh thank you for that for that clarification uh very good i'll let the person know and okay so diving back in here natalia asked i was confused on how to put my name in the hat so i didn't i didn't this time how would i do it next time though i need shoes for track i've never had real running shoes before oh natalia so here's what we're gonna do so i'll explain it again real quickly is that basically we will take everybody's names in the first 15 to 20 minutes of the live stream and then um and erin thank you for the super chat gosh oh you're gonna bring me to tears you guys gosh thank you so much i mean we're uh we're just trying to support each other and you guys are inspiring me so thank you erin okay that's amazing another $10 super chat um so natalia you'll put your name in the hat the first 15 to 20 minutes in the chat box and then we will put the names into a hat like we did tonight but eventually we'll we might come up with a little different system you know what we should do true love if you're still listening we'll have like separate uh cups for like size eight all the size eights in one cup all the you know like little red um uh dixie cups whatever they're calling then just pull out like okay size seven size you know we'll have like cups it will draw from there something like that anyway got a little confusing but hopefully that answers your question natalia and when we'll do this again who knows will it be next week i don't know we'll see what shows up at the peel box moving forward okay let's see jared asks boston 2020 jared i tell you what yes jared i want to hit boston or new york city in 2020 if i could hit new york city this fall that would be amazing i don't you know it's it's it's tough to get into as you know um okay blue collar runner is heading out oh thank you so much for tuning in and for that two dollar super chat that's right onward and upward and blue collar runner is a fellow runner and youtuber so go check him out um so let's see bridget said in the future maybe contestants just put just one size and not a range yeah that's that that would help that would help okay when you put a range it's a little difficult to know anyway but that's a good point uh true love um let's see here so let's see okay and noah said hey sef just wanted to say thanks for your videos for helping to motivate me through a recent battle with anemia and get back on track for boston 2019 nice noah that's awesome so you'll be racing boston in like a month almost you know a little over a month congrats and anemia is serious so good good work figuring that out and we uh keep us updated on how it goes for you i'm gonna we're gonna do a live watch party for the boston marathon you better believe it we're gonna do a live watch party oh it's gonna be fun so we'll be cheering you on noah um and casper gave an update nine nine six six we're creeping up we're creeping up uh that's right on the subscriber count thank you so much and uh let's see jared says i'd love to meet up at the cleveland expo at the marathon absolutely we're gonna uh we're gonna make some things happen okay and so i guess if i don't know how many are still tuned in but i will just mention right now as soon as so we're gonna hit 10 000 subscribers either tonight or tomorrow morning it's gonna happen so that means we're gonna do another shoe giveaway and that is me in gratitude and thanksgiving for what's happening here um so i'm glad somebody pointed that out in the chat and yes i'm gonna choose one so if you're in high school turn it listen up real quick you can email me if you are really in a difficult situation and you if you and you cannot afford new running shoes like you are it's like really tough and you you've been running in the same shoes for six months or 12 months or like i've gotten three emails so far like that email me tell me your story i will put your name in the hat once again and we're gonna do one pair of shoes for a lady one pair of shoes for a guy and i'm gonna buy you brand new running shoes so that is gonna happen as soon as we hit 10 000 subscribers um so that'll be amazing um okay let's see what race are you most looking forward to that's from joey oh joey that's a great question like it's actually the pike's peak ascent i know it should be the marathon but i am traditionally a mountain runner i think that's where my main strength is i'm really excited to race the cleveland marathon but i must say like the pike's peak ascent is gonna be a doozy oh i can't even think about it it gets me too excited so good question um harzan asks hey sath do you know how a sprinter can best transition to a long distance runner aiming for my first half marathon on april 228th yeah wow so that's pretty quick um gosh i mean that's a that's a quick you know turn around hopefully you've been running a little bit um right now and a sprinter to a long distance runner the easy answer is you got to run further the more difficult answer is that um you got to make sure you don't get injured because if you're a sprinter that's used to doing short sprints and training a lot i have seen it time and time again where runners will increase their volume too quickly and you'll get injured like sometimes the stress fracture in your bones so i don't want to scare you but i just want you to know like i would not increase your volume too quick before april 28th make sure you're going up real slow in volume but the best way to get better and ready for a half marathon is to um is to increase your your your your running i if you could get up to a 10 mile long run before april 28th that'll get you the ticket that'll you'll get across the finish line it might hurt the last three miles but that'll get you there so i would try to work up to a 10 mile long run but i don't know your history so you got to take that with a grain of salt okay man i don't even know let me just jump back over to the main youtube channel here i'm just going to check in on the subscriber count real quick and i know the live stream i know the chat is coming in coming in quick and it's amazing okay 9968 this is so exciting okay let me just jump in here okay so there's still 124 watching thank you for sticking it out um yes that is how the cali got a stress fracture that is right justin um okay so oh my goodness this is so fun okay so still 125 watching amazing and i'm just going to make sure i'm not missing any other questions here and then we're probably going to sign off in the next couple of minutes um we've been going for an hour and 20 yeah almost an hour and 20 minutes and believe it or not um my legs are getting tired from standing so you know you know how it goes uh all right so i've got my i need a little here let's see okay let's see here um what shorts are in my racing in this weekend from zeke well zeke i will be racing in tights because it's going to be like long tights because it's going to be freezing uh it starts at seven it's probably i bet it's about 10 to 15 degrees at the start and it'll be in the the mountain will be in the shade so it's going to be freezing so i'll be in long it's going to be real cold so good question though um and let's see so uh what were my high school prs that's from icon fiction basically i was not incredibly fast in high school and i've told this story before and this might be one of the last answers but basically um i think i could have been pushed harder especially my senior year as far as training goes i wish i would have been running a little higher volume and um so i really did a lot better in college but basically 16 27 10 0 5 4 46 you know good times good times but you wouldn't necessarily expect those times to walk on to the university of colorado's cross country team so i had a long so i basically trained myself for a year and a half i just i i figured it out i increased yeah i just trained myself and i eventually walked on to the university of colorado's cross country team good question there's a vlog go go look on the home there's a vlog go watch that vlog i explain all my prs and how i uh got them so okay so let's see here i'm going to put my email one more time in the chat so everybody that won shoes can email me your address and i will i'm just going to say now we're going to eat we're going to mail out the shoes on uh i'm just going to say it's going to be on monday because tomorrow i's a busy busy day and then friday i leave for the race so i won't have i won't have time so we will mail them out on monday that is it i love you guys you're the best thank you for being here i think that was probably the most exciting live stream to date and we will do this this shoe giveaway again and bottom line seek beauty work hard and love each other sound good sound good t-shirts will be available soon t-shirts to be available soon oh my god you guys are you guys are blowing me away just making sure i'm not missing any more super chats okay i think we're good