 But we also talk about life and since we're all in our houses, our apartments, our condos, is that True Love and I, we're going. All right. Marathon training week 13 has begun. We're going to break it down in the studio, but first shout out to Leo and all the Aussies out there who watch the channel. Thanks for tuning in from down under. Leo and I raced against each other in the world mountain running championships last fall in Argentina, epic race, epic course. And so Leo and I, we swapped singlets afterward and it's finally, finally starting to turn into some real nice weather in Denver. So which means it's time to break out the singlets even for an easy day. So today, oh my goodness, I can't believe it. Three miles. I'm going on my classic three mile loop from my house. I just love a good, like the taper is officially on, like it is really, really on. And yes, I'm going to take out the ultra provision fours, ultra provision fours, just to get that nice stretch through the soleus and calves after the 15 by one K two days ago, and then the 20 mile long run yesterday. So that's the game plan for today. Again, marathon training week 13. I can't believe it. It's here two weeks to go, two weeks to go. All right, let's lace it up. Oh my gosh, it's so nice out. Oh man, thinking of, thinking of Australia today, you better believe it. Stay safe down there. We're back kicking off marathon training week 13 with a very easy run. It felt so good. Replacing the Adidas Boston nine from yesterday's vlog in case you missed that first impressions of that shoe. And yes, the ultra provision four first impression, I'm going to say Friday or Saturday of this week. I will get that into the schedule and going to put it out there right now. I'm going to say my second most favorite ultra shoe that I've ever ran in. Okay, the ultra provision four really enjoying this shoe thus far. Okay, so shout out to all the new subscribers. I don't know what's going on, but we keep going up. I think honestly, I think that everyone is staying inside. Good job. Social distancing, which means YouTube viewership continues to go up and up and up. So thank you for tuning in. Thanks for hitting that subscribe button, but it's just, I just can't believe how we're moving on up. So I appreciate you being here and checking out the channel, this running daily running YouTube channel. All right, I publish every morning at five AM mountain time in case you are new and you didn't know the schedule. Okay, so three miles today in the ultra provision fours. And yes, here we go. So I'll pull out this first. So marathon a train and I promise for the New York city marathon training block in the fall, I'm going to make it much better graph of some sort for all of you. So because this one's getting a little haggard, but here we go. So we're in week 13 in the taper. Here's the taper we're coming down. Here's race day April 19th, the DGR virtual races. So we are on our way down in volume in a big, big way. So coming off of the high of 120 miles a week from, I guess, what was that two weeks ago? So 120 miles down to this week. So as far as volume for the week mileage, 65 miles, 65 to 70 miles this week, I will just pull out this as well. So here's the other chart that I've been showing you over the past, I guess 12 weeks now is that we are at, we are nearing the top of the pyramid. Okay. So race day up here. And I'm going to get to the mental side of how to just be vigilant of different thoughts that might enter your head when you are tapering because it can be a little difficult after coming off of such high volume to start to taper mentally. Okay. And so just so you know, my rule of thumb for the tapering two weeks out from the peak race is to almost, not quite, but almost cut my volume in half from the high point. So 120 down to that 65 to 70 range. So I'm often saying that 75 to 80 mile range is a really good number to shoot forward to aspire to if you're training for a marathon. So that would put you, so two weeks out from your peak marathon race, that would put your volume at basically that 35 to 40 mile range, two weeks out again, just to start to freshen up the legs. And I fully realize there's a lot of veteran marathon runners out there that have different strategies for the taper, but that's how I like to taper just to make sure those legs are nice and happy on race day. Because right now, three miles today, did I say this nine minutes a mile? I was tired. I was very, you know, after two back to back hard days, back to back hard days, it was my legs definitely felt it today. Now, as far as workouts this week, two weeks out from the marathon, I am doing the laps around the track for COVID-19 relief. Who knows how far we're going to run, but we're going to do it together eight AM mountain time. I'm going live eight AM mountain time here on YouTube. Okay. So there'll be a, it'll actually, if you hit the notification button down below, you'll be alerted when I go live. Okay. So that'll be happening Wednesday morning, but also I don't want to throw the speed that I think I've built up through the interval work, through the time trial, about 10 days ago, completely out the window. So I do plan an eight by 600 meter workout this weekend. Okay. Eight by 600 meter workout this weekend on the track. And that will be the final interval session before the marathon on April 19th. So that's the game plan for week 13 marathon training workouts. And as far as the mental side of week 13 training is that I've noticed that during the taper, you start to feel, I do personally start to feel a little off. Why? Because you're not working as hard. Your body starts to recover. And again, absorb all that training you've been doing for the last, you know, 10 weeks, 12 weeks, 14 weeks, however long your training block has been. And I think a good mental strategy is embrace the taper. Okay. I tell that to myself even today on the three miles, it felt weird to run for, I think I ran for like 28, 29 minutes. And that's the shortest run I've done in, I think in like eight weeks. And so it feels weird, but embrace the taper, just tell yourself mentally, okay, I need to freshen up because the goal is the top of the pyramid. And so I just share that with you because I go through the same thoughts of this taper feels, I know I'm doing the right thing. And I have some doubts sometimes in the back of my head, but it's like, no, the goal is to feel the best at the top of the pyramid. And in order to get there in order for my legs to recover fully and to be ready to rock and roll on the starting line, I know I've got to start to bring the volume down, but it's, it's a strange, it's a strange feeling, especially if you've had some high volume for so long, leading into that peak race. All right. So that's my approach. Okay, I think that was it for now in the studio. We're going inside check in with a family. And yes, get an update for all of you on the virtual races 10k 5k marathon, half marathon. It is going down so soon. It's amazing of how we do it in here. Oh, look at that. Look, oh my gosh, potatoes I've ever made. Hello. Hello. Carrots. Oh, butter, my brother. Oh, stay. That's amazing. On quick update on the DGR virtual races. I think it was 500 yesterday. Yes. 800 today. What 300 I in what I think we jumped. So thank you for registering. It's going to be epic. A quick reminder is the t shirts will be available April 10th below from Teespring, but they're just not available yet. Oh my goodness. So Hey, can you imagine if we had it at? Oh boy. Michael's Michael's climb. We're good. This is life. We love you. It's been an interesting afternoon. Dinner time. Come and get it. Oh yeah. Wash your hand. 20 seconds. Hey buddy, you and me. There he is. There he is. He's getting big. I must say this is how we get Michael to eat veggies. Green machine. He doesn't even know it, but he's eating spinach right now. This is for sale. There we go. All right. Dishes are done. Dinner is done. Question of the day. Very excited about this because we talk about running on the channel a lot, but we also talk about life. And since we're all in our houses, our apartments, our condos is that true love and I, we're going through it where we're watching old movies right now. So we just finished. What was it? Catch me if you can with Tom Hanks, Leo. And then what were we watching last? Oh yeah, the prestige last night with Christian Bale. Love that movie. So question of the day. What older movies are you pulling out of the archive right now and watching during these self isolation or quarantine times, wherever you are, wherever you are at around the world? Stay safe out there and we're going to get through this together. Everyone sound good. All right. That's the question of the day. And we're tossing it back to the marathon training playlist right there in case you haven't seen the old blogs about marathon training. You can go dig into the archive right there. All right, everyone. Thanks for being there. Thanks for watching. We love you all. See beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.