 Baby blues Monsters or the big bad wolf or the big bad wolf that's right Every time I put on the new balance beacon. I ask myself wait a minute. Why am I not wearing this shoe every single day? Oh such a great ride. I only went three miles today nine minute pace just bopping along But oh, I haven't worn the beacon in two or three weeks and it just is a such a great ride for especially on my easy days I love this shoe and yes Let's say the live stream coming up on Wednesday. I will talk about how the shoe is holding up on the beacon So anyway, everybody welcome to The studio that's right the studio a commenter about a week ago said Seth I think you should call your recording space in your shed The studio combining shed with studio cuz sometimes I call this space the studio sometimes I call it the shed So why don't you just combine it together and then it gets even better about ten minutes ago inside? I was like hey, hon I'm going outside to record in the studio and true love the first thing that came to her mind was brilliant the shoe Shoe Dio anyway, I think it fits if you made that comment a week ago Giving that idea to call this space the studio Let me know because you need like a free t-shirt or something once they're ready They're not ready yet, but once they're ready because I like it welcome to the studio. Okay Let's dive in to Marathon training. All right my marathon block of training started January 1st with this run first steps of 2019 fast-forwarding five days to January 5th We discussed these specific marathon training tips another workout idea that I am going to use I'm going to call it the cresting the hill practice cresting the hill practice It's very difficult to find a marathon that is completely flat And then finally finally after going back and forth too many times on January 15th I clicked the registration button for this marathon decision. I've made a decision. I've made a decision May 19th May 19th first marathon. What's it gonna be? The Cleveland marathon. Oh, baby. Okay. It was really hard really difficult to figure out It was it was wet. It was a lot harder than I expected basically. Yes. I'm hoping to run Under 219. I'm just gonna say it. I'm just gonna say it and I know that Cleveland marathon the Cleveland marathon Which is a pretty flat marathon pretty flat marathon course But if you've been following me on Strava, you've probably wondering like wait a minute Seth What are you doing? Why are you running so much in the snow and the hills and the mud? Thus far in 2019. I've laced up my shoes 28 different times for a hundred and sixty three miles so two hundred and sixty two kilometers with 23,000 feet of vertical gain and loss because you go up the mountain you got to come back down Which is a little over 7,000 meters of ascent and descent thus far in 2019 not too shabby We'll take it now that I have a race on the calendar May 19th. I think I saw it's a hundred and eleven days I should probably know that but I believe it's a hundred and eleven days away Which is awesome, but I'm not trying to get too excited. Remember we talked about that a couple days ago enjoy the process enjoy the process of training of Going to the weight room of stretching of icing of Massaging of just all those little things that we need to do as runners in order to stay healthy as the volume of running goes up and up And up, okay, how do I feel about how things are going so far? Let me just say real quick though first on Strava and I'll just tell you right now you don't have to be on Strava But I'll just tell you like what you're gonna see is a double peak before May 19th So the Cleveland Marathon is my first really peak race of 2019 where I will be all in fit as a fiddle ready to rock and roll Rest it up freshened up. So really really sharpened down for the Cleveland Marathon But that's a long ways away like that's and I'm really glad in retrospect Oh, I'm glad that I did not sign up for the grandma's marathon, which is in June 22 So kind of heading toward late June and I just can't imagine kind of mentally Waiting a whole another month for the grandma's marathon So I'm really feeling very confident and pleased with the decision to race May 19th as opposed to late June So that's still though. Basically, we're down to February March April May We're basically down to four months of training ahead of me I've put basic. Well, yeah 28 days So I've put four weeks of training in the book and so in this first peak build-up I won't be going like anaerobic really at all I will in the second peak and I know that's a discussion for another day as far as how much anaerobic we should go before a marathon effort, but basically I'm trying to make as many aerobic bank deposits as possible in this first peak before the March 9th vertical kilometer race and I am of the opinion that the more aerobic deposits you can make at Frankly slower paces just slightly slower than what you might want to be going like already I am tempted to go out and run like 12 to 15 miles at 6 30 pace But I just know it's not time yet It is not time to go do that like I need to just be patient and continue to put these little bank deposits in right now that Will over time end up being big a big bank deposit. Hopefully by May 19th. All right, I'm back I just I just had to I had to stop the camera for a second and just pause and think and reflect for a minute and make sure like Am I saying what I want to communicate to all of you? I don't want you I don't want it to sound like I'm putting anybody's training down because guess what I'm not your coach I don't know like I you got to listen to your own body is what I'm trying to say like your own Sensory data remember you got to listen to the sensory data how your body is feeling and Responding to the stimulus of training for me again I prefer that big aerobic base in order to hopefully build a taller pyramid Later in the training block leading up for me to the Cleveland Marathon and on this topic Oh by the way keyword keyword two six point two two six point two down in the comments on this topic a vlog fan Sent me an article yesterday. I didn't get a chance to read it all but I skimmed it and basically it sounds like Sage Canada who many of you know he's trying to qualify for the Olympic trials as well and You know, he's maybe lost a little bit of his leg speed Because he's been doing so much mountain and ultra running in the last you know four years So that's interesting and I like I get it But then you look at a Jim Walmsley who is from Arizona and Jim like he he runs hundred mile races He's one of the best ultra runners in the world And he's what yeah He won Western States 100 the most prestigious hundred mile race in the United States last year and he just crushed a 64 flat One hour four minute half marathon in Houston last week like so this dude He's like he's got this incredible Aerobic engine and now he has been doing speed training in the last like two months I've been I've been monitoring it a little bit, but I mean we're talking I mean, I'm just so impressed with that 64 flat Given that he's such an aerobic monster when it comes to running high volume Lots of vertical gain in his training and yet he can go out and still pull off a 64 minute Alright, I'm gonna stop there We could talk about sage and Jim and the Olympic trials and all that fun stuff Maybe at the live stream if you want to bring it up in the live stream. I'd love to talk about it I could talk all night about it. Holy smokes gets me going Question of the day question of the day Remember when I asked this on December 31st 2018 and of course Yes, the keyword is goals and that question of the day What are your running goals for? 2019 and so there you have it. That's what I asked you and yeah, it's time for that accountability here on YouTube How do you feel like you're progressing toward your 2019 goals? That is the question of the day I don't think it's too early to just check in just check in not a major check in but listen January is almost done and February will be here in a split second So that's the question of the day. Thanks for answering down in the comments and thanks for just oh my goodness We could talk about marathon training all night long and again if you have any questions about it Hit me up down in the comments. That'd be amazing or if you have a lot of marathon experience Definitely definitely it's your it's your time to shine down in the comments jump into jump into everybody else's Questions if you feel like oh gosh, I know an answer to that like oh cuz that would be amazing for helping me because listen I'm learning as we go. I'm learning as we go See beauty work hard Love each other. Hmm. Whoo. It's time for bed. It's time for bed. Oh See you tomorrow