 good evening everybody we're back we're back in the studio oh my goodness let's make sure the volume is working are we live I hope we are I never know with a slight delay that happens here in the back end of the live streaming and just let me know let me know if we're going to if you can hear me good to see everybody I see Steve is here John right on time I love it Anthony Trevor Caleb Jared sound is good thank you Jared for that Bradley awesome good to see everyone oh man another week right another week in paradise holy smokes yes the studio that's right Pat okay let's let some folks stream in and I'm still I'll just tell everyone right now still a little under the weather so I'm gonna be drinking a lot more water tonight I don't know if it's allergies or if it is a head cold you let me know do you get allergies and are you getting them right now I think it's a little early if I remember correctly I usually get I usually get allergies in like early April so anyway who knows what's going on good to see everyone that's right Daniel let's go let's go awesome oh man alright let me just turn this screen off real quick so I'm not looking at myself the whole time alright there we go alright you know the drill where's everybody where's everybody from where's everyone watching from oh my goodness okay 40 people here already that's awesome we're only a minute in and yes if you if you could spread the link around let it let it fly all over the intro webs Twitter Facebook let's see if we can invite as many of our running friends here as possible tonight alright yes so where's everybody's where's everybody from that's right I'll try not okay Steve is from Montreal overland Park Kansas is Caleb we've got Anthony here from North Carolina oh yeah Cole from New York New York oh Cole I've been seeing some of your runs on Strava and I must say like running in the city is difficult but it's also like very very entertaining like you're just looking at the buildings looking at you know the dogs looking at everybody like it just they look it looks like you have a lot of cool places to run in New York New York alright we've got Manitoba here Anaheim Denver Connecticut Iowa Wisconsin Bryan oh man Ocala Florida Bradley that I've been to Ocala Florida I've actually rode my bike through Ocala Florida that's amazing Indy alright awesome good to see everyone let's see who else Ram okay and you know let's see Ram Glazer I've been waiting live for five hours from Israel right in your weight you're watching in Israel that's amazing we're actually gonna talk about Israel tonight Gerald is from Quincy Massachusetts shout out to John Quincy right our former presidents back in the day Steven from Central California Indiana Tropical Runner awesome so alright let's see here oh man again I'm a little sick so I'm gonna be drinking more water tonight how was your run today what did you do oh man I'm excited I'll tell you about my run in a minute and yeah so how was your run today was it an easy day was it a a hard day a workout day maybe you went to the gym as well let us know in the chat and that's just so you know everyone like I love sharing some of my insight into running with all of you here in the studio but a lot of the good conversation happens in the chat so if you're new to the live streaming on this channel like you can listen listen for sure but definitely dive into the conversations in the chat I can't always do that but that's where the a lot of goodness goes down so okay yeah so how was your run today mm-hmm Bradley is going out to the trails tomorrow let's see let's see okay Jerry did a fart lick nine mile whoo plus leg day in the gym Jerry good work oh that sounds hard Steve did 10k with new shoes the Nike flying it's nice easy day for Pat Chris did a sloppy and slushy easy 5k do was resting today that's smart half marathon is this Saturday cool all that's exciting which half marathon let's see Oliver a rest day all right very good Ben rest day alpha teacher I'm running later tonight nice okay so for me I I did 15 miles on my lunch break and it was awesome I put on the turbos for the first time the Nike Pegasus 35 turbos for the first time since December and they're a fast shoe in my opinion some people think they're a little mushy little maybe yeah just a little mushy through the midsole and I would actually to a certain extent agree with that like it they're definitely soft it's not a hard landing but oh man when I was wearing them in 2018 they were just so fast so I've been waiting to I've been waiting to put it back on my feet okay Jojo easy for runner being 40 minutes easy 82 degrees oh send it to Denver I'm ready for 82 degrees jazzy a recovery 11 kilometers nice oh nice cool Daniel had a rest day six on the trail yesterday nice oh man so the turbos again they just treated me really well 15 miles and just cruising just cruising I went faster than I expected just going by feel listening to how my legs feel so so that was really really good so alright very good welcome again everyone and let's see let me just jump into my notes here and again thanks for sharing this link around to your running buddies okay basically tonight you can see on the chalkboard here behind me we're gonna talk about FKT's trail shoes and then the open Q&A you better believe it and who knows who knows we might we might open up a little something something for all of you you stay tuned for that we'll see we'll see how the evening goes if you if you know what I mean if you saw today's vlog a lot of shoes showed up yesterday at the PO box for the shoe giveaways and who knows maybe we'll also talk about the running shoe scholarship idea that I pitched to all of you yesterday and boy it's it's it's there's a lot going on oh my goodness alright I just got to say one more thing before we dive in I don't know if I've seen so many comments on one vlog outside of today's vlog I'm exaggerating a little bit but I'm a little blown away at all of the ideas being shared and opinions being shared about running socks I don't know if you haven't seen today's vlog you got to go check it out or go go check it out after this because we talk about running socks in the vlog and like it's bringing out a lot of thoughts and opinions and that's exciting for so many people to so many people to be interested in running socks when it is a finer detail of the running gear lineup so anyway again go check it out if you haven't seen it yet okay here we go let's dive in a little bit again FKT's trail Q&A and we can and I'll monitor the chat and you guys know the drill with super chats you can pitch a little money to the channel but it'll get your your question highlighted because there's so much conversation in the chat it's amazing I'm like looking over here right now and you just be blowing my mind but if you really really have a question I will answer all the super chat questions just so you know okay so you know how I like to alright let's see should we do this now alright quick shout outs quick shout outs to more global running on Strava we're gonna give shout outs to the top three from last week as far as on the leaderboard I haven't done this in a couple weeks so I just want to give a shout out to Joseph for 110 miles last week congrats Joseph Hamber Robbie Bishop 100 miles and Miko Tertanen 97 miles for distance that's amazing congrats and and then share tan 15,000 feet of elevation gain I don't know what you're doing share to share tan and sorry I'm not saying your name correctly but you are crushing it 15,000 feet is no joke and then Stefano Craviotto 10,000 feet of elevation gain and then Jason Wong 8,000 feet of elevation gain so I just want to give some shout outs to all of you guys crushing it and we do have a Strava group again if you're new welcome we have a Strava group so if you don't you a lot of runners are now using Strava in addition to some other running tracking apps I love Strava because I think it's really it's pretty communal in my opinion and so it'd be cool if you joined up there and then we can see each other's runs and one of the best things that I love about Strava is when I'm editing the vlog every night from you know 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. sometimes midnight right around that 11 to 12 p.m. time range everybody on the opposite side of the world is waking up and going for a run so to help get me through the editing for the vlog I'll pull out my phone open up Strava on the app and then click on demore global running and then I can start to see everyone waking up in Australia and Malaysia and China and everywhere else on the other side of the globe that's starting to run Vietnam all oh my goodness all over Vietnam South Korea all over the place so it's amazing and so again join up on demore global running all right let me just take a drink here and then basically we're gonna dive into some trivia all right I'm gonna be monitoring the chat here monitoring the chat and let's make sure I didn't miss any super chats yet okay let's see here okay here we go FKT's first of all I just got to tell you what an FKT is do you know what that is FKT fastest known time fastest known time that's what that stands for okay so and this is pretty niche all right so we're going niche here a little bit in the running world are you are you ready for this question number one for the trivia what one of the most iconic FKT's in the world is the Matterhorn which is a mountain between Italy and Switzerland who holds the FKT for the men and who holds the FKT for the women no no Google no Google come on now I'll tell you if you can't get it I'll tell you and all right I'm gonna monitor the chat here monitor the chat if somebody gets this I'm gonna be I'm gonna be very impressed let's see who can let's see who can get this here so who has the FKT for the Matterhorn and let's see here let's see all right let's see I'm watching the chat watching the chat and the Matterhorn is that very iconic mountain if you if you Google it you'll recognize it because it's on a lot of post-core postcards Cole you got it Cole Killian Jornette you got it Cole you got it Cole good job Cole you were first and let's see for the ladies anyone anyone know the ladies FKT by chance let's see yeah it's a little more it's a little more you know a little tougher not sage so Killian Jornette for the men all right I might tell you Emily Forsberg for the ladies who is is is Killian Jornette's I guess girlfriend so anyway they've got a good combination going there okay moving on to the second trivia question and again we're diving in here to some really niche some really niche questions here so what has become one of the most popular FKT attempts in Colorado which involves a set of the 14ers okay so if you're from Colorado let's see if you're from welcome Luke by the way if you're from Colorado maybe you maybe you know this it's a very iconic FKT attempt now in Colorado involving some of the 14ers in Colorado I'm monitoring the chat to see if anybody knows oh man we should have some prizes or something so maybe some shoes no just kidding just kidding let's see here let's see here watching here watching here y'all boom Nolan's Nolan's that's right Nolan's 14 Daniel is first Steve Steve's in the house Steve was close second there you go there you go that's right I did attempt it Scott so Nolan's 14 that is the name of a very iconic becoming iconic FKT attempt in Colorado basically what you do is you attempt to run 14 14ers in as short amount of time as possible you have to go under 60 hours for it to count I've attempted it twice I have DNF'd twice so who knows maybe we'll give it another go at some point it's something it's an incredible amount of vertical I want to say it's a 45,000 up and 45,000 down it's like 90,000 vertical change it's a lot of vertical change so it's called Nolan's 14 it's it's absolutely intense it actually goes right by my hometown Buna Vista Colorado along the the collegiate peaks there so all right this is awesome okay one more one more here we go and this is for all the running shoe geeks out there you ready for this what running shoe company and this running shoe company all right I won't get I won't say that what running shoe company chose its name from the Latin word that means to fix or mend something that is broken all right this is the last trivia question let's see here and this kind of connects to tonight's topic I will say all right let's see okay what's going on here let's see I monitor in the chat monitor in the chat oh not Solomon not Solomon good guess good guess oh man oh man mmm sock any no adidas no innovate no oh it's a tough one it's a tough one ultra Jorge Jorge gets it good work Jorge that's right ultra has the it means um it's it's the Latin word Altera which means to fix or mend something that is broken so I think ultra's whole philosophy is that the running shoe market was a little broken back in 2009 and that's why they went to the zero drop to help people stay healthy as much as possible so good work to Jorge I believe it was yes Jorge who got ultra all right moving on that was fun at some point I'm thinking what we'll do once we get the t-shirts done there they're in the works they're in the works but we could do a little t-shirt giveaway for whoever gets the whoever gets the trivia questions correct all right moving on to the FKT subject for tonight fastest known times listen ladies and gentlemen this is a this is a strange topic in the running world last week we talked about track and field that was a lot of fun we talked about Olympic standards a little more of the organized side of running but there's a lot of different niches within running you know what I mean you've got the roads you've got cross country you've got track you've got the ultra running you've got sprinting you've got it's like there's a lot of niches within the running world well I would say another smaller niche within the running world and a specifically trail running high alpine running is FKT's so fastest known times that's what that stands for and it I'll try and be as concise as possible fastest known times basically what happens is people through through time and through history have developed roots so not necessarily trails but roots over mountains yeah I'll just say it through through deserts they developed roots that have turned into a a specific path that people can attempt on their own not in an official race just on their own to go as fast as possible from one point to the other all right so that is the basic structure of an FKT and it's not a race it's very it's regulated by the people and by the runners who are attempting to do it or people that are that live locally in the area for example I'll just throw it out there for everybody over in the UK you might not be watching right now because it's getting pretty late and I just realized my computer is unplugged let me get so the computer does not die hold on all right we and we're back that would have been a disaster so over in England over in the the Lake District it's the it's called one of the FKT's is called the Bob the Bob Graham rounds the Bob Graham rounds I believe is what it's called and it's an FKT over in the Lake District and it's actually where the innovate shoes are based out of so another very very popular FKT is the Appalachian Trail which probably many of you know about that runs from Maine to Georgia I think it's Maine yes somewhere in Maine down to Georgia don't ask me how long it is I think it's around 2,000 miles approximately anyway this is the basic construct of FKT's and yes I have attempted my own FKT on Nolan's 14 but here's the which is the 14 14ers in Colorado that you can try and run as fast as possible but and I'm trying to I'm just making sure I'm not missing too many making sure I haven't missed too many comments okay we're good we got everybody here so basically on the beauty of the FKT is that you can create them out of your back like out of your back door or out of your front door you can create them eat right where you live and over time who knows maybe other people will hear about it and again it's not a race so there's no entry fee you can basically go do it whenever you want depending on the weather and for me how I use FKT's in my training is to help keep my motivation up a little bit for example what was it two weeks ago I managed to snag the FKT on Mount Morrison which is above Red Rocks here in Denver and I basically I I knew the fastest time it was I 26 no to yeah 27 minutes and I I said okay today's the day I'm gonna try and run up this mountain faster than anybody else has ever run up it and so that's what I did and I snag the FKT and how do I know that I'm the fastest person well that's where it gets a little bit murky to a certain extent basically Strava is a great place to look up FKT's but also shout out to fastest known time dot com fastest known time dot com and go check it out it's a website that is continuing to develop it's run by volunteers and basically globally there's people submitting FKT's to this website every like two or three times a day so there's a lot of FKT attempts happening all around the world okay I have some more to share about FKT's but I want you to ask any questions right now and I will try and jump into some of your questions and Anthony asks yes you need to show you so you need to show some sort of evidence to whether it's through pictures GPS for example on the Bob Graham round over in the Lake District in England as far as I know you're not allowed to use GPS watch and you have to have people at the top of every mountain and there's like 42 mountain 42 hills that you have to crest over on this on this FKT attempt and so you have to have people and so that's the other thing about FKT's is that it is regulated by the athletes if there's no race director there's no official rules it's an ethic or an ethos that is that is connected to the different FKT's around the world so isn't it's it's fascinating just absolutely fascinating okay I'm just listening here I'm just reading here so sorry John so an FKT is a fastest known time that's what we're talking about a little bit tonight and again what questions do you have about FKT's and I will field them in the chat but so and again a bonus is that it's free you don't have to pay an entry fee and you can just go do it and you can again it's fastest known time calm and who knows you might even have a very well known FKT route near you and you don't even know it in fact what I'm gonna be doing moving forward is that when I travel to New York to visit my family when I travel to wherever ahead of time I'm gonna look up in the region are there any FKT routes that I can go chase after during my travels so I think it's amazing okay let's see here Colin asks real quick have you made your own Strava segments if so what are they and has any other than you have the FKT so Colin no so it was somebody else's Strava segments that they created a long time ago so I think you know as far as I know how Strava works if you are running on the same GPS data points that overlap somebody else's segment like Mount Morrison it was already established as a segment then you're good to go but I guess if you're that's a good question if you're setting up your own FKT yeah you would you would want to you would want to create a segment that's a good that's a good point call or yeah good question Colin let's see Ben Miller what is your next FKT Ben great segue because guess what I think my next one is gonna be Mount Sinitas in Boulder so it's ridiculously fast like really really fast and believe it or not at one point Killian the famous ultra runner he had it back in like 2010 Killian Jornay but now somebody else has it and I don't even know who he is but he said it I think in like 2014 who knows I'm feeling pretty fast and strong at the moment so I'm gonna go for the ascent record not the round trip and so that's again gets back into the details you can do up you can do ascent records you can do round trips or you could do decent records as well it's crazy so yeah good question from Ben let's see let's see here who has the likes peak bar trail or Pikes Peak bar trail FKT that's from Daniel let's see the Pikes Peak bar trail FKT might be well so there's differences so oh what's his name so oh my gosh Matt carpenter has the Pikes Peak ascent record so from the Manitou springs all the way to the top that's Matt carpenter and then Joe Gray I believe has like up and down so up to bar camp and back down anyway it gets a little confusing but good question Daniel so Suzanne asks how is an FKT verified basically through your your watch through your GPS watch now if you want it to be really really official I get you you know it helps to have photo evidence helps to have a really really detailed trip report in my case video evidence so yeah that you got you have to very you know you have to in in in human evidence so having witnesses there if you're really going for a big FKT like you would want probably somebody at the bottom somebody at the top to verify so good question Suzanne but it really kind of comes down to your GPS data let's see here and Luke asks have I ever said an FKT yes I have yes I have a couple of the 14ers let's see I've got two or three two 14er FKT's here in Colorado and then Mount Morrison and oh man so it's fun it's just fun and let's see and then okay Zack says I'm planning an FKT attempt on the Pottawatomie trail in mid-Michigan 17 and a half miles of technical trail but not a lot of vert here hits in my schedule better than an ultra with a newborn daughter congrats Zach on the newborn daughter and that's exactly the beauty of FKT's is that you can build it into your schedule how you see fit you know and that's like sometimes I struggle with with racing in Colorado especially road racing it's just hard to find like really competitive good road races in Colorado we're known more for trail races and so anyway an FKT allows you to kind of fire up those competitive juices and just go for something without having to you know register to pay the fee etc etc so okay let's see here can I get a witness amen yes Suzanne okay let's see moving on any other questions about FKT's I was gonna bring up another subject but it's a big one it's a story about a Scotsman let me know if you want me to tell it tell it if not we will move on to trail running shoes as the next topic oh my goodness basically it's exciting and I have to you know I have to balance it with FKT's and racing obviously getting ready for the marathon making sure that you know making sure that I'm I'm doing the right work for a road race as opposed to the the desire to go run up these trails really really fast so Anthony asks are there any other unofficial FKT rules besides verification so Anthony that's a good question I could probably pull it up on the website right now but as far as I know yeah so they have some guidelines let's see well let me just throw a couple out at ya roots maybe of any distance or time duration no official races can count as an FKT okay does that make sense it also helps okay alright so here's a good one the root is notable and distinct enough so that others may be interested in repeating it that's a good one I should have mentioned that at the beginning so that's one of the rules like you can create something but you want it to be like they said distinct enough that someone would want to come back and attempt it later so that's a great that's a great and then of course like it needs to be running at least 50% of the time needs to be running and or hiking like speed hiking but obviously if you're trying to go fast you're probably going to be doing quite a bit of running so anyway there's some more guidelines there and that you can read on fastest known time dot com so alright moving on let's see here so trail running shoes let's talk about trail running shoes and you know how much I love shoes and listen if you want to ask questions about any shoe we'll we'll get to that maybe in like 10 or 15 minutes but for right now let's let's hone in on on trail running shoes because guess what what is today can somebody guess the key word for tomorrow's vlog who can guess the key word for tomorrow's vlog I won't say it quite yet but the bottom line it's getting closer and closer to trail running season for many people I've already dabbled in it quite a bit but as the temperatures warm up and the snow melts and ice goes away and so many other factors in the winter time it's finally time to start firing up those trail running shoes so thank you running at altitude I appreciate that Tom that is right keyword spring spring spring today is the first day of spring that's what I'm talking about and it was beautiful here in Denver today alright moving on to trail running shoes here we go so excuse me as you know let's see that's right it's awesome so as you know I'm a big Solomon fan a big a big big big Solomon fan so I don't know if anyone else is a big Solomon fan and actually I'm just gonna put it out there right now what is your go-to if you're a trail runner what is your go-to trail running shoe right now so let us know in the chat and I'll be really interested to see if anybody yeah just what you're running in right now for the trails but why do I love Solomon probably the most at the moment actually not probably I love Solomon the most at the moment for Colorado our trails are very can be very aggressive and Solomon I believe makes aggressive trail running shoes so listen some trails are called their buffed out is the name or the phrase meaning the trail is very smooth usually it's it's it's always man-made meaning someone came in with a grater and you know plowed it out and got all the rocks out and it's very but I still consider that a trail even though it's it's buffed out and smooth so I would not I would not run on a buffed out trail in Solomon most likely because these shoes are designed a little more for aggressive trail trails why because Solomon is based near the Alps yeah near the Alps and so we're just talking like it's a very European company meaning the yeah they're trying to design shoes that will get people up and over big rocks big boulders etc etc and then but lest we forget innovate in the Lake District over in England is also making very very big inroads into aggressive trail shoes you guys know these are the mud claws that I had two days ago in the vlog eight millimeter lug depth just ridiculous made for the mud and made to run through boggy areas like the Lake District I love this shoe I'm probably gonna wear this shoe four or five times a year so it's a very specific shoe but innovate is another company you might want to check out I'm pretty excited about their lineup I need to do some more exploring into other trail shoes that they offer but I'm I'm excited about the mud claw okay jumping into the chat here so Luke is a hoka guy ATR Daniel is ultra lone peak Colin the speed goats nice speed cross three for Chris nice the Sockney Peregrine for running at altitude Jesse ultra lone peak are my favorites let's see here nice okay oh Anthony the Nike wild horse good for where I live which doesn't have too many technical trails nice nice so for me I've run in Solomon a lot starting to run and innovate I've run in the hoka speed goat one so the first iteration and then also the hoka challenger ATR for I didn't love the ATR for just so you know and did you know that the speed goat is the hoka speed goat is named after Carl Metzler you guys probably know that already he's won more hundred mile races than anybody else in history Carl Carl Metzler he lives in Utah and so the name hoka speed goat comes from him and they are now on the third iteration of the hoka speed goat I probably I don't know if I'll buy it in 2019 I gotta watch where I spend my money on running shoes we will see maybe you can convince me in the chat that I should get the speed goat three but at this point I just don't know if I can fit it into the rotation and then also I'll make one more mention of last sportiva which is based in northern Italy a very very I would say stiff running shoe is the the last sportiva lineup from what I can tell very dense heavy almost like a running shoe hiking combo to a certain extent but I do love them and I actually wore them last year quite a bit because of my planter fasciitis in retrospect I probably should have been in a shoe like the alt like an ultra shoe would have which would have stretched out my Achilles better but basically my planter did not quite hurt as bad in this shoe because it was so stiff this is the last sportiva tempesta GTX I believe so okay and of course of course the Arctic claw you know in case you're running on ice all right let's see here so let me just check out here and by the way welcome welcome to everyone that's just joining and thank you for being here as always as always okay I think a question came in let's see this is from running at altitude what shoe did you wear for the backcountry half marathon trail race this past fall wondering what type of shoe you recommend for that type of trail that's a good question and here's the answer so keep in mind like running at altitude I took second in that race I was trying my darndest to race as hard as possible to try and chase down you know who Joe Gray and he's just so he's just so fast it's a little it's a little difficult to do but I raced in the Solomon s lab since six SG so what is the SG stand for soft ground which basically means the lugs on the bottom are a little are a little bigger it's a it's an aggressive shoe like this is it almost to a certain extent almost has similarities to a cross-country spike like you're supposed like this is a racing shoe for sure so if you want to go race I would strongly recommend the shoe I wouldn't take this shoe beyond 13 miles I think it's definitely a like a 10k to half marathon distance shoe for trail races and I am I'll just put it out there right now I'm gonna be wearing this shoe but I'm gonna get the Solomon s lab since seven SG for the pikes peak ascent this year that's right the 13 miles right up pikes peak definitely gonna wear this shoe for that race and let I don't think I'm gonna find anything better we'll see I'm open to options but that is the game plan so good question running at altitude I guess I don't know if I answered it if you're not thinking the sense six lineup oh gosh let's say I'm just racking my brain here hmm well okay I mean I'll just put it out there as well the Solomon ultra why not and I believe the ultra yeah the ultra 2 is out now so the second iteration this is a little heavier but it definitely has a little a lot more mid sole support this would be a decent option for that race as well and again if you like the lockdown feel of Solomon usually Solomon runs a little bit more narrow so keep that in mind okay moving on here let's see I just want to jump into my notes I'll just answer one more question Jack I know you've mentioned that you like six million me six millimeter drop in your road shoes what your preference on drop in your trail shoes that's from Jack yeah Jack um all right so Jack I would say it's it's pretty it's pretty high because like okay I noticed it so Mount Morrison I went and did that mountain a lot on Monday in the in the innovates and I believe oh boy four millimeter or five millimeter drop in this mudclaw whereas the speed cross five is ten millimeter in the speed cross five why do I like the ten millimeter drop more in the speed cross five for steep uphill Jack is because it just relieves a little bit of the tension on the achilles for longer stuff like actually on the fourth loop I had to stop and just stretch out a little bit my achilles in my calf in the mudclaw it just you know I was doing a lot of vertical in one day and I could feel it in my in my lower leg so anyway good question I would say for steep uphill stuff a little higher drop helps take off a little bit of that pressure for me on my achilles like right where your achilles is attaching to your heel so hopefully that helps Jack but it definitely would depend a little bit on the type of trail you're doing yeah so good question though good question hopefully that helps okay moving on a little bit thank you mark for looking that up four millimeter drop in the mudclaw good good research on the fly I love it okay moving on here are some other shoes that I basically have to purchase in 2019 some other trail shoes listen I feel a little silly I've never worn a Nike trail shoe why because Nike is definitely dominating the road market right they're dominating like there's just no way the other way around it as far as a percentage of the yeah just the road running shoe market right now at least so I've never really saw a need to try their their trail shoes however I'm I'm pretty excited to try the wild horse and maybe the Terra Keiger so the Nike wild horse the Nike Terra Keiger the fifth iteration is coming out April 1st so there's a good chance I'll be picking up one of those and then somebody already mentioned the Sockney Peregrine I never can say that Peregrine Peregrine ISO I would love to try that shoe it just I've held it in a running shoe store I've never I've never actually run in it but it looks like it's really well put together so that's the second shoe I guess the third shoe the Sockney Peregrine let me know if you love that shoe in the chat okay Anthony loves the wild horse good to know okay and then alright blue collar runner yes is the Sockney Peregrine cool so okay and then also I'm interested in the another innovate shoe a little more of a not as aggressive innovate shoe called the Rocklight 290 the innovate Rocklight 290 and then the last trail shoe that I'm interested in that I'm there's a good chance I'll pick it up is the New Balance Summit KOM New Balance Summit KOM it actually has like kind of similarities a similar look to a Hoka shoe a pretty beefed up midsole and maybe something that I could take out for you know 25 mile 28 mile like those just big long trail running days that I like to do in the summertime so anyway that's a Sockney Peregrine Nike Wild Horse and the Terakiger the innovate Rocklight the New Balance Summit and then of course I'll be picking up the Solomon S lab Sense 7 SG I don't think I'll pick up the Ultra 2 because this ultra one still has some life in it and then also I've got the speed cross just you know just the monster here the big bad wolves as I like to call them alright let's see here diving back into the chat real quick Kenny asked I have been I have never been a trail runner do you feel it helps become a faster and stronger road runner Kenny yes I do I think I think road running like I think it's a balance if everything in life is a balance right but like for me I struggle to run on the roads although I did today because even though I live like in the city I love I love running in on the trails because we have so many of them in Colorado but so I think road running like you need to be you need to be practicing on the roads flat or rolling to go fast like that's critical if you want to like set a PR if you want to like really get some good racing in however I think the strength in your legs that you can gain from running on the trails is is something that an interval workout can't give you and something that even like squatting in the gym or doing deadlifts in the gym it's just a different type of strength that you can gain by running on the trails so absolutely good question Kenny I could talk about that topic all day because you know if you have everyone knows go back you can go back and watch some of the old vlogs where I talk about uphill actually just two or three days ago go look it up Kenny I talk about how uphill running can help make you run faster I'm glad I thought of that okay jumping back in here let's see recommended entry shoe for trail running I've never owned a trail shoe Jared nice Jared that's a good question okay I would say maybe like I don't know if you're a hookah guy but maybe the hookah challenger ATR 5 I would put that out there as an option let me just think real quick here maybe the sock any pair of pair of green and then let me I've never run in that shoe though but I have run in the AT in the challenger ATR lineup so let me think also I would probably stay away from Solomon Solomon's just it's just kind of aggressive is there's no other way to say it and then if you're Jared if you're going on some more difficult trails it's the new balance gosh I think it's the new balance hero but it's spelled like H I E R R O something like that look that shoe up and that might be another option I think that the the outsole has a little more of a aggressive pattern of lugs if I can put it that way Jared good question okay moving on here let's see here yeah so Mark says good workhorse trail shoe might like the solming trail five five millimeter drop nice nice nice Suzanne loves the pair of green nice and peregrine thank you blue collar runner I was about to ask because I feel like I feel like it's like I sometimes I struggle with pronunciation peregrine perfect if that's correct thank you so much and I'm just gonna give a shout out to blue collar runner right now you probably can't see it but he sent me the the Cleveland map of the marathon course that was amazing to get in the mail thank you again for sending that blue collar runner okay moving on here moving on let me just check my notes basically okay any other questions about trail shoes and I know we covered a lot of different types I guess in conclusion about the trail shoes trail shoes really do make a difference I used to run in road shoes on the trails just so you know you don't have to have trail shoes but they do make a difference I did many many mountain runs here in Colorado in my hoca yeah in my hoca Clayton's when I was you know pinching pennies you know the story and so these shoes saw a lot a lot of miles on trails you just got to be a little more careful because you might fall over because you don't have the grip that you like that's the biggest thing about trail shoes it's basically it's basically the outsole pattern and the lug depth gives you a little more grip there's also there's certainly differences in the lockdown through the upper there's differences all over but I would say the number one factor are the outsole patterns as you can see with the speed cross five in the mudclaw so okay any other questions about trail running shoes let's see Josh made a comment here I have the sketchers max trail ultra really comfortable and cheap we always like to save money right Josh I have seen that shoe I've never seen it in person we don't have a great sketchers outlet store in Denver anyway Josh thank you for that shout out to that shoe I have seen pictures of it it looks interesting and Josh let us know if you could how much it costs in the chat and maybe somebody else is like it's like I've got road shoes can I afford trail shoes as well maybe that shoe could be an option yes Steve say always cracking jokes I love it oh man thank you Suzanne thank you for that super chat I appreciate it all trying to bring trying to bring that dedication here I love it Suzanne and Happy St. Patrick's Day I see that green heart even though it's a little late Happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody so let's see thank you for watching from Portugal and all Bridget two loves in the house Bridget the big boys are here for a few minutes before night prayers I love you boys thanks for all that's awesome thank you true love that's awesome so shout out to the boys Joseph and Seth gosh love it love it love it glad they can tune in true love okay moving on here let's see old toad asks I love that I love that handle by the way what is your favorite nutrition for longer trail runs wow and okay I'll come back to that real quick old toad Josh just said $50 for that trail shoe Josh that's amazing thank you for letting us know the price that is amazing okay so I'll just say it now let's open it up to trail shoes you can ask him anything ask him about life ask him about anything you want open Q&A now I think we covered the trail shoes pretty well and I'm gonna go back up to to old toad's question about what is my favorite nutrition for longer trail runs well old toad this is a huge topic I I'm not gonna I'm just gonna tell you what I've done in the past grilled cheese sandwiches yes grilled cheese we're talking so when I say a long trail run for me that's I at least 20 miles plus usually 25 miles plus so there's different types of long trail runs but I will say this I made a big mistake when I tried to run 100 miles it was about 80 degrees out and I did not take salt tablets that was that was silly like I just I had heard of salt tablets it just it didn't cross my mind so I will say if you're doing long like five hours six hours seven hour trail runs like getting into the ultra stuff I would really consider salt tablets or some sort yeah salt tablets especially if it's hot out and if you're in humid conditions so anyway just putting that out there I love grilled cheese sandwiches packing them in because like when you're out for six seven hours old toad I cannot survive on gels but I can eat gels for two or three hours but we're we're talking five six seven hours I need real food in my stomach so okay grilled cheese sandwiches I keep saying that I like dried fruit so figs craisans figs craisans dates yes dates absolutely I'll even pack some nuts sometime for kind of changing up a little bit of protein in like in just nuts I'm trying to rack my brain because I haven't done a long trail run in a long time okay honey stinger waffles you can buy these honey stinger waffles it's a company called honey stinger and they make these waffles they're just delicious and I like I like how it hits my stomach I like the taste you're putting me to the test here so I like Luna bars I eat those I'll eat some of those tomorrow on my run tomorrow I don't know I just like that the consistency of a Luna bar it's like a granola bar or yeah it's like a granola bar so hopefully that helps old toad get the conversation going that's a huge topic all right one quick story in the 100 mile race no joke I was about to drop at like mile 50 I DNF'd at mile 50 and at like mile 45 this like 50 no he was probably 60 years old he comes trucking by me trucking by me no joke and he was just cruising just so steady with a stick of Kerry Gold butter in his right hand a stick of Kerry Gold butter he was eating a stick of butter like in an ultra race and I must say I feel like I did okay on nutrition but I pretty much failed I mean okay it was like I tried to eat as much as I possibly could but at the end of the day it really did come down to the to the salt I think like what that was a huge huge mistake but the guy because in the in the Kerry Gold butter stick he had fat he had sodium he had more fat like and he was cruise and he was just gnawing on this stick of butter anyway that's like that's the ultra running world for everyone out there it gets a little crazy okay diving back into the chat sorry I went on a little tangent there alright here we go here we go let's see here let's see here blue collar runner craves chocolate milk that's right Zoli oh did you make a donate did you make a super chat I didn't see it did I miss it I don't see it Zoli let me know I can I can jump back in here sorry if I missed it anyway let me know if I I didn't see it Zoli good question okay jumping back in yes lunar blurry bliss are so delicious let's see what else Joa says I always use my old Pegasus 31 for the trail because I really can't afford a new pair of shoes I'm studying at University and the money is really tight oh man yes yes we we know it's like it is tight it is tight and running shoes are not getting more affordable that's for sure oh and PB and J absolutely Suzanne good good one Jared says love bridge and the boys that's right so Sergio asked Seth do you find your innovates true to size I'm giving up on mine because they are so tight Sergio that's a good question you know what I need I need more time I went true to size you know what I actually had a little concern with Sergio is rubbing in the heel area it went away after like an hour it was really strange I almost had to stop and put band-aids on my heels but that was a little bit of a concern so we'll see how they do next time out but I did go true to size narrow yeah I mean that midsole is pretty narrow so if you are a wider foot you might want to you might want to double-check that yeah you might just want to double-check in a running shoe store or make sure the return policy is solid so okay moving on into the chat anybody else let's see Kenny asks all right I love it I love it here we go how is your marathon training going are you following a specific plan and then Adam asked have you decided on what shoe you're going to run in for your first marathon awesome Adam I'll take yours first I have not decided yet officially I'm testing just keep testing right so gosh there's a lot to choose from right there's a lot to choose from I must say the turbo it's not going to be my marathon shoe but if you were looking for a shoe that would save your legs a little bit you could do a marathon in a turbo it felt really nice today and it doesn't have a carbon fiber plate so if you're a little concerned about you know having a carbon fiber plate in your midsole you might be you might be in luck there with the turbo okay and then diving into Kenny's question how is my marathon training going am I following a specific plan I guess Kenny I'm following the plan of Seth James DeMore I am not following a specific plan from somebody else basically Kenny I'm drawing from my experience so my experience at the University of Colorado under Mark Wettmore which for excuse me running for Mark Wettmore we were getting we were getting ready for a 10k in cross country and I was running more volume more miles getting ready for a 10k then I'm running now getting ready for a marathon so I say that because I have quite a bit of experience at high volume training I'm not saying I always stay healthy at high volumes but I have quite a bit of quite a bit of experience there and then also as far as in the last four years Kenny I've done a ton of ultra running so 50 k's 50 milers attempting 100 milers crazy mountain run so I've dabbled in some really really kind of long stuff long racing and yeah so it's going well Kenny I must say I'm eight weeks out from the Cleveland Marathon basically eight weeks I'm feeling really good I want to make sure though Kenny like what I'm what I'm trying to monitor the most right now is not getting too fit too early I'm always like that's one of my big issues with some training plans that I see out there is like people are holding their peak fitness for too long and they end up getting a little over trained or overtired so I'm trying to walk that line of like eight weeks is it's a lot of like it's not a lot of time but it is a lot of time so anyway it's going well I'm feeling very fit but I know that I still have eight weeks to go and I haven't really started the speed stuff yet I haven't yeah really at all just as yeah not really at all so soon in fact what is today March 20th is it March 20th basically in one week from now yeah eight days from now will be will be like my first speed session good question Kenny you're getting me fired up thank you for asking that Daniel ask is your ultimate goal to finish the marathon or to finish fast finish fast I would say Daniel finish fast yeah finish real fast my goal I'm not afraid to say it is to run 518 per mile for 26 miles that's the goal so I know the goal I know in my and the reason I say that to you very specifically is because I I know based on past experience from what I I'm doing my best to accommodate my training to get my my turnover ready for that type of speed for that type of distance so you gotta it's like working backward if you want to run 518 per mile for 26 miles you know like that's your goal boom and you can apply this to the Boston qualifying times right everybody out there that's dreaming about running Boston or whatever race it might be you know your goal and then you work backward from there okay I want to average you know 715 per mile these are the these are the workouts I need to do to get me ready for that so that's what we're doing okay let's see here let's see here alright one well let's take one more question and then I think yes we're gonna open a box we're gonna open a box that's right oh man okay let me just put that right there oh man thank you Luke for the super chat I appreciate that and okay moving on here let's see alright shout out to the boys love you boys Joseph and Seth are still staying up past their bedtime oh now boys you gotta go to bed for mama you gotta go to bed for mama thank you for watching boys shout out to Seth and Joseph that's right thank you true love for that okay moving on let's see is your ultimate goal to okay no I already answered that Joa I know today is about trail but have you already seen the new Pegasus turbo 2 and the new vaporfly if yes what did you think about those new models I saw a picture of them looks pretty exciting looks pretty exciting I must say I haven't held one yet but yeah good question oh that's awesome thank you Suzanne for another super shit super chat okay so cool um old toad old toad says I'd like to run 516 for one mile hey that's that you go for it man we got this you got this it's I one foot in front of the other right one step at a time okay let's open up listen yesterday whoa yesterday a bunch of shoes arrived at the peel box we're talking like a bunch of a bunch of shoes so the next running shoe giveaway will probably be like the big one will probably be next week I don't know what day and I'll just tell you right now because there's still a lot of people watching I'm gonna interview my old CU teammate Andy Wacker next Monday night live 6 p.m. mountain time he's a sub 15 minute 5k runner sub 15 minute 5k runner in high school in high school so this guy he's talented and he's still running professionally and so anyway next Monday night gonna interview Andy Wacker live come back for that mark your calendars I think it is Monday oh man I don't even know Monday something something the 25th Monday the 25th and then we will do our normal Wednesday night live stream and then we will do oh man at some point we'll do a running shoe giveaway I don't know when to do it but we will make it happen okay let's open this up so here's what we're gonna do we're gonna give a pair of shoes away tonight and basically I don't know what shoe it is I don't know what size it is so it's all I don't know if it's a if it's a lady shoe or a guy shoe I have no idea and so if you if you stuck around the whole time it pays off to be patient right and I don't know if they're brand new and I don't know if they're gently used alright alright and basically we're gonna give them away somehow using the chat the interaction in the chat I know it's not always the the most efficient way to do it but I don't know how else to do it and if you're new what we do here on this channel is we're trying to I'm trying to help connect running shoes to from people that have a plethora of running shoes and wants to get them in the hands of people that will put them to good use and also to people that truly like need them and sometimes for people that truly cannot afford brand new running shoes so we do running shoe giveaways so you can email me sorry you can mail me your old running shoes to my PO box which I believe is it should be listed down below this live chat it might not be live the address might not be down there until after I hit stop on the live stream okay alright and let's see here so let's see here just looking at the chat Chris my favorite I don't know where this question comes from Chris but my favorite burger topping is gosh that's a hard one okay I do love ranch I must say I do love ranch all right I'll put that out there okay here we go here we go let's do this given this shoe away oh I already know what type it is that based off the box oh man and I'm just gonna say it shout out to Jim shout out to Jim for making this happen oh baby you ready for this soccery soccery in the house oh man what's it gonna be okay here we go oh man so here's what's gonna happen I'm gonna look at the shoe size I'm gonna to tell you what shoe it is and then we're going to do a giveaway okay so but here's the cat here's the the catch obviously if it's not your shoe size you can't be in the contest I apologize I frankly have no clue what size it is as I already mentioned oh man there it is oh man which one is this the ever run oh boy the Soccany ever run the ride 10 Soccany ride 10 Soccany ride 10 brand new definitely brand new oh yeah definitely brand new that is amazing oh my goodness oh my goodness okay so let's look at the size here hold on let me just set this down so thank you so much for sending this this is amazing let's see here oh man that's so it is a men's shoe eventually we'll balance that out for all the ladies out there watching okay so so I don't know this shoe yeah it's the Soccany ride 10 it looks very comfortable but I'll be honest I don't I don't know I've never worn this shoe I don't even think I've worn this shoe in a in a running shoe store so I can't really speak to it if somebody is a Suzanne that's exact I knew you I knew you would know it's a solid trainer it looks like a solid trainer and frankly it just looks really really comfortable just like looking at the upper and you know definitely a neutral shoe I can tell just looking at definitely a neutral shoe so here's the deal it's a men's shoe and I'm gonna give you the size in one second and here's how it's gonna work you can only put your name in the chat one time only one time okay and basically as soon as I say the size that is the signal for you to put your name in the chat and what's gonna happen is the 7th person is gonna win it 7 person size eight and a half go size eight and a half go size eight and a half 7th person 7th person put your name only eight and a half only eight and a half size eight and a half for men oh man here we go here we go who 7th person watch nobody's gonna put their name and you have to put your name put your name put your name put your name in the chat I'm watching I'm watching okay there's one I should have done maybe three okay two three one two three I'm counting one two three four five two more two more two more two more two more two more one two three four five Joe I I think it's Joe I've got Arvind David Logan Kenny Curtis Daniel Joe Joe up Pat Patot Patotas I'm sorry I'm not saying your name correctly all right that's the seventh one let's see there you go there you go that's right David's confirming Joe up Patotas sorry I'm not saying it correctly there you go you win now you need to email me your your mailing address okay so my email should be down below this video so email me your your mailing address don't forget the zip code and your full name first and last name that was a lot of fun that's a good idea that's a good idea I'll write down the number and not say it so people don't hold back that's a good idea we'll do that next time we'll do that we'll be back next week right with more running shoes so I will I will remember that for next time Jared and blue collar runner okay I love it it's so fun and it pays to have an eight and a half foot tonight all right we've been going for an hour and 15 minutes I think we will call it there unless you have any other thoughts or questions for me if not we will wrap it up that was a lot of fun talking tonight about FKT's fastest known times trail running shoes and then of course open it up to the open Q and a Q and a it's always fun here in here in the studio you know what I mean so fun yes congrats to Joe and I know I need we need some more 11 and a half love as well right Matthew all right I think that'll do it thank you for being here thanks for watching and we'll close it out with some seek beauty work hard and love each other have a as Anthony said here at the end have a good run tomorrow everyone so fun so good all right we will see you guys tomorrow