 We're rolling we're rolling YouTube family. All right time to get down To some business with this cross-training. I've been going pretty hard the last week But now it's like listen Cleveland is not off the table yet. All right, I just don't know We will I'm just being patient listening to the body. I I'm not calling it yet. All right, and I okay I've got a couple updates for you basically the foot is feeling Okay, is the category I'm putting it in now I'm not testing it obviously you don't want to test your foot or any injury when you're healing because that can slow down the healing process or even Frankly even re-injure it if you're testing it too much So I'm flexing my foot just just a smidge like especially in the morning when I'm waking up and Anyway, it feels better than a week ago. I will say that much So this is good news and I'm also listening to your comments about the MRI I just want to update you that Basically, I would love to get an MRI at the drop of a hat, but it doesn't it's not covered by our Insurance and that's why I have not gotten one and out of pocket. You're looking at 600 to $2,000 and but it's amazing somebody here in Denver watched the vlog about a week ago and said hey I'm getting trained in MRI work and taking MRIs for people. I might be able to ask my boss I am he said I am gonna ask my boss boss and see if I can basically do an MRI on you For free as part of my training in the MRI field if you will so that is exciting I might be able to get an MRI this week for free. We shall see it's amazing And I'm just remaining grateful and patient with the whole situation, but the bottom line is it's feeling a Little bit it's feeling better. I don't know how much better. I don't know but it's feeling better All right cross-training day time to go get some pain. All right go into the pain locker. See you inside I want to run you through cross-training. Okay, how did it go today? It was it was overall amazing I would say I learned I'm continuing to learn what what makes me work And what doesn't make me work? First of all started off with stretching and the podiatrist did challenge me and there's a lot of folks out They're suffering right now from plantar fasciitis and it's rough. It's really rough. I had surgery in college on my pf But in retrospect I'm just wondering if I could have stretched my way out of it slowly like just Continuing to be as consistent as possible with stretching. Well this machine that you see me on right now on the screen a Lot of gyms don't have this machine, but it is kicking my butt. It hurts really bad, but I love it I love it so bad. I basically do like 10 minutes on the machine It it gets your hamstrings. It gets everything it gets your a little bit I guess in your calf, but it gets your glute your glutes your hamstrings your upper hamstrings and I think for my pf I probably Should have been more aggressive in college with this stretching machine So anyway, I'm really dedicating a lot of time to getting more flexible more loose through my entire kinetic chain Hope hoping that I can stay healthy moving forward and that's what the podiatrist wants me to focus on Moving forward. All right, so first stretching then a little bit of upper body I'm struggling to figure out how to do a lot of upper like I don't want to get strong and like too big and bulky During this time when I'm not running, but I also want anyway when you see me swinging my arms like that By the way, I'm not trying to work my biceps like I don't want to be big in the biceps But I do want to work on my arm carry so that when basically when my legs are tired late in a race I want to make sure my arms keep me moving forward Yeah, so that's just been my strategy for a long time and when I'm looking in the mirror doing the exercise in the gym I'm focusing on the form as well so that I'm nice and straightforward I'm not crossing the body too much like a little bit across is okay. Everybody will have a little bit Anyway, so that's what I'm doing with the dumbbells there and then to the core work I am already feeling quite a bit stronger in my lower back, especially Just doing those supermans. I've been doing them now for I don't know Consistently now, you know in the gym for probably two months and I'm really feeling like I just have some better posture When I'm just moving around all in all so anyway really focusing on the core and then to the stationary bike And two hours. I almost had an hour two hours on the stationary bike today I try I posted posted it on Strava and I have no clue what a good Watts is on a bike. I have no clue like what RPMs I should stick to Basically, I don't make it as hard as possible because I want to keep my legs moving But it was good. It was two hour a little over two hours and made it like 39 miles So anyway, I in the last 30 minutes, I really focused on hitting it hard and you saw me there sweating at the end I feel like I got a good solid aerobic stimulus. I didn't go anaerobic. That's for sure But I a good aerobic stimulus kind of felt like a long run right now. My legs do feel a little tired So that's a good news and then jumped in the pool for a half hour Aquajog and again figuring out what makes that hard and what makes it easy So today I was doing a little bit of fart lick work not much but a little bit Like two minutes on three minutes off three minutes on two minutes off kind of changing it up in the aquajog And then 30 minutes of pool Swimming back and forth back and forth or somebody in the sauna asked me so how far did you go? And I was like I have no clue no clue I mean, it's like I guess you got to count your laps and then multiply it by the length of the pool So who knows like that just that's just too much for me. I can't I can't count laps when I'm swimming I'm focused on making sure I stay afloat and not drowning if you know what I mean So it was a good day in the cross-training regimen And we'll go back tomorrow and the next day and the next day and just see about the Possible MRI to love an eye at date night tonight We were just kind of working through the different scenarios if it is a stress fracture if it's not a stress fracture And like it does impact a lot of different things with respect to travel plans for the family and all sorts of stuff so I'll keep you posted on whether or not that obviously I will film the entire experience and get it Get it up on YouTube for all of you and one last point on the cross-training I used the spin bike instead of the life fitness bike Wow huge difference, and it didn't hurt my foot at all just so you know But that spin bike is like I was really I felt like I was really working good So if you have access to a spin bike like they I could tell it's probably pretty pricey Stationary bike so anyway that was good to discover the spin bike through this whole process and one last time Wednesday May 8th 7 p.m. Mountain Time will be the next running shoe giveaway here in the studio We've got a lot of shoes last time we did 10 shoes I'm thinking we'll do at least 12 shoes this next time maybe even more We'll see how it gets a little long at times so and we're gonna we have come up Well, we're working on coming up with a new way for you to basically enter So it's more it's a lot. It'll be a lot faster a week from now Yeah, we're just working on a better system for you to enter your name and stay tuned for updates on that as well next week And the question of the day, I'm not exactly sure why I came up with this question of the day I was thinking maybe I'd ask about cross-training, but we already covered that maybe three or four days ago So instead this is kind of totally something in yeah, I think it's probably from the London Marathon So here it is how what is your favorite source for running? Related news and why whether it's online whether it's Prince whether it's I don't know I it could be anything who knows wherever you get your running news And it could be like a little a little running club news letter Whatever it might be let us know where you get your running news down in the comments And why why you like that source for me frankly? I know it's a little weird But I probably just get most of it through Twitter I know it's it's weird But I've gotten pretty good at honing in on accounts that I trust to follow in the running news world So anyway, I just scroll through Twitter kind of just check in. I don't dive too much into running news I know you can kind of get dragged down into it too much sometimes in my humble opinion But if you have a good source for running news, let me know that'd be awesome and that is today's vlog Thanks for being here. We're just fighting like thanks for sticking with the channel through this cross-training I know I can't go film great shots for you right now, but that will be returning I believe sooner rather than later, so I'll see beauty work hard and love each other See you tomorrow. We'll be back. We'll be back. You better believe it. All right