 We're getting legit about what we need to do for this race, for the safety of the volunteers, the workers, so Basin all about the crew. Good morning. I'm awake. I don't quite know how, but I am awake. I'm going to roll out real quick here where I'm staying and then get in the car, zip to this other ski resort. I don't even know it's snow Basin, I think, Utah. Anyway, let's try it. Let's see what we can do. Let's see what we can do, all right? That's all you can try. That's all you can try in this world. See what you can do. Oh, my goodness. It's exciting. It is exciting. Here we go. Roll it out. Roll it out. Oh, yeah. All the Cirque series. We got some rain last night, ladies and gentlemen. This is, I'm OK with that. We'll see. So I've got to, I do have an hour drive. And after yesterday's race, the legs, of course, are a little tired. I know they're going to be tired. And we'll see how sore they are. Actually, when I arrive. But this rain in cloud cover is, we'll see if it's going to stick around. And if it's an hour away from us as well. But this is, I'd say, great news. The cooler, the better. In my books, what does the temperatures say? Oh, I don't even know where it's at in this car. But anyway, we're off. Looking like rain the entire race. Looking like rain the entire race. OK, time to go register. And yeah, here we are. There's the finish line right there. And there's the mountain. Oh, Nellie. You watch the vlog? What's up? What's your name? Noah. Awesome, man. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. I know, I'm here. Yeah. Is this your family? Hey, what's up? This guy, this viewer. It dried pretty good after yesterday's creek, creek washing. Yes, it did. Looking, looking fresh. Looking, looking fresh. We're getting legit about what we need to do for this race, for the safety of the volunteers, the workers, the basin, all of us, the crew, and you. But you cannot race unlikely. We're not going to put you out there to do nothing. And it wasn't meant to be today at the XTERRA race. That is OK. What are you going to do? Lightning wins the day. They canceled the race. At about 9.15, we waited for 15 minutes, and they decided to call it because of lightning risk. You guys know how I don't like lightning, especially out in the mountains. So I'm OK with it. And guess what? Turn a negative. It's a little bit of a negative because another night away from the family last night, I had to change my flight yesterday. But turn a negative into a positive. What does it mean? It means I can start recovery a day earlier. You know what I mean? Like what are you going to do? You can't control the weather. But my next race is September 29 out in New Hampshire at the US Trail Championships. And then the big dog, Amsterdam Marathon, is, oh my gosh, what is it? Five or six? No, I think it's about six weeks away. So this is OK that I was unable to race today. It just means I can get my legs recovered and back to running, back to training. And remember, I asked the question of the day about two months ago. I believe I said, if you had to choose one, and I know this is not how life works, but if you had to choose one, do you prefer training more or racing more? And for me, if I had to choose one, I would say training. So again, the cancellation, where'd that go? There it is. There's my singlet. So the cancellation of the XTERRA race, basically, it speeds up the process of me getting back to full training. And you all know my volume of training is about to go up quite a bit, getting ready for Amsterdam. So it's water under the bridge. You can't change it. And we move on. All right, I am in Salt Lake City now. I'm going to go get a five mile run in, nice and easy. Again, just getting back to what I love doing, training, training, training. So all right, shall we go explore Salt Lake? Let's do this. Come on. And we're back, ladies and gentlemen. Back to Denver. Back to the studio. I have to say, back to Chile, Denver. I got the hoodie on. It is cold here. I can sense that crisp, fall, cross-country weather is right around the horizon for a lot of us, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. So I'm excited for that. But good trip to Utah. I'll probably talk about the CERC race in tomorrow's vlog when I have a little more time. And even though the race was canceled today, the XTERRA race, it was disappointing. But at the end of the day, you've got to keep everyone safe, including the people. I didn't think of this when the race director canceled it this morning. You've got to think about the volunteers up on the mountain who are waiting there. Now, I don't think they were above treaty line by any means, but they're just kind of waiting for us to run up the mountain. So at the end of the day, it was probably the right call after I thought about it a little bit more, because I didn't hear any thunder. But anyway, that's what she mentioned as we were leaving was don't forget about the volunteers out there waiting for us in the freezing weather. So anyways, OK, I always want to strive to bring as much value to these vlogs as possible, even when I can't film a race like today. So here we go. I was thinking on the airplane ride home, how can I bring all of you even more value to the daily vlog, or should I say to the weekly vlog? So here's what I decided upon. I've been thinking about this for a while, but if you follow me on Strava, you can certainly see my training plan. But what I'm going to attempt to do every week, so every Monday morning in the description, OK, so the description of the videos down below, you have to click. If you're on mobile, you have to click on that little arrow. I'm going to try to remember and do my best to post my weekly training schedule for the upcoming week. Now with a caveat, big, big asterisk, I often change my training during a week, depending on how the body's feeling, if I have any aches or pains, if life just gets busy. In fact, I quite often have to flip-flop runs. And the reason I'm doing this, posting the training schedule down below, and also I'll try and put it in a title of the vlog, is because I want to be as open with you all as possible about not only what I believe in in training, but frankly how I enjoy to train, OK? So that's number one. And number two is a lot of questions come in through Instagram about training. So hopefully this helps at least give people a snapshot of my week coming up. And it might help answer a few questions, whether they come from Instagram or Twitter. And so anyway, there you go. That's a new strategy for the vlog. I hope you enjoy it and can get a little value out of that. And keyword, we're going to go with lightning. Because lightning on the day, that's OK. And question of the day, when was the last time? And I apologize if I asked this recently. I may have. Sometimes the days blend together. But this is actually the second race of 2019 that was canceled because of weather or, I guess I should say, Mother Nature. So the first one was Avalanche Danger back in March in Aspen, Colorado. My brother and I, we were going to do a vertical kilometer race canceled because of Avalanche Danger. Now lightning, anyway. It's been a crazy 2019. So the question of the day, when was the last time you had a race canceled? Why was it canceled? Where was it? Any epic or crazy stories are welcome down below in the comments. All right, everyone. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching. And we'll get you the Cirque series race from yesterday on the right-hand side. If you want to watch yesterday's race of the Cirque series, fly the W. And on the left, I'm just going to pick a random training vlog, a big training vlog, but a random one over the past six months where I go out and get some vertical. All right, see you to work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.