 There we go. There we go 12 miles. So 20k in the bank Making those deposits making those deposits for May for the marathon got to make deposits right now folks. Okay Enjoying the process. We're gonna talk about that a lot today and basically I am trying and striving to Mentally make the choice using my will to enjoy the process of learning how to live stream Really well on YouTube for you, but it's not my most favorite thing to do as you well know So even like today on the run. I must say I am very Excited and amped up for the Cleveland marathon my first road marathon of my life I'm also extra extra amped up for the pikes peak ascent But guess what that is six months seven months away That's way too far away to be amped up for that race right now So just a little tidbit maybe a little tip of the day. I personally need to work on enjoying the process more right now and enjoying the training more right now over the Excitement and enthusiasm for races that are months away. So anyway, we're gonna talk more about enjoying the process as a runner Later today. I got to go inside eat some quick lunch get back to work. Oh my goodness. What ah 12 miles. Love it bank deposit bank deposit Oh perfect timing tea. Oh and hon. You want to show them what you got show them what you got? Okay You all you all know how I'm maybe trying to just drink a slightly less amount of coffee in my life And so I'm really enjoying this discovery of the tea movement and look what true love picked up Oh my my honey want to share with me green Moroccan mint Red refresh. This is sort of like an orange. It is black, but it's caffeine free Yep, and then this loose leaf. Whoa something with lemon Mint ginger if you want to add it and all of this this was $2 and 250 and 250 Trader Joe's Trader Joe's crushing it. You know what? I'm gonna say butter my bread butter my bread You do it. Okay. Mm-hmm. This is the red refresh herbal tea. I don't know about the loose leaf I think that also is caffeine free, but Little red Cool ash of red. Oh So true love we are talking about enjoying the process on YouTube today in training in life in live streaming And in making tea. Oh Amen. That's brilliant. Hey, it's a little things. It's the ordinary day-to-day Nothing's that add up to all the some things and think of Michael Baby steps baby steps. He's not he's not stepping. Yeah, but it's all about those eating real food He's eating real food. It's all about those baby steps Got the speed cross fours enjoying the process enjoying the process even in winter training. All right I'm going into ace here ace hardware picking up some screws. I'll explain what I'm doing back at the house enjoying the process Again just enjoying the process. I must say I told true love a couple days ago like I'm ready for summer. I'm just ready. I'm I'm and I it's like it's it's only january We've got a long ways to go until the temperatures are let's say in the low 70s Like I just as a runner. I just really enjoy nice temperatures for running But I'm trying to be patient and enjoy the process. So that's what these are for. Let's go I'll show you what I'm about to do. Come on. I've never done this before never done this before Here goes nothing here goes nothing Enjoying the process All right, all right We're doubling up today running twice in one day twice in one day It's called a double and I will talk to you maybe next week. Let's shoot for next week I'll make a vlog about my thesis behind why you should double or not double the benefits and the drawbacks And I have opinions on I have an opinion on both the benefit and the drawback to doubling So uh come back next week for that But the main reason I'm doubling today is to test out and enjoy the process of figuring out how to train Well in the winter and listen, I don't live in norway. I don't live in chicago I don't live in northern japan where there's just ridiculous amounts of snow and Precipitation like in denver today the the roads were snowpacked this morning But because we are higher in elevation the sun is pretty intense here It's it's basically all gone off of the road. So I'm still though I still want to there's a little bit of snow and ice left and so I still want to test out these half inch hexagonal screws that I just put in the bottom of these old solemn speed cross fours and basically in denver The deer creek run that I like to do and you've seen me run there before at deer creek It's a beautiful location, but there are some quite a few sections of that run that basically Melt during the daytime and then freeze at night And so it just turns into an ice rink up there And some other runners shout out to keith shout out to russell some other runners out there Use this technique of putting screws in the bottom of their shoes And this is not this is not the question of the day But I will ask do you put screws in the bottom of your shoes in the winter time? This is the first time I've ever done this. I'm excited and listen again I don't live in a very crazy winter climate. I'm not in norway or northern japan or Main or manitoba. So listen, this is like a little bit of a stretch for me to do this But I still want to try it. Okay. Let's double up three mile run just around denver See if I can go find some ice and snow ice and snow. Come on Okay Okay, everybody. Okay enjoying the process out here enjoying the process And I'm not just talking about training and running, but also just the little things in life the baby steps Listen, it's cold. It's friday night. I'm out in the shed. It's 8 o 4 p.m. And I'm out here alone And guess what this tea is a little thing. It's a little um Luxury of life that's gonna help me enjoy the process of filming these videos for you And I just anyway, maybe I'm making a I'm stretching the point a little bit too far But it's like those little thing the kozalig of life, right? Remember we talked about kozalig a couple months ago It's just those little actions that we can take every single day that I think help us Enjoy the process. Anyway, maybe I'm just riffing here too much. But okay, let's dive into peak races and what I already touched upon earlier today I love peak races. I made a vlog all about peak races. If you haven't seen it I'll try to remember to let it come up in the upper right hand corner right now because I think I attempted to Communicate to all of you that it's really really important to choose some peak races in your calendar year to shoot for and to train for However, I get excited about racing sometimes too excited, especially if it's on a course that I love And so we have to temper our enthusiasm a little bit as athletes and especially as very competitive athletes so that we don't forget about The journey right the journey to get to that starting line and I've realized since I've registered for the cleveland marathon in may that I've been thinking about it quite a bit because it's exciting. It's my first road marathon But then I think yesterday and definitely today on my runs. I was like, wait a minute This is amazing. I'm out here running in the snow It's freezing out and I'm just trying to really make a conscious decision to enjoy These steps right now not enjoy the next mile not enjoy like getting done and drinking a hot cup of tea but actually enjoying the steps that are right in front of me in the actual moment and Yes, sometimes it does require yes taking out my air pods and just Because when I'm and just so you know, I don't listen to music. I listen to a lot of podcasts. I love podcasts Uh, but it's like you got to take that those podcasts out take the music out and just Just be just be all right and listen How how do you actually enjoy the process of training as I just mentioned like you sometimes have to make Use your will inside of you to make a mental decision I am going to enjoy the next 100 steps of this run because listen, we all get tired, you know in training We all sometimes we have injuries sometimes training. Yeah, obviously we're not going to enjoy every single step But if we can get out of bed or maybe it's on our lunch break or whenever you're running Maybe you're doing night runs before you step out your door. You're saying, okay I'm in the moment This is my moment to advance my fitness to my next goal And I'm going to enjoy these steps right in front of me right now Uh, but another action that you can take is to change it up Don't run the same route every single day change it up run different places And I know it's not always possible because of scheduling and travel time and all that commute time But sometimes as runners we get in a rut and we run the same route over and over again And yeah, maybe you're not it maybe you're not enjoying the runs the training as much as you could be If you just took a right turn instead of a left turn at the fork in the road that you come to every single day Or whatever the case may be um or for me, I've actually enjoyed running downtown in the last Uh three to four months instead of running all in the mountains Are all around right around my house. And so anyway, that's like just changing up a little bit where we're running I think can help us Uh, enjoy that process of training because we're seeing new things and that's exciting as human beings It's exciting. It's exciting. And of course you better believe it process is the key word a process down in the comments And for all the new subscribers, which by the way, I don't know we're closing in real quick on 8 000 Welcome to everybody who subscribed and let's just say the last week if you're noticing a a Random word, but it's not random word down in the comments before people Answer the question of the day Basically, the keyword is designed to just help get the conversation going down in the comments So thanks for typing it in down in the comments process. That is the keyword for the day And yes the question of the day Do you feel like you Struggle with enjoying the process of training as a runner Do you feel like you struggle with enjoying training? Basically, he's what i'm asking or and if you do Why do you think that is and if you don't if you like and be honest, you know be very because i'll be i'll be frank Like I struggle sometimes i'm like, uh My biggest challenge is time I get a little bit anxious about the time in the day And how am I gonna find enough time to run that day? So I don't always enjoy the process of training I'll just call the spade a spade, but uh, so that's the question of the day and if you do Enjoy the training Let's just say 90 of the time like what is your trick teaches your ways like and yeah Just teaches your ways like what do you do to really enjoy? Running all right, and we're gonna have a lot of different perspectives being shared Down in the comments with that question of the day. Thanks for answering. Oh, and yes I will be publishing a second video today Come back probably i'll publish it at let's just say i'm gonna publish it at 3 p.m Mountain time so east coast that's 5 p.m. Basically giving my first Impressions of the on cloud x shoes. I've got a lot of thoughts on these shoes after taking them out for a good run today All right, that is it. I'm going to enjoy the process of drinking this tea and enjoy Just being alive being alive, right See beauty work hard and love each other. Thanks for being here. Thanks for being here. Hmm So so if you're still watching thank you I forgot to talk about these shoes and running with Screws in the bottom of them and so I will take them up to the mountains run on ice up in the mountains I know that sounds crazy, but I make that point because One way to stay Engaged in your training and joy the process of training is to do something different Something maybe you've never done before think outside the box Whether it's like, you know if I had sand to go run in if I lived by a beach and I'd never run on a beach Like I would go do that just to change things up a little bit Well, I've never run in screw with screws in the bottom of my shoes So this is one way in 2019 that I'm gonna change it up a little bit And yes, I'm gonna go find ice to run on in the mountain somewhere Probably a deer creek just to enjoy The process of running just change it up change it up a little. All right. Now we're done. Whoo