 so much fun out there on the trails it's hard mountain racing in 2020 or marathon racing in 2020 we're gonna talk about it out in the studio here in a minute but first time to roll out get the legs nice and happy after gosh what are we at we're five days out from the New York City marathon with seven seven days to go until the world mountain running championship so the time is of the essence to make sure the body is feeling right and real quick before I start rolling out here and yes I'm gonna use the trigger point more so today I just got to dig in a little bit to my my glute and right hip is just a little tight after the marathon racing so I let's rock and roll let's rock and roll in the studio marathon racing or mountain racing in 2020 what a topic now I'm not gonna divulge all of my races that I'm gonna do next year but we're gonna get the discussion going yeah so we'll get into that in one minute but first today's run in the ultra the ultra lone peak 4.5s took about for nine miles today 2100 feet of vertical gain and loss there it is on your screen in kilometers and meters not my first impression but I will just say it's crazy zero drop is crazy it's so it felt so much different I haven't worn an ultra in a while and it's just so distinct it's a very different feel the and so I can see why they have found here's actually my old my old tips right here and I can see why people who love ultra really dive into that experience at the zero drop meaning and I actually don't even know what the stack height is in these lone peak 4.5s but that experience of just your heel going closer to the ground and then just stretching out I feel like when I'm running in a zero drop shoe my soleus in calf and Achilles tendon is stretching more which again I think is a good thing every now and then so I enjoyed the ride I did not fall in the mud didn't fall on the ice so that is good so that the grip on the outer outsole did pretty well out there today at Mount Falcon okay let's dive into the topic oh man if you've been watching this channel for a long time you know that historically I am more of a mountain and ultra running fan that's what I've been doing mostly over the last four to five years approximately is pursuing the 50k distance the even upwards of the 50 mile distance and crazy enough I attempted a hundred mile the run rabbit run 100 and this connects in it's crazy it's all coming full circle remember two months ago when I brought up the topic on the vlog about finding your niche right remember it was a really I think a lot of people enjoyed that vlog and I'll try and link to it up a right hand corner where I basically laid out the thought process for discovering what do you enjoy the most in the running world and what are you good at and combine those two together and you might become a happier runner meaning a more fulfilled runner and it comes down to you know your the distances that you're racing the surfaces that you're racing on the vertical gain that you're achieving in a particular race so there's yeah there's so many different types of running out there whether it's track races cross-country mountain road the list goes on and on and on so now I feel like I'm eating what I would I wish I'm absorbing what I already told you two months ago I don't know like I'm trying to figure out what the heck is going on here with a 106 53 and I know I keep talking about that time but it really did surprise me and that's why I was frankly kind of so happy after Amsterdam you know I didn't hit the 219 goal but the fact that I could still as a 34 year old hit a 106 53 in a marathon race and I'm keeping it all in perspective just so you know I just saw an article before I came out to the studio pop up on I think it was on Facebook or Twitter and this past weekend in Japan if you run a 106 in a half marathon in Japan you might break into the top 200 finishers that's how competitive road racing is in Japan I'm blown away it's planting seeds for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 but basically I'm keeping the 106 53 in perspective but it does get me very very very excited for my future races in the new year which yes is knocking on our door and all of you shout out to the vlog right after the New York City Marathon I asked the question of the day have you already started planning your racing calendar for the 2020 year and many of you have I was blown away by how many of you are registered how many of you have already plotted out it's not like now is actually the go time because the races will fill up so it's actually really an important time to start registering especially for the really competitive races that are difficult to get into we're going to go in here in a second and talk to true love because on our our drive yesterday back from the mountains we actually started planning our kind of our family and life calendar for 2020 in the car and so we're going to talk to her in a minute about races that we chatted about but I will say I want to give you I want to just I want to be really honest and open with you about what I'm thinking for next year I've officially I've officially caught the marathon bug I've caught it there's no other there's no denying it I I it's in me and I'm now quite excited to see what I can do with a calendar year dedicated to marathon racing it's in me 2020 now I will just say will I race the Pikes Peak ascent next year or the Pikes Peak marathon which is a mountain race I probably will but that might be my only trail race in 2020 I'm just and I know that might be a shocker but I am very intrigued to see what I could do at the half marathon distance on the roads at sea level on a flat course with competition and I'm intrigued to see what happens who knows with Houston with hopefully the Olympic trials but with other road races as well I've caught the bug and I don't know how to get rid of it it's in me and it gets me very very excited and pretty soon I'm gonna make a vlog very very soon about rebuilding my running form I'm watching footage from New York from Amsterdam and I feel decent about what I'm doing out there on the roads but I know with a little more specificity in my training I think I can go even faster on the roads so that's my answer for marathon racing or or mountain racing in 2020 I know this is it's a little shocking frankly but here's okay one more point I know I'm going a little long here is that if I still have some speed now is the time to pursue it as a 34 year old not as a 38 year old or a 44 year old even though look at Bernard Lagotte and and oh my goodness well even well look at Bacalé almost breaking the world record how old is he 36 I think he's 36 and Kipchogi's 34 bottom line now is the time to pursue speed while I still have it that's that's my rationale here so I'm excited alright question of the day when has your passion for running shifted to a new distance or new surface and how did that impact your training and I'll just say it like your overall happiness or joy with the sport of running like has there been a shift or maybe you shifted and maybe it didn't go your it didn't go the way you expected so that's the question of the day thanks are heading it up down below let's go inside talk to true love about a few other races we chatted about in the car ride what a day out on the trails it's it's hard I must say it's hard to say that that I might not be in the mountains as much as I was this year but maybe it's time to go a little faster all right come on now come on now bye bang bye boom this looks amazing how do on Twitter last night I explained how do you keep i explained butter my bread to you to twitter to do a little it was guy just kind of where the story come from it was really really good all right hunn so 2020 around the corner yeah he had a two hour car ride home yesterday, planning our lives for 2020 and what so mountain marathon mountain marathon what did we discuss as far as potential races for the new year which is just around the corner marathon baby marathons marathons new york city new york city half new york city half new york city oh in the spring depending on what happens in houston olympic trials okay new york city full new york city full first sunday november fresh no fresh legs fresh legs which by the way you crushed it no no no hamster dam i love you hamster dam no hamster dam two weeks before okay and um oh well possibly pike's peak yes so it's kind of a mix well it's basically just pike's peak oh yeah as far as trails and not the roads and also because we've done that it's kind of like a family tradition and like the whole extended family goes we all stay in a hotel it's an hour from our house yes our grammy lives down in color springs my grandma lives down there so that's yeah you're right that was like the bonus but after pike's peak yeah nothing nothing just new york just new york so we're coming for you we're coming for you so anyway that is and that is not the entire race schedule i will get you uh more details new york city yeah i just knew we didn't even know that till after we had done thank you you know who oh butter it there it is okay here we go there it is oh man all right we're signing off ladies and gentlemen divers i'm salad and pizza uh throwing it back to two blogs one on the right one on the left the one on the right is going to be all about finding your niche and running and on the left we're going to toss it back to the pike's peak ascent race you better believe it all right seek beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow