 All right, everyone your friendly public service announcement Valentine's Day is coming up. Don't forget those cards out there Don't forget those had to call an audible today. I was gonna go do my final comparison Yes, between the hoka carbon rocket and the Nike vapor fly 4% flying it I was gonna do one more run today, but the family is sick And so I decided to work from home today to help out as much as I can so they're all napping I'm gonna go squeeze in my long run for the week and usually I don't do long runs on Tuesday But I am just moving things around. I've got my calendar here And yes, it's part of the game plan like as runners and people that have schedules and work and family like you just Have a general thesis for your training a general But don't be afraid at times not every day But at times moving a workout like flip-flop if I was gonna do my long run on Thursday But basically I'm just flip-flopping Tuesday for Thursday because the family is sick. It's okay. It's okay to do that It's really okay. You're still getting the miles in getting the kilometers in into your legs All right, and a package arrived yesterday. Let's see. I don't know what this is. It says it's from Indiana Yeah, Indiana, so let's see no idea what's going on here. Oh my my oh Ah ah a koozie a koozie sun downer express Sun downer express Hold on. What is this? Hold on set James DeMore, dear SJD I have been a subscriber and regular viewer for about five months now as a runner who also runs a trucking company in Indiana The insight and gear advice that you provide are priceless Especially as I strive to find the time to develop my running schedule and gear up while raising a young family and a medium-sized Trucking company. So thank you a little okay. That's amazing. I won't read the whole thing. That's amazing Thank you to Luke. All right. I guess inside is a mouse pad. Yeah Sun downer express Remington, Indiana and a t-shirt. Oh my goodness. Let's see here. Here we go. That's a Yeah, I love it. I love it. Sun downer express Remington, Indiana That's amazing. Shout out again to Luke. Luke congrats on being an entrepreneur Raising a family and yes running getting those miles and even oh my god like two busy schedules You're probably I'm guessing doing a lot of early or early morning runs or night runs I'm guessing, you know, that's how entrepreneurs and family guys got to do it for the long run today I'm gonna be in the Nike Vemero 14 This is a little bit of a last-ditch effort to see if these shoes can be a workhorse shoe In 2019 meaning just putting in miles not fast miles Just getting miles in getting miles in and they feel like a workhorse shoe But as you know, they've been giving my feet a little bit of pain the last two to three weeks last The last run I was in for these shoes was last week and I was I was good So I'm just gonna see one more time. Can these shoes pull it off? I don't know. Let's go see. All right What a day. What a day. All right, but a lot a little tip of the day for everybody It is easy in a long run to keep your form the first two three four or five miles of a long run But the question becomes can you maintain your form and your cadence and your foot strike? at the highest efficiency Later in the long run. So at mile 15 16 17 or whatever your long run might be and so tip of the day is Lock in and You might not be able to listen to music You might not be able to listen to podcasts and do this But you got to lock in to the muscle memory Happening early in the run. So like right now I feel great. I'm actually running a little too fast I need to slow down but I'm remembering how my legs feel right now So that and how my how my form feels right now so that I can apply it to later in the run So I'll do another check in here in about 12 miles maybe 15. We'll see. All right Onward Okay a couple miles to go and yes around mile 15 I could start to feel my form start to go a little bit. I held on pretty well this last three miles But anyway, just focus focus focus on that form Right now. I can't say too much because I'm hurting. All right Almost home Why do I run? Why do I run? Here's a big reason why Hi boys I Hear a sight to behold Okay, let me get some water real ran a little faster than I expected to today. Oh, that was good Okay, the question becomes will the Vamaro 14s be a workhorse in 2019? I will just say right now major major issue today almost a debilitating issue in the Vamaro 14s I'll tell you about that in a little bit. Stay tuned The work horse the work horse will the Vamaro 14 be the work horse We're trying to figure it out ladies and gentlemen. Oh my goodness 20 miles today 32 kilometers 630 per mile four minutes per kilometer a solid pace for a middle of the week long run And I'll talk more about the effort today here in a minute The Vamaro 14 which I'm gonna call the v14 from here on out because it's a mouthful The v14 was released November 2018 late November. And so it's a you know, two or three months old It is a big update update to the v13 the Vamaro 13 overall I was incredibly excited for the overhaul of the Vamaro lineup But then two weeks ago, I believe the pain struck a horrible horrible pain Like I I'm trying to figure it out because guess what today no pain on the bottom of my feet no pain And I was just waiting and waiting for it and it never came it never came. So and it was on the outside So this is good good news and but there is a downfall. I'll talk about that in a minute However, I think that based on yesterday's run in the Skechers razor 3 I went 620 per mile pace and I think my legs woke up a little bit from a little winter hibernation And there that combined with the ride of this shoe today for 20 miles I was not expecting I was expecting at least I was expecting like 715 per mile pace today and my leg I was going by feel I didn't look at my watch until like mile 8 and then I glanced down It was right about the coffee shop actually when I got the water So I was like oh boy. I'm going faster than I anticipated and I tell you what I was going fast Because the ride felt amazing if and there was no pain in my feet. So this is good This is a good. This is good news for the v14 lineup So after the water at the coffee shop pound it out two more miles and then at mile 10 and mile 15 I had to stop and take the shoe off. Why specifically the left shoe this one Right at the top of the tongue. I thought my foot was gonna fall off I I did not I promise I did not tie this shoe too tight But something and some of you have told me as well Nike You did not do the tongue of this shoe correctly like other people are complaining about this as well And yes, this is my little rant for the month like Nike come on now Like this tongue is digging into the top of my foot And I don't know if it's the combination of the flywire cable and I product I loosened it twice on the run twice today I had to stop and loosen the shoe and by the end I was like gosh if I loosen any more I might as well just not even tie the shoe but sure enough like right here through the top of the tongue It was digging into that's into my foot and it was so painful Almost as I said earlier almost debilitating so Nike if you're listening could you help a brother out and fit and just let me know like what was your thought process behind this tongue Basically, what everyone is saying in the comments and other people on Strava is that the tongue is not tall enough Like they should have added. I don't know more padding and then maybe like another half an inch of Material up here right right right there right there on the v14. Oh help a brother out So that was the debilitating situation today other than that Right now. I'm gonna say right now This shoe went from like a six from earlier like at the beginning of the day to a seven and a half on us on A ten scale six to a seven and a half on a ten scale this shoe is moving up And yes at this point. I am gonna keep it in the option list of a workhorse shoe for 2019 meaning when I'm doing the 20 22 mile maybe 23 mile long runs getting ready for the marathon There is a chance this guy is gonna be in the lineup. Okay, and so now the next time I do take the v14 out I will be monitoring that pain through the basically the front of my ankle Where the top of the tongue hits we shall see stay tuned stay tuned Okay, the keyword for this vlog is horse because I'm trying to figure out is the v14 gonna be a workhorse for 2019 right now. It's still in the running. It's still in the running All right, the horses are lined up in the in the gate and they're about to take off and the mileage Continues to rise as I do the first peak in this mileage So if you're wondering like wow set the 20 mile run three months away from a marathon that sounds like a lot Don't do that unless you're planning a double peak. So I'm gonna peak over the next Three to four weeks, and then I'm gonna come back down in volume I'm actually gonna take two or three days off in early March after the first race and then I'll rise back up I'm a big believer that you can't maintain high volume for months and months And so I'm gonna peak in late February early March and then drop down and then our eyes back up So I'm just trying to figure out will this be part of the rise in March and April That's the deal. That's the deal and guess what it's Valentine's Day for true love and I we're celebrating early And so I got the card we are gonna go off to date night So I'm gonna let true love actually ask the question of the day So stay tuned for that true love. She doesn't know this yet. So love you, honey. Love you You got to come up with a question of the day. She'll do great. She'll do great. All right Let's go Date night Early Valentine's Day at Texas Roadhouse. Here we go Pro tip rock and roll Do south Day night That's us I won't even I won't even say it I won't even say it Check We got it We snag these for the kids Little calling for like a moment when we're waiting at a dentist appointment or something dinner was delicious amazing Happy Valentine's Day true love. All right, signing off true love has the question of the day for you. Here we go I was thinking of this last week Joseph school had a snow day and it was his first ever snow day And we had so much fun at home playing together in the snow and hot chocolate and everything But my question to you is if you had a snow day this week, what would you do with your run? Would you go farther? Harder longer different terrain. What would your run look like with all that extra time and what kind of joy would that? instill in you. All right, there we go. It's your snow day you two What does your snow day from work from school from? Yeah, what would it look like? Would you go to the spa? Go running and then go to the spa. All right answer down below you guys are the best and see beauty work hard See you tomorrow