 Hello my friends. Today is Global Running Day. So today I'm going to run the Skyline Traverse here in Boulder. And what it does is it links up the five tallest mountains right here in town. It's about 17 or 18 miles. I'm gonna run it from my house. It'll be a little bit longer. But on this day, Global Running Day, I'm just gonna be very grateful for being able to be a runner. To have a body that is strong enough to move me forward with my own two feet. And I've been running ever since I was a little kid. And it's been the greatest, one of the greatest gifts of my life. I absolutely, I love it. You know what's funny is I just reached for my helmet. It's so automatic when I leave my house 95% of the time I'm putting on a bike helmet. But not today. I don't think I need a helmet when I'm running. I'm not that much of a class. Oh yeah, it is a beautiful day here in Boulder, Colorado. The sun is shining. So I don't often run with heavy backpacks. But this run kind of necessitates it because I need a lot of water. I have about two and a half liters of water and a lot of food and energy and gels. A rain jacket because it's the rocky mountains that might rain. And camera stuff. Look at that paraglider up there flying. That looks pretty fun. These are my backyard trails right here that I'm on. This is Wonderland Lake. This is where I go running pretty much every day. And where I'm heading right now to start the skyline traverse is over there a mountain called Mount Sinitas. That's gonna be the first of five. The crickets are out in force and that is just a sure sign of summer. I forgot to mention that this is not gonna be a walk in the park. Today's elevation is gonna be about 6,000 feet. Believe that? It's just nuts how pretty it is. Mount Sinitas. It doesn't look like I've gotten very far but that's where I live way out there. So I kind of have gone a distance. And that's where I'm headed for the rest of the day. Green Mountain Bear, South Boulder Peak, Flagstaff Mountain. I think what I'm gonna do on top of every one of these mountains, the five mountains, I'm gonna talk about one different thing that I'm grateful for. The first one being I'm extremely grateful that I am from this town. I was born right down there in Boulder Community Hospital 1979. This is where I grew up. That's my city. That's where I went to high school where I ran around where I learned how to ride a bike. 300 days of sunshine a year and I'm also grateful that it's so green because later in the summer this is usually pretty yellow. Usually before my bike rides I say no flaties, no crashies, no whammies but I'm gonna have to amend that too. No crashies, no trippy, and follies and break my anklies. That's what I'm saying today. Hello. I like talking to myself. Sometimes it's a little awkward when you talk to the camera around other people. They're like what is that guy doing? These are the Red Rocks. Not to be confused with Red Rocks Amphitheater which is also beautiful. Yes! Look at that. Those rocks right there that's Sanitas. That's where I just was. Here are Red Rocks right here and then over there it's the top of Flagstaff Mountain and behind that the big boys Green Bear and South Boulder Peak. They have a lot of good memories at this spot right here. I actually in high school I'd come up here and make out with my girlfriend Carrie. Yeah she went to Fairview High School though. I went to Boulder High. It's like a rival thing and I think that's probably why it didn't work out. You just can't mix that blood man. You can't mix the rival high school blood. This is Boulder Creek. It's raging right now. All the snow melts. Oh yeah. Cold water always just kind of resets your body. This is my favorite street art in Boulder. It's a guy whose tag is Smile. It makes these little stencil paintings and puts them all over town. I love them. We are now heading a Flagstaff Mountain and for those of you who come to Boulder in the winter Flagstaff is where our Boulder Star is that we put up on Veterans Day and it lasts through the holidays. Big beautiful star on the side of the mountain. It's the top of Flagstaff Mountain kind of. I don't know if there really is a top but this is the amphitheater and it's one of my happy places here in Boulder. I love coming up here when I'm riding my bike and just chilling out. You know I've always thought it'd be a cool place to get married someday. You know make everybody ride their bikes up here. You know get some electric rickshaws for the grandmas but I mean isn't an epic place to say I do. I am grateful that I found running very early on in life. I started running when I was like six and I've been a runner ever since. I've loved it. You know I ran through high school and I've never been a really competitive runner but I've always been a runner and running to me is just it's just about getting outside and being in nature and breathing fresh air and I hope that I'll be able to run for the rest of my life. I mean it's such an important part of who I am. I wake up most days, I eat some cereal and I go running and I love it. I really do love it. Be aware mountain lions and bears can be dangerous. You know I've lived here all my life. I've never seen a mountain lion. I've definitely seen a few bears but mostly when I see bears they're like digging trash out of people's trash cans and back alleys. Now that I say that I'm probably going to see both today probably a mountain lion riding on the back of a bear and they're gonna come charging after me and well it's just gonna have to wrestle them or cuddle them. One of the two. Nature is neat. Some of the first views of the big mountains here in Colorado. The Rock East that John Denver was not full of shit and it looks pretty stormy over there. That's why you try to do your physical activities early in the morning here in Colorado because you don't know what's gonna happen in the afternoons. It's hard. There's a lot of stairs. That is a march. I forgot how difficult that was and as you walk over to this side of Green Mountain you have a view of beautiful Boulder Town. That guy right there is Bear Peak. That's where I'm heading next. Behind those trees is South Boulder Peak. It's time for Mr. Grateful. I am grateful that I have the time to do something like this on a Wednesday morning. I realize that most people don't have the opportunity or ability to do something like this and I'm very grateful that I have a life that I've created a life where I can go out and spend five six hours running. You know it's a total privilege and I realize how fortunate I am. I'm really liking this part of the trail. It's not technical. It's pretty flat. You can kind of get your stride going again. I'm tired. Oh man. Yeah, this is starting to burn. You're not gonna believe this but look who's out here today. The one, the only, take a guess right now before I turn around the camera. Dana! How's it going? It's going great. It's beautiful day. I know and these ones are close. This is the scrambling part of Bear. I mean you guess you could run it if you're like total beast but nah. I was just on top of that one. That's true and then that one further than I live way, way out there. That's the north side of Boulder. There it is right behind me. Those dudes are standing. Boulder looks so good right now. Boulder is looking its best and all you out there who know the story of Dave Mackie, the runner. This is where he had his tragic accident and slipped down the mountain and a Boulder crushed his leg so we have to be careful. That's what I'm saying here. Look at this. Our little cheerleader at the top of Bear Peak. What's up bud? And now this is, we have a special gratitude guest. Dana is probably one of the humans on the planet who has inspired me most about just sharing your gratitude with the world. Recently I am super grateful and this might sound a little Boulder hippie-ish or something but every single day I wake up for real and I'm grateful for everything I still have. I think you and I talked about this like you know as you get older and stuff like you know Ryan's in his prime. You know like just you know you're gonna lose everything like eventually when people talk about you know back in the day back in the day so it's so easy to wake up and be like oh I'm so grateful for everything I have today. Like my health, my relationships, my wife for sure, family of friends, all of it. Like I'm just so, I have more today than I may ever have. That is awesome. Yeah so I'm super grateful for it. And I'm gonna play off that. I'm grateful for you and our friendship. I mean we're kind of an odd couple in a way. We are so oddball. Like how did we find each other? But we did and you've really enhanced my life in so many ways and filled my heart with love and joy and supported me on so many adventures and when I have really tough breakups I come crying to you and when I'm going through whatever hard thing or joyous thing you're always there. I think that's what works with us. We just recognize the joy and the adventure. Exactly. That's it. I love you Ryan. I love you too. We did it. That's number Cinco. I love you Rocky. What's all that about Dana? We hear that one a lot don't we? We do hear that one a lot. Well we do these love shoutouts so whenever we climb really high like even bikes or hiking or whatever when we climb really high and there's something that beautiful we do love shoutouts just to like bring the vibration energy of that person to us and so yeah maybe you want to do one now. Yeah. I could do so many but I know. I love you mom. I love you dad. Sarah, Ethan, Logan. You can't leave anyone out. Yeah I can't leave anybody out. This is like an acceptance speech at the Oscars. Dana and I have done a lot of adventures together but we have never run. Isn't that funny? I know. I'm not a real runner. I mean a run. A little. Yeah. Dana though I'm gonna say some things about her that'll blow your mind. When she was younger she was a phenom. She ran a 32-minute 10k. What? What? That's crazy. Well I'm glad we got a run on World Running Day. Thank you all for for watching and joining us on our little adventure. I hope you got out for a run today. You get out for a run tomorrow. Get off that couch and you know, Dana anything to say? I'm super grateful still. Get off your couch. Get out there. That's right. Get out there. Get on. Get. Like and subscribe. Bye.