 we're going to get through this. Just imagine the next time you get on a starting line. I'm going to make a vlog about this. Three mile warm-up in the books. All right, here we go. Stay for the winter. I'll share with you my bed. I may seem lost, but it's the only place. Okay, everyone home then. Will they track? That is the question. We got the Nike Alpha Fly, Nike Alpha Fly. Taking them out for my second run in these shoes. First run was one week ago, a 23-miler. In case you haven't seen that vlog, up a right-hand corner. Go check it out. But there they are. Nike Alpha Fly, next percent. A marathon racing shoe. We all know that. But if you follow the elite marathon runners around the world, most of them, many of them, are doing track workouts in this shoe. It's wild. Either the 4%, the next percent, or the Alpha Fly next percent. This guy right here. So I'm just curious. And you know, if you watch this channel a lot, you know I'm not a track guy. I don't hop on the track that often. But I can't resist figuring out, for all of you with an interval session today, how these shoes will fare. Gotta get this cool down in because I gotta be sore. I gotta be sore. Oh man. I don't know. It'll be interesting to see if I'm more sore after today's track workout or last week's 23-miler. I can feel it already. I can feel it. All right. Gotta get going. Gotta get going. Come on, baby. I was gonna venture out into the neighborhoods for the cool down, but there's no way I can pass up a nice, soft, astroturf field like this one right here. It just feels so good on the legs, especially after a pretty hard workout. Okay, everyone. Also, yeah, yesterday, what did we do? We gave a shout out to all of the race directors out there across the country around the world. Thank you for what you do. But today, we're giving a shout out down in the comments to all the people who own or work at gyms. Why do I say that? Because today in the interval workout here at the track, my running form didn't feel amazing. And I think part of it is connected to not being able to get into the gym two or three times a week. And so all the gyms are closed down in Denver. And I just want to give a shout out to all the gym owners and people who work at gyms. Thank you for what you do to keep that equipment up and running because now we're all kind of in a pickle, not being able to work out in the gyms. And I can feel it just a little bit in my running form just using some of the machines in that gym. I miss it. I miss it as the bottom line. Okay, we're packing up before we head home. Oh my goodness. Oh, it feels kind of good to get back on the track. I will say that. Oh, man. And we're back from the track. All right, decided to put on my new shirt from Mizuno. Again, shout out to Mizuno. This is from yesterday's blog. All right. Here they are pulling them out of the box. Let's put this guy, the Alpha Fly up there, replace the Adidas shoe. Okay, everyone's second there. And yeah, kind of crazy, right? We don't do many track workouts on this YouTube channel, right? We love mountain running. We love a good solid threshold workout. Marathon racing is our best friend. But track workouts, they're just not my favorite cup of tea, but guess what? I gotta admit to you, it was pretty fun to go around the oval once again today. It was beautiful out. Oh, just a perfect day to hit some good splits. I'll get you the splits here in a second and talk to you about apparently a PR of some sort. I'll get you the thoughts on that as well. But first, a lot of people asking me about the Olympic trials. Sorry, the Olympics in Tokyo being delayed postponed until 2021. In case you haven't heard the news that happened yesterday, they announced it officially. So the Olympics this summer are not going to happen 2020. It's going to be in 2021. And the questions coming in are about the US Olympic marathon team trials that happened in Atlanta. Whether or not those results should be transferred till 2021. And my short answer is yes. And my long answer is this. Listen, athletes develop, athletes get older, like for, I'll just call him out. Abdi, I think he's, I think, yeah, he's 40 or 41 years old. So, you know, he's no spring chicken and he qualified for the Olympics in Tokyo. And now he will not be racing in Tokyo until he's 42 or 43. I believe there's on your screen, there's his age right now. So, yeah, time is, I would say, and even for, okay, I'll just say for Kipchoge with Kenya, time is a little bit of the essence, like Usur and Bekele, all right, throwing out another name in the marathoning world. So, but I do think at least for the US men, they earn their spot for the Tokyo Olympics, whether it was this year or next year, they punched their ticket. I think, yeah, I don't, even though, who knows, maybe they run the trials again and like they open up the window for a 219, like sub 219 guy to try and sneak his way into the US Olympic trial meeting me, like give me another shot. And I'm like, no, no, no, they've done the work. It's over. And let the runners who did the, you know, the top three women and men let them go run in Tokyo. Okay, there we go. And now the goal for today's workout on the track was first to go anaerobic, all right, I'll get to that in a second. And then also to test the Alpha flies on, you know, sharper corners, but turning on a track versus, you know, taking these out on the road. So, I'll get you my thoughts on that in a minute. But first, let's pull up Strava. Apparently, I was inside taking some notes down and people started commenting on the run today on the workout and they said, wow, congrats on your mile PR. And I'm like, wait, what am I, what are you talking about? And so straw, according to Strava, I set a mile PR that is not my actual PR. But it's kind of neat to, I'll have to, I'll have to drop that PR down a little bit. But I, it's saying Strava is saying 448 is I guess my new Strava PR. So that's fun. But today's workout. All right, so I did three by one mile, and then an 800 and then a 400. So I wanted to close the workout with 90 seconds rest. I should also add that. So 90 seconds rest in between each interval. So here we go. For I, according to my, and this is okay, 1600 meters, which is a little bit longer than a mile just so you know, but the, let's see. So 456 was the first mile 451, which I think was the mile PR, according to Strava. And then 453 was the third mile. All right, and then the 800 was 225. And then the 468. All right, all in the alpha flies. And again, all with 90 seconds rest in between the interval. So overall, I'm very pleased. I wanted to go at least keep it under five minutes a mile. That was the goal for at the beginning of the workout. Accomplish that and to mix in a little mile PR Strava mile PR is kind of fun as well. Now, as far as how I felt on the workout, I must say like the second and third mile repeats felt really good. Like it was hurting, but I felt like I could hold that pace. If I wanted to keep going, I could have. And now I didn't feel comfortable with my running form. I already mentioned that at the track. Got to work on that. But as far as the breathing goes, the breathing was on point. I don't think I was. I couldn't go any faster, but I think I could have held that pace for another, you know, 800 meters or 1200 meters if I wanted to. So that is an encouraging sign as far as for the time trial coming up later in the week. And we shall see how the legs, it'll be really, I'll get to the update on how I think I'm going to be sore. I've got my compressed sport, calf sleeves on right now. Hopefully that's going to help me with recovery recovery. And then of course I'll do more stretching and foam rolling tonight in the house. All right. And then as far as how the alpha flies did on the track, surprisingly well, I think, all right, I, oh, interesting. I'm seeing a little wear and tear on the outsole pattern. That's the first wear and tear I'm seeing. Very interesting. But I will say, I think the outsole pattern under the forefoot is spot on for track workouts, at least on a Mondo track. Like I was gripping really well. I didn't feel like I was going to roll my ankle either. I was a little surprised compared to, let's say, some sharp corners that I did in the 23 mile run last week in the streets of Denver. So overall, kind of shocking, but yeah, they did really, really well. Felt comfortable. Ooh, one, I'm glad I remembered this. I did have to lace up quite a bit tighter this week compared to last week, which tells me that the Adam Knit upper material is stretching just a little bit. So anyway, keep that in mind. Like maybe the upper is not going to hold its, like coming out of the box originally. The Adam Knit upper might not be as resilient as one might hope. We shall see. I'll keep testing them out for all of you. But over on, I must say quite pleased thus far with these shoes performance. And on to that question of the day, what was your last track workout and how did it go for you? Okay, if you could break down, like maybe you did some 1k repeats, maybe you did a ladder workout. I think I don't know when, but I'm really excited. I want to do a ladder workout sooner rather than later. I haven't done one in a long time. So like, you know, a 200 meter all out 400 meter, 800, 1600, 3200 and then maybe back down. I don't know something like that. So let us know. Give us a little inspiration through these challenging times. What was your last track out track workout and how did it go? All right, thanks for tuning in. Hope that helped you get a little a little more insight into the Nike Alpha Fly next per sense. And I'll keep testing these shoes out for all of you. I'll word it upward. Hope you had a great day, a great run. And we're gonna, I tweeted out earlier, I said, what did I say? I said, at least we can, at least we can control this. And then I did a little colon, enter, and then I said, our attitude, smiley face. So at least we can control our attitude through these difficult times, like positive attitude, staying optimistic, keep working hard. We're going to get through this. Just imagine the next time you get on a starting line. I'm going to make a vlog about this. We are going to be so grateful that we are on a starting line. It's going to be unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. All right, everyone. I'll stop there. We're going to toss it back to last week's 23 mile test run in the Nike Alpha Fly next per sense. In case you haven't seen it right there. It was a doozy. It was a doozy. We'll see how sore I am tomorrow compared to that run. All right, everyone. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching. See beauty, work hard, and love each other. See you tomorrow.