 it's time let's open this bad boy up lucky poles look at these guys goodness look at that frankly i never ever thought i would be running with poles i'm sorry this is just not the type of runner that i am but i'm learning through trial and error that i need help in races especially late in the race on the uphills i keep repeating this over and over to you guys and so thank you matthew for the lead to these poles after a lot of research i believe these are going to be good and i don't know if they're the best out there the lekkie micro trail pro but so far i'm impressed i can tell the build quality is off the charts and now it's these are the carbon 100 model so very lightweight i mean very lightweight and i guess i should probably start with them in my backpack okay i've never run with poles before this is the first time ever so this is my first impression and i'm going to go for a long run a very long run it's all about time on feet today i'm throwing pace out the window all that matters is that i'm moving forward for long periods of time and the goal is to make my legs very tired so that i can use these as much as possible capiche all right let's go test out the lekkie micro trail pro poles oh my goodness what are we gonna do all right come on two miles in whoa i'm impressed first two miles ever run with poles uh i'm not going to give my impressions right now but there it is there it is all right i'm going to take the poles off now after two miles and just run without poles because it's not very steep right now and just test out running without poles just to see how the legs respond all right so i think i do this boom there the glove comes off and then here boom okay let me just see this is the first time i'm breaking these poles down so i'm kind of seeing how the process works for getting them in the raid light vest which uh i'm also very excited about not going to talk about it today but so here's the big test can i put these poles in my vest without taking the vest off i forgot i can put the poles on my chest wow crushing it crushing it this raid light vest boom boom come on brand new trail just opened oh man it looks like a new trail too yeah baby i just made it back to the parking lot to the uh i'm at the shelter and lightning and rain just rolled in shoot oh i might have to call it i'm two hours and five minutes into the run we made it back we made it back okay that was a little crazy uh i was planning to record this up at the trailhead but we got rained out i was also going to go about another hour but in practice with my headlamp and all that good stuff but you gotta you know sometimes the weather winds out there so uh the lekkie micro trail pro my initial impressions is very very good very good incredibly good i am blown away so this is the first time in my entire life that i have run with poles okay and i've been running for 22 years since 1997 yeah 21 years basically i've never run with poles before so i'm impressed uh they helped a lot this glove that i have on my hand was incredible i didn't expect this to be uh effective as effective as it was uh they're very lightweight easy to break down easy to put back together um i had a little bit of trouble putting them into my vest in the back here like stuffing them down in there i had a little bit of i had a little bit of trouble i'm just not used to it yet i had to actually stop running and put them in so i gotta practice practice makes perfect but these are these might save me for run rabbit run 100 mile race coming up in six weeks they might save me i don't know um i was i'm not saying i was i wasn't trying to go fast tonight i was just cruising on the trails trying to maintain like 10 minute pace basically and i was able to do that on the uphills and the downhills um so i'm excited thank you again to matthew for the idea the tip and that's all i gotta say about him for now i'll give a full review after i've used them probably like five times i'll give a full review on how to use them and but the cool thing let me just get closer here i don't know if you can see this right here so like this part right here see watch my hand can you see that hopefully it's light enough how this basically connects in there boom and then it's locked in whoa cool design very cool design all right folks thanks for coming along the journey tonight you got a little crazy up there at the end but we made it back safe and sound oh seek beauty work hard love each other thank you lucky see you tomorrow