 Frived everybody, like I said a couple days ago, it's going to be a lot of mountain running on the channel in the next six weeks in preparation for the Pike Speak Ascent. And today, it's a Wild Horse 5 type of day. That's right, I think today it might put me over 50 miles, so therefore the full review is coming down the pike real quick. And let's get ready, alright, just going to pack up my Raid Light Vest. Here you go, come on. So in the vest little tip of the day, I always pack the essentials first, the water, the food, the warm clothing for these mountain runs, and then I pack the fun stuff, the drone, the GoPro. So just make, you just don't want to forget the essentials. Then after that, once you're all packed, you're good to go for making sure we capture some beauty up on the mountain for all of you, and just need to switch these memory cards over, put the bigger, bigger memory card in the GoPro, since I'll use that a lot more than the little Mr. Spark drone. And I'm just going to mention real quick, because I get this question at least three or four times a week, my socks, these are my favorite running socks, and yes, they're available down below from Amazon. These are Stance, alright, Stance, S-T-A-N-C-E, Stance, Smartwool, and DarnTuff. Those are my top three running sock brands, okay? And I believe DarnTuff is available down below as well. I know Smartwool and Stance are, and they have a bunch of different colors. So anyway, if you love running socks that are comfortable and kind of have a little flash to them, yes, go down below, now they don't give them away, alright? You know, like, running socks, hello, I remember 20 years ago just running in cotton all the time in high school, they just didn't have all these different running sock brands, but now they are available all over the place, and they're a little pricey, but I have found 20 to $30 running socks will last indefinitely, almost, like at least five years of good solid running, at least that's been my experience once again with Stance, Smartwool, and DarnTuff. Lacing up. I'm telling you, the Wild Horse 5 upper, oh, oh, that's like, they nailed it, in my opinion, I just love the upper on this Wild Horse 5, jeepers, alright, we're going. Back with the goats. Hi, shout out to everyone on the top of Graves Peak, just said hello to, there's probably like 20, 30 people on top, and yeah, just letting them know about the channel, oh, it's fun to meet people on top of these mountains, alright, I didn't even stop on Graves, because you know, actually Denver is getting hammered right now, it looks like with some rain and or a thunderstorm, so I'm going to keep moving, because yes, I'm going over to Tories next, you can see it off there in the distance, another 14er, so I'm going to connect these two. Alright, there we are, made it to the top of Tories, it takes about 15, 20 minutes to get from Graves to Tories, they're pretty close, but, going to do something a little different, basically I'm going to spend a little time up here as long as the weather doesn't turn, and I'm going to do some one-legged hopping, basically, so when I was injured and I had the boot on my foot, and I didn't want to put any pressure on my left foot, I was hopping around, like I had the scooter, I had the crutches, but I was also hopping quite a bit on my right leg, and I tell you what everybody, the explosiveness and the strength, by doing that every day for three weeks, it was a, I couldn't believe how strong my right leg was when I stopped using the scooter and the crutches, so anyway, going up Pykes Peak for the race and any other mountain race, I really believe, I'm not saying for an ultra race like over 50k, that's a little different, I'm talking like shorter, half marathon, 25k, 10 mile mountain races that are up, I think it's critical to be able to basically kind of leap your way up the mountain, meaning over the rocks, over the the logs, over, so anyway that is what I'm starting practicing today, is just leg strength and explosiveness at high altitudes, okay, so I know it's a little crazy, but I'm excited like just to try new things in order to get better, to get faster, so here we go, taking this best off, here comes the snow, there's a little bit of snow falling right now, okay my left ankle, obviously it's gonna be weak because of the injury, I'm telling you, if we can focus on the other 50% of our legs, legs, meaning if your right leg is stronger, just work on that weak leg, oh my goodness, I'm so excited, I just passed into treeline and the rain and thunder just started and where there's thunder, there's lightning, there's about a hundred people up on that mountain right now, on grays and tories, just be careful up there everyone like, just don't mess with the lightning, it does, it does hurt, what's up, you made it down fast, just in time for the lightning, yeah they're back there, maybe a quarter mile, what's your name, Brian, yeah what do you got man, yeah man you're gonna be on YouTube, there you go, what's up, that kills it, oh man you're killing it, all right good thing you're below treeline, with the lightning that's one of my, one of my new buddies, I met up on top of grays, let the ice baths begin, oh this is gonna hurt, we're back in the studio, all right like I said yesterday, remember we're doing running shoe giveaways on this channel, meaning we're giving shoes to folks who need help buying new running shoes, okay and three more pairs arrived today, I'm not gonna open them tonight, we'll save that for Wednesday, July 17th, 7 p.m. live here on this YouTube channel where we're gonna give away shoes too and we're gonna give away quite a few shoes because they're starting to pile up because of your generosity, it's blowing me away, thank you so much, okay, all right diving into today's run, so keyword adaptation, I'm a little surprised at how well I adapted and just the last three days like it was a distinct difference compared to gosh Tuesday I think it was that I went up that very same mountain and the amount of effort that I had to put in three days ago versus today, it wasn't night and day but it was quite a bit different, quite a bit different, topping out on the summit 13 or 14 minutes faster, really not even working that much harder, like I wasn't trying to go faster, I was just putting the work in, being consistent, nice and steady, so I'm excited about that and today's run in the Nike Wild Horse 5 was 17 miles or 27 kilometers, 5,000 feet of elevation gain or 1,500 meters, all right, so for everyone outside the U.S. there you go and what are my thoughts on the Nike Wild Horse 5 going up a 14,000 foot mountain, the mountain test, here's the deal, great, honestly I was not a great grip, I like the outsole pattern that Nike has put on the bottom of this Wild Horse 5, however as much as I love the upper, I'm not in love with the heel counter, okay, I like a little more, I guess a little more padding is what it is, a little more padding in the heel counter for steep uphill ascents and then also the angle of the heel counter, so instead this one, this Wild Horse 5 heel counters and that's this area right here, it's pretty straight up and down, it leans in a little bit toward your Achilles tendon, I like a little more of a lean, okay, so that's where I fall in love with these Speed Cross, actually where are they, yep there it is, hold on, that's why I love the Speed Cross 5 because the angle, I don't know if you can see it there, but the angle of the heel counter on the Speed Cross 5 is more, is steeper, is that the right frame, well we'll just go with it, steeper toward the Achilles tendon, leaning in toward the Achilles tendon, so I don't think, I wanted to just test them out for you today to see if they could potentially be a more aggressive mountain trail running shoe and I think I'm, I don't think so, you've got better options out there for you to choose from, okay, and just real quick, wrapping up here, one more thought on adaptation, we adapt as human beings, our bodies are incredible, like plyometrics, speed work, even strength training in the gym, and yes, even taking ice baths, like I was in there for 30 seconds at the most, I couldn't handle it, like my legs were aching, it was really really cold, first of all, is that snow, that water coming right out of the snow, but I know that if I go back and I ice again, my body will adapt to those freezing temperatures and just like elevation, elevate, this is why for Pike's Peak, like you have to get above 12,000 feet often, if you want to enjoy the experience during the race day, because your body adapts to the training and the question of the day, do you, during your training, do you even think about the adaptation processes that are happening in your cardiovascular system, in your muscular system, all the different systems within our incredible bodies that are being put through some pretty difficult training, like right now, it's starting to get a little more serious for me by getting above 12,000 feet often, meaning for me, twice a week, so anyway, do you even think about the adaptation processes and maybe you've never even thought about this before and that's okay too, but it is happening and it's exciting that it is happening and it happens when you're consistent, it happens pretty quickly, okay, so all right, I think that's it for today, again, July 17th, Wednesday, 7pm, next, oh, if you could just spread the word, I mean, I need to get rid of a lot of shoes because, because my, because, because we need more space at this house, so if you could just let, let everyone know, anyone who needs help getting running, and listen, there's no guarantee that everyone, there's, you know, we're gonna have probably hundreds of people watching, but if you could take a little time to spread the word, I'd appreciate it, you know, you know folks out there that just could use a little help trying to win some nice running shoes, really night, like, I've shown you these before, so, all right, these are the Nike, oh my gosh, I'm a little tired right now, these are the Nike Zoom Fly SPs, so, seek beauty, work hard, love each other, thanks guys, thank you, thank you, see you tomorrow.