 I'm off, 3 mile easy jog, see ya, 27 minutes. There we go, there we go, nice easy 3 miles, 5K, nice and easy, 9 minutes per mile, just bopping along, now we're gonna, Seth is gonna join me, we're gonna do our strengthening exercises here in the living room, and then out to the shed to talk about easy pace, my theory on easy pace a little bit, and then really dive into the full 2019 racing schedule. Thank you, Seth. Okay, okay, whew, we are in the shed, and yes, I'm getting ready for another live stream, but actually you're watching this on Thursday, so last night we had a live stream, we actually talked about injuries and injury prevention, and again, I'm not a doctor, I'm just a runner who has, yeah, 20 years of experience with injuries, and so go back, up right hand corner, check out that live stream, I think you'll learn a little bit, not only from myself, but also from everyone else who is there chiming in, sharing about their experiences with different injuries, so you know the story, you know the drill, 2018 was marked by pretty serious PF, plantar fasciitis, the goal, the number one goal for 2019 is to completely avoid injuries as a whole, but especially plantar fasciitis, I do not want to have it this year, and I know that right now in January, if I can stay on top of these little teeny tiny exercises that I'm doing in my house, and you saw me in there, I know they look a little funny, and just so you know, where do I pick these exercises up? My high school cross country and track coach, my college coach, and then also my college assistant coach, J. Johnson, and then also who else, who else? Oh yeah, basically just watching other running YouTubers, like there's a lot of great videos out there for overall leg strengthening exercises. And frankly, for me, I'm almost even more interested in that basically mid ankle down to your big toe, so that really lower leg area and your foot. That's where I have a lot of issues. And again, I talked about all of my injuries last night at the live stream. So that's what I'm doing in my house today, just trying to stay on top of it. And if you saw me walking across the floor like a duck, that one was developed by my high school coach, basically to prevent shin splints. And I never had shin splints in high school, in college, the first time I had shin splints, and I tell you what, they are painful. I had no idea the first time I had them, I was 32. So last about 18 months ago, actually. And I could not believe I ran through it. I worked through it, but man, it was painful. So walking like a duck, like that was one exercise that we did in high school, basically to help stretch out those very small areas of muscle on the front, near your shins, but it made a difference. It made a difference. And I never had shin splints. Okay, go watch that. I'm just getting ready here in the shed. Folks, this is this is the studio shed. There's literally rakes and shovels hanging right there. Like when you are trying to build something from the ground up, you got to work with what you have that that applies to life that applies to careers that applies to entrepreneurship that applies to running even like you got to work with what you got. If you are just starting out and running, patience is key. You can't go out and run 50 miles a week or 40 miles a week. You got to do the baby steps, baby steps. And so like I'm showing you right now, a little behind the scenes like this is what I'm working with. And guess what? It seems to be working because we continue to grow every single day because of you because you're spreading the word to your running buddies. And therefore I'm able to use the space right here to do live streaming and all of that. So anyway, that's what I'm doing right now. I'm setting up the live stream in my studio shed. I like that terminology like some didn't Apple start in a garage. I think Apple started in a garage. Well, I'm starting in a shed. Huh? How's that sound? How's it? How do you like them apples? How do you like them apples? There we go. There we go. Little post dinner romp around. Basically, I'm the monster. I catch the boys throw them on the couch and repeat that over and over again for about you know, 20 to 30 minutes and it's a good core workout. I must say. All right. It's a good core workout. All right, miking up, miking up. Here we go. So for the live stream, like right now with the camera that I'm filming with right now the kin 5D. I've got the shotgun mic on top a road shotgun mic, but shotgun mics are not amazing audio quality. So this is a lavalier and it allows for much much better live streaming quality audio. So here's the the pack. All right, I am going to shut this camera off because I need this lens right here. This lens right here for the live stream on a different camera. The camera you saw me loading up before dinner with the audio system. So this is how it happens, folks. And this is a little behind the scenes for you. It's just exciting though. Well, don't break it. A little exciting to be able to share just you know, not just about running but just about how YouTube works and how you know, filming and like getting something in front of you every single day on your phone like some video media content. It's a process. It's a process. Just like training. All right, see you in about an hour and a half. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again, just adjusting the light here. Ladies and gentlemen, we just got done with the live stream. I'm actually filming right now with a different camera. And you can probably tell the audio sounds a little bit better than it usually does. So that's good. This is the audio setup that I have for live streaming. And yeah, we had some technical difficulties, but we got it done. We got it done. Thank you if you were there for persevering for those 15 to 20 minutes. It's just like, I don't know what's going on. It's I anyway, we're going to get better at it. This is all this is our third live stream ever. So if this was our 30th, yeah, that would be a major issue, but this is just our third. So yes, next Wednesday, 7pm mountain time, we'll be back and I am working and actually, I'm just going to do it. I'm going to do it right now because you're here watching right now question of the day question of the day. And I know I asked this last week at the live stream last week. Who should I interview during a live stream? Think about athletes, coaches, other running youtubers, anybody who's connected to the running world. I want to interview them. I have a list of runners that I know, whether they're professional runners, whether they're runners that I ran with at the University of Colorado, maybe runners from my high school, my high school days. So that is the question of the day because I love live streaming. I love answering your questions and fielding them as best as I can. But I also know there's an incredible amount of value sitting out there amongst all of these coaches out there and and just guys that have been in ladies who have been putting their time in through the years as coaches, trainers, maybe maybe even like someday I could find some doctors who have are really specialized in working with athletes and runners. So anyway, that is the question of the of the day. Thank you so much for answering down below in the comments. Who should I interview for live streams moving forward cannot stress enough for everybody out there like as soon as you find one, two, three peak races that you just are excited to train for it opens up so much freedom for building your training blocks moving forward. And I must say like I was a little uneasy in the last two weeks because I couldn't find a marathon. I was like, this isn't working. This isn't working. Grandma's is not working. And now that Cleveland is solidified, everything else is going to begin to fall into place for other races. And frankly, more importantly, for the training blocks moving forward. Okay, first race March 6th in Aspen, Colorado March 6th in Aspen, Colorado. It's called America's uphill. If you live in Aspen or the Aspen area, let's let's meet up. Let's you know come say hello. And what is America's uphill? It's a two and a half mile race. That's right 2.5 miles with 3000 feet of vertical gain up a ski mountain Aspen mountain. It's going to be insane. I cannot wait. And this is the crazy thing. The runners are racing against the skiers. So you know you can ski uphill. It's called skinning. You basically put these skins on the bottom of your skis and it allows you to basically kind of walk and slide your way up a ski hill. And so it is going to be insane. So that is March 6th. My next race will be the Cleveland Marathon. So going from the mountains to the Cleveland Marathon. I will have March, April, May, basically 10 weeks of training leading up to the Cleveland Marathon. I'm training for Cleveland right now, but I'll be doing the Cleveland Marathon May 19th. The next race, depending on how Cleveland goes, I'm hoping to jump in a trail 10K in Vale, Colorado. It's called the GoPro Mountain Games and it's sponsored by GoPro. It's a 10K. I have a feeling Joe Gray will be there. So that will be my third race of 2019 on June 6th. I'm hoping in July to race the Under Armour 50K. The Under Armour 50K at Copper Mountain. I haven't heard officially that the race is happening, so I'm a little nervous. I hope it does. That was the race that I was able to win last year. And yes, I would love to go back and do it again. So it's a 50K, 31 miles, 6000 feet of vertical gain, beautiful scenery, and I'm very excited for that race. It's usually in mid-July, early July, mid-July, but we'll see if it actually happens. And the fifth race of 2019 will, yes, be the Pikes Peak Ascent. This is going to be the peak race for me. I just love uphill running. I love mountain running. I love trail running, but I love specifically uphill running, like going straight uphill. And that's what the Pikes Peak Ascent is. 13 miles uphill. It's in Manitou Springs, Colorado, right next to Colorado Springs. So if you live down there, let's meet up. Come say hello. Look for the green hat. Like this race is just going to be a mono-e-mono battle with some tough dudes, probably Joe Gray, probably Andy Wacker, my old teammate at CU, and a bunch of other guys that are local here in Colorado and people from around the world. Okay, and then I'm going to take a little time off, probably a good week after the Pikes Peak Ascent, and just rest up maybe 10 days. We'll see. Depending on how the Cleveland Marathon goes, I will then, listen, if I qualify for the Olympic Trials in Cleveland, like if all goes really well, I will not run the CIM, the California International Marathon in Sacramento in early December. If I, let's say, run 22130 in Cleveland, then yeah, I will make another attempt at a marathon in the fall. And I haven't heard about New York City. I don't know. If I get into New York City, I'm running New York City. But if that doesn't happen, most likely CIM Sacramento, early December 2019. And that'll be the last race of 2019. So that is the lineup for racing in 2019. If you live near Cleveland, Sacramento, Ville, Colorado, Aspen, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, wherever you live, like I would, of course, love to just hang out, say hello after the race, before the race. I like to focus. But after the race, like let's hang out and, you know, share stories, share war stories if you're racing some of these races. And I know actually a couple of you have already commented and said that you are racing Cleveland. And so I'll see you in Cleveland. And so it's just going to be fun, a great 2019. And who, ah, man, what a night. And so again, thank you for spreading the word about these daily vlogs, to your running buddies, and to your running friends, and to your running clubs, and the more people that are here sharing their stories, sharing their wisdom, down in the comments, the better, right? I got a fair amount of knowledge, fair amount of knowledge, since I've been running since seventh grade, but listen, there's so many people out there that have been running for 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. Like let's invite everybody to join up for these daily vlogs, the live streaming, and all this good stuff. Oh, I love you guys. Thanks for being here. Oh, keyword, keyword, races. You better believe it. Races down in the comments. And thank you again for hitting that question of the day. Who should I be interviewing for these live streams moving forward? And I know we already talked about that in the live stream last week, but I'd like to get it solidified down in these comments. All right, that's it. Seek beauty, work hard, and love each other. See you tomorrow. Whoo! That was intense, ladies and gentlemen. That was intense.