 And we keep trucking along like this is my third Pikes Peak ascent and I'd like to do many many more Here we go everyone in the studio Pikes Peak ascent recap breaking down what happened with a Strava flyby and yes jumping right into it tip of the day oh this is amazing okay I know I've mentioned this in the past but you got to do it you just got to do it keep your bib numbers from your races whether it's a small local turkey trot or a big peak race like the Pikes Peak ascent for me in 2019 here is the 2019 bib number number 103 so what I do is I write the date the time that I ran and the place on every single bib number in every race that I've ever run and then I put it in a box a shoe box and just keep it safe well sure enough I went digging just a minute ago and I found it the 2017 bib number from the Pikes Peak ascent look at that August 19th 2017 third place two hours 21 minutes and 45 seconds 2019 two hours 12 minutes and 45 seconds so if I'm doing the math or exactly to the second nine minute PR that's amazing so that's the tip of the day keep your bib numbers write your times down and anything even like sometimes I'll put location um and sometimes I do it on the back front anywhere just to get some information on your bib numbers so that's the tip and let's dive into it breaking down the Pikes Peak ascent in the Solomon s lab at cents seven sgs by the way I'm going to make an amendment to my running shoe reviews moving forward remember how I do let's just pick one real quick here the turbos remember how I do 50 miles in a running shoe before giving a full review well I'm realizing for racing shoes it takes a long time to get to 50 miles I don't even know if I'll get to 50 miles in this shoe so I'm probably gonna make it I might even do like two races instead of a distance uh and now I have two races in this uh Solomon s lab cents seven sg so I feel really confident in giving you a full review that'll be happening very soon but rather than go to 50 miles it'll probably be two races is what I'm thinking moving forward okay so Pikes Peak this was basically my biggest race of the year until I had the so I had the Cleveland marathon for May I got I had an injury so I was unable to do it and my second big race was Pikes Peak but now because of Amsterdam in October that is that is that is that I will just say that supersedes the Pikes Peak ascent because it's a really important race to to really nail on race day in order to qualify for the Olympic trials in the marathon so but nonetheless Pikes Peak was a big deal and I believe that I did a pretty good job sticking to my race plan and I'm not going to break down remember a couple days ago I I walked you through my my game plan for Pikes Peak and here it is on paper I will keep this as well for the future just to reference back to basically I guess one thing is I was in second place immediately I thought I would be top 10 I thought guys would actually go back go out faster I feel like in 2017 guys went out faster off the starting line but anyway I was immediately in second right behind Joe Gray and I did mention here at mile 9.9 or 10 miles which is treeline I said here I expect one or two competitors around a treeline ahead or behind with a 5k to go and sure enough of course Joe was at that point Joe was probably he was probably at that point I'm guessing about two to two and a half minutes ahead of me based on the Strava flyby or sorry not based on that based on the cheering at the aid stations and I will just mention how I know where Joe was ahead of me throughout the entire race so the gun goes off there's seven or eight eight I think there's seven aid stations along the way what you can do if you're like listening for competitors you listen for people cheering and using cowbells ahead of you and then you can look at your watch and then you can time okay this is when you know your competitor went through the aid station boom now I'm at the aid station boom my competitor is 52 seconds ahead or whatever the case may be so that's how I knew that Joe he was around 45 seconds and then a minute and a half and then eventually at uh the at treeline it sounded like about two and a half minutes based on looking at my watch and yes I'm going to put on screen right now the Strava flyby in case you didn't if you've never seen this feature before on Strava it's pretty cool it's only on the desktop version so there's the start there's my little dot I'm in the lead there the black I think I'm a black circle going up the trail and by the way I guess Joe did not upload his race to Strava so he is not in this flyby uh so I'm in I'm not in the lead just so you know Joe is ahead of me but I love Strava flybys as you see me going up the mountain here at about halfway point right now because it gives me a sense of what was actually happening in the race behind me and I believe it was the green circle I'm not sure but his name was Galen Burrell he ended up in third place and it sounds like looking at the Strava flyby he didn't take over third place until it looks like about treeline maybe even a little above treeline so that's interesting I had no clue obviously what was going on behind and I think third place it would so Joe was basically like three minutes 45 seconds or yeah right around three minutes 45 seconds ahead of me and then third place was I have 15 minutes behind me so I was pretty much in no man's land a good chunk of the race meaning nobody no other competitors around me now as far as my overall pace you can see it here on your screen it breaks down all the stats for the different aid stations my overall mile pace was 958 a mile I'm very happy with that pleased with that I was I thought I could run about 10 minute pace so I'm actually very pleased with 958 and then you can see Joe there he was 941 a mile so about 17 seconds per mile faster than I was and I just feel very fortunate that I kept it that close like listen obviously I go to a starting line and I want to rock and roll and I'm going for the win like I'm not going there to just get second place so you know you just got to show up and battle every single race and so that was you know that was my mindset on the starting line like let's do this I knew I had you know I knew in my gut like Joe is probably going to take it out and of course he did but I kept it much much closer than two years ago in fact I think he was I think Joe finished like 12 or 13 minutes faster than me two years ago so obviously the gap closed a lot and I do just want to point out one thing and I'm making a little bit of a a little bit of a stretch here but listen to that I'm pretty excited about this so at bar camp about halfway up the mountain a little past halfway uh it's called bar camp a big aid station I Joe came through and where was Joe I think he was like 101 something one hour and one minute and then I was through in 103 07 so about two minutes back at bar camp but Killian who was racing the marathon and this is where I'm stretching it a little bit but Killian basically you know I would say the best mountain runner in the world he's done he's he's hiked Everest a couple times in one week he's just insane he came through bar camp in 103 49 so about 30 seconds slower than me I realized he was racing a marathon I was doing the ascent so I get it but it just gives me a sense of effort and like my perceived effort what my pace feels like compared to Joe up ahead to Killian slightly behind even though he did double the distance that day but here's where it gets interesting is that by the top Joe had put another like minute and a half minute 45 on me so in the next five miles Joe you know kept kept cruising I tried but he put more time on me and so but Killian put over three minutes and 45 seconds on me from bar camp to the top of course fully realizing he was doing the marathon but it just again as far as my perceived effort an actual effort I shouldn't say perceived but my actual effort what it felt like kind of the pain that I was in and comparing it to really I'll just say like these other world-class mountain runners and it gives me frankly quite a bit of hope for the future and trying to not only race in the United States but hopping across the pond to go battle with the dudes over in the Alps next summer 2020 so anyway it's pretty interesting so Killian's okay so at the top Joe is at 208 59 Killian 209 12 and I was 2 12 45 so again about four minutes back from Joe and well yeah Joe and Killian basically were neck and neck at the top Joe a little bit ahead so fascinating I'll take it again I'm always going for the win when I show up at the starting line but a nine minute PR is good it's good and I'm not forgetting that I was in a boot and on a scooter you know two and a half months ago so um you know maybe it played to my benefit in the sense that I was my legs maybe are a little more fresh they're not quite as tired this summer but at the same time I did miss you know eight weeks of running in uh what was it was it May and June or late April uh yeah I guess April May and a little and well gosh how much did I miss everyone do you guys remember I missed at least eight weeks of running so I'm excited so in conclusion thank you to everyone who sent me clips I can't even tell you brought tears to people uh and I know you brought tears because they're saying it in the comments people out there cheering saying seek beauty work hard and love each other and then filming like those that went up the mountain and filmed and then sent me the clips that day like huge kudos to you because you brought a lot of joy to a lot of people around the world who would not have been able to experience the race without your help so thank you for doing that like I can't even uh it's just incredible and I don't even I couldn't shake your hand after the race because you're down the mountain and I'm on top anyway it was incredible I'm very pleased and I think I'll be back does that sound good I think I'll come back uh if the body holds up and we keep trucking along like um this is my third pike's peak ascent and I'd like to do many many more so I'm excited for the future um keyword we're gonna go with fly by because Strava fly by that's what that thing was on the screen moving across and the question of the day how do you reflect on your running races especially the big ones where you really like do you how much time do you give yourself I usually give at least a couple days just to process and then uh but I don't want it to go too long so I it's fresh in my memory but uh how do you process and mull over and try and learn from your races okay just give us a few maybe strategies or tips down in the comments that'd be awesome for the question of the day because um I'm learning even though I've been doing this a little while like just even processing Killian's effort and sage and and Joe and everybody all the other guys out there like I'm learning like I don't know I feel like I'm a little bit of a rookie in this mountain running world uh as far as at this type of level so bottom line thank you again and that's it okay gonna give a shout out to two not two videos but two playlists I'm uh the one on the right is the Solomon running shoe playlist and the one on the left is the running race playlist so if you want to dive into Solomon shoes or running races click on either one of those thanks for being here thanks for watching seek beauty work hard and love each other whoo great day see you tomorrow