 New week ladies and gentlemen new week new opportunities. Let's do this. Come on now. Oh man. Oh man Got the tripod It's chilly. It's chilly in Denver who else out there has to sometimes get So who else out there has to sometimes get dressed into the running clothes after work I know I do quite often It's like you know if you don't have a gym membership Even though I do but if you're not by your gym or if you're not by your house or you just got to get you Gotta get changed. You got to get in your running gear. It's like especially when it's cold out boy Can you see me? Can you see me? Okay? I'm just stretching out here in a plaza downtown Denver nice run six miles 10k was feeling solid fell great the legs felt a little faster this week to start the week and Okay, so what was it 715 a mile about 430 per kilometer 430 per kilometer And the zonte fours are nice at this kind of pace the zonte fours from New Balance And they actually felt similar as far as striking on the forefoot to the on-cloud X shoes from yesterday I ran like nine minute pace yesterday in the on-cloud X shoes. No, no good. No dice They did not feel good at that speed. So anyway, the zonte fours felt nice Okay I got a zip back into work and then we will resume the rest of the vlog here in a little bit Alright, let's go. Come on and why not and why not a tip of the day tip of the day I like to have little bags inside my big running bag So this bag this green one is holding all of my gloves for winter all of my winter hats over here And it basically just helps keep everything Separated within the bigger bag and it really does help for organization And I'm just so happy we're not hockey players because can you imagine hauling all that equipment around as a hockey player? No, I cannot know I cannot so I just love I just love keeping things Organized. Oh, man New balance zonte four new balance zonte four treated me really well today And quite a few of you on Strava's have said that this is your favorite running shoes. So anyway, thank you for chiming in on Strava Oh, right shout out Ronan. Thank you for the letter P. O. Box 1972 Ronan's basically asking some questions about training and giving me ideas for future vlogs That's amazing Ronan. Keep it coming everybody 1972 down below and I would love to get mail and I will write you back It might take me a little bit of time, but I will write you back. All right moving on to yesterday's question of the day Basically, I was asking all of you. What are there running YouTube channels? Do you watch and like what are your favorites and why well? I'm just I'm just gonna mention a few of them mention a few of them and it's awesome because there's so much There's a lot of overlap happening. I'm reading in the comments and just so much overall support and enthusiasm From all like all the runners out there that tune in to all these different channels And I feel like we have a nice strong tight-knit community here on YouTube. So here's a few of them Billy Yang Trey runs Jamil Forced to Dean runner Oakley 450 Gwen Jorgensen CJ media 40 runs Jamie Kofusi ginger runner sage Dan Whitehead Ben Parks Ben Barrow CC runner and the list goes on and on and on I get and that was not all of them by the way and so anyway, I just wanted to mention all those thank you for Basically chiming in and letting me know like what you're enjoying watching and and obviously I think every single channel Has a unique niche and is good is like has their own style That's what I meant to say it has every channel has their own style and I like that. I don't see too much repetition In the YouTube running space. Oh, obviously, there's gonna be a little bit because we're filming running, but anyway, good job Thank you for chiming in. Okay. Oh Key word Decision I've made a decision. I've made a decision May 19th May 19th first marathon. What's it gonna be the Cleveland Marathon? Oh, baby. Okay. It was really hard really difficult to figure out It was it was it was a lot harder than I expected basically. Yes, I'm hoping to run Under 219. I'm just gonna say it. I'm just gonna say it and I know that's really fast Can I do it? I don't know but if you don't try you'll never know You'll never know if you can qualify for the Olympic trials if you don't try if you know what I mean All right, so we're gonna try and basically I want to make Probably two attempts. Maybe just one, but if I need to that's fine So the CIM is the Sacramento Marathon in December so that's you know 10 months from now 11 months from now and so I want to try and get one under my belt before CIM and because I've never raced a marathon on the roads and I want to you know The more you do a distance the better you get at it. So Cleveland it is May 19th if you live in Cleveland Let me know down in the comments or anywhere in Ohio. Let's we're gonna have a meet-up party You better believe we're gonna have a meet-up party after the race and a shout out to I believe it was guitar guy in the comments He said this come yesterday come to Cleveland I have only run the 10k here, but from everything I have heard and read it is a very flat course That's good news good news. Also, there's plenty of inexpensive places to stay in and around the city That's also very very good news So thank you for that comment and just your insight and I'm excited and why did so what factors went into my marathon decision? Elevation is probably the first one. It's got to be you know as close to sea level as possible which Cleveland is close It's pretty close. So sea level the course so flat as possible The competition is the big one. So the course record for Cleveland is 210. So that's good It means it's a pretty fast course last year's winner ran 215 and then the second place was 216 216 so bottom line I don't really want to win the marathon and I was looking at the Illinois marathon in champagne But the winner last year was 222 223 You know it's a flat course, but that tells me that maybe the competition is like not quite I want to be chasing people I want people to to run with the entire time is what I'm getting at so that's a factor and then also of course Family life work life. I've got a balance all of that and also the train lastly the training blocks I think this is gonna work out better for my overall annual training plan. Remember how to write a training plan I made that vlog upper right-hand corner and basically like one of my peak races for 2019 is the Pikes Peak ascent and that race, okay, I'm really excited to run my first marathon I am probably One and a half times more excited to run the Pikes Peak ascent in 2019 like it gets me just jazzed up just thinking about it because I'm really like Mountain running is my strength more so than like really fast marathon running, but I want to give marathons a try bottom line Cleveland is gonna give me more time In my second training block leading up to Pikes Peak so instead of grandma's in June I would have only had two months of training leading up to Pikes Peak But now I'll have a solid 12 week a little over 12 week training block from Cleveland to Pikes Peak. That's like oh, oh, it's almost spot-on It's really almost spot-on and then after Pikes Peak in August I'll be able to take a little downtime and then if we'll see what happens in Cleveland But if I decide or need to run another marathon for that 219 I will go out to CIM in Sacramento in December Does that all make sense? I know I just tossed a lot at you and I'm just jazzed up that I finally made a decision and it trusts me I was researching and researching and looking at you know Results in like C level and fast courses and oh my goodness at the end of the day Decision is the key word because you've got to make a decision in this world and you got up You got to fight for it. You got to like you can't be wallowing in the mud Forever all right. Okay question of the day. This is a little different topic, but it's a good one What and I'm gonna try and ask as concise as possible What questions of the day would you like to to ask this YouTube family? so moving forward as I am Dialoguing with all of you and we're dialoguing together down in the comments. What would you like to learn and? Absorb from everybody else meaning like you can guide and give me ideas right now For questions of the day in the future. So ask down below What would you like me to ask everybody down the road does that sound good does that sound good? Okay? We're gonna call it there Tomorrow could potentially be a big mountain day I'm gonna go and try and find mud and snow and uphill for those Solomon speed cross-fives Oh, I'm probably gonna have dreams about them tonight because they're just oh, I cannot wait. I cannot wait All right now. I just got to calm down drink a little tea and Sign off with seek beauty work hard Cleveland isn't there a song about Cleveland? Anyway, see you tomorrow