 And here we are, Buna Vista Colorado, AKA BV. Manitou Springs, Solomon, SLAB, SENS6SG type of day, going up Pike's Peak, and here they are. I will be racing in the SENS7SG in about a month from now, but today we're going to use the SENS6 and we're going to the well a little bit today. So in training, you don't want to go into the well, but I do know that I need to approach the well, meaning go a little bit faster up the peak today, testing out where my fitness is at. So I'm not going to crush it, but I am going to push a little harder than last week, that is for sure. And yes, streamline it by not wearing a vest. I'll just be wearing, or I'll just be carrying a Nathan handheld with a couple spring energy gels, the GoPro. And oh yeah, I'm not going to be doing as much filming just so you know, because I got to go fast. It's that time in the training block with, I say about a month, but it's actually closer to five weeks, which is good. So all right, let's lace up. I hope you guys are having a great day. Man, just crazy. And then after this, we're heading even further into the mountains. This is still the front range where I'm at today. All right, lace it up. This is where the Pike's Peak ascent and marathon start at the base of Pike's Peak here at the corner of El Paso Boulevard and Manitou Avenue. In case you're ever in town and you're wondering where the start is, it's right here on the main street, but the cross street is El Paso Boulevard. Okay, just watch out for cars, everybody. It is busy in the summertime. It is busy. All right, up we go. Quarter of the way, quarter of the way. Okay, made it to tree line, made it to tree line. Feeling quite well today. Oh, it's good to be back in the mountains. I just hit the last half mile on the Pike's Peak ascent, which is called the Golden Stairs, the 16 Golden Stairs. All right, feeling good, feeling good. On track, we are on track, ladies and gentlemen. I'll get you the time here in a minute. Gotta go get some water. And the easy part is running to the top. The hard part is hitchhiking down to the bottom. Oh, good stuff, good stuff. I'm not gonna spend much time up here because I gotta drive to BV. And I actually can't get to the time yet because I already saved it into the watch and I frankly don't know how to go back and look for it. So, all right, let's go find a ride down. All right, this is where it gets a little interesting. Sticking the thumb out, hitchhiking to the bottom. We shall see, we shall see. It's always a little different, little different, you know. I used to be a big fan of hitchhiking, but. Oh yeah, shout out to the family from Missouri. You guys are the best, so fun to ride down off of Pike's Peak with you guys. I had to stick out my thumb up there for probably 30 seconds and I got picked up. So that was amazing, helps a ton because today's a busy day because now I gotta go to the grocery store before heading to Buna Vista. And my hometown, unbelievable, I haven't been back there for, I think 12 months at least. So it's about 90 minutes west of here and that's where I'm gonna be camping and running for the next couple of days. So, Buna Vista, also known as Buena Vista, but the locals call it Buna Vista, aka BB. All right, see you at the grocery store. Got our goods, everybody. Not even kidding. I think this is the first grocery shopping trip I've done in eight years since I've been married. Shout out to True Love. I don't know what I'm doing in there. I'm just buying stuff, trying to keep it as simple as possible, but I think we got what we needed. So, I'm not gonna starve. Let's just put it that way. But man, I am not a grocery store kinda guy. Oh, jeez. All right, we got our salads here. I'm gonna eat one right now. It's a U and BV. And here we are, Buna Vista, Colorado, aka BB. It's a little windy out, so hopefully you can hear me. So over the next couple of days, I'm gonna show you my high school, the house I grew up in, the cross-country course and track that I raced on, our track, as far as I know, is still a cinder track, so a dirt track, and it might be one of the only ones left in the state of Colorado that is not a Mondo track. So that's pretty amazing, or I guess I should say a rubber track. So, bottom line is, this view is what I was able to look at for 18 years of my life. I'm gonna show it to you here in a second, so I'd open up my front door at my house and look at this. And so between Leadville and Salida, which are two other towns in the Arkansas Valley, right in the middle is Buna Vista. And between those two towns, we're talking 14, 14ers. So you know, the 14ers are the mountains that go above 14,000 feet. I just ran one this morning, Pikes Peak. There's 50, well, I'll just say there's 58. It's a little debated at times, but there's 58, 14,000 foot mountains in Colorado, and there's 14 of them right out our front door here in Buna Vista. Now you know why I love running uphill so, so much. It's a beautiful view. It looks like we might be getting some rain, but other than that, it is a beautiful view. All right, you ready for this? Here we go. I might have to adjust the lighting a little bit. So I'm gonna start, I'm gonna start with Mount Princeton. And this is why the mountains are called the Collegiate Peaks is because many of them are named after universities around the country and even around the world. So there we go. There is Mount Princeton, just a picturesque 14,000 foot mountain. Oh yeah, and we got more. Oh, there's Antero and Tavaglach and Chavano all the way down there. And then to the north, we've got even more. This is where the storms. So I might, I might actually do Yale tomorrow. That's Mount Yale right there. And then you've got Harvard and Columbia getting hammered right now. So bottom line, this is my hometown. And I'm so excited to share it with all of you. It's like, you know, I live in Denver now. You guys see Denver a lot. You see my house in Denver a lot. But like, these are my roots. This is, these are the roots right here. So all right, enough talking. I'm gonna go get gas. Gotta go find a coffee shop. Yes, I am gonna do a little shakeout after, after that drive. I don't want my legs to get too stiff. So we're gonna shake out the legs a little bit. Show you the hometown. Oh, it's good to be home. Here's town lake. This is where we went fishing as kids. Catched like 20 fish and we wouldn't put any back. We didn't know the rules. Oh yeah, town lake. At least that's what we called it. I think it has a more official name. All right, so there is on your screen my current status. I don't know how. First of all, I don't know if the wifi is fast enough to upload the daily blog, but we're gonna try. But there's all my cords. I'm basically the coffee shop. I'm at and BV is closed. So I'm sitting on the patio chilling, getting the edit done and yes, charging every single battery that I own. Okay, so today's time on the Pike's Peak ascent route. And I think the GPS was off a little bit along with the time on Strava. I had two hours and 32 minutes for the time. And that's very good. That's basically what I wanted to hit. I was thinking maybe I would dip under 230, but I'm very happy with 232 with basically, you know, a little over a month to go in training. So and yes, the question of the day, what is your next race and how do you feel your training is going leading up to the race? Okay, and I've asked this before, but it's been a little while. So I know everyone's getting ready for different races. So I'll be very curious to read your comments. Thanks for hitting it up down below. And I am editing real, real quick tonight because I got to try and go find a place to camp before the rain comes. So it's just going to be a little crazy here the next couple of days, but welcome to BV and I will show you more about my hometown in the coming days. All right, sound good? See beauty, work hard.