 There's ones with like cereal on it. Okay, you getting your stuff? I got a question for you. Do you guys want to go outside and run in the rain? Or do you want to go get donuts? How lucky are we? Donut time, donut dance, donut. You want to go get donuts? Oh yeah, that's right, go celebrate. Usually we go out to E&D's Frozen Custard, but instead we're going to get donuts. What does she love, Dick? Donut shoes, I wore my donut shoes. Donut shoes, oh that's not, that is, boom, boom. Hold on, let's see the hoodie. Mini me, hello, bumpity bump, bumpity bump. I'm mic'd up, true love is not mic'd up. And I told her to speak up, I told her to speak up a little bit, but she's already mic'd up. Boom, bump it up. Come on, I'm Irish. All right, true love, what did you just ask me? I just asked for a finish or a moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's like we make all our plans, but. Yeah, it doesn't work anyway. It does what it wants. I would say the most unexpected moment of the 2019 racing season was, it had, ooh, there was a lot, there was a lot. I would say so much happened, but I would say that the 106 surprised me. That really surprised me. Cause I, you know, my previous PR before that was 111. No, 110, 110 high in a time trial solo here in Denver at Elevation. So then to be able to do a 106, I. In the middle of. In the middle of a marathon. Don't forget that part. So that's why I'm excited to race probably Brooklyn. Brooklyn. The Brooklyn half merit Michael just yelled Brooklyn. And just one, one more quick unexpected was, I guess not, but PR-ing at the pike speak ascent by nine minutes was good. That was a good jump. And I believe we're going to be racing there again next year. So come on, come on, come on. All right, see you at the donuts. They've got a bacon donut. They've got a bacon donut. So I get a donut. Joseph and Seth get a donut. Michael gets a donut. Mama gets a donut, but you have two on your tray. The baby gets a donut. The baby gets a donut. The baby decides. Baby, baby gets a donut. Yeah. Good. Sugar for school. And we're back. All right. I am getting back into stretching here in a minute. It's, it's almost time. I'm so excited to talk to all of you about rebuilding the body. Remember we talked yesterday about running form. So that is coming. But first it's time to get back on my A game with respect to the running shoe review. So let's go out to the studio, snack some shoes here. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. It's cold again in Denver. Oh man. All right, we got, gotta go give this to true love. Thank you again to Kathleen for sending that. And we're going to bring in, oh man, those are muddy. Oh, package. True love. Package arrived for you in the PO box. Ah, there you go. Yeah, Kathleen from Arizona. Oh my goodness. Okay. Oh, fun. That is awesome. Okay, that is the best. She's got an SJD one. Oh, I do, probably. Now you have a matching one. That is awesome. What are the chances? Thank you. Thank you. I'm gonna read my part. Perfect. We're getting rolling everyone. Literally getting rolling. This USA bag is quite nice. And a couple of people were asking me who makes it like the actual luggage company. It's actually a Nike bag. I don't know what type of bag, but there you go. Okay, so might as well put it to use. Yes, tomorrow is gonna be a good day. It's gonna be a good day, but I am now beginning to get more serious with my recovery and everything and strengthening and just taking care of the body. No messing around. Not that I was messing around earlier, but I'm just dialing it in a little bit more. Okay, so that is what's going on here. Just working it out here in the kitchen on the floor. Oh, starting with Mr. Footlog. Okay, stretching is done, feeling good. Time to start rebuilding the body. As I mentioned earlier, I'm just, I'm to the moon, to the moon to really dial in, really hone into stretching, mobility, turnover, little more speed, less vertical gain in my training, which is a little sad, but I know it's time to, and we're gonna talk about this probably tomorrow or the next day, but start training like a marathon runner. So, all right, let's see. Well, let me just set these down here. Mm-hmm. There we go, just pull that down. Okay, and again, Paul, you just crushed it with this banner. You just crushed it, and this is, again, this is not the final backdrop for the studio, just temporary as I continue to figure out what we're gonna do in here for spicing it up, decorating. Okay, I'm feeling real good, everyone. This is day six of no running and the legs are feeling good, a little bit of soreness remaining from the World Mountain Running Championships, just a little bit in my quads mostly, but the break has been good, and here's the deal. Somebody, it may have been, I think his name may have been Lloyd, but he's been watching the channel for a while now, I think since last December, and just so everyone knows, usually, what I do every single December, right around the Christmas time, is I take two weeks off. Yeah, no running, basically no cross training, and that is my major, major reset button. So, in order to prepare for the forthcoming elevation, like vertical gain, all summer long, in order to prepare for faster speed workouts, in order to prepare for cross training and getting into the gym, for me, I love a mental break and a physical break in a big, big way. Two weeks off, usually every year, I can't do that this year, right? Because Houston is on the horizon, which means I don't know if I'm gonna start running tomorrow or the next day. Basically, as soon as all this soreness is, I think by tomorrow morning, the legs are gonna be completely back to normal. So because of Houston and the Olympic trials, I cannot take two weeks off, all right? That's just too much time, but one week has been amazing, and going to get donuts today with a family, it's just like that little, I don't know, like I don't even love sugar. I don't know about you guys, but it was almost too intense today, eating the donuts. I was, I almost wanted Michael's donut more, it was like a blueberry. Anyway, it's just crazy how our body changes the healthier we eat, and I have found the less I crave sugar. So, but I feel good about this break, about no running, no cross training. I haven't been into the gym. I have been stretching though and foam rolling as you saw earlier. So overall, I'm basically ready to dive back in. And again, it'll either be tomorrow or the next day. We'll just see how the legs feel, right? And remember, running by feel, it's all about going by feel for me and that question of the day. And some people don't need this. I personally do need a mental break, but do you even need a mental break from your training? And if so, how do you make it happen? How do you kind of check out? For me, it's usually not going to the gym. It's usually, you know, being a little relaxed on what I'm eating as far, you know, enjoying a little extra donut time. But yeah, what do you do for your mental breaks if you even need one? Some people don't need them. I personally do prefer to have one, at least a big one once a year, like around the Christmas time. This year, again, it's just a little different because of the forthcoming attempt to get that Olympic trials qualifying time. Okay, that's it, everyone. Thank you for being here. Thanks for watching. That was a fun day and onward and upward. All right, all right, so now it's back to what I eat in a day on the right. This is a vlog from probably six months ago that I should probably update it pretty soon. That'll be on the right, what I eat in a day. And then on the left, we're gonna throw it back to just an old school vlog from 2018, basically one year ago. All right, there you have it. Security, work card, and love each other. See you tomorrow.