 Cruisin' cruisin' ladies and gentlemen five miles today. Oh, I feel so good to go just a little bit further Taking the Vemero 14s out for the spin today and the full review is coming up pretty soon I want to do maybe another 15 to 20 miles in the Vemero 14s before the full review comes so that's coming and also I know a lot of you have been asking about my Solomon jacket And basically it has not been cold enough in Denver this winter, but I think I'm gonna call it I think I'm just gonna give you my thoughts in my review not today, but probably Maybe Thursday or Friday. All right, and because I don't know we might just have a mild winter this year in Denver And I want to get you the full review of the Solomon jacket before the snow is all gone like I know It's only January, but who knows who knows what's gonna happen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's go Five miles steady not stezy not easy, but steady. I'll maybe talk about that later. All right There we go. All right, I'm back. I'm back five miles five miles seven minutes a mile for everyone outside the United States That uses kilometers I'm gonna do I'm gonna do better in 2019 Communicating as often as possible in kilometers because I know that's how really most of the world Measures distance so four minutes and twenty seconds Per kilometer. All right, four minutes and twenty seconds per kilometer for that five mile run That's you know a steady pace for me at this point in the training definitely the fastest I've gone in 2019 since coming off the break and I probably I won't go that fast again Let's see. It's until Friday. So five days from now. All right So that's kind of my slow progression getting the waking the legs up to a little more speed Okay, just working now and then we'll check back in a little bit. Oh man. Oh the shoes arrived I actually it's a I don't know what they are. I don't know what they are a mystery shoe coming up So stay tuned for that running a few quick errands this afternoon on my way to the post office Check that P. O. Box See what's in there. You never know. You never know. I like to check it every, you know every three or four days There's never no, you never know YouTube Sure enough sure enough a box arrived at the P. O. Box 1972 let's see here. Hold on You guys are amazing. Oh Hello, hello. Oh My mom's a t-shirt. Oh boy. Well something arrived in the P. O. Box. It's a t-shirt. We've got the Denver Broncos I believe it's a football t-shirt, but it's really comfortable and it's made by High Leet I think HY lete anyway, I don't know who sent it to me whoever sent this to me. Thank you I couldn't really find it in the packaging Bottom line, I'm appreciative and shout out shout out to the to the Denver Broncos even though this is a Running focused YouTube channel for everybody outside the United States. That is a football team here in Denver, Colorado Okay, we're going inside to eat dinner and then I'm gonna come back out talk to you about the new running shoes that arrived And all that good stuff Say Skechers Well, if I'm just being honest, I would have to say my hi for the day was perhaps getting a new pair running shoes Boys what do you guys think of all of Papa's running shoes is getting a little little out of control? Mommy you okay with my running shoe collection? Yeah Yeah, as we like to say at the D'Amore household D'Amore de Marriere D'Amore de Marriere Shoes there we go. There we go. The Skechers go run Razor three is now in my possession and Frankly, it's all because of you and all of you out there who encouraged me to maintain an open mind about Skechers Frankly, I never thought I'd be owning a racing shoe from Skechers But here you go. There it is and we're gonna talk about that in a minute But first I do just want to make a couple shout outs to Max to Alan to Michael to Riley to Logan to Alex again to Scott to William. These are all Chris These are all people who have joined up on Strava just in the last like three or four hours And I just need to mention that this is not a traditional Running shoe review YouTube Experience okay, this is a daily vlog where I share a little slice of my life with people on YouTube and in addition I happen to love running and a lot of you have Figured out that gosh this guy really really loves running and he loves talking about running talking about running gear And so I like to think that I'm trying to bring as much Value as possible to the running world But doing it in a unique way because you know, there's a lot of running gear channels out there. There's a lot of Training channels a lot of injury prevention running YouTube channels But I like to take the approach of sharing my story with you and my journey to my first marathon Which is yes gonna tie into the discussion about the razor 3 tonight And so that's why it probably took three four or five minutes to get to this point in the video Where we start actually talking about shoes You saw me in there eating dinner with my family and so anyway I just want to put that out there to all because I think some people probably land on these Videos in these vlogs and they're like wait a minute. Where's like the gear review? Where's the shoe review like get to it cut cut to the chase and it's just not that type of YouTube channels You just want to put that out there for everybody. That's now Subscribed and is following me on Strava. Okay. Ask and you shall receive ask and you shall receive a lot of you in the last Six to eight weeks said Seth you have to try the razor 3 and again I was skeptical, but I made the plunge last week. I said, okay, we're gonna get it We're gonna order it and see what happens and so I'm excited to give it a shot And I must say just right out of the box Incredibly lightweight This shoe has a four millimeter drop four millimeter drop and weighs 6.4 ounces and guess what I looked it up ahead of time It's a hundred and eighty-one grams a hundred and eighty-one grams for everyone outside the United States I don't even know how to comprehend that number but for the everyone in the u.s six point four ounces for this shoe and I am a Little concerned about the midsole just like holding it and just kind of running my thumb over the midsole It's you know what it feels like it feels like a noodle at a pool You know how you sit in a pool and you float on a noodle It kind of has that Feel to it and I'm exaggerating a little bit, but even just looking at it It kind of looks like a pool noodle. Alright, so those are a few initial impressions Just kind of coming out of the box has some tougher rubber through the outsole to help Protect the midsole and this midsole is a pretty big update from the razor to they're calling it the hyperburst That's right. The hyperburst Midsole or the hyperburst foam and it's it should be longer lasting compared to the razor to it's 15% lighter than the razor to that's a pretty good. That's a really great jump forward from one iteration to the next so from the two to the three and I guess it's again supposed to be definitely the lightest option on the sketchers The the sketchers line up right now, so that's good news and I'm not gonna talk about the upper We'll get to that in in future videos, and I'm just kind of looking at it right now We'll get to that in future videos and before we dive into these shoes I want to just mention a story that came through in the comments. I think three or four days ago Basically, it's it's a tough story a gentleman is a he's a teacher and he shared his story in the comments I don't remember his name. Sorry about that But I do know he's a teacher in a challenging neighborhood in Los Angeles, and he basically Was thanking me for doing a video Gosh probably six weeks ago on this shoe this other sketchers shoe that I have and basically the title of the video was Something along the lines of affordable running shoes and this teacher communicated to me in the comments that he really appreciated that video because his kids at the school can't go buy a $250 running shoe or a hundred and fifty dollar running shoe Where's a like this guy is a hundred and $30 this sketcher razor three like that is outside of the price of the price point for the kids that he coaches and Helps and mentors and inspires in LA and so just a shout out to that gentleman for being there for the kids And I hope like listen. I as I've mentioned before I don't need all these shoes I realize that but again, I'm trying to bring you as much value through these shoe reviews while still on Understanding that yeah, like this shoe was $68 and it's a good shoe I'm not gonna say it's a great shoe But guess what this sketchers shoe it'll get the job done And if you're like a high schooler and you're struggling with your you know to pay for To pay for a pair of shoes like listen Keep fighting like don't give up like keep working hard and yeah like some day some day It's taken me 20 years 20 years of running to be in a position to be able to purchase a Certain amount of running shoes on an annual basis like we're on a budget true love and I were on a budget You saw true love there at the dinner table like I just can't go willy-nilly even though it might look that look like it at Time so I digress I just wanted to mention that story and I think it's just so inspiring that this gentleman is like Helping the kids and like putting out there to the world like listen not everybody can afford new running shoes all the time So bottom line let's be grateful for the shoes we have right that's that's that's the message at the end of the day Whether there's $70 shoes $68 or or the new balance Zonte version 4 for $34. That's right picked up this guy for $34. I digress. Oh, just so inspiring Thank you for sharing your story. Thank you and on that note about running shoes like I said I have a budget. I have it detailed out like what I'm gonna be buying in 2019 and yes, there's one more shoe coming up very soon. That is a road racing shoe road racing shoe stay tuned I think you're gonna be excited about it And yes a lot of you have asked me to review the shoe But also to compare the shoe to the vapor fly 4% and I am Very excited for the question of the day. I want to hear your opinions and I don't think I know for a fact I haven't asked the question exactly the way I'm gonna ask it But again, I know a lot of you are training for marathons coming up in 2019 and so I'm excited road marathons specifically and so I'm excited to hear your your comments on the question of the day, but The sketchers razor 3. Yeah, I'm interested. Will it be a marathon racing shoe? I don't know I don't know will it beat out the vapor fly 4%? I don't know, but frankly just holding the shoes in my hands right now The razor 3 is winning as far as weight goes like I can just feel it right now in my hands And I know the vapor fly 4% completely changed the running shoe market in 2018 with a carbon fiber plate inside the midsole completely revolutionized road racing and I would be Interested to hear your thoughts on which running shoe company. Do you think? Moving forward is going to put in a carbon fiber plate Honestly, this it's revolutionary this shoe I don't know if the other companies will be able to compete and I don't want to say survive if they don't put a Carbon fiber plate in their shoes alarm bells for Reebok for a six for Brooks for Adidas for Sockini for every new balance the list goes on like those are alarm bells Ladies and gentlemen, so I would be curious to hear your thoughts on who will be doing the carbon fiber plate Moving forward. All right, the keyword of the day is road. That's right road for road racing and my question of the day What should be a running shoe a racing flat that I consider for my first marathon in 2019 and what will be your racing flat for your marathon or half marathon in 2019 thank you for answering and thanks for just sharing your ideas about Racing flats because I am a trail runner who is transitioning back to the roads And so I'm trying to figure out like ah, what's the best option razor 3 Zonte for I know this is not gonna be the option, but just putting it out there Zonte for The fast twitch, huh the fast twitch. I'm thinking this is more 10k, but you never know you never know I'm keeping my options open or the vapor fly 4% or maybe it's the mystery shoe that I'll be showing up at my house Soon. All right, that's all I got. That's all I got. Thanks for bearing with me through some of those side stories I just love Communicating with you talking with you and by the way, thanks for your patience with a vlog yesterday That did not publish on time. It was a processing air on YouTube's part But hopefully this publishes at the correct time 5 a.m. Mountain time See beauty work hard Love each other. Mmm. Mmm. Gosh We're gonna do it