 Hello there, my beautiful, oops. Knockin' stuff over. Hi there, my beautiful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for joining me here today. Now, as you know from a video ago, I got my running blade. This little puppy right here. By the way, she still does not have a name. So sad. Please join our live stream details on screen to help me name her next week. However, now that I can actually practice and start using her some, I wanted to take her to a local high school track. I think I can get in. I'm actually not sure we're gonna find out and do some practicing. Do some playing around on my own. I haven't had much time yet to actually just sort of play around and see what I can do. So we're gonna head there right now. All right, I gotta make sure I remember my single running shoe, which is working out fantastically, by the way. Now, I've mentioned this before, but it is about 50 degrees outside, which is not terribly cold. Don't get me wrong. However, it is a little bit chilly. I've not been able to find a way to wear pants yet, so I'm probably gonna be a little cold today. We probably won't spend too much time outside, but let's go do this. Okay, friends, we have just arrived. I need to head down to the track. It's looking pretty deserted here, which I feel like is a good sign for me. There are no indoor tracks and like all of Colorado Springs, so deserted high school tracks, sounds like a good idea. So on the way over here, I had an idea. I've mentioned my dad before and how he's into jogging. He's really supported this whole journey that I've been on. And I just thought I'd give him a call and see if he had a few free moments from work. So he's actually gonna come join me here and watch me run for the first time. Oh, that was a little loud, I'm sorry, but I am very excited. So he's gonna stop by and you guys are gonna meet him in just a moment. But first, I'm gonna go get set up, warm up some, get this party started. There's literally no one else here, which is ideal because, I mean, I'm cool trying new things in front of people, but also if I'm not running for one of the first times ever on my own with a random audience, I'm good with that. Random tidbit from my history. I remember playing a game of soccer on that field right there. I didn't go to public high school, as you know. I was a homeschooled kid, but I did participate in some sporting activities and that was one of them. So I think my big goal for today is really just to see what feels good, what feels natural, what doesn't feel good, what feels super unnatural. When I was practicing with Anika, I realized that my upper body felt really tense and really abnormal and I woke up the next day with shoulder pain, which is just, that's not what you expect from running, right? And so I'm looking to see if I can pay attention, that tension in my back and shoulders and kind of let it go, maybe run more naturally. I don't think that's gonna happen one day, but one can hope. So those first little steps that I'm taking on my blade, it's ridiculous how bouncy I feel. So I think I'm gonna start by a lot of warm-up. I've been told that warming up is like half of running, apparently, little did I know, to really get like the blood moving and really see how it feels, so I'm not rushing into anything. Also, it's shockingly warm-out. I don't even need this. Thank you Colorado in December for sure. I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this before, but I had knee surgery on this knee a number of years ago, and it never really fully healed. I've done physical therapy on it previously, but then when I was on the eye walk for like nine months straight, it definitely aggravated whatever was going on with it anyways. And my knee has been fine over the last year, but I've also not done a lot to strengthen it, and I definitely feel that now. Like it feels weak and tight and a little bit painful, so I'm gonna have to be really careful with my knee. You're out of breath, it means you're warmed up, right? Or does it mean you're out of shape? I'm not sure, but I think I am warmed up, and I think it is time we keep jogging a shot. Hair is just not complying today. We're gonna have French braided into submission. I'm not sure if this is normal, if you're new to running. My runner friends out there, please let me know, but it feels like, like I feel the impact in my whole body. I'm not sure if that's because I'm running wrong, or because my joints aren't used to it, maybe a little bit of both. So I'm gonna try some things. We're gonna play around a little bit. So I just watched some of the play bag of my tape. It's messy. It's messy, but it just means we have a good starting point to improve from. I mean, if I was already amazing at running, it would be a disappointing process trying to get better because it'd be that much harder, so it's good that I'm kind of terrible now. I like that logic. Would you like to say hello to my audience? Hello audience. This is my dad. You may remember one of my goals has been to be able to go jogging with my dad because my dad here jogged all throughout the time I was growing up, and I can never really go with him past the age of like 13. We went for walks. Yeah, but no, no jogs. No jogging, but that is changing now. My fortuit. Yeah, me too. So the furthest I've been able to go so far is like, I don't know, like, where's that? Like a hundred meters? Hundred yards. I'm gonna see if I can make it all the way around without stopping, without hurting myself. Get set. I follow for it starts. On your mark. Okay. Get set. Go. Double start. Oh yeah. Just ripping. Good 150. So I just made it about, I think exactly halfway around. I made it from like the 50 yard line on this side, which I don't think most tracks have, to the 50 yard line on that side, so it's a good starting point. I'm guessing in like a month I'll be able to at least double that. So I think that was a pretty successful day at the track for our first test ride when following you. You did awesome. Thank you. That was really cool. It runs so fast in my life. I love being lied to. It was good. I got halfway around. Did some warm up, did some sprints. Home. I don't want to stand up out of the car. My legs have worked enough today. Did you miss me? Did you miss me? No, we're not going anywhere. No, we're not going anywhere. Now that I have some carbohydrates in me, I'm feeling much better. So that was so cool to be able to do. I ran, I think about 150 meters feet. I don't know. I still didn't get that right. Meters feet, it's this one. I looked it up later. I have a long way to go clearly, but also that's what I was expecting. Like I expect this to be a journey. I expect it to take a long time before it starts feeling like I'm running normally. Normally, whatever that's gonna mean. But it definitely feels like a little taste of freedom and I love it. So with that being said, this is a rather vloggy sort of video today. Let me know what you think of it. Let me know if you liked it. I'm definitely gonna be taking you guys on more running adventures in the future. And I'll be honest, there was more things I was probably gonna say, but I feel like running has zapped my brain of the power to put words together. So we're gonna leave it here. Thank you so much to my patrons over on Patreon for supporting these videos. I truly cannot thank you enough for everything that you do for me. And to you watching this video, thank you so much for spending a few minutes out of your day. Here with me today, you could be anywhere in the world doing absolutely anything. And you chose to hang out with me for a few minutes and watch me run rather ineffectively, but I was running. And that means a lot to me. So thank you. I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys. Hand her from the sky.