 Goodbye snowbird Hello home. Oh, it's good to be home, and it's raining in Colorado. That's what I'm talking about All right, we're gonna keep this well Let me get under here so the camera doesn't get wet. I'm gonna keep this quick I'm gonna do something that I never do I never do this on the vlog on the daily story for you guys I'm actually gonna jump back to snowbird from my recovery session in the pool in the hot tub yesterday I'm realizing maybe I shouldn't have filmed this in the hot tub But anyway, that's I was recovering after the race and this is a recovery vlog Meaning I'm gonna jump back to yesterday's footage explain what happened in the race what I learned Maybe what I didn't learn who knows equipment failures So I'm gonna jump back to snowbird and that is going to basically be the rest of today's vlog I flew back from Utah safe trip good to be home good to see the family They're actually going to bed soon and it's raining and this is life and this is life So I'm gonna stop back to snowbird. This is what happened yesterday in the speed goat 50k Amazing I told Steve after the race Drive me to the pool Oh my gosh guys speed go 50k 2018 What happened whoa whoa before I dive into what happened? It's really important all of you know this well, maybe you don't but you're about to know this It's really important to know thyself Know thyself Be just in tune with who you are how you're created and what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are I've been harping on this for a while now with respect to my running and I struggle with hills in the last you know 10 miles of a 50k. I just my legs Look like toothpicks compared to the guys that passed me in the last 10 miles like they come by me with these tree trunk legs And it helps it helps to have ridiculous amount of muscle and today's race The website says 14,000 vert my watch said 11,000. I don't know bottom line It was a lot of vertical and I was in fourth place up until mile 20 Right about mile 20. I got past and I moved into fifth place So the first 20 miles was a hoop I was having a ball and rolling and we were rolling rolling rolling. I was rolling uphill rolling downhill I don't know if I went out too fast. I may have I may have but I wanted to stick my nose in it I didn't want to you know come out to Utah and not go for it I was honestly gunning for everyone whoever was there I was gunning for him and there were a lot of tough dudes here today So You know who knows I and I probably was you know, my legs probably Remembered last weekend at copper mountain. They probably remembered it and weren't too appreciative of what I did last weekend When it came to the hills in the last 10 miles of this race and it was such I'm serious. I don't say this. I've never said this Never do this race if you're out there like just don't do it I mean, I love you Carl the guy the race director But like it is a bruiser and it'll beat you down to a pulp and I want to make sure I can walk after I'm 60 And like this race is just like it's intentionally obnoxiously hard You go. I didn't realize 15 to 20% of the race was off trail That's my prediction that it was 15 to 20% like we just were running through tundra and over rocks and like through creeks And it was not it was not in my mind. It was it was a race, but it was like a running Speed hiking adventure like I just I just am not good at the speed hiking gig and rookie mistake I should have had poles trekking poles The leaders like first and second did not have poles But there were three or four guys in the top ten that had poles and they flew up the uphills And so I'm not coming back to this race But in future races if there's ever vertical, you know kind of like this where it's straight up the side of a mountain I will definitely have poles No doubt about it. So anyway, once I got to about mile 26 or so and I realized like top ten was kind of out of the question I basically shut her down and I didn't walk it in but I just kind of cruised it in because Today's race as I already mentioned to the GoPro was an ankle breaker. Like I could not believe how Rough it was. It probably sounds like I'm complaining, but I'm just telling you what it was like reality It was an ankle breaker. This course is an ankle breaker like ridiculous amounts of Loose rock loose rock everywhere all the time Not all the time, but I would say yeah, you know once again Maybe 25% of the course is just like loose rock And so you're just like running over these scree fields and oh, yeah, yeah, so I'm so glad I came out It was fun. Thank you for putting it on Carl I'm not sure what you're thinking and but it was it was it was it was a fun time and it was the bottom line I'm so excited because like I know my weakness and this this race just solidified knowing my weakness And now I can focus on strengths like Short uphill like pike speak ascent 13 miles uphill boom Let's get her done fast and I couldn't really get into a rhythm today where I can use my speed because believe it or not I have a little bit of speed left in the legs and That's why I did so well at last weekend's race because it was a climber and a speed guy So love you guys Steve is off doing something. I think trying to acquire some wine for me good vintage I'm just chilling at the pool just chilling at the pool if you have any questions gasp below. Oh You live and learn right and you just keep smiling you live and learn you keep smiling and keep fighting Know your weaknesses know your strengths Take away for the day There you go folks. That was the recap of the speed goat 50k 2018 learned so much more than let's say like winning a race you learn more in The moments of life when you maybe don't meet your goal, right? You can probably relate to that in fact question of the day When was the last time you didn't meet a goal and you learned from it? And what was that experience like? Oh, this is that's a good one It's a good one take a second think about it if you have time comment below I'd really appreciate it and I think we can all glean Wisdom from each other's life experiences down in the comments below So that was that was that was the race and I learned so so much about strengths weaknesses trekking poles Seek beauty work hard love each other Let it rain let it rain