(upbeat music) - Hi, it's Oscar from the front runner, Colombo. - And Tom from the front runner, Colombo. - And Lee from the front runner, Colombo. - And you are listening to our run special podcast, where we talk about the human locomotive movement we call running. - And a whole bunch of other stuff, which I don't apologize for. General random thoughts, our lives, crazy things that happened. And hopefully you walk away realizing that you're okay. - And we're not. - We want to put that on. - E.T. phone at home. - So, Kat is away, she's globe trotting. So we've got Super Sub, Lee-in, which is good timing. Because it's Crater Room. - Next week? - Crater Room season. - Next week, Crater Room? - Yep, next week. - Cool, so we're gonna do a little-- - That's coming up fast. - I was gonna call it a pre-cat, but it's not, it's a preview. (laughing) - Yeah, which is what I don't know why they call it, like a, you have like a preview and then a recap. - Yeah, it's a good point. It should be a pre-cat, recap. - Yeah, or a preview, review. - Well, there is reviews, but not at home. - So I'm pretty much confused. - Which isn't the first time this week. (laughing) - I'm confused, anyway. And Tom's got something excited to talk about. - I do? - Well, I don't know. I'd like your boy offered you a pretty cool job. Like, maybe we can talk about that. - Tom's a father. (laughing) - She's not that at home. - Oh no. (laughing) - Yeah, man, they took 90 seconds. (laughing) So, I don't know, it's pretty, like, I mean-- - No, it is exciting. - I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna be a narcissist and blow up the opportunity for my boss. (laughing) Maybe you could tell the good folks at home listening kind of what your new role is. 'Cause I'm excited that, well, I'm excited that people like us enough to buy enough shoes that I can offer a role like this. (laughing) - Yeah, especially. - Go, you guys. But why don't you talk about the role that some of the study did and how we got here. - Yeah, so basically had been out of the shop for a while, actually, since I got back, but kind of since the party got off the ground and it's gotten pretty well. - Yep. - We think so, anyway. - We think so, yeah. I mean, people tell us around the park that like, run past us listening to it. So that's a good start. - I feel like, what are we, only-- - Six, six, yeah. - Yeah. - Sally. - Yes, yes, yes. Anyways, so yeah, basically more of a content role, just looking after all of that stuff. New race ideas, fun ideas from public, and then show reviews, which is, I think, a fun way to add to the store. - Yeah. - And just add to really the community. Like, I mean, people always, I feel like when buying shoes online, it's quite common to look at people's reviews, or just like, reviews in general of what people have set about a shoe or how it feels and whatnot. So, yeah, the brands have been pretty good so far. I've had the chance to run in a hoker and the Puma, which we're gonna talk about later, and just kind of relaying my thoughts, feelings on the shoes, being brutally honest, 'cause it's like, it's hard to rather tell it how it is. - It's good 'cause I'm like, I can be one detached. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - You can be like, you can be like my guard dog. - Yeah. - I'm sorry, I think your official title was like, content and something director. - Yeah. - It sounded fancy. - And just helping with some of the marketing stuff as well. - I think it should be content and community liaison. - Liaison? (all laughing) - You said it's like an asleep liaison. (all laughing) - Yeah, so we've got some fun ideas coming up that we're pretty excited to get off the ground. Within, next few months, probably early next year, shoe race ideas, shoe front projects. And then just, yeah, trying to help the image of the store, I guess brands in general. - So, give the voice the people want. - Yeah. - Give the people the voice they want. (all laughing) - If you build it, they will come. - Yeah, for those not watching on YouTube, I had to put pics, put pics, put pics, look on my face. And actually, I got a grumpy for Tom, actually. At the start of last week's podcast, I see that I had to work on my dictation. - Yeah. (all laughing) - What I really mean was diction. (all laughing) I'm getting dumped in and I just want to think. (all laughing) And I listen to a bit when I was in the car on the way home, which I've decided is not narcissistic. (all laughing) - I was going to make sure it comes back to you. - Yeah. - And I was like, oh, I see it, I see it there. And that's the only thing I was worried about what I said. (all laughing) - It's the only thing that's actually 'cause we're like, oh, also it's just making a dick joke. (all laughing) - That's probably why we know where we're headed. (all laughing) - So anyway, but it's fine. So what we normally do leave here, be with us before is we start with talking about our week, our training week in particular, but sort of what unfolds is the general stories around what happened in our training and stuff. So maybe, do you want to go first or do you want Tom to give us some stellar examples? - Yeah, we'll turn on. (all laughing) - It's more high with Tom. - Honestly, there's, again, not a whole lot going on for me this week. More just, well, in terms of intensity and stuff, it's more just the big volume week, this one. Trying out a new four-day cycle, which is starting today. - Day one, day four days. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, so. - How many times does four go into 365? Like 40? - You're asking their answers? - Yeah. - I don't know. I can't do the math. - Nine, eight, nine times four is 36. - So 91, isn't that annoying? It's like 91.03. - So what? - Anyway. - 90-something cycles of this together. - Whoa. - I do. - Which means you have to commit to like five years of it to make it an even number, otherwise my OCD won't cope. - Yeah. - Anyway, sorry. - I hijacked your week to shut up, shut up, Oscar. (all laughing) - Well, I mean, in a two if yes, it's literally just a four-day cycle, but it's just alternating through long ride. Long ride, run workout, bike workout, long run, and just switching that through in different orders. But basically just getting a big, stimulus kind of spread out, but condensed, if that makes sense. - Yeah. - And then just, yeah, forming under your Friday. So that just stays the same. And then just little, like, probably won't run much over an hour on those days, on the bike days at least. And then vice versa for the run days, will be a shorter ride. But yeah, I think it would probably be pretty close to 20, between 26 and 28 hours this week. - So everyone driving in their car just check the econ was still working. (all laughing) - Shh. (all laughing) - Yeah, so it's gonna be a big week, but. - I feel pretty good so far. I haven't really started it, but sometimes change as good as a holiday, and there's just some different discounts, like, make you feel good. - But I think that in general, the body is responding much better to the triathlon stuff. - And I'm still running. I'm gonna do Tim routine, and then do Queensland marathon as well. - Half marathon. - Half marathon. - Oh, no. - Yeah, yeah. - Half marathon. - No, not a marathon. Yeah, so they'll be fun. Looking forward to routine. Haven't run a team can in a long time. So it'll be fun to jump in with those boys and see how long I've been holding on for. But yeah, nothing really too much to touch on. - Path when you jump. - Yeah. - You jump when you jump. But yeah, late, on to you. - Maybe just introduce yourself and. - Well, maybe not what you fit in, 'cause it sounds like we've gotta put you on a neat little barter, though. (all laughing) - I don't think any of us fit in. (all laughing) - I don't fit in. That's why I work here. (all laughing) (all laughing) - Prerequisites to working at the front. - Yeah. - We basically just, in addition to PMH. (all laughing) - It's mission two. (all laughing) - The PMH Annex. (all laughing) - We're just a regular politician, - Yes. - For all of us. - For all of us, for all of us. (all laughing) - Yeah, no, yeah. So I, Lee, again. I've been out for probably about six months now. Before that, I was living in Auckland for about nine years and did some running, mostly just involved in clubs and doing a lot of children running in Auckland. And then came down here and new cat, just from working with her around the solid stuff and just chats and hanging out and started working here and it's been such a blast. Most people think I'm crazy for working at a running store. They're like, "That's so nerdy, but it's been so much fun." - Nothing wrong with being a nerd. - No, no. Like everyone has their things. Some people like anime, I like running. (all laughing) - Well, both. - Yeah. - But yeah. (all laughing) - Is there a huge crossover? - I don't know. - And we had it in the dining room. That's the good thing. That's the crossover. - I wanna say that we circle graph and how close it gets to the perfection. (all laughing) - You don't think anime to run in crossover. - Yeah, training wise, running creative room next weekend, which is mind-blowing 'cause it feels like it was ages ago. Now it's just around the corner. But this week's been kind of interesting because last week I started having some issue with my sewers is what we think it might be. But this happens kind of at the end of every training block where it just gets quite tight and sore and I have to kind of back off for a few days. So I've just been on the bike doing some long rides, just keeping it easy, but still trying to keep up aerobic base and keeping my legs moving up until the race. I mean, the work's already been done. So it's just kind of trusting the process at this point and hoping I do all right. Yeah, so yeah, I did a couple hours on the bike, Tuesday, Wednesday. It's been perfect 'cause it's been school holiday. So I also work at, there's a school counselor, so it's been good having some time off to dedicate to riding 'cause it's a huge time consumer. And I've just been in the gym doing some rehab stuff for my hip as well. But yeah, kind of a taper madness mixed with uncertainty of being, I don't want to say injured. - No, we haven't used the injured bird. - It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. - I mean, this is a little brown tool to get injury? - No, not exactly. - It just doesn't point. - It doesn't, it's like, you already say, no, no, no. - I actually think it's definitely psychological. If you don't call it injury, it'll heal faster for a believer in that. - Do you ever think that when you get hurt this little tiny people inside of your body, touching things both together again? - Yeah, I do, actually. - I used the non-racials there I was going to do. (laughing) - That was good. - I refrained. - I refrained. - That's so good. - Yeah. - Good job. (laughing) - I'm showing personal growth this week. - Ask his crown. (laughing) - Anything interesting? I ran into Andy last week on my run, that was fun. - He told you you had good form. - He told me I had good form, which Oscar said he was just hitting on me. (laughing) That's fine. - Yeah, especially with his new haircut, it looks slick. - It was like, he was like, "Cute, yeah, yeah, yeah." (laughing) I better run over, get his number. - Yeah. - Oh, it was Andy, but no, that was really good. And he was reassuring about just trusting the process at this point coming up to Katerin. And so, get shot at the Andy, I went for a run with a friend this morning. It's my first day going for a run in the last four days. It didn't really bother me that much, but it was good having a friend to chat to throughout the whole time. - Makes the time go. Takes your mind off the... - Yeah, he's good. - That goes as well, huh? - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - But, yeah, that's me in a nutshell. - Cool, what kind of nutshell? (laughing) - I was gonna say a walnut. I was gonna say a walnut is probably the most substantial nutshell that I can think of. Acorn? - Hey, nah, we're talking about acorns last week. You need treacherous. - They are, they can't hit you on the head. - They're like the Mexicans of the nut world. (laughing) - What would a walnut be? - Definitely French. (laughing) - I was a German. - German, sorry for the middle, right? - They got lost, like, in the Anglo-Saxon sort of-- - Yugoslavia? (laughing) - I didn't know there was a country called the Olympics. (laughing) - Oh, no. (laughing) There's lots of countries that didn't know exist until the Olympics. Is it like 168 countries, then? - Yeah, Russia lets them out for the Olympics. (laughing) - You can go, you can go, you can go. You've been naughty, you guys stay at home. (laughing) - You can't leave. - Wow. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. (laughing) - What's happening in my week? When did we record our last episode, last Thursday? Do you want me? - Yeah. - Yeah, so, Friday's the one day Saturday, well, Saturday was unreal for lots of reasons. - Oh, yeah, yeah. - Saturday, so, I can say, like, we were down at Hagley, the UC boys, we got down there at about 7.30, and extra mile group with Bevan, we're down there, there's like 60 of them doing a little time trial, we were down there with a group of guys, then DJ Harry's turned up, Kat was there in the end, the women's boys rolled in at about half a state and-- - Someone thought there was an event going on. - The path is just unreal, it was unreal, it was like one of the coolest things I've been a part of, like the vibe was unreal, so, Kudos to the running community. And then all the other people who were just like, out and about, not part of a crew or whatever. And so I did five by 15 minutes at marathon effort, I had the table set up, I was being a nerd, - Come on, you're gonna be there. - With my SOS mixed stuff, and my Jaws, and my ketone shots, and trialing some stuff, and I had great sessions, probably the first time I felt like me since I was born. I was like, "Fuckin' thank God, I'm not old, "and I can still be like, and it's so stupid." 'Cause he was like, "I know, I'm okay." - Yeah, but as far as you convince yourself of that, you're like, "I'll never run again." - Yeah, I suck, I've never been good, I quit. But I ran, I've got a 4.7K at each 15 minutes, which is about 312, three turn ends. As an average, took a minute between each rep, 90 seconds between each rep, and he paced me for the first two, which is cool, and I did the last three on my own. My last rep was the fastest, and I felt real strong, so I just pre-hooped that, trialing the Rocket X2s, which I'm tossing up between the Puma, DVA Elite Nitro 3s to race Auckland in, which is now three and a half weeks away. - Sunday was a hell of a day. Sunday was, I don't know if I took a toy bag this year. - No. - No, so Sunday, our Sunday started. Obie, who is our eight week old, boy. - Big boy. - Big boy. - Big boy. - Don't know how we made him. Well, I don't know how we made him, but I don't know how we made him. (laughing) - I'm so cute. - And just like that, the episode got an explicit sticker. - So, we were coming up anyway. We were sitting on the end of our bed. It was like, have a smile in the morning, which I'm fine with. That's what we always get to do pretty early. And then Andy just walks in like quarter to six. Dad, I feel sick. - Oh no. - And then Project Dolls. - Oh, classic. - Project Dolls across our nice ideas, linen, do they come right, and that thing is red. - Did you make her clean it up? - It's like red, man. (laughing) - So I'm like, okay. Where, this is how we're starting out there. I'm happy, so I'm like, I'm scraping blueberry sick. - Oh, off. - White linen at like 10 to six in the morning. Get her in the shower. I'm like, I'm not even dealing with you. Just get in the shower. (laughing) If you've got a vomit, just vomit in there. Like, it's fine. Just as long as you need to be in there, whatever. Just ring, like, yeah, yell out what you want to tell. 20 minutes later, I've scraped the sick off. I've got that in the washing machine. 20 minutes later. And then I'm scraping all over the bottom sheet. - Oh, man. - From the asshole to ear load. - Oh, man. - All over the bottom sheet, asshole to ear load. - Asshole to ear load. - There's shit everywhere. - Oh, no. - So then I'm scraping, and you know, like, for those of you who have had children or like a younger sibling that you've looked like, baby shit is just sludge. And so I'm scraping into the red bin, just scraping baby shit off the sheet. And then, and it's not even half past six. - Oh, before everyone else's like shit. - So when you see me on the start line of walk in, you'd be like, there's an Oscar, he's fast. I'm like, I'm not even fast. I'm just happy to be here. (laughing) I don't even know how I've got here. So that resulted in Katie being like, oh, do you mind maybe not doing your longer run on the morning today, just in case, like, both kids set it off and she's on her own. Like, and there's vomit. And I was like, there's phrena. So I snuck out at about half a state to do my half an hour. And then, we didn't have a washing line. And so I like at 10 a.m., which felt like 5 p.m. By that point, I was like, I'm going to my 10 fuck this. (laughing) I'm putting up a washing line. - I mean, it's like, we're going to go to mother 10. It's like a boy in every neighborhood. I was like, dad, I'm out. (laughing) - So I'm going to go in, there's ones that like retracts on the side of the house and stuff. And for those not watching, I mean, like a little movement there that, anyway. And I also bought a water blaster and it's one of those-- - A blaster for the sheets? - It's one of those. Just the kids. (laughing) - I feel like you couldn't get a more dad purchase than a water blaster. And I was like, I'm going to clean the deck. That thing is still sitting in the box in my car. - Oh, I know. - That was just so much fun asking. - I was about to say that. - Yeah. - Well, I'll pay you guys to come do it. - I know, okay. I'll do it. (laughing) - And then we came up through the holiday and I had to do my hour run at like 7 p.m. that night. And it was just unfun. Anyway, fast forward to Tuesday. I still felt like shit. So I didn't work out. So I pushed it back in the yesterday. I did six by 2K. And I averaged three flats on nine seconds. And little bean hairs came out on the bike legend. Did some pacemaking for me in the wind. I passed away in the park. Completely blanked. - That's okay. - Still walled. Oh, well, I think I was on my last break. Was I naked by then? - Well. - Yeah, you were. (laughing) Yep, everything was out. - Everything was out. - Yep. - I knew it was you because I saw you from a younger naked body. - Yeah, my like sesquatch midrift. (laughing) - Do you know sesquatch? Isn't it a real thing? - Not totally is. - It's made up. - Not, no, it's totally. I was in Washington state last year. - Yeah. - I think it's real. - Like what? - I went to the sasquatch museum. - What bar are you? Were you in? (laughing) - I went to the sasquatch museum. I saw the footprints with my own two eyes. It's real. - It's so real. - Oh. (laughing) - I don't know. I'm not crazy. I mean, I gotta wax my back and my chest and my arms. Otherwise, I look and start looking like a real life hobbit. (laughing) - I don't believe in pizza gate, but I do believe in sasquatch. (laughing) - Yeah. So, if you've ever seen a sasquatch, let us know. And this podcast is now, you're listening to X-Files. (laughing) - Great show. - Yeah. - It's a funny big bullet. - Don't you know X-Files? It's not that old enough? (laughing) - I think it was just on the cast with me and Lee. (laughing) X-Files is basically really weird men looking for strange things. - Yeah, we would have been quite young even when they first started. - I don't think we should have been watching it. - No. - Maybe that's why I have trust issues. - Possibly. - Yeah, government is not real and the birds are robots. - I can psycho-analyze you later. - Yeah, okay. - Just for $400. (laughing) - And just like that, the podcast became. (laughing) Oprah. (laughing) - What is it? - Super Soul Sunday? (laughing) - I'm Oscar and Lee. (laughing) - Oh, I do know. It's just kind of my mind. This has nothing to do with the show today. But I realize when Tom and I and Ketta here, the acronym is TKON. We're a fucking knock out. - Oh, yeah. (laughing) - That's awesome actually. (laughing) - It's actually pretty cool. - I was like, ah, that's cool. So I don't know what we are today. T-L-O. - Yeah, boring. - O-T-L. Sounds like a Costco ad. (laughing) - TKON. - TKON. - TKON. - Lot. - All right, that's a real lot. - Yeah. - Like a lot of land? Like a lot is in like a land lot, or just a lot is in people who have stopped listening already 'cause they've had enough. (laughing) - Just a lot. - Just a lot. - They've made it 20 minutes. - They've made it, they're pretty well. So that was my week. Oh, actually I got one funny story about this morning. Which is the most Oscar story of it. - Oh, okay, here we go. - So. - Did you leave the car on the stuff? - No, I didn't leave the car on the stuff. But this is almost just as good. And people, someone asked if the stories are real. These are 100% real. Like some shit, you just couldn't write. - Yeah. - Like, yeah. - Yeah, creative I am. So, it's like quarter past six in the morning. I get up and I've said countless times to Andy, "Please don't put glass jars in the bathroom." - Oh. - And so she's got all likely like hair clips and like braids and what do you call it? Bands, like hair bands in these little jars. All like, you know. Organized. I get my dressing gown. Yes, I wear a dressing gown, I'm an old fuck. Shut up. I put my dressing gown on, it sweeps one of the glass jars off the vanity, onto the top, smashes everywhere. I'm pissed anyway. Why are they fighting glass? I step back, stand on the glass. - And Andy was like, "Dad, why are you wearing a robe?" (laughing) - Cut your foot, cut my foot, cut my heel. And I was like brushing it off and I was like, "Fuck, okay, everyone get the brush from trouble." We're like cleaning all that. It's what I got the glass out of my foot. Didn't think I had any glass in my foot. - Oh, no. - Carrying on with my morning. - Joyful run. - Ran for two hours this morning. - With a piece of glass in my foot. - So at this point, I'm convinced I'm dying. This glass is into my bloodstream, it's making it spread in my eyes. (laughing) - I'm like, "I'm out in a museum." - Oh, no. - This is how good the glass is made to my aorta. It's over, it's kind of me up to the inside. But since like the first time I broke up with a girlfriend, this is really insane. It makes a cat of me to pieces. (laughing) So I ran two hours of cold this morning. We'll hear an adi and then I ran some more. And then when I got here in the shop and like got went to get in the shower, I stepped on my heel and I was like, "Ah!" - Fuck the fuck! - And then I pulled a piece of glass out of my foot. - How big was it? - Oh, like a micro piece of glass. - But still. - So that's my war story. So, you know. - All the rest of it's in your heart. - Yeah, 100%. - Right, do you have a bit of a glass, no? And so all the truths have been in my Afghanistan, I've got a bit of war story. (laughing) (laughing) - Someone give me a medal, so that's my-- - Speaking of medals, Dave Lee probably deserves a medal. I've never witnessed this before. Okay, this is going back to, I guess, probably the start of my end of last week. - Yeah. - We just carried to here. - Yeah. - Even the first time we were doing carried to here. And we were talking about, someone asked us the night before we were all having dinner somewhere and asked Dave, how long does it take to carry to carry to carry? - And Dave kind of pondered for a B, he's like, hmm, I think about two hours and four minutes, roughly. And they're like, that's a very particular time. - Did you see this particular? - And I shit, you know. We did carry to carry in two hours, four minutes, and two seconds. - Whoa. - And we did not speed up, slow down, or anything, four of us run. This was like, ridiculous. So yeah, two hours and four minutes on the dog. - Two of him-- - No, I'm not gonna say it. It wasn't a fast pace either, it was like really, really crazy. So even adding that into the fact that we didn't run at the normal pace, we run at it. So to get it, paying on was-- - That's unreal. - Middle of the week, Dave, Dave. - Yeah, we're there, it's a new segment on the show. - Yeah. - Middle of the week. (laughing) You had to rank at gold, silver bronze. - Yeah. - Wonder why they stopped at three. Like, who decided they'd only be three medals? - Yeah. - They should have stopped at one. - Yeah, there's only one winner. - There is, like, Yvonne doesn't get a ribbon. Like, they ruin sport. - Yeah. - Yeah. - What people decide stuff are. It's just weird. (laughing) - It's like pizza boxes. - That's what it's gonna say. - Yeah. - Pizza boxes. - I was gonna say, like, me and I just stand up to piss, but that's fine. (laughing) - Well, you don't have to. (laughing) - That's getting awfully appropriate. (laughing) - The pizza boxes, this is why you tell, you tell the good people, Tom-- - You've decided to put a circle, pizza, in a square box. - And triangle slices. What, like, what, actually, yeah. - I just popped in my head there. I actually square pizzas. - And it's blasphemy. You can imagine-- - Yeah, and I would square pizzas. - Like, my material is like-- - But it doesn't look like a pizza. - No, it's just-- - Can you call it a pizza? - No, it's a square. - It's a slice of bread with stuff on it. - It's a squeezer. - It's a toasty. (laughing) - It's a lot of stuff. - You didn't like pizza hot or something. You have it, like, really big pizza. - Yeah. - And it was square, right? - Yeah. - So there are square pizzas in each one. - Yeah. - Right in, if you know about any square pizzas-- - Any square pizzas in each one. - So we're not calling it a pizza, we're calling it a season. - Oh, little Caesar's in America. Doesn't round them. - Oh, yeah. - But they shouldn't, shouldn't they be round? - To be fair, I don't know too many square pizzas in America. I mean, I'm only from the East Coast, but, like, that's, like, the epicenter of pizza. - Does that mean you can crib walk? (laughing) - Crib walk. (laughing) - 'Cause horses can. - Yeah. - Have you seen, have you haven't seen Snoop Dogg commentating the equestrian? - Oh, that is hilarious. - You know, that is peak TV. - Yeah. - He's great. - One of those brilliant marketing strategies at the Olympics. - Wasn't like MBCs, is it MBC? Was that who does it? - Yeah, MBC. - Yeah, MBCs, like viewership on the last Olympics was up, like, 700%. - Yeah. - Because Snoop was on, making half a million years back, like, fun. (laughing) - Thank you. - I reckon Snoop has, like, fulfilled life side quests. Like, Snoop was only more money than the athletes himself. - 100%. - He's writing children's books and commenting in the Olympics. Like, has it worked out? - And he's on with the new season of The Voice. - Yeah. - If he sings about it, he is funny. - Yeah. - He's done it all. - Nah, he continues to do it all. - So I don't know how we got from pizza to Snoop. - I reckon he eats a lot of pizza when he smokes weed. - Yeah. - Drink it? - Probably. - Yeah, I wonder what he's at. What is, don't you? - My choice. - Munchies. - Hmm, I wouldn't mind. - I don't think he'd want to square pizza. (laughing) - Maybe he would. He's pretty wet. - I don't want to square pizza. I think food just tastes a bit around. - Nah. - Like-- - It's like a calzone, man. (laughing) - It does feel weird. - But a calzone is just a slice of pizza. - It does feel weird. - Like, it doesn't feel right. - Well, it doesn't go into your mouth. - Yeah. - Like, the, the, the triangles are just like, - Yeah. - You don't crack the button, huh? - Even guess what? - Mama Italian's like, it's got to go in the mouth, though. (laughing) - Something like that. - Yeah. - Come at me if you want to tell me next to me. - 'Cause I got air going into your mouth. (laughing) - So you're coming to the chair or something? (laughing) - But then, so things just taste a bit around. And I'm talking about food. - Yeah. - Corn chips. - Corn chips. - I had a revelation. - A little of corn chips. - We've always bought triangle ones. - I know. Katie, dark racism, buy some round ones. - But I feel like the triangle ones are usually like legit. Those are like Mexican main. - So he's like. (laughing) - It just gets that triangle. (laughing) - I don't think it's the one selling-- - So it's a triangle. - I don't know. - It's a triangle. (laughing) It's like, here consistency and something. The three C's are trusty, shouldn't it? - Is that what Katie tells you? - No. (laughing) - I remember in like, year 12, like, what do you call it? - The character building or whatever. - The thing you went to learn about religion. Ari, I'm like, here's the trust tree. - I'm trying to go to a religious school. - No, yeah. I didn't really either. (laughing) - I did. (laughing) - Tom Tom did. (laughing) He's the most organized one out of all of us. (laughing) - Jesus, who? Mom came out. (laughing) - Oh dear. I got caught down a rabbit hole about how old the Roman Empire is. Speaking of Jesus, there's another relation to-- - Jesus. - It's like 3,900 years BC. - Wait, do you guys know about this thing that was like all over TikTok, a year ago, about the Roman Empire? - How often do you think about the Roman Empire? - Never, actually. (laughing) I don't know. (laughing) - It's such a weird thing to think about. - It's your six when you learn from him. (laughing) - So, yeah, round corn chips way better, which is funny because pizza tastes better with stuff on it in triangles and corn chips and nachos are better than the round, 'cause you can scoop more stuff. - Yes. - So, explain that to me. So, does that mean it's the size of the triangle, so you have a giant triangle corn chip that scoops up multiple grains of mint? Grains of mints? - Grains of mints. - I don't know, what is it? (laughing) - Chunks. - Chunks of mints? - Chunks of mints? - Chunks is not. Chunks is right up there with chocolates. - Chocolates? - Just pieces. (laughing) - But anyway, do you guys put the stuff on the nacho chips or the nacho chips to the side to scoop? - No, I put them on. - How do you feel about the soggy chips? - Ah, like them. (laughing) - You put it on, like you put on all the stuff and then you put it on. - No, I put the chips on, then the nacho is on top. - Okay. - Yeah, I feel like that's normal, right? - You're a dipper. - Well, but you know, just like so many condiments, condiments, condiments on who nachos that I reckon it's cold by the time I've finished putting all the stuff on. - Quick question, what's Katie's favorite condiment? - I have the pignos. Yeah, and sweet chili sauce. - Sweet. - Yeah, she likes some spicy, which, you know, whatever. (laughing) We don't need to get in there. - Sweet chili sauce is good. - I don't know. - I like it. - It doesn't make sense. It's confused. - Yeah. - It hasn't made a commitment yet. - No, I like it. - Sweet chili sauce? - Yeah. - Love it. - Okay. (laughing) - I'm here, you went in a long-term relationship, so that's fine. (laughing) - Yeah. - This is true. - I'm choosing what I am. (laughing) - Okay, we are completely done. We're completely derailed. - Well, food. We're still on food. Rice Krispies. - Oh, yeah. - Have you guys tried that? - No. - It is like a cheap chew opener. - Yeah, but I'm like literally. - I've kind of just gone on it, but. - Is that for the bite? - Is it? - Yeah, yeah. - But isn't that the most human thing ever is to take something in a shape, grind that thing up, put it through a manufacturing process, to put it back in the shape it once was, and re-market it for more money. - Front look. - And sell it. - It's the first one. - I'm surprised we don't do that with humans already. (laughing) - It's just trafficking. - That's how the legs roll. (laughing) - It's how the legs roll. - I'm convinced the fans are robots. - Yeah, they'll just, they'll just, what take is man? Those things are not real. - Mm. - They look pretty funny, yeah. (laughing) - But yeah, some Russian spies, man. - Great idea. - A Russian spy. (laughing) - We're going out, who's worthy of going to the next one? (laughing) - You're a rock country, and you're not a fan of mine. (laughing) - Okay. - Great, no, it's a good one. - Yeah. - I've done rice Krispies, music bars. - Marshmallows, butter, and rice is this all you need. - Yeah. - Put 'em in. Put 'em in the fridge for a bit. - Do you like it? - It goes good. - It's like 40 grams of carbs in one of those little blocks. So it's basically the same as most of the chews available, and it's so cheap. Tastes good. I mean, they are a little bit bigger than the chews. - I feel like you should come to the trail running world. - Oh, no. - We're just like eat this frosting. - Yeah, yeah. - They're so sweet potatoes. - Oh, yeah. - Those eight stations are like a heritage hotel buffet. - Yeah. - What was that one that has like the supermarket eyes? - Oh, I actually heard some. - Crater remains unreal. - Crater remains unreal. - Yeah. - I'm like kind of in it just for-- - I think there was a trail race that actually made like supermarket aisles that you ran down, and they had just stuff from the supermarket. - Well, I'm just telling you-- - We're all saying Martin's, listen up. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It was like a supermarket aisle in the forest. - It was so cool. - I can't remember what it was. - That is quite cool. - Yeah. - So it was a good segue into a Crater room we should edge to talk about running. So the Crater room is a race that we have here in Krossich, which is as it's named on the Crater room walkway. And there's multiple distances. - I don't think so. I don't know. - Wood UK is, I think. - Is it 50K? - 50, yeah. - 50, 32. What's just doing now? - 30. - 30, half an hour, then. And then it up and down, rampack it. Is it still happening? - Yep. - Yeah, yep. - So why don't we have a little five minute guide of, 'cause you're running the 30K, right? - Yeah. - Of the course. - I ran it last year, so I can jump in if you get lost. - Well, 'cause the only bit I haven't done is the private little end. - Yeah. - And start at Gabby's. - Imagine, it's so steep you can't run and then you do and then that pucks your ass. - Well, we've been nervous about it. 'Cause I feel like my, my, kind of my strength is uphill. And I really wanna get out and as far from as I can, 'cause I heard this morning, there's like 250 people running the 30K. And I'm like, it's kind of like a pit of people just trying to get out of there. - So a single track as well? - A lot of like-- - The first, the first K is wide farm track, but it's steep as hell. - Yeah. - And I'm from my memory, I think there's seven switchbacks. - Okay. - So there's like seven, I think it's seven or eight switchbacks and then you get up onto the top. - Yeah. - And then that's, we're not a single track mud. - Yeah. - It was pretty average. - Yeah. - Funny enough, there was my slowest kilometer. - Oh yeah, really? - And the second K, I think it was my slowest kilometer. - Yeah. - But I have parked up at the top of summer road and followed all the way down, down a little bit down Horsley's and then down Valley track. - Yeah. - I'm real interested to see how the bit down Valley track goes. That's probably something that I'm trying to, I might do maybe one more time before the race. I just have a feeling it's gonna get really, what is it called, like bottle necky? - Yeah. - Just, I have a feeling that there's gonna be some slower folks from the-- - Twitter. - Yeah, that are gonna be down there and it's gonna be, it's gonna be tough to pass anybody and they're gonna have to move off the course for the people in the front, which is fine, but I think whenever you're at the end of a race like that, you just don't have like the mental energy to be like, "Well, you're right." - Yeah. - Right? - And then people still get headphones in. - Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah. - Which I think, like, fair enough you wanna listen to us. - Yeah. - If that's cool, there'd be a pass. (laughing) But other than that-- - If you're listening to us, I hope you are at the Valley track and you hear this part of it and move to the side, like before you're going, like there's someone might be behind you. (laughing) - But yes, there was a bit of that. I caught people before Rapakki, like I pretty much from the Kiwi. - Yeah. - When we went up to Sugarloaf, I started to come past people. - Yeah. - Which, and to be fair, most people were really good. I just, I mostly felt bad, not because I was annoyed that people were at the headphones and because when I went past them, I scared the shit out of them. - Yeah, I hate that feeling. - Yeah. - And, yeah. - I think you have a little less control when you're running fast on a trail too. - Yeah. - So if they move the wrong way, there was like, there was some collateral. - Yeah. - I don't have any one, but you could just see it out playing any more. - And it's like that reflex of like running on the road and you like pass by somebody and you're like, "I'm sorry, I'm not about to jump you or rob you." - Yeah. - "I'm so sorry." Like. I'm listening to the Spice Girls right now, I'm so on intimidating. (laughing) - The Spice Girls are intimidating. - Britney's Talksnake is playing with him, no. But the bit that I've gotten lost on twice, this is, I think, new for this year, is you go over to Linda Woods Reserve. - Okay. - Yeah. And then you cut down from Linda Woods Reserve, down into like Rapakki and then you move over to ValleyTrack. - Okay. - And me and a friend did that a couple of weekends ago and we were like, "What's going on here?" Just, I don't know if it's just like a little track the sheep used to cut down and we're just like missing it, but I'm sure it's gonna be well marked on the day, but I just haven't been able to figure out how Linda Woods Reserve cuts down into Rapakki. - I think they've learned from last year we had some course marking issues. - Yeah. - And like Chris is good and he'll, I think like, anything's working with Marty and that they'll, you know, we did talk about, because it's the type of event where you don't just get seasoned trail runners and you get roadies, there needs to be like I kind of said, it might be all well and good for people that run this every week, but for me, I almost wanted the reassurance of a ribbon every 500 meters. 'Cause you know now it's only every two or three minutes I'm looking for another ribbon rather than six or seven minutes and then I'm starting to wonder, "Shit, am I going in the right way?" - Yeah, that's a sinking feeling on a trail on a course. It's, you're like, "Oh, did I miss something?" Especially when you're out ahead and there could be a bit of space between you and the next person or you and behind you. Like it's, yeah, it's not even feeling. - But I say the A stations are elite. The Achilles guys do an A station just before Wursley's, but Easter and the gang always bring some serious energy. The speed freaks do the one half of Sugarloaf. I want cowbells, I want this to be like a European trail race. I want this like Chamonix, cowbells, signs. I want it all. - Well, more cowbell. - You might be disappointed. (laughing) - More disappointing than cowbells. - But that's it. - We can just take it to a cheeks rugby game. - Yeah, they do the cowbells and they're wild for them. - Yeah, that's a great race. - Yeah, I'm really excited for it. Like, I've been down here for two years and I just run on the portals all the time. It's my backyard and it'll be fun to actually be kind of wanted and see how fast I can do these tracks that I do in times a week. - If I can offer one small piece of advice. - Yes, please. - Do not run up Wursley's as fast as you can. - Okay, that's good advice. - Because it doesn't go well. (laughing) - I'm puking blueberry something at the top. - Yeah, 'cause I was kind of chasing the ghost of Scotty Hawker. - Oh yeah. - 'Cause I really wanted to see if I could have a girl just record and I knew where my strengths probably were, I knew where her strengths were and mine is not like I'm blind at the best times. And so the technical bets are not really for me. And so I thought well, I can make out but a time probably on the long uphills like that's my strength. And I ran up the adventure park, 'cause you kind of go down Wursleys and you come up the adventure park, 'cause that's still what they do, sort of. - They come up body bags? - Yeah, you come up body bag. - So we kind of was like, you go right down the body bag about 1,500 meters down Wursleys track and then you come right into the adventure park trail and then you came through that gate at the top of that to go back up the body bag. I ran out there in like sub fives. - That's nuts. - That's like riding that bridle path at like a Ford, like a Ford Ford. - Yeah, I have got up the broader path in the nine minutes, but that cost me, 'cause then I tripped in the back of the kiwi, which was the easiest running of the whole day. And then they go, that's not a show. - And do you know, it's one of those moments where you're like time slows, the camera pans, he's caught in mid-year, the droplets are coming off his face. I'm spending a pretty good picture. He has a decision to make. Is he gonna try and put his foot out to save the fall? Or is he just gonna Superman that shit and own it? - You Superman that shit. - I Superman that shit, no. Well, I thought actually my hamstring at that point was gonna come off at my head. So I just slid, put along the grass and then like cut all my knees and shit up and my bib flew off into the distance. So that was tragic. I don't even got to keep that. No, someone dropped the bib back. It's my founder that dropped it back into me. Richard, yeah, anyway. So my advice is you don't, maybe, don't go anabolic running up. Where's this? 'Cause you've still got half the race to go. - Okay, that's good advice. Any other advice? - Take more than twice in jail and sort of put your bills liquid. - Well, I wasn't gonna go racing and then I started and I was like, okay then, I'm racing. - Shit before you race, I need to drink plenty of water. Don't get drunk the night before and you'll be sweet. - Here's my rubber out, it's twisted. All race then. Is Sam like, do we know? - I don't know, we have to ask him later. He might do, he might do like a tail end or something. He's still not feeling quite hungry. - Oh yeah, he said he was gonna do the 30, maybe. - Yeah, so if not, if you're not running, Hanson's Park's an absolute vibe at the finish line. He's coming out to support people. - I'm really excited for that. - Is it a Saturday or the Sunday? - Sunday. - Sunday, yeah, so I might go down, people wanna come hang out. I might come and bring the kids down to support. - I heard there was gonna be a bouncy castle, but Christchurch City Council was like, "Well, now you can't have that dirty dangerous." - Really? - Yeah, I think we should protest it. - But, Council. - Right at the Titian. - Do you know? - It's no fun, I love it. - Do you know, that's not okay. I'm just, I'm sorry. - I'm just taking a little while to say something. I'm trying to figure out what level of something I wanna say. - I think we should call it bounce back to 2020. - Yeah, we should, yeah. - But, so they're gonna make the white lines on the road glow in the dark. - Yeah. - But we can't have a bouncy castle. - Christchurch City Council speak. - Yeah. - On this matter, please, we need your answers. - Do you love it on the dog lines? Great idea. (laughing) - Yeah, we should just get absolutely baked. (laughing) - It used to be a flat on that wall in that meeting. They're like, "Okay, topic's for today. "Bouncy Castle and Hands, it's in park. "Love is our line, we wanna start first." Hard on the bouncy castle and hands in park. - All right. - Let's debate. - Do you remember those books like goosebumps? - A lot of goosebumps. - The goosebumps books? Like, this is what they're like, what are we doing? There's cat size on the road. People have lights. - Yeah. (laughing) - Grow up. Look, I'd rather not pay an extra $200 of a quarter of my rates. - Urban roads. - I don't know. I don't even know if it's New Zealand. I just saw something. - They're throwing it, I think, in Australia. - Oh, yeah. - But just like, but can you imagine just maybe just something across like a tree trunk, had some things growing out of it and you just get what we like and then all of a sudden, you're psychedelic. And you're just like, warming down the road, like the side of the face on the glomer's like paint. - Yeah. - Ayahuasca would retreat and be known for a little ride. - But, how amazing is it that these white lines have so much control over society? They can't even speak. (laughing) - You gotta stay within the lines. - Yeah. The thing that, the thing that hits the sky like that. - Wow, that was really deep talking to me. - Is it like, is it a thing, a bogey song? - I don't know. (laughing) - I was just there in the obvious. - Staying the lines was out in John X. - And out in John X. - Sorry, Adam. - I don't know the wind and standing lines. - I mean, the came up, yeah, anyway. But, I feel like blowing the wind out of the cartridge city council. But, but imagine that you're just a little psychedelic and then all of a sudden, you're just licking the road. Or it's like a portal to another dimension. - Wow. - Yeah. - What do you think the animals are gonna think of that? - That's great. - That's a great question actually. - The awesome. - What do you think the animals think of us? They just go, what are these campsites? (laughing) If I had thumbs, if I had thumbs, I'd be so much more advanced than these monkeys. (laughing) - 'Cause they can see in the dark, can they? Yeah. - They're not tuna ones, yeah. - Do they see, like, the Isaias? - Goggles, like green. - Good question, if you're a possum, let us know. (laughing) - There's a moment to give us a call. - One bit to give us a call? - Speaking of it, what would your spirit animals be? 'Cause I was thinking about it while I was running. This is about running. I was running thinking about it. And I'm also going to another joke about a dandelion. (laughing) - Tended one. (laughing) - Um. - I mean, I think I'm a hyena. - Oh, I can see that. - Like, I'm a pain in the ass. (laughing) - That pisses-- - It keeps coming back. - Pisses big lines off. And they're just slightly faster. (laughing) - Hyena's are also bizarre looking. - Yeah, they're with you. - So weird. (laughing) - Tom, Tom, no. - Way to drop it in the top. - Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom. - Tom, you naturally would have had a couple of beers. I'm looking like a hyena. - Yeah. (laughing) (laughing) - It's actually going to be like a hyena. - Shoe meeting about the upcoming shoes, that's Oscar. - Yeah, I'm like, I'm kegling them with the big dogs and shooting these shoes down. - It's pretty bad. - Well, I wouldn't have been, I wouldn't invite me at this point. - I mean, you do provide good import, but-- - Yeah. - Sometimes it could be a little more low key. - It's just, yeah. - Do you know who-- - I'm almost honest, but would you sometimes-- - Do you know who the sloths don't hurt or fat? - How do you know that's Oscar? - Look. (laughing) - I'm very given these facts on that. (laughing) - I need some receipts. - Yeah, I just, I just get caught down in rabbit holes. - You find this on Instagram. - And Instagram has been targeting me so hard with the ends and shit, that's what I was-- - With sloth, content? - That algorithm's gone. - It's gone. - It's gone. - That Instagram shopping just gets me, eh? I'm lying to me last night and I've been working on my sleep and then I just get an air for melatonin dissolvables on my tongue for 28 bucks. I was like, I know. I was like, okay. (laughing) - Got it. (laughing) - Sorry, your homework for this week is to think about kind of spirit animal you guys would be. What would Tom be? - I don't know. I have no idea. - Would you be like, savanna animal, tropical animal? - Pretty cool, that's big, colorful birds that covered like, two cans. - Two cans. - Tom would be a two can. (laughing) - No. - No. - Or like, no, kangaroo. - Like a boss one? You know, even they stand up and they're ripped to share that with you. - The boss one? - Yeah, the boss one. (laughing) - Every same time. - See, you can go into kangaroo. - Yeah, you can go into a wollip. You can go into a little. - No, it's the ones that are really like, really smiley. - You want to show us what you're talking about? What are they called? - Nah, chute. - Wollip? - Nah. - Don't know. - I'll look at it. - So there's homework. - Homework. - Spirit animals. So that means you probably have to get a high in a tattoo. (laughing) - Logically. (laughing) - I gotta get it. (laughing) - I got there. - Yeah. - Okay. - Chute? - I think, yeah. I mean, your job was to keep me on track. We have gone. - It's right, we're only at 40 something. - Okay, we don't know. I don't know. People still with us. - Chute, chute, chute. - Go on the dark, chute. - Go on the dark, chute. - Go on the dark, chute. - Go on the dark, paint. - Maybe we should, okay, this is the last stupid thing I'll say for the next 15 minutes. (laughing) - Maybe we should get pits, like big barrels of glow in the dark paint and get skin colored underwear on. - Dip ass yellows. (laughing) Dip ass yellows and glow in the dark paint. And you might have had a heavy plaque in the dark. - You definitely make it onto Chris Lynch news. (laughing) - You make it onto a lot of things. (laughing) - You imagine just a hundred dudes running. - Running, glowing in the dark. It really hit me part. I mean, that's a light shot I'd come to see. - I don't know why this is. - That's a light shot I think maybe popped into my head, but speaking of glow in the dark, aren't you thinking of painting the shot for black? - I was, imagine if you did that and then we walked around the shop with glow in the dark and there was just shoe prints all over the floor. - Maybe bot, yep. We put stars on the roof too. - Okay, but that would only work if we just like kept the shop dark all the time, black out shop. - You were like, you don't see it during the day. And then if you have like, I don't know, you could have like two late nights or something. Where it's like, - Late night. - Two hours from seven to, give me one of heat nine or whatever. Six to, six to eight. That'd be cool. - That's where the kids are front where they're doing the late night glow in the dark. (laughing) - That's got brushes in the dark. And look at my shoe print on the door, man. (laughing) Let's get a waist in by shoes. - What is that? - They're like strumming bass. - Black with different colored footprints. That would be kind of cool. - Ah, I mean really whack, but like kind of cool. - Anything glow in the dark, like if we could put stars on the ceiling, get some sleeping bags. (laughing) - Watch the little movie, we can watch. Do you know what I was thinking about the other day was Raul Dahl? Raul Dahl? - I don't know Raul Dahl, yeah. - Watch the giant peach. - James and the giant peach. - James and the giant peach. That is a movie that kids should not be watching. - No, I've watched him get terribly. - It's a giant piece of fruit. - It gave me a lot of anxiety as a kid. I think that's where my anxiety stems from. (laughing) - James and the giant peach. - That's the massive, that's the massive. - Whoa. - Whoa. (laughing) - That's the massive, scary giant at the top of the beanstalk. - Oh yeah. - I never wanted to plant anything in the garden. - There's a company in the US, it's like a vegetable brand and it's canned vegetables, but they have like Jack. - Has they grown them in the cans? Jack and the beanstalk man on the cans. - Oh, that's cool. - It's really creepy. (laughing) - Don't let go. - Don't let go there. - I want two dozen. - You have to be back. - There's no question you're getting an Instagram ad later. - Look. (laughing) - Just get me to send you some- - Costco. - Costco, it's gonna be, yeah, it's all right. - I'll find off this conversation. - Yeah. (laughing) - All right, so do we have some shoes. - Sure, the week. - Sure, the week, the week, the week, the week. - Whoa. (laughing) - Magnified, nitro, two. - Tick, two. - Tick, two. - Yeah, tick, tick. - I don't know. - Yeah, tick. - Great shoe. - Tick, tick. - Great shoe, that's it, finished. - That's what I mean. (laughing) - Great shoe. (laughing) - It's like, I think that's how you just grab it or we just grab it the other day. It's just simple. - Works. So you have a shoe review which we will put up today, which the podcast we'll get at tomorrow's Friday. And the show notes will put the link to the review. Look at in the show notes, yep. I'll put it in the thing. - Oh yeah. - At the start. - Yeah. - And then we may, next week we'll do a YouTube. - Yeah. - All right. - But do you wanna run us through the nuts and bolts and then I'll run us through some of the sides. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So looking at a 10 mil drop. (laughing) - I believe 39, 29, yep. Some other sites say that we have measured it or we kind of measured it, but yeah. So pretty good, pretty good stack. I feel like that's a nice number. - Yup. - Like not too high, but not super low where it might stir up some things. Big, big slab of nitro foam. This time it's probably there. Aside from their mag max, definitely their most cushioned one. - I think I described it in the right up as cushioned rather than bouncy, like in comparison to some of the second issues and other options. It's really, really soft. - Well not soft, but like you run in it and there's a large amount of shock until I feel. - But I feel that you don't sink into it to get the shock absorption, like so the resilience of the foam is high rather than being like super compliant, like a fresh foam or like a paper base foam. - Yeah. And the resilience is probably one of the selling points for the shoe that lasts for it. Like put 800K's in it and it feels like it's brand new still. I think Swales put 1500K to appear here which is insane for a daily trainer. But probably a combination of the awesome Puma group and just the compound they use. - Yup. - Yeah, I mean, the one we have on camera here isn't the knit upper, but yeah, the tech upper. The knit upper I found quite nice. It's always kind of hard to nail in it upper, I feel. - I feel like it was okay. - Yeah. - Like it was good enough. - Yeah. - It fit my foot really nicely. Like having a slightly border foot, I think it was really good because it wasn't loose but wasn't restricting in any way. And then the power tape actually works really well. They have that on this one as well. - Just kind of situated in the right areas, I feel. - It's nothing crazy. It's just firm and piece of material to stop you or slow you down, I guess, for moving too much in that area. - It gives the upper integrity. - Yeah. - At the high pressure and high velocity areas. - Yeah. - Yeah. I think the biggest takeaway is from this is, yeah, it's comfy, super comfortable. It probably works for a larger number of people now. One because it's so splayed in the forefoot. It's not overly splayed, but I feel like there is a lot of shooter standing on in the front, which is nice. And then it is a little bit flatter along the medial side. Cups the heel slightly. So, yeah, I mean, it's a neutral shoe, but I feel pretty stable, wouldn't it? Personally, but, yeah, a fun one. It's unrecognizable compared to the first one, which I don't think we've ever had in this talk. - No. - It was so average. - Yeah. - I think I've been brutally honest, it was average. - Yeah, I think you know it at best. - I think we always talk about simplicity. And last week, last week? - No, when I interviewed the heatsales guy for New Balance, we were, like I was talking to him about, we're kind of in this chemistry, geometry, accessibility. - Yeah. - And what it looks like, what would you call that? - In a big whatever. - It's that XCX, we're kind of in this like four way thing, but it's making sure that the shoe is simple enough that all of those things work. - Yeah. - As an end product. 'Cause I think it's well and good for us to say, I could should have a plate, and it should have like, this XCX on geometry like this, and an app at the heads of a fancy stuff on it. But if the app appeals, the midsole deforms and areas that are loaded too much, and then the grip falls off, it's all well and good to say you've got the best materials in the world, but if it's functionally incorrect for someone to do the task in for the tool, then it's, you know, the same thing we said last week, it's like using a drill as a driver. It doesn't work. So, I mean, it's an awesome grip. The super critical EV, so it's still EVA, but it's created in a high pressure environment with nitrogen rather than just expanded foam. So I imagine a hyperbaric chamber, the puck goes in, heat, and high pressure nitrogen, boom, comes out. And then, yeah, I prefer the teacupa to the stretch. And probably some of my thoughts a little narrower than Tommy's, but I just like help me on a wee bit more. On toe off, I like the shoot of Flex more than most people, just 'cause I'm a little shorter than these guys, and so just try and keep up, or my stride length is a little bit longer, but how tall I am, I like to have to use my whole foot. So it's like, I hate the super blast. Like jogging in there, I just hate it, 'cause it doesn't be in. It's okay when I'm running really fast, 'cause then you kind of get there, like. - Yeah, the extra bounce. - The extra bounce. - So, and the first thing, or the accessibility thing, is accessibility sport, a really good price. - Yeah. - At 240 bucks. - Yeah. - So. - It's really good racing. - Yeah. I think Permin, now people got to boom, running shoes, and I'm like, yeah, they're back. - Yeah, they do, now. - I'm gonna race, I think I'm probably gonna race Auckland in a period of their racing flats. - Yeah. - And I wouldn't have said that to a number of years ago. So, that's pretty cool. I think it's good. - Yeah. - Three F's, fit, feel, function? - Yep, you go for it. - Do you wanna do it in one each? - Fit, feel, function? - Yep. - Fit. - If it's a little long, but not long enough to go down half a size. - Yes. - Yep. - With it's okay, like you said, wider in the, wider in the net. - Yeah. - A little less volume in the tech. - Yeah. - Yep. - I feel like it is kind of a more spacious shoe than your stock standard. - Yep. - With, like it kind of fits, like, yeah. I wouldn't say toy, but if it's just something between, yeah, like a normal and a toy. - Just like my university grades. - Yeah. - I'd easily agree. (laughing) - I signed up. I signed up. - Yeah. - I signed up. - I signed up. - How's that really? - I got a sign in for that in forms. - Yeah. - Uh, I feel pillows. Responsive pillows. - Responsive pillows, yeah. Not so much, like, it's not like memory foam when you sink into it and you don't get anything back. - Yep. - But you get that initial, like, yes, it's cushion, but it's still giving you something back. - What's that? - And then function. I sit on the right up there because it's so durable and because of the permit grip, you can get away with this on the trails. And I'm even going to the extent where this can go to gnarly trails as well. Like, I've-- - I'll be running the-- - Yeah, create a room. (laughing) I, yeah, I mean, all this when I was over in Andor, and Tana Hayden can attest to this, the trails over there are gnarly. Like, they had seriously outback trails. - Yep. - Rocks, rock gardens. Just do it, hills, everything. Shists running on, and it held up great. Didn't feel like I was going to fall over it at all. - Yeah. - No slippage. It's even a word. - I don't know, slippage. - But yeah, it handles it really well. So, like, run Christchurch. - It's pretty good. - Easily tackled support hills. - Mm. - Yeah. So, function. - It's refreshing to see a shoe with some axle on it. - Yeah, it's just refreshing to see a brain that's not afraid to make a shoe that lasts. - Yeah, it's like the shoe's good enough. Okay, we're going to come back to another one in a year's time. So, okay, cool. - Yeah, this is the shoe that if you want, want free. - Yeah. - You go for this one. Yeah. Turbily is insane. But yeah, if you want to dig deep dive into it, look at the review on the website. - That's great. - But yeah. - Class shoe from Puma. The, and the next one looks like it, even. - Better update, so. - Yeah, so we are going to see. - What's that coming in? - Oh, I am going to see. - Three, five, June or June or something. - Yeah. So, I'm going to see that product on the 12th and 30th November. - Yeah. - I go to Auckland. I'm going to see Essex and Adidas with Sammy on Tuesday. And then I'm going to see Sockney Huggett and Puma on the Wednesday out there. - Nice. - So, we'll see all that product for the back half. - Cool. - 2025. - Yeah. - That's exciting stuff coming. - Run club. - Run club. - Oh, wait, what's we got? - I genuinely, nearly forgot this is why I am giving you a job. - Cool. - Yeah. - That's cool. - Because he actually wrote it down. So, run club, well, run club the week this has been. So, Tuesday, I was also in a minute. He'll repeat up, Rha Paki, which is every third week. We met at Hanson's. And then, the guys did a little fireman at Tempo. Then, we dropped across to the hill as Tempo on the flat around Hanson's. Then, we dropped across to the hill and did two, three, four, three, two, up the hill with 90 seconds recovery between each one. So, it's like 19 minutes where the hill rips. And, you know what, I loved it. Type two phone. - Type two phone? - Type two phone, yeah. I was looking at you for validation on that comment. - Yeah, after my comment last week about dictation, let's make sure I give my words right. And so, next week. - Big run club. - So. - Big. - Big. (laughing) With like, almost like the cat stood on the eye and you didn't notice, and then put a G there. It was like me. (laughing) - Yeah. - So, that is the 15th of October. - And then, your calendars? - Putting your calendars. We have Camille French, formerly Buzz Con, which got married. - Yeah. - She is a two-time Olympian over two different distances. - Yeah. - So, 5K and the marathon. Is that right? Or 10K and the marathon? - 10K and the marathon? - Yeah, actually, I don't know. I think it was five. - It was a five year. - Five K and the marathon. She ran under 15 minutes for five K, which is a ladies rapid out of the gate. She ran the marathon this year at Paris Olympics. She's a new mom, well, not totally new, but she's a mom. And she's like, it's amazing to see someone that has all of that fullness in her life still able to do those things and show her kid and her family and ask that you can go and do those things that you want to do in your life and still be able to compete at a level relative to your potential. - Yeah, super important. - So, she is going to be with us next week thanks to New Balance. And New Balance, I can't tell you how much this spent, but it's substantial. - Oh, a lot. - Listen to me out. So, they have, they're going to fly down, put her up, have her here. Cat and I will record a podcast with her. And then from 4PM, she'll be available on the shop floor to if there's like kids who want to come down after school, who want to be there, get something signed. She's just going to hang out, she's going to be here, ask some questions, and then from about 5PM, our run club guys will start arriving. - Yes. - And then she'll be available for some photos or just yarning and chatting to the adults. And then at 6 o'clock, we'll do a quick little quick Q&A with her, and then we'll head out for a 35 minute run. And then in part chicken? - Yeah. - In part chicken, it's got what I believe to be about $2,500 worth of food chicken. - Oh, me. - Oh, thank you. - Yeah. - So, he's going to be here with us caravan. - Wow. - We're going to have a new Balance 10 set up. There's going to be demo shoes of the 1080 and the Red Bull V4. - So, yes. - The 1080 version 4D much launches today. And then, yeah, Red Bull V4 will show up a little while. We have a couple of pairs of 1080s to give away, and then a entry to either Queenstown or Auckland Marathon, which we will draw. - Nice. - Awesome. - Wow, Christmas. - Yeah. - Bit Tuesday. - Bit Tuesday. - Bit Tuesday. Macca will be here to film some content. He balanced playing for that, so we'll be able to have content. And yeah, I'm really excited about this. - You balanced branded all my days as well. - Oh, you balanced branded all my days, yeah. I'm going to figure out. - It looks silly hands, baby silk hands. - So, and then Tommy and I are working on Spring Grind. So, we will update you on that, which is going to be a self-selected challenge for the month of November. First time we've done it. Kind of, we sign up for you, get a Spring Grind T-shirt, metal, certificate, closed Facebook group, which Tom and I will check train tips and ask questions in. - Yeah. - The end of it, we will have an open to everyone. Unsanctioned cityscape orienteering style race. - Oh, those are cool. - And a party. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I miss these to have those in Auckland. - Yeah. - They were sick. - Throw it down, start of summer. - Yeah. - Nice. - And a lot of that is just, we understand people will not even want to go racing. - Yeah. - People need some motivation. November, I find it's the hardest because you're like, oh, Christmas is coming. - Busy. - I don't really have anything to train for. And so I've just done city things like make the levels different kinds of dentistry. - November is too. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So I'm pretty pumped for that. - Yeah. - There you go. Anything to air. - Go women sports. - 100%. - 100%. - 100%. - Women's football. - Next level. - And rugby is savage. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I agree. - Also the female trail runner is kicking ass. - Yeah. I mean, some of our best trail runners in New Zealand. - Uh, breath craft. - Uh, Caitlin's fielder. - Mm-hmm. - Nancy J. - Mm-hmm. - Nancy's nice lady. - Yeah. - Pretty cool. - Uh, actually, shout out to Ned Brockman. Oh, the brother that Nettles is, is he 900K in now? - Uh, 500 mile, oh, he'll be just over 500 miles down. - Isn't he? - He was, it Nett is, Nett, Nett just freed. - Nett, Nett, Nett, Nett just freed. - Yeah, but he came for whom to run, right? - Oh yeah. - Um, and he's running a 400 miles, oh, he's running for Australia. - He's done 50 marathons in 50 days. He's been now trying to make a world record for the fastest time to run a hundred miles. - A thousand miles. - Yeah. - A thousand miles. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So 160K a day, for 10 days. And he's doing around a track, a running track. - No. - He's, yeah. It's quite cool following the story, he's, he's crazy, but he's doing it all for homelessness. - Yeah, I believe. - Yeah. And he's killing it. So if you're in Sydney, I think it's Sydney. - Yeah. - Yeah, get down and support them out. He's over halfway, which is pretty cool to see and it looks like he's on track. I don't know, he's probably got like 10 or 12 stress racers in the shadows. You know what I'm doing? - Yeah, he's gone. And that's the point he's got more tape than skin. - Yeah. - Yeah. - That's pretty good, eh? - Oh, yeah. - That's pretty common to say that. - My chin's hurt. - Hopefully. - We'll rip off. - Do you want a prop? - Why are they going to do the work? - Why are you shooting a prop? - It's very provocative. - It's provocative. - You got anything to add to her? - Ah, that was, that was my little two cents there. - Nice. - Okay. - Yeah. - Thank you. - Thanks for listening and see you next week, itchy veggies. Bye. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
