- [Taren] Is this what normal people do?
I think that's what I did last week.
This is what great friendships are made of.
Morning, Grace!
Morning, Trainiacs.
Despite yesterday, telling you that this weekend was going
to be a complete rest weekend, I still am going
to go train a little bit.
Just a little.
The air in my tires is actually increasing in pressure
because I filled it up when it was colder,
and then as it gets warmer it goes.
Trippy, eh?
So when I talk about recovery and rest,
I often tell you all that a complete
rest day off is not always necessary.
That it's only necessary occasionally.
Tomorrow and Monday are gonna be complete rest days,
but my buddy Scott, he is all about like
really really slow,
easy rides right now.
I figured, what the hell?
We'll go out for a really really easy ride
and call it active recovery today.
(upbeat music)
Now, you see, the trick to all that is that
you've actually got to go out and do an easy ride.
It's really really easy and quick to see everyone else
pushing and working hard and saying, you know what?
I can do that.
That's way more fun than just
sitting back here toodling around.
And burying yourself into a bigger hole than you already are
because you're not actually resting and you're working.
I think that's what I did last week.
But, Scott is a very good man for holding back egos
because he will literally grab you by the shoulder and say,
"Easy, fella."
Funny story, actually about this red jersey
that I got underneath.
That jersey is actually from an event
where I met coach Pat.
I'll tell the coach Pat meet-up story
when I get back later today.
For now,
easy
bike ride.
(upbeat music)
Almost feel sad for the people that live here.
How poor they must be.
Look who got here first, that's been a rarity lately.
- [Man] How you doin?
- Okay so, easy.
You're into easy.
It's on camera so you better hold yourself to that.
Wow, 50 meters later and I got a soft flat.
Considering the test results that came back yesterday
that said, "Dude you gotta rest a little bit,"
I'm gonna take this as a message from the world
that I need to rest a little bit.
We're gonna get myself just enough air to get home.
I'll call that my workout for the day.
Well that sucks.
Sometimes you just gotta listen
to what the world gives you.
I get it world, I get it.
I got your hand, point taken.
So, the history of how I met coach Pat.
It's kinda like, he basically just inherited me as a friend.
I don't think he ever chose me.
I just got handed off and I kept showing up.
So he really had no choice.
So the third guy that's doing the swim with Pat and I,
his name is Jacques Marcoot.
Jacques was friends with me through university,
and Pat through triathlon.
A few years later Jacques and I signed up
for a charity bike ride.
This one here.
I think it was a 100, not quite a century,
but it was a 140, 150 K.
And that morning of the race, Jacques and I woke up,
and the race was coming from a town way out west
of the city, all the way into the city,
and the wind was straight east into us.
Jacques calls me, and he says,
"I think we need reinforcements for this."
At 5:30 in the morning, he calls Pat,
who I was not friends with at the time,
and Jacques says "Hey, I got a charity ride that's
"going on in about an hour and a half.
"You wanna ride a century with me?"
And Pat goes, "Well, I mean I was gonna ride 120 K,
"but yeah, yeah, I'm in, okay."
He leads the entire ride from the front,
into the wind, like the whole thing!
Not even a little bit of a break.
Here, look at this.
This is a picture.
There's Pat, there's Jacques, there's chubby Taren.
And that was the very first workout, effort,
bike ride, run, swim, anything that I had done with Pat.
And then, four years ago,
when we did the long swim together.
27 kilometers in like 20.
I've talked about it about 24 times.
If you're here for the first time, now you know
that we did a marathon swim.
Pat and I are doing another one five weeks from now.
There you go, now you're caught up.
That suffering that we went through over the course
of eight hours that day four years ago
was a pretty serious bonding experience.
And since then, thick as thieves,
and here we are doing something ridiculous
again in the river.
And he coaches me and makes me hurt.
Sometimes I have tears coming out of bike rides
that I go on with him.
And he runs so fast that his easy pace
is my threshold, blinding pace.
And he swims away from me and leaves me to drown.
This is what great friendships are made of.
- [Kim] Come on, guys.
- Seeing as how not running or biking
or swimming around the world today,
I think I could go for awesome breakfast Falafel.
Is this what normal people do on the weekend mornings?
- They do.
- Oh.
(upbeat music)
Good morning!
- [Man] Hi guys.
Make a move.
- [Taren] There we go.
- [Kim] Thank you.
- Exactly. Just black.
So this is a Falafel place.
They have awesome vegan, vegetarian, gluten free falafels,
breakfast, toast, everything.
(upbeat music)
(laughter)
Yeah.
- Yeah.
- That was how I met Patt.
- I have that picture of the first day you met Pat.
- I showed them the picture of meeting Pat.
That was the first time I had ever done anything with Pat.
- Little did you know.
- Had Pat acknowledge me in public
with other people around.
- Patt's uhh...
- He's the quiet cool.
- He is very quiet cool.
- Yeah.
- And little did you know, he'd become such a good friend.
- We soap up together in the shower.
He doesn't whip me in the shower,
but we soap up together in the shower.
- That wasn't what I was implying.
I meant whip you, overall.
In a life sense.
- Everywhere but the shower is where he whips me.
Yeah.
- I hope Pat's wife watches this, she'll snicker.
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I'm not gonna talk a whole lot about him today,
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Tomorrow I'll give you the entire once through,
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We start with three.
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I wanna give everyone a discount who comes in early
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For the next month, there will be
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And if you enter that you'll get 20% off
and all the updates that come out as we make it better
and you give us feedback on what you want and what
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The plans also don't expire if you know you gotta race
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And I (claps) think that that
is a fantastic place to end the vlog.
Tomorrow, I'll do like some whole screen cap
walking through the whole thing.
Explaining all the little bits and pieces about
what we set up and why we set it up the way we set it up.
I'm excited.
I'm very excited.
Later, trainiacs.
I'll see you tomorrow.