Hey what's up triathletes, Taren here.
That one and that one.
Stick around because today we are changing the entire YouTube triathlon channel up.
You're going to want to know why.
If you've been a fan of triathlon Taren, A, thank you very much, and B, you may have heard
over the last couple of months that I've been thinking about rolling out a bit of a vlog
style.
A bit of a triathlon training day in the life of triathlon Taren.
In talking to a lot of you over the last little while, I've found out that i think we've got
a really good formula.
Today, as in tomorrow, February 1st, 2017, because today is last day in January.
In vlog terms I got to start thinking a day forward.
Always going to be living in the future.
I want to announce what's happening.
That's right.
February 1st, 2017 is going to be the very first Triathlon Taren daily vlog.
We're not saying goodbye to this set up, we're just saying that things are going to change
a little bit.
I'm going to tell you why.
Let's go over here, get a little bit more intimate with things.
There we go.
Crispy as ... Okay, so yeah.
We are turning Triathlon Taren into a daily vlog.
Now a lot of the feedback that I got early on was, "No, we still want triathlon tips."
I'm here to assure you that you're still going to get triathlon tips, and if anything you're
going to get more.
That's the idea with going daily here.
What I was finding is that the brick background, as beautiful a brick background as it is,
it was kind of impersonal and I wasn't able to give tips on things that just kind of came
up in the comment section, or questions that I would get on Instagram.
I would only be able to do videos on things that were like big, long five, ten tip productions.
I couldn't just kind of talk about the day to day triathlon-ism's, and because I was
only doing two videos a week I couldn't put out the amount of volume that everyone was
asking for.
There were so many questions that I couldn't get to them.
What's it's going to be is every single day you'll follow me through my triathlon training.
You'll be in the workout, and we're going to tell you what that workout is so that if
you don't have a coach, you get a workout that day and you can follow along and do the
workout with me.
You get a training plan.
Later on in the vlog each day, I'll walk through why that workout was the way it was so that
you're also getting tips.
Then as things pop up, injuries, new workout methods, things that I learn, in some cases
special guests.
I'm starting to get requests from companies asking me to do tours of their factory, interviews
with pro-triathletes that have been reaching out to me, all of this can come later in the
vlog.
Every single day you're going to be able to get a little tid bit of training, a workout
that you can do, and a little bit of a triathlon tip, something about the triathlon lifestyle.
There's still going to be unboxings, there's going to be reviews, there's going to be interviews,
there's going to be tips, there's going to be all kinds of good triathlon stuff, not
just following me around watching me eat salad and drink coffee.
Okay, so for today we're going to do an unboxing, because I got a new set of shoes.
Hang on, hang on.
Yep, yep, yep.
They're two big boxes that just came, and I think I know what's in them.
Actually I can guarantee I know what's in them.
I don't know what color though.
We have here the sketchers performance, Los Angeles mara- no.
Title sponsor of the Los Angeles marathon.
Okay, which one are these?
In here, I believe also from Sketchers, more Sketchers.
More Sketchers.
Now that's spicy.
What we've got here, this is the GOmeb.
This is more of like a racing flat, super light.
The GoRun 5.
That looks like kind of in between a racing flat and a big built up trainer.
This is the GOmeb Razor.
I really like the colors of that one and that one.
I think we're going to go give this one a try right now, TempoRun.
Let's do it.
That's how good your parking spot is when you ride your bike to work in Winnipeg and
look like this in the Winter.
We got some mail from Sketchers.
Taren, Hi.
Hi.
So great that we have connected with you and thank you for the opportunity to share our
performance shoes with you.
I hope you love them and they help you run super fast.
I'm about to, Sketchers.
Another pair are on their way.
Already got them.
Just thought to send these first, enjoy.
Kaitlin.
I will.
If you're from Canada, check out Sketchers performance Canada on Instagram, at Sketchers
Performance Canada.
Twitter is @SketchersPerfCan.
You know you're perf, Can.
All right, run time.
All right, run over.
Two things that I need to know.
Number one, these are officially called the Sketchers Gomeb speed two.
This is their most aggressive racing flat.
First impressions, sizing is bang on.
They're really stiff when I'm just walking, but they're made to go fast.
These things are nice, light, and one you start moving ... I was a big fan.
Second thing, that workout was a tempo workout in the middle of the week.
While we get shorter workouts in, we do speed work.
What we did there was two miles at whatever warmup pace is, and then three times one mile
at tempo pace, with a two minute rest in between those.
Tempo pace is like a little bit slower than 10K race pace, and in my case I'm training
for a half iron man.
That's like right in between 10K race pace, half iron man, half marathon kind of pace.
During the middle of the week while these runs are shorter, we do them a little bit
faster.
Keep the legs quick.
They're fast.
I'm going to end vlog number one like that today.
See ya.