We are saying goodbye to the airstream this afternoon, hoping she won't freeze, and we're
headed to New York City for the New York City Marathon.
We're in New York!
Proper Pizza.
We brought the airstream to New Jersey and we've parked her in this gorgeous spot about
an hour outside of the city. It's definitely getting chilly and we're kind of testing our
winter camping lot with leaving her here. But water's off. Hopefully it'll be fine.
That is all of our stuff.
Oh no, no, no, no. This is mine. That is all of Daniel's stuff.
But I maybe a little obsessed with running. So I may have over prepared but I would like
to call it "adequately prepared" because we don't know what to expect.
Here we go.
We are approximately 48 hours away from the start of the New York City Marathon and therefore
introductions are important. Meet Miss Tina, one of my very best friends from Nashville,
and she's crazy enough to run this thing with us.
We're in New York!
It's amazing. You trained so long and now we're going to the expo. It's making it real.
It's here.
The marathon weekend is here!
We get to go play the expo and maybe buy stuff we may or may not need. You just never know
what's going to happen with the expos.
You always buy stuff at the expo you don't need.
You always end up walking out with something.
Everybody knows New York city is known for their pizza. This does not look like a traditional
slice of New York City pizza, but it is specialty and it looks yummy.
So good.
I was born in New York. So even though this looks like some kind of Chicago style pizza,
yeah you still got to fold it. On a quest to find some of the best pizza in New York.
We're going to eat our way through the city until we find it. This is a good start.
How excited are you?
So excited. So excited. I'm ready, let's go!
Who's going to be the best?
I might need a mask. We're not going in here.
Okay, that was pretty funny.
Maybe this door that's opening?
Hello.
How are you?
I'm well, how are you?
Very good now. You ready?
Oh, so ready.
Okay. You're going to enjoy, okay?
Thank you.
Okay, we're inside the expo and I'm about to go pick up my bib. Super excited.
Okay, so we've had some fancy pizza. Now we're over to Ray's Pizza for the kind you can fold
like a proper pizza.
Cheers. It's going to be so good.
G O O D M O R N I N G, good morning! Hey, hey, good morning!
No, right?
Let's go run!
Too much. It is 7:00. What, is it 7:30?
It's 7:30 in the am.
It's 7:30 AM.
Oh, crazy.
And we are going to go for a shakeout run with the American Cancer Society team. That's
all I got. Yeah. This is pre coffee so-
I don't need coffee.
Doesn't need coffee. Needs coffee. Needs coffee. Coffee me. Okay, here we go.
Coffee cheers!
Coffee cheers.
We are at Columbus Circle.
Columbus Circle.
All right. Good morning, everybody. So awesome to see all of you.
Wedding photos! Congratulations! You can do it!
We love hills! We love hills!
You better. You better love hills.
We're going to The Hope Lodge! Can you tell we're excited?
Welcome to Hope Lodge. This is where all the magic happens for ACS in New York City.
So our new friend Ben, Ben say hi.
Hello.
Gave us a tip for where we need to do breakfast this morning. It's called Mom's and we're
pretty excited about it.
So how are you feeling about the race?
Totally pumped. I've so got this. Trained my butt off for this thing. So it's going
to be awesome.
Tina, how are you feeling about the race?
I'm ready. I'm ready.
Think you're going to crush it? You're going to crush it?
100%. No doubt. Little down. Just a little bit.
Actually, I probably am feeling overconfident. So we'll see how that goes.
Because this is marathon number?
Marathon #10!
That, my friend, is another level of crazy. Hello apple pie pancakes, and Mac and Cheese
pancakes, and a pancake burrito. Obviously we're taking our carb loading very seriously.
I'm pretty sure I win. This is ice cream on top of my pancakes, ice cream.
One of the things you get to do is you get to drop off a bag that they will bring to
the finish line for you. So important things to include here are a set of clean clothes,
flip flops, because the first thing you're going to want to get to do is take your shoes
off, and some warm stuff. Because we're going to be having serious body temperature control
problems at the end of this. Should be fun!
Dropped off the bag.
It's almost Game Time. In less than 24 hours.
Something very cool is happening next. Can't wait to share. All right. This has been a
project that has been approximately six months in the making. Turning this amazing mane into
something spectacular.
What else have you been working on that is disgusting?
I wouldn't say disgusting, but I would say that I've been growing out this amazing beard
that is going to be trimmed in a very special way.
Olga. Hi. So. Right. Do you get a lot of requests for mullets? Going with some inspiration here
from the good old Googles. Mr. Craig Engles here rocking the amazing 'do. Oh thank you,
sir.
Here look at me. I love that you still have half of your face.
I know. Before and after. All right so.
Hopefully at this point, I've kind of gotten over the fact that he has a mullet. It's just
like facts of life, but the mustache? There's just no way.
Except for amazingness. That is the only, what else comes to mind? It's fantastic. Yeah.
See Olga agrees. This is like amazingness here. It's officially awesome, that's what
it is.
What is it official?
It is official that I am rocking the M & M: mullet and mustache. I think I'm ready for
the race. It's going to make me go a lot faster now. Yeah. This has been like a six month
long project to get to this point of pure awesomeness. All right. I think Lauren loves
it. You can tell by the expression on her face that she's a huge fan of the M & M.
I'm not going to lie. The first time I saw the mustache fully formed. I think I threw
up in my mouth.
What? Listen, honestly. So Olga just cut my hair over at Spiff 54, and she was amazing.
I showed her a photo and she-
She matched the picture.
She brought it to life. She brought the dream to life and-
It's something.
I'm fairly certain when I walked in there and I asked for a mullet, they were probably
like WTF, what is this dude-
Yeah she was like, "No, we don't get mullets very often."
Yeah. So what I did was I chose the bougiest place I could find for a haircut, because
why wouldn't you go to the bougiest place ever?
For a haircut like this?
Or you could sip on some espressos and get a mullet cut. And that's what we did. So amazing.
I have to live with him looking like this for at least the next 48 hours. That's all
I've committed to. So it's the night before the marathon.
Yes. There's lots of preparations that need to take place.
What are the most important things, Daniel?
The most important thing is that we've got a carb load that we need to do before bed.
So I've got some carbohydrate powder here I'm going to mix with some water. This is
before we go to bed and then when we get up, we've got another one of these and then we've
got gels, the race.
So all the pizza and pasta and everything else you eaten, that wasn't good enough for
carb load?
That is how most people carb load. We've done some of that. To ensure that our carbohydrate
load was effective, we doubled down. So we did the traditional like elite version that
elite athletes would do to carb load. And then we did New York City pizza. I think we
went twice at this point. We've done pasta two or three times. What else have we eaten?
What else have not eaten? Oh pancakes! Macaroni and cheese pancakes, donuts, also twice. Oh
and sugar cookies. Don't recommend it, but they were pretty awesome.
Okay I can't even believe this is real right now, but Daniel's hair model just re shared
our Insta story and it's pretty epic.
And just for clarification, not hair model. Super badass runner. What up Craig? That is
amazing. Now he may be like super fast in the mile and probably beat me in any other
distance, but if it came down to a beer chugging contest, boom, your winner's right here. I'm
just saying.
So one of the really fun things that we have for you to experience in video two, where
we actually run our marathon and then we share some really exciting news, we've raised almost
$10,000 as of today for the-
Update, blam! We just hit $10,000 literally right now.
Okay scratch that. We have hit $10,000 that we've raised for the American Cancer Society.
And for our top 26 donors, we are going to be giving them shout outs on our next video.
And so Miss Tina is writing what they are going to have us say, but Daniel and I haven't
seen it yet. And there have been tears and a lot of laughter while she's been writing
them. So we're excited to see them tomorrow.
So I'm going to walk you through my running kit.
I still can't look at you with that hair.
Clearly, some all American shorts is a must. It's a little cold out. So definitely wearing
as little as possible makes sense. So I've got my little New York City singlet here.
It's pretty sweet, huh? It's got the Statue of Liberty up there. This is like my All American
gear right here. Blam, right there, XL. I'm going to wear this to the starting line to
stay warm because it's going to be a little chilly, especially if you're from Florida.
What we do with these is when we start the race, as soon as we get warm, we take them
off and we give them to people. Or we just throw them down on the ground, and what they
do at the race is they collect all the clothing that people wear to the starting line and
they donate them, which is very, very cool.
Got my GoPro. I'm going to give you some first person cam action tomorrow. Boop, On my noggin.
I'm going to be wearing this up here. And maybe down here, I don't really know how that's
going to go, but I'm going to be carrying this for 26 miles to bring y'all along for
the action. And check out that sweet bib. Normally I would be running in wave number
one, numero uno, but I'm going to be running with my gal Lauren and Tina tomorrow in wave
cinco, five.
AKA, the very middle.
AKA where the party's at. If you're a runner, you know what I'm talking about. The party's
in the back, just like here. Aw man, that was clutch.
It's getting close to 10:30. It's really important that we get to bed and get some really, really
good rest before this race. So make sure if you haven't already subscribed, you know you
want to see the next video where we actually run this darn thing. Click that subscribe
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week, because it is going to be worth the wait. But until next week, make sure you wander
local. As you know, it's good for the soul.