Woohoo. Welcome to the SummerK AllPlay Podcast. We are so happy with you today. Happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday. And we're firing up our best kitchen knives on this Tuesday. Oh, yeah, kitchen knives. I was getting well acquainted with the knife last week. You really were. Actually, not too well acquainted, which was my fear. You were cutting towards your body. Okay, I did cut my finger a little bit. It's unsurprising.

It was worth it.

And so this was all about science.

So we've talked about my issue with trail shoes in the past.

And the Adidas Agravick Speed Ultra 2 came out and it gained so much weight.

So I really got methodical with this test.

So the ASU won, the shoe that I wore for Leadville and all of my other races was 9.38 ounces in my size. The ASU 2 is 10.2 ounces in my size. And so I thought, well, if weight is the disqualifying factor here, you know what we have to do? Shut off some that weight. And you were doing it by cutting off the lugs with a steak knife.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, obviously there's better ways to do this. You could use a belt sander, but do I seem like the type of guy that has a belt sander at home? You did order a sander for $5 on Amazon, and it was terrible. Yeah, just a little, kind of like a nail file. And you were like nail filing the logs and the shoes.

It didn't work.

That's not going to work.

It's going to take a long time. So were like nail filing the logs and the shoes.

It didn't work.

That's not going to work. It's going to take a long time. So I took this knife and just chopped off some of the unnecessary logs. Not the whole thing, just part of them. But in the process, it wasn't very precise. Dude, you were cutting towards your body. That is like steak knife 101. Not the whole time. just a little bit of cutting from the body. I walked into the kitchen.

You are literally just salling directly toward. That is like steak knife 101. Not the whole time. Just a little bit of cutting from the body.

I walked into the kitchen.

You are literally just sawling directly towards your chest. While sawing off some of the shoe weight, maybe I can saw off some of my finger weight. Okay. So in this process, though, I documented it all of these. I thought I had achieved Nirvana. And sure enough, I got this shoe from 10.2 ounces to 9.6 ounces and still had plenty of lugs.

And then I took it out onto Green Mountain in Boulder and had a transcendently good run.

You were giddy heading into it.

I think you're thinking about all the video content that I took.

And you're like, my Instagram is going to be popping.

It's going to be great.

Even more than that. I'm like, I am changing the game. Everyone out there. It's like if you drop that much weight from you, it's like 6% of the shoes weight, you're going to be improving running economy across the board. I'm going to be changed the game. If Adidas can't do it for us, if these other companies can't, I'm going to be the one that changes everything. Were you considering just like hacking off the shoelaces, just taking like some of them off. Oh, well, I also did that.

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