I didn't change my shirt! You know I did it on the same day.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah, now you know I pretty much drill all these out in one day.
Take that, Rooster Teeth. I just made like 20 videos in a day.
That's what obsession is. Anyway, so since this is a running vlog
and we have the marathon in our minds
and that is where we're going, that is our goal, that is what we want to do,
it is not outside of the realm of reasonability to do a marathon.
I'm not doing it. That's not me. I'm not ready to do that yet.
My legs would fall off, but Adam's going to do it.
Adam is running the Flying Pig Marathon, so let's check in with him for a bit.
Hey, I'm about to run the pig.
Approximately one hour, it starts.
Okay, so while Adam is running that marathon,
I'm sure he's very sweaty right now,
I'm going to tell you a little bit about the marathon that he's actually running.
He's running the Flying Pig Marathon.
It is set in Cincinnati. This is where Adam lives.
And it seems to be a pretty big event.
So why Flying Pig? I didn't know the answer to this question.
I'm finding out right now as I'm talking to you all.
Why a pig indeed? And I thought, I personally thought, you know, Flying Pig.
It's like, I'll run a marathon when pigs can fly.
Good joke. I bet that's probably not it though.
In the 1800s, when riverboats plied? Plied? What does that mean? Anyway.
In the 1800s, when riverboats plied the Ohio River,
Cincinnati was the center of western commerce. I did not know this.
There are a lot of typos. Alright, it looks like a lot of pigs went to go die in Cincinnati.
And so it was called Porculopolis. That's cool.
Alright, fast forward to 1988. Hey, I was born that year. I'm important.
When Cincinnati celebrated, it's Bicentennial.
Alright, Cincinnati is a good 200, hard 200 years older than me.
To mark the occasion, the city decided to renovate its riverfront to include a Bicentennial Commons park.
Noted designer, Andrew Lykester. Lykester. Lykester. Nope. Nope. Lykester?
Sure, I'm sure he's notable.
Okay, it looks like this guy designed the commons area, and he did it to reflect the city's past.
So it looks like he designed the entrance to the Bicentennial Commons to be four smokestacks
for the city's riverboat heritage, with four flying pigs on top, reflecting, according to the designer,
the spirit of the pigs who gave their lives so the city could grow.
That's an awful way to put that. It sounds like they died in a war.
They turned into bacon.
So it looks like the council members did not like this, and they even wore pig noses to the debate
on whether the swine symbols would make the whole city a laughingstock.
This is getting weird, but the project was approved.
The pigs became the signature sculpture of the new Cincinnati Riverfront,
and apparently they're still there today, and therefore we've got the flying pig marathon.
Well, it took me about the length of a marathon to spit that out, so let's see how my friend Adam is doing.
Adam?
Wow, I did it. I did it. So tired.
You're not right there, man. You're scaring me. Is that going to be me?
You did it. You're awesome. My quads are killing me right now.
Anytime I try to bend down, it has to be very slow. I think they want to rip in half.
I knew they'd be stressed, but wow. First time.
I am now a flying pig marathon finisher.
Oint for life.
I finished, I believe. I know across the finish line is at 352,
and I was maybe eight minutes or six minutes behind the official clock for start time.
I did walk parts of the last three miles.
Hopefully in the future, I can actually run the entire 26.2 miles,
but I finished, and boy, my legs are tired.
So thanks, Adam. That was really cool.
It's a terrifying glimpse into what my life is going to become in October,
so hopefully I can make it. Great for me. Bye, guys.
