I raced a half marathon

last year I downloaded this app called straa because I have some friends that run and use it and post their workouts on there it's basically like a fitness social media I set this as my profile picture because I think I look really strong in it and I think it's just a funny picture and then my runs and workouts just started getting posted there little did I know people started finding my account and before long there was an entire conspiracy theory that my account wasn't actually me over the course of the past year this conspiracy has

been built up by one man Jude on every other post he comments something like fake account and then when someone tells him to calm down he responds with it's fake there's another actual real one and he's right there is another straa account that I made like 10 years ago and I don't know how to log into it so he's got a basis for his argument but it's it's not that strong and sometimes when I would do a workout I would post a picture of Spock or something to prove that it's really me and so many

people will comment to things like Spock Spock is a legend Spock is a real one but not Jude Jude says guys this is a fake account but it's kind of funny seeing y'all be a bot and when someone asks if he's being serious he says so the photos are from frames and posts on YouTube if you go back to his first post with a photo I asked and he said he found the photos online not going to lie it's been kind of fun to troll Jude for example I found this old photo of me running

on Google and said that I had a friend take it during the run I realized this is getting out of hand whenever Jude was still commenting things months later he actually doesn't run he has an old account from his days at track I literally asked the Ryan Tran of this account he said it was fake and I yeah I I did say that I don't know why I said that to him I don't know and now people I even know in real life are saying things like pick is AI which is crazy because I ran

with him that day the bottom line is this video right here is going to prove once and for all that I am the real Ryan tryan on straa [Music] my plan is simple I'm going to sign up for a half marathon using my legal ID that way when I finish my half marathon my name will be on the official results when that run gets uploaded to straa with the exact same time Jude will have to take back everything he has ever said up to this date this is also the only distance that I haven't really

ran before so this could be the half marathon time that I tell my kids one day that being said this video has a lot of stakes let's go I knew I wanted to train for a race of some sort just because I'm pretty competitive I like to do races and things like that and so I've been training pretty hard for the past few months I've been running 30 40 50 miles per week I've had some lower weeks here and there but that's because whenever I'm traveling for filming videos kind of tough to get out there

and get the miles in you know no but I'd say the past few months I've probably achieved some of my best fitness of my adult life which is really fun I've been doing long runs of like 16 miles on the weekend and I'm just really excited to see what I'm capable of I think the Half Marathon distance I don't really know what I can do I ran a 236 marathon when I was 19 and I was much more fit as a runner so being able to run 118 would be like a dream come true basically

that exact same pace and that is 6 minutes per mile so it's not going to be it's not going to be easy by any stretch of the imagination but I do think there's one thing that can make me feel a little more confident uh-oh Target What could possibly be going in a target for [Music] I we love joy ride I did not pay them to say that well well well would you look what we have here had to do a joy ride run before the race if you've been keeping up with my journey building Joy

Ride you know that we are trying to become the number one selling candy in Target without using any fake colors or junk ingredients pretty tall task I know well as of today we are officially a top three selling candy in Target [Music] it's actually insane I actually can't process that really it's all thanks to you guys believing in the mission as you can see we still only have four facings on the shelf and the candy brands that are above us have way more but Target did give us these basket displays which give us a way

better chance at passing them here it is can you believe that look at this this basket is just packed with Joy Ride targets all over the country have baskets like this so be sure to go to your local Target see if you got it it's lucky if if you have it so so for the next month or two if we become the number two selling candy in Target I am going to drop a brand new candy that we have been working on for such a long time I actually think this candy is going to change

the world I really do I know I'm gassing up Joy r a lot here but this is this is a big deal so join the climb let's finish this race together and make Joy Ride the number one candy in Target [Applause] [Music] good morning it's race day feeling a little nervous uh for multiple reasons really I have more than one reason to feel nervous actually this might be the only reason it's super cold outside it is literally 30° F outside boom there's the Celsius for my non-americans it's actually going to get colder by the time

I start the run and I don't really like I don't really run in the cold that much I haven't worn this jacket in like 3 and A2 years you can tell because it's wrinkled anyways before I go get some snacks downstairs I am going to do a little bit of a race stay fit for you guys a little bit of a here's what I'm going to wear yep first of all I got these gloves that are like get out of here first of all I got these gloves that are like uh kind of yeah they're

really just gloves oh my gosh did you hear that that was my bowels here are the shoes I'm going to wear Nike Alpha fly 3s I have on like a white T-shirt and then a long sleeve underneath I have some half tights on I'm not going to like take off my pants to show you that um point is I don't know how this is going to go I don't know how much cold weather gear to wear all I know is I got to go get some snacks and then head to the marathon half half marathon

all right okay I mean [Music] let's actually get let's go time it's cold though real cold oh it's so cold dude we are on the way to the half marathon and Haley is driving me to the start I'm here with Tyler who is actually running the half marathon as well and Isaac who's crazy enough to come along I just woke up he just woke upes ago Tyler what are you wearing I wearing shorts a T-shirt and arm sleeves that's it 30° that's crazy I'm wearing a little bit more than that we'll see who made the

right decision no fair fair you think you can beat me wait what he's always trying to make it competitive he knows about my Strava struggles from an objective point of view it does seem fake oh my gosh what I mean I mean there's like no proof bro drinking a martini like in a hot my goal is to find a porta poot that hasn't been used yet it looks like I flicked off the camera here but it's actually a peace sign just felt like it was important for me to to share that let's get it I

noticed a bunch of people in this running store so I walked in and of course I bought a beanie for the race at this point I'm really second guessing doing all this just to prove a kid on stra wrong but there's no going back now this is the start line I should probably get in there no more running from it guys they have a mascot I love mascots while I was trying to get Blaze's attention I realized I'm kind of late for the start of the race but don't worry I made it Jude this race

is for you let's go it's going to be awesome haly and Isaac are also doing a play byplay watching the live updates so let's cut to them there's no audio in these clips I wonder what they're saying it feels like they could be saying anything m one 550 is it's faster than I expected but I feel pretty comfortable except for my li fingers toes legs and organs [Music] awesome yeah there's still no audio but they're going somewhere interesting we're finishing over there downtown Skyline I'm getting left behind a little bit mile two 550 or so

pretty good but literally toes and fingers completely numb pretty cold out [Music] here okay can any of y'all read lips maybe they're coming to mile three I don't know Mile Three really good [Music] I four 2340 555 [Music] Pace we are heading to the Finish line a beautiful view of the state capital it's going to be exciting 7 minutes away should have more than enough time even after getting coffee yep mile five I don't know the time anymore but it's on screen my extremities are no longer numb that's amazing y let's get that point where

the adrenaline wore off mile six I think we went a little faster there almost halfway I'm about to take one of these gels okay we lost audio again what is bro yapping about jeez Louise mayor of yville has entered the chat this guy's keeping me in it Legend let's go mil 7 over halfway about that timer I'm probably not going to be talking much at the state capital looking for the finish line but there's nobody out here which is very confusing I'm coming here to protest the ban of Tik Tok this was on the morning

after Tik Tok got banned so this sign was really only relevant for specifically this race Tik Tok got restored like 3 hours after I read this sign currently listening to this song it's a hack so cheat code Ryan sped up up a bit he is running 546 per mile so I'm sure feeling very good um his estimated finish time is now 116 what so on top of his goal crazy yeah Jerry's roommate supposed to be the hardest mile I dedicate this mile to my friend Mitch thank you my husband can run but I can do

this [Music] yeah I am Mile 10 CL swi thing is uphill that's not true just how cool to say better than expected yay my name's Ryan that was so embarrassing why did I say that [Applause] yay yay I just put on a magag and Dragons It's game over two hold on that's crazy [Music] let's go you're 100% real this is a real Ryan real R yes sir well there you have it I did the half marathon Tyler did it Tyler what was your time 117 let's go let's go my final time is on screen I

think it was like 1116 548 Pace shout out to Haley and Isaac for being my co- vloggers thanks for supporting you guys are the best uh me and Haley got a cute pick dude we need you to address this video in my Strava comments we need to see we need to see your reaction follow me on straa for more running and workout stuff I'm going to keep posting on there and uh yeah we're going to go get some breakfast let's go [Music]