SOLO QUARANTINE HALF MARATHON | Personal best?

I know neither he'll collapse on the ironic side what's your total fine hey everyone welcome back to my channel today is an exciting and slightly terrifying vlog because I'm gonna be doing a half marathon not V half marathon that I was going to do which was of course London landmarks half but instead of half marathon and on the back roads here in Dorset on a Monday morning so hopefully it won't be too busy I'm gonna take you along with me show what I would usually eat before a race and it's actually quite nice because I'm supposed to have a lot of races coming up the summer but you know all of them are likely to be pushed to October September you know that kind of time so this is good practice even though it's not the official race day who cares about official race days it's a sunny day outside and perfect way to start the week if you ask me so yes kind of be my a little practice session for the rest of the races I've got this year and which fingers crossed will still be going ahead so I'm gonna take you downstairs grab some breakfast and then we're gonna be heading off in about two hours [Music] I'm just about prepped and ready to go I'm actually really nervous I got nervous before every single long run I do and I don't really know why but I'm just gonna try and like lay off the pressure a little bit because as I mentioned in last week's vlog this was never gonna be a record attempt the hills and everything around here and the kind of circumstance on which we're doing this suggests that it's just gonna be like a nice long run down to the beach and back and then down to the beach and back the route that we're taking is specifically to avoid people which does unfortunately mean that a lot of it is on main roads this is like there's a long path all the way down the main road here which means that you can do it and not many people take that because it's kind of loud and filled with cars but I'm hoping that at the moment it's not too busy this morning I had a bowl of cereal breakfast number one and then I had some toast with homemade peanut butter and homemade fig jam as breakfast number two the reason I had to breakfast is because we're going later than if this was a kind of normal official race which would usually be a sort of eight nine ten in the morning as we're doing we're doing a midday so I didn't want to be hungry and also I don't have any gels or anything to take on the run with me so I'm just gonna be doing it on what I've eaten this morning and that's fine as absolutely fine for 21 kilometers it shouldn't be a problem but if I were racing this I would have had less in the morning but then taking gels with me and have those from about 45 minutes in a couple of times every half an hour basically it's not going to be an official record attempt but I'm excited to get out I am also understandably I think concerned that the country is going to go full lockdown within the next couple of days so having done this I'm sure I won't want to run again for several weeks maybe it would be good timing but yeah I think it's probably time to stop procrastinating and just get out there let's go just go outside it's really sunny I'm wearing far too many layers I think I'm gonna take this one off this is my Nike jumper that is hot today hot it's hot for England and it's really sunny and I feel like I'm gonna warm up pretty quickly so gonna go through my game plan which I don't really have I spoke to my coach yesterday and he basically said since this is a training run or a time trial more than an actual race it's much more important to be getting like the right technique in the right race kind of plan than it is to get a good time what I tend to do on braces is just kind of go immediately into the pain cave and then just stay there for the entire race which in this case would be 21 kilometers instead of doing that this time I'm going to be doing some version of negative splits which means decreasing the amount of time it takes to do each section of the race so in this case it's 5 kilometers kind of four times plus a little bit so I'm going to try and get each five kilometers slightly faster than the last that's probably not going to happen because of the different amounts of hills and the different places but that's the goal so the first five kilometers should just be easy and plain sailing we'll see whether that actually happened I'm very much doubt that it is going to but we can try but first of all I'm going to do a warm-up just to get my body moving so I don't freeze or injure myself when we set up so let's go so the point in doing these is basically to warm up the posterior chain when people run or when I run definitely I tend to use my hip flexors or my quads which means that I'm not running efficiently and it can make your hip flexors you probably felt this if you've gone on a long run and you haven't felt exactly prepared for it with your hip flexors take over and you get really sore on the front of your legs I get that my quads her my hips hurt a bit further send up a quad learn always straight nice if you can use her glutes and your hamstrings a little bit more efficient apparently so yeah that's what this wall what does [Music] gonna keep up our in the way it's downhill [Music] hey that's a good sign if there's any consolation I'm really comfortable [Music] oh yeah hard to catch up with about three and a half to four K in 3.84 supersize how you feelin we're going a little bit faster than your original pacing luckily everywhere is deserted [Music] Wow pretty good okay we're about seven and a bit 8 bit hit 8 KN still going above pace we're not going downhill now what's the excuse this is feeling a dumpling face as comfortable as running in the field and we can maintain this for the rest but when you see that finish line [Music] okay what K are we now 13 it's pretty good sit on record pace I'm trying to rest down hey won't kilometer way out now too many too many more than one then not much out enough to be painful out in the wrong direction that's good are you doing well how are your lungs your legs gonna go before your lungs [Music] end of the road [Music] Holmwood [Music] so what's your advice now you're at the 2/3 3/4 stage but when he will get this stage and just carry on [Music] [Music] all right two and a half pay to go how's your feeling not painful Hey well I should hope so by now nothing that can't be overcome with a bit of mental grit and determination well we'll find out into K times [Music] [Music] all right final uphill hating the traffic [Music] all right fine Florida [Music] well what goes up apparentiy keeps going up you got a final 700 meter downhill push [Music] all right final hop Swami test back faster than any other point of the right [Music] [Music] all right anything right paid [Music] fossil another matching it [Music] oh you're done well done you collapsed on a fantastically ironic sign that was anything but slow a feeling you didn't drop below twelve kilometers an hour the whole way and most of it was thirteen was your total time Hey go on 143 Wow absolutely smashed it was amazing and there's quite a lot of uphill and a headwind actually lost 7k it was sea front amazing and I turned around there was like uphill into the sewage and an icy Arctic headwind at that congratulations now you can go and have lots of tea and biscuits I shall oh my god absolutely exhausted but that was way better than I expected not just timewise but more importantly how I felt and how I kind of felt every single segment of the run usually I set out fast feel fine for like the first 10k and then start to like fall apart everywhere but actually I feel like although I did start hurting from about 10k in I felt not too bad as we kind of got through it so I thought I could kind of keep consistent every single kilometer and I've not looked at the splits yet so actually I don't know and I don't think I stuck to the game plan of like going slower than speeding up through it but I feel like I was kind of assistant with also just like slightly more effort each split which meant that they were kind of consistently paced despite all the hills and stuff I have a look and we'll see if that's right but I'm really happy right now though I'm gonna have some toast have some tea am I gonna run a bath and I've got myself this isn't an ad but I absolutely love this stuff so I thought I'd show you I did a campaign me like two years ago now and ever since then they sent me some of this stuff ages ago I've been buying this stuff because I'm totally obsessed with it liquid yogurt as a bath soap and it is like the only thing that makes my muscle aches go away that unlike Ray Doc's bath so cuz well it's really good and that's super cheap and it smells amazing so I'm going to go do that and now I've got a little candle and I'm just gonna drink tea in the bath and be done for the day probably for the next few days to be honest I'm really really tired but so happy with that and now I've got a new target for when I do actually finally get round to racing it I've got a new target of about 143 I need to actually look at the official time that about 143 144 to to go off so I can try and beat that my next race / run time trial kind of thing is going to be a 10k and I look forward to dropping the distance back down because 21 K is like quite a long way my domain it felt it felt pretty long but yeah really really happy with how it went now I'm gonna go have a bath at Lincoln chin up and I'm gonna get into some pyjamas even though it's only like 2:30 p.m. and I am going to do nothing for the rest of the day so thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed this painful half marathon attempt and if you do do it make sure to avoid people obviously for the whole thing we were really lucky not to have a very busy route it's actually kind of totally empty it was weird it was usually quite busy but yeah do give it a go tag me I am donating 21 pounds for the 21 kilometers to the NHS so I'm gonna be supporting them as well so if you do something similar even if it's a 5k or a 10k or whatever it is I would recommend that you do the same and I'll try and put the link down there as well so yeah thank you for watching and I will see you next time bye

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Length: 18min 7sec (1087 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 07 2020