THE SALOMON SERPENT TRAIL 50K 2021 ULTRAMARATHON | Golden Trail National Series | Run4Adventure

[Music] it is another early start on race day morning it's what four o'clock we traveled up from cornwall yesterday and we're at petersfield rugby club for the salomon serpent trail just about to get up and get liga ready to tackle her longest distance ever the serpent trail 100k so i think we've got 10 more minutes of snooze time and then we'll get ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] so here we are liga is all prepped and ready to go she's got a drop bag coach is arriving runners arriving it's a bit chaotic here and it's still pretty early last uh last minute prep and then we got uh league has got race briefing and then she'll be getting on the bus to the start of surf and trail 50k oh not 50. it's over 100k i'm i'm the lightweight doing the 50. that's it yeah how you feeling yeah i'm excited good quite good looking forward to the adventure yeah it's gonna be awesome it's gonna be a good day yeah hopefully oh not hopefully none of that it's gonna be a great day [Music] how you feeling good my husband i love your channel it's so exciting to see you in real life the support of the channel so we have to film yes are you all all excited about yeah what's my first star trek is it first ultra yeah good effort first ultra 100k have you got have you i may have trained yeah have you run any of the route or uh no i'm familiar with it from just living fairly close by but yeah you'll love it it's a wicked route yeah well good luck it's your first yeah [Music] so that is the race briefing all done legally heading towards the coast is a big field there's lots of runners here everybody looking super excited to get underway and get running late weather's good no rain at the moment nice and mild liga is super excited looking forward to a good day out on the trail that's for sure have a great run thank you enjoy it yeah i'm gonna kiss you but there you go enjoy it guys i'm not gonna fish it no it's alright [Music] she's on the bus she's super excited about the race which is great to see you know great to see she's excited to get run and get on the trails seems a bit weird having her drive off into the distance and leaving me here to be honest whenever we've done sort of long races or she's done ultras i i tend to be there whether i'm supporting or i've run the whole race with her so this is a kind of first experience for me and i kind of wish i was on the bus with her to be honest but i know she's gonna be all right she's trained really well she's super strong and like i said she's really looking forward to getting out and running a whole day out on the trails and i know she'll be fine but it does seem a bit weird seems a bit sad that she's driven off and i'm here on my own but i've got john john i've got john to keep me company we all remember john from the the south west uh traverse video you see well no not particularly though i think it's time for a coffee john yeah right um i'm gonna get a coffee and i'm gonna come back final preparations get on my kit laid out but um yeah let's go and get a coffee let's chill out for a bit so we've had a coffee um it's still pretty early to be honest i haven't gotta be at the race briefing till 10 to nine so still got a few hours to kill so i'm gonna get in the van and chill out and then we're gonna be ready to go racing so we made it to the start line of the serpent trail 50k after about 30 40 minute coach journey from uh petersfield rugby club myself and john were both almost falling to sleep on the coach after uh not many hours of sleep last night luckily it stopped raining as well there's a bit of rain in here but we got sort of i don't know 10 15 20 minutes to the start so gonna have a loosen up after that coach journey then we're gonna get ready to go racing so that's it we're off on the serpent trail 50k 50k of beautiful trails to run we've got a nice bit of woodland to run to start with a little bit different to the last time around the race we've actually got some mud underfoot just navigating our way through that but beautiful bit of woodland to run so we had a bit of a hellish trip down to the race yesterday eight and a half hours stuck in traffic and i didn't get a lot of sleep last night so we're gonna just ease into it see how the body and the legs are feeling try and get nice and loose we'll try and give you some updates along the way he's a 10k half marathon marathon and then obviously at the finish line but uh super looking forward to running the route again loved it the last time around it so should be a good day out through the first mile just trying to ease into a slightly different loop at the start there in the woods still but you know just giving the body time to settle down get my breathing it's always a bit frenetic at the start of a race got a bit of a hill here and we got a bit of rain and it does feel quite muggy feels quite humid today we've literally just done a loop from the start loop background and now we're back on the route that i ran at the serpent trail last time so more familiar territory now you got lots of logs to jump over lots of fallen trees and there is way more mud than last time over here lots of wet money trail can't believe how different the conditions are on the foot amazing i didn't think we'd had this much rain but it's gonna be a muddy race [Music] so just gone through five miles first jelly intake of the day i'm gonna try and take a gel every five miles plus i've got more than 160 drink mix in one of the bottles so should be getting a good hit of calories every five miles yeah yeah yeah we're debating where the scotch eggs would be good for ultra rainbow thank you so yeah so uh five miles in average pay 750 so the heart rate's slowed down a bit in the breathing's a bit better now a bit of a shot to the system to start with thanks marshall [Music] amir is running his first official ultra today and he's being sensible pacing it well he's going steady are you loving life so far man yeah it's all good awesome he's doing the race he's doing the race because he watched our video and it persuaded him to come and take it on so even better but yeah have a good run mate have a good run first checkpoint done topped up the bottles grabbed a bit of melon even though it's raining and wet still feels quite humid it feels quite muggy and warm but doing good i'm gonna just back it off a bit definitely went off too quick so long way to go yet so i'm gonna back it off try and stay a bit more consistent we've left the muddy woods and now we've popped out on this gorgeous heathen beautiful section of the route i'm running on soft sand now not soggy mud of her beautiful views man how awesome is this so we just clicked over to 10 miles a pretty good spot to give you our 10 mile update beautiful lake in the background swans i mean does it get any better than this but yeah everything's definitely regulated a bit more now it's feeling a bit easier we threw 10 miles in an hour and 21 minutes for 805 average so pretty good we'll just try and hold this place for as long as we can but yeah i love him getting back out on this course so well signed so well marked no issues with navigation in fact i think it's a lot better mark than the last time i did it and i went wrong a couple of times last time so far so good fingers crossed but yeah i wasn't upward oh my god i can't believe how wet the room is tom said it was wet and i was like it can't be that bad oh my god it's horrendous i can't believe how different it is to when i ran it last time madness wow that's like being up on the moorland in winter in cornwall crazy it must have had so much rain here i really wasn't expecting that i mean the ultra glides from salomon and the grit feels great though so it's a good test for the shoe we are just coming up to half marathon distance and uh i've got to be honest not feeling great the body's just struggling to regulate today i don't know whether it was the long drive up or lack of sleep i don't know but yeah it's not uh the body is not loving life at the moment things are getting pretty tight but it's only 50k we'll get it done we'll dig in we'll hang in and we'll get to the end [Music] gonna be tough though 20 mile check in so we've just ticked over 20 miles and i'd like to say my body's feeling great and i'm loving life but uh that really isn't the case the quads are really trashed they feel like concrete at the moment i don't know why but hammer felt great from the start we got some cheering up ahead that was give us a lift and we got the next checkpoint so we can top up have a little stretch try and stretch those quads out and grab some melon if we can work really well last time let's get in the checkpoint let's get things sorted out [Applause] so so we've got the delight of bumping into the 100k leader tristan moving well man and he's he's feeling really fresh he keeps telling me how freshmen and also if you haven't checked out their podcast plug time give it an hour podcast that's about all i can say about it wait wait can i listen to it what platform oh anything spotify apple music all of it and it's a great podcast so having some really good guests asking some really good questions so definitely worth a listen if you want to hear me talk more extensively about this race then yeah that podcast will be the place rather than a youtube channel right now when he can actually talk when he's a bit more coherent 22 miles down and we are three hours 17 minutes into the run it's sad isn't it doing a 50k and you can't keep up with the guy doing 100k although he's a pretty handy runner a bit of a hill to walk there but quads and the hamstrings are struggling they've almost completely seized up but you know we've got to get it done being out here struggling just makes me think of leaguer in that 100k you know she's uh what she'll be pretty much halfway by now i think and she's so strong she'll do so well kind of wish i was there with her give her a bit of support help her through it oh you get kind of emotional when you talk about it ridiculous but it's going to be so good to get to the finish get sorted out and then wait to give her the biggest cheer home biggest hug at that finish line man i can't wait for that that is definitely what has motivated me in this run right let's keep on trucking right come on lloyd dig in gotta dig in right i'll give you a quick update we're just about to take over a marathon and it feels like i've run several of them actually not just one several but i have picked up fellow tnt runner and run for adventure supporter extraordinaire stuart and uh he's uh he's had to slow right down and do lots of walking to stay with me i'm holding them up but it's nice to have a bit of company it's just informing there's about 10k to go which um i think i'm excited about that i'm not sure can i just interject mr purvis boy very kindly helped put me back together again after one of my first marathons the least i can do yeah can you put my child together right i keep making excuses to walk talking to the camera oh it's a hill i'll walk up this i suppose we should do some running but you know what we're staying safe and we're yeah and we're keeping almost keep it all right all right a little bit of walking but there is definitely a little element of running forward forward momentum yeah that's all we can do one thing in front of the other it's all good really i'm just being a you know it's been a bit of a wuss it's all good we'll get there we're nearly there we're nearly there and liga is still doing good in the 100k we just had a quick check on the tracker she's running strong can't wait to see her at the finish line man come on will you go go leaguer right let's get running stuart come on come on okay we've got a problem i'm not sure i'm going to be able to get over that style sure sure can you can you carry me can you can you lift me up if i hold the camera hold the camera okay jesus christ oh i see why you mean you can't go over there like you got you yeah oh oh look at that hey professional hey no style is going to stop me getting to the finish we are just bobbing along in the last mile i've just heard some cheering we've met some awesome people over the last couple of miles have really uh lifted my spirit shall we say stuart is still with me he's been a legend he's stuck with me even i've made him run slower it's been a massive help massive help thanks guys here we are here we are getting i am so glad to see that finish line we got cowbells we got cheering we got flags oh yes we're buying it here we are here we are oh dear someone get me a chair someone gave me a chair [Music] [Applause] [Applause] ah [Music] you're a star thank you very much nice one cheers cheers happy so that is the salomon serpent trail 50k done and to be honest i'm done too [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] she's only going to done it so it is the morning after the race i definitely slept well and league has slept well as well over there just finishing packing up the van we've had rain all morning i know why the course was so wet it hasn't stopped raining here since we got here so we are going to be heading back to cornwall in a minute to get back to some dry sunny weather hopefully and i think it's just about to start raining again but it was an awesome day challenging day it was amazing to be at the finish line to see liga finish and so proud of her so proud of her pushing through she suffered a bit in the last sort of 20 miles but never in doubt that she was going to get to that finish you can see the guys are stripping down all the race day equipment and the event village amazing amazing event put on a game by freedom racing the guys do such a wicked job i can see this event just growing and growing and growing over the years and if you haven't come if you haven't run it definitely check it out for next year they do lots of different distances a distance for everyone if you want to push yourself hard over a challenging 100k route if you want to run a nice flowing 50k route and there's a 10k and a half marathon so lots of different events to get involved with massive thanks to freedom racing for putting the event on we had a great time a huge thanks to all the supporters of the channel that came up chatted spoke to us whether it be after the race or during the race um spoke to loads of people gave me lots of energy while i was struggling out on that 50k course for sure if you ran any of the distances over the weekend or get in the comments let us know how you got on how did you suffer in those really tricky muddy wet conditions it'd be great to hear but we're hitting the road back to cornwall hopefully it's not going to take us eight and a half hours to get home thanks for watching guys it's always appreciated we will see you back on the channel very soon and as always stay safe and keep on running the checkpoint staff and the marshals have already played the blind and it hasn't even started yet so please be sort of like really grateful to them these guys have been they've had long days already so please appreciate these guys they're just so good [Music] that was hard that was really hard [Music] [Applause] [Music] of it [Music] [Laughter] don't panic don't panic you're right [Music] well done well done too bloody right well done amazing [Music] you

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Length: 26min 41sec (1601 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 11 2021