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The Laid-Back Runner
Добавлен 3 янв 2014
Seriously into running, without taking it all too seriously. Parkrun to 100km, and everything in between.
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Ultra London 55km 2024 FULL ROUTE & COMMENTARY
The latest from my series of runs. This time, it's London, It's 55km, and it's warm. Tune in for my usual blend of info and blabbering with @akt_ldn and a whole load of miles.
Music credit: Sault
Music credit: Sault
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Big Way Round 50km Ultra Marathon Winchester 2024
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I'm back! This time, running the 50km Big Feat event in the south of the United Kingdom. Full route and commentary. Wonderful event, and wonderful company. Join me! Music credits: 1) Pocket Sun: Wake Up 2) EMBRZ: It's Raining Outside 3) oh caroline: Long Way Home 4) Dub Machinist Meets Gary Clunk: Traveling 5) Another Taste: Time Is On Our Side Camera: GoPro 11 Black Editing: Final Cut Pro X Au...
Race To The Stones 100km Ultra Marathon 2023
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100 km non-stop on this legendary point-to-point trail ultra in southern England. Full commentary!
Ultra Trail Snowdonia UTS 50 by UTMB 2023. Stunning but severe ultra marathon!
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My experience of the fiendishly difficult UTS race in North Wales. How did I get on? Watch to find out!
Akt, you've got it together. Nice. Great run and video/vlog thingy
I was quite pleased with that line.
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations
Well done in harsh conditions.
Well done, good time. I dragged a very battered 59 year old body around in 6.45. My goodness it was wet!
Thanks!! It certainly was a bit damp! 6:45 was certainly not too shabby given you probably had to swim the last hour 🤣
Nice vid, keep them coming! 🙌
thanks!! see you at london 55 :)
Nice one Steve 💪👏✌️💚🖤
thank you!! much appreciated!!
Excellent video and really well done on that race time. I'm optimistically hoping for a 7h30 min time in my race on Sunday at Naseby. You crushed it 👍🏻🏃♂️🙂
Thanks, Mark! I'm humbled!!
Great video, Onwards and Upwards.
thanks! That's the only direction, right? :)
@@thelaidbackrunner definitely, you’re an inspiration
Excellent video, Cracking tunes too, well done
I pay particular attention to the tunes, so glad they were noticed!
Thanks for posting and enjoyed the video. I did the 25km and suffered under that heat - scraped in 2 mins under the cut off. But this year I'm attempting the 55km - surely it can't be that hot again?! Hopefully UTMB has sorted out the aid station issues for those of us bring up the back of the pack!! Are you having another go this year?
You're most welcome. I'd be most surprised if it was that hot again. I'm not attempting it again this year. I need to be assured that lessons have been learned from last year before I'd consider it (and I would if they have). Unfortunately there was no race directors' report (as I understand he is no longer involved), so I genuinely hope it goes well and I can consider it again. This year, I'm trying some different events, so keeping myself busy :) Best of luck to you and would love to hear back as to how it goes/went!
Enjoyed the video. I’m doing it this year, have run a few routes up there for training and found it okay, but it’s cold - can’t imagine doing well in that heat
thanks so much :) hope you have a fantastic time. At least the heat was somewhat freakish, so that's unlikely to recur.
Well done! Hopefully giving it a go again this year! Thanks for sharing your experience
Thanks so much for the kind words. I really appreciate it. I think sadly I'm done with UTMB, so I won't be returning until they can demonstrate they've thought things through more from a runners rather than financial perspective.
@@thelaidbackrunner i understand. Very sad affairs...
Great video, gives a good idea of what the experience is like. Wow those views are amazing! I’d forgotten how beautiful snowdonia is. You were lucky to have such fine weather even if too warm. Sorry about your bad experiences with the shambolic organisation, that’s very disappointing.
Thanks Alex. Really appreciate it.
Nicely Done. Another great vid. Please keep making them, there's a solid conveying of exactly what it might be like and I'm watching as recon for future. Happy 2024!
thanks so much. I will defiinitely be back to making the vids in 2024, so stay tuned! Really appreciate the kind words.
I'm planning to do RTTS again this year, btw. I have a rematch!
Really well done though, and thoroughly enjoyed the video.
thanks so much. really appreciate it!! I'll be posting some new events in the coming months, as they actually take place :)
good effort! sorry about your experience with utmb. love your choice of music!
Thank you!! I liked selecting the music 🙂
Thank you for the snack and meal details - amazing selection.
it's 95% of the reason we're all looking at my vid, let's face it 😜
Was that a Garmin I saw? What kind of gps setting did you use to be sure of 15hours?
Correct! It is a fenix 6x pro solar. I had problems with battery before, but the trick is to turn off all the connections, so it's not polling your phone for bluetooth and not searching for wifi. I also use the 'ultra running' mode, so you can press lap when you're at a pitstop to avoid it wasting valuable gps energy when it's not needed. I get really good battery life when I'm not draining the heck out of it with connections that aren't needed. I didn't use maps for this one, as I knew it'd be a very well marked route, but have used maps with those settings, and it's been fine.
Fantastic effort. Doing it straight through is amazing. I done the 2 day option. It nearly broke me. Can I ask what camera you used?
Thanks very much, and well done to you as well! When my feet were soaked, I was very jealous of the 2-dayers!! Camera was a GoPro 11 Black.
@@thelaidbackrunner Thank you. I will look into that. When you got to half way I was waiting for you to change your socks. Best thing I did was stick a spare pair in my backpack 👍🏼
@@johnflorio8425 luckily, an amazing guy had a spare pair. he had some dry ones for his partner, but amazingly had an extra pair for himself even though he wasn't running, and gave them to me. LIFESAVER!
Excellent thanks a great insight 👍 Well done . I did RTTK this year so I will have to now do this one of course 😂😅
Thanks so much! Well done on RTTK! see you next year at RTTS then!!🎉
Made it before it went dark! Great effort. That must have been a real struggle in places, especially with the blisters. Well done 💪🏃♂️
thanks!! it really was a struggle, but it goes to show what you can achieve with a bit of strategy and a lot of walking! appreciate the comment!
Fantastic run Steve, big congrats 🎉💪👏👏 I must have missed it on strava but somehow come across this video which is great 👍✌️💚🖤
thank you!!
Great run! Thank you so much for sharing all the details of the aid stations, really helpful in planning for next year :)
You’re welcome! I mainly go to RUclips to find out about aid stations, so this is my gift back to all the people who helped me plan before 😊😊
Wow! Well Done!
Thanks!
Congratulations, great video and brings back some great and not so great memories of the event. 😂 Hope you’ve recovered well
thanks! was the same for me!! yep - just about back on track now 😛
I love this video ❤️thank you so much for making the effort to video the run last weekend. What a tough run it is, but such a rewarding challenge! Thank you so much once again 🙏🏻👊🏻🏃♂️🏃🏽♀️
thank you so much for these kind words! it really was tough, but I'm so glad I pulled it together to finish! You're most welcome.
Great effort, well done, I did like the music in this vid, appreciate the effort you put in to making these :=) PS they had more food at CP2 then at the hole of UTMB UTS!
Thanks for the kind words - it's really nice to know all the effort is appreciated and valued! The music is important to me! Playlist: DJ Crisps: Never Gonna Stop; Yosh: Show Me; Faze Action: Fantasy. And yeah - you probably clocked a few of my barbed comments about a race that may or may not have been UTS 😂
Absolutely amazing great video well done
thanks Lorraine! Appreciate it! Thanks for the YPOM post as well ❤️
Great effort by you, be proud of that in that heat also managing to film, I pulled plug at 33km, I was done for and there being no water at check point 2! Queues waiting for empty coke bottles from farmer,filled with water to be tractored in! Too many people in that race, year before was so good, this year so bad, felt like not nearly enough spent on providing well stocked stations. I went back last Friday, did an unsupported effort of the same course, carried all my own fruit, snacks and water and did it in 12 hours in rain and wind, so different, enjoyed it so much more... Recommend it to banish any ghosts and enjoy that terrain without the queues and crowds!
thanks! even though it's a while back, it's great to get these words of reassurance that I wasn't alone! PS - have you received the race director's report yet?
I know what you mean about the aid stations.. but they were a different experience by the minute… first station loads of water, but very scarce on food, and the only food they had when I was there, I was told I wasn’t allowed.. I assume for the 100k and 100miles.. I was banking on a banana for a boosted.. but couldn’t get one. I’ve heard others say it was fine. Then the second aid station was struggling to get water ready… the poor volunteers were running ragged trying to move water from a massive water bowser to a couple of water coolers to serve us all.. food was full.. I sat outside of this one to charge my watch get some calories in.. and when I walked through to the toilets and back to leave the place was stripped.. I timed out at aid station 3 as well u fortunately.. if I hadn’t stopped at cp2 so long and kept moving.. I’d have made cp3 with 5 minutes to spare.. so annoying. It was a tough day.. signed up for next year already to put things right.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience. It’s almost exactly the same as me. I made CP3 with 90 seconds to spare but decided my chances of making the finish in time were too remote by that stage. I haven’t seen the race director’s report yet, but it will be interesting to see what they’ve taken away from this year’s event. Hopefully enough to make your experience next year the right one!!
Fantastic effort, well done !
thank you!!
Good video. I did 25k. Have you got your eye on a Summer race?
Thanks very much - I appreciate it! And well done to you! I'm doing Race to the Stones 100km in July, which I'm looking forward to immensely!
@@thelaidbackrunner yes that’s a good run
Great effort in those conditions. Well done.
Thanks! Appreciate it. It was a mission all right!!