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Thanks for a great video. I am currently in training for the 50 mile Arc 2025 so I shall be studying your recce videos in detail over the next few weeks! Sub-30 is a great achievement - well done.

Loving your videos. My wife signed up for this one on the back of your video and is using it as arc training for 2026.

I've been a daily year-round day/night outdoor short-swim junkie skinny-dipper for decades. Sea, swim-pools, streams. It's easily the best(and cheapest!) way to instantly lower your blood pressure etc and can instantly transform you from feeling mega-tired and toxic into a high-energy athlete for 4-8 hours or so. It's my essential and addictive way to - among other things - combat type 2 diabetes and to instantly rejuvenate drug-free - apart from the occasional aspirin.. Cold water's best - and shivering for a minute or so is proven to be very good for you - not just for your skin. But I do have to warm/heat up before and after with 10-30 minutes of jogging, fast walking and some simple upper-body exercises - press-ups and various exercises using stretch-bands - all with 3-4 layers of mostly light upper-body "sauna-effect" clothing. Oh yeah - I'm also a 'crazy' backwards or retro walker/jogger' - especially up STEEP slopes... Try it a few times - and ignore those staring onlookers who think you're totally wacko... Paul G

Brilliant looking route, do you have a GPX file available please

thank you

I am so inspired... I will do this next year...

We do it differently: Both K1 next to each other in the same direction. I use my paddle as a bridge between the rear cockpit rim of the other boat and the front cockpit tip of my boat. Then the other paddler can push himself up between the boats. This is from my experience even very very stable and safe.

Very helpful!! Tysm ✨

Beautiful. But, honestly, can everyone who can sit in proper K1 and do a sculling draw with one hand and a wing paddle put their hand up? The rescuer is real class.

No Arc 2024 video on utube ? All ok ?

Looks fun

Well done ❤

Are you doing the Arc 100 again in 2025 Elana..? Thought you'd be posting an amazing vlog of 2024, I'm signed up for 2025 🇮🇪 best of luck again

I can barely keep my boat upright if i try doing this ill end up flipping 😂 make sure you all use a life jacket if paddling alone or in a area where you can’t swim to shore or dock in case you take a swim!

Very smart and clever preparation. 0ver the years I've watched hundreds of ultra prep videos, and this is one of the best. Congratulations on your brilliant performance!

You have a natural gift for making these videos. Interesting, bags of atmosphere, the sights and sounds of nature and not too much music. Thank you :)

Extremely helpful race report. Thank you so much for sharing. Huge congratulations on your amazing achievement!

6th? 6th? 6th?!!!! OH MY GOD!!!! WOW! 😲 dot watching and wishing the best but my god, that was epic!!!! Hope you enjoyed it as much as your finish position and time dictates that you did! Rest, fuel and revel in what can only be described as one hell of a race! Huge well done 🤩🤩 x

Ps swelling in hands quite common under exertion/cold. Apparently because the circulation reduces and therefore fluid accumulates rather than flowing back through the veins. Like people with heart or other probs having puffy ankles etc.

Finally got round to viewing this. Well worth the wait. 👍You really have nailed making these, well shot and edited plus you have a great engaging but slightly laid back persona. Many people who do these kind of vid have varying degress of rectal auto insertion syndrome. PS do a North to South sometime. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT ARC THING!

Those trails are so technical!! i had no idea the route was that hard to run. Ive looked at other folks doing this race but now i have even more respect for you guys that attempt that race!!

So appreciate the motivation your videos bring! Thanks and happy Arc of Attrition 👏🏼

lovely lovely lovely!! 😍 I love how you managed to coax the horsies and goat out of the way of the gate. I do hope you found some lovely branches for them? Best of luck for this weekend, I hope you have an absolute blast, you've certainly done the training for it. x

Do you have a link for the route in local to there and not heard of it before

Great video. Just starting to get into trail running and videos like this are great inspiration! Top marks for video editing and choice of music playing in the right spots.

Fantastic. Such a bleak place dartmoor... I've never seen so much muck either 😮 and the hail 💪... a great watch Merky ☘️

What perfect weather for an Arc training run. Dartmoor is bleak and awesome 💪 thank you for sharing your run

Hi Elena, remembering my military days, our hands would swell up when wearing heavy packs for a long time too. Presumably effecting blood flow to the hands. Lifting the shoulder straps occasionally would ease this. Good luck on the AoA. I'm attempting the 50.

Awesome soggy run 👏

Brilliant video 🤩 I've ran the Abbots Way twice and your video brought back some fantastic memories of the route. Loved watching that Elena 😁

That was a run and a half Elena! I've done the CSW Dartmoor in a Day race from Okehampton to Ivybridge 3 times. Last year it was on the hottest day of the year and it was still like a sponge on the top! 😂 I've decided that I'll give Arc a crack, even though training hasn't gone that well. See you there. 👍

Cracking training run in preparation for the Arc, good luck this weekend, hopefully you have missed the really bad weather 💪👍

Love this, Dartmoor is amazing! And brutal 😳😅 I can highly recommend the Dartmoor Way 100 miler in November if you fancy the challenge!

Brutal day out. We call that character building weather at work. 👏

Awesome to hear the chat and the river looks stunning! (amazing effort!)

Like 10 nice to see you again

Brilliant video, Elena. Gives a good idea of the terrain to expect. Great tips too, especially about the elastic in the gloves and unwrapping food to put in a ziplock bag 👌 Thanks for sharing 🙏

Great video thanks :)

Brilliant Elena. Your videos have been very helpful, particularly this one. I got lost last year at mousehole and wasted so much time there. This in the end peed me off so much why i couldn't find that little alley and it just got to me until the minack theatre. I dont have crew and live too far away to recce it unfortunately so this will help big time. Glad you loved the race and are back again this year. See you on the start line. 3rd attempt for me, but feeling a lot more confident this year. I have done lots of 100's and should have nailed this race but like you said in last years video....anything can happen in 100 milers and with me it normally does 😅

Another great video. We love that coast….so much that we are moving to live in Sennen this month!

Good luck Eleanor!

And I thought you just went out and ran hundreds of miles just like that :) right I'm off to the gym to do more strength n conditioning:)

Loved the series last year Elena and this year has been just great too. Looking forward to another period in front of the computer dot watching you guys inspire so many. Quick question, any major changes to foot care, socks, shoes etc.. compared to what, by all accounts was a positive experience last year? All the very best for the race, take care out there.

Very impressive, I wish I could get myself down the gym, good luck on the Arc 👍

Great to see runners talking about their s&c work, thank you.

Looks like a great workout, do you mind sharing the details of your strength and conditioning coach?

Wow you're really crushing it. Strength and conditioning is definitely the way to go to prevent or reduce injuries.

Thanks for this Elena. Have not run this section of the coast before and this will be of great value when running the Classic Quarter in a few months. The colours of the sea around this section are something else, and for wild life, I remember seeing basking sharks whilst watching James and the Giant Peach at the Minack theatre. Great times!

Great tip Elena, sounds daft but I used to always forget to eat on a long run 😅

Great video. I love that coast. Thanks a lot. Best of luck on the ARC 👍🍷