Love watching these challenges. I have muscular dystrophy and I still run. However because of this I tend to fall and stumble a fair bit but running helps me mentally so we must keep going! Well done both!!
"Swallowed a fly.. protein" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I've only fallen once whilst running but it was a proper wipe out on the pavement. It was about 6am so no one really around but I literally hit the pavement palms first and bounced back up again so no one would see me 🤣 Scraped hands, knees and shins, but I carried on and finished the run anyway 😜 Was definitely bruised the next day though!
Great race and challenge, I knew Sarah would win 🤩. I fell recently on my first half marathon attempt whilst trying to socially distance and overtake some walkers on the same path. I badly injured my face and broke my nose but the worst thing was loosing the confidence that I would ever be able to complete a half marathon. Last week on my long run I felt really good and decided to go for it, so even though it wasn't a race I finally achieved it and it felt so good.
I love how Sarah mocks old Olympian Andy, who is still crazy fast. Love your videos together and the way these challenges are still competitive despite the running difference
Great video again. My worst fall was on a trail track. Thought I could jump a boggy bit...nope two legs covered in stinking boggy mud for the rest of my run.
How Sarah just styled out the swallowing of the fly I'll never know. Swallowing a fly has me keeled over and struggling for ages! Consistency over speed any day? I agree. I gave up on my speed for the fun of hills and trails and would never look back. But both routes looked pretty stunning! Great video as always team! And well done Sarah on the W!!
I'm a simple men. I see Sarah in the thumbnail, click the video and leave a like right away. Because of her awesome personality you know the content is going to be good. And paired with Andy is a win-win.
My first thought was “why do they set Sarah to like this”, and my second thought is “this will be interesting”. While I’m watching it’s like “go Sarah!” 😀
Well done Sarah 🙌🏻 I loved this challenge, I mostly run hilly trails and the wonderful thing is that pace is largely irrelevant - walk the hills, run the flats and downs, enjoy the scenery (and on a long run, eat lots!)
DHB for meee!!!!! My funniest/worst fall was when I was running in the snow. I was running carefully with no problems. A car pulled into a cross street to turn in front of me, they saw me and waved me to go in front of them once they stopped. I was more focused on not running into the car than the footing and stepped on a manhole cover.... that was frozen solid! So I slipped and fell right in front of them. I got up and hobbled away like I was fine. The person got out of the car to try to check on me, but I kept hobbling/running and assured them I was fine. It tore my pants on the knee and my shirt on the elbow. It was quite painful, but even more embarrassing!
I fell over once doing the Round Sheffield Run going full pelt downhill thinking how much fun it was. Next thing I kicked a tree root and face planted the floor wondering what was happening. Apart from a grazed knee and elbow and wounded pride there was no damage.
It's really funny how much of a difference the course makes! I usually run trails exclusively and was so surprised when I saw how much better my splits were on the road compared to in the forest! Great job both of you, especially having to run a surprise 5k after going all out on the first one! :D
My husband fell running by the canal and ended up with a nail in his hand and a hole in his ankle! I fell whilst road running and army rolled under a parked car. Loving the challenges!
Go Andy! Love running trails as it makes my brain work harder on balance, much needed when you have an Acoustic Neuroma trying to make everything harder.
My funniest/scary moment was running in the dark, past a bus shelter when totally unexpectedly, a black binliner blew out of the shelter and "chased me" before I realised what it was. I did utter a small "girly" scream and almost fell over as my legs turned to jelly because I thought it was a big dog.😄 I'm always a bit wary of bus shelters now.
Loved this one… as a devout road runner trails and treadmills are my personal hell 😂 Worst fall was when a seagull swooped me, I panic jumped out of the way and into a roadworks sign where I fell and broke my arm… two days before my practical driving test 🥲 cannot make that up!
Great work Andy and Sarah! Funniest thing on a run, involves my dog Oscar on a hot day. He ran in front of me on the leash, but he loves to run so much his tail was wagging so much I got a nice breeze behind, it was like having a nice fan to keep cool on a hot day.
I’ve fallen many times during trail running! Proud you both made it through successfully! I most recently fell NOT during but after the race finished! I told everybody it was during the race though to avoid embarrassment 😂
Love these challenges , that lake looked lovely to run around , but the forest looked more fun (and andy .. you are still the parkrun record holder! so not that old)
Loved this challenge. And as for my worst running falls, all of them (three total) have occurred on the sidewalk with no tree roots in sight - never have fallen on the trails :-)
Going off just the footage, poor Sarah had to go through loads of Gates, while Andy clearly skipped them out :P. Great going both! Brutal exercise that, running 2 flat out 5k's in the same day! One's enough for me :D, and only on an occasional Saturday :D.
My worst fall ever was during a trail run in the midst of December. A tree had fallen and blocked a small bridge over a creek. It did not look that far to jump over the creek next to the bridge. I gave it a try and landed on the other side. Unfortunately, I had to make a small correction of how I stood at the shore to make my way away from the water behind me. My center of gravity shifted, and I fell backside first into the creek. My entire upper body and behind were wet. I had to run home like that for 3 miles, in -5 degrees Celsius. Most miserable 3 miles of all time. Congrats Sarah for finishing Amsterdam Marathon and beating Andy in this challenge.
Love my DHB clothes. I do like Andy’s top. I had a fall when running in LA first run out and tripped on their uneven paths. The funnest experience was being chased by cows over some Devon cliffs. 🐮
@@runningchannel It will be in Terschelling, Holland 😊 Looking forward to it, but I'm also a bit nervous haha. Thanks for all the videos you all make, it helps a lot! 😁✌
Excellent video and a beautiful setting paticularly for the trail run. My funniest fall was when I slipped and ended up sliding along the path on my bum for about 5m luckily it was thick mud so I didn't get hurt. Unluckily, I then had to run through the grounds of a country house, the tourists and picnicking families had some very strange looks for the guy covered head to toe in mud.
I’ve been mostly road running since picking up running again after about 7 years off. Before that I was a cross country runner and this video has really inspired me to go run the trails again!
Just finished my first every (trail) halve marathon! Thanks for all the inspiration guys! Love it! Also...perfect video to watch when your legs hurt after a run :D
When will Andy learn! 😂 Speaking of learning, I was showing novice trail runners tricks to running in deep snow and fell flat on my bum. They learnt what not to do and I learnt not to show off. 😀
Wow, great timing. I totally ate it this weekend on my long run. Tripped over a parking block/wheelstop when I was out running in the early AM. Went ass over teakettle - scraped my palms, bruised my shoulder something awful, and I think I broke my toe!
Great challenge. Had one fall running to work. 5km run and in last 30 secs on way to work fell over a flattened cardboard box. Went flying in one armed superman pose. Broke my glasses and had blood streaming down my face
Have had one fall in my running lifetime, on week 51 of a streak of Sunday 10ks! Still amazed I got up and ran it after I fell, was determined to make it to a full year streak, now I have a nice knuckle scar to show along with the bragging rights 😆
Love seeing the trail run. My worst fall, so far, was my very first fall. I tripped on a broken sidewalk and fell scraping my knee, hand, and elbow. I bruised my big toe. The toe nail eventually fell off. Currently, the nail on that toe has still not recovered from the fall, 16 months after the incident.
I think this might be my favourite ever running channel video. First, Sarah and Andy together is always an entertaining combo and I laughed all the way through this. Second, I am surrounded by amazing trails to run on, but they're hilly as well and it makes me feel much better seeing these two huffing and puffing just like I do. Watching Sarah tip toe down that hill was really funny, I was just like that when I started trail running!
Great race, love seeing you guys compete. I fell over recently infront of people and jumped up and carried on running, as you do! it wasn’t until no one was around that I stopped and shouted “owww that effing hurt”
I love the running channel and trying to watch a lot of the videos you download here and I have learned a lot from it. I am doing 10 k in the end of this month and half marathon on the 7th of November. Hopefully I will do better in both and I will be watching your videos to learn some tips from it. Thanks 🙏🏽🏃🏾♂️🤲
That looks like a beautiful trail though! I haven't fallen much while running, but I have had my legs cut up by spikes in XC races many times. Completing a race with blood all over your legs is an experience!
Mid-video, I'm gonna say Andy wins, just because of his competing experience. Funniest thing? I don't know. A couple years ago when I was on my run barefoot and going up a hill, an old man, maybe 70 years old or so and cycling, started talking to me, asking what kind of distances I had run and what I was training for (a 10k race, I hadn't run farther barefoot at that point). He was not only a nice bloke, but a super experienced runner. Turns out he had done more than 500 marathons in his time. He couldn't do running anymore, but was happy to be able to cycle around town at his age. The hill wasn't long and neither was the chat and regrettably I didn't quite catch his name, but It was a very memorable and suprising little encounter that I remember fondly. 500 marathons, sheesh!
Go Sarah and Andy 👏💪. I have had 2 bad falls, 1 on the road and 1 on the trail. Banged my head on a road sign on the sidewalk and ran into a low hanging branch on the trail. Both times I saw stars behind my eyes 😅👀😂
My most memorable fall: I was trail running few days after a real downpour. The trail was mostly dry. I come to a muddy segement. It looked dry, but it wasnt. The trail turned left while I was sliding straight ahead. Luckily, I didnt hurt myself
Love it, light hearted but competitive all the same. I did fall over my dog in the dark running in a field at 0430,I rolled several times down hill and lucky enough did not suffer any injury but got back up and continued to run.....😂
That was...amazing! These challenges are great but the best are TRC competitors. You make running almost seem like fun (as I sit watching! 😆😉) Congrats to the winner!!
Typing with a certain swagger 😎 as I ran a Parkrun this morning and my watch said I covered 5K in 23-29, so I can officially say I ran 5K quicker than a former Olympian 😜 Ok, so Andy's was on a trail but there was a (cough) hill on my Parkrun course. Well done Sarah.
I love the scenery of trails, but I've been scared off forever by the injury I got running at Devil's Dyke, which is on the South Downs near Hove. My foot landed in a big hole and I badly twisted my ankle, it took 18 months for the pain to stop! I still carried on doing stuff, but it hurt all the time! Now I stick to running down Hove seafront or Hove Park, which are both dull in comparison to the beautiful downs!
My first long run this year involved doing it at night because I have kids to look after. I planned the route out on Google maps but it would become the most horrific route ever. The route involved some road and trail routes which sounded nice. I got stung by nettles, cut by brambles, I ended up above knee height in a bog and got lost. Instead of a two hour run it lasted four hours and I arrived at home at 2.30 am. Brutal Run!
I felt the pain of that heavy breathing!! Great challenge! My best and most spectacular fall was tripping over my own shadow 2 miles in to the Manchester marathon in 2021! Clocked a 14 minute mile while the St John’s Ambulance cleaned up my knee and lost all motivation. Got a second wind at mile 18 and ran a negative split marathon to come in at 3:57.
LOVED this challenge, a true head to head! Congrats Sarah! I've fallen SO MANY TIMES in hikes and trail runs that my trail name is Flying Squirrel- because my friends think I should wear a wingsuit on trails for safety! 😆 A funny race fall was on a super technical hilly 10k, with boulders to climb over, slippery bog bridges to cross... and I ate it on the 1 flat, smooth section. I barrel rolled down the path, and jumped to my feet just as the runner behind me came around the corner. She told me she heard every second of the fall, while she picked leaves and pine needles out of my hair and clothes! 😆
Fell the very first time a couple of weeks ago. Clipped a raise part of the sidewalk and went down. It was kinda cool as it felt like I was falling in slow motion. Landed on my should with no injury. Madison my yellow Labrador retriever rushed over and gave a lot of kisses. Silver lining.
Great challenge! Worst fall was at Kingdom Parkrun, because chatting! I skinned both forearms and knees and ended up at A&E. The volunteers were incredible. I did manage a group trail run the next day, but missed completing that parkrun
Love watching these challenges. I have muscular dystrophy and I still run. However because of this I tend to fall and stumble a fair bit but running helps me mentally so we must keep going! Well done both!!
Keep at it Michael…I’ve stumbled and fallen a bunch of time but survived…👍🏻
"Swallowed a fly.. protein" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've only fallen once whilst running but it was a proper wipe out on the pavement. It was about 6am so no one really around but I literally hit the pavement palms first and bounced back up again so no one would see me 🤣 Scraped hands, knees and shins, but I carried on and finished the run anyway 😜 Was definitely bruised the next day though!
I’m amazed Andy hasn’t learned that going off too fast is a recipe for pain. Especially in a Running Channel challenge.
Well he did know this lesson in the Olympics which won him the gold medal
Does that make Running Channel challenges more painful than the Olympics? Or is Andy just getting old? 😁
@@allisonscanlan4144 I believe it won him an eighth place, but close enough!
Andy is ever the great sportsman, welcoming Sarah at the end of her race. Love you guys at the Running Channel
Thanks for the kind words Sara
Sarah trying to do maths at the end of a run is literally me every run trying to convert paces 😂
Great race and challenge, I knew Sarah would win 🤩. I fell recently on my first half marathon attempt whilst trying to socially distance and overtake some walkers on the same path. I badly injured my face and broke my nose but the worst thing was loosing the confidence that I would ever be able to complete a half marathon. Last week on my long run I felt really good and decided to go for it, so even though it wasn't a race I finally achieved it and it felt so good.
I love watching Andy and Sarah. They make me think of siblings competing against each other haha
Rewarding all round consistency over raw speed, I like that a lot
It's interesting to see how the two performed comparatively. Thanks for watching Marc.
"Welcome to the ground, where I shall live for the rest of my life" Brilliant! Great job Sarah... Those trails look pretty brutal!
Andy and Sarah together are gold. I love their competitive banter. Great to see some trail running as well.
Andy’s “weird flex” comment had me rolling. 🤣 Great job to both of you!
I love how Sarah mocks old Olympian Andy, who is still crazy fast. Love your videos together and the way these challenges are still competitive despite the running difference
Love it… “swallowed a fly!” And “welcome to the ground where I shall live…” Sarah is great!
Falling on trails are a part of it! I've fallen and skidded, adding scrapes to my hands as well as the knees.
Great video again. My worst fall was on a trail track. Thought I could jump a boggy bit...nope two legs covered in stinking boggy mud for the rest of my run.
How Sarah just styled out the swallowing of the fly I'll never know. Swallowing a fly has me keeled over and struggling for ages!
Consistency over speed any day? I agree. I gave up on my speed for the fun of hills and trails and would never look back. But both routes looked pretty stunning!
Great video as always team! And well done Sarah on the W!!
Much prefer trails over road. Good to see the comparison and difference in consistency
I'm a simple men. I see Sarah in the thumbnail, click the video and leave a like right away. Because of her awesome personality you know the content is going to be good. And paired with Andy is a win-win.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it.
My first thought was “why do they set Sarah to like this”, and my second thought is “this will be interesting”. While I’m watching it’s like “go Sarah!” 😀
Well done Sarah 🙌🏻 I loved this challenge, I mostly run hilly trails and the wonderful thing is that pace is largely irrelevant - walk the hills, run the flats and downs, enjoy the scenery (and on a long run, eat lots!)
DHB for meee!!!!! My funniest/worst fall was when I was running in the snow. I was running carefully with no problems. A car pulled into a cross street to turn in front of me, they saw me and waved me to go in front of them once they stopped. I was more focused on not running into the car than the footing and stepped on a manhole cover.... that was frozen solid! So I slipped and fell right in front of them. I got up and hobbled away like I was fine. The person got out of the car to try to check on me, but I kept hobbling/running and assured them I was fine. It tore my pants on the knee and my shirt on the elbow. It was quite painful, but even more embarrassing!
I love trail running. The time goes by so fast when on the trail!!
I fell over once doing the Round Sheffield Run going full pelt downhill thinking how much fun it was. Next thing I kicked a tree root and face planted the floor wondering what was happening. Apart from a grazed knee and elbow and wounded pride there was no damage.
Great video. Love the colours of the running kit. Worse fail is tripping over on a log ending up in cow poo!!
Andy getting lost - 100% me on the trails as well!! Love the challenges! You guys are awesome!!!
Love Rushmere parkrun. One of the most scenic parkruns in the South. Well run guys, great challenge.
Love some of these challenges. Running and talking.....that makes things even harder!
It's really funny how much of a difference the course makes! I usually run trails exclusively and was so surprised when I saw how much better my splits were on the road compared to in the forest! Great job both of you, especially having to run a surprise 5k after going all out on the first one! :D
Trails looked nice. My biggest tumble was when a little dog ran across the tow path in front of me on one of those extending leads … ouch !
Andy, us trail runners like word "brutiful" to describe our favorite stunning, yet relentless trails. Super fun challenge!
My husband fell running by the canal and ended up with a nail in his hand and a hole in his ankle! I fell whilst road running and army rolled under a parked car.
Loving the challenges!
Love running on trails, so much more interesting and peaceful than running on the road.
Just shows that road and trail are different beasts (oh and I fall consistently on both!)
Love a trail run!!
No falls yet but there’s still time!! 😂
Go Andy! Love running trails as it makes my brain work harder on balance, much needed when you have an Acoustic Neuroma trying to make everything harder.
I always run on the road but I'm definitely going to start trail running after watching this video. Some beautiful scenery.
Absolutely awesome. So much fun to watch and very creative challenge. Please keep them coming....all in good fun, healthy, and a real laugh!😀😀😀
You go girl! Your 5K pace is amazing! I recently finished a 29:16 5K, first time running sub-30. My ultimate goal is sub-20. I’m working toward that.
My funniest/scary moment was running in the dark, past a bus shelter when totally unexpectedly, a black binliner blew out of the shelter and "chased me" before I realised what it was. I did utter a small "girly" scream and almost fell over as my legs turned to jelly because I thought it was a big dog.😄 I'm always a bit wary of bus shelters now.
Loved this one… as a devout road runner trails and treadmills are my personal hell 😂
Worst fall was when a seagull swooped me, I panic jumped out of the way and into a roadworks sign where I fell and broke my arm… two days before my practical driving test 🥲 cannot make that up!
Great work Andy and Sarah! Funniest thing on a run, involves my dog Oscar on a hot day. He ran in front of me on the leash, but he loves to run so much his tail was wagging so much I got a nice breeze behind, it was like having a nice fan to keep cool on a hot day.
8:25 "or you could give me a push " and Sarah picks up Rick's humor baton and runs with it!
Sunday morning catch up with The Running Channel! Love these guys xxx
I’ve fallen many times during trail running! Proud you both made it through successfully! I most recently fell NOT during but after the race finished! I told everybody it was during the race though to avoid embarrassment 😂
Love these challenges , that lake looked lovely to run around , but the forest looked more fun (and andy .. you are still the parkrun record holder! so not that old)
Loved this challenge. And as for my worst running falls, all of them (three total) have occurred on the sidewalk with no tree roots in sight - never have fallen on the trails :-)
Going off just the footage, poor Sarah had to go through loads of Gates, while Andy clearly skipped them out :P.
Great going both! Brutal exercise that, running 2 flat out 5k's in the same day! One's enough for me :D, and only on an occasional Saturday :D.
My worst fall ever was during a trail run in the midst of December. A tree had fallen and blocked a small bridge over a creek. It did not look that far to jump over the creek next to the bridge. I gave it a try and landed on the other side. Unfortunately, I had to make a small correction of how I stood at the shore to make my way away from the water behind me. My center of gravity shifted, and I fell backside first into the creek. My entire upper body and behind were wet. I had to run home like that for 3 miles, in -5 degrees Celsius. Most miserable 3 miles of all time.
Congrats Sarah for finishing Amsterdam Marathon and beating Andy in this challenge.
Brilliant. I love trail but I'm hesitant because I often take a wrong turn on my road runs ... even though I planned them!
Love my DHB clothes. I do like Andy’s top. I had a fall when running in LA first run out and tripped on their uneven paths. The funnest experience was being chased by cows over some Devon cliffs. 🐮
Watching this before my last long run for some motivation.. 😇 running my first half marathon about 2 weeks 🤞
Nice one, where is your half marathon taking place?
@@runningchannel It will be in Terschelling, Holland 😊 Looking forward to it, but I'm also a bit nervous haha. Thanks for all the videos you all make, it helps a lot! 😁✌
Excellent video and a beautiful setting paticularly for the trail run. My funniest fall was when I slipped and ended up sliding along the path on my bum for about 5m luckily it was thick mud so I didn't get hurt. Unluckily, I then had to run through the grounds of a country house, the tourists and picnicking families had some very strange looks for the guy covered head to toe in mud.
I’ve been mostly road running since picking up running again after about 7 years off. Before that I was a cross country runner and this video has really inspired me to go run the trails again!
Give it a go Liz, let us know how you get on.
Love the challenges and the comment “ who ever plotted these courses you are a sadistic Genius” 😂😂
It was me! *evil genius laughter!"
Just finished my first every (trail) halve marathon! Thanks for all the inspiration guys! Love it! Also...perfect video to watch when your legs hurt after a run :D
Would love to see Andy run 15 minute 5km challenge again, he was injured then covid hit, so love to see him try again now that parkrun have returned.
When will Andy learn! 😂 Speaking of learning, I was showing novice trail runners tricks to running in deep snow and fell flat on my bum. They learnt what not to do and I learnt not to show off. 😀
Never wiped out on a run, but did pull some funny faces at the Great South last week.
Love trail running too
Love The Trails Builds Strength And Character Well Done Too You Both 🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♀️👍
Beautiful place to run! Interesting challenge, which is easy to say watching rather than doing!
Go Sarah and Andy!! Love the challenges!!
I like these kind of challenges because they can be done by average weekendrunners like me. Well done!
Wow, great timing. I totally ate it this weekend on my long run. Tripped over a parking block/wheelstop when I was out running in the early AM. Went ass over teakettle - scraped my palms, bruised my shoulder something awful, and I think I broke my toe!
Great challenge. Had one fall running to work. 5km run and in last 30 secs on way to work fell over a flattened cardboard box. Went flying in one armed superman pose. Broke my glasses and had blood streaming down my face
Have had one fall in my running lifetime, on week 51 of a streak of Sunday 10ks! Still amazed I got up and ran it after I fell, was determined to make it to a full year streak, now I have a nice knuckle scar to show along with the bragging rights 😆
Really entertaining vid and great for showing why trail running is so varied and so much fun :)
'when you do your 1st hill on the run and your legs just go, weooorghh' 🤣🤣
Love trail running... Not sure my legs do though! Great effort guys 😁
I always fall on my runs so not one comes to mind! Love the challenge runs ,well done guys !
That was a fun challenge! Trail running is so much fun!
I’m seriously impressed with Sarah! I feel like she’s come such a long way, gives me hope
I love that you went to Willen Lake! It makes for a really beautiful parkrun
I love the challenges, keep them coming, you guys keep me motivated to run
Love seeing the trail run. My worst fall, so far, was my very first fall. I tripped on a broken sidewalk and fell scraping my knee, hand, and elbow. I bruised my big toe. The toe nail eventually fell off. Currently, the nail on that toe has still not recovered from the fall, 16 months after the incident.
I think this might be my favourite ever running channel video. First, Sarah and Andy together is always an entertaining combo and I laughed all the way through this. Second, I am surrounded by amazing trails to run on, but they're hilly as well and it makes me feel much better seeing these two huffing and puffing just like I do. Watching Sarah tip toe down that hill was really funny, I was just like that when I started trail running!
Great race, love seeing you guys compete. I fell over recently infront of people and jumped up and carried on running, as you do! it wasn’t until no one was around that I stopped and shouted “owww that effing hurt”
I like the challenges, love Andy but for some reason I almost always want him to lose. I think it’s that l love the underdog
Go Sarah!!!!
I would say my worst fall was tripping on a root during a night time trail race. Twisted my ankle pretty bad.
I love the running channel and trying to watch a lot of the videos you download here and I have learned a lot from it. I am doing 10 k in the end of this month and half marathon on the 7th of November. Hopefully I will do better in both and I will be watching your videos to learn some tips from it. Thanks 🙏🏽🏃🏾♂️🤲
That looks like a beautiful trail though!
I haven't fallen much while running, but I have had my legs cut up by spikes in XC races many times. Completing a race with blood all over your legs is an experience!
Mid-video, I'm gonna say Andy wins, just because of his competing experience.
Funniest thing? I don't know. A couple years ago when I was on my run barefoot and going up a hill, an old man, maybe 70 years old or so and cycling, started talking to me, asking what kind of distances I had run and what I was training for (a 10k race, I hadn't run farther barefoot at that point). He was not only a nice bloke, but a super experienced runner. Turns out he had done more than 500 marathons in his time. He couldn't do running anymore, but was happy to be able to cycle around town at his age. The hill wasn't long and neither was the chat and regrettably I didn't quite catch his name, but It was a very memorable and suprising little encounter that I remember fondly. 500 marathons, sheesh!
love a good trail run , not after a 5 k flat out though !
Go Sarah and Andy 👏💪. I have had 2 bad falls, 1 on the road and 1 on the trail. Banged my head on a road sign on the sidewalk and ran into a low hanging branch on the trail. Both times I saw stars behind my eyes 😅👀😂
Did a night race thursday, with a headlight needed. Run by Silva in the forrest, such a great experience, running in the trails, in the dark
My most memorable fall: I was trail running few days after a real downpour. The trail was mostly dry. I come to a muddy segement. It looked dry, but it wasnt. The trail turned left while I was sliding straight ahead. Luckily, I didnt hurt myself
Yikes...under steer on the trails!
You two make me laugh.
I tripped over a speed bump one time, scraped my hands and knees up quite badly.
Love the double header 5Ks.
Love it, light hearted but competitive all the same. I did fall over my dog in the dark running in a field at 0430,I rolled several times down hill and lucky enough did not suffer any injury but got back up and continued to run.....😂
That trail looks beautiful, definitely inspired to try some trail runs!! 😍😍
That was...amazing! These challenges are great but the best are TRC competitors. You make running almost seem like fun (as I sit watching! 😆😉) Congrats to the winner!!
Typing with a certain swagger 😎 as I ran a Parkrun this morning and my watch said I covered 5K in 23-29, so I can officially say I ran 5K quicker than a former Olympian 😜 Ok, so Andy's was on a trail but there was a (cough) hill on my Parkrun course.
Well done Sarah.
I love the scenery of trails, but I've been scared off forever by the injury I got running at Devil's Dyke, which is on the South Downs near Hove. My foot landed in a big hole and I badly twisted my ankle, it took 18 months for the pain to stop! I still carried on doing stuff, but it hurt all the time!
Now I stick to running down Hove seafront or Hove Park, which are both dull in comparison to the beautiful downs!
loved this challenge! also love those kits for fall running!
My first long run this year involved doing it at night because I have kids to look after. I planned the route out on Google maps but it would become the most horrific route ever. The route involved some road and trail routes which sounded nice. I got stung by nettles, cut by brambles, I ended up above knee height in a bog and got lost. Instead of a two hour run it lasted four hours and I arrived at home at 2.30 am. Brutal Run!
I felt the pain of that heavy breathing!! Great challenge! My best and most spectacular fall was tripping over my own shadow 2 miles in to the Manchester marathon in 2021! Clocked a 14 minute mile while the St John’s Ambulance cleaned up my knee and lost all motivation. Got a second wind at mile 18 and ran a negative split marathon to come in at 3:57.
Was thinking there's be a twist after the first part, great challenge!
LOVED this challenge, a true head to head! Congrats Sarah! I've fallen SO MANY TIMES in hikes and trail runs that my trail name is Flying Squirrel- because my friends think I should wear a wingsuit on trails for safety! 😆 A funny race fall was on a super technical hilly 10k, with boulders to climb over, slippery bog bridges to cross... and I ate it on the 1 flat, smooth section. I barrel rolled down the path, and jumped to my feet just as the runner behind me came around the corner. She told me she heard every second of the fall, while she picked leaves and pine needles out of my hair and clothes! 😆
What a beautiful trail! Must've been a lovely run. I'd only ever run in the countryside if I could.
Fell the very first time a couple of weeks ago. Clipped a raise part of the sidewalk and went down. It was kinda cool as it felt like I was falling in slow motion. Landed on my should with no injury. Madison my yellow Labrador retriever rushed over and gave a lot of kisses. Silver lining.
Great challenge! Worst fall was at Kingdom Parkrun, because chatting! I skinned both forearms and knees and ended up at A&E. The volunteers were incredible. I did manage a group trail run the next day, but missed completing that parkrun
You Guys are wonderfull. Watching these challanges is always great fun.