My painful first trail half marathon | Glentress race vlog
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- My painful first trail half marathon | Glentress race vlog
Glentress Forest in the Scottish Borders is about 30 miles from Edinburgh. It is also the site of my first ever trail half marathon. This video documents my painful first trail half marathon experience.
I admit to being woefully naïve about what to expect from this race. I hadn’t quite appreciated just how much climbing would be involved. The total ascent of 2953 feet is just short of the full height of a Scottish Munro (mountains in Scotland over the height of 3000 feet). For some reason, this information either didn’t compute with me or I had conveniently chosen to ignore it.
Standing on the start line alongside 250 other brave souls, I had a mixture of nerves, excitement and apathy. Apart from the hills, I had little idea about what lay in store but I was aware that the opening to the Glentress Half Marathon was going to be a baptism of fire.
Every other race I have run in the past has been more or less flat and I have a good idea about how fast I need to run in order to leave with some energy at the end. I didn’t know how to pace this race and when I was confronted with an unrelenting uphill course, I didn’t know how much energy to exert - especially in these early stages. I just didn’t want to burn out after 20 minutes.
Glentress Forest is known as one of Scotland’s finest Mountain Bike trails. The trail half marathon there is also one of the hardest runs I have ever undertaken.
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Well done and thank you for the video. Now I know what to expect in three weeks 😳😆
Thank you very much. Best of luck to you. It's a very tough course, but very worthwhile!
Nice job with the race, filming the beautiful scenery and motivational documentary!
Thank you so much!
Hi Richard - what an amazing achievement, you did fantastically well, especially for your first trail run. I know Glentress pretty well and the tracks can be quite rough & slippery, so you deserve real credit 🙂 I couldn't even manage 500 yards on that hill! The drone shots were so beautiful and you proved again what a wonderful filmmaker you are. Looking forward to the next one, all the best, David
Too kind! Thank you so much David. Always appreciate your support 🙂
Your drone shots look identical to Apple's screen savers, beautiful!
If you don't reassess the choices you have made in life halfway through, is it really worth doing?!
Looks like a Sunday morning well spent to me. Congrats on the excellent finish.
Well done! The video was good to see as well.
Thank you so much!
Awesome video, I will be tackling the 10k in 2025!
Thank you and I wish you the best of luck