Congrats!!! Such a life time achievement! This video is especially special for me cause you might not know it, Ben, but you just got me through my first half marathon. Exactly 2 months ago I was overweight , could barely run 3k, and going through some tough times in my life. I was in bed one night and it just hit me..i should run half a marathon! I popped on youtube and something about your videos hit differently than any other running based channels. It’s just that it feels like I have a friend who I care for and he happens to know a sh**load about running! I watched one of your videos where you illustrated a 2 months half marathon training program, I followed it by the dot and voila! Just finished my first half marathon at the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza. It was such an amazing experience and I couldn’t have done it without you. And I’m really glad to see you out there pushing yourself. So all the way from Alexandria, Egypt, Thank you, Ben. Keep on inspiring.
I am not ashamed to admit that nearly brought a tear to my eye. I could feel the emotion in your voice. What a journey you all went on. A lifetime of memories created by your tenacious efforts. Well done boys, well done.👏👏
Awesome stuff! Where I come from in South Africa, theres a 100km ultra called The Sky Run which starts in a lazy town called Lady Grey situated in foothills of the Drakensburg mountains. The race takes you up and through the mountains, which makes its way through my farm so it's always been a special race to me and an overwhelming experience when I finally did it last year! The mountains in my area are named after famous UK peaks, including Snowden, Ben Nevis and Scarfell. I think you need to come down and give the Sky Run a shot!
Im absolutely in awe of the guts and courage shown in this video. I can not express the amount of inspiration received. Thank you. Ben, John, Mikey well done, move over Clark Kent the real Supermen are here. I know I will watch this one many times when I need motivation to do hard things in running and in life. Thank you again for sharing your Happy Messy with us.
Well done! This is an amazing achievement and has made me inspired for my first marathon in 3 months. Also the conversation about the noodles was hilarious 😂
Fantastic, well done all three of you. What a mega achievement. It’s the looking back on your life in future days when you can tell a story. Living as many stories as you can is the spice of life.
What you've experienced with different paces is normal. I completed the El Camino in Spain in 2017 and somebody said it earlier, you walk your walk, and others walk theirs. You will share the journey at some point, but you'll learn to let people go and you'll learn to meet new ones. Just like in life.
Congrats guys!!! EPIC!!! So incredibly proud of you all!! Although it didn’t quite work out that u finished together, u must have some incredible memories to last a lifetime!! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I know in a small way how you feel. I felt similar after my IM was over. It changed me forever really. I have to say I was amazed at how upbeat you guys were for the entire journey. Enormous kudos to you all!
Watching your journey leading up to this race and then allowing us to see a glimpse into the effort, stamina, & guts it took for you three to complete this challenge is amazing and so inspiring. It's an achievement so few ever experience and you own it! I keep pushing on because of people like you. Again, congrats to ya'll and a very Happy Christmas holiday!
1) Mikey did the right think by his friends. He was truthful with them and refused to hold them back. You did the right thing too and listened to him. 2) Jon's reaction at the top of 'cliff' 1 summed up the highs. 3) What you went through probably cannot be communicated. But you know it and what it was like. That's why you (/we) do it, for that understanding of what we can do. 4) You still look like you need rest and selfcare. 5) Thank you for this and the channel, inspiring and informative.
Wow. All three of you are so strong. Mentally that took serious grit. I’ve completed quite a few 100km ultras and they’ve always broke me and I generally say never again haha but they pale into insignificance when you see the elevation you guys undertook. Just incredible. Thankyou so much for putting such an inspiring video together
Three absolute legends!! You all did so well because that looked super tough! Comparing it to the 3 peaks really put it into perspective 😮 Congratulations, epic achievement 💪
Damn man, what a tough tough go at this one. Appreciate you showing us not only the ups, but the very low downs as well. Congrats on the finish and the awesome video!
Great job all if you! It truly is an epic accomplishment! And it's not like you decided on a whim, there's so much training you've all put in to build to this accomplishment!! Thank you for sharing your journeys! P.s. Mikey - no need to apologize. You were being true to your thoughts and feelings at the time!
Brilliant video. What a journey. I was in tears hearing Mikey say it was his greatest sporting achievement and seeing the lone photographer taking his photo. Bravo, gentlemen. xx
I walked 100k from Eastbourne on the south coast and it was the toughest most brutal mental and physical challenge imaginable. I hope to run one at some point. This challenge looks next level. Elevation will kill you at the best of times. But over 100k and to this severity is next level stuff. Bravo. I take my hat off to you. The human body is incredible. (Mentally, doing a 27 min km after that amount of time on the road must have felt like an hour!)
Incredible, congratulations to you all!! I love the rawness of it all, polished scripting and editing aren't needed when the material is this amazing. The music you used at 13:21 was perfect, my hairs went up and my first thought was that "stuff" just got real. And Mikey, no need to apologize for being negative in the midst of it all... you killed it, and the mental Rollercoaster is one of the reasons we love this sport! That was EPIC, and motivates me to nail down my scary life affirming torture fest for 2023!
Thank you Ben for this video. What a journey! I did the Terrance 20, a fifth of the distance you did for Cliff 100. My first Trail race event and it was challenging for me. Pushing my limits to the max. It was a mental game on my part as well. Can feel Mikey's pain literally.
Your best video yet Ben. Extremely inspirational and well done capturing it all…..was really great to see the course. Not many people complete a marathon - even less do an ultra. But this ultra though is next level. Congrats + well done on a truly remarkable effort!
That’s one of the best videos Ben! You guys are amazing 🤩 Thankyou for taking us on your journey’s, for sharing the ups and the downs and the tears!!! Congratulations to all three of you!!! 👏👏👏 xx
Many emotions wrapped in that 100k run/walk & 23 minute video. Will have to share it to non-runners at work. Looking forward to hearing Mary's insight. Makes me wonder if I should sign up for the local 100k - 5 laps of 20k....
Great video and love the candid reflection. It's what makes this channel so authentic. I would love to run this when I return to Chiang Mai next year and your video certainly motivates me.
Wow. Thanks so much for sharing what was obviously such a physically and emotionally tough journey. I definitely had tears as I could feel just a glimpse into your struggles through such an admirable event to complete. All three of you should be super proud of yourselves as I’m sure you are. Well done boys. Well done! 👏🏼🥳👏🏼🎉
Deciding to split is such a hard hard decision to make - it’s bad enough over shorter distances but knowing that ur buddy is going to have to face such a difficult time going forward on there own is just gut wrenching no matter how much they say it’s fine and they want you to go ahead and to a degree they almost need you to go ahead but that still doesn’t make it any easier …… right I’m going to continue watching now ……
Well, that was rather intense. Great job of capturing the highs & lows. The 50K was enough pain & suffering for me. Can't imagine doing 100K in that terrain. Respect.
Massive congratulations! 🎉 I was following insta story on that day and I was dying to know about details! And Kudos to Mikey! I could see his struggles but didn’t give up!! 👏👏👏
Congrats to the 3 of you! Ultras are next level in emotions! You go through such ups and downs, it's hard to explain just how special they are despite the hurt and suffering we all go through ! The good news is, we quickly put the suffering of the race aside, and sign up for the next one...😂😂
Love the video! One suggestion: please use dynamic range compressing for the audio (particularly between music and talking bits). The difference between the loud and quiet parts is too much, I constantly need to change the volume to not get deafened or not hear you at all.
Congratulations! Inspirational stuff in my opinion. Love watching it and your great narration. I have my first road half coming up at Buriram in January and this helps keep me motivated.
I really enjoyed watching this video, it's an inspiration for myself to try and take up bigger challenges in my running adventures, i've got my first marathon planned in a couple of weeks and i've got a UTMB 50K planned in July to which i'm very looking forward to, as you i will also suffer a lot, but i'm sure that i will not regret taking up those challenges, even if i don't succeed in them, at least i tried. Keep up the good work, you put out some very good content!
Absolutely monumental, the course, the grit and determination. Bonkers in the best way. The decisions made at the time were clearly the right thing. Don't beat yourself up about it. Hat's off to Mikey for understanding what was happening and accepting the outcome and battling on.
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Congrats!!! Such a life time achievement!
This video is especially special for me cause you might not know it, Ben, but you just got me through my first half marathon. Exactly 2 months ago I was overweight , could barely run 3k, and going through some tough times in my life. I was in bed one night and it just hit me..i should run half a marathon! I popped on youtube and something about your videos hit differently than any other running based channels. It’s just that it feels like I have a friend who I care for and he happens to know a sh**load about running!
I watched one of your videos where you illustrated a 2 months half marathon training program, I followed it by the dot and voila! Just finished my first half marathon at the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
It was such an amazing experience and I couldn’t have done it without you. And I’m really glad to see you out there pushing yourself.
So all the way from Alexandria, Egypt, Thank you, Ben.
Keep on inspiring.
Congratulations, well done!
good man, well done!!
@@Hurkmaniacs Thank you!
@@carlospagos89 Thank you!
Absolutely amazing and especially to Mmikey because it takes a special mental strength to finish when it is only you and your head!
I am not ashamed to admit that nearly brought a tear to my eye. I could feel the emotion in your voice. What a journey you all went on. A lifetime of memories created by your tenacious efforts. Well done boys, well done.👏👏
Awesome stuff!
Where I come from in South Africa, theres a 100km ultra called The Sky Run which starts in a lazy town called Lady Grey situated in foothills of the Drakensburg mountains.
The race takes you up and through the mountains, which makes its way through my farm so it's always been a special race to me and an overwhelming experience when I finally did it last year!
The mountains in my area are named after famous UK peaks, including Snowden, Ben Nevis and Scarfell. I think you need to come down and give the Sky Run a shot!
Mikey is a warrior!
He definitely is 💪🏼😊
Im absolutely in awe of the guts and courage shown in this video.
I can not express the amount of inspiration received. Thank you.
Ben, John, Mikey well done, move over Clark Kent the real Supermen are here.
I know I will watch this one many times when I need motivation to do hard things in running and in life. Thank you again for sharing your Happy Messy with us.
Well done! This is an amazing achievement and has made me inspired for my first marathon in 3 months. Also the conversation about the noodles was hilarious 😂
Can I get a heart? 🥺
Incredible stuff, Ben! Thanks for taking us along for the journey! - Mack
Thanks so much, Mark. Glad you can along 😊
Fantastic, well done all three of you. What a mega achievement. It’s the looking back on your life in future days when you can tell a story. Living as many stories as you can is the spice of life.
What you've experienced with different paces is normal. I completed the El Camino in Spain in 2017 and somebody said it earlier, you walk your walk, and others walk theirs. You will share the journey at some point, but you'll learn to let people go and you'll learn to meet new ones. Just like in life.
Mental fortitude shown by all 3 of you is amazing.
Thanks Webby 😊
Congrats guys!!! EPIC!!! So incredibly proud of you all!! Although it didn’t quite work out that u finished together, u must have some incredible memories to last a lifetime!! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Yeah, I'm crying like a baby... that was so emotional! I SO get the feeling, your voice being flat, exhausted, but you did it. Warriors! 💪😭💙
How am I only just finding this channel! Top tier content! Well earned!
You didn’t look hard enough!! 😂 but welcome to the madness 😊
I know in a small way how you feel. I felt similar after my IM was over. It changed me forever really. I have to say I was amazed at how upbeat you guys were for the entire journey. Enormous kudos to you all!
Watching your journey leading up to this race and then allowing us to see a glimpse into the effort, stamina, & guts it took for you three to complete this challenge is amazing and so inspiring. It's an achievement so few ever experience and you own it! I keep pushing on because of people like you. Again, congrats to ya'll and a very Happy Christmas holiday!
1) Mikey did the right think by his friends. He was truthful with them and refused to hold them back. You did the right thing too and listened to him.
2) Jon's reaction at the top of 'cliff' 1 summed up the highs.
3) What you went through probably cannot be communicated. But you know it and what it was like. That's why you (/we) do it, for that understanding of what we can do.
4) You still look like you need rest and selfcare.
5) Thank you for this and the channel, inspiring and informative.
Wow. All three of you are so strong. Mentally that took serious grit. I’ve completed quite a few 100km ultras and they’ve always broke me and I generally say never again haha but they pale into insignificance when you see the elevation you guys undertook. Just incredible. Thankyou so much for putting such an inspiring video together
Three absolute legends!! You all did so well because that looked super tough! Comparing it to the 3 peaks really put it into perspective 😮 Congratulations, epic achievement 💪
Thanks so much, Christina 😊 I only realised the 3 peaks thing a few days ago when my father-in-law said about it. Blew my mind 🤯
@@ThisMessyHappy Yes! It blew my mind too! I never really understand elevation but I totally understood that!! ⛰️⛰️⛰️
I was waiting for this one since i saw your Strava session.. My God those views are spectacular. What an absolute achievement! Well done!!
Wow! You guy's should be incredibly proud. Great video, great edit, and an inspiration to anyone putting on a pair of running trainers!
Absolutely amazing guys what an achievement.
It encompassed the whole spectrum of emotions and at sometimes hard to watch.
you three must be so proud
Damn man, what a tough tough go at this one. Appreciate you showing us not only the ups, but the very low downs as well. Congrats on the finish and the awesome video!
Great job all if you! It truly is an epic accomplishment! And it's not like you decided on a whim, there's so much training you've all put in to build to this accomplishment!! Thank you for sharing your journeys!
P.s. Mikey - no need to apologize. You were being true to your thoughts and feelings at the time!
Absolutely incredible 👏 I agree, this is your best video to date, what a journey that was!!
Thanks dude!! You’re up next 😉 once you go ultra you’ll never go back 😂
Well done! I had same experience post Fellsman (60mi 11,000ft) back in 2018. Enjoy it. Some races never leave you.
What you guys accomplished was amazing. I have goosebumps looking at your video. I bow to you guys. HUGE respect.
You're a great runner! well done all the 3 of you!
Incredible !! the three of you should be so proud of your achievements. Thank you for sharing 💕
Great Job, What a mental battle!
Brilliant video. What a journey. I was in tears hearing Mikey say it was his greatest sporting achievement and seeing the lone photographer taking his photo. Bravo, gentlemen. xx
I walked 100k from Eastbourne on the south coast and it was the toughest most brutal mental and physical challenge imaginable. I hope to run one at some point. This challenge looks next level. Elevation will kill you at the best of times. But over 100k and to this severity is next level stuff. Bravo. I take my hat off to you. The human body is incredible. (Mentally, doing a 27 min km after that amount of time on the road must have felt like an hour!)
I've done a few "slow marathons",... but I loved them as much as my fastest ones! 🙂
Just AWESOME.
Congratulations to all of you. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Incredible, congratulations to you all!! I love the rawness of it all, polished scripting and editing aren't needed when the material is this amazing. The music you used at 13:21 was perfect, my hairs went up and my first thought was that "stuff" just got real. And Mikey, no need to apologize for being negative in the midst of it all... you killed it, and the mental Rollercoaster is one of the reasons we love this sport! That was EPIC, and motivates me to nail down my scary life affirming torture fest for 2023!
Ha ha thanks so much Kelly!! Yes get those torture fests locked down! Already planning ours 🤪😂
Epic, well done all three of you. Very emotional, but bloody real. 👏👏👏👏
all i can say is WOW! what an epic video but more importantly what an epic adventure!!!
Congrats guys! I think this is the best video of the channel :)
Just finishing this is an amazing achievement. Well done. Not even sure I could walk that over two days, never mind jog that.
Thank you Ben for this video. What a journey! I did the Terrance 20, a fifth of the distance you did for Cliff 100. My first Trail race event and it was challenging for me. Pushing my limits to the max. It was a mental game on my part as well. Can feel Mikey's pain literally.
Your best video yet Ben. Extremely inspirational and well done capturing it all…..was really great to see the course. Not many people complete a marathon - even less do an ultra. But this ultra though is next level. Congrats + well done on a truly remarkable effort!
So proud of all three of you for pushing through, very inspiring!
Three great achievements and three brilliantly engaging and funny commentators each in their own way. Loved it!
Absolutely amazing. Well done boys!!
Amazing . Keep it up Ben you are changing lives. I am the runner who I am now because of you and Mary. So inspiring ❤
Fantastic run and a wonderful video documenting it. Such emotion and determination on show. Well done
epic, mate - well done!
That’s one of the best videos Ben! You guys are amazing 🤩 Thankyou for taking us on your journey’s, for sharing the ups and the downs and the tears!!! Congratulations to all three of you!!! 👏👏👏 xx
Many emotions wrapped in that 100k run/walk & 23 minute video. Will have to share it to non-runners at work. Looking forward to hearing Mary's insight. Makes me wonder if I should sign up for the local 100k - 5 laps of 20k....
Great video and love the candid reflection. It's what makes this channel so authentic. I would love to run this when I return to Chiang Mai next year and your video certainly motivates me.
Wow. Thanks so much for sharing what was obviously such a physically and emotionally tough journey. I definitely had tears as I could feel just a glimpse into your struggles through such an admirable event to complete. All three of you should be super proud of yourselves as I’m sure you are. Well done boys. Well done! 👏🏼🥳👏🏼🎉
Amazing Ben, what an accomplishment, can’t wait to see your next adventure.
That was great. Inspiring in so many ways. Well done and thank you.
FULL RESPECT to all 3 of you. congratulations 🎉
Well done you guys. I finish just a few minutes before Mikey I finished in 25:25 yet I don't remember passing him. Tough race
Well done, dude! How did you find it? Brutal wasn’t it? I think I have PTSD 😂
Well done Ben and guy’s phenomenal effort 👍🏻
Wow. Just wow. What a fantastic achievement - and a fantastic video. Well done Ben, John and Mikey 👏💪
Congrats I’m always most proud of the races I’ve finished that didn’t go as well as planned
Well done, this was a really inspiring video.
Wow, wow, wow! Congratulations all 3 of you - epic accomplishments and epic video!
Thanks so much, Susan 😊 much appreciated
Well done !
As you have now experienced, running a 100K changes a person on the inside.
Congratulations to all three of you.
Congratulations to all three of you. Truly inspirational.
Well in Ben! Did incredibly!
Incredible Journey!! Very emotional video. You guys achieve something that goes beyond just running. Congratulations!!
Absolutely awesome stuff Ben 👏 the three of you smashed it 💪 what great memories to make. The emotion was clear to hear in you voice. Well done 👍
Deciding to split is such a hard hard decision to make - it’s bad enough over shorter distances but knowing that ur buddy is going to have to face such a difficult time going forward on there own is just gut wrenching no matter how much they say it’s fine and they want you to go ahead and to a degree they almost need you to go ahead but that still doesn’t make it any easier …… right I’m going to continue watching now ……
Thanks for sharing your journey Ben. Breathtaking and brutal course from what you shared.
Well, that was rather intense. Great job of capturing the highs & lows. The 50K was enough pain & suffering for me. Can't imagine doing 100K in that terrain. Respect.
Massive congratulations! 🎉 I was following insta story on that day and I was dying to know about details! And Kudos to Mikey! I could see his struggles but didn’t give up!! 👏👏👏
Ahh thanks so much. Yes huge props to everyone who finished that beast. Was brutal indeed 🤢😂
@@ThisMessyHappy oh I could see how tough the race was! Don’t know how you all managed! I’m so looking forward to watching Mary’s race video!! 🤩
Congrats to the 3 of you! Ultras are next level in emotions! You go through such ups and downs, it's hard to explain just how special they are despite the hurt and suffering we all go through ! The good news is, we quickly put the suffering of the race aside, and sign up for the next one...😂😂
Very cray-cray, epic. The video of all time, truly
Absolutely, finishing is the goal, time is irrelevant.
Just is awe of you all and this incredible achievement. A beautiful memory for life 💚
Amazing guys!! Great job all of you!! Martin
Love the video! One suggestion: please use dynamic range compressing for the audio (particularly between music and talking bits). The difference between the loud and quiet parts is too much, I constantly need to change the volume to not get deafened or not hear you at all.
Was looking forward to this one and it didn’t disappoint. Well done to all of you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
All three of you are flipping amazing!!! Job well done!!! The scenery was epic!!
Congratulations! Inspirational stuff in my opinion. Love watching it and your great narration. I have my first road half coming up at Buriram in January and this helps keep me motivated.
I really enjoyed watching this video, it's an inspiration for myself to try and take up bigger challenges in my running adventures, i've got my first marathon planned in a couple of weeks and i've got a UTMB 50K planned in July to which i'm very looking forward to, as you i will also suffer a lot, but i'm sure that i will not regret taking up those challenges, even if i don't succeed in them, at least i tried. Keep up the good work, you put out some very good content!
I love the optimism at 15.00, just "less than a marathon left".
Ha ha only way I could survive. Gallows humour 😂
That’s what I though too! Used to the ‘only a parkrun to go’ but that is another level! 😂
Congratulations on a wonderful feat. All the best for all your future endeavors.
Thanks so much. I appreciate that 😊
Epic. Both the video and the race.
Well done, congratulations! 👍🏻 for sharing your impressive journey as well as the vulnerable moments. ❤️
Absolute legend. Well done
Thank you so much 😊
Aw u guys - massive congratulations to all three of you - especially to Mickey …… amazing amazing achievement congratulations to all of you 💪💥🏆 xx
Mikey you’re my hero 😊 Great stuff all of you and brilliant video record of it
Wow. Epic race. Epic video. Well done to all three of you.
Insane well done bro 👊
Thanks dude! Much appreciated. Still broken 😂
Brilliant video and fantastic achievements for all three of you. Almost brought a tear to my eye at the end!
Absolutely amazing!!
Great to see Ben huge congrats on the finish to all of you😀 give it a week and you’ll start thinking of the next extreme challenge 😅
Ha ha thanks, buddy! I think maybe 2 weeks 😉😂 but it is frightening how quickly you forget the pain!
That was such an awesome video to watch!! ❤
What an epic journey that was! You are all heroes!
Super amazing! Very heart-felt❤
Amazing!!!
Truly awesome video! It gave my so much inspiration to try trail running this uploading year. Thanks!
Superb achievement for you all, major kudos.
Absolutely monumental, the course, the grit and determination. Bonkers in the best way. The decisions made at the time were clearly the right thing. Don't beat yourself up about it. Hat's off to Mikey for understanding what was happening and accepting the outcome and battling on.
just WOW 🙌
Absolutely amazing well done all 3 of you, awesome running such a massive challenge amazing achievement 😍🏃😍