Ultra Running Training VLOG - Episode 2 - Zion Ultra Marathon + Taper
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Are you curious about how to train to run an ultra marathon? Welcome to my running training VLOG - episode 2. In this training VLOG episode, I discuss the last 2 weeks leading up to Zion Ultra Marathon 100 miles.
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Those two weeks were drastically different. The first was the last week of my training block, which included 70 miles of running, some hill training, interval, tempo run and strength workout. The second week was tapering - mostly moving my body to keep loose while preparing for zion ultra marathon. And then the race! Trail running at its best.
Only 3 weeks before Cocodona 250 - things are getting real! Also, I'm preparing for Mt Fuji 100 ultra marathon - oh boy the next few weeks will be intense!
As always - Thanks for watching and remember -
Work Hard!
Believe in yourself!
Push your limits!
Simon
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It was great meeting so many of you at Zion!
I hope your recovery (...healing) is going as well as mine. It's going shockingly fast compared to usual. Also, working hard on the Zion race recap - such a fantastic race, I can't wait to share it :)
we cant wait to watch it bro!!
Hey Simon. I'd join you guys for a 25 miler but damn BPH is acting up again and I'm laid up
It was nice meeting you. It was at the finish so I think we were both a little spent. It would’ve been nice if we were more fresh to chat a little. No worries, congrats on another 100
@@keolatage Nice meeting you! And sorry about that - I was out really fast after the race. I really needed to lay down and sleep some!
@@johnsrous1616 Oh no, hope you get better soon.
Thanks! Congratulations on Zion.
Thanks! Always one of the highlight for the year. Never gets old!
Very nice! Such great views! I am on my 6th pair of Speedgoats now so I really enjoy them.
It was my first race with them, and I think I've very happy to far. I wish the toe protection was a bit stronger but otherwise it felt like running on a cloud. Plus, they have "SG" on them at the back, which is clearly for "Simon Guerard". Very thoughtful from Hoka to dedicate their shoes to me
I ran my first ultra yesterday and it did not go to plan at all. But I found the finish line! Part of my gratitude also goes out to you and your great content. Your videos are super informative and interesting and I keep finding myself applying your suggestions in my hard moments. Also, can you add a metric translation onto your videos? The imperial system only has limited, local relevance nowadays.
Congratulations Natalia!! I guess things almost never go according to plan, but ultra running is about finding solution and reaching that finish line despite everting - so congratulation! I hope your body is doing OK / you are recovering well.
I'll try to remember about metric - I try to had them but sometimes forgot. I'll be more mindful of it, thank you for the suggestion
Congratulations on Zion!!
Thanks - it's such a great race :)
I had so much fun! I mean, it was hard ...and I seriously got negative at some point... But for whatever reason, I ALWAYS meet a bunch of nice folks at Zion. It really makes the experience that much more special
Thank you 👍👍👍
Thanks!
Congrats on the finish - great place, too! Ordered some Darn Tough socks, Clif Bloks chews and Liquid I.V. off your affiliate links preparing for my first 50k!
Awesome, thanks :) What's your race?
Darn tough are great - and they have (or had?) a life time warranty which I've used in the past. Sent back socks with holes, got new ones. They're seriously great socks - I just might huh...abuse my feet more than average lol.
@@runningwithsimon Riley Trails Ultra 50k in Holland, MI - pretty flat, but fun local trail with just enough up and down and some sand to make it fun. Hoping to finish strong and confident to sign up for the North Country Trail 50 Miler in Michigan this fall, after this one!
Thanks!
Thank you so much !
Another wicked video
Love how you hit 71 miles a week before
Yeah that was a good training block. Maybe shouldn't have done so much so close to Zion, but you gotta do what you gotta do!
@@runningwithsimon do you think that much volume triggered something in your knee? I’m not sure the science or how “ they “ determine x amount of miles / elevation for a taper… but you hitting 1 or 2 hundred milers a month plus training, I’m sure your weekly avg. is high up there and in my mind I feel you would recover rather quickly. I think that was a sweet set up for your race
@@JetForce-NathanHigginson My weekly average - is high, but I think lower than when I was racing less frequently. But yes, I bounce back quickly when I can have proper rest the week after (decent amount of sleep). It's not always possible because of work, but when I can, it's a huge difference. As for knee thing - sometimes I'll feel something, but it's always clear that this is my quad struggling. But by far the most common issue for me is inflammation in my Achilles / heel. I'd say maybe 50% of my race this is THE thing that slows me down / make me switch to walking. It then takes a couple of days to feel "OK", and full heal is hard (if it happened one race, it's very likely to occur the next one if I don't have 4+ weeks)
@@runningwithsimon the archiles is brutal. I couldn’t imagine doing 1 - 2 100 mile races a month with that condition
With your Achilles issue do you find the decent are pretty brutal on it ? Accents are very manageable for me. Flat and decent not so much
I have something similar.. I’m finding before a run heat it
After the run ice / heat.
I have this fit pulse gun with this 4 finger attachment… the archilles fits in between it, seems to work.
@@JetForce-NathanHigginson Steep uphill is what triggers it (you'll see at miles 40 and 72 tahoe, there was a brutal climb). Then it's just painful at every steps. Visibly swollen. Not much to do but look forward to being done... :/
Thank you Simon
Sure thing! Next one soonish!
Hi Simon, Zion looks like a great race. Some feedback for your editing. Some of the info boxes and texts you add as overlays are hard to fully catch for their short duraration. I think it's especially true when you add your work out sessions in these info boxes. I find myself having to go back, pause the video to read in order to comprehend your message. With this said, I am not native English so that may influence my reading comprehension. And it's not always, but the amount of info you add in the overlays differ, it's perfectly fine when it's like these one row text messages.
Thanks for sharing all this content with us!
Thanks for the feedback! I'll work on it. Do you have an example? I think I know what you mean, but just to be sure.
We're not all native english, no worries. Maybe I should limit to 1 line at the time or something. Anyhow - thanks, I want this to be accessible to all so it's very helpful to know.
I went back and watched it from start to finish again. And I have to go back on the text line comment in this video. At 10:29 you have a double line for which I barely catch, as I am also listening, and not focusing on reading it catches my attention and I want to read it. With that said, I think I watch majority of your vidoes, atleast dating 6 months back and I have thought about this before. Think I have seen tripple lines as well. I know nothing about editing, so not sure how hard it is to change based on lines, but having 3 sec (which seems to be your default time) per line probably does the trick for most. I don't mind the longer message per say, I just want to read it.
And now to why I made my feedback comment (after rewatching)
These training vlog vidoes engage me. You are an inspiration so you sharing some details along with your personal perception of the sessions really interest me.
5:05 you show overview. At this point I am not aware you will deepdive in to each day and I pause just to get a feel for how your week was.
5:16 again info box I am unable to comprehend, it also comes before you speak about your perception or it so not sure if you will address it vocally at this point.
6:22 here I am super engaged, how does a quality workout for a guy who runs 100 miles every month look? I pause to comprehend the details of what you are describing to get the full picture.
8:40 again similar, you got me very interested about tempo. I want to hear your perception but also want to truly comprehend the data you present. Mind overflows a bit trying to take both aspects in, in such a short time span.
14:45 here I actually miss the data box (I know you show it earlier). First time I watched it I actually rewinded here to get the data table to have the numbers on the words you describe.
And same feedback for the entire taper week. Since you are on a monthly cycle I am really curious how your taper week means.
All in all, it's not super annoying, just some feedback that comes from an engaged viewer that is curious and thankful that you share detailed insight, the data with your perception of the exercise at the time.
@@danieljohnsson1862 Thanks! That's super helpful and valuable feedback - and very precise. I'll work on incorporating in the future - the level of detail is great. I'm not much of a video editor myself - I just picked up a camera one day and do things without any training or instruction - just trial and error. Eye balling everything. That will help me adjust. Much appreciated!
@@runningwithsimon your videos are great. I enjoy them all very much, don't sweat the editing!
I think it's this vlog format who is a bit more demanding since you present your exercise data. Keep being you and do it your way!
Congratulations on the Zion finish. Looking forward to the race recap video
It's fun to put those movie together - watching the clips really brings me back there (minus the pain)
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Thnaks for all, keep them coming i wil keep learning
haha that was fast! Faster than me! And thanks :)
Great video and love the Speedgoats!
They were legit great - only wished the toe were a little sturdier but otherwise I'm very positively surprised.
Great vid and info as usual!
Appreciate it!
Lets go simon!!!!
I'm going, I'm going!
Simon, you’re turning more American. Your cursing is better. F*ck yeah!
South Park is a great teacher!
Wow! great content.. Mt Fuji??? awesome!!!
I am curious about how do you make travel plans for every race., every month and some of your races are international. Planning for one itself is too overwhelming for me
Mt Fuji has been a dream for such a long time - it's probably in my top5, so when the opportunity came last minute, I couldn't say no! It's also going to be my first ever international race - which definitely complicates things (but money-wise isn't bad - the flight would have been the worse but I used miles from work). As for the logistics, I work hybrid (in office, on the road, and remotely), which makes everything more feasible (there's no way I could race so much otherwise...it's hard to take time off with my work). Actually cocodona is tricky because I'm off the grid for a full week. My boss isn't happy about that...
It's tiering to travel so much (and this time, the time zone difference will be a killer...) but getting used to it. When it's a race say like zion, we can simply drive which makes it simpler. Book a room for the week, work from there, race weekend, back on sunday. Fuji will be trickier of course.
@runningwithsimon Thank you for replying. That's great you get to work on the road. my work doesn't allow me to work outside US. Big bummer for me. Mt Fuji sounds really exciting, I'll be looking forward to that. I am nowhere near racing 100 miles yet but your videos are so informational when I am ready. Thank you and good luck 👍 😊
Mmm hmm.... SUUURE you had a strength workout that you forgot to record. ME TOO!! 😂😂 I love what you said about races being fun festivals. That's how I feel, too. I'm not going through all of this effort, and spending money and time, to be stressed and unhappy on race day.
What's your opinion on gators? You run in a lot of sand, but I don't think I've seen you wear them.
I had my phase with gaiters. Dirty girls of course - fun and cool. I picked it up more from hiking than running. I still have them but, I don't know. I grew out of them. I feel it's not enough to keep things like sand out. It helps with bigger stuff like tiny rocks, but that's rarely such a big issue. Maybe I just don't have the right gaiters + shoe combo. Because most of my shoes, the fabric is meshy enough to eventually let sand it. Which helps my feet breath (and probably helps with blisters) but not great for sand. I feel I'd work on a solution if I raced marathon des sables (or if I ever return to freaking antelope...sigh)
I do use gaiters a lot more in winter (but obviously, winter gaiters). Totally different there - I'd hardly ever go in serious snow without them. They sadly don't look nearly as cool.
And you should have seen my face when I was reviewing my workout on strava ahead of filming this. I was like 'hey...no hey! where's the strenght session?!?!? nooooo"
Can't wait to watch the video telling us about your voyage to full recovery from finishing the Zion 100-mile ultra.
I picked the wrong race apparently! For some magical reason, I'm already almost fine. Which is much faster than usual. Ooops! (although a common mistake we all fall for is thinking we're recovered, go out train hard, and realize that nope nope nope!)
by good audio, do you mean that I could hear you fart ..? 😁
So embarrassing...
Congratulations on 'Celebrating ' all your hard earned training during your Zion hundo!!! 🥳💯
Big party - staying up all night, meeting new people etc.. Heck, drinking coke too, petting dogs. My 8 year old self would think it's the coolest birthday party ever