PARKRUN LAST TO FIRST? I GAVE THAT A FULL SEND!
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Always good to keep training exciting!
I want you to be me this run!
Parkrun.. What a great concept and congrats to all to took part.
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Nick
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Needed a rear cam too, to see peoples reactions haha
Such a good idea - I’m still imagining what my face looks like when I saw you…🍦🥊🥊👉👉👉👉👉👉
With 90% of the audio of you breathing heavily…. My wife did put her head around the door to make sure I wasn’t watching anything untoward 😅😂
Bwahahahaha actually laughed out loud when I read this!! 🤣🤣
+constantly talking about positions +rithmic clapping
Looolll!
I had the exact same comment said to me
NSFW ! 😂
Poor Tom thinking he’s creating his magnum opus only for the Go Pro to be turned off. 😂
🤣🤣 he was more disappointed than me!! All good fun in the end!
You know what I also like doing now and again. Finishing parkrun, then running back and pacing slower runners, and also watching them all finish. That's the true Parkrun spirit in my humble opinion.
I love doing that!
100% well done for that, I have had a fast finisher come back to help me when I was starting out. Got me a PB.
I remember sleeping in and missing the start of parkrun and starting last. It was such a lovely experience going past so many parkrunners and really gave me a different perspective on my local parkrun. I was so glad i woke up late even though my time was slower than normal. Well done Nick.
You see those comments about parkrun all the time “not in the spirit of it”. If it’s meant to be inclusive why are the ones that go on about inclusivity shaming the faster runners. It reminds me of when you’re very good at your job and you get that one person saying stop working so hard you’re showing the rest of us up. I’ll do me, you do you.
In a similar vein, having volunteered quite a lot at parkrun, I find that park-users who complain about others not 'sharing the park' are almost always the worst offenders - their idea of sharing is that everyone else should get well out of their way. One lady once insisted on walking in the centre of a path with her arms out wide, about 300 metres from the start of a parkrun with around 700 runners (I'd told her there would soon be a run coming through - everyone else just takes another path, stands to the side, and a few carry on walking but at the side of the path). Of course, it was all the fault of the runners who weren't sharing the park...
The only difference to running meets is that the time is "officially" measured. So why not run fast and achieve your best time. And quite honestly 90% of parkrunners don't have the "problem" of being fast. In my city the fastest person is usually 22+ minutes. And I have to admit: I'm sorry but I ran a 15:30 there once. I hope I didn't trigger anyone with it, but I thought parkrun was there to get timed. I will exclude myself in the future because I am too fast for the event 😂 At Nick's Instagram reel there were also comments from people who were put off by his fast time. Excuse me? Can't you see the hundreds of other "slow" runners in the background?
I'm a big fan of Nick, and love his videos - but this one did make me a little uncomfortable, and I want to try to explain why.... You can see from the video it's already pretty congested in the middle and at the back. As a middle/back of the pack runner - I find the first few minutes of park run difficult and claustrophobic. I'm constantly being jostled as I, and everyone around me is trying to find their stride. It's already difficult trying to find gaps, overtake people with dogs, children and buggies, whilst trying not to get in other peoples way. To have a very fast runner, deliberately start at the back, then try to blast through - just adds to the chaos. I get the sense that a lot of people in this park run knew Nick, and were happy to let him through - but I would hate for this to catch on. I think it's respectful, where possible, to try to start in roughly the position for the speed you plan to run at - this helps us all to have as unimpeeded run as possible.
@@fsdfgwe If you can run mid 15s everyone else can kiss your backside.
Totally agree - many of the "let's be inclusive" brigade are completely exclusive for the fast parkrunners. Parkrun is for all - fast, slow, walk, run - personally i salute this video
parkrun is honestly amazing, its my favourite part of the week
I was one of the Dulwich Runners in the pack around the top 30 - it was humbling to see how fast you came past with 1.5 laps to go. I was going around 3.32 per k pace.
You had a solid pack I must say 🙌🏻 hope you did well in your club champs!
I think the costume was humerus
Honestly mate my favourite KZheadr right now. Feels like I’m watching a friend when watching your videos with how intimate and down the earth the videos feel. Keep pumping them out bro 💪🏼
Love to see a race to the finish!! Thanks for the amazing content!
Pleasure! Glad you enjoyed this one as much as I did 🙌🏻
Love your vids, Nick! Huge inspiration and a great source of knowledge, tips and motivation! Wishing you all the best!
That was brilliant listening to your cadence and your breathing. Inspirational.
Well done Nick. great video, I noticed you on my first lap and thought crums he quick today. I feel this type of video is lovely for all the other runners who see them selfs at least once as you go by.
Nice one, the great thing about park run is you can do what works for you and what motivates you, that was in the spirit of things.
I think thats a great conquest. Actually shows how your hard work is rewarded. Just how much better you are than an average runner.
love the head cam footage your doing at the mo.keep up the great content.
Love it Champ! Beast mode! 💙🤍 Your shadow when you went round the outside round the outside! 🚀💪🏼🤣
Totally agree park run is for everyone!
Great idea. Brilliant execution. Your content just keeps getter better Nick 👌
Head cam this one. We’ll get the Go Pro right next one 😉 glad you could join me for this one!
Love these park run videos!
Loved that Nick. Good effort!👍
That's really great running and very respectful to other runners. Well done 👏
Great effort! I enjoyed watching.
This was a fun video! I've started both the Amsterdam Half Marathon and the Great North Run at the very back & it was a lot of fun overtaking a few people. Will have to try it at a big parkrun now.
That was cool. Really fun to watch!
Fun fact: Your breathing and cadence together actually sounds like a Waltz. 123, 123, 123 🎼
Where's D Mills?
Yep he did this on you tube a few weeks ago. It doesn't detract from this video, still a great thing to do.
Amazing Nick , you make top videos and put loads of effort in. Beast 👍🏻🏃♂️💨💨💨
Great running, I found out about your channel after this run, I was 10th btw. Love the videos and thought processes as you run!
Great to hear and well done on a solid run!!
Brilliant running look forward your running. Wish we had park run in thailand .
Parkrun is for everyone!! Well done Nick!!
I've done that a few times, it's quite fun. Almost a Handicap Parkrun for fun of course!!
Nice race, congratulations
Good idea. 👍👍
Great run! I met Tom the other day after the Victoria Park Half Marathon. Top guy and what a small world 😂
Ha ha, Nick! This was superb! I used to do this a few years ago so you brought back some great memories for me. The best I did starting from the back was finishing with a mid 40s placing, which wasn't bad for a 52 year old. The other variant on this which you might like to try, is to give the field a fixed time head start. But do your research on the field so you know how much of a handicap you need to give!
Got my heart beating just watching this and hearing you breath so hard 😂 You worked hard and ran hard. Great effort.
Amazing to see you run like this from your POV! Crazy large Parkrun - my local run is max 80 people. :D
I was a sub 18 runner - one parkrun in 2016 I started 4 mins late, finished with a 'low 21 min' time. My great memory is nearly everyone I passed looking back to see wtf was bearing down on them. I was a VERY loud puffing 82kg runner at my 100% pace. Two weeks later I was lucky enough to be first finisher in 17'26". Helps if you start on time.
Amazing Nick. These are crazy numbers! Parkruns in Scotland have way less people. You also have to travel way further to get to one in most areas. Will never understand people who go out a run at the same time as parkrun and don’t just join in.. so many people doing it here!
You got a long way to go before comming close to ... Yster Bester !!! Good luck !!!
Great video!
So satisfying to see you pass so many people
This makes me think of XC races where my goal was "as long as the fastest guys don't lap me" 😅
Nice one, Nick
8ta great work Nick always record before you start and touch the screen to see if it records...
I’m nowhere near as quick as you are, Nick; I’ll typically be top 10 or 20 of 300. Still, from running occasionally with friends further back, I’m always really struck by how completely different the race (sorry, run) feels in the mid-pack compared to the relative freedom up front. Love this style of video. It reminds me of the Red Bull Fox Hunt on the mountain bikes. 🙂
I love this comment. It's great hearing you faster runners recognise this. As a mid to back of the pack runner, I spend the first 5mins or so getting stuck behind and jostled by other runners. Then just as it starts to thin out, and I'm finding my rhythm, we get the "KEEP LEFT" as the speedies come thundering through! But like you say, it should be a run, not a race, so I try not to let it bother me. But somehow it helps knowing you guys (some of you at least!) are aware. Thank you! :)
@@user-ij9uk8tn8i Absolutely true, I have to recognise it! It’s such a different experience. On my local parkrun there is a 180 turn around the 1km mark, by which point I’m normally sitting in my rhythm somewhere around 10th with all the space I need; when I see my wife (a ~30 min runner) coming the other way, it’s like looking for her at a music festival! As for making the lapped runners keep out of the way, it bothers me if people are feeling intimidated by faster runners. For my part, it’s 100% *my* problem to get around runners I’m lapping. Yes, I appreciate the courtesy of keeping to one side, but I certainly don’t expect it on a parkrun.
@@ScottishJazzmanHahah! Yes. It does get pretty crowded further back. It's nice to hear you don't expect the people you're lapping to move over for you, but I do try to if I can. I can imagine it must be very frustrating if you're really going for it, and the people you are trying to lap are 3-abreast and oblivious. I think, where possible, we should all try to be aware of, and respect each other. (Which, I think, most people do.)
You're crushing souls Nick.
Hopefully motivating each other. Thats what it’s all about 👊🏻
Would have loved to see you finish first at the end but great effort.... loved the video footage, thank you for sharing.
I've never broken into top 50 on my two runs here.. So you got me at 4min likely if i was there. Good to see how faster runners look like
❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥 Your the man!
I love this video. I was huffing and puffing just watching and hearing you run. I don't like it when I have to pass people. It is like they are in the way. Well, I only pass two or three people when I race. I usually finish last.
“I’m not going to do too much commentating on this video” 1 min later……. “Here I am going round the outside, round the outside, round the outside” 😂 Great video. This was brilliant. Well done :-)
Watching this really makes me want to get faster. Great video Nick! The real question is; how long did it take you to work out how many people you had overtaken for each of the updates?
🤣🤣🤣 I lot longer than it took me do the run I’ll tell you that much!! Right before posting I was one number out and had to do it all again. The joys!! Always worth it 😉
Good to hear that breathing, I'm sometimes embarrassed by my 5k PB attempts and how hard I think I'm breathing! Working on getting under 17 minutes at the moment and I'm also relieved to see my heart rate is the same as yours, I sometimes think it's too low and I need to push more.
Over 700 runners all with completely unique running styles/techniques That’s cool!
Oh man i could just listen to this guy's accent all day long 😂Plus, what a legend😁
THIS IS ONE OF YOUR MOST INTERESTING VIDEOS
I like this concept for a video. Could be a fun way to make an otherwise standard local 5k a bit more challenging!
Nice running.
Had to watch it in my bedroom. My sister keep staring at me. But kudos to you nick. 🙌🏼
🤣🤣🤣 couldn’t turn the sound off either as you wouldn’t get the feel for the video. Thanks 🙌🏻
This must have been really fun for you. And "not in spirit with ParkRun"?? Everyone's running his own parkrun. Loved this video, very existing to see where you end up :D
Awesome video, that’s definitely something a bit different haha, ✅🥳👊🏼👍🏼✌️🙏🏃🏽♂️
Great video as always Nick! I have two questions for videos that I think would be really beneficial. The first is how to breath when running, especially when running at a fast pace and getting into a rhythm etc... The second is what running shoe would be best for training for 5ks and also then racing in the same shoe. Thanks!
Sure thing. When it comes to breathing you need to try find rhythm. Focus and concentration to get the most out. Secondly the adidas Takumi Sen 10 or Pro 3 is what you’re after 🔥
BOOM!!!!!!!!!
My version of this was running a HM to a local parkrun, miss the start, run hard to catch up, then HM home. 🤣 Not quite at your pace Nick haha.
I've had some similar experiences, non deliberately; Hearing the gun go off whilst I'm in the loo, in a race against inferior competition where I followed the correct course and the field made a shortcut (I still won that), and divisionally starting a race in the wrong wave (I won my division, but didn't know). As a displaced sprinter, I get to blow past people who have no answer frequently, perhaps that is the charge that kept me running distance. The fun one is the Bay to Breakers, at the time one of the largest races in the world. Running something like a :56 last 400 vs a mob of people running 6 minute pace, picking them off in gobs, is ridiculous, but a cool feeling.
My local parkrun operates a keep left policy to give the faster runners somewhere to overtake. Seems that would be a good idea here.
I was out of breath just watching that. Well done.
Big parkrun
Nothing worse than going round the outside only to find you need to hurdle a park bench 😂
Love this… what is the camera you use on your cap?
Insta 360 GO 3
The heavy breathing shows how hard you work, need to find and out and back course with start in the middle gives a better perspective of who you are trying to catch, great video, I love parkrun.
How did you keep track of your position at the beginning? Is it just an estimate or were you counting it somehow
Really cool concept 🎉👌 If would be great if you want a way to show real time pace/distance abit like a race on TV.
Yes there’s actually a program for that. I agree, let me get on it 👌🏻
This is amazing! How did you know your position and how many people you had overtaken? Did someone count? I have literally no clue where I am in the pack 😄
I'm betting there were a lot of confused people thinking they were being lapped ha 😂
You just completed the Kessel run in 50 par secs!
3:02 Pace 😮😮😮. Inseanity.
Can you make a video about doping? How common do you think it is for people with sub 2.20 marathons. Also doping among the elites, several Kenyans have been caught do you think its a widespread problem or just a few "bad apples"
To be honest I’m not clued up enough to make a video on this. I know it’s a problem in Kenya but I haven’t been there and been around it so I can’t comment on it. I’ve never once in my life been offered performance enhancing drugs. I think people know better 🤣🙌🏻
Great video Nick. Love the Eminem reference! 😊
Honestly quite like having the camera so close to your mouth. Even in other videos where you say "I'm breathing heavily now as you can hear" you still don't sound like your suffering that much. In this video it's obvious and honestly quite comforting to hear.
i cant understand why so many people running/walking the opposite way are in the road and not on the path. there seems to be a real clear group of people (our way too) who just seem to want to be awkward to these events, as though they are a permanent inconvenience. We had some lady walking her dog through a finish funnel at a local 10k race (dog off lead) with a face like thunder. Totally petty for an event that happen twice a year here
That was a great watch Nick 🏃🏼🙂 Will it be your first time running Manchester Marathon?
Yes!!! First time in Manchester actually. 3 weeks to goooo!
Have a great run@@justalilbester My 2nd ever marathon, ran it last year after breaking my sacrum twice in 6 months. Ran 3.05.41, hoping to go a bit faster 🏃🏼
Id count it an honour to have a 3 minute / pr km runner in amongst the pack
I say if you have started last you could gotten first but you waited for all of those people to go first until last and then catch. If you have been lined up last it could have been a fair game.
Which shoe are you using?
Is it intentional breathing like that from the off when running at a high effort?is there a benefit?
Remember this camera is very close to my mouth. So it sounds heavier than what it is.
Hey Nick, great run! May I ask what is the name of the headphones you have around your neck in the end of the video? Going to update mine soon, looking for different options. Thanks.
Yes sure, they're Shokz Openrun Pro headphones. You'll love them. They're bone conduction too, so they're safer.
@@justalilbester thanks!
Now do first to last
You should do the tail walking volunteer next!
For sure. Parkrun wouldn’t exist without volunteers so I often get involved. 🙌🏻
I started last at my local parkrun (Stratford upon Avon, 3 laps, pancake flat) recently. I was so delayed that I had to catch up to the tailwalker! I was so annoyed at being late that I ran my fastest ever 5k in 20mins 15s - sadly the official result doesn't quite reflect this!
Great run....come over to Mexico and run in Huatulco Trail 777
How did you know your exact position at every Km? I'd be very impressed if you managed not only an accurate count but also remembering all the figures :-) Great run!!
I had no bloody clue 🤯 only realised when I got my number at the end.
His exact position was number one. Under 15'30", filmed, starting a minute behind.
Crazy maxing it for 16 minutes
Now then young Nick, how on earth did you know your position in the field at all times 🤔!? Very entertaining. I’ve done it the other way around 🤣
I didn’t 🤣 but either way I was going to give it a good full send!!
I did my second parkrun last saturday. There were 6 runners. 🙂
wich camera is attached to your cap?
Insta 360 Go 3