Biggest mistake I made was running all my runs at the same pace for the first 2 years of my running, which meant not a lot of progression. It wasn’t until I varied my paces and training that I noticed any performance benefits. Still run my easy runs too fast 🙄, but I’m really working on that now! Thanks Ben for all your guidance! 😊
@@fastinradfordable I’m not sure how to do it otherwise. I’m a bit of a newb to that. I’ve always just ran. So any suggestions I’ll be happy to take ☺️
Great Video I’ve only been running a little over a year so I’ve made lots of mistakes some I know about some I don’t know about yet. The biggest thing I’ve learned is making sure you eat right it is hard to run at a caloric deficit
Definitely a key learning was running too fast on my training runs. Once I incorporated more easy runs and also varied pace + elevation, I started to see more gains along with faster times. Thanks for the quality content as always!
Strength training to protect the joints (knees, ankles & hips) for longevity is essential. Training on softer surfaces to break up road running to lessen impact/stress through your load.
Great video, thanks! Too much too soon (now following your marathon plan, so far so good) and not checking your washing pile after a run and before it goes in the machine. Lost a £350 Garmin that way!
Might be a silly question, but should your run cadence be up near the 180s on your slow runs? I can only get to 180 when doing hard efforts, rest of the time its down near the 160s.
My biggest running mistake was to keep buying shoes as they would come up on special (more based on the "saving" and "price" than performance or need) from Wiggle and Running Warehouse. Having so many shoes and shoes that aren't great. I still have about 25 that I am very slowly building mileage on (but I can only do so when I am fully trained and injury free). Since I started buying Nike's and Novablast's it has been a lot more enjoyable to run. Some of the shoes are fast but they are traditional racing flats which bring injury risks. Can you run on a track with racing flats and low injury risk (old 43 y/o her)?
Biggest mistake I made was to watch shoe reviews on youtube. Everyone's feet are so different but I wasted so much money listening to someone else's opinion! The sooner I learned that a new shoe wouldn't actually improve my running I actually got faster training in a really cheap pair 🙂
Biggest mistake was doing all of my running in a pair of unsupportive very cushioned shoes. My foot would just role inwards but I didn’t want to buy new ones to save money. Needless to say they gave me an injury that I didn’t properly address and am still recovering 2 years later. I now take my running shoe choices v seriously
Biggest mistake i've made is not building an aerobic base before starting speed work. Coming back from COVID i've seen first hand the benefits of easy running
Apart from the main one not running slow enough. Ignoring strength exercises. With carbon shoes and price have you noticed people not wearing them in training runs and saving them for races?
Biggest mistake was not starting 20 years before I was married and had kids. Could have gone on many amazing running adventures when I was in the prime of health.
I started at 52 and it wasn't pretty😂. I'm 55 now and haven't missed a week and will attempt a marathon in October. The only goal is to not be taken off on a stretcher😂
Great advice as always Ben thank you. Totally agree about not over using tech. Been running 25 years and never had a watch and wouldn’t know how to do Strava if my life depended on it! Do all my running by feel and don’t care how long it takes me to complete a run just happy at age 61 that I’m still out there and have no intention of stopping any time soon. QD : biggest mistake .. getting my hydration and nutrition plan all wrong in the 2013 London marathon
Biggest mistake for me, carbon shoes. Makes me doubt my efforts by thinking the shoe has done the work and gives a mechanical advantage. It's just my opinion. I want to get PBs from training hard and working for them, not using something that feels like it's cheating.
Great video, Ben. One big mistake I used to make regularly was starting my sessions/workouts too hard. As runners we're mentally conditioned to hit splits and we always seem to chase the quick end of the range straight away - but that can lead us down a dark hole pretty early in sessions sometimes!
Great question Ben. Biggest mistake John ever made was neglected all forms of strength, conditioning and stretching for over 10 years. He wished channels such as yours had been around then. For Dawn it was eating 6 crumpets an hour before an evening 5 mile Road race. It didn't turn out to be the best fuelling strategy!
Biggest mistake I made was listening to well meaning more experienced friends when I started running 8 years ago who said my feet splayed out when I ran and I should make sure they pointed straight. I worked on this for ages, then got a knee injury. Saw a physio who said that was the cause of the problem - because when my feet were straight my knees turned in (weird body!). The advice was to run naturally for me. Once I went back to my knees pointing in the right direction and stopped worrying about my feet I was fine, and have kept knee injuries at bay since 🙂
I was that person making a poor shoe choice, putting thousands of miles into one pair of running shoes. Then i had chronic knee pain, I couldn't run further than 3-4 miles without knee pain and I struggled with it for a year until I suddenly realised maybe it's the shoes? I got a new pair of Adidas Ultraboost and it was like my life changed in an instant, and I've been a regular runner since then.
Overstriding. I always hated running - and was terrible at it. I was then convinced - at age 45 - to do a 5k fun run (2 weeks out from the run). I went for a test run, and made it about 600m before having to stop. Did some research, made some adjustments to ensure I was striking below my hips, and went from not being able to run 1k, to comfortably running 5. 2 week later ran the fun run in about 25 1/2 mins. Not setting the world on fire but not too bad for a 45 yo who had only been running for 2 weeks and had never run before that. This made running feel so much easier in fact, that it seems that 4 and a bit 5ks in a row should be doable - so entered a 1/2 marathon. Been doing lots of running sine then, and loving it. Did my first marathon this year aged 52.
Definitely doing my runs at too similar a pace. East runs too hard, and then the hard intervals not quick enough. This time (training for Berlin 22) I'm really trying to do my easy runs much easier, and the hard runs much harder. My interval splits are, not surprisingly, much quicker!
A note in the foam roller, even thought they’re not expensive you can also freeze a 500ml bottle of water and use that instead which works as a roller AND an Ice pack simultaneously
Incorporated your pre run dynamic stretches a few months ago and they’ve made a huge difference. Before I used to feel like crap for the first 5km, but now I feel much better when I kick off.
Most of the advice is "easy" to follow. For me, the hard to follow, though, was doing some cross-training or actually more specifically doing some strength training. It just seemed so boring and I felt too weak to doing anything without embarrassing myself. But, I picked up bouldering and found that everyone was really friendly and helpful. Plus, it was really fun. I just need to do some regularly strength training for my legs and I dramatically reduce pains and injuries.
I had been struggling to keep my easy days properly easy, I go out on my own so can’t do conversational but I’ve found breathing through my nose really helps me.
In my early days I wore shoes until they were falling apart. I also used whatever was cheapest -- often not running shoes (cross-trainers) I've gotten smarter about it and buy real running shoes and cycle them out when they are worn or have a certain amount of miles on them. I'll be honest, and one I still commit, is I don't take post race recovery as seriously as I should. If you are going all out in a race, you really have to recover from it. Also, I learned today that you guys pronounce "kudos" very differently from US people. Enjoyed the video Ben and I love your channel.
Meh. Throwing shoes out after a particular number of kms is a marketing thing. I usually get 2,000km out of a pair before I need to start phasing them out. No injuries from bad shoes here (touch wood).
My biggest mistake 18 months in is not listening to my body... Currently injured, think its my Soleus similar to yours earlier in the year. Did a long run on the Sunday, and foolishly did 4 miles tempo on the Monday on tired legs... 2 weeks off and it's driving me insane, and looks like my goal HM for the year (in 3 weeks time) has to be skipped... Recover properly peeps, and don't ignore niggles, however small!
I quit running last year because my calf’s were so bad when any elevation change. Now I’m running twice the elevation and seeking more. Just focusing on your breathing during an ice bath. If u can’t spare 10 minutes to focus on you’re breathing. You’ve already sabotaged yourself at a disturbing level. If you take being alive and being a runner serious you’ll try Wim Hof- all 3 pillars.
Biggest mistake - overdoing it/not resting enough! Restarted running this January after tearing a miniscus 2 years ago, and fell into the same trap of running twice a week, then three, four soon followed, five - well why not? and finally six days a week because I thought my previous runs had been poor. (Why not seven? I like a beer or 6 on a friday and saturday runs were definitely out the question!) Ultimately I nearly blew out my knee and quads on a long run. Found a local physio/running coach now who has me running 3 times a week (at different paces) and given me strength/conditioning exercises to do with plenty of recovery time.
Definitely taking it all to seriously. I took people’s comments to heart and tried to prove them wrong. Ended up breaking myself, now I know what I want to do and make running an experience. Run more trails and places I want to see.
As many have said, ran everything at the same pace when I was just running halfs. COVID hit and when I upped it to marathons found many channels like yours where they talked about the different types of runs. Too bad I did not k ow this when I was in my 40s.
I'm very early in my running journey, after running the Edinburgh marathon with minimal Training I decided to actually Train for a half marathon 😂 but my biggest mistake besides not training for the marathon is running my easy runs too fast at first. Keep up the amazing work 👏
Very useful tips, thanks! My stride is still slow and it's still hard to keep with the training plan so when I do tun, i just go without pre and post stretches
Hey Ben, currently training for my first marathon and finding your videos and training plan very helpful. I have a question however, cadence at 180 seems to be a very important target set. However I’m currently having a cadence of 155-165 and can’t seem to increase no matter how hard I try. I am 2m(6”7) tall. So my question is how big of a factor is height when it comes to cadence as I obviously will have longer strides. I am landing of forefoot ect at the moment
My first marathon is tomorrow and I'm guilty of many of these mistakes. I'm still tweaking my kit because it's going to be 0 Celsius at the beginning of the race. Not sure how you approach this! I'm staring at a table full of mixed brands and flavors of gels that I haven't tried yet wondering what to bring. I'm hesitating between my two pairs of Endorphins..... Besides all of that, it should go just fine 😂
Biggest mistake I see is running with your hands clenched. It took me 3 months of being aware of unclenching my hands before it became automatic. Unclenching takes so much strain from your upper back, neck and shoulders.
My biggest disadvantage is that my shoe size MEN 25yo (GHD on my feet) is only EU39 - UK 6 and only Nike and Adidas makes that size for men, I'd really love to try the New Balance 1080s but unfortunately can't, so I have to rely on Invincible Run/Pegasus line for my easy day shoe. For my early-days mistakes - the most common one was that I always ran at 170+ bpm HR.. luckily I found a local group of runners who ran a lot slower and it improved my fitness greatly.
My biggest running miatake was not taking amy electrolyte drinks or tablets on my first half Marathon race. I paid for that so much as it was 26C that day. I had loads of water, but balancing drinks. I learned my lesson as I had legs cramps, my pace wasich slower around the half way mark, I didn't hit my target finish, and I was severely dehydrated. Two sports drinks and Epsom salt soak later, I paid for it many days later.
The biggest mistake I made for my self was increasing my cadence too much. I used to be around 160 and 165 range, and then tried to increase it to 175 180 , and it uncovered a leg imbalance and made the imbalance worse. I saw a specialist in biomechanics and she identified the imbalance and actually told me to slow my cadence down to improve the the imbalance and it worked. When I'm around a 10:30 min per mile pace my cadence is under 165. When my pace is faster than 9:00 min per mile, it's over 165 and under 8:00 mins per mile it's getting above 170. I guess my lesson from this is not to increase cadence too much because it actually made my biomechanics worse. If you already have good balance between the legs, then maybe this won't affect you as much
My biggest mistake - thinking that Strava mattered.... That app is purely there for ego and instant gratification. I merely stopped caring about the app and my running increased noticeably as I wasn't embarrassed to do the slow easy runs etc.
Biggest mistake was not addressing my it band issues, cost me a dnf 20k into a 100k ultra. I was running so well, knee gave way I was gutted. But it's good, as now I'm sorting it out with lots of massaging and rolling and touch wood it's not come back.
My biggest running mistake was running without strength training. For years i ran myself into injuries, stopped running, started over continously. Now i am running more than ever - and faster too, without any nickles or pain. - just becuase i am now running more clever.
Enjoy it. I think that's the single most important tip. I find comparaisons difficult to avoid but they are so unhelpful. Sometimes I have to slow down even more and think, gosh I'm so slow I'm rubbish at this, and then I realise it's just much more enjoyable and I take in all the lovely sights on the trails.
My biggest running mistake was eating so much food as a kid and growing to 6'4. Just kidding, it's great to be on the taller size. Just a pretty big drag on distance running.
I use strava mostly to keep track of my shoes' mileage. That's it. It's also to make sure I'm running at a goal pace. I cross-train twice a week and I never ignore injuries.
Great video. And tips. Cannot wait to get back running again. Just saw a clip at the end of the video with you wearing a running vest which holds 2 waters on the front. Have you done a review any where on running vests? If that is what rhey are called.
Those are trail running vests. I got a cheap 10 litres Evadict from Decathlon and it works great for trails. Aim for comfortable size as the collar friction can be an issue if you take a smaller size.
Biggest mistake I made was running all my runs at the same pace for the first 2 years of my running, which meant not a lot of progression. It wasn’t until I varied my paces and training that I noticed any performance benefits. Still run my easy runs too fast 🙄, but I’m really working on that now! Thanks Ben for all your guidance! 😊
Well done Andrew! Yes.. super important to get some variety in there 🙌
Same! Got some plans from Ben and got a garmin for runs instead of Fitbit. So let’s see.
@@MsBrown.81
It doesn’t require a watch to vary your pace!
@@fastinradfordable I’m not sure how to do it otherwise. I’m a bit of a newb to that. I’ve always just ran. So any suggestions I’ll be happy to take ☺️
@@MsBrown.81 use a Garmin and ignore the numpty trying to patronise you. Simples.
Great Video
I’ve only been running a little over a year so I’ve made lots of mistakes some I know about some I don’t know about yet. The biggest thing I’ve learned is making sure you eat right it is hard to run at a caloric deficit
Definitely a key learning was running too fast on my training runs. Once I incorporated more easy runs and also varied pace + elevation, I started to see more gains along with faster times. Thanks for the quality content as always!
Great video as always. Best advice I would say not on the list is consistency for improvement. Keeping an eye on those weekly miles.
Strength training to protect the joints (knees, ankles & hips) for longevity is essential. Training on softer surfaces to break up road running to lessen impact/stress through your load.
100% agree!!
Another great video, have done so many of this mistakes...
...until the day I found out this : Run Slow to Race Fast - Game changer
Cheers
Useful tips thx! 1 thing I have learn is to warmup even before a marathon. just to not chock the body and take off in start.
Great video, thanks! Too much too soon (now following your marathon plan, so far so good) and not checking your washing pile after a run and before it goes in the machine. Lost a £350 Garmin that way!
Ran too fast at first, and it made my runs miserable. Turns out everybody's new runner advice, "Slow down!" works. Who could've guessed?
I love running, I find that running allows me to boost my abilities
Might be a silly question, but should your run cadence be up near the 180s on your slow runs? I can only get to 180 when doing hard efforts, rest of the time its down near the 160s.
My biggest running mistake was to keep buying shoes as they would come up on special (more based on the "saving" and "price" than performance or need) from Wiggle and Running Warehouse. Having so many shoes and shoes that aren't great. I still have about 25 that I am very slowly building mileage on (but I can only do so when I am fully trained and injury free). Since I started buying Nike's and Novablast's it has been a lot more enjoyable to run. Some of the shoes are fast but they are traditional racing flats which bring injury risks. Can you run on a track with racing flats and low injury risk (old 43 y/o her)?
what should be the heart rate while running half marathon at age 38. HR Zone 3 or 4 or 5 ??
How's the UV protection on the trail hat? Looks comfy but I worry about getting a polka dot tan line on my bald head!
It’s not mesh.. it’s all breathable tech fabric.. don’t worry about a tanned head!!
@@BenParkes Beauty, thanks!
Biggest mistake I made was to watch shoe reviews on youtube. Everyone's feet are so different but I wasted so much money listening to someone else's opinion! The sooner I learned that a new shoe wouldn't actually improve my running I actually got faster training in a really cheap pair 🙂
Biggest mistake was doing all of my running in a pair of unsupportive very cushioned shoes. My foot would just role inwards but I didn’t want to buy new ones to save money. Needless to say they gave me an injury that I didn’t properly address and am still recovering 2 years later. I now take my running shoe choices v seriously
Biggest mistake i've made is not building an aerobic base before starting speed work. Coming back from COVID i've seen first hand the benefits of easy running
Hope you’re all good now Marco!
Thanks Ben!
Number one mistake is not doing strength training. Paying for it with injury now.
Apart from the main one not running slow enough. Ignoring strength exercises. With carbon shoes and price have you noticed people not wearing them in training runs and saving them for races?
My biggest mistake was signing up for the upcoming marathon and realising I actually have to train for it 🥲
That’s normal 😆
Biggest mistake was not starting 20 years before I was married and had kids. Could have gone on many amazing running adventures when I was in the prime of health.
Feel EXACTLY THE SAME.
So we must make up the time now LOL
I started at 52 and it wasn't pretty😂. I'm 55 now and haven't missed a week and will attempt a marathon in October. The only goal is to not be taken off on a stretcher😂
not doing strength training! biggest oversight I see from a lot of runners
Great advice as always Ben thank you. Totally agree about not over using tech. Been running 25 years and never had a watch and wouldn’t know how to do Strava if my life depended on it! Do all my running by feel and don’t care how long it takes me to complete a run just happy at age 61 that I’m still out there and have no intention of stopping any time soon.
QD : biggest mistake .. getting my hydration and nutrition plan all wrong in the 2013 London marathon
Biggest mistake for me, carbon shoes. Makes me doubt my efforts by thinking the shoe has done the work and gives a mechanical advantage. It's just my opinion. I want to get PBs from training hard and working for them, not using something that feels like it's cheating.
Not stopping on the red lights and jumping. Now i hope for red lights to stop at 😅
Great tips Ben, I alwsys used to run all my easy runs too fast! Slowed them down and it made my weekly interval session so much better!
Great video, Ben. One big mistake I used to make regularly was starting my sessions/workouts too hard. As runners we're mentally conditioned to hit splits and we always seem to chase the quick end of the range straight away - but that can lead us down a dark hole pretty early in sessions sometimes!
Great question Ben. Biggest mistake John ever made was neglected all forms of strength, conditioning and stretching for over 10 years. He wished channels such as yours had been around then.
For Dawn it was eating 6 crumpets an hour before an evening 5 mile Road race. It didn't turn out to be the best fuelling strategy!
Guilty of having too many running shoes, but cant stop buying more new ones and enjoy more running 😂🙈
I'm in that same category right now. 😉
Biggest mistake I made was listening to well meaning more experienced friends when I started running 8 years ago who said my feet splayed out when I ran and I should make sure they pointed straight. I worked on this for ages, then got a knee injury. Saw a physio who said that was the cause of the problem - because when my feet were straight my knees turned in (weird body!). The advice was to run naturally for me. Once I went back to my knees pointing in the right direction and stopped worrying about my feet I was fine, and have kept knee injuries at bay since 🙂
I was that person making a poor shoe choice, putting thousands of miles into one pair of running shoes. Then i had chronic knee pain, I couldn't run further than 3-4 miles without knee pain and I struggled with it for a year until I suddenly realised maybe it's the shoes? I got a new pair of Adidas Ultraboost and it was like my life changed in an instant, and I've been a regular runner since then.
Overstriding. I always hated running - and was terrible at it. I was then convinced - at age 45 - to do a 5k fun run (2 weeks out from the run). I went for a test run, and made it about 600m before having to stop. Did some research, made some adjustments to ensure I was striking below my hips, and went from not being able to run 1k, to comfortably running 5. 2 week later ran the fun run in about 25 1/2 mins. Not setting the world on fire but not too bad for a 45 yo who had only been running for 2 weeks and had never run before that. This made running feel so much easier in fact, that it seems that 4 and a bit 5ks in a row should be doable - so entered a 1/2 marathon. Been doing lots of running sine then, and loving it. Did my first marathon this year aged 52.
Definitely doing my runs at too similar a pace. East runs too hard, and then the hard intervals not quick enough. This time (training for Berlin 22) I'm really trying to do my easy runs much easier, and the hard runs much harder. My interval splits are, not surprisingly, much quicker!
A note in the foam roller, even thought they’re not expensive you can also freeze a 500ml bottle of water and use that instead which works as a roller AND an Ice pack simultaneously
Incorporated your pre run dynamic stretches a few months ago and they’ve made a huge difference. Before I used to feel like crap for the first 5km, but now I feel much better when I kick off.
Form over power.
Volume over intensity.
Health/injury free over PRs.
Running over soggy grass or loose sand gives my legs a boost on the bike a week later, probably because this takes away the bouncing while running.
Most of the advice is "easy" to follow. For me, the hard to follow, though, was doing some cross-training or actually more specifically doing some strength training. It just seemed so boring and I felt too weak to doing anything without embarrassing myself. But, I picked up bouldering and found that everyone was really friendly and helpful. Plus, it was really fun. I just need to do some regularly strength training for my legs and I dramatically reduce pains and injuries.
I had been struggling to keep my easy days properly easy, I go out on my own so can’t do conversational but I’ve found breathing through my nose really helps me.
Super helpful information! Thank you! 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️
Have you ever experienced Plantar Fasciitis? Any tips for it?
In my early days I wore shoes until they were falling apart. I also used whatever was cheapest -- often not running shoes (cross-trainers) I've gotten smarter about it and buy real running shoes and cycle them out when they are worn or have a certain amount of miles on them. I'll be honest, and one I still commit, is I don't take post race recovery as seriously as I should. If you are going all out in a race, you really have to recover from it. Also, I learned today that you guys pronounce "kudos" very differently from US people. Enjoyed the video Ben and I love your channel.
Meh. Throwing shoes out after a particular number of kms is a marketing thing. I usually get 2,000km out of a pair before I need to start phasing them out. No injuries from bad shoes here (touch wood).
Biggest mistake - trying to run through an injury, the most recent being a high hamstring pull.
My biggest mistake was trying to go from couch to marathon and not building a base first
My biggest running mistake? Not doing enough of it.
Trying to do too much Too soon
Biggest lesson learned is to not drink 5 pints the night before my Sunday long run😂
My biggest mistake 18 months in is not listening to my body...
Currently injured, think its my Soleus similar to yours earlier in the year. Did a long run on the Sunday, and foolishly did 4 miles tempo on the Monday on tired legs... 2 weeks off and it's driving me insane, and looks like my goal HM for the year (in 3 weeks time) has to be skipped...
Recover properly peeps, and don't ignore niggles, however small!
Have you Wim Hof?
In ice water?
I have had stiff or injured muscles my whole life.
But not anymore.
I quit running last year because my calf’s were so bad when any elevation change.
Now
I’m running twice the elevation and seeking more.
Just focusing on your breathing during an ice bath.
If u can’t spare 10 minutes to focus on you’re breathing.
You’ve already sabotaged yourself at a disturbing level. If you take being alive and being a runner serious you’ll try Wim Hof- all 3 pillars.
Biggest mistake - overdoing it/not resting enough! Restarted running this January after tearing a miniscus 2 years ago, and fell into the same trap of running twice a week, then three, four soon followed, five - well why not? and finally six days a week because I thought my previous runs had been poor. (Why not seven? I like a beer or 6 on a friday and saturday runs were definitely out the question!)
Ultimately I nearly blew out my knee and quads on a long run. Found a local physio/running coach now who has me running 3 times a week (at different paces) and given me strength/conditioning exercises to do with plenty of recovery time.
Do you have visors too???
We do!
Definitely taking it all to seriously. I took people’s comments to heart and tried to prove them wrong. Ended up breaking myself, now I know what I want to do and make running an experience. Run more trails and places I want to see.
As many have said, ran everything at the same pace when I was just running halfs. COVID hit and when I upped it to marathons found many channels like yours where they talked about the different types of runs. Too bad I did not k ow this when I was in my 40s.
I'm very early in my running journey, after running the Edinburgh marathon with minimal Training I decided to actually Train for a half marathon 😂 but my biggest mistake besides not training for the marathon is running my easy runs too fast at first. Keep up the amazing work 👏
Thanks for sharing
Very useful tips, thanks! My stride is still slow and it's still hard to keep with the training plan so when I do tun, i just go without pre and post stretches
Randomly stumbled across this video & I was surprised, yet delighted to hear you mention Bob & Brad. I work for them. I’ll tell them hello! 😁
Amazing! Say hello! They’ve helped me so much over the years 🙌
My first mile is always the quickest one lol
Great video🫡
Hey Ben, currently training for my first marathon and finding your videos and training plan very helpful. I have a question however, cadence at 180 seems to be a very important target set.
However I’m currently having a cadence of 155-165 and can’t seem to increase no matter how hard I try. I am 2m(6”7) tall. So my question is how big of a factor is height when it comes to cadence as I obviously will have longer strides. I am landing of forefoot ect at the moment
Ignoring injuries
Have that hat, so cool. Tied with my Ciele, great hats!
Great to hear you love it Richard!! 😀 thank you!
Please do
My first marathon is tomorrow and I'm guilty of many of these mistakes. I'm still tweaking my kit because it's going to be 0 Celsius at the beginning of the race. Not sure how you approach this! I'm staring at a table full of mixed brands and flavors of gels that I haven't tried yet wondering what to bring. I'm hesitating between my two pairs of Endorphins..... Besides all of that, it should go just fine 😂
Hi Ben, hope you enjoyed Scotland. Any footage coming from Pollok, your canal run or the whw?
Biggest mistake I see is running with your hands clenched. It took me 3 months of being aware of unclenching my hands before it became automatic. Unclenching takes so much strain from your upper back, neck and shoulders.
Biggest mistake for me was running the Virtual London Marathon in 2020 with ZERO training! Was a disaster. 🤦♀️
My biggest running mistake was to start running in the first place 🤦♂️🤣 I love it really 👌👍👊💯✅️
My biggest disadvantage is that my shoe size MEN 25yo (GHD on my feet) is only EU39 - UK 6 and only Nike and Adidas makes that size for men, I'd really love to try the New Balance 1080s but unfortunately can't, so I have to rely on Invincible Run/Pegasus line for my easy day shoe.
For my early-days mistakes - the most common one was that I always ran at 170+ bpm HR.. luckily I found a local group of runners who ran a lot slower and it improved my fitness greatly.
My biggest running miatake was not taking amy electrolyte drinks or tablets on my first half Marathon race. I paid for that so much as it was 26C that day. I had loads of water, but balancing drinks. I learned my lesson as I had legs cramps, my pace wasich slower around the half way mark, I didn't hit my target finish, and I was severely dehydrated. Two sports drinks and Epsom salt soak later, I paid for it many days later.
The biggest mistake I made for my self was increasing my cadence too much. I used to be around 160 and 165 range, and then tried to increase it to 175 180 , and it uncovered a leg imbalance and made the imbalance worse. I saw a specialist in biomechanics and she identified the imbalance and actually told me to slow my cadence down to improve the the imbalance and it worked. When I'm around a 10:30 min per mile pace my cadence is under 165. When my pace is faster than 9:00 min per mile, it's over 165 and under 8:00 mins per mile it's getting above 170.
I guess my lesson from this is not to increase cadence too much because it actually made my biomechanics worse. If you already have good balance between the legs, then maybe this won't affect you as much
My biggest mistake - thinking that Strava mattered.... That app is purely there for ego and instant gratification. I merely stopped caring about the app and my running increased noticeably as I wasn't embarrassed to do the slow easy runs etc.
Biggest mistake was not addressing my it band issues, cost me a dnf 20k into a 100k ultra.
I was running so well, knee gave way I was gutted.
But it's good, as now I'm sorting it out with lots of massaging and rolling and touch wood it's not come back.
Thanks Ben. I often forget the last point about having fun and being lucky to be out there. Thanks for the reminder! :)
I get more kudos on my slower paced runs and races. My highest kudos count to date is my poor performance Brighton Marathon.
Wow, at 3:21 watching you pass the guy on a bike!!! Impressive!!
My biggest running mistake was running without strength training. For years i ran myself into injuries, stopped running, started over continously. Now i am running more than ever - and faster too, without any nickles or pain. - just becuase i am now running more clever.
Enjoy it. I think that's the single most important tip. I find comparaisons difficult to avoid but they are so unhelpful. Sometimes I have to slow down even more and think, gosh I'm so slow I'm rubbish at this, and then I realise it's just much more enjoyable and I take in all the lovely sights on the trails.
SIS Lemon Drizzle is amazing! hah - it shouldn't be allowed it actually tastes like the cake! great tips ben, much appreciated! :)
+1 for the Bob and Brad shout out. They are awesome.
My biggest running mistake was eating so much food as a kid and growing to 6'4. Just kidding, it's great to be on the taller size. Just a pretty big drag on distance running.
I use strava mostly to keep track of my shoes' mileage. That's it. It's also to make sure I'm running at a goal pace. I cross-train twice a week and I never ignore injuries.
Another great video Ben. What happened to you's RTB? Too many beers at Gerry Cinnamon😂
I religiously foam roll, stretch and go for massages when I have a niggle or an injury. Really need to make this part of a regular routine.
Ben, which is the best shop in London to walk into and get the highest end racing shoes just off the shelf???
Are you going to be doing another running camp? I couldn’t make the last one
hey Ben. are you running London this year? luv all ur videos. thank you for all ur tips!!
I think runners don't make mistakes.
May i know your running cap brand?
Hellobodyyyyyy
Great video. And tips. Cannot wait to get back running again. Just saw a clip at the end of the video with you wearing a running vest which holds 2 waters on the front. Have you done a review any where on running vests? If that is what rhey are called.
Those are trail running vests. I got a cheap 10 litres Evadict from Decathlon and it works great for trails. Aim for comfortable size as the collar friction can be an issue if you take a smaller size.
@@oliveuk hi Oliver. Thanks for the reply, information and advice. Will look into it
I like that you ran a 2:25 marathon- and in fact it is great. But I don't know you need to mention it every time. Do you?