CHASING TWENTY #7 /// This Has To Be The One /// Arrow Valley Parkrun - December 2024
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- There's no way this is a solo sport. No way at all.
I'm lucky and privileged enough to know so some awesome people who said they'd help pace my dream time of sub 20 minutes for the 5k.
Pacers
@ob1brand (Brett Elesmore)
@raleyadventures (Ryan Baker)
Merv Wignall
Harry Purewal
Thanks to Brett and @Mack.Tracks for the footage.
What a run - one I'll never forget.
Merry Christmas all.x
Let go of your limits!
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What a great group of people, this is what running is about!
Cheers Tom!
What an insane last kilometer. Big shoutout to the boys showing up for the pacing. That pace looks like a leisurely stroll for Ryan lol.
Thanks, yes they certainly made the difference on the day. Faster runners make it look so easy and they gave me such encouragement to help me get the job done.❤️
Jeez, 19:38 is super fast Andy !!! Congrats on the PB & the sub 20 !!!! Friggin awesome. Brett is the ultimate hype man !!! Dude is super cool !
Thanks Joe!❤️
Wow, amazing Andy, well under 20. Brett is a great pacer. Nice to have others, like Ryan, helping you along too, You're doing so well at the moment and it's been great following the journey,
Thank you Debbie! It was great having so many positive people around on the day. Cheers ❤️
Grown man with a tear in my eye!! Thats inspired me! Sub 20 is happening this year! What a great effort!! Yaaaas!! That last km was so strong!!
Gave me chills! Lol
Thanks so much - It felt absolutely awesome 👌🏻
I think getting past km 4 and thinking I am getting this would be amazing. My time is 20.33 so I am getting close!
The Bromsgrove Ingebrigtsen! He’s only gone and bloody done it again!
😂😂😂😂😂 🇳🇴
Andy, that was a class last km. So buzzing for you!
Thanks mate ❤️
Big props to you, Andy. Reassuring to hear you breathing hard for that final KM, as you made the rest of it look so easy. Keep inspiring ❤
I have enjoyed watching your parkrun journey as it has run in parallel to mine. Started 3 years ago with a 29minute effort, got my first sub-20 last summer, then finished close behind you at Bushy1000. Last week I brought my PB down to 19:39. You pipped me by 1 second. Delighted to see it, well done!
Thanks Simon!! Keep on pushing in 2025 and we will go below 19 💪🏻
Awesome, Andy! 👏🏼👏🏼 There’s nothing like that feeling of breaking 20 for the first time! Negative split is the way to do it 🫡
Thanks so much, it was a bit of an accident but I can't grumble!
Fab, congrats on the huge PB! Loving Daisy’s thiught bubbles 😂 Have a great New Year! 🎉
Thanks so much - Daisy always tells it like it is...
Was quite tense there, despite knowing you’d done it!! Well done mate, great to have the boys there getting you through.
Cheers Marm. It was a real thrill getting over that line. Hopefully I'll be sub 15 by this time next year, or I'll be quite disappointed.
Absolutely amazing mate. I know this feeling having just cracked it a few months ago. Mental block removed... its massive. You smashed it... what a way to end a fantastic year 🎉🎉🎉 all the best for 2025
Thanks so much. I'm so happy it's finally done!
Absolutely over the moon for you, Andy ,outstanding running 👏👏
I run in and around Coventry and see Ryan and Harry at a lot of runs ,brilliant runners and top guys .
Well done from Monty of Coventry 👟👌💪
Also, follow Brett he's a legend 👟
Next level Daisy thoughts on this one 😂. Love the self-awareness. What a way to end the year 👊.
Absolutely smashed that sub 20 🎉🎉 well done Andy, just goes to show what determination does, so happy for you mate. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and the family 🍻🍾 look forward to seeing what you get up to in 2025
Thank you Ryan!! Perfect Christmas present. Cheers mate - merry Christmas to you too mate.👍🏻
Unbelievable last km. Pulled that one out the bag! Well played Andy. Great vlog 👏🏻👏🏻
Yes Andy! Knew you’d do it. Well done!!
What you have achieved this year is truly inspiring stuff!
Merry Christmas!
Thanks Carl - so glad to have finally dipped under the barrier. Really pleased and am looking forward to hitting some new targets!
Well done Andy! My heart was in my mouth. GOSH, that was spectacular 🎉
Well done Andy, running under twenty mins is a real achievement. Congratulations, and a great video. 👊💥
Nothing was more certain that you would get this though, hills, track and long steady runs is the way to go. So envious of both your local hills and track sessions.
I was obsessed for ages until I finally got a 19:59 at Isabell Trail parkrun in 2022 at the age of 56.
I still count it a massive achievement (for me) to repeat that, progress is only slow now but keep chipping away and two sub 19’s this year. Which may turn out to be it… 😂😂
Once again, many congratulations… enjoy reliving it and think how good it feels. 😀
That feeling when you first hit sub 20, it’s euphoric. Well done Andy. You’re reaping the rewards from the graft you’ve put in this year. Well deserved mate, congratulations💪🏻
Thanks so much ❤️
Congratulations on the huge PB! Given you were able to get within 5 seconds to your target at Bushy parkrun with its grass and gravel surfaces, it was definitely inevitable that you'd achieve this on a paved surface - with the right pacing strategy i.e. negative splitting.
I've had very similar experiences to you where I try to even split (or even positive when I'm feeling really good at the start) and crash and burn in KMs 3-4. I needed this video to remind me again that my best race results in all distances have come when I've started slow (usually not intentionally) and sped up towards the end.
I'm about 30-40 seconds slower than you and I was also hoping I'd beat 20min this year. Maybe I just need a bit more time as I broke 24, 23, 22, and 21 all this year so I may not have that additional capacity yet. I'm still going to give it one last shot this Saturday at Battersea park - wish me luck!
All the feels! 👏👏👏 what a run, what a team! Absolutely beaming for you mate.
I cried Andy.............I am so happy for you that you at last ran a sub 20 5 k.....
Yassss bro!!!🎉 Absolutely smashed it!! Amazing video man. Congrats on the new PB!
Thanks mate - glad you enjoyed ❤️
Andy something about the closing!! “It’s on Andy, come on mate it’s on!!” Sends chills. I’ve screamed it and it’s been screamed to me!!! “James… dig deep. If you want it dig deep “. I love your journey. It may be far away but as someone who went sub 3:00:00 at 53 y/o it’s coming to you. “It’s on Andy, it’s on”!!!
Beautiful run, Andy! I normally scroll the comments to see your time before the race/run is done, but this time I wouldn't let myself so when you got 19:38 I threw my fist up in celebration and may have gotten a little teary-eyed at just how awesome your friends are and at how wonderful that PB must feel!! You left it all on the parkrun course this day!!
Thanks Tiffany. I must admit I love being able to have others with me sometimes to share that exact moment a running moment goes well.x
It was a superb run Andy, so pleased to say "I was there" when you did it!! 👏👏👏👏 Thanks for the name check 👍 I managed to sneak in myself on that one 19:59 😁
Well done Ian! Brilliantly well run mate 👏🏻
Congrats!!!!!!🎉. I remember the first time I did it as well.
It was also at the back of many back to back marathons.
It felt so so cool.
Congrats!. Now you've done it forever!!!!!🎉.
Well-done champ
Thank you!
Well done Andy 🎉
To be able to pick up THAT much in the final K really does suggest there's even more in the tank 🚀
When it gets REALLY tough with 1-2K to go, just keep telling yourself "stay with it now, flick the switch (from No to Yes), just fight to the next corner, just for this bend"
Then repeat until you finish, 200m at a time.
2025 Sub 19 is not in the slightest bit unrealistic, and its not even the arbitrary goal - its the work you're going to put in to achieve it that counts most.
Its On Andy!
Congrats on breaking 20. This is also a goal of mine. I’m 43 years old and have been running for 4+years. Been routinely getting in the 20 & low 21s. My 5K PB is 20:39. This gives me hope it’s possible. Again, congrats!
Well done mate. Been following your journey to this sub 20 for a while. Amazing run.
Absolutely awesome big man 👏👏 so well deserved. Just going from strength to strength and this journey you're on is sublime 🚀💪
Well done Andy. Your hard work has paid off this year. We look forward to seeing what is next!
Thanks Craig!
Well done Andy. What a year you've had!
One of the best breaking 20 videos I've ever seen. That final kick 👏
Thanks so much ❤️
Great account of your achievement.
There’s definitely something special about breaking through the 20 minute barrier.
2nd time up the notes you were working so hard and Ryan did a great job coaching you through the next lap.
Cheers mate. You looked super smooth at that pace - looking forward to seeing you drop down the 18 ladder next year!
Well done again mate! Absolute pleasure watching you do it on the day! You were flying down the home stretch!
Hope you had a great Christmas and look forward to watching your running adventures in 2025!
Thanks so much Andy! Loved your shout half way and Laura said you'd come over to say hi. Not just because I'm biased but there a few better parkruns than Arrow Valley - your core team work so hard to keep us all happy, and we're all so thankful. Will come and volunteer one day soon. Cheers mate 👍🏻 👌🏻
Bloody well done! Absolutely smashed it!!
Holy crap Batman! Awesome work Andy! Great motivation, and pacing by Brett. Congratulations!
Thank you Joe!
Just catching up on all the vids and podcasts as I fell behind over Xmas, great work smashing the 20 min mate, told you it would be your 7th attempt! I'm targeting 25 mins for 5k this year, my boss is doing the same and I'm determined to beat him to it! All the best mate
You did call it! Lucky number 7. I hope you beat the boss to sub 25!
Well done Andy and well done to the team of your friends to get you there, what a fantastics team work, enjoyed your video
Here's to a great 2025 !! Well done, bossed that final km. Love the camaraderie between great friends and pacing team 😄
Thanks Vicky ❤️
Well done man 👏🏻👏🏻 smashed it. Jaro the legend aswel i ran with him at Leicestershire half marathon a couple years ago. Personally i always think its best to negative split a race
wow! really well done Andy! - What a fight you put up at the end, well deserved mate!
Thank you!
The hard work paid off! Great job! Keep the videos coming. You do a good job editing them.
Thank you so much ❤️
You did it Andy!!! Watching with my daughter Tonie, your biggest fans in Sweden 🇸🇪
Aaargghhhhhh!!!! You legends!! Thanks so much for watching - hope you're both well. 5k PBs hurt so bad 😂
Top running bud! Nothing will ever beat a milestone PB moment 🎉 you put in the hard miles to have that feeling, great job
Valencia and chasing 20 a great End to a superb year of training for you Andy congratulations! Gives me a lot of inspiration for my own running , your recent performances have exceeded anything I have achieved but have inspired me greatly . Roll on 2025👍
Thanks so much - it's been a great year!
Smashed it 🥳 The support from your friends is just elite 👌🏻
Thanks Sarah!x
Wow!! Congrats!!!🎉🎉🎉
Phenomenal mate , smiled at the end like a good movie haha , you nearly knocked them guys at finishing line another 50 metres , wish folk would keep moving along tho tbh
Every second counts in a 5k so no chance I was slowing down into that funnel! Cheers mate 👍🏻
Keep watching it back...awesome!!
Nice one Dean! I'm not sure I'll ever be able to do it again 😂
you did it Andy. Well done. So inspiring.
welll done Andy , looking forward to the next Pod 👍👍
You're smashing it mate. Cracking last km!
OH EM GEE. 19.38!!! EPIC! Mega congrats Andy. Thoroughly deserved after all the hard work. RESPECT!! 😊
P.S. Daisy is still a highlight! Keep her insults coming haha
Thank you!
What a hell of a year Andy well
Done 👍
Thanks so much mate 👍🏻
Wow you crushed it! In my 50s I was just aiming to get faster than one day. I ran a 5K in 1947. Best feeling.
Yes Andy!!! Congrats on the new PB
Thanks James!
What a year.. well done once again Andy ❤ Think that I require some of that wonderful support/arse kicking that Brett and the boys gave you. I haven't made myself suffer anything like that for at least 14 or 15 months. Sub 19 attempt next year maybe?? 🙄
Congratulations, mate, you've not just achieved your target time you smashed it.💪💪
Thank you Bruce - I'm so glad I managed to get it done, finally!
That was a brutal push! Well done mate!
Thanks so much - it was so tough 😫
Class..sheer willpower
Man that was so great Andy many many congratulations and at last you reached your goal man that was good a christmmas gift to all your mates and specially Bret your friend over all. Inga dk
Well done, great run, mate. That's the hardest thing in 5k, last 1k or more not giving up. And just dig in and believe in yourself. Keep it up. There is a lot more to come, and have a great 2025
Thanks so much - that last Km was so hard!
Wow! Talk about doing it the hard way! All the hard work saved for the 5th K 😂...well done Andy a great achievement, and fantastic content mate!
You earned it. So brilliant to see 😊
Thanks Dean!
Brilliant!!
Beast mode! Congratulations mate 👏 👍 🎉
Andy you legend!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Congrats Andy!
Cheers Dave!
Fantastic 👍
Great team effort. Congratulations Andy on your sub twenty park run. I agree do it in your own&you should manage it on your own
Thanks Mark.
Brilliant man. Your kick is unreal.
Thank you! Managed to muster something up towards the end which was pleasing. Glad it's finally done!
Well done 🎉 nice way to finish the year 😊
Thank you Helen!
Massive congratulations! Right in the range of what I commented that I thought you could do on your last video. Small note, it think it would make more sense to say what the pace was for the final km rather than the duration because from a quick check of your Strava your pace was 3:43 because you only got it at 4.97km on your watch. But as you would say, it is the course distance that matters for better or (more often) worse.
Brilliant Andy ❤️❤️
Well done Andy. With the speed you picked up over the last kilometer a sub 19 must be a possibility next year.
All black means all business. Wonderful running Andy. Never doubted you.
Came dressed as an assassin (with a pink hat on 😂)
Well done Andy! 🎉🎉
Thanks so much Kathryn ❤️
Smashed the PB!
Thank you!
Well done Andy, great pacing from the crew but you did it . Sub 20 with 22 seconds spare 🎉. Parkrun victory next.....
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Well done, Andy. The first one is done. You know psychologically you can run sub-20 now. After that, it becomes much easier.
Awesome!
Cheers Ian!
Well deserved and truthfully it was never in doubt , sub 19 next year
Thanks - and yes that would be lovely.❤️
If this is you three weeks post marathon imagine what fresh legs would achieve, it’s on 👊🏻
Awsome 🎉
Thank you!
Well done Andy you have got a lot of stamina well done
Thanks so much John!
Amazing end to the year Andy, well done mate. What's next, sub 24 hour 100 miler maybe?
Amazing effort. I'm going for my first serious attempt at a sub 25 parkrun at Alexandra parkrun in Manchester this weekend. I will be filming it and also have a friend lined up to pace me. I wont like, I'm terrified 😳 i bet you felt great when you got over that line though. 🔥✊ Well done
Best of luck - or should I say I hope it went well?! Best thing a bout a 5k is there's always next week to try again!
Haha thank you! And don't worry, the plan is to try it on 4th Jan. Hoping to start the year with a bang! Fingers crossed 🤞
Congratulations 🎉 Super stuff. Great to get that monkey off your back. Great to see you really savouring the moment. Running really is a rollercoaster journey so very important to enjoy moments like this.
Discovered the podcast last week and buzzing for you, great job! If you’re ever down south or in up further north I’d love to collab, just starting out but loving the runner UA-cam world 😂
Thanks mate - it's felt like it would never happen so glad it did in the end. Yes mate 📹 - hope to see you around one day 👍🏻 ❤️
@ now youve gone through it, and by a good margin, you’ll be looking at sub 19 soon! It’s sometimes in the mind more than we think!!!
Was suppodsed to be at AV myself that day as a marshall to shout abuse at you..sorry i meant encourage😄 but was ill at the last moment..anyway congrats on the time great running ...Merry Xmas and Happy New Year🙂
Hahahaha - looks like I dodged a bullet there 😂 Hope you're feeling better and see you up there Valley soon. Cheers mate and merry Christmas to you too 👍🏻
Squad
You know it 💪🏻
Great Run! I'll be chasing twenty in 2025 also
Thank you!
What a great video. I could really feel the pressure ramp up with the breathing and the music :-). I was grimacing, just watching it, feeling the pain. Then actually, smiling, just watching the part where you cross the line. A distant dream for me at the moment, beating 20 but I am hopeful. Well done!
Thanks so much for watching!❤️
👍👌👊
well done @andy
Thank you!
Chasing 20 as well but a lot of work to do hoping by end of summer as I'm a geezer (66).
Top work mate huge congrats on the sub 20. Sub 90 half next 😮❤😂
Nice one Lee. Absolutely mate - that's a huge target for me. Also that sub 40 10k (which scares me the most)👍🏻❤️
@itsonandy it just 2 of them park runs back to back ,🤣
@@leerunsultras 🤢🤢🤢