Stop When You THINK You've Hit 5k...
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- How many times have you run 5k? Do you reckon you know this distance well enough to guess when you’ve run it? Well that’s what Jess, Sarah, Mo and Tom are trying to do in this challenge.
They have to turn alerts off on their watch and cover it up, and then stop running when they think they’ve hit 5k. Closest person to 5k, WINS!
↓↓ How close will they get to 5k? How well do you think you could do this challenge? Let us know! ↓↓
What's in this video:
00:00:00 - The 5K Challenge
00:00:55 - Running Strategy and Feelings
00:01:55 - The Great 5K Race
00:02:55 - The Great 10K Race Strategy
00:03:49 - Running in Unfamiliar Territory
00:04:54 - Dilemmas in Running Strategy
00:05:44 - On the Home Stretch
00:06:39 - The Final Stretch
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You should do this challenge but all run together, so it becomes all about the mind games. Just like that game where you sit down when you think a minute has passed
This!
Exactly this😅
Yes, and not 5k or anything round or familiar, but like a 7 or 8k
Not such a good idea, everyone will stop at basically the same time (just a couple of feet away from each other, no reason to do otherwise)
@@deskpro256becomes too difficult/random
"I don't really have pacing strategies, I normally just hang on for dear life." LMAO Tom is so real for this. He cracks me up every time.
HA! Love this idea. And the editing between y’all was perfect. Sarah - “I bet Tom just runs a 3K.” Tom - “I should just run a 3 K” Brilliant!
It's not just that Sarah won this competition. She actually very accurately predicted how the Mo will end his run :-D So its a double Win 😀
hahaha
Rematch, but 10km
Great idea Nathan!
@@runningchannel Next time bring Andy too
@@runningchannelBring James too!
This is great! You should try hill reps😂 I think that would be funny😆
Nathan with the great vision!
As a slow runner I can relate to Tom’s stages sooo much
I would do Tom’s strategy…just quit when you feel like it. 😂
😂
So is that behind the scenes guy now a presenter? I’m here for it! Well done all and happy new year 🎉
I would love to see you guys try blind running like they do in the Paralympics. Pair up, one runs with a blindfold on whilst one guides them. Those runners are amazing and inspiring ❤
Rematch but using someone else’s technique. Rock, paper, scissors for Tom’s approach 😆
What distance should the rematch be??
@@runningchannel here's a real monkeywrench: 6k!
Tom is a treat and I’m glad he’s on camera now!
Nice! Next you should do a prediction run... pick a course and pick the time you think you can run it in. It doesn't matter how fast or slow you go, the person who comes closest to their predicted time wins!
This was such a fun challenge! Sarah correctly predicted how everyone’s run would go, too. Brilliant! Tom is an inspiration. Just going out to run is half the battle.
'Hanging on for dear life' - best description of my running experience 😂
I think you should get Andy and everyone to do this with a mile and see if muscle memory is still there for the ex-olympian
I would probably end up either like Tom, because when I run somewhere new I always feel like I've been running WAY longer than I have, or having run even further than Jess did because I would be constantly second-guessing myself
🤥 Always rooting for you Tom! I liked your strategy!
Team Tom!! 🤥
Loved this! It would not work for me because I know virtually all the routes around me. Including those on my long runs. I started running back before smartphone tracking and used to plot my routes on a pc with Maps, then would write down the streets where I should turn, and run with the piece of paper on me. I kinda learned all the distances in my area. I'd have to go somewhere completely different, otherwise I'd know how far a 5k route is.
I love that they all covered their watches, and still the run counted towards their workouts instead of running naked and using some other method to measure how far they'd gone.
Not a huge fan of running but I find these videos very entertaining :)
🤥 Tom's 5km description is excellent. How about a similar challenge but for elevation? Who can get closest to 100m climbed.
Great idea with elevation!
Fun video folks and happy new year. I'll give you 2 challenges i'd love to see - 1) (more extreme perhaps) a basic aquathlon or triathlon (ie pool swim) see who in the team can keep up with Jess (given her background i'd assume she'd p1) the other - maybe calmer 😉 how about a running channel takeover at a parkrun ie handle a number of the various volunteer roles
Hahaha great challenge Richard!
Love it!!! Jess’s tactic is smart but I love Tom’s idea better haha! Love the how I feel strategy! Haha! Way to go Running Channel.
Love these types of videos! So much fun. Thank you TRC
Our running club has a guesstimate for pace. I have decided next time to start my watch on my ankle, that way I can't be looking at it!
I also suspect Jess is confusing sunset with dusk. As many people do.
Brilliant concept, well edited. Top marks all round 🎉
'I don't have pacing strategies. I just hang on for dear life.' Never related to anything more 🤣
Nice Challenge Idea: Sun Ra(y)ce. Set watches to 1hr. See who can run the furthest as the crow flies before official Sunrise time. Bonus points for prettiest sunrise pic.
Sadistic Challenge Idea: Blood Rush. Everyone runs as many laps as possible in a period pain simulator. Intensity increases every lap. Anyone who loses the ability to stand upright, speak or basically function is out. Last person standing wins cookies. Yes i have just realised my first marathon lands on Hell Week 🙃 Love the channel!
I adore these videos. Keep running fun! Great job all, and especially the winner! (Though I do agree the timed Playlist could give an unfair advantage, same as a stopwatch.) 🤥 for bruising/hooning! 😂
It's a good idea !
You can also aim a pace : run at 5:00/km ✌️
I know my step length pretty well. Would have gone insane trying to count to 4.5k
That's the strategy I thought of too, but instead of counting the steps in my head I would use a tally counter.
Tom just didn’t fancy doing the 5k
Love Tom!! Sarah and her Ultra🤣Mo and Jess are pros👍I would have also been in Tom’s boat 😎
Love these challenges that you at the running channel does. Something I might have to try
One of my proudest moments was when I was form time in school and the teacher asked everyone to stand up close their eyes so they can't cheat and count to 1 minute and sit down when they think they'd accurately counted. I was the closest.
I love the banter between them even if they're recording separately 😂❤. spoilers but I knew who was going to win and that person had everyone figured out toob😂😂😂
I was screaming at Mo to keep going! Excellent effort all around. Love challenges like this!
haha would you try it with your friends?
This was so cool! I would try it, but I have to find an out of town spot.... I'm too familiar with the routes in my town😂 I can soooooo relate to Tom's stages 💕
Y'all are alllllll awesome 👊
Happy 2024 🎉
I'm pretty good with my splits on long runs. But I think it's the first mile or so where the effort to distance feeling would be hard to judge. Tbf Sarah smashed it with maybe a stroke of luck involved 😂
As a former sprinter I most applaud you guys, better people than me
We all knew Sarah would win! 😊
Love the video. Although I do not think Mo should have had a timed music in his headphones. We do a no watch handicap run at our club and no watches or headphones are allowed.
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very entertaining wow incredible. i definitely thought the visualization method and out and back would be the best methods
Earphones are tech, that should be disqualifying
hahaha how is that cheating?
@@runningchannel It's the same as a stopwatch if you know how long your playlist is! DQ
@@runningchannel Just making a playlist as long as your average 5k time seems like a pretty easy way to win, while everyone else is trying to do sunset calculations and what have you.
Shame Mo threw that tactic out and started trusting mailboxes 😂
my strategy would be thus: i kno my general comfortable pace puts my stride at about 1.08 meters. therefore, run my comfortable pace and count 4600 (approximately) steps. simples.
Same at about 1.12-1.13 meters
Would love to see a pace consistency 10k with watches hidden. So use 1k as your benchmark, then see how close you are to it on each subsequent kilometre. Lowest cumulative time difference wins 🥇
It would be hard to make this challenging for me to do anywhere near my house. You'd practically have to drop me in a different state so i wouldn't know the mileage from previous runs. I run a decent bit and try to keep it fresh so I have a pretty good distance of all the mileage in a good radius from my house.
Edit: in other words, the better challenge, as some have suggested, is have everyone do it in one place that none of them have ever run before. a long straight road in the middle of nowhere, where all you have is your sense of pace.
This was a genius idea!
I want to try it too - but I know every route nearby and it feels like cheating. I'd have to go to some new town and then I'd get lost and scared 🤣
you'd have to switch it up 😂
I introduced an event at my club where we ask the members to predict their time for 5 mile route, and then they have to run it with no technology at all - no phones, watches, GPS, music etc. Winner is the closest to their predicted time, but to make it interesting, if you run faster than your predicted time you get disqualified. When we started it 10 years ago nearly 70% of the runners would be disqualified for running too fast. Now it's down to about 40%. Running with no music or GPS scares the pants off some of them.
here from the 10k outro
Loved the different tactics involved. Was indeed routing for Tom
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was a great challenge, I would use the imagined Parkrun in my head tactic.
I was voting for Sarah all the way. I'm like her I run most of my daily 5Ks in the exact same place at a park. I know how my body feels once I get to the end of that 5K. The repetition seems to always win.
I tried a challenge where I ran 5km at easy pace looking at my watch, and then 3 days later ran the same route without looking at my watch to see how I close I could get to the 1st time. Don’t know if it was luck, but there was only 7 tenths of a second between the runs. How close can you get…….
Great job Sarah. I figured Sarah was going to get this challenge.
You could also do a challenge where you all run 5k together and you have to run closest to a certain time, eg.25min and have to try pace yourselves. closest to 25min wins! (or whatever time is chosen )
Love these challenges and love 😊all who take them.
Enjoyed this- well done guys!
Same challenge but stop when you think you have hit say 25 minutes
I’ll need to convert Tom’s strategy to miles and start using it 😂
only 3.5 mins in , but occurs to me sunset isnt easy to judge with clouds.
Nice content as always. 10km next 🎉
I love these challenges 😁😁 Sarah for the win! 🥇🤞
This was fun to watch!
I would've come up way too short or gone way too far. Bravo to eveyone.
Not really a challenge but I think you guys should do the Detroit Free Press Marathon. Its a marathon where you run across neighboring countries. It starts in the US crosses into Canada and back.
Start a parkrun in a new location, and show us how! Bring us along for the ride because I would love one here, but the nearest one is a 40min drive-just not super realistic
10km Rematch needed!
With the whole team?
this is fun, you guys are witty motivators 😜
This would be incredibly difficult for me to do, because I look at my watch while running so often that anywhere I've run before, I will roughly know the distance of
Loved watching this, I watched it while donating blood and was giggling! The nurses must have thought what loon laughs while donating blood 🤣🤣
😂
I wonder if you got a large enough group, would the average approach 5k?
Should we do it with 100 people?
Yes you should!
Running watches have really come a long way in a couple of decades. Hard to think we were all just running around in cotton sweat pants, wearing a junk casio, and thinking we were going to be in the Olympics because we knew what a fartlek was.
I was a lot faster then, too... but maybe that was just youth? 😂
Fun idea for a video. Nicely done
good effort by all and well done to you all
Put in a time for 5km and see how close you get to your predicted time. Parkrun 5km its an easy metric to use but not at parkrun as you can pace someone else. How consistent are you with your pace training
Tom! You clearly started hooning too early.
would love to see a rematch with a much more obscure distance. have them try to gauge 3.6k or something like that
2024m?🎉
ooooo great idea!
I’m laughing before the video even starts 😂
That was fun 😂
😂
please have a rematch. i love these challenges. well done!
Different distance??
Great idea for a video. Good job.
My 5k challenge is to get a sub 21 minute parkrun, that would be a PB. Hopefully, at Whiteley tomorrow, fingers crossed.
cant you guys count watch you striding and count 5000 paces we don't it that way in army all the time and we most the time had it right
A rematch at half marathon distance would be brill. There's no way that anyone would be able to think of clever tactics to work that one out, and going by feel on very tired legs would be darned near impossible. Are you up for this Tom? 🤥😉
Ooh. In the US, a city block is around a tenth of a mile. So if you ran 30 and a half blocks, you'd be somewhere in the vicinty of 3.5 miles. I want to try it sometime!
Let us know how you get on!!
Lol which blocks? Cause street blocks much shorter than avenue blocks, and pretty much anything out of Manhattan is chaos
City blocks in the Midwest on average, your mileage (ha!) May vary.
Donut 5k…Eat a donut to start, then each k have to eat another donut or if don’t on track a donut per lap 😂
Sounds both delicious and awful 😂
Loved it!
Love this!
Rematch, but 10k and include everyone
Great idea Jordan!
You could even ask a few people who have commented to attempt it
Presenters vs Viewers
In Dubai we have 30x30. Which is basically 30mins of exerice for 30 days around November. There is loads going on with numerous fitness villages, activites with schools, park runs and the Dubai 5/10k run on thr Sheikh Zayed road. Something linked with this would be great. I know TRC love a holiday 😂
All our streets are miles. I could run any of them three times and then stop after counting to twenty for a full 5K. Last night we tried not using our full route, changing direction twice and it still worked out almost perfectly around the lagoon. Check my Strava.
I feel you, Tom, you are a bit of me.
Go Sarah 2 wins a row at that distance. You guys should try it at 10km
Tom is so relatable lmao
Need Rick to do this 🤪🤣
If it's not a marathon, Andy isn't showing up. He should do this for the marathon distance.
😂
Amazing idea
Challenge - Every km, increase the pace by 30 seconds. Last one running, wins!
That was quite exact, only missed by 220m,
I'm with Tom. I would think I've done 5 and it'd be 3.5 or something.
Yes, rematch!!!