Think a lot of the training is on technique. It's a very efficient running style as opposed to most of us who bob up and down, land on our feet inefficiency and don't get enough drive.
The only time I sprint is the last 50-100m of my 5k training runs. When I get below 5 min/mile pace I feel like I've accomplished something. Then I see that Kipchoge averages just over 4:30 for the entire marathon, and looks like he's jogging.
Speed walk clip and Mark getting boat raced by a 9 year old is impossible not to laugh at. I love it when you show just how elite some athletes are Mark, and you certainly aren’t a slouch. We don’t appreciate elite runners as we should. Cheers mate.
I've noticed the better i get as a runner, the more impressed i am by the those who perform at the top level. The average person really can't fathom just how fast these athletes are going, and that applies across all distances! Its only when i look at my pbs and then watch the olympics that i realise just how insane their speed and times are. Its equally as eye opening seeing someone who runs better than i do (yourself) and seing how brutal it is for you to even try to keep up with these athletes... awesome video and as always some great humour throughout 👏
I can really relate to this. I swam competitively at school and trained a fair bit. I'm still faster than your average pool swimmer but compared to the elite level I might as well be wearing concrete boots. I'm like a snail compared...
Yeah, very hard to understand how fast Kipchoge is, for instance. Average untrained person would be like "eh, i think i can do that with some training". Once you start running, or cycling, or whatever, for some time and understand the intricacies of training for a discipline you really get your head around how alien those athletes are.
I have nothing but respect for distance runners and the speed they are able to maintain - I was sprinter in my younger days and could do the 100m in 10.8, but anything over 200m and I wasn’t interested. I ran 1 competitive 400m filling in for someone else, and I thought I was going to die when I crossed the line lol…..yep they have my respect.
It's the same for me for rock climbing. They make it look so easy. And then you touch it, and can't get even the feet off the ground. It's probably mind boggling in every sport.
I get that, i dont run or do any kind of sport, and while I have always appreciated atlethics it wasnt until I moved next to Bislett stadium in Oslo and watched it live that I got a better understanding on just how insane these people are. If I wasnt watching it live I would have thought it was some kind of movie magic.
People always say we should put an average person in the Olympics so we really see how elite the athletes are. I really like the idea of putting a better than average person against them, too. Outpacing my slow ass is easy. Outpacing someone like Mark really does highlight the gulf between the top 1% and the top 0.1%.
Considering how much armchair coaching/criticism competitors get who might be up in the medals, I'm not sure the average joe's efforts would be appreciated. Probably the only way is like jury duty, where your tweets are held against you and you find your call up notice for 2028 LA sculls in the post.... ;-)
As a runner, these kind of videos are my favourite (Lets not talk about the fact that she ran 1:54 earlier this year so still has you beat over the 50m 😂)
I love stuff like this because it shows how INSANE world records are and how extraordinary Olympic champions are. We can all appreciate how daft jumping 8.95m is. Or high jumping 2.45. Lunacy! The running records are just as daft and seeing someone as good as Mark unable to keep up shows us that these Olympians are utter genetic freaks! (in the nicest possible way!)
@@nickbloomfield4236 Depends on gender. Mark, being a bloke, is naturally going to fare better than the 'equivalent' woman. In the UK so far this year there are 195 men who have gone faster than the women's 800m world record, 9 of whom are just 16 years old.
Comparison is not the thief of joy. Comparison can be amazing to witness. The thief of joy is taking that amazing comparison and fuelling your own negativity with it. (but that doesn’t fit on a T-shirt.) 😂
The TV never properly conveys what these people are really doing does it? The first time you see them in the flesh ... a rugby player tearing down the wing or some cyclists flying around a velodrome, the speed, noise and sheer power is unbelievable and not like anything you experience in your normal day-to-day existence as a non-elite athlete. Thanks for the video, loved it as always.
It’s like with the mens 5000m. Their last lap is around 2m30s/km pace and it doesn’t really look that fast. But when someone at your local Parkrun tears past you at 3m30s/km it looks like they’re flying!
It's why I always make sure to watch the London Marathon in person. Getting to see Farah, Bekele, Kipchoge, Kiptum, Hassan and Radcliffe run through the same Greenwich roads I jog on, a couple of hundred metres from my doorstep, is always an extraordinary treat.
@@milliondollarart I remember high school athletics. Was horrific trying to run 400m. Plus the maniac teacher had us do a couple of laps to "WARM UP" wtf
These are great. I'm a 50+ year old 3:10 marathoner and whenever I start to think of myself as being somewhat quick I think about the real athletes running the same distance more than an hour quicker. It's mind boggling to think how fast Olympians really are.
Yeah. Here's a thing non-runners don't understand, pace. My best half marathon in my 50s was 97 minutes, around 4:35/km. That put me in the top 5 or 10% at my local race. My best 10K pace is 4:24. Less than half the distance and I only knocked 10 seconds off the pace. 10 seconds of pace is huge to a distance runner. Best pace I ever did was 4 flat over 2K. World class marathoners run close to a 3 minute pace. That's a 4:48 mile, 26 times. I doubt I could have done 400 m at that pace. That is just incredible. Anyone who can break 5 minutes for a mile is in the teeniest fraction of the population for athletic ability. 26 times in a row boggles comprehension.
The problem I have is and youll always see those American youtubers comment is that people have no sense of perspective. They exist in bubbles where they only can view performance through the lens of elite performance. I am looking at this guy run and impressed that a guy that is 50 can move like that but then u see people commenting that his sprinting sucks. Compared to who like? Olympians? Collegiate athletes? Why is the bar so high?
sprinter for life here … i’m 47 and can still turn in sub 55s in the 400m love your vids mate! the runner in me loves seeing the runner in you never give up ✌🏽
I would be interested to hear your 1000m, 1500m and 5000m times. Reason being, I am 58 and trying to run a sub 60s 400m. I am from a 5km/10km background but trying increase the speed. Tbh I really prefer sprinting but just do not have the power... Maybe me switching to 1500m is the answer.
I'd love to know what my PB's were in different events. Always wondered whether Athletics clubs do or should have open weekends for stuff like that, where they have people pay maybe £50 or something to be able to use the equipment and try and get some PB numbers to sort of see how they do and create greater interest in the different events.
She' incredible, I was an above average male 800m runner in high school and could run a 2:08 800m (that time would have won me a gold medal in the 1896 games). My first 400 split was about the same as her average pace in this race, but she would still have beaten me by a pretty wide margin by the end, I would look slow Then compare that to the men's world record of 1:40.91 set in London 2012 and it's roughly the same factor faster. Absolutely incredible these athletes.
I was at the 2012 London Olympics and saw Farrah win the 5000m and Bolt in the 4x100m relay final. You cannot imagine how fast these people run! Television gives you no idea of the speed it’s just incredible to see
Elite athletes are amazing and inspiring. Watching them never makes me feel bad about myself, it makes me feel pride in the human race. I know when I run my best ever 10K time a world record athlete could leave when I hit the 5K mark and it would be a photo finish at the 10K mark! Amazing!
I set my 400m PB this week.. 74 seconds so I really appreciate a) how unearthly quick Keely is; and b) you're not slow, far from it! Sprinting/short distances hit differently. I'll take a 5k any time, thanks! I often boggle at how my coach, the excellent Phily Bowden, can keep up a marathon at 3:30/km pace - a whopping 30s faster than my fastest single km - although, that was at Parkrace so... Then I realise being deidicated and 25 years younger than me might have at least a little to do with it!
Brilliant video Mark - It put's into perspective just how phenomenal these Olympian performances are. The women especially get a lot of hate, and I'll bet my Asics Gel Pulse GTX's none of the detractors can come even remotely close!
Those athletes are truly incredible. Sometimes it can be hard to truly fathom the speeds and and fitness levels Olympians have through the TV, but videos like this make you really realise that they are levels above everyone.
First up well done for trying because you had very little chance of getting up to speed even for 50metres. The other (disheartening) thing to mention is that Keely’s British record in 1:54:61 which averages out at 28:65 seconds per 200m. There are lots of male track runners under 35 who have not achieved that time. Good luck with your next attempt.
Last night I was watching a video where most of the comments were from "average fit guys" who were confident they could beat top female athletes because of "basic biology". This video is a nice way to relax my eyeball muscles after all the eyerolling I did reading those comments.
These comparison video's are really good! I have been fortunate enough in life to meet & compete against olympic athlete's from other sports and i can confirm they are ALL a different gravy. The performances they can produce are just simply mind blowing and that is just on a national stage - now add in having to perform under the pressure cooker of a grandstand of fans and an international TV audience with the weight of a countries expectations upon you - just wow! Go try Olympic Skeet or Olympic Trap shooting at a local club able to throw these type of targets. You will gain a whole new respect for what the likes of Nathan Hayles or Amber Rutter did this last 2 weeks winning gold and silver. I mean after all you only need to stand there and point a shotgun......lol.
Shows how incredible Keely is, on the last straight she has so much power as well and just leaves the other racers standing. She did the same in the Semi's race too.
You do well my friend Excellent videos My pb Park run at Hudderfield in 2015 ( then 51 )was 18.38 Then a big gap no park run for 9 years I’m 58 just done my first Park run since 2015 in 20.38 at Hudderfield Now that’s not bad 😂
The 800m final was incredible. How the Kenyan hung on from Arop. The absolutely desire to hang on while exhausted. They were all so close to Rudisha's world record.
Mark, I think these videos are great and as eveyone has said it just shows how fast these people are. Maybe you should go long, could she beat your 100Km pace😂🤣
Priceless Mark. Made my Sunday now that the Olympics are finishing. Also Keely probably weighs about half what you do so you could probably run a bit slower and still match her performance on per kg basis 🤣!
I gotta say I was really impressed with Ms. Hodgkinson's race and was really happy to see her win, even if she is a Brit. Don't know her story, if it was some sort of redemption, but she came across as an all-around good one. Congrats to her.
The level of ability of these top 0.1% athletes is almost impossible to comprehend. I attempted the Kipchoge marathon pace for just 100m, he does it for 26 miles!!
I know it's a radical concept Mark, but in order to sprint well, you have to ... well, sprint. Just running alone won't make you good at all distances. If you trained consistently for the 800m you'd get better at it. I think it was Tony Bowman who complained that there were too many middle aged people distance running and not enough doing shorter distances - distances they would have ran when younger.
I feel like tracks that get a lot of use should have a drone or RC car that that can show what that kind of pace looks like. It is a very different thing to watch in person.
In high school I ran a 52 second flat 400 meter PB. Now I watch the women’s 400 meter hurdles get won in 50.37 and realize just how slow I was! I didn’t even have barriers in the way!
I was a two time high school state cross country champ in the 1970s. I was a three miler in college. Most people have no idea how fast these Olympians are running.
You should try emulate Andreas Nygaard marathon ski erg world record. He held 300 watts (1.45/500m pace) for 2hr 28 - bare in mind he weighs around 89/90kg, but is one of the best cross country skiers to ever exist 😊
You know what I've learned is, as a guy less than half Mark's age, I might have a chance to beat the olympian over a longer distance than Mark. But again, only a "chance", and likely only for the 100 meters. And I proably need to give myself a flying start back last time I was timed for the 100m I think it was in the 15's though I was about 10 years old, and while I know I've gotten faster since then, I've also definitely gotten slower since that peak where i was definitely faster. That being said I tried out a new running form the other day and was "taking it around 85-90% effort for 30 seconds at a time" and then walking a min and repeat 6 times, and I was getting about 160-170 meters in those 30 seconds. If I wasn't pacing myself for repeated 30 second runs but for 1, 14 second 100 meters I might be able to do it. Historically I've been a good sprinter, and that was before I found these new form changes that at a minimum make me more energy efficient at a given speed. If I'm being quite frank though, even if I can beat her for 100 meters I probaly am not even beating her at 120.
You might not have any speed but your endurance is insane. If you scale up your 100m time to 400m, that is 59.64 seconds. And your PB for 400m is 1 min 4 seconds. Which means you basically run at full speed for 400 straight meters with just a slight drop off. That is insane! For context, Usain Bolt PB in the 100 is 9.5 seconds but 45+ seconds in the 400m
What's crazy to me is that you look at the world record time for a 400m race and then the world record pace for marathon (42195m) and there's less than 30(!!!) seconds separating their one lap pace. That's insane!
i like how you shortened distance until you could hit it but likely fair to run the full 800 to see how far behind you would be. if you were fading at 200 imagine how far back at 800! all in the spirit of elevating Keely of course
Love these Olympian v fit average man comparisons..!! We all think we could do it...but quite obviously we wouldn't have a chance 😂 She of course is half your weight and has longer legs 😉 😅
“I’m doing this at a flying start to remove any delay I might have at getting up to speed” No need to mention “to speed”, focus would be on getting up 😂
She’s fast 😂 But can she race walk? 💪😂
She... Probably can 😢
Challenge her to a race on Alpe Du Zwift!
I’m amazing at being average…
@@MarkLewisfitness ...just as well as you ........🤣🙈👍
Neither can you.
The thing that gets me is how they can run that fast whilst looking like they're just out for a jog
Mad isn’t it!
Think a lot of the training is on technique. It's a very efficient running style as opposed to most of us who bob up and down, land on our feet inefficiency and don't get enough drive.
Lack of sound + moving camara plays a huge role as to why it looks like theyre not running all that fast
The only time I sprint is the last 50-100m of my 5k training runs. When I get below 5 min/mile pace I feel like I've accomplished something.
Then I see that Kipchoge averages just over 4:30 for the entire marathon, and looks like he's jogging.
@@robg5161technique aside, you have to have cardiovascular capacity first and foremost. They're absolute specimens.
Speed walk clip and Mark getting boat raced by a 9 year old is impossible not to laugh at. I love it when you show just how elite some athletes are Mark, and you certainly aren’t a slouch. We don’t appreciate elite runners as we should. Cheers mate.
I've noticed the better i get as a runner, the more impressed i am by the those who perform at the top level. The average person really can't fathom just how fast these athletes are going, and that applies across all distances! Its only when i look at my pbs and then watch the olympics that i realise just how insane their speed and times are.
Its equally as eye opening seeing someone who runs better than i do (yourself) and seing how brutal it is for you to even try to keep up with these athletes... awesome video and as always some great humour throughout 👏
I can really relate to this. I swam competitively at school and trained a fair bit. I'm still faster than your average pool swimmer but compared to the elite level I might as well be wearing concrete boots. I'm like a snail compared...
Yeah, very hard to understand how fast Kipchoge is, for instance. Average untrained person would be like "eh, i think i can do that with some training". Once you start running, or cycling, or whatever, for some time and understand the intricacies of training for a discipline you really get your head around how alien those athletes are.
I have nothing but respect for distance runners and the speed they are able to maintain - I was sprinter in my younger days and could do the 100m in 10.8, but anything over 200m and I wasn’t interested. I ran 1 competitive 400m filling in for someone else, and I thought I was going to die when I crossed the line lol…..yep they have my respect.
It's the same for me for rock climbing. They make it look so easy. And then you touch it, and can't get even the feet off the ground.
It's probably mind boggling in every sport.
I get that, i dont run or do any kind of sport, and while I have always appreciated atlethics it wasnt until I moved next to Bislett stadium in Oslo and watched it live that I got a better understanding on just how insane these people are. If I wasnt watching it live I would have thought it was some kind of movie magic.
People always say we should put an average person in the Olympics so we really see how elite the athletes are. I really like the idea of putting a better than average person against them, too. Outpacing my slow ass is easy. Outpacing someone like Mark really does highlight the gulf between the top 1% and the top 0.1%.
Average Joe at every Olympic event would be amazing to see
This “put an average person” trend just show how people are not aweard of ther fitness
Considering how much armchair coaching/criticism competitors get who might be up in the medals, I'm not sure the average joe's efforts would be appreciated. Probably the only way is like jury duty, where your tweets are held against you and you find your call up notice for 2028 LA sculls in the post.... ;-)
More like top 0.1% against top 0.00001%
Australia did that in the Break Dancing!
Glad to see you getting back to doing what brought me to the channel in the first place.....showing the race walking clip
As a runner, these kind of videos are my favourite (Lets not talk about the fact that she ran 1:54 earlier this year so still has you beat over the 50m 😂)
Let’s hope she can shave another second or so off that time and consign that travesty of a WR to the dustbin of history 👍
I just want to add this in to the mix.
Femke Bol ran 47.9 in the mixed 4x400m relay.
I wonder is shes related to Manute Bol?
@@uganrajoo8379 sounds like she is related to usian bol
The beauty, the elegance, the power. Keely is OK too.
I love stuff like this because it shows how INSANE world records are and how extraordinary Olympic champions are.
We can all appreciate how daft jumping 8.95m is. Or high jumping 2.45. Lunacy!
The running records are just as daft and seeing someone as good as Mark unable to keep up shows us that these Olympians are utter genetic freaks! (in the nicest possible way!)
I didn't think people who don't run can actually comprehend just how fast she's running!
Yep, the Olympics need to have regular people enter all the races just to make it clear 😂
I think many people who do run - like myself - can comprehend any of the running events.
Or better yet everyone bring the fastest most athletic person you know and watch them get destroyed. Above average Joe's against world class
The effort it takes to run even a sub 2.45 800m, even as someone who runs just under 22 minute 5k's is ridiculous.
@@nickbloomfield4236 Depends on gender. Mark, being a bloke, is naturally going to fare better than the 'equivalent' woman. In the UK so far this year there are 195 men who have gone faster than the women's 800m world record, 9 of whom are just 16 years old.
This is a great video - these ladies are so quick they sometimes look like they aren’t putting a lot of effort in - they make it look so easy!!
they say comparison is the thief of joy, but some comparisons are needed to shut your ego down xD
Comparison is not the thief of joy. Comparison can be amazing to witness. The thief of joy is taking that amazing comparison and fuelling your own negativity with it. (but that doesn’t fit on a T-shirt.) 😂
The TV never properly conveys what these people are really doing does it? The first time you see them in the flesh ... a rugby player tearing down the wing or some cyclists flying around a velodrome, the speed, noise and sheer power is unbelievable and not like anything you experience in your normal day-to-day existence as a non-elite athlete.
Thanks for the video, loved it as always.
It’s like with the mens 5000m. Their last lap is around 2m30s/km pace and it doesn’t really look that fast. But when someone at your local Parkrun tears past you at 3m30s/km it looks like they’re flying!
It's why I always make sure to watch the London Marathon in person.
Getting to see Farah, Bekele, Kipchoge, Kiptum, Hassan and Radcliffe run through the same Greenwich roads I jog on, a couple of hundred metres from my doorstep, is always an extraordinary treat.
400m track is huge when you stand on it for the first time.
@@anyexpat also it even bigger when you run it flat out xd
@@milliondollarart I remember high school athletics. Was horrific trying to run 400m. Plus the maniac teacher had us do a couple of laps to "WARM UP" wtf
What’s crazier is Keely’s PB is actually 1.54, so even Marks flat out 50m time isn’t quicker than Keely
Just putting out there that Keely is from my hometown of Atherton. We are all so proud of her it's untrue!
These are great. I'm a 50+ year old 3:10 marathoner and whenever I start to think of myself as being somewhat quick I think about the real athletes running the same distance more than an hour quicker. It's mind boggling to think how fast Olympians really are.
Jesus wept 3:10 is unbelievably quick for any age, kudos to you sir.
Yeah. Here's a thing non-runners don't understand, pace. My best half marathon in my 50s was 97 minutes, around 4:35/km. That put me in the top 5 or 10% at my local race. My best 10K pace is 4:24. Less than half the distance and I only knocked 10 seconds off the pace. 10 seconds of pace is huge to a distance runner. Best pace I ever did was 4 flat over 2K. World class marathoners run close to a 3 minute pace. That's a 4:48 mile, 26 times. I doubt I could have done 400 m at that pace. That is just incredible. Anyone who can break 5 minutes for a mile is in the teeniest fraction of the population for athletic ability. 26 times in a row boggles comprehension.
The problem I have is and youll always see those American youtubers comment is that people have no sense of perspective. They exist in bubbles where they only can view performance through the lens of elite performance. I am looking at this guy run and impressed that a guy that is 50 can move like that but then u see people commenting that his sprinting sucks. Compared to who like? Olympians? Collegiate athletes? Why is the bar so high?
sprinter for life here … i’m 47 and can still turn in sub 55s in the 400m
love your vids mate! the runner in me loves seeing the runner in you never give up ✌🏽
I would be interested to hear your 1000m, 1500m and 5000m times. Reason being, I am 58 and trying to run a sub 60s 400m. I am from a 5km/10km background but trying increase the speed. Tbh I really prefer sprinting but just do not have the power... Maybe me switching to 1500m is the answer.
Have you considered a series of these where you tackle other olympic disciplines?
Pole vault, javelin, break dancing etc
Him break dancing would be gold!
I'd love to know what my PB's were in different events.
Always wondered whether Athletics clubs do or should have open weekends for stuff like that, where they have people pay maybe £50 or something to be able to use the equipment and try and get some PB numbers to sort of see how they do and create greater interest in the different events.
She' incredible, I was an above average male 800m runner in high school and could run a 2:08 800m (that time would have won me a gold medal in the 1896 games). My first 400 split was about the same as her average pace in this race, but she would still have beaten me by a pretty wide margin by the end, I would look slow Then compare that to the men's world record of 1:40.91 set in London 2012 and it's roughly the same factor faster. Absolutely incredible these athletes.
The pole vault is rather entertaining prospect next for us to watch Mark try😉.
I have a contact that is sorting me out for that already! Seriously, it is going to happen!!
@@MarkLewisfitness I can't wait and hopefully the Wife participates as she'd
Probably do rather well.
Careful on the descent though...watch out for "Little Mark" on the bar!
@@nextphasetkd I have them use scaffolding poles to vault over. I don’t want toto snap a regular one.
@@nextphasetkd Little Mark 😆
Now try the men’s 800m pace haha…
I am not able to do that over 5 m 😂
@@MarkLewisfitness Youre confusing metres and inches there IMO.
You couldn't do that falling off a cliff. Of course, neither could I.
I was at the 2012 London Olympics and saw Farrah win the 5000m and Bolt in the 4x100m relay final. You cannot imagine how fast these people run! Television gives you no idea of the speed it’s just incredible to see
Elite athletes are amazing and inspiring. Watching them never makes me feel bad about myself, it makes me feel pride in the human race. I know when I run my best ever 10K time a world record athlete could leave when I hit the 5K mark and it would be a photo finish at the 10K mark! Amazing!
Holy shit Mark , left all the fast twitch muscles at home.🤣
I think that says more about your sprinting abilities Mark 😂
it was probably the loose shorts and shirt that were holding you back, perhaps a costume change to match her pace?
I do not want to culturally appropriate women’s track wear 😂
Your videos have made appreciating the standard of the worlds elite during the Olympics a lot easier to understand.
I set my 400m PB this week.. 74 seconds so I really appreciate a) how unearthly quick Keely is; and b) you're not slow, far from it!
Sprinting/short distances hit differently. I'll take a 5k any time, thanks!
I often boggle at how my coach, the excellent Phily Bowden, can keep up a marathon at 3:30/km pace - a whopping 30s faster than my fastest single km - although, that was at Parkrace so... Then I realise being deidicated and 25 years younger than me might have at least a little to do with it!
The treadmill fall is classic 😂
Brilliant video Mark - It put's into perspective just how phenomenal these Olympian performances are. The women especially get a lot of hate, and I'll bet my Asics Gel Pulse GTX's none of the detractors can come even remotely close!
Yep. They are another level.
You’re slow as heck ma guy and i’m here for it 👊🏻😂
Those athletes are truly incredible. Sometimes it can be hard to truly fathom the speeds and and fitness levels Olympians have through the TV, but videos like this make you really realise that they are levels above everyone.
Love your sense of humour. So good.
Next challenge: walk 1500 meters faster than the olympic gold medalist swam it!
That’s a great idea…
great idea!!!.....
First up well done for trying because you had very little chance of getting up to speed even for 50metres. The other (disheartening) thing to mention is that Keely’s British record in 1:54:61 which averages out at 28:65 seconds per 200m. There are lots of male track runners under 35 who have not achieved that time. Good luck with your next attempt.
The world needs a "How well can I break" feat. Ray Gun on this series 🙏
"14.6 ..... that doesn't sound very likely either" 😂😂😂😂
Last night I was watching a video where most of the comments were from "average fit guys" who were confident they could beat top female athletes because of "basic biology". This video is a nice way to relax my eyeball muscles after all the eyerolling I did reading those comments.
Gets me going as well.
Don't ever retire the race walking clip. It's internet gold 🤣👌
Great, now I need to go rewatch that race walking video for the umpteenth time. :)
Love your vids fella. 👍👍
These comparison video's are really good!
I have been fortunate enough in life to meet & compete against olympic athlete's from other sports and i can confirm they are ALL a different gravy. The performances they can produce are just simply mind blowing and that is just on a national stage - now add in having to perform under the pressure cooker of a grandstand of fans and an international TV audience with the weight of a countries expectations upon you - just wow!
Go try Olympic Skeet or Olympic Trap shooting at a local club able to throw these type of targets. You will gain a whole new respect for what the likes of Nathan Hayles or Amber Rutter did this last 2 weeks winning gold and silver. I mean after all you only need to stand there and point a shotgun......lol.
I love dry British humor haha
Shows how incredible Keely is, on the last straight she has so much power as well and just leaves the other racers standing. She did the same in the Semi's race too.
This is great! I should try this challenge myself - I'm still gunning for sub 20 minute 5km run which I plan to make a video of, too!
Loved this video as much as I loved the Kipchoge 400m video. Mark, you forgot to add ..." and Keely is a girl!"
She is amazing to watch. I’d settle for running as smoothly as her, never mind as fast! (Neither will ever happen!)
Yep. They make it look so easy.
What’s 3 and a half seconds between friends Mark. Always fun videos. You run well. For your , and my , age group !!!! Born late 70s
Conclusion: Mark is faster than Keely!
Crushed it 😂
You do well my friend
Excellent videos
My pb Park run at Hudderfield in 2015 ( then 51 )was 18.38
Then a big gap no park run for 9 years
I’m 58 just done my first Park run since 2015 in 20.38 at Hudderfield
Now that’s not bad 😂
That is incredible how fast these olympians are!
Give David Rudisha’s men’s 800m time of 1:40.91 a go next :D might have to shrink the race down to 10 meters Mark!
28.5km/h is likely just faster than his top speed
The 800m final was incredible. How the Kenyan hung on from Arop. The absolutely desire to hang on while exhausted.
They were all so close to Rudisha's world record.
Mark, I think these videos are great and as eveyone has said it just shows how fast these people are. Maybe you should go long, could she beat your 100Km pace😂🤣
The touching cloth walk always gets me.
😂 really enjoyed this
Priceless Mark. Made my Sunday now that the Olympics are finishing. Also Keely probably weighs about half what you do so you could probably run a bit slower and still match her performance on per kg basis 🤣!
"Steal my wife's handbag, and this is what I unleash." 😂😂
I gotta say I was really impressed with Ms. Hodgkinson's race and was really happy to see her win, even if she is a Brit. Don't know her story, if it was some sort of redemption, but she came across as an all-around good one. Congrats to her.
Since you put it in perspective… wow.
The T-Shirt is gold 😂👍
Truly remarkable. Ordinary folk should should race alongside the athletes at the Olympics to show how amazing they are.
I'd love to see a collab with you and Philly Bowden (an olympic hopeful)!
I remember doing my school sports day at this very track (turns out I could have stuck with Keeley for 100m but probably nearer 20m now...)
Don't be too upset, you've only got to tag on another 15 of those No Worries! 🤔🤣👊🏃
When you break it down it’s even crazier. 100m covered over 14.5 seconds 8 times. Mental.
Now I want to see you break dance like the Olympians
800m race is a brutal event. Virtually sprinting the whole race.
Usain Bolt hates running 400 M, distance is definitely a speciality. Many are not built for it.
@@alexojideagu That’s brutal too.
Look at that (50meter) stallion. Olympic speed - Come on KAWASAKI, now is the time to finally sponsor the bloke! What is taking them so long?
I know! They must be stuck on the contract 😂
Great video. You’re taking a beating in the comments!
On the subject of Keely, both she and Alex Yee are my picks for sports personality of the year as it stands. No one deserves it more imo.
I'd add Tom Pidcock to that but I have a worrying feeling its going to be Andy Murray (deserved winner in the past of course).
Keely is such a legend
The level of ability of these top 0.1% athletes is almost impossible to comprehend. I attempted the Kipchoge marathon pace for just 100m, he does it for 26 miles!!
I know it's a radical concept Mark, but in order to sprint well, you have to ... well, sprint. Just running alone won't make you good at all distances. If you trained consistently for the 800m you'd get better at it. I think it was Tony Bowman who complained that there were too many middle aged people distance running and not enough doing shorter distances - distances they would have ran when younger.
I feel like tracks that get a lot of use should have a drone or RC car that that can show what that kind of pace looks like. It is a very different thing to watch in person.
Nice one man, I can only run 100m in around 15 seconds from a standing start and I'm just under 30. The pace these olympians are at is insane.
Hi Mark, any chance of you doing a session of sprint coaching and doing a comparison video? I think you could match her in the 100!
In high school I ran a 52 second flat 400 meter PB. Now I watch the women’s 400 meter hurdles get won in 50.37 and realize just how slow I was! I didn’t even have barriers in the way!
I was a two time high school state cross country champ in the 1970s. I was a three miler in college. Most people have no idea how fast these Olympians are running.
Give Matt Pendola at The Pendola Project a shout! I bet he could improve your form drastically!
You should try emulate Andreas Nygaard marathon ski erg world record. He held 300 watts (1.45/500m pace) for 2hr 28 - bare in mind he weighs around 89/90kg, but is one of the best cross country skiers to ever exist 😊
Alone I could hold it for 50m...actually chasing Keely, maybe 60 - she's gorgeous ;)
This is great material for all those "if I started now I'd be at LA 2028" people.
A poll showed one in four Brits thought they could qualify
You know what I've learned is, as a guy less than half Mark's age, I might have a chance to beat the olympian over a longer distance than Mark. But again, only a "chance", and likely only for the 100 meters. And I proably need to give myself a flying start back last time I was timed for the 100m I think it was in the 15's though I was about 10 years old, and while I know I've gotten faster since then, I've also definitely gotten slower since that peak where i was definitely faster. That being said I tried out a new running form the other day and was "taking it around 85-90% effort for 30 seconds at a time" and then walking a min and repeat 6 times, and I was getting about 160-170 meters in those 30 seconds. If I wasn't pacing myself for repeated 30 second runs but for 1, 14 second 100 meters I might be able to do it. Historically I've been a good sprinter, and that was before I found these new form changes that at a minimum make me more energy efficient at a given speed. If I'm being quite frank though, even if I can beat her for 100 meters I probaly am not even beating her at 120.
So Fun, Love it.
You might not have any speed but your endurance is insane. If you scale up your 100m time to 400m, that is 59.64 seconds. And your PB for 400m is 1 min 4 seconds. Which means you basically run at full speed for 400 straight meters with just a slight drop off. That is insane! For context, Usain Bolt PB in the 100 is 9.5 seconds but 45+ seconds in the 400m
Next I want to see you out break dance Raygun 😂
Keely ftw
What's crazy to me is that you look at the world record time for a 400m race and then the world record pace for marathon (42195m) and there's less than 30(!!!) seconds separating their one lap pace. That's insane!
But could she do the Alpe Du Zwift with a dog on her back?
That should be in the Olympics 😂
Probably.
It's actually insane how fast she runs! Well done for trying
Elite athletes are real world superheroes.
As a 48 year old plodder who just scrapes a 35 minute 5k, my mind is constantly being blown by elite runners!
i like how you shortened distance until you could hit it but likely fair to run the full 800 to see how far behind you would be. if you were fading at 200 imagine how far back at 800! all in the spirit of elevating Keely of course
14.9 seconds 100m time is still impressive, all things considered!
amazing... Great video.
You need Nixon beside you giving you inspiration.
The fact that Bolt is over 5 seconds quicker in the 100m is terrifying.
Love these Olympian v fit average man comparisons..!! We all think we could do it...but quite obviously we wouldn't have a chance 😂 She of course is half your weight and has longer legs 😉 😅
“I’m doing this at a flying start to remove any delay I might have at getting up to speed” No need to mention “to speed”, focus would be on getting up 😂