I found this a very relatable video. I somehow found it reassuring that someone as great at running as you also can suffer in a race and have to redo goals mid race. I ran my first ever 100k ultra on Saturday and foolishly picked an arbitrary time goal. I had to reassess quite early on and felt critical of myself for ‘failing.’ So watching this video and listening to your experience was super helpful. I also find - as you did - that not racing as hard as you can can often increase enjoyment levels. Well done on your race and thanks for a wonderful video 👍
Great recap and attitude to be able to turn things around when things didn't go to plan. Seems like you had a really meaningful experience in the end, maybe even more so than I'd you'd just hit your initial time goal? Sounds really good to me to make the content more philosophical in nature - I'd enjoy that! Keep it up!
Absolutely love it mate! ... I was in UTA100, I can definitely relate to your emotional rollcoaster! ... love the video, with your commentary, and the background music was sooo good..... keep it coming!
Love the video man! Amazing insight and the delivery while running and talking about the event was so engaging! Can't wait to see the direction you take for the channel.
First and foremost, congratulations Marnix on this incredible achievement. I commend the excellent videography and post-prod/editing. I appreciate your willingness to narrate the difficult moments alongside the triumphant ones. I am running a 24 hour race this June and I would love to know what your nutrition and hydration plans were for the race. Looking for some nitty gritty details, I have never done an event quite like this so all of my preparations are based on guesswork and research now. Fantastic video, best wishes from New York, we will be happy to have you in the US, and safe travels!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I would love to try a 24 hour race as well in the futute. In terms of nutrition I planned to take one Maurten 320 drink mix per hour and drink extra water at the checkpoints. I also had some Maurten gels with me if I felt like I needed more. But that would give me 80/90gr of carbs per hour. I managed to do this during a 100k last year but this time I threw my plan out of the window after 40k and relied on Coca-Cola and candy mainly because I could get it down without feeling sick
Your videos are great first of all! You could do some videos about your day in general, how you stay motivated, how to balance your high training volume with other things in life etc. Keep up the good work man💪💪 Good luck from Denmark
Great recap. I was in the same race albeit in wave 2. I filmed some of my race and I’m pretty sure I caught you on camera at the aquatic centre. Great to see that you finished
You'll be in wave 1 next year! Great way to capture the race. Yes you're right, you caught me trying to make a decision about food while questioning my life choices haha
Thanks! I think it will. Being less stressed about goals because I know that not everything is lost when things don't go to plan. And maybe I will sign up for races for the experience instead of a specific performance goal
