Can I run the course record for this Parkrun 5k? #TheAthleteSpecial #ParkRun #5K Local Legend series: • The Local Legend Check out my sponsor BetterHelp and use my link betterhelp.com/... for 10% off your first month of therapy!
The Byxbee Parkrun course is deceptively slow. It is a double out and back and has 3 hairpin turns plus four pretty sharp corners. It's in a beautiful area of the Baylands shoreline. A municipal airport is nearby and small plans are often taking off. The course is all loose gravel, which is slow and chews up supershoes. If the timing doesn't work out for Byxbee, the Dolphin South End Runners puts on races with a $10 entry fee ($5 for members) most weekends in SF. This weekend, they have a 10k trail race from the Beach to the Golden Gate Bridge overlook in the Presidio. That course is massively hilly and slow. It's not uncommon for their courses to have a ton of elevation gain. They have a 5k road race with 500 feet of elevation gain.
Spencer, I love the new series. Keep doing what you want to do. I just retired from the rat race of the working world. Keep doing what you love as long as you can.
Yo Spencer hope you see this. Better help is a horrible company to take sponsorship from. They have done a lot of shady things in the past. Including selling private information to big companies like Facebook. So please be careful who you choose to have sponsor ya.
Yo if you’re in the Seattle area you should totally come smash the course record at fort ward parkrun over on Bainbridge island just a 30 min ferry ride from Seattle! Super flat and a super beautiful spot! My friend Greg Nance helps put it on, he just recently ran across the country starting in New York and ending in Seattle, could be great for an interview 😅.
Absolutely amazing!! Congrats When I saw the first local legend video I thought it was cringe BUT now I see it is great! Congratulations on your new vision for the channel and your running So happy for you Seth
Nice video and very impressive performance! I wish you would remove/replace the "slap"-sound effect when showing split times etc. though. It's very loud and not pleasant to listen to.
Great interesting in the uk the records have been removed which is massively controversial and pissed the keen parkrunners off. Some have 500.its flipping huge parkrun
They removed records here too. It takes a lot of digging to figure out course records. And it is nearly impossible to figure the age group or age graded lists. I haven't been to a PR since that stupid (IMO) decision was made.
@@wardfreeman7533 it was ridiculous a few friends of mine are gutted about the vets times and records.it was just with Spencer mentioning the records I though they were still a thing. Thanks for the info happy running
I’m not Spencer but I used a Hal Higdon training plan to get under 22:30 for the first time ever. That and running to the point of feeling like death… then doing that for 4 more KMs!
Big improvement and good series. Course records are always icing on the cake. One thing missing is prize money. Gotta get that to upgrade your legend status
No spoilers, I'm going 15:54 for my prediction. Edit: Hey I was close, also 16:01, sub 16 for sure next time, and that 3rd mile speed was ridiculous after running a 10:30 2 mile man! You'll be back to sub 15 before you know it, before even I know it! XD Seriously though, keep it going man, you got this!
Great race spencer!! Sub 16 next week for sure!! Are we going to see other distances in the local legend series? (10k, half marathon, etc) or just sticking to 5ks and parkruns? Either way I’m really enjoying the series and what you do next!
Great running, particularly with the head wind/ I almost wonder if you would have been 5-10 seconds slower on the first mile if that would have led to breaking 16. Maybe not as you crushed the last mile and change. Great improvement. Maybe some longer distance to build even better cardio along with your great track workouts, and I think the number for you later this year might be the low 14 minute range?
Another you could try is the Des Moines Creek Park Run. It’s another out and back but the first half is a slight incline the whole way which allows for a super fast entirely downhill second half
Quite interesting content. Love this break from “serious running”. Your fans/viewers are the beneficiaries of your time off. At some point, I predict You’re going to get tired of becoming a “local legend” and get the itch to compete in some more competitive events while everyone else is focusing on the trials.
Didn't parkrun stop showing run times of other people on the website? how do you know what the record is. I used to feel really motivated by looking at other peoples times. Proud of the young people for being so fit and talented. If phone and internet goes down good to know who to give a pen note to. If the chinese invade lol...stupid joke. Also I don't know who would be Turned off buy it. Everyone knows they are slower on the day than people over taking them or milling around the finish line ready to go home when u are still coming in 100meters or so from finish line. Congrats on 255!!
I’m going to keep selling North Bay, Ontario, Canada Park Run. Course record is 16:30. A mostly flat out and back. Bit of a drive from the West Coast though! Great video again.
Its pointless runnjng fast in these events as they dont bother celebrating quick times anymore. Find it funny how they want to stop it from being called a race but you kept referefing to race every time! Its far from a run the race director mention. As a lot of people still treat it as a race.
How do you know? didn't they stop showing times of other people on the website? i hope they don't make you disappear so the slower people don't get disheartened by others being faster. beginners should see who the slowest are for a track, if they can do it on a sunday they know they can join in no problem. I don't think the website even shows that now. Karens in charge if i'm not wrong.
@@aSkibidiRunner dirty sox. You log into the website and as of a few months ago they don't show the the full list of people times and break down by age and gender. Something about trans soaking up all the womens top times. Boohooo. how long women invading all male spaces?? they should accept a bit of DEI
To be fair he is talking about his standards (He has a low 14 minute 5k for his pr so for him sub 18 is out of shape) but yeah in general sub 18 for a 5k is not slow by any means. I have a 19:21 5k time as a sopohmore in high school and sub 18 feels pretty far away.
