Jess's tactic also includes calculating one's tangent along the path of the Sun every 10 arc minutes and making sure she runs 10 more steps when Venus is in retrograde in relation to her position
The Sticky 5k. Randomly draw each other’s names and plan a route for the name you draw. You want to slow them down. The runner who can run their route closest to their average 5k wins! The runner who plots the race that gives the biggest gap also wins something, but we aren’t sure if it’s a curse or a prize.
You should try to do alternating paces without looking at the watch. Example: - 1km @5:30 (where you are allowed to look at the watch), - 1km @4:30 (where you are allowed to look at the watch), - 1km @5:30 (no looking at watch) - 1km @4:30 (no looking at watch) - ... And continue like this without looking at the watch. (Maybe do 0.5km laps instead). It would be fun to see how good you are at pacing by feel.
Well if that is the case why was Sarah's first km pace so close to Jess'? There should have been a good 90 second difference in first km speed! @@kamallewis-gopie6956
Genuinely tried Gavi off the back of Rick’s near constant plugging on the podcast. Wasn’t that fussed by it to be honest. Think he may just be on commission… 😉
Interesting challenge and tactics. Jess's boat tactic was quite something, didn't work because of the stride length and she still won, wow! What I didn't quite understand was how the starting paces were set? Is it their current marathon pace or LT pace? Depending on how hard the first km is relative to your maximum pace, it makes it easier or harder to increase pace. If I started at MP, I would have a lot more room to improve with each km as if you asked me to go out at LT pace instead.
She counted her steps for a distance of three boats. Every Km she aimed for 1 additional step. Like On KM1 she counted 37 steps, so on KM2 she aimed for 38 steps etc. Then she correctly realised that with increasing speed her stride length increases so her approach was kind of useless.
Jess is the best! :D. She must have meant if she's running faster, her strides should be slightly longer, and so it would take her one less step to cover the same (3 boat/random cafe) distance. Also in other words, no idea :D, massively confusing. Initially thought Sarah surge tactic made most sense. Surprising results!!
@@runningchannel I'd say if you do positive splits it should be slower every km = out but try to keep the percentage if positive splits as close to zero as possible? That would be an interesting one.....
Tom saying he’d like a challenge like painting with numbers made me think of “painting with runners.” Like a Strava art challenge with you all trying to map out a famous painting 👀 I’d love to see a Mona Lisa, “Mona Lisa’s Mile” kind of pun involved too 🤷🏻♂️
One of the video's features that this Yank most appreciated: all the views of London's running routes. I gotta make my way over there someday and RUN! :)
Great video, Love it that they all have a different strategy, Tom is great, he should do a pod cast and talk about random things and we could listen to it while running and it would take our mind of the long run
Video idea: Higher or lower, run an undulating route and every km have to guess if you are at a higher or lower elevation. Keep going until you get it wrong
I was rooting for Tom. It was so close. Congrats to Jess. Even though your tactic didn’t make any sense, I am not surprised to made the negative splits so big.
I've been loving these challenges - and while out for a run at lunch :-), I thought of a fun challenge that might be fair for all. Maybe this has been done before, but here goes...... You each have PB for 5K I assume. Perhaps anywhere from 20-30 mins - shorter or longer. At the start of the challenge - everyone draws from a hat, a random number between say. 30-300, increments of 30 - so 30, 60, 90, 120.....up to 300. These are seconds and represent the length of time that should be added to you 5K PR time (to make it slower) - and that is your 5K time that you're aiming for during the challenge. I don't think zero (0) should be in the hat, since it might be unreasonable for someone to actually go for a PR during this challenge 🙂 For example - let's take Mo - Say his 5K PR time is 20:00 mins. At the draw, he draws 150, which represents 2 mins 30 secs. So he has to try to run his 5 K in a time of 22:30. All participants do the same. The person that runs their 5K with the time closest to their desired time wins - I'm assuming the only thing you can use on the Garmin watches is the distance. You have to know the pace your running and how it compares to what it should be. Of course, any thing here can be changed: - distance can be 100,200,400 m or 1-5 K - times in the hat can be in increments of 30 seconds, as described, or to keep it simple can be in increments of minutes, perhaps 1-10. Just an idea.......
Since the goal was to have the biggest difference between the paces, I would have done it much easier than any of them: 1. Slow walk 2. Fast walk 3. Slow jog 4. Comfortable run 5. All out These are very different paces that you can definitely feel, and the percentage difference would be huge between slow walk and all out 1 km.
Ahahha Love Jess's complex way of doing the challenge but it worked! How about negative splits but with increasing incline? What's worse than going fast up a really steep hill!
A big challenge would be to do a backyard ultra (or something similar) A lot of tactics possible there. So repeated efforts in a given constraint. A bit like the cheating challenge, but no cheating :)
@@runningchannel i knoe, but not as a Challenge between the Moderators. And i think you could come up with a few stipulations which make it more interesting. Also include andy and tom this time 😄
As for further challenges, you could do a challenge where each of you try to get as close to your 5k PB as possible - but no-one decides on their own route, everyone sets the route for someone else instead. I'd love to see the terrible routes you'd come up with to sabotage your competitors. 🤭
I think your next challenge should be extremely slow running challenge. So for all those runners who run / walk slowly and are beggining their journey this would be very inclusive
Hows about. Run a km, then, closest to that pace for the next km wins. Or a mile, or 5km etc etc. keep up the good work guys. Also, need an extra presenter….? 😅
I'd like to see you judge this challenge the other way around some time. A good negative split race is not one where you go much faster at the end than at the start - that'd be a terrible way to use your energy. Instead it'd be more impressive to pick up the pace ever so gradually throughout the race and go just a few seconds per km faster every lap. So I think Mo is the real winner.
why does the person with the biggest % wins and not with the smallest. small means more risk. when i run a 10:00 pace at the first km, then 9:00 8:00 7:00 and then as fast as possible i have -100% and more with nearly no chance to fail.
Yea I think having your first and final times be as close to each other as possible would be a better score than going really slow then slowly speeding up to sprinting.
@@BurnerAcc-yy1sdah my bad. I missed that the starting pace was given. That does make it more fair. I guess it was somehow calculated off of their 5k pb. I still think what MO did was harder though
