I Ran A Marathon Without Training To See What Would Happen 

That one kid that says he didn't study for the exam but we all know he did

this guy must be in great shape, in general, to pull this off without any serious pain or stopping. much respect. not sure if this is wise/responsible for just any random person to do, though.

My buddy actually did the same thing. Guy ran the Pittsburgh marathon with me without training. He finished in 4 hours 17 minutes. One of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen.

Finally a true "no training marathon" 😂 love that you signed up 3 days before! And I feel like the running room people could be a little more supportive haha

He was already in a good shape and have been runnning for years obviously. There is no way you can do a marathon without doing any form of training for mothns beforehand.

The encouragement and the way the runners immediately accepted you made me so emotional. Runners are a different breed ❤❤

incredible, totally didn’t expect you to finish with an insane time. Congratulations, hopefully I can finish my first marathon this December🎉

Congrats! Always... I just wanted to jump on here: Even if you are fit, this is usually NOT how you should approach a marathon. The bones, ligaments and muscles need time to adjust to that specific type of strain and the heart does as well. There have been several recorded deaths of people who ran marathons without sufficient training (heart attacks etc.) and so many people who have had injuries that took several months to rehab because they pushed their body to a limit it was not used to.

This is insane! I used to do a lot of half-marathons, typically right under 2 hours (my best time was about 1hr 55min). I never reached my goal of running a full marathon, but I estimated that at best, I *might* be have been able to do around 4hr 20min - 30min. When I was watching this, I was sure that you would hit the wall and collapse half-way through. I was impressed that you finished but stunned when I saw the time. Incredible job!

I know you posted this video a year ago but I’ve started my running journey and came across your video. ❤️ How inspiring and incredible that you did this!!!! I almost cried when you finished!!! And what I loved the most was you encouraged every single person you came across, so beautiful. Shows your heart and your kindness! Congrats on your marathon! 🫶🏼

Just watched and congrats! I've got 27 marathon under my belt and was super nervous for you, but loved your attitude of encouragement towards others on the course. Great job!

1 year of consistent training and you should be able to shave more than an hour... easily. The secret is to increase your "easy" pace (and thus your maximum aerobic pace) by consistently doing easy and steady long runs. However, if you wanna get below 3h30 without dying, then you'll need to add a serious dose of harder workouts (weights, sprints/strides, hill repeats, long intervals,...) so that your body gets better at recycling lactic acid and maintaining good, efficient running form, even when you're tired. You have potential 👍

Very impressive! I train for marathons and find them tough! My first marathon was 4:13 with a solid block of training so to pull a 4:23 out of the bag is incredible. Huge respect 💪 Imagine what you could run if you trained….

Well done Oliver, great job on completing the marathon. 💯🏅🤙📣Thanks for the encouragement also to get out there and face challenges, I appreciate that very much 🙌

That's crazy! I've had the same idea a few years back but trained for 3 months beforehand (didn't run more than 5k before). It's funny to see that you got the EXACT same time as me (4:23). I was very proud and it showed me that you can learn anything if you invest time and dedication. Made me very happy, until I heard that one of my Uni Professors (~40 years older than me) ran the same day an hour quicker. A Marathon is literally a marathon. You can train for it our whole life and somehow it will pay out. Great video!

Congrats!!! Thats an insane time for not training!, i ran my first marathon last year in 3 hours 29 minutes

Great vid Oliver! Looking forward to following all of your adventures on RU-vid and instagram!

oh my god all the people at the side of the road doing all sorts of cute stuff to cheer on the runners, they're just adorable I love them

Top 100 is elite 🔥 imagine if you trained you’d be top 30 easy maybe even higher

This is incredibly inspiring! Congrats! For the first time, I signed up for a half marathon just a little under a month before the race. It’s coming up in two weeks and I have no prior training. Everybody I have told so far thinks I’m crazy. I hope I find the strength within myself like you did to be able to power through. Thanks for sharing your experience! I finally feel like I have at least a fighting chance haha

Dude, this seriously was a beautiful video. I was so hooked in the entire time - amazing insights, thanks so much for making this. Hope you find the time to create more amazing works of art like this! I'm these impact more people than you realize, certainly did for me. Cheers!

great run and truly amazing performance without training, Oliver. Didn't expect you to be a good runner given your last sports video lmao. Now you could continue with running videos and gear tests and the like

That video is actually inspiring instead of the clickbaity bs i expected. Well done, mate, really well done!

Hats off to you. I just saw this video and just know that what you did is truly an inspiration. I'm running my first marathon in May and this is exactly what I needed to help keep going.

The collective NO to you saying that you had coconut water 😂

I loved your summary, and great job on completing the marathon!

This video is amazing. Thank you for sharing this experience and for your words of encouragement. Major respect for ya, sir. Way to go!

Just watched your video .. loved it bro! Well done 🙌🔥

Nicely done man. I bet the feeling of crossing the finish line must've felt amazing.

when i saw you cassually beat my half marathon PB without training that i spent two months preparing for i was mad..... 😂 amazing video and achievement, really like your energy and attitude!

Awesome video I’ve been training for months and I won’t come close to your time/much respect!!! April 30th my first, OKC marathon I’m shooting for 5 hrs

Great job! So inspirational!!

I am blown away. This video popping up in my recommended feed is very timely. I've plateaued with my 5ks and really want to do a 10k next year, but have felt discouraged. I have another 5k next weekend and hope I can breeze through it. I will think of your strength as I run!

Great job! You are so inspiring!! I've got my first half marathon in 9 weeks and currently training. The mental headspace is an awesome and intimidating place to be in, but am learning to enjoy it.

Inspiring mate! well done, incredible what you can achieve putting mind over matter having not trained. Definitely giving me the idea to tackle a marathon!

Awesome video! Very well done and executed! And that was an amazing time! Hope you can gain more subscribers

this was incredible!!! keep making videos like this (:

I didn't expect that , great job man !

Great job! Keep running man. Do not stop! What matters is not the goal but being able to run.:)

Amazing job Oliver! You really should be so proud of yourself

I got tired just watching you run!! LOL Proud of you! You're extraordinary and inspiring!! Thank you for sharing your experiene.

Dude. Just ridiculous not only that you finished, but with a great finishing time as well. Congrats and mad respect for this!

you are so inspirational. that timing is insane for no training. you are a living example of setting your mind to complete something - and absolutely smash it out of this world!!! crazy

I clicked this video not knowing what I was getting into, but man what a great surprise. This month I started training for my first ever race (10k) in my life. I consider myself somewhat fit (regular cycling, gym and any other racquet sport lol) but most definitely not a runner, but as part of my New Year’s resolutions I decided I’d try something new and that I’d been avoiding for so long for fear of injuries or looking like a complete noob. This gave me so much motivation and even brought a tear to my eye at the end. The running community is so wholesome , I’m even more determined to take on this challenge. Awesome video !

Very well done! My first ever race was a 10K without any prep, with 0 running experience and I was crushed after finishing it. Can't imagine how challenging a 42.2K could be especially mentally

Great video and great performance. WOW! Liked the "you're killing it" guy LOL. You are a beast and ate that marathon up for breakfast. Best of luck if you tackle any other life obstacles.

That was amazing bro 🔥

I love this video! The perseverance is contagious! 💪

Really enjoyed this, you have really good storytelling skills.

Congratulations. That's impressive. Inspiring video.🙏

Great job, Oliver!

This was awesome to watch way to go man !

More good content, I like how supportive you were with all those you passed and caught up with the rabbit! Your buddy was pretty funny too!

Well done for being prepared to be seen possibly 'failing' (which you definitely didn't). We're really seeing you become tremendously confident and grabbing life in your terms. Excellent.

Loved your thoughts at the end, inspirational stuff man

You're amazing. I don't think I can finish a Marathon without any training at all.

Fantastic! Another good video and a great achievement.

Respect Oliver! Awesome job, and a big gratz from Denmark!

love ur videos, really make me motivated to run my first marathon next month❤❤❤

Caution to all, from an experienced 60+ marathon veteran here - do NOT think you can just go from no exercise period, to running in a marathon. Look up the story of the late Jade Goody, for warnings on that one. This looked a bit click baity to me. Looking at this guy's performance and build, he blatantly keeps himself in at least decent physical shape - even if he's not a regular long term runner. That's very different from doing a marathon with 'no training'. He's said also he ran up to 15k - so he knows what its like to run for long periods, without significantly stopping. That IS training of a sort. Good he made it, respect to him. But he's not a couch potato is blatant, so don't try and make out he's one... 🙄

This video was really really entertaining to watch ❤️

well done on your first marathon without training, very impressive time

Very inspirational! Great accomplishment and awesome content :)

Impressive! Enjoyed watching this

Loved how you encouraged other runners on the way! No idea how you dropped your pace nearer to the end! Well done! How was your recovery? 🎉 🏅 👟

Congrats! I’m currently doing a couch to 5k exercise plan and am almost done with it. I was hoping my town would do its annual Turkey Trot this year, however I haven’t seen or heard anything about it so of course they would stop it when I finally hope to participate in it lol (some years I work Thanksgiving morning). I might have to wait until the Spring to find a 5k to participate in.

i think you’re crazy but also awesome for doing this. watching you run it was so inspiring and motivating and you really did good for someone that didn’t train for it

For anyone watching this thinking they don't have to train to do a marathon: please train. To pull off something like this, you're likely in pretty athletic shape already with no pre-existing health conditions. If you're considering a marathon, please train for it.

Insane! Really awesome

This guy is so underrated like i watched this whole video thinking it had like 3 million views 😂😂

You were polite to volunteers and supportive to runners 🙌🏻

Oliver, you did extremely well. Very proud to see this. I did 30 ish Marathons and 7 Ironman's and other bollox myself. And what I often see is guys over - pacing from the start. You did well starting slow. This is how exactly it works. Fantastic job you did! Keep up!

Wasn’t going to do a run tonight… here I go 😊. Thanks for the video, bud.

What an achievement!!! Cried my eyes out at the end!! ❤

Okay now THAT is a good thumbnail

Not advisable but also very inspirational and lovely to watch a young man with a positive can do attitude and also very respectful and encouraging to those around him

Love your attitude. Thank you for this inspirational video. Training for my first marathon in 3 months. Maybe I should stop training all together 😉

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 thank you for the encouragement in life today!

greetings from italy!!! thats inspirational bro!!!

Amazon editing on this video, dude! Also, I’m more motivated to do the Bluenose, at least a 10k (I have no excuse, I live in downtown Halifax).

Great time for someone who didn't train! You must be in shape!

I have to know, did you have any kind of Running experience prior to this and/or any exercising that you do? Because a time of 4:23 is really impressive, especially for no training.

not a runner by any means. not even close. i’m preparing for my first half next month and the goal is to run a full next year! thank you for the inspiration Oliver. i love you brother thank you 🙏🏾

Love the video!

Man, you deserve more views. I thought I was watching a channel with over a million subscribers! Really amazing pace for no training. What’s your background? The longest you’ve ran was 15km but were you ever a runner before this marathon? I’m currently training for a half marathon, but my pace is so slow (8-9:00 min/km) because I struggle gaining weight in muscle mass… I can go as fast as 6-7:00 min/km but never sustain it because they feel like sprinting to me. Anyway, I hope you keep posting more videos about running! Love what you said at the end of the video. Hoping that marathon turned you into a runner for life!

Im currently training for a marathon and I clicked this video and when I saw it I was so surprised it was from moncton my home province. I used to drive by that running club store all the time and recognized it right away it was like 5 minutes from my grandmothers house. I think its cool that you ran the marathon without training, but from what I saw from your other videos is that you played soccer and were already in pretty good shape so for you I think its ok, but a guy who doesnt play other sports or who is normally active wouldnt make it without causing health problems. Anyway Im excited to run my first marathon this Sept in Montreal! I just registered today and I started an 18 week Nike Marathon training plan thats on an app with an audio coach to guide you through the runs a week ago. Im already in quiet good shape, I get mostly 10'000 steps per day and love long distance walks so I just need to get back into running. Im probably going to do a run walk run method. I hope I make it to the end as my last two sporty goals were to go sky diving and run a marathon. I even went to the library and borrowed 35 books about running, marathons, marathon training and runners biographies. My goal is to finish reading them all before I run the marathon and will be an expert on the topic by the end of it. Im not very good at making youtube videos anymore but maybe I will write and article or a book about my own experience training for the marathon after it.

Mad respect to you. you are an inspiration to me really 🙏

Great job man! It’s my time tomorrow, my first marathon ever, I have ran 20 km before in a single run but I will have to make it tomorrow. Prepared for 2 months/ 3 months almost. I have to show up and do my best and complete this obstacle.

Your message at the end sums it up perfectly. Running a 50km this weekend after 16 weeks training and will be aiming for under 5 hours so it's good to her about getting past objects and pushing the mental and physical barrier.

You’re awesome !! 🎉

I never ran a marathon it's really cool to see all the people encouraging you 🙌

I am impressed! Now do an ultra marathon 😂🤜🏻🤛🏻

Right on !!! 🎉 42 k amazing 🤩

Class video mate

what an encouraging video! it's cool

Not gonna lie this made me smile with joy.....ive my first marathon in may next year nervous and excited at the same time

Best video I’ve seen today!

Congrats brother, I’m doing my first Ironman in less then 30 days, only been training for 4 months but I’ve given it my all, I’m coming back the 19th of November to tell you how it went, Ironman Mossel Bay South Africa here I come

Seriously impressive, well done

Amazing. Good effort😊👍