THE COMEBACK STARTS NOW! Battling My Cross Country Demons at Cardiff Cross Challenge

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CROSS COUNTRY IS BACK! I'm more determined than ever to battle away my cross country demons of old. In this video I talk about the good times of running for Great Britain over the cross country, and the worst of times when I hated running, when cross country went TERRIBLY during my time at the University of Oregon as a duck on the xc team, and how this year is going to be different. Kicking off the season at the Cardiff Cross Challenge World Series Gold meet, on a rapid and challenging course!
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@Acewhip Год назад

The American courses are totally golf courses!! I remember losing one of my spikes trying to cross the mud on Kent champs one year (America "cross-country" pfffft..) :D

@PhilyBowden Год назад

I can remember someone assigned to a big muddy puddle to fish out lost spikes one year at National cross 🤣

@cristinadallavalle1712 Год назад

I'm restarting my training journey after a forced long pause. Waking up to your videos is great motivation. From Argentina, all my admiration for you.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Aw thank you Cristina!

@markbateman9222 Год назад

Never understood middle distance athletes who openly state that they "hate " cross country. Even when seriously aiming at 800 and 1500 in the summer the winter months were the most "fun" part of the year. Competition was deadly serious but not the be all and end all of the year like the big races in the summer. And I always regarded it as bloody good conditioning for the summer track season - as did athletes such as Snell and Ovett. One track is pretty much like any other, road surfaces don't vary very much but with cross country you never really know what's coming from one week to the next. Enjoy!

@Stevenc1984 Год назад

I wouldn't say I hate cross country, but I never race well it the wet. Didn't have the same issues in the summer, it did take a lot longer to get up to speed though. Horses for courses as they say.

@stephenwest6613 Год назад

Mark, are you aware of why Phily hated cross country and the depression and anxiety that she was witnessing in the period she mentioned?

@PhilyBowden Год назад

I think for a lot of middle distance runners it’s just so far from the fast and furious tactical nature of their races, they dislike it because it’s not their natural forté.. but I agree! It was the most fun part of my year as a kid going through the age groups

@bartb217 Год назад

The taking care of your body part is something that is my current "battle", it really takes dedication and self-control. Started running again after a couple of years of not running and want to get back in competition shape. Going from 2 to 3 to 4 times a week and from 20 to 50 or more km a week and wanting even more is impossible to keep up without injury, poor results, overtraining and getting sick, without proper sleep, nutrition, recovery runs, strength training, etc.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Yep, the boring but essential parts of training!

@FitnessWins247 Год назад

Great to see you racing XC. You know it makes sense! The first one of the season is always the toughest so don't worry about that. Don't stop at Liverpool though, keep it going through to March... county league races, your county and area champs, Inter Counties and of course The National. The South of the Thames on Dec 17th is being hosted by your club this year! Your club's winter fixture list seems to have them all covered so just use that to tick them all off! You would be ticking off great channel content at the same time as well! All of that extra strength could be used as build up to your next marathon...London on April 23rd. Sub 2.30 could be your reward for loving that grind!

@alanjoyce4368 Год назад

Love your vids Philly but what were you doing eating so close to racing ? All that lovely oxygen carrying blood zooming to your stomach to digest that banana.Plenty of glycogen in your muscles to get you round 21 + minutes.Good luck with the next one.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

I just felt really hungry 😂 should’ve brought a snack for the 2 hours before mark like usual

@WALESBOY21 Год назад

Was great seeing you competed in Cardiff last Saturday. I was running in the men's race in the Gwent League event. Took 5 minutes off my time there last year. And by the way Cardiff in Welsh is Caerdydd

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Caerdydd! Knew I’d seen that somewhere 🤣

@WALESBOY21 Год назад

@@PhilyBowden 😆

@rahulbarca4112 Год назад

6:07 - 6:10 well played Daniel very well played.

@benjaminmarksh3124 Год назад

Well played indeed

@jamesmoffett2183 Год назад

Great video Philly, well done great race, please keep the videos coming so inspiring for us mere mortals

@robertcook6476 Год назад

Thanks for openness and sharing. No matter what level you run at it’s very relatable

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Aw thank you so much 😊

@scottsmith271 Год назад

Philly, love cc. Great memories I have are here too. Have you ever read the book “Running with Sherman”? By Christopher McDougall…I think you would really like it. It’s one of my favorites. Check it out. It’s quite funny. Check it out.

@AugherAndy Год назад

Was too sick with flu to run Amsterdam marathon. Stopped st 4 miles. Doing dublin marsthon next Sunday. I need allll the motivation and your videos help me. Such a strong wee woman

@workouteveryday Год назад

Very inspirational video for me. Thanks😍💖❤

@lynchs2441 Год назад

Videos are getting better and better :) Thank you!

@chocolate_squiggle 2 месяца назад

1:54 All the painted faces - that's amazing, never seen that at a race before. Seems primal, painting up before battle!

@AnkeWeckmann Год назад

Such a beautiful autumnal mood! And kicking ass like always! :D

@hamwhacker Год назад

Loved watching the pre-race, elite start, post-race. Brilliant how you wear your heart on your sleeve. I recently walked 48km across the Herefordshire hills in a day. Took 12 hours. How you felt at the end of the running, is how I felt after my walk. People who run the trail can do it in 6 hours. I reckon you would do it in 3-4 hours no problem!

@francismckenna7338 Год назад

Very honest video Philly. Good luck for Liverpool YNWA

@simonhughes8880 Год назад

Explain what we are doing- We are walking. That cracked me up, love your sense of humour.

@markdevlin7551 Год назад

Great effort Phily, another great video from you both. I'm doing the Leeds Abbey Dash next week too

@neilthomas9651 Год назад

Well done Phily great run!

@teresavanlokven9767 Год назад

Having done my first Marathon in years last weekend (that went kind of okay) I feel there are a lot of positives to take from watching this xc and feel if like you I feed of the things that went well and try work on the bits that need addressing life's not so bad. Yes we can do this.. Ian

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Yes that’s exactly it! Always something to learn/be positive about!

@kenkretz6392 Год назад

Great content guys. Always enjoyable:) Thanks

@hamba1998 Год назад

Well done Phily, I can't wait to see how your XC season goes! Do you have any tips on how to deal mentally with a period off running? I picked up a small Achilles injury at my marathon last week, and so am taking 2 weeks off to hopefully let that heal, before getting back into a block of training leading up to Christmas. But I'm finding not running very difficult mentally, even if physically I believe it's the right thing to do. I'm just praying that I'll be able to resume training as planned on Halloween.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

I always try to distract myself! If you can cross train without pain that’s an option: swim, bike or do some upper body stuff! And stay busy/ do all the things you usually can’t because of training commitments. And get outside as much as you can!

@rickmcqueen5378 Год назад

Chin up Phily the first cross race of the year is always tough! We all know that you will progress moving forward, you put in too much work for it to go any other way.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

The first one is always the hardest you’re right!

@constanzafierro8827 Год назад

Love your videos!! What shoes would you recommend for someone trying XC for the first time in January/February? 😳

@etapepartners Год назад

short races are so hard to get dialed-in. for short races under 1hr, I find the race actually starts 45mins before the start with warmup, then trying to time the start and get the first 10mins pacing just right,. its much harder to perfect than long races. nice work for your first cross race this season !

@run-watch Год назад

My favourite race ever was a cross country. The Orion 15 (miles) in Epping Forest. The first year I did it all the regulars were 'disappointed' that it wasn't more muddy. I was a XC novice and did an OK time in road shoes. I did it again the following year, which was "normal" mud. Oh my god! I think I was about 20 minutes slower. It was still brilliant, though.

@lesnamingha6170 Год назад

First off, awesome NB running kit! Thanks for the video, I'm watching this two days before US NCAA CC national championships. Getting me hyped for some great competitive racing -- minus the fallen timber and marshland!!😂

@katiebrazier1308 Год назад

AHHHH!! It’s me!!! So great to meet you Phily!! Editing my vlog now!! 🤣

@2spoons Год назад

How nice to have a banana donation from a friend.... especially when she didn't offer a bowl of porridge not easy to digest immediately 😅 😂 🤣

@wnsbug Год назад

I thought Phily was American thinking she’s from Philly hmm

@pianosign Год назад

secondary channel motto: "can we get some lunch now?" :) i was wondering if you tapered for xc races, thanks for touching on that! excited to learn more about xc as i've never done it and might do a race in a few weeks

@coco_bold Год назад

Nice to see you doing XC. Hard discipline with all those good runners participating. Also aside from your own results, it's nice to follow the team results . I like to follow the women XC from the NCAA, i follow Katelyn Tuohy and her friends from NC State, a very strong team with great depth. How do you manage to deal with those short distance races and also prepare for a marathon race?

@PhilyBowden Год назад

I plan my running in seasons, so XC is the focus now. When I target another marathon I’ll do marathon specific training for 3-4 months leading up to it. The body adapts really well and 5k-marathon is a lot of the same types of work, just more volume for the Mara!

@PoetWithPace Год назад

Demons? I was forced to do one cross country run a year at school in 70s 🙀🙀🙀

@finnohare Год назад

Gutsy run, Phily! And so good you've a race chauffeur now, so you can rest your weary body/mind after tough races 😅

@coops111s Год назад

I loved x country at school, it started my love for running, I soon learnt that you must start very fast and hang on 😳 come on Phily 🤪👍

@richsullivan1950 Год назад

Well done Phily - it looked tough, but you hung in there. Onwards and upwards for the rest of the season

@wilsonruns3381 Год назад

🙌🙌 Love the Grind

@MrJanja93 Год назад

Why isn't cross season summer and track season winter!?

@andyclark8991 Год назад

Phily Awesome video love it, million thumbs up

@Simm0700 Год назад

I'm a Geordie and your welsh accent offended me. Cracking effort at XC, it's always brutal and arguably this early in the season is far easier than later on when the weather turns the courses to swamps....so eh good luck for that, but I'll be feeling the pain with you, just further north.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

😂😂😂 I’m sorry!

@irawhitlock1084 Год назад

I feel ya on the hot chicken. I regularly eat a whole chicken. Lol

@jobanski Год назад

As an Oregonian, I feel slightly responsible for that difficult period. 😉 Although in my defense, it’s been about 20 years since I last lived there.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Oh noo please don’t! I loved Oregon as a place, definitely high on my list for holidays to go back there ☺️

@andrewkeefer6910 Год назад

Awesome run cross-country is tough!

@laurencharltonn Год назад

Pre meet! Learning to love it here in America 😂

@keithrowley7381 Год назад

❤❤

@m.ch4rmaland3r10 Год назад

looks like my corgi!

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Couldn’t resist!

@eddiedalbock5357 Год назад

How do you use it Daniel!!! 😁

@stefanofederici1001 Год назад

Hope to see you in Milton Keynes and get a selfie!! loving the content. best of luck for the season.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Oooh I might be there, not sure yet!

@nathanbaker1727 Год назад

Hopefully see you down at Sefton Park (Liverpool), loved the course last year! Not that I'll be anywhere near your times 🤣

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Yes I’ll be there! Bring on the mud I say

@nathanbaker1727 Год назад

@@PhilyBowden I'll have to keep an eye out! Good luck for the race and #MudIsGood

@Flieger46 Год назад

More golf content plz 👍

@MattRunsColorado Год назад

Curious what the distance is on these cc races? Same with the elevation gain for that course. Great job!!

@PhilyBowden Год назад

This one was 6.4k… I look forward to the ones that are 8k+ later in the season though

@MattRunsColorado Год назад

@@PhilyBowden awesome thanks for the reply!! Keep up the good work!

@jsste4677 Год назад

Miss your intro!!!

@carolynelewis1616 Год назад

Well done 👍

@hellomark1 Год назад

Eating the chicken out of a bag reminds me of when a friend and I were really hungry, and it was similar, all we could find was a full roasted chicken from a grocery store... so we tore it in half with our bare hands and ate it, I felt like a caveman, in the best way :) I need to get the "little things" locked down myself, particularly my sleep. I've been listening to an audio book while I run, about forming better habits, and yeah they definitely do add up. Thanks for the great video!

@rybrooks4550 Год назад

what leuage is this

@PhilyBowden Год назад

It’s the British Cross Challenge Series

@Scott-fi6ml Год назад

Were in the same team with Jessica Hull?

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Yeah she was my housemate 😊

@Scott-fi6ml Год назад

@@PhilyBowden she use to be a member of my local parkrun, parkrun Shellharbour. She was a Jr at that time and use to live not to far from where I live now. She holds number of parking records before she went pro.

@martinkelsen6049 Год назад

Well done Phily. You always manage to make me laugh out loud a few times every video. Very entertaining. If you are finding the new shoes a bit tight, I recommend the Altra Golden Spike. Altra are known for their foot shaped shoes that give room for the toes to spread. When putting in spikes I recommend using vaseline or grease on the threads as this stops the spikes rusting into position.

@PhilyBowden Год назад

Ah yes the Vaseline trick is one I’ve done since a kid, forgot mine this day but I’ve already removed the spikes and they’ll be greased up next time!