It’s true. I can also tell from my Garmin data when I’ve got an illness on the way before I’m feeling any symptoms. It doesn’t explicitly say you’re about to be ill, but all of my metrics such as body battery and HRV go haywire for what seems like no apparent reason until 12/24 hours later
I wish garmin had a push it mode or go easy button. Otherwise its training recommendation tends to be on the easy side I find. Like it wants you not to push yourself but sometimes a bit of overload is a good thing.
Same thing for me. Just last week My body battery and HRV were down and I felt a bit low, I backed off training and thankfully nothing came of it. My wife however wasn't so lucky, She tested positive for Covid and is now feeling rubbish. @@MattSwain1
Alcohol is terrible for your recovery - But everything in moderation, you've got to keep things fun and relaxed. Stressing over every tniy detail isn't great either 👀
Every marathon stacking challenge makes me think about Terry Fox and how much of an absolute badass he was. Running one marathon is a pretty big accomplishment, running seven is astonishing, then add on an old school prosthetic leg and keep it going for months.
Very impressive performance. I find that whoop and Oura both do a great job of assessing cardiovascular and energy system recovery but the muscles and soft tissue challenges are not able to be captured. Perhaps this is why James was “suffering more” than Mark on some of the later days if his troubles were more musculo-skeletal.
Can’t get enough of these kinda vids 🤙🏽! Thanks GTN. Always great when you guys bring us along through the journey, so we can see you’re actually human🤣! Incredible effort and truly motivating. Please let us know what gear you used in those super cold rainy days. I’m headed into my winter training, and need to upgrade my gear. You guys looked very comfortable with the gear you picked. Enjoy recovery.
That was the most insane and jaw-dropping achievement I've ever seen. You both must be so incredibly fit to do this. I take my hat off to both of you! Well done =D
Just puts into context what Sean Conway achieved doesnt it boys, after all you were 98 days shy of his achievement and you didnt swim and run at all. The human body and mind can do amazing things when you train them both to do so.
You guys are bonkers!😂 And I want to know who decided cold wet winter was the best time to do this? I thought I was nuts trying to plan 7 marathons in 7 months for my 70th Bday, but I think you win. Job well done guys and the video was fun! (for us)😁
Love this! You guys are beasts! Would be great to hear about training leading up to the week and the amount of food/calories needed. Well done on completing this challenge 🎉
Super interesting. But well, looking back at some of the other challenges these two did... I expect there to be horrifyingly little specific training (horrifyingly to someone like me who cannot even comprehend running one marathon). ;)
I'm alive. Harsh conditions. Flagging finances. The eye black I forgot I was wearing. But I can be judicious and perhaps work on kit---thought about the uphill ski program in the morning. If I can bungee the skis up and bike there it'll be epic indeed. Cheers GTN and much happier Christmas than my own, gents.
I would to see a behind the scenes of this, both you guys always seemed so cheery when the camera was rolling but I’m guessing some interesting words were said in some takes, especially by the sounds of Marks routes
Well done guys. Just goes to show individual differences and you just can't compare. Sleep, work, life in general can affect people in different ways. Garmin has similar to the whoop with something called body battery. Not as detailed as Whoop but a great tool for training.
I knew that I wouldn't do 7 marathons in 7 days before watching, but thanks for helping confirm that for me :) Btw, where is James' accent from? It seems quite unique to me, though I've gotten used to it by now!
Great going guys, got some way to catch this guy though 🤣 Ben Smith is a marathon runner who completed 401 marathons in 401 days in England between 2015 and 2016. He began his run on September 1, 2015 and ran for 284 consecutive marathons until a back injury forced him to stop for 10 days. He later resumed and finished with 401 marathons with a total of raised £330,000 for Kidscape and Stonewall. In 2016, he received the Helen Rollason Award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards.
Way to go Mark and James. The route planning I would be livid about. I hate wet feet and to do a marathon like that shows true dedication to the cause. Rest up boys, I'm sure someone will dream up another crazy challenge for you. Cheers.
Awesome. This one has been on my bucket list for a while. Did the 7 hm's when Mark did them a couple of years ago. I would probably take a couple of days off to attempt this though.
I love whoop ads. I click on all of them and watch the entire thing just to cost them extra money. Subscription models need to die especially for fitness. Whoop, treadmill, Zwift and 1 fitness piece like tonal, mirror or Nordic Track Vault and the monthly commitment is 10x my local gym which has substantially more benefits and features. For over $2400 a year I can buy a lot of home gym equipment without subscriptions and still get the benefits they are letting you rent.
Another really cool challenge guys. Well done!! 👌💪 One thing that puzzles me though is, you both said that during the last night of the challenge you did not really sleep. But it is of course important to prioritise sleep. I notice that after working out hard bit later during the day, my sleep is not really good. A lot of tossing and turning. So how do you take care of a good nights sleep, if your body has a different opinion? Like is it important to just get enough hours of sleep in even though it is not quality sleep. Like what is quality sleep exactly? There are so many factors on sleep, one has no influence on.
If you thought it was difficult to run a marathon every day for a week, you have to see what this man did. Jussier Damasceno ran 64 marathons almost every day to celebrate his 64th birthday. Jussier is a very humble man. All his runs are on strava. Jussier Damasceno lives here where I also live. Maybe you've never heard of him because he lives in a faraway country called Brazil. I hope you see his story. And God save the Queen.
Would it be wrong to assume you guys were in average base shape going into this, as in you'd still be a couple of months off a big spring marathon effort? Great effort, not sure summer would've been any easier. Most impressive bit though, getting 8 hours sleep with 3 kids for a week!
You can see someones true character by their composure. Mark is genuinely a nice guy where James is a dick. Mark is better than me for not slapping him with his sarcastic remarks. Be like Mark.
The hard part of these challenges is one goes into them cold. Running a marathon a day is not that hard if you have trained by running everyday and worked up from 10 miles a day over several months.
Your struggle sheds a whole other light on Jonas Deichmann, who is about to finish his 120 long disrance triathlons in a row. And he is doing it with ease. 😅
@@Kelly_Ben was great thanks. Definitely bite hard in the back end. Last 15miles felt like running with a weighted vest or something. Finished in just under 9hr, taking the CR for the loop 👍
I've got Manchester marathon then London marathon on back to back weekends next year. I keep telling people, if I can do an Ironman swim and bike then run a marathon I can definitely run one, have six days off, then run another. This also helps me prove it. Congrats on the baby Mark, make sure you practice training without sleep as that is how it will be for the next few years.
gonna be attempting to do a 'mental' 5 x 50km between christmas and newyear. Seems like a nice experiment, great course choices like 1 hill to repeat, a 400m track n stuff, mental side going to love this.
There is nothing you can learn from Whoop Mark. There are two many daily changes which can impact your output. I would same James also had daily changes which will also impact the data output. But what it does show is data is nothing compared to mental will power.
Congratulations. Really interesting to see the Whoop data. I’d like to know about your eat plans. And what shoes did you use and did you change shoes. Thanks for suffering for science. A follow up video would be great
Funny and counterintuitive that having kids (James) can indirectly translate into better recovery. Who would have thought that! I can attest, as a father of 2, that they surely force the healthier routines on you: 7am here they come, whether you watched a movie late, had couple drinks the night before, or simply want to sleep in, so quality sleep becomes a bigger priority every day!
Congratulations. Really interesting to see the Whoop data. I’d like to know about your eat plans. And what shoes did you use and did you change shoes. Thanks for suffering for science. A follow up video would be great
Well done on yer outrageous running challenge boys 👏🏻👏🏻 whoop are a great job for info!!! But spare a thought for the camera men and women….. chasing ye around for more than 40k a day 🤔😂😂
Well done lads!!! Strangely that challenge was both amazing and completely bonkers at the same time. Even though you were strapped for time. Why did you both not use the help of a physio for recovery? Do you think it may have made much of a difference? Keep up the good work GTN team and enjoy the Christmas.
This was madnesss Major kudos 🙏 🙏 🙏 Y'all inspired me to ensure I did my long run this weekend. Thank you! Had a question : what did y'all do for nutrition and hydration over the 7 days?
Congratulations. Really interesting to see the Whoop data. I’d like to know about your eat plans. And what shoes did you use and did you change shoes. Thanks for suffering for science. A follow up video would be great
Incredible!! I don't know what impressed/astonished me more: the fact that you actually managed to complete this challenge - just wow!! - or that James seemed to actually expect sensible route planning from Mark. ;)
Great challenge! There was some interesting data shared on gender differences in HRV in multi-stage cycling events. Would love to see this discussed in a future video.
