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@@TrailrunnerTroy Merry Christmas Troy! I could say May the roads rise up to meet you, but I guess they do! Still, May the winds be always at your back! Have a great 2025!

Right so, will get him back at some stage, won't be hard! Loads more videos in the planning and next race is in just over a week...yikes! Hope you have Happy Holidays and a great 2025!

@@TolunayOrkun Same to you Tolunay! 2025 running calendar starts in a few days time.

Likewise Gary. Look forward to seeing you in Tokyo!

Likewise Steven! More races and videos coming up fast!

Likewise Chris. I will be thinking of you on Saturday week. Staying in a different Hotel this time. Kind of afraid I might start knocking on someone’s door every morning…

Thanks Leopoldo! Same to and yours. Best wishes for 2025

Same to you Panos! I’m in the middle of more video making…should be a few out in the next two weeks. Hope you and your family have a great festive season and 2025!

Rajkumar. It’s is great to hear from you! Sorry to hear about your injury. Have a great 2025!

Thanks all the wonderful support in 2025 Bartek! Means a huge amount to me.

Likewise Bev! Best wishes for the race preparations!

I like both of the shoes. At the same price I would but the X-SPE. But if the X2 was significantly cheaper I would go with those.

Seasons Greetings Tolunay! This video was challenging to make. I tried using some new Adobe AI software to help eliminate some background noise, and make the in car segments sound better. It ended up slowing down Premiere Pro and in all the log jamming I forgot to include the Strava route that I made after the race, but popped into the description: www.strava.com/routes/3303338817918277830 Strava measures it at 9.8km, and I think my Garmin is pretty accurate. A few years ago I did a test with a measuring wheel. And I have run several marathons. The distance on my Stryd is always short. I have tried re-calibration with mixed results. I might try another calibration on the track as it is a known distance. I have been testing all sorts of things lately. In this video amongst others I was testing how long I could handhold the camera and extended battery handle. 10k with no problem is the answer! And testing the microphone. One other thing I have been testing is using the Garmin over my sleeves, connected to my heart rate monitor. It works. This time I also tested my Apple Watch over my sleeves. This does not work. The watch reverts to requiring a passcode after a short time. My Stryd is connected to my watch so it lost data. Lesson learned! But this was a great confidence building race. Jack was just using it as a bit of fun. He will be in better shape for the next one...not sure when that will be. Possibly late January...depending on what happens in the next race in early January. Have a great 2025!

@@OldManRunner If you have auto-calibration turned on FP-XXXXX device turn that off. With that off and calibration factor of 100, STRYD was spot on. That said, your course appears to be short.

Cheers Chris! Jack is grand. He’ll be plotting some revenge in the next one and will be serving me up some humble pie in 2025

Yes. The stack height means that I would be careful on any sharp turns, but must marathons don't have sharp turns. They should be fine. One side note is that the 42mm stack height means that they are not permissible for World Athletics Series Events but are allowable where the level of competition may not be relevant for international statistical purposes and where, therefore, Rules and Regulations may deviate from those in force at World Athletics. It really only applies to people chasing records and world class performances. Best wishes for your marathon.

@ thank you for the detailed response! Much appreciated

Glad it was helpful. There are lots of different ways into Boston. Not all involve qualifying. I made a video about the ways into Boston without qualifying: th-cam.com/video/V1L_9B04oyQ/w-d-xo.html I think that the short answer to both questions is yes. There are 150 Abbott World Marathon Majors places as far as I know, so it is helpful, but not guaranteed that you will get selected. In the video I go through all of the ways I could find out that you can get in without qualifying As it happens I qualified and also made a preview and review video of this years race, which may be of interest: th-cam.com/video/DTyy-ho5sqw/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/guEWWcNGoTk/w-d-xo.html Very best wishes for getting a place!

@ thank you and good luck to you!

Glad you enjoyed it Bartek. Funnily enough despite all the technical issues, and a copyright infringement issue, I really enjoyed making it. Hoping to do more with the Jack lad in 2025...and have a lot of races planned, all of which I will try and film in one way or another...

Cheers. Really beautiful course. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

@@OldManRunner That was my first ever run outside that of Park runs. It was brilliant. I’ve now signed up for the remaining runs in the series. Maybe see you on those!!

I will do all six at some stage, but not sure exactly when. If you see me say hello!

@@jasonsrunning I’m not surprised there were lots of people. Such a well organised event. Hoping to do all six at some stage! Seasons greetings.

@@OldManRunner Yes, if you want a look at the others I have done the series of 6 twice, videos of them on playlists on my channel - well worth doing, some lovely forests to run in - have a great Christmas!

Jason. Thanks for he heads up on the Channel. You've opened up a whole new world of races for me to try! See you down the road.

Well we are definitely going do do more of these races next year...It was great fun, more to come...

Cheers Richard. really beautiful, next time i would start a little further forward...

I was amused that in some races down South the distances are shown in Miles...somewhat relieved to find they are in Km for these races. My GPS at the end said 9.81km Jack's said 9.82km. Strava 9.79km www.strava.com/routes/3303338817918277830 I did the Strava Route after the race....meant to include it in the video...

You never did tell us your time either! 😁

49:15 www.strava.com/activities/13112992069 I had huge technical problems making the video...and ended up leaving out some essential stuff...

The picture in the attic is my plan...The heart rate took a sudden climb at one point, but then so did the course! I was hoping to get a tow from the Jack Rabbit during my late race doldrums, but no luck! My final time for the race was 49:15. So under the 50 minutes, but then the course is just shy of 10k. But I was really happy to sprint at the end. The viodeo took ages to make. Race videos always do. And I had all sorts of computer issues. And I meant to include some Strava details: www.strava.com/activities/13112992069

@@OldManRunner 49.15 is awesome for that course! Fantastic job not-so-OldmanRunner. :)

Cheers Tolunay. The course really suited me and as you said, it was good to get off to a slow start. Loved the hills and the atmosphere.

@@TolunayOrkun MERRY CHRISTMAS Tolunay!!! Hope you’re doing well!!! Any races looming?? Barry’s next marathon the 4th and mine the 5th January!! 🤪😵‍💫😬

@@bev9708 Merry Christmas, Bev! I just did California International Marathon on December 8th (my 5th marathon). I don't have the next one determined yet. I just have HM at Houston Marathon on Jan 19th. I will be rooting for you both.

Funnily enough they were fine. Most of the trail was dry and level, and strangely I didn't pick up any gravel in the slots

When the heads up running glasses come, I will likely be first in line...

My slender 1-0 lead won't last for long methinks...

In short, no. I don't know what the chances are, but slim enough I think. There are various ways into all seven, and I have tried most of them. I am doing Tokyo and likely London in 2025. I entered the open draw for Sydney 2025 and will see what happens. I made videos of the ones I have done and how I got in here: Chicago 2021 th-cam.com/video/ihhWLkamhks/w-d-xo.html Berlin 2022 th-cam.com/video/3s7Yd-WXcS4/w-d-xo.html New York 2023 th-cam.com/video/OIIN4aS2Ve0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/_ul3peRVJyY/w-d-xo.html Boston 2024 th-cam.com/video/V1L_9B04oyQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/DTyy-ho5sqw/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/guEWWcNGoTk/w-d-xo.html Best wishes with all of them!

@@OldManRunnerthanks I ended up signing up. I’m already doing all 7 majors in 2025 so this is more about access to the events during each of those majors I see two we can do are listed for Tokyo 10 spots for finish line access, and a Westin shakeout run again a “chance” to attend… nothing guaranteed sigh. $349 singlet.

I use the GoPro Chest Mount: gopro.com/en/ie/shop/mounts-accessories/chesty/AGCHM-001.html?srsltid=AfmBOoprrvVkpJencpuJwuAf8hWkyudVo7UG17cJlFyRJu8zCv7TbZZS It works well and is comfortable. It probably works best for cycling or activities other than running. When running it tens to move form side to isde and the footage is quite unstablised. You can see the effect in the running footage in this video: th-cam.com/video/dR8jFVrLhdg/w-d-xo.html For running, a head mount can be useful and more stable, but a GoPro is not light. I find I get better footage holding the camera on a selfie stick in my hand, though that has limitations. Another mount that I have found to be great when cycling is the DJI Osmo Action Neck Mount: store.dji.com/ie/product/osmo-action-hanging-neck-mount?vid=138111 Easy to use, not very heavy, ore expensive and I got good footage. But again it is not useful for running as it bounces on the neck with the foot impact. You can see some of the cycling footage in this video: th-cam.com/video/9fN3GRitccQ/w-d-xo.html Hope this helps...

@OldManRunner awesome thank you! Just wat hing a few vids 2see which one suits best, u havnt used the hat mount with the insta360 go3 have u? Thanks 4the in depth reply 🤙

I have not used the hat mount on the Insta360 go3, but I have on the Go 2. The hat mount is great. I also bought the DJI Osmo Action 2 and use it with the DJI Action 2 Magnetic Headband. That works pretty well. You can see some of the footage from the Insta360 in this video: studio.th-cam.com/users/video-l-jcYEZDKQ/edit You can see some footage from the DJI Action 2 here: th-cam.com/video/3YUknDD-vtk/w-d-xo.html

Brilliant cheers

Yes. It would be great to compare with some professional equipment, but I would need both the professional equipment to comparative test and then additional equipment to test any differing results...neither of which I have so in this video I can only really show what the scales do.

I don't have a Garmin EPIX, so apologies, but I don't know. I pair the Duo to my Apple Watch and I can get my Ground Contact Time Balance in real time and some other average times, 3s, 5s,10s, 30s, Lap and overall. Oddly I can't get Vertical Ratio, Vertical Oscillation Balance, Leg Spring Stiffness Balance, Impact Loading Rate Balance in real time on the watch but I can get Vertical Ratio. My guess is that they will get rolled out in time. And whatever gets rolled out on the Apple Watch will make its way to the Garmin devices at some stage blog.stryd.com/2023/11/14/native-power-based-workouts-on-garmin-watch/ Hope this helps

@@Chris_Baily I was thinking of you when I was doing the testing. I am going to try another test… might be another workaround…

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But probably I'm wrong...

I have not run in the Speed 2. For me for 15km my shoe of choice would be the Nike Vaporfly 3

I recorded the footage on October 29th 2024, with the latest Firmware at that stage. I think that it has been updated at least twice since then, and at least once was in relation to Super Night. It was updated again last night with sports data amongst other things, which was great as I am making a video about that... I took some night footage 7th November that you can see here: th-cam.com/video/dR8jFVrLhdg/w-d-xo.html Some of the footage is great and some very shaky, largely because I was running with a chest mount for almost all of it...hand held would have been much better but adrenaline got the best of me...

@@OldManRunner the footage when you are talking to camera looks great, did you use regular mode or super night mode?

I went with Super Night. Rock Steady Dewarp, essentially the same settings I thought I would from the end of the last video. Will be trying to film a marathon at night in early January and will use the same settings again

Tolunay, as you say it is really hard to detect small differences in smaller tests. After the first few testsI was thinking I must be done something wrong, which is why I threw in the Infinity RN4 GTX to see if there was a difference in HR, which there was. Then I did the back to back to back to back test and it was hard to separate them. Finally I did the AF3 ZF6 AF3 test to try and isolate the results in the ZF6 and avoid any influence of fatigue. What I would really like is a giant data set, to get really meaningful data. But for the moment this adds a little data into the mix, which is more than the manufacturers do...

Hello Guy. They felt good for me at all the paces. The high stack means I would hold off running in them if I had an injury as I like a really stable platform when I am injured. But other than that any pace anytime. Best wishes with the injury recovery.

So do I, but will keep going with more tests in the meantime. Glad you found it helpful, make making the video worthwhile.