Holy crap… I haven’t seen a TH-cam video that ended in a failure in like a year now, crazy to see someone upload that. Was still incredibly entertaining to watch, amazing job with this!
This has been a well-known challenge here in Oslo, but not between these two stations! You start on the line from Sognsvann to Oslo, and run from Frøen (the last stop before Majorstuen) down to the big Majorstuen station: This is slightly downhill all the way with almost zero detours out from and into the stations. You have to be quick though because Frøen is going to be closed in a few years, replaced with the new Diakonhjemmet station a bit further up the line. It is also about 700m total distance.
I like how this video was edited; * short intro * informative build-up * close fail * enough time left on the video for anything to happen * very short outro This had me captivated without feeling like I needed to skip forward, and now I want to see if you make the run later on.
This particular challenge is definitely harder in Oslo than here in London. Mansion House and Cannon Street on the district and circle lines are extremely close, so you get more advantage from the acceleration and deceleration of the train (as well as shorter attempts, making it easier to reattempt if necessary). If you ever find yourself in London, and you really want to beat a train by running, that's probably your best option.
Getting out of the first station was definitely hard, for this challenge it should help finding two stations that have short exit/entrance. Very good tries though!
This reminds me of the passage in Haruki Murakami's 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. He wants to run the original marathon route in Greece to write about it for a magazine (if I remember correctly) and they are very surprised that he actually means to do the whole thing. Apparently most of those challenges were faked back then too. Integrity is important, for the media, athletes and everyone else.
From time to time I need to do this at the bus stop. In my village the stations are only a few hundred meters apart and when I miss it by a few seconds I can catch it because it can‘t drive very fast. It‘s always a fun thing to do but I could spare the sweat in the bus before university 😅 Maybe I‘ll try this in purpose one day.
Seems like there is problem world wide with television companies telling the truth. Great effort and thank you for being truthful. This was very fun to watch.
The 800m world record is 1:40.91. Comsidering this, I would have been really impressed if you manage this! The thing that was bad is that NRK didn't clarify it when first asked that this was for enterteinment purposes only and not actually accomplished. While it might have been a entertainment format, it can leave a bitter taste in regards to news. What is, in current times, very important. If people start saying: "national tv faked this, why should we trust their news on politics etc.?" their whole journalistic integrity is at play. I'm not Norwegian and therefor don't know alot. But I understand some Norwegian (easier written) and from those times i went on their website i had a good impression of them. A similar discussion as you hinted on is currently going on here in Switzerland. I think that the entertainment side and sports should have it's place on national tv. If this field is left out, you also don't get cultural things that make a nation/culture to people that might just earn enough to live and pay rent (also Norway has those). So you would push them out of anything besides news about war and politics.
I do not mind public service television making entertainment (including sports or "culture", even if both ot those are also entertainment) especially in areas that are not likely to be covered by commercial television. And being (reasonably) advertisement free is definitely a bonus. However, I do expect integrity from them, and that faking is definitely a mark against NRK.
Nice attempts! Would be interesting to see if you could find a long distance version of this as well. I've been trying to find such a version in Stockholm. Apparently Alvik - Hagsätra takes 34 minutes station to station and is roughly 10 km on a path suggested by google maps. I'm not fast enough to be a serious contender, but would love to see an attempt.
Great effort, guys! Regardless of the end results, this was one of the most "edge of my seat" videos I've watched on TH-cam. Fun idea, with great editing and pacing... I was entertained.
I train intervals like this pretty often. I get on a tram and then push myself between stops that aren't too long or too short. It's the most fun type of training for me.
The reason why the publicly funded broadcaster is spending money creating entertainment TV is in theory to provide backing for concepts that are not commercially viable, and to provide jobs and training for domestic entertainment production. These entertainment shows also employ the same people that make news in minority languages, provide training for production roles, and in many cases fund things like classical music performances. Try finding anyone in the Norwegian entertainment industry that hasn't had an internship, a job or at the very least worked on a contract or freelance basis with NRK. I'm not sure having every media professional be trained on the set of the Norwegian version of Love Island is preferable. I am unfamiliar with the program in question, but it is a comedy show, not a science broadcast or competitive sports format, no? That being said, pretending not to have faked it when called out is a bad look, and probably an unnecessary own-goal by the program director.
It's not physically possible basically... these guys missed it by 20s+, which is an extremely long time for this kind of distance. Alfred ran a period at 2:00/km pace, which is very close to what's humanly possible already(it is 45s for 400m, and the 400m WR is 43s). So no chance
On future attempts, please don't do the cut in between at 5:00 and at 8:06. Just do the split screen and/or speed up the footage if it is boring. If the goal is to show the legitimacy of the attempt, then show us the full thing. It's like watching an actual 750m race. We want to see the whole thing. Not just the highlight.
Living in Oslo, I think there are other combinations of stations, where this challenge might be possible (or even too easy). Ris -> Gaustad should be possible and Gulleråsen -> Slemdal or Frognerseteren->Midtstuen should both be rather easy. Might try one of them myself in the future. :D
A 2:00 min pace is fckn 30km/h 😮😮 what the.... 99% of men between 18 and 40 probably can't even hit that as a 50m or 100m top speed and you just run it across a 700m distance
1. perfectly empty track 2. ideal runner 3. perfect weather 4. runner practiced diligently for one full year 5. still can't run under 1:58 6. NRK faked it so bad
I tried that in Frankfurt back in 2013, from Konstablerwache to Hauptwache - but was shy ~12 seconds, too many normal people in the pedestrian zone. 😂 suggest to mount the videos to a splitscreen, so you can see train moving and runner racing hard at the same time - no fake for sure! 😊
Simply looking at the time required being near the ideal conditions world record pace for womans 800m. Safe to say a 400m hurdler going up/down escalators on streets/sidewalks did not manage the feat.
This seems close to impossible, 720m in 1:50 is close to the female national record pace for 800m in my country and the fact that the route involves stairs, escalators and busy streets is bound to slow you down significantly compared to ideal track conditions. Maybe they should get Norway's fastest 800m runner to try it lol.
You should've tried it the same way they showed Amalie Iuel do it. Nasjonalteateret isn't as deep underground as stortinget so you don't spend as much time running up stairs and ramps. I suspect both of you would've gotten it running the other way around.
I think it might be possible at midnight or early morning, Alfred got way too many NPCs in his way. I wonder if he would run a bit faster knowing that he will not run into someone or run over by trafic. With those things out of the mind Göran might also be able to pull it off, I beleive.
To be fair, this looks like it might be technically feasible. If there were not wet weather conditions and there was nobody in the way, and you repeatedly trained this specific route, AND got lucky with a train being maybe 5 seconds slower, then it might be doable. But the fact that the woman was not a repeat world record olympic gold medalist suggests that it is very unlikely that the footage was not fake, and they probably didn't go through that much effort in training for this metro route! But I hope one day someone will manage to do it for real though, because it looks only slightly out of reach!
Incredible run! Very embarrassing that they've faked it. What was the goal of the tv show anyway? It makes you think, what other things have they faked in the past?
That pace would be really fast on the track, let alone on streets, stairs, between people. However, I don't think the Vaporflys are the best choice for this terrain. Didn't you feel unstable in the turns?
Awesome video! Seems like a 800m/1500m specialist would have the right mix of speed/endurance to make the sub-2 minute all out effort required to cover the distance.
I would suggest having the videos side-by-side or at least put the person on the train in a small box in the corner. That way, you can better "prove" if you actually accomplish the task, without being accused of faking.
In Vienna might have a few good spots for you. U1 Praterstern to Nestroyplatz comes to mind, the Station Nestroyplatz has a very short exit, but the one on Praterstern might be too long.
Agreed, as far as I remember, there are some lines that use the same track, so that the subway 🚇 will not go at top speed. Same with Munich central lines. However, great idea of Goran to try bin real life.👍
great video! Even though 60M is more my distance, I enjoy you content alot! Why not go the other way? From Nationalteateret to Stortingent - like in the NRK video? Then you get to go down the escalators, which should be alot quicker..
Now that's how you make an interval workout more interesting!!😁
Haha Definitely! 😁
Magnus midtbo probably does this for his morning commute to the local climbing gym lol😂
I would have put my foot in the door to give him a helping hand 😂😂😂
TIL I should visit Oslo.
Did you consider running between Grønland and Oslo S? I think that one might be shorter if you are sure to take the right exit.
No but will check it out, might have to do another try 😊
that's basically a 1:50 800m effort
Who got the record on that Strava route?
Holy crap… I haven’t seen a TH-cam video that ended in a failure in like a year now, crazy to see someone upload that. Was still incredibly entertaining to watch, amazing job with this!
Absolutely, I think it's a great display of Göran's integrity. Win or lose, it was pure adrenaline from start to finish!
This has been a well-known challenge here in Oslo, but not between these two stations! You start on the line from Sognsvann to Oslo, and run from Frøen (the last stop before Majorstuen) down to the big Majorstuen station: This is slightly downhill all the way with almost zero detours out from and into the stations. You have to be quick though because Frøen is going to be closed in a few years, replaced with the new Diakonhjemmet station a bit further up the line. It is also about 700m total distance.
Thanks for the info Terje, might have to try that as well then 😅
Frøen is on the Holmenkollen line, not Sognsvann.
Her is a video of the Majorstuen - Frøen run.
th-cam.com/video/iOQlIkhIP4U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7vvjtuwKY-E6Kjg_
I like how this video was edited;
* short intro
* informative build-up
* close fail
* enough time left on the video for anything to happen
* very short outro
This had me captivated without feeling like I needed to skip forward, and now I want to see if you make the run later on.
This particular challenge is definitely harder in Oslo than here in London. Mansion House and Cannon Street on the district and circle lines are extremely close, so you get more advantage from the acceleration and deceleration of the train (as well as shorter attempts, making it easier to reattempt if necessary).
If you ever find yourself in London, and you really want to beat a train by running, that's probably your best option.
The lines are also much closer to the surface, so there's less uphill right at the start.
Thanks for the info yeah might have to plan a business trip with Alfred to London then! 😁
@@goranwinblad There's also a good spot on the M4 subway line in Budapest. Easily doable.
Yes! And it has also been faked by a prominent TH-cam channel
It’s going to be a Euro - tour apparently, .. then world evidently 😂
Good Luck, Have Fun!
Getting out of the first station was definitely hard, for this challenge it should help finding two stations that have short exit/entrance. Very good tries though!
Yeah for sure, thanks!
0:05 Than you need to run 24 kph for that distance. That is sub 2 min 800 speed.
His run was a lot more crowded and challenging than yours and yet he managed to score a great time! Congrats!!
Yeah for sure Alfred is a great runner and did a great run! 😁🏅
such a fun challenge, i was on the edge of my seat! 😅
Glad to hear it was really fun to do as well 😁
This reminds me of the passage in Haruki Murakami's 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. He wants to run the original marathon route in Greece to write about it for a magazine (if I remember correctly) and they are very surprised that he actually means to do the whole thing. Apparently most of those challenges were faked back then too. Integrity is important, for the media, athletes and everyone else.
Wow, that sucks that your national TV just went and faked that :( Kudos to you both for trying it though, congratulations to you both for these times!
Thanks 😊
Agenda is more important than truth to media propagandists
The train gets the medal this time.
Haha yep 😅
@@goranwinblad But you got bronze and Alfred got silver though :D
From time to time I need to do this at the bus stop. In my village the stations are only a few hundred meters apart and when I miss it by a few seconds I can catch it because it can‘t drive very fast.
It‘s always a fun thing to do but I could spare the sweat in the bus before university 😅
Maybe I‘ll try this in purpose one day.
Haha cool to hear 😅
u ever got injured from this?
2:11 Pace. Wow, just wow.
I know the video was about running but all I could think about was how nice and clean that train station was 😆
Is your username any indicator of the environments you prefer?
Seems like there is problem world wide with television companies telling the truth. Great effort and thank you for being truthful. This was very fun to watch.
Thanks glad you liked watching it 😊
The next challenge is to come to London and race the Tube from Mansion House to Cannon Street
The 800m world record is 1:40.91. Comsidering this, I would have been really impressed if you manage this!
The thing that was bad is that NRK didn't clarify it when first asked that this was for enterteinment purposes only and not actually accomplished.
While it might have been a entertainment format, it can leave a bitter taste in regards to news. What is, in current times, very important. If people start saying: "national tv faked this, why should we trust their news on politics etc.?" their whole journalistic integrity is at play.
I'm not Norwegian and therefor don't know alot. But I understand some Norwegian (easier written) and from those times i went on their website i had a good impression of them.
A similar discussion as you hinted on is currently going on here in Switzerland.
I think that the entertainment side and sports should have it's place on national tv. If this field is left out, you also don't get cultural things that make a nation/culture to people that might just earn enough to live and pay rent (also Norway has those). So you would push them out of anything besides news about war and politics.
Testa i Stockholm!
Vilka hållplatser? Har svårt att se att det skulle vara möjligt.
@@lolvonlolipopp slussen till Medborgarplatsen eller t-centralen till Hötorget
Wow!! This was just incredible to watch. Bravo to you both!!! 👏🏻🇨🇦
Thanks so much!!
Would make a fun strava segment ^^
That’s true!
I watch your channel despite at the moment I have no interest in running 😅
I do not mind public service television making entertainment (including sports or "culture", even if both ot those are also entertainment) especially in areas that are not likely to be covered by commercial television. And being (reasonably) advertisement free is definitely a bonus.
However, I do expect integrity from them, and that faking is definitely a mark against NRK.
Awesome video! Maybe try some 400 m relays? If that doesn’t work try 200m relays 😂 passing a baton or something
Congrats to Alfred on his success at the JWOC middle!
Nice attempts! Would be interesting to see if you could find a long distance version of this as well. I've been trying to find such a version in Stockholm. Apparently Alvik - Hagsätra takes 34 minutes station to station and is roughly 10 km on a path suggested by google maps. I'm not fast enough to be a serious contender, but would love to see an attempt.
Cameraman should stay some time between doors at first station .
Haha good suggestion 😅
Beautiful city though
It really is!
Great effort, guys! Regardless of the end results, this was one of the most "edge of my seat" videos I've watched on TH-cam. Fun idea, with great editing and pacing... I was entertained.
Thanks makes me very glad to hear 😊
Good challenge! Who will be the next contender? :)
Yeah it was a fun challange, haha not sure but would be fun to try it in some other city and see if it’s possible!
Maybe I'll try that with my local bus ;-) Great video, really enjoyed it. Well done both!
You should was a fun challenge, thanks 😊
Wacked! That was fun.
Glad to hear 😁
I train intervals like this pretty often. I get on a tram and then push myself between stops that aren't too long or too short. It's the most fun type of training for me.
The reason why the publicly funded broadcaster is spending money creating entertainment TV is in theory to provide backing for concepts that are not commercially viable, and to provide jobs and training for domestic entertainment production. These entertainment shows also employ the same people that make news in minority languages, provide training for production roles, and in many cases fund things like classical music performances.
Try finding anyone in the Norwegian entertainment industry that hasn't had an internship, a job or at the very least worked on a contract or freelance basis with NRK. I'm not sure having every media professional be trained on the set of the Norwegian version of Love Island is preferable.
I am unfamiliar with the program in question, but it is a comedy show, not a science broadcast or competitive sports format, no? That being said, pretending not to have faked it when called out is a bad look, and probably an unnecessary own-goal by the program director.
Good try!
Thanks!
That was both kind of silly and interesting at the same time. Uncalled for, but yet exciting. Cool video, Göran ! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
What a great content! Im glad you guys are honest, even though you were unable to catch the train, you will have more loyal followers!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Maybe you should try this at 6 am so the street and the tube are more empty
A run with a purpose😊.
Well done
Thanks! 😊
One time I barely missed the bus and then sprinted to the next bus stop and caught the bus. Everybody on the bus was cheering for me! 😄
It's not physically possible basically... these guys missed it by 20s+, which is an extremely long time for this kind of distance. Alfred ran a period at 2:00/km pace, which is very close to what's humanly possible already(it is 45s for 400m, and the 400m WR is 43s). So no chance
On future attempts, please don't do the cut in between at 5:00 and at 8:06. Just do the split screen and/or speed up the footage if it is boring. If the goal is to show the legitimacy of the attempt, then show us the full thing. It's like watching an actual 750m race. We want to see the whole thing. Not just the highlight.
I used miss my bus almost every morning and had to run to the next stop to catch the bus. This brings back memories.
Wow!! That was a crazy competition 😲You guys had to run through the streets, traffic and people, multiple turns! You were both faster than the train👍
Running up that escalator looked scary. Imagine falling with that high speed 😮😮
Living in Oslo, I think there are other combinations of stations, where this challenge might be possible (or even too easy). Ris -> Gaustad should be possible and Gulleråsen -> Slemdal or Frognerseteren->Midtstuen should both be rather easy. Might try one of them myself in the future. :D
Great job both of you 😁 it was fun
Thank you!! 😁
A 2:00 min pace is fckn 30km/h 😮😮 what the.... 99% of men between 18 and 40 probably can't even hit that as a 50m or 100m top speed and you just run it across a 700m distance
Would be awesome to see an attempt from Oslo metro station: Økern --> Hasle. 1.3 km
1. perfectly empty track
2. ideal runner
3. perfect weather
4. runner practiced diligently for one full year
5. still can't run under 1:58
6. NRK faked it so bad
I tried that in Frankfurt back in 2013, from Konstablerwache to Hauptwache - but was shy ~12 seconds, too many normal people in the pedestrian zone. 😂
suggest to mount the videos to a splitscreen, so you can see train moving and runner racing hard at the same time - no fake for sure! 😊
Simply looking at the time required being near the ideal conditions world record pace for womans 800m. Safe to say a 400m hurdler going up/down escalators on streets/sidewalks did not manage the feat.
This seems close to impossible, 720m in 1:50 is close to the female national record pace for 800m in my country and the fact that the route involves stairs, escalators and busy streets is bound to slow you down significantly compared to ideal track conditions. Maybe they should get Norway's fastest 800m runner to try it lol.
You should've tried it the same way they showed Amalie Iuel do it. Nasjonalteateret isn't as deep underground as stortinget so you don't spend as much time running up stairs and ramps. I suspect both of you would've gotten it running the other way around.
That’s some nice public transport. I used walk faster than my bus. No joke.
I think it might be possible at midnight or early morning, Alfred got way too many NPCs in his way. I wonder if he would run a bit faster knowing that he will not run into someone or run over by trafic. With those things out of the mind Göran might also be able to pull it off, I beleive.
To be fair, this looks like it might be technically feasible. If there were not wet weather conditions and there was nobody in the way, and you repeatedly trained this specific route, AND got lucky with a train being maybe 5 seconds slower, then it might be doable.
But the fact that the woman was not a repeat world record olympic gold medalist suggests that it is very unlikely that the footage was not fake, and they probably didn't go through that much effort in training for this metro route!
But I hope one day someone will manage to do it for real though, because it looks only slightly out of reach!
Incredible run! Very embarrassing that they've faked it. What was the goal of the tv show anyway? It makes you think, what other things have they faked in the past?
That pace would be really fast on the track, let alone on streets, stairs, between people. However, I don't think the Vaporflys are the best choice for this terrain. Didn't you feel unstable in the turns?
Incredible! Had me sweeting just sitting here watching you two!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Norway national television participating in middle distance propaganda is hilarious 😂😂
Man, that was so much fun to watch haha, that music was also fantastic. That seems like a near-impossible task, but great tries!
Great attempt guys !! Well done … crazy pace !!
Thanks a lot! 😊
Really exciting video
Glad to hear!
The cojones were simply to heavy but fair attempt!
Maybe a better pair of stations would be ones that are closer to the surface to avoid all the stairs. Even if the distance is slighly longer.
Need an elite 800m specialist to tackle this! Very impressive times nonetheless
well if the challenge was to get to the surface on the other station, you'd both have won. the extra time inside the stations is what kills it
Why you ran it the wrong way? So much faster to exit the other way around, and easier to run to Eger toget in a straight line.
Maybe try it during the evening. It looked like the pedestrians tend to hold you up a bit?
If you fail at one stop -- go for two stops. And use the time the train has to stop in between for your adavantage
There was a guy or a few guys here in Denmark that did it with the metro stations here :) That might be a good try!
I think you could make it because you were running on wet street.
Storror did this in particularly spectacular way
Impressive attempt from you both, fantastic pace. I was stuck to the screen to see if either of you would make it.
Thanks 😊
Do you think it’s achievable as a relay?
Veldig spennende video! Enig i at det var slappt av NRK å fake forsøket! 😮
Göran What is Your best 5km time?
Awesome video I was sitting on the edge of my seat shouting come on 😂
Glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Awesome video! Seems like a 800m/1500m specialist would have the right mix of speed/endurance to make the sub-2 minute all out effort required to cover the distance.
Thanks yeah you are probably right about that!
I really love the urban running like in this video and in the race you had in Moss! Super intense
Glad to hear 😊
I would suggest having the videos side-by-side or at least put the person on the train in a small box in the corner. That way, you can better "prove" if you actually accomplish the task, without being accused of faking.
Yeah good suggestion, but my plan was if I or Alfred would have succeeded to have a link to the uncut run as evidence it wasn't faked.
Awesome🎉
Thanks!
You are Swedish though, right?
That looked so much fun
It was 😁
In Vienna might have a few good spots for you. U1 Praterstern to Nestroyplatz comes to mind, the Station Nestroyplatz has a very short exit, but the one on Praterstern might be too long.
Agreed, as far as I remember, there are some lines that use the same track, so that the subway 🚇 will not go at top speed. Same with Munich central lines.
However, great idea of Goran to try bin real life.👍
Who can you trust if not the media?
Ingebritsen should try it
Jesus christ. I just realized how much you look like Tyrell from Mr. robot. Lmaooooo😂😂😂😂😂😂
Awesome footage! I really like how the head cam looks like the view of a giant trying to escape from society.🧐😅👍🏾🙏🏾🫡🫀🏃🏾♂️🏋🏾♂️🚴🏾♂️
Haha glad to hear 😁
great video! Even though 60M is more my distance, I enjoy you content alot! Why not go the other way? From Nationalteateret to Stortingent - like in the NRK video? Then you get to go down the escalators, which should be alot quicker..
Well done you guys...great stuff...and well done Goran for "calling out" your National TV network...
Now Jakob Ingebrigtsen should try it :-D
Haha yeah would love to see that!
I never caught the original Amalie Juel "attempt" and the controversy about it. 2:00 min/Km is unfathomable to me!