I'm so moved when people are giving you high five and cheering you up. Why can't the world just be like that. Why do we have wars. hope a better future for all human beings living peacefully.
I'll be doing this marathon with a team of 72 from New Zealand come May 2017. I am far from a marathonist and found your Vlog to be very real! Thank you, you have just given me more insight and determination to train train train! Bless you and your Nan who pulled you through at that point you needed it x
Hi Paula johnston best of luck to u & team NZ in May, you'll all have a great time the whole week is fantastic. It's tough but completely achievable & enjoy the views ;) let me know how you do
I ran this race in 2016, it was beyond amazing, tough race, I would definitely do it again with less stopping to take pictures. The photographers took amazing pictures of us.
Great video Richard! Brought back such sweet and painful memories :) It was really nice to meet you there, as part of the infamous group 1B. Greetings from Romania :)
Thank you Gabriela it was great to meet you too. If I visit Romania I'll give you a shout & equally if you come to the UK let me know. TEAM 1B! Legends!!!!
David Jamieson thank you man. I definitely do this has got to be a life top 10 moment I’ll treasure the memories forever. I hope one day I can run this again if I can afford it again 😂
baze187 :) you've got me searching when the 2019 race is being held. Must resist! Have other races lined up already, but this one is now a must do. If you line it up in the future it'd be cool to join you!
Thank you for sharing your GWM experience! It's given me a bit of a reality check!! (eeek!) I've entered into the 2017 event. You did a great job.... your Gran would be proud!!
This footage was so helpful in my mental preparation & training for this event! I was just watching a Casey Neistat vlog & saw a person I thought I recognised win a drone from him!! It was you!! How cool is that! th-cam.com/video/Ks3dopMp-eA/w-d-xo.html
Excelente video. No conocía esta Maratón. Maravilloso paisaje. Gran historia tras esas paredes. Lástima que no tenga subtítulos en español el video, igual, muy bueno. Felicitaciones!!!!
Edgardo Bautista Lamas Hola, estoy usando Google Translate para responder. fue una hermosa maratón de hecho y si alguna vez tienes oportunidad de ir allí y lo dirige, lo recomiendo encarecidamente.
Oh my goodness. I have done 2x the flattest course in Australia - Gold Coast, and I did them kind of untrained! I will be signing up to the Great Wall Half next year, but the full?! I think training will be needed hahahahaha....
Martin Andersen oh mate you’ll absolutely love it. I did a few more vlogs of the other days whilst there & also the day trips you go on. Make sure you pack sunscreen lol
Daniel Moore Hi Daniel, thanks very much for the nice comment. You should totally do a marathon one day, but my best advice is to focus on maybe 5K & 10K for a while first to build up a base of training. Once you have a good base, you can build on top & increase towards marathon distance. Good luck
Thank you, you will have the best time, good luck & enjoy. I shot daily videos whilst out there so check out my Qing Tombs or Great Wall Inspection Day videos
hey mate , ill try to record athens marathon this year .. i would like to know what u used to keep that go pro's battery alive (powerbank maybe?) and how much free space on your memory card you must have to record a 3 hours and 30 minutes.. thank mate nice video keep it up
Γιάννης Μεμάκος hi good question. I didn't leave the GoPro running the whole time. I recorded every so often in key parts of the route. With the Hero 4 Silver you can swap out the battery for another, so I carried a spare, & a spare SD card in my shorts. If you have a session or Hero LCD you can't swap the batteries maybe a power bank is a good plan
Boy this looks painful, i'm hoping to do this Marathon in 2020. is it true they close the wall at a certain time. So if you don't make it in time you can only do the 20k instead of the 40 something. Is that at the entrance of the wall or further down where they close it off
Baxter Stockman completely true so it’s in Yin & Yang Square there’s a 6 hour cut off. You will have done 20 miles approx but only get a half marathon medal
cicirunner hi so you do about 5K road uphill to the wall, then about 5K of wall. It’s then about 22K of roads through villages, then the same section of wall but in reverse 5K then the same 5K from the start in reverse finishing with a nice downhill 5K.
I liked the video, but the commentary was a bit hard to hear at times and your closed captions need to be edited as they're quite inaccurate in places. Great work on showing the race though, looks crazy difficult!
Travel Runner hi man. This is one of the earliest videos I ever made & I wasn’t so good at editing in 2016. I’d love to make this again with a better camera, better music & better editing but hey it captures the race & also a good way to see progress in video skills when I look back lol
I'm so moved when people are giving you high five and cheering you up. Why can't the world just be like that. Why do we have wars. hope a better future for all human beings living peacefully.
The people in these villages have so little financially but give so much in just one high five.
Big congrats!! Really touching message at 9.50!
Thank you Thom
Wow it looked so tough Rich! Well done for completing it - you really captured how hard it the course was. Your Nan would be very proud of you.
Thank You for saying so Rachel
My admiration for you and this effort is massive, you are one of the fittest strongest people I know, well-done, big RESPECT mate.
Thanks Mark I'll see you this morning mate :)
Awesome video man, congrats! Such beautiful part of the world, the drone footage really captured it well!
thanks guys.
I'll be doing this marathon with a team of 72 from New Zealand come May 2017. I am far from a marathonist and found your Vlog to be very real! Thank you, you have just given me more insight and determination to train train train! Bless you and your Nan who pulled you through at that point you needed it x
Hi Paula johnston best of luck to u & team NZ in May, you'll all have a great time the whole week is fantastic. It's tough but completely achievable & enjoy the views ;) let me know how you do
Will do and may i say ur vlog was the best as it was real..ty
Paula johnston thank you very much it means a lot. I try to make my race videos as good as possible & portray a genuine experience.
Paula johnston how did your team do Paula?
I ran this race in 2016, it was beyond amazing, tough race, I would definitely do it again with less stopping to take pictures. The photographers took amazing pictures of us.
Natalie Rizk wasn’t it just incredible. I’d love to do it again too. I don’t often buy race photos but these ones you have to buy they are so good
Great video Richard! Brought back such sweet and painful memories :) It was really nice to meet you there, as part of the infamous group 1B. Greetings from Romania :)
Thank you Gabriela it was great to meet you too. If I visit Romania I'll give you a shout & equally if you come to the UK let me know. TEAM 1B! Legends!!!!
Sure thing! Keep in touch. take care!
Cool video. Well done! We truly liked it.
Delightful Travellers thank you
Really late to seeing this Rich, but this is amazing and inspirational in equally huge measure. I hope you look back on this fondly. Wow.
David Jamieson thank you man. I definitely do this has got to be a life top 10 moment I’ll treasure the memories forever. I hope one day I can run this again if I can afford it again 😂
baze187 :) you've got me searching when the 2019 race is being held. Must resist! Have other races lined up already, but this one is now a must do. If you line it up in the future it'd be cool to join you!
Thank you for sharing your GWM experience! It's given me a bit of a reality check!! (eeek!) I've entered into the 2017 event. You did a great job.... your Gran would be proud!!
Hopey Rain thank you & no problem at all. You will love every minute including the pain it's an awesome experience. Let me know how you do
How did it go? I'm hoping to do it in 2018!
This footage was so helpful in my mental preparation & training for this event! I was just watching a Casey Neistat vlog & saw a person I thought I recognised win a drone from him!! It was you!! How cool is that! th-cam.com/video/Ks3dopMp-eA/w-d-xo.html
So great ,I'm Chinese, but I have never been on the great wall. I want to run a marathon on Great Wall someday. thanks for your footage.
張添湖 no problem I hope one day you get to do it
So much fun. Thanks for sharing.
FeinesFabi not a problem :) thank u
I've always wanted to do this. Thanks for the recap video
cicirunner just go for it
Excelente video. No conocía esta Maratón. Maravilloso paisaje. Gran historia tras esas paredes. Lástima que no tenga subtítulos en español el video, igual, muy bueno. Felicitaciones!!!!
Edgardo Bautista Lamas Hola, estoy usando Google Translate para responder.
fue una hermosa maratón de hecho y si alguna vez tienes oportunidad de ir allí y lo dirige, lo recomiendo encarecidamente.
Awesome job on the video! totally captured the emotions, struggles, pain, and joy. team 1B for life!
Thank you. Team 1B rules lol
OMG! The sheeps! that was funny! Hahaha... and at the beggining when the band was playing christmas music...I remember that! Hahaha
N Ginés jingle bells was so random lol we need to schedule another event together it was such fun :)
N Ginés yes, the Christmas music was so impressing, by the way, I watch this music on Christmas Eve, so interesting.
Oh my goodness. I have done 2x the flattest course in Australia - Gold Coast, and I did them kind of untrained!
I will be signing up to the Great Wall Half next year, but the full?! I think training will be needed hahahahaha....
Whichever distance to go for I believe you get the same section of the wall to run so enjoy
Great job everyone!
thank you
Well done ! making this video while you´re running the the Great Wall Marathon... Respect !
Thanks Hans. Luckily GoPro is really easy to use on the go.
Amazing video
Martin Andersen thank you man
baze187 im going there this year. Looking so much forward to it
Martin Andersen oh mate you’ll absolutely love it. I did a few more vlogs of the other days whilst there & also the day trips you go on. Make sure you pack sunscreen lol
hi im 16 and want to do a marathon soon this video was so well put together
Daniel Moore Hi Daniel, thanks very much for the nice comment. You should totally do a marathon one day, but my best advice is to focus on maybe 5K & 10K for a while first to build up a base of training. Once you have a good base, you can build on top & increase towards marathon distance. Good luck
amazing video! I am doing this year next - possibly the half or full...
Thank you, you will have the best time, good luck & enjoy. I shot daily videos whilst out there so check out my Qing Tombs or Great Wall Inspection Day videos
I will do - thanks so much!
MiaCat Adventures did you do it? How did you get on?
IT WILL BE SO COOL!!!!! I WISH I COULD RUN IT BUT I JUST FINISHED ANOTHER MARATHON
It's not until May next year so there's plenty of time to enter it, have a rest then train through another marathon cycle. Go for it!
Really enjoyed this, well done
denis1110 thank you very much, glad you liked it
Can't believe we did this one year ago!
Steven Yoo I know man time flies. Just makes me want to travel more often.
This is EPIC!
Cheers man
Congrats on doing such a tough and amazing marathon. I would love to do that race myself. Who flew the drone for you?
sjtetee thank you, you should totally do it. You actually visit the wall 2 days prior to the race so I flew it & got the footage then, & edited in
sjtetee I was wondering the same question. and I got the answer, thanks.
I'm looking to do this in 2018!!! From my understanding...you can only run this by signing up to to the tour package by Albatros? Great video!
Run Char did you do it?
hey mate , ill try to record athens marathon this year ..
i would like to know what u used to keep that go pro's battery alive (powerbank maybe?) and how much free space on your memory card you must have to record a 3 hours and 30 minutes.. thank mate nice video keep it up
Γιάννης Μεμάκος hi good question.
I didn't leave the GoPro running the whole time. I recorded every so often in key parts of the route.
With the Hero 4 Silver you can swap out the battery for another, so I carried a spare, & a spare SD card in my shorts.
If you have a session or Hero LCD you can't swap the batteries maybe a power bank is a good plan
wow. just wow!
Keri-Ann Harper thank you :)
amazing
夜孤城 thank you
Boy this looks painful, i'm hoping to do this Marathon in 2020. is it true they close the wall at a certain time. So if you don't make it in time you can only do the 20k instead of the 40 something. Is that at the entrance of the wall or further down where they close it off
Baxter Stockman completely true so it’s in Yin & Yang Square there’s a 6 hour cut off.
You will have done 20 miles approx but only get a half marathon medal
So just as long as you make it within that 6 hours. thank you kind sir
Wheres the finish? Did you complete?
Andrew Smyth yes I did but the GoPro battery died on me about 5K from the end. I had to just insert the photo of me crossing the finish line
How much of the marathon is on the actual wall?
cicirunner hi so you do about 5K road uphill to the wall, then about 5K of wall. It’s then about 22K of roads through villages, then the same section of wall but in reverse 5K then the same 5K from the start in reverse finishing with a nice downhill 5K.
I liked the video, but the commentary was a bit hard to hear at times and your closed captions need to be edited as they're quite inaccurate in places. Great work on showing the race though, looks crazy difficult!
Travel Runner hi man. This is one of the earliest videos I ever made & I wasn’t so good at editing in 2016. I’d love to make this again with a better camera, better music & better editing but hey it captures the race & also a good way to see progress in video skills when I look back lol
8:10 great sheep marathon
trisoil lol was an unexpected surprise
sheeps at 8:10
trisoil everyone loves a sheep 😂 🐑