You should do this challenge but all run together, so it becomes all about the mind games. Just like that game where you sit down when you think a minute has passed
I would love to see you guys try blind running like they do in the Paralympics. Pair up, one runs with a blindfold on whilst one guides them. Those runners are amazing and inspiring ❤
This was such a fun challenge! Sarah correctly predicted how everyone’s run would go, too. Brilliant! Tom is an inspiration. Just going out to run is half the battle.
Nice! Next you should do a prediction run... pick a course and pick the time you think you can run it in. It doesn't matter how fast or slow you go, the person who comes closest to their predicted time wins!
I would probably end up either like Tom, because when I run somewhere new I always feel like I've been running WAY longer than I have, or having run even further than Jess did because I would be constantly second-guessing myself
Loved this! It would not work for me because I know virtually all the routes around me. Including those on my long runs. I started running back before smartphone tracking and used to plot my routes on a pc with Maps, then would write down the streets where I should turn, and run with the piece of paper on me. I kinda learned all the distances in my area. I'd have to go somewhere completely different, otherwise I'd know how far a 5k route is. I love that they all covered their watches, and still the run counted towards their workouts instead of running naked and using some other method to measure how far they'd gone.
Fun video folks and happy new year. I'll give you 2 challenges i'd love to see - 1) (more extreme perhaps) a basic aquathlon or triathlon (ie pool swim) see who in the team can keep up with Jess (given her background i'd assume she'd p1) the other - maybe calmer 😉 how about a running channel takeover at a parkrun ie handle a number of the various volunteer roles
I adore these videos. Keep running fun! Great job all, and especially the winner! (Though I do agree the timed Playlist could give an unfair advantage, same as a stopwatch.) 🤥 for bruising/hooning! 😂
Our running club has a guesstimate for pace. I have decided next time to start my watch on my ankle, that way I can't be looking at it! I also suspect Jess is confusing sunset with dusk. As many people do.
This was so cool! I would try it, but I have to find an out of town spot.... I'm too familiar with the routes in my town😂 I can soooooo relate to Tom's stages 💕 Y'all are alllllll awesome 👊 Happy 2024 🎉
Love the video. Although I do not think Mo should have had a timed music in his headphones. We do a no watch handicap run at our club and no watches or headphones are allowed.
I'm pretty good with my splits on long runs. But I think it's the first mile or so where the effort to distance feeling would be hard to judge. Tbf Sarah smashed it with maybe a stroke of luck involved 😂
'I don't have pacing strategies. I just hang on for dear life.' Never related to anything more 🤣 Nice Challenge Idea: Sun Ra(y)ce. Set watches to 1hr. See who can run the furthest as the crow flies before official Sunrise time. Bonus points for prettiest sunrise pic. Sadistic Challenge Idea: Blood Rush. Everyone runs as many laps as possible in a period pain simulator. Intensity increases every lap. Anyone who loses the ability to stand upright, speak or basically function is out. Last person standing wins cookies. Yes i have just realised my first marathon lands on Hell Week 🙃 Love the channel!
I love the banter between them even if they're recording separately 😂❤. spoilers but I knew who was going to win and that person had everyone figured out toob😂😂😂
You could also do a challenge where you all run 5k together and you have to run closest to a certain time, eg.25min and have to try pace yourselves. closest to 25min wins! (or whatever time is chosen )
I was voting for Sarah all the way. I'm like her I run most of my daily 5Ks in the exact same place at a park. I know how my body feels once I get to the end of that 5K. The repetition seems to always win.
This would be incredibly difficult for me to do, because I look at my watch while running so often that anywhere I've run before, I will roughly know the distance of
It would be hard to make this challenging for me to do anywhere near my house. You'd practically have to drop me in a different state so i wouldn't know the mileage from previous runs. I run a decent bit and try to keep it fresh so I have a pretty good distance of all the mileage in a good radius from my house. Edit: in other words, the better challenge, as some have suggested, is have everyone do it in one place that none of them have ever run before. a long straight road in the middle of nowhere, where all you have is your sense of pace.
my strategy would be thus: i kno my general comfortable pace puts my stride at about 1.08 meters. therefore, run my comfortable pace and count 4600 (approximately) steps. simples.
@@runningchannel Just making a playlist as long as your average 5k time seems like a pretty easy way to win, while everyone else is trying to do sunset calculations and what have you. Shame Mo threw that tactic out and started trusting mailboxes 😂
I tried a challenge where I ran 5km at easy pace looking at my watch, and then 3 days later ran the same route without looking at my watch to see how I close I could get to the 1st time. Don’t know if it was luck, but there was only 7 tenths of a second between the runs. How close can you get…….
I introduced an event at my club where we ask the members to predict their time for 5 mile route, and then they have to run it with no technology at all - no phones, watches, GPS, music etc. Winner is the closest to their predicted time, but to make it interesting, if you run faster than your predicted time you get disqualified. When we started it 10 years ago nearly 70% of the runners would be disqualified for running too fast. Now it's down to about 40%. Running with no music or GPS scares the pants off some of them.
I would've come up way too short or gone way too far. Bravo to eveyone. Not really a challenge but I think you guys should do the Detroit Free Press Marathon. Its a marathon where you run across neighboring countries. It starts in the US crosses into Canada and back.
Would love to see a pace consistency 10k with watches hidden. So use 1k as your benchmark, then see how close you are to it on each subsequent kilometre. Lowest cumulative time difference wins 🥇
One of my proudest moments was when I was form time in school and the teacher asked everyone to stand up close their eyes so they can't cheat and count to 1 minute and sit down when they think they'd accurately counted. I was the closest.
Ooh. In the US, a city block is around a tenth of a mile. So if you ran 30 and a half blocks, you'd be somewhere in the vicinty of 3.5 miles. I want to try it sometime!
Start a parkrun in a new location, and show us how! Bring us along for the ride because I would love one here, but the nearest one is a 40min drive-just not super realistic
Running watches have really come a long way in a couple of decades. Hard to think we were all just running around in cotton sweat pants, wearing a junk casio, and thinking we were going to be in the Olympics because we knew what a fartlek was.
Put in a time for 5km and see how close you get to your predicted time. Parkrun 5km its an easy metric to use but not at parkrun as you can pace someone else. How consistent are you with your pace training
A rematch at half marathon distance would be brill. There's no way that anyone would be able to think of clever tactics to work that one out, and going by feel on very tired legs would be darned near impossible. Are you up for this Tom? 🤥😉
All our streets are miles. I could run any of them three times and then stop after counting to twenty for a full 5K. Last night we tried not using our full route, changing direction twice and it still worked out almost perfectly around the lagoon. Check my Strava.
Congratulations Sarah, well done! 200m is nothing. I was wondering how I would approach this challenge, since I usually run for more than 5km. Maybe I go for a pace, that I definitely cannot keep for more than 5km. Or I count my steps? (I think on average one of my steps is 1,10m). Is that allowed?
I think it should have been Price Is Right Rules and closest to 5k WITHOUT GOING OVER!! So Mo should have won. What do you think? I would like to see a rematch of this with winner closest to 5k without going over 5k. Thoughts?
Do you think any of you could very slowly jog once around a track blindfolded without coming off the track? If nobody can, the person who goes the farthest on track wins.
You should do this challenge but all run together, so it becomes all about the mind games. Just like that game where you sit down when you think a minute has passed
This!
Exactly this😅
Yes, and not 5k or anything round or familiar, but like a 7 or 8k
Not such a good idea, everyone will stop at basically the same time (just a couple of feet away from each other, no reason to do otherwise)
@@deskpro256becomes too difficult/random
"I don't really have pacing strategies, I normally just hang on for dear life." LMAO Tom is so real for this. He cracks me up every time.
HA! Love this idea. And the editing between y’all was perfect. Sarah - “I bet Tom just runs a 3K.” Tom - “I should just run a 3 K” Brilliant!
It's not just that Sarah won this competition. She actually very accurately predicted how the Mo will end his run :-D So its a double Win 😀
hahaha
Rematch, but 10km
Great idea Nathan!
@@runningchannel Next time bring Andy too
@@runningchannelBring James too!
This is great! You should try hill reps😂 I think that would be funny😆
Nathan with the great vision!
As a slow runner I can relate to Tom’s stages sooo much
So is that behind the scenes guy now a presenter? I’m here for it! Well done all and happy new year 🎉
I would love to see you guys try blind running like they do in the Paralympics. Pair up, one runs with a blindfold on whilst one guides them. Those runners are amazing and inspiring ❤
This was such a fun challenge! Sarah correctly predicted how everyone’s run would go, too. Brilliant! Tom is an inspiration. Just going out to run is half the battle.
Tom is a treat and I’m glad he’s on camera now!
'Hanging on for dear life' - best description of my running experience 😂
Rematch but using someone else’s technique. Rock, paper, scissors for Tom’s approach 😆
What distance should the rematch be??
@@runningchannel here's a real monkeywrench: 6k!
Nice! Next you should do a prediction run... pick a course and pick the time you think you can run it in. It doesn't matter how fast or slow you go, the person who comes closest to their predicted time wins!
I would do Tom’s strategy…just quit when you feel like it. 😂
😂
I would probably end up either like Tom, because when I run somewhere new I always feel like I've been running WAY longer than I have, or having run even further than Jess did because I would be constantly second-guessing myself
Loved this! It would not work for me because I know virtually all the routes around me. Including those on my long runs. I started running back before smartphone tracking and used to plot my routes on a pc with Maps, then would write down the streets where I should turn, and run with the piece of paper on me. I kinda learned all the distances in my area. I'd have to go somewhere completely different, otherwise I'd know how far a 5k route is.
I love that they all covered their watches, and still the run counted towards their workouts instead of running naked and using some other method to measure how far they'd gone.
Love it!!! Jess’s tactic is smart but I love Tom’s idea better haha! Love the how I feel strategy! Haha! Way to go Running Channel.
Fun video folks and happy new year. I'll give you 2 challenges i'd love to see - 1) (more extreme perhaps) a basic aquathlon or triathlon (ie pool swim) see who in the team can keep up with Jess (given her background i'd assume she'd p1) the other - maybe calmer 😉 how about a running channel takeover at a parkrun ie handle a number of the various volunteer roles
Hahaha great challenge Richard!
Love these types of videos! So much fun. Thank you TRC
I think you should get Andy and everyone to do this with a mile and see if muscle memory is still there for the ex-olympian
Brilliant concept, well edited. Top marks all round 🎉
Love these challenges that you at the running channel does. Something I might have to try
🤥 Always rooting for you Tom! I liked your strategy!
Team Tom!! 🤥
It's a good idea !
You can also aim a pace : run at 5:00/km ✌️
I adore these videos. Keep running fun! Great job all, and especially the winner! (Though I do agree the timed Playlist could give an unfair advantage, same as a stopwatch.) 🤥 for bruising/hooning! 😂
I know my step length pretty well. Would have gone insane trying to count to 4.5k
That's the strategy I thought of too, but instead of counting the steps in my head I would use a tally counter.
🤥 Tom's 5km description is excellent. How about a similar challenge but for elevation? Who can get closest to 100m climbed.
Great idea with elevation!
Love Tom!! Sarah and her Ultra🤣Mo and Jess are pros👍I would have also been in Tom’s boat 😎
Our running club has a guesstimate for pace. I have decided next time to start my watch on my ankle, that way I can't be looking at it!
I also suspect Jess is confusing sunset with dusk. As many people do.
I was screaming at Mo to keep going! Excellent effort all around. Love challenges like this!
haha would you try it with your friends?
Enjoyed this- well done guys!
very entertaining wow incredible. i definitely thought the visualization method and out and back would be the best methods
As a former sprinter I most applaud you guys, better people than me
This was so cool! I would try it, but I have to find an out of town spot.... I'm too familiar with the routes in my town😂 I can soooooo relate to Tom's stages 💕
Y'all are alllllll awesome 👊
Happy 2024 🎉
Love the video. Although I do not think Mo should have had a timed music in his headphones. We do a no watch handicap run at our club and no watches or headphones are allowed.
😂
Great job Sarah. I figured Sarah was going to get this challenge.
I want to try it too - but I know every route nearby and it feels like cheating. I'd have to go to some new town and then I'd get lost and scared 🤣
you'd have to switch it up 😂
I wonder if you got a large enough group, would the average approach 5k?
Should we do it with 100 people?
Yes you should!
Love these challenges and love 😊all who take them.
That was a great challenge, I would use the imagined Parkrun in my head tactic.
I'm pretty good with my splits on long runs. But I think it's the first mile or so where the effort to distance feeling would be hard to judge. Tbf Sarah smashed it with maybe a stroke of luck involved 😂
This was fun to watch!
Loved the different tactics involved. Was indeed routing for Tom
Glad you enjoyed it!
'I don't have pacing strategies. I just hang on for dear life.' Never related to anything more 🤣
Nice Challenge Idea: Sun Ra(y)ce. Set watches to 1hr. See who can run the furthest as the crow flies before official Sunrise time. Bonus points for prettiest sunrise pic.
Sadistic Challenge Idea: Blood Rush. Everyone runs as many laps as possible in a period pain simulator. Intensity increases every lap. Anyone who loses the ability to stand upright, speak or basically function is out. Last person standing wins cookies. Yes i have just realised my first marathon lands on Hell Week 🙃 Love the channel!
this is fun, you guys are witty motivators 😜
Nice content as always. 10km next 🎉
This was a genius idea!
Tom just didn’t fancy doing the 5k
I love the banter between them even if they're recording separately 😂❤. spoilers but I knew who was going to win and that person had everyone figured out toob😂😂😂
Fun idea for a video. Nicely done
You could also do a challenge where you all run 5k together and you have to run closest to a certain time, eg.25min and have to try pace yourselves. closest to 25min wins! (or whatever time is chosen )
only 3.5 mins in , but occurs to me sunset isnt easy to judge with clouds.
I was voting for Sarah all the way. I'm like her I run most of my daily 5Ks in the exact same place at a park. I know how my body feels once I get to the end of that 5K. The repetition seems to always win.
We all knew Sarah would win! 😊
good effort by all and well done to you all
Great idea for a video. Good job.
This would be incredibly difficult for me to do, because I look at my watch while running so often that anywhere I've run before, I will roughly know the distance of
It would be hard to make this challenging for me to do anywhere near my house. You'd practically have to drop me in a different state so i wouldn't know the mileage from previous runs. I run a decent bit and try to keep it fresh so I have a pretty good distance of all the mileage in a good radius from my house.
Edit: in other words, the better challenge, as some have suggested, is have everyone do it in one place that none of them have ever run before. a long straight road in the middle of nowhere, where all you have is your sense of pace.
my strategy would be thus: i kno my general comfortable pace puts my stride at about 1.08 meters. therefore, run my comfortable pace and count 4600 (approximately) steps. simples.
Same at about 1.12-1.13 meters
Earphones are tech, that should be disqualifying
hahaha how is that cheating?
@@runningchannel It's the same as a stopwatch if you know how long your playlist is! DQ
@@runningchannel Just making a playlist as long as your average 5k time seems like a pretty easy way to win, while everyone else is trying to do sunset calculations and what have you.
Shame Mo threw that tactic out and started trusting mailboxes 😂
I’ll need to convert Tom’s strategy to miles and start using it 😂
here from the 10k outro
I tried a challenge where I ran 5km at easy pace looking at my watch, and then 3 days later ran the same route without looking at my watch to see how I close I could get to the 1st time. Don’t know if it was luck, but there was only 7 tenths of a second between the runs. How close can you get…….
I introduced an event at my club where we ask the members to predict their time for 5 mile route, and then they have to run it with no technology at all - no phones, watches, GPS, music etc. Winner is the closest to their predicted time, but to make it interesting, if you run faster than your predicted time you get disqualified. When we started it 10 years ago nearly 70% of the runners would be disqualified for running too fast. Now it's down to about 40%. Running with no music or GPS scares the pants off some of them.
I would've come up way too short or gone way too far. Bravo to eveyone.
Not really a challenge but I think you guys should do the Detroit Free Press Marathon. Its a marathon where you run across neighboring countries. It starts in the US crosses into Canada and back.
Would love to see a pace consistency 10k with watches hidden. So use 1k as your benchmark, then see how close you are to it on each subsequent kilometre. Lowest cumulative time difference wins 🥇
I love these challenges 😁😁 Sarah for the win! 🥇🤞
One of my proudest moments was when I was form time in school and the teacher asked everyone to stand up close their eyes so they can't cheat and count to 1 minute and sit down when they think they'd accurately counted. I was the closest.
10km Rematch needed!
With the whole team?
Ooh. In the US, a city block is around a tenth of a mile. So if you ran 30 and a half blocks, you'd be somewhere in the vicinty of 3.5 miles. I want to try it sometime!
Let us know how you get on!!
Lol which blocks? Cause street blocks much shorter than avenue blocks, and pretty much anything out of Manhattan is chaos
City blocks in the Midwest on average, your mileage (ha!) May vary.
Loved watching this, I watched it while donating blood and was giggling! The nurses must have thought what loon laughs while donating blood 🤣🤣
😂
I’m laughing before the video even starts 😂
Same challenge but stop when you think you have hit say 25 minutes
Loved it!
Start a parkrun in a new location, and show us how! Bring us along for the ride because I would love one here, but the nearest one is a 40min drive-just not super realistic
Love this!
Amazing idea
I feel you, Tom, you are a bit of me.
please have a rematch. i love these challenges. well done!
Different distance??
Running watches have really come a long way in a couple of decades. Hard to think we were all just running around in cotton sweat pants, wearing a junk casio, and thinking we were going to be in the Olympics because we knew what a fartlek was.
I was a lot faster then, too... but maybe that was just youth? 😂
My 5k challenge is to get a sub 21 minute parkrun, that would be a PB. Hopefully, at Whiteley tomorrow, fingers crossed.
That was fun 😂
😂
would love to see a rematch with a much more obscure distance. have them try to gauge 3.6k or something like that
2024m?🎉
ooooo great idea!
Put in a time for 5km and see how close you get to your predicted time. Parkrun 5km its an easy metric to use but not at parkrun as you can pace someone else. How consistent are you with your pace training
Tom! You clearly started hooning too early.
cant you guys count watch you striding and count 5000 paces we don't it that way in army all the time and we most the time had it right
A rematch at half marathon distance would be brill. There's no way that anyone would be able to think of clever tactics to work that one out, and going by feel on very tired legs would be darned near impossible. Are you up for this Tom? 🤥😉
All our streets are miles. I could run any of them three times and then stop after counting to twenty for a full 5K. Last night we tried not using our full route, changing direction twice and it still worked out almost perfectly around the lagoon. Check my Strava.
Congratulations Sarah, well done! 200m is nothing.
I was wondering how I would approach this challenge, since I usually run for more than 5km. Maybe I go for a pace, that I definitely cannot keep for more than 5km. Or I count my steps? (I think on average one of my steps is 1,10m). Is that allowed?
Rematch!!! 👏🏻
The same distance or different?
That was quite exact, only missed by 220m,
Yes, rematch!!!
Rematch, but 10k and include everyone
Great idea Jordan!
You could even ask a few people who have commented to attempt it
Presenters vs Viewers
Tom is so relatable lmao
Donut 5k…Eat a donut to start, then each k have to eat another donut or if don’t on track a donut per lap 😂
Sounds both delicious and awful 😂
Need Rick to do this 🤪🤣
I think it should have been Price Is Right Rules and closest to 5k WITHOUT GOING OVER!! So Mo should have won. What do you think? I would like to see a rematch of this with winner closest to 5k without going over 5k. Thoughts?
😂😂
Go Sarah 2 wins a row at that distance. You guys should try it at 10km
Do you think any of you could very slowly jog once around a track blindfolded without coming off the track? If nobody can, the person who goes the farthest on track wins.
hahaha great idea!
Can you please do "Stop When you THINK You've Hit 50km ultra" ? Please? Thank you