MY RACES THIS YEAR | My fave running documentaries
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This year is the most organised I've been when it come to pre-booking races. So I've got basically the whole year planned out. This is what it looks like so far! I've got to say, it is kind of terrifying seeing all these races lined up like this, but I'm hoping that if I can get through spring, I'll be set for the rest of the year. Forward is a pace!
Which of these would you like to do? Have you done any already?
00:00 - Intro
1:26 - My races for this year
12:30 - Books, audiobooks & running documentaries
ps. in the interest of transparency, some of these race entries are press entries. There'll be some cool vlogs coming out of those which I can't wait to share (but as always, they'll represent my true experiences!).
Lakes Traverse - www.northerntraverse.com/ente...
RatRace Croatia - ratracecroatia.com
UTS50 - snowdonia.utmb.world
OCC by UTMB - montblanc.utmb.world/races-ru...
Tribe Run For Love 5 - triberunforlove.com
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Oh wow the Croatia adventure sounds amazing x
Wow! Your formidable, and a little bit scary, year ahead serves as a real inspiration. Great to have you out there as motivation and I look forward to following your many journeys. Best wishes for injury free training!
Good luck for all your races, I’m really looking forward to the videos!
Welcome to Sweden and good luck
Like for Flora. Good luck at those race 2023. The run is Freedom. A nice week for everyone.🌦️🏃🌞
Thank you for the recommendations. Just watched Choose Strong and really enjoyed it. I also recommend Run to the Source on TH-cam.
Great to see what you have planned and like the sound of the Tribe Sweden one. Something I'll look at in years to come. Maybe see you at the UTS50, doing that again after last years effort, hoping to improve on my time there and maybe think about entering the 100km/+7000m next year! Just watched your Beast of Brecon video, well done in snow and cold, we are doing that this bank holiday weekend as part of prep. Good luck, Stay injury free....
I love the sound of your Multi day events in Sweden and Croatia Flora. Wishing you a fit and healthy 2023
Thank you, Im super excited! 😊
Happy New year , Flora! Looking forward to seeing all the races you do this year. Got my first half marathon in Eastbourne on the 5th March. Hoping this will springboard me in to other events.
That's awesome, good luck! 🥰
Man Vs Horse in June which should be a challenge
Such a fun running calendar!! I ran the Dragonsback in 2019 and loved it, especially the first day with Snowdonia. You could pretty easily go hike Crib Goch and get a feel for the exposure, and besides that it's just fun scrambly rock. If I didn't live in Seattle I'd come do it too!!
Awwwww thanks for the mention! So sweet of you to recommend Once Is Enough! 😍
Oh hey! You're so welcome - I finished it and absolutely loved the second half! 🤗 Well done for everything 👏🏼
Amazing! Dead man running is so emotional but a great read. Can’t wait to read your recommendations. All the 100k training vlogs please 🙏
Oh brill, thanks! I'll read 🤗
So excited for all your content to come!!! I have my third half marathon at the end of March and planning on my first 50k in September! 🙌
That's super exciting!! Good luck with both of them 🤗
Thank you for the recommendations! My favourite documentaries are Lorena (Netflix), skid row marathon (Prime) & the unknown runner (prime) - all so inspiring.
I also finished this girl ran by Helen Croydon on audible recently and that was pretty motivational for me.
I look forward to following your race journies! X
Great recommendations, thanks! 🤗
‘Jack of all trades, master of none’ with the accompanying finger wag is something I’ve gotten my whole life. Will absolutely be getting my hands on Range, thank you for the recommendation! What a year you have planned Flora! Can’t wait to follow along ❤
Aha!! This book is for you then 😊 I'm sure you're master of many more than Jack's of no trades 😉 hope you enjoy it!
That's an insane line up of races! Best of luck with training!
Thank you, I'm going to need it!
wow, your awesomeness - I wouldn't take on most of those races, I will be watching you enjoy all of them.
Thanks so much Flora! All the best with your race plans - go for it! Loving the documentary and book suggestions too. I also listen to everything that I can in order to keep being inspired. Currently reading The Pants of Perspective by Anna McNuff so you may enjoy this too? Keep doing what you are doing. Always brilliant content and when new content from you comes up, I still can’t wait to watch it. 👍🏼😀😀
Oooh I'll check it out, thank you!! Love reading ones by female athletes. A lot more relatable for me, for obvious reasons 😅 thank you so much! 🥰
Wow so a quick tot up in my head that's 484K of races UPHILL!!! , flipping heck - Go for it Flora, Legend!
Bloomin heck, don't tell me that 😂 sounds intense! Thank you 😊
That's an incredible line up, I can't wait to see it all unfold!! I loved the Range info... I've been a horse girl since I was 7, but I always got bored and frustrated with people who could only talk about their 1 passion. Every day. For hours. 😆 I am also passionate about other things like running, food, reading, hiking, etc,and I think it makes me a more interesting and well rounded person. 😆 (Also, if something goes wrong with my passion, I have others to fall back on, and don't feel my life is over. ) I'll go check out your other recommendations!
You and I both!! Horses, then squash, then boxing, climbing, running etc etc. I still love them all, but it's nice to have variety 🤗
I found the film "solo unsupported" pretty incredible about the solo winter Bob Graham record that Russell Bentley achieved.
Some big exciting races this year and of course love that most of them you'll be getting to by train!
I've got Exeter marathon for a sub 3 in May, then some FKTs and ultras in mind for the rest of the year but nothing booked...yet.
I'll check it out, thank you! Oof that'll be amazing but tough!! Good luck with it all 😍
Will see you on the start line for UTS! I'm looking to do OCC too having done CCC and UTMB before. As for race specific training for the alps... speak to Tony, the Avon gorge has plenty of cheeky spots to get you in peak condition for lots of climbing. Have fun on the other races, run for love looks amazing this year.
Oh, that's awesome, see ya there! I'll ask him, good plan. 🤗
Good luck. I am doing the UTS as well. Really looking forward to it. Although I have a suspected stress fracture in my heel so resting up at present currently at 6 weeks and counting so climbing the walls with not being able to run! But as we all know I need to make sure kys healed before I get back to it. Fingers crossed for us both for UTS
Oh noooo poor you!! Hope you recover soon, sending healing vibes. Hopefully see you at UTS! Plenty of time still
Getting into UTS 50k was an achievement in of itself! Nice to see that many places sell out so quickly.
Good luck with ALL of your races this year. I am coming to the UK to run LEJOG in April and then running the length of New Zealand in November.
Wow, that's HUGE!! Good luck with both of those, hope you get better weather than we're having right now! 😬🙈
Good luck with all those races.
Just curious how you’ll be making your overseas races a little more sustainable? In general this year I’m trying to do more local races so I can bike/train/car share over for one of two reasons - Makes it more sustainable, and I also don’t have a car 😅 I know there are plenty of other ways to be sustainable that isn’t just travel though! And I love that you talk about it on this channel as well as the running.
Cool! I’ll be shouting you across the finish line at UTS as I’ll be doing half the distance there myself as preparation for Eiger51 in July!
Ah amazing!! See you there 🤗
I’m returning to UTS this year after being timed out at the final CP last year 🤦♀️!
The course is easier this year but if you can get a recce in, I’d strongly recommend it as it still has some technical bits that are good to be familiar with 😅
In addition to your race vlogs, which I love, it would be great to see a video dedicated specifically to fuelling around a race. So everything you ate say the day before, the day of, and the day after one of your 1 day races.
Good luck, you'll smash them!
I'll bear this in mind! Although ofc just because I'm doing something, it doesn't necessarily make it the 'right' thing to do. But I'll see if I can share 😊
@@FloraBeverley of course! To be honest it's more just for inspiration, and I really like channels who actually normalise young women eating A LOT of food!
@KatieAlliband in that case I concur - I am definitely happy to normalise that 😅
My vote (if I get one) 😂 goes to The Dragons Back Race! Please do that one. It’s looks so EPIC! Good luck this year. Kick butt. Fan from USA
It would certainly make for some interesting footage 🥵😂 I'm nowhere near good enough at the moment, but it's definitely on the cards as a lifetime challenge!
I really enjoyed the "Confiné" documentary about Mathieu Blanchard, what he did in 2020 to stay motivated when he quitted his 9-5 job to become a professionnal runner and all his plans fell through because of the Pandemic! And last UTMB, he finished 2nd the race! But it is in French, I believe you can have the English subtitles! It did motivate me to restart running during our cold Quebec winter!
Ah amaaaaazing, I watched Mathieu finish 2nd to Kilian last year from the finish line - it was a really special moment (esp as they both broke the course record!). I will check it out, merci pour la recommandation! 🤗
Fab. Currently reading 'SOLO: what running across mountains taught me about life' by Jenny Tough. Definitely recommend so far 👌
Ah amazing, I love Jenny Tough! What a woman
Flora, you have such a beautiful smile
Those runs sound amazing! I had a look at them and they will be beautiful! I’ve decided to take part in my first trail run this year 🙌 do you have any recommendations for 5km trail runs?
I'm so excited for them! Ooooh that's brill. Check out the maverick and forest runner events. They are both gorgeous, take place around the country and have lots of different distances available. Enjoy!!
I am reading "Running while Black" by Alison Mariella Desire, which is her story of what it is like being a distance runner as a black women in the US. Fascinating insight.
Oh yes this is on my list too! Thanks for the reminder
@Flora Beverley it's hard to relate not being in the US, which you may find too, but interesting just the same, and it does make me, as a white woman, question my awareness and sensitivity to the issues she faces.
getting into running this year wish me luck :) big inspiration flora
That's awesome!! Good luck 😊
Yes, do check out the Snowdonia course! I had my first and so far only DNF at Snowdon last year, but I feel if I'd run a bit on the course it might have gone better!
Oh god, this is what I fear! 😬 it's just so bloody far away 😂 but I'll definitely visit if I can
@@FloraBeverley I think you'll do very well either way, given your experience. To tell the truth the crowds are daunting too, at the Snowdon summit.
I wish I was at the distance level as you. But at 56 and being a disabled Veteran, I am doing my very first Road 10K in March 2023 and My very first Trail 10K in April. My goal is to run my first ever Half Marathon around November/December time frame.
Good luck, that's a tough line-up. Lazy old me will stick to local 5ks and 10ks, maybe throw in a trail race and see if I catch the trail bug.
Haha that's not lazy at all! Enjoy them (and hope you catch the trail bug 😉)
I loved Sally's Choose Strong video, so inspiring. Signed up for all my races this year including a trail half-marathon! I'm slowly getting back to running so I'm looking forward to the year training for shorter goals
She's amazing isn't she? Ah amazing, good for you. I hope they all go well for you!!
Hi Flora, not sure if you've read it but Vassos Alexander's book 'Running up that Hill' has a good chapter on the Dragons Back mountain race in Wales. I also really enjoyed the Rise of the Ultra Runners by Adharanand Finn.
Oh awesome, I'll add it to the list! 😍 and yes I love Adharanand Finn, such a great writer 🙌
Good luck for those races/runs Flora. Looks pretty full on. I have signed up to Beachy Head marathon which is in October. Hopefully all these injuries I have been picking up over the last 18months, knee ligament, itb issues, inflamed spinal cartilage, pulled hamstring are behind me 🤞
Ooh are you going to the running show next weekend?
Thanks so much! Yes I'm hoping to be there! 🤗
You'll probably be swamped by your legions of fans but I will say hi if I can get through 🤞
Two standout books from 2022 I read were Spirit Run by Noe Alvarez and The Perfect Medicine by Brodie Ramin.
I'll check them out, thank you!!
Hi Flora, The BBC broadcaster and runner, Sophie Raworth, completed the OCC in 2022 - in just under 12 hours. Can recommend Sophie’s race report in Runners World (February 2023 edition). Good luck with all your 2023 races ! 👍
Oh this is great, thank you! I think Sophie is brill 🤗
Oh Flora I love how much stuff you've signed up for! You sound like you've got one hell of an epic year! 😍 Will you be doing any of the Maverick races in prep for your bigger ones? So, my list of big runs this year are: Goring Gap 50k ultra in May, RTTS 50k Day 1 ultra in July and The Ridum 50k Ultra in Sept. I honestly don't know what I was thinking.... 😧 I did 1 ultra last year and clearly thought it was a good idea to book 3 in for this... I'm not overly stressed about the May & Jul ones (although it's still 50k, that's still way far for me) but the Ridum! God i'm worried about that.. any tips or advice would be very gratefully received. Also, highly recommend Nick Butter Runs, I saw him at theatre a year ago and he was so interesting in the challenge he undertook running a marathon in every country, really interesting. x
If it helps, I did the same thing in 2021, booking a bunch of ultras after being a 5k runner for decades. What I found was, as long as I was conservative in my training, so that I hit the start line uninjured, then recovered fully after each race, my fitness grew in leaps and bounds as the year went by. I finished the year with a trail marathon, and it was... EASY, and FUN!! Two words I never thought I would apply to a marathon! But at the start of the year, it would not have been either. I bet your first 2 races will set you in good stead for the scary one, so long as you avoid serious injury. Best wishes!
Thank you! Yes definitely planning on doing some maverick runs 😊
Oh you'll be GRAND, this sounds like an amazing year! I did my first 2 ultras ever just 4 weeks apart, and just made sure to prioritise recovery after the first one (where my aim was just to get round, not necessarily to race). It's surprisingly hwo quickly the body bounces back if you allow it. I imagine the first 2 will serve as great training for the last one, as Kelly said. And remember - you could walk 80% of the ultra and still make it round in good time, so don't worry about not making it round! 😊 just keep yourself in one piece 😅
Good luck! What an awesome year 🙌
Books- Born to Run 2 and Training Essentials for Ultrarunning. I’m running my first 85k mtn trailrun (5000m) in April. Yikes!
Thanks for these! I didn't realise there was a second born to run! Wow, good luck with the ultra 👏🏼
Just started to read "Range" from your XMas list. Thanks.
Oh brill, I just finished it and absolutely LOVED it. Hope you do too!
@@FloraBeverley I did! Finished it today. Thank you again for the recommendation. All the best for your 2023 goals and your wide RANGE of races/events.
Hi
I'm a 62 year old retiree, so probably not the demographic you're aiming for, since leaving work a few years ago I've become addicted to you tube running content. Which is how I connected with your channel and Messy Happy, FOD Runner, Welsh Runner, Ben Parkes, Ben is Running, really I could go on for ever. I find these channels inspirational, yours especially. My wife says I spend a lot of my spare time feeding my 'Running Porn' addiction. Will check out the documentaries you recommend good luck with your plans.
Hi! It's great to have you on the channel, thank you for supporting 🤗 I don't aim my content at anyone in particular - everyone is welcome! 🥰 Happy running
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On the topic of , you mention taking the train, and in many of your other videos you talk about car pooling to reduce emissions associated with traveling to races, I'd be interested to know about what other steps or considerations you take while traveling internationally for a race to reduce your emissions?
I've not planned the logistics for these specific races yet (but will share when I do!), but in general:
I try to rank things by the impact they have. So travel is probably first, then kit, then food (roughly). So in that order I try to travel as sustainably as poss, incl train & car pooling as you mentioned. Then for kit, I don't replace what I have until it's thoroughly worn out, especially shoes, and then for food I eat a vegan diet & reduce plastic packaging where poss.
It's by no means perfect (who is!) but I think those are probably the biggest way I can reduce my impact. And ofc educating others who may not have thought of all this! And voting for a government who cares about policy change. I'm all about the bigger systemic changes, rather than *only* focusing on our own individual impacts.
I would love to run for Tribe. However my longest run is the marathon.. 😅
My friend ran tribe having never run (let alone raced) more than 10k!! Obviously it takes work but if you're up to marathon then you're good, you won't be the least experienced by any stretch of the imagination
I wouldn't say that going for 2x 3h runs on 2 days back to back means you'll be undertrained. I'm not a professional, but from everything I learned about training in my past 2 years of marathon training is that it's not worth running (actual running, not time on feet with hiking) for over 3 hours at a time as the injury risks outweigh the benefits
Yes agreed! But also I've never tried so who knows 😅
You said you're doing UTS to get a Stone for OCC, but the lotteries for the 2023 UTMB races are now closed? Or have you got a place with previous Stones?
For OCC I had points on the previous system but never raced. This year they've given me a press place, provided I complete a qualifying race!
@@FloraBeverley Ah. Good luck!
Hi flora , on a similar path got 100k end of April . My go to ruining documentary’s are “ the why “ by Billy yang on TH-cam , and “where dreams go to die “ also on TH-cam about Barkleys.
Ah yeah I love these docs too. Good luck with your 100k training! 😊
Just watched the yellow runner . Wow .
Hill sprints up Redcatch Road?
I think I'd die from the pollution before getting any fitter 😂🙈
@@FloraBeverley Up and down dundry I think :)
@@tomhunt3402 🤢🥵
@@FloraBeverley actually that's probably quite a good idea. I challenge you to a session.....
Wow, that's quite a line up! Good luck.
Some inspiring running videos in the Golden Trail series here on TH-cam.
Aaand... BTW, could you please not make the videos so jerky? (you know, cutting out the gaps). I'd love to share them with my running friends but if English is your second language it just becomes a stream of gibberish.
Anyway, proper job overall.
A little Courtney Dauwalter documentary linked, my absolute idol apart from Fiona of course 🤪 know you can go help out at the sanctuary if you ever get a free weekend. Watched Courtney running UTMB live for the entire journey to Scotland a few years ago 😂
th-cam.com/video/DQSiygnDm-U/w-d-xo.html
Great video and good luck for this years races! You might also enjoy the documentary Running Against All Odds with Vic Owens who is also a vegan ultra runner th-cam.com/video/Sh2dNAdD5co/w-d-xo.html