No boats were harmed in the making of this movie

@JoshPitts530

4 ай бұрын

Who’s gonna carry the boats?!

@AlexanderOnTube

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@robintaylor1466

4 ай бұрын

And the logs....

@RealBullbear

4 ай бұрын

@@JoshPitts530you do it be like goggins!

In terms of my tips to share: 1 - Plan every route and, if like me you have limited overnight running experience, practise 1 or 2 night runs each week for 3 weeks. Here is mostly unlit farm tracks, so getting acquainted with the terrain, darkness, and wild animals [boars mostly] was a big confidence boost during the actual challenge as a solo runner. 2 - Beware of cumulative elevation gain and pace accordingly. My total gain was 1,225 m (4,019 ft) over 111 km (69 mi), so I took it slow and steady until the last 2 runs (total: 13h 56m). 3 - Prepare all food in advance and test it out, since eating after a run, then taking a 2-hr nap, and then immediately running after waking up is unlike normality or even my usual 40-50k distance running. Fuelling with on/off sleeping was the biggest physical challenge. 4 - Have 3 sets of all possible clothing you could need and shoes all out ready since you may not be able to dry stuff sufficiently between runs. Did mine in December and had considerable temp variation, plus it rained for 6 of my 13 runs (incl. the "extra"), and for 3 runs it was torrential. Weather can change very quickly (it does here), but the run times are fixed once you start; again, unlike "normal". 5 - I set out my large training schedule whiteboard to show each run stage, so I could "tick them off" - good for motivation, but also kept me grounded as I kept forgetting which number I was up to when cold and wet. 6 - I publicised my challenge ahead on my personal social media, incl. a world time chart for each run, and then asked for the odd support message. I received 1-2 messages for all but 1 run, which really helped, esp. at 4am when it was pitch black, howling wind, and torrential rain, lol.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Great tips - thanks!

So much of what you said was spot on! I did this 2022 and it was great! Watching your videos brought back good memories 🏃🌱

Good to see another runner using protein powder as part of their recovery care!

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

That was almost one of my tip - to make sure you have enough protein to build back (and sometimes that means powder/shake)

@casy6203

3 ай бұрын

My bf packed protein powder when we hiked Mt Whitney😂

Great job. Amazing content. 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Thanks mate!

So glad you did this! Mine a couple of weeks ago is something I’ll remember for my whole life!

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Congratulations :)

The Nora run is such a beautiful concept. You gave me fuel for my next run

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

I love to share miles with her! On trail preferably, but in this specific case, it was refreshing to have her come along :)

Would love to see you do a backyard Ultra Simon! I’m training for my first one and hope to be able to do 12 x 6.71km loops in 12 hours

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Some day... If there was a small one in San Diego / SoCal in a time period I'm free, I'd give it a shot! Also, good luck on yours!

Thanks for sharing your experience and making that video🙌!!! I did mine a few weeks ago („just“ the half one for 24 hours because of my actual training level). Really looking forward to do the „whole“ one someday. I think everybody can adjust it to their training level (like you did with the extra one). You‘re absolutely right about the injury risk. The rest of the challenge is all about sleep deprivation, mental toughness/discipline and being prepared and organized 💪 I felt like after a long rave weekend in my twenties 🤣

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

It's a very wise thing to do and adjust the challenge on your level! Good job!

Awesome👍🙏🙏🙏. Will gv it a try recently.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Good luck!

Well done Simon! Family is indeed a great motivation driver 😊 Cannot agree more. “Embrace the suck!”: that’s exactly what I repeated to myself when I was on 100K Route 68 ultra marathon last weekend 😂

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Love it - and it shows the contrast to. Like for me, I need both "positive" and "negative" drivers depending on context. Both the warm cozy positive vibe of family and all, and the 'suck it up buttercup'

Love the info you provided! I will be doing this challenge toward the end of this month. It'll be my 4th year running the 4x4x48. Sucks there's no challenge shirt this year as i typically use that as an incentive. Lol

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

I didn't even realized they had t-shirt in the past. Well regardless good luck and stay strong brother!!!

I did it last weekend, mentally it was just as hard as I'd expected but physically it was surprisingly easy

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Congratulations! Exactly! Although I know quite a few people that got injured because they weren't really runners.

@davidericsson5170

4 ай бұрын

@@runningwithsimon I'm definitely a runner planning to run my first ultra later this year

" You don't know me ,son!" Stay hard

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Yes - and proving the haters wrong!

It didn't look like fun but I think I'm going to have to try it now. It'll make for a memorable weekend anyway!

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Yup, exactly! And although I'd usually say "it depends on your definition of fun" - in this case...nah! Waking up at 3am to run 4 miles isn't fun no matter type 1 or 2.

I did it 2 days ago except I did 7km instead of the 4 miles so that I covered 2 full marathons. It was a stupid thing for me to do as I’m prone to injury and it doesn’t really help improve your physical performance. It does however challenge your mental fortitude and it gives me some confidence for my first ultra in a months time. As a training program, I feel that I would’ve been better to Zone-2 run a half marathon everyday for 5 days.

@jondoc7525

4 ай бұрын

Haha you may not even fully recover before the ultra . Figure that out

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Congrats but sorry about the injury - hope you bounce back fast. And totally - doing this as part of training is high risk low rewards. Better stick to a well structured training plan if it's for fitness!

@StormwatchNZ

4 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@runningwithsimonFortunately I didn’t get injured doing the challenge, I’m just prone to injury and it was a big risk to take for no real physical benefit.

@StormwatchNZ

4 ай бұрын

@@jondoc7525I didn’t get injured, I’m just prone to injury.

Did it 2 years ago and did 5 miles on four runs to get it upto 2 marathons 52 miles . Loved the night runs so quiet at that time ❤

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Yeah the night run are fun and odd! I guess if you live downtown it wouldn’t be the same but in my hood nothing happening

@shaundebwilson7403

4 ай бұрын

Most of my running are in the dark. The only reason. I feel a have the world to myself and the other plus if you can stick with less sleep I get more done 👌,​@@runningwithsimon

I'm early in my first 50 miler training, but am planning on hopefully doing this in July when I'm camping.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Good luck! It's a good preparation ahead of a 50 miler!

So fun to see you run in a Stockholm Midnattsloppet shirt! (I'm from Stockholm ;) )I've attempted an alternative challange: run for 1 hour every third hour during 24 hours. This will rack up 50 miles as well but during one day/night. It's tough as nails too!

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Yes sounds much harder!

Haha I panicked when I saw run #13 😂. Glad it was optional or I would of had to do it again lol

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

haha sorry for the scare!

My wife and I took on this last year during the actual time the challenge happens (first weekend in March).....on a side note we live in upstate NY so our first 3 runs happened during a huge snow storm. I can tell you that the running wasn't that hard, but the mental part was by far the worst part. Thank you for putting this video together

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Wow couple goals! Congrats :)

Nice job! And nice shirt! Midnattsloppet Stockholm 2013. Did you run?

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Good eye! Yes, I did! And the main thing I remember about it is seeing someone run SMACK into a stop sign

You inspired me and make me want to give a try. I'm thinking about run this at the summer solstice day maybe take the best advantage of the day light.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Smart - I hope it's not too hot where you live

Yeah I remember when I did mine. In matter fact, I think I did a 50 miler like a 12 hour race like a month or so before I found out this 48 miles throughout the two days was a lot harder and it was a lot harder in my family you know cause my wife was worried about me so she asked me to we have a treadmill she said go on the treadmill in the middle of the night and so I did that and got through it and it, I think I grew you know through it. I’ll have to do it again sometime good man enjoyed it.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

My wife was also worried. But mostly worried I'd miss a night run and originally wanted me to not go in a different room for the 11 and 3am. I vetoed that however - didn't want to wake her up. (Also I know it's a random thing to say but...I should really get a treadmill...)

Did a version of this back in December. In mine I did 100 km split equally over the 12 runs to add a bit more challenge, then topped that up to 111 km in a 13th as still within the 48 hrs. The midnight and 4am runs were certainly a bit tough in the pitch dark, and pissing with rain, but that made the 8am run in the first light quite magical. I didn't find it that much of a physical challenge (the 48 hrs felt no more than a single marathon), but the mental game was fun, especially during the very wet night runs when the family was snoring in their warm beds :) Considering doing a 72-hour version next winter.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Oh interesting, it rained for yours too! I was actually toying with the idea of doing a double Goggins but decided against it. I'm sure I can do it, but since I have this race 6 days later, it just felt like a risky thing

@marathoner_Ali

4 ай бұрын

I originally went for 7k, but 84k was then too close to 100k not to be done, lol (and then 111k with #13). Double certainly sounds fun, but as you say timing is important for challenges like these which are optional after all.

whats your stretching routine like? can you make a video on that or talk about it?

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Great suggestion - I'll try to do a video about this some time soon!

What a challenge. Waking up in the middle of the night would be hard! Ha!

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

I'm sure you had to wake up middle of the night plenty! And running 4 miles is probably nicer than some of the clean up...

Do you do 13 legs or 12. I might do this in the future. Thanks for the video.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

13 - I think it makes more sense (otherwise when you think about it, it's more like 4 x 4 x 44.5). But to each their own. If that 13th run had bean middle of the night....maybe I would have skipped

@marathoner_Ali

4 ай бұрын

When I did mine, I committed to run 100km in the 12 run stages, and only decided on a 13th sometime during the 4-5am penultimate run. The 12th (final) run at 8am was a beautiful sunrise which nailed it. Managed to squeeze #13 in before the 48 hrs was up, albeit in the wet by then, lol. It, weirdly, felt like a "victory lap," although there was nobody around to see it :)

@njs_gc

4 ай бұрын

@@marathoner_Ali Wow that's a huge effort. I will definitely give it a go. I will do a version of it, maybe less time and more klms. I love the concept.

I have not done this one. But each year I do a Longest Day Chellenge - Running every hour, on the hour, for 24 hours. First year was just 1.1mile each our, but being slowly increasing it and this year I want to do 2miles each hour

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Sounds hard!

Once in nov. 2020 (for fun and experience) I participated in a virtual 'One more loop' challenge on your own loop (bc. of covid) which was a minimum of a 6.66km loop every hour from 5:00AM till 10:00PM. I managed 10 loops with a total of 69.3km. What a crazy challenge it was.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Every hour is intense! Similar to backyard ultra I suppose, which I should give a shot at some day

@HenkieHeadache

4 ай бұрын

Yes, it's about the same. Yeah, it was intense as I jumped into this challenge a day before it started and I was far from being prepared. Getting stiffer and stiffer by the hour, getting more and more tired after a couple of loops, getting more and more bored doing another loop on your own. But, mostly it was a great experience.

Im 110kg and 189cm tall. I did this. You can too Dont walk just run slow. The night runs are the worst

@runningwithsimon

11 күн бұрын

Congratulations!

What if I do it in my living room on my treadmill does that count?

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Of course!

Wanna do the Muad'dib challenge? Run 35-50 miles every day through the Mojave desert for 21 days in sandals and a 25lb pack?

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t be able to do that! Have you done this?

@joemadre9550

4 ай бұрын

@@runningwithsimon yes lol. On the PCT in 2022.

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

@@joemadre9550 the dream! As much as I like racing - doing the PCT would 100% beat it.

@joemadre9550

4 ай бұрын

@@runningwithsimon do it, man. Met my wife out there.

Some people here already did it this year. I'm not going to. I want my min 8h sleep 😊

@runningwithsimon

4 ай бұрын

Totally... I think this kind of challenge actually is a great way to see how important rest and having uninterrupted sleep are.