Video Editing and Running a Silly Marathon

The main goal for the week was to run a marathon over 24 hours by jogging 1.75 km each hour, on the hour. Between each loop, I decided that I’d try to plan, film and edit a video for YouTube. I wrote about the plan on my blog, and I’ll do an in-depth follow-up on Tuesday, but as expected, no plan survives first contact. You can watch what happened on YouTube (see the video below).

I had a bucketload of fun through the challenge, but it was followed up with a few hectic days of work. My sleep pattern is a mess and I need to get out of the loop of staying up and getting up late.

Training Summary

This week has been full of slow, easy runs. While I’ve run almost 65 km this week, I haven’t actually run more than 4.75 km in a single run. Most of that distance was, of course, covered in ~1.9 km increments for 24 hours in the middle of the week.

Either side of that I made sure I was just ticking by to keep my legs moving, but without increasing my weekly distance by too much. This evening’s run felt good, having done distance but not intensity, and with the cooler weather, a bit of speed returned.

The Week Ahead…

A busy work week ahead for me. The marathon thing took more than just the time, the lack of sleep affected my work and I’ve been playing catch-up since. First priority for the week will be to get my to-do list back under control.

I’m not sure I’ll get a video made this week. When I had my dedicated video editor, I could just hand over the footage and hope something appeared. Now I’ve got to find some extra time somewhere to work through whatever I manage to record.

I’ve got some ideas for a video for the week after though - I just need to find somewhere to store all this footage!

In Case You Missed It…

Here’s the video of my strange marathon attempt.

And This Week I Have Mostly Been…

🎵 Listening to: Started Out With Nothin' - Seasick Steve

📚 Reading: Born to Run - Christopher McDougall

🎥 Watching: Too Far Gone - A series where two idiots (their description) cycle from Manchester to Marrakech.

Thank you for reading and for your support.

Take it easy,

Phill