Hey guys, so a couple of weeks ago now I finished my second ever marathon and it was the Oslo marathon and it was a brutal course and it was so much fun and I ran a PR and today I'm going to just give you a short and sweet recap of the day how it felt, what happened, my pace, my nutrition, just you know just a recap of the day so stay tuned for that. Before we get started I just want to mention again my ebook, I have a new ebook that's out, there's a link in the description if you want to learn about getting started with running, training, all kinds of general tips and tricks on being a runner and living the running lifestyle, do check out that ebook. On to the marathon, so I didn't do any marathon training per se before this race, I trained for my half marathon that I did two weeks earlier and did mostly shorter long runs 20 to 25k and some you know longer intervals at like half marathon pace, a lot of treasual training that sort of thing. For a marathon obviously I would ideally want to do more long long runs 30k plus several of those and some more big marathon pace tempo runs etc so I didn't expect to be perfectly prepared for the marathon plus it was also just two weeks following my half marathon as I said so for me that's a little bit of a close call recovering that quickly and still sort of maintaining fitness and getting into a marathon but the reason I jumped into it not only just because also marathon is like an awesome race, it's Norway's biggest race, thousands of people, everyone's out in the streets, it's just such a good vibe but also just because I need more experience with the marathon I wanted to give it another try. My marathon last year from Nis, my debut, I'll put a video here, was of course a horrible experience but still kind of fun still and a learning experience for sure but I wanted to sort of improve my PR from 330. This course though is very slow or it's a very hard course, it's very hilly about 500 meters or so I think of elevation gain, you're doing two loops in a half marathon loop that's got two huge heels so it's a slow course so I knew I wouldn't be able to run at my capacity that coupled with the lack of marathon training etc made me think that maybe with good marathon training I would be able to go sub three on a flat course but without good marathon training and close to the half marathon and and also on this course I actually thought 315 would be a realistic time to aim for and so I did, I aimed for 315, started out feeling great, I had my parents and my brother cheering me on and I also had my friend Thomas on the bike along the course and he actually handed me bottles because this was the Norwegian championship in the marathon and they allowed contestants to have their own water boy so Thomas handed me bottles a couple of places. I have lots of cool footage from the race, I was just going to insert some of it here, I was feeling good for the first half, things were going smoothly, I was hanging with the 315 group and things were just looking great so check out some of this footage in the second half I started actually feeling obviously that it was starting to get a little harder, first half was like a breeze I came through half in like 137 something which is spot on 315 pace but started working harder and predictably somewhere around the 30-32k mark, the 20 mile mark I guess like you could say I hit the wall, it wasn't for a lack of nutrition I was taking about 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour combination of glucose and fructose, feeling good about that, drinking water at every station, there was 11-8 stations in total so I feel like I was getting in proper nutrition, obviously some marathon training with some really long runs would have ramped up my fat metabolism even more conserving glycogen and that would probably be a good thing and also you know who knows in terms of like my physiology and my genetics whether I have large or small glycogen stores and whether my fat burning metabolism, my ability to burn fat is genetically poor perhaps because that's what I kind of think that's another video altogether about you know whether or not I'm suited for the marathon but with just two marathons under my belt I'm gonna need a lot more experimentation to figure that out but the point is I hit the wall, glycogen was getting low I would presume or if it was a muscular thing perhaps after the half marathon not being quite recovered musclerly perhaps but somewhere around that 32k mark things started getting really slow progressively so slower and slower, harder and harder it was absolutely brutal and the last hill was just insane so I'll show you some more footage here from the second half where I was feeling horrible and things were going very slow and I realized I wasn't going to be able to hit my 315 mark but I was fighting for a PR nevertheless and I didn't want to walk so ran across the finish line in 325.52 so that's a PR five minute PR on a tough course still pretty far behind my theoretical capacity based off of like VDOT tables and based off of you know like my half marathon PR of 125 it's it's a little bit behind on that but then again you know I haven't perhaps ran the volume and done the training necessary for a marathon and I didn't prioritize this race as I said I just jumped into it but you know that's irrelevant I'm very happy with it still I'm happy with my effort and it's it's actually made me really hungry for more marathons because I just find it such a fascinating distance it's mysterious you know it's more than just it's less predictable you know the 5k, 10k half marathon fairly predictable what time you're going to do and what's going to happen in the race but in a marathon I realize it's very unpredictable what's going to happen after 20 miles and how are you going to how that's going to work out for you even at the elite level we see it all the time right people running really well until the last 10k and then just sort of fading it's very common so how to manage that and how to overcome it that's an interesting experiment I'm going to pursue for the next decade and and onward if you want to read more about sort of the nitty gritty details of my race you should follow me on Strava so just search for my name on Strava and you'll you can read my marathon report pretty long lots of text you can also follow me on Instagram of course I post lots of content there little bits of videos from my daily life and and and also from the race so do check out my Instagram there's a link in the description and my ebook as I also mentioned and finally last plug probably is going to be the fact that I am a coach and if you are interested in learning about running maybe just doing a consultation discussing maybe you have an upcoming race and you just want to discuss your nutrition plan or your pacing strategy we can do that we can also set up some a subscription for coaching if you're interested in having a coach on a more long-term basis so don't hesitate to reach out leave a comment send me a message on my website links in the description all that stuff the marathon was fun it was fun to have my parents my brother my my brother actually ran with me at some point in the race he jumped into the race and just ran with me for like two minutes that was fun okay thanks for watching leave a comment tell me about your upcoming race and I'll see you in the next video