Trail RUNNING in MALLORCA - Training for the MOZART 100 2019 - S2 E6

Hello everybody and welcome back to the channel. You join us on the southern side of the beautiful Spanish island of Mallorca, where we're heading up into these mountains here behind us. We've got an epic trail run planned today. It's looking around about 30km with a couple of thousand meters of climbing, so a really big tough day planned. But we've got the packs all loaded up and ready to go. We've just got some nuts and some crisps and some orange juice, water, fruit, all natural stuff that's going to fuel us through the run today. So follow along. Not sure what we're going to be chatting about but I'll think of something when we're heading out there on the run. Just some tips and tricks for everything to make yourself a better trail runner and also just out there having fun enjoying the beautiful scenery out here. So yeah, we're going to get loaded up and then get out on the run. So I'll see you out there. See you in a bit. So it's great to be back out on some beautiful trails and yeah, just build up the fitness. Now what I get asked quite a lot is how I plan out all of these routes. Where do I find them? How do I get them onto my watch and all of that sort of stuff? Well, I suppose a lot of the research starts with finding races that exist in the areas that I'm going to. So if you find a race that's happening there, they're probably going to have a GPX file that you can download and then you can just go and run that course, which is pretty much what we're doing today out here. Yeah, so you know the course is going to be pretty runnable, be pretty safe and pretty good. So yeah, when you're away, look up races, see if they've got some GPX files and download them and get them on your watch. Failing that, look on Strava, heat maps. Strava have got a really good route planning tool. You can see where everybody else has been running all across. I'll put that up on the screen now and you can just then plot routes there. Again, download it, save it as a GPX file and load it onto your watch. Garmin got a very similar thing, just sort of popularity routing, I think they called it. And yeah, you just kind of build a bit of a picture of everybody else's running popular things and build on that and then you can build basically your routes from there. Obviously you've got to have a watch that can accept GPX files and then using that you just follow the little track on your watch screen and follow it around. So that's pretty much how I find all of my routes and build them and yeah, they normally work quite well. We end up in some beautiful settings all around the world. Let's get a bit more of this run done. We'll check it in a bit. Hi guys, we have been climbing for not long. It is so steep and tough out here today. We've gone up about 300 meters climb in about a care and a half. I'll have to look on Strava when I get back later. But yeah, we're heading this hill. It's so steep and we've come from just down there. The terrain's not too bad. It's quite rocky. Coming down, it'll be really nice but going up, super steep. But you know, we've got to get out here. We've got to get it done. Really high up. It's the sea and to Mallorca there. So yeah, it's very cold. It's very windy. So we're going to head back down. The views will be a little bit better but we are 9k in. We've climbed about 800 meters so far. Let's crack on, get back down and up the next peak. Back down off the mountain. It's very, very tricky. There's a lot of trails out here. Pretty technical, I say. But you know, we're training for races that are going to be out on this sort of terrain. So you've got to be here putting in the work. So yeah, a quick little chat about nutrition and yeah, whenever I come away on these little trips, it's a bit controversial, I suppose, but I never bring any gels or any recovery shakes and all sort of that with me just because I'm really just so cheap. I don't want to pay for extra baggage and stuff and just hate going through all the security with them quizzing you on what everything is. So I just can't be bothered. So yeah, whenever I'm out here, it's always pretty much nuts and crisps and olives and just sort of more natural, well crisps aren't very natural, but sort of more natural food stuff that just whack in the pack and off you go. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to ditch sports, nutrition and things. I still take plenty of gels in training when I'm running back at home, but it's just nice to switch out to something a little bit different. You know, give your body different forms of fuel and things. It seems to work absolutely fine. All right guys, quick, quick little check-in. We are about 12km in and climbed about 800m because we've just been dropped. We've got about 1200m left to climb and that 1200m is climbing that beast of a hill over there. So yeah, down, down, down and then up we go. Strengthening the legs, good mental test as well at the moment. And yeah, the knee holding out surprisingly well. I was a little bit worried about this today, shouldn't really be putting in this much elevation. But yeah, surprise, holding up okay. The strength perk is obviously paying off. All right guys, we'll see you probably about halfway up that hill in a bit. All right guys, quick check-in. We are now halfway up this final climb. We're at about 1300m climbed for the day so far in about 18km I think, not sure. But yeah, look at these views as we head up. Absolutely stunning. Just got an awesome podcast on at the Inside Running Podcast for three Australian guys, one of them in particular just ran a 2.14.42 by a guy called Julian Spence. Really enjoying listening to that recap and super inspiring about what might be possible. I don't think I could ever get close to that but still, maybe a sub 220 is on the cards at some point this year or next year. You've got to dream big, that's why we're out here doing this. If you get inspiration from all over the place on this run, I'm enjoying this podcast and love hearing all of your stories as well. So let me know how you're going in your racing because whether you're running a 2.14 marathon or a 6 hour marathon, everyone's got a story about what you're going through, what you're over. Right, let's get to the top of this big hill and enjoy the views out over Mallorca. You probably can't hear me, it's so windy. We're just coming to the end of the run, the sun is setting and the hill is behind and what a day it's been. Super tough coming down off that mountain. Anyway, one little training tip that I'm sort of doing right now as we speak is really really try and pick up the pace towards the end of your long runs, whether you're training for marathons or trails or ultras, whatever. It's a really good training stimulus. Give yourself a little target, maybe 4 or 5k to go just to get your average pace down for the run during those last 4 or 5k. So you might say I'm going to try and hit whatever it is, I'm going to try and do 4 minute k's for the last 5k, whatever your equivalent pace is, or just say I'm going to try and get my average pace down below this level. So yeah, I just pause my watch there with 5k to go and I'll give myself a little target in my head, picking up the pace at the end. The legs are trash, they're so tired, but forcing myself to run a little bit faster towards the end of the run is such a good training stimulus. It's really going to really help those legs strengthen up and mentally as well, knowing you can really push towards the end of a marathon or towards the end of your race. So yeah, that's my little training tip, try it on some of your next long runs. Right, I'm going to get my head down, I'm going to get the last few k's done and I'll see you at the car. Right guys, we are back at the car, man am I happy to see this. That was probably the hardest ever training run I've done, super ridiculously technical out there in places, but you know, we're building up to these ridiculously hard super tough races, you've got to get out there and experience it. You know, you can't do this at home and yeah, that peak just there, that's what we've just come down off. So yeah, I'll put up all the stats on the screen, we're around about 20 miles, just over 32k and yeah, not sure what the elevation is going to come out at, need to get that on Strava, but yeah, I'll put it all up on the screen, but it's around about maybe 1,600-1,700 meters in the end. So yeah, super tough but absolutely loving it and yeah, couldn't have done it and a big thanks to Sarah, just waiting for her for filming as well. Yeah, real sort of team effort and she's got loads of goals and things coming up as well. Right guys, that's enough of the ramble, we are going to go off into La Palma, get some pizzas and get some calves in because we've survived that on breakfast and everything, but yeah, feeling good surprisingly so. I've got nothing else left to say, going to get the pack off, back in the car into town and get some pizza. So thanks very much guys for following along. 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