Hi, and welcome to The Running Channel,
I'm Anna and I will be going head to head with my arch nemesis,
Rick in The Running Channel treadmill challenge.
Yeah, this is going to be a tough one.
It's basically a challenge inspired by the lactate threshold step test.
Running on this treadmill, with the pace increasing every two minutes,
until we can't run anymore.
It sounds awful, but I am determined to beat you at something.
Please!
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So the rules of this challenge are simple.
Anna and I have to run on the treadmill at roughly our marathon pace to start
with, 10 kilometres per hour,
with the pace increasing by 0.5 kilometers an hour,
every two minutes, we have to stay on the treadmill for as long as we can.
And the winner is the person who can run at the fastest pace.
So neither of us will know how the other one has done.
So not only is this going to be a test of our legs, but also our nerve.
How badly do we want to beat each other?
Just makes me think, why are we doing this?
Well Rick, this is what the elites do, kind of, in a lab to test their lactate threshold and also accurately
set their heart rate zones too.
So the runner starts on a treadmill at a slower pace and then steps it up
every three minutes until they're definitely running faster than their
threshold pace. And at each step of the test, the person who's leading,
it will take a blood sample.
So either from a finger prick or ear lobe, to measure the amount of lactate in the
blood. We're not going to be doing that last bit today though.
Right, okay. But all we've got to do is get on the treadmill run and the pace
increases every two minutes and keep going as long as we can.
Yeah. Simple. Right? Oh, obviously there's a forfeit for the loser as well.
What?
If I lose, I have to endure an ice bath. If you lose,
you're going to have to wax your legs.
Oooh, blimey! Right, let's get going.
Right. Rick's turn on the treadmill.
I really desperately want to know how well he does because I have to beat him.
I'm just sick of him beating me now.
I wonder if there's any way that I can see, no? no
Mask on? Mask on. All right. See you in a bit.
10 Kilometres an hour, marathon pace.
Okay. This is all right. We can do this. This is not too bad. Ah,
I didn't press go on the watch. Go. I think,
if I can get to about 20 minutes,
that should put me a good stead to beat Anna. I can't see her getting much past that.
Okay. So that's two minutes down. So going up 0.5 of a kilometre.
Ok so I'm at 11 kilometres an hour now.
4 and a half minutes in.
What did I say? 20 minutes?
Ok, six minutes,
heading up to 11.5 kilometres an hour. Ah.
I don't know about you, but I feeling 22,
everything will be all right when, I'm right here next to you.
You don't know about me, but I guess you want to,
when you're 22, 22.
That was a great birthday last year.
Eight minutes, so going up another 0.5,
Yikes!
I love it when the beat drop! Yeah!
How's my heart rate doing? 168.
I'm into zone 4 of heart rates. Ok we're going up,
13.5
Heading towards 15 minutes.
Ok this is feeling tough now.
We're not going to make 20.
We'll just have to get as close as we can.
Ok I'm sprinting.
Ok. This is tough.
Don't want to wax my legs. I don't want to wax my legs.
Another minute. It will be worth the pain. Worth the pain.
Ok 18 minutes. 14.5.
14.5!
Let's get to 20 for 15.
Funny thing is,
It's probably about the same exertion as you're at the end of the parkrun,
but just the steady increase throughout
no dips, no ups and downs
really made it felt tougher. I can't, I think Anna will do about that.
I, this is gonna be really close, cause I think that's about her speed at the moment.
So this is steady marathon pace.
It's 10 kilometres per hour speed.
Andy, when he used to do this proper lactate test
with the blood from his ear, would start at 14
kph and go up one every three minutes.
So we're only going by half every two minutes.
So this is obviously just see how long you can last and
just got to beat Rick.
I don't know what speed he could get up to. He seems pretty quick at the minute,
but Andy used to get up to like 21, 22 kph.
So that's one hour half marathon, 2 hour marathon.
Right. Coming up to 2 minutes. Time to go up by a half.
Ok, that's alright.
Run, with me.
I'm going to watch my avatar running to try and distract me, there's
a nice Ferris wheel going on.
We're about to step up another half,
in three, two, one. 11.
The idea is that the first like maybe
eight minutes or so,
it's just to start steadily building up to that lactate threshold.
And then after that is when the pain starts.
Just a progression run in it? Fine.
Oh, I got a ride on. Thank you!
10 seconds left at this pace.
Then we're going up half to 11.5. Two,
One. 11.5
That's my first kilometre run, anyway, heart rates creeping up a bit more.
169, 168,
10 seconds left of this pace, then we're going up to 12.
Three, two, one. 12.
Right. Eight minutes in. That's the steady stuff out the way.
Andy wouldn't have even have started at this pace.
Blows my mind.
I'm getting tired.
Right, 12 and a half.
I'm really struggling.
Ah done!
Gutted. Rick's definitely beaten me.
I really wanted to push into one more pace. Jeez, louise.
Lockdown has been hard on my fitness.
I think let's just put ourselves out of our misery.
Let's do it.
Find out whose won. Tom results please.
Many thanks. Let's not forget. There is a forfeit at stake here.
I had forgotten that. I hadn't. So if I lose,
it's an ice bath for me and I'm waxing my legs. Oh, it's all right.
Cause you wear tights anyway. Right? Anyway, let's have a look. So Rick,
you got to 14.5,
kilometres per hour. That is insane. I got,
I got 13. You win.
YES!
Absolutely gutted. If I could, I would hug you. Yeah. We're not allowed.
So do you want to give this a go yourself?
Well our friends at Zwift,
depending on when you're watching this, are uploading this very challenge so that
you can try it for yourself.
You just need to look for The Running Channel challenges.
Either coming soon, or you'll be able to access it depending on when you
are watching. So yeah. Fancy giving it a go? No, I just said that.
You've already said no, Rick, Rick did not enjoy that. Um, yeah.
So if you that, give me a go check it out.
Maybe though, you've got an idea for another challenge that Rick and I could do.
I need to beat him. Come on. Needs to be on my side. I think we just keep going.
Um, so yeah, I suppose I better go off and have my ice bath.
I kind of need it after that.
This really isn't how I wanted to spend today.
Okay, it's full.
Going in. Be brave.
In 3, 2 1,
1,2, 3
Right, I've got, something to read.
It's very wet.
There's a lot of debate about
who's better, Rick or Anna?
but clearly Rick is the best. I hate you Rick.
He's smart, funny, questionable, I can't feel my toes!
And he can run really, really fast.
Ok he can run faster than me at this challenge, much faster than Anna, little bit
In an all out 5k he'd win any day. No, I'm not having that.
This has been hard to prove scientifically, but The Running Channel's
Resident Olympian Andy, 100% agrees, that Rick is the better runner.
I hate you both! Love Rick, kiss.
Ah, I'm getting out!
Everything hurst! It feels like little, tiny, stabby, needles.