Today there is only one rule.
If your heart rate goes outside of Zone four, you lose the last runner
standing is the winner.
3, 2, 1 go.
I'm not going to get carried away.
Look at them.
So the rules are simple here.
It's not a case of how far or how fast you run.
It's simply staying within zone four, so not going into five and not dropping into three. Oh no!
If you do it, you can make one mistake, the second mistake and you are out.
Don't get too excited, don't get too excited.
We are measuring this by the heart rate reserve method in the
Garmin connect app.
So competitors stay within zone four or you lose a
life and then it's all over.
Usually I know what time I'm running.
I know what my splits are going to be.
But here it's about keeping a consistent heart
rate instead off keeping
average splits.
I've never done this before.
I don't know.
I've got a good feeling about this.
I've never run on track before.
I've never run to my heart rate before.
But typical James over confident in his own abilities.
I reckon I got this.
Well, I don't got this, but I'm definitely, I'm gonna beat that one.
It looks like Sarah's winning.
But remember she's not winning, she's just in her heart rate zone.
Garmin just came up saying my Performance condition is Plus two which is good.
Check me out.
I am where I want to be, I'm 179. When I
start talking to you
my heart rate goes up.
So if I lose, I think that's your fault.
I think the aim of the game, my tactics for this.
It's basically just stay in the middle of the zone. That way
if I drop my game and I get a bit slower or get a bit faster, that's not gonna happen,
I've got a buffer either way.
Tell you what?
The guy, I'm glad we're not doing this in zone five because that would be disgusting.
So zone four is like tempo, threshold pace.
So technically it's the place you should be able to keep up for about an hour.
That mixed with nerves.
I'm not sure how well that will work for me.
I'm on the cusp of going too high.
Maybe it's the talking.
What's your heart rate?
at 170.
I want to go faster.
But I want to win the challenge.
I know, Sarah is so competitive.
However, I would love to debut with a
challenge win.
I'm already almost in zone five.
I got too excited about starting the race.
Got to slow down.
Think calming thoughts.
We're on a track not on a beach.
Okay, let's slow, slow right down.
Oh God.
I got really excited there.
You know, in my head, I'm like, oh, wouldn't it be fun to lap James.
I need to control my excitement because even just thinking about that, I put my heart rate up by one bpm.
This feels like the film speed.
Where the bus
can't slow down or speed up.
Oh hello there, Freddy
The Running Channel
videography here.
Just a quick editor's note, those of you cinema aficionados will have noticed that Anna's description for the
plot for speed.
The 1994 American action thriller starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper wasn't quite accurate.
The bus could speed up and it could slow down.
It just couldn't go under 50 miles an hour pop quiz hot shot. Back to the action.
Come on.
So overly confident James from before he's gone.
He's long dead.
This is so much harder
than I thought it would be because my heart rate just seems to flick
by about 10 beats a minute.
No I cannot keep it in a steady race.
Oh look there he is.
Mr cop out.
I've hurt my knee.
I can't run.
Awwww thanks mate. Incredible.
She's like a gazelle.
I'm basically walking! See if I can do it
Speed walking.
Oh I've got it speed walking.
Well Paris olympics
here I come.
There's a mass slowdown from James.
It's Rick and Running
channel team giving them a wave but mustn't get my heart rate up.
He literally looks like he's popping out to buy milk.
Let's get that heart rate down.
I feel like I'm about to be overtaken.
She's coming.
Which may raise my heart rate because the stress of her looming overhead.
I can see Anna and James across the other side of the track
forming a little bezzie mates situation.
Oh, have they lost some lives though?
I'm trying to look, but they're literally on the opposite side of the track.
I wonder if they're still doing you know good filming etiquette of
arm out but headroom nice shot or whether it's become like this
because they're dying.
Hey, pal.
Hey, how easy is this?
Really, really, really hard.
No. Oh my God.
It's so f****** easy.
They're talking so much.
They would just look too comfortable.
I think we should have made this zone 5.
No one's lost a life yet.
Pressure is mounting.
You've all got to be heading,
edging towards Zone five.
Oh my gosh, it's Sarah Hartley.
Oh my gosh, resist, resist.
The temptation to resist resist.
It's not about being the hare today is about being the heart rate
tortoise. To quote Andy Baddeley in the
the monopoly challenge.
I spy some reprobates.
I don't actually know what that word means.
But I can see Anna and James.
Oh, I'm getting close to the top now.
Oh, look at lane etiquette.
Lane etiquette.
You d****
That's all right
I like lane six.
All right show off?
So, before we started filming, I said on the track, I would do
more laps than Sarah.
She's just lapped me.
So, bye Anna. I'm gunna go and catch her.
Challenging the challenge.
I think this is worth losing over, the moral victory will be mine.
No one else would agree with that.
Oh God, I can't even I can't even get up to her without
losing a life.
Tell you what?
This would be such a good challenge to do if you've got like a best
mate who runs, but you're not necessarily the same case so you can't run together
because if you do it on a track, it still feels so
competitive and you're still running together but you don't have to be the same pace.
So we're getting to the business end of the action here on the track in South London and the conditions are beginning to
change to the sun has just emerged from behind the deep gray
clouds which has actually caused a massive shift in temperature.
We've gone from about 8-9 degrees to around about 14 or 15.
Quite a short period of time and although no one's lost a life yet.
We can hear. Think calming thoughts.
I've lost a life.
Oh no.
Oh no, you've heard that live, Sarah's just lost her
life. James, is just two beats a minute away from losing a life.
Okay, things are really heating up here now.
She's now behind me.
Which means I'm winning.
And that's that's the real story
to take away from today.
James beat Sarah, thank you and good night you can click off now.
I think they're all gonna fall about the same time.
Maybe like toy soldiers.
I was running too fast.
My heart was going to fast.
I've got a slow my pace down to get back
into that heart rate zone.
Breaking Aqasa has just lost a life.
So that's Sarah and Aqasa have now lost a life.
They lose another one and they're out.
I'm confused as to how James is 200 m ahead of
me by trying to catch up with Sarah.
But yet, he hasn't lost a life.
One more beat and I'm out.
I'm out of a life.
Okay, that's me.
James down to one life.
Anna the only athlete on the field with two lives left.
Incredible scenes here in South London.
I need to slow down 175.
Slow down.
I need to slow.
You need to slow 176.
I've gone over.
Oh man.
Aqasa is out of the race.
We're down to three.
Aqasa. Yes, sir.
It just goes to show that running is as much about your head as it is
about your heart.
So, there are three of us left.
I am definitely looking the worst for ware at the moment.
Is over there.
Still a minute.
She's got like a steady patient discipline and Sarah just
keeps getting faster.
I think she's cheating.
Check the data when we get back.
Not that I'm a sore loser or anything.
I'm teeteringly close to that end oh God, stop.
I'm out.
Ah, calm down, calm down, calm down.
James is out.
Don't get too excited.
Don't get too excited, quo Whoa!
Shh, come on, calm down.
I got too excited.
Damn it!
Just two women left in the
race, Anna and Sarah, Sarah down to her last life.
Anna still on two lives left.
So it's me versus Sarah.
Sarah's training for a 5K.
I'm training for a marathon.
Does that mean anything?
Do I have better endurance?
I have got two lives and she's only got one.
I mean, the moral victory.
No, it doesn't get to me either.
I reckon I reckon Sarah's got it.
She's increasing her pace each lap by the looks of things and just absolutely breezing,
breezing past
Anna right now. I can't speak.
Have you got one life left?
She's got two lives.
Don't get carried away by running after Sarah.
We're good.
Anna has complete control of her heart.
She just seems to be able to squeak it up, squeak it down.
She's like a hamster.
It's very consistent running on that wheel.
Okay, let's play games.
Let's overtake again.
I think I've got it
Pain is temporary.
Oh no! that's it.
Sarah looks like she's slowed down.
Oh, I just got over my marks. Sarah
here, coming in.
She looks like a disappointed figure.
And I've got to say she was consistent.
She was strong.
But she tipped over the edge and she went into zone five.
That was her second foray into number five and she's gone,
Sarah, great to see you, you were incredible as a competitor out there.
Fantastic to watch.
You must be gutted.
It's not great to see you Rick.
I'm not gonna lie.
I'm so annoyed.
I was literally coming around that corner saying
Keep running Anna, keep running.
This is, we're still alive.
You've got, you've got you've got you've got nothing, have you?
You've got nothing.
I think that was harder than most people thought Anna. It was quite easy actually.
They are outraged.
I think they found it quite hard.
I really enjoyed it.
How about you guys at home?
Have you ever used the Garmin heart rate alert feature or maybe you're going to try using it now
that you've seen us do this challenge?
Let's know in the comments below and we'll see you next time here on the running channel