Epic Race Battle: Podium Contenders Clash!

[@Bruzeys]

Amazing to see the different running styles/forms of people at these fast paces. The guy in the red shorts is running at around 240spm for his cadence! Incredible.

[@justalilbester]

That is an unreal cadence!! 🤯 well calculated by the way 👏🏻

[@SPEEDYMAN3953]

Always love your race commentaries. I was at the race, cheering you on from the first drinks table with a tambourine but you were truly locked in! You're smashing this Berlin Block!

[@justalilbester]

Aaah I heard you clearly 🎉 thanks for the cheer mate! Morning well spent 🙌🏻

[@kennyosborne5835]

Congratulations Nick. I ran my first sub 34 on Sunday. 10K PB 33:44. Great confidence booster ahead of Frankfurt marathon.

[@JM-rm3lt]

Congrats! Can I ask, have you been running a long time? Has your time come down hugely?

[@kennyosborne5835]

@@JM-rm3lt A couple of years now. I was 34:08 but had missed out on sub 34 on a few occasions so was happy with this one.

[@henryqueresende2386]

Congrats! Lots of people on this busy route, makes it even more challenging. Well done!

[@timverkoyen8742]

Your race day coverage with the overlays is spot on Nick! Following you on your quest is awesome! Thanks so much for so much inspiring content! Good reminder to order my second BA kit💪

[@justalilbester]

Lovely stuff champ 💪🏻 go get it. *If your sizing is not there then we’re getting new stock on the 20th of Sept. This kit is flying 💙🤍 🚀 🙌🏻

[@2100BLF]

Love such content. No BS, full send straight from the start of the vid.

[@saintsaens21]

Great filming and voiceover. Even without your comments it's a fine ASMR experience.

[@JustBrowsing777]

Awesome push the final K Nick. Booomshakkalakka!! 😅 So cool to compare your strides in that group of 3 runners. 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️

[@alexiscastillogonzalez4792]

keep it making this videos I love how you narrate it and the way you edit it in order to see your pace, time an BPM

[@mikestevenson1334]

Great effort, Nick! Despite the fatigue, you put in a big push at the end =D congrats!

[@Ultrarunnerdad]

Came here for inspiration as I come back from a torn hamstring, struggling to get back on it, but after watching this, no excuses. Well done Nick, great racing.

[@rheno03]

Congrats Mate, great race , hard traning day! Respect to you! 🦵🦵👏 Subscribed!

[@JoE-se3hm]

Well done Nick, great race! can't wait to see you run Berlin Marathon!

[@anthonyrey]

Nice one Nick, looking strong, behind you - you’ve got this 🤞

[@Artwithmeissofun]

Great race Nick, also running those you could run with in Berlin Marathon.. all the best...

[@callmeal4183]

Still can't get my head around these race conditions. Absolute bedlam!

[@Gws525]

Fairly standard for Battersea!

[@qc_mp6899]

Iyoh Meneer. Baie mooi gedoen!! Tomorrow Saturday I will be attempting a sub3hr marathon for the 1st time 🙈. Again well done on that 10km. Amazing running.

[@justalilbester]

Awesome mate! Good luck! Go get that sub 3 🎯 and let us know how you get along

[@qc_mp6899]

3:06:45. Happy with that result 😊💪. Since I went from 3:35:30. Now we go again. Boomshakalaka 🤭😄 as you would say 😎.

[@mikehobbs624]

Great running Nick, and congrats on another monster day of training! Let's gooooo !

[@Jakettaylor]

Loved your speed up at the end. Well done!

[@justalilbester]

You can always find something at the end!! 🙌🏻

[@geoffh2560]

Great race Nick, congrats!

[@austintheson4823]

i love your race commentaries!

[@luxxdiscipline]

Always pumped up when u upload, genuinely watch every vid of yours, keep doing your thing brother 💪

[@justalilbester]

Onwards and upwards! 💪🏻 enjoyed this race!!

[@JM-rm3lt]

I take my hat off to you guys. There is no way I could negotiate all those people. I’m too busy concentrating on not collapsing 😂

[@kashmirwithmiriqbal247]

WE LOVE YOU BROTHER,YOUR REALNESS IS JUST WOW

[@justalilbester]

Running had a way of making us stubborn and relentless 👊🏻

[@Nyelands]

I predicted the result 5 min into the video just of who ran most relaxed and effortless. Mohamed has the running style of a pro.

[@patrickedwards5804]

You mean that you guessed..

[@Nyelands]

@@patrickedwards5804 What's the difference?

[@patrickedwards5804]

@@Nyelands a guess is an estimate or conclusion based on insufficient evidence. A prediction is a statement about the future based on observed patterns of prior behaviour.

[@Nyelands]

@@patrickedwards5804 So it was a prediction. I've observed other runners and I know what good form looks like and how it translate into performance. Unlike the other runners in the pack who where stiff and tight in comparison. Please don't reply to this and waste more of our time.

[@patrickedwards5804]

@@Nyelands guess! Running form means nothing. There are some exceptional runner with "unconventional" form. It's a sufficient, not a necessary condition at most. If you were predicting the outcome you would know the data of this guys running times over this distance over the period preceding the race. That would be the kind of evidence that could be the basis for a serious prediction.

[@Mandago_o]

Great video. Do you happen to know anything about the BELS singlet worn by someone who ran with you?

[@justalilbester]

Yeah that was Henry. It seemed very light weight and as you can tell he cut many holes in it 😂 to it breathes even better

[@gmd654]

Great video! My fav line was "stay alert to stay alive" it's running laps round a park, not front line warfare 😂

[@justalilbester]

🤣🤣 a little dramatic I know.

[@gmd654]

@@justalilbester the commentary adds to the epic race! How do you keep your nerve when a dog runs in front of you though? I find it hard not to go ape sh!t at the owner

[@xPeej]

Saw you guys running past us during our first 10km! "Hey that's Nick from KZbin haha! Legend.

[@justalilbester]

Thanks for the shoutout ✌🏻 hope you had a good run!

[@adrunner9]

Your channel turned me on to Adidas shoes from only Nike, and I gotta say they’re so much better! Just got a pair of pro 3’s and gonna test them out today at my race!

[@Ultrarunnerdad]

How did your race go? Shoes ok?

[@adrunner9]

@@Ultrarunnerdad it went okay! Came away with a small PB & Shoes felt great!

[@nddomer99]

Awesome race!

[@dieselCric]

Lets go 🔥🔥🔥 20:18 When she says Lets go Nick that means : send it 🔥🔥🔥

[@angejo5591]

Well done Nick !

[@angejo5591]

At 22:00 you say you got the 9th km, but then about 100/200m down the road the 9th km marking is on the lamppost? Is the course wrong??

[@justalilbester]

The course is right and official measured 👌🏻 Running around the outside on a lot of corners and weaving, meant that I ran about 60 meters further. As to be expected

[@nicnak4475]

Great effort Nick, I wonder what happened to the guy with the beard, brown shorts and light blue top ? he seemed to disappear into the distance, maybe he pulled out ?

[@justalilbester]

Yeah, he’s wasn’t doing the race. His session speed just ended up being similar to ours. He did 5k in 15:30

[@h1pbs964]

Love it. Looking good for Berlin!

[@go_run]

Great video as usual. I like to watch your races and Battersea park is always great. But have you thought about recording in 4k because it would benefit both your content and the videos you record?

[@justalilbester]

I did actually record this in 4k, but with the Garmin Virb overlay it doesn’t export in 4k. I’d rather sacrifice a tiny bit on the quality but have the metrics overlaid 👌🏻

[@go_run]

@@justalilbester ah ok if that is the case. Maybe one day Garmin will allow export to 4k. Great content anyway :)

[@nyx2076]

love the new kit it looks great !

[@justalilbester]

Glad you love it as much as I do 💙🤍 it’s been flying 🚀

[@TBasianeyes]

Henry's stride is out of this world, I want to know how he is training.

[@justalilbester]

Massive back kick hey 🦵🏼

[@AndreRees]

Well done. Wish I could do a post race session like yours. Am spent after a 10k all out race

[@stuartwalker6786]

That course is so unnerving! It is a disaster waiting to happen. Not just for competitors, but for other park users! It shows the lack of awareness, common sense and common decency that (some) athletes (with their racing line), and other park users who see hundreds of runners moving at speed, but choose to have multiple dogs off leads, or just ambling along, cutting right across the athletes who are running. Yes the park is for all, but it feels at times some people go out of their way to prove that point even if it endangers others and avoid just enjoying the spectacle. THE NEW KIT ROCKS!!!!

[@chrisnicholls8815]

Just watched this for inspiration for my race tomorrow. Bring on Pershore

[@chrisnicholls8815]

And I was 10th ( 7th in my bloody age... Sigh). A course PB by over a minute and a half sneaking into 38 min by 2 seconds. Boom shakalaka. Bring on Cheltenham 💪🏻

[@ScottishJazzman]

Wow… Art Garfunkel can sure run too!

[@DavidBond668]

Well done Nick. 🎉

[@slenjamiah]

Have you tried the saucony endorphin elite for the 5k ? Or are you still donning the adios pro 3 for the 5k ? Cant make my mind up on what the fastest shoe would be for short distance

[@Snerunseasy]

Well done Nick and all the best on your sub 2:20 , it's definitely coming... Booooooom shakalaka 👊🏾

[@justalilbester]

Got to 100% believe and be in shape come that start line in just over 1 months time!! 👊🏻

[@alisonwilks302]

Great job Amy and nick ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@PhengNvl01]

amazing performance as always

[@justalilbester]

Thank you. All mini tick boxes on route to my main one ✔️

[@roymatthews2832]

I recently bought a pair of Pro 3s after seeing them in your vids, be sure to tell your rep that. I love them but, don't want to train in them. What shoe has a similar fit/feel but will make me work harder in training. FYI finally reached my goal of a sub 21 at parkrun this morning in them.

[@LT8shortshorts]

Therapeutic watching whilst getting ready for work in the morning.

[@Suraj76567]

Sir I want to run 2 k under 6:40 sec please tell me some tranning plans ❤😢

[@justalilbester]

I mention as many tips as I can in my videos 🙌🏻

[@fastandfluent]

Is it for military test? Or just cause you want to?

[@Suraj76567]

@@fastandfluentyesit is for military test.

[@Suraj76567]

@@fastandfluent yes sir.

[@DanielNowak-xj5oc]

Congratulations 👏👏👏👏🥳👏👏🥳👏🥳🥳 nick bester well done !

[@Friedrich_BB]

Hi Nik, as always your videos are inspiring! We'll done! Wish you sub 2:20 Marathon in Berlin! You deserve it absolutely!

[@General1Cal]

Kudos on the camera woman, your bpm was pretty low thought the race do you feel like you had a ton of gas in the tank.

[@justalilbester]

Amie’s a machine at filming. Yeah aerobically I felt really good. But physically with that big week. I don’t think I could have pushed harder

[@dropattop5409]

God, running is so popular in London crazy.

[@justalilbester]

Especially in Battersea park 🔥

[@BigJ1m]

Did I miss something? Was that short guy with high cadence that went past at one point not in the race?

[@justalilbester]

Na he wasn’t part of the race, he was just doing a session in the park

[@VankoJr]

I saw that your zone 2 is from 112 to 131 bpm, is that true or you just didn't do them right in the Garmin app?

[@justalilbester]

It’s close, that’s auto calculated by Garmin. According to my calcs my zone 2 is around 120 - 135 bmp

[@VankoJr]

@@justalilbester Whats your max and resting heart rate if i can ask?

[@justalilbester]

@@VankoJr Sure my max this year is 188 and lowest resting when asleep is 35 bmp

[@VankoJr]

@@justalilbester Is it logical that i have higher maximum than yours, even if iam 10 times slower than you? 😃 My maximum is 189 and my resting while sleeping is 47 and still Garmin calculates my zone 2 way higher than yours, i find that very strange

[@debbiestandring8518]

Hi I’m 13 years old a girl. I run a 5k in 20:34 but I really want to get sub 20 mins. Please can you tell me how I can achieve that goal 😊

[@fastandfluent]

You are really close already. 50 seconds off and you're a Sub-20er. That's 10s per km. Probably continue doing exactly what you have been doing. The only thing I would do differently is over the peak time of my planning, I'd reduce the resting time on my 1k, 1.5k and 2k intervals. Let's say in the first week I was doing 6 x 1000 with 2' rest at the desired pace. I'd then do the same training, but rest only 1min20secs. Three or two weeks before the race, I'd try to reduce to 1 minute or 40 seconds. This is how I improve my 5ks. I don't use the same for distances over 10k, though. This will make you more resistant to the desired race pace.

[@debbiestandring8518]

@@fastandfluentthank you so much I really appreciate this ❤

[@DoubleH751]

whos the guy in the blue top and purple shorts, did he just join in half way through?

[@justalilbester]

He was doing a session in the park at the same time and fancied a bit of company

[@Arr-runz]

Hoping to go to State one day got a 1948 5K at 15 and hope to cut a lot of time. Any tips

[@misterbelll]

Buy a training plan from Nick..👍

[@dannycunningham8745]

Curious as to why you wouldn’t max your HR on a 10k?

[@justalilbester]

It’s too far of a distance to his your HR max.

[@dannycunningham8745]

@@justalilbester awesome video nick. Smash Berlin!

[@patrickedwards5804]

"you have to feel the part in in order to look the part.." what part you feeling Nick? Btw what is your LT1 and LT2 levels?

[@lizgreen2936]

# brilliant #podiumplace #booommmmmsshhhaaakkkaalllaakkkaaa #letttsssgooooooo!!! 🎉🎉🎉... Nicks the best-er!!! 🎉😁x

[@rickychapman6398]

Will like and subscribe for freedom units in these videos. I have no idea how hot 20 Celsius is. Jk-I already subscribe.

[@carlkevinlazo7968]

Solid American pace 👏

[@eskol8848]

💯

[@Hyundai30]

Do you breath through your nose for the entire run or, just normal mouth breathing?

[@1Shoe18]

Everyone got the Dodgeball reference right?

[@justalilbester]

One of my fav all time movie ;) at least you got it! 👊🏻

[@fatihbirkan8527]

Congrats! Boom Shakalaka!!!

[@lean2281]

Animal

[@georgistefanov8919]

who is SHE... the camera girl i mean : )

[@justalilbester]

Amie, she works with me at Best Athletics. Good performance runner and just as good at filming 👌🏻

[@nathanielb534]

Hi I’m first love your videos I would like to know if this is good at all… I’m 15 from South Africa wanting to make it pro my 10km is 41mins and 5km is 18 I really want to cut my time a lot pls help people❤

[@justalilbester]

Glad you love the videos! Keep working hard! Showing up daily! Being consistent! Training productively and most importantly believing! All the best 👊🏻

[@RonanRuns]

It's not bad, but it's not great if you wanna run competitively. I'm 14 and my PRs are 41 min 10k and 18 min 5k as well.

[@what_bird_is_this]

@@RonanRuns same times 15 and 71.5kg bench

[@RonanRuns]

@@what_bird_is_this nice. Most I've ever benched is 135 pounds. If your wondering what that bird on your profile pic is, I'm pretty sure its a Tundra Swan.

[@RonanRuns]

@@what_bird_is_this or a whooper swan. Whooper swans are very rare on the US though

[@АртёмСенин-п2л]

Boom shakalaka 🎉

[@liamtaylor74]

How tall are you Nick if you don't mind me asking. Always great to see bigger lads at the front end, I'm 6ft 8 and it definitely doesn't help 🤣

[@justalilbester]

Sure thing 186cm | 6ft 1. And weigh 75kgs at the moment. In a lot of comments here people think the taller you are, the easier it is. I wish that was the case 🤣🙌🏻

[@liamtaylor74]

@@justalilbester haha yea I get that a lot. But those that know, Know 🤣 keep up the great work, love the channel