32km RACE w/ 1500m ELEVATION | Completely RUINED me!

[@hopedalrymple1886]

I think if I were racing this and heard you run past saying “well done you’re smashing it” I would probably have cried ❤

[@FloraBeverley]

Haha that's very sweet! 🥹 gotta support each other! Everyone out there did an amazing job 🤗

[@Steve-vr6mq]

Thanks for sharing. Your commentary throughout the video is brilliant and very funny.

[@essextrails]

Well done Flora. I always love the way you manage to keep smiling all the way round the races. You make an ordeal like that seem enjoyable. Just as well I am so old or I might be tempted to do something as daft. Take care.

[@thecaitlynhowarth]

Just what I needed!! Watched this while on a boring treadmill run and found myself slowing down when you came up to water and ducking for the branches 😂😂 Have my half marathon next weekend and have been dealing with my ankle and knee acting up so that gave me hope I can still do my race! 🎉

[@FloraBeverley]

Haha amazing! If only they created trail treadmills, that would be so cool! 😍 Good luck with the half. I hope the body holds up! 💕

[@thecaitlynhowarth]

@@FloraBeverley thank you!!

[@appillihp]

You’re just my fave channel in the world to watch right now. I’m really throwing myself into the running world and your videos are so inspiring and helpful! ❤

[@SimonBransfieldGarth]

Brilliant VLOG Flora, thank you! I was well behind you but loved every minute, even the horizontal hail on the ridge. Definitely an "adventure" not just a run. I did the race because of your VLOG last year and so glad I did. One of my favourite races ever. Hope you rest well feel better soon.

[@FloraBeverley]

Epicccc so glad you enjoyed yourself out there - it was a tough day out but phenomenal route! Hope you see you back there for the other limitless trails races 🤗

[@mrsbootsworkouts]

Thank you for the inspiration by example and by the strength of character! My day is now brighter!

[@wilmertsch]

Great job Flora! Your videos are very inspiring and love watching them. At 73 I'm still very active running and this fall I'll be running my first half marathon, cant wait!

[@FloraBeverley]

Thank you 🥰 Omg that's amazing, good luck with it!!

[@aprillikescheese]

Well done Flora! Watching your race vlogs never fail to cheer me up with all of your screaming down the hills! Can't believe you ran so well despite being unwell. I did my first fell race last weekend after being inspired by your video on fell racing a couple of months ago. The race was brill despite really strong winds, although definitely not enough women racing. I hope you keep making videos to inspire women to get out running and racing 😊

[@FloraBeverley]

Oh incredible, well done you! 👏🏼 we desperately need more women in ultra & fell running. Good job for getting out there 😍

[@lisanicholls1549]

Brilliant vlog as always Flora. Missed you this time as I back marked the last 20 miles Good luck for your 100k

[@steverichardson1918]

Great work Flora, well done! Training for my first trail Ultra in May (75KM), thank goodness there won't be any snow there (hopefully!). Keep up the good work on the channel.

[@MaiTravelSite]

Good luck man! My first race ever was a 50km ultra last year. Very tiring but I did finish it! Got another 50 km in March and am going for an 80km in June, let's see how it goes!

[@RosieOutdoors]

Well done! Scenery looks beautiful but those hills and the weather looked brutal! Hope you’re starting to feel better.

[@katiepillar]

Interesting to hear you taking through your nutrition. I really need to get better at fuelling and it was good to hear some discussion on it

[@stratissss]

What a race! What a view(s)! What a motivation!! Well done Flora! Thank you soo much for this video!

[@FloraBeverley]

It was stunning!!

[@Colin-b8k]

Hey Flora, Well done on completing the beast in the conditions. Honestly, that is exactly what you needed for UTS. Hope you came out of it well. You need to make sure you get the hill work in for UTS and prepare yourself to be out for a long time. Its brutal!!!

[@FloraBeverley]

So I hear! I'm terrified tbh 😅

[@Colin-b8k]

@@FloraBeverley You'll be fine. The aid stations are class as are your fellow runners.

[@carldavies3915]

Thanks you for all your videos you have motivated start building on my running fitness again.

[@hoppo_runs_wild]

Well done! Extremely tough course, with amazing scenery! Loved your blog! I back ran the 10 mile course and the second 20 miles of the ultra I absolutely loved every second of it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❄️🫶🏼 Good luck on your up coming events!

[@steveperkins6308]

Just watched the rest of the Vlog . Well done Flora that look tough but you aced it.

[@jjmallin1975]

Fantastic race great scenery and brilliantly filmed ..Well done Flora 🏃‍♀👍☘

[@TheRunningAccountant]

Picked up Roclites for the first time a month ago too for the same reasons and they've been brilliant! Great video!

[@gwilymeades]

Thanks for this! It has inspired me to sign up for a couple of warm-up 50k ultras to do as training for my 100km race in July. That's my training sorted! Looks like yours was a fun adventure too. I love running in the snow

[@FloraBeverley]

That's awesome! Good luck with them 🤗

[@JamesPorter1982]

Well done, amazing performance - you must have been quicker than me! I did this for the first time this year and what an epic course! Wanted to challenge myself and it didn't fail to deliver. That part a couple of miles from the end where you turn off the road and do the up and down again was just cruel though! Felt a bit sorry for the 40 milers stuck out there when the rain set in and I was already half way up the M50!

[@FloraBeverley]

Amazing so glad you got out there and enjoyed it! It sure was tough 😅 I can't imagine being out there for the 40 - I think I'd actually die 😂

[@mariefrench916]

You are amazing 🤩 I knew you could do it! That definitely looked like an ankle breaker. 🤪 x x

[@balletickid]

Well done! The scenery looks so beautiful especially that forest scene we have nothing like that near us

[@FloraBeverley]

It was stunning, one of the most beautiful places I have run!

[@manuel_877]

Good afternoon for all the runners. It was a hard race, Flora ¡¡¡¡¡well doneeee!!!!. You are a strong runner. Here is my like. A nice week for everyone.

[@FloraBeverley]

Haha thanks Manuel!

[@cherries4life387]

Looks a beautiful race, and the snow only adds to it. I think 20mins slower given those conditions is about right, so I don't think you were much slower than last year. Great job! Think I'll have to have a go at this next year.

[@FloraBeverley]

Definitely recommend! It's so beautiful there whatever the weather 😍

[@yakiweiss546]

You're just an inspiration to get out and run ,Well done!!

[@Soda_x_Pop]

Great scenery, need to run abroad.

[@matthewbarks2015]

Well done Flora!! It looked absolutely epic! I was actually wondering what shoes you were wearing for those muddy/snowy/icey conditions and also what the lugs were shaped like…..literally seconds later you mentioned them and showed what the soles looked like 🙂

[@FloraBeverley]

Haha I aim to please! They're great. Also trying out the x talons which are amazing in even muddier conditions!

[@matthewbarks2015]

@@FloraBeverley I found an absolutely amazing new route which involves a downhill very muddy (as in quagmire!) stretch which then drops you into a long narrow path/stream before running onto undulating waterlogged fields. You really need lugs shaped like teeth to successfully traverse that lot (without needing loads of luck and the balance of a ballet dancer 😜) The trouble is to get up to the top of that hill is an 11k pavement/grass verge run in which having teeth like lugs would be be like running in football boots on tarmac. Thats why having watched the various surfaces you were running on I was wondering what your trail shoe lugs looked like

[@Runner_Phil]

Well done, it looks beautiful but brutal in the snow. You are making me want to do more trail runs but I’m always scared of my ankles on uneven terrain. 🙂

[@FloraBeverley]

Do ittttt (and go to the gym to strengthen those ligaments). 🤗

[@Runner_Phil]

@@FloraBeverley I will do soon, I do go to the gym for strength training but I’m currently working on ankle mobility exercises with my physio. 😀

[@VirtualTrailRunning]

Can’t wait for spring!!

[@FloraBeverley]

You and I both!! 😅

[@NeilHannam]

Loving the vlog-ception of @MarkLewisfitness cropping up in the background around 50 seconds in!

[@FloraBeverley]

😂 he did the same last year too!

[@nicmarlow6388]

yes Flora!!! 😍 x

[@alertbri]

My Inov8 max 300 shoe laces do that 😂 have to double tie and pull 'em tight. Well done!🏅

[@AliceShah_2013]

looks brutal!

[@Teamslikepreston]

Looks brutal but amazing at the same time!

[@dannygrays]

Love it, "Trust the lugs, don't die"😅

[@FloraBeverley]

My new catch phrase 😂

[@steveperkins6308]

Loving this Vlog Flora. Definitely relate to going crazy while not being able to run especially as I am also training for my First Ultra which is 106k round the Isle of Wight in 6 weeks time but i have a niggly knee injury/pain so really need to get back out there. Where is your 100k and how have you got over your injury ?

[@FloraBeverley]

Ah no poor you! Mine is in the Lake District. I haven't got over injury sadly, I'm just managing it. More bike and flat running. Less of this stuff 😅

[@steveperkins6308]

@Flora Beverley Any tips on managing runners knee would be really appreciated Flora.

[@FloraBeverley]

@@steveperkins6308 I've never had it I'm afraid. My advice will always be to work with a running-specific physio. Good luck+

[@jime2504]

Well done Flora! I’ve done that evil climb at the start a few years ago for a different event, I think the idea of running in the snow is much more attractive than the reality! Big question, do you have the jaunty KZbin music in your head when you are running along? Great video thank you!

[@vic6820]

Well done. It's character building 😀

[@WattsyTheG]

You did really well. This was my first trail run and really enjoyed it. I’m still sore haha. I got 5hr 23mins, just glad I finished it unscathed!!

[@FloraBeverley]

wow what a race for your first one! Well done. It was a toughie!

[@WattsyTheG]

@@FloraBeverley Thank you 😊 please keep up the great content!

[@gainde1137]

You didn't use poles? Is there any reason or just from a certain distance?

[@debbieglen2800]

Well done 👏

[@123burnsey]

Hi Flora , well done on a brutal course , can I ask you what were the name of your running shoes please

[@mariefox1250]

Well done - inspired to do this one next year 😊 I just wanted to comment on something you said about not seeing so many ladies your age on the start line. I am now in my early 50’s and do a fair few local trail races. There are always quite a few women my age but you are right that there are not many in their twenties. It is interesting - I wonder why trails appeal more to slightly older women? I have no actual evidence that they do but your comment backs up that theory. Maybe a topic for a future video?

[@FloraBeverley]

Its an interesting topic for sure! For many I think it's family/child commitments, but for us without kids, I think it's as much about exposure and not seeing people like us out there. I started trail running by accident with my boyfriend, so I never even thought about not seeing many women on the trails, but since have noticed a big disparity. I guess older women have had more time to be exposed to the trails (& also may find it easier on the joints? That's what I've found!). Also there's lots of good research about older women and improved performance in ultras way into their 40s & 50s before any drop off. So the longer distances on trails may appeal more after years of road running!

[@sssertob5712]

did a very similar race at the weekend in terms of distance and elevation. My quads hate me

[@FloraBeverley]

😂 mine too! They hurt for days hahah

[@SpikeBrookes87]

Ruined status confirmed by the amount of swearing coming into the finish. 😂

[@FloraBeverley]

Hahahaha

[@shaquicedacosta]

Would you recommend/it’s alright to unwrap the food before starting the race?

[@FloraBeverley]

I guess it could be OK, but if it rains you end up with very soggy food... but I guess possible!

[@thatgirlthatgrows]

Well done!!!

[@benjaminbarrett6196]

Ahh watching this makes me want to enter another race 😂

[@FloraBeverley]

Hahaha do it! Never a bad idea 😉

[@suegersh]

Sounded like Eminem at 8:11 😂

[@LoveLife-mm5wx]

what a feat!

[@pearcheese455]

Love you 💕

[@wilsonpotositrail]

Excelente

[@sairuss76]

какая ты обаятельная=)

[@gabeduran8321]

Love your glasses, are they Oakley shades! Climb them "BITCHES" Flora!! Where is Tia? She could pull you along that Bitch climb!! What running shoes were you wearing Flora? Those views ARE GORGEOUS, BUT NOT AS GORGEOUS AS YOU FLORA! BRILLIANT JOB AND VIDEO! THANK YOU! ALL THE BEST!!

[@FloraBeverley]

Haha thanks! I'd have to pull Tia up, not the other way round. They're the Sungod Ultras 🤗 super nice

[@run-watch]

What is up with the people wearing *shorts*?! 😮