My FIRST 10k Race! // Alcester 10K Race Vlog! // The One where I drank cider // ​

[@thethompsonsgotagopro.]

Fab run as usual! Good luck on getting 1000 subs. I’m sure it’ll happen 😊

[@middleagedrunningman]

Thanks Thompsons!! 🤞🏻 Or…I could review socks?

[@thethompsonsgotagopro.]

@@middleagedrunningman I think you’d still be amusing selling socks 😂

[@FreeLancerLondon]

Alcester looks like a lovely place. 37 minutes is a cracking time for a 10k. Great running. Impressive!!!

[@middleagedrunningman]

Thanks Free Lancer!! Lovely race.

[@johnkelleher4687]

This is as factually correct as a Sunday Sport expose’. To set the record straight…. I was injured 6 WEEKS prior to to event…. I finished in 2 hours 7 minutes and NOT “well over 2 hours”, and it wasn’t a ‘bloke carrying a washing machine” that overtook me at all. I think you will find it was a tumble dryer. You’ll be hearing from my Lawyer.

[@middleagedrunningman]

Fancy entering again in April? For old times sake? Hear there’s a bloke carrying an AGA on his back this year. I reckon you could take him.

[@johnkelleher4687]

Not with you…,shithouse.

[@petehoye]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@OlgasBritishFells]

Don't worry about the subscribers count and views and all that malarkey. You are extremely entertaining to watch. I don't even like road running, but I watch your videos open mouthed till the very end. Your sense of humour is gold! And the running is not too shabby either, it's pretty good.

[@middleagedrunningman]

You are always too kind Olga!! Thanks for the support!! Love your videos too!! Like travel docs!!

[@garythompson3597]

Like a young whippet ⚡️⚡️

[@stokie1988]

Well done, another great video and time

[@middleagedrunningman]

Thanks for your support Stokie!! (Get me some Subbers)

[@emmarunyeard6832]

Alcester looks flippin lush

[@AndyCliffMTB]

Great performance, great video, funny and informative, liked how you brought others into the footage, also noticed the mention of cider in your video. I just took part in the Marple Beer Run last weekend. Maybe one for you in 2025😃Glad you broke through 1000 subs, you’ll be at 10,000 before too long💪

[@middleagedrunningman]

Cheers Andy!! 10,000 might be a mere pipe dream…..but fingers crossed 🤞🏻

[@AndyCliffMTB]

@@middleagedrunningman I think that once you’ve got the momentum, which you now have, you’ll keep growing. I’m close to 200 but it’s been a lot of work. Thing is, I really enjoy making the videos, so I’ll keep going😊

[@petehoye]

The story bout your mate.. 🤣😂🤣.. Top Running..👏👌

[@middleagedrunningman]

Cheers Pete!! Hope you’ve had a rest this weekend?

[@petehoye]

@@middleagedrunningman Leicestershire Loughborough 10 mile race next up for me 22nd this month..So we'll make that 2 weekend rests for me..☺️🤣😂👍

[@thetimoneers]

Brilliant run - so glad you chose cider, water is so passé 🍷💕

[@middleagedrunningman]

Nice drop. If there had been a dartboard, I’d have settled in.

[@williamthompson.585]

I thought you were in Ulster! I was going to say welcome 🙈🙈🙈🤣

[@middleagedrunningman]

Next time William! I will just get up a bit earlier.

[@aspiadas]

Nice running💪🙂👍

[@middleagedrunningman]

Love all three of those emojis, particularly in sequence.

[@clairel3730]

brilliant vlog , very entertaining as usual - i hope you get the 1000 subscribers - it will be a sad day if you stop vlogging 😐 good luck at Oxford .

[@middleagedrunningman]

Nice one Clarabell. 98 Subbers to go….🤞🏻

[@eddycurrant1380]

e made i laff supp'n that cider

[@middleagedrunningman]

Cheers Dave!

[@bubsybrown8308]

Doing this again this year? If so I will see you there! Great video

[@middleagedrunningman]

Booked in again Bubsy!!! See you there. Come and say hello!!

[@bubsybrown8308]

​@@middleagedrunningman that I will do

[@Mack.Tracks]

The sheer speed of this MARM!

[@michaeldallaway1988]

Having witnessed MARM in person, no kidding. He's a rocket!

[@middleagedrunningman]

Cheer Macka!!

[@middleagedrunningman]

Too kind Michael!! Hope you are well my friend.

[@michaeldallaway1988]

@@middleagedrunningman recovering from a second bout of you-know-what and it's knocked me for six. Seeing you racing round has inspired me to get back out there and do another race before the end of the year 👍

[@middleagedrunningman]

Always room for another Mike. What you thinking?

[@gloriab7801]

Intriguing, to have been running for 10 years & natural curiosity never having led you to tackle a 10k. In addition, for such a great time, you finish like you have been walking off a good lunch. A bit of the "sturm und drang" I indulge in when finishing, may add drama. Something iconic to mark a fine achievement: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWqXq3epf5J9g7c

[@middleagedrunningman]

Went straight into Half Marathons Glo - and rarely deviated. Love a bit of Miles Davis.

[@SuperHans469]

Knew you’d be a Partridge fan 👍😀

[@middleagedrunningman]

“Go to Alcester, and I guarantee you'll either be mugged or not appreciated....”

[@DD9nov]

first time I have heard of Alcester, pronucned similar to Ulster in NI

[@middleagedrunningman]

It’s a lovely little town… got its own Waitrose!!

[@andrewgoldsby]

Flying round! I was about 15 minutes behind you and slowed up for my cider too! Got to get you to that 1000 subs - best running vlogger on KZbin! 4/10 for your Roman history though!

[@middleagedrunningman]

Thanks Andrew!! Great effort yourself. That cider didn’t half warm the cockles going up that hill. I reckon they should have made us run round a broom a couple of times.

[@thetimoneers]

He was badly briefed, save on the Turks Head, the noblest Roman’s of them all !

[@doingmybest6438]

Do you actually do a warm up? I'm taking part in my first ever race next weekend and wondering what to do to pass the time before kick off.

[@middleagedrunningman]

Honestly - I NEVER warm up. Not ever. Become superstition now. Best thing to do before kick off is people watch. Fascinating. Where are you running? I’m in Oxford next weekend.

[@whitestuff10]

10.04 KZbinr Brett Elesmore cameo

[@whitestuff10]

The sheer beauty of giving an ultimatum to the viewership to hit 1000 subscribers is beyond admirable. Commenting for algorithms to digest to reportate, which is their want in attempt to decrease the chance of you chucking in the towel.

[@middleagedrunningman]

Desperate times call for different measures. I’ve signed up for an ultra in January. That was going to be an extended New Years’ “Special”. Might just sit in a cold field and review a sock.

[@saintsaens21]

Sub 38 on your first tenner? gg

[@middleagedrunningman]

Not run a faster one since!

[@DrProfX]

I know you said “never ever” a full marathon again, but I think you should run at least 1 more and pick up your well-deserved sub-3 hr marathon PR… your sub 1:25 half marathon times are absolutely predictive of a sub-3 marathon! 👍

[@middleagedrunningman]

Doing Stratford in April Prof….. we will see….

[@DrProfX]

You’ll destroy it!!🏃🏻‍♂️👍

[@middleagedrunningman]

I’ll destroy something. My self esteem most likely.

[@DrProfX]

😂

[@robertsmith7667]

No one over fifty should be allowed to run.

[@middleagedrunningman]

Agreed Robert. Do you know a chap called Geoff by any chance?

[@robertsmith7667]

@@middleagedrunningman NO